Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-07-09
NEwSY NOTES FROM ALL SOURCES.
The Gist of What Our Exchanges Tell
or in Recent Issues.


Monday Renty, a Creek negro,
was tried in one of the local courts
last week for larceny and being
convicted was given fifty lashes,
forthwith.
The Dispatch of Seneca has
probably the longest paid up sub
scription of any paper in the
United States. The subscriber is
J. G.. McGannon, who has paid for
100 years or until 1896.
Mr.. w. 7. Hutchings' famous
trotter, Nordica, captured another
thousand dollar purse at Red Oak,
Iowa, on Saturday last. Nordica
is coming to the front and is now
regarded as the favorite in all races
where she is entered.-Phoenix.
Oolesawda, fullblood Cherokee
who cannot talk English, and Ju-
liza Null, a white woman who can
not understand Cherokee, were
married by Rev. Biting Thursday
afternoon, They at once went to
their home near Oaks.-Sentinel.
Engineer c. F. Urquart of the
U. S. survey passed through town
Monday en- route to Muskogee,
from where he will take up the
triangulation of the Cherokee na-
tion, and get it ready for the Sec
ton and line men. Capt. Urquart
has been succeeded il the work
here by N. c. E. Cook.-Tulsa
New Era.
Uncle Cal Gunter's barn was de-
stroyed by fire about 8 o'clock last
Sunday morning and the contents,
consisting of fifty tons of hay, sew
nty-five bushels of corn, one good
wagon and two sets of harness, ALSO
went up in smoke. The loss was
close to 81 600, no insurance. The
origin of the fire is not known
Sloan Herald.
In the fall of 1894 a Frenchman
from Coalgate plead guilty at South
McAlester to eleven charges of lar
ceny and was sentenced to seven
months Imprisonment in Jail here
on each charge, making an aggre-
gate Of six years and five months.
Some time ago his attorneys set ts
work to have him pardoned on the
ground that he was kleptomaniac,
and had been sufficiently punished.
In looking up the record they
found that the sentence was in
valid, owing to the fact that the
Judge had failed TO mention in the
sentence that one began when the
previ Gus one had ended, and this
failure made the sentences run con-
currently instead of cumulatively
This view was taken and the man
discharged.
A serious shooting affray is re.
ported by our correspondent from
Oolagah. On Monday last Eli
Rogers shot and instantly killed
Nick Rogers and at the same time
Sharp Rogers was shot by Sam
Rogers. The trouble began a,
Huse Rogers house about eight
miles west of Oolagah and is the
result of an old feud which bad ex.
listed for more than a year. Oul
correspondent says that the killing
is the outcome of the fight in which
Bub Trainor lost his life more than
a year ago. The shot received by
Sharp Rogers will prove fatal, as
the bali entered his neck, pierced
the windpipe and came out on his
left side after passing through the
left lung. After the killing of Nick
Rogers a gang of negroes went &c
Huse Rogers place and chained
him to a wagon where he was KEEP
for two days and nights. The par.
ties connected with the tragedy are
ali negroes and have a bad reputa.
tion in the community where they
live Those of them who partici.
pated in the shooting have stated
that they do not intend to surren.
der and when an attempt is made
to arrest them that they will make
it interesting for the officers
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