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INDIAN CHIEFTAIN. CHIEFTAIN PUBLISHING CO. VINITA, INDIAN TERRITORY, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1S99. VOL. XVII. NO. 34 ummMimMuMmMMMmmBmmwo COL WISDOM TALKS- M&JlMM&M Interviewed on His Retire ment From Office. THE i IF m 1 m 1 m Hi M BURNS" RACKET New Line of Goblets, each 5c Express Wagons $1.25 Croquet Sets from 65c to $1.25 Slaw Cutters 25c Dinner Buckets 25c Bicycles at Racket Prices. Fine Line of Stationery Very Cheap. Hoes and Rakes, just what you want. Ice Delivered to Any Part of the City. YOU CANT, AFFORD S?iAff&5Sltofij! 1 are strong, danble and well made. I Handle the best and most popular saddles i 1 and harness made In the Territory, first-class shoemaker always In the shop. ''wiw,iZ We Invite No one, who consults the interest of their pocket book, can afford to buy a single piece of FURNITURE with out first knowing what prices we can make you. Picture Frames Made to Order. E. M. MING FURNITURE COMP'Y A. N. GREEN, Vinita, I. T., Agent for the IVIcCormicls. jBixidLoirjs LH.dL Moxvers Al?o Elrick Cultivators and the best Harrow on earth. If -ou want anything in this line see A. N. Green, south of Hotel Cobb vaVWV m L. C. Couch's Livery Stable East of Katy Tracks. Firt-CIass Turnouts at Reasonable Rates. Horses Boarded by the Week or rionth Telephone N. 6. Hear In Canctla. MORE NEWS! CURTIS UND EIGHTY ACRES may not interest you, but it is of interest to you that you do your trading where you can make your dollar buy the most and best. Do you need any of the following: named articles? If you do, come and buy them at the following: prices: 10 yards Lawn (you can get io yards only) 30c Bleached Muslin, 36 inches wide 4c Brown Muslin, 36 inches wide 4c . Work Shirts 25c Jumpers 45c Overalls 45c Boys' Plow Shoes, 2 buckles 85c Men's Plow Shoes, 2 buckles 95c Ladies' Dongola Shoes $1.00 A good Hat, regular $1.25, 1.00 Special prices on a nice line of Trunks. GROCERIES. Three cans Tomatoes 25c Sorghum, per gallon .' 35c Three cans Corn 25c Dry Salt Meat 5c Bucket Syrup 45c Package Coffee 10c Irish Potatoes, per bushel $1.15 The above prices are only a few of the good things to be found in my store for one week from date of this paper. High grade goods at lowest possible prices is what we offeer. JOHN. C. GRAY. USE B-AJElItETTi You to come and look through See our Styles and get our Prices DISASTER FORETOLD. German Hermit With Disordered Brain. Mr. Dickinson was in his usual talkative mood, when seen yester day at the hotel. His theme was economic and social questions, but he was in a penimistic frame of mind. "I hare been thinking over the present unrest which seems to have seired all classes of people, and the more I study the situation the more folly convinced am I that the near future will bring forth an upheaval such as was never before recorded. I have about come to the conclusion that the old German hermit who prophesied more than forty years ago that the 25th president of the United States would be the last executive head of the government. He Bays that during bis adminis tration the discontented masses will break into rebellion and over throw the established form of gov ernment. "The United States will be rent asunder, and for ayear or more anarchy will prevail. When order shall be brought out of choas, six republics will be formed, with capitals at the fol lowing places: San Francisco, New Orleans, Denver, St. Louis, Wash ington and Boston." "The old hermit predicted the asBasination of Lincoln and Gar field. He accurately foretold the AuBtrian-Russian and the Franco PruEBion wars; the death of Pope Pius, and the Turco-Russian de bate at arms. He said that Ger many would have three emperors in one year before the end of the century." "If I remember correctly, the hermit went on to describe how the twentieth century would open with great seismic disturbances. Ho predicted that New York, Florida and Southern California would suffer total extinction. I think he said the western part of the city of Havana would be submerged, and the island of Cuba would be cut about half into. The shocks of these earthquakes would raze buildings to the ground in almost every city on the American conti nent. Millions of lives and bill ions of dollars of property be lost." "There is to be an economic change of almost every civ ilized nation. He foretells the growth of democratic spirit in England, and predicts the over