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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-11-09

are real.
A wise and witty and tender man is
dead. A man whose pen was as just, as
generous as himself. whose work was
fall OF manliness. Eugene Field was
only journalist. The American news
paper was his task and his curse, as it
has been Of so many brilliant men.
Journalism is the vandalism Of litera
ture. Ii has brought to it endless harm
and no real good. Ii has made il an art
a trade. The great American newspa-
per takes in intellect, promise. talent; it
gives out only colloquial gossip. 1t is
written by machines, set by machines
and read by machines. No man can
write long for any journal in this coun-
try without fer the most part losing
that precious thing called style. News
papers have NJ style and want none. A
newspaper writer should have no more
individuality than those clicking iron
machines that throw the type together.
Eugene Field had been bound to the
press from his youth, the bond slave Of
that great, roaring, grimsy, deus ear ma.
china. For man who was compelled
to write SO much it was wonderful that
he wrote SO well. He bad the true gift
Of sympathetic rhyming. "Wynker.
Blynken and Nod and Little Boy
Blue are not great productions, but
they are quaint and tender and in their
own way beautiful, l don't know any
child's poem more beautiful than that
about the three little fishers who went
to fish for the stars with nets Of gold and
silver in the river Of crystal dew.
Mr.. Field had Just reached the period
of his life where his good work should
have begun. He was Just little be-
yond the poverty which had for SO many
years driven him to hasty and unfinished
work. In the next ten years he should
have done good things. The labors of
his long apprenticeship were over and
now there had just opened for him a
career of rest and thought, Of earnest
effort and tranquil toll, Of higher prom.
Use. But the grim Lord Death takes no
note OF promise, and his measuring rod
is so large that to him one man is not
more useful than another; not a priest
or poet, merely an individual Of spe-
cies, that is all. He has heard the mu-
sic of the spheres, indeed and the songs
OF the morning stars, and the feeble
utterances Of mortal tongues are to him
as nothing. He shuts down the doors Of
life and locks them fast and seals them
with his seal forever. Unless, indeed,
an ancient tale be true and he brings in
his gaunt hand the key Of loftier por-
tails, and takes away the broken lutte
of the old dead, only to give to the new
living the golden harp Of heaven. with
its strings as strong as thunder, as light
as flame, as many and multitudinous as
the fancies of the changeful heart OF
mar. Perhaps this singer and all his
stronger brothers are not silenced after
all, perhaps they have only passed into
the higher music, which is Gods.
i have been trying ever since We'd
nesday evening to lind out what The
Colonel's Wives vas about. have not
found out yet. l give it up; it would
take more eagle brain than mine. /
am very sure that the English language
does not contain such another play. /
hope not, for the language could not
q =. Il. "a
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-11-09

Go to Clary's Apex Cigar Store for
your cigars and tobacco, Ill No. 1lth Is.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-11-09

ally bright and clever young people. had
hard work to make their odious parts
endurable. IL ever Mr. Brown succeed
Ell in CITING of something funny he
was So pleased that he straightway
killed il with much cherishing ID was
an odious performance.
Mr.. Sedley Brown, the author of
this unique play, is by some strange
misaleance the husband % that exceed
ingly clever and fascinating actress,
Henrietta Crossman. Miss Crossman
is now getting her divorce. Heavens.
Ishould think she would
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-11-09

they never know it's face. Artists say
they will live with men. and they go
back to their shadows, which to them
are real.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-11-09

have been trying ever since We'd
nesday evening to ind out what The
Colonel's Wives" vas about. have not
found out yet l give it up; it would
take more eagle brain" than mine. /
am very sure that the English language
does not contain such another play. /
hope not, for the language could not
stand it. II was simply chaos Of irrel
evant people and irrelevant incidents
thrown and strung together. 1t
is about as coherent as populist mass
meeting. There was so little character
work in the thing that il the people had
donned each others costumes no one
would have known which was which
All the roles were written with disgust
ing disregard to the common stage
properties. Even Mr.. Chas. Sullivan
and Miss Anna Parker, two exception
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-03-28
A Pension Decision.

