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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-08-21
BORDER OUTLAWRY.
TIMES WERE LIVELY AT THE EDGE
OF THE NEUTRAL STRIP.

Tribute on Peaceful Citizens Wero Mt .
Last subdued by the Indignant aud
Desperate Inhabitants.
II has always been a fact that the Dor ,
dcrs of country were the last to come I'M
der the influence of civilization, and since .
the days of the Red Gauntlet the border
riders have been feared and respected 10y
the more considerate aud law abiding class
of people. In tie later days, Of course, the
wild riders hive ceased to levy tribute on
property in neutral territory, but in the
same way that the highland pirates Of the
oldeu time eXacted money from the border
set tiers, the desperadocs of to-day exact the
allegiance of these subjects, and in return
for their protection of property against the
"ciaus' they expect no settler to know any
thing about them when inquiry is made,
unless they know to whom the secret is
being divulgel
Tile little town of Dexter, once with n
population of lGOJ but now almost in
ruins, has been for thirty years situated on
the border Of one of these neutral strips,
where lie lrw has been suspended, and has
perhaps been the arena Of more blOudshei
in the way Of cMuui-h and single handed
encounters than any other town or village
on he borders Of Texas.
Two year, ago in the cemetery Of that
town there were seycuty-siX graves of men
who had fallen in combat with the knife,
pistol or deadly Winchester, and it is safe
TO -nv that half the victims never found a
rr.t .uk place under the sod. This place is
one beautifully situated, and is six miles
from the southern boundary Of the Indian
territory. At that point the Red river
makes an enormous bend, running in
about fifteen miles
HOW THE PEOPLE ROSE Up.
Across the neck of this bend, called the
Delaware, is distance Of about eight
miles, and in that neck is situated the
town of which | speak 1t is now fifteen
mile, of tie railroad, and has always been
the place where the dcaperadoes bought
their whisky and supplies and went for 4
"fr4cas" when their blood became worked
up.tothe uoiut tuot thcy had to hunt
rIN. which it frequently did. The iuhuh-
itar,, of this village, as the expression is,
"l.i not stand in" with the riders, as one
would suppose and there was always
fr,,iu, of G.S-rust between them, which
often Terminated in a fight and one or
more deaths.
Th, rcnu'c Of the town, after a time. de-
cr..,d that the wild riding and shooting of
ta.ir visitors must stop, it having come to
the poiut that an outsider would not 20 to
the town and IA woman would not 90 on
tho street for the fear of bpiny killed hv
some stray bullet. sill, when the border
ers came they ran things their own way,
ard the ci,izeus would not work in con
cert one man niyht resent their insult,
with the result that lie would he killed
and maybe one ortvo of the riders.
Tie most noted of the gau9s were those
~ Ti,, ID. III -,.in aud C.nrs bpei,ln.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-08-21
BLACK, PITCHY BLACK.
A REMARKABLE RIVER BENEATH
The SURFACE OF TEXAS.

q Party of Explorers Attempts TO Fol-
low Up the source of Deep stream
That Flows Through IA Dark Cave.
blind Fishcs aud Shiny Water Dogs.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-04

orators are now discussing on the stump.
The opposition to Chief Mays's re-elec-
tion charges that it is due to his inefi-
cheney and bad government that there has
not been enough money to pay the teach
ers, and the friends Of the chief show
quite as plainly that the deficit rises from
other causes. In the meantime the big
seminary lies idle and the university has
no scholars. I went through the semi
nary. 1t has as fine accommodations as
any college in Ohio, and it is run on the
Mount Holyoke plan, the girls keeping
their own rooms in order and doing part
of the housework of the institution.
BY all odds the worst men in the In.
dian Territory are the white men. There
are ten drunken cowboys, horse thieves
and jailbirds to every one decent man
among them, and this little town of
Tahlequah, with its Indian population,
has Intimately better order than the towns
along the railroad where the whites have
been permitted to do business. The
hotel here is good and I have not seen a
bit of disorder or any drunkenness dur
ing my stay here. It is against the law
to sell liquor in the Territory, and that
which is brought here is smuggled in by
the whites. There was big celebration
at Fort Smith the other day and the rail-
roadsg going through the Territory gave ex-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-04
INDIAN TERRITORY.
A VISIT TO THE CHICKASAWS,
CHOCTAWS AND GREEKS.
How the Indians Farm-The Capitol
and Unlversity-A Call Upon the
Chiet-Big Plantations Owned
Dy Some Half Breeds.

