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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-08-31


G. A. Davidson, wife and two boys,
returned on the delayed Frisco train
today. i l JJubJiiiFll@g p
DR.. Essie Bondurant, physician and
surgeon. Phone 2S0 Empire block,
Vinita, /. L. l38-tf
James P. Thompson, the well known
Democratic politician and leader Of
Alton, is in town today.
Foley's Kidney Cure is a medicine
free from poisons and will cure any
case of kidney disease that is not be-
yond the reach of medicine Peoples
drug store. DIV
ManZan is certainly a specific for
Piles. This new discovery is put up
in collapsible tube, with nozzle, so it
may be applied where most needed.
Stops the pain instantly and cures.
Sold by A. P. Ovens.
~ had diabetes in its worst form,
writes Marion Lee, Of Dunreath, Ind.
81 tried eight physicians without re-
lief Only three BOTTLES of Foley's
Kidney Cure made me we'll man."
People's drug store. DIV
Rings Dyspepsia Tablets instantly
relieve the stomach and aid digestion.
They are as pleasant as loaf of sugar
and cure dyspepsia, sour risingS, cat
arrh of the stomach and indigestion.
Sold by A. P. Owens.
Up at Vinita the latests social func'
tion IS d Gypsy Tea" This was
formerly a moonlight picnic, but Vi
nita has been away attending board
ing school and the name has been
changed. Muskogee Times,
Bert Chandler, wife and two chill
dren, and Mrs. Lillian Holloway, OF
Muskogee, Mrs. Chandler's sister, leave
tonight for an extended visit to the
Worlds Fair at st. Louis
Miss Mary Lawson,of El Reno, field
secretary Of the Christian Endeayor
Union. win speak at the Christian
church at s O'Clock this, Wednesday
evening. The public IS cordially III
vited co attend.
w. NJ. MCGOWAN, the we'll known
cigar manufacturer, viii leave soon
for Colorado to investigate the pros
poets Of opening a factory in a pros
perous and growing town, the mayor
Of which wrote him a personal letter
TO come If conditions are as reprer
sented Mr.. MCGOWAN wilTleay Vinita.
Bees Laxative Honey and Tar is
different from al other cough syrups.
II contains antiseptic properties to de-
str6y the germs, solvent properties to
cut the phlegm, and the laxative prop
critics to cleanse the SYSTEM Bees
Laxative Honey and Tar is pleasant,
permanent cure for aliscOughs, colds,
hung and bronchial affections. Sold
by A. p. Owens s
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-08-31
Cures sciatioa.

Rev. w. L. Riley, .. L. D., Cuba,
New York, writes: after fifteen
days of excruciating pain from sciatic
rheumatism, under various Treatments,
was induced to try Billiards. Snow
Liniment; the first application giving
my first relief and the second entire
relief. can give it unqualified Te-
commendation. 25c, SOC, s1.Oo. Peo-
pIe's drug store. dw
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-08-31
Two Millionth Chance

One American railroad passenger was
killed for every 1,g574ii carried last
year, and one injured for every S4,42i
carried. With respect to the number Of
miles Travelled, however, the figures
show that 1891, ,645passenger mi les were
accomplished for each passenger killed.
and 2,541 096 passenger miles for each
passenger injured Engineering News,
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-08-31
Fine Indian Exhibit.

At the worlds fair at St. Louis there
10 an Indian exhibit which is one ofthel
finest individual collections in America,
and is valued at several thousand dol7,
lars. Among the features Of the exhibit
II In elk robe. made Of elk teeth The
robe has 72s elk teeth on it. which rep
Eunent 364 bull elks. ia iN
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-08-31

Have you any summer flctionT
What do you call summer fctionr'
asked the pert young man at the rail
way news stand,
"Why-ersomething that Is interest
ing without being particular about ac.
tual facts, you know"
60 over to the bureau of informa-
tion and get a branch road time table. .
Washington Star.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-08-31
LOCAL NOTES

