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The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-03-05
A NEPHEW FROM AMERICA.
Unpleasant surprise Given HIS hsi'
atlxez when We Met Them
in France.

Paris tradesman named Randall
received a telegram from Hayre few
days ago informing him that one Of
his nephews who had lived in America
for the last 20 years was about tore
turn 70 France, The telegram added
that. the nephew was anxious % enter
tain his relatives a. dinner a. 4
restaurant 10 Paris, after which there
would be distribution ~ surprise
packets.
The uncle i--ued the limitations. The
nephew duly arrived and was received
with great hospitality and the banquet
took place. covers being laid for ia
| The traveller created q most favorable
| impression upon bis relatives and told
some yefy extraordinary stories Of bis
adventures and life generally 10
America. At the conclusion Of the
/ feast he announced that famous
Indian chief. whom be knew well, had
eonflded TO him IN gratitude for a ser
glee rendered a secret process fol
changing gold into silver and silver
into RQlds he iaetu hlh own water
and chain in a napkin and asked BIZ
guests 10 lend him their rings, watehe
and other iewelry, 20 that he coul'
illustrate the process.
The request was compiled with al
the jewelry vas placed 10 napkin IN
nephew rose and requested them
keep silence. lie said twas necessar
they should be 10 darkness for a fei
! moments 10 insure success Of the pre-
cess, and when Il was completed the
: would see the surprise he had prepare
for them. The electric light was q
tinRuishea.
The diners sat IN darkness an
silence for a few minutes. One Of u
party became impatient and struck
I match, says the London Globe, IN
/. then the nephew bad decanped vii
the iewelry.
defendant.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-03-05
LAST MARCH OF DOUKHoBoRs,
Descriptive sketch from an Account
of the Crusade of That sin-
suIar People.

And 50 the march en- Yorkton began.
The procession moved slowly because
Of the pumber Of children and OF sick
and feeble folk. Ten or ~ miles daily
was all It covered, says an account OF
the crusade Of the Doukhobors In Les
lies Monthly. Ahead strobe gigantic
Doukhobor. black browed and beard
ed, very Boanerges. He was the
blacksmith Of one Of the villages, and
believed himself to be the second John
the BAPTIST He had discarded all foot
wear aud tramped quite barefoot
he was clad in q dirty white felt
gabcrdine, reaching almost 20 the
feet, and around one sleeve was tied a
red bandaHua. Occasionally he would
fling his arms toward Heaven With q
Wild cry, Or throw himself on the
ground In an agony Of alteration and
self-abaaement. behind him strag.
gled the long line of pilgrims, stretch.
ing along two miles or more Of the
winding prairie trail. Ever and anon
would rise the wailing notes Of their
recessional, It's weird minor cadenceI
and plaintiye harmoniek swelling high
above the irregular, shuiiiing tramp Of
hundreds Of feet. In the ctEalcad'
were II rude littefs. made Of the stem
Of young trees and hung with blanket
ing. IN which were borne the sick ant
| fuhffH
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-03-05
Isrn. MIdland RsIIroad.

The Texas Midland Railroad an
nnunces the following rates In effect
from points on It's line;
Annual Meeting, Atlantic States
Packers Assn, Western Packers
Canned Goods Assn, and Canning
WachInery aud Supplies Assn, Wash
Ington, ID. O., February OLA, rate fare
and one third, on the certificate plan.
Annual Meeting Department Of
Superintendent Of the National Ed.
ucatioual Assn, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Feb 24.2e, rate fare and one third on
certificate plan.
Meeting United Mine Workers ol
America, Jan 1899, aud joint Meet
ing OF Operators and Miners, Jan %
Indianapolis, Indiana, rate one and
one third fare on the certificate plan
Meeting State Convention, Y. N
G. A., Lampassas, Texas, March li-l
rate convention basis.
Sunny South Shooting Toufnamen
Brenham, Texas, Jan. s8-3i, rate oa
and one third fare on the ceftlfieal
plan.
Biennial Meeting State senati
order Of IPretorlaus, Austin, Texa
February II, rate fare ana one thiri
on certificate plan.
II Il, McKAY,G pa
Trrfeil Texas.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-03-05

ToNne-You don't mean 10 say you
didnf notice that earthquake ahock2
Bfowne--I guea5 1 was home In
Alguhurst af the time.
"lut the shake must have been per-
eeptlbie there
= guess eli Of rs just took u for our
ms aria. Philadelphia Press.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-03-05
ror sale.

