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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15
THE HAlSELLS IN INDIA.
Interesting Letter from Vini-
ta'S Globe TrotterS.

Jdus ,. ly1V-
Once more l seat myself to drop
you a few lines to let you know
that we are well and hope it will
find you all enjoying the same
blessing.
This is India, the land of pow
erty, ignorance and wild cats, from
a tiger down to the smallest kind.
| never saw so many cats.
1t hasn't rained in this country
for three years. You can e-some
of the most horrible sights of pow
erty that can be imagined. But
the Rajab or king Of this province
lives in great style; he is a young
Solomon; he has wives galore.
We leave here tomorrow night
for Bombay and sail on the 18th
for Egypt. l am full of this coun-
try; if it keeps on getting worse l
think l will come in. This globe
trotting is a hard job. Lots of peo-
pie travelling, most of them Amer
leans.
These people have the most OF
their money in tombs and palaces.
About all the poor dervish gets is
a prayer to a stone god, and he
has to pay for that. Here you can
see lepers, smallpox and every
thing else on the streets. If we
get out of this country alive guess
we will be lucky. Most every body
has doSie itch, and | have it, too;
it is the seven year kind, they say
the more you scratch the moro
you itch.
India soil is all very poor, the
most of it having aikali, and we
look like a lot of aligators, our skin
is so rough. The accommodations
are very poor in this country. The
English are not doing very much
for India, that l can see, only get
ting revenue. Talk about cheap
travelling in this country, its more
expensive than IN America. Here
you ride elephants, camels, drum.
adaries and the like; they are the
main work stock or pack animals,
especially the camel. Bsrnum's
animal exhibit or procession is
nothing compared with a street
scene in India. The monkeys keep
you awake at night running over
the house and bowling. You can
hardly tell some of the people from
monkeys. The proprietor of this
hotel is unic; he used to be in
the kings house, in the ladies' de-
partment; and if he didn't have on
clothes you would call him a
monk.
In this country you have to fur
nish your own servants and carry !
your own bedding. You read of
your sleeping cars in India: the
seats or cars are made like our
street cars, with seat on each side,
80 you carry your own bedding |
and build on your seat, and every
man picks up his bed in the morn
ing and walks. Every native car
ries his own bed, but it most gen.
orally consists of what he has on,
and that's most generally one piece
of rag and sometimes nothing,
and wherever night comes, mother
earth is his bed, and the dome of
heaven his cover.
Its quite cool in India now; it is
warm at noon time, but the nights
IRE cold. Ed.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15

The recent order of the Indiar
Inspector J. George Wright tol
all non- citizen leasees TO yacatd
the places they occupy evidently J
was intended exclusively to apply
to the man who occupied moro
than his prorata share, or in thd
case of the leasee, more land thar
the Indian citizen under whom hd
was holding was entitled. Howl
ever the order is quite sweeping id
its demands and its enforcement i 1
yet in the future.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15
FOR A $4,000 BUILDING.
Spauldlng Institute Board Plans for
Extensive improvements.

Preside.t T. F. Brewer, Of the
college, went to Muskogee Tuesday
TO meet the managing board of
Spaulding institute. The advisory
board of the Methodist conference
will also meet with them, and as
President Brewer has had a great
deal to do with the former institu-
tion he was asked to be present.
1t is proposed to erect a s35, 600
building on an eleven acre tract Of
land donated by the city of Mus
kogee at the old Muskogee fair
grounds. $4,000 has already
been raised and the balance is
forthcoming.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15

The man who could inform the
people of the Indian Territory ex-
actly when allotment Of lands and
a system of home government will
be inaugurated would be regarded
as d prophet. The chances are,
however, that the date would be
so far in the future that he would
be called a crank for stating it.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15

Chairman Gault of the demo-
cratic executive committee has
called meeting of the committee
at South McAlister Feb. % to fix
the time and place for holding the
next territorial convention.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15
TOM THORNTON INSANE.
A Familiar Figure About Vinita Ten
Years or Hore Ago.

