Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-05-19

drawn the van Of the federal Jail
for the past three or four years, will
be sold at auction on the 30th inst.
John has been a CONSPICUOUS ieat-
ure of the Jail business for a long
time, and has drawn many noted
characters to and from the Jail and
court house.
(Fairland BeeD
The boat at Harlan's ferry load
ed with passengers pulled up the
tree to which the cable was attach
ed and started down stream the
other day. Say, it wasn't a picnic
either. 1t wasn't sounds from
home that ripped up and down
the stream, but you can guess at
them and miss. The boat was
landed about half a mile below the
ferry, and every body landed-no
one SCARED bit.
IWagoner Sayings ]
The probabilities are that no
more trains will arrive from the
east on the Valley this week.
Washouts are reported between
Wan and Illinois and also at Sal
lisaw, besides this the tracks at
Ch erokee junction are all under
water. The Arkansas river is re-
ported to be higher than il has been
in thirty years.
Muskogee, we understand, has
been trying to poke fun an Wag-
oner for not being represented on
Captain Whites rolls and we un-
derstand from T. c. Harrison that
Muskogee had not furnished sim
gle man for captain. So far as Wag
oner is concerned the people here
all have employment, but they
are all patriotic enough to furnish
a full regiment Unnecessary and
their own commanding officer.
rTa6lequah sentinelI
The Indians .asitisIGe aiiisiiGi j in the war
with Spain is similar to that be-
tween and among brothers, sisters,
children at home, who some.
times disagree, have differences
and scrap some, but let somebody
come in and try to impose on one
Of the brothers or sisters and all
those children will not hesitate in
hopping on that foreigner and Civ
ing him a sound threshing. So
with the Indians in the pesent cir |
If the tribes of this
territoy were in physical condi-
lion to cope with the United States,
here would have been a scrap
ong ago and with equal chances
,he would have been pretty sure
If getting licked, ard every indian
would have rejoiced over their
;ictory, but when a foreign power
attacks this United States govern
nent, the Indians services are at
Ter command and the red man
will show himself willing to lay
lown his life for the Union.
dndian Journal)
A few weeks ago Mr.. J. Y.
'oole in an interview with an In
ian Journal reporter predicted
hat the South Canadian river
,ould sooner or later cut a new
hannel through the Phillips farm
n the Choctaw side and through
be Miller farm on the Greek side.
he late rise in that river brought
9th prophesies 10 pass with a
There is now a fine
ew river running through the
Iiller farm a mile north of the
Id channel and the NJ. X. & I.
ill have build another iron
riege across it. The new channel
n the Choctaw side re-enters the
Id channel at the old iron bridge,
aus forming and island which
GEMS destined in the future to {
i've the Katy much trouble. All l
he bottom farms on the north /
de of the river are either en- :
rely or partially destroyed by
ashout, and sand drifts; tens OF !
lousands of acres being thus
eated The damage TO property
awful, but some good as well as
ad may result, though it now
,ems hard to discern the former. {