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Supplying Needs Made Easy.' Giving the people what they want when they want it at a satisfactorily low price has resulted in bringing: to our store the heaviest trade enjoyed by an Indian Territory merchant. Scarcely a day passes that we are not securing: some real money saving: Bargains For Customers.' For economical shoppers and careful money spenders our big: store will be full of splendid offerings during this week. Every department is a bargain bazaar un surpassed in the southwest. Our fall and winter goods must be moved to give room for the spring trade which is not far dis tant. Come and see us. W. R. Badgett Mercantile Company PRICES ALWAYS RIGHT. VINITA, I. T. JL.OUA.L ISTOTES. There is not a barrel of salt in town for sale. Tom Thompson has a new phone at his residence. It is said Vinita Is to have another drug store soon. Dock Denny is a familiar figure 1 around the court room. An $8 collarette was s toll en from the Ratcliff store Monday. J. M. Trolllnger is working for A. J. i Green, in the drug store. Several new boarding students en- terea the college last week. A. D. Davis, of Bingo, was here at tending court, but got away for home Tue-day. Dalrymnle Comedy Co., will be here ton the 22a d of this month and remain f one week. Attorney H. J. Collins is here from Tulsa attending to business in Judge Gill's court. David Vann. of Fairland, is in town attending court in the capacity of a grand juror. Ladies who take pride in beautiful P clear white clothes, .should use Red Cross Bail Blue. Charles H. Sawyer, assistant pros- ecutiug attorney, is In attendance up on the court. If you would have your clothes that delicate, clear white, so desirable, use Red Cross Ball Blue. Aunt Polly Lee, an aged colored woman, died of dropsy at Lum Mc if air's on the east side last week. judge McClure and Zack Pumphrey left Monday for Fort Worth, Texas, to attend the cattlemen's convention. Tece Chambers was excused from service on the grand Jury, having served on the last Wagoner grand Jury. Atiorne? M. M.Edmiston left Tuea- lIav nicht for Washington, D.iC, oc a business trip. .He will be gone several ireeks. Mr. and Mrs. W. . Halsell left last ; VIondav for Fort Worth, where Mr. t.Halsell will Attend the cattlemen's teoafsnnua. a iifufc Schliecker returned Monday from a ifl ireeks visit with relatives and friends ? Su Louis and Cape Girardeau. n,M. Ciawson left Monday night for LfJoonrflJe, Mo., to sec his mother who Us very ill. -tie "" "uujy"vu " lis son uiawje. y.i.t p r Hnfflncton left Sunday night for" Washington, D. a, where benas ousineas uwuu- - of the interior. i lttr fmm Prof. Rishon. WhO IS oo- In Texas, states that he is much teetUr and will be ame to Lae charge or ms auues ia mc -"" room next week. t nnfiipv went to Waeoner last -Suvday where he will probably re main. He has a position in a drug store at that place. C A. Davidson, the new clerk of the' court for the Northern district, , came up from Muskogee Sunday and is attending court. Your W$B Our If your stomach is disordered, bow els irregular, and you don't feel well, you need Prickly Ash Bitters. Sold by Chapman & Brlggs. ' George W.Thornton was down Mon day from his home near Eagle to buy Inmber for extending his crib room a sign of a good farmer. Someone managed to slip a small file into the jail yesterday to one of the prisoners but is was discovered and a jail deliverey prevented. W. M. Mellett's big black driving norse iied Sunday with an unknown disease. About a week ago Mr. Mel lette lost a cow with a similar disease. Strayed A liberal reward is offer ed for a light speckled muly cow, with red ears, no mark or brand, with young calf. Edwin Chouteau, Vinita. Rev. Roberts of the Christian church has arranged for regular preaching service at the opera house at 11 o'clock every third Sabbath in each month. Mr. and Mrs. Howard desire to ex tend their thanks to the community for assistance and sympathy during the sickness and at the death of their little daughter. Constipation leads to liver trouble, and torpid liver to Brlgbt's disease. Prickly Ash Bitters is a certain cure at any stage of tke disorder. Sold by Chapman & Brlggs. Al