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Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-12-01

John Steenerson, who recently came to this
country, at the solicitation of Eva Parrish treat
ed her to beer in St Paul saloon, and went with
her to her room. Quarreling with her over S. of
which he claims che robben him, he ehot and kill
ed her. In view of his age and her character, he
was only sentenced to 10 years in the penitentia-
ry. Minnesota and st. Paul furnished the couple
with the easy means of their downfall and of the
womans tragic death.
The last Presbyterian General Assembly favor
ed the passage of the Elis bill, and it's permanent
committee on temperance urges every friend of
the bill to write his Congressman and al circu-
late petit ions for it. This bill, which is for the
suppression ofliqnor eellingin government build
ings, immigra,t stations, and in the army can
teen was favoraby reported at the last session. is
now on the House calendar, and will no doubt
soon come up for final action. The following
form is suggested "To the q. s. Senate( or to theU
S. House of Representatives, The undersigned
earnestly petit IN your honorable body to pass the
Ellis bill III. R 1877 for the adjustment of IL
quor selling in government buildings, Immigrant
stations and army canteens''
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-02

les Of citizenship. This is not the
fault, but the misfortune, Of these
residents of the territory. The
evils that will come of the
indifference TO this situation can
not be measured. Summing up
the results of the years. work, the
commission says:
"The Indian laws in force in the
territory and the Indian courts
which administered them have
given place, with a few un-
important exceptions, to laws cor
responding to those of Arkansas
on the same subject matter, and
have been made applicable to all
persons in the territory, without
distinction of race. United States
courts are to administer and United
States officers to enforce these
laws. Provision has been made
for the allotment of all tribal lands
OF the territory equally among all
its citizens, attained as to nearly
all of them upon terms agreed to
by the tribes by popular vote. If
the agreement with the Creeks be
ratified, as. is expected, this will
be true of all except the Cherokees,
and as to them it has been pro-
vided by statute. By the agree
ments and the Curtis act, the many
thousands of white residents in the
towns unable heretofore to obtain
title to the land on which they
have built their homes, and some
times expensive business houses,
can now purchase at fair ap-
praisal these lands. Whatever
rights, civil or political, are en-
joyed by the citizen resident in
any territory of the United States,
the same rights are now secured
to the citizen Indian and largely
to the white resident also in Indian
Territory"
The report refers to the diff
Guilty of making up citizenship
roll of all the freedmen claiming
rights under the treaties OF 1866
with the respective tribes, and of
all their descendants born since
the date Of the treaties. Neither
the Choctaws nor Chickasaws have
ever kept a roll of those made
freedmen by that nation, nor kept
any trace of them since emancipa-
ton, the tribes persistently ignor-
ing them.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-02

The emperor of Japan, while en-
couraging horse racing at Toxic, is
sternly opposed to betting. He is said
to have about 5000 horses in his va
rious stables.
Prince Philip of Hohenlohe-Schil-
lingsfuerst, a cousin of the present
chancellor Of the empire, has found
admission in the Benedictine monas-
terry of Seckau, in Stayria, where he
now is plain Brother Constantine.
0. H, Arosin, president of the fire
board of St. Paul, resembles Lieut..
Hobson very closely, and on recent
visit to the war vessels in New York
was congratulated by number OF
young women.
"Yes, l knew Wagner" said Bis
marck once, according to the London
Daily News, "but it was impossible for
me to care for him. AT breakfast, at
lunch at dinner, every moment Wag-
ner demanded admiration. He would
be first. I found myself too busy for
that"
A clergyman was asked at meeting
the other day to introduce to the au-
dience missionary who had just
come from Ceylon. He rose and said:
"This faithful missionary comes from
Ceylon-a land where, as you all know,
every prospect pleases, and only man
Is vile.'"
A Newburg IN. ~ man died recent
ly and the contents of his cottage were
appraised at ten dollars first, but fur
ther search showed bills of various de-
nominations tucked away in all sorts
of odd corners, in one place mice hav-
ing made nest of the value of about
500.
Russell Sage, the New York million
aire, is connected with 81 corpora
tions, in which there are 43 railroads.
He is the only living original director
of the New York Central railroad and
the only living founder of the Fifth
Avenue bank. He has stood cash run
on himself in hard times of $9,O00,0O0
In one day.
A Polish Jew was arrested in San
Francisco the other day, and when
taken to the city prison his condition
was so uncleanly that he was told by
the corporal to strip and take a bath.
swat, go in de vater?" he asked. "Yes,
take a bath; you need it. How long
is it since you had bath?" With his
hands aligned upward, he answered:
II never vas arrested before"
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-02

