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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-11-17

Mr., Covel's sinecurats4 l0Asition
will be cut on Mr. Baugh, of Coo.
weescoowee fought bard against IT,
In his remarks he said that to cut
she salaries in those Offices 80 much
would turn il into a hog pen
There is talk now among a tew of
the members Of making two dis
iricts OF Cooweescoowee This is
a thing that really ought to be done
since that one is abont half as
large as all OF the balance put to-
gether. One proposition is, TO add
all on the east side of the NJ k. d
4 road TO Saline district and run
a line from Big Cabin through west
to Chelsea and on. This would
make twu large districts. The pro.
jectors think that the revenue on
coal, hay, permits, &c, that is not
collected. would more than pay
the officers. besides the senate
ought to be larger body anyway
Two or three monopoly bills have
already been killed and two are
pending in each house now. A
new one was introduced yesterday
and more are still being manufac.
tured to take the place Of those
gone before.
THE SUPREME JUDGEsHIPs
Have drawn more aspiring can
didates to the city than anything
else, Two new ones are to be
elected, one to succeed Judge Gun
ter and the other to take the place
Of J T. Cunningham, who is filling
out the unexpired term of Judge
Bigby, deceased Mr.. Cunning
ham will in all probability be
one Of the successful ones, or ought
to be at least. Among the other
aspirants are Blue Alberty, Jay
Clark, Eli Whitmire, and-and-
about six more that nobody ever
dreamed would have the "brass"
to aspire to such an exalted po-
sition as that used to be.
The medical superintendency
has not been filled as yet; a mum
Der are pulling hard for it.
Up to this writing the United
States senate committee has not
arrived, but a number Of citizens
from various parts of the country
are daily arriving.
Attorney Maxwell is here to
work in the interest Of his $4,000
claim. "Quiliki" will probably
come later. Among the host of
Cooweescoowee members on the
outside who are here working for
their country may be mentioned
Webo Vann. Glen Rogers, Sam
Mayes, Charlie Mcclellan and
Capt. Jackson.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-11-17

THE allotment issue in this ma
tion is a campaign of education"
that will go on in the interest Of
the common people until it accom-
plishes its mission, namely-the
equalization of land holdings and
NATURALIZATION of title.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-11-17

In should not be forgotten that
5 p eeeh is yet free, as is also the
press, throughout the length and
breadth of America, which, Of
course, includes the Cherokee ma
tion. Some people seem to lose
sight of this important fact, but it
Is "A fact Just the same.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-11-17

lr is impossible % say just when,
but this Cherokee nation will be
seotionized and allotted among
those entitled to share it, This is
official.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-11-17

THERE are great many repub-
licans in Kansas who will find for
their defeat i'm the fact that the
state house ri ng will be dislodged
There should be a clean sweep
from janitor up
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-11-17
THE CHIEFS LAID VIEW s.

Chief Harris in his recent mes
sage to council lays some stress
upon the land question, and offers
as an argument against land in
severalty, the condition OF the
people in the states adjoining US.
With due Difference to the chief
and his views on this particular
issue we beg leave to take
issue. If we were asked to
make an argument in favor Of allot-
ment of lands in this country there
is no more potent reason that now
suggests Itself than q contrast of
our con dition with that OF our
neighbors in the states. Land in
common does not encourage per-
manency in improvements, which
accounts wholly for the fact that
the man who owns forty acres by
individual title will have better
house, a more commodious barn, a
better grade of stock and indeed
all the surroundings that would
indicate permanency and content.
ment amongst a people. Large
sums of money are not often ex-
pended by private individuals
upon real estate held in common,
by a people who are ever looking
forward to a division 1t is fact
worthy of attention that the cost.
liest buildings and most substan-
tial improvements in this nation
are confined almost exclusively to
the towns where lots can be owned
by private title. But it should
not be claimed for one minute that
the land of this nation is held in
common. Some are holding from
5000 to 10000 acres and growing
rich off the proceeds, while others
are only able to possess very few
acres. Under the present system
all the choicest agricultural lands
are gradually but surely passing
into the hands of the rich, to the
exclusion of the poor settler. The
gieat dissatisfaction and unrest
among the citizens OF the Cherokee
nation is traceable to the attempt
to hold land in common. The
existence of the intruder in the
country is universally conceded to
be the greatest menace to our life
as a nation. A division Of land
would forever settle this question
and make it impossible for an in
truder to find lodgment on the
lands OF the Cherokees. It is Ger
tainly the plain duty Of every
lover of justice and humanity to
present these questions to those
less enlightened in its true light
If the full-blood Cherokee under
stood that it was his only saliva
tion and that by allotment be
would get bis share, and of which
it would be impossible to rob him.
all Of this class would be in favor
of it. The time will come when
the ignorant full-blood will suffer
no longer to be hood
winked by those more fortunate
than himself under the guise Of
friends. Let the campaign Of ed
60 on.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-11-17