Residence property, 10 north part Of
Vinita, two blocks out; four lots, three
huudred aud ninety feet, east fronti
well Improved nice twelye-room house,
barn and other ou:buildingsi cistern,
two wells, plenty OF shade and fruit
trees, grapes and berries. Title guar
anteed. Enquire here. DIV tf
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-03-05

La grippe coughs yield quickly to the
wonderful curative qualities of Poley's
Honey aud Tar. There is nothing else
'just as good " Sold by shanahah &
Mitchell DIV
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-03-05
asttlas nis noasy's worth.

Clerk -Yes. siri we'il send the coal
up o-day.
Mr Milledollar--An' say, have II
put % With them iron chutes. II I've
eoi 10 pay your price for coal ] want
TIE naishborhosd to know when /
eeis he stuH n. eavyy7 Judge.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-03-05
cough. Settled on Her Lungs

my Idaughterl had a. terrible cough
which, settled. on her lungs" sayslN
Jaekson.o .of, Danville,i Ill. I'VE tried a
grea, many remedies without relief, un-
till Ke'gaye her Foley's Honey and. Tar
whiehicuredlhcr." Refuse.lsubstitutes.
sold by Shsnahan & MITCHELL. DIV
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-03-05
Tn Lnre = Cold ln one Day

FAKE Laxative Bruno Quiuine Tab
lets. All druggists refund tue r'oney
II IL fails to cure. +. W. Groves sig
aature Is on each bux. a5e. NV
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-03-05
FoIoN.a Homo and Tar

Cures coughs and colds.
Cures bronchitis and asthma
Cures Group and whooping cough.
Cures hawseness and bronchial troubles
Cures pneumonia and Ia grippe. Sold
by shanahan 3 Mitchell. dw
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-03-05
For Sale.

have two or three setter pups two
months old. Price nov s5 each. Their
value increases with age.
GEo. HIaeINs.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-03-05
rhe ffrst sfep.

A. i6noefut1noking banana skin Il
often he first siep IN a downward ca
Chicago Daily News.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-03-05
pneumooIa EoIIoWa a cold

Fnoum0nIa FoIIoWa toIu
but never follows The use Of Foley .
Honey and sTar. Il stops the cough
heals and strengthens tie lungs and at.
fords perfect security FROM an attack o.
pneum onia Refuse snbltiinies sold
by shanahan s Mitchell. DIV
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-03-05

sR 4 will be wofth your while 70
buy your fresh meats and mest
~ ofall kinds from us We hl-
your orders promptly and have eye'y-
thiug you can call fgf IN q drst-eias,,,
nest market. ffesh Groceries al
nays On hand
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-03-05
AT LAND OFFICE.

The number on call, as reported
each day. indicates the lasl mum Z.
Der called into the filing division.
rhe numbers are not fnished con
ssoutively but many numbers are
frequently called that do not re
spond, and are consequently called
again the next day. About sixty
individual filings per day is the
regular work of the force.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-25
A NEAR VIEW.

The horror of negro assault, re-
ports of which from time to time are
coming up from the South, with the
secondary horrors of lynching, burn
ing and torturing, have been brought
close home to this community by the
awful death of Helen S. Bishop at
Wilmington, Delaware Rev. e. A.
Bishop, the father of Helen, for some
ten years ending 1898 was principal of
the Methodist seminary in Montpelier.
Here the daughter was born. Mr..
Bishop and family were highly es-
teemed and their depart re was a
source of general regret. Mr.. Bishop
had but recently gone from Randolph,
N. Y, where he had lived since leav-
ing Montpelier, having the principal
ship of school there, to take charge
of the Ferris Industrial School at Will
mington, The change was an agree
able one and he was anticipating en-
joyment in his new work. Mixed with
the horror the unspeakably brutal
deed excites in this city is the tender
est and deepest sympathy for the men,
bers of the awfully stricken family.
Language has no power to express
adequate adherence of crime like
this. Humanity at large may shudder
over its commission and it's revolving
details, but the people personally &C
quainted With and interested in the
victim and the stricken family become
dazed by the enormity Of the otfense
against mankind. 1t is the difference
between the remote and the near
view, and in this near view one gets
clearer understanding of the veuge-
full violence of which similar otfenses
in the South are the cause. 1t needs
community firmly grounded in re-
spect for law and order to peacefully
consign such an offender as this negro
to the cold and formal dealing of
the officers appointed to administer
justice
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-25
"a ..TITCoMB'S APPOINTMENT.

