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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30
Short Talks on Advertising.

Some time ago one of the largest
and most liberal advertisers in a
leading eastern city had success.
iul sale of stock of goods obtained
through the failure of competi-
tor. The man who failed had a
large capital invested in his bust
ness. He carried a line of goods
above the average for completeness
and desirability. There seemed
to be no reason for his failure, ex-
cept one. His store was poorly
advertised.
In one of the advertisements OF
the firm which bought the stock
the statement was made: The
store was poorly advertised, SO
poorly, indeed, that few people
knew of the existence of so great a
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30

Now that it is practically settled
that there is to be no legislation
effecting the autonomy of the five
tribes at this session of congress it
would be capital time for the cit
izens of these tribes to take the
matter into their own hands and to
make such provisions as will in
sure the just and equitable protec-
ton of the people whose interests
are in jeopardy. A sigh of relief
may 60 up from these Indian ma
tions when congress adjourns, but
they should not be lulled into in
action, but rather should it be the
signal for COD certed action. No
intelligent Indian will contend fol
a moment that the present condi-
ton OF affairs can continue very
long, and all must admit the time
is a critical one and that a change
in our system of government and
of land tenure is speedily coming,
and that the present is perhaps the
very last opportunity We will ever
have of getting ready, and of hav-
ing something to say in matter
that is of such vital importance.
If congress should adjourn without
action, there would yet be no
grounds for the belief that these
Indian governments would be al
lowed to stand for any consider
able length of time undisturbed.
One of the things that is coming as
sure as time goes on is the allot-
ment of the lands of these five
tribes. There is abundant reason
why it should be done. In the
first place the system is out of date
and has drifted into one of the
most unsatisfactory and unstable
systems imaginable. Monopoly
and intrusion are the legitimate
and natural offspring of holding
land in common, and individual
ownership is the only possible
remedy, and the sooner it is ap'
piled the better. AS has been sc
often said, the system OF holding
land in common was never intend.
ed for any other than the most
primitive tribes, that take little ol
no interest in the cultivation o.
the soil, and when the domain is
so large that for grazing privilege:
there is enough for all. Just sc
soon as a tribe takes up agrieultu
raj pursuits, and the tillage of the
land becomes profitable, then doe;
monopoly begin as naturally as the
streams hoS from the mountain
side. and the remedy for monop
oily can only be found in combining
every one to his or her own pro
rata share of the common domain
Then the origin, and prevalence o
intrusion can be found always in
the comu,on property condition OF
the tribe being intrudsd upon. In
the Cherokee country alone there
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30

Col. H. H. HUBBARD, in a re-
cent letter from Washington. print
ed in the Muldrow Register, asks
and answers the following question:
What will the action of the
late extra session. of the Cherokee
council amount to authorizing the
sale of certain improvement be-
longing to alleged intruders?" He
answers it thus: There will be
no difficulty perhaps in making
sales of the property. but the Sc
rious question will be, how is the
purchaser to get possession of the
improvements thus proposed to be
sold? Possession can be obtained
only by due process of law
therefore every purchaser will buy
a law suit TO start on" Col. Hub
bard is quite well posted on this
question-quite too well posted it
would seem to make any such
statement as the above. If the
Colonel had been around Judge
Springer's court here last Febru-
ary he would, on more than one
occasion, had this vexed question
set at rest forever so far as Judge
Springer's court IL concerned. The
way for Cherokee to get posses
sion of an intruder place purchased
according to Cherokee law will be
about as easy as falling off log.
Judge Springer is already on rec
ord in more than one case where
intruders' righ is to the soil in this
country is concerned. The Chero-
kee citizen who purchases an i'm
provement from a Cherokee sheriff
as intruder property will only have
10 apply to the United States court
for writ of ejectment and it will
be granted. Col. Hubbard may as
well. "possess his soul" on this one
point, and offer his deluded clients
some other hope.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30

IT WAS decided Monday by the
house members in congress inter-
ested in Indian legislation to
attach to the Indian appropriation
bill in conference an amendment
similar to the Platt amendment,
save that it will be endeavored to
avoid the Objectionable features
on which the point of order was
raised. The chairman of the
house committee will call up the
Curtis bill and il is claimed that
assurances have been given that it
will pass the senate.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30

deputies aud detectives started at
once in pursuit of West, but as he
had been at large a considerable
time they had no means of tracing
him. West was to have been tried
at FIT. Scott next week. About a
year ago, soon after he killed Kin
ney, the marshal at Miami, he es-
capped from the Ft. Scott Jail. A
month or more ago he was arrested
at Deadwood, s. n, ON another
charge, his identity being unknown
to the arresting officer. When il
was found that he was the notori-
Gus Bill West and was wanted for
murder, Marshal Neeley sent after
him and put him in Jail at Topeka
for safe keeping.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30