From earliest childhood Wilmelmina
has been encouraged to be economical
that she could be generous, and to
save things that had ceased to interest
her in order to make some one else
happy in their receipt. Her surplus
toys were given to the children's hos
pitfalls, and on many occasions she has
placed in the hands of helpless Grip
pie plaything, and with cheeks aglow
and eyes sparkling at the pleasure she
was giving, explain its mechanism.
Then as it passed into the hands of
the new owner she echoed the mother
ly caution she had often heard: Take
good care of it! Take good care of It'll"
If you wish to see how well this in
junction is obeyed just visit Apeldoorn,
the nearest town to Het Loo, and in
places of honor in many houses you
will see a doll, toy, or perhaps a
flower. A questioning glance will suf-
flee to bring the answer. THAT was
given our daughter by Prinsesie. y
Prof. j. H. Gore, in Ladies' Home Jour
nal.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-02
MADE DEAF BY A SHELL.
1t Exploded Over This Private mt SAM
tiago, But DAd Not
HIT Him.

Private Barber, Of Holyoke, Mass, q
member of company B, Twenty-frst
United States infantry, has been deaf
ened for his lifetime by the bursting Of
shell over his head in the first days
battle before Santiago. He is young
recruit of three months, and was in
Ludlow's division In the advance on Ell
Caney. All day long he was at those
points where the battle ragged the
worst, and late in the afternoon he fell
under the fierce fire of shell and shrap-
mel from the Spanish lines. But,
strangely enough, when he was
brought into the field hospital in the
evening not mark or scratch of any
kind was found upon him. Stranger
still, he was unable to understand
single sentence addressed to him by the
surgeons. At last it occurred to them
to ask their questions in writing.
These he answered readily enough
His speech had not been affected In
the least, but he had been so dazed that
all his talk was. rambling and discon-
nected. The clearest deduction that
the surgeons could get from his story
was that "a bomb Of some kind" as be
expressed it, had burst over his head
and he knew no more till he found
himself in the field hospital. The morn-
ing following the fight he disappeared,
and when the litter bearers and wagons
lined up to take the wounded to the
brigade hispital, six miles to the rear,
he was among the missing.
Two or three days after he turned up
at Siboney, down by the sea, nearly 20
miles back from the battle line as the
bride paths run. He had been given
up for dead, 1t being the general belief
that he had wandered off in the jungle
and met his death at the hands of the
Spanish sharpshooters. He made no
explanation of his absence, and walked
about for days like one bereft of rea-
son.
On the 14th he arrived at Fort Mon
roe, on the Cherokee. A careful test
and examination by the surgeons
brought them to the conclusion that
he is "stone deaf" beyond any possibil-
ity of recovery. And so Barber, poor
fellow, strolls about'the hospital wards
unable to listen to the conversation of
his comrades or to appreciate the music
he loved so we'll of the regimental band,
and, to those who know of his aff1iction,
it is strange sight to see his hist come
off with the thousands of others at the
music of the national air as retreat"
sounds in the twilight of these autumn
nights.-Boston Advertiser.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-02

