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The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-10-22
LANDS
OFFERINGS
Five Sales and an
Equal Number
of RefuSaIS

Five tracts Of Greek land were
sold aud bids on FIVE others reject.
ed Friday. the latter being below
The appraised price. There we're
b57 acres cold; the highest tract
s2O.S4 an acre and the lowest
1886. FOR the tract which cold
for sl7 ,s5 there we're elk bids. the
lowest sS.40. One OF the bidders
was W Il. Rowsey. formerly Of
this city whose bid was si3 %.
All the purchasers appear TO have
been private individuals and In
this fact may perhaps be found
the reason for tha strenuous op-
position manifested 10 Secretary
Hitchcock land sale rules which
provided for competitive bidding.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-10-22
HOW DISPOSED OF.
No, the Express Company Does Not
Lose the Charges.

Someone asks how the express com
panY "makes good" for the whisky
boxes which the narsbals catch. to
The consignee. The company Just
notes on the book the fate Of the
package and draws on the forwarding
agent for the express charges, which
the shipper had 10 guarantee. Years
ago conveyance In which whisky
Was found was contiscated aud sold
for The governments benefit.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-10-22

When the life of Mrs. Ruff was
hanging in the balance she used
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
and was restored 10 health. Her ex.
perience made her the firm friend OF
the medicine that cured her,
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
has no equal In It's cures OF wonanIy
disease. II establishes regularity
dries the drains that weaken women.
heals inflammation and liberation
aud cures female weakness.
vTive years ago when my life was hang.
Ing IN the balance, DR.. PieFce's Favorife
Prescription was brought 10 nv home =
writes Mrs. Caroline Ruff Director OF Get.
man Orphans Home, residing az tto Rowe
ma Street, Detroit, Mich III took II. and
y won me back to health Ever since thai
time, ] have been It's firm friend We ire.
quentiy have mothers come 10 our Home
who are suffering with uterine troubles IN.
Illumination, tuinors aud ulccrationa our
great remedy for female trouble n Dr
Picrcc's Favorilc Prescription, ard we have
tound nothing 10 far which wou "A SO quici.
~ cure the disease, relieve Inflammation
and stop pains. II Is good friend 70
DIR. Pierce's Common Sense Med
ical Adviser, in paper covers, Is sent
/rSe on receipt Of AZ one-cent stamps
TO pay expense Of mailing only. Adj
dress DR.. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo, NY.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-10-22

Who would keep their children in
good health, should watch for the first
syintoina Of worms. and remove them
with Whites Cream vermiiuge. Il il
The ehildren's best tonic. Ii gets diees-
siou Il work 50 that Their food does them
good, and they grow up healthy and
strong s5e as Peoples drug store. du
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-10-22
sklnner-Dutllcv.

Miss Babe Skinner and Lee Dudley
we're married Sunday afternoon at
the home OF the brides brother, Mr..
Emmett Skinner. Rev. j. S. stubble-
teld performed the ceremony and
the couple left on the evening train
for Mnskugee
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-10-22

Col. Zack Mulhall has out pust.
ers for his exhibition Of ropine,
broncho busting. ele 10 take
place Sunday next at Viniia IN
the old Fair grounds. Why this
ie TO be allowed, We are al a lose
to know. It is clearly a violation
Of the statutes on disturbances Of
the peace and on gaming IL a mat.
ter Of 20 doubt.
The psily Ohiettain 10 Tues.
days edition stated that Jim
Hopkins aud another COW boy
bad been matched for $500 on :
side ina roping contest. This
will be wild, reckless gambling
crowd aud Why the good people
Of Vinita will ALLOW Il il strange.
The Vinisa papers have not
"opened their mou,hen against il
as FAT as we have seen.
The church people had better
call back some OF their mission.
aries from China and have them
beglu work IN Vlnlta considering
the way they allowed the Mulhall
ropers 70 violate the Sabbath =
Blueiaoket News.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-10-22
Never Ask ADVICE

When you have cough or cold don't
ask what Is good for Il aud get some
medicine with little or no merit aud per.
haps dangerous. Ask for Foiey's honey
aud tar, the kreatesl throat aud lung
renieiy'it cures coughs and colds quickly.
Sold hy shanahau ! Mitchell. 4w
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-10-22

Some people were disappointed yes
terday but a whole lot admired vinl-
Ia for the nerve displayed. u nothing
ever hurts Us wofse than stopping a
Sunday roping contest we shall be
Fortunate,
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-10-22
THE NERVE
OF THE MAN
Bixby Asks More
Money and
Time.