The st. Johnsbury Caledonian quiet
ly but very effectively punctures one of
those Vermont pipe dreams which like
SO many others had been accepted as
gospel truth Recently John W. Tit
comb, well known Vermonter, was
asked to visit Venezuela to direct the
development of that country's fish and
game interests. AS is usual when
Vermont man succeeds at Washington
some of the State papers and CORE
slondents fully explained just how it
happened. In this case it was Senator
Proctor's influence, and in addition
it was limited that because Mr.. Tit
comb happened to be son-in-law of
ex-senator Ross the plum was the
more easily picked. The Caledonian
knows the truth in this case and tells
it as follows:
"There is a coterie of Vermont poll
ticians who scent danger at great
distance and whenever son of the
Green Mountain State gets a govern
ment appointment they have it an
nounced that it is simply part of
Senator Proctor's plan to retain his
seat in the Senate. For instance, the
Montpelier correspondent of the Bos-
ton Herald has discovered that Mr..
Titcomb's appointment to Argentine
Republic was secured by Senator Proc
tor and was intended to hold the sup
port of the young men in the State.
Now it is interesting to know that the
Vermont Senator first heard of the
tender of the appointment from Mr..
Titcomb himself. For many years
Caledonia county has been worthily
represented in that South American
republic by having Walter Davis of
Danville at the head of the meteoro-
olgical bureau For long time Mr..
Davis has been trying to develop the
fish and game interests of the country
of his adoption, and after some corre-
spondence with Mr.. Titcomb and the
Argentine minister at Washington
the valuable services of Mr.. T1tcomb
were secured There was no politics
in the appointment, and neither of our
Vermont Senators depend on the spoils
system to retain their hold among
their constituents. :"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-25
BELIEF IN ROOSEVELT.

The most confident and clrcumstan-
tial statements alleging the Presidents
intention to mitigate his activity in
certain directions in the matter of
Furnishing rascality in the postoffice
departmental such be proven-fail to
shake to the extent of the thousandth
part of hairbreadth of vibration our
belief that he will let no guilty man
escape This belief is positive. 1t is
grounded on the principle of noblesse
oblige. 1t has been strengthened by
Mr.. Roosevelts own frequent and elo-
quent references to the rigid require
ments which Duty imposes upon Char
acter in post of responsibility. 1t is
not Theodore Roosevelt who will give
up the hunt because the trail shows
big game behind the boscage.
Don't draw unless you mean to
shoot - is the middling good proverb
which expresses his congenital and
characteristic philosophy of action.
He has drawn, and therefore it may
be assumed that he means to shoot.
Accordingly, it makes no difference
how specific are the accommodating re-
ports that represent the President as
hesitating to prosecute where prosecu-
tion might result in political incon-
venience to himself as candidate.
They will meet with no credence in
this quarter until they are legibly at
tested by Mr. Roosevelt's sign manual.
Just as little do we believe that the
President is directly or remotely re-
sponsible for the PRONUNCIATION of the
theory that the name of his dead and
honored predecessor now constitutes
bar to prosecution-in effect,
statute of limitations-in the case of
proved offences committed by subordi-
mates when Mckinley was alive. New
York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-25

