Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-04-09

cording TO the survey.
The Niniia Music House has va
Gated the room at the book store and
Mr.. Cook will put in stock of con-
fectionery.
You know what kind of a meat mar
ket Hoffman kept. Well, A. b. Mich
OILS bought him out and is keeping up
the standard.
Jim Leforce was down on Spavinaw
last week and reports seeing several
good droves of turkeys and had good
trip all around.
burglars cut panel out of the back
door at Miller's hardware store Friday
night and stole quantity of cutlery
and a revolver.
Bishop E. II. Hendrix, of Kansas
City, Mo-, will dedicate the new Meth
odist church in Vinita next Sunday
week, the 10Th.
The Congregational folks are going
to paint the parsonage and in short
time will give strawberry festival to
help pay for the work.
Sam Burns restaurant window was
embelished at Easter with hen and
chickens dyed all the cOlors which the
dye manufacturers can get up.
The Presbyterian church at this
place has extended call to the Rev.
W. Il. King of Guthrie, to the pastor
ate Of the church for the ensuing year.
To printers: This Office is over
stocked with 26x4O news-75 Id. VIII
sell one or twenty-five bundles at $500
lmOney with order and deliver at
depot.
John franklin will go to Chicago
about the first of May and remain till
about the middle of next February, as
cattle inspector for the Cattlemen's
Protective Association.
r. ID. Knight, Jim Sheehan, Joe
Blosser and Morris Knight and prob
ably others will seave this afternoon
or tomorrow for week or two's hunt
and fish in Spavinaw hills.
Sheriff John Dameron is making a
record; at the last term of court in
stead of having everybody present
(whO voted for him) on guard, he had
just one man and he was required to
act as janitOr.
Bert Chandler had great town lot
sale last week despite the assertion of
the Dawes commission that the title
given is of no validity. He sold $50
lots at Adair, PA at Pryor Creek and
q at Chouteau.
Jessie May Hall with her company
is playing at Sedalia this week and
will be at Kansas City next. The
many friends and relatives OF the lady
in this nation will be gratified TO learn
that she is meeting with unbounded
success.
Mr.. Swain turned out a pair Of car
rier pigeons a couple of weeks ago
which were sent from Washington.
Instead Of coming back to their young
they disappeared and reply to tele-
gram from whence they came stated
that they had not appeared there.
Retrenchment is the order on the
NJ, X. & t. now with the result that
Spicer, the night man has gone TO
Kansas, Finch is working nights and
Johnnie Cloughly is back at his old Job
as day operator. The position of
freight clerk is now filed by the agent
himself.
Bessie, the colored girl confined with
the folks across the street from the
church and who claimed she had the
smallpox in Carthage years ago, devel-
oped case last Friday and with all
her associates is now confined at the
pest house. The case is a mild one
and is exciting no interest whatever.
Ollie, the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Grant Cass, aged two years, died last
Saturday at ID. S. Warren's, southeast
of Vinita some ten miles. The funeral
occurred in this city Sunday after
noon, at the cemetery. In the loss of
their child this young husband and
wife will receive the sympathy of all
their acquaintances.
Mrs. Dennis Hicks died Thursday
night last after an illness of several
weeks duration. The funeral oc-
CURED Friday afternoon. The be-
reaved family are extremely grateful
to the friends who so kindly minis
tered to their wants during and after
the wife's illness, and desire to pub
licly express their thanks.
One Of Couch & Raines' livery teams
made lively runaway on the street
Saturday evening. Ren Couch had
been driving the team and stopped
them, dropping the lines, when they
started up, throwing Rem out and
bruising him somewhat. They made
a dash for the barn and partly demol-
ished the buggy they were attached
to and slightly damaged a new buggy
at the barn.