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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-05-14
THE FRAZEE HARDWARE AND FURNITURE co.
Scissoreo ano Otherwise
Another Scandal Posaible.

AS was shown in these columns yesterday the terri
toral Indian was made by of congress free Ameri-
citizen and yet in spite of this he rests under many
disabilities if laws and treaties in conflict with this
still binding and effective Iiterae and ignorant
fuboods and habreeds would dispute the author
ity of the officials appointed to rule them go
into have this coil unraveed and their rights
judcialy determined But this constitutes the
smaller part of the population Of the territory The
great majority of the people entitled share in the
lands and property of the five tribes fairly well read
and Of average ability This larger class dsconented
with their peculiar and uncertain They undoubt
edy would have taken active steps define their rights
get rid Of the red tape and ociadom which they
feel Illegal had something been done placate
them
At the last session of congress this clause inserted
in the Indian appropriation bill which passed: ''A
strcions upon the alienation of lands of all aottees of
either OF the five civilized tribes of Indians who are not
indian blood except minors are except as to home
steader hereby removed and all restrictions upon the
alienation Of all other alottees of said tribes except
Minors and except to homesteads may with the APP
prova of the secretary Of the interior be removed under
such rules and regulations the secretary of the interior
may prescribe upon application the United States
dian agent at the Union agency in charge of the five
civilized tribes if said agent sgtised upon full in
vestgaon Of each individual case that such removal of
restrictions is for the best interest Of said allottee
This measure. if wisely and honestly administered
would perhaps do good than harm Ii will be mo-
ticed however that the bestowal of citizenship
rights depends upon the findings of Indian agent and
the approval Of the secretary of the interior The poss
bty of display of fayortsm in the exercises of these
high discretionary powers has excited unpleasant appre
tensions among the people Of Indian Territory They
asking why not the decision OF such important
matters conferred upon the instead of being in
trusted to agent and nonresident secretary of the
interior?
BY the POSSESSION Of this power the Indian agent
becomes the biggest official in the territory Unless he
discharges his duties with and honesty grafer will
be likely get the advantage of him and there will be
scandals of the variety exposed by Mr. Bonaparte
Kansas City Journal
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-05-14

The Dewitt Clinton train, built in 1881 for the Mohawk
and Hudson River railroad and the first train ever ope
rated on that road is exhibited in the Palace Of Trans
portaton at the Worlds Fair The train consists Of an
engine tender and four cars. each OF which win seat f
teen persons nine inside and six the roof Originally
the train ran from Albany Schenectady distance Of
seventeen miles, which it covered in about an hour
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-05-14

The Swedish building at the Worlds Fair reproduc-
ton Of Swedish country villa, is furnished with hand
furniture made in Sweden especially for the build
ing statue Of King Oscar holds place in the main
reception hall Photos Of Swedish scenery maps and
bookcases filed with Volumes of Swedish literature and
statistics, are exhibited in the Pavilion A typical
Swedish garden surrounds the structure.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-05-14

Agent J. Blair Shoenfet has been appointed appraiser
for the surplus lands and Improvements held by the
Delawares in the Cherokee nation This applies only to
surplus lands inther possession April 2 the day the In
dian appropriation bill signed by the president.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-05-14

The members Of the Dawes commission and their en-
ployes have all resigned from the land companies and
banks and disposed OF their holdings therein but they
did it mighty quietly 1t is due to the kindness Of the
newspapers that great noise has been made about it,
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-05-14

The continued crowded condition of the land Office
Tahlequah shows conclusivey that every Cherokee is
anxious file and thus secure his share Of the land
No scouting parties need be sent to compel them
come in and file
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-05-14

Those who agreed that there would be little land for
sale in the Cherokee Nation or rather that few citizens
would part with their holdings should revise their
opinions The number Of freedmen that want to sell is
only limited to the number Of such who have rights
the Cherokee Nation
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-05-14

Fourffths Of the newspaper people Of the Indian Ter
rory will be away from home next week attending the
great press parliament at St. Louis If the country pulls
through wtout their presence whole week is entitled
to statehood.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-05-14

Henry Wattsson, the great Courier-Journal editor,
says Of leading topic "Judge Parker is not the only
presidential candidate who has kept his mouth shut on
political issues In 1896 Mckinley remained silent on
the silver question until he wrote his letter Of accept
ance."
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-05-14

If the judge of the Western district swift
Raymond there win be no need Of keeping docket.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-05-14

1t claimed by the scientists that the Japanese
discovered America. 1t may also be stated that they
have found Russia
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-05-14

New York, Indiana and Connecticut all doubtful and
all necessary to the election of democratic president
have lined up for Judge Parker
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-05-14

-Four years hence will be in the throes ef national
campaign, with not less than ten electoral votes.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-05-14

