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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-09-07

the September term of court at
Tahlequah. Judge Springer stat
ed that be had requested Judge
Thomas to hold court at Table
quah, consequently Jude Thomas
will leave for the Cherokee capital
in time TO open court the next
week.-MuskOgee Times.
*4*
The once numerous tribe of Fox
Indians has only nine unmixed
members living in Oklahoma.
They reside on their allotments
near Rattlesnake Springs, Lincoln
county. The only remaining
Foxes live in Tama county, Iowa.
The Maskawahkee, or Fox, claim
to be the lineal descendants of the
red fox, and they hold everything
pertaining to that sly animal IN
great esteem. Fox pelts, claws
and bones are at par with gold
among the devout Fox Indians.
They are sun worshipers, and
their houses have a door on the
east, south and west sides. They
leave the east door open in the
forenoon, the south door from II
a. m. to l p. M, and the west door
during the afternoon, so that the
sun, their greatest god, can look in
their houses when he shines from
the happy land in the skies.-Ok-
lahoma Times-Journal.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-09-07

Connell Rogers is favOrably
mentioned for president of the
senate.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-09-07

Does any one know what has
become Of the United States court
that was to be established at
Tulsa?
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-09-07

Our amiable though somewhat
erratic contemporary, the Table
uuah Sentinel, does us a slight in
Justice in its last issue. 1t says
the Chieftain has attacked c. V.
Rogers, John E. Gunter and
Henry Lowry, members of the
late Cherokee-Dawes Commission.
The three gentlemen named are
all right, but there were other men
on that commission whose pres
ence did not raise it in the estima-
ton of the Cherokee people.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-09-07
FIERCE BALL GAME.

FIERCE BALL GAME.
The game of Indian ball sched-
uled for Wednesday at Hickory
Ground between the Eufaulas and
three opposing towns came of as
advertised.
The two sides arrayed them
selves according to rules. The
bali was tossed up and the game
commenced by the tive teams
unanimously rushing upon each
other, and for two hours a bloody
battle ragged without regard TO the
location of the ball. The Indian
ball stick is an ugly weapon, and
when the spectators finally charged
the combatants on horses and sue
ceeded with great difficulty In sep
arating them, nearly every ball
player was bloody. No bones
were broken, but much blood
flowed. The game never got be-
yond the first toss.
No wonder that players are
sometimes killed in Indian ball
games.-South McAlester Capital.
The Cherokee oil leases, about
which so much has been published
and which has resulted in such a
bitter fight between REPRESENTA-
tives of the Delaware Indians on
the one hand and leading men,
bers of the Cherokee nation and
capitalists in Kansas City, Chicago
and St. Louis on the other, have
again been returned to the Indian
office with a recommendation from
Special Agent Wright of Indian
Territory, that they be rejected.
This is the fifth time these leases
have been received at the depart
ment and returned TO the territory
for further examination by the
special agent. 1t is highly prob
able that they will again be reject
ed, this time resulting in a refusal
on the part of Secretary Hitchcocb
to consider them further, in which
: event the whole question will be
sent TO congress for final disposi
tion.-Muskogee Times.
***
A Kansas editor has a fable
about fool pup, which found a
, hole that belonged TO a humble
bee, and with youthful curiosity
inserted his nose in the opening
The head of the bee family was a
home, and the next minute th'
pup turned somersault backward
and howled in agony. He contin
ued to howl as he ran to his moth
er and showed her a swelled plac'
on his nostril about the size of al
acorn. But his mother said, a
she rammed her offspring's smell
er into some soft mud to reliev
a the pain: MY son, if you vii
e learn from this TO keep your nos
5 out of other peoples business, yol
a will find that the current OF lli
. will run much smoother for you.
: ***
tmay be that the 10 Johnso
indictment will start the bal
a-rolling in the southwest. 1t
darkly hinted that the Indian Tel
k ritory will have TO be quarantine
t. against the disease that has attack
a ed the Arkansas grand Jury
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-09-07
ToOQUASTEE MALI0NED.
Defends His Position on Educational
natters.

