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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-06-18
Origin of Famous Phrase

A Pike county Missourian is cred
tied with having first used the express
sion, IF this court knows herself, and
she think she do"
Long before the discovery of gold
in California Pike county boy named
Blackburn, so it is said, ran away from
home and went to the Rocky noun
tains, where he grew to manhood as
Indian fighter, hunter, ,trapper and
mountain guide. He became 6 feet 4
inches tall, proportionately thin, and
marvelously awkward. He had many
encounters with grizzlies and Indians.
He was SCARED from head to foot, one
eye had been partly gouged out, his
hair was thin and coarse, and stood
straight up On top of his head and
hung in every direction from the sides.
Blackburn, as might be supposed, was
not an educated man, but he was not
lacking in keen wit and sound sense.
When gold was discovered Black
burn went to the mines, and the min
ers, as a sort of joke, elected him
alcalde, an office similar to that Of JUS
tice of the peace. The first case
brought before the alcalde was that
of a gambler who, while drunk and on
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-06-18

horseback, had run over a young Mex
lean woman, knocking her down and
seriously injuring her. The trial took
place in the largest cabin in the neigh.
borhood, which was packed with
roughly dressed, much-bewhiskered
men. The gambler, who was rich,
hired able counsel to defend him. AL
calde Blackburn called the young
woman, who told her story in broken
English, but frankly and honestly.
When she finished, the alcalde per
emptorily. ended the trial. The attor-
ney for the defendant protested We
hemently, but the alcalde ran his hand
through his hair until it stood up
straighter ON top than ever and re-
marked:
eff this court knows herself, and she
think she do, fine you $500 damages
and assess upon you the costs of put
tin this yere gal in good condition"
When asked what he meant by
good condition." he replied that the
''gamblin' chap" must pay the doctors
bill and all other costs of the woman
illness. A more learned Judge might
have made more formal ruling, but
scarcely a juster one.-Kansas City
Journal
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-06-18
Gods Angels in Disguise

I ask not life for the dear ones,
But that life may have just enough
To temper the glare of the sun.
I would pray God to guard them from
evil.
But my prayer would bound back to
myself;
All! seraph may pray for a sinner,
But sinner must pray for himself.
The twig is SO easilv Bonded,
I have banished the rule and the rod :
I have taught them the goodness of
knowledge,
They have taught me the goodness of
My heart is the dungeon of darkness,
Where [ shut them from breaking a
rule:
My frown is sufficient correction;
My love is the law of the school.
T shall leave the old house in the autumn
TO traverse it's threshold no more;
All! how 1 shall sigh for the dear ones.
That meet me each morn at the door!
I shall miss the "good-nights' and kisses,
And the guile of their innocent glee;
The group on the green, and the flowers
That are brought every morning for
I shall miss them at morn and at even,
Their song in the school and the street;
I shall miss the low hum of their voices,
And the tread of their delicate feet.
When the lessons and life are all ended,
And the death says '"The school is dis
missed!'
May the little ones gather around me,
To bid me goodnight. and be Kissed.
Charles Dickens.
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Of all the birds, the humming birds,
especially when young, seem to dis
play the least fear, says a writer in
Country Life in America.
1t is a difficult matter to train a
young canary bird to follow one about
the house or to come when called, yet
we have had several humming birds
which were perfectly domesticated
and more thoroughly tame than any
bird have ever seen.
Two humming birds that grew up
with us were given small place in a
closet in our sleeping apartment. At
the first approach of daylight they
would fly out into the room, the door
being left ajar and directly to the bed,
lowering over my face, their loud hum
ming noise awakening me at once.
There was no mistaking that the
birds wished their breakfast, and they
could not be driven away. At times
would pretend not to see them, and
they would hover over my eyes, SO
near that the wind from the rapidly
moving wings was quite sufficient to
arouse me.
When held out my finger, one or
both would alight upon it and gaze
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-06-18

