The Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 80, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 3, 1899 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL; I NO. 80.
VINITA IND. TER. TUESDAY EVENING. JANUARY 3 1899.
PRICE 10c WEEK
! That CoflejTllle Bond. -
It is difficult to ascertain the
facts in regard to the proposed
extension of the Coffeyville road
into Oklahoma but we get from
pretty high authority the following
as the real status of the extension:
By some means money was
raised to grade or partly grade
the road to Bartlesville in the In-
dian Territory. A proposition
was then sent to the Santa Fe
to take the road off the hands of
the projectors which required the
Santa Fe to furnish the irQn. The
Santa Fe officials thought favor-
ably of the proposition and sent a
representative to look over the
road and examine the coal fields
south of Bartlesville about thirty
miles. The Santa Fo representa-
tive reported iavorably provided
the road was graded at once to the
coal fields which lie twelve or
fifteen miles north of Tulsa on the
Frisco. The local company it
seems was not able to do more
and so all the work stopped and
the Santa Fe pursued the matter
no futher.
i
The Santa Fe had not intimated
that it intended to do more than
aid in building to the Wild Horso
coal fields. Times Journal.
A Frlsc Party la Oklahoma City.
Bryan Snyder general passenger
agent and Charles Hall assistant
general freight agent of the St.
Louis & San Francisco line
accompanied by sixteen of the
travelirrg passenger atid freight
agents ol that lino were in Okla-
homa City yesterday. They were
the guests ol B. F. Dunn travel-
2 .1 f.ninkl new a i t
ing passenger m.u noigun uvu
located there. He showed them
over town in carriages. The
object of the visit was for them to
get acquainted with the people
and familiarize themselves with
the connections of the road. The
party passed through here yester-
day in their private car for Spring-
field Mo. They will next go to
Kansas City arriving Wednesday
night. '
A Man of Nense.
The postmaster at Red Fork In-
dian Territory has received a let-
ter from a party in Sebree Mo.
who k.-tes that he is a widower 56
ars of age white man of reputa-
ble character and a farmer by oc-.
cupation. He asks that the post
master eive him the address of
twenty-five single Osage Indian
girls or six Osage Indian women
who are matrimonially inclined
and promises to send the postmas-
ter 25o for his services in.the mat-
ter. He also states be has a son
and daughter and that the son is
desirous of corresponding with
Osage girls between the ages of 15
arid 20. The letter is signed by J.
H Gillam. Times.
8t. Loots Cattle Market.
:.J; C. Smith ot Sapulpa I. T.
marketed zo neau ooo-pounu ieer
at $3.50 and 50 steers 975 pounds
atS3.85. '
J. 0. Halt Vinita I. T.
marketed two loads of 1088-pound
steers sold at $4.15 to Armour &
Co. : ; : . '
We have heard of the Bale of
"blue sky" and of "salted
mines" but It. was reserved for
two Vinita men to consummate
the Sale of a large school: lock
slock and barrel. The deal madeTfieves to this day: He thinks that she
yesterday by which . Worcester
Academy swallowed op Clark's
Business college ia nni-jus in the
fact that it is probably the only
of lb e kiad ever .uae.' . ;"
Struck by a Train.
Mary Tucker a negro was
struck by a Missouri Kansas &
Texas passenger train yesterday
morning at Wybnrk five miles
north of here and carried on the
cowcatcher to this place the train-
men being ignorant of the accident
until the train reached Muskogee.
The woman wan veriuiisly injured
and is not expected to live.
Later. We have since been in-
formed that Mary Tucker died last
night from the injuries received by
reason of the accident. Muskogee
Times.
UNCOMFORTABLE THEATERS
There Are So Arrangement for Per-
sonal Convenience In 1'arln
J Plnr Hooe.