4~(~$< 4AS NJ 49,
Pretzelettes at Badgett-Sanders. If
Country honey at the yinita Meat
store. 273tf
Old papers for sale -Postotiice Book
store. 262-tf
Globe flour IS the best, at /. n. viii
liams'. 25S-tf
Lee Barrett now has a iirst-class
boot, maker. 2l6-tf
Mrs. Blue Ellis is confined to her
bed by illness.
Fresh fruit and vegetables at the
yinfta Meat store 239-tf
zeno has the best steaks, and the
freshest groceries 2l3tf
Chickens, butter and eggs always
on handat Zeno's.
Nice, juicy, tender steaks at the
Vinita Meat store. 2S9-tf
III you want a cab telephone heDD
Brothers Phone ~
u. II. Rood has gone on a business
trip 70 Columbus Kans-
I Butter crisp biscuit and tre o'clock
\ tea cakes at Badgett-Sanders. #
Thirty new members were added to
the Commercial cleb yesterday.
FoIeyls Kidney Cure win cure all
diseases arising from disordered kid
neys or bladder dw
Deputy Long has placed Jackson
Wolfe, Of Tahlequah, In Jail here for
selling liquor
Joseph n, BreShers and Hester
Chance, OF Catale, have been granted
marriage llcerlse. = .tt f'''''''
The winter theatrical season viii
open Tuesday night with a presenta-
tion of "The Devils Lane.
Mrs. Madge King wiz do all Of your
fancy dressnaking at herroops az the
Blackstone Eotel. Phone 40. 27l-6
The Vinita Invincibles will cross
bats with the Neoslo Athletics at the
ball park next Sunday afternoon.
Miss Maude Glasscock Of Webb City,
who las been visiting Miss Willie
Trott, returned home last evening"
Miss Winnie Meredith is prepared
to do al kinds Of fancy dreSsnakihg
at her home on South Wilson street,
opposite u. S. Jail. l60 II
n. G. Turk, prominent citizen Of
Checotah and member OF the Terri
torial Republican Executive Commit
tee, is a guest at the Cobb.
jesse Rowe has paid the tine OF $50
|nAmposed upon him by Judge Stanheld
for carrying a concealed weapon and
has been released from Jail.
j. A. Bondurant has purchased the
carriage and repair shop east OF the
court house formerly conducted BY G.
A. Chance and will take charge at
once
Many persons in this community
are suffering from kidney complaint
who could avoid fatal results by using
Foley's Kidney Cure. Peoples drug
store saa fl Nv
Pliny L. Soper and wife will return
to vinita Saturday after a months
sojoum in Canada. A letter states
that Mrs. Soper is greatly improved in
health. f-t '..'
Miss Clara Chamberlin fell down a
stairway in her home last night and
sustained fracture Of both bones Of
the leg just above the ankle. DIT.
Fortner reduced the fracture. hN3
C. w. Dixon, Of Sanisaw, IS in the
Federal iail charged with assault
with intent TO killa boy named Wal-
ter Sprege He was arrested and
-brought here by Deputy G. II. Nisr.
The oxygenized strength Of the
healing pines. combined With other
well known kidney aud bladder reme-
dies, Is presented IN Plneules. This
new discovery gives Immediate relief
and permanently cures all kidney and
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-12-18
LEAGUE AGAINST Treating

.eBuy a drink for yourself if you like.
and I'll buy one if 1 feel like it, but
don't expect me to lean up against the
bar until every member of the party
has had chance to blow himself.
In this expressive statement mem
Der of the "Anti Treating League or
America" explained the reason for the
organization. charter was obtained
today. A. K. Draper is president and
r. NJ. Hinman secretary.
I'VE figure" said Mr.. Hinman, that
many a man accumulates jag on ac-
count of his responsibility to treat
chance acquaintance in saloon when
in reality his intention was to take
single drink and go home. Everybody
will admit that the present drinking
code is tending toward excess. Com
mon sense demands the abolition OF the
treating habit.
@There is absolutely no financial gain
to be derived from the movement. we
have received letters from all over the
country eongratulating US on our plan'
and we hope by the spreading of lltera-
tr1re and through the press to AWAKEN
a widespread interest in the ant1-treatT
ing idea.''-New York World.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-12-18
OXFORD MAlDENS PROVE
THEMSELVES VIGOROUS
Lock a Man, Who Got Their Money, in
Car and Give Him Icy Duc.<inas

WASHINGTON, n. J., Dec. IL
Charles B. Moyer came here a week
ago, saying he represented firm that
made silk flowers. He offered girls
steady employment at $5 week, pro-
viding each deposited 81 with him in
payment for an outfit to be delivered
later. Meyers scheme worked well
here, twenty girls giving him 81 each,
and he followed it ups lat Oxford, five
miles from here.
1t is said he got tNo dozen working
girls to go into his scheme. In Ok
ford, which is a mining village, the
girls didn't like his scheme, and this
morning Anna and Theresa Flanagan
met him on the street and demanded
a return of their money. Meyer laughed
at them and they got angry. grabbed
him, lifted him into an empty freight
car on a siding and locked the doors.
Then the sisters got together lot
OF other girls from whom Meyer had
collected money, and an hour later the
girls yanked Meyer out of the car,
dragged him TO a mill pond and
showed him through a hole in the ice.
Three times the ducking was repeated,
and when the girls left Meyer he was
nearly frozen. He got into a neigh
boring house, thawed out for two hours
and then took an express train for
Scranton. The girls jeerei him as he
boarded the train.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-12-18
JAPANESE KEEP AN
EYE ON TORPEDO BOATS
They Visit Jersey Town Whence Craft
Are to Be Sent to Russia

