The Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 9, 1898 Page: 2 of 4
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THE DflllLY CfllEFTfllN
in rantaa Wfmk bv Carriers.
40 Cent a Month by Mall.
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MARBS - n :-- - CDITOR
M. E. MILFORD. MANAGER.
VINITA I. T. NOVEMBER 9 IS
There was some betting on New
York the odds being on Roosevelt.
The Osages are having a conflict
over the chief's election. Big
Heart and Black Dog are contest-
ants. A fire at Wewoka in the Semi-
nole nation Monday night destroy-
ed Governor Brown's cotton gin
valued at $19000 and the national
8chool building valued at $20000.
There is said to be a good pros-
pect for trouble oyer the Creek
lection' on the treaty question.
The votes are being counted today
and both the treaty and the anti-
treaty people claim the election.
Inspector J. George Wright is at
Okmulgee to see that a fair count
is bad and to report to the interior
department.
The Dawes commission have
been in the territory over five
years and now they have secured
a five years lease for a building
at Muscogee for headquarters.
This looks as if they expected a
protracted stay and that the final
settlement of the Indian Territory
question was a long way off.
Eufaula Indian Journal. .
The South McAlester Capital
was received this morning with
the confident expectation that . it
-would contain the complete re-
turns from the election in each of
the forty-two states which held
elections yesterday. But we were
doomed to disappointment. As it
has been the uninterrupted custom'
ot the enterprising news gatherer
of South town to print the news of
every great event at least twelve
hours in advance of the date of oc-
currence we naturally expected
the election returns. Now the
great battle at Manila was fought
on Sunday May 1st and the Capi-
tal gave it to its readers the day
before.
From the Dawes Commission.
The following letter was re-
ceived by V. I. Thornton from the
Dawes commission and explains
the situation in the Cherokee na-
tion as to the allotment of lands:
Muskogee I. T. Oct 28 1898.
W. I. Thornton:
We are in receipt of your letter
ot the 17th addressed to the sec-
retary of the interior at Washing-
ton which has been forwarded us
for consideration and appropriate
action.
In response to your inquiry re-
garding allotment of land in the
Cherokee nation we would say
that you are evidently laboring
under a mistaken idea that each
Cherokee will be entitled to 140
or 160 acres of land when allot-
ment is made.
The secretary has fixed eighty
as the maximum number of acres
to be selected in advance of allot-
ment. This is unquestionably the
highest number of the best grade
of lands that a single individual
will be allowed to select. The
Curtis bill contemplates that allot-
ments shall be equal in value and
in order that this provision may
ha carried out the lands will be
appraised and the proportion to
which each individual is entitled
will be equalized on the basis of
value.
As to whether inter-married
white men in the Cherokee nation
will be entitled to an allotment of
land is a question which we are
not prepared to answer definitely
at this time but the matter will be
determined before beginning allotment.
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
The barWr who cut Prince Bismarck's
hair saved the clippings and now afTers
them for sale in the shape of scarfpins
three hairs going into each pin. '
The name of Mme Adele Maria Juana
Tatti Nicolini ci Craig-y-Nos castle
appears in a recent London Gazette
among the aliens to whom certificates
of British naturalization have been
granted.
Tanner the American negro painter
who has one picture in the Salon and
another in the Luxembourg is the son
of an African Methodist bishop who
was at one time determined that his
child should enter the ministry.
Ambassadors I'orter White and
Woodford are all from New York and
Ambassador Draper Is from Massachu-
setts. Ambassador Hitchcock of Mis-
souri Is at present the only westerner
representing the United States in a
first-class mission.
A Maine paper prints a story of a
witness who refused to tell the amount
of his gross income. Finally when the
judge ordered him to answ er the ques-
tion he said: "Your honor I have no
gross income; I'm a fisherman in Maine
bay and it's all net."
It is reported that by the will of the
late empress oAustria all of her jew-
els valued at $2500000 are bequeathed
to charities. In addition the emperor
intends to found in her name a great
charitable institution that shall per-
petuate her memory.
