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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16
Decline Of the OHtlaM.

The fascination OF outlawry
has had some hard setbacks in the
last few years. Bob and Bill Dali
ton, Bill Cook, Tulsa Jack, Bitter
Creek and Dynamite Dick are con-
spicuous examples of sudden TAX
ing off-all but Bill Cook having
passed in at the dictate of Win.
chester balls from the guns of
deputy marshals. These are not
able as leaders. A dozen or two
lesser lights have gone down in
the same way. Bill Doolin is the
only "king of bad men" left un-
avenged-and if the signs do not
fail, he will have gone too, in a
short time.
These men started out to make
business of outlawry. They
thought pillage legitimate and
force greater than statute law.
Amid exposure, restless watching,
narrow escapes, and runs for life,
they have gone on. At first this
life was taken up because there
was a soi-distant charm abeut
it, which, to these rough frontiers
men, was, they said, irresistible.
Soon their depredations forced
them to hide from the laws ven
geance. They became outcasts, fu-
gitives. The government instruct
ed that they be hunted down at
any cost, The bravest and hardi-
est of the deputy marshal force -
men of unerring shot and unfalter-
ing nerve--followed them with
ceaseless scent; and one by one the
"bad men from Bitter creek" have
paid the penalty for the belief
that the property of everybody
was theirs, if they could take it.
The deadly results have been
bearing good fruits. The charm
of outlawry has been shattered;
the great "killers" and robbers
have found their matches-and
their lives were snuf1ed out.
The bodies of "Bitter Creek"
and Dynamite Dick" are forcible
examples of the wane OF the des-
perado and pirate in Oklahoma.
Marshal Nix and his force have
made the trail so active for this
class of linen of leisure" that the
high breed have about run out.
The chief encouragement of this
outlaw life has been the Indian
Territory, with its sparce settle
ments and motley population.
Criminals are the favored class in
many localities over there. The
toughs who made occasional for
ages on Oklahoma, were harbored
over in the Creek country, out of
the jurisdiction of the Oklahoma
marshals. But when they left
their rendezvous, and got in Okla
homa's jurisdiction, they found a
very warm climate and many are
now shoveling Goals in the regions
where bad men are above par.
The exit of this class OF Grim
inals will be complete only with
the exit of the conditions which
harbor them. The Indian Terri
tory must be hurried to allotment,
full citizenship and statehood.
Then the rendezvous of the out
law will give way to the cottage
of the husbandman; non-produc-
tion TO production; ignorance aG5
laziness to intelligence and thrift.
Guthrie Capital.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16

Some years since Jno. b. Gill OF
Arkansas, sued the Frisco for
charging him over three cents a
mile. The company sought to es-
cape judgment under the clause in
the law which permits the reason.
ableness of the rate being set up.
The supreme court has just decided
in favor of Gill, holding that the
reasonableness must be deter
mined by the effect Of the rate on
the net earnings of the company
for its entire line within the state,
and not by its effect upon any sub
division, even though it was once
separate road. Under the law a
penalty of $500 is prescribed for
each overcharge and Gill gets
$500.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16

The city council has offered a
reward of s25 for evidence that
will convict anyone running or in
any way connected with a house of
i'll fame in the city Of Vinita. This
is move in the right direction
and will bring results. The city
council deserves the commenda-
tion Of every lover of decency in
the community. 1t is a reproach
to the town that women of i'll re-
pute walk our streets and shame
lessly ply their trades night and
day without interruption or inter-
ference.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16


The freedmen are very much
disappointed in not getting their
Strip money this summer OF ac-
count Of the appeal being taken to
the supre ne court. 1t would not
be more than right for those whose
rights are undisputed TO be allowed
to receive their pro rata share of
the money, as the appeal is only
taken on the so-called Wallace roll.
The majority of our colored citi-
zens are recognized, but those who
are not will be left off when the
new roll is made. There is no
question but what the Wallace roll
contained the names OF hundreds
OF persons who should not be al
lowed to draw money or be recog-
nized as citizens.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16
Death OF an EstImabIe Lady.