Editor Chieftain:
The following is taken from the
Vinita Leader of last week:
"Tooquastee takes Ex-senator
Henry L. Dawes to task about his
article in the August Atlantic
Monthly. Dawes says education
has helped the Indian, has bet
tered his condition, but Tooquas-
tee considers that the white man
has done the Indian harm and not
good. If there is any government,
treaty, plan, or committee which
is pleasing to TOoquastee we have
yet TO hear of it.. !"
This maligning kind of journal
ism is an awful thing; it writes
angels down and devils up, fills
offices with thieves and tramples
worth underfoot. We are sorry to
see so fair a little paper as the
Leader stoop to it; hope it will not
do so any more.
If Tooquastee said anything
about Mr.. Dawes and his plan of
Indian education that was not
true, the Leader should have gone
to work and, in manly way, ex-
posed the error and demanded re-
traction. Tooquastee has a pro-
found respect for truth; ifthe Lead
er will, even now, point out spe-
officially in that article what he
conceives TO be wrong, Tooquastee
will cheerfully do one or the other,
of two things; he will maintain the
proposition with adequate proof,
or frankly confess his error and
ask the Leaders, pardon. 1t is
not the purpose of Tooquastee to
deal with persons, but with facts
and principles; not simply TO vent
pessimistic spleen, but to defend
what is right, against overwhelm'
ing wrong. May the Leader help
us. Too-QUA-sTEE.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-17
Selecting Seed Corn.

a corn cob is about as worthless an
articles of feed as grows out of the
ground, and it is the manner of many
AGRICULTURAL writer's to advise the farm
err to select small cob ears for seed,
and in every way to encourage the re-
ductiOn of the size Of the cob. This
idea is not altogether correct. The
cob is the cO-efficient of the corn. The
farmer cannot produce large ear
without fairly large cob any more
than he can develop a powerful draft
horse without a generous BONE If an
occasional ear is seen with an abnOr-
mally small cob and very long kernels,
the latter are likely to be of the shoe
peg variety long, slender, light, chaffy,
lacking in nutriment. For a good seed
ear let the farmer choose-first of all,
an ear which is heavy in the hand, sol
id, resisting all attempts to twist it,
kernels thick and hard. Then, after
securing these points, which give nu-
tritve and Weevil-proof qualities, let
him seek a large cob, but not large at
the butt and small at the tip With the
kernels as deep-grown as may be, these
last being the qualities which promote
a generous yield. The light, chaffy ear,
with long, gourd seed kernels, will
shrink and become water-sOaked, and
is we'll nigh worthless in the drenching
rains of the Florida summer
1t is best always to select the seed
ears in the field before the crop has
been pulled or the fodder stripped be-
cause there are certain indications dis
cernible then which are lost after the
crop has been harvested. The ears Sc
lected may be marked in some manner,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-17
Fattening with Cassava.

CorrOborating DR.. StOckbridge's
opinions as to the value of cassava as
a stock food, Mr.. D. r. Pilsbry writ
ing in the Times Union and Citizen
says:
In the Times Union and Citizen of
April IA lis a little story of a Missouri
millionaire farmer. You may guess
in a minute he feeds stock; he does
not raise corn or wheat or cotton to
sell, but what he sells is meat; it might
be butter or cheese or eggs even, but
not grain. In so doing he turns off a
finished, manufactured product, and
gets for himself the larger profits of
completer work In so doing. more
over, he enriches his land Note the
point; this man feeds to a finish, that
means he fattens. The profit in stock
growing is in the fattening.
A Florida steer slaughtered off the
range will bring say SIP or four cents
per pound. The same steer fed until
fat puts on say 200 pounds and his
value increases from four to six cents
per pound. Not only does the feeder
get six cents per pound for the 200
pounds, but the original 800 pounds
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-17
Muck Land Colonies.