ELIZABETH, N. j., Dec. 1.-Two
japanese strangers have been seen
here several times within the last two
months. Interest attaches to their
movements from the fact that two
Japs answering the description of these
men were in Perth Amboy yesterday.
Their presence there was connected
in the popular mind with expected
departure from Lewis Nixon's shipyard
of ten torpedo boats which, it is now
established almost to a certainty, are
intended for the Russian government.
Up to about three weeks ago the Japs
often came to Elizabeth on a train
from New York and sped away in an
automobile in waiting for them at the
station. On other occasions they left
4 Central railroad train at Elizabeth
port and changed cars to train on
the Long Branch division. They have
not been seen here for about three
weeks and nothing was heard of them
until they appeared in Perth Anboy.
1t is not likely they went there in
SnoWStorm on a pleasure Jaunt.
1t was recalled in Perth Amboy to-
day that the Japs were seen there also
on more th9.n one occasion previous
to three weeks ago. OF late they had
apparently quit their visits. On these
visits they merely walked about tho
town OF lOlIereQ mere anu CueIc, SpOAS
to no one and departed. Once they
were questioned in kindly way as to
their business, but they merely shook
their heads, made a gesture of tie
hands and pretended not to be able to
speak English.
THESE Japs are very well dressed.
They look Americanized and from ap-
pearances have been in this country
long enough to have acquired the Ian
guage. Whether or not they can speak
English, they bought New York and
New Jersey newspapers more than
once at a news stand here.
Lewis Nixon's torpedo boat, ready
to sail, is apparently tied up in the
sound for another night opposite the
shipyard Several times today the
boat changed her position and moved
about in the water. But when dark
ness Games lines were thrown out, as
if the crew were getting ready to make
the boat fast till morning. She has
crew of eight men. A Tip" has been
allowed to circulate that the boat will
not move tonight. The other nine
boats that have been dismantled are
still on the flat-decked barge which
was at the shipyard dock till after 1t
became dark.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-12-18
DEFALCATION IS LAID TO
INDIANA TREASURER
Custodian of County Funds Is Missing,
and So Is $4,000

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. II. =
Frank Obenchain, treasurer of Cass
county, is missing, and his Office has
been placed in charge of his bondsmen.
That he is a defaulter and that the
loss will aggregate between $4,000 and
$4,000, with practically no assets, is
admitted by his bondsmen and not de-
MED by the county commissioners
The money is believed to have been
lost in speeulations in oil and oil lands,
in which Obenchain was known to be
heavy investor. He left home nearly
two weeks ago, telling his family that
he was coming to this city on business
After reaching here he wrote to his
wife saying that he was going to
Martinsville and would be absent a
week. When the time expired and he
did not return it was learned that hs
had left this city for the West.
An investigation of his office is now
in progress and already the experts
have discovered distractions of money
that aggregate more than $4,000. His
term of office viii expire Jan. 1, and
at that time he would have turned 1t
over to his Republican successor. Oben-
chain was chairman OF the Democratic
county committee in the recent cam
paign. 1t developed tonight that the
stenographer employed in the treas
urer's Office is also missing, but whether
she is with Obenchain or not is not
known Her family know nothing
about her since she left several weeks
&C
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-12-18
Local. News
Athens (Greece) Gazette

a
Crops are looking up.
Work on the Parthenon is progressing
finely.
AS we go to press war is raging at
Thermopylae.
Mercury has charge of the R. F. D.
route, No. J.
Your scribe Thursdayed in the Pelopon-
nesus.
Several from this burg are out-of- town
ing at present.
Helen of Troy was seen chariot-riding
Sunday eve All, there, Parisl
Achilles, our popular g.. a. leader, Is
suffering from a pain in the heeL
Euripides is on the sick-list. SICK est
vita as our Rome correspondent says
The smiling face OF Agamemnon was
observable on our city's streets Monday
Ag is looking swell .aooo e,
Sophocles has treated his residence 70
a new coat of paint, Phidias, the poputl,t.e t,1s
kalsominer, is reported to nave dohe lne
job. u;4+a,, now musical
comedy. 1.-The Wasps." Don't forget tne
first performance on any stage tomorro"
night. Please omit laurels. Adv.
Xantippe was pleasant Vlsitor az @ lLle
Gazette office yesterday and left US some
douehnuts she says Soc. wouldn't eat;
What's the matter, Soc? They tasted au
Theocritus. the welI-known poet. spent
Tuesday with Sophocles and his Wife, IL
beiug her birthday. In the evening
party was given, and many warm encon-
iurns were received by the hostess al
allowing that lovely time had been had.
Judge.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-12-18
HORSE is SEA HORSE
Swlms an Hour in Icy Water
and Survives Medicine

NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-'He's hip
popotamus, see? He's sea horse"
proudly cried Jim McAvoy, as he
drove home his big bay horse HJim," !"
Yesterday. "Jim"-the horSe-Stag
gered slightly on the way to Ne. sos
East One Hundred and Twenty-sev-
enth street. "Jim''-the man-explain-
ed that the bay had swum nearly an
hour in the icy East river. But those
who saw Jim" treat his horse for
immersion declared the cure had much
to do with causing the stagger.
MeAvoy backed Jim" too hard
against the stringpiece of pier No. 3.
the horse swung around and fell over
board, his weight breaking the harness.
James A. Riley, a contractor, lassoed
his namesake most expertly, hitched
"Jim" to the tug James Kay and toweG
him fifty feet to Riley's lighter and
derrick. He made fast the lasso to the
derrick and was about to signal to
"hoist away when McAvoy yelled at
him:
What are you going to do?"
Hoist him out"
You'll hang him!"
We'll, he'll drown, anyhow" Riley
retorted.
''Well, drownin's an easier death nor
hangin'," McAvoy objected.
Riley cut.the rope. "Jim,' the horse,
struck out for Staten Island. Tug
boats, ferryboats and all the craft gave
the horse a wide berth, and he swan
here and there for an hour until his
frozen whiskers made him look like a
walrus. Meantime McAvoy, with tears
in his eyes, ran along the pier heads,
h.lcr -.
quartermaster's lighter from Gov
ernor's Island hoisted the horse on
board and landed him. McAvoy was
ready for him. He had bought bottle
of ''Longshoreman's Delight at the
nearest saloon. Seeing the bottle,
"Um,' with almost human intelligence,
opened his mouth. His master un-
selfishly emptied the whole bottle
down "Jim's" throat and then drove
his hippopotamus home by a route
that, long as it was. was broader than
long.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-12-18
A STRANGE Mixture

The world has never perhaps beheld
such combination of incongruous ele-
ments as the Russian empire presents
today. The educated classes include
some of the best informed and of the
most highly polished men and women
in Europe, many of whom openly eX-
press ideas of an advanced liberal type.
They include also an intellectual pro-
letariat which has embraced, with all
the ardor of the Slav nature, the Wild
est and most dangerous theories of
French and German Socialists. These
men have the tastes and the ambitions
which education brings, with no rea-
sonable prospect of gratifying either.
Beneath is the dumb peasant order,
permeated here and there with the new
ideas which the villagers who have mi
grated to the newly established manu-
featuring centers or who have come in
contact with the artisans and the urban
workmen in the army bring home with
them. Over all the bureaucracy and
the police exercise what is too often in
practice an irresponsible sway. The
church in her own sphere is as intol-
Grant and as unenlightened as the state
Most oninous of all, the economic con-
ditions of mobiles, of manufacturers and
artisans and of the agricultural masses
appear to be becoming more and more
grievOuS. The most enlightened men
of the empire deplore the evils they
daily witness and recognize that pro-
found constitutional reforms are indis-
pensable to remedy them. Yet they
are acutely conscious of the dangers
which such reforms must almost nee
essarily bring, and they have SO far
failed to devise any known project
which promises to effect the transition
from the half oriental. half medieval
state. which Russia now is. to condi
tions essential for the development of
modern life and civilization.-Lon
Times.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-12-18
PIMA INDIANS NEEDY
One Result of Irrigation IS Not
SO Happy

