The Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 63, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 1899 Page: 2 of 4
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THE DAILY CHIEFTAIN
10 0 tints a Week by Carrier.
4-0 Cants a MonthbyMall
D.M. MARRS - EDITO5?
M. E. MILFORD Manager.
VtN TA I. T. DKO. 13 18!)!).
YINITANS AT MANILA.
Letter from Ed. Halsell the
Globe Trotter.
Hotel ib Ohientk Manila P. I. Tiov. 0.
Mrs. W.C.Patton.Dear Mother:
After being rocked by earthquakes
in Japan and tossed by the seas
we got to China with her four
hundred millions of pigtails.
There we ran up against the black
and bubonio plague they don't
pay any attention to smallpox or
seven-year itch. So far they have
not touched us only our pocket-
books. A globe trotter gets touch-
ed right; spending this free silver
is like feeding a horse fodder; it
takes a lot to buy anything. Any
man that talks free silver is a fool
and don't know what it means.
We had an awful time getting from
Hong Kong here. The boat did
everything but turn over and we
all thought what fools we were to
leave home. But we have seen
many queer things; some of the
.animals these people work Bar-
nutn ought to have in his circus.
I have seen a cow worked to a
street sprinkler all day and milk-
ed at night. Here they uae buffalo
for work oxen and a street scene
in this country would make a fine
circus in America. Styles! These
Filipinos wear low necks and short
sleeves morning noon and night
with trains to them. Our Amer-
ican girls tried to wear pants or
bloomers but the men made such
a howl they gave it up In China
the ladies have been wearing pants
for four hundred years.
This city is under martial law
after 8:30 p. m. and no one is al-
lowed on the street after that time
without a pass. A soldier killed a
hinaman a few nights ago be-
cause he wouldn't stop when told
to halt and if you get a Chinamaa
out after dark now you will have
to puil him out with an inch rope.
In June the insurgents tried to
burn the city and our men killed
Ifour hundred of them. There are
not many m9n in the city now but
lots of women and .'children so I
think Uncle Sam's boys will have
a good many to killyet. Rained
every day since we have been here
and it is a common occurrence for
it to riin tourtseu inched in twen
ty-uur hours. We will be h9re
until tlie 21ih inst. as cannot get
a boat before then. Will be due
at Caclutt. December 18 Bjinbay
January 15. Tiiese people look
about like the Mexicans or Cubans
or the tailings ot the French or
Spanish; are generally small in
ttature with straight and coarse
hair.
Its no little job taking a trip
around the world and I'll never
try it again. It's hardly worth
the punishment you gel in food
beds etc. I send yoj some Man-
ila papers under another cover.
Our American news over .here is
very stale. We have had no let-
ters since we left home and but
one package of Chieftain's.
E. L. Halsell. j
I. A. Doolm a cattleman at Sci-
pio Choctaw nation has refused
to pay liia cattle tax and Agent
Shoenfelt has ordered that he be
removed from the limits of the In-
dian Territory. Tha order is in
the hands of Capt. Jack Ellis of
the Indian police.
On account of the prevalence of
smallpox in the Choctaw nation
n order against cake walk's in
South McAlester bas been issued.
Mppp Without it Pillow.
It i hiiidly likely Hint tho pil-
low wiiH invented by nnyone ill
pin tieiilii". It: wiix in. the fli'ft in-
slaiiee there is every reason to
believe a very rali'mal irint it u-
1 ion. and contvisled (f a hiiiuII pad
linoii which to rent the head
when beds were by no means HUeh
luxurious affairs as tliey are to-
(b'.V.
The pillows in use today are re-
sponsible for many evils whu-h
you may be willing to admit when
they are pointed out to you and
if you would but lest the elTieaey
cf their disuse you would become
ns ardent an advocate of the cus-
tom as is the writer.
There is no greater Hillary than
(he belief that a big downy pil-
low conduces to rest fulness and
health in sleeping. You sink iai-
ro its embrace and delude your:
self that you are comfortable
with your head resting upon the
dear soft cozy mass of feathers.
Vet if the pillow slips away from
you in your sleep do you miss its
eeeminnlv sooliiiiiff lnuuenee:
No. And if you can sleep thus
comfortably and not know it why
rliould you not have the courage
to put it away altogether?
The pillow' may seem to breathe
out beautiful dreams to you; but
while it is beguiling vour atten-
tion with its seeming restfulness
it may be pushing your ears out
of shape and it is certainly mak-
ing wrinkles in your neck and
deepening the hollows over your
chest by forcing the bend forward.
ft may seem a little thing in it
self; but happening every night
it will rob you of all the beauty
your neck would naturally have
and nullify the good of any exer-
cise you may .take. Aside from
the benefits to be derived in a
shapely neck and chin to sleep
without a pillow will conduce to
health and greater restfulness.
It may seem strange at first even
a bit painful but if persevered in
you can very soon overcome this
and the good to be derived will
well repay you. ' .