Another excursion of prospectors
from all parts of the west and north
west will arrive at Grandin ON Tues
day, May 2nd. They will be accompa-
MED by James w. Wilson, business
manager Of the Howard-Wilson Pub
listing Co., of Chicago, Ill.
We learn with exceeding regret that
those who own Land that is intended to
be incorporated in the ''Etoniah Col
ony" are holding the price up so high
that the promoters of the project are
almost on the verge of abandoning the
site and going elsewhere to locate.
We have ascertained from those who
are in a position to give reliable infor
nation, that KiSSimmee, Meadows and
other points in the State, quite as we'll,
if not better adapted to the purposes
of the colonizers, have offered induce
ments to the intending settlers that
cannot be ignored if the Grandin and
Etoniah people persist in exacting such
eXhorbitant considerations for their
lands.
This vast area of wild land, over
flowed saw grass land as we'll as other
tracts not in use or need by the pres
ent owners, will never be developed and
made to benefit the masses as would
this syndicate, which has the funds
wherewith to extract from it all there
is to be had.
Let not transient fit of avarice over
balance better Judgment at the eX-
pense of a source Of prosperity that
would be shared by all alike, lest we
bitterly rue it-PaIatka Advertiser
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-17
The Strawberry Industry.

The Lakeland correspondent of the
Jacksonville Times-Union and Citizen
writes that paper ON the strAwl cry
industry at Lakeland as follows:
The strawberry growing industry
has had a fresh impetus, by reason of
the fact that there has been more cold
weather in Georgia and South Carolina
and prices are again on the rise. The
amount of money that will accrue to
Lakeland by reason of this industry
this season will probably be $4,000.
Forty thousand dollars for Lakeland
from one industry alone! We hope
that Lake county farmers and orange
growers will read the item we quote
and, next fall, prepare the land and
plant strawberries for market. There
is money in the business as, time and
again. has been shown and there is
need that our people in planting diver
sify their crops.
West of Leesburg there are lands
that are especially adapted to straw
berry culture, and that will yield fine
profits for time and money spent in
growing this delicious fruit. The ber-
ries are easily cultivated, are nice to
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-17

handle, and as a rule, are in demand
at paying prices. While waiting for
ing again it is the part of wisdom for
our farmers to grow some crop that
will bring in ready money, and we
know of nothing that will or does pay
better than strawberries. Bear this in
mind, and plant crop Of Strawberries
for market next fall.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-17

so that they can be recognized and
kept separate at harvesting time.
No ear should be selected which has
a long pendulous stem, holding the ear
foot or two out from the stalk and
hanging tip downward. Neither should
an ear be chosen which is thrown out
above the ground, but rather one
which springs from the lower joints
of the stalk. Choose an ear whose
shrck covers it tight at the tip, leaving
no kernels exposed to view; this assists
in excluding vermin. Choose an ear
from the one-eared stalk, large and
powerful, rather than an ear from a
pair Of twins, which are generally less
valuable than the single ear. An early
ripening ear is preferable to later
One.-FlOrida Farmer.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-17
Broom Corn Culture.

Prof. Walter J. Quick of the Mis-
souri, Agricultural college gives his ex-
perience through the Journal of Agri-
culture on broom corn culture as fol-
lows:
Broom corn should be- planted in the
spring, directly after finishing the
planting of corn. In appearance it is
very much like Indian corn, but can
not endure so much frost nor recover
so readily from it's effects, hence it is
advisable to plant week Or even a
fortnight later than corn. Its early
growth is slower and weaker and ger
minatiOn more easily retarded by
changes in the weather or backward
unreasonable spring. The soil, which
should be good bottom land" or any
rich, warm loan suitable for corn,
should be if possible in better filth
than for other cultivated crops. Clay,
especially a stiff soil, is not suitable for
this crop.
planting may be in hills or drills,
the latter preferred if the soil be not
full of weeds, in which case it should
be cultivated both ways, and even
hOed if necessary, to prevent a luxuri-
ant growth of noxious weeds from
smo thering the young crop. From eX-
perience and observation of a practical
farmer and as director of experiment
station work, your writer has found a
most advantageous course for success
full crop to be in the adoption of a
place of sod for it, Break it up late in
the fall, or now, for that matter, as
soon as the frost is out of the ground
so as to kill the worms by means Of
the spring freeze to follow. Then in
April or May, depending on the loca-
ton south or north, after one crossing
with a disk or cutaway harrow, if the
sod has been turned smoothly, the seed
may be drilled. It should not be cover
average distance apart for the seed
should be about three inches. If the
dropper should be an ordinary corn
drill, they cannot be evenly scattered,
but excellent results will be secured
from four to seven or ten seeds, foot
or fifteen inches apart, of course the
greater corn is to be hoed and thinned.
The thicker the crop is grown the fin
er and also tougher and thicker is the
brush produced to a certain point
when it would be disadvantage.
The entire cultivation, though not re-
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-17