The Dowing party is on trial be-
fore the people of the Cherokee
Nation, being in power in every
branch of the government The
people are anxiously watching
and waiting for needed legislation
and ifit is not forthcoming it is
pretty safe to say that that party
will go 10 the rear.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-11-17

! come later. Among tne most OF
Cooweescoowee members on the
outside who are here working for
their country may be mentioned
Webo Vann. Glen Rogers, Sam
Mayes, Charlie Mcclellan aud
Capt. Jackson.
AN EXCITING RUNAWAY.
Shortly after the delivery Of the
chiefs message, on Tuesday, be-
fore the $50 girls had scarcely got
inside Of their gate, and while the
1870 boys, the councillors and a
host of other yet thickly thronged
Main street, the alarm, look outl
look out get out of the wayl was
given, when everybody began to
get out OF the way indeed a large
stout team with wagon was com
ing up the street at lightning
speed. When opposite the cap
itol square the driver, who for a
distance of two blocks had been
trying in vain to check them, was
thrown out with terrible force aud
struck on the head by a wheel.
Mrs. jeff Perks was just crossing
the street ahead In her buggy and
would have succeeded in getting
out Of the way had the running
team kept straight on, but instead
it turned and upset the wagon box,
the corner of which struck her
center in the forehead cutting
two inch cash to the skull. She
had alighted from her buggy and
was attempting to escape when
overtaken. Her horse and the
team ran on down the street, and
the report spread Immediately
that the man, Peoples by name,
was dead, but his injuries were
only a three inch cash on the back
of the head with very hard fall.
The physicians dressed both
wounds and the unfortpnates are
now doing we'll.
BEARPAw TO HANG.
On Thursday the trial Of Thomp-
son Bearpaw for the killing of
Raspberry Manus, was concluded
at the Tahlequah court house, and
the jury, after three hours delib-
Grafton, brought in a verdict of
guilty Of murder as charged. he
evidence as brought out in this
case was conclusive that Bearpaw
had deliberately, in cold blood,
murdered his iellowman. There
had been some little ill-feeling be-
tween the two before but not of a
serious nature. The killing was
at a dance; Bearpaw had been
playing the fiddle and gave it up
to another man and then amused
the crowd by dancing by himself
in the middle of the floor. when
suddenly he stopped and said,
"when my brother was alive this
is the way he used to dc" at the
same time pulling out pistol aud
firing at Manus, who was sitting
squatted down by the fireplace.
The ball entered Manus' right arm.
and he sprung behind and attempt
ed to hold a woman before him,
who being frightened sprang to
one side, when Bearpaw shot
again, the ball entering Manus'
breast, he falling dead on the FIRE
place. Bearpaw then shot the
third ball which entered near the
left check bone and game opt back
Of the right ear. After the verdict
was announced, the prisoner made
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-11-17

THE editor of the Advocate re-
ports the receipt from advertising
and subscriptions during the past
year OF the munificient sum Of
s1S6.50. These figures give Pc
culiar ring to his statement that
increased interest is taken in the
paper abroad as well as at home. .
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-11-17
StOIen---Span of Mules.

on March D.. lsl2, o. span or mules. supposed
% he stolen. were leii at my place near RiHi-
ta T.
Descriptions NrC bay mare mnle. years
old. i44 hands higH. branded on len shaul-
deri we other g broHn mnle. Z years old,
April l-n. T n. AspHKws.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1892-09-03