Ten years ago familiar figure
about Vinita was Tom Thornton.
He lived out in the country a few
miles, but was in town nearly every
day. He went armed with q win
chester generally, but was good
hearted and generally harmless.
He killed old Tom Franks at
Southwest City, who was chasing
him with q double barrel shotgun,
and stood his trial at Pineville, Mo.
After moving to this section of the
country he claimed always to his
friends to have a premonition that
his life was in danger and that be
was going to be killed. His mind
was little unbalanced, and those
who knew him best were sorry for
him. Later he killed his brother
in-law over near Bsrtlesville, was
tried and convicted in Judge Par
ker's court, sentenced to hang, but
finally had his sentence commuted
to ten years imprisonment at Co.
lumbus, Ohio. In 1898 he became
violently insane and was removed
from the penitentiary to the insane
asylum at Washington, D. c. The
case of Tom Thornton is peculiar.
ly pathetic. He was extremely
excitable and of weak mentality,
but was industrious and generous
to a fault.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15

The storm center in CherO-
kee national politics has been
moved from Tahlequab to Vinita.
Here lives the chief, here delega-
tions to Washington are made, and
here all the important commissions
are appointed.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15
ENDORSED MELLETTE.
Meeting Of the Republican Club to Sc
Iect National Committeeman.

Iect National Committeeman.
The Republican club met at the
court house on Tuesday, and by
a resolution introduced by Capt.
White and seconded by DR.. Wi
mer, nominated Hon. VIM. Mel
lette for national committeeman for
the Indian Territory. Col. Mel
lette was then called and delivered
an address setting forth what he
considered to be the sxcellencies
of the Republican party. The
speech was well received by the
large numb.r Of Republicans
present.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15

If the South McAlester conven-
ton next week don't do something
to hurry up statehood for the i've
tribes, Tom Mercum's congress
sional egg will have to be placed
in an incubator.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15

The senate committee on COM
merce reported favorably Saturday
bill to amend the revised statutes
extending the time that live stock
may be confined in cars in process
of transportation from % to 40
hours.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15

The man who undertakes to
bring in a jug of whisky for any
purpose these days does 80 at his
own peril. District Attorney
SOper is in the habit of personally
inspecting all suspicious looking
express packages that come in.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15

Dennis Flynn is said to be work
ing now in the interest of single
statehood for the Indian Territory
and Oklahoma. II he is success
full be has served his last term in
congress, as such a state would be
as surely democratic as Texas or
Arkansas.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15

Yesterday the Seminole agree
ment was reported favorably with
out amendment by the senate COM
mittee on Indian affairs. 1t will
no doubt be ratified as it stands.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15

The discovery of smallpox at
Claremore has served the double
purpose of waking up the news
papersiof the place, and of calling
the attention of the country to a
town that the general public didn't
know was on the map. AS she
emerges from the deadly contsgion
she will also leave obscurity be-
hind. at is an i'll wind that
blows nobody good"
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15

The Cherokee delegation is e1
pected to start for Washington i
a few days to urge the ratification
Of the treaty. 1t is expected thd
the Dawes commission will confd
with them aud whatever the|
agree upon will become a law
There is a good deal of anxiet|
felt throughout the Cherokee nd
tion with reference to the futu.|
action Of the government in i
dealings with the Cherokees.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15

A Vinita man who has spent
much time the last few months in
a neighboring town remarked that
Vinita has the advantage of most
towns save in one important par
ticular. While strife and petty
animosities divide and separate
many leading men in Vinits, other
cities present ssolid front to the
world and pull together. A few
individuals cannot control q COM
munity the size Of this city, and
should not undertake it. A pull
altogether is the great dissider-
atum, and the thing that will
bring growth, business and sue
cess. The man who feeds upon
private or public hstreds and who
plays the porcupine act is q sower
of the seeds Of discomfort and
ought to be rebuked by every good
citizen. If Vinits is to retain her
place among the best cities Of the
great Indian Territory her people
must stand together in matters Of
public enterprise.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15
may agree upon.

