Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1889-08-01
LOCAL NOTES.

/ ilhh EiDNtntt OONh ~ AtNoNNNihk
from a months illness.
There came new baby boy TO our
friend Gus Nichols last evening.
The new Congregational minister
is expected TO preach next Sunday.
Capt. Nelms has rendered his res
ignation as postmaster at this place.
IS. X. Dale and Miss Ella Tiger was
married about two weeks ago by the
district clerk.
TO the house ofMcUarthy daugh-
ter, Helen Griffin, was born yesterday,
al Kansas city.
1t has been ascertained that Dep
uty Bob Dalton was not killed in Ok
lahoma and did not even have a fight.
The death sentence passed by
Judge Parker upon Frank Capel has
been commuted to life Imprisonment.
The Cherokee commission went 10
Tahlequah Monday. Miss Alice Rob-
inson is acting Is official stenographer.
Father Richard will hold services
in the Raymond building, room No. IL,
ON Sunday, August 4, at l0o'clock p. m.
Wanted, men with good teams TO
put up one thousand tons Of hay. Ap.
ply to Geo. b. Perryman, Tulsa, Ind.
Ter.
Bert smith, Billy's boy, cut his
foot very severely last Tuesday on a
mower while the machine was stand
ing still.
1T is estimated that by the time
court assemblies the first Monday in
September 400 suits will have been
dled, involving S5OO,0OO.
w. II. Curtis having withdrawn as
a candidate for judge on the National
ticket of Delaware district, DR.. +. B.
Frayser has been substituted.
Fred Thomas, who was taken to
Muskogee last Friday to appear before
the u. S. court on a charge Of assault,
was discharged and returned to Vinita
the next day.
An inspection Of our books disclos-
es the fact that we have large sum
Of money due us, and we must insist
upon payment. This is directed to
all and We trust will be needed.
Information is wanted Of o. r.
Chase, an old gentlemen "a carpenter)
who was around here several years
ago, aud very well known. Address
information to Miss l.. Chase, Clyde,
Ohio.
A large, able. bodied boy baby was
found at the Frisco hotel last Sunday.
Doc Galloway laid claim to the little
fellow and IL was turned over TO him
and will take its paregoric from FIRST
hands.
MIR. l.. w. Primaux and Miss Dean
Bluejacket, will be married at shaw
nee, Kansas, next Sunday. The groom
is student OF Haskell Institute at
Lawrence and was here on yis't 8 few
weeks ago.
All the parties who have intro
duced cattle into the Creek nation
without paying the tax are to be pros
ecuted. q. O. Poole gave bond last
Monday for SIC 900 and took his cattle
out OF the marshal's hands.
-"we're making votes right along
said Chamberlin last Saturday as he
circulated around the outeredge OF the
Downing meeting and bought "two-
fer" cigars at five cents each for the
boys. From appearances he did not
make very many.
As late as 1868 there were two col
ored men living with the Starr family
who had been purchased by the pound
, at Charleston, on their importation
from Africa by Tom Starr's grand.
father. The price was Sl2O for one oi
them, being one dollar a pound.
"A pote from Catoosa says that the
only reason why the National majority
at Catoosa precinct will not be in
creased by one more vote, is that Ce
Gil Roe Cromwell never registered un.
I'll Saturday, the 9th inst. Mother
doing well but u. ID. somewhat indis.
posed.
Tourists round trip tickets to Pu-
eblo, Colorado Springs and Denver are
on sale over the NJ, X. & T. road Al
S36.25, good to return until October
81. Train leaving here at 1924 a. m
arrives at Pueblo next day at noon
} Colorado Springs at l;40 pm; DenveI
: at $40 D. m.
Seldom as flint arrow-heads are
seen in this locality, there is a place
on Grand river, near Col. j. NJ Bell s
where hundreds have been picked up
There was n large cane brake ther,
years ago where the Osages and 9th
or Indians must have camped durini
the winters.
"A man named Hayes was entice,
to Red Fork by Gratz Dalton last weel
on the representation that there was
soft game OF poker there they coul,
. get into. In the mean time Daltoi
e was telegraphing to know If the fello,
was not wanted in Kansas on a crimi
nal charge and receiving an affirmative
reply, arrested him.
"A great deal is said ofa prohistor
ic race known as the Mound Builders
tits by no means improbable that W
i have the direct descendants of thos
people with us day in the Choctawi
Years ago the Choctaws were know
as the Flatheads OF the south, an
> more than likely they were once
part of the tribe now known as Flat
Q heads, who inhabit the Western pan
OF Montana.