The natural eonfSuratioa If many
mountains suggests the human face.
and such nt1ysloynomies cut out Of the
rocks on a gigantic scale are commonly
regarded by s1yages as objects Of wor-
ship. ElleH Russell Emerson says that
the Thuaaar Bird Of the Thlinkits is de-
scribed br Esem rs a giant ma dwell
ing in tie sacred hills. When in want
of food he provides himself with a pair
of wings and Il mask in the shape Of a
birds head, the latter having a beak as
sharp rs II knife and "a tongue that
makes fire."
Thus arrayed the god spreads his
wings and sails over the ocean in search
of a whale. By his side and attached to
his waist is the lightning demon, which
darts upon the prey and fetches it to the
hungry god.-Washipgton Star.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-09-30
THE BEST OFFER YET.

One of the best weekly papers in the
United States is the New York ITib-
une. Besides giving all the general
news of the week, of Importance, hap
pening in the United States and the
world it contains able editorials upon
all the questions of the day, a COM
plete review of the market, articles
upon public questions of the day by
the best informed men upon those
subjects, well edited departments for
the farm and house, while it's miscel-
laneous reading covers the best litera-
ture of the day. In fact the Tribune
is one Of the ablest and most reliable
Of the great papers of the country,
and no one can afford to be without it
during the present campaign. The
WEEKLK FREE PRESS and the
Weekly Tribune will beu sent to any
address for one year for S1.25, payable
in advance. Specimen copies of the
Tribune can be seen at this office.
Address all orders to the
WEEKLY FREE PRESS,
MankatO, MINI.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-09-30
VALUABLE PROTECTION POINTERS.

If free trade is helpful to labor in
terests, why is it that some seven hun
dred thousand wage workers are run
ming away from free trade Europe to
protection America every year? This
conundrum is addressed to calamity
howlers of every type, and ex-rebels,
their northern sympathizers, and their
Peoples annex in particular.
If free trade builds up a country
and makes wage-wOrker happy and
prosperous, how comes it that the
wealth of Great Britain has only in
creased $4,000. 100000 in the last
thirty years, while the wealth of the
United States in the same time has
increased over S54, ZOO, 600, 900?
If free trade helps wage-workers to
lay by competency for old age, how
comes it that the earnings of this
class in the savings bank of New York
and New England states amounts to
more than five times as much as the
entire money wealth of Great Britain,
the mecca of free tradeiSm?
If the Mckinley law has proved
harmful to the labor interests of the
country, how comes it that the Demo-
cratic commissioners of labor stats
tics of the states of New York, Indi-
ana and Massachusetts all agree in
their reports that there has been an
average increase of S23 per capita of
wage-workers for 1891 as compared
with 1880? The average increase of
wages for $4,000 men in New York
was S6S per man, and Mr.. Peck admits
that he made this report reluctantly.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-09-30
THEY REPUDIATE 1T.

1t has been rumored for several days
back that Grover Cleveland in his let
ter of acceptance, if he succeeds in
getting it out in time, intends to re-
pudiate the tariff plankofthe Chicago
convention, or at least modify
it in some manner. Whether
this is true or not the
FREE PRESS does not know, but
certain it is that the local Democracy
of Blue Earth county, in their con-
vention Tuesday seemed to have an ink
ling that such was the case and spread
their sails to catch the breeze by re-
pudiating the national tariff plank of
their party and favored tariff that
will protect labor, while giving suffi-
cient revenue for the support of the
government. This is back-down
from the national utterance, but
such inconsistencies do not worry De
mocracy much, for they are used to
them-have grown up with them, in
law 1dhc ChChh upOh OuC SiiNcl
question, for instance, their national
utterance was opposed to free coin
age unless an international arrange.
ment could be entered into so it would
not depreciate the white metal, but
a large majority of the party repre-
sentatives in congress knocked this
declaration into smithereens by vot
ing for one of the most radical free
coinage bills ever presentd to con-
gress. If this population or modifi-
cation goes on much longer, the Dem
ocratic national platform will soon
look as dilapidated as a last years
scarecrow. Poor old Democracy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-09-30
THE PRESIDENTS WAY.
j. A. FLEMING.

