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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-07-07
LOCAL NOTES.

Hear Col. Ham tonight.
Farm for sale; enquire of J. T
Bracket.
The annual Pryor Creek picnic occur;
July 90 and 3o
Star sickle grinder; call at Joseph
Hunts and see it.
The Curtis bill was signed by the
president June 2Sth.
Ice, -ce, ice: leave orders at Burns
Racket. Best quality.
A coed farm to rent: apply to Frank
Billingslea, Vinita, L. t. 4Otf
Only one report is brought from
Tahlequah-the town is dead.
There are 500 criminal indictments
pending in the northern district.
Furnished rooms with board. Jake
Walters, south of DR.. FORMERS.
Send your wagons to Burns Racket
for ice. viii be shipped if desired.
Vinita's base ball team, when they
get on the diamond, "know where
they are at
Fred Charlesworth has been very sick
for more than week. He was thought
to be little better yesterday
Under the auspices of the Epworth
league Col. Ham will give lecture at
the opera house tonight Seats Is and
50 cents.
The Excelsior steam laundry has
inst installed a new ten horse power
boiler. which has beeI needed for
soms time.
Lost, red and white setter, year old
and large for her age: she will come to
aame OF Daisy. RezSona''le reward.
~ 9 CowaH.
oultss nunabes Of our shooter.
--7lt Lac 2Uflrla 3 1'..4-.u- -11 slio
kole TO defeat the marzsman OF that
place without difficulty.
The weekly prayer meeting al the
& Presbyterian church VIII be ommitted
his evening on account Of the Ham
secturc ~ the opera house.
Lost. lady's gold watch, engraved
outside of case with &c. F. on front
and deer's head on back; $40 reward.
Mrs. c. Fields, Vinita, i. 7.
A good pasture for a limited num-
Der of stock adjoining town, with
good water and shade and abundant
grass Enquire at the nursery.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-07-07


The committee selected some time
ago to present the petition for the in
corporation of Vinita, which was
granted by Judge Springer, will i'm
medieatley after the, 18th instant,
give notice of date Of city election,
which will probably not he more
than ten or twenty days from said
date. Candidates for the Office Of
mayor and aldermen, and recorder
may now begin to groom themselves.
The committee is DR.. T.. F. Fortder,
Z. n. RatclifT and j. b. Burkhalter.
The conspicuous part which
Roosevelt's Rough Riders are play
ing in the present war, lends ad-
ded interest to Colonel William f.
Cody's buffalo Bib article on the
rough riders which appears in the
July number of "The National
Magazine. Colonel Cody in this
article tells us just what sort of
stuff his followers are made of
and just what sort of a part they
are capable o! enacting in the hos
tilities. The article is fully illus
trated with drawings by Robert F.
Elwell, an artist whose qualities
for western drawings places him
close to, Frederic Remington.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-07-07
Easy Way of balancing IL.

bridget, you've 5rohca as much
china this morning as your wages
amount to. Eow. how can we prevent
this occurring aFaiu2'T
"Oi don't know, mum, unless yez
raises me wages. Weekly.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-07-07
4 Hazard.

First IIorse-What did that man
mean, then, when he said he knew a
woman who WINS good enough to eat?
Second Horse (retlcctively) - She
must be grass widow.-N. Y. Press.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-07-07
Death of French Farley.

