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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01
CHIEFTAINCY CONTEST.
Inspector Wright Hears the
Case at TahIequah.

The Tahlequah Sentinel prints
the following account of the chiefs
ccntest heard last week by the
special Indian inspector:
Inspector Wright told all par
lies very frankly that he had been
ordered by the department to in
vestigate the matter, that it had
been represented that council had
not properly investigated the mat
ter, but he said that the records
showed that the Cherokee law had
been complied with, that it was
sent to a committee where evil
dence was taken and a report
nade, and that he had no right to
lInpugn the motives or attack the
integrity of the members of the
c~mmitlee. He frankly said that
he proceedings were regular, and
g We everyone to understand that
he would SO report.
This should be explained to all
the fullbloods, and Mr.. Wright did
in detail explain it to Daniel
Gritts but he will never tell the
masses. The masses are being
duped; they are being fieeced by
designing persons who are living
upon their credulIty. They are
made to believe that they are
wronged and robbed and that all
of this can and will be righted,
but, of course, it will take a little
funds" Then the little organ
lzations are called together and in
whispered words, lest their COM
mon enemy, the white Indian,
should chance to hear and over
throw their plans, they are told
hat their laws and government
will be restored, that game will
again abound, that cultivated fields
will yield to forests, etc., etc., pro-
vided a certain amount can be
raised. The poor, ignorant Indian,
without food or clothes, proceeds
to mortgage or sell his last piece
of property in order to contrib
Ute" Then the junketing trip is
planned and executed. 1t is re
ported that the last one composed
of Gritts and John Grass, with
Henry Dick for interpreter, after
making the necessary collection,
started and reached St. Louis
where Dick reported that he had
been robbed. Gritts and Grass
returned home and the last
heard of Dick was that he had
traded for a gas well in Parsons,
Kansas.
The time has come when some
patriotic Cherokee speaking citi-
zen should tell the fullbloods the
ruth and tell them frankly that
they are being duped.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01
Her sIIstake.

The conductor said there was room
for few more inside.
At the Elephant and Castle, when the
train turned west. the customary con.
tingent of shoppers got in. and there
was an uncomfortable jam.
But the little man kept his eyes on his
paper. He also kept his seat.
Pardon me, madam" said polite
man hanging on TO a strap to a lady
standing beside him with an armful Of
paper parcels, you are standing on my
foot"
I'm so sorry" said she 81 thought
1t belonged to the man sitting down"
And then the little mans eyes were
lifted from his paper, and she got the
seat.-Pearson's.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01
me SCOT. and BararIan..

In a paper on Recent Ethnograph-
ical Work in Scotland" read before the
British association, Mr.. Gray described
his observations on the color of The
hair and eyes Of the schoolchildren Of
East .Aberdeenshire. The pigmenta-
ton Of the Scotch children was shown
in a table and compared with the con-
tinental districts, whence, according
to tradition and history, the lowlaDd
Scots derived large element Of their
population-viz.: Schleswig- -Holstein,
Lueneberg, and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
the reputed original seats Of the Angles
and Saxons. The tables showed that
the three north German districts were
more blonde than East Aberdeenshire.
Germany got more brunette and less
blonde from north TO SOUTH and we
must go as far as upper Bavaria to get
a district approximating in pigmenta-
tion to East Aberdeenshire.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01
CHANCE 10 HELP THE NEEDY

Those who have recently visited
the settlement in Deiaware distric,
east ot Grlnd river, bring repor =
of the pitiahle COZ dition of some o.
the families who are quarantine6
in their homes on account of small
pox over ihere. There are a grear
Tsny very poor people in that
section anyway, and when an in
fectious disease is added their
troubles become serious indeed
DR.. Owen tells Of one family OF
father, mother and several small
children who occupy single small
room. Several Of them are dan
gerously sick and they had beer
living upon cracked corn alone ur-
III supplied with food sent from
Vini,a, aad hat blanket and h
ragged quilt was the entire
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01
smallpox Situation al Grove.