The Chamness murder trial has
been dragging slowly along ever
since Monday. The evidence is
now all in and the jury instructed
and the lawyers are speaking. 1t
is the most interesting trial that
has been had the present term of
court. The circumstances sur
rounding the case, according to
some of the witnesses for the gov
ernment, were peculiarly aggra-
waited and withal revolving. Cham
ness has every mark of hardened
criminal, having, according to his
own statement, killed another man
with the same knife used in slay-
ing the victim for which he is now
on trial. John A. Chamness is a
rather large, light complexioned
man with pompadour hair, thirty
five years old, with his right arm
off at the shoulder. He sat with
his attorneys, and seemed restless
and anxious as witnesses testified
both against and for him.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-02

Miss Veneers-Oh, mamma, where
did you get that lovely bust of Dante,
which sets on the mantel in the IL
brary?
Mrs. Veneers-Why, Muriel! I'm
surprised at you. Haven't you learned
nothing at all since you've been away
to school? For goodness sake, try to
learn to talk proper. Don't you know
bust is the worst kind of slang? And
for PHYS sake don't say set for sit.
If anybody had heard you I'd of just
died with modification. - Cleveland
Leader.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-02
No More Electricity or steam.

An English inventor has on view a
system Of propulsion for railroads
which does away with both steam and
electricity as motive power. He de-
pends entirely upon the law of gray-
ity, only assisting it by hydraulic
rams. A model plant has been in
stalled and is now on exhibition in
London but it remains to be proved
that the scheme can be made avail
able or operated economically on a
large scale. 1t seems highly probable,
however, that it will never pass be-
yond the range of novelty. This the
inventor of course stoutly denies. His
railway consists of sections, the rails
being raised on columns, and the
trains or cars are suspended on either
side below them. At the functions the
sections are hinged together, and at
three points can be raised by hy-
draulic rams The raising of the
track with the trains upon it forms
a grade down which the cars rush to
the next rail junction, when the same
process is repeated, and SO on, until
.he terminus is reached.-Chicago
Chronicle.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-02
Dawes Commission Report.

The annual report of the Dawes
Indian commission, bringing the
work of that body in reorganizing
Indian Territory up to a recent
date has been made public. 1t
urges as the main call for govern
ment aid. "fraught with disastrous
consequences ifdelayed," the need
of some provision by the national
government for educational pur-
poses in the territory. While the
funds and res sources of the several
tribes, properly managed, can
probably supply sufficient support
tor the schools of the citizen
Indian, yet the white residents can
not share in them, and must look
elsewhere for the means of educat-
ing their children. The means re-
sorted to in all the other territories,
and out of which ample school
funds have been provided, do not
exist in the Indian Territory, in
which the United States has not
an acre of public land or other pro-
perty beyond that of public uses.
If the white residents are
to receive any aid from the
United States it must be from the
outside, and by direct appro-
priation. If they are left without
any such aid it will be a harsher
treatment than has been meted
out to the residents of any other
territory and will be attended with
the most disastrous consequences.
There are believed to .be between
$50, 900 and 100000 white resi-
dents in the territory to-day, and
well-nigh 10000 of them children
of school age. They are there to
stay, making homes for them
selves, and destined to be a part
of the body polite of state. While
some of them, living in the towns,
are anxious to educate their chill
dren and may be able to some
extent to do SO from their private
means, yet tits quite different with
the poor pioneers in the country,
who constitute by far the larger
part of this white population.
They, however anxious, can not of
themselves command the means or
the opportunity to educate their
children. Consequently, a large
proportion of these 10000 children
of school age, increasing in num-
Der every year, are in danger of
growing up in ignorance, to take
upon themselves the responsible
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-02

The estimated amount of land
embraced in townsites in the
Cherokee nation is 10000 acres.
This is to be deducted from the
land to be allotted according to
Agent Wisdom's report.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-02

she-Have you heard Songs With
out Words?"
HeI've heard lot OF them without
music.
After that the incident and the
piano we're closed.-Indianapolis Jour
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-02

Twenty-nine Greek Indians were
taken from the United States jail
at Muscogee yesterday, to one of
the polling places and allowed to
vote on the ratification of the
Dawes Creek treaty.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-02