There is considerable activity in
both the democratic and republi-
can parties at the present time.
Organization is the order of the
hour, and clubs throughout the
country are being revived and put
in working order. As the country
now stands there is little doubt
that it is strongly democratic. The
influx of whites has been largely
from Texas, Arkansas and Mis-
souri,, democratic states, and the
native population Of all the FIVE
tribes Is overwhelmingly demo-
cratic. There are some Indian
citizens, however, who are with
whichever political party happens
to be in power. These flosters
are at present with the republicans
but if an opportunity to vote was
had they would perhaps exercise
their own true preference.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15

In the resolutions to be present
ed tomorrow night it should be
made plain that all classes of
citizens in this country demand
the same thing-namely, a better
and more tangible government for
the whole Indian Territory.
While allotmsnt of land is the first
step in the direction of bringing
order out Of chaos, it concerns but
a single class Of people. All the
Indians hope to get is the proper
protection OF their property rights,
their political rights are no more
nor less than those of any other
class OF people resident in the
country. The Indian citizens are
no longer seeking to retain their
political rights.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15

The recent great difference of
opinion among physicians, as well
SIS among the laity, as to whether
the cutaneous eruptive disease now
prevalent over q large portion of
the Indian Territory is really
smallpox or not has led to much
thinking and some skepticism as
to whether medicine is really the
fine unerring science it is cracked
up to be or not. 1t would be folly
to take either side Of the contro-
veisy and expect TO sustain it in
fallibly. II one should decide that
those who have pronounced it
smallpox being medical men ought
to know, the other consideration
that equally reputable physicians
declare that it is not smallpox
makes the dielemma all the more
puzzling. 1t we're well that the
medical profession center upon
some infallible diagnosis that all
may agree upon.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15

One trouble the government -o|
the United States seem to Away
experience In dealing with the
dian Territeyn2pdsSs
that these pe8pIs ars MT -
Indians, not helpless savages, bu,
on the contrary are intelligent ped
pie, and should be dealt with al
any other civilized com munitI
Simple justice properly admins
tered will satisfy the Indians, an
they ask no more.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-15

Agent Shoenfslt began the pa
ment of the Creek school warrant
today.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-22
CAPTURE or nLoFr.
Fell into II TrRp-French and &c
mans Among the Prisoners.

Fell into u Trnp--French and Ger
mans Among the Prisoners.
London, May 81, 4;0i p m.-The war Of
~ has received the following from Lord
Roberts;
'Kroonstad, May H.--Mahon Colonel y.
T. Mahon) reports having Joined Plumer
at Jamaisda, May Is. He was followed BY
Boer commando from Maritzani siding
and turned westward TO avoid 1t. May Is
he was attacked IN the thick bushes, losing
five men killed, two missing and twenty
four wounded including a caily Mail cor
respondent Hands, dangerously. The
Beers lost more than Mahon IN killed and
wounded"
Another dispatch has been received from
Baden Powell dated May 10, giving inn
portant news Before dawn May 10
storming party $50 strong. personally led
by EofI- rushed the pickets and reached
the Staat and protectoratc camp from tho
westward along the Maloppo valley,
strong musketry demonstration being
made at the same time along the eastern
front of our position. Our western posts
closed In and stopped the Boer supports
following. thus cutting off Bloh,a retreat,
while the town detenses stopped his fur
Their advance. His force got divided in the
darkness ana g atroal plrtg was p'ncca
between thea, completely surrounding
them Fighting continued all day long
Soon after nightfall two parties surren-
dered and the other was driven out OF the
staa1 under a heavy tre, Ten dead and
nineteen wounded OF the enemy were left
behind and les prisoners were taken, in
Guiding Eloff and nine officers, Seventeen
Frenchmen and many Germans were
among them. Our losses we've six men
kr,.ed and two officers and nine men
wounded"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-22