There are those who think Judge Parkers silence is
better than the loquacty Of ". J. Bryan
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-05-14

When Nicholas goes to the front there be something
doing.
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Nlirrpr-Writior

In a recent case of mirror-writing
boy of seven or eight wrote unusually
well, but in this singular reversed style,
and some months later, after acquiring
the normal method of writing, would re-
turn to his original style on becoming
fatigued. DR.. c. d. Jones, of Boston,
in reporting the case. states that the
anomaly seems to be more common in
England than in America In one group
Of 451 the percentage of mirror writer's
was 81. but in many reported instances
the specimens have proven to be merely
those of poor penmanship. Various ex-
plantations of the popularity have been
offered. II seems to be most common
with mental disease, but has been OBJ
served in persons of normal mental
capacity, and one explanation is that it
is due 10 left-handedness and some pre-.
ponds rating influence OF the left brain.
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lar reason Of his own. Olney became
the strong man of the Cleveland admin
istration, both as attorney general and.
as. secretary of,state-
Root came here with more of reputa-
ton than Oiney, because he had played
on the larger stage of New York life and
had been more or less conspicuous in
local politics in a somewhat academic
way. Few realized that he had in him
the stern stuff he has developed. Even
before his retirement he was recognized
as one of the two greatest secretaries Of
war in the history of the government,
and there are some who believe that ii
he had been confronted with the momen-
tous problems Stanton had to solve he
would have shownqualities superior even
to those of Lincoln's great war secre-
tary.
There is no doubt that Roots expert,
ence in Washington has broadened him
and ripened him as he has risen to meet
each new emergency. He knows more
about men than he did, and is less char
acteristically the corporation lawyer
than he was. He will so back to New
York to take unchallenged his place at
the head of the New York bar, dis
inction which he seems to prize more
than any other that can come to him.
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government in the
last half century

ldSC Hail Century
has expended millions of dollars in sci
entific research, and some of the most
eminent scientists in the world have
been in it's employ. Last year the
amount appropriated for the support OF
the institution was $67S, 400, a sum sur
passing the entire original beQuest This
year estimates have been laid before
congress calling for an appropriation of
nearly 100000.
The institution has become the most
important center of scientific activity III
the United States, and there is nothing
anywhere else in the world that sur
passes it The original institution build
ing-one of the most beautiful structures
INTELLECTUALLY in the United States-is
the nucleus for great and constantly
expanding system. The chronological
bureau costs $50, 900 year. The govern
ment is at an expense of nearly half a
million dollars a year to sustain the
national museum. The geological
park on the outskirts of the city, con-
tanning one of the finest collections of
animals in the world, costs $100, 900 a
year to maintain.
Smithson gave his money to a coun-
try which seemed to him to be poor and
struggling simply because he was enam-
ored of the principles upon which the re-
public was founded. His body will rest
which bears his name, in the midst of
one of the most beautiful cities in the
world and one of the wealthiest.
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James Smithson.

is his real monument
Smithson was the natural son of
James Smithson, the first duke of
Northumberland, and it was not until
after his fathers death that he assumed
his fathers family name. Up till that
time he had gone by his mothers name
and was known as James Lewis Macie.
He had an ample fortune which he de-
voted to scientific research. He was
graduated at Oxford and then spent the
rest of his life travelling on the continent
engaged in scientific observations
Wherever he went he carried with him
portable laboratory and large col
lection of gems and minerals.
He was member of the Royal Society
of England and of the French Institute.
He died in Genoa in 1929 at the age of IS.
and left his entire fortune of S60O,O00
to nephew, with the proviso in this
will that if the nephew should die with
out heirs the entire property should be
left to the United States for the pur-
pose of founding an institution at Wash
ington to be called the Smithsonian In
stitution for the increase and diffusion
of knowledge among men,"
The nephew died in 1885, and the prop
erty, amounting then to s50S, 31S46, came
into possession of the United States gov
eminent, resulting in the establishment
of the Smithsonian Institution in 1916.
Smithson's body has rested ever since
his death in the cemetery at Genoa, and
there it mighthave remained indefinitely
had it not been for Alexander Graham
Bell, who started a movement to have
the body brought to the United States.
He enlisted the support of Secretary
Moody and other officers of the admins
tration, with the result that after the
arrival of the body at New York it was
brought to Washington on the steamer
Dolphin, thus giving to the transaction
the official flavor which it deserved.
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highway of commerce. Millions

