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The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-07-04
ODE TO THE NATIONAL FLAG.

This beautiful poem was written about
forty years ago by well known chero
kee, pow deceased, but whose name and
face was familiar to most Of the old-tius
cherokees,
Oh star-geinmed banner Of the free,
Thou streamest still on high
A living beacon to the world,
The glory Of our sky.
To thee the gazing millions turn,
With patriot hopes and fears
Brave men with burning glance uplift,
Fair women with their tears.
As blazing in The van Of war,
AS flashing in the cloud,
Amid the rolling thunders peais,
We call to thee aloud.
OH banner that our fathers loved,
That shadows yet their graves
Still with the strong winged eagle speed
Where he the teinpests brave
Oh never may thy stars 90 down,
Or in the battle pale;
Or hands grow weak that bear thee up,
Or hearts beneath it quail. n
AS on the flaming war-tide borne
And in its hot breath tost N
Now seen amidst the rifted gloom,
Now in the darkness lost.
Ohlhow we watch where yet thou art
AS on the battle wears,
And rising, sinking, follow thee
With thousand, thousand prayers.
Those prayers, 0 God shall not be vain
Descend from the sky,
With bosom barred, and sword of fire
Upleaping from her thigh
A new Minerva treads the plain;
She snatchas from the gloom
Her countrys flag and bearsit
As with the step Of doom. 4
All, well she knows, fair Liberty,
How sacred is the name
Of that, her conquering arm defends,
How glorious is its fame.
And not unused unto the strife
Where deeds for right is done,
The'earthquake which her cradle rocked
Saw birth Of Washington,
In that great name and in her own,
She bares her arm tor blood,
And bending to the fates on high, l.
She strikes for man and God.
Thus, holy flag into her hand
Thy future all we give,
Assured thou canst not stoop to dust,
While She herself shall live. "a
John Rollin Ridge.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-07-04
City Officials

]. i. Sheehan. mayor; j. II. Ledbetter,
marshal; W IL. Drew, recorder.
.pouncimen; u. @, couch, d. Il Hall. G.
W Miller, J, 5. Davenport, L. b. Bell.
Joseph II. Butler, postmaster.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-07-04
Cherokee Nation

capital Tahlequah, Thos nj. BURLINGTON.
principal chief; Washington swimmer. Sec
pnu pnu chieI; JOS M. Lahhy treasurer; ] T..
auditor. ~
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-07-04

What would you do if you were in a
street car on q crossing and saw train
coming?' asked one woman Of another
"Sue the railroad at once" was her re-
ply, and She didn't seem to think that
shewas anticipating, either .-Indianap-
oils News.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-07-04
Secret Orders.

"A MASONIC. Vinita Lodge No. 5. Il. &
Xy1A. N meets first saturday night in
w each month In Masonic hall, Hasell
Charles Hunt, Secretary.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-07-04
Volcanic Eruptions

are grBnd, but skin eruptions rob life
Of its joy. Bucklen's arnica salye
cures them; also old running and
fever sores, ulcers, boils, felons, corns,
warts, cuts, bruises, burns, scalds,
chapped hands, chilblains; bsst pile
cure ON earth. Drives out pains and
aches. Only 25c box. Cure guar
aDteed Sold by A. w. Foreman and
Peoples drug store. DIV
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-07-04

Cherokee Board of Health.
B. \. Fortner, Nj. d.. Vinita: +. b. Fife M.
y Y; Muskogce; D. II. Burk, Nj, d., Webber's
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-07-04
DIRECTORY
Presidents Cabinet.
Interior Department.

