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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

When a friend becomes an
enemy he Is always more bitter
and unreasonable than one who
has never been a friend. And
again, when 4 man does you a
mean turn he is apt to justify
the action even TO persecution.
We could 90 down on the street
any day and point out men
whose iascivious conduct in this
town has been such as if print
ed as news items would have
brought down upon them the
condemnation of all decent
people. The mistake The
Chieftain has made, (if a mis-
take has been made) was in not
exposing these whited sepul-
chers long ago. There Is no.
excuse for such moral leprosy,
and no wolf should be allowed
to go about these streets clad in
sleeps clothing. There is al
ways something wrong with the
man who cannot live a plain
open life before his neighbOrs.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

There is no Cherokee worthy
the confidence of his people who
does not want to see them get
every dollar due them in the way
of revenues. The Cherokee who
now goes of and joins the enemies
of his country to save few paltry
dollars is not much less than a
traitor. A bunch of white monop-
olists led in the attack on The
Chieftain the other day assisted by
a single Cherokee who has bee n
honored and trusted by his peo-
pie.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19
A GREAT CONTRAST.
The Paper Reaches Hundreds
to Banks One.

While cur friends of the First
National Bank are making asses
of themselves by talking to few
people and trying to turn them
against The Chieftain, we are ad-
dressing at least 5000 of the most
intelligent and independent peo-
pie in this or any other country
six days in the week. We are
proud of our growing audience but
ashamed of the hank folks.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19
DIDN'T UNDERSTAND 1T.
But He Was Very Quickly Enlight-
ened on the Subject.

"What a HI of a town this Is"
said fellow last night as he got
off the train from the north.
Every time l come here they are
just shipping out lot of prisoners
chained together. l should think
the place would be depopulated. "
A loyal citizen of the town ex-
planned that those fellows were
residents of Muskogee and were
being taken back there.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

Eighty per cent of the First
National bank stock is owned by
the cowmen. Yes, and more
than eighty per cent of the peo-
pie who are in favor of sparing
the cowmen the pain land
money! to pay their Cherokee
revenue tax are members of the
First National Banks board of
directors, it appears.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

\ boomerang is one of those
things that when thrown at the
other fellow sail around in the.
air, then return and knock down
the thrower. The best example
we can think of now is the ac-
ton of the First National Bank
in directing a boycott OF this
paper.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19
REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
The Commissioners Who Are to Sc
Iect the Next Jury.

The jury commissioners ap-
pointed by Judge Springer to Sc
lect jurors for the next term OF
United States court at Vinita are
Governor T. NJ. Burlington, OF Vi
nita, John H. Gibson, OF Grove
and DR.. Morrison, of Chelsea. The
people will evidently have no
cause for complaint on account Of
the next jury. 1t looks like a ju-
dicious selection and will prove
satisfactory.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

"The people are with you IN
this fight is the assurance
from persons in all walks of
life. The people are about al
ways with The Chieftain on
questions of policy. The paper
is unqualifedly for the peoples
interests at all times and if they
were not with the paper We
should fear possibly we were
wrong.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

From reading The Chieftain, we
cannot see that that paper deserves
boycotting, or even severe censure,
for the position it took on this
question. The paper was not dis
cussing the right or wrong of the
law, but that, lift were going to be
enforced at all, it should be done
without discrimination; without
partiality to men or industries. In
our judgment there was nothing
inconsistent in the course pursued
By The Chieftain, and we can see
no Just cause for the action of the
First National Bank at Vinita. 1t
is claimed that about so per cent.
of the stock of the bank is owned
by cattlemen, and of course they
have great interests at stake; but,
as The Chieftain only insisted on
the execution of the law, which is
said by the government officials to
be in full force and effect, the
paper was ant ely justified in the
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

Never before has The Chieftain
felt itselfso fullyin sympathy with
its readers throughout the country
as at the present. This feeling is
partly the result of so many kind
words of approval coming from all
over the country apd partly due
TO the absolute and unouestioned
tenableness of its position and the
undisputed righteousness of its
cause. 20
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

The Vinita Chieftain says the
COW men have called a meeting to
boycott it, because it insists that
they pay taxes due Cherokee ma
tion. We hope our authorities
will also insist that every mother
son of them be made to pay, and
while all must frankly admit that
Chief Mayes is a much more sue
cessful COW man than statesman,
yet we hope be will see his own
taxes on cattle are paid and those
of all other coWmen and thus dis
illusion all who may think that
while his attorney, Hutchings, was
fighting the Cherokee nation he
was not attacking the personal in
terests of Chief Mayes. He is now
in a position where he has to
choose between COW and country.
Let US hope patriotism will be
triumphant, and show that our
chief is neither a Cataline nor only
a Cattle liner.-Tahlequah Repub-
lican.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