French Elbert Farley, son Of II. U.
Farley, aged twenty-four years, died
Monday morning, July 4th, at $40
O'Clock. The funeral took place at
the NJ. f. church next afternoon,
though the services were conducted
by the Masonic fraternity, of which
deceased had been Il member scarcely
two months.
FaithfulnesS was the chief charac-
teriStic of French Farley, ana he
might almost be said to have been a
martyr TO it. He held responsible
position in the FIRST National Bank of
this city-one which he had attained
by close application to duty. Against
the advice of friends and of the physi-
clan he stayed at his desk Il week or
more after the fever had attacked
him, under estimating its tenocity
ana his own power of endurance He
was SICK aOed about ten days with
what from the very first showed itself
to be typhoid fever. At school. both
at Ninita and at Chetopa, French
Farley was regarded almost as a prod
ICY. No task imposed was too great.
and when dozen years old, many of
his classmates were practically grown.
There survive him IA father. brother.
and two sisters, one residing in Il
neighboring state. The burial of the
late cashier of the same bank. II. c
Cook, took place just three weeks pre-
viouS TO that OF the bookkcepcr, Mr..
Farley.
MASONIC RESOLUTION.
Whereas, i'll His infinite wisdom the
All-wise Creator has removed from the
walks of life French Elbert Farley, it is
proper that we, his brethren of Vinita
lodge No. 5, a. L. and \. NJ, express iii
a fitting manner the esteem i'll which he
was held by us. Young in our craft, as
well as in years, there was abundant I
promise of fruition, for the faithfulness
which marked his everyday life was in
nowise wanting within our portals. His
light has gone out, and PROSTATE is his
column, still we commend to the bereav-
ed family and to his brethren the Ma
sonic teaching that the grave is not all,
and that beyond its confines there is a
haPpier and brighter day for those who
observe scrupulously the teachings of
our order, and where the circle of BROTH
erly love shall continue unbroken
through ali eternity.
B. +. FoRTNER,
NJ. Z. MILFORD,
Committee.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08

The average production during the
past FIVE years was 2, All ,220, 1874 bushels
of which the crop in 1897 was 331, 67l,
666 bushels short. AS the wheat crop
in India was short only 80, 900 900 BUSH
els in that year the alleged famine
there can be held accountable for only
q small portion of the total. By CLAN
cling back at the table it will be OBJ
served that the wheat crop has stead
lily heen diminishing for three years.
At the same time the bread eaters have
been increasing. Not only have the
crops diminished, but the people each
year consumed more than the yield of
that year which means that the re-
serves left over from the previous
great crops have been drawn
upon.
One of the strong influences bearing
upon the increased price of wheat is
the greatly increased American con-
sumption which has attended the bet
terment of the times since 1896. This
increase has left US with less wheat to
send abroad and therefore it diminish
ed the supply in the worlds markets,
affecting the prices very materially.
While the West is looking forward to
splendid crops at the coming harvest
the wheat condition Of the world has
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08
NINETEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS.

What has become of that nineteen
hundred dollar street improvement
fund, Messrs. City Council? Mr.. Ben
Catlin, representing the mayor, and
Mr.. Alderman John Drummer had q
good deal to say about it one day in
our office, but their remarks, while
lurid, were not to the point, and failed
to answer our questions. Besides,
they were unfit for publication. We
would suggest that q good road roller
is badly needed; some heavy rolling,
in connection with some scraper work,
would save the city thousands of dol
lars in improvements later on.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08
HUNTING WILD GEESE.

Under the above heading there is
printed in todsy's HERALD . little
story of q hunt after. information from
ono of our city officials hunt which
has 60 far been fruitless. The lesson
is instructive. We have q few ques-
tions to ask. Is Mr.. Fassett a public
servant? Who pays his salary? Does
he draw one hundred dollars q month
for staving of legitimate inquiries for
information, made in good faith? Does
he suppose the people will submit in.
definitely to such an abuse? And
finally, when will it be convenient for
him to give US . statement showing
how much money lies in the State
National bank to the credit of the
street improvement fund?
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08
How Sea Power Counts.
Philadelphia Times.

Was there ever q more significant
vindicstion of sea power?
This country of 70,0OO,0 900, with I'M
exampled resources. was about to oc-
cupy Cuba last week 10 overwhelming
force. Suddenly four Spanish srmor-
ed cruisers appear. They are not az
strong as our united feet, but they are
swifter and their plans no one knows.
Instantly all plans of invasion have
to be postponed until these cruisers
are dealt with. The troops on shore
mark time. Our ships at sea are ga
thered from hither and thither. ALI
waits Oh the next sea fight. Its fate
settles the war.
Sea power counts and in the worlds
wide work it is the first and last thing
which does count. The United States
must have Q navy second only to Great
Britsin's. Anything short of this is
national peril and national lack.
Fourteen years ago q naval board OF
experts recommended eighteen battle.
ship. The report waslaughed at. Does
any one laugh now? With even twelve
battleships we should have saved
the cost of this war. and for the direct
cost Of this war sixty battleships could
be built. Which is cheaper? War or
the preparation which insures peace:
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08
One Result of the War.

