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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-08-30

Freetown, Jackson Bo., Ind.
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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-08-30

A. n. h NHUNIHl
Sunday school every Sunday afternoon at
$3.50. ]. q Hicks, superintendent, Preach
Ing every Sunday at II a.. m, aud 1850 d. m.
Glass meeting Friday evenings. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evenings. Board meet
ing Monday evenings. 7. n. Tyson, pastor.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-08-30

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. CoLoRED.
Preaching at II, a. m. and 8, y. M, Sunday.
sunday school az 0;t3. a. m. Prayer meet
Ing Wednesday aud Friday evenings At 1850;
q. W. HARTs, Pastor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-31
EXCITING EXPERIENCE.
Miss Letter Rescued From Savages
by Buffalo Bill in Chicago.

Chicago. ILL.,, Aug. 31.-Miss Mamie Lei
ter, just returned from India and scenes
of tiger hunts and elephant battles, was
the object of a fierce attack by a band
of Sioux Indians last night. Repeating
rifles belched flame and long Colts crack
ed. Then, amid the yells of half hun
dred brave white men and the bowls of
half hundred disappointed savages. Miss
Letter was rescued from the peril which
assailed her and, with her father and her
brother Joe, who alsso We're objects of
attack, was congratulate ted upon her nerve
by Buffalo Bill himself
This was at the Wild West Show. The
occasion was the regular daily rain-or-
shine holdup of the Deadwood coach The
actors, besides the Letters, were the mem
bers of Mr.. Cody's company.
The Letters occupied a box at last
nights performance. As the Deadwood
coach came on the scene, they were in
vited by Major Burke to ride on the We
hicle, be attacked and rescued.
Miss Letter was delighted with the idea:
young Joe thought it fine fun; and Letter,
sr., hadn't been held up in so long that he
felt like renewing the sensation So they
accepted the invitation
When it looked as if the coach and its
inmates were at the betting odds of 1000
Bill appeared with a, whoop with a for
midable array of cowboys. He rescued the
passengers of the coach, leaving the
ground streWn with the PROSTATE forms of
the savage assailants- Then. with a grace
and courtIinesS all his own, Mr.. Cody
helped the passengers from the coach and
complimented Miss Letter on her courage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-31
AFRO-AMERICANS ADJOURN
After Passing Resolutions Condem-
ming Tammany Policemen.

Indianapolis. Ind. Aug. s1.-The Afro
American council concluded its session
today, the last feature being an address
by Booker T. Washington. who was re-
ceived with great applause. He con-
fined his remarks almost entirely to ed
ucational suggestions.
Philadelphia was chosen as the next
place of meeting, in August. 1901. The
following resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, That this council now in
session at Indianapolis not only approves
but herewith sends greetings to our
brethren in New York City and bid them
God speed in their manly fight against
mob law and police injustice.
Resolved further, That the thanks of
this council be and are herewith tend
cred to the journals of New York. who
without any regard to party affiliation,
condemn in unmeasured terms the in
human conduct of the Tammany police
men, who instead of giving protection to
fleeing and defenseless men, women and
children of the negro race, were found
to be among the chief violators OF the
Ia "
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WILL BE A CATTLE KING.
Frank Rockefeller Has Big Ranch
West of Wichita.

Wichita, Aug 31.-Frank Rockefeller
is making preparations to quit all of his
other business and embark in cattle rails
ing since he has been frozen out of the
Standard Oil company by his brother,
John d. Rockefeller.
He has ordered new house built on
his ranch, so miles west of here, and has
instructed his agent here to furnish the
house in fine style. The house will cost
about $50, 900, and perhaps more. 1t will
be furnished fit for king, as Rockefel-
Ter says he will give some swell enter
ta1nments out there this winter.
His Wife will live on the ranch with
hlrn- IL Is located on the Wichita &
Western railroad and comprises 80, 600
acres of fine grazing land. Rockefeller
has it stocked with fine cattle now, and
he says he viii shortly buy lot more
He claims to have the finest stock farm
in the world. He is now east winding
up his minor business affairs so he can
give more attention to the ranch.
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OPPOSED TO POLYGAMY.
Joseph Smith Defends His Fathers
Doctrines

