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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-02-20
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Many perfumes are believed to be
Hntiseptic in their qualities, and some
physicians entertain the opinion that a
more liberal use of them in the sick
room would be beneficial.
There are in Ohio about 1880 oil
wells, of which more than 1000 were
bored in 1894. The Kirkridge yields $40
barrels per hour, or 7,74O per day. An
other yields 1920 barrels per Gay.
Sheep breeding in Patagonia is a
profitable industry, Notwithstanding
the ravages of wild animals. Down in
Punta Arenas, a port on the Terra del
Feugo islands French company owns
over 100000 sheep, and the manager
makes about half a dollar per head,
"clear of all expenses, from the sale of
wool alone"
Nineteen hundred salmon were
taken at one haul of seine by fisher
man in Elliott bay, near Seattle, few
days ago. 1t was the largest haul ever
made thereabout. His catch loaded the
fisherman's boat down to within three
inches of the water. At the same time
and place another fisherman took 1 500
salmon in one haul, and another took
over 1000.
According to Sir Robert Ball, a tel
egram sent at the usual rate would re-
quire rs years to reach the most distant
telescope stars. But the camera has
revealed stars far more distant than
these, some of which, if a message had
been sent in the year a. ID. THAT is to
say, 1,S95 years ago-the message would
only Just have reached some of them,
and would be still on the way to others.
Observations and calculations have
led Mr.. a. Mallack to conclude that in
sects do not see well, especially at a dis
tance. Their composite eye, however,
has an advantage over the simple eye
in the fact that there is hardly any prac-
tical limit in the nearness of objects it
can examine. The best insect eye ex-
amined would give picture about as
good as il executed in rather coarse
woodwork, and viewed at the distance
of foot.
Astronomers are not agreed that
all the surface markings on the moon
can be explained by volcanic action,
says Popular Astronomy. Those who be-
lieve that the volcanic theory accounts
for the so-called crater formations with
central cones are not satisfied with
such an explanation for the origin of
the wall or rampant plains. They
confess that the origin of these features
and some ohers is beyond their ex-
PLANTATION.
Glass of different colors have been
tried on growing plants by NJ. Zach
arcwiez, professor of agriculture at
Vancluse, who finds that the finest and
earliest fruit is grown under clear glass.
Orange glass produces an increase OF
vegetation, but the amount, size and
earliness of the fruit suffer. Under vio-
let glass the amount of fruit increases,
but its quality deteriorates. Red, blue
or green glass is injurious to all forms
of vegetation.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-02-20
vENiSON AS FOOD.
Breeding Would Make Deer Meat Cheaper
Than Beef.

Cheaper venison for American
cities is the subject of an interesting
report to the state department by Mr..
Charles de Kay. United States consul
general at Berlin.
''The abundance and excellence of
venison," I" he says, ''csn not fail to strike
the attention of those who live il Ger
man cities. 1t is common dish prac-
tically all the year round; its price is
so moderate that only the poorest
classes fail to taste it now and then.
Considering the excellence of veni-
son as food and the small cost of rear
ing herds of deer under proper protec-
ton, it is in America especially that
steps to form practical deer parks
might be easy and of profit.
I'm the neighborhood of great cities
the supply of water has to be regu-
lated by the preservation of large dis
tricts of more or less mountainous or
more or less woody country. In New
York, for example. the Adirondacks
and the watershed of the Gro
ton river are, or are to be, reserved for
reasons affecting the water supply of
New York city and of a large part of
the state-directly or indirectly affect
ing it.
1T is in such districts that scien-
tifc breeding of deer might be carried
on with small cost, relatively speak
ing. The annual killing and sale Of
animals of the proper sort would fur
nish an income far beyond the aggre-
gate of salaries for overseers, foresters
and guards
"In the United States forests wild
animals have been cut off with reck-
lessness which is bringing its own
punishment. or has already brought
evils.
Large tracts of hill range and wood
land, now absolutely necessary to the
water systems of cities. must be care
fully watched and guarded in any case.
They might be stocked with wapiti
and Virginia deer, and the herds ther
regularly decimated to supply the mar
kets with wholesome food.
phia Item
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-02-20
RAISING PHEASANTS.
Where the Birds Are Produced for Shoot
ing Clubs

