Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-06-02

ncr's Tarrytown farm Of old age. liz
was 25 years old, being foaled in 1860.
SEVENTY carloads of grain from
Argonia, Kan, arrived at New Orleans
by special train over the Missouri Pa
ciilc and rcAns Pacific.
NEAR Cynthiana, Ky, recently, Robert
Fowler shot and killed James May.
They were neighbors, both well TO do
farmers and had quarrcllcd over their
cows and chickens.
A COMPROMISE is about effected be
tween the Cherokee delegation and
Cherokee claimants by which the latter
are to be paid $3.50, 900 for their improve
ments and each given 100 acres of land
in the strip. This win settle the in
truder question.
TnE mob which stormcd the county
jail at Dallas, Tex, in order TO lynch
Henry Miller the negro who shot and
killed Policeman Brewer was finally
dispersed. For time IL looked as
though the crowd would accomplish its
intentions. Sheriff Lewis told the mob
that he would defend the prisoner with
his life.
In has been decided by the Fort Worth
& Trinity Valley road, of Texas, TO sur
vey the route at once. Work will be be-
gun then and the road pushed to com
pletion from Fort Worth to point on
Red river, in Clay county, 10 which point
the Chicago & Rock Island is now build
ing The direction is thus generally
northwesterly.
In the Methodist quadrennial confer
ence laymen have secured equal repre-
sentation and will hold half of the seats
in the next conference.
BRYANT B. CRANDALL, who neeced the
insurance companies out of 5000 in
Buffalo, N. ", has been arrested at Los
Angeles, Cal.
PLANTERS in Cuba complain of the
prolonged drought, which they fear will
seriously affect the crops.
THE tanncrics of the United States
have decided to close for sixty days on
account OF the overstoclSed market.
CoAIMANDER-N-CHIEF PALMER calls
upon the Grand army to celebrate Dis
covery day.
Ten thousand residents of Arkansas
have been rendered homeless by the
floods
FIFTEEN thousand acres in Union
county, H., have been under water
THE sacred congregation of the Holy
See has addressed letter TO each of the
Roman Catholic bishops in the United
States concerning the arrangement
made by the archbishop Of St Paul re-
itas tl,n ,aa.ss.,1,t.1 -
Faribault and Saltwater. The letter
states that several persons have become
convinced that the archbishop of St
PauPs manner of acting in the two
cases of Faribault and still
water did not conform 60 precedent,
and they therefore have hesitated since
to condemn the arehbishop's action,
while others have approved it.
President HARRISON has ordered the
military to at once stop the quarrying
Of rock in the Cherokee strip and con
iscate the paraphernalia. 1t seeing
that Jordan, Bushyhead and others
have begun operations again, this timo
west of the Santa Fe track, near Chilloc-
20, hence the action of the president.
AS soon as these Cherokees are ousted
the soldiers will begin to drive out the
,attlemcn.
TIm Methodist Episcopal confe renee
NJ Westminster Md, seated the women
delegates from West Virginia, Indiana,
Iowa and Kansas.
THE Methodist quadrcnninl confer
,nce at Omaha, Neb., adjourned sine
Iic. The session opened on May 2.
THERE is no truth in the reported
,loudburst Mt Kinsman, O., In which six
people are alleged 10 have been
drowned. The Lake Shore railroad
operator at that place says
nothing of the kind occurred.
The secretary of the treasury has au-
.horized the making of leases for grazing
,attle on the lands of the Kiowa and
'omanche Indians in Oklahoma terri
,ory as follows; At 6 cents per acre per
lnnum. Waggoner & Sons, 5O2, 400; S.
3 Burnett, 2s7, ,sG7; L. S. Sugg & Bros,
AZ, ,G8s; j. p Addington, sl,sGS, and c.
I. Herring, 80, 900 acres.
CHOLERA continues its ravages in
icrinagur, one OF the capitals of Cash
mere The population of the city is
lbout 81, 200. Deaths are occurring at
he rate of 500 daily.