Kansas City. Mo-, Aug. Alan adj
dress to members of the reorganized
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints, by Joseph Smith. the president
of the church and son of Joseph Smith,
its founder. defined the church's attitude
toward polygany. The occasion was
the meeting of the saints at their annual
reunion at Washington Park.
Joseph Smith stated in the most en-
phatic words that the Latter Day Saints
did not believe in polygamy, that they
never had believed in 1t, that their foun-
der, Joseph Smith, had so stated again
and again.
In the doctrine and covenants Of
Joseph Smith, published first in 1895, and
published again and again after that,
plural marriage is forbidden said Pres
ident Smith.
The covenants are unmistakable. No
one of us at that time ever thought of
plural marriage until Joseph Smith,
founder of the church, died. Then, a few
years later, that branch of the church
which had gone to Utah, proclaimed its
belief, through revelation, in a plural
marriage. The doctrine and covenants
were published in Utah with that section
eliminated which forbade plural mar
riage. The section forbidding plual mar
rage was contained in every edition I'M
til the Utah church published its own
edition.
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CONGRESS AND THE CENSUS.

philadelphia North Americana
A considerable element of uncertainty
will be contributed to the problem of
the political control of the house of rep
resentatives during the next decade by
the larger representation that will ac-
crua to the cities at the expense of the
rural districts under the forthcoming
reapportionment of congressional dis
tricts. BY 50 much the chances are
unfavorable to the Republicans Al
ready they find it difficult to carry the
house with the solid south and the
large cities of the north arrayed against
them. Their task viii be made no
lighter when the representation of the
greater centers of population is in
creased according to the returns of the
present census
The cities, more than the country,
have shown a tendency to be Demo-
cratic. although Philadelphia and Cleve-
land in the north and ST. Louis in the
south have notably proved exceptions
Their influence is counterbalanced to a
certain extent by New York, Chicago
and Boston In these cities, however
the fluctuations Of opinion have been
surprisingly frequent and extreme. In
New York state. in years of presiden-
tial elections. it is a question of how
many votes the Democrats will go up
to the Harlem with. and in Illinois
everythings hangs on what Cook county
will do The country regions move
slowly and do not give way to such
frequent revulsions of political feeling
This shifting of the balance of power
to the cities will also have much to
do with the future composition of the
senate, for state legislatures will be
affected in much the same way as the
house Of representatives. Proportion
ately. New York and Illinois and other
states containing large cities will be
likely to swing from the Republican
20 the Democratic column, as the trans
fer Of strength from the country to the
city operates The Republicans have
smaller prospect of gains to be made
by the change, for in those large cities
where they, normally prevail, as in
Philadelphia, the voters in outlying
sections are in sympathy with the ur-
ban electors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-31
BOARDING HOUSE COMBINE.
Emporia Normal Clubs Want to Raise
the Price of Board.

Emporia, Aug .31.-The advance guards
of the army of students, who will soon
arrive in the city to attend the normal,
are already in the city and their arrival
disclosed the fact that there is a COM
bine on of the several clubs in the north
part of town and the price of board has
gone up. The movement has been agita-
ted for the past three weeks, and in that
time the plan has been talked over and
over by those who run the boarding
houses. The plan proposed viii raise
the price of board to a uniform price
of 50. 25 per week and is to be held there
by those who go into the combine The
price of meals will be Is cents to tram
silent.
Two years ago a few of the clubs
charged S1.s5 per week but this was not
to remain long.
Last year the lowest price charged
was 81 per week
Several of the 'shostesses'' who have
been running clubs" here for years,
have made a thorough canvass Of the
boarding houses and found that all are
in favor of the movement. Each one has
consented to go into the combine pro-
vided all would do so and the result is
that a combination win be perfected be-
fore the rush for soup houses begins
in earnest.
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Philadelphia Record: 1t is most
convincing proof of the soundness and
solidity of the financial condition of the
country that neither the outflow of gold
to Europe nor the customary shipments
of currency to move the crops nor the
political perturbations of a, presidential
year have awaited to shake the public
confidence or disturb the ease of the
money market. Whether Mckinley or
Bryan shall be the next president, the
business of the nation, swollen to inn
perial proportions, will go prosperously
onward The country is bigger than off,
cialdom.
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SUES TOWN OF MACON.
Prisoner in Calaboose Was Almost
Stung to Death by BUNDLE Bees.

