Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1901-06-27

Published rhnrsdays by
rnE cniHrrAfS PunMsHrNe CoNrANr.
D. NJ. MARRs, Editor and Publisher
v1NrrA, INp. TER. June q, 1901.
The Indian Territory has nine
" Incorporated towns.
Freedom is not dead. The Eng
lieh are holding Boer meet
ings.
Muskogee real estate is about
the highest thing this side Of tho
Beaumont oil wells.
Civil government will be estab.
lished in the. Philippines July 4
Judge VIM. II. Taft will be the
first governor.
The Cberokees are anxiously
waiting to hear the presidents
reasons for vetoeing the treaty
commission bill
The Cherokee Oil and Gas com.
pany has applied to the Secretary
Of the Interior for approval Of
lease Of 100000 acres OF Cherokee
land.
Secretary Hitchcock is reported
to be the possessor Of a very large
head Yet there are still larger
vacuums-registered some where
in space.
Judge Springer leaves Wash
iugton this week for Mackinac
Island, where he will occupy his
summer cottage through the sum
mer months.
The wheat crops have been esti.
mated at 7,OO0,0OO bushels, with
money value Of s4,250,0OO A
rather tidy asset for the man be.
hind the plow-or ticker?
The Marcum.W Wolverton conlro.
versy over the national commit.
teemanship of the Indian Terri.
tory is soon TO be taken up and
settled by the national committee.
1t will be long weary day be.
fore title TO even a town lot can be |
had in the Cherokee nation under |
the Curtis act The sort Of title
proposed by this bastard law will |
not be sought by any one.
The town Of Centralia has
movemvnt on foot to build tele-
phone line either TO- -NEiiniid or /
Cotteyynii5. With little encour.
agement and some financial help
the line will come to Viuita.
The refusal Of Secretary Hitch
cock, TO allow transportation home
for Lone Wolf, and the delegation
that accompanied him to Wash.
ington, is simply another evidence,
OF little encumbent Of a big OF
fee.
The attractive emerald lustre OF
the embryo apple is just now en-
gugirg the juvenile eye. The at
teDtion of the family doctor will
follow as subsequent proceedings
Of the DER powering temptation
TO partake.
The Kansas City Times devoies
nearly column to the enumera-
tion OF Kansas Industries. No
mention, however, is made Of the
celebrated Cyclone Factory
probably because the product adj
vertises itself.
The dispatch announcing the !
decoration OF a French CORPORAL
for an act Of heroism in saving the
lives Of two American soldiers in
China, shows that other blood
than Anglo Saxon is sometimes
"thicker than water"
The Muskogee Times still re-
fuses to be comforted because Of
the removal Of Judge Thomas.
When our esteemed contemporary
learns tha! Judge Raymond will
reside in Vinita it will don the
sackoloth permanently.
The great advantages and hon.
or Of holding Office in the Chero-
kee nation under the tribal gov.
eminent nave largely disappeared,
but the struggle goes bravely on.
Men seem as anxious az ever TO
get into the Cherokee legislature.
Vinila has, within the last few
weeks suffered the loss Of three
prominent men in the prime OF
young manhood. j. b. Burck.
halter, James A Berry and James
r sheehan, all good citizens and
none Of them above forty years Of
age.