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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-02-23
WHY ACTION is DEMANDED.
We Have Submitted to Robbery
Too Long.

Mr.. EDIToR:-As secretary of the
convention that framed the peti.
tion to congress asking for state
hood separate from Oklahoma and
the survey and allotment of our
lands and for a just and fair pay
ment of the proceeds of the Strip
money by United States govern
ment instead # our own author.
tiles, it is but right and proper
that should give the reason
that compels me to this course.
Situated as we are in the center
Of the United States we see that
il is impossible to maintain our
present autonomy. The United
States will not permit it, located as
we are ~ the very gateway of her
interstate commerce, with several
Of her railroads passing through
our territory. 1t was to clear the
way Of all distractions to her com.
merce that the Perkins bill and
all kindred measures have been
introduced into congress. We
have fought these measures year
in and year out and spent several
hundred thousand dollars to de-
feat them, all to no purpose. So
soon as one measure is defeated
another is brought forward. /
am as anxious to maintain our
nationality as any persons can be,
but i realize that this is impos-
sible and undesirable for many
REASONS. The first of these reasons
is that the United States will not
permit us TO 90 as we have been
very much longer. II is the pol
icy OF the United States TO allot
Indian lands and make them cit
izens Of the United States, and the
quicker we learn this fact the bet
ter; We are powerless to resist this
policy, and it Is impraeticoble 10
resist il even IL we had the power;
we have never made anything by
resisting the United States; we
have always lost; resistance has
been the sink hole in which mil.
lions OF cur money has been thrown
without ever filling up the cavity.
But there is another powerful
reason why we cannot maintain
our nationality, and that is the
corruption Of our public men.
They have sold us for naught and
destroyed our government; they
have robbed as and permitted us
10 be robbed right before our eyes,
and ihey have laid the foundation
fer one Of the biggest robberies IN
ihe near future that the Cherokee
people have eyer Witnessed. The
basic principle Of our government
Is commonality Of lands aud com.
mcnality Of rights, but they have
destroyed our common interest 10
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-02-23

THE memorial services in this
city on the 10Th. inst in honor OF
DR.. 5. j. Thompson, were entirely
fitting and appropriate, as honor
ing the memory of a good and high
ly respected citizen. DR.. Thonp-
son possessed in a rare degree
those genial, sympathetic, broth.
erly graces that bind heart to
heart with the mystic band OF
friendship. Aside from being
broad and magnaminous in his
views Of life, his private charac-
ter was one of great moral beauty
that was only revealed in its full
ness to those who knew him in the
unguarded privacy ofeveryday life.
As A member of the order of
Knights Of Pythias he was earnest
and devout, fully entering into the
spirit and appreoiating to the full.
est extent its beautiful lessons of
Friendship, Charity and Benev-
olence.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-02-23

Will not some of our friends who
say that allotment is the only way
to get rid of the intruders explain
how il can be done in that way?
We again ask the question.-.Arro
If the Cherokee people allot all
their land to her bonafde citizens
there would be no room for an in
truder in the Cherokee nation. Ask
something harder.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-02-23

Il. l.. OWEN has written a letter
denouncing the Platt- Hastings ep-
isolde as "fake," Col. Hubbard
and the Kansas City Times to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-02-23


The latest from Washington in
dicates that the Strip bill will not
be passed during the present con-
gress. Mr.. Peel, chairman of the
Indian affairs committee, tried to
call up the bill Monday, for the
purpose of sending it to the con.
ference committee. but Speaker
Crisp ruled, at the instance of Mr..
Holman, that appropriations had
the right of way, and the Strip
measure was laid aside. Members
Of the appropriation committee
have decided that the condition
will not warrant any more appro-
priations. 1t is now reasonably
certain That the agreement which
took years to bring about will soon
be null and void.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-02-23

THE Cherokee nation has more
representatives in Washington at
present than at any previous oc-
casion.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-02-23

A Washington dispatch in the
Kansas City Star of the 14th con-
tains the following: L. c. Boudi-
not, G.. w. Benge and D. r. Byrd
arrived from Tahlequah late yes
terday afternoon and joined forces
with Delegates Hastings and
Martin Benge. Boudinot was for
merly editor of the Cherokee
Advocate, the official paper Of the
nation, and is one of the most in
lluential men among the Cherokee
leaders. In relation to the atti-
tude of the Cherokees concerning
the opening of the strip under the
conditions now proposed, he said:
at is a matter Of the gravest inn
portance to my people. We want
the sale of this strip perfected,
but it can only be done with fair
ness by carrying out the contract
we made with the commission.
Now if congress should insist on
deviating from the trade as made
with the commission there is grave
doubt of the transaction ever being
completed. for the whole subject
would have to come up again
in the national council and great
opposition would developed We
are fresh from our meeting that
assembled in Tahlequah last week.
We find that our delegates here,
Messrs. Hastings and Benge, have
represented our people Loyalty and
we have coma to cooperate With
them in a stand for justice an d
fair play"
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-02-23