Macon, Mo-, Aug. 31.-The attorneys
for John Bunch, a farmer, living near
La Plata, are preparing to file a petit
ton against. the town, asking several
thousand dollars damages for personal
injuries occasioned by an attack of
bumble-b bees.
The plaintiff was arrested on August
%, and allowed to remain in the Gala
boose nearly all day Soon after the
jailor left, Bunch was viciously at
tackled by a swarm of bumble-be and
was stung all over the face, in the
mouth and ears and every exposed
place.
The shed used as a lookup was iso-
lated and as no one heard or under
stood the prisoners cries, he endured
the torture nine hours before rescued
The doctors had hard work to save his
life as his tongue and mouth were
swollen so badly that respiration was
well nigh impossible
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USES THE Housewife.
Man Came 1000 Miles to Avenge In
suit to His Mother.

Rockford. ILL.,. Aug. S1.-Frank Alling,
a wealthy ranchman of Tacoma, Wn..
publicly horsewhipped his brother-in-
law. Philip Danlxy, of this city, at the
Nelson hotel. Registering under an as
sumed name, Alling sent note to his
relative. When the two men met in the
rotunda of the hotel Alling threw off his
coat, produced whip and dashed Danky
until the latter fell on the floor.
Il came 1000 miles to do this very
thing" said Alling, as he put on his
coat, land I did it because h slandered
my aged mother, who lives with him.
Mr.. Danlxy is wealthy retired resi-
dent, He says Alling assaulted him be-
by Alling's father, of which Mrs. Dankv
is Administrative. The two men have not
seen each other for 25 years, and this Is
Alling's first visit here since he left the
city 40 years ago. Both men are nearly
70 years of age.
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Government Lost Nothing.

washington, Aug. S1.-The govern
11sent has lost no funds through the re-
ported held-up on the Union Pacific in
Wyoming yesterday. At least careful
inquiry at the war department shows
that no funds were in transit to the
troops in Manila. Nor were any of the
staff bureaus at the war department
sending any money by that train to the
philippines or to China. It is said at
the war department that if the depart
ment had been sending money in this
way it would not be the loser in case
of robbery, for the express companies
transfer of the money, and the loss
would fall upon them
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FELL FROM A BOAT.
Team of Horses and Truck Loaded
With Express Packages Are Lost

New York. Aug. s1.-A big double truck,
loaded with small packages for New
York, and team of roam horses, the
property of the United States Express
company, were lost off the Central Rail-
road of New Jersey ferry-boat Commune
paw today the Jersey side.
1t was during the rush hour of the
commuters to New York. The wagon had
just started across the bridge to the fer
ry-boat when the pilot rang the bell to
start. The big wagon had just got upon
the inclined roadway of the ferryboat
deck.
The horses gave a scream that was so
horrible that all who heard it will not for
get 1t for many a day The horses
screamed again as they struggled in the
water before they were dragged under
and then the commotion in the water a
it closed over. their heads was all that
showed that there had been an accident.
The loss is estimated at 81 500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-31
PORTO RICAN PAPER
Says Island Is Worse OF Now Than
Under Spanish Rule.