ORANGE, N. j., Dec. 1.-THE Rev.
DR.. George L. Spinning, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of Orange,
has returned from Arizona. where he
went at the instance of President
Roosevelt to investigate the condition
of the Pima Indians there. On Sat-
urday he received a letter from the
president telling him that he was at
liberty to make the result of his inves-
legations public. DIR. Spinning declares
that the Indians are in poor shape. that
they have been unfairly treated and
that their condition is steadily grow
ing worse.
He said that the condition of the
Pimas had first been brought to public
notice in 1866. Two years later the
Rev DR.. Charles Cook, an associate of
Mr.. Moody in Chicago, established a
mission among them, and now there
are six churches, 1900 communicates
and 1000 Sunday school scholars. The
PinaS and their companions in misery,
the Papagoes, number in all about
5000, and until six years ago were in
dustrious and prosperous.
AT that time, DR.. Spinning said, Nor
mon and other. colonies settled above
them on the Gila river and diverted the
water with which they had always ir-
rigated their lands in consequence of
which their condition is one of grind
ing poverty and deStitution.
President Roosevelt appointed spe-
ciaI committee, consisting of DR.. Spin
ing and William A. Jones, United States
commissioners of Indian affairs, to go
West and investigate the conditions.
DR.. Spinning and Mr.. Jones Travelled
hundreds of miles among the people,
called them together in the villages
and took their testimony in open as
semblies.
'aThe findings of the committee. as
embodied in the report to the president.
fully verify the statements made to
the president by the Presbyterian board
OF foreign missions, said DR.. Spinning.
I'VE found that these Indians have
been in a condition of grinding pow
erty for the last six years and that
their condition is steadily growing
worse. Only twenty families are draw
ing rations, all are anxious to work
would rather do that than draw rations
and live in idleness. Their condition
of suffering has been brought about by
an unlawful diversion of their water
supply.
.sThe committee has recommended to
the president in its report the imme-
date installation of a system of pump
ing plants to irrigate 10000 acres OF
land This recommendation has been
indorsed by committee of i've ex-
pert government engineers, who met
the committee on the reservation. In
the meantime, in order to give the In
dams work by which they may support
themselves, the committee has recon-
naended the immediate construction of
roads between the principal villages
and of a system of irrlgating to be
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-12-18
Good Hunor in Politics

Senator Elkins worked actively in
West Virginia endeavoring to carry
that state against the presidential tick
ct. on which the name of his father in
law, Hon. Henry G. Davis; appea red.
Nevertheless Mr.. Elkins and Mr.. Davis
are on the best of terms and very good
humoredly engaged in this political
opposition. Elkins did all in his pow
er to defeat his wifes father for vice
president, but that viii not distuI b the
personal regard each has for the other.
This is an illustration of good -humored
and sensible politics, which might well
be emulated by many people who
think that in order to be earnest and
effective in campaign work they must
be rude and abusive. All politicians
should first be gentlemanly and con-
siderate. 1t is not necessary that peo-
pie should be enemies or discourteous
toward each other because they are
affiliated. with opposing parties. 1t is a
small man who believes Or thinks he
believes that man. in opposing him..
is less sincere and honest than those
in his own party.-Nashville Banner.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-12-18
LITTLE GIRLS IN NEW
JERSEY SAVE LIVES
Their Quick Wits Prevent Collision
of Loaded Trolley Cars

GARFIELD, N. J., Dec. 17.-Two Iit-
tie girls prevented a head-on collision
of loaded cars on the Lodi & Hacken-
sack line of the Public Service corpo-
ration last evening.
car bound for Lodi was under the
Erie railroad trestle, near the Garfield
station, when car bound for Paterson
came down grade just beyond the
trestle. A sharp curve prevented
either motorman from seeing the 9TH
er's car
Mary Hill, aged ten, and Dora Fink,
aged eleven, who were coasting on the
hill, saw the danger, ran to the tracks
and by waving their shawls warned
the motoTnen who, with the airbrakes
stopped their cars within few feet of
each other.
There is a switch near the trestle
and the car from Lodi was late and
trying to gain it before the other car
should arrive. The little girls were
cheered by the passengers and will un-
dOubtedly receive Christmas presents
in appreciation of their deed.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-12-18
LAYS DOWN HARD
RULES FOR SPARKLING
Pennsylvania Priest Lectures Alumnae
on Courtship

LATROBE, Pa, Dec. 1.-THE Rev
Father Angelo Rauber, attending the
retreat at st. Xavier's academy, lee
tured the alumnae and graduates on
courtship, laying down hard and fast
rules, as follows:
"Courtship is as serious a PROPOSE
ton as the responsibilities of mar
riage. 1t should not continue longer
than seven or eight months It is the
duty of mothers to ascertain the inten-
tions of young men,
Father Angelo said the girl of today
has so much freedom that there is con-
slant danger for her. He does not ap-
prove of the family deserting the par
lor when the young man calls, nor does
he permit of dark corners or dim par
lors. The hours for calling should be
from $50 to 1880, and with no addi-
tional half hours to say good-by. He
does not believe that the young people
should sit close on the sofa so en-
crossed in their happiness that they
forget the flight of time.