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The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-08-22
The Smallpox Situation.

The smallpox situation is un-
changed. The colored man who
was taken with it is quarantinedi in
the house where he stopped when
be first reached the town last
week. DR.. Owen has charge of the
case and will see that all possible
danger OF contagion is reduced to
minimum. There are six persons
in quarantine. four colored men,
colored woman and a white wo-
man in house near by who may
possibly have been exposed.
Three negro men who had visited
the house some days ago escaped
from town and took the train Sur :
day night presumably for Kansas
and have not been heard of since.
There is no excitement or cause Of
alarm. There is little or n@pos-
sibility Of the disease spreading.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-08-22
Auy old Thing WouId Do.

The following is copy of a
school boys complaint TO board
of directors; my sister, who is
a shool teacher, whips me every
day. Maand pa told her to whip
me oftener than she did any other
pupils, so they wouldn't think
her partial. | write to let you
know that was too thin. She's an
old maid and gets mad because she
can't get married, and write to
enquire if you can't stop her lick
ing me sor get her husband. Any
old thing will do. so it'sa a man."
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-08-22
Mnrphy,s Fast wheel Ride.

The feat OF Charles Murphy In
riding a mile in one minute and
five seconds behind a train ON
the Long Island railway is more
remarkable for its danger than
for its proof of skill or endur-
ancc. Murphy was not merely
paced by the train; he was prac.
tically towed by it. He rode in
side V-shaped shed that over
hung the rear platform. He had
only to keep in this while the
train was getting under headway
and while the air in the shed was
getting the motion of the train.
The suction pulled him, and
when the surrounding air got the
motion of the train it fioated him
along as a fly is carried in the air
inside a car. The experiment is
interesting, as was the similar
one of some months ago, and
there is little doubt that the
speed of a mile minute can be
exceeded under these circum-
stances with a wheel of 100 gear.
1t is more of test on the loco
motive than on the wheelman. 1t
requires no small degree Of coue'
age and steadiness of nerve,
however, to ride at such a terrif-
ic rate on d bicycle. A fall
would mean instant death.-Ch
cago Tribune.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-08-22
A Veteran at the Throttle.

Andrew Walker, a veteran en-
gineer who died recently at Van.
dRlia, Ind, at the age Of SIS, had
quite a remarkable record. He
began in 1852, and was at the
throttle Of the first engine that
crossed vandalia bridge, near
Terre Haute, u 1870. He work.
ed on his engine until within d
few days Of his death. His diary
showed that he had presided at
the throttle 1,s60,91s miles,
and never had a serious accident
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-08-22

The duties of the ex.clerks of
the district courts and also Of the
supreme court OF the Cherokee
nation ceased when the Curtis law
abolishing tribal courts went into
effect. The records of the district
clerks were supposed to have been
turned over to the executive de-
psrtment Of the nation long ago.
Such ex-official clerks should be
exceedingly careful about making
transcripts of records in their
hands. A great deal of such bust
ness will ultimately find its way
into the United States courts.
The DEGREES OF the of the Chero-
kee courts will have to be carried
out under the federal laws and
endless litigation may result. The
records themselves will the best
evidence.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-08-22
PloNEERs APE coMINo.
Two Young CooksviIIe Farmers Start
for the Southwest to, Stake Out
Claim.

