Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-07-20

Or y b. Frayser returned from chicas,
Tuesday.
Judge John A Foreman. Of FoyII, cam
mp Sunday.
w. L. smith, Of Inola. called to see us OF
Saturday last
--denry Clark got home from the 81. Louis
market Tuesday.
Frank Boudinot. OF Tshlequah, was In tn,
city last Friday.
Jim Taylor went east Tuesday night witt
q shipment Of cattle.
Mr. Mccarthy is not expected home from
the east much under a month.
Grandma Ironside and her daughter, Mrs
Cox, have been visiting in the city.
Mrs. W. r. Badgett went to Fort Gibsor
last Thursday evening to visit her mother.
Mrs. Perry and daughter Kate are mp from
sailisaw visiting at the home OF Capt Nelms
Mrs. J. @. Anderson and Mr.. A. J. Ridge
returned Monday from visit with relatives
at Redfork.
jim McCrary returned sunday from Fort
Smith, where he had been TO sell some hay fol
Mr.. Patton.
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Claremore TO see his old chum, "shorty''
Bradley, ct al.
WIN. Ward Of Beattie's prairie, candidate
for sherin on the Downing ticket, was In the
city this week
Oscar rrott arrived in the city Monday
from his home in Illinois. lie Is going TO open
drug store at Alton
Ernest Hubbard. assistant postmaster at
Muskogee. was In the city few days since on
his way home from the Worlds Fair.
Arthur Cook, Homer Trott and Clint Hall
ran across Charley Chesney In Chicago and
rendered him material assistance In the task
o; seeing all the sights OF the city and fair
They lett Charley there.
p. W. strout returned sunday from a trip
through Oklahoma. lie visited Kingnsher.
Guthrie, Oklahoma CITY and other points. and
says that country Is certainly in a very pros
porous condition, the wheat crop being sim
ply immense.
Mrs. Belle Stevens is in very poor
health.
The hides OF numbe OF cattle be-
longing 60 s. S. Cobb were found few
days since in meat market at Joplin.
The man who sold the cattle has not
yet been found.
As heretofore W. W. Miller has the
only complete hardware establishment
in the Cherokee nation. Headquar-
ters for wagons, buggies aud vehicles
OF all descriptions.
Parties having farms to rent would
do well to place them in the hands Of
the Vinita Real Estate Agency. They
have had number of applications
from good reliable farmers for places.
There will be W. G. r. L. stand
ON the Pryor Creek picnic grounds
Friday and Saturday. This element,
aided by Pryor Creeks best men, gives
assurance of good behavior and a
pleasant occasion.
Buy your white lead, ready mixed
paints and wall paper of Ford & Hick-
OK, Fairland, /. I. They carry the
largest stock OF these goods In the ter
ritory write them for samples and
prices oi wall paper.
II you see a bay horse With foretop
cut square across, 2-inch leather strap
afOund The neck aud branded II p q
think on left hip, put him up or send
him TO J. II. Akin, Vinita, and he will
pay You for your trouble.
Winterholer q Davis presented their
bond last Thursday aud the same was
approved and the contract for the
academy dormitory turned over TO
them. They have just been awarded
the contract for $4,000 Baptist coll
lege at Joplin.
ID. B. Pennington's coal company at
Chelsea has secured the promise Of a
switch from the railroad and a survey
or went ont Tuesday 10 lay it out. AS
the coal company wish to do some
more prospecting (they have a dia-
mond drill now on the ground) the To-
cation Of the switch was deferred.
Chss. w. stoddard. proprietor OF
Maple Grove stock farm near Oswego,
Kan, was down this way last week
looking for a location for similar
place near this city. IL is to be hoped
that the gentleman will decide to To-
cate among us, as his is a business
that is not overdone in this section.
Henry Starr and Kid Wilson have
been landed in Fort Smith Jail and
their Identification was complete.
Starr does not deny killing Deputy
Floyd Wilson, but will try and make
out q self defense case. When accost-
ed by Wilson be says he asked him
II he had a writ and that the officer did
not have one. but began firing al him.
NJ. l.. Paterson is threshing on
Henry Ballard's place this week one
OF the best wheat crops in the country.
lie has 275 acres from which the turn
out has thus far been twenty-five
bushels to the acre and weighed fifty
eight pounds. The best piece he had
was 100 acres on which he cut up the
corn last fall and, narrowing il twice,
sowed without plowinR about the 9th
OF September. Fulcaster was the We.
risty sowed and the yield was thirty.
five bushels to the acre.
Ono Bank in Good Shape.