Where the Birds Are Produced for Shoot
Ing Clubs.
Close to the small town of Mahwah,
n. j., an Englishman, Werner de Guise,
has for the last five years been engaged
in pheasant farming, and has made of
il decided success. The introduction
of birds or animals of one country into
another has not been a blessing to the
new country. The English sparrow is
not looked upon as an unalloyed bless
ing by the people of this continent.
Australia and New Zealand have spent
millions in trying to exterminate the
imported rabbit. A sugar planter in
the Island of Jamaica a few years ago
imported the mongoose to kill the rats
that played havoc in the sugar cane
fields. The rat had mischievous way
of going from cane to cane, nibbling
them, and as soon as the cane dropped
it would run away frightened. The
cane was then useless to the planter
The mongoose found that it was much
easier for him to make a living on the
fowls, turkeys, geese and, in fact, all
kaA1AC Va NlAC Acldhd lhdu IL W do
to hunt the rats. He therefore took up
the easier role of life. The conse-
quence of this has been that whereas
the supply of fowl flesh was cheap
commodity in Jamaica, it has so risen in
value that it now commands so high
price that only the rich can have at their
tables what was formerly the food of
the poor.
The introduction of the pheasant,
it is hoped, however, will prove an ex-
ception TO the rule. And from ali ap-
pearances this will certinly be the case.
Mr.. de Guise has some so acres inclosed
with wire netting, and has already
raised thousands of birds. He finds the
climate agrees with them excellenuy.
The bird that Mr.. de Guise is raising is
the common English pheasant. The
cock pheasant is long tailed, with a
plumage that is made up of every color.
To the uninitiated shooter it would
seem the easiest thing in the world TO
grass" one of these birds. But flying
rocketer as he makes his way upward
between the boughs of tree in a wood
or copse is by no means an easy bird to
hit. The female is a dingy bird in
plumage as compared with her mate.
and few ever think of shooting at her.
She is wanted TO lay the eggs for the
next season, and a man in England who
brings down one of these birds is not
likely to get an invitation to shoot the
coverts the following year.
The introduction of these birds, at
least among the large preserves that
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-02-20
PRACTICEO ON coRPSES.
Invention of a Humane Physician ~ .
Substitute for a Policeman's Club.

DIR. Abiel w. Nelson, a practicirg sur
geon of New London, has invented a
humane police club, which he claims
may be used in subduing obstreperous
citizens without inflicting permanent
injuries ON them. 1t consists IF a rub
Der envelope over a wooden core-a club
with a soft rind, Stimulating the bark of
a tree, similar to the flesh on the bones
of a fist. 1t is simply an elongated
arm, and gives the policeman the ad-
vantage over the man without the ne
cessity of disfguring him for life or
causing other permanent injury. After
securing the proper patents and before
the club was used the doctor feared
fracture of the skull at the base might
result from blow on the top of the
head-that is, the fracture might be
transmitted TO the base of the skull in
stead of at the place of contact. DIR.
Nelson could not get any dead bodies
in the vicinity TO experiment on, SO he
got permission to use subjects at the
morgue in New York.
He tried skulls by hitting them on
the forehead and top of the head, strik
ing with more than ordinary police
mans force, but did not lacerate the
scalp. and there was no fracture at the
place of contact or base of the skull.
The heads were opened, and there was
no apparent injury of the brain itself.
The tests were made in the presence of
three reputable physicians. DIR. Mel
son wanted to see the actual effect on
the living brain, so he selected calves as
his subjects. His first subject was an
active, fierce calf. weighing 200 pounds.
Ii was knocked down and out, but got
up in few seconds, somewhat dazed
but soon recovered muscular power and
was then killed. There were blood
stains under the skin of the scalp and
limited bloodstains in the inner men,
brane over the front lobes of the brain.
There was no injury to the brain itself.
Everything indicated that the calf
would have fully recoyered.-Hartford
Globe
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-02-20
FIGHT WITH TWO LIONS.
Hairbreadth Escape from the Clutches OF
Hungry Reast.