uraWn Dy teamsoI young muies,
came slowly msandering into town
from the northeast shortly after
noon Tuesday. 1t was an outfit
calculated TO recall pictures Of pio-
neer dAys-days when long cara
vans OF such wagons wound their
serpentine trail toward the west,
bearing the race of pioneers who
made the trans Mississippi wider
ness blossom like rose. Upon
this particular wagon was no BAN
ner with kansas or bustl" to de-
note its destination, but il was in
fact belated representation OF the
emigrant trains Of thirty years ago.
Inside the wagon sat Noah Moo
NAV and Lou Swigart, two husky
young farm hands who had been
wringing a little money and good
deal ofrugged health out of Nc
Lean county soil by working for
the land owners near Cooksville.
Being filed with the spirit of ad-
venture and daring they concluded
to try hazard of new fortunes in
the southwest, and that's why
they were aboard their ''prairie
schooner" in Bloomington Tues
day, where a strip of new land is
to be opened up 10 settlers in the
fall. Neither Moomaw nor Swi.
CART is native of this county.
The former came from Shenandoah
valley of Virginia, and the latter
from an Ohio farm. Each is about
25 years of age, and brawny look
ing specimen of humanity. They
have worked on farms near Cooks
vile for few years, and are now
ready to try il for themselves in a
country where land is less than
500 an acre.
PLENTY OF SUPPLIES.
The wagon in which the young
fellows expect to drive to the In
dian Territory is well stocked with
substantials for food, but no knick-
knacks. They carry good sup
ply Of FIRE. arms and ammunition.
and expect to furnish their own
fresh meat by shooting game on
their trip across Missouri and Kan
sas. They will do their own cook
ing, camp on the road and 60 the
journey in regular '49er style. The
trip from Bloomington TO their
destination is about 800 miles as
the crow flies. BY making about
thirty miles day, they hope to
cover the distance in six weeks.
Their objective point is Oswego, a
town in Labette county, Kansas,
just over the line north of the
Cherokee nation, where the new
land is to be opened on which
they nope to stake a claim.
Mtomaw and Swigart spent the
afternoon in Bloomington, laying
in food supplies, buying maps and
planning the general route for
thsir journey. Their plans are
not very well matured after their
arrival on the edge of the new ter
ritory, but they will act according
to circumstances aftersthey reach
the border land.
Dan McOullom, another young
farm hand from near Cooksville,
expects to join the pair, going
down by train and reaching them
BY the time the new land is
thrown open. The young fellows
hope 10 stake out claim and
spend the winter there, SO as to be
ready for putting IN their frst crop
next spring.
4 FINE SUMNER OUTING.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-08-22
A FINE SUMMER OUTING.

flor any reason they conclude
not IL locate III the territory, they
win make the return journey in
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-10
"COIN" HARYEY,S LECTURE.

The Bee today prints in full the lee
ture entitled Law and Civilization"
with which w. H. (Coin) Harvey, the
16 to 1 free silver apostle, is RECALLING
Nebraska fu~sionists nightly as a pre-
lude to the campaign about to open in
Nebraska, which next year will be the
national battle ground.
Although u republican paper, The
Bee feels justified in giving to the pub
lie the plausible but illogical argu-
ments, because lin the interest of fair
play the people are entitled to hear
both sides of so important a question.
Where Mr.. Harvey car talk to hun
dreds The Bee can reach thousands.
While reserving the right to take up
the subjects discussed and refute the
propositions advanced by Mr.. Harvey,
we feel that no harm can be done by
spreading broadcast the most specious
plea the silverites can make for their
cause through their most widely ad'
vertised champion.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-10
IOWA REPUBLICANS.

Springfield (Mass.) Republican: The
Iowa republicans we're not afraid to use The
word gold two years ago and they speak out
very plainly now in demanding Of congress
legislation which shall fssten the country
to the gold standard beyond the power of
the executive branch of the government TO
break It away.
Philadelphia Ledger: If the republican
conventions of the several states should de-
clare as directly, explicitly and courage
ously as that OF Iowa has done in respect of
congress making the gold standard the only
standard of monetary value, all doubt as to
the triumph OF their party in 1900 would be
thereby dispelled.
Philadelphia Press: The Iowa republicans
are receiving unstinted praise and approval
from all parts of the country for the finan-
cial plank adopted at the iowa republican
convention. 1t was first adopted last year,
but its readoption now settles the position
Of western republicans. The plank runs:
The monetary standard Of this country and
the commercial world is gold. The per-
manence OF this standard must be assured
by congressional legislation giving to it the
validity and vitality OF public law. All
other money must be kept at parity with
gold.'
Washington Post: The general consensus of
opinion is that the Iowa republican platform
meets all the issues of the day in the
frankest possible terms, without showing
the slightest inclination to hedge, dodge, or
straddle. To be sure, the Iowa republicans
had no temptation to evade or squirm, for
the nominations made by their convention,
like those Of the Georgia or Mississippi
democrats, are morally certain Of conirma-
ton at the polls. Nevertheless 1t was highly
gratifying to see the dominant party in that
great western state, whose always large in
f1uence in national affairs is about to be
greatly enhanced by the choice Of one Of her
representatives for speaker, come out with
unmistakable directness on all vital ques-
tons OF public policy on which 1t Is pos
sible to have a safe basis for an intelligent
and fixed opinion.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-10
LYNCHING OF FOREIGNERS.
Plea for Congress 10 Enact n Statute
Against Mob Law.
PHILADELPHIA PraRa-