Probably the prize record for a
clergyman is that cf Rev. Wesley
Blakely of Keystone W. Va. who is
107 years old. He has preached 7763
sermons baptized 6023 people and mar-
ried 1817 couples. He has 1081 living
descendants comprised in five genera-
tions. Though Mr. Sagasta is the greatest
republican spirit of Spain there is a
deep feeling of intimacy and affection
between him and the young king. Dur-
ing the dangerous illness of Alfonso the
old statesman showed as much anxiety
as though It had bt en a child of hia
own.
President Diaz of Mexico had an ex-
citing encounter with a mountain lion
recently while hunting in the moun-
tains near Huehuetoco with a party of
friends. The animal sprang at him
from an overhanging cliff but fell short
and was shot and killed by Diaz before
It could gather itself together for an-
other leap.
THE TIGER RETREATED.
Br a Deapernte Resource an Acrobnt
Scared a Man-Eater Out
of HI Wit.
It will be necessary for the sake of
my story to mention a certain pecul-
iarity of tigers. It is admitted by
most experts among others by pro-
fessional tiger tamers that this fero-
cious beast is at heart an arrant cow-
ard and seldom dares unless rendered
desperate to attack a strange and
unknown animal especially if it ap-
pears to be large.
The man was a contortionist. When
not actually engaged in his labors he
would often go for long strolls in the
fields to keep himself in trim. One day
he happened to wander farther out
than usual. The country was rather
open with an occasional tree here and
there. It was also undulating so that
as he walked along he would some-
times disappear from sight below a
ridge and then appear on the next. On
this eventful day just as he reached
the top of the mound what was hi3
dismay to see a tiger right ahead and
not more than 500 or 600 yards away.
Before he could hide himself below the
mound the tiger had caught sight of
him and began to bound along toward
him at top speed. Having no means of
defense there was nothing for him to
do but to start a race towards the
nearest tree. The tiger however was
by far the better runner of the two
and was visibly gaining on his compet-
itor. The man realized that long be-
fore he could reach the goal the tiger
would be upon him. What was he to
do? In sheer desperation he resolved
upon a desperate scheme as his last
and only resource. Just as he disap-
peared for an instant over a ridge he
halted stretched out his legs at right
angles curled down his head between
his legs so" as to look nt the rear and
extended his arms upward far and
wide in a fantastic manner like the
sails of a windmill. At thisinstanttha
face of the object assumed a most hid-
eous grimace. A prolonged unearthly
yell was heard such as had never
pierced the timpanum of a tiger and
the sails of the windmill began to re-
volve backward and forward as if a
sudden whirlwind had burst upon the
scene. The tiger recoiled what was
this? There stood a ferocious star-
shaped "monster gigantic against the
sky. Its hideous head was situated in
the most unprecedented manner in
the very center of its body nay its
vise'like jaws between which those
fiendish roars were issuing were act-
ually placed above its two fiery eyes.
Its limbs were furiously clamoring for
action against him. And the man whom
he had been chasing where was he?
Pad he already been devoured by this
terrible beast?
At this thought the tiger wavered
then turned and fled. If his dinner
had already been eaten up thee what
was the use of engaging in an unprofit-
able and doubtful fight with this sav-
age monster? At that Instant a part-
ing yell which came rolling along like
thunder put a sudden end to the flee-
ing tiger's ratiocination. Cornhill
Magazine. . '
Tobacco In Ensrland.
In regard to the suggestion which is
sometimes made that one wBy to re-
lieve agricultural depression in this
country would be for the government
to allow and even to encourage the
growth of tobacco it may be interest-
ing to note how long the prohibition
has lasted and how sternly it has been
enforced. This may be gathered from
the following extract: "Cornet Wake-
field with a party of horse marching
out of Olocester upon the last of July
to Winchcome and Cheltnam to de-
stroy the tobacco planted in these
parts the country did rise against
them in a great body to the number
of 500 or 600 giving them reviling and
threatening speeches even to kill
them horse and man if that he and his
soldiers did come on insomuch that
the tumult being so great he was con-
strained to draw off and nothing more
done." Mercurius Politicus 29 July-5
Aug. 1658. .
RISE AND FALL OF LAND.
How It Is Illustrated In the Eleva-
tion of Coast Lines In Differ-
ent Countries.
A series of 30 marks were made in
1S51 on the Baltic coast from Tornea
to the Naze of Norway and in 1884
these were examined by a commission
of the Swedish Academy of Sciences.
