Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1889-07-25


Davis Hill is having a we'll drilled
on his lot near w. r. Halsell's, pre-
paratory to making home there.
jesse Roach, colored, was fined one
dollar and costs, last Saturday, for in
dulging in a fist fight with his wife.
The ST. Louis fair occurs the same
week as the one at vinita; an unfor-
tunste thing for our st. Louis friends.
Wanted, men with good teams tc
put up one thousand tons OF hay. APP.
ply TO Geo. B. Perryman, Tulsa, Ind
Ter.
Make II point TO be in town next
Saturday and hear from the candidates
themselves just what they propose do
ing.
The stock yards at Pryor Creek
have been enlarged and a station and
telegraph oHic' have been opened
there.
--Of the prisoners taken - Fort
Smith recently from here, Barker, Nor.
ris and Barr, all were tried and con-
victed.
Frank Hulls became overheated in
the hay field near Aft on, last satur,
day, and was conveyed to his home IN
this city.
Several of our STOCK men are trying
the new stable cars. They contain
three stalls holding about seven l0O(
pound steers each.
There have been plentiful rains
nearly all around us the last few day.
and We were treated to a mod crate
shower Tuesday night
w. II. Curtis having Withdrawn n,
candidate for judge on the Naiiona
ticket OF Delaware district, DR.. f. b
Frayser has been substituted.
I. B. Hitchcock, the old gentleman
was married last week somewhere ia
Illinois or Indiana, 10 a lady who Wis.
tied Tahlequah year or so ago.
Billy Campbell, the ChoutsGu sad
dler, has just moved into what is prob.
ably the finest shop in the terri.
tory. Call in and let him fix you up
Next Saturday, July "a, Ia vini.
ta's political day aud large number
OF candidates from both parties, o.
Cooweescoowee district will be On
hand.
"A colored boy named John Martin
while carelessly handling pistol Sat
urday night. shot hole through one
OF his fingers. He didn't know il
was loaded"
We are requested to state that Jim
Woodall has abandoned his intention
to run for solicitor OF Delaware dis.
trict and will support the Downing
nominee, Charles L. smell.
The Fish & Keck Co., cattle COM
mission merchants, of Kansas City,
place their advertisement in these
columns this week. The firm is re-
liable one and composed Of men Of ex.
perlence.
After being apprised that his cat
tie brought about two thirty.hve, a
Tulsaite was wondering why il was
that a man was NJ rested in tho terri
ritory for stealing cattle and not in
East st. Louis.
The Nationals are running the
menagerie in Goingsnake this sum-
mer. They have: Senate, Dick Wolf,
Wolf Coon; council, Nelson Torrapin,
Dave Blackfoz, Ned Bullfrog; sheriff,
Carselowie Terrapin.
Ruben Downing,a a negro, who lived
on Grand river, died last Thursday
night. Though over a hundred years
OF age, he generally enjoyed good
health and was able to do hard work
up to within a few days Of his death.
w. I. Whitaker, tho veteran Pry.
or Creek merchant, has again embark
cd in business at that point. The
town owes much of its existence 10
this gentleman's energy and activity
and he will doubtless give it another
boom.
--Journal;-"Rather an ecce nitric
bullet" remarked Judge Parker yes
terday as Commissioner Brizzolara
read an indictment announcing tina,
the victim had met his death by a bul.
lot which struck him in the head.
breast, back and belly.
Tourists round trip tickets to Pu.
eblo, Colorado Springs and Denver arc
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 Syringe atl,40 p. M; Denver
at $40 p. m.
"A late watermelon crop is about
the worst calamity that could happen
to our people Just now. The FIRST OF
August is almost upon us with the
great vox populi celebration OF the
colored folks and no watermelons.
What IL emancipation 10 the colored
folks without watermelons3 Might As
well go back to slavery aud be dope
With IL.