fnllla0elpHld 1r6bS.
The next congress, which is republican and
therefore a believer In national rights and
responsibilities, should rbe led by the Tai
lulah lynching to pass an act giving fed
eral courts jurisdiction over assaults and
lynchings on foreigners, as suits against and
by foreigners are capable of transfer to
federal courts.
any other lynching horde. II is a civilized
nation. 1t Is not a community close to the
savage or, as Sheridan once aptly said OF
Louisiana, the banditti state OF society, in
which the moi rules and not law.
BY treaty We give foreigners the protec-
tion OF law. Against the casual mob and
riot the foreigner Ia not protected. but the
brute habit of mobs and OF lynching Is one
to which no civilized state can submit those
it Is pledged to protect while under the
shield OF its sovereignty. We have agreed
for Internal reasons and a constitution we
cannot now amend to let Americans be
burned alive and chopped UP alive by the
savages who make up "our best people" In
some American states and communities.
But the United States has the power under
the constitution, to protect foreigners. and
protect them ID should. The federal courts
can be given Jurisdiction in such cases. and
II the indemnity paid to a foreign power for
the mob murder of its subjects were levied
place 1t would be a righteous provision and
nightly change the opinion of our best
people" on the lynchins of foreign subjects.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-10
THOUGHTS OF A HOT DAY.
Westminster Star.

$1,000
/ have read about old Dante and tine
J. journey which he took ~ H. ~
To write, the words that FIJI dn for our. parlor
picture book; b
And It's many a time I've wondered how
it was he ever missed
The ~tlercest, most emphatic style Of torture
In the list.
I have scanned those illustrations. and I
see nobody there
With the latest cut Of clothing and a look
of wild despair,
Compelled by imps who stand around, I'M
plying and alert,
boiled shirt.
There Is nothing more intense in the re-
tnement of distress
Than to take a man when weather's at 100.
And starch him stiff and proper and then
turn him down the street,
men he'll meet. -
And each will smile. no matter o his
garb may rasp and cling;
companionship might bring.
You must keep namely jolly and pretend II
When you wear a stand-up collar and a
hard-boiled shirt. .
Is 1T possible the ruler Of that realm de-
In the book which makes you shudder al
you handle 1t with care
Is, way down deep within his heart, q
sympathetic elf,
Far more considerable Of man than man 10
OF himself?
There are costumes light and airy as you
glance the pages through,
And perhaps Il Is high time to let the devil
have his due.
He as'sr CO. compelled a mortal who his fate
TO wear a stand-up collar and a hard
boiled shirt.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-10
CRY FOR YOUNG MEN.
Tendency of Modern Industry Is to
Retire nj an Early Age.

The Chicago Chronicle has become some
what alarmed at what 1t calls the "Cry for
Young Men" by which II means the coming
habit OF substituting young men for the
middle-aged and old men In productive en-
terprises. Despite the disposition Of such
journals as the Washington Post to pooh
pooh this alarm, the Chicago Chronicle
raises a very important question, 1t Is true
that the tendency of modern industry is to
retire workmen at a relatively early age and
fill their places with young men. One great
cause of this is the constant introduction
OF revolutionizing methods and machinery.
When a man has worked at any industry
forty years. he Is not SO alert in adapting
himself to new machinery as is a young
man. The inevitable tendency Is to drop
him out, and when once ont 1t Is doubly
dificult for him to be re-employed except
at some more simple and lower-paid occu-
patton.
This Is one OF the hard phases OF a rapidly
progressive Industrial era, but the remedy
Is not to stop the progress or to insist that
laborers shall be retained after they have
ceased to be useful. The real remedy Is a
system of insurance, the payment of which
shall be a part of regular cost OF produc-
ton. 1t should begin when the employe
commences work, at whatever age, and when
he reaches a certain point OF diminishing
returns" or declining economic efficiency,
say at the age OF 60, enable him to retire
on at least ~three-auarter wages. This would
eliminate all element OF charity, dispel the
fear OF humiliating dependence in old age,
n relieve the employers from the odium
of heartlessly dlseharging aged and faithful
laborers.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-10
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