Wednesday night the council
met to talk over the smallpox
situation. At the meeting three
members of Groves medical board
we're selected, requested to visit
Charles Parker, one and one-half
miles southeast of Grove to ascer-
tain the true character of the dis
ease and so report. Drs. Lanier,
Holland and Wells were selected,
visited the patient Thursday and
report it a genuine case of small
pox. This is the situation here
and the town is strictly quaran-
tined against the infected place
and will be till such time as it is
safe to raise the quarantine regu-
lations.-Messenger.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01

1t lie very clear that whatever
is the Indian Territory has suff-
red in recent years. the prospect
i improvement in the immediate
ature is not good. All indications
. int 20 a worse and more unsatis-
,ctOrY state of affairs than we
ave yet endured. But conditions
IRE are drifting toward a crisi.,
ben the turning point shall be
ached no one can tell. The
resent year is a political year, and
ne chancrs are that no legislation
o. a different character to what we
1ave had will be attempted. The
i've tribes are very much in the
attitude of a man given a death
wound and left to die a slow agon-
lzing death.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01
WHO OWNS US.
Purcell Register Charges Of
fiCiaI ProcraStination.

Who does the IEdian country
belong to, anyhow Not to the
common Indian, for many of them
have scarcely anything. By no
means to the non citizen whites,
for Mr.. McKennon thinks this
class of people have no right to
breath the Indian air without per-
mission of the Dawes commission.
A recent event shows who are
the real owners of tho country. 1t
was proposed that law be passed
at the present session OF congress
providing for registers Of deeds for
the Indian country. Possibly
there was no great benefit in this
to any except those who might
have been sent here from the
states to fill the Offices created. 1t
is not our intention TO defend or
condemn this bill, for We have
given it but little thought. The
tact We want to call attention to is
that the federal court clerks al
once had a meeting and it was
stated that this meeting was for
the purpose of taking steps to op
pose the passage of this bill. Ii
was given out fat-footed by one OF
those present that the bill would
not be passed, not because of lack
of merit, but because its passage
would reduce the fees received by
the clerks. And you have never
heard of the bill since.
What matters the convenience
of the people when the fees of the
officers are attacked? The Indian
Territory is only grazing grounU
for worn out political hacks anO
nothing must be done TO shorten
the grass. Things must be drag
ged along as slowly as possible So
there may be feed here for yei
many years, for tOwnsite apprais
ers who can put in year ap-
praising two towns, for the Dawes
commission, which found complex
conditions here FIVE years ago and
nave succeeded in creating a chaos
almost equalling that which con
fronted the Almighty on the first
day OF creation, for federal officers
responsible to no power save that
which put them i'll Office and who
serve the public only when it
serves them. And, as we are told
that "feas have lesser f1eas to bite
en-" SO has each member of each
OF these bodies his particular para
sites, all working TO The same emo
that of holding on as long az
possible to the present fat jobs,
many of them knowing that if they
were forced to depend upon theiI
own merits for positions they
couldn't hold for twenty fouI
hours a job as chambe maid in
livery stable.
And yet there are newspaper
men aud other people in the ter
ritory who think ii the best policy
that we should knuckle down t.
these officials and bend the KNEE
in the hope that Thrift may fol-
low fawnlng," that We must al
ways speak with a sort of please
excuse me tor living" air. For
one, the Reg ster Is tiriDg of al
this aud We are liable to break ou
pretty soon aud free our mind
Purcell Register.
Why NOti
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01

"Let me look at your vaccina-
Jion mark and see how it is get
ting along" said a ClaremOre
young man to his best girl the
other evening. And be could not
think why she said "Sirl" in such
an indignant tone of voice and
slammed the door as she hOunced
out of the room, until the family
doctor told him that girls are not
vRccinated on their arms any more.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01

President Mckinley has at last
relented, and is now willing 10 al
low a Cherokee delegation to come
to Washington when their serv-
ices are needed, and will approve
an appropriation for their actual
expenses. The days of sinecures
seems TO be about over in the
Cherokee nation.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01