Berger returned from Neosho Monday. The story that be has lately fallen heir to a fortune and got ten married, he regrets to say was in both particulars in error. W. T. "Whitaker ha returned from Washington where h has been to urge an appropriation for Wbltaker's Orpanageat Pryor Creek. He spent yesterday in Vinita on business. The drill at the artesian well struck additional water Monday morning and the water is flowing perceptably freer. The taste and appearance of sulphur seems to be increasing also. Mr. Carrlco, from Carselowey prai rie, is moving to the Raymond place, west of town. The termination of leases and good weather Is causing a good deal or moving throughout the country just now. He dot No (loose. Last Friday Mr. Sice, of this office, went to Rock Creek, determined to kill a wild goose before he returned. Last evening be came back but with him no goose. He killed plenty of small game and .enjoyed the outing. The Smallpox on drand River. Dr. Owen returned from east of Grand river Monday, where he has been in the employ of the board of health. He reports about forty cases of small pox of a fery mild form, two deaths and perhaps ona hundred exposures. Worth tbe Journey, Ben McGec, one of T. J. McGee's enterprising tos, who Is serving upon the jury, called Tuesday to state how he ''oeght The Dally Chieftain all right n.d that he had gone to town, six miles" wice a week all winter after it, Married. Ed Gwartney and Mrs. Susie Harris of Pryor Creek', were married Friday afternoon by Rev. M. L. Butler, at the Green hotel. Died at Hiies. Nathan Miles, the grandson of Mrs. Keys, who lives in the northwest part of town, died Tuesday at his home at Miles and was buried Thursday at ttic Keys graveyard live miles northwest of town. Runaway Team. 'Gus Nichols' delivery team, in which a colt had been hitched up, ran away Monday. The driver, one of the Riddle boys, was thrown out and the team flually broke loose from the vehicle. Didn't Respond. Jell Dick, Bill Woods and George Mayes were three names called on the grand jury list at the court house Monday. Jeff Dick was reported dead of smallpox and the other two sick with it. Looks Incredible. However much we may all regret it, it is nevertheless a fact that the as sessor's return will not show so many people in Vinita as last year. It seems incredible that our population has diminished. A Costly Blaze. Mr. Denham, a tenant on the Elliot place, south-east of Big Cabin, sus tained a severe loss last Friday night by the burningof his barn, cuutainiug eleven horses, one cow, several hogs, 1600 bushels of corn and all his farm ing implements. About sixty tons of hay stacked near by was also consumed A Good Record. Deputy Grand Master Workman Homsher, of the A. O. U. W., is com ing to Vinita Friday to arrange for vacating the charter of the lodge al this place and transferring the mem bership to the membsrs at large roll. This order has a membership of over 387,000 and has paid to the families of deceased members over ninety-six million dollars and has never de faulted. Died. Mrs. Charles Dubois died at her home on Grand river, fifteen miles southeast of this city, last week, after an illness of several months' duration. The circumstances of her death were peculiarly sad; bhe was only about 17 years of age and was a bright and winsome young woman, and bad endeared herself to a large circle of friends who deeply mourn her untimely departure. Witnesses Were Dismissed. The case of Fred Martin was called Tuesday in Judge Gill's court .tnd among the witnesses assembled was Cute Benge, of the Grand river smallpox country. The prosecuting attorney discovered tfiis and after questioning Mr. Benge for a few min utes the case was continued and the witnesses dismissed, with positive in structions not to again present them selves until so ordered. Promptly Locked Up. John B. Edwards came in from Lynch's prairie again Monday eve ning, after having been warned by the board of health and the city marshal to stay away from town and was promptly arrested and locked up. Mr. Edwards and his family are reported to have had the smallpox, and for that reason were asked to stay away till the danger of contagion had passed. He