The Secretary ni the Interior
and in fact his entire department.,
was "jarred" Thursday by the es
innate received from Tams Bixby
for the Dawes commission's ex-
pensss for next year--beginning
July /, 1904. While everybody
outside the commission was look.
Ing for decided curtailment Of
that body, numerically and Ia
every other way, Bixby's estimate
for next appropriation required
was for s37 1850 moe than last
year-s259, $50. A dispatch from
Washington, says Of the matter:
Owing TO the recent develop.
ments in the Indian Territory and
the feeling among some OF the Of.
ficials here that the Dawes COM
mission has outlive its useful.
ness aud that it should be abolish.
ed without further discussion, Mr..
Bixby's estimate was very closely
scrutinized.
The officials who hsudled n
were astonished when they found
that the commission wants .or
next year s37, 1850 more than il re.
ceived last year, and that, instead
o. arranging to finch it's work, IL
has planned work that would keep
II buev for years to come. Last
year there was appropriated for
the commission in the Inuian ap.
preparation bill 1929 900 Among
those who appeared before the
House committee on Indian az
fairs to urge that these appropria-
tions be authorised was Chairman
Bixby, who assured members Of
the committee that the commits
sion was bringing it's work TO a
close, and that be believed the ap
preparation asked, II granted,
would be the last, as Il would be
sufficient to complete the Indian
Territory work. 80 far as the com
mission was concerned. There |
was much opposition TO the pro
vision authorizing the appropria-
tion in both House ana Senate,
and It furnished the text Tor sew.
eral sarcastic speeches. Finally
the appropriation was inserted.
This year Mr.. Bixby asks the
secretary Of The interior TO recon.
mend TO congress that the appro-
priation be increased TO e269, $50.
This includes the salaries OF the
four commissioners at 5000 a
year each and s5, 900 for their ex.
pensee, salaries for more clerks
and liberal allowance for what
Mr.. Bixby calls ''incideutals, )"
which are understood 10 mean
new work In connection with the
surveying OF ,ownsites. Among
he recommendations he makes is
hat the force Of clerks with the
In the Indian Terri.
ory be increased. This, be says,
AN be done By reducing the force
i The interior department engaged
q STRENGTHENING out the claim Of
bose who seek enrolment and 10
landling the deeds and leases
Fhich are sent here for the ap. d
'roval OF the secretary of the
Interior. The clerks on this c
fork are temporary en-
Iloyes, but their duties have ia y
reased recently to such 40 extent
bat they now have work on hand
efficient TO keep them busy in.
efiuitely. Il wae said At the de
orlment Thursday that instead OF :
eefeasing this foroe, Il would. IN
Il probability. be found necessary p
} increase II greatly. /. l. MOI at Ct
i likely that Mr.. Bixby's esu.
'ats will be approved by eisher X
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-10-22

Take Laxative Bromu Qulniue Tab
lets. All druggists refund inc runer
4 Il fails . cure. + =. emye'ssIa-
uaturo Is oa each box. Sc au
The Globe-republican., 1903-11-05

Mr.. l.. A. Reed Of Dark county, Ohio
is out here looking after bis real estate
interests. Mr.. Reed owns one quarter
section near Bucklin aud he has .Sone
more land in Ness county. He has been
up there looking around. He says they
areimproyng some up there but mol
near 50 much as they are in southeast
Ford county.
| will not shy one word against the
man that invented Halloween because !
don't believe any man did it. The devil
did that job sure. and he still takes q
leading part in Its observance. Curses
both loud aud deep are being INDUCED in
by the sufferers from the depradatlons Of
bis satanic majesty and bis too willing
tools on that night here. They say every
year that they will not put up with It
another year but they do. The worm
will turn sometime and them someone
will got hurt. We will give the boys
credit for doing some strenuous work in
the mud and rain last Saturday night all
The Globe-republican., 1903-11-05

L. W. Handy, road overseer, put in
part Of the day Tuesday clearing up the
instructions placed in the streets by the
gay and festive crowd last Saturday
night.
A blight or something else on the man
who invented mumps. Our clerk has got
'em and we had to call to our assistance
our better half. 1t is pretty tough on
her besides am about to starve for the
want Of a cook
The Globe-republican., 1903-11-05
News From
THE STATE SOLDIERS HOME
At Fort Dodge, kas.

