The Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 208, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 1, 1899 Page: 2 of 4
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Our. dried fruit stock being some
heavier at this season of the year
than it should be we have decided
to unload if prices will be any in-
ducement. Note the following low
prices for
3 days
Good sun dried peach 4 lb for 25c
Good sun dried apple 4 lb 25c
Fancy Oregon Prune 3 lb 25c
Fancy Cala. Evap. peach 2 lb 25c ;
Cleaned Currants 3 lb 25c :
Fancy whole Evap. apples 2 lb 25c :
These goods are strictly fresh; last
year's Crop. These prices for three
3 day's only. Yours
THE DAILY CHIEFTAIN
I O Cents a Week by Carriers.
40 Cents a Month by Mall.
0 . M. MARBS - EDITOR
M.E. MILFORD. Manager.
VINITA.I. T.JUNE 11898
TREAT ALL ALIKE.
A fact we hare bo often tried to
emphasize that the man who un-
dertakes to sell liquor in the In-
dian country will eventually get
into trouble is now and then being
demonstrated. But whiie men are
being sent out ot the country by
the car load almoBt every sitting of
the court convicted of selling
liquor in the territory in defiance
of law still the traffic goes on and
men continue to risk their liberty
for the poor privilege of violating
the law.
But the conditions are peculiar
here and are not paralleled any-
where else in the world perhaps.
The courts have practically de-
cided that the law is elastic enough
to allow an individual to bring in
liquor for one's own use 'The
law certainly grants no one such
immunity from the law as contem-
plated in that kind of a ruling
from the courts. While the whis-
key peddler is the main fellow the
courts are after the law is specific
and makes no distinction. It is
simply a violation of the law to
introduce liquor into the Indian
country in any quantity and any
other construction put upon it is
entirely foreign to the spirit and
intent of the statute. We are not
discussing the question as to
whether the law is just or unjust
and we take it the courts should
not do so Lat enforce it as they
find it. If one man be allowed to
introduce liquor into the territory
without being brought to account
all should be allowed the same
privilege.
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A STRATAGEM.
Captain Levi Skullcarp sat on the
gunwale of the Miriam leaning for-
ward so that his elbows rested on
his knees. With both hands he
grasped the short stem of his cherry
pipe and his one eye gazed seaward
across the smoking bowl. The tiller
creaked idly to and fro and the sail
flapped listlessly in the light breeze
that scarcely ruffled the surface of
the bay.
"You know that young Mr. Archer
tha's stayin at the hotels" The cap-
tain shifted his one eye inquiringly
in my direction.
. I raised my hand in warning and
whispered "S-sh I"
The captain acceded to my request
in silence and a moment later an-
other fine flub joined its fellows that
were flopping about a box in the
cockpit. A faint splash and the
treacherous bait was scurrying away
in search of new victims.
"Now captain what were you re-
marking!" I asked glancing up
from the water.
"I was about to remark that it
was right off here that me an that
sentymental Mr. Archer was one
day last week when he says to me
'Cap'n' he says 'do you s'posea
man could commit soocicie heref
He was lookin mighty melumoholy
an"
"Do you mean the quiet young
man with a black beard who has the
second table from mine at the hotel
Skullcarpt" I interrupted.
The captain 'lowed that he had
never eaten at the hotel and conse-
quently oould cot locate Mr. Archer
at his dinner but he admitted that
the sentimental young man did have
a short black beard usually carried
a pipe and pouch of tobacco in the
etarboard pocket and a few books
and magazines in the ona to port
Having completed the Identification
I was not surprised at the suggestion
of suicide for my attention had
been . attracted to Archer by his
avoidance of all companionship and
bis distraught air. In fact I had
last seen him sitting alone in quiet
nook on tbe hotel veranda striking
match after match in-an attempt to
light an empty pipe ajod accompany-
ing each failure with violent lan
guage softly spoken. I mentioned
this to Levi Skullcarp.