I crossed Texas in coming from
Mexico to the Indian Territory and
again entered foreign country, writes
Frank G. Carpenter from Tahlequah.
The five civilized tribes, who own the
best part of this Territory, claim to be in
dependent nations. They have civili-
zation, laws and a government of their
own, and these Cherokees have their own
parliament at Tahlequah and they elect
their senate and house without regard to
the United States. They have presi-
dent or chief, who is elected by the vote
of the people, and they settle all civil
matters in their own courts, the cases
being plead by their own lawyers and
decided by Indian judges. They have
their own secretary of the treasury and
their own police, and politics cuts as
much of figure here as it does in any
place.
Tahlequah is town of perhaps 1000
people and the State house is in its GEN.
ter. 1t is big two-story brick building
which looks more like . country court
house than like national capitol, and
it is located in large park filed with
great forest trees. Around this the
streets extend out in every direction.
They are wide and unpaved, and they
are lined with such buildings as you will
find in q town of 1000 inhabitants in the
United States. The houses back of the
main or business streets have big grounds,
and some of them are eight and ten-room
cottages. Only few of the houses are
built of logs and the most of them are of
boards and some are after the models
furnished in books of suburban architec-
ture.
The capitol contains the legislative
halls, the treasury department, the su-
preme court and the department of edu-
cation. 1 visited it and I found the
treasury much like country bank, con-
sisting of counter running across ten
by twelve room. Iron bars ran from the
front of the counter to the ceiling, and
in the space behind there was safe and
an Indian, who talked to me through a
little hole over the centre of the counter.
The legislature was not in session, but
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-04
-
Arctic Waters; Why Yellow

Arctic explorers never tire of telling
how beautifully yellow the waters of the
northern sea appear. To those who live
on the seashore in temperate and tropica!
countries, the stories of travellers con.
cerning the yellow waters of Greenland
and Iceland are taken with the proven
bial "grain of SALT" but scientists have
declared that the Arctic Seas are yellow,
and that it was Scoresby who first ex-
planned the cause of its peculiar color.
Perceiving that the waters were of an
unusual color, he had some drawn up
and examined it with his microscope.
To his surprise he found that the color
was due to the presence of minute ami
malcules, each so inconceivably small
that single drop of the water contained
upward of 20, 1000 of the little creatures!
At that rate pint of the water would
show 170, 100000, each sporting about
in his place without disturbing or
crowding his neighbor.-St. Louis Re-
puJlic
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CHEROKEE UNIVERSITY.

one of the trains by which they returned.
I have never seen a more drunken, disrep-
utable and disorderly crowd. The men
were wild with liquor, and red-faced
cowboys with big hats on their heads
jumped up and down, yelling and crow
ing like roosters and swearing they could
whip any blanked man in the car.
They are many negroes still in the In
dian Territory and you will find many of
the Creeks who have intermarried with
the negroes. The Choctaws have also
many people of mixed Indian and negro
blond, and the Chickasaws had big cot
ton plantations before the war and had
many slaves. s~
These Cherokees here are the proudest
of all these Indian tribes. They are the
aristocrats of the Five Nations. There
are stores here run by the Indian quite
as good as those of the white men in the
towns along the railroad, and I am sur
prised to see what big stocks Of goods
they carry and what variety OF articles
they use. The dry goods stores contain
all kinds of ladies' dress goods, and
these women here do not con6ne them
selves by any means to calico. Such as
have seen wear as good clothes as you
will find worn by the women of any
town of this size in the United St"t,
and they dress in exactly the same way.
Most of the families of Tahlequah have
sewing machines, and nearly every
house has piano or organ.
They use cooking stoves and have
exactly the same kind of household
furniture that you will find in an Ameri-
can village. The men dress in the same
way, and of the Cherokees only the few
est cling to their old habits, and there
are none, I think, but who wear citizens
clothes. Some of the poorest Indians,
and these are generally full-blooded ones,
live in log cabins, and these do nothing
but fish and cultivate little ground for
their own corn. These, I understand,
are chiefly in the eastern part of the
nation, where there is a mountainous
country.
The Indians themselves know that they
must be eventually swallowed up by the
whites, and though they will not con-
fess this, they say that if it does come
the Government must pay the Indians for
their lands and allow each one fee
simple title to farm. The Indian Terri
tory has now only about so, goo Indians.
Still the country is much bigger than
New York and Massachusetts, and it is
nearly the same size as Kansas. 1t
would support population of five or
six millions, and it contains the best
lands in the United States.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-04

