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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04
The HALLWAY Man serrIee.

W. B. Thompson, general su-
perentendent of the railway msil
service, has submitted ais annual
report. It appears that on June
80, 1884, there were III, I60
miles ofrailroad upon which mails
were carried, as compared with rs
miles in 1884. During the last
fiscal year the increase was $3.50
miles. The number of post-of6ce
lines in operation June 80, 1884,
was $40; annual miles Of service,
g., SAC, 900; increase in number Of
pieces Of mail matter handled dur
ing the fiscal year, 5SS, IA ,22O
pieces; the percentage of increase
over 1888 was 1882. The percent
age Of increase in the number oi
pieces of registered matter handled
was 4.93. The increase in the lasi
year Of the railroad postOfiice ser.
vice, including new service placed
upon old lines 7,641 miles. Num-
Der of casulties during the year,
I54,- in which Z postal clerks were
killed, 2S seriously and 60 slightly
injured. Recommendation is made
that the postmaster general be au'
thorized to pay to the widow OF
minor children Of all the clerks
killed in the service . sum equal
to one years salary of the grade tC
which the clerk belonged at the
time of his death. The appropna
ton for the service the present
fiscal year is 81, 300, 600 1t is es
timated that this should be increas
ed s3o1 600 for the next fiscal year
which would make the apprOpria
ton s4,601 900. This Is an in
crease of Z per cent. An addition
al appropriation of sS1 600 is recon
mended for the purpose of increas
ing the salaries of clerks of clas
i've and four to 81 400 and sl,2O
per annum respectively. The 81
preparation for postal cars the pres
ent fiscal year Is 81 ,S65, 600. Rec
ommendatiOn is made that the az
preparation for the next fiscs
year be $3.50 600. This will II
, clude the amount for subsidize
roads, which has not heretOfOr
been included in estimates for tn
branch of the service During til
J year the fast mail service has bee
| greatly improved with increase
cost 70 the department. 1t seen
probable the postmaster gene
al will soon have the fast ma
D arrive at Omaha much earlier tina
S it now does, and TO have speci
, carrier delivery IN that city and
Council Bluffs Immediately upC
its arrival and before the close
: the business day. II is also hop,
: the mails can be expedited so {
to arrive at San Francisco about
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

TIE Stock Journal contains the
following regarding the refrigera-
tor works at Fort Worth: The re-
frigerator works have so far ship
ped ont FIVE car loads of beef and
mutton, with other loads about to
start The prices paid for fat
steers under !, 1,0O0pOunds has been
three cents; for fat steers over
900 pounds ss.12 1-2 per hun
dred; cows at $3.50. These were
the prices offered during Novem-
Der but this month an advance
viii be made. These figures are CIV
en- as being somewhat in favor of
selling here as compared with pri-
ces paid in st. Louis and Chicago,
freight and charges of. AuttOns
are bought at two and two and one
fourth cents, according TO weight
and quality, none under ninety
pounds wanted The managers re-
port the opera tons as satisfac-
tory so far, and hope to increase
the capacity in the near future.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

The banner Republican state this
year is Pennsylvania, which gives
Blaine plurality of over $1,000.
Kansas comes next, with about co.
600, and Minnesota is third with
something over 5000. Neither
Of these States did so well four
years ago, nor ever before, in fact,
except in 1872, when Pennsylva-
MAS plurality for Grant was over
1S7 600, and in 1850, when the
same state gave Lincoln S0,OOC
more votes than Breckenridge,
though with the vote of Dougla:
added to that of Breckenridge the
Republican plurality was only
y, 400.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04
TzE Gainesville Register N!

TIE Gainesville Register makes
s1me very unkind remarks re-
garding the condition of affairs in
this Territory and which the facts
hardly seem TO warrant. That
there are frequent cases of lawless-
ness it would be useless to deny
but that they are prcpOrtionately
more common than in Texas, Ar
kansas or Kansas, our neighbors,
appears almOstimpossible- Things
have come to = pretty hard pass
when Texas complains ofthe i'm
morality OF other States
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04
NOTES FOR THE STOCK NAN.