Kot Bisking it Reputation.
A tailor in a rising Northern
village in his anxiety to forge
ahead of all competition printed
some glaring placards and sent
them to the local bill postert with
instructions that fEey were to be
turned upside down on the boards.
On the following day however
he discovered that the bills bad
been stuck in their natural posi-
tion and were attracting litle at-
tention. "Look here you blockhead"
paid the tailor to the bill poster
"what do you mean by disregard-
ing my orders? 1 told vou to turn
those bills upside' down so that
people would stop 1o puzzle out
the wording."
"Ay so ye did" said the man
of paste.
"Then why in the name of good-
ness didn't you do it?"
'"Cos I daren't risk it tailor"
answered the bill poster. "Do you
know what folks would have said
if they'd seen those bills upside
down? They'd have said: 'Ah.
poor Jack! That drink again!
How sad for his unfortunate
wife!' I'm well aware Tin a bit cf
a toper and lil.es me beer guv'-
nor but I aint a-going to 1-t folk
think 1 can't tell t' top of a bill
from t' bottom!"
Cyclists in Sydney Australia
have come to the conclusion that
it is Kafer to ride by night lliiD
day as the cycle track in that city
bas been lighted so that no shad-
ow whatever is i-.uit. l":U tie
arc and seventy incandcM cut
lights with ri il" tors have b-n
arranged j.lout the cn-irne at in
tervala of thirty-five feet. .
A HAVE NEVER
if Tried the 5reat
sysiem reguiaior
PRICKLY ASH
BITTERS
Decause They think if is
nasty and bitter disagreeable
to the stomach and violent
in action.
ASK THESE
They will tell you it is
'not stall disagreeable.
I And as a cure for IndiesTior)
Constipation Kidney
.Disorders if is un
excelled.
CHAPMAN & BRIGGS.
This Time It Was a Man.
"The querest letter I ever saw
In my life" said a Washington
newspaper man who was in the
city recently "was shown me at
the home of an army officer now
on duty in the war department. It
is written in lead on a couple of
thin slabs of grayish-white stone
each about six inches long and
two inches broad and its story is
father romantic. "When General
Crook was chasing the Apache
Chief Geronimo across Southern
Arizona in 1885 the officer to
whon I refer commanded a com-
pany of infantry and while the
main command pushed west along
the Gila river he took a couple of
troops and struck out southward
on a reconnoitre.
"They had been gone about two
weeks suffering all manner of
hardships and living exactly like
the Indians themselves when the
captain decided to send one of his
men back with a verbal report
He was anxious to embrace the
opportunity to also dispatch a
letter to his sweetheart who was
then a young belle in Washington
society but there was not a scrap
of paper of any kind in the party
nor as much as a morsel of pencil.
Knowing she was eagerly await-
ing news from the front he racked
his brain and finally noticed some
smooth fragments of limestone
that had chipped off from a near-
by ledge.
"That solved the problem. He
selected two flat pieces drew a
pistol cartridge from his. belt
and scrawled his letter with the
poit of the bullet. Laying the
stones face to face so that the
writing would not be rubied off
by abrasion he tied them firmly
together with strips of a hand-
kerchief and inscribed the address
on the outside. Nothing remain-
ed but to affix the stamps which
the troojxT promised to do as soon
as lie struck camp. lie put the
parcel in his blouse got through
in safety although he bad several
hairbreadth escapes and mailed
it at Maricopa. It required 18
cents' portage and the date mark
is s; 'll ni:e legible. I need hard-
ly siy t!"t the l;;dy pr'-- s this
Ft hi ge (T.it'e above all the souv-
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Estate
Agerjcy.
Lots sold on commis-
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improved or unimprov
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and save you money.
Can find purchasers foi
those who have
Property to
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address
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DINING STATION?
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SUPERIOR MEALS
Fifty Cents.
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Thursday Dec. 14
..Harry Hartell's..
Realistic Southern Production
The Sotilb B?for?
The War.
Only Show of its Kind on Earth
ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE.
Without a Rival.
t Sable Soulful Sinners. Sunburn
GO Southern Silhouettes. CiimJ meetlin
slioulers und nhouters. Ciunny-Kiu'keri L'oi
ton Hleklnif C'linlrlstors. Male ami tenia:
Afrlc-Hued Artists.
Score Sweetest Voice
In one Grand Swelling- Chorus.
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be late (or to hrar (lose darkles sluginit
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Sensational 5'tuationy
Heartfelt Harrnony
Realistic Scenery
Plantation Scenes
Sports anI Pastirnesf
Rollicking Ravishing Itip-ftoJ
jng Kound of Kare and Kous-
ing Revelry.
Watch for the Big Parade at No
Seats sold at Foreman's.
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Marrs, D. M. The Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 63, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 1899, newspaper, December 13, 1899; Vinita, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc773917/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.