By these observations it was estab-
lished that the movement of elevation
was contained in the north and that
of depression at the southern extrem-
ity of the peninsula. About Kalmar
and Karlskrona no change of . level
could be detected as having occurred
within recent years but since 1750 it
was proved that the head of the Gulf of
Bothnia had risen at the rate of 1470
meters per century. This rate of ele-
vation declines progressively toward
the south. It is not more than 0.30 of
a meter at the Naze and it is zero at
Bornholm. The mean elevation of the
Swedish coast is thus 1.60 meters per
century. From these and a host of
similar data no doubt can exist re-
garding the rise of the Scandinavian
peninsula and inferentially there was
a period when the Arctic ocean com-
municated with the Baltic. The Jap-
anese islands are also rising and many
districts around the sea of Aral and
the Caspian are in a similar plight ac-
cording to evidence equally conclusive.
In more southern regions data equally
cogent are ready to our hand. Crete
has risen 17 feet above its ancient
level; the old Greek ports are high and
dry and limestone rocks which the
sea never touches are to be found
pierced by a species of shellfish which
bores into stone though it may. be
added so little can any law be formu-
lated regarding these areas of eleva-
tion and subsidence that on the east-
ern side of the island the ruins of sev-
eral Greek towns may be sten under
the water. Marine shells far above the
highest tidal mark are found plentiful-
ly along the shores of South America
commencing at TeTra del Fuego and
along the west coast for a distance of
at least 2000 miles and in patches
probably as far north as the Isthmus
of Panama these evidences of up-
heaval being deposited at elevations
varying according to Darwin from
300 to 1300 feet over the sea level. The
raised sea beaches which are taken as
proofs of the rising of the land are
found not only aronnd the places al-
ready noticed but along the outer
coast of Norway South America at
Coquimbo for example and along
many parts of the shores of Great
Britain. At Brighton for instance
there is a marked specimen of this in
the cliffs east of Kemp Town; while
Bobert Chambers -wrote an elaborate
work mainly descriptive of those to be
traced along the Scottish coasts at all
heights up to 100 feet above the pres-
ent sea level. Again though belong-
ing to the same class of proofs the
elevation of the coast here is indicated
by caves formed by' the constant dash
of the waves being found along the
coasts of Scotland near Campbelltown
and Neil in Cantire for example at
places far above the reach of the sea
which laves the base of the cliff in
which they are excavated. In Natal
upheaval is still going on and the east-
ern coast of Africa is generally be-
lieved to be rising; Australia on the
northeast if not on the whole of the
east coast is rising. Until a late perv
od in the geological history of Tas-
mania the site of Hobart Town was
covered by the sea and in N?w Zea-
land though there is an area of de-
pression on the extreme northwestern
point the mass of the land is rising.
Public Opinion. - . '
"That Sergu iiuiiKer is certainty. a.
terror." . " i
"What has he done now?"
"As soon as we got off at She eji:?
he rushed up and kissed Ihe tnrtv
prettiest girls in the crowd U per-
fect strangers." u"'
'What oid'thry sty?" V
' "They said:; A)hvGtr'' wf.en V
you coming Tioni:- rain?' " CSrv'-nd
Plain DeaU i .
"There is that scattered and-yet increased
and tliere1 is thatj wlthholdeth but tendeth
to poverty. "-Prov:
This business (I hope we may be pardoned if we are proud
of it) is built upon the broad guage principle of universal liber-
ality. It is pleasant and it pays to be liberal to customers to
employes to newspapers to the town and to every worthy en-
terprise for many miles around.
We sell better grades for the same money than other stores.
We sell on a closer margin of profit.
Many stores would lose money at the rate of profit we
charge. Our business in the month of October '97 was the
largest in our history up to that date. Our business for the
same month of '98 exceeded that of '97 more than 20 per cent.
Taking into consideration the failure of the wheat crop we
think the gain is remarkable.
Five per cent of our business would be a handsome income.
If we only sold half as much as we do we would be com-
pelled to double our profits to make the same amount of money.
By lowering our profits we increase our business. It pays
to trade with us.
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Why Not
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It will pay you
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