""Soocide was the word lie used"
my skipper said when he had stoked
his pipe as he called the operation
for the captain was fond of using
what he deemed nautical expres-
sions though he had never ventured
to poke his nose ten miles ottshore.
It was a failing of Levi to talk a
great deal about the deep sea and'
at times heeven dropped mysterious
hints that he had circled the globe
as commander of a trim clipper
though in common with the other
Great South bay captains he derived
his title from the ownership of a
small catboat and thesis aluminium
buttons that adorned his patched
coat.
" 'You might commit soocide
here Mr. Archer' I says" contin-
ued he " 'providin you dove over
head first an then doubled up or
else walked two miles out to the
channel.'
"He looks at me Kind o' solemn
then sighed an went on crabbin.
The day was jist like this here only
there was a dead ca'in an over yan-
der toward Fire islan tbe clouds was
beginnin to rise. I mention them
clouds because I was a-hopin they'd
bring a breeze with 'em fer I was
tired floppin round in the sun while
he lay there on the gunwale some-
times readin sometimes crabbin an
most o' the time jist watchin the
water. That kind o' thing's all right
fer u man that never done nothin an
don't have to but fer a feller like
me ez has been used to sailin throo
life in a 20 knot breeze topsails up
an every inch o' canvas set studdin
sails included to have to flop roijn
in two feet o' water like a steam
dredge with the sun blisterin me
paint why sir it's hard to bear."
Levi was shaking his pipe vigor-
ously and I deemed it wise to as-
suage his anger by exclaiming with
an ominous wag of the head "Oh
you old barnaole I"
This had a soothing effect on the
captain for in a milder tone he con-
tinued: "We'd been that way 'bout
four hour when I seen another boat
edgin down our way. Her sail was
hangin like clothes on a line but
she was a leetle f urder out an caught
the tide. A man was sittin in the
stern an a lady on the gunwale. Mr.
Archer he seen 'em too an watch-
ed fer a long time. Then he turns
to me an says 'Cap'n the glaws.'
"That's just what he called the
glaws.
" 'A trim little-craft cap'n' says
he. To do him credit he knows a
good boat. .
" 'I don't like the lines o' her body
sir' I wentures.
"At that he kind o' smiles an says
'I means tbe lady.'
"He was right there too fer a
trim enough craft she locked with
her white duck suit an sailor hat
though I couldn't see her face. I
was just gittin my eye fixed on that
part o' her hull w.en Mr. Archer
jumps up runs for'a'd to the mast
an stood there like he wassightin
land after a month adrift on a raft.
" 'Cap'n kin you run a leetle near-
er that craft I I know her ' he calls.
" 'In this win f ' I asks. .
"'Pole!' he yells.
"'I could pole' I says 'had la
pole but I hain't.
"He give a long groand an set
down on top o' the cabin yander an
kep' his eye throo the glass at the
other boat that waa foolin aroun
'bout a mile off our bow.
? "By an by he says 'Cap'n there's
a breeze oomin. '
w 'I've been a-watchin it sir' says
I an I ups with me anchor an sail
"It oaught tho other feller first
an of a sudden her canvas filled an
she begin to cut throo the water on
a beat up the bay.. I had the tiller
ready an it wasn't a minute till we
was movin too. It waa alow at first
but we soon had to reef an went
tearin throo the water to beat a
steam la'ceh. The r'ouds had
brought a reg'lar hurricane an waa
pilin up aloft an roarin full o' thun-
der. You otter 'a' seen Mr. Archer
then. He kep' Tonniu from bow to
stern an back forever a skin whether
I thought we was gainln. Now I'm
proud o' this here Miriam o' mine
I'll back her ag'ki anything on the
bay but that there strange boat.