Commissioner Ind. afPairs..... w, A Jones
Ind, agent for Ind. Ter. j Blair Shoenfelt
Ind. Inspector, .....s...,J George Wright
ReveIlue Inspector. Frank q. Churchill
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-07-04

.s,k ODD FELLOWS. Vinita Lod1e
rW<#& No. Is. /. o. o. II. meets. each
l.s,r<'s< Monday night In odd Fellow hall
In Halsell building. G. NJ. Hal
tom, N g.. A. 9. Masterson Secretary.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-07-04

ViNlrA EECAMPMENr No. II. l. o. O. r..
Meets alternate Thursday nights in odd Fell
lows hall. J. 2. Scott. &. p; A. G. Master
son. scribe.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-07-04

Fs4HER KEBEKAH LODGE Nos Meets ev-
cry Friday night in odd Fellows hall Rox-
ana Ward. N. G.. Ada O'shea. secretary
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-07-04

90 KEIoHTs OF PYTIiIAs. ohialphlan
~ Lodge no. u. X. Of r. meets every
(&<AW. Rice. q. c.; August schliecker.
~ Mot r.; w. 8 Digger X. OF K. as
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-07-04

~ ArERNAL AID Association. No. 2s2.
sets every second and fourth Wednesday
'Ae Martin. president: N. N. Edmiston.
led ary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-24
NOT SCARED BY GARDINER.
CITY CLUB LAWYERS SAY HE WOULD HAVE
NO CASE AGAINST HIS AccUsERs.

Neither the members OF the City Club who signed
the charges against District Attorney Gardiner
nor the counsel who are prosecuting those charges
are in the least perturbed by the threat that MT
Gardiner proposes to retaate upon his accusers
by causing their arrest AS a matter OF fact IL Is
doubtful If he could find any precedent in law to
justify taking such an arbitrary step
one of the counsel engaged on the side OF the
prosecution. who desired that his name should
not be used for the reason he did not wish to
be brought into direct controversy with Mr.
Gardiner said to Tribune reporter yesterday
that the courts had already judged adversely upon
the attempt of a public official. who, placed in
precisely the position as is Mr.. Gardiner
sought to imprison people who accused him OF
official derections, on a complaint of criminal
libel. That complaint the Tribunes informant
said. was thrown out by the courts and undoubt-
eddy the District Attorney would be treated in like
manner were he to attempt TO enforce his threat
1t admitted, however, that effort on the
part of Mr. Gardiner to bring criminal proceedings
against his detractors would be characteristic of
him. 1t will be recalled that his first method IN
meeting the charges brought against him was TO
defame the character and TO impugn the integrity
of his accusers. while from the moment he went
into office he has taken the attitude that any
citizen who criticised the acts of public official
laid himself open to the consequences of criminal
libel 1t this assumption, 1t was said yester-
day that caused him to attempt the prosecu-
ton of Professor Nicholas Murray Butler for his
Board of Education, and 1t is upon the same theory
that his threats against the City Club committee
based.
District Attorney Gardiner could not be seen
yesterday afternoon. but Samuel Untermyer the
counsel who is defending him, made the following
dictated statement:
T denrecate the discussion in the newspapers of
judicial proceedings. This investigation is now
proceeding before the commissioner appointed for
that purpose and / do not think 1t would be
proper ignifed for counsel to discuss any phase
Of il outside the appointed for the nvestga-
ton. If as we are for the first time told, the
men who signed these charges have actually
sworn to them. they ought to be and certainly
will be held TO full responsibility for their action
1 do not think that Colonel Gardiner would be
men to account while the investigation is still
under way.
1t will be observed that far from retracting
the threats Mr.. Untermyer that 1t is only
Mr. Gardeners taste" that prevents him calling
the City Club members to account while the In
vestigation is under way.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-24
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.
NEEDS OF ASTRONOMICAL DEPARTMENT
COMING SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS.