II the Strip agreement is not
ratified before the 4th of March,
the watch-word of the Cherokees
shoald be, "on so the Strip"
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-02-23

The petition asking for state
hood for the five tribes is still re-
&C ing attention. Five hundred
naL of citizens were forwarded
to congress in one day last week.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-02-23

PRosPEcTs are extremely favor
able for the man who has lot of
young, growing cattle.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-02-23
YOU

Can obtain large, handsome Bur-
Route map Of the United
States, mounted and suitable for
the home or the office, by sending
10 cents in postage to
D. o. IVES,
G.. p. & T. A., st. Louis, Mo.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-02-23

j. w. DUNCAN has severed his
connection with the Tahlequah
Arrow, having been its editor since
November last.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-02-23

FcR the first time in many years
Texas is said to have more grass
than cattle.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-02-23
). F. oHARLEswoRTH.
General Merchandise,

At such prices that we are enabled to sell the
same for less money than other merchants pay
for the same goods. We are compelled to get
the money out of them within thirty days, and
in order to do this will sell for less than whole
sale prices.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-02-23

DR.. Morris Frazee Of Vinita, Ind.
Ter, has graduated from our lnsti.
tute, having taken the treatment
for opium addiction and also for
alcoholism. The doctor was a
captain in the 10th Mo. infantry,
and his army friends are all over
the West. In general ability he
is a superior msn, and as a physi-
clan ranks nigh. The opportuni.
lies for doing good in his locality
are numerous, and those who
know the energetic nature of the
man do not douot that he will i'm.
prove lhem.-The Reveille.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-02-23

The little booklet advertised
elsewhere, Blue Pencil Rules, :"
is probably the best guide for cor.
respondents ever issued. " was
Intended by the author for witers
to the public press, but will be
found useful is every letter writer,
while Of especial value to the former
class. Advanced pupils in our
schools, and teachers as we'll, will
find ii very helpful in smoothing of
compositions, essays, ETC., and put
ting them into good old mother
English, while the price, 10 cents,
places il in easy access Of all
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-02-23

''Do the dead think Of the living
In the blue heaven over head,
All repeniing, all forgiving,
As the living thilk the dead9''
Yes while we weep. surveying
Pathways long, with lonely feet,
They In heaven smile softly, saying,
IT'S tomorrow and we meet"
When we shall have surrender.
ed our Pythian armor and lain
down to rest may we have each
merited the reverence which we
tonight pay to our dead.
The Bossier banner., 1893-12-07

just before frost, carefully hano,-s
kept dry and at the right temperature
Enough potatoes may kept in this wav
in family room to supply the family
through the winter. When the wealth
er gets very cold, the barrels should
be rolled close to the fireplace, and If
necessary, fire kept burning all night.
This will require little attention in or
binary winters.
In keeping the sweet potato, as in
doing anything else, good common
sense should be exercised. Our actinns
should be controlled by ideas derived
from knowledge of the subject. and
SO much by rules. 1t is the principles
1 wish to impress upon the reader rath-
er than any set formula. In handling
the potato, considerations may some
times arise that this treatise does not
anticipate. In such cases good iudp-
ment, when experience is wanting, is
your only criterion.-John C. Bridge.
water, in Farm and Fireside.'
The Bossier banner., 1893-12-07
A Turks Piano,

The late Leopold de Meyer of Dres-
den, brilliant and popular pianist in
his day, was once summoned to plav
before the sultan at Constantinople.
Going thither, he borrowed a grand
piano from one of the Austrian secre-
taries of legation, and had it set up in
large reception room at the palace
There he awaited the coming of the
sultan; but when that intelligent
monarch entered the room he started
back in alarm, and demanded of his at
tendants what that monster was stand
Ing there on three legs. Explanations
followed, but were in vain. The legs
had to be taken off, and the body of
the instrument laid fat on the floor:
and Leopold de Meyer, squatting cross
legged on mat, went through his pro-
gramme as best he could in that awk-
ward attitude and without pedals.
But the commander of the faithful
was delighted, and, when the last piece
was played, gave the artist overa thou
sand pounds as 'Sacksheesh."-
brakes Magazine.
The Bossier banner., 1893-12-07
AMONG THE CHICKENS.