The attitude of the government
in the matter of pensions was de-
clared last week by the supreme
court, in an opinion by Justice
Brewer, to be thus: Congress
can give or withhold pensions, may
prescribe who shall receive, and
determine all the circumstances
and conditions under which any
application therefor shall be pros
ecuted. No man has a legal right
to a pension, and no man has legal
right to interfere in the matter of
obtaining pensions for himself or
others. The whole control of the
matter is within the domain of
congressional power"
This declaration was incidental
to the courts opinion upon the
appeal of Henry N. Frisbe, who
was convicted and sentenced to
three months Imprisonment by
the circuit court for the eastern
district Of Louisiana under an in
dictment charging that he demand
ed greater sHm than $40 for pros
eculing a pension claim in viola
ion OF the act Of June 27, 1890
which placed that limit upon the
attorneys fee. The justices said
il is within the undoubted power
of the government to restrain some
individuals from all contracts, as
we'll as all individuals from con-
tracts, and referred to contracts for
the purchase or sale of lottery
tickets in that connection. After
stating that a pension granted by
the government: is a matter OF
bounty; that no pensioner had a
vested legal right to his pension;
that congress had the right to
give, withhold, distribute, or re.
call them Justice Brewer said:
"Haying power TO legislate in
this whole matter, TO prescribe the
conditions under which parties
may assist in procuring pensions,
it has the power to enforce by
penal provisions compliance With
its requirements. There can be
no reasonable question OF the con-
stitutionality OF this statute" /" The
conviction was sustained.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-03-28
SUIT TO BE BROUGHT,
To Recover Commissions Paid by
the Delawares.

Under date of March IL, the act.
iug attorney general granted per-
mission to bring suit to recover
commissions paid by the Della
wares for securing disbursements
Of their funds. His letter to
Messrs. Cravens, Jamison & Cra-
vens, counselors at law, FIT. Smith,
is as follows.
have to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your commissions of the
9th of October and 23rd of No.
vember last, asking permission to
sue in the name OF the United
States, and at the instance of DR..
William Mairn as informer, under
the provisions of section 2103 of
revised statutes of the United
States to recover from the estate of
one Charles Journeycake, certain
moneys alleged to have been col
lected by said Journeycake for the
Delaware Indians or individual
Indians of that tribe, without the
approval of any contract for such
collections by the secretary of the
interior. You are granted per-
mission as requested to bring suit,
in the name of the United States,
for the purpose named in said
section 2103, revised statutes of
the United States, upon condition
that there shall first be executed
and delivered a bond or stipu.
lation to the United States to be
approved by the United States dis.
trict attorney for the district in
which suit shall be brought, and in
such sum as said United States at
torney shall direct, conditioned
that the said infoTmer shall pay all
costs and expenses of every char
acter whatsoever incident to said
suit, so fast as the same shall ac-
crue, and that the United States
shall be saved harmless from all
costs, expenses and charges in
connection with the same. The
said bond or stipulation, when ex.
ecuted to be delivered to said
United States attorney. The gov,
ernment will retain the usual
supervisory power and powers OF
direction over the conduct of said
suit.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-03-28
tion and sentenced to six months

cation and sentenced TO six months
in Jail.
John Green, larceny; verdict Of
not guilty from box.
Charles Robbins, stealing mail;
verdict not guilty from box. He
was charged together with Jim
French with holding up the Tah-
lequah mail back in 1893.
John Hicks, murder; verdict not
guilty. Hicks was present on Feb.
IA, 1892, when Stan Rowe shot
Jack Coward down, in the road.
Stan Rowe was scouting then on
charge Of murder and killed Col.
'Grd because he feared that Col
ward was trying to trap him for
the deputy marshals. They had
been at a dance at Jim Rowe's the
night previous and INDUCED in a
drunken debauch from which they
had not recovered. The govern
ment claimed that Hicks enticed
Coward to his death and one wit.
ness, who was 200 yards away
swore that he heard Hicks tell
Coward, Pull of your hat. Jack,
and die like a man."
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-03-28
SLOWLY BUT SURELY.

