The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1904-03-03


j. w Creekmoore tho Grove mule
buyer is here on business.
L. r. scott's new residence on the
east side will soon be finished.
Mrs Darwin Higley returned Tues
day from visit at Atwood, Kans
Marshal PrIchard OF the Central
district has taken the oath Of Office.
Mr.. and Mrs, Trapp have moved 70
Mrs Burckhalter's new resident in the
west part OF town.
Nelson Lowry, superintendent Of
the Colored high school near Table
quah, died Sunday.
Guy Carroll one Of the tailors, is
boxing UP his household effects and
will move to Kansas.
A bin has been introduced in con-
gress appropriating 100000 for a pub
lie school building at South McAles-
ter.
u. II. Hopkins, the Katys indus
trial agent al st. Charles, was here
yesterday looking at mighty good
town.
Mrs. NJ. Holderman came down from
Rustlers ranch, near Chetopa, Thurs
day to visit the family Of Henry
Drew.
II. ). Remsen's store at Grove was
destroyed by fire Tuesday night. The
loss is said to be about $4,000, no I'M
surance.
The frame Of the new Churchill
house, adjoining the home, has been
raised and work upon II is progressing
rapidly.
w. 4. Davis and Wyman Thompson
OF Ketchum were here Wednesday night
enroute to Tahlequah to attend the
convention.
A. II. Bertram, who at one time
published the v.nita Star, has return
ed 10 Yinita and is employed at the
Leader Office
The Spaulding Mercantile Co. stock
at Muskogee has been purchased by
]. G. McElvain who viii reopen the
store IN a few days
Or. G. d. Merideth is attending a
veterinary college az Kansas City and
has carried OF the honors OF his class
of over 20 members.
Dudley Ellis. manager Of the tele-
phone company, spent Friday at
Miami and Sid Smith, Of the local or.
flee, at Pryor Creek.
a large spring over on the Arkansas
state line has gone dry, which event
is causing excitement among the resi-
dents Of that section.
Work on the waterworks plant Is
progressing rapidly. A large force Of
men are az work putting down pipe
for the drainage canal.
4 man riding a wheel and leading a
refractory COW was having a some
what busy timen at different points
IN the streets yesterday.
The Katy Is again 70 have its atten-
tlon called TO the need Of making
CROSSINGS on It's road at certain agreed
streets north Of the depot.
The Welch delegation to the repuh-
liean convention al Tahlequah were
here yesterday enroute. headedby 5. +.
Baar, the real estate man.
The Majestic Range exhibit at Oar
fongh's was quite a success. Mr. Oar
rough sold all his ranges and did not
have enough TO iill all his orders.
win NJ. Dunn, OF the Bennett-Buh-
Ter Stock Co, which holds the boards
at the opera house tonight, Is print
er Of a good many years experience.
Col. Dick Blue, by his rousing speech
before the South MeAlester Republic
can club Thursday night, bore out tie
current story that every Kansah Is
an orator.
|. i. Hitchcock would be pleased II
parties who have literature TO spare
would leave il with him for dislribu-
ton each Sunday among the prisoners
at the federal jail.
No, that canonadlng you hear Is not
tie Japs bombarding Port Arthur: its
just the Allen Black Go. making
ditch through the rock along Bull
creek for the sewer pipe.
Col W. II. Mellette. district attor-
ney lor The Western district and re-
publican national committeeman for
the Indian Territory, vas III the city
Monday on legal business.
Mrs. u. Il. stutsman writes from
Holden, Missouri, that her bgother-ln-
law whom she went to visit. died Of
pneumonia and her sister IS very low
with the same disease