Playgoers who yield to the induce-
ments of the French stage when they
come over here will have learned long
ugo from experience what genuine dif
comfort is suffered in theaters. Pa-
risian managers cater admirably for
the public as far a the play and the
acting are concerned. When they
come to consider however the ques-
tion of mere material comfort it
would seem as if they felt in nowise
called upon to make allowance! for
the weaknesses of the flesh. The trials
to which a playgoer U put In an under-
sized stall with no aailable room for
his nether limbs partake almost of
the rigor of the monastic ordeals of
old. To such chastisement of the
flesh the Parisian playgoer has long
submitted uncomplainingly for the
sake of the edification provided for his
spirit from the stage. There are now
igns however that the worm will at
last turn. Parisians have crossed the
channel lolled in the ample armchairs
provided in your playhouses and re-
turned to grumble at the hardships
the j have to endure In their own.
Quite revolutionary measures of re-
form are everywhere being proposed.
Why not do away with the three offi-
cials enthroned behind a desk at the
door who constitute the so-called
"controle" and whose duties consist
in needlessly examining and punching
tickets at the expense of public pa-
tience? It might even be feasible to
suppress the "ouvreuse" who dam- j
ages hats and loses umbrellas in re-j
turn for a tip which she exacts and!
grumbles at.
Besides' a degree of material com-!
fort playgoers expect within the
bounds of possibility not to endanger
their lives when they go to the theater.
According to the committee of public
safety in theaters now sitting it
would however be unwise to place
overmuch confidence in this respect in
the arrangement at present made in
some Parisian playhouses. The chair-
man of the committee M. Blanc pre-
fect of police has accordingly drawn
up new sets of rules with regard to
public accommodation in theaters
which are to be stringently enforced.
Playgoers in Paris will be-glad to hear
that in future boxes in theaters are to
be provided with doors of a sufficient
width to allow of easy ingress and exit
i;nd so arranged as not to block pas-
sages when open. Furthermore noth-
ing in the shape of stools or movable
seats will be allowed In the passages
while that inconvenient invention the
"strapontin" which besides being the
most uncomfortable seat ever pro-
vided for a long-suffering public en-
dangers the lives of the audience
should panic occur by effeptually
blocking the openings between rows of
stalls is to be done away with. In
time M. Blanc' will no doubt succeed
in making Parisian playhouses both
safe and comfortable. It is a remark-
able fact however considering how
extensively Parisians patronize the
theater that two such important im-
provements for a playgoing. public
should not have been accomplished be-
fore now. London Telegraph.
POCKETKNIVES FOR WOMEN.
This Account Says The? All Have
Them ud They Bay Them
for Themselves.
The tradition is and maybe it was
true ever so long ago whea woman al-
ways had a kitchen knife within easy
reach that women have no use for
nocketknivea. That ia what man be-
sharpens her lead pencils witn ner
teeth opens her letters with a hair
pin cuts string with scissors and bor-
rows some nion'a knife when there is
a can of potted ham or corned beef to
be opi'iicd at a jneuie.
tea."
knife and nnds plenty or use lor it.
Usually she has bought It herself for
she prefers that It shall not be a gift.
Any man who gives a woman a pen-
knife will find himself regarded with
suspicion. It isn't that ahe is supersti-
tious. Oh no of course she isn't. She
will buy one for her husband or for
her son but nevertheless she doesn't
like to be given one and will look .
askance at the dainty little implement
unless she has paid the traditional
penny for it.
. The jewelers carry In stock knives
for women and one of the merchants
said the other day that one-third of his
customers were women. This he ex-
plained by the fact that a woman will
keep a" knife three times as long as at
man will. Some of the knives they
carry in stock have jeweled handles
or decorations that raise their cost
from five to fifty dollars. Women
don't buy such expensive ones that
is not from jewelers although they
often buy them from friends at the
price of one cent an astonishing bar-
gain indeed.
The popular knives for women are
tiny bits of knives not so long as the
little finger and sometimes not larger"
than a finger joint. Some of these
dainty little knives have handles of
gold or silver studded with jewels. !
Very often they have chatelaine at-
tachments or are worn with other lit- .
tie articles on a chain. Chicago Times-
Herald. :
A Good Excuse.
A vnnnrr fnrm'TTipr hftd rpentTv ar
rived in London from his native coun- .
try and some friends of his family ar-'
ranged a dinner in his honor. The even-
ing arrived the guests invited to meet
him were assembled but the young fel-;
low did not appear. A friend called on '
Mm the next day and. reminding him
that he had accepted the invitation in
quired why he had not been present.