There is no map that shows us where
Its hills laugh at the sky; o..
No map-or we would journey there
Where lowered valleys lie. IL.
The little Land Of Used-to-be- IT..
A fancied land, forsooth. i.
Which has for mete and boundary
The dim frontiers Of youth. T..
O. little Land of Used-to-be, ~.
Your roses were so red! s.s B. III ~
Your skies were azure seas where ships
went sailing overhead. T
"A land Of laughter and OF song, t.# q
Where bees contented croons
Kept time with swaying poppy blooms
through summer afternoons.
We seek the pathway to that land.
But seek It all in vain.
Sometimes the rain seems Ike mana
That taps upon the pane 49,
And 1ulls us softly into sleep II
Blent with q .revery
The Land Of Used-to-be. rs Il
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-06-18

The Winston IN. CO. papers speak
N high terms of the Memorial Day
oration delivered by the Hon. Frank
:. Robbins of Lexington. He was one
If six brothers who responded to the
call for troops when North Carolina
seeded. Only two returned-the Hon.
NJ. w. Robbins, member of the Get
tysburg commission, and the Hon.
Frank G. Robbins. Capt. MACK" Rob-
bins has served in Congress and is the
more widely known of the two broth
ers, but not a whit more deserving
Of the confidence Of the state. Mod
est, able, honorable, incorruptible,
Capt. Frank Robbins is the best type
of the North Carolina lawyer and citi-
zen.
In his speech at Lexington Capt.
Robbins followed no hackneyed line,
but filled his address with inspiring
and human stories. The Sentinel thus
gives an account of his story Of a
true to life hero, prefaced by an esti-
nate of the address,:
."The simple earnestness Of htR HaE)-
ner, his clear, graphic statements of
facts, the total absence Of clap-trap
from every utterance, together with
his noble and impressive personality,
compelled the admiration and ap-
prevail of every one. It is impossible
to give in mere outline any adequate
~ cd
the character of the Confederate SOL
der and it's inspiration. This, he said,
could best be illustrated by incidents
rather than by description.
tsHe told of q man in his cOmpanY
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-06-18

Washington, June 16.-The S. Cole
ridge Taylor Society, under the direc-
ton of Prof. J. r: Layton, is working
hard on Taylorts great work, '<The An
nunciation," which will be rendered
sometime in the fall under the direc-
ton of the composer.
George Robinson, of Fairfax County,
Va, who was found wandering along
Louisiana avenue early Wednesday
morning and arrested by Policeman
Sanford, after he had made several
|.incoherent statements about trying to
escape from the men who murdered
his brother, was examined later by the
police surgeons. They found him to
be of unsound mind. and on their or
der he was sent to st. Elizabeth's Asy-
lum.
The Civil Service: Commission has
furnished to the house committee on
civil service reform a statement show
ing that the total number of ex-sol-
diers and ex-sailors of the civil war
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-06-18

, by countless plant enemies throughout
the country is revealed by a report is
sued by the department Of agriculture
on plant Diseases in 1908" Besides
the mass Of detail regarding condi-
lions in the United States proper, it
shows that the coffee leaf blight acct
! dentally has been introduced in Porto
Rico and measures are being taken to
stamp it ont.
| you are not prosecuting attorney
in this court, and you will have to be
quiet and take your seat This was
the substance of rebuke administer
ed to Policeman c. E. EhIers by Judge
Scott, in the police court, after Ehlers
other witness called when case had
been tried. John Cronin and John H.
Robinson, the latter an Afro-Ameri-
can, had been arraigned on a joint
charge of disorderly conduct, and
Judge Scott decided that Cronin was
the responsible party, fning him IS,
and ordering Robinson released. ..s
Gov. George r. Carter, of Hawaii,
head of the Hawaiian delegation to
the Chicago convention, was in Wash
ington Monday, and took luncheon
with the president. .s &.
E Postmaster General Payne, accom-
panied by Mrs Payne and Miss Jones
and by his private secretary, Mr..
Francis II. Whitney, left last Sunday
for Chicago. He will be absent from
Washington until the end of June.
s.4 John F. Cook and Robert Reyburn,
the District Of Columbia delegates to
the national conventio favor suffrage
for the District, and will ask for plank a. i
in platform. i. .s
Continued on Second Page.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-06-18
Coal is Still Supreme