A foreeone conclusion of the war is
the construction of the Nicaragua ca
nal. 1t will follow quickly the close
OF hostilities. The long trip of the
Oregon furnished an object lesson. But
beyond that the real estate TRANSACT
tions in which Uncle Sam is about to
engage render inevitable the opening
of this maritime highway. The build
ing of the canal is one of the series of
transactions which will make Cuba
Independent, annex Hawaii, leave the
flag over Porto Rico and dispose of the
Philippines in some way best
for the Inhabitants and the rest of the
world. With these changes on the map
of the two hemispheres the Nicaragua
Canal is associated. The canal will be
constructed, and it will be done as
rapidly as modern engineering science
can apply the methods. When the
time comes for congress to act-and
that will probably be the coming win
ter-the legislation will meet with lit
tie oppOsition.-W. B. S., in st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08

gradually but surely to a point where
they will trade with that man because
he is in the light.
The HERALD believes that in taking
this stand it represents very large
body Of people in this city. OF these
many are thoughtless or careless: they
do not stop to think. They need but to
be aroused. The churches ought to
take this matter up vigorously. from q
somewhat different standpoint. For
our part, we propose to keep standing,
as a card of Information, list of mer-
chants who close their places on Sun
daV
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08
The Interests of the United States
in China.

The growing JEALOUSY with which
both branches of the Anglo-Ssxon race
are regarded by the leading powers of
the European continent is.
at any rate, fact which
has to be reckoned with, and no no.
where more than in the Far East,
where both Great Britain aud
the United States have such vast inter-
ests at stake. If it was Great Britain
who more than SO years ago first made
breach in the great wall OF Chinese
self isolation, America can claim to
have played the leading part in render
of western civilization. Shanghai, the
greatest emporium of foreign trade in
the far east, bears witness to the
shrewdness and enterprise of the Eng
lish and American pioneers who laid
the foundations of "the model settle
ment." If the volume Of American
trade with China and Japan does not
bear comparison with that OF the Brit
ish empire, it is greater than
that of any other European
tionsbly capable of immense develop
ment in the future. For the day can
no longer be far distant when the pierre
ing of the isthmus will bring the east
ern seaboard of the States into scarce
ly less close touch with the Far East
than the western seabOsrd. which
looks straight across the Pacific to the
shores of China and Japan. The
shrewdness upon which Ameri-
cans deservedly pride them
selves would therefore have
been singnlarly at fault had they not
recognized that the battle which
Great Britain is wsging for the pre-
servation of China as q great tradal
area open to the whole world is one
that concerns them almost as nearly
as ourselves.-From 1.-THE Situation in
China" by Cathay, in Harper's
Magazine.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08
The American Navy, Cuba and Hawaii

A portfolio, in ten parts, sixteen
views in each part, of the finest hslf-tone
pictures of the American navy Cubs
and Hawaii, has just been issued by q
Chicago publishing house.
The Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
railway has made arrangements for q
special edition for the benefit of its pa
irons, and q specimen copy can be seen
at the local ticket Office. Single parts
may be had at ten cents each, the full
set, one hundred and sixty pictures,
costs but one dollar. Subscriptions for
the set may be left with the agent
In view of the present excitement re-
garding Cuba these pictures are every
timely. Call at the ticket office and
are them.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08
A Good Idea.

Southern Idaho fruitRrov ers met at
Boise, Saturday and formed an associa-
ton, whose principal objects are to OBJ
tain low freight rates and trustworthy
information as to market conditions in
the shipping season. All fruit shipped
to the East will be examined, when 1t
is put aboard the cars, by an inspector
who will have power to reject fruit IN
fit for shipment. 1t 10 intended to
adopt q uniform fruit box aud stand
ard of packing. If our Oregon growers
will organize: adopt regulations SIM
liar to those of the Idaho transaction.
and adhere to the regulations, they
will create better market for their
fruit. The time is past when the East
will take Western fruit just because it
comes from the West. California g
success in the Eastern market is due to
the fact that only the best fruit is
shipped. and it is carefully packed in
uniform boxes.-Portland Orego-
MAN.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08