If the necessary funds forthcoming Professor
Rees, Of the department Of astronomy at Columbia,
will take an expedition south in May to observe
the eclipse of the The party will go TO
Raleigh n. C. vicinity for their observations
It will be necessary to take large number of in
struments which are now stored unmounted. in
Fayerweather Hail. and funds needed TO put
these appliances in order besides paying the neces
sary travelling expenses of the party. Should the
necessary money be raised then Pr ofessor Rees
and some of the officers of the department Will
go In a private capacity. Columbia is greatly
handicapped in that 1t has special funds which
might be used under Just such conditions those
which confront the department of astronomy.
This department has observatory nor adequate
equipment either for instruction for original in
vestigation. The founding OF observatories has al
ways been by private gifts. and in has
any educational institution ever used any of its
principal funds for such a purpose. Professor
Rees holds the distinction OF having instructed
more in astronomy than any other professor
in this country.
tion there was presented TO the university a mag
nlfcent bronze clock by the class of IA The clock
has been placed in the Of the large reading
room top of the circular bookcase. There are
four dals, that the time may be read from all
parts of the room The workmanship Is exquisite
and the gift is highly appreciated.
On the Amsterdam-ave. side of Fayweather Hall
a bronze tablet has been erected BY the Empire
State Society of the Sons Of the American Revolu-
ton to commemorate New-York City defences dur
Ing the war of 1sl2 also in honor of MajorGeneral
There ls on exhibition in the library very vaIu-
from the PhoeniS Coecton also bronze satnee
of Lincoln. presented to the university by General
the Lincoln statue at Edinburgh by George E.
Barnard College gave reception on Tuesday to
Professor t and Mrs; R9blnso1 Professor Robinson
history in the university, and was one Of fbree
professors Of the university whose salaries are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-24
MORE AMSTERDAM GAS BONDS.
DIRECTORS TO AUTHORIZE ANOTHER ISSUE,
PROCEEDS TO BE USED FOR
CONSTRUCTION"

A special meeting of the Board OF Directors OF
the New-Amsterdam Gas Company has been called
for February g. at the office of August Belmont
& Co. for the purpose of authorizing the certifi-
cation and delivery of bonds of the company, the
proceeds to be used for construction. The com
pany has outstanding present S2OOOOOO first con-
solidated 8 per cent bonds, which are selling at
97d9S There in the treasury, available TOT
future needs sOOOO of new consolidated 5s, and 1t
is understood that it is which is about to
be sold Directors the company yesterday refused
to say how large amount of bonds WouIo De as
posed of what the nature OF the c0nsPuc-
lion which the proceeds were 70 De apPLIeu.
While the company is not Dividend payer IL
must meet annual txed charges of $l,U0O0O or more
on its bonds and it has long been reported In Nail
the gas war the Amsterdam company had
found it difficult to earn this annual lHItrests ~
that the Sbfeet the sompanys desire to sell
additional bonds was the raising OF money needed
meet interest charges thus enapns - 20 IG
by the Consolidated Gas Company. All the COM
panes now selling gas at 90 cents to9s 5
company which began the hostlties on May
of last year originally reduced its price from 81 10
membered on May 8 cut its price TO 50 cents. on
December restored it to 81 10. the legal rate and
in January lowered it to Go cents . a.,
At the meeting yesterday CT the directors of the
ceived from the Stockhoiders' Protective Commit
tee to the effect that the holders of 465o0 shares
DEPOSITED with the Mercantile Trust Company with
the exception of soc shares which tied up
under contract and cannot be withdrawn from their
present depository for transfer to the trust com.
of the Standard Gas Light stock The Board OF
Trustees yesterday declared the regular quarterly
company. Some holders had apparently expected
a higher rate for the announcement of the per
stock. which closed 1874 net loss for the day
of per cent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-24

paid out OF Barnard funds IN return for instruction
given 70 Barnard students.
The American Physical Society OF which Pro-
fessor IT. A. Rowland. OF Johns Hopkins IL presi-
dent. and the American Mathematical 5OcisIy 81
which Professor r. s. Woodward. Of Columbia Il
president. will hold their regular meetings at the
university to-day. Each society will hold its sep
arate meeting at ii a. m. and at m they will
meet In joint session Eleven papers will be read
by professors from Lehgh, Yale. Cornell. Column
bia Wesleyan and Texas universities and from
Hayerford College. The sessions are open to tho
public.
Arrangements are now being made for the meet
ing of the American Association for the Advance
ment OF Science. which will be held at Columbia
in June Upward OF one thousand scientists from
all parts or the country are expected
Applications being made for the Aexand.r
Moncref PrOudht fellowship In letters. The fellow
ship Is FOR year. with the income from $1,000 and
the holder Is entitled 10 study either Columbia
or abroad The last date for the fling OF appllca-
lions Is April I.
The Committee Buildings and Grounds Of the
trustees is having plans prepared for the COM
pletion of University Hall. The sum OF sss "a h.
now applicable for the purpose.
Professor Brander Matthews. formerly a profess
sor OF the university. has been assigned "a a
member Of the faculty OF the college
DR.. w II. Caswell has been appointed instructor
in neurology at the Vanderbilt Clinic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-24
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
DEBATING INTEREsTs-THE UNION SITE
SCANDINAVIAN CONCERT.