What Secretary Gage seems to fear Is
that the American people will not lay away
his pretty $40 gold notes as souvenirs for
their grandchildren.
More than 40, 900 Americans have gone to
Europe since the first of May, and very
few OF them went with any expectation Of
making money there.
Emanuel Lasker, the chess champion OF
the world, is but 81 years old. He comes Of
a family of players and his brother, a Ber-
lin physician, is one of the strongest In Ger
many.
The Boston man, described in his bank
ruptcy petition as "a manager" whose
schedules show liabilities of nearly $103, 900
and assets amounting to $50. S5, was appar-
entity not a good manager.
Alison S. Sherman, mayor of Chicago in
1874, is still alive and in perfect health. He
is the last surviving chief of the old fire
department, and was a member Of the first
bucket company" formed In Chicago.
The presentation of a sword by the people
of Baltimore to Captain Dyer is to be an all
day affair. The date fixed is September -.
The actual presentation will be made on a
platform before the city hall, and there will
be a big parade.
John Fiske is among the summer sojourn-
ers at Nantucket, and the other day dis
tinguished himself by r~escuing from possible
drowning the child of an old friend stop
ping there. Prof. Fiske is an expert swim
mer, and, therefore, disclaimed all praise.
The medal to be presented by the city OF
Baltimore to Captain N. Mayo Dyer of the
cruiser Baltimore bears a likeness of the
captain and is suspended by ribbons of black
and yellow, the Maryland colors, from a bal
in which is set, a bit of sail from the Reina
Christina. s
Russell Sage, at SO, says he can feel that
his has been an absolutely successful life.
Everything / have tried for l have got,' he
says. IAN my ideals l have realized. OF
course, now l have to improve things, to
work right on and carry on my work. Blu
l am satisfied"
Daniel Frohman, the theatrical manager,
was a newspaper man when, in 1871, he was
employed to manage a walking match. The
receipts from this undertaking were more
than S10,0 900 and this success started Mr..
Frohman in theatricals. Mr.. Frohman has
amassed a fortune since.
The $1,000, 900 house to be built on Fifth
avenue by Senator Clark of Montana, owner
of copper mines, will contain all sorts OF
electrical devices. At the touch Of a but
ton 1t is promised that the partitions on the
main floor will disappear, giving place to a
< large hall. Another button Is to bring into
its place a stage fully equipped for plays or
concerts.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-10

Omaha Said to Have Produced q New
Cause for Divorce.

ST. Louis Republic.
Hot and cruel and ghastIy causes for sep
aration of man and wife have been dragged
into the divorce courts ere now, but nothing
so cold and freezing as ice water ever OBJ
tanned place as q legal excuse for severance
OF the marital ties until an Omaha society
woman forced 1t to tricklc and sDlash the
other day through her petition. .
Ice water has in the past been cause for
numberless sunstrokes. 1t has been the
! means OF making plutocrats out of under
takers and has cut large and gaping holes
| through the profits OF the life insurance
companies But this Is the FIRST recorded
time where 1t has been invoked to induce
a Judge TO cut In twain two whom a parson
has made one.
But IL Is not drinking the Arctic fluid which
the Omaha society leader avers has frozen
up the fountain OF her affection and prompted
her to ask to be placed in a condition to
marry a less frigidly inclined man than her
present husband, without being subjected
to the penalties prescribed for bigamy.
Her husband believes in the external,
rather than the internal, application Of Ice
water. But this is a mere matter OF detail.
A devotee to the ice water bath, he has
sought to convert his whole family to the
practice. His wife says that she stood 1t as
long as her husband required her to take a
daily bath in Ice water, but when he REACHED
the stage where he insisted on pouring II
down her back whenever she changed her
dress she raised the standard OF revolt and
marched to the divorce court to defend her
self.
To some her plea may appear frivolous,
but to others, and by far the greater num-
Der, 1t is full OF pith and argument. II the
ice water bath lie as disastrous as the bever-
age justification should lean largely to the
| side Of the Omaha woman.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-10

oath or upon honor. They will want
10 know why the state officers should
not have voluntarily disarmed suspicion
by according to the committee every
facility for investigating their official
acts and why they did not volunteer to
answer every reasonable question con-
corning matters in which the public
has an interest. The refusal to recog-
nize the authority of the committee and
the refusal to place the testimony and
report on file leaves the inference that
the state house and that the committee
has unearthed some facts which the
executive department is anxious to
coyer nm
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-10
ISSUING GoLp CERTIFICATES.