Schmidt, Coffeyyille; J. F. Yock-
ey, Chanute. DR.. Karl Schmidt
received the highest vote and was
therefore declared chairman Of the
delegation.
The convention then went into
executive session and closed about
$50.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

Our outgoing chief has always
employed VIM. T. Hutchings
in Cherokee nation cases, and he
has received large sums of money
from the treasury, and was pushed
forward as spokesman when the
agreement with the Dawes COM
mission was negotiated. Being
of a thrifty turn of mind
he injected into said agree
ment the payment of his fee, not
being willing to let the national
council pass upon the justice of
the claim. The other day be pops
up in the hay case and tries to stop
our revenue in that particular and
that would be the precedent which
would cut off all other revenue,
under Cherokee law. He ought
to have had gratitude enough to
let us get the money to pay him
without rsiding our invested funds.
We hope that Chief Burlington will
not be so infatuated with this at
torney as to allow him "to wobble
upon the gudgeon" and to play
fast or loose with the interests of
this beleaguered Cherokee nation
as may suit his fancy, convenience
or pocket.-Tahlequah Republi-
can.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19
A CycIopedla of Progress and Events

All sending their subscriptions under our
clubbing offer, are presented, postpaid, with
the AMERICAN AGRICULTURIsr YEAR BOOK
and ALMANAC for 1900. This great book Is a
CyclOpedia OF Progress and Events OF the
World, Guide 10 Markets, Marketing, and
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19
course it pursued on this PROPOSE
tion.-Wagoner Sayings.

|
When it comes to testing the
Cherokee laws, Hutchings, the
Muskogee lawyer, seems to take
the losing side every time. He
was the nations attorney to test
the constitutionality of the act of
congress, June Z, 1897, and the
Curtis act, and the same were pro-
nounced constitutional by the su-
preme court of the United States. A
few days ago he defended F. NJ.
Smith, the hay man, and attempted
to show that the laws of the Che
rokee Nation had been abrogated
by congress, but Judge Springer
seems to have differed with him
as he ruled that the Cherokee laws !
were not abolished by the Curtis
law, but were still in full force and |
effect.-Tahlequah Republican.
The Vinita Chieftain is losing
nothing, will lose nothing by the
boycott. 1t is defending the law,
whether the law is right or wrong.
In this case though the law is af-
ter, not the poor and those who
are not able to pay its exactions,
but after the rich, men who have
trampled on the rights of others
and defrauded the Cherokee nation
out of thousands of dollars. Who
don't know this to be true, and
the wonder is that any of them
would attempt defense and there
by be brought into publicity. The
Chieftain is right, and a few more
papers to cry out against the
schemes of men of the same char
acter scattered throughout the In
dian Territory would be a blessing
to the people.-Muskogee Times.
The First National Bank of vi
nita has regularly organized a boy
colt against The Chieitain, a news
paper published in Vinita, l. T.
This boycott was instigated by the
cattlemen of the Cherokee nation,
a number of whom are stockhold-
ers in said bank; some of whom
are directors of the bank. The
trouble arose over the royalty
question. The cattlemen have
been grazing thousands of cattle in
the Cherokee nation for many
years, and have managed all this
time to avoid the payment of the
royalty required by law. Indian
Inspector Wright has been rigidly
the collection of nay
royalty, merchandise tax, etc,
and The Chleitaln Is vigorously
md unrelentingly contending that
he cowmen, as well as others,
should be required to pay to the
Cherokee nation the royalty re-
Iuired by law. As they have never
paid this tax nor any part of it,
heir delinquent royalty is now
$4,000 or more. The Chieftain
S simply clamoring for a compli-
Ince with the law of the land in
which they live and carry on bus
ness. The Chieftain will evident [
y win.-South McAlester Capital.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

One wrong never rights another.
The Vinita Chieitain is now be-
tween a shot stew" and the deep
sea-all because of the position it
has taken in the recent revenue
difficulties. The cowmen and
others have determined to boycott
The Chieftain, and to endeavor to
work its downfall, if possible. We
do not take issue with The Chief
tain in its position as regards the
royalty, but stand firmly for it as
against any boycott work. 1t is
wrong in every sense of the word.
If honest argument cannot prevail,
it is certainly wrong and cowardly
TO resort TO boycott measures. The
Chieftain is one of the best papers
in the territory, and is entitled to
lis just respect. If in one instance
1t is advocating wrong principles,
as we think it is, it would not
right matters to run a boycott game
on it. Right will triumph in the
end. To boycott The Chieftain is
rank injustice, and that able jour-
nal has the sympathy, kind words
and fraternal feeling OF The Gil
Climax.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

1t is just three weeks till the as
semblying of the national council
at Tahlequah and the inauguration
of a new chief. Everything in the
Cherokee nation as relates to the
work of the Dawes commission
will be in allegiance until some
steps are taken by way of making
a treaty. The old treaty can never
be resurrected again, as it has so
many Objectionable features neither
the government of the United
States nor the Cherokees would
accept il now.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

There are very few Cherokee
citizens who do not commend The
Chieftain in its fight with the cat
tie kings, and there ought not to
be any.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19
sTABBING AT TInBER HILL.
Jim Foreman Stabs Yernie Hicks and
Seriously Wounds Him.