The Cherokee delegation in
Washington have recently suffered
the loss of $1,000. On going to
Washington they deposited their
money, $1,000, with the National
hotel where they boarded. Last
week the hotel made an assign
ment and with its assets were in
cluded the $1,000 the delegation
had not drawn out. They will
have to take their chances along
with other creditors.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30

1t is not necessary that a news
paper should print everything that
happens, even though it be news.
If it wounds the sensibilities, or
Injuries the interest or reputation of
some person, when no substantial
good can arise from the publica-
tion, it had better be omitted.
There is such thing as an editor
having a too lofty as well as too
low conception of his duty. Un-
less a good purpose can be sub
served by the publication of an ar
ticle involving the character or the
interest of an individual no pro-
fessional or ethical obligation rests
upon the editor to print it. Even
if the printing Of it may prove a
public benefit the editor should
weigh cerefully the fact whether
such benefit would be offset 10y the
damage done to private character.
There is no ironclad rule requiring
the publication of everything that
happens. One of the highest edi-
torial qualities is that of discrimi-
nation. Missouri Editor.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30

FAYETTEVILLE gets rid of her
houses of prostitution with dyna-
rite.-Ex.
Well, such a thing might work
over at Fayetteville, but if it was
attempted in Vinita some promi-
nent official would be "blowed up"
the first clatter.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30

"What shall we do with the
tumbleweed?" inquired the Arkan-
sas City Traveller in ringing edi-
torial; and in a few days along
came an answer from a reader in
Washington, d. c.: Make tumb-
lers out of them, provided it is not
against the ethics of Kansas to
drink cut of anything but jug "
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30

No good citizen can consistently
refuse to stand by the town author
ities in bearing the burdens incl
dent to a municipal government,
but the individual citizen in turn
has some rights that should not be
ignored. The city treasury of Vi
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30

VIM. Meadows, living between
the town and the depot at CRANKY
was called to his door one night
recently and shot before he could
get both his hands up. The bullet
struck Meadows and came out ol
the back of his neck, but the vic
tim will recover. Neither the mo-
tive nor the perpetrator are sur
missed
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30

It vii be a serious mistake if
congress adiourns without taking
any action with regard to the pre-
vailing evils in the Indian Terrific
ry. The condition of things in that
locality is a national reproach, and
remedial legislation is demanded
in the interest of ordinary public
Gecency.-Globe- Democrat.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30

WHILE Indian legislation seems
to lag in congress, the survey OF
the lands of this country goes mer-
rily on.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30
MONEY QUESTION SETTLED.


Uncle Dick made his usual semi
daily pilgrimage into town Mon
day from his farm, feeling unusu-
ally mellow, and in one of his
most talkative moods. Uncle Dick
posed in front Of the postoffice for
an interview, and as he stuffed a
copy of the Coming Nation into his
breast pocket he smiled audibly
and said: 81 have just received a
letter from Bland in which he says
that our legal ratio must be 16 to ]
and that if he is elected he will
never put up with anything else"
"Why, Uncle Dick, that is pre-
cisely what we have at the present
time; that is Cur present ratio"
said a by-stander. The old man
begun to get agitated, and said,
"look here, young man, | am older
than you are and have studied the
money question since the days of
Andrew Jackson, and was with
him in his fight against state
banks; | have been in every cam
,,aign since, and tell you the only
thing this country lacks TO make ii
the greatest country in the world
is the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to l."
what do you mean when you say
16 to 1?" 'I mean 16 ounces of
pure silver is equal to l ounce of
pure gold, and that the free and
unliruited coinage of silver would
mean about 16 dollars in our pock-
cts to where we have l now"
"But wouldn't the world dump all
its silver on this country then?'
LET FER dump. Before 1878
didn't we have the free and unlim-
tied for eighty years? did we get
overstocked with silver?"
"But, Uncle Dick, the conditions
have changed since then; the pro-
duction of silver is much greater
now than in 1878. The production
of silver in the United States has
more than doubled in that time
and in other countries it has been
even greater than here"
Uncle Dick was silent a moment.
then took from his pocket a well
thumbed copy of "Coins Financial
School" and after consulting it
smiled vaguely and said, II see
you are 'gold-bug;' the worlds
output of silver is double what it
was in 1878, but, sir, the combined
output of the gold and silver of the
world has not kept pace with the
increase in population.
Bystander scratched his head,
and paused; then said: "But silver
is now worth less than 20 cents an
ounce, and if our mints were
opened at the ratio of 16 to l it
would Immediately be worth 81. %.
China, for instance, has $500, 900,
600 of silver; would not shrewd
spectators bring it all to our mints
and flood this country with cheap
silver? The same is true of Mex
leo, and India, and nearly every
other country on the globe. Shrewd
financiers who have saved up a few
million ounces of bullion would
dump it here and thus debase our
currency, and give US 80 cent sill
yer dollars"
young man, your case is about
hopeless; you have got hold of one
of the fallacies of the ld-bugs.
If opening the mints to unlimited
coinage were to make silver go
cheap, foreign silver would be sure
not to come, no matter how big the
surplus, for it wouldn't pay; and il
silver was worth S129 an ounce
the silver in a silver dollar would
then be worth as much as the gold
in a gold dollar"
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30