throw of the present form of gov ernment and make it a republic. He says the last ruler will be the best that they have ever had, and the president of the new nation will be a member of the royal family." "It is conceded by all odds that Queen Victoria is the best ruler that England has ever had, and in a recent speech made by the Prince of Wales, he said he wished to live to see the country a free republic." "According to the hermit Rus sia, France and Itally will form an alliance, and will enter into a war with Turkey. This war is to be the outgrowth of Christian perse cution by the Turk. This tripple alliance will conquor the 'Sick man of the East.' At the close of the war complications will arise that will plunge France and Itally into war with Russia. The result will be that the two countries will be gobbled up by the northern power; and will cease to exist as independent nationB. While war is being waged between them, the pope will remove the seat of Cath olicism from Rome to some town in the south of Ireland. A rebel lion will take place in the land of the shamrock in which the coun try will be independent of Eng land. Then a conflict will arise between the ultra Catholics of southern Ireland and the ultra Protestants of the north, in which the southerners will be victorious." "According to the old German there will be a new kingdom es tablished, which will become the most notorious on record. The potentate will be the greatest ty rant that overruled." This curious prophesy, which I have only related in fragments, has caused me some little alarm, but 1 believe we can rest quite con tented. Erer Heard of Anjono Declining! The Journal learns from very good and reliable sources that many leading men of the Creek nation of all faction and classes favor Capt. Grayson's candicy for ohief, but the main question is yet unput and unconsidered, and that is, will the captain become a can didate. Eufaula Journal. We found the following true story in a nut shell on the dump in our office last Thursday "Go Into any town jou clioso 3o matter what Its lie, Tbo merchant! don't do any good Unleis Iher adrertlse." Col. D. M. Wisdom is always an interesting character and in his remarks to a Phoenix reporter on his retirement as Indian agent is none the less bo. "It iB a fact," says Col. Wisdom, "that my resignation aB Indinn agent, was tendered to the Hon. secretary of the interior as far back as August 13, 1898. This was my second resignation, as I did the same thing immediately after the installation of President McKinley. For reasons satisfactory to the de partment neither resignation was accepted until the 17th day of this month. "My second resignation was in duced by the passage of the Curtis bill, and I may say emphasized by the rules and regulations pre scribed by the Hon. secretary of the interior, looking to its enforce ment. The bill itself and the rules imposed on me heavy dutieB with out increased and without adequate compensation. I was made sub stantially a receiver and disburser of the public revenues arising from various sources. I am required to collect and account for all royal ties on coal, asphalt and other min erals in all the tribes of the agency. "In the Creek and Cherokee na tions, I collect and deposite to the credit of said tribes, monies due on permits and taxes due by licensed traders in addition to roy alties on minerals; again I am re quired to pay the salaries of all teacherB employed in the pub lic schools under the supervision and direction of the U. S. Indian inspector. Also the salaries of the tribal officers and the warrants is sued for the indebtedness oi the several nationB. I am also requir ed to collect all monies arising from bale of town sites. This agency will need other clerks. The policy of the times is expansion, and this agency iB up-to-date in that line. I am now confronted with a large payment to the Che rokees payments to other tribes must follow in due course of time. In addition to the above duties, faintly outlined; I must discharge other executive duties which are imposed on me by law. "The business of the agency for the past year, instead of being di minished has been increased it iB not altogether the same in kind, but it has grown in bulk and vol ume. There are people who may like the job as it now stands, but I confess I did not want to tackle it, and therefore threw it up. "I have been Indian agent six yearB, and have had a somewhat