Hand me down veto, Dan.
One that's good and plain,
For there's another Union man
Comes hobbling down from Maine
He has bill; twas struggled through
Our Congress in some way,
Giving him what he says is due,
just thirty cents day.
He says way back in sixty-one
He left his wife and home,
And done hard fighting at Bull Run,
And in Georgia, down by Rome.
And that a fragment of shell
Struck him on the knee,
When down among the rocks he fell
Somewhere in Tennessee.
Twas maybe, done in a drunken row,
Or by some festive mule,
Perhaps it was vicious cow
AS he sat on his milking stool.
| know he has limping gait,
His left foot stands awry;
But all these fellows, Dan, hate
And care not when they die.
For very few will vote for me
Who from the shoulder shot
Amid the battles awful glee,
When war was burning hot.
Oh, no, they all will vote for Ben
Excepta very few,
Who did their fighting mostly,
When there was the least to do.
Why didn't each take my plan
And save all this dispute
BY hunting up their man.
And hiring a substitute.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-09-30
Facts Worth Remembering.

Envelopes were first used in 1899:
the first steelpen was made in 1880:
watches were first constructed in 1916;
Columbus discovered Chicago in 1892;
Baby Mckee kicked his nurse in the
neck in 1889; Eli Perkins told the
truth July 7th, 1887: Gold was dis
covered in California in 1913; Dough-
nuts invented in 1888: the first putty
mine discovered in 1912; Ruth Cleve-
land bit her toe-nails in 1891; the first
Linseed Oil well sunk in 1850: the
Mayor OF Chicago smoked his first
cigarette in 1884: Washington crossed
the Hennepin canal in 1777: Bananas
discovered by Nero in 1915. Hors-
ford's Baking Powder Invented in
1856, and the world jumped ahead
twenty-five years.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-09-30
ANYTHING FOR OFFICE.

Gen. Baker is the nominee of the
Democracy for representative from
this county, and they send him before
the people with hot roast in their
platform. They know what makes a
Democratic candidate popular with
his party. An honest, true hearted
Democrat, always true to the princi-
pies of the Democracy stands no show
compared with some black hearted
traitors to country or party. In proof
we cite them TO their long list of
presidential nominees from Seymour,
who claimed the draft rioters and
orphan asylum burners as his chosen
friends, down to Grover Cleveland, the
stuffed prophet" who put substi-
tute in the army at Erie coXnty's ex-
pense, while he stayed dt home specu-
lating in bounty warrants and reveled
on fat salaries as railroad attorney,
are all ''tarred with the same stick"
with single exception. So Baker
who has long record of office holding
in the Republican party, dating way
back to territorial times, was nothing
but smooth, oily tongued demagogue
in Democratic estimation, while he
was holding the important post of
Provost Marshal, of ST. Louis, down,
and letting his regiment squelch Mis-
souri, bushwhackers in the frontier:
later on when eXtricating Blakely,
the Scoundrel, for his trouble with
Miss Sweet, commissioner of pensions
in Chicago, and still later when the
people OF Blue Earth and other coun-
ties were swindled by the infamous
sale Of the Austin & ST. Cloud railroad.
The files OF the Democratic ReyieU
would furnish interesting biographi-
cal notes for student in history or
for an obituary for the dead Republi-
can. In fact, up to the period of his
base desertion OF the party which has
so long and almost continually honor
ed him with highly honorable and
lucrative official positions, he was. Be-
cause Gov. Merriam refused to con-
tinue him in the lucrative place of
Railroad commissioner with good
salary and free passes On everybody's
railrOad-from that date to the
present time, true to his satanic in
stinctS and love of treason, Baker has
become Democratic favorite. The
Reuieac misses no opportunity to ex-
hibit it's admiration for the traitor
in its sacred desire to make the most
ample restoration and apology for it's
past abuse; was two years ago the
private coachman of the General and
did it's level best to get himson the
Democratic ticket for congress, but
has now succeeded in lowering his as
pirations to the legislature, which the
rank and file of the party believe
sufficient reward for his treachery.-I
The Austin & St. Cloud infamy prop
erly considered. B.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-09-30

PIPEsTONE Star: There is one man
on the Republican ticket that 1 am
going to vote for this fall" said a
prominent Alliance man on Saturday,
land that man is j. T.. McCleary.
consider him one of the clearest men
that has ever been nominated by any
party for office, and i should like to-
see him elected His views now upon
the political issues now before the
people are sound and he is not afraid
to tell the voters just what he thinks
and he has not made a statement so
far in his speeches that cannot be
backed up by statistics. Thus Mr..
McCleary grows in popularity every
day, and already his election is con-
coded by members of all parties. A
man who votes for Prof. J. t. Nc
Cleary for congress this fall, will never
have cause to regret it.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-09-30
WILL 1T FACE THE MUSIC?