hiNhhONt l. H. may 10, lcSos
Mrs. Ida Anderson, who has
been lingering so long with con-
sumption, passed from earth to
realms of rest at the home of her
father. p. B. Kinnison, on Friday
morning, May 10th. u is sad in
deed to part with those we love
so dearly but we have the blessed
assurance that they are In the
arms of God who gave them and
With this sweet consolation we
should bear our grievance with
pleasure, for the Lord giveth and
He taketh. But it seems that He
plucks his rarest gems and flowers
first.
She bore her suffering with great
endurance until the angel Of death
came and relieved her. May we
learn by this sad bereavement
that we too must soon pass away,
therefore improve those precious
moments as they swiftly fly.
Funeral services were held at
the Walker cemetery, Saturday
morning, Rev. Upton, of Hudson,
officiating The death Of this dear
one was a sad blow to the bereav-
ed family and host of friends, but
the realize that,
When We leave this world OF changes,
When We leave this world of care.
We shall ind our missing loved one
In our Fathers mansion there.
W ~
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16

The Plano binder folks wrote q
litter a few days since to their
agent at Chetopa complimenting
him upon his advertisement in the
local paper, saying, in part: "You
will find this a small investment
that will bring you good returns.
We received word from one OF our
agents who run a similar adver.
tisement in only two issues of his
local paper, that it has made three
sales for him, that il brought Gus.
toners to his door from miles
around whom he otherwise never
would have heard of
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16

A magazine writer says the
American pays proportionately
for bis fire insurance twelve times
as much as the Frenchman, seven
times as much as the German, four
times as much as the Englishman,
and much more than the business
man in any other European coun-
try. The fire insurance premiums
in this country average $500, ,0Q0,-
600 a year. BY making their
buildings fre-proof the French
cover their snnual losses by an
outlay Of only s25, 900, GOO in prem.
iums. In France and Germany
the supervision Of building is very
strict, and this means vast say.
ing TO the people. The indiffer-
ence to destructive fires manifest.
"a n this country is an amazing
fact.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16

On Tuesday of last week, al one
of the court houses in the Choctaw
nation, Green McCurtain made a
speech advising the Choctaws
that the time was at hand to take
steps toward allotment of their
lands in severalty. He thought
this the wisest plan for the benefit
of the Indians and it is said that
many who have heretofore bitterly
opposed allotment agreed with
kn.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16
LYNCH's PRAIRIE.
The Home Of Some Very Aged People
General Notes.
Pensacola Place. May 10. 1895

Pensacola Place, May 10, 1896
EDITOR CHIEFTAIN:-For the
sake Of Willing away the long,
lonely hours | made a short visit
yesterday to Lynch's prairie and
vicinity. | found the people in
Fl Inc spirits on account OF the re-
freshing rains of last week; crop
prospects are very promising in
deed.
By the by, Lynch's prairie can
we'll boast of some of the oldest
people in the nation. OF the col.
ored people sold Granny Ibby"
stands at the head Of the list.
She was a former slave of the
Beans, of Flint district, and was
born in the old nation in the year
1888 and is now 107 years old, and
is quite II not much more active
than most women Of half her age.
| also met "Grandady Griffin, "
an old colored man and former
slave OF one Of our ex-chiefs now
deceased, Robert Daniels. As well
as he can remember he is about
81 years old but is very lottery. In
speaking of his people he said that
his race was rapidly growing
weaker on account Of amalgama-
tion.
next saw Mrs. Miller at her
home. She is a half-breed and
belongs 10 the ancient and histori.
cal Ward family. She is on the
shady side of sixty and is as spry
as a girl of IS and her mother il
still living at the ripe old age ol
one hundred and ten.
During my rounds | met not q
few of the "blooded" citizens Of
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16

Is IT not strange, the number OF
old broken down politicians that
have drifted into the National
party this yearP These old timers
that have tried to ride every party,
old and new, into office and failed
because the people had no use for
them, are all Ross men. Strange,
bnt it is true.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16

THE Watts citizenship associ-
alton met in convention yester.
day at Dennis Hicks hall in this
city. There are some fifty or
more delegates in attendance from
all parts of the country. W. j.
Watts addressed the convention
and urged everyone to adhere TO
:he association and pay up their
dues.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16
aRe VAS {

THE number of prominent"
Downing and prominent" Nation
al men continues to increase as the
days go by. 1t is a poor sort of a
citizen that is not very "promin-
ant" in one or the other political
parties lust now.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16