conditions in this town are perhaps be.
coming more cheerful. The rainy season
8 apparently over. The weather is splen-
did and consequently the fever epidsmic
Is diminishing. Rauons are still small
but II is wonderful now little one needs
for existence, and the new food. Drawn
from the horse and OK hides. is great
success. This food and porrldge, the In.
ventor OF which has Received a fiyo-pound
bonus from the governments. is tho eouly-
alent Of six weeks additional provisions.
The natives prefer il TO any other. SO
that the siege has taught them new
food"
The railway head Is expected TO BIO al
kroonstad today Tuesday,. The conges-
zion os traffic az Smaldeel delays Lord
Roberss advance. but his cavalry con-
unue active through a wide range, east
and southeast or Kroonstad.
The infantry advance steadily. General
.Colville and General Rumble SHIFT their
headquarters each second day, The Beers
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-22
Supreme Court so Decides the Ken
lucky Election Contest.
DISMISSED FOR WANT OF JURISDICTION
Opinion Handed Down by Chief Justice FuIer-Jus-
tice HARLAN Vigorously Dissented from the
Whole, and Justices Brewer, Brown
and McKenna Dissented from
Some Portions of 1t.

mode, this court II appears. cas mob tn
ouire whether that mode was tlursaied ard
can not Interfere for the protection OF the
incumbent even II tho final action OF the
leBislature-was oonfeassdly capricious and
arbitrary, inconsistent with the recognised
principles that belong TO due process OF
law and not based IN any degree on the
evidence taken In tho contests. II tho
Kentucky legislature had wholly dsre.
sarded the mode prescribed by the statute
OF tie state and without appointing
board composed OF its own members, had
by Joint resolut&ne implicitly declared
Goebel to be governor and especially IL
such action had been held hy the highest
court OF the state. 20 be conclusive, thia
court, as Ne are informed By the decision
Just rendered, would be without jurIsdln-
ton to protect the incumbent for the rea-
SON. as y now aHjudged that tho offca
In dispute is not property, Within the
meaning OF tho fourtoenth amendment. 80
that while We may inquire whether tina
citizens land or his mule havosbeen taken
from him by the legislative executive
or Judicial authorities OF his State without
due process of law, we may not Inquire
whether due procesaA of law ousted one
lawfully elected and holding the Office OF
governor fer a fixed term with author
ity wtlioh can not be diminished during
such term and pnt into his place ono
whom the people have said shuuld not
exercise the authority appertAining 20 that
high poHition. When tho fplrteeut 4
amendment forbade any state from dc
priying any person OF life, liberty or prom
erty without due process OF law. had sup
posed that the purpose was 10 guard citi-
Gems against being deprived OF any legal
right in violation Of the fundamental
law"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-22
ACCUMULATION CAMPS.
one of the Four VIII Probably Be
Located in Texas.
(Snerga al m THE Past !

Washington, May 21,--Genersl Chambers
McKlbben. commanding the department OF
Texss who has been IN baltimore for a
faw days with Mrs. MeKib6en. whom he
has placed in a hospital there, came over
to washington today to confer with Rep
resentatiye siayden about Texas military
affairs. He viii be here again Wednes-
day on his way hack to San Antonio,
when he and Mr.. slayAen viii call noon
the secretary of war concerning the bill
to establish four great military camps o.
instruciion ana naturalization for troops
destined for service IN the tropics. Mr..
siaylen has beer working very fard 70
get one OF these camps located near san
Antonio and has probably succse>e9.
General McKtbhen s9ys there IS already
a marked Improvements in Mrs. McKih-
ben's health since coming North.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-22
snnINnns A, WASHINGTON.
Texas WIN he Wen represented at
the Imperial Council.
fcnecial 10 TIE Poat.)

Washington, May G.-The Texas deae-
ga.Gon q shrlners 70 attend the meeting
Il tire imperial COUNSEL o. North America
arrived tonight Among them are j. T..
Farnanonbh. pntentlte, ana John G. Hun
Ter, recorder Of Hecla femple, Dallas. Rep
reserta-tfves George H. Green o. Dallas
and James Clarity o. corslcana' Two
nob;es are JOS Ling and J. W. Tate Of
DallGs Ben HUI temple OF Aus'in Is rep
reser ed by r. T. Comedy Geo. II. Green
OF Dallas has the honor Of being imperial
hlgh priest ami prophet and Is fourth In
line Of promotion at this tnssion.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-22
iIETNOUs CRIME.
CoIored Preacher kills n Child and
Tried to Cremnte Remains.