with the large gas engine plant will
come, as an almost inseparable adj
junct, the gas producer, taking the
place of the steam boiler now aces
sorry to the steam engine installation,
so that the large coal pile will re-
main in evidence as before, and the
spontaneous ignition troubles as well,
even with certain precautions against
them, in the way of selecting and
storing the COAL. Experience in some
cases has dictated the safe height to
which coal of certain sulphur percent
age may be banked, but this height
will vary with some other governing
conditions easily enough imagined.
The gas engine, therefore, will, after
all, have to depend for favorable con-
sideration upon it's several other we'll
known good points rather than upon
the one mentioned in the opening
lines Of this paragraph. s. .
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-06-18

self in the arm while playing with a
pistol in the Stanton Flats, where he
is employed as an elevator operator.
He walked to the Casualty Hospital
and had the slight flesh wound dress
ed.
It is among the possibilities of the
early future that patrons of barber
shops in Washington will be protected
by law from insanitary dangers. An
tiseptic cups and brushes may be used
in all the 'tonsorial parlors," and the
germ of ''barbers' Itch given knock
out lab. DR.. Woodward, the health
officer of the District has collected a
mass of evidence on the dangers OF
non-antiseptic shaving ;: and haircut
ting, and is in favor of strict laws for
the inspection of barber shops s. +:
A number Of Afro-Americans of the
city have purchased the Jane Mosely,
a large excursion steamer, from Bal
timore firm. and will run it on the
Potomac River this season. Somerset
Beach and Lower Cedar Point have
been secured as landing points for pic
MICS and summer outings. The com
pany is backed by number of church
es in the District, and has selected Mr..
Lewis Jefferson as president and gen
eral manager. Nh q.
Is. In the police court Monday Police
man George v. Johnson of the Seventh
precinct testified that he saw George
Gum kiss Bessie Baker. domestic,
nrr,;f1,f a rocoundinp smack George and
Bessie were in the dock on charges OF
disorderly conduct, but Judge Scott
did not think them particularly culpa-.
bic. and accepted their personal bonds.
They had been arr sted on the Aque-s
duct Bridge, where she alleged kissing
occurred. SIS
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-06-18
WASHINGTON
People and Things at the Capitol
OF our Great Nation.

Justice R. H. Terrell presided at an
echo meeting held at Galbraith A. M
E. church, Monday night, Hon. John
c. Dancy was speaker of the even
ing.
A report from Consul General Win
slow at Guatemala City says that the
coffee crop of Guatemala for this year
will total 100000 sacks OF 100 pounds
each of excellent quality. Last yea1
the, crop was not up to the average in
either quantity or quality, 100000
sacks of ordinary coffee being the to-
tai crop.
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Wash
ington, who is in Berlin, read paper
before the international Women's Con
gress, Monday on 1.-THE Situation OF
Colored Women as House Servants
The Press reports say Mrs. Terrell
was enthusiastically received.
The destruction wrought on crops
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-06-18

employed in the executive depart
ments at Washington is 2,175 and the
widows of veterans SO employed 1888.
The information was asked in view of
complaints that there are many super
animated clerks on the pay rolls.
The largest number of veterans
641-employed in the interior depart
ment, while the treasury department
carries 553 and the war department
347, There are only twenty-three vet
Grams on the navy department roll and
only seven in the state department.
The ages of the old soldiers and sail
ors vary from so to 81 years. There
are 217 who are 81 years old, while
those younger form the next larger
class, 1877 in, number. Nearly two
thirds, or 1888, are from SO to IS years
of age. Those over 70 years of age
number 226, and of this number eleV-
en- are, over 80. & III. ~
E The veteran with the longest serv
ice is II years old. He has served
fifty-two years Nearly. two-thirds, or
i 1892 of the 2,175s veterans. receive
salaries ranging from $1,000 to $4,000
sner annum, while 66 receive more
than $500 per annum. Those receiv-
ing s840 or less number 476. The vet
Grams and their widows constitute 10
per cent of the number of persons en-
ployed in the departments and govern
ment printing Office in Washington.
# s.Don't make the mistake of thinking
the Missouri Republicans are building
castles in Spain when they talk of
putting the state in the Republican
column at the. next election, S said
Representative Richard Bartholdt at
know what they are doing.
4 Rev r. M. Alexander and wife Of
Spartanburg, S. G., passed through the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-06-18
Il understand you have sold it for:

81 understand you have sold it for
$40, OOO.' 81
".Yaas, that's true. boss replied
the negro. .Yo' see. men come pickin,
round my place an, dey say dar's oil
sheah. Dey say, I've glib 20, twenty
thousan' dollahs. say. '.All righ,." !
I am told II you had waited q day
or twosyou might have sold It for $4o.-
O00.
g Yaas. massa, dat mebbe 20; but
9 bird II tn han's th' mobiles wuk 6
Coo, e r. Sss
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-06-18

The tendency to spontaneous COM
bustion of coal when stored in bulk
in masses of, say, 1000 tons or there
abouts-may appear to be a some
what unusual point to make in favor
of the gas engine as a large size pow
er unit for central station work. It
was, however, made as such recently
by a central station engineer, whose
contention was that the nearly always
present danger of spontaneous igni-
ton in the large reserve stock OF
coal expedient for a power station of
any considerable size to carry, to tide
over possible temporary Interruptions
in the supply, from strikes or other
causes, was entirely eliminated by the
use of gas engines which took their.
gas from central gas plants. +. :. ~. s$.s+~ n
Curiously, however, the! fact appears
here to have been overlooked that
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-06-18
He Mixed the Proverbs.

He Mixed the Proverbs.
The other night at a dinner Martin
W. Littleton, president Of the Bor-
ough of Brooklyn, told this story:
"on a cabbage patch owned by q
negro in a Southern community oil
was found. Spectators offered the
negro $40, 1000, which he accepted with
out waiting to consider another prop
osi4ion, said TO be $40. 900.
HoW's this about your cabbage
patch? z said Mr.. Littleten to the nesro.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-06-18

Cut Wages Of GIassworkers.
Owing to depression in the glass
Industry, employers at Chartered, Bel
.gium, have combined to enforce = Dc.
crease Ia wages Of their work men.
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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.


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;s Rev. r. M. Alexander and wife Of
sSpartanburg, S. G., passed through the
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-01-21

Garrison sells for cash, don't forget
that quality and not quantity. soft
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-01-21

An advertisement which ought to
interest every union working man in
this city appears in our columns today.
This is the Jumbo Stores advertise
ment. the popular and enterprising
clothiers This "ad" brings out the
fact that this firm is exclusive agent
for the clothes made by Hamilton
Carhartt, the men Of whom il is said
"They have made union made cloth
ing popular 9O-9l
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-01-21
Avery Close Call.

II stuck to nv engine, although
every Joint aehed and every nerve was
racked with pain, writes c. W. Bel
lamy, locomotive fireman, Of Burl-
ingt0n. Iowa. Il was weak and pale
without any appetite, and all run
down. As. l was about TO give up
got bottle Of Electric BitterS, and
after taking it / felt as well as l ever
did in my life. Weak, sickly, run
down people always gain new life,
strength and vigor from their use.
Try them. Satisfaction guaranteed
by Peoples drug store. Price SOC. DIV
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-01-21
HALSELL SELLS
CAMP SUPPLY
Rock Island Railroad Said to
be Back Of the Deal.
$4,000 TRANSACTION
Is a Fine Body of Land and
Settlers Would not Permit
its use as Cow Ranch
Portion Previ-
OusIy Sold.
$4,000 TRANSACTION