Tho daughter.ln.law aud baby Of Mr..
and Mrs. Abram Field, lst Ohio Fl A.,
who were visitors In the home for two
weeks left last week to join her husband
Robert Field in California.
The carpenters who are working on
the invalid barracks will complete the IN.
side finish this week. The painters are
following up as though they were in a
hurry to ret through.
The wife Of Simon Reignor, 33rd
Ind. Infantry, who has been al st. Fran
cis Hospital, Wichita for the past two
months has returned to the home much
improved in health.
Comrade Hoyt, 9TH N. Y. H A, who
has been patient in the hospital for sew
eral weeks Is developing cerebral COM
pllcations from which bis friends fear
the worst. His wife arrived last SUM-
day and it is surmlsed, that she will take
him to their home.
Mrs, Hammond, wife Of Comrade
Hammond lately deceased, with her little
boy has left the home for Topeka where
she will live with her bachelor brother.
The following item was handed to the
writer. The question before the members
of the home is, by what right has d
party, not member Of the home, to Ut
tach water pipes to our new system of
water works.
The maligners in this home, Of whom
there are but three or four, are as busy as
usual. Their occupation|durlng the war of
the Rebellion was to avoid battle and crlti.
else the officers aud the way The Govern
ment was trying to put down the Re-
bellion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frorer Of LincOlu, To-
gan county, ILL.,, who have been visiting
their niece Mrs. Medley for the past TWO
weeks, have left on visit to relatives in
the eastern part Of the state. While in
the home they made many friends and
expressed their appreciation of the kind
ness and courteous treatment they re-
ceived by the members Of the home while
here
Myron A. Hammond, lat Mich. Engi-
neer, died on the 2Sth Of October. The
funeral WINS held in the chapel ut 2:3O
p. m. on the 10th, Rev. j. W, Upton
preached the funeral sermon from the
text, Joshua 23rd chapter, ID verse, "Be-
hold this day am going the way of all
the earth" The sermon was brief but
eloquent and was pronounced the best
ever heard by members of The home.
The lnterment under the auspices Of VIC
tor Post took place In the home cemetery
and was witnessed by a large concourse
Of friends. A wife and son are left to
mourn the loss of a husband and father.
The Globe-republican., 1903-11-05

for the privilege of collecting behind
some body's barn and laughing to them
selves at what valorous things they had
done, for of course they are ashamed to
acknowledge publicly that they had any
hand in it. Do you think that you could
have got Que of those kids out at that
time of night to have done favor for a
neighbor that would have taken him out
in the mud and rain tor an hour or two,
not on your life.
The Globe-republican., 1903-11-05
Casio Fl I A.
Boar, tho 1Ths Kind You Have Always Bought
S''', q MlMNzzax

The Santa Re Company believe the
wreck Of No. 8 In Colorado was caused
by some malicious person drawing the
spikes from rail, probably for the purt
pose of robbery. A reward Of $4,000 baa
been offered for evidence that will con-
vlct the guilty parties.
The Globe-republican., 1903-11-05

EPEE Knowing what 1t was to suffer, l
MIL will give FREE or CHARGE, 10
any afflicted positive cure for Eczema, salt
Rheum, Erysipelas, Piles and skin diseases
Instant relief. Don't suffer longer, Write \, w.
WILLIAMS, 400 Manhattan Ave., New York;
The Globe-republican., 1903-11-05
BUCKLiN BREEzES.