Atthe convention the tanners
did not succeed in convincing the
cattlemen that il was TO their mu-
tual interest to increase the value
of hide by using small brands.
The cattlemen concluded that as
they were not raising hides, but
beef. they could only consider the
best way to make secure their
property in the animal without ref
erence to the value of its hide.
A new machine for sxtinguish-
ing prairie dogs is very simple. II
consists of sn ordinary bellows
with fire box for busning birthstone
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

a. m. instead Of lilo a. m, as
at present. The mail can be de-
live-ed Immediately upon arrival
in time to get replies for the east
bound mail the same day, which
will be equal to saving one day
between New York and San Fran
cisco. A separation for city deliv-
ery in San Francisco is now made
ON the cars.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

W. J. MoRPHY, late president Of
the Texas Investment company
and manager of the Fort Worth
Gazette. has been arrested on a
charge of swindling. 1t is claimed
he failed to turn over $500 10 a
cOnsignee of a lot of cattle from
Sherman. He has also been in
dited as a director of the Rosedale
street railway in Fort Worth for
obstructing the public highway
He readily gave bond in both cases,
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

The neck of the bellows is inserted
into theburrow made by the dog,
a few puffs Of the fumes, the mouth
of the hole closed up with dirt and
the chatter is hushed, the dog has
found his grave and got his brim-
stone. 1t has been successfully
tried in New Mexico, and an entire
dog town having been extinguish-
ed by one application.
The managers of the Worlds In
dustrial and Cotton Centennial Ex-
position of New Orleans have made
a large appropriation as a livestock
premium fund. This fund consists
Of So, 600, and has been distribu-
ted as follows: Horses, $4,000;
breeding and dairy cattle, s12 900;
fat stock (cattle sheep and hogs)
$40, 600; sheep, 50 500; hogs, S., 500;
poultry and pet stock, s5y 900; dogs,
81, 500. Liberal premiums have
been provided for all the recognized
breeds of cattle, horses, sheep, and
swine.
Caldwell Journal:-Mayor Nor
ris returned this week from a trip
TO Darlington, /. 7. He took
down $4,000 in cash, bills and
silver of the denomination Of one
dollar or less. Mr.: Geo. E Rey-
nolds paid the Cheyenne aId
ArrapahOe Indians the lease money
for the cattle range he holds in
their country. The payment was
81. % per capita, and as it required
a great deal of small change Mayor
Morris took it down. He had to
break Wichita and Wellington on
dollar bills and 25 cent silver pieces
TO make it. but he succeeded. =
This season 1885 cars of cattle
and horses have been shipped from
our stock yards from the Cherokee
Strip ranges. There are about q
cattle TO the car, and show a total
of 81. .S55 head. The markets have
been so bad this season, or rather
so uncertain. that many beeves
have been left on the range and
will not reach market this year al
all. The number of cattle shipped
shows an average of 54S head from
each of the 100 ranges on the strip
But they do not represent more
than the produce Of one-half o.
these ranges, as many cattle wer'
shipped from other points from
them. The shipments from the
| 100 Cherokee Strip ranges will
average over 1000 head 10 thu
range and show at least three mil
lion dollars as the net receipts fol
these cattle. = = Wheat was
selling, Saturday, on the Chicago
market at 73 cents a buhsel, and
corn at Sc 1-2 cents. This make!
corn worth 12 cents here for ship
ping purposes. Our farmers may
not appreciate the fact, but il is tru'
nevertheless, that they have il
Caldwell, the best home market il
the state for corn and oats. While
other farmers are selling corn at II
cents, they are receiving 25 to 81
cents for every bushel theysehoos,
to bring in. Our local ranch mel
and proximity to the posts and In
dian agencies below are the direc'
canse Of this market. The farmer
is as greatly benefited by the Chero
kee strip stockmen's lease of those
lands for grazing purposes as arr
the stOekmen and yet in a few case
they are cussing the government
the Journal, the stockmen and th'
Indians for this state of affairs
We are happy TO say that this il
the exception and not the rule, fol
n large marjority Of the farmers dC
; not want any change made thai
will affect the interests of thes'
ranchmen.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

EIGHT citizens of Mobeesie, Tex
as, we're recently fined for betting
on q monte game The end OF
personal liberty" seems not far
of when a man is 20 be denied
this Questionable privilege.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

TEE city Of London, England,
eats IN ene year, butchers meat to
the valae of $3.50, ,0OO. 600, and
consumes in a year about 1,40O,
900 oxen, l,500. 900 sheep 1900
0Oo calves and 25s, 900 swine.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

TIE low prices of grain, wheat
in particular, are working an un-
looked for hardship on the farm
ers of Kansas. When q bushel
of good wheat viii bsing but forty
cents the outlesk is not catering
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

THIs week we present TO our
readers the presidents annual
message to congress. 1t Is not ey-
cry president who can write even
five columns and then stop.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

A CONTEMPORARY says q man in
New York whose wifepresented him
with "f0ur Of a kind" complains
of over production Still he would
raise thunder If she should seek 3
foreign market for manufactures.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