Washington, Aug. 31.-The following
translation of an article published in La
Diao de Puerto Rico, a Porto Rican
daily newspaper, published at Ponce. ex-
plains the reasons why the Inhabitants
of that island objected to the celebra-
ton of July 25 as their independence
day, and also sheds new light on the
administrations civil service in Porto
Rico La Diao says:
THE American government found in
Porto Rico great autonomy like ana
as good as that of Canada It ought to
have accepted this autonomy and ap-
proved it, instead of OverthroWing 1t
as it did. The Porto RicanSs under
Spanish dominion, were considered
Spanish citizens. They had three rep
resentativeS in the Spanish senate and
sixteen representatives in the house.
These representatives not only governed
the island of Porto Rico, but also helped
to govern Spain. Now, we are to have
voice or vote
Then we had a council whose resolu-
lions were always sanctioned by the
governor general. Now we have an eX-
ecutive council, formed for the most part
of persons who never were Porto Ricans,
nor have any business here. Their only
interest lies in working for the Republic
can party in Washington, which party
sent them here. But they are paid out
of the Porto Rican treasury.
Then we had an insular house of rep
resentatives, the members of which were
elected by popular suffrage. This house
was created to legislate upon internal
revenue, public works, instructions in
business, health. the mills and tele-
graphs. Now, we shall have council
of members, all of whom will be ap-
pointed by the executive council, which,
in turn is itself appointed by the Re
publican party at Washington, with i'm
perialistic instructions.
Then we had fairly good system of
instruction, which was to have been i'm
proved later on. Now we have a system
of instruction through the intricacies of
which the students have already lost one
suits, and are liable to lose as many
more years as the present impeIialistic
government at Washington may desire.
Then we had daily mails in every city
and at every place on the island. We
ROW have mail every other day in many
places. and in others every third daY."
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conditions the negro viii contribute the
best judgment OF an earnest, seif-sacri-
ficing. law-abiding citizenship.
Resolved. That we realize that the
salvation of our race is in our own
hands; that the immutable laws of ma
ture know no color line With IS years
Of freedom we gladly accept all the re-
sponsibilities which civilization and
citizenship place upon US, and ask only
a fair field and no favor. We plead
no excuses, seek no particular privi-
Ieges, ask no special laws in favor Of
ourselves or on account of our grand
fathers. but we do appeal to the chiv-
airy of the nineteenth century that if
it be too busy to help US forward that
it win be toe generous to push us
hack ~
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Pensions For Kanaana.

Washington, Aug. 31.-Pensions have
been granted as follows:
Original-Eli c. Weaver dead, Ar
cadia, $12
supplemental-Willi C. Meredith,
Horton, Sc.
Restoration and Increase-George w.
Rarey, dead, Hiattville, $50.
Restoration and Reissue - Loyal
Rooms, dead, Hertha, $12.
1ncrease-Thomas C. Baker, Holton,
SIG; Newton ]. Sharke, La Cygne, $12;
Miller Morris, Howard, $40; William
King, Hutchinson, ST.
Reissue-Albert w. Helm, Ellsworth,
$12
Original widows, etc. - Margaret
Rooms, Hertha, IS; Minnie ]. Severance,
Oakland, IS; Sarah A. Weaver, Area
dia, So; Mary J. Rarey, Hiattville,, S.
Special account, August 15-Malinda.
Allen, Valley Falls, IS; Mary c. Miller,
Argentine, IS; Sarah A. Hall, Severance,
So; Martha Lea, Edna. $1A
Mexican war widows, special account,
August 15-Kate Cooper, Oskaloosa, 49,
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OTIS REAPPEARS
On the Eve of the Retirement of Gen
Wheeler

Washington. Aug. S1.-Major General
Otis has arrived in Washington and call
ed upon Secretary Root and Adjutant
General Corbin at the war department
and preferred formal request for as
signment to active duty. This request is
now under consideration. He has been
on waiting orders at his home in Roch-
ester or nearby, ever since his return
from the Philippines in the early sum
iner. The retirement next Monday of
Major General Wheeler as commanding
officer of the department of lakes with
headquarters at Chicago, is the first
available opening for an officer of the
rank of Gen. Otis and it is probable that
he will be assigned to this post.
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CANAL BOAT TRUST.
Scheme on Foot to Corner Market
and Raise the Freight Rates.

Buffalo, n. Y, Aug. 31.-The latest thing
in trusts is combination of the owners of
the Erie canal boats to regulate the bust
ness in the canal A movement has been
started at Tonawanda to organize a stock
company with capital of 100000. own
ers of g225 canal boats are enlisted in the
scheme, 1t is said, and the plan is to ulti-
mately get control of the entire feet of
800 boats which the artificial water
way. The plan is, of course, to fix freight
rates.
The scheme is to have the company own
all of the boats, and issue shares of stock
equal to their valuation There will be
no watering of stock. and expenses will
be kept down to bedrock. The Tona-
wanda Association Boat Owners is said to
be at the center of the movement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-31
HAVE BLACK DIPHTHERIA.
Entire Street in Camden, N. J., Teens
With the Disease.