won't touch it. But as for these pts,
they were cut from our forests and!ey
belong to the Indians and we will ut
them down" The result was that he
Texans had to take their cattle orof
the country. A great many Texas It.
tie are grazed in the Territory by 1ndns
for Texans, and there are q numberof
pastures in the Creek country rangnln
size from 10000 to $4,000 acres. ley
receive from 81 to $3.50 head, i'd
although the grazing of cattle il lis
way is against the law of the tribes lis
winked at and permitted to be doe.
Many of the Cherokees employ wlte
men to work for them, and n he
Chickasaw nation, in the WASN'T. VII
ley, there is farm nifty miles long he
owner of which is an Indian an he
laborers are white. There is an Idan
here who has costly residence il ne
centre of 1000 acres of beautiful ard,
and among his hands are some Cherk'es
that get sixteen dollars month. riey
could have farms of their own, butlu't
seem to care to take them.
Ihad talk with Governor Smallood,
who was for long time chief o the
Choctaws. l met him at the little, ,wn
of Atoka and found him very ielli-
gent man. He tells me that the hoe
taw nation has seventeen counties it,
and that it has its senate and housejust
as the Cherokees have. Its govnor
gets $4,000 a year as salary h is
elected for term of two years. Hhas
the same authority as one of the go'rn-
ors of our States, except that he c'not
pardon. Governor Smallwood sayshat
there are about $4,000 Choctawsand
that these believe in the Christian Iig-
ion and are nf all denominations ex!pt
Catholic. The Choctaws live in og
houses and plain cottages, and their 60
pie are steadily advancing in cullre.
There is no State in the Union that ays
proportiolatcly more toward cducaon
than the Choctaws, and l tiud that he
Cherokees here have an excellent sysm
of public schools.
One of the leading political issues he
at Tahleuuah is the public school systa.
They have big boys college and as.
male seminary, and they have systenof
public schools which extends through1t
the country. The revenue of the natio,
however, ran behind and these schols
have oil been shut up for a year on g
count of there being no money to Ey
the teachers, and the question OF It's
payment and the reorganization of te
schools is one which the young Cheroke
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-04
Tie Incomes Of Physicians.

Absurdly extravagant stories are told
of the enormous incomes derived from
their practice by leading physicians in
this city. At least twenty are named
whose annual fees are said 10 aggregate
from 500. 900 to $3.50, 900. In point
of fact, it is not probable that there are
ten of them who make $50, 900 a year,
nor twenty, all told, who run up to
$50, 900. Some of the richest, like DR..
Thomas Adds Emmet and DR.. F. 8.
Dennis, are rich by inheritance or by
marriage, apart from their practice.
DR.. E. E. Marcy, as the leading home
opathist, made large fortune, which he
considerably enlarged by real estate
speculation, particularly by the increased
value of his Orange property, large
portion of which was sold for cottage
and villa sites to his own rich patients,
whom he advised to live, in the summer
1t least. where they could "breathe
pure air. DR.. W. L. Polk, whose ia
vo1ite extravaganza is imported fine spans
of carriage horses, has grown rich strictly
from his profession within very few
years.
DR.. jacob, with his wife, who is
daughter, of the late G. P. Putnam, the
publishe-, and is herself very distin-
guished physician; Drs. Jancway,
Loomis, Bryant, Gillett and perhaps
half dozen more run up to $50, 600
practice or perhaps little more. To
offset these there are hundreds who are
happy with from $1,000 to $4,000, and
other hundreds who have hard scratch
ing to make their board and Washing
Meu York Mail and Ezpress.
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1000 Cherokees engaged in ming and
they have about 70, 600 heatf cattle,
1O0,O hogs and 13, 900 ho,. I see
some excellent cotton fieldand they
raise more than bale to there. The
best farms, however, are own6y white
men or half-breeds, and wh men are
acquiring more farming tepry here
every day.
Some of the best lands inc Indian
Territory are those of the Okasaws,
and you find some of the last farms
among them. Frank Murray white
man. married to Chickasaw woman,
has 10000 acres under cultiion and
he keeps 5000 head of cattle He is
said to be worth half millle dollars
and he adds to his lands ey year.
Sam Paul, half-breed Chichw, has
5000 acres under cultivatiorand
white man named Rector, who ,rried
Chickasaw girl, is farming acres.
Here among the Cherokees re is
half-breed named Starin, who 5000
acres, and there are many ott farms
much larger. The Chickasaw atry is
the only one. which has been veyed
and divided into sections, and lon't
think that there is good sym of
record among the other tribes. Lands
NAV be held as far as their irove-
ments are concerned, but an Ind. can
not sell his land to white mai The
Texas cattleman look with envy these
rich plains of green, and theyy all
sorts of lodges te get in. Not ls ago
in the Creek country they tried steal
250, 900 acres, and they built 11niles
of wire fence around this. They
had something like 10, 900 head ocat-
tie on this land and they ratherfed
the Indians.
The Indians held a council anGent
along the fence and chopped 0 the
posts close to the ground. They lid:
'We don't know about the wireshat
may belong to the white men ar we
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-04
A Young Germans Romance.