will answer to the mayor for his conduct. Erysipelas Setting In. Robert Crone, theNowatastockman who was shot by Wm. Greatbouse in a row over a stalk field, is beginning to fail and the changes are that he will die. Erysipelas has set In and his face is swelling. On account of the peculiarity of the case from a surgical standpoint the case has attracted a great deal of attention. A portion of Crone's brain was shot away and how he has lived at all has puzzled the surgeons and every one else. A too Interesting Letter. One of our prominent attorneys got a long letter Monday from a client explaining his case in detail. The legal gentleman waded through the missive with much patience and was rewarded in the last sentence, which explained that the writer could not come to court because they had small pox where he lived and he was under quarantine. That letter was filed carefully away in the stove, very quickly and the attorney felt as though he bad let a bird go, and was not sorry. Wanted To Be Shown. Wm. Hartshorn entered a plea of guilty In Judge Gill's court Tuesday on the charge of selling liquor at Tulsa. The court was disposed to be lenient with him and made his punish ment as light as it could be under the law, $10 fine and one month in jail. When requested by Hartshorn's at torney to suspend sentence, his honor wanted to be shown the law under which the court could impose a sen tence and then turn round and nullify it by fuspending It. The attorney failed to produce the statute for such proceedurc and the seutence will stand. Pensacola Items. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Martin were in Adair Friday, shopping. Mr. aud Mrs. J. C. McLaughlin have been visiting near Aflon. E. C. Ghormly and family-attended quarterly meeting Saturday. The smallpox scare is all the talk, but think it is only the itch instead. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gumming, of Hart, Mo., spent a week recently with their neicc, Mrs. R. L. Martin. R. Lee Martin moved his household poods from Pawhuska last week. He .nks there is no place like thcCuer- kee country. The many friends of Miss Victoria Cole arc glad to know she is slowly improving after a four weeks beige of typhoid fever. Dr. JJollingsworlb, who has been practicing in and around Pensacola since last July left Friday to attend Barnes' medical school at St. Louis. He will return and assume his duties iu April. JUDGE GILL'S COURT. Board ot Health Decide no Danger From Smallpox the Grand Jury. flonday. Judge Joseph A., Gill, opened his first term of court in the North ern district this morning at ten o'clock. M. O. Gabbert, and Wm. Coverdale, were appointed court bailiffs'. The Judge announced that the Vinita board of liealih desired to make a report with reference to tiie prevalence of smallpox. Dr. Fortner lor the board then stated that the board had availed itself of every possible means of infor mation relative to the existence of smallpox in the country, and were of the opinion that the court might proceed without any great risk. That while the disease ex isted in many parts of the country changes in the docket had been very kindly made by the prose cuting attorney so as to lessen the danger of the contagion. The grand jury was then called, sworn and instructed by his honor in a plain, sensible, unembelished, though forcible manner. The difference between the big Kansan and some other judges who have presided was quite marked. There is nothing of the spectacular about Judge Gill, no "band stand play," no pyrotechnics, no scintillating oratory, but just plain, every day simplicity, which is satisfying and commendible. Judge Gill in structed the grand jury as to the difference between a felony and a inisdemeam-r and told them that owing to the crowded condition of the docket that no indictments for misdemeanors should be returned, but such offenses should be left to the various commissioners as they had jurisdiction over all such crimes. The following gentlemen consti tute the grand jury: .L. P. Isbell Foreman. John Hardy, B. S. Landrum, Sam Vann, F. W. Strout, F. L. Chouteau, V. T. Davis, J. S. Anderson, J. P. Butler, V. A. Crawford, J. H. Freeman, Lee Howe, Dave