highway of commerce. Millions OF
bushels of wheat, corn, oats. rye, barley,
potatoes. millions of pounds of tobacco.
cotton, sugar, millions of tons of hay,
thousands and tens of thousands of live
stock, valued away up into the billions
of dollars, is what these states border
ing on the Mississippi produce every
year. And of this amount the present
river traffic, which is largely local
in character, there being only one
through line of steamers between
St Louis and st. Paul, and only
one or two between st. Louis and New
Orleans, amounts to less than s4O0. O00,-
600 a year. And when it is remembered
that this amount includes the large luIn-
Der interests, which use the river almost
exclusively for the rafting of their logs
and lumber down the river, it is not
large sum, as it might at first glance ap-
pear.
The industry of log-raft towing on the
upper river is the one interest which the
railroads have failed to win away from
the river. Into the everyday raft
enough logs are bound and sent down
the river to load mile or two of rail-
road fiat cars. Hundreds of millions OF
feet of these logs find the river the cheap
est and best method of transportation.
and during the spring, when the water
is high, the business is rushed. A month
or two later, abyMoau,t NIB i,0lL( acl
or two later, about May. when the warm
winds begin to stir through the valley,
other classes of craft emerge from their
winter quarters, and by midsummer the
navigation of the upper river has be-
come veritable spectacle. The follow
ing description of these scenes is given
by writer in Scribner's:
st. Louis liners-to the river what
the limited express is to the train ser
vice-straining every fiber to make their
/ 800 mile run in eight days, stopping at
none but important landings, and then
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bered even now for his genial qualities.
as we'll as for his official success. He is
big fellow physically, with face not
altogether unlike that of Cleveland.
Taft has great courage, as Root has,
but it may be that he will be more in
clined to listen to argument than Root.
and there may rot be the up and down
determination which has characterized
the proceedings of the war department
during the past four years.
Root. has been the trusted adviser OF
two presidents of opposite tempera-
ments-Mckinley and Roosevelt. 1t is
hard to say which leaned on him most.
and it is certain he has been intensely
loyal to both. Taft at the beginning can
hardly hope to fill Roots place in that
regard, whatever may come later.
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Lucky stage Fright.

One of the most striking anecdotes
told in Hermann Klein's Thirty Years
of Musical Life in London" relates to
Anton Seidl's first interview with Wag-
ner, in the library at Wahnfried Seidl
found the room dark; and. imagining
nobody was there, he pulled out his
letter of introduction and began SILENT
ly rehearsing the speech he had pre-
pared. Suddenly, from out Of a gloomy
corner, Wagner appeared, and Seidl
was so nervous that he could not bring
out sentence of his speech. This
proved to be his salvation, for Wagner.
declaring. IF you can work as well as
you can hold your tongue, you will do, -
engaged him on the spot.
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A new MISSISSIPPI
Renewed Effort to Secure a Deep
Water Channel from St. Paul.
PANAMA CANAL REEVES TOPIC
Money Which the Government Has
Already Expended I'm Improving
the Waterway - InsiEnffieant
Nature of Traffic of To-day.