The Chicago wheat spectators have
always been very sore over the anti
option bill and have from the first
done everything they could to dis
credit any move that would look to-
ward putting an end to wheat gam
bling. As Senator Washburn has
been prominent in attempting to Sc
cure legislation that would put stop
to the gambling in futures, they have
directed their war upon him and claim
that the bill is in the interests of what
they call theMinneapolis milling COM
bine so that it can control the mar
ket to suit its own convenience, and
soget their wheat for less money than
they now do. In this war which they
are pursuing upon some of the lead
ing business men of Minneapolis, they
find an eager accomplice in the Dem
ocratic party which hopes to make a
little cheap political capital there
from. But in working this political
scheme they have run against a snag.
Last Sunday the ST. Paul Globe pub
lished several columns of the attack
which was published by the Chicago
Herald and prepared by one Wolcott,
who does not bear the best kind of a
reputation. The pamphlet from
which this matter was taken is being
circulated by the Democratic State
committee. One of the chief subjects
for abuse in this article was Chas. A.
Pillsbury. Mr.. Pillsbury has written
letter to the Globe in which he Of
fers to pay the expense of an investi-
CATION into the matter by the Globe,
and that he will prove to the satisfac-
tion of the tribunal before which it
takes place, that the charges in. the
article are false, and that the profits
upon the business done in his elevators
have only been 1t per cent on the
business done, or little more than l
cent a bushel, or he will turn over
S., 900 to the Democratic state cam
pdiSn lulu. Auu IudU lie WIFI also
give another $1,000 to the said cam
paign fund if he shall fail to prove
that the net profits of the mills under
his management have not exceeded 5
per cent on their output of flour and
offal during the past few years.
This is putting the matter straight,
and the Globe will have 10 meet it in
as straightforward a manner or vir-
tually admit the falsity of the charges
through which it hoped to reap DO
lltlcal benefit. AS Mr.. Pillsbury says,
the Globe published these charges to
instruct the farmers of the Northwest
or to humbug them. If the former,
it will not hesitate to accept Mr..
Pillsbury's offer, and so get at the
right of the matter, though in yes
terday'o paper it was rather inclined
to indulge in little whining, and
tried to find little hole whereby it
might crawl out of the trouble it has
gotten into.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-09-30
TT PUT THEIR FANCIES TO FLIGHT

1t is laughable to note how Repub-
llcan stump speakers and editors are
attributing the good crops and the
consequent business of the farmers
just now to the working of the pro-
tectlve tariff laws enacted by Re-
publican congress. -Neoc Ulna Neocs.
But Republican stump speakers and
editors do not attribute the good
crops to the Mckinley law. Such
statements are only attributed to
them in free trade papers. The adj
vocata of British free trade declared
that the passage of the Mckinley law
would restrict our foreign trade-that
it would virtually prohibit all COM
mercial intercourse with outside
nations. But instead of this dire pre-
diction proving true, it was directly
the reverse, and our export trade for
the last fiscal year exceeded 81 ZOO, 600.
600, while our import trade also ex-
ceeds that of the previous year by
nearly S200,000,0OO. Now, no Repub-
lican has ever denied that one
cause OF this increase was
because of our great crop
last year, and corresponding
shortage abroad, but even this fact
would have cut no figure had the
free traders assertions inA regard
to the probable working of the
Mckinley law proven true.
1t is not in farm products alone,
however, that our foreign trade has
grown during the past year, but in
manufactured products also. The in
crease in the export of manufa features
was SS, 3S4, 1857 in excess of the year
previous, and 500, 9O6, 294 in excess of
the annual average value of the ten
years prior to 1891. The ha1dships
imposed by the Mckinley law are not
apparent only in the vival Imagination
the free trade theOrist.