Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-03-21
rnRR1roRY AND BORDER.
Newsy Notes Gathered From all
Sources.


postoffice with same name as the
town-Rossville.
The residents OF Welch have
formed an association TO lay out
and fence a cemetery.
RIM. Mathes. of Seneca is the old.
est native of Neosho, having been
born there 81 years ago.
The Tulsa Review thinks the
whisky clause in the new law is
too severe and that it will be
modified next congress.
Harry Hall, the prominent bust
ness man of Tulsa. died last week
at Springfield of creeping paraly-
sis. He was laid up for year or
two
John Milligar, a negro, was exc
cuted at Oklahoma City last week
for the murder Gf a colored man
and woman. 1t was the first legal
execution in that territory.
Indian Agent Wisdom has stated
to the authorities of Bluejacket that
he will lend the authority Of his
Office TO compel the payment of
town taxes by non. citizens.
Johnson Jacob, a Choctaw con:
victed of wife murder, was repriev-
ed by the governor after all ar.
rangements had been made for his
execution and he had been placed
in position before the sheriff.
Review: BY conservative es.
innate there will be 100000 cattle
unloaded this season for the large
pastures surrounding Tulsa. This
means a great deal of revenue for
the merchants Of this place. Yer
lily we are in the push.
Democrat: In talking with a
commercial tourist one day this
week who travels over a large por-
tion OF the state, he told us that
Chetopa was the very best town
in his territory.
That man don't come to Vinita.
Dispatch: have a collection
of meat accounts, a few more than
the population of Seneca, begin
ming with two devout ministers of
the gospel and ending with two
Jail birds. All parties interested
in the above are required to call at
once
The Bluejacket Reporter urges
the organization of anti horse thief
associations as means OF sup
pressing crime. The citizens of
that section have had a very ef-
fective organization for some years
and have sent a number of mis-
creants to prison and driven 9TH
ers out of the country.
Peach buds exa mined in ten or
twelve orchards last week disclos-
ed only about ne-fourth killed. If
one.half were killed it would in.
sure a better crop. The present
cold and damp weather is favor
able to fruit of all kinds, and the
prospect for an abundant crop was
never better r.-Siloam herald.
A western Kansas newspaper
man sorely beset with troubles,
delivers himself thus: ave wish
that some of those fellows who are
eternally telling us how to run a
newspaper would think more and
talk less. Here we are eighty
miles west of the rain belt, ninety
feet from water, several million
miles from heaven, fifty yards
from the devil, three hundred
miles from a saloon, fretting and
worrying, trying to get out a spicy
paper"
A case which has attracted a
great deal of attention has closed
at Guthrie with an acquittal, the
jury being out four days. Geo. j,
Derr, three years ago, discovered
his sister, Gertie, in compromis
ing position with Foss, who was a
wealthy cattleman. A personal
encounter resulted in Derr beinl
badly beaten and Foss suffering
the loss OF an eye. A deadly feuC
existed between the two families
from that time on. Foss, it haC
been shown in the evidence, haC
fired the Derr dwelling and killed
John j. Derr, father of George, who
was assassinated in December
1893. Foss was tried for botf
crimes but acquitted. During the
trial Foss insinuated that George
Derr had himself fired the house
and killed his father. When Eos.
left the court room a free man
young Derr shot him from behind
with a double barreled shot gun
literally filling him with shot anC
scattering his brains on the side
walk after he had killed him
Derr's acquittal meets with APP
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