Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1885-09-24

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zoo much strain o. me. could guess
at what Congress vas doing and make
up pretty readable report but foreign
powers and reichstags and crowned
heads and dynasties always mixed me
up You can look over what Congress
did last year and give a pretty good
guess at what It will do this year. but
you can't rely on a dynasty or an effete
monarchy 10 a bad state of preservation.
IL may go into executive session, or IL
may 90 into bankruptcy.
Still. at one time we used TO have
considerable local news to fill up with.
The North and Middle Parks for n
while used to help us out when the
mining camps were new. Those were
the DAYS when il was considered per-
fectly proper 10 kill off the Board Of
Supervisors il their action was distaste-
tul. At that time new camp general
" located cemetery and wrote an
obituary; then the boys would start out
TO find a man whose name would rhyme
with the rest of the verse; These were
the days when the cemeteries Of Colora-
do were still in their infancy and the
song Of the six-shooter was heard in the
land
Sometimes the Indians would send us
in an item. il was generally in tho
obituary line. With the Sioux on tho
North and the peaceful Utcs on the
South, we were pretty sure of some kind
of news during the summer. The parks
used TO be occupied by white smen win
ters and Indians summers. Summer was
really the pleasantest time TO 20 into
the parks. but tho Indians had been in
the habit Of going there at that season.
and they were sO,clannish that the white
man couldn't have much fun with
them, so they dec de they would not
go there IN the summer Several Of our
best subscribers were killed by the
peaceful Utes.
There were two daily and three week
ly papers published in Laratle City at
that time. There were between two
and three thousand people, and our To-
cal circulat on ran from one hundred
and fifty to two hundred and fly,
counting dcad-heads. In our prospect
us we stated that we would spare no
expense whatever in ransacking the
universe for fresh news, but there were
AAAAaNo NAANA ~ was hAA NN N0hAh Wv w
get our paper out on time. Out of the
express Office mean.
On of the rival editors used to writc
his editorials for the paper in the even.
ing, jerk the Washington hand-press to
work them OIL, 20 home and wrestls
with juvenile collie in his family until
daylight and then deliver his papers on
the street. It is not surprising that the
great mcntal strain incident to this life
made an old man of him and gave q
tinge of extreme sadness to the funny
column of his paper.
In an unguarded moment. this man
wrots az editorial once that got all his
subscribers mad at him, and the same
afternoon he came around aud wanted
to sell his paper TO us for $4,000 7
told him the whole outfit n asn't worth
ten thousand cents.
II know that said he, ''but ii i not
the material that am talking about II
is Tn goodwill of the paper
We had a rising young horse-thief in
Wyoming in those days who got into
jail by some friak Of Justice. and It was
so odd for bcrse-thief to get into Jail
that | alluded TO Il editorially. This
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from the common. vulgar horse-thieyes
OF his time by wearing large mouth. a
kind of full dress. eight day mouth. He
rarely smiled. but when. he did he had
to hold the top Of his head on with both
hands. remember that | spoke of
this in the paper, forgetting that he
might criticise me when he got out OF
jail. When he d'd get out again no
stated that he wol..d shoot me ON sight,
but friends advised me not to have his
blood on my hands, and took their adj
vice so | haven't got particle Of his
blood on either Of my hands.
For two or three months | didn't
know but he would drop into the Office
any minute and criticise me. bur one
day a friend told me that he had been
hung in Montana Then | began to
m.ngle in society again and didn' have
TO get in my coal with a dOuble-barrel
shot gun any more.
After that | was always conservative
in relation to horse-thieves until we got
the report Of the Vigilance Committee.
-ieck's Sun.