James Foreman, a Cherokee In
dian well known over this section,
stabbed young man named Yer
ME Hicks Saturday evening. The
affair took place in the neighbor-
hood OF Timber Hill, south OF Coi-
feyville. Hicks condition was
reported as being very serious
Monday. Further details could
not De learned.-Cofieyville jour
nal.
Bring your mules, 1873 TO 1873 to
Ninita before Sunday and W. T.BOyd
will huNy fba,,,
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

The old adage that "blood is
thicker than water" is perhaps
true, but money is thicker than
either, as has been fully demon
strated recently.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

The Chieftain islands pat" on
its original proposition: The cow
men should be held as amenable
to the revenue and other laws as
the merchants, the coal men, the
timber men or the hay men. Many
of the latter class would be sat-
isfied if they could make a dollar
a day and there is no good reason
they should pay, while the man
who makes from $4,000 to $780,
600 q year is exempt.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

A Napoleon would want no
better material upon which to
start an empire than the ele-
ment in the Indian Territory
that insists that laws are an
encumbrance and hindrance
to progress.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

Three men charged with robbing
Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf
train some time since have been
removed from Cameron to South
McAlester for safe keeping.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

To say the cattlemen ought
to pay their tax is voted by the
First National Bank of Vinita
to be urging the officers of the
United States to enter upon Il
course of uJustifed hostility to-
wards large part of the stock
holders of this bank" " F. NJ.
Smith was not expelled for be-
ing a non-citizen but for antag-
Onizing the government in its
efforts to collect the Cherokee
revenue, as well as for not pay
ing. Isn't there Il suggestion
of antagonism in this resolu-
ton?
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19
FROM OTHER SANCTUMS,
Other Territory Papers on the
Chieftain Boycott.

About the most senseless thing
the anti-tax people of Vinita have
been guilty of, is their boycott on
The Chieftain. There is not a case
on record where a boycott drove a
newspaper out of business, and in
many instances it has actually
been of great service to a paper.
Besides this The Cnieftain has the
law on its side-the law that the
United States is trying to enforce.
-Muskogee Times.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

The prospects are a little
bright for the Cherokees now,
compared with other years.
There Is a rift in the clouds, so
to speak, as the government is
about to wake up to a sense of
justice in dealing with them.
Their country has been practic-
ally out of their hands for many
years and they had about set
tied down in despair as to ever
being able to hold their own or
get fair treatment.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

to the revenue ana otner laws as
the merchants, the coal men, the
timber men or the hay men. Many
of the latter class would be sat-
isfed if they could make a dollar
a day and there is no good reason
they should pay, while the man
who makes from $4,000 to $780,
900 year is exempt.
There has never been a time
since the first number of The Chief
tain was printed when it met with
more universal approval than at
the present. This very welcome
state of public sentiment did not
come of the papers choosing. 1t
simply and naturally resulted from
a disposition TO advocate what was
unquestionably right.
The most difficult task members
of The Ctieftain force encounter
now-a-nays is making their way
up or down the streets. They are
beseiged on all sides by people
who wish to extend congratula-
tions. The town was, like most
OF the Central or South American
countries always are, ripe for a
revolt"
If the Cherokee treaty should
ever come up for reconsideration
we suggest that the section pro-
viding for the payment of 81 800
attorneys fees be stricken out.
An attorney who can get on both
sides of the same case ought not
to have any more fees from the
Cherokee nation.
Every man has perfect right
to stop his paper and withdraw
his patronage for cause or without
any. But he has no moral right
TO 60 about inducing others to do
so, without cause, ,and the individ-
ual or class who try it on The
Chieftain must expect to take the
consequences.
One means suggested for avoid
ing the payment of the cattle tax
is to have the coming council re-
peal the revenue law, not emitting
to remit the back tax due. 1t
might be necessary, gentlemen, to
"pass it over his head" again, the
bead this time being VIM. Nc
Kinley.
Last week two men in this town
a raid on The Chieftain.
They induced one man who knew
better and one who did not to join
them and by Saturday evening all
iour were thoroughly whipped and
part of them were whining.
To create sentiment in favor of
he open and reckless disregard of
aw is an uphill task in this COM
as our friends of The First
National Bank are finding out to
heir sorrow.
Three men charged with robbing
l Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf
rain some time since have been |
from Cameron to South |
for safe keeping.
The old adage that "blood is
thicker than water" is perhaps |
true, but money is thicker than
either, as has been fully demon
strated recently.
There are very few Cherokee
nh l. - oor,,..~.,I 4 III 1
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