Changes in the public sentiment
of nation, or of an individual,
as to that matter, are necessarily
slow ard deliberate. Old and
long established customs are not
easily thrown off, and the stability
of all governments is due
largely to this fact. So, for twenty
years or longer the subject of al
lotment has been one of more or
less prominence, especially in this
Indian Territory, among the five
tribes. All intelligent persons
who have had any occasion to
know or to study the question at
all have known all along that the
time was approaching when it
would be absolutely impossible to
continue to hold land in common.
But there has been a great dread
of change and feeling amongst
the Indians that it might mean
disaster to them to make a change
in land tenure. Many of the pub
lie men and leaders have from the
earliest days Of the Cherokee gov.
eminent been monopolists and
have done pretty much as they
pleased with the common property
of the tribe. This with the natur
al timidity of the Indians have
made 1T easy to control public
sentiment on this question. But
as the years have gone by the
people have gradually changed
their sentiment in regard to the
land tenure. They have not only
become dissatisfied with the con-
dition of their own government
but have recognized the great dan
ger from without. They have not
failed to see how unstable land
tenure must necessarily be when
held in common, and that there
was absolutely no security to the
citizen in the ownership of their
homes. This fact, through the
force of circumstances, has at last
dawned upon the common people
and they can never be hood wink
ed again into believing that it is
possible to get protection in any
other way than by allotment.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-03-28
INDIAN TERRITORY SURVEYS
Work Will Be Under Way Within
Ten Days With a Force of
$50 Men.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., March 20
When the Indians of the civil.
lied tribes see the surveying par
ties scatter through their beloved
reservations, marking out the
townships and running the section
lines, they will begin to realize
that the tribal relationship is
doomed. The work will be under
way within ten days. G.. w.
Hawkins, OF the geological survey,
has already started for the tsIri-
tory. Charles W. Fitch, the t1.
pographer, will 60 down this week.
He will have charge of the work
in the field. The parties are now
being organized. The force will
embrace 100 men. 1t will be d.
vided into four standard line par
ties, two triangulation parties and
the subdividing parties.
Mr.. Gannett, of the geological
survey, under whose direction the
work is to be conducted, believes
that before the force is withdrawn
at the close of the season at least
half of the Indian Territory will
have been laid of in sections. The
Chickasaw nation was sectionized
many years ago. That work was
done by contract. The present
survey will not go over that work,
but will start from a point on the
eastern boundary of the Chickasaw
nation. The base line which was
established in the Chiekasaw ma
tion will be used for a. beginning by
the present survey. II will be ex
tended out eastward into the ChUc.
taw country. A meridian will be
established and from a point about
midway oflhe eastern boundary of
the Chickasaw nation; the survey
will go on eastward and north.
ward.
The headquarters Of the corps
will probably be at McAlister. The
western portions of the Choctaw
and. Greek reservations and per
haps a part Of the Cherokee coun.
try, will be finished this season
Along with the division into town
ships and sections, two triangula-
iion parties will operate and pre-
vent acoumulating errors in town.
ship lines. II is the Intention TO
do the work very thoroughly, and
the probability is that the Indian
Territory will receive much bet
ter survey tEan most of the wes-
tern states and territories.
The senate was willing TO zee
the survey completed this year,
and appropriated the sum required
for the entire territory-S400, coo,
but the economists " the house
were so anxious TO keep under the
billion dollar mark that they cut
the survey item in two Thst is
why only half the territory will be
surveyed this year
With all the investigation car.
ried on by the scientific bureaus of
the government, il is surprising
how little has been learned about
the Indian Territory. That coun.
try Is terra incognita in respect TO
it's geology and its mineral resour-
ces. II possesses magnificent coal
fields, but the extent of them is
but vaguely guessed At. There 10
no official data on tho subject. Of
the character of the country a
short distance froln the railroads
pext 10 nothing is known.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-03-28
FAraLANp FACTS.
Notes From a Thrifty, Happy
Town,