His reply was ingenious:
"I vas not hungry" he said. Tit-
BlU. .
A Misapprehension.
"They say that the women of To-
ledo arc very btsutlful." remarked Mr.
Pitt. - '
"They are" replied Mr. Maumee
"I'm from Ohio myself and "
"But I was speaking of Toledo in
Spain."
"Ohl" Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
'
EQUAL TO THE OCCASION.
The Native from Timber UnlcU In a
Sad Plight Did the Best
He Could.
"Yes stranger I hev hed some purty
lively experiences out in New Mexico."
The latest newcomer at Timber
Gulch transferred his tobacco to the
other cheek and hitching up a discon-
solate looking pair o? trousers con-
tinued ruminatingly:
"Ez I wus a-sayin' I hev hed experi-:
ences some of 'cm bright as the shin-
in' sun an' some of 'em dissapintin
and no mistake thanky don't kere if
I do; it's a principle of mine I allers
stick to; to take whatever's offered."
Handing back the empty glass he
heaved a sigh of evident satisfaction.
"It's a warmin' to the innards" he
said meditatively "and that reminds
me of the most bloomin' dissapintment
I ever lived through. Tell it? Sartin';
I ain't one to refuse after sech a hu-
mane act as you hev jes' performed
stranger. It war like this 'ere: Pete
Jessup he war a feller 'at kep' a trad-
in post otit in New Mexico an' fre-
kently shipped truck to the other
traders 4y mule teams an" I ust to
handle the lines on them trips fer
Jessup nigh on to six years. Game
feller Pete war every time sharp as a
razor but you hed to toe the mark if
you worked fur him. He meant biz.
He'd treat- if he war satisfied Oh
Pete wui white an' all that but a man
'at wanted .Us bread buttered proper
dasen't tech a drop when work wuz
on. His rules wuz cast iron.
"Xow I had at one time a blame
ticklish job on hand. "It wuz'a long1
trip over the worst road in the coun-
try an' to make it wurs the snow lay
nigh three feet deep over everything
an' it wuz consarned cold into the bag-
gain. Wall I begged like a good "un
fer a flask of rye to ease up the trip
but Pete wuz not moved a jot. 'This
is a valable load' sez he 'an' I ain't
goin to run any risk in ho wise by
havin' adled wits.. He made one con-
cession however an said he. would
give me a flask to lake along provid-
in' I promised to not touch it till I
came in sight of L my destina-
tion. -J There was no hope of softening
Pete 80 I give in an' I endurin that
whole turrible trip I jest lived in an-
ticipate' that moment when I should
heave In sight of L .
"Xow about a r .' tV.'l cr s'.le of
ilia i'.
1 1
th'em tarnal mules 'do but get scarea
an' upset the whole bloomin' load."
The narrator sighed heavily. "Of
course everything wuz nil O. K. but
that there flask of rye it w ar (lushed
to flinders an' the contents soaked the
snow."
"That was rough pard" said the
Timber Gulch man.
"A sha'inefui waste sure enough.
What did you do?"
"Wall" said the narrator "it wuz
not all a loss. A man in them trying
circumstances hes to do the best he
kin. I set down on the ground an' et
the snow." Boston Post.
CORN FOR WINTER.
Various Vayn of rrrptiring It for IT
' rin nr the Cold
SeaMon.
There are two ways in which corn is
prepared in the household for use
which are eminently successful. It is
hardly wise for anyone to atempt to
can corn at home us it requires to be
cooked with greater heat than boiling
water. Occasionally canned ' corn
keeps where it is put up at home'but
such cases are exceptional and not
the rule. .
Old-fashioned dried corn was always
excellent as is the hulled corn which
farmers prepare when it is properly
made. We publish three rules fur-
nished by correspondents. The follow-
ing recipe is for drying sweet corn in
the old-fashioned manner: "The corn
should be taken when just suitable for
eating and boiled ten or'lfifteen min-
utes long enough to set 1he milk.