Camden, N. J., Aug. s1.-An entire
street teeming with black diphtheria in
its worst form was discovered here to-
day. That the whole community is not
affected is due only to good fortune.
Silver street in this city is two blocks
long, and contains forty-nine houses.
The houses are as thickly populated
with colored Families as an ant hill, and
when the board of health officers went
to investigate the death of little Nellie
Saunders today they found that she
had succumbed to black diphtheria, and
that there was not house in the street
that the scourge had not visited.
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as attorneys for Esther Lapham and her
next friend, Florence Laphan.
The plaintiff states that Esther. Lap
ham, a minor 8 years of age, was in the
habit. with other children of the neigh
borhood, of crossing Douglas avenue at
the Junction of Douglas and Ida avenues.
On July Fl, the petitioner states, the
child was crossing the street when the
defendant caused to be run by one of its
servants street car propelled by cleo
tricity.
That on the day mentioned, the de-
PENDANT and its Servants failed to stop
the car and failed also to give sufficient
warning and caused the car to be run
upon Esther Lapham, throwing her vio-
ing her upon her head, body and limbs
externally and Internally
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FAIR FIELD AND NO FAVOR.

Many of the most prominent coIored
men in the country have been in con-
vention at indianapolis this week. Pol
itics was studiOusly avoided in the dis
cussion, and the net results of the
meeting are embodied in the following
resolutions, which are worthy Of con-
sideration by other classes of American
citizens besides the negro:
Resolved, That we realize that con-
ditions exist that can not be theor1zed
away and point to our many years OF
patient burdens bearing as proof that to
the wise adjustment of all menacing
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TO ERECT A FACTORY.
Eastern Capitalists Invest in Kansas
Gas Land.

Cherryvale, Kas.. Aug. s1-Eastern
capitalists, mostly Chicago and Indiana.
land leases in this section for some
time past The parties were here this
week and purchased the Ellsworth farm
north of the city, on which is a large
shale mound, where they will begin the
erection of a sewer pipe and tile roof
ing factory. The plans and specifica-
tons for the building are already per-
fected. The building will be four stor-
les high, 1852 feet long and 1874 feet wide
The plant will employ over 200 hands
Natural gas will be used for fuel.
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Favors Larger Lay Delegation.

Springfield, Ill., Aug. 31.-The Wart-
berg of the Lutheran church of the
United States today adopted a resolu-
ton favoring a larger lay delegation in
the synod The day was devoted to a
discussion of the congregational work
lections.
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LIEUTENANT Way KILLED.

Washington, Aug. 31.-A dispatch
from General Macarthur announces
that Second Lieutenant H N. Way,
Fourth infantry, was killed near VIVA
yieja, Luzon, August 2S. Lieutenant
Way was born near Rutland, ILL.,, in 1874.
He graduated from the military acad-
envy in 1899 He went to Manila, April
T. 1899, and served with his regiment I'M
til March %, of this year, since which
time he had been on duty with Cast
DQr'S scouts
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS
LFrom the Chicago News.l
A linen buster is a popular summe

LF'rom the Chicago News1
A linen buster is a popular summer
resort.
Ungrammatically speaking. a kiss is
a conjunction.
Half parasol is better than no UNI
brella in a shower.
The tick of a watch is inside, and that
of bed is outside
A man can walk a mile without NOV
ing more than a couple of feet.
The punch bowl has been the direct
cause of many an unfriendly punch.
Money uses its wings occasionally to
take a flyer in the stock markets
No wonder a young man looks all
broke up when his best girl throws him
down.
The gardener may abhor vice, yet he
is always interested in the rake's pro-
gress-
The man who doesn't know enough to
go in when it rains gets many free
shower bath.
If common sense will not teach a
young man etiquette, book on the sub
ject is of little use.
A college student says he rather en-
joys his studies as they furnish a needed
relaxation from his athletic work
When a woman is angry she tells a
man just what she thinks of hina-and
incidentally just what everybody else
thinks of him.
The physicians of Columbus. o., have
organized to protect themselves from
dead beats. 1t is the live beats that
worry other folks. but probably the
ghosts cs dead ones haunt physicians