Why that craft jist slipped throo
the water like she was iled. We kep'
up pretty well though an might o'
caught her if the rain hadn't come
an us lost sight o 'em. I wanted to
put back hot Mr. Archer he
wouldn't have it an kep mucin up
an down pipin his eyes this way an
that way an usin bad language till
it come dark an the etorm had pass-
ed. Then he throwed himself dows
in the cockpit an lit his pipe an
says 'Home cap'n I' That was all
jist 'Home cap'n I' "
I had thrown aside my lines for
Levi Sknllcarp's account of the sen-
timental man had awakened my in-
terest and when he had finished his
recital I had turned my back on the
water my feet were dangling in the
cockpit and my eyes were fixed on
the Dayman.
"Didn't he explain why he was so
anxious to see herf" I asked after a
silence of some minutes.
In reply the captain clambered in-
to the cockpit and bracing himself
against the end of the tiller fixed
the long glass to his eye. I followed
bis gaze to where it rested on a
small white sail that was moving
across the bay about a mile away.
"I'll be blowed!" he cried. There
was a pause and then he muttered:
"Small jib white duck dress spoony
bow white hull black hair! I'm
blowed!"
This exclamation was accompanied
by a loud rattle as he closed the
glass.
"Git to win' ward quick I" he yell-
ed. The boom swung around allowing
me just time to dodge it and before
I had fully recovered from my sur-
prise we were moving through the
water under the fast freshening
breeze.
"Where are you going captain!"
I asked in a tone of remonstrance.
He gave the sheet a few turns
about a cleat tucked the tiller com-
fortably under one leg filled and
lighted his pipe and when the smoke
was rising in' great volume from the
bowl and trailing astern in clouds
that must have made our boat at a
distance present the appearance of a
small steamship he exclaimed again
"I'll be blowed I"
Then I arose in my wrath and
supporting myself by grasping the
centerboard and facing the obdurate
mariner cried "See here captain I
was under the impression I had
hired this craft and"
"I'm goin fer Mr. Archer. Yan's
her" he said in a firm solemn tone
that brooked no trifling and forced
me to submission.
Hardly had the Miriam touched
tbe dock when Levi Skullcarp was
ashore and after giving me a hur-
ried admonition to be all ready to
push off on his return he clambered
into a rickety vehicle and soon dis-
appeared in a cloud of dust. For
some ten minutes I struggled with
the rising wind and sea that kept in-
cessantly pounding the boat against
the dock. At length I was relieved
to spy a cloud of dust rolling down
the level stretch of road that led
from the village. Preceding it was
a man on a bicycle. It was Archer.
He reached the dock sprang from
his wheel and tossed it against a
post jumped into the Miriam and
without a word to me pushed her
away seized the tiller and the sheet
and off we scudded.
"The captain!" I cried pointing
at the approaching cloud in the cen-
ter of which I knew the redoubtable
mariner to be.
"Plague on the captain !" growled
Archer. Then he added more soft-
ly "Get to windward please."
"But there be is now" I expostu-
lated. Archer looked around. Standing
on the string piece of the wharf
violently waving one arm above his
head while with the other he point-
ed seaward was Levi Skullcarp. The
sentimental man at the catboat's
helm waved a hand to imply that he
saw the speck of a sail to which the
captain was pointing and turned to
the business of navigation. Away
we went in pursuit. .
When tbe Miriam had at length
settled down to work and was with
clocklike regularity sticking her
nose into the solid green waves and
then saucily throwing them up in the
air again and sending the water
skirting along the rail or flying over
me my new companion broke the
silence by appearing for the first
time to recognize that I was human.
"Miater-r-rl"
"Kemp." I answered bowing
"My name is Aroher."
"I think I have seen yon about the
hotel."
"This must seem a strange pro-
ceeding to you" he said laughing.
Evidently the peculiarity had just
dawned on him.
"Bather" I replied thawing Just
enough to smile.
"And perhaps an explanation is
due" said he.
"Not as long as you can sail" I
answered.
On that score I confess I felt no
uneasiness for I soon saw that
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