quite favorable to the growing Of veg
etables.- Orlando Reporter.
~
Florida Wool.-C. Potter made his
second seasons shipment of wool last
week. He has good flock of sheep,
and, besides the wool of two season,
he has sold several sheep.-Winter
Garden Cor Times Union and Citizen.
~
Lake County Vegetables.-The ship
ping of string beans by the farmers
of Eustis Grand Island and throughout
this section has been highly interesting
during the past two weeks.
Excellent returns have been in order
Four dollars net per crate has been
about the top price received, but three
dollars and two dollars and half net
nave been a daily occurrence.
There is large money in beans at
even two dollars per crate.
The season since the cold weather
in February has been perfect for the
crop, and the yield per acre has been
larger than any season during the past
ten years.
Our farmers are deserving of all
good luck of this character that can
possibly befall them.-Eustis Lake Re-
gion.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-17

quiring so much, may be- the same as
with corn. The same fertilizers, if
used, may be employed. This plant is
so much like corn, except that in its
appearance it is more delicate, that all
the requirements for success are iden-
ticak 1t has not so much foliage, grows
as tall or even higher than corn, often
twelve to ourteen feet when thin, and
on very rich soil. It should be about
nine to ten feet high, including the
brush.
Breaking the Tops.-It might be well
to state that the "brush'' is not the
name given to that part which CORE
spends to the tassel on the corn and
which makes the broom. This top
must be broken over to let the top
hang down, thus securing straight
brushes and protecting it from storms.
put in late, this is found to successful
ly hasten the maturity, an important
matter in short seasons. The stalk is
broken about a foot below where the
head puts out and is usually done by
striking the stalk where it is desired it
should lap over 1t is not difficult to
make them all lap one way, which if
done with ''tabling'' in view is greatly
to the advantage of the hauler.
YNohlirCr ics tho hnndinr off tvun
if the crop is tall, one across the other,
each two supporting the next stalks,
and so on, like thatching. If the
crop is not above reach, the cutting
without this extra labor is done a few
inches above where the stalk was
broken in tapping, which will usually
leave about eight inches with each
head
The yield varies largely with the
soil, but a greater varia ton is due to
the management. Of brush, cured, the
yield should be 800 to 1000 pounds per
acre, and 10 to Is bushels of seed.
There has never been a poor market
for good brush. The second class does
not sell so readily, but the fact that il
has been, as it should be, sorted when
the seed is removed causes the No. /
brush to- sell better and for n much
better price. I regret that
am not posted on these markets.
but from experience and OBJ
servation in Indiana, Colorado AID
Kansas, we are convinced that it is a
paying industry. Last year in Kansas
the brush brought $50 to $50 per ton
and seed usually sell at seed houses
for 81 per bushel 1t is excellent for
stock feed and better than corn meal
for human.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-24
Notice of Forfeiture

To |, A. 1erSon, OF Ass'6ns
You or your representatives ana sue a
cessors in interest are hereby notineu
that the undersigned, your co.owner. N
accordance with the laws Of the United
States. have expended for labor the sum
Of Two Hundred ($aoo) Dollars upon
"Sunny Side" placer mining claim iol
the years 1897 and 1898; said sunny
Side" claim situated and lying along
the west side Of Salmon river opposite -
Amos Carvers ranch in Salmon rivei
mining district, Idaho county, ldano,
and YOU are hereby notified that un'es'
YOU contribute your proportion o. SAT-
expenditure as follows: One-third N
terest in said Sunny Side" claim TO-
two years, amounting to sixty-six a9e
sixty.six and two. thirds one-hundredth
1866 66sl) dollars, together with intefes
and cost Of this publication, within tn
statutory time as specified in Sector
232A, Revised Statutes of the Unite,
States. your interest in said claim VII
become the property Of the undersigned
Mrs. DELLA AUcHINVoLE,
AMOS CARVER.
First publication dated Ian. 20, 1889.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-24
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
j. S. Land Office at Lewiston, Ida. I
Eat.r,,ar,. = TRSn 1