tempestous official life. I bad friction more or less all along the lino T hnvn had it in the court?. - -i - with intruders, with outlaws, with corporations, with strikes, whisky peddlers, with timber and horse thieves, with cattle men and with citizens and non-citizens, &c. I never entered my office even for a single'day, that I was rot confront ed with a complaint of some kind, and in most cases immediate ac tion was required. Some times a remedy was provided by law, and sometimes I made one myself 'being a law unto myself.' I have tried to keep my temper and have done the best I could. If I have committed errors, I regret them and apoligize for them, but, in the main, I believe my work has been alike honor jle and efficient. The only regret I feel in leaving the office is, that all the records and papers of this agency were destroy ed by firo on the 23rd of February last. The fire fiend did a good job and 'swept the platter clean.' Those records were valuable from a historical standpoint, covering a period of about 70 years. The letter books shovred the steps of these tribes as they passed on up to a higher civilization. The agency contained in its files letters signed by Andrew Jackson, Mar tin VanBuren, Harrison, Jas. Ty ler, J. K. Polk, Taylor and Fill more all the way down in point of time to President McKinley. There were several letters in rela tion to Indian affairs written in his own hand by President Polk and by Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun as secretaries of state. An autograph fiend or collector once offered me two hundred dol lars for tho privilege of ransacking the file and helping himself to autographs. As an Indian agent a! way 8 lives in an atmospere of suspicion, I suppose I had better enter a denial that I didn't take him up and call for the proof, and put myself upon the country" , but perhaps I ought to touch this mat- 3 Si Si s Si -si S S Si S Si -91 Si pyAL c3 Si -si s 3i Si -si SI Si -Si w -Si s -Si SHOES 1 1 -s; 3! Shoes for Ladies, Gents and Children. The great est opportunity ever offered in strictly up-to-date goods as Cheap as Goods of this Quality can be sold for anywhere. The Prices will Please as well as Sur prise you. Continuing this week only. Si Si 3l Si We don's ask you to take and see for yourself. -Si -s; 1 COBB Si -Si JpWWWJWWW ter lightly. I once told a man a friend of course that I had been offered a bribe to decide a case he- fore the agency. He said I was. a fool for not taking it. When I next heard from him, he was re porting somewhat in detail that I had taken it. But, I am getting a little garrulous, and I expect to write a reminiscent history of this agency some day. I retire from the agency in the best of humor in better health than when I took charge of it, and happy 'as a clam at high tide,' whatever that may mean as a land-lubber I don't know." Let Us Have Teace. Following is the proclamation: Whereas, A treaty of peace be tween the United States of Ameri ca and her majesty, the queen re gent of Spain, in the name of her august son, Don AlfonsoXUI, was concluded and signed by their re spective plenipotentiaries at Paris, on the tenth day of December, 1S9S, the original of which is in the Spanish language, is word for word as follows. (Here full text) of the treaty is included.) And, Whereas, The said convention has been duly ratified on both parts and the ratifiations of the two governments were exchanged i in the city of Washington, on the i eleventh dav of April, one thous- i and, eight hundred and ninety nine; Now, therefore, be it known, ; Thatl.Uilham McKinley, presi-; dent of the United States of Amen-- ca, have caused the said convent tion to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof, maybe observ- i i r..i.:ii.i ...:!. ...! r;.i. . a. . eu iuiu -mui-cu, .- bv .. by the L niteu states anu tue citi zens thereof. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my band and caused the seal of the United States to be allixed. Done at th9 city of Washington this eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and ninety-nine, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and and twenty-third. Wm. McKixlev. By the president, John Hay, Secretary of State. The American and English forces at Samoa were attacked a few days since by the natives and a lieutenant of each country named and several men killed. SHOE At the beginning of this Season we will offer the Largest Line of Ladies Low Cut Shoes and Slippers at the Lowest Prices ever offered in the city. FOR ALL M'GLASSO LEADERS IN LOW KILLED IN ALASKA. Former Vlnitan Murdered For Money. John Parks has received infor mation that his nephew, Samuel Parks, wa3 killed at Dyea, Alas ka, murdered for the purpose of robbery. A great many people in this county will be interested in knowing the facts, as Sam Parks was well known in Vinita a dozen or more years ago and was quite popular. The following from the Joplin News contains the account of it: Mrs. Parks, widow of the late Samuel Robert Parks, who is now at the home of her husband's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. George Parks, in this city, received a letter this morning from Sol Solomonson, a partner of her late husband, giv ing further particulars of bis death at Dyea which was announced re cently by the News. Mr. Solmon son states that he and Harry Green, another of Sam's friends, had started for Seattle and were at Scaguay waiting for a steamer when the news of Sam's death was brought to them. Ii was arranged that Mr. Solomonson was to go on to Seattle and telegraph Mrs. Parks and Mr. Green was to go back to Dyea and have the body prepared for shipment to the states. Mr. Snlnmnnsnn. nn rpnnhinir - ........ .... ....... H a... geattIe teIogra.,hed Mrs. Parks d gbe ansvvered in8trucling him to som, tb to JopHn Later however Mr. Solomonson received word fr()m Mr Green thatthebody hftd m burie, D fae hay J ' jng decided that it was not best to ing decided that it send body on so long a journey. Mr. Solomonson winds up his let ter as follows: "I have received a letter from my manager stating that the mur derers have been caught and God pity them. Sam, while shot and dying lived long enough to get one shot at one of them, the bullet taking effect in the fellow's shoul der. The next dav the murderer went to the hospital and gave no account of his wound, hence his arrest and that of the others. Sam was a perfect gentleman, true as God ever made man, sober in his habits and a braver man never lived. He often $poke of you. Vou and his parents have my warmest symj.atny. i snail re jmain here a few days, then return Si t&- i MS- fe te- !- our word, but come k k k 1 PRICES. ! to Dyea and if there is anything I can do for you, command me." Enclosed with the letter was a portion of the newspaper "Dyea Trail" of March 11, giving an ac count of the murder. The facts in regard to the mur der are about as published in the News. The crime was committed for the purpose of robbery and the "Dyea Trail" says it was one of the foulest murders ever commit ted in Alaska. Texas Crop Uullctln. The weather and crop report of the Texas section of the United States department of agriculture gives the crop conditions through out Texas as follows: The general rains throughout the state have materially bright ened the prospects and improved crop conditions, notwithstanding that the continued low tempera tures, with occassional frobt, have been unfavorable to germination of seed and crop growth. Replant ing corn, killed by the recent freezes, over the northern and cen tral portions of the state, has been about completed, while over the southern portion of the state culti vation of the crop has commenced. Cotton planting is well advanced over the southern portion of the state; early planted came up well, but has been ki;ed by the frost, except over the southwest portion, and will have to be replanted. Planting has commenced over the central and northern portions and rill be general in a few days. The rain was generally beneficial to the wheat crop, although the uroutn nau already cm the crop short. In some places the Cro was dead before the rains occurred and will not revive. The oats crop is doing well, except where the rainfall was very light and in parts of southwest Texas. A Favorable Sign. The secretary of the interior puts before the people one of the brightest signs of the times when he notes, in his report, that six teen and a quarter millions of the rising generations of our citizens are at school; that a million of these are in the academies, tho colleges and the universities; that tho number going to college has doubled in a quarter of a century, and the number pursueing the very highest courses of original re search has been multiplied! io (.urea Cold in eDr Take laxative l.runo 'mdb 'ets. All drum:i.ts rcfur J it rails to cue 25c The g-ras L. B. Q. on each tablet w 8 If