Ardmore. l. r.. May 2t.-one of the
most brutal crimes in the history of the
Indian Territory was committed near Ran,
twenty miles from here, yesterday. Rufus
Ei..c,n, a colored prsacher. assaulted 80
s-yesr-old girl. who had been living as a
r,eInber OF his family for three years.
beat her to death with a club and was try
ing 10 cremate the remains in a fireplace
when discovered by neghbors,
,Sincon was promptly taken In charge
by citizens and lynching was narrowly
ayerted. A committee of colored citizens
arrived here this morning in charge o;
Bincon. who turned him over 80 the Fed
eral authorities. ana he now langushes IN
the fail.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-22
nuLLEn,s ADVANCE.
II IL Delayed on Account Of Dcstruc-
ton of the RAILWAY.

Ton OF tne hhiiWh9'
London. May 2i.-The war office has re-
celved the following from Lord Roberts.
''Kr0onsad May 21.-Buller reports that
his advance will be delayed for few days
on account OF the way In which the rail-
road has been destroyed.
"Rundle reports THAT Ladybrand has
been occupied.
Hunter is pushing up the railway with
supplies for the Mafeking garrison and s
arranging a hospital train for the convey
ance OF the sick and wounded to Klmber-
ley.
"Methuen has left Hoopstad TO cooper
ate with this force"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-22
REcKnAM TALKs.
Verdict Was as Embellishments
ing the Coming Campaign.

FFTWFFF " nv I'M f1.UFEtVt<- = ~ -
ing the Coming Campaign.
Frankfort KY. May 2i.--Goyernor
Beckham gave out the following interview
tonight;
II am. OF course, very much gratihed at
the decision OF ahe supreme court never
hsd any doubt as to what the decision
would be. BECAUSE It seemed that the
proposition OF law before them was 80
clear that no court could take q different
view from that OF our court OF law and
order over lawlessness ana desperation.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-22
SUGAR ADVANCED.
Trust Put Prices Up and Competitors
Followed.

Especial to The posto
New York. May 2i.-The American sugar
Refining company today advanced the rate
for all grades of sugar with the exception
of the very fine and ooarsest standard granu-
lated, which is row 5.2Ou Other retners
quickly advanced their prices and uniform
rates arc now prevailing. The Increase rs
believed to be the result of an agreement.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-22

London, May 21--six siege trains have
been ordered prepared AT Aldershat 10!
transportation to South Africa.
London. May u. 2i25 p. m.--There Ia no
truth in the report that President Kruger
has sued for peace. aud no Communication
from him on the subject Is expected IN the
Immediate future
Capetown, May 21.--lt is officially an
nounced that Mafeking was relieved May
17.-Ceneral Barton teiegraphed the news
from Taungs 10 Sir Alfred Miner, the
iBrltlgh commissioner. The relieving coll
tImn was composite force under
Colonel MahOn Of about 2300 men.
I,ourenzo Marquee, May 2l.-The de-
fense works of johannesburg are pro-
crossing rapidly six guns brought from
the front have been enplaced in a Tort
while sehanzes and trenches iners3ct
Katzrand. near Klipriyersourg, behind
the race course.
London. May q, 9;35 p. m.--The follow
ing dispatch has been received IRON boru
Roberts at the war ofhce;
''KrOs-stad May 2i.-The following ia
from Hunter; 'Mafeking Is relieved Ma
hon entered Il May IS 80.
London. May 2t.-The queen a windsor
todayreviewed detachment o. the guards
With Is proceeding 10 south Africa. Her
majesty addressed the troops, wishing
them success and expressing the hope that
sAe would see them all back at no distant
date
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-22
TEXAS MATTERS.
fsneclal 10 ND Post. }

Washington. May 2l.-Dr. NJ. L. Graves.
superintendent Of the insane asylum o.
San Antonio. and Or. b NJ. Warshan,
who holds a similar position at Austin
were here today On route to Richmond,
Va. to study the management Of the in
sane asylum there