Things are lively at the "hub"
now; trade lie better than it has
been for long time. As It always
has been, Fairland still booms in
grain and hay; the shelters run al
most every day and almost every
day corn goes TO the needy in the
east.
Well, what do you think of the
new Judge? We think that he
may be better than man from
Texas or Arkansas would have
been. One blessed thing is that
after May we will not be cursed by
having to go to Muscogee to court.
Our town is full of strangers Of
late; you can see new faces every
day on the streets and in the
stores.
Pete Slower was over from Mi
ami Saturday to see live town.
Scott and Frank Audrain have
retui ned from the cattle conven-
ton in Texas; say they had a fine
time.
]. w. Chandler came in today
to visit his family, after being in
attendance at his school at Blue
jacket. Mr.. Clawson, editor of
the Bluejacket Reporter is visit
ing with Mr.. Chandler.
The Ford Drug Co. and X. Y.
West, have, Phoenix like, risen
out of the ashes and both put on
a bold front.
d. W. Vann and son are build
ing large addition toitheir store.
People are planting corn here
this week, frost or no frost.
Everybody seems to be busy
here; the saw and the hammer
make sweet music to cheer the
carpenter on his weary way.
John Washington is GONZALES
cling, after long spell OF typhoid
fever.
James Anderson, of Neosho, or.
gan vender, gave US a pleasant cal
Saturday.
The political pot boils but slow
ly here; Maeys seems to be in tht
lead.
Once more the festive schooner
is roaming over the country. II
seems as though the people sre
never satisfied to leave wei
enough alone.
Taken as a whole times here are
much better than one year ago anC
seem to be improving slowly.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-03-28
FORT SMITH LETTER.
Notes From the Seat of Uncle
Sans Great Court.
Fonr sNI1n. Ar March gs.

FonT SMITH, ARK. March %.
The sensation of the week is the
investigation of the police. The
sessions Of the investigating COM
mittee are largely attended. All
the developments so far have been
against Chief of Police Sunoit, but
nearly all have come from parties
who are known TO be his enemies.
Saturday morning, Wilson Dav-
enport heard some parties trying
to get into his house and went out
to investigate. One of the would
be burglars fired at him. This
morning the police arrested
young sneak thief and on search
ing him found a revolver conceal
ed in his pant leg, one chamber of
which had been recently fred They
think they have one of the burg
lars.
Mrs. DR.. Main, the richest wo-
man in western Arkansas, died
yesterday morning. She would
have been seventy years old to,
morrow.
George McElroy, Henry Hook,
Charles Hook, Thomas StulIle.
bean, Dr. Band, murder; verdict not
guilty.
John Cook, Dave Cook and Bell
Moore, larceny; verdict not guilty.
John Tate and Clarence Eddy,
selling Choctaw beer; fined twenty
dollars each
George r. Hughes, setting up
unregistered slill;30 days and 500
fine.
Charles Rogers, selling; 30 days
and 800.
Columbus Springwaier, intro
ducing; one hour and fine s15
Frank Butter, introducing; 20
days aud $40.
George England, introducing; 30
days and $50
J Bob Brooks, selling; 30 days and
S1O0.
ASA Jackson, selling; 30 days
and 500.
! Charles Pheasant and johnson
Whitmin, introducing and selling;
40 days and 500.
John Jones, introducing and
selling; go days, $3.50.
Pratt Phillips, larceny; 90 days
in Jail.
Gabe Philips, receiving stolen
property, three years at Albany.
Lee Edelbue, larceny; 60 days.
Asa Freeze, Ben and Louis
Brown, larceny; 20 days.
Charles Page and Charles Smith,
larcenyI 100 days.
Caleb Bowling, selling and ILL
cit distilling. 80 days aud 5000.
Mart Woods, introducing; Is
days and sl6
George Harris, ,carnally knowing
female under 10, convicted Of foni.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-03-28

The cattle received at the Kan
sas City stock yards last year
came from: Arkansas, 3,032
head; Arizona. 1921; Colorado, 81 =
1l9; Indian Territory, 2l4,663;
Iowa 7,S40; Kansas, 922. 600; Mis-.
souri,, 144, ,493; Old Mexico, 81, ,636;
Nebraska, S2.5e1; Utah, 142, ,743;
Oklahoma, 36, ,547; total, $3.50, 1893.
The origin Of the hogs during the
same time vas: Nebraska. 49,
307 head; Texas, $3.50; Arkansas,
1871; Colorado, 202; Indian Ter.
ritory, 35,95S; Kansas, 1893, 795;
Missouri, 370,609; Oklahoma, 49,.
655.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-03-28
TERRITORY AND BORDER.
Newsy Notes Gathered From all
Sources.