Bad management keeps more people
in DOOR circumstances than any other
one cause. To be successful one must
look ahead and plan ahead so that
when q favorable opportunity presents
itself he is ready to take advantage OF
it. A little forethought will alec save
much expense and valuable time. A
prudent and careful man will keep a
bottle of Chamberlain Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house,
the shiftless fellow will wait until
necessity compels it and then ruin his
best foregoing for q doctor and have a
big doctor bill to pay, besides; one
pays out Is cents, the other 1s out a
hundred dollars and then wonders why
his neighbor is getting richer while he
is getting poorer. For sale by all
druggists.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08
The Grandest Remedy

Mr.. r. B. Greeve. merchant, OF Chill
howie, Va, certifies that he had con
sumption, was given up to die, sough,
all medical treatment that money could
procure. tried all cough remedies ne
could hear of, but got no relief; spen,
many nights sitting up in 9 chair; wal
induced to try DR.. Kings New Dascov
ties. For past three years has been at
tending to business, and says DIR
Kings New Discovery is the grandes
remedy ever made, as it has done 50
much for him and also for others IL
his community DIR. Kings New Dis
covery is guaranteed for Coughs, Cold
and Consumption. 1t don fail. Tria
bottles free at w. A. Irwin & Co
Wholesale & Retail drug store.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.

We are glad to see that interest is
being aroused among tho people OF Ell
Paso in the matter of The proper OBJ
servance OF Sunday. Ell Paso is what
is known as q wide open town. 1t is
true that there lie little more crime or
disorder on Sunday than there is on
any other day, notwithstanding that
so many more men are idle. But there
are many very good reasons why all
places of business should be closed on
one day each week, preferably Sun
day.
There are religious reasons. These
we shall pass over in silence, for it is
without the province of . newspaper to
discuss religious themes, except in the
very broadcast sense, as higher moral
obligation.
But it is not necessary for US to tres
pass on this field, for there are reasons
for the setting aside of Sunday as q
rest day which must appeal to every
body on common sense grounds.
These reasons were fully gone into
in an article printed in last Saturday .
Supplement. We shall not recapitu-
late them. But the theme must be
brought home to us. 1t is safe to say
that . majority of the stores in Ell Paso
are open on Sunday at least half q
day.
The reason they are open is that
the people of Ell Paso, church-members
and trsmps, good and bad, expect them
to be open. their regular Sunday trade,
thoughtless though it be, constituting
in fact q demand for Sunday open
ing.
In these stores are many hundreds
of clerks aud employees, who are COM
PEELED to lose all or part OF their natural
and necessary rest day. simply because
one class are too careless to do their
proper buying on Saturday, while an
other class are so afraid to lose few
small pieces of silver that they ignore
the rights of their brothers.
This is not as it should be. The frat
thing necessary is for all right minded
people, especially those who call them
selves Christians, to declare that their
influence and their trade shall go to
benefit those merchants who close
their places OF business on Sunday, as
a forceful rebuke to those other mer-
chants who refuse to respect the rights
of their brothers. 1t cannot be too
strongly insisted upon sthat the pri-
mary movement must come from the
people, upon whose custom the stores
live. 1t is they that are primarily re-
sponsible for the wide open stores.
The second move must be by the
merchants. toward closing up their
places of business all day on Sunday.
Most Of the merchants refuse to close
unless all other similar stores in the
vicinity are closed also. Their virtue,
in other words, is conditional. This is
not right. The people will respect q
man who stands up for what he thinks
is right, even at the temporary loss of
little money, and they will come
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08
Why Wheat Is High.
Kansas City Journal.