A hairdresser says that & old silk
handkerchief is much better to use in
,troking the hair night and morning
Than brush.-Chicago Tinaes-Herald.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-02
stThere IS that scattereth and yet increaseth;
and there is that withholdeth but tsndeth
to poverty. Prov.

to poverty. ---Ffov'
ris business II hope we may be pardoned if proud
Of M IS bu upon the broad guage principle OF universal oer
ay pleasant and it to be oeral 10 orv u W
employees newspapers, to the town ana 70 o'o''
erprse for many miles around
We sell better grades for the money than other stores
We sell on closer margin OF profit
Many stores would lose money at the rate prom we
charge Our business in the month OF OCTOBER - was .e
largest in history up to that date. our pu ao M ~
month of 9S exceeded that of 81 more than ~ per cent
Taking into consideration the failure OF the wheat CROP we
think the gain is remarkable
Five per of our business would be handsome eoe
If we only sold half much we DO we would De com
peled to double our profits make the same amount OF money
By lowering profits we increase our business pays
to trade with u.s.
E. N. Ratc1iff Mercantile Go.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-07-29
THIS IS The LAST CALL
Saturday the Last Day Of Bowl.
by's Factory Cost Piano
Sale.
Rapidly Reduced and VIII Go by Satur-
Gay Night.

Don't Miss the Chance-Stock is Being
Rapidly Reduced and VIII Go by satur-
day Night.
Yesterday was the banner day OF
Bowlby's great piano sale at factory
cost. Ten families were made happy
in the purchase of seven pianos and
three organs.
This is time of unusual offerings
in the sale of all kinds of merchandise,
but never but once before in the his
tory of this community has an oppor-
tunity presented itself whereby pri-
vate parties could purchase pianos
and organs on easy payments for less
money than most dealers can buy
them for cash. You will be sorry il
you miss this opportunity. The Gus.
toners are coming and the instru.
ments are going fast. Every instru-
ment is marked in plain figures: we
have not and will not deviate a cent
during the sale. Call and investigate
for yourself and you will find it the
squarest deal and the lowest prices on
pianos ever offered in Rock Island.
Saturday is the last day Of the sale.
and the instruments will be nearly, il
not quite all. gone then. We still
have a goodly number to select from.
We are offering the very highest
grade of Cabinet Grand pianos, which
have been endorsed by nearly two
hundred of the worlds great artists.
These pianos are selling everywhere
in the regular way at 1875 to $3.50.
They 90 in this sale at S19S, 1923
1892, S2iS to $29S.
We have honestly made, good wear
ing pianos for Sill. $l37, $14s tc
S1S7, the same pianos being worth
in retail way $3.50 to $3.50. 81;
cash and 81 to $40 per month buy:
any piano in the house.
New organs at $50, f42, $i7 to SOS
81 cash and So to So per month buys
them. We have second hand organ.
at your own price. Come early. Salt
closes ut 10 O'Clock Saturday night.
ID. ROr BowLBY,
1909 Second avenue, Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-07-29
CITY CHAT.