Congressman Bass Little, Of Ar
kansas, proposes to make the col
ection of revenue due the Indian
rIbes in the territory impossible
by repeating the laws under which
hey are sought to be collected.
This is rather a peculiar way of
getting at the matter. but is far
more commendible than the meth
q adopted by some officials, that
IF refusing to comply with the law
4 d collect the money due the In
iisns. Little is like the gambler
Who said, "I know that my bus
ness is illegal, but then l did not
make the laws" II gamblers,
Uotpsds and chicken thieves could
, II a turn at law making they
3 ould no doubt soon be able to le-
, 'lize their business.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01

"This smallpox you are afraid
Of, +" said a Grand river farmer one
day last week, "ain't smallpox at
all. It's nothing but celluloid and
they amt no use to eanteen the
whole town for that"
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01
SCHOOLS IN THE TERRITORY.

The metropolitan press, and sev-
raj jingo papers in the Indian
rerritory are trying to raise an
alarm about what they character
ze as the deplorable condition of
white people in the Indian coun-
ry. II these papers are to be be-
ileved, at least 100000 white chill
iren are growing up in ignorance
and poverty here solely form the
negligence of congress in prOvid-
ing an annual appropriation for
school purposes. But the state
nents given out are at variance
with the facts. The white people
4 the Cherokee nation are in a
much better condition every way
taan are the masses in the states
rom whence they come, and all
MS cry for congressional aid
comes from the army of politicians
aud Office holders, with which the
country is greatly overstocked.
There is no more thrifty and inde-
pendant class of farmers anywhere
tnan are to be found in the terri
tory, and throughout the country
will be found neighborhood schools
where both white and Indian chill
dren attend as regular and as gen.
orally as they do in the states. All
the towns have Echools and have
had all along.
The school facilities in our own
city are fair sample of what may
be found in other towns. We have
graded public school attended
by about 400 pupils, absolutely
free to every resident of the town
of school age, kept up by tax
that no one considers exhorbitant.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01

a bill has been introduced i'm
congress p prohibiting railroads from
charging more than 3 cents a mile
for carrying passengers through
the Indian Territory.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01

Now that Claremore has been
qusrsntined she will probably take
the Vinita board of health serious.
ly next time,
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01

At Omaha a few days ago, four
members of the school board were
rresIed on the charge of accepting
br;bes from a representative of a
window blind company, who tes-
tilted to paying the accused men,
bers sums ranging from S25 to
$40, for which they agreed to give
him the contract to furnish the
schools with blinds.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01

Congress exhibited its short
sightedness in not allowing the ap-
propiatiOn of the full amount
asked by the Dawes commission
tor carrying on the work in the
Indian Territory. The chief OBJ
lection, at home and abroad, to the
work of the Dawes commission
has been it's tardiness IN sccomp-
ii>hing results. The whole coun-
try has become impatient at the
delays, but when it is considered
that congress refuses to appropri-
ate the means for pushing the
work the blame should not rest
upon The Dawes commission. Ii
the work is to be finished in two
years the appropriation must be
made sufficient to carry on the
Fusiness. Asmsller appropriation
means q longer time in accomp-
lshiDg the desired end. If the
commission are to employ enough
men to do the work soon they
must have the necessary funds.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01

The Rig rs Democrat contains
the announcement of The death at
Sapulpa, l. T., recently, of S. W.
Harmon, who was for a number of
years resident of Rogers, and
while living there conceived the
idea of compiling the history of
the United States court of Fort
Smith, which made i;s appearance
under the title of "Hell on the
Border. Eft. Smith Elevator.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01

Will Zevely, formerly a demo-
cratic politician at Jefferson City,
now special sgent of the interior
department at Washington, is in
the territory again. He is the
man who uncovered the crooked
ness of the Creek Indian warrants
and he is now at work on some
crooked combinations between cat.
ilemen and Indian agents that
promises to cause several vacan-
sles here in the territory.-South
McAlester Capital.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01
ABOUT VARIOUS THINGS.