or in that his babyhood was spent
in the State, and it ended there. 1t
is not recorded that Mr.. Arthur was
either proud or ashamed of the State
that gave him birth, but probably he
did not care one way or the other.
New York was his State, it was his
home, it furnished just the opportun-
tiles he wanted and it finally placed
him on the goal Of his ambition, so
why should he have cared about any
other? Indeed he had every reason to
rejoice that fate did not permit him
to remain among the hills that his
baby eyes first looked upon, and pre-
sumably he did Neither was Ver-
mont the home of his ancestors. His
father was a Baptist clergyman who
by chance was sojourner in Fairfield
when this particular son was born,
and consequently there was not sim
gle drop of Green Mountain blood in
the mans veins. There is nothing in
the connected names of Arthur and
bTuOnb W Ildkb bu6 DlOOu VI u ud-
tive tingle with pride, and it is doubt
full if any Vermonter is greatly pulled
up over the combination. But this is
no argument against the erection of
the monument. 1t is right that it
should be erected and that Vermont
should do it. Only let it be done as a
matter of national rather than State
interest.
Mr.. Arthur was good President
and moreover his was one of those
typicany American careers which
Americans should and do take Just
amount of pride in. The man for
whom this monument is to be erected
was poor boy and he became the
head of the nation-a story rarely told
outside of America. Because of this
it is eminently fitting that memorial
be erected, but it should be done, not
with the narrow idea of honoring Ver-
mont but in a spirit broad enough to
include the whole country in its
scope.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-25
CONE ROAD TO HE'LL. -

Under che above caption the EN-
poria (Kansas) Gazette recently
launched few editorial paragraphs
by way of advice to mothers in that
city. The advice given is applicable
everywhere, and because it puts the
matter discussed so forcibly before
the public in general and mothers in
particular the editorial has been wide
ly copied. 1t is to be regretted that
Montpelier needs the admonition, hut
as it is in the same box with sister
cities everywhere the journal reprints
the lines with the hope that they may
be productive of good:
"The mothers of this town have had
lesson-but it doesn't seem to have
done them any good. There are just
as many girls gadding around town
after school now getting their mail
from private boxes in the local post
office as there were ten years ago.
Two years ago the Gazette went after
the mothers of Emporia for neglecting
their daughters and the result was
that half dozen private mail boxes
were discontinued and lot of little
girls that were in the habit of gadding
too much were kept in for a time.
"These girls are now developing in
to fine young women but another
crop of gadding girls has come on nd
the Gazette hopes no ones modesty
will be shocked by saying that these
little hussies ought to be spanked
good and red. They are between
fourteen and seventeen years old nd
are just so everlastingly boy struck that
they can't sit still. If their mothers
knew the type of boys and men-of
young pups-these girls are running
with their mothers would throw fits
''But their mothers know nothing
of the situation. They think their
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-25
RUSSIA AND CHINA.

In an exceedingly interesting article
on Russia and the Nations" in the
Worlds Work w. M. Wins, Jr., at
tempts to show how the empire of the
Gar is devouIing the yellow king
dom. He says: "On looking at the
map the first thing noticeable is the
enormous extent of contiguous terri
tory under the Russian flag, and the
second is the great length of her land
boundaries and the smallness of her
coast line on open and navigable seas.
The careful consideration of this
boundary line will suggest the reasons
for Russia's past history, present
diplomatic and industrial policy, and
future aims and aspirations. More
than a century and half ago she had
arrived on the Pacific, but because of
the great distance and difficulty Of
travel, and also because of her inabil-
ity to carry on trading by sea, she
had not been able to advance far
enough south to get control of port
on the open ocean.
"But the necessity of such posses
sion has been constantly before the
eyes of the Governors of the Amur
Province on the Sea of Japan for the
last fifty years, and they have done
what they could by hook or by crook
to encroach on Chinese territory
Not only have they made the best use
! of the rowing bands of Cossaoks who
could be backed up or left to their
fate as seemed the most polite, but
they have been SO steadily at work
advancing the Russian influence at
the Chinese court that now it is pre-
fluence and also because of her mar
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-25
WITH JUDGE IDE.

Hon. John S. Hord, former superin-
tendent of internal revenue of Porto
Rico, is the guest of Judge Henry G.
Ide at st. Johnsbury. Mr.. Hord re-
signed his position with the Porto
Rican department, to take effect June
/, in order to enter the Philippine
service. For the past two weeks he
has been assisting Judge Ide in formu-
lating an international revenue system
for the Philippines. Their work,
when completed, will be submitted to
the department for approval. The
document already contains more than
three hundred sections and is task
of mammoth proportions, Mr.. Hurd
goes from Vermont direct to Manila.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-25
THE ARTHUR MONUMENT.