The Missouri Legislature viii
stand as follows: In the Senate,
Democrats q; opposition, Z In
the House, Democrats, 90; OpPo-
fstioa, Al Democratic majority en-
joint ballot, IS This does not
presents a very inviting field for the
propositionsst to fuse and beat Vest -
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

THE report Of the Utah commits
|sion has been made to congress.
Rigorous measures in dealing with
the Mormons are recommended,
to the end that polygamy may be
broken m
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

A GREAT many causes are Just
now being given for Mr. Blaine's
defeat. We think that If the re-
publican party had paid more at
tention TO the needs of the country
and less 70 ifs chronic Office holders
1t would have been spared the
present defeat. To the younger
element of the party there is moth
ing more disgusting than the plan
of keeping old and undeservins
barnacies in Office during their nat
ural lifetime. Late results show
that the votes Of the younger clas:
are needed. Although they Eighi
from early training or a dozen 9th
er reasons naturally be republi
cans, still they owe allegiance q
no party and are under obligation
to none. This class is sufficient II
numbers to be entitled to cOnsid
Grafton and in the future We pre-
diss they viii receive i at th'
hands Of one party or the other
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

THE greater portion of Texas has
|tsly had considerable rain anS
be water supply is no longer
earcs.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

Az agricultural exchange says
khAt the profits of wheAt-grOwing
kppear 20 have gone with the
lost arts"
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

EvEs since the election there
has been q scramble IN one of the
Chicago districts for q place in the
state senate. Brand, the democrat,
was first given the certificate
BY the election board It has
since transpired that the ballots
and returns had been "doctored, I"
and on Tuesday Leman, the repub-
lican was given the certificate by
the state board This gives the
republicans a majority Of one in
the Illinois legislature on joint bal
lot and insures the return ofyohn A
Logan to the United States Senate
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

TIE Fayetteville Sentinel closed
|s ninth year last week and the
Tort Smith New Ira its twenty
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

TIERS Is nothing easier Of ac-
Eomplishment in this world than
b set into debt. The hard part is
10 ast out
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

TEr New York postOfice was
Kept open on Thanksgiving the
|szms Is On election day. The
custom house was open one hour.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-12-04

los tie fourth page of this paper
81 be feand the report of Secre-
|ry Teller.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-21
Solar Rice-Grains.

The telescope shows the general sur
face of the sun as formed of multitu-
dinous small round objects, intensely
bright, on a background which,
though really bright, appears by con-
trast dark. These objects are only
small in the sense that they look small
as seen even with the most powerful
telescopes. In reality, they average
two or three hundred miles in length
and breadth. Regarding those Of
nearly circular form as in reality spher-
zeal, the surface of one of thes clouds,
(if so we are to regard Them two hun
bred miles in diameter, would be about
$4,000 square miles; so that, in COM
parison with all such terrestrial objects
as we can actually see and measure,
they are of enormous size. Now, we
can readily form an opinion as to the
nature OF these cloud-liRe masses-the
so-called solar rice-grains-by consider
ing what the spectroscope has told us
about the vaporous atmosphere in which
they float. This complex atmosphere
indicates its presence alike in telescope
survey of thesun and in photographs OF
his disk blythe well-marked darkening
toward the suns edge. Analyzed by
the spectfoscope, it is found to contain
the vapors of iron, copper, zinc, alumni
mum titaniJm, sodium, magnesium,
and many other terrestrial elements,
chiefly metallic. In other words, in the
atmosphere ofsthe sunsthe metals have
the same position which the vapors Of
water have in our ownzair; SO intense is
the heat of the. sun that iron. copper,
zinc, etc, doubtless, in reality, all the
metals, though not altin sufficient guam
tity to indicate their presence,) are
turned to the form of vapor. The
clouds, then, that float in the atmos-
phere of the sun fare clouds in which
drops of metal play the same par
which drops of water play in our owl
clouds We may describe the solal
rice-grains, in fact, as mighty metallic
clouds. -Longmen's magazine,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-21
ADVICE To MOTHERS.

Are you disturbed at night and broken
of your rest by ID sick child suffering and
crying with pain of cutting teeth2 Ii so,
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feb % m-w-s- m 1-y
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-21
silent Women.