The quickest wink on record is about
one-sixth OF second.
Paris gets part OF It's ice By rail from
a glacier near Briancon-
OF 124 law students admitted to the
bar in London. 10 have Oriental names.
A church in Hawaii has raised SIC. 1000
for missionary work in the Philippines.
California roses contain 20 per cent
more perfume than those grown In 9TH
er states
Baltimore has the largest negro pop
ulation Of any city in the country. 1t
Is estimated to be about 125.000.
Pennsylvania's silk industry now
amounts to ss2.O0O.OOo annually. an in
crease Of 80 per cent since 1895.
Charcoal Is the chief Italian fuel. II
costs from s16 to $40 ton in Italy and
700, 900 tons are consumed yearly.
One day recently there were 10s car
loads Of watermelons on the railroad
tracks in Pittsburg. The cars contain
ed 100000 melons.
One OF our farmers came into
store few days since with some
'pples TO sell. The store keeper
ffered him Is cents a bCshel. A
commercial traveller who was
standing by, said to the farmer:
''Ii you had those apples in New
York you could get 81 so for
them " "Ys.as, l 'spose | could" "
replied the farmer. "an' if | had
pail of water in HI it would bring
u dollar a glass :" Zone on me"
echoed the drummer, as be picked
up his grip and slid for the door
Wagner Sayings
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01

More than 800 members of the
seventy first New York infantry,
which didn't charge at San Juan,
have applied for pensions.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01

There is to be famine in navy
beans. The government has just
purchased over a million pounds
for army use in anticipation of the
shortage. This is calculated to
make effete old Boston look over
its spectacles. .-Ex.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01

Governor Sayers of Texas, inter-
ested himself in the smallpox sltu-
alton in the territory and has re-
quested the surgeoD-general of the
United States to take steps to
stamp it out before it spreads to
Texas. The latter has promised
to do all he can.-Ardmoreite.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01

Inspector J. George Wright
went over to Tahlequah last week
and heard what there was to hear
OF the farcical contestof Wolf Coon
tor the place of Chief T. NJ. Buff
ington. The same thing listened
to by the council last fall was
again presented, and the inspector
bundled up the papers and sent
hem to the secrerary of the inte-
riOr. This closes the incident.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01

A. A. Powe, the new scribe on
he South NcAlester Capital, has
done gone" and fallen down on
one of Dickens best known char
acters. He says: "Oliver Twist
never had a harder time in Do-the-
boys hall" 1t was "Nickolas
Nickelby," brother, that you are
referring to. Journalism in the
Indian Territory is aesthetic to a
degree, and literary quotations
must be correct.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01
A FATEFUl HOME.
Chain of Crimes
on Bird Greek.

On last Thursday evening John
Z I'VE, colored, shot and wounded
ieorge Clark, another negro, at
RDwe's home on Bird creek. The
two men had some misunderstand-
g about some money Rowe owed
lark. 1t is said that Clark -four
shed a razor and threatened to
sill Rowe, when the latter fred a
'sd of heavy shot at a distance of
IN feet, the charge taking effect
Clark's right shoulder. Some
yadding and several pieces of bone
vere removed, leaving a hole in
he shoulder two inches in diane
er.
On the 20lh of last March Clark
participated in an all round fight
At Elgin, Kan, In which he
received injuries that caused the
,mputation of his left arm above
ne elbow. His body is covered
with old scsrs.
The shooting of George Clark
occurred at the former home of
Lewis Wright, colored, who was
.hot and killed on February Doth,
1898. by Lewis Scott, also colored,
over a dispute about a claim.
Wright was chopping wood about
a mile and half from his home
m land clsimsd by Scott, when
ne was shot from ambush. Ev-
,Gence pointed TO the guilt OF
Scott, who after some delay was
tiled and acquitted upon some
l,chnicality. On the 25th of last
May, John Rowe's mother. an
aged negress, died in the same
house.
within three miles of this place
on May 9, last year, Joe Gillis
shot and killed John Query; Gill
lis died from measles on July Sth,
in the Muskogee Jail while await
ing trial.-Tulss Republican.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01