Hairbreadth Escape from the Clutches of
Hungry Beast
He saw, above the ledge and little
sat watching the deer. Jake rose in
his saddle to place bullet, as he said,
midway between those ears, when
powerful lion leaped from behind tree
on the ledge of rock above and, striking
him in the chest carried him OFF his horse,
headlong down the mountain, and his
horse ran wildly away. A moment later
Jake was lying on his back in the snow,
his head up hill and the beast standing
over him with one paw planted firmly
on his chest, the other slightly lifted,
and wagging it's tail in delight, while
IT'S hot breath was exhaled into Jakc's
face.
His first impulse was TO hold down his
chin tightly, to prevent his throat be-
ing torn open, while he cautiously felt
for his knife. He found the knife and
as he drew it a slight grating sound
caused the lion TO rebound at his feet
and as it did SO it uttered a scream
MulCll OdhC hhCN thC
chance of a moment. 1t was a call for
the other lion. Fearing to make n
motion of escape or resistance he moved
his hand back in the snow in search of
his rifle, which had been lost in the fall
His finger touched the stock. He eau
tiously pulled it down by his side and
still looking his captor straight in the
eyes slowly turned the rifle till its
muzzle faced the lion. The bullet passed
through its heart and it sank on Jakc's
feet. Before he could move from his
helpless position the other lion bounced
over the precipice and somewhat over
leaping its mark lit in the snow and in
stantly received bullet. in its brain.
The two lions lay dead not ten feet
apart.-Outing.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-02-20
EGGS THAT COST MONEY.
One Variety Held at $4,000 a Dozen AND
Not Warranted StrictIies Either.

One Variety Held at SIs 1000 Dozen aDo
Not Warranted StrictIies Either.
1t is not generally known that among
the fads of the day the collecting OF
birds eggs is one that interests tho
cultured and wealthy, and one that may
be very expensively INDUCED in, while
it affords mild recreation to thousands
of individuals of moderate means. The
scientific collection of birds eggs has,
in fact, become fascinating avocation,
and, rightly studied, pursuit to which
the systematic study of birds, their BIZ
ology, and the laws governing their evo-
luton, is largely indebted, as acknowl-
edged by no less an authority than Prof.
Huxley himself, who showed that q
study of the markings and shape of the
eggs of the species aided materially in
establishing the close relationship Of
the Limicoloe (plovers) and the Gavioe
(gulls and terns).
Aside from its scientific ralue, the
collecting of birds eggs entices the en-
thusiast by the marvellous diversity in
size, shape and markings of the eggs,
fitly painted by nature herself to sdcrn
the richest cabinet.
~egSf -
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-02-20
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Not Appreciated.-"Mrs. Talkative
is very interesting woman" Yes
to herself" Free Press.
Good sir, do you propose to me
With care the question note
Because my husband you would be,
Or do you want my voter"
washington Star.
-Laura's Dear Friends. - Irene
Laura Kajones's face looks drcadfully
pinched." Il don't know about that,
but ] know her feet do" - Chicago
Tribune.
When Eli Perkins, the lecturer, was
making tour of the west, he said he
was travelling for his wife's pleasure
''Then your wife is with you?" suggest
ed some one. ''Oh, no. said Eli, shes
in New York.
-Widow-"Do you know, Mr.. Caller,
that you remind me very much of my
late husband?" Mr.. Caller Cooking at
watch)-"Why, it is late. isn't it? Ex-
cuse me. I really had no idea of the
time. Richmond Dispatch.
Numerous are the people who have
"builded better than they knew" a
small boy in one of the public schools
was asked to define a demagogue. ~
demagogue," he said, "is a vessel that
holds wine, gin, whisky or any other
liquor. News.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-02-20