In April, 1893, Secretary Carlisle sus-
pended the issue of gold certificates III
exchange for gold coin. This was i'll
compliance with the law, which requires
that when the free gold In the treasury
falls below 500, O0O, 900 the issue of gold
certificates shall be suspended, and
when this was done the treasury's free
gold was considerably below the limit
stated. Secretary Gage has revoked the
order of his predecessor and directed
thai gold certificates of the denomina-
ton of $50 be issued to the amount Of
100000 900.
This action was induced by the an
ticipated demand for more paper money
when the fall crop movement begins, the
treasury having no other way of meet
ing this demand than by the issue OF
certificates In exchange for gold coin. 1t
Is an indirect method of attaining the
object, as the gold certificates will not
to any considerable extent be directly
employed in trade operations, but they
will enable the banks to release green
backs aud silver certificates of smaller
denominations than the gold notes.
United States Treasurer Roberts says
that the demand for currency is chiefly
for notes of smaller denominations than
$50. BY using gold certificates of $40
and upward the other kinds of paper
can be turned more and more into de-
nominations smaller, which will give
some relief. The issue of the certificates
will not Increase the volume of currency,
because gold will go into the treasury
in exchange for them, but 1t will ada
to the circulation of other paper money,
the place of which in bank holdings will
be taken by the certificates.
1t would seem that the secretary of
the treasury might judiciously have OF
dered a larger issue of the gold notes,
though he can, of course, increase it If
the demand should call for an increase.
In the present condition Of the treasury
an issue of five times the amount OF
gold certificates ordered would be justi-
fled and doubtless would have good re-
suits.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-10
STANDING BY A FACT.
Warm Commentator for the Iowa
Republican Platform.
Philadelphia Times dnd. dem.)

Philadelphia Times ind. dem.)
THE monetary standard of this country
and the commercial world is gold" This
sentence. from the Iowa republican plat
form, is a brief statement of a financial
fact which cannot be successfully disproved
or changed by the combined efforts Of the
ignorant, the dishonest and the demagogues.
The monetary standard OF this country and
the commercial world is gold, and gold is
destined to remain the monetary standard Of
civilization as long as civilization lasts.
The merit of the declaration of the Iowa
republicans on this subject Is that it re-
quired courage to make 1t. The s~pecious
arguments OF the cheap silver dollar ad-
vocates caught the farmers of the states west
of the Mississippi to a greater degree than
in any other section except in the south.
Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri were swept
by the free coinage craze, and Minnesota
was only held On fine by the sturdy honesty
CT its Scandinavian population. In the face
of this wave of popular sentiment the Iowa
republicans a year ago made the declaration
quoted above, and reiterated 1t at the state
convention which met in Des Moines
Wednesday. They are willing to declare the
truth and stand by 1t from year to year.
With the Iowa republicans assuming that
the gold standard has come to stay 1t is
hardly likely that the republicans OF any
of the states of the Mississippi valley will
palter with an impossible double monetary
standard any longer, A good example Ia
infectious, and the republican state con-
y~ention of Iowa has set an example that
will be widely followed by other republican
conventions. and one which will set the
democrats to hedging. This was shown by
the democratic state convention of Maryland,
which lodged the currency issue entirely
rather than indorse the is to 1 ~failacy. The
simple, indisputable fact recognized and
reiterated by the Iowa republicans Is fast
coming to be recognized by every thoughtful
man, be he democrat or republican, and a
fact 10 a stubborn thing that cannot be
argued out OF existence by all the political
demagogues in the universe. The Iowa re-
publicans are to be commended for sticking
to the stubborn fact that gold is the
monetary standard of civilization.