Ihe scientific world is now ao1tated
by the subject of the evolution of silent
women. Up to date they have generally
been classified with the peculiar species
known as white black-birds and black
swans. The question is now, whether
the few specimens that are found are
signs OF new and unheard of type of
women, or whether they are mere
freaks of nature, exceptions to a rule
and no more prophetic of species of
silent women, than the Siamese twins,
skeleton men, fat women, six-leged
calves, and other curiosities, are siSni-
ficant of race of such creatures.
Silent women do not seem to be pc
culiar to any section or climate; nor
are they Indigenous to any special local
ity Sometimes they are found in cities.
where people necessarily do good deal
of talking, sometimes in the agricultural
regions, where talking is mainly con-
fined to the sewing circle, or to the Sun
day noon gossip between morning and
afternoon service. Two of the largest
cities Of the country, New York and
Cincinnati, are just now furnishing the
two most perfect specimens of the new
species extant-that, is if it is new
species; if it is freak of nature, they
still hold their own as profitable invest
ments of dime museum.
One, whom we have already referred
to, Is witness in will case in New York.
She is an old servant of the man whose
will is contested; and, when put in the
witness box, loudly announced her reso-
luton ''to keep STILL" not to say a
word, and that it was no use asking her
anything. She sat back in her chair and
read "A Christians Secret, or Happy
Life" and shook her head, said she
wouldn't answer n question one;
that she needed all her breath for some
thing else; that they could lock her up
to the day of Judgment if they wanted
to- twould not make bit of difference,
and for two or more days held out in
her determination.
A Chicago woman has not spoken to
her husband for two years, and the fell
low actually wants divorce from her.
But that's the way in this world. Hun
dreds of men instead of divorcing her
would be clad to marry her. 1t is like
the two men who were telling each other
why they joined the army and went to
war. One because his wife never had
buckwheat cakes; the other because his
wife wouldn't give him anything else.
The Chicago wife's only mode of cor.l-
munication was writing notes and leav.
ing them about. Her husband says he
would have given all he had and trudged
home on foot to save car fare, for one
kind, sympathetic word from her. He
bit her lamp and warmed her foot stove,
but no word came He went to Toronto
TO the Sovereign Grand Lodge of ODD
Fellows and she locked herself in hel
room SO as not to bid him good bye
She would rattle dish to call him tC
dinner and then, putting hers upon s
separate plate, walk away with it
Everything which some husbands woulC
crave as a sweet boon in their wives
| this man esteems a thorn and &
| grievance.
So little credence do the ordinary
minds of the country put in the notion
that a silent woman may be regular
and healthy development of nature, thai
both of these are called insane Detr0i
IFroe D.aee
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-21

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-21
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

George Elliot's 'Adam Bede, Is
being dramatized, and the adaptation
will be produced both in England and
America.
AT Paterson. N. j., fve-year-old
boy fell into the Passaic River and was
carried over the falls, where he was res
cued unhurt. The falls are eighty feet
high. I. san.
AT Augusta, Ga, the other day
lightning struck hen that was setting
on nest of eggs, The poor biddy was
completely roasted by the fierce heat,
and picked clean.
1t has been discovered that the
Gala is not a lily, and the dog-tooth VIC
let is not properly a violet. Now, i
some daring iconoelast will only prove
that the onion is not an onion!-Boston
Post.
Oscar Wilde says that living in En-
glands much cheaper than in this eoun
try. For instance" he says, ''you ear
hear me lecture in England for twenty
five cents, but in America it costs
dollar"
"A New York bootblack of mixed In
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-21
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.


GUNsMiTHs.
Wolff, Chas., Ill Seventeenth street.
HARNESS MANUFACTU RERS.
sanerman. John 2i9 seventeenth street.
HARDWARE.
Stewart & Montgomery, 1903 second avenue.
MERCHANT TAIL0RS.
Wendt II. 1902 second avenue.
NEWS DEALERS
Wilmans, j. NJ. Post Office Block.
NEWSPAPERS.
| The Rock Island DAILY ARGUS; published every
| evening, Sunday exceptedl in Argus block. OPP
posite Postoifioe Best advertising medium in the
city.
The Rock Island WEEKLY ARGUS; published
| every Friday. A fine Job department in connec-
| ton with the establishment.
| DESTAURANTs AND CoNFECTIoNERs.
Krell, Fred, 1919 second avenue.
Evers, Fred, 1911 second avenue.
STATloNEFs'
Wilmans, J. NJ, Post Office Block.
SALOONS
Westphai, john 1912 second avenue.
warren MAKERS
Bromley, G. A, 1915 second avenue
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-21
Skin Cancer.

Mr.. W. H. Gilbert of Albany, Ga,
under date of May 8, 1884, says: Mr..
Brooks near here has an eating cancer on
his face which had nearly killed him
every one thought he would be dead in a
shorl time as nothing seemed to stop the
ravages of the cancer, He commenced
taking Swift's Specific two m onths ago,
and it has had wonderful effect on him
He was yesterday so far recovered as 10
be out at his work, and seems in fair
way to get entirely we'll.
Treatise on blood and Skin disease
mailed free.
The Swift Specific Co, Drawer 8, At
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-21

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