Vann, J. H. Nail, T. F. Thompson. The dates of the terms of court in the Northern district are changed as follows: Muskogee, 1st Monday In Sept, 4th Monday in Jan; Tablequah, 1st Monday after 2d Tuesday in October, 4th Monday in April; Wewoka, 1st Monday in Novem ber, 1st Monday after 1st Tuesday in April; Wagoner, 2d Monday in November, 1st Monday in March; Vinita,lst Monday in Dec.,2d Mon day in May. Tuesday. United States court opened at 9 this morning and is running along smoothly and the criminal busi ness is being disposed of rapidly. Three pleas of guilty were beard this morning. All were on the charge of selling liquor. Wm. Hartshorn got 310 fine and costs of prosecution and 30 days in jail. Cy Johnson got $5.00 fine and 30 days jail sentence and Tim Walker got 510 fine and 30 days jail sen tence. Twenty-five prisoners were brought up Irom Muskogee this morning and lodged in the hold over and will plead before the court this afternoon and tomrrow morning. All the prisoners were thoroughly fumigated before leav ing the jail and there is no danger of contagion. Judge Gill seems to be perfectly at home on the bench, and his quiet manner and his evident knowledge of the law, and of the conditions confronting his court give assurances of success in the difficult place he occupies. Gill is a strong man and will be popular with the better element of Indian Territory people. Walter Fears is in his accustom ed place at the stenographer's desk. He is now Chief Pleasant Porter's stenographer but during the chief's absence in Washington was able to come up and serve Judge Gill. Mr. Fears is a very efficient court reporter. Wednesday. Judge Gill's court is moving along smoothly, only two jury trials have been had to the present time, though a large number of pleas of guilty and arraignments have occupied the attention of the court. The grand jury is dispens ing with business rapidly and re porting bills every morning as soon as court is convened. A large number of criminal cases will go over till next term as the docket is very much crowded and it is there fore comparatively easy to get a continuance. At the present rate of dispensing business the crimi nal docket will soon be reduced so stLmstms. 3 W "Si LADIES' FINE iMiB ' ...oliLiiio -Si -Si -Si -Si -Si Every manufacturer will tell you that shoes are higher than they were last season, and it is the truth too, but we are offering better values for the same price than ever before. This week we are making some remarkably low prices en ladies' fine shoes, tc846 -Si -s; -s; 5; -s; Si -Si -s: 21 -Si w f 3! 4 Lot i Twelve pairs of welts and turns, Anchor brand, made by the Brown Shoe Company. St. Louis, all stylish toes, button and lace, regular $3.00 sellers; We will close the lot this week y at 2.25 per pair pJZiJ Lot 2 Eighteen pairs ladies' tan shoes, kid and vesting- tops, made by Pingree & Smith to sell for $3 and 3.50, all sizes, dl e-ffc our price for one week is prjyJ Lot 3 Twenty-four pair ladies' dress shoes, button and lace, all sizes, some of the neatest lasts produced; regular price 3.00, fr 3.50 and 4.00; we will close the lot this week at nJZ)J Lot 4 Twenty-four pair button shoes, fine quality, formerly sold t for 2.00 and 2.S0 per pair, for this week we will sell them j at the remarkably low price pi.JU This is the only chance you will have price of cheap shoes. 3 1 3 -si -Si -S! Vinita, Ind. JWJWfftWfWflWW as to insure a speedy hearing in all case3 docketed. There is a vast amount of civil business pressing upon the court for attention, and as soon as the criminal business is sufficiently in band so the end can be compassed, the civil docket will be set. It iB a pleasure to sit in Judge Gill's court on account of the very pleasant rotations that seem to ex ist between court and members of the bar and the utmost courte sy shown every one. The worst feature is the extremely bad air in the room; on account of the lack of ventilation, the condition of the atmosphere is almost unbearable. A Life and Death Fight. Mr. W. A. Hines, of Manchester, la., writing of his almost miraculous escape from death, says: "Exposure after measles induced serious lung trouble, which ended in consumption. I had frequent