The way The Chieftain is speak
ing out in meeting is very refresh
ing. As the esteemed Leader
gravely remarked on a recent oc-
casion, they are either Fright or
wrong" and from a few recent in
dications, they are liable to be right
this time. 1t is a well known fact
that the cattle business has in
times past been manipulated in a
manner strangely akin to the meth
DDS employed by the famous
"Heathen Chinee." An investiga-
ton will not injure honest men,
Claremore Courier.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

Both observation and experience
teach that the attorney who is
eternally at "logger heads" with
the court is an unsafe counsellor.
We have in our minds eye a good
lawyer who as hurting both him
self and his clients by constantly
nagging the court and falling out
with every juror who happens TO
differ with him in passing upon
the merits of case as presented
in the testimony Of the witnesses
and the law as given by the court.
1t is well for lawyer to make a
strong fight for his client, but
very foolish to misuse the officers
of the court.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

To create sentiment in favor of
the open and reckless disregal d Of
law is an uphill task in this COM
munity, as our friends of The First
National Bank are finding out to
their sorrow.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

will critical
chasing elsewhere? JUS putting goods than hnd
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

Some persons who have been
misled, or who are not acquainted
with the law upon the subject, are
of the opinion that the interior de-
psrtment is proceeding in the en-
tire absence OF law in the collect
ion of tribal revenues. In the 18th
section of the Curtis act we find
the law as follows: "All royalties
and rents hereafter payable to the
tribe shall be paid, under such
rules and regulations as may be
prescribed by the secretary of the
interior, into the treasury of the
United States to the credit of the
tribe to which they belong" Thus
it will be seen that ample author
ity of law is given, and in the very
act that it is claimed abolishes all
tribal laws. There is absolutely
nothing left for those who refuse
to pay tax to stand upon. The
law is specific and the government
fully able to enforce it.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-10-19

Last week two men in this town
organized a raid on The Chieftain.
They induced one man who knew
better and one who did not to join
them and by Saturday evening all
four were thoroughly whipped and
part of them were whining.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-12

The estimates for the salary depart
ment Of the city for the current year
nave been made out by City Auditor
John 2. Bowker on the schedule OF
salaries paid last year. There is
difference in the list from that report
ed to the city council last year, because
the council got out a pruning knife
and sliced a few figures. The list is
made out according to the salaries
fixed by the city council with the eX
ceptiOn Of the salary Of sealer Of
weights and measures. Last year the
salary for this position was only $3.50.
The auditor Will report to Mayor Ru-
fus y. Dodge, Jr., that $500 is wanted
for the salary Of this official the cur
rent year. On account Of the extern
sive work which G. Herbert DeFosse
did last year in the Office there IS
hardly any doubt that the salary fixed
VIII be acceptable TO the mayor and
city council. The salaries Of inspec-
tors Of cattle and provisions, which
were reduced from $1,000 TO $500 by the
city council last year, are reported at
the same figures. There is hardly any
danger that their salaries VIII be in
creased to the old figures
The complete list is as follows:
- - r-'''f 'lIy iif75Sl'SsT T41VVf
clerk Of the common council, $500; seal
er Of weights and measures. $500: in
spsctor Of milk and eleomargarlne,
$3.50; one inspector Of cattle and pro-
visions $3.50; two inspectors Of cattle
and provisions, $500 each; four regis
trars Of voters, $500 each: chairman of
license commission, $3.50; two commits
sionere, 500 each. The total amount
Is sl0,6j0. There is a balance from last
year Of $l2.81, which leaves the net
estimate Sl0637.19
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-12
BUILDERS EXCHANGE.

The annual meeting Of the Builders
Exchange was held at Exchange head
quarters, Knowles building. last eve
ming. There was a large attendance
and the reports Of the secretary, treas
urer and various committees showed
that the Exchange is in a most pros
porous condition. The financial balance
is greatly in excess Of that of last
year. There are at present eighty
seven active and twenty nine associate
members in the Exchange.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President, Bertrand
w Stone; vice president, Burton c.
Fisk; treasurer, Frank II. Goddard;
trustee to fill vacancy caused by the
election Of 3. c. Fisk, Elwood Adams;
trustees for two years, Oliver S. Ken
dali Benjamin F. Marsh and Edward
]. Cross. The secretary is chosen by
the board of directors, which is COM
posed Of the officers and trustees. They
will hold regular meeting on Satur-
day evening to elect O successor TO
Charles c. Brown, who has resigned
to accept similar position with the
plIrnmers' Union.