THRRE is a good deal OF talk of
starting a Cherokee colony in South
America in the event of allotment
or statehood for the territory.
After the first of August a large
section of the National party
might be induced to go, and prob
ably Bob Ross could be elected TO
lead them.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16

THERE was frost in fifteen states
Sunday night. In many sections
vegetation was killed, but through
out this country so far as VIC have
bsen able to learn, very little dam
age was done.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16

SINCE Judge Parker gives it as
his opinion that the territory
courts have no jurisdiction in
whisky cases, and territory judges
that Parker has no such jurisdic-
ton, it is probable that whisky
cases will be scarce in either court
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16

No BETTER argument can be Of
fered in favor of Sam Mayes' elec-
ton than a glimpse of the crowd
that is now clamoring for his de-
feat. The class of citizens who
would desire the election of Bob
Ross are the same fellows that re-
quire so much watching.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16

Queen Victoria has had nine
children, forty grandchildren and
twenty-one great-grandchildren
and of these seventy descendants
all are living but nine.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16

IT Is said there is an allotment
plank in the National platform,
but II there is it would take pow
eriul magnifying glass to discover
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16

IT BEGINS to look like the wet
wanted and was going to have free
end unlimited coinage Of silver.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16

How about that South America
colonization scheme?
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16

Can furnish orchestra music at
reasonable prices.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-05-16
z. /. Blakeney,

Terms: $3.50 per month,
Two lessons each week.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-04-08
FOUND DEAD IN BED.
Young Man and Woman Kill Themselves
at Galesburg, Mich.

Youn. Man and Woman Kill Themselves
ut Galesburg, Mich.
GALEsBUEG. April S.-Thc son of J. W.
Whitney OF Kalamazoo and a former no
torious woman of the same city, arrived
at this place and went to n hotel. The
man registered as Frank Robin of South
Haven, Mich. The woman is not men
toned OH the register, but they were both
assigned to the same room. The man
gave orders not to be called as they wished
to rest as long as possible. The clerk
raped on the door in the morning and
got no response. At noon he again raped
with no answer and repeated the call at
= O'Clock, but still no response.
The door was then forced and the couple
We're found lying dead in bed. There was
no evidence of a struggle or violence. A
paper lay on the floor labeled strychnine
Both held handkerchiefs in their hands as
though chloroform had been used. The
man is younger than the woman and
both have light compilations. On one of
the mans cuffs is the name Budge Whit
ney, which had been partly erased. The
affair is deep mystery.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-04-08
Fire at Columbus. Ind.

COLUMBUS. April S-The American
starch works. located here, burned. The
loss is S2OO,Ooo.
In the large wareroom was Si0,ON
worth of manufactured goods ready for
shipment. The company was making a
heavy shipment and the Pennsylvania
company lost n number of cars. Lewis
Wade, watchman, was caught in the
building and his body has not yet been
recovered. A number of girls in the
packing rooms had narrow escape, but
jumped from the windows. The loss is
total. Insurance on the building and
stock $4,000
Rock Island Argus., 1895-04-08
Had Wreck in Colorado,

GARRISON, Colo, April S.-A broken
fiange on the tender of a south bound
Rio Grande passenger train caused bad
wreck near here. The express car was
thrown to the right track and the bag
gage car and one coach rolled over to the
left side. Express Messenger S. H.
Thomas was caught under a stove and
badly burned. The rear car caught fire
and was with difficulty saved from de.
struction. A coffin containing a corpse
was badly burned. Considerable of the
express matter was DESTROYED
Rock Island Argus., 1895-04-08
Sixteen Fishermen Lost.

GLOUCESTER, Mass, April s.-The
schooner Mildred V. Lee, one of tho
stanchest vessels of the New England
fishing fleet, with crew of sixteen men,
is now to be added to the already large
number of Gloucester lost fishermen.
On the afternoon of Jan. 30 she sailed
from this port on a haliDut trip, since
which time she has not been heard from,
and it is supposed she was lost in the
great storm of Feb. s. Wreckage picked
up in the vicinity of Sable island about
that time by the schooner Henry Nj.
Stanley was identified as belonging to
her
Rock Island Argus., 1895-04-08

MILWAUKEE, April s.-The annual con-
vention Of the A. Z. A. of the United
States and Canada will meet in Milwau-
kee May to IA. The committee on ar
rangements has assurances that there will
be between 400 and 500 delegates present
and that every state in the Union will be
represented. The western railroads have
granted a special rate of fare and third
for the round trip to all delegates on the
certificate plan, and associations in other
parts Of the country have made the same
or lower rates
Rock Island Argus., 1895-04-08
ABBREVIATED TeueeaAms.