Fowls two or three years old, and
not closely related, are best for breed
ers.
Let the chickens have the kitchen
refuse, but not after 1t has become souI
and disgusting.
1t is where fowls receive the least
care that the complaints of their un
profita bleness are loudest.
I'm poultry keeping theory is good.
provided it gives the practical results
which are sought.
Sick fowls may have medicine ad'
ministered in the drinking water, wheH
they refuse to eat.
Somebody has said that women sue
ceed in the poultry business because
they are mindful of small things, and
not so careless as the men.
"A lean raw-boned fowl, whether al
an individual or breed. is an abomi
nation. Put him into pot-pie, and
raise something more comely.
Give the fowls special attention
good feed and dry quarters, during the
moulting period, SO as to get them into
laying order as early as possible.
1t is regularity in detail thai
counts, every time. Feed regularly
water regularly, clean up regularly,
and the old hen will do her part regu
larly.
Haven't any good place to put thai
feather-eating hen? Why, yes; put bel
in the dinner pot, and do not delay
till she has taught others the hateful
habit.
Poultry utilize the waste from the
table, destroy insects, and in many
ways act the part of scavengers, with
benefit to themselves; but do not com
pei them to get a living in this way oi
starve. Let them have plenty of good
clean food, in addition.
In cooking potatoes for the hens
do not use the water in which they
were boiled to scald the bran. Turn
it off and use clear water if anything
more is needed than is developed by
mashing the potatoes Potato watei
is not wholesome or cleanly, and MAJ
even be poisonous. Amateur Gardener
The Bossier banner., 1893-12-07
LIKE A STEAM TUG.
To That the Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table Compares a Helpful Wife.

To That the Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table Compares a Helpful Wife.
Oftimes as l have laid swinging on
the water in the swell of the Chelsea
ferryboats in that long, sharp pointed,
black cradle in which l love to let the
great mother rock me, l have seen
tall ship glide by against the tide, as if
drawn by some invisible tow-line, with
hundred strong arms pulling it.
Her sails hung untitled, her stream
ers were dropping. She had neither
sidewheel nor stern-wheel; still she
moves on, stately, in serene triumph,
as if with her own life.
But knew that on the other side of
the ship, hidden beneath the great
hulk that swan SO majestically, there
was a little toiling steam tug with
heart of fire and arms of iron, that was
hugging it close and dragging it
bravelv on; and 1 knew that if the
little steam tug untwined her arms
and left the tall ship it would wallow
and roll about and drift hither and
thither and go off with the refuent
tide, no man knows whittier.
And SO have known more than one
genius, high decked, full freighted,
wide-sailed, gay pennoned, that, but
for the bare toiling arms and brave,
warm, beating heart of the faithful
little wife that nestled in his shadow
and clung to him, so that no wind or
wave could part them, and dragged
him on against all the tide of circum-
stance, would soon have gone down
the stream and been heard of no more.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The Bossier banner., 1893-12-07
FERTiLIZiNG,
The Shameful Waste of FerttlizIng Mo-
terial by Southern Farmers.

The Shameful Waste of FerttlizInp Ma
terial by Southern Farmers.
The average cotton farmers of the
south know very little from personal
practical experience about saving and
utilizing the wastes from the pig-pen-
fowl-house, cow-lot, horse-stable, etc
The policy of these farmers all their
lives has been to see how much nro-
duce principally cotton) could be se-
cured from their lands without rest
or feed. No country on earth has had
its soil so shamefully abused and
robbed. Even the men who are feed
ing large herds of beef cattle for mar
ket on a cotton-seed meal and cotton
seed hull ration, count the droppinps
of the stock as of no value to them: at
least they do not attempt to make
profitable use of this rich manure.
Nearly all our southern dairymen
feed more or less rich grain food, which
chemically and practically is of verv
high value as fertilizer, yet it is
mainly wasted and counts but little as
one of the profits of the dairy business
1t is time to call halt and to make
a change, for our impoverished lands,
our fiattened pocket-pooks, our fleetinp
bank accounts, our dilapidated build.
ings, all warn us-the handwriting on
the wall-that we must pursue differ
ent policy if we would become thrifty
and independent.
All commercial fertilizers seem TO
give better results when there is pIen.
ty of humus in the soil This being
SO, it behooves our farmers to raise
green crops, like peas, clover, rye, ETC.,
to be turned under as fertilizer. Bv
wise management in sowing such crops
and turning them under at the proper
time, and by using on this soil we'll
proportioned commercial fertilizers,
any southern farmer ought to be able,
by good seed and good cultivation, to
average one bale of cotton or fifty
bushels of corn on every acre of land
under the ployy. Why not? On the
piney woodlands of this state, the
'cow counties" so called, such results
are not uncommon, and yet the lands
a few years ago were considered the
very poorest In the state. 1t is intelli.
gent management that makes such re.
suits practica able.-Farm and Fireside.
The Bossier banner., 1893-12-07
Hog Raising.