Married at the residence Of the brides
parents in Buckin, Sunday, November l,
1908, Mr.. Uhas. Martin of Dodge City to
Miss GRACE Druley of Buckln. Rev. P.
O. Davis offlciated and made the happy
pair man and wife. They have the best
wishes of their friends in this place.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. B. R. Rails Oct.
81, a ten pound boy. All doing well.
Levi Gngerich has moved There from
Hutchinson. He has bought a farm Q
miles southwest of Bucklin. He will live
In the Lightner house near his farm until
be can build on bis own place.
Mr.. and Mrs. jesse Waters returned
last Tuesday from their thirty days visit
with home folks In Missouri, where Jesse
says they had nothing to do but to eat
the good things provided for them and
grow fat, but Jesse didn't grow very
fat.
Charlie Trexler came into town last
Saturday looking very happy indeed,
His face was one perpetual smile all over
and it was not all caused by the weather
either for Charlie said "Have you heard
of that girl that came to our house yes
terday." And that is the reason he was
feeling SO good. The mother is doing
well but we have heard since that the
baby Is quite sick
j, W. Walters has rugged Iup a team
and dray and gone into tho transfer bust.
ness. Well competition Is the life of
trade and we will trust that In thls case
1t will result in u little reduction IN
prices.
We are not much troubled by dust
these days but the mud, oh, my. But the
farmers seem to like 1t, They come into
town with a broad grin on their faces
and gather in groups and build castles In
the air on the prospects Of next years
wheat crop. And still 1t rains.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-17
; SON rg HOPE FN MID.

1t isn't very cold, and there is no ira- mediate prospect of another big coal strike. Still. 1t is cheering to know that swamp mud has value as fuel. Ten samples of swamp mud, taken from va- rious sections of eastern Massachusetts, were examined by Professor Charles L. Norton Of the Institute of Technology, Boston. all showing the same general characteristics and about the same ca loriftc power. The various specimens weighed from 100 to 125 pounds per cu- bic foot when first received. After air. drying for periods of from three weeks to two months the weight was reduced to fifty-five pounds. The drying pro- cess made it quite hard and tough, the denser samples as much so as pine wood, being quite difficult to saw, but easy to split with an axe. Professor Norton testifies that air-dried mud has a calorific power at least 65 per cent. as great as first-quality American coal, while the average of ten samples from different bogs at varying depths was 75 per cent. and one specimen reached a value of 95 per cent, and these percent ages approximately apply to the finish ed coke also. Here. then, are some of the deductions: With 43.5e0 feet to the acre and a depth say. of twenty feet, we should have some seO.0oo cubic feet of mud per acre. This will yield at 8 conservative estimate 40,0O0,000 pounds Of air-dried mud. which is equal in heating power to at least 25,0oO,o0O pounds, or l2,0Oo tons, of good coal. If
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-17
LITERARY CONTROVERSY.
Andrew Lang on It's Futility and Othe
 npa wfapIxs

Andrew Lang on It's Futility and Other
 ~~ Drawbacks.
 It does not seem to many as if much advantage. or anything but waste of time and temper, came of controversy. Buffon, says MT. Matthew Arnold, never replied to anybody. MT. Arnold professed to follow his example. He lined his bookcases, he told me, with copies of replies to his works, placed sideways, to keep the damp from his own volumes. Yet. as a matter of fact he did, occasionally indulge in rejoinders, which were entertaining to others and extremely vexations to his assailants. MT. Darwin would not reply to any, body. but then he had MT. Hurley to fight hefought battles with gusto.
 Probably these scientific con- troversies were useful for once; indeed, the Darwinian sheaves are still being thrashed. One does not see how a scientific theory can find its place and have justice done to it without con- troversy. Buffon perhaps might as wisely have replied now and then. The opponents usually do not understand the theory which they attack: they al- most never state it correctly, and who is to put them right except the owner of the theory? Thus I received review Of a theory of my own, by an eminent French authority. My poor little ideas were not recognizable. The learned Frenchman represented me as a. holding opinions which I condemn, as far as l ever heard of then--and some I had
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-17
.PRoGRRSS IN SPAIN.

Spain is perhaps not yet really grate- ful to us for relieving her of her costly and troublesome islands, but she has reason to be. She can go ahead now and make something of herself. That she is doing it is indicated in many ways. Among the signs is the record of her railroads for last year. The number of passengers carried in 1902 was 37,431, ,0S8, an increase of 4,044,510 over the number carried in 19o1. The freight in 1902 amounted to 19,629, ,510 tons. a gain of 831,2oO tons over the freight carried in 1901. The gross re- ceipts were s54,77s,O6s. an increase of 8, ,56s. .SoS over the gross receipts of 1901. The government realized in railroad transportation taxes $4,5s7,Ss7, an in crease of s13t,Sn over the railroad transportation taxes Of 1901. The rail- road building was not extensive, yet, considering the area of the country and its condition, it is worthy of note. Near ly 15O miles of steam railroads and for ty-one miles of tramways were opened to traffic within the year.
 Good work. Perhaps by and by Spain will be 50 fiourishing that she can have a trust problem and a lot of indigestihle securities.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-17
THE BEST POLICY.

Perhaps a good many people who are a little bewildered by the apparent suc- cess of some great steals and steaIers are not as sure as they were that hon. estty is always the best policy. But they can have their faith strengthened by the fate of the partieipators In the 52O per cent. Franklin Syndicate. Ed ward B. Schlessinger, the man who in vented the swindle. has just died at ostend. Miller. sehlessinger's tool in the swindle. IS in Sing Sing and sup posed to be fatally ill. Ammon, the lawyer who tried to wrest the stealings of the two to his own uses after the ex- posture, is also in Sing Sing. The share Of the profits which SehIessinger car riea away with him was used up long ago and various people have come back with stories of Schlessinger's struggles with poverty on the continenk For one brief year the robbery flourished. Now all three of its devisers are done for. The fabulous profits in which they expected to reveI to the end of their days are scattered. Some of the money has been recovered for the depositors, a good deal has been used upon lawyers and the rest of it has gone.
 This dishonesty certainly didn't pay. But unfortunately there are other kinds of stealing which seem to flourish and retain responsibility. Still, they may be unpopular by and by.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-17

never heard of before. Que faire? What is true in this minor matter must be true of great scientific hypotheSes' and in such things controversy seems almost indispensable If man IS ever to be understood. Such wrangIes are not on the level of disputes as 10 the relations between Mir. and Mrs. Carlyle,
 or Lord and Lady Bryon, or Burns and Highland Mary. These are questions perhaps ;nsolute, certainly most unlm- portant, and apt to arouse angry pas
 sions, in no way ''very nice. Selentlnc controversies are on another footing On your opponent, of course, you never make any impression. but an impression
 is made on other people. The question gradually becomes clear to people inter ested. confess that to me controversy offers the same ailurements as It dld to Captain Shandon, it is such easy writ |ing''-with the same. drawback-that the public is not interested.
 Controversial manners at least. show a tendency, on the whole, to improve. Coke would no longer call pr. CoWel, his adversary, ''Dr. CowheeL When Coke found that he could not hang Cowel for treason" says Isaac D'Israeli, it was only small disappointment, for he had hopes to secure his prey by in- volying him in felony .. The author was imprisoned and the book was burned" Even MT. Huxley would not, on the occasion of the Miracle of Gadara. have desired MT. Gladstone to be imprisoned for felony, or hanged for treason: at least, hope not We wish our adversaries no worse fate than that they should be compelled to read our books or fiscal proposals before they Icriticise them. Yet even this may seem
 below the level of Christian charity. The law, in is wisdom, declines to inter- fere-London Morning Post. --ss#,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-17
synseeoesnIricIIy.

Mir. Lester F. Ward in his ''Pure sociolo BY" advocates the ''gynaee0centric theory, in which he maintains that woman is .prlm ary and essential; that originally and nor mally all things center about her. and thai man is mere afterthought of Sature.l Hence, androcentric theory, f .. Of ignorance and male peryerseness born That doOmst me night and morn To endless labors, masculine and dreary.
 Cribbed in some city den, Where fog and darkness spread their sooty
 wings, And the typewriter rings, Thou bidst me toll and Slave the whole day
 long Amid the maddening throng,
 With painful care driving a clerkly
 pen.
 But come thou, system, called by me Sweet Gynaeeocentrieity! Make me as cypher, naught But trifiing afterthought, While to woman you restore s All the might was hers of yore. Once again command that she Mans support and center be, Guiding with her wiser powers All her own affairs and ours, would cling to Mary Ann, the woman, she the man; Independence I would drop. She the pole and the hop. Every privilege my sex Would from Mary Ann's annex, would yield her up and be Trampled under foot as she. l would see her., sun or rain, Hurry for the early train, And only leave her desk to crunch At ? D. m. her lightning lunch , Meantime I, with prudent care, To my workbox would repair, Draw my knitting from the box, Or proceed to darn the socks. Or the garden I would seek, = Where soft zephyrs fan the cheek There within the checkered shade Which the weeping willows made In my swinging hammock With my fayorite books would lie, And read and meditate and moon Through all the lazy afternoon. This give and will live with thee, Sweet Gynaecocentricity!