The mayoJ OF Ft. Gibson has is-
sued statement to the effect that
there is no small pox at that town
and tnat there has been none.
Free vaccination is offered at
Wagner.
Neosho has a hayseed band.
0rdinarialy that is not a good
name but for country brass band
it is probably all right.
The petrified hog found in an
old shaft at CRANKY some two
weeks ago is beyond doubt case
of genuine petrifaction OF flesh =.
The fact that it was a hog can not
be doubted since the part above
water had decomposed while the
hair and bones were still intact.
The claim that flesh will not pet
rify is disproven by this case and
the petrified man case is still open
for discussion even to scientists.
There seems to be nothing under
the sun which the soil and water
southwest Missouri are not cap
able of producing. NeoshoTimes.
o. s. Smiser, Of the Atoka Inde,
pendent family, was married last
week to Miss Clara Moore
Ellsworth Welsh and Miss Mabel
Browning, daughter of the ofliciat.
ing clergyman. were married al
Wyandotte recently.
Shooter Jones and Alb Workman
of Seneca, visited the river, Satur-
day morning last, in quest Of
feathered game and captured q
large white swan Dispatch.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-03-28

There is only one way for this
nation TO pay its public debt-and
10 keep it paid, and that is
by taxation. Enough money may
be raised in various ways to pay
it off, but unless some means is de-
vised TO meet il in the future, il
will soon pile up again. The ma
ton had as well give up the idea
of living off the interest on the in
vested funds one time as another,
for it will never again be sufficient.
The expenses Of the government
must necessarily increase. 1t
takes more money in every de-
partment each year than it did the
year before.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-03-28

INTEREST in fruit raising in this
country is growing rapidly. When
men learn once that orchard cul-
ture is a thing that requires intel
ligence and care, and that neglect
means failure, then fine orchards
and an abundance of fruit through
out this section will be the result.
From present indications fruit
growers will not be able to supply
the local demand here in the In
dian Territory for many years to
come, as the country is constantly
filling up with people and the
most of them are not, and will not
be producers of fruit. The man
who possesses a young orchard
and will take care of it will find
that in a few years he has a ba-
nanza,
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-03-28
A Sound Liver Makes a Well Man.

Are you lihous, consiipated or
troubled with jaundice, sick headache,
bad taste in mouth, foul breath, coat
ed tongue, dyspepsia, indigestion. hot
dry skin, pain in back and between
the shoulders, chils and fever, etc. II
you have any Of these symptoms, your
liver is out OF order, and your blood is
slowly being poisoned, because your
liver does not act properly. Herbine
will cure any disorder Of the liver,
stomach or bowels. IL has no equal
as a liver medicine. Price rs cents.
Free trial bottles at p. ShanRhan's.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-03-28

LAST week was printed from its
new Office in the Hill brick, the
first number Of Vinita's new pa.
per, the Cherokee Champion. If
we may judge from the initial
number and from its general make
up we should think it would sue
ceed in a measure. In one sense
Of the word the Champion is to be
our competitor, but in another
and broader sense it may be a CO.
worker for the upbuilding of the
town aud community. 1t may be
a power for good, for every town
is measured and known abroad as
well as at home by the tone and
character of the public press. On
the contrary, if it should fall in
with the prejudices and asperities
OF .1hat very numerous class of bro
ken down politicians of which this
country has a great surplus, it will
find itself very much handicapped.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-03-28

A SENSIBLE citizen need not
necessarily be Downing man to
be able to vote for Sam Mayes for
chief. Indeed, it is a very hard
question for any man to answer as
10 why he is National or Downing,
and If there be a difference, to
state the difference. If there was
a we'll defined issue between the
two political parties in this nation
then every man might take his
place with the party that advocated
what he believed to be the best for
the people. But there is no such
condition existing On the con.
trary, the real Issues that do exist
are studiously ignored by both the
Downing and the National parties.
But when two such men at r b.
Ross and 5. II. Mayes come before
the people as candidates for the
same Office, and that the highest
Office in the gift Of the Cherokee
people, then common sense and
honesty Of purpose ought to be the
guide to a proper exercise of the
ballot. Sam Mayes stands before
the people not only as a successful
farmer and stockman, but as an
honest man as we'll Can as much
DO said for Bob Ross2 Everybody
knows that Il can not, and that
the man Is looked on with suspi.
cion BY the people in general In
business matters he is a woeful
failure, and IN the discharge Of
public duties as an officer his
record Is everything but clean.
Party feally should never induce
az honest citizen 70 support \ man
lIls Rose fol,chief Of this nNtion-