There is no danger that hog raising
will be overdone in the south. This
continual large shipments from the
northern pork centers is the best pos
sible argument to sustain this asser
ton. There may be a small surplus In
some of the more progressive localities
but that amounts to little and will
not have to go far to find a market
The scarcity of fall and winter pastur
age in many sections, particularly in
Texas, and the gradually increasing
prices of grain will naturally tend to
check the multiplication of pigs
Therefore, those who are SO situated
that they can handle given number,
should see that that number is filed.
Hogs and hog products are now, and
will probably remain for some time, al
good prices. Breeders of really good
stock need have no fears that they
will be unable to sell. The demand fol
better breeding stock is fully up with
that for hog products. Farm and
Ranch.
The Bossier banner., 1893-12-07

Phillips Brooks expressed an i'm.
portant truth when he said: "You can
not set the world right, or the times
but you can do something for the truth.
and all you can do is for the Master,
who gives you your share, and SO tbs
burden OF responsibility 10 lifted Of"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-19

never been actually conquered by any
invader, not even England. Henry
II. tried to conquer her but failed.
On the other hand the Irish have
never had cohesion enough to fully
resist the Englise."
80 the friction of two races has
been going on for centuries?"
Precisely. During her golden age
ireland was the center of Christian
learning, sending out saints and mis-
sionaries to redeem the east"
when was the Danish invasion?"
Prom the eighth to the tenth cen tury
Tempted by reports of gold, for that
gold was found in Ireland is demon
strated by wonderful gold ornaments,
Danes overrun the island and pillaged
the churches; then set in period of
disruption. Internecine wars reduced
the different races to such barbarian
that the pope gave Ireland to Henry
II. in the hope of his rcconverting
the island to Christianity"
Didn't good Queen Bess, Of blessed
memory, help on the work?'
THAT amiable virgin determined to
stamp out the wild Irish, as she would
have stamped out the cattle plague.
Because the hunted Celts took refuge
in the dense forests, the latter were
destroyed by fire. Thus the climate
was changed, as undoubtedly Ireland
was formerly dryer and adapted to
grain growing. Where bogs now are,
forests abounded."
"Do you blame any Irishman for re-
senting brutal invasion? AS Queen
Elizabeth failed to annihilate the Celts,
James /. devised the plan of planting
Ulster after his own heart. He gave all
the fat lands to English and Scotch
colonists and consigned the mere
Irish to the lean lands"
HE drove them like swine into bors
and they settled on lands sloping to
the sea, where you found the poor crea-
lures in 1885,
Exactly, they became squatters.
This land of theirs was valued in 1880
at two pence an acre. Thanks to their
reclamation, it is now worth about ten
times that amount. AS a member of
the Irish political committee, Mr. Hart
suggested system of migration from
the congestcd to the grass lands
There are immense tracts, occupied by
the people in 1847, from which, after
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-19

raided. This is the latest game in the
great mecca of the men of millions.
Wall street hangers-on, the fringe of
Wall street, as it were, are constantly
devising new schemes to swindle the
man or woman who has more money
than brains. Fake mining schemes,
bogus railroads and the like are re-
sorted to to take in the golden dollar.
But this latest game in Wall street is
far in advance OF these and is superior
in one sense to the old bucket-shop
methods.
You simply speculated on the prices
for mining shares that a phonograph
squeaked out from colossal brass fun
mel. Where the quotations came from
before they got on the cylinders does
not matter just now. The firm against
which received many complaints had
dozen cylinders and they were
primed to supply the demand for quo
tations until closing time in the after
noon. They were loaded SO that a
dozen fluctuations were recorded in
minute The fluctuations were re-
corded on huge blackboard, and the
phonograp was stationed just III front
of this blackboard.
an initial fee of twenty-five cents a
transaction was demanded by the firm,
and then followed the original commits
sion of one-quarter Of one per cent.
The firm accepted anywhere from two
dollars to two millions margins. Evil
IDENTIFY the fellow who could overhear
the firm talking quotations to the
cylinders down in the cellar before ten
o'clock would have a lead pipe cineh
on the afternoon quotations; otherwise
he might find it exceedingly difficult to
keep up with the procession of figures
the funnel squeaked out every instant.
For instance, take Maple, one of the
four mining shares quoted by the pho
nograph. The phonograph was loaded
early in the morning to start Maple at
three dollars and by easy stages got it
up to four dollars and then dropped it
to one dollar and q quarter The fuc-
tuations that came out of the funnel
were about as wide apart as the most
bloodthirsty gambler could wish.
Speaking of gambling, for this
Wall street game was nothing more
than crooked gambling, reminds me of
new tangled faro box which was re-
Gently seized in a gambling house l
raided not long ago. 1t is what is
known as sure thing game. 1t was
gotten up, | have learned, by an ex-
pert mechanic. The man who operated
it, and who was taken in the raid, gave
me technical description of this new
swindling device.
THE layout and box are just the /
same as any layout, SO far as you can
see" said he, but when tell you that .
the dealer can make these cards turn /
somersaults in the box if he wants to, |
you bet it's daisy. Suppose you were /
playing the nine to lose, and the dealer