Cambridge. Mass. Feb 23.-Debating for the sec
ond half year began this week with the trials for
the annual debate with Yale, be held on March
Is. The first trial on Monday night brought out
thirty-five men, fewer than in previous years but
more experienced Fourteen were retained
for the second trial held last night As in the
preparation for the Princeton debate last fall the
class clubs have taken up the subject for discus
sions. which criticised by the men retained 10
debate against Yale. formaity, new 10 Har-
ward debating has recently been instituted in the
public presentation 10 winning university and class
team debaters of prizes and medals The first
meeting of this kind held last Thursday in the
Fogg Museum lecture room. and II resembled the
distribution OF academic distinctions revived this
year by the faculty for the better recognition of
scholars.
A poll OF the undergraduates the disturbing
question of the site of the Harvard Union re-
vealed the fact that the students not yet de-
cded on 1t. In the first place only LOO votes were
polled, and In the second about SO per OF them
were in favor OF the corner of Quincy and Harvard
SITS. But all the changes of votes were from
yes to mo" and the later votes all against
the proposed site. its disadvantages were more
fully realized. larger vote would perhaps have
gone against the Quncy-st site But the result OF
the voting IL stands accords with the opinion
lows. ~
The Scandinavian concert in Sanders Theatre
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-24

Trustees of the college. of which body the Rev.
DIR. Edward Everett Hale. of Boston, and Franklin
w Hooper. of the Brooklyn Institute. mem
bers to establish special chairs with the distinct
purpose OF training men and women for the pro-
fession of teaching 1t Is not proposed to establish
another institution Of the grade of the ordinary
normal scnool but rather 10 do at Antioch College
the grade OF work being done at the Teachers
College OF Columbia.
The trustees emphasize the point of view that
the school will be conducted in the interest of the
great school systems OF the Nation II Is their pur-
pose to establish a school which shall be of i'm
fnense practical value in charging the field of high
grade preparation for the work OF teaching. Tow
ard this very praseworthy end they appeal to those
interested for aid in raising a special fund OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-24
Mr.. RATHBUN'S FAST ALMOST ENDED.
THURSDAY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN
FORTY DAYS.

Milton Rathbun, of Mount Vernon, who some
time ago began forty days fast, at his
place Of business yesterday the thirty third day of
his fast and seemed be feeling first rate mentally
and physically. He said:
l expect to finish my fast next Thursday, and
I will probably eat. eat before that
time if I get hungry. 1 not seeking notoriety
and fasting because think il may do good
and possibly my experiment may be of some
vice TO medical science. can see others eat and
enjoying themselves yet the feastng of others does
not cause any pargs of hunger
Mr. Rathbun who spends about nine hours each
day his place of business in Fourth-ave.. says
that he sleeps from and half to nine hours
each night, that his temperature remains normal
and has not been below 9713 higher than 9s1A
since he began his fast January 81. At that time
he weighed POI pounds. He now tips the beam at
1855 pounds and believes that by next Thursday
his weight will be reduced from six to ten pounds
Mr.. Rathbun says that plenty of fresh air and
about two quarts of water a day are all that he
requires to keep himself healthy and happy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-24
CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
wAsHINGToN's BIRTHDAY cELEBRATIoN-IEcr-
UREs BY PERSONS OUTSIDE THE COLLEGE.


