Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-09-18

Smith, came near being destroyed
ly Gre last week,
Although wheat and -four are
decreasing ia price IN Kansas the
/ bakers loayos are saidio heJustaa
! insignificant as ever.
W. II. Cnrhce, of Neosho, the
Miner and Mechanic job printer
! has gone TO SonOea TO work as
hook.keepor for the Huber Milling
Company,
II Is said that fence cutting has
again been inaueuraicd in the
! Chickasaw Nation. Ono section
is the prescribed amount Of land a
man may fence.
The bull fight on the I'm and 8th
Of October, during the Caldwell
! fair, is on assured fact twill be
conducted separately from the fair
however, and only those so desir
ing need see IT.
Club Moore, notorious Click
asaw desperate died in Fort Smith
jail some days ago from the effects
of an amputation ofa leg. lie was
shot in arrest. Had he lived, il is
probable the gallows would have
! claimed him within a few months
Mrs. Frank Stewart, Il colorod
woman living at Van Buren,, be.
came insane some days ago and
committed suicide by burning her
self She kindled q fire in stove
stood over it till her clothes took
fire and then went out under q tree
to prevent buring the house.
Clem Barefoot, a rangeman be-
longing in the western part Of the
Territory, while in Hunnwell some
time ago, got into shooting ARRAY
and received a shot in the side.
lie Immediately set out for home a
distance of $50 miles, where he
died the day after his arrival.
One day last week an old white
man named Hill living in the
Cherokee nation a short distance
from Fort Smith was shot and kill
ed while asleep in bed, by his SON
in-law, named Phillips. The
murderer fred from the outside,
putting the muzzle Of the gun
through a crack close to the old
mans head. The assassin was
captured soon after and lodged in
the Y. S. Jail. Hois good for the
gallows.
Beware Of keeping oldmedicines
in the house. A few days ago a
little child at Seneca was under
treatment by a physician, and qui-
nine was prescribed. One dose
was administered and the paper
put into a drawer. When the time
arrived for another dose the moth-
er took out paper which she
thought was the one containing the
quinine, and gave the child dose,
In short time strange symptoms
appeared and the Doctor happen-
ing to pass that way, called in, An
examination revealed the fact that
the last dose was morphine.
Belle PLANE News. Theimport.
ance Of the Denver, Mcmphis d
Atlantic road to Che people of Kan
sas is such that there IS a general
demand and inquiry in regard to
the progress Of the work, and to set
at rest any reports to the contrary
we will say that the papers for the
construction Of three hundred and
twenty five miles have been made
from the east line Of the state and |
so miles located, and the chief en- |
gineeris making maps and profles |
Of the work. Bids are being receiv- |
ed from sub-contractors, and we
hope to see men at work all along |
the line within a very short time. |
The contractor, Mr. L. NJ. Shute, is /
backed BY a syndicate which makes
certain. and he declares his |
intention Of pushing the work as
last as men and money can do it. |
The extensive projects which Mr.. |
5hute hag been interested in leads |
Is to believe that the building Of |
Inc D., NJ. & A., railroad viii be
,Jushed more rapidly than has here
tofore been witnessed in Kansas. |
The country through which the |
road passes is the richest in the.l
state, and nowhere in America is
there a railroad, either in prospect |
or built, that equals this stretch for
fertility and wealth.