arc now being formed in New York
state, and in fact in other states, is a
matter of considerable interest. The
ruffied grouse is becoming almost ex-
tinct. and will soon be classed with the
passenger pigeon. Men who have large
tracts of land where they want to go
shooting in the autumn find that their
investments are almost worthless.
They are putting in English pheasants.
From Maine to the Delaware there
seems no finer country for the acclima-
tization of this bird. The scrub oak
gives the bird a magnificent scratching
ground during the day, and wherever
there is underbrush they are sure to do
well. For roosting place the copses
and woods cannot be surpassed. In
breeding this bird, the best way is to
collect the eggs and place them under
good old hens kept in open grass fields,
the hens confined in coops while the
young are allowed to wander about.
They will always run to shelter under
their foster mother when a hawk ap-
pears. The food for the young ones
should be common boiled grain, biscuit,
and if possible the eggs of the common
ant. Nothing thrives them better than
that. When able to look after them
selves they should be turned out in the
coverts. They must be fed morning and
evening, but they will soon be able to
pick up enough provender for them
selves. That is about the month of
June, the young having been Matched
in the later weeks of March.
The apparently tame fowl soon be-
comes as game bird as man wants to
shoot. Should the owner of the estate
walk through his woodlands, he will
see the so-called tame bird running as
rapidly as any rabbit or hare, or whir-
ring away on the wing at his approch,
The bird is home-stayer, as rule, but,
speaking from the English point of
view, there is no finer bird that rises
out of an old hazel hedge than a cock
pheasant who has gone out to forage in
lands whtre he has no right to be. AS
the setter tumbles into one of those
great big hedges ten yards wide, made
of hazel bush and old hawthorn, that
have stood there for centuries, looking
only for the rabbit or the hare, and
sends one of these great birds, just a
ass of beautiful color, whirring
across the autumn. stubble field of an
English landscape, one feels almost
sorry that he has dropped in the fall
lows. The bird roosts always on the
lower boughs of trees, and this is taken
advantage of by poachers, who will kill
either cock or hen, shooting them as
they sit. These are the men who do the
greatest harm. At present Mr.. de
Guise says he has little trouble with
them. He has had large number of
orders already from owners of estates
and sporting clubs, and has orders to
supply eggs and birds not only in this
state, but even as far north as Canada
and as far south as Georgia.
Before long the bird will be much
more common than he is nowadays, but
he will always be a luxury, as in his ma
tive country.-N. Y. Tribune.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-02-20

Pastor Ito sexton)-Mr. Bloozin,
why don't ycu see that the seats in the
church are busted once in a whileY
Sexton-I do, sir; the congregation
ioes it every Sunday morning, sir
Roxbury Gazette.
-Customer-Waiter, just look at this
spoon; it's dirty. Somebody has been
drinking chocolate with it, and il
hasn't been washed. Waiter with en-
phasis)-That, sir, is not chocolate; it's
rerdigris. is.-Pick-Me-Up.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-02-20
Cheap Land for Sale.

Mr.. W. c. Patton offers for sale lis farm at
Rock creek Patton's SWITCH. consisting of
600 acres well fenced and having two story
houses of and q rooms. | smaller house. :
barns. granary holding 1O.OOc bushels. hay
shed 60 or 20 feet i'm size. large tool house. 4
or stock tots small orchard. wells. plat
form scale. corn mill and everything re-
quired to successfully conduct large farm.
The land is the best I'm that country. VIII
be sold at "A bargain-less than cost of i'm
provements. Address, W. q. Patton, ylnita.
Ind. Ter. 1875
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-02-20
Noiice of Lienholder's Sale.

To JOSEPH MCKENZIE:
You will take notice that the undersigned
will cause to be sold for cash i'm hand at pub
lie outc-y To the highest bidder. in front of
the pOstoffice i'm the town of Ninita. Ind. Ter.
at o'clock p. m. on Saturday, Feb. p. 1S!5.
TO satisfy "A lien ON said stock for its keeping
in favor of Jas. f. jerks. and the costs Of
this sale. This Dec. S, 1895.
H-y JAS. E. JESKs.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-02-20

While recently on a tour among
the missions of the Chinese empire, Mr..
Baring-Gould was impressed by 1.-THE
great influence of medical work, the
heroism of the women and the devo-
ton of many of the converts"
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-02-20

Uriah Jones, Hesekiah Brown and
john Peter Smith will testify to the
wonderful curative properties of Dr.
Simmons Cough Syrup. Sample bot
ties. Satisfaction or money refunded.
- Ghanahan
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-02-20
NO JOY IN LEAOvlLLE.
Life There Has Grown Too Tame to Inter
est the Visitor.