Charles Heathborne, who sued the B.
and .. railway Mt Cleveland for slO0,OOO
damages for the loss of both legs and the
crushing of one arm in an accident in In
diana, has been given $780, by a jtfry
and the railway company will appeal.
The board Of appraisers of Atchison
county, Kas., decided to tax railway prop
erty at actual value and all other property
at p per cent. This decision has Just
been sat upon by the state supreme court
Miss Lewis, of New York, it Is an.
nounced at Berlin, is engaged to be mar.
ried to Prince Carlo Iscnburg- Berstein,
an officer Of a guard regiment.
A heavy fall of warm rain has fallen
over the corn belt in South Dakota the
best rain that has come down in a year.
There were but six deaths as the result
OF the Chicago and Alton wreck near
Alton, Ills, two of the tramps having ey.
IDENTIFY escaped unhurt. All the wounded
will live
The pope makes an earnest appeal in
his Easter address to the Anglican church
to come in and accept his supremacy.
The yardmcn, mine bosses, superintend.
ents, etc, iE the coke region were forgot
ten in the recent ID per cent. raise of
wages, and there is talk Of strike IL they
are not remembered.
The reorganized Church of the Latter
Day Saints is in session at Independence,
kas, with Joseph Smith, Jr, son of the
alleged prophet, in the chair -
The annual meeting of the Confederate
Veterans association OF kentucky held at
Lexington, was addressed by Colonel w.
c. z. Breckinridge.
Captain A. Ford Hursley. a well known
n ms tod t,l, inf s~;l
room of the Park hotel at Sault Ste.
Marie by shooting himself. He recently
met with business reverscs.
Sydney Guy Sea, well-known in Chi.
cago, died at Santa Fe, n. NJ, Of con.
sumption. He established the first de-
partment store in Chicago and had been
cash-boy. clergyman, merchant and busi-
ness manager Of a newspaper
A Chicago corporation has OPTIONS on
considerable tracts of land in Will county,
Ills, near New Lenox and Spencer and the
intersection of the Wabash and Rock Isl
and railroads. The purpose of the pro-
posed purchase is supposed to be the es-
adjustment Of manufacturing center.
Rev. z. s. Bennett, who died at Apple
ton, Wis, aged 7S years, was one Of the
pioneer preachers of Wesleyan Methodism
and author of history OF Methodism in
Wisconsin.
Sam Spencer and Alfred Belcher have
been indicted at Morgantown, Ky, for
the murder of Major Hamilton, the hero
Of the Libby prison escape, but the mob
is SO eager for blood that the prisoners
have been taken to Bowling Green for
safety.
The Milwaukee cat show has closed. It
was a success in every respect.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-04-08
wifc Murder and Suicide.

SAN FRANCISCO, April s.-Carlo En-.
rico Rita, an Italian resident of this city,
was married to Miss Woolfe, and after
the ceremony the bride and groom re.
paired to the Palace hotel where they
were assigned a room. They did not ap.
pear in the morning and at noon, a serv.
ant becoming alarmed. notified other
attaches. who forced open the door. Both
Rita and his bride We're found in bed
The husband had shot his bride to death
and then committed suicide. No explana-
ton of the tragedy has been offered.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-04-08

AsHEvILLE. \. c., April S-A senss,-
tion occurred here when news that J. H.
Sumner, Il well known and highly re.
specte1 citizen of Buncombe county, had
been arrested charged with shooting from
ambush a cousin, Ernest Summer and
Charles West, two boys Is years old.
Both boys Were riding the same horse,
about seventy yards from jesse Summers
house, when tine shooting occurred Sum.
ner fell from his horse and died instantly,
whi,c West was fatally wounded
Rock Island Argus., 1895-04-08
MICHAEL BRENNAN.