w. Z. Halsell, of this city, has just
sold the remainder of his holdings in
the Camp Supply military reservation,
the purchase price, as reported, being
S75, 900. This tract is in Woodward
county, Oklahoma, the first county
east OF No Mans land, and was bought
entire from the government a few
years since.
The original intention was to util-
ize the land for cattle ranch but
this in ameasure proved impracticable.
1t had always been used by the set
tiers as a free pasture and they had
no intention of giving it up. regard
less of law. The fences were constant
" cut, the owners cattle logged
and run and any number of outside
cattle drifted in. 1t took big force
of men all the time to cut the strays
out and put up the fence and next
day it was all to be done again. IN
der these circumstances, with redress
and protection out Of the question in
the local courts Mr.. Halsell sold por-
tion Of the land-for enough money,
as reported, to cover most or all Of
purchase price.
The account Of the recent sale of
the remainder Of the tract. appended,
is from the Oklahoma City Oklaho-
man of the 20th:
One of the biggest land deals in the
history Of Oklahoma was consummat-
ed in this city yesterday and as re-
suit old Fort Supply reservation which
comprises about $4,000 acres of
ground passes into the hands OF a syn
dicate of Chicago capitalists closely
identified with the Rock Island Rail-
way company.
The principal agents in the big en-
terprise are Ben S. Cable and f. L. E.
Gauss, of Chicago, who met in this
city yesterday VIM. E. Halsell, the
wealthy cattleman of Vinita, l. T.,
owner Of the property, and practical
" concluded the deal.
1t is said the 5ig tract Of land was
sold to the syndicate at three dollars
per acre, with a cash payment Of one
third the purchase price.
1t is also said that the Rock Island
is to extend a branch line to the reser-
vation and that a big colonization
scheme is contemplated in the enter
prise.
1t is believed that the syndicate viii
also purchase anadjoining government
tract, supplied with waterworks and
other improvements, with a view to
the nucleus of big town
and disposing of town lots.
The big deal has been kept very
quiet and the efforts Of a reporter to
secure information from first hands
was fruitless, but, nevertheless, infor-
nation has been secured, and it is re-
liable.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-01-21
BOTTLING TRUST.
Vinita one Of the Towns TO Have
a Plant.

Edgar A. DeMules, president Of the
Southwestern Bottling Co., was ia
this city yesterday looking over the
ground for a site on which they will
erect factory in the near future.
The Southwestern Bottling Co. has
control of five points in the territory
and have selected Vinita for the loca-
tion OF another. They at present con-
troll the Wagner Bottling Works,
Muskogee Bottling Works Tahlequah
Bottling Works and Tulsa Bottling
Works and one other, the location Of
which cannot be given at present.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-01-21

Coughs cured quickly 10y Foley S
Honey and Tar. Refuse substitutes
The prevention Of consumption IS
entirely a question ofcommencing the
proper treatment in time. Nothing Is
30 wen adapted to ward Of fatal lung
troubles as Foley's Honey and Tar
~ sale at Peoples drug store. DIV
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-01-21
Fore Orators the Okmugee This
THE DELAWARE
SEGREGATION
TO Stand Pending Supreme
Courts Decision.

A hearing was had at the White
House yesterday on the Delaware seq
regation matter, at which all parties
at interest in Washington were pres
ent-perhaps twenty persons in all.
After brief conference, President
Roosevelt decided that the original
segregation should stand until the
case now pending in the supreme court
has been decided.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-01-21
Notice.

Having purchased the Smith s. Le-
force hay Office and scales near the
Frisco stock yards would be glad to
get a portion Of the city weighing,
where l viii at all times have a
competent weigh master to serve the
public. Fred L. Kelly.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-01-21

A neglected cough or cold may lead
to bronchial or lung troubles. Don't
take chances when Foley's Honey and
Tar affords perfect security from
serious effects of a cold. For sale at
Peoples drug store. DIV
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-01-21

r. s. Sm0cks, Of Lintner, Mo-, Is
down here looking up a lease for his
sons, who are ready to start out for
and want to get hold Of
some cheap land.