When cool take a sharp knife and cut
through every row of kernels (they
dry sooner and soak mere easily wheu
used) then shave the corn off the cob
spread it on plates near the stove or
in the heating closet and let it dry
being careful not to let it brown. It
will dry in two or three days. Put the
corn in glass jars and it will keep for
two years. When you wish to use it
soak it in warm water for a couple of
hours then boil in milk adding a little
biHter.
A Pennsylvania housekeeper sends
the following recipes which are slight-
ly different: "Select fresh ears when
they are sufficiently ripe for the table
preferably those you can pick from
the stalk. Free them from husk and
silk and then with a thin-bladed knife
cut the grains from the cob. Spread
thinly on plates and put in a moderate-
ly warm oven. Stir frequently until
dried. It will require from 24 to 6
hours to complete drying. !
"Or with a sharp knife after prepar-
ing as before split each row of kernels
lengthwise of the ear and gently press
out the milky pulp. Spread on plates
and proceed as before. To be genuine
old-fashioned dried corn it should be
prepared Immediately after plucking
from the stalk and never cooked be-
fore cutting from the cob." N. X.
Tribune.
WAR KEEPS MONEY AT HOME.
Europe Will Miss $75000000 of Good
llnrd American Cash
- This Season.
Charles Alvin Gillig of the "Ameri-
can Rendezvous" in Cockspur street
who has been for 20 years in the busi
ness of taking care of travelers from
the United States in London has made
an estimate of the loss which the war
has entailed upon England in keeping
the American tourists at home. He has
reason to believe he says that this
year's season would have been an im-
provement upon that of last year in the
way of travel and that a grand total of
60000 Americans would have visited
Europe this spring and summer had it
not been for the war. ' His estimate
based upon the carrying capacity of the
steamships and upon figures furnished
by the companies is as follows
American line COflO
White Star line 4200
Cunard line S.8M
Hamburg-American line 5800
North German-Lloyd line 7400
French line 4.2is0
Anchor line 3W0
Allan line .'. 3000
Less Important lines T.tWO
Total "......60.000
Mr. Gillig thinks that the recent
riots in Italy would have shunted many
Americana off on English towns and
that a very high percentage of the 50-
000 would" have limited themselves to
England. According to Mr. Gillig the
American tourists average $1500 per
capita in the way of expenditure many
spending thousands while others bare-
ly Bqueeze through and tkat the total
.loss thia year to England will there
fore be about $75000000 r "
Better get you a corn sheller and
-1 ve your feed; tery cheap at the
Through Service
BETWEEN
ST. LOUIS
CH ICAGO
KANSAS CITY
AND THE
PRINCIPAL CITIES OF
TEXAS.
mm BUFFET SLEEPER
AND
FREE RECLINING
KflTY CHfilD CARS
DINING STATIONS
OPERATED BY THE COMPANY.
SUPERIOR MEALS
Fifty Cents.
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Kansas City to St. Lcuis.
VestlbiMed Sleepers
Free Chair Cars Dining Cars.
CONSULT TICKET AGENT OR
L. J. BRICKER.T. P. . '
a3 MAIN T.. KANSAS C1TV. Mtt
THE LIVE STOCK MARKET
OF ST. LOUIS.
Ihe St. Louis National
Stock Yards.
Located si East St.- Loais UL
Directly opposite the elty of St. Louis. Biiy-
r. for ll iloAnrlntioR of Live Slock alwsva i
ttanrianni). nd within lht KTODDUS uf the
lock Yni ia Beof UsnntnR Company with
t capacity for lansbtlrinc s.ooo neau oi mih-
dally bbiI Pork Packing; establishments hate
a capacity ror siaugoienng b bom uiv.
C. C. KMOX vice-Pres.
CHAS. T. JONES. Supt. '
Riibber Stamps
; beais aiencus aign
and Linen Markers
and all supplies of th s character fur-
nished by this office. Send your
orders to "
' The indianChWliir
-Vintta Ind. Tor.
KEEP POSTl
On the dully fluctuation!. 1
stock and grain m i - -Chlcaco.
Omaha n(l t. ...-.
the ljvil Hewer Trtr !
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