hemorrhages and coughed night and day. All my doc tors said 1 must soon die. Then I be gan to use Dr. King's Kew Discovery for consumption, which completely cured me. 1 would not be without it oven if it cost 85 a bottle. Hundreds have used it on my recommendation and all say it never fails to cure all throat, chest and lung troubles." Regular size 50c and SI. Trial bot tles free at A. Y. Foreman's and Peo ple's drag store. Escape of Edward. John B. Edwards, the irrepressible, has again left town and Joined the quarantine east of Grand river. He broke out of the calaboose Tuesday and made good his escape and the city authorities arc not over anxious about his his recapture and detention. Edwards came to town night before last aud as the doctor said he and his family had had smallpox, and he had been forbidden to come to town till the danger of communicating the dis ease was passed, he was arrested and conflned in the holdover. He escaped during the night by some one breaking down the door. He Fooled The Surgeons. All doctors told Renlck Hamilton, of West Jefferson, O., after suffering IS months from rectal fistula, he would die unless a costly operation was performed; but he cured hinuelf with five boxes of Bucklen's Arnica salve, the surest pile cure on earth, and the best salve In the world. 25c a box. Sold by A. W. Foreman's and People's drug stores. Admitted to the Bar. Sandlge Hill passed a creditable ex amination and was admitted to the bar in Judge Gill's court Monday. Mr. Hill is a bright young man and a student, and stand a good chance to get to the front. He is a son of Dr. G. R. Hill, of this city, and has grown up from boyhood here. He will es tablish himself at Bartlesville. The Orange Judd Farmer and Al manac and The Weekly Chieftain, oneycar, for f 1.25. &L sls&si si is&sM&l&sz Ter. SMALLPOX AT WAGONER. "The Disease in That Place Causes no Alarm, Wagoner, Jan. 15, 1900. Editor Chieftain: There has been much talk about the small pox in Wagoner. The facts in the case are these: Mr. E. E. Weld ons' family was afllicted with what is supposed to be smallpox in a mild form. The family have all recovered and I have seen some of them on the street and no one can tell that they have had smallpox, not a mark on them. A young doctor in delicate health went there during the time of their sick ness and was confined to the place and died there either from his own doctoring or the disease. This is all the white people that have been in any way afllicted here; sev eral negroes have been down with this same complaint but did not suffer much from it; recovered in a few days, all but two, one of them was an old negro preacher. It was supposed that he had about recovered. He sent up to the mayor for eggs a short time before be died while sitting iu his chair. The other negro was a physical wreck before he was taken down. This is a true history of the small pox here. We have had seven teen cases of pneumonia buried in the Wagoner cemetery since the smallpox scare and it don't seem to cause any alarm. Respectfully, Wm. Jackson. The Endorsement that Counts. The receipt Tuesday of S17 50 on subscription unsolicited, by The Chief tain ofllce, leads us to believe the paper still has caste and standing with those who have money to pay for their reading matter. If Half the People Took Orloll's Russian Grippe, Cough and Cold Cure as soon as they feel the first symptom-, of an attack, thcre'd be fewer deaths from colds working intuconuniption,c.itarrh,pncumo nia, pleurisy and similar diseases. It is the one proprietary remcdj used by physicians in their families. From a Physician. Uttawa, ivan.. .uarcnT. i:vr. It is not often tnat a physician will ....rmimnnil It nrOtirletfirV III. (1 Ipl Tl P. llll t ; 1 Will Any "I"1 ' navu UBeu lb iiir years '!li ittOb shingly favorable ills and ii''p f llure two rcsu 1PA1AII 1'Il.K, Jl. 1'. too UOSUS POR 50 CENTS. Sx Pouple's Drugstore, The a ajHrellabloDruKslsts Orloff Kiuslan j riper, lough and Cold Cure, U so much superior to any other. thai to buy fine shoes at the dei BUTLER-BYRD. Our Popular Postmaster Takes unto Himself a Bride. Quiet, but beautiful as could be, was the home wedding at 4 o'clock last evening, of two of our