UREs BY PERSONS OUTSIDE THE COLLEGE.
Ithaca, N Y, Feb 23.-At the meeting OF the
Electrical Society last Monday evening Professor
Harris J. Ryan gave experimental lecture on
High Pressure Electrical Phenomena at Moderate
Periodcities." On the same evening Miss BrowneH
spoke before the women students in Sage College
on Letter Writing"
Professor z. A. Fuertes has been elected a MEM
Der Of the Ninth Inter- atOnaI Congress OF Internal
Navigation and vice-president OF the economic
section. He will attend the sessions OF the con-
gress. which meets in Paris in July
Washingtons Birthday was. according to the
annual custom. observed a university holiday
In the evening Oscar F. Williams so. who on
Admiral Dewey's flagship during the battle OF
Manila. spoke before the university the famous
battle his lecture being entitled "On the Bridge
Of the Olympia with Dewey at Manila"
The experimental department OF Sihley College
has begun test OF the plant Of the Buffalo Street
Railway Company 1t Is one of the most important
tests ever undertaken by the department. Forty
students are 20 take part in the test, fifteen OF
whom will write theses on their work
On Friday Major Thomas W Symons o. 5. A.
lectured before the College OF Civil Engineering on
Canals from Lake TO Sea" On Fridsy evening
Professor Simon H Gage lectUred before the Phtlo-
sophical Club Mechanism in Biology"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-24
SPECIAL B. R. T. GRAND JURY.
JOHN PROCTOR CLARKE EXPECTS IT TO FINISH
ITS WORK IN FEBRUARY

The Special Grand Jury convoked to inquire into
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit matter and other mat
1ers held especially long session yesterday The
proceedings Of the Grand Jury were guarded, and
nothing could be learned to what il did. John
Proctor Clarke the special Deputy Attorney Cen
eral appointed by Governor Roosevelt. said after
the adjournment Of the jury for the day that he
did not consider Justice Fursman's remarks con-
corning the sessions nf the Grand Jury any criti-
cism.
Justice Fursman merely called their attention to
the fact that February short month had
many holidays and that the term did not begin
untit after the month had for a few days. and
that IL was necessary for the Grand Jury work
in order 10 finish its business Mr.. Clarke said that
the average attendance twenty-one, a very high
record. and that he never public body work
any harder. he said that the reported proceedings
Of the Grand Jury were inaccurate. He concluded
By saying that the Grand Jury would finish all the
work IL had in hand before the expiration of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-24

last Friday night was the most notable event of
its kind this year, not only because II was unique
and instructive. but because the music was itself
exceedingly we'll executed. The concert was free
of charge, the expenses being provided by Mrs
Hammer, of Boston, and consequently over two
thousand applications for seats had 10 be refused
The hall was packed and the ordinary impressive
student and Cambridge audience was often tremen
dously stirred. Twenty pieces from the Boston
Symphony Orchestra played from Sodermann.
Grieg and Ole Bull, and Miss Aagot Lunde sang
Norwegian folk lore songs and parts from Grieg's
Peer Cynt"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-24
ANTIOCH COLLEGE.
A SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS PRoPosED-AN APPEAL
FOR FUNDS

At the last commencement OF Antioch College
Yellow Springs, Ohio. the trustees took measures
for the establishment of a first class school for
teachers The plan had long been under consid-
Grafton. end ever since the Idea was first con-
ceived the purpose has been to have a school
which should be in close connection with the pub
lie school system OF the Middle States
The earlier idea of the college has been of a
place whose chief function was to make clergy
men. Horace Mann. the first president OF Antioch.
undertook to make college for teachers there
His system has always colored the work of thar
institution. 1t Is now proposed by the Board of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-24
SKULL FRACTURED; soN-IN-LAw ACCUSED

Mrs Mary Regain, sixty years old, is in Bellevue
suffering from fractured skull, which she SAYS
she sustained on Thursday night while being beaten
with heavy stick OF kindling wood by her son-in-
l@w, Christopher Sherman, of No. A4 First-aye
Mrs. Regan lives with her daughter Sherman's
wlfe, at that address Sherman, when arrested at
his home, denied Mrs. Regan's charge but said
that she was IAN intolerable nuisance" In his
and hairs. was found.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-24
LARGE SAILING SHIPS PRoPosED

Bath Me. Feb S.-Plans have been completed
by the firm Of Arthur Sewall & Co. OF Bath Me,
Tor two big four mast steel ships, larger than any
ever built in the Sewall yard. The new vessels
Will be $500 each and will have 600 Tons more
carrying capacity than either of the three steel
ships included in the SewaII fleet Work on
the first OF the new shios will begin May