Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1901-02-14

afternoon for Washington, d. o.,
to look after Cherokee interests
r. G. Adams wired him that his
services were needed at the capi'
tai, but in what particular we are
not informed.
The work of the Wagner town
site appraisement committee has
been approved by the lni,iiJr
department. 1t was claimed the
appraisement was not uniform
but investigation failed to show
such TO be the facts.
With the improvements in sight
and in contemplation this is going
to be the biggest business year Vi
nita has ever saw. The signs are
certainly very hopeful for business
interests, and the dull season, 1t is
hoped, will not come this year.
Now comes Mrs. Belva Lock
wood and with the Bob Oven
crowd claims to represent some
body and seeks to have a hand IN
the collection Of the "a 300, ,OOO due
the Cherokee nation. She has as
much authority, however, as has
Owen.
Dennis Flynn ever succeeds In
obtaining statehood for Oklahoma
and the Indian Territory his polit-
ical scalp will be lifted the very
FIRST election. There would per-
hans be little consolation in that
but he is too much of politician
to court such a thing.
The boast Of Muskogee has been
that the sale Of liquor was not in
terferred with in that metropolitan
town. Now the whole town is in
turmoil on account of the prosecu-
tions Of the whiskey men. lntox-
icating liquor gets every man into
trouble who has anything TO do
with it.
The Leader today claims to have
been the first paper in the Terri
tory to establish an "all home
print" paper. The files Of The
Chieftain shows that it was an "all
home print years before the
editor Of the Leader, whose name
does not appear first among the
list of "owners," stepped his foot
upon Territory soil.
Tribal politics has always been
recognised in the board of educa-
tors at Tahleqush. The schools OF
the Cherokee nation have been the
sufferers and the sooner that an
tiquated body is abolished, and
the funds administered by a sup
orinlendent elected by the people,
or an officer of the United States
government the better for all con-
cerned.
The visit Of the Kansas City
Commercial club to Vinita las
night will perhaps not result II
any appreciable good to the towr
nor the visitors. If Vinita busi
ness is not of more Importance
than to command night visi
from Kansas City it is not 'wortl
considering. Thirty minutes spen
in Vinita after business hours ha
no significance, and is not consid
sidered recognition.
No man ever sheltered a NOR
dangerous thought than that o
revenge for some real OF iancie'
wrong. Today a man remarked
on the street that he would &c
even with some one who ha'
wronged him. Such a spirit is To
sign Of a jaundiced mind, and th
man is proposing to take into hi
own hands the prerogative OF th
Almighty who says: "Vengeanc
is mine; l will repay"
The killing OF Don Beck a
Maysyille the other day emphasize
the fact that the days Of the out
law are few and full of trouble. !
dozen years ago the outlaw wa
hard to dislodge, owing to tn
thinly settled condition Of III
country, but with the present cour
facilities and the thickly settle
country they are generally cap
tured or killed in few days, o
weeks at the outside.
The Dawes commission est
mates that the number of CherC
kee citizens entitled to allotmen
will be about $4,000 This est
mate is based on the roll of 1886
and Is said to be approximate
correct. There is about 4,0o0,00
acres Of land, good bad and indiI
ferenl, TO be divided. The prot