New honey at Hess Bros.
Buy one-a Kinship cigar.
Hard coal $3.50 at McKown's.
Try Galaxy flour, at Horizons.
Monarch shirts As cents. NJ. L. X.
Woltmann's Saturday and Monday
Watcrmelons and muskmelons at
Longs.
Fine lunch at Club saloon Saturday
night.
Spring chickens and celery at
Longs.
Saturday is children's day at the
London.
For reliable fire insurance call on F.
j. Burns.
Plums by the peck at Hess Bros.
Phone 1881.
California pears, plums and peaches
at Horizons.
Spring chickens and lamb at II. Ire
MAINS Sons.
Watermelons and musAnelops on
ice at Horizons.
Black and blueberries and dew Der.
ries at Horizons.
If you want to really enjoy q smoke
try the Ideal cigar.
Choice dressed sprin. chickens a,
ii. Tremann's Sons.
Don't forget the lunch at the Clul
saloon Saturday night.
Broken sizes in 81 negligee shirts,
- cents. The London.
Cherries and currants by the case
at Hess Bros. tomorrow.
Three dollars rebste on all bows
suits from Sll upward. VI. &K. -.
Another lot of crash hats jus. re.
ceived ut Simon II Mosenfelde.'s
Choice Georgia peaches. Michigan
cherries and blueberries at Leng's.
You know us-never undersold, bu
always undressing. The London.
Oscar Olen, a young lawyer. ha,
purchased the Cambridge Chronicle
SpeciGi sale of children's suits Sat
urda.. Read our ad. The London
40 Business property, residence prop
{ erty and lots for sale in all parts o
the city by f. j. Burns.
1t will he glorious sale of chill
drep's novelties. the kind NJ. & X
boys headquarters are noted for.
II you want to know all about tn
big rebate sale of children's clothing
read NJ. Il Ks. big ad. Then call.
Miss X. Byrnes will close her larry
and elegant stock of millinery good
regardless of cost for the next 80 DAYS
Sweet milk, cream, buttermilk an
ice cream at Ill and us NiRcteent
street.
The rebate sale Of boys and chill
dren's clothing opens tomorrow Z
NJ. n Ks.
Try one of ii. Tremann's Sons pi,
ME hams. sugar cured. only + cent
per pound.
W. {. Maucker has received anotht
car load of salt, to be retailed 5
wholesale prices
Tomorrow will he the opening ia
of the great rebate sale of boys clotl
ing at NJ. Il Ks.
No matter what article, price c
place, Nj. X X. will do better. MOI
arch shirts As cents.
Pretty. tuneful Ulivette" wit
sailors chorus and whale song :
Watch Tower tonight.
THE ARGUS business departmer
will be open Saturday evenings her,
after from Z to S O'Clock.
All spring and summer children
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-07-29
There Is no Question About 1t.

No question, indeed, with those
who have used it. but that Foley's
Kidney Cure is absolutely reliable for
all kidney and bladder diseases. For
sale bv L. H. Thomas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-07-29
Comic Opera a, the Watch Tower.

Tonight the pretty, tuneful opera
"Olivette. Commencing Sunday
night, Chimes of Normandy" Mat.
inees Friday and Sunday ''Olivette.
Admission to matinees all over the
house % cents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-07-29
Quick Relief fer Asthma.

Foley's Honey and Tar is guaran,
teed to give prompt relief in all cases
of asthma. Do not class this with
other medicines that have failed to
give relief. Give it a trial. For sale
by 7. H. Thomas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-07-29
Rob Moore of LAFAYETTE Ind

Bob Moore, of Lafayette. Ind, says
that for constipation he has found De
Wits Little Early Risers to he per
feet. They never grippe. Try then
for stomach and liver troubles. L
II. Thomas. A. j. Riess and NJ. F
Bnhnsen. druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-07-29
Notice to Contractors.

Sealed bids for the heating, plumb
ing and electric wiring of the Modern
Woodmen building will he received
until Aug. 4 at the Woodmen mead
office. DRACK & KERNs, Architects.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-07

Capt. Gen. Blanco reports that GER
tain Americans in Havana are likely to
foment anti-Spanish riots.
From San Juan, Porto Rico, comes
word that the entire autonomist min
istry has resigned.
The body of Engineer Merritt was re-
covered from the wreck of the Maine in
Havana harbor.
Spanish soldiers have destroyed 81
farms, a sugar cane mill, a coffee plan
tation, some barracks and two hospitals
in Cuba.
Karditza and Tzortzis, who attempted
to assassinate King George of Greece
and his daughter, Princess Marie, on
February &c, were both found guilty
and sentenced to death.
Capt. Gen. Blanco has Used decree
revoking the Recommendation order in
Havana, MatanZas, Pinar del Rio and
Santa Clara, the four western provinces
of Cuba.
The court of appeals in Paris says
that Emile lola, sentenced to 12 months
Imprisonment, shall not undergo any
punishment.
Americans in Havana are leaving that
city as fast as possible.