- HE commercial possihili-
z&A ties of the mighty Missis-
Nm " sippi river as it threads its
&yHLK way from the great -four
ee making city of the north
west to the gulf port of
New Orleans is ever fascinating sub
ject of contemplation. The hope of re-
covering from the staggering blow
which the railroads dealt river naviga-
ton years ago has never been aban-
doned. And now that the Panama canal
is a practical certainty of the near future,
it has stirred to renewed activities those
interested in the Improvement of the
Mississippi, for the interoceanic canal
will make more accessible the vast mar
kets of the east, and with a siX-foot
channel in the Mississippi from st. Paul
and Minneapolis, ocean-going steamers
could load at those points and an i'm
mense saving be made in shipping
rates.
An association known as the Upper
Mississippi Improvement association,
representing the five states bordering on
the upper Mississippi, has been organ
lied for the purpose of agitating the
project. A delegation representative of
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only to touch and go, promenades gay
with tourists, lounging crew of black
deck hands chanting down-south songs
on the forecastle, a troop of white-jack-
eted walters fitting about the cabin;
trim Burlington night boats black with
passengers. and asking no fayors of any
railroad; rival fleets of down-bounj
raft-boats pushing forests of wet, glis-
tening logs, and sometimes a tow OF
sweet-smelling sawed lumber; raft
! boats and consort bowboats, dashed
abreast, hurrying north after fresh
loads; new-painted, gaudy excursion
boats with brass bands and dancing
barges; heavy-laden small-fry packets.
main deck guards in the water; million
aires Households, gorgeously furnished.
dainty gas and steam launches, bright
with brass work and blazing awnings
This is the upper Mississippi in summer
time, wonderful land of painted hills
and great sweeps of gilded water, land
of warm sunshine and lazy breezes, a
happy highway of gala pleasure traffic
and rollicking commerce"
But with the river improved in ac-
cordance with the latest plans and hopes
of those who have never abandoned
the Mississippi to its seeming fate,
the traffic on the river would
assume a more dignified and Sc
rious and important aspect. In 1864
the Mississippi touched the lowest mark
in its known history. Taking this as
basis, it was decided with an easy non
chalance, to establish and maintain a
channel between st. Paul and New Or
leans in which even at low water mark
of GA there should be sufficient water
to float steamboats, of the type and
draught in use on the rivers several di-
visions. What sort of labor it has been
and will continue to be, to persuade the
Mississippi to accept the governments
plan, only the commissions and army
engineers who have coaxed and fought
her these many years can tell adequately.
1t is the opinion of Gen. ]. H. Simpson,
of the United States engineers, in charge
of the Mississippi from the Illinois
river to the mouth of the Ohio, that
seven appropriat tons of 81 100000 each
would accomplish as much as 20 of $780,
900 each. IF appropriations" he says,
ARE limited to 100000 or Whereabouts
per year. it could not bring permanent
improvements toward a deep water
channel" The weakest link in the st.
Louis and New Orleans trade is found
in the 200 miles below the former point.
Here much deeper channel is required
to accommodate the increased steam
boat draught necessary to lower river
traffic Although over this 200-mile
stretch there is seldom a time when
light draught steamers are not able to
navigate, there are periods when steam
ers loaded according to the demands of
their traffic have been forced to tie up
because of obstructing shoals. This is
one of the important sections of the river
which would require attention to make
complete the deep water channel from st
! Paul to the Gulf. and that which as been
so often proposed may yet become a
reality, instead of an attractive dream.
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riages. man of cnnea-
quence in Oregon. must chuckle to HIM
self if he ever reads the Washington dis
patches. Williams, one of the ablest
men in Grants cabinet, and nominated
by Grant to be chief justice of the su-
preme court, was laanpooned from one
end of the country to the other in the
democratic press and gained the nick
name of "Landaulet" because Mrs Will
liams drove about in handsomely up
holstered landaulet furnished by the
government when she made her social
calls. For some reason that was regard
ed as reprehensible in those days, even
though Williams was member of the
cabinet. But now, 80 years later, the
carriage habit has become so fixed that
very little excitement is created outside
of congress when the question arises an
to the advisability of allowing the privi-
lege to chief clerks in the departments.
The house of representatives very
properly voted that no part of the ap-
preparations should be used for carriages
unless they were specially provided in
the legislative bill, and for time that
will do away with carriages except for
members of the cabinet and two or three
others; but, as matter of fact, the car
riages in very many instances are really
a necessity, and they will gradually
creep back one by one through legiti-
mate channels.
There is not a government official in
Washington below the cabinet ranS
who can afford to keep a carriage on hii
salary.
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE
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regretted than any
Official of the gov
eminent who has
left it's service In a
generation. There
is hardly another
instance of a man
coming to Wash
ington compa ara
lively unknown ex-
cept for a local rep
utation who has
won for himself so
high a place in Sd
short a time The
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tentative provision
in his will to what
extent his bequest
would grow, and
the far-reaching re-
suits it would have.
His original be-
quest has multiplied
like a grain of mus
tard seed. Under
the direction of the
officers Of t h e
Smithsonian t h e
government in the
lL 1-1c 49,, 1,~--
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of perhaps equal
ability, but of an
altogether different
temper. He is
younger for one
thing, and he is
personally more of
the hail fellow well
met. Taft was So
licitor general in
Harrison's admins
tratiOn and he was
then one of the
most popular Off
Gals in Washing
ton He iS renpm-
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suece.. of INSTRUMENTATION.

Attorney General Gunner. OF New
York. has received a Communication
from man in Michigan. who inquiries
whether electrccution is an effective
punishment rer the crime of murder.
The attorney general IN reply stated
that so far as he is an no man who
has suffered that. punishment ever
again committed murder or any other.
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nearest approach to it in recent years is
Oiney, who came. into Cleveland's cabi-
net with no national reputation at az
and who was regarded simply as a sue
cessful corporation lawyer of Boston,
picked ND by Cleveland for some particu-
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rhe Armx of Panam..

Our naval officers on the coast OF Pam
anna note no activity in the ranks of the
Colombian invading army At last ad-
vices. according to the Denver Post. it
was sitting under a tree smoking ciga-
rettes ard scratching at feebites
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institute, n eve r
saw the United
States while he was
living and it il fit
ting that his body
should be brought
here now 75 ears
after his death to
rest for all time in
the shadows of the
inCfitr,tiOn whinh
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o I d c pa rtmentS
shall have car
ria ges at the gov
eminent expense
has been agitating
the bosoms of the
house OF represen-
tatives.
George H. Will
liams, former attor-
ney general of the
United States dur
ing Grants admin
istration, and still
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Might spon the Pleasure.

A German chemist claims to have dis
covered way to extract nicotine from
tobacco. making it harmless without
spelling the flavor. The Chicago News
asks If 1t is to be harmless would men
want to continue its use?