Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-01-03
FORT SMITH NOTES.
COURT, oITY AND COUNTRY
MATTERS.
John M. Taylor, the blind Man"
Gets Five Years for His Pension
Frauds -Other Newsy Items.

Fr. SMITH. ARK, Dec, 81, 1894.
The house of DaveW Wartenslebe
book keeper of the Boston store,
was burglarized Thursday night.
The burglars got $50.
J. II. Bronte has performed
some wonderful cures lately by
prayer. He is not a travelling
faith.cure doctor, working upon the
credulity of the people for his .liv-
ing, but is a hard working man.
He is watchman at the Missouri
Pacific bridge and is one of the
most reliable men in the companys
yards here. After his work is
finished he devotes his spare time
to the sick and afflicted.
During the recent cold wave a
destitute family was found living
in a small cave in the bluff Just
north of the city. They are a
very dirty, shiftless and disrep-
utable looking set, and though
supplied with hardly the neces-
saries of life, seemed very well
contented. They had been pick
ing cotton in the Cherokee nation
and came to this place about six
weeks ago.
Zeb Ward, a prominent railway
contractor and politician, died at
his home in Little Rock, Friday
night. He has been a prominent
figure in Arkansas ever since the
war and accumulated considerable
wealth. He was lessee ofthe con.
victs OF the Arkansas penitentiary
Tor number of years.
A number of small fires have
taken place recently but prompt
action by our efficient fire depart
ment kept loss in every case be-
low 500.
Today all the saloon licenses ex-
pire and the saloon men are very
busy making applications for next
year. 1t is thought there will be
about eight less next year.
The surveyors of the X. c., p. &
G. railway are here gathering
supplies and will go out at once.
Grading will begin very soon.
The road runs through the Cher
okee nation from Sloan Springs
to this city.
The test of the electric rail-
will be made this week. The
motor car was received Friday.
This morning Judge Parker re.
leased Jim lsaacs on his own recog-
nizance. Isaacs is a young Chero.
kee and with his brother is charged
with killing an old peddler near
Spring creek in August and at
tempting to bury the body. He is
in the last stages of consumption
and the Jail physicians recon-
mended his release. being of the
opinion that he would not live un-
til February if kept in Jail.
U. 8. COURT.
John NJ. Taylor, formerly a
prominent citizen of Tahlequah,
was sentenced to five years at De.
troit by Judge Parker for forgery
and presenting false claims. He
swindled the government out Of
$751; by a fraudulent pen sion.
He drew s72 a month for nearly
twenty years.
Oscar Thompson. who was con
victed of manslaughter for the kill
ing Of John Wallis near Coffeyville
was given ten years.
Alex w. Grain, who got several
prominent citizens of the Seminole
nation in trouble by the fraudulent
manner in which he prepared pen
sion papers, was sentenced to three
years.
Motion for new trial has been
filed in the case of Dennis Davis
who killed Sol Blackwell near Eu-
faula in September.
Pat Riley and John Lucas, in
Producing, 10 days and SIS each.
R. NJ. Moody, introducing, 10
days and $40.