Kansas City journal.
"Something is rotten in our econo-
mical system when . man like Letter
may become able to more than double
huge and exclusive profits that the
whole world stands aghast," Gays the
official populist paper at Topeka.
There are two distinct misstatements
in this short paragraph. In the fret
place Mr.. Letter was not possessed OF
the power which made wheat more
than double in price. Mr.. Letter fore
saw the natural causes which were
certain to cause the advance, and
he probably accelerated the upward
movement by his bull operations
BILE for the high figure which wheat
attained and still holds. comparatively
speaking. This is pretty we'll ests-
blished by the fact that when Mr..
Letter ceased his bull operations and
commenced to unload, the price still
remained high. That his profits have
been e eatly overestimated is clearly
set forth by that conservative authorl-
ty, the Chicago Times-Herald, which
gives in detail the whole of his opera
lions for the full time he was in the
600. 600, and arrives at this total in the
manner ss follows:
L tiers profit to date (estimated) 5000 900
Cash wheat on h and estimated. 5000 90
Maximum probable shrinkage.. 1000 900
Length OF Letters deal ............ II months
Extreme range OF prices. ..e4ac to q 70
P PFics OF Of fsss rs rs
The second MEASUREMENT is the one
which represents him as the only pro-
fit gatherer in the field. 1t is true tn at
individually he made more money out
of the deal tn an any other mau, but it
is also true that his profits are insig-
nificant when compared to the aggre-
gate profit ade by other people. In
demonstration of this we present be-
low q table prepared by the same Chi
lean farmers have sgained in the adj
vance of prices all along the line:
Profit to wheat raises testim'td) $780, 600 900
Profit to corn producers (estim't'd). 200 900
Profit to oats producers (estim td). 20 OOO 0O0
Profit to railroads (eStim ted)....... $4,000 900
Totals profits of the deal........... SIS 600 900
Continuing with its editorial our
populist contemporary at Topeka
wants to know who or what did cause
the rise in farm prices if 1t was not
Letter. BY reference to it's editorials
but short time since we find we were
then solemnly assured that the advanc-
ing prices were solely caused by the
famine in India, and little later from
the pen of the same editor we fiud a
very able article to prove that the war
with Spain must be held chiefly
responsible. However, as neither of
these, except as very small factors,
will account for the doubling of prices,
We must look elsewhere for an ex
PLANTATION. Let US see if we cannot
find it in the following table of the
worlds production of wheat in the
years given:
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08
1 was seriously afflicted with q lcoug]

I was seriously afflicted with q 9cough
for several years, and last fall had q
more severe cough than ever before.
have used many remedies without re-.
ceiving much relief, and being re-
commended to try q bottle of Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy, by . friend,
who, knowing me to be poor widow,
gave it to me. tried 1t, and with the
most gratifying results. The first
bottle has absolutely cured me. !
have not had as good health for
twenty years. Respectfully, MRS.
MAKY A. BEARD, Claremore, Ark.
Sold by all druggists.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08
6ilded Youth With Commissions,
Springfield, Mass. Republican

The aristocracy of "pull" as applied
to mil tary appointments in this war,
by which the sons and relatives OF
great men, dead and living. are honor:
ed without the slightest reference to
merit or ability to discharge the duties
of the places they get. 10 . shameful
scandal. There are dozens of rich
young society men and the sons and
sons-in-law of senators and represen-
tstfves provided for. These men, as
captains of the quartermaster's and
commissary departments, are to assist
in the conquest of Cuba and the Philip
pines. Every one of the lot ought to
be in the ranks, and men who have
served with the regulars or militia put
over them. The less inexperience one
can have among the officers Of the VOL
unteer army the better.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08

been little changed from that of q year
ago, and the high prices inaugurated
BY the Letter deal are likely to con-
t!nue. In fact the exhaustion OF the
old stocks, now about complete, may
send wheat up even higher than 1t
reached on the speculative market a
few weeks ago
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08

The best salve In the world for outs
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, feve,
sores. teter, chapped hands, chill
blains, corns, and all skin eruptions
and positively cures piles, or no pay re.
quired. 1t is guaranteed to give ped
feet satisfaction or money refunded
Price Is cents per box. For sale by
w: A. Irwin & Co., Wholesale and re.
tail agents.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08

Take the r. G., s. M. & P.
Ry for Cssas Grandes, San Buena-
bentura, and the Yaqui gold fields
Trains leave Ciudad Juarez Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays at $40 Q. m.
Arrive Ciudad Juarez Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays at 3:20 p. m,
Mexican Central passenger depot.
J. T. LOGAN,
Genr Traffic Agent
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

ANY erroneous reflection upon the char
acter standing, or reputation of any person.
firm. or corporation or any mi statement OF
fact which may appear in the columns OF the
HERALD, will be ably corrected upon Its
being brought to the attention OF the pub
ishers,