Life There Has GrowD Too Tame to Inter.
est the Visitor
There used 10 be deal more variety
and life in Leadville than there is now.
In its early days every phase of human
nature was represented here, and if
there was any wickedness common to
any other section of the globe of which
this camp mad no specimen some pub
lic-spirited bad man would import
supply. 1t was lively mining camp
in all that the Term implies. and never
MD the light of its wickedness under
bushel. Nothing was hidden. neither
the saloons nor the gambling houses
nor the worst places. The man who
wanted to be bad need seek but lightly
Tor an opportunity. As for the diver
tisement of an impromptu duel 10 the
death, that was so easily obtained as TO
quickly lose its charm. Everybody car
ried gun" and, soon or late, every
body used it with a fellow-being for
target.
Now this is largely changed. Lead
vile is not yet a prominent way station
on the route to the better land, but Is
as peaceful as the average town of its
size in or out of the mining region.
Men here are too busy to attend TO the
affairs of their neighbors; there does
not seem to be an undue amount of
drinking, and business goes on about
as it does elsewhere. State street is
still here. and those who knew it in
other days may be interested in know
ing that its sanitary condition from
moral standpoint is still bad and need
ing fumigation and disinfection. An
energetic and general conhagration
along that thoroughfare would result
in publication of the moral and phys
ical atmosphere. Still, contend that
Leadville is no worse than many other
towns, and by comparison with some
of them, and especially with its former
self, is a bright and shining light set
upon a hill.-Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-02-20
An Ambitious Cook.

There is such n thing as excess of
zeal, even in servant" remarked Mrs.
X-the other day. Wishing to be
particularly economical this year en-
gagged a plain cook at low wages
quite an ignorant girl, but most willing
and | proceeded to teach her with a
capital receipt book how to make made
dishes for dinner. My dear, the ambi-
tion of that woman knew no bounds,
Nothing would satisfy her but to at
tempt something new every day. Every
available spare moment she pored over
the cook book. At first | was natural
IN delighted with her ambition and
bought everything she asked for, and
thought how fortunate | was to get
such a creature, and how | would aston
ish my friends by and by with the din
ners cooked by my aspiring Bridget.
Eut when l made up my accounts at the
end of the month found that the extra
groceries and meats L had bought for
her which although more
or less successful, were not altogether
satisfactory-cost as much, if not more,
than would have been paid the wages of
Il Gordon bleu. So I considered that it
was not my meter to train cooks for my
rich friends-for. of course, she will
leave me when she becomes really ex-
pert. Times.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-02-20
STOCK BRANDS

MOI occupying more space than
the first following will be inserted
a, So co per year. The verdict OF
men owning large or small herds
is that it pays to advertise the
braAdS
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-02-20

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The Portland daily press., 1896-12-02
"A POOR SAILORS STORY.
He Broke His Leg Six Months Aoo %, H..
Bark Alice and is Now Cripple.

Some benevolent person can find an on
portunlty for doing a good deed and aidino
a poor sailor who has been having a nrat+1
hard time of ii lately. The man is No.
wegian and his name is Ole Andersen ua
is only 81 years old, and about six mon,i,.
ago while working aloft on the bark A1;oa
he fell to the deck below and brolxa ono =,
his legs. The vessel was at that time hon, i
for the West Indies, but it was q dave ,,a
fore Andersen's leg could be set and uha,,
he was finally put ashore at Havana .rd
sent to hospital the surgeon set +ho
bone so imperfectly that the poor sailor ma :,
lose his leg or at any rate will be lama fo,.
life.
Andersen arrived here three montbs aoo
and has been carefully attended to IA
cared for by the kind hearted Mrs Pr,daot
Donovan who runs sailors l dging bo.,se
on Fore street. Andersen thinks ba n,,l-,,
be able to do some kind of light work 81
as he is very desirous of earning enonnh =
money to get back to his home in Norua,, - -
is hoped that some one may be able ~
help him.