The steamship Rugia, which sailed
recently for Hamburg, Germany, carried
Richard Harnig and his pretty bride of
twenty, about whom there. is woven
quite romantic story. Five months
ago Harnig worked as farm hand for
Thomas Burston, OF Austel. Ga. He
fell ill, and Miss Anna Oshiel, the
adopted daughter of the postmaster OF
the place, nursed him back to health,
when he received letter from home
saying his father was deal. He re.
turned home and found he was heir to
$750,00O.
Harhig then returned to the United
States, sought out Miss Oshiel, and pro-
posed marriage, without letting her
know of his good fortune. She con-
sented, and they were married. Then
Richard told her of his wealth, aud sug-
gested that they go to Europe. She
consented. They will return to America
in a couple of years.-Neo 0r!ean'
Times democrat.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-04

and an Indian editor I an Indian
physician, both graduate eastern uni
versities, sit down with at the table.
The only sign of Indialood in them
is their high cheek bonesnd they talk
English and are dressed he same sort
of clothes you find on Baway. The
Hon. Mr.. Bushyhead, opf the most
prominent of the Cnero statesmen,
who has been several timhief of the
nation, and who is as intgent as any
white man in the Territortells me that
1400 white men have mad Cherokee
girls within the last ten ys, and that
there are now 1000 whimen in this
part of the Territory. my of the
Cherokee men marry VIII girls, and
just here I would say thatind Indian
girls here who are well ,cated and
good housekeepers. The are about
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-04
NY SONG.
By ENETTK II. LowATER.

Once IN my early youth knew q song,
know not how learned it now, or when;
But oh, it was 30 sweet If had sung
The world perforce had paused and listened
then.
But many q pathway lured my willing feet,
And oft tarried long at pleasures gate;
And when heard whisper. -Y.u should sing
said, 1T will be sweeter II I wait"
But when the lengthening shadows eastward
turns l.
And hea, der grew the burden must bear,
/ said, Il hall forget it if wait.
Now I N ust sing my song, 80 sweet and rare.
But ah, I had forgotten! And the world,
Restless and eager, would not t:rn aside;
None heard the faint, uncertain notes which
rose,
Trembled and faltered, and In silence died.
RocK ELM, Wis.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-04
THE MAIDkN's CHOICE.

Two youths once lived in a country town. z:
And one was giant fair
With Saxon vikings golden crown
And a blacksmith's muscles smooth and
brown
When he made his right arm bare.
The other youth was of dapper size,
So slender and short was he
That he found small favor in maiden's eyes
And the giant boasted in merry wise:
II could lay him across my knee" 5.
These twain both courtei the village belle X
But short was the race they run;
At the giants feet the maiden fall
And the little man, though he epleaded well,
Naught more than her pity won. ~.
They marched away to the wars one day
In haste for the battles van,
And the people cheered when the giant gay
Strobe stoutly past for the distant fray
And they smiled at the little man.
But the earliest ball by fosman sped
One drop from the war-black skies
Passed safely oer the pigmy's head
And the giant who stood behind, fell dead
With bullet between his eyes. &
Then the little man swore, though his sight
was dim, Is
And he bounded ahead Of them al,
And the whole great army followed him 81 4
Till he leapt like devil 1.-the and slim
First man DER the battery wall. &
And he planted the flag of his country there
While the routed enemy ran,
And the legions roared, as it Aoated fair
On the dusky waves Of sulphurous air, %lt
''Three cheersfo the little manp'
Oh, do not know, and cannot say q
What the giant might have done,
But Pm sure the maiden will weep alway
For hel lover shot in the first Of the fray, 81!
And dead ere his fame was won.
For war is field Of chance, You know,
Let him dodge the bullets who can;
But love is garden where fancies blow
And the form Of giant makes larger show
Than the soul Of little man!
George Horton, in Chicago Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-04

In the last Congress bill was In
troduced to do away with railroad
ticket brokers, and the travelling
public promptly and generally petit
toned in behalf of the scalpers. Now
the public is repaid by a brokers COM
bine which seeks to keep railroad
fares at the highest figures. The
brokers should remember that every
time has a hereafter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-04

SMART San Francisco policemen the
other day brought in "a dead drunk"
and tumbled him into a corner.
After he was dead they discovered
that his skull was crushed. Similar
cases Of mistaken diagnosis have 90
Cured in other quarters, and they
emphasize the demand for greater
care on the part of policemen. -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-04
Two Queer Epitaphs.

In the graveyard at Childward' Eng
land, are the following queer epltaphs:
"Here lies the body Of John Smith.
Buried in the cloisters;
IF he don't jump at the last trump,
Call Oysters
"Here lies me and my three daughters,
Brought here by using Seidlitz waters;
If we had stuck to EPSON salts, -. :,
We wouldn't have been in these ere vaults.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-04
A Huge Ball on Deer's Head.
The queer deer whose head is shown
here was shot in forest in Bohemia not

long ago. It had a huge ball OF bone,
or horn, on its forehead in the place OF
antlcrs.