DAVID H. JEROME, a member OF
the Cherokee Strip commission,
and also ex-governor of Michigan,
died Thursday.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30

BILL TAYLOR was taken from
Kansas City to Carrollton Tuesday
and as Gov. Stone has denied an
application for a respite; will be
hanged today.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30
SUFFERING In SILENCE.

Women are the real heroes of the
world. Thousands on thousands of them
endure the dragging torture of the ills
peculiar to woInankind in the silence of
home. They suffer on and on-weeks,
months, years. The story of weakness
and torture is written in the drawn
features, in the sallow skin, in the list
less eyes, in the lines of care and worry
on the face.
Unborn modesty seals their lips. They
prefer pain to humiliation. Custom has
made them believe the only hope of
relief lies in the exposure of examina-
tion and local treatment.
Take ten cases of '1emale weakness"
and in nine of them "local treatment"
is unnecessary, There is no reason why
modest, sensitive women should sub
init To II nE..E,l &. gNE,.S
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30
BepRs' Little Giant Pills

Try them if you have a sick head
ache or if you are cOnstipated or bill
iOus. Guaranteed by z. Shanahan.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-30
init to It. McELREE'S
WIRE OF CARDUI

is vegetable wine. 1t exerts wonder
fally healing, strengthening and sooth-
ing influence over the organs of woman-
kind. Il invigorates and stimulates the
whole system. 1t is almost infallible in
curing the peculiar weaknesses, ire
gularities and painful arrangements of
woman. Year after year, in the privacy
of home-away from the eyes of every
body-it effects cures.
WINE OF CARDgE IL sold for sI.O0 IL
bottle. Dealers in medicine sell IT, Five
bottles usually care the worst cases.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-02-23
MUNYON'S
KIDNEY CURE.

Munyon's Kidney Cure cures pains In
the back. lolns or gtoins from kidney
disease, puffy and fiabby face, dropsy
or the feet and limbs, frequent desire
to pass water. scanty urine dark-col-
ored and turbid urine. sediment In the
urine, gravel In the bladder and too
great How of urine. Price, % cents.
Munyon's Dyspepsia Cure is guaran-
teed to cure all forms OF Indigestion
and stomach troubles. Price. % cents
Munyon's rheumatism Cure seldom
falls to relieve In one to three hours,
and cures IN few days, Price. %
cents.
Munyon's Headache Cure stops head
ache In three minutes. Price. 25 cents
Munyon's Blood Cure graduates all
Impurities of the blood. Price, 25 cents.
Munyon's Cold Cure prevents pneu-
monla and breaks up n cold In few
hours. Price, % cents.
Munyon's Cough Cure stops coughs.
night sweats. allays soreness and
speedily heals the lungs. Price, 20
cents.
Munyon's Pile Ointment positively
cures all forms of piles. Price, % cents.
Munyon's Vitalizer restores lost
power TO weak men. Price. 81,
separate specific for each disease.
Sold by all druggists. mostly at %
cents ii bottle.
Personal letters to Professor Munyon,
1905 Arch street, Philadelphia. Pa, an
swered with free medical advice for
any disease.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-02-23

Mop was the first porson who was told
of my engagement, and he was the first to
greet thu wife when she uaino home, u
bride, to his own house IIu had boon
made 10 understand from the beginning
TINT she did not like dogs-in general
and he set himself out to please and to
overcome the unspoken antagonism. lilo
had u delicate part To play, and no played
II with dullcacy aud u tnot which rarely
have been cqualcd Ro did not nssert
himself. Iio kept himself In the back
ground He said little. His approaches
at first were slight and almost impcrceptl.
Bile, but he was always ready 10 do or to
holp In nm unaRgrDsslvo way He followed
hor about the house, up stairs and down
stairs, and hc looked and waited. Then
he began to sit on the trail Of her gown;
to stand M close 10 her AZ wns fit and
proper; once In awhile to jump upon the
sofa beside hor or into tho easy chair be-
hind her, winking at mo from time to
time In his quiet way.
And at last he was successful. ono
dreary winter, when he suffered terribly
from inllamniatory rheumatism, he found
his mistress making a bed for him by tho
kitchen fro, getting up In tho middle Of
the night to go down to look after him,
whom he uttered In pain tho cries he could
not help, and when bottle Of very rare
old brandy, kept by mo for some extraor-
binary occasion OF fcstlyity, was missing
was told that It had been used In rub.
bling Mopl-"Threo Dogs" by Laurence
Hutton, inst, Nicholas.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-02-23

