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s CHETEME TRANSPORTER OL. 11. DAHLINGTON, J. T., DEC. 24, 1880. NO. 9. HRiBlltfBwKttuKtffMHLtfflANPftJ'tfSMBCRJitfJBHvnKnflHMflRflMfflNHflBGl W. NHubbell dfr Go's Supply Store. JUST RECEIVE BY $. g. (Hubbdl & (0r A BRAND NEW STOCK OF DEY GOODS J 7 Richmond House, Fort Elliott, Texas. This hnu' Is drat cIuhs In ever particular. Trnvelern wilUlntl tliu beat nccommndntions nt thin house. II. Huaolby, Proprietor. Cheyenne House, Darlington, LT. Table always provMcrt with the very boat the mark t ullorilH. Corral and atnhle attach. 'l. Special nflrntlon ulven to the wants of H'tMUJitot'H, tnivemr anil transient jeneraiiy. jlIicuiug jxLcDadu, Propiuotor. ". Clothing, H'ats& Caps, Boots & Shoes, Etc. Also a Fresh Stock ok Staple Groceries. .r BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF POWDER FACE, PRINCI PAL CHIEF OF THE ARAPAIIOES. The Largest and Best Stock in the City. Call and Examine Goods and Prices. Corner Main & Sixth Streets, Opposite the Lel&nd Hotel. CALDWELL, KANSAS. TO TRAVELERS. he Mail $oute BETWEEN DARLINGTON AM J Fort Reno, I. T. AND Fort Eliott, Texas. Is noAV provided with buekboards. and will carry passengers at tho fol lowing rates : Darlington to Ft. El liott, $8.00; Darlington to AITie, $7. Express, from Darlington to Ft. El liott, $3.00 per hundred and to oth er points in proportion. This roufe connects at D.irling ton with stages going South to tho Wichita Agency, Fort Kill, Caddo, connecting with the M., K& T. to Denison, Sherman and (la I vest on, Texas; East, Aith Vanitn, Indian Territory, mid tl 2M K. T. to St. Louis; North, with Caldwell, Hunnowrll, Wellington, Winfiuhl and Wichita, Kans. Connects at Fort Eliot t with sta ges going South to Fort Pascoiu and Fort Grilfin, Texas, Las Vegas, and all towns Southwest; North, to Fort Dodge. Kans., and all points West and Northwest. Leave Darlington going Wo', Mondays, Thursdays and Satu -days Leave Fori Eliot t go;ng Fas', Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Agents. W. IT. Doty, - Darlington. N. W. Evans & Co., Foirr Rkxo. BEN.WlLI.IAMa, - Aitie, Ticx. CbtollONTGOWElW, MOBEJiTIB. TttX. The noted chief, Powder Face, in compliance with the request of Mr. J. 1L Soger, gave the following in teresting facts concerning his life if and ird ventures. Bearing in mind that Powder Face s maw one of the most progressive of his people, the radical change in his mode of life and thought is very gratifying, and his life is, of itself, a powerful refu tation of the theory that the Indians cannot be civilized : Whcni I was ten years old, the Arapalioes were governed by foua: old chiefs, viz., Little Haven, Yellow Bear, Big Mouth and Powder Face, my father. Little Raven is the only, survivor of the four. These chiefs were looked upon by the young men a? patterns and their advice was g norally heeded. These old chiefs .o mc it was good to fight awl that tho number of svulps I took would dt Ur,;.''oc whether I was to be a Lief or not.. Tun I was seventeen yeni old, my father gave rne his shield and pent me on a raid against the Pawnees. Although young, I was a good horseman and when I returned I brought six Pawnee scalps, which I gave to my father. Then tnc old chiefs gave me thirty young warriors to be chief over. The Arapahocs were at war with the Pawnees, Osages, Orhahas, Caws, Khkapoos, Wichita?, Caddos, Utes. and Navajoes. The Arapahoes were living on the Arkansas, where there was plenty of buffalo, deer and an telope. We had plenty to eat and were happy until the white men to ga n to travel through our country. The old chiefs said it was good to make war on them, and as I had never heard of Jesus and did not know anything about the govern ment or Washington, I obeyed their oi eh rs, and went against the Whites. The fir.-1 y. ar I killed and scalped five w bite mi i ; then we did not fight for one year. Then we fought them again, and in that war I took six scalps. In all my encounters with the white men, I have had fifty-five hors b sl.o! from under me and have been wounded four times. One of my wounds came near being fatal. After our last fight with the white men, we moved to Camp Supply and there met Agent Darlington, who had come to be our Agent; and we mot another man from Washington, I think it was the Commissioner. 1 then went to Lawrence, Kansas, and met the Superintendent of Indian affairs. On that trip I saw more white men than I had seen in all mv life before, and I began to think it were better to live in peace with them. I went with six other chiefs to Washington and saw the white men all at work, and their children in school. I saw the white man's way was the host and resolve 1 to take it up and have my young war riors plant corn, and put the ehil dren in school. Since then L have been trying to do like the n bite men. I have 107 cattle, and when I am xiear the Agency i go to Sunday school and hear about Jesus, and see the children taught from the Bi ble, which is good. I am living now on the main Canadian thirteen miles from the Agency, and if 1 can get a light wagon or buggy, I will try and come to Sunday school every i Sunday. I think that if the olvijfs worold all wear white men's clothing, in a short time the young men would all follow their example. Mi ITIJB OKLAHOMA CRAZE. Our readers have no doubt expect ed us to say something against tho in