Notice is hereby given that in COM
pliance with the provisions OF the act Of
Congress of June g. 1899 entitled IAN
act for the sale Of timber lands of the
States OF California, Oregon, Nevada,
and Washington Territory" as extended
to all the Public Land States by act of
August 4, 1892, Joseph P. Walker, of
Lewiston, county of Nez Perce, State Of
Idaho, has this day filed in this Office
his sworn statement for the purchase of
the VIZ, NWH, of Section No s, in
Township No. 81, N, Range No. ), E. 3
NJ, and will offer proof to show that the
land sought is more valuable for its tim
Der or stone than for agricultural pur-
poses, and to establish his claim to said
land before the Register and Receiver Of
this Office at Lewiston, Idaho, on Satur.
day, the day of May, 1899.
He names as witnesses:
Angus R. Trimble, Harry Dowd, both
of Lewiston, Nez Perez Co., Idaho
William Won Berge, of Crangeville,
Idaho Co., Idaho; Joseph Molloy, Of
Lewiston. Nez Perez Co Idaho.
Any and all persons claiming adverse
ly the above -described lands are request.
ed to file their claims in this Office on OF
before said 9th, day of May, 1899.
Alag J1B. WEST. Register.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-24

NorIcE.-To my friends and Gus
toners of many years: This is to
inform you that / have sold and
transferred my stock in trade in
the hardware, stove and tinware
business to Mr. George Fletcher,
formt rly Of Fletcher, Stein & Co.,
Boise. Mr.. Fletcher is a thorough
hardware man and comes fully
prepared to conduct successful
business at the old stand. In re-
firing from the business so long
conducted by myself, / ask for my
successor the same kind considera-
ton and patronage YOU have al
ways given to me. Thanking you
one and all for your patronage for
SO many years, ! am truly yours
G. e. BUNNkLL.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-24
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

To Alva Bonebrake and J. + Davis, their
heirs. legal representatives, executors,
administrators or assigns:
You and each of you are hereby mott
fed that your co owner, James Mo IRE.
has expended the sum Of four hundred
and twenty-four dollars and ffty-three
cents (f424 53) in cash for suppl es and
labor performed, inclu ing the assess
ment wo for the year 1895, OH the
Webfoot lode miring claim, situated in
Florence mining district, Idaho county
ard state of Idaho, and unless you con-
tribute your proportion of said expendi-
ture, amounting to the sum of one hun.
bred and forty-one dollars and hfty-one
cents (fI4I 5I) up to December 3. 1895
together with interest and cost OF publ
cation of this notice, within ninety days
after the service oil this notice on you by
publication in the IDAHO COUNTY FRET
PRESS, your Interest," in said claim vii
become the property of the undersigned
and by virtue Of the provisions of the
United States Mining laws in such case
made and provided. section 2324.
JAMES NJ. MOORE.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-24
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office at Lewiston. Idaho,l
Mne~H a rQ1n

Notice 10 hereby given that the follow
ing-named settler has filed notice of his
intention to make final proof in support
Of his claim, and that said proof will be
made before James DeHaven, U. S.
Commissioner at Grangeville, Ida, on
April 20, 1899. viz:
ISAAC ZEHNER
for the heirs of Joseph Zehner, deceased,
for the NW4, SEX, MEX, SW1 and
81 NWH Sec 8 TIP 79 Mr. E B M.
He names the following witnesses 10
prove his continuous residence upon,
and cultivation of, said land viz: James
R. Mcconnell, Walter B. Trueblood,
Erastus B. White, Fred White, all Of
Tolo, Idaho.
4I46 ]. B. WEST, Register.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-24
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