The scene II n photograph gallery on
Fifth avenue Tho drnmhtis porsone arc
the young woman at tho Office desk and u
lady caller Tho ofllcn woman snysi al
am sorry, but Miss Vanderheck has chosen
this hour for her sittings and made an mp
pointmont, Had you an appointment
Nor Sorry, but II In tho only safe thing
to do. Then you cannot bs disappointed.
Let me put you down for tomorrow At
ah, this Ia Miss vsndofbeok now"
Enter Miss Vanderbock in walking
dress with maid. Tho maid carries
large box. The office woman says First
door 20 tho right, miss. You'll ind tho
dressing room at your disposal" The
swell young woman and her maid disnp-
pear, and tho disappointed caller agrees TO
call next day AZ noon. Presently Miss
Vandorbeck renppears in ball costume, do
collete, gorgeous In heavy red velvet trim
med with reddpnod ostrich feathers, She
Ia shown TO tho operators room, and ON
tho why she snys, ~ Ohoso tho Queen Lou
iso pose. you know" The other woman
says, Yos, descending flight OF stairs--
know"
This Is how ago and photographs nrs
tnkcp. Tho ladies fud every aoooutremont
Of y dressing room and mako their toilets
in the gallery, and then they arc not posed
by anybody who hhppens 10 think he
knows how. They study tho attitudes In
which thu greatest painters hayo posed
their most beautiful SUBJECTS, and they
choose with all the world Of art to select
from. New York Sun.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-02-23

His llfo had Its tragedies Ms well as Its
touch Of ronunco--tragod!c 30 real and
profound that they gave dignity to oil tho
orudenoss and poverty which surrounded
him nnd quiokensd and intensifled tho
melancholy temperament he had Inherited
from his mother. Away back In 1915,
when Thomas Lincoln had started to find
farm Ia Indiana, bidding his wife DO
rendy 10 No Into tho wilderness ON his re-
turn, Nancy Lincoln Ind taken her boy
and girl TO u tiny grave, that OF her youn-
gest child, and the three had there said
goodby 90 little one whom the children
had scarcely known, but for whom the
mothers grief was so keen that tho boy
never forgot tho scene. Two years later
he saw his father make green pine box
and put HIS dead mother into II, aud he
saw her buried not far from their cabin,
almost without prayer. YonnK as lie was.
It Is said that II was his efforts which
brought n pnrson from kentucky, three
months later, to preach the sermon aud
conduct the service which seemed TO tho
child n necessary honor 10 the dead. Az
sad M tho death Of his mother had been
was that Of HIS only sistor, Ssrah. Married
to Aaron Grigsby In 1880, she had died u
year and half latsr In childbirth, u death
which TO hor brother must have seemed
horror and mystery. Ida NJ. Tarbell In
MoClurs's Magazine.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-02-23

40 aIsNtll
OF great endurance
Tho man born In February will love
money much but women moro Ho will
be stingy NJ home, hut prodluAl abroad
Tho woman will be IN nileotiunate wife
and u good mother.
Tho man born In March will be hand
some, honest and prudent Nct no will dic
poor. Tho woman will he tall and stout
ind witty,
The man born In April will not neces.
earily bo n fool even n his birthday IL the
day next after March 81. Tho woman will
bo ohattcrbux and win have advanced
Ideas. Shn will be u leading monbor of
the shrioking alstorhood,
Tho man born In May VIII no smiab,e
and Will mako his life partner happy.
Tho woman will equal him In amlabllity
aud the other above named desirable quail.
ity.
The man born In June will DO OF small
stature and very fond OF women and chill
dron. Tho woman viii be ilighty and q
high liver, but will repent and sober down
at 40.
Tho man born In July viii BIO of mlli-
tary tAstes, n trlnn pompous, but good
fellow withnl. Tho woman will have
sully temper; sho will pout md be hand.
some.
The man born in August will DO ambi.
tious and Courageous, Tho woman win
bo what Americans Gull capable. She viii
be equal to running u farm or editing
newspaper.
Tho man horn In September will 10
strong and wise, Ho will mako few mis-
takes and live md die rich, The woman
will no loved by her friends; have many
sultors and die nm old maid.
Thu man born In October will write
poetry when young Then he will dahble
In politics and wind mp rs n rcformar, Tho
woman will he pretty and late In life nm
apostle Of total abstinence.
The man born In November will hnvo u
fine face. Rrcat address, and II not careful
howlll be gay Lothnrlo. The woman will
DO large, liberal minded and fond OF novel.
ty and novels.
The man born In December will have
passionate temper, yet Will he tho frat to
forgive, Tho woman will DO u Lady Boun-
tiful Co the dcsorylnR poor, but terror
to trainps and the willfully unemployed,