troll of the department. 1t is said Bren-
mans resignation has been in the mayors
hands since April g. Immediately 1t be.
came known about the city hall
that the chief would retire the gos-
sips assigned all sorts of reasons.
and visitors at Mr.. Brcnnan's Office open.
ly declared that they thought he was
dissatisfied with the course Mayor Hop
kins had pursued in reinstating eighty
police officers dropped for inefliciency by
the police commission.
Chief Brennan vehemcntly declared
that his action was not due in any way ia
any difference or quarrel with Mayor
Hopkins
Rock Island Argus., 1895-04-08
Fatally Injured in q Runaway,

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, April s-George
Robsns, the well known horseman, who
was charged with selling the race between
Nelson and Alcryon at Hartford, Conn,
IN ls9l was seriously injured in q runa.
way. He was thrown out Of a carriage
anu struck his head on a railroad track.
He is suffering from conclusion of the
brain The doctor says he cannot re-
,ny,ar
Rock Island Argus., 1895-04-08
Grewsome story from st. Paul.

ST. PAUL, April S.-The finding Of a
corpse in an upper room of the Old hotel
at La Crescent brought to light a ghastly
story. On the lower door live Mrs Charles
Zlnk and her seven children. For three
months she had believed that her husband
had deserted her. 1t now develops that
not only WAS her husband dead but that
she hal been in the same house with his
hteless body ever since he disappeared
Link mad committed suicide
Rock Island Argus., 1895-04-08
TRAGIC INCIDENTS
CuIled from the History Of a
Single Day.
TIE TAKING OFF OF AN EDITOR

Shoots Himself Fatally Believing . woman
Has Played with His AHecttons-Double
killing at = Galesburg, Mich, Hotel,
with Chloroforn. rs the Probable Agent
Few Hours Commit Suicide.
OMAHA, April S-Frank Colvin, one of
the best known country editors Of Ne
braska and Iowa, came to Omaha to be
married. His body was shipped back to
his home at Randolph, Ia, for burial He
blew his brains out at the Omaha resi-
dence of Barnard McCann. A pathetic
story surrounds the affair, in which Miss
Kate E Early, n well-known young lady
OF Columbus. Neb, figures. 1t was in
her presence, at the home of o mutual
friend, that the final chapter in the affair
closed.
From the pocket of tine dead mans coat
was taken a letter addressed to the press,
in which he explained that he had come
to this city in the hope Of persuading Miss
Early to consumate their engagement of
many months. He had suddenly be-
come acquainted with the fact that she
was already married, and he had arranged
to commit suicide. To this story Miss
Ear.y replies she was merely Colvin's
friend, never had promised to marry him,
and denies she is n married woman. She
gave vent to these words while the blood
was still trickling from the wounds of
the man who had penned n few hours be.
fore the accusation against her.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-04-08
Health All Gone
Unequal to Family Duties--No
Appetite
Hood's Sarsaparilla Gave Strength
and Courage to Work.
"1was insuch condition could not walk
even about the house to attend to house-

hold duties and
care for my chill
dren and family. I
did not have the
strengthen achild.
l was treated BY
several physicians,
W no pronounced
my trouble Scrof-
ula and + female
Weakness. l could
eat only q slice OF
bread and drink q
cup OF tea, three
times q day. Some
times ! Icould stand
q soft boiled epD
Rock Island Argus., 1895-04-08
British Onicers Captured.

CALCUTTA, April S.-A dispatch from
Simia says that reconnaissance made by
British troops beyond the Kalakand pass
has resulted in ascertaining that Umra
Khan, prior to the commencement Of hos
tilities captured two British officers and
eight Sepoys who were on their way TO
Chitral. All the prisoners are well
treafei
Rock Island Argus., 1895-04-08
Buried in the RuIus

MIMI, Novgorod, April s-A hotel,
which was in the course of construction,
collapsed here. burying thirty workmen
in the ruins Several corpses have been
recovered from the wreck. The architect
Of the hotel, who also planned the theatre
which collapsed last year, committed
suicide after the disaster
Rock Island Argus., 1895-04-08
Five Were Killed Mt New orleans.

NEW ORLEANS, April S.-The fearful
explosion which wrecked Salethe, the
ship chandler, and Fisherman's exchange,
the adjoining saloon, two landmarks op-
posite the French market, resulted in the
death of five people. The Salcthes, hus.
band wife, and their little babe, Paul
Rigaud, the bartender and John Edwards,
are the victims whose bodies have been re-
covered. The Salethe servants spent the
night elsewhere and escaped.