most popular young people, Miss Fan Byrd, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Byrd, and Mr. J. H. Butler. The parlors were darkened and lighted, and were beautifully decorated with pink and white carnations, and smilax. Palms and ferns were slso used with excellent effect. The piano was banked with flowers and ever greens which added beauty to the scene. Just before the bridal par ty entered Miss Laura Chou teau sang "O, Promise Me," after which the wedding march, Miss Graper at the instrument, an nounced the arrival of the wedding part'. Tom Byrd, brother of the bride, came first, followed by tho bride and groom. Rev. Patterson awaited them and said the words which united our two young friends for life. The bride is one of the most popular and well known young ladies of Vinita, and enjoys the highest esteem of all who are so fortunate as to know her. She was elegantly attired in a traveling suit of castor broad cloth, hand somely trimmed in Persian velvet and she carried a bouquet of beau tiful Bride rose3. The groom is our efficient post master, and is a rising young man. He has been a resident of the town for many years, and posessea the confidence of all his associates. After the ceremony delicious cake and ices were served, and the guests availed themselves of the opportunity to tender congrat ulations to the groom and wish the bride much happiness. The gifts were dainty and costly. On ac count of the illness of the bride's father, the- most intimate friends only were present. Mr. and Mrs. Butler left left evening on the M. K. & T. for St. Louis, Cairo.Ill , and other points. They will return in two or three weeks, after which time they will be at home to their friends at the Western hotel. South McAlester Capital: Two well known men living near Clare more arrived in Vinita last night to attend court. Both were as full as the proverbial goat, and openly stated that they were using whis ky as an, antidote for smallpox. If that preventative should become popular, it would knock out the virus method. 16- sir t fir ft fk is- ir fir is. Ifir jfir itr fir IS- fir !- jfir !fir fir fir PREACHER IN TROUBLE. Steals Buggy and Harness Woman in the Case. Rev. J. L. Calaway is in jail on the charge of stealing a buggy and harness from J. M. Rix, of Adair. Capt. White went down Tuesday and made the arrest, bringing the prisoner back on the midnight train. Calaway is a Methodist preacher and used to preach at Adair, and has been in this coun try about eleven years. His borne is on the Verdigris. Last Friday night be was seen about five miles southwest of Adair riding one horse and leading another, and when Mr. Rix's buggy and harness were missing next morniDg, sus picion was diverted to Calaway and on going to his place the bug gy and harness were found in his possession. It is said he will plead guilty. There is a woman in the case. Dr. Jenkins Acquitted. The trial of Dr. Jenkins, of Blue jacket, on the charge of selling bit ters containing alcobal, cccupied the attention of the court Tuesday after noon. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. W. H. Kornegay defend ed Jenkins 5mallpox Suspect Liberated. A fellow suspected of having small pox was arrested and locked in jail at Pryor Creek Tuesday by the city authorities. Subsequently he was liberated by the mayor and now the mayor is threatened with Impeach ment. Bought ioo Cows. Will Miller bought a uuwdrsd Tksts cows Monday from W. d.. Moeriseaat 25. They are good onea and, ulttxt fall the buyer will have a lot of white faced calves for sale and a contract to take $15 will be cheerfully entered into, if desired. PREPARED Paints Why put your good money in to a painter's hands to buy ma terial for painting your house when you can get the product of years of expert en ce for less mon ey? The old system of pro paring paint from the raw material as it is used has lone gone in to practical disuse. With out the appli ances it is next to impossible to secure the same shade in two sep arate lots of paint, to say nothing of the quality. This trouble can be avoided by using prepared paints handled by us. P. G. Browning, v nuriE jo. jjc&sa crrr consul f 1Z ittr. t - 3 ltttfTSrraccioaS M am&St