Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1889-02-28
LOCAL NOTES.

married recently 10 lady in Missouri.
II has been raining for day or
two and all the creeks are past ford
ing.
See in "stray and For Sale" col
umn offer of Robt. Dobkins 10 sell two
places.
The piesent unfavorable weather
is down OF tho chart to terminate next
Monday.
The deepest snow Of the winter
fell last Sunday night and Monday,
but is about gone now.
VIII Miller's taste. IL ono might
Judge by looking into his hardware
store, runs largely to green.
The A. 0. U. ". assessment for
March is but sl.00. This on a policy
for 1000 is pretty cheap life insur-
anco.
"A petition has been circulated on
upper Cabin creek asking the govern
ment to establish postofIice at Robt.
Dobkins'.
Another killing occurred last week
in Tahlequah district. The victim
was Jack Turner, who was killed by
Mike Carney.
DIR. Joe Thompson, medical super
intendent of the seminaries, was mar
ried at Muskogee last Thursday to
Miss Lulu Elliott.
The stockmen in the vicinity Of
Bluejacket will ask the railroad COM
pany to put up stock yards at that
place the coming spring.
William Smith, charged with as
saultihgJ. NJ. Lamm, gave bond in the
sum Of 500 last week for his appear
ance before the grand jury.
Don't be deceived in regard to
your job printing; the CHIEFrArS will
meet all prices made and will use first
instead of fourth class paper.
That reputable gentleman, Mr.. V.
L. Benton, is being slsndered again.
Truth, crushed TO earth. will rise
again." so the Old man is all right.
IS. j. Burns took advantage Of
the touch Of winter we had last week
by putting up what ice he could get.
1t was about three inches in thick
ness.
Prairie City folks have strong
hopes that the new railroad from Fort
Smith to Baxter Springs will pass
through their town and that they will
then have depot.
-Chetopa had the pleasure Of lis
tening to lee ture from an Esquimau
lady last week. She spoke of her peo-
pie, their manner OF living, customs,
etc. The speaker was but forty inch
es in height.
Two OF Mr.. John Miller's dogs, one
of which was given him by Arch
Goodykoontz, we'e bitten by mad
dog ont at the place this week and
had to be killed. The dog which bit
them was killed near by.
Through the courtesy of Agent
Walker an attractive picture Of Eure-
ka Springs now graces the walls of this
Office. Not only the town but the hill
side upon which IL is built seems to
have grown remarkably during the
last year.
This Office received large supply
OF new stationery and printing mate
rial last Saturday. We do not palm
of any shoddy paper on our customers,
but give them first-class goods at pric-
es fully as low as other concerns
charge for inferior stuff.
The Southwest City papers note
the fact that DR.. q. IL. Planck, "spe-
cialist," is in their town. Our friends
M at Alluwe, where the doctor has
recently been holding forth, associate
his name very closely with the word
fraud" rather than Specialist"
-Rov. ]. c. Seton, originally of Vi
niia but who for the past few years
has been living at Chetopa, left last
week with his family to maze their
home in Wichita. A farewell service
wss rendered him and afterwards he
was presented with a purse from the
y. NJ. @. A.
1T would seem as though the
CHIEFTAIN had been pursuing the
even tenor Of its ways too long for
anyone to reasonably accuse it OF any
vicious utterances and repudiatiou
Of such seems hardly necessary. II,
however, a disclaimer were needful,
it would be forthcoming without stint.
The paper is by no means too naughty
to make the "amende honorable" and
will always do SO cheerfully.
-ATahlequah dispatch OF the 22nd
says: News reached here to-day
from the Flint district, about thirty
miles southeast, that a iullblooded
Cherokee named Crying Bear had
been assassinated in the neighbor-
hood Of Honey Hill. The young man
bed a wife, and another young man
was known to covet her and had made
some talk to that effect. This makes
the third murder in the Cherokee ma
tlon in the last four days"
Bob Taylor returned a few days
ago from journey overland into Ar
kansas with bunch Of mules. lie
left here with eighteen head which he
sold through the country between
here and Little Rock. There is no
end of people wanting mules, he says,
but money is scarce and to sell any
great number for cash would be impos-
sible. To Quo man he sold eleven
head at sl25 each. Cattle, such as
they have, can be bought very cheap
from 75 cents to 5000.
I. B. Bell started east Tuesday az