The equalization board is listen
ing to complaints of taxpayers
whose assessments have been
raised today. The raise, in the
aggregate, amounts TO abou; $780,
600. A fair and satisfactory ad-
iustment will no doubt be made.
The board may have made some
mistakes, but their WORK, so far as
understood, is approved by the
citizens generally.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-02-01
Why NOtf

The you"g men about town ar,
putting on the gloves" now anu
the exercise of sparring has be
come a popular pastime. Who
knows but what we have in our
midst some embryotic materia
that is capable of reaching the daz
zling heights of fame in the field
of pugilism. Stranger things have
happened. We may have on our
streets, all unconscious of their
skill or proves, a Sullivan or 3
Fitzsimmons, or COrbett or JEFF
fries. To allow these hidden en-
ergies to remain dormant and un-
developed would be at once q
shame aud a crime. Why not get
up a team of young pugilists and
send in a challenge to Vlnita and
go up there and give het a few
black eyes?-rulsa Republican.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-16
ANGORA GOATS.

a subscriber, of Warren county,
Iowa, writes:
Il wish some information as to
AngOra goats. Can you tell me what
the wool is worth and what the goats
would bring put on the Eastern mar
ket? l am thinking of going into
the goat business and wish to know
if they can be sold in the Eastern
market for meat"
The wool varies in value and in
amount with the grade of the ami
NAL. The low grades perhaps would
not sell for more than % cents per
pound nor clipmOre than two pounds.
ThOrOughbreds clip much higher,
and the wool having less hair in it
sells for d higher price. We would
say that from so cents to 81 per head
wOuld bc the extreme limits either
nay ~ the price, and that fairly
Er/| INKS should yield from Is cents
- & I"e market for mohair, how
eyer il quite variable. The gpcciaI
value If the huYprn goat il an d
HfHsh@r, and it. viii pay tn keep il
t"r hi7 purpose if it did not yield
any wool.
Fat goats sell right along in the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-16
HOW AND WHY THE sILO PAYS.

Until every farmer has a silO, it is
in order to preach the silO, so we be-
those who have sill to bear with u
if we seem to repeat self-evident
truths. Remember what an awful
lot of preaching it takes to save d
few sinners and have patience, or,
do better, help Us to spread the truth.
/. The silo stores away corn more
safely and MOI permanently than
any other plan. Silage is practically
freprOof, and will keep in the silo in
definitely.
2. Corn can be made into silage at
less expense than it can be preserved
in any other form.
3. The silO preserves absolutely ali
but the roots of the corn.
4. Silage can be made in tie sun
shine or in rain. Unlike hay, it is
independent Of the weather.
>. When corn is ready for the siIo.
there is but little farm work press
ing.
g.. Corn Is worth more to the dairy
as silage than in any other form.
Z. At least one-third more corn
per acre may be fed on silage than
On dried corn, stalks and fodder.
5. Corn is fed more conveniently
as silagc than in any other form.
8. SilHgc il Of more value when
fed in combination With other food
richer in protein. 1t il not II com
plctc food.
10. Owing to its succulcncc and
bulkincas, ailngc Is the best known
sub@titute for green grass, and *,
therefore, capeciAlly valuable as il
winter food Jersey Bulletin.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-16
CONCLUDED FROM PAGE l.

vent it from rotting. a little prun-
ing and cleaning out of the inside OF
the trees will always prove beneficial
in the fall. Limbs that have been
twisted and bent down by overload
ing of fruit should be tied up in pO-
sition again, and those that have
grown out of all proportion 10 the
rest of the trees should be shortened
some. Finally there is the question
of f~ertilizing and mulching. The
more we can do Of both the better
the trees will prove. One must :
his Owl Judgment as to how much Of
either he can afford TO do.
6. W. CHAMBERS.