In an obscure neighborhood in Fair
field, away from even a cross-road and
in a spot which the traveller must
seek with diligence if he would find
it, simple monument will be erected
this summer to mark the birthplace of
the only native Vermonter who ever
sat in the presi dential chair. To be
sure it was in measure accidental
that Chester Allen Arthur was born
there, and it was the hand of foul
assassin rather than the ballots of his
countrymen that made him President,
but the fact remains that he was born
in Fairfield, and that he was Presi-
dent, so Vermont does we'll in erect
ing this monument.
There is little for Fairfield or YER
mont to be vain about in the fact that
they are the native town and State
of Mr.. Arthur. He was Vermont
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-25

An interesting situation has arisen
with regard to the cruiser Galveston.
The company which has been con.
structing the vessel went into the
hands of a receiver when it was sixty
per cent completed and now the
local courts-the vessel is in the ship
yard at Richmond, Va.-have en-
joined the launching of the cruiser at
the behest of creditors of the contract
ors. Attorney General Knox has de-
cided that the vessel is government
property, and therefore, cannot be at
tached nor the launching enjoined
Consequently force OF naval officers,
marines and seamen will go to Rich
mond and launch the vessel today, de-
spite the INDUCTION, When the vessel
is launched it will be towed to a gov
eminent navy yard and completed. IF
the attempt to launch the cruiser
meets with resistance a gunboat will
be called into requisition and force
used if necessary.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-25
LOST HIS LIFE.

William Zimmerman of Indianapo-
lis met death on Thursday in an at
tempt to loop the loop on pair of
roller skates, in shat city A crowd
of 1000 persons had assembled to wit
ness the performance. Zimmerman
had on pair of steel skates that
weighed about 100 pounds, and came
down the incline at a fearful rate of
speed. When he had reached the
turn and the highest part of the loop,
he was seen to turn slightly to one
side. AT that instant he lost his bal
ance and fell heavily to the ground
twenty feet below. The heavy steel
skates fell on him and when he was
picked up his skull was found to be
crushed. He died at the hospital an
hour later.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-25
COST OF LYING DO LED
But Mat BreOhfdst Food Has
Reduced It's Price by Hicre0s-
ing the P0cHdge.

Housekeepers realize the increase in
cost of food. Many articles of every
day use cost nearly double what they
did few years ago. Malt Breakfast
Food is conspicuous, on account of its
cost being reduced, owing to the man
ufacturers increasing the size of the
package about one-third.
1t now comes in full weight two
pound packages, and costs the same
as a fourteen-ounce package of the
: ready eat" cereals. When cooked
according to directions it goes just
eight times as far, package for pack
age as the ready-to Leaf" foods. Eat
Malt Breakfast Food and you will
have the best cereal in the whole
world, and yet the most economical.
There is nothing faddish about Malt
Breakfast Food. 1t is simple, honest
food, of real value and of most deli
eious flavor. Sherry, the famous New
York caterer, in writing about this
food said: II find Malt Breakfast
Food delicate and delicious. 1t will
give me pleasure to make use OF it in
my restaurant.
(Signed) "EOUIS SHERRY"
The Waldorf Astoria, the Touraine.
the Auditorium and similar hotels find
Malt Breakfast Food the most popular
cereal OH their menu.
A beautiful carbon photograph is in
every package of the food; larger pic
lures, without printing or advertising,
which would cost two or three dollars
at the art stores, are given in return
for coupons taken from the package.
Ask your grocer to explain this pre-
MUM offer to you.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-25
THE ARTHUR MON UMENT.

1t is now very probable that the
dedication of the Chester A. Arthur
monument at Fairfield will take place
some time during the week of August
Is. Members of the Vermont Associ-
alton of Boston, which is to visit the
east side of the State in body that
week, have expressed desire that the
dedication exercises be held when they
can come across to be present at them,
and, if the date will be acceptable to
Robert T. Lincoln who is to make the
address, the change will probably be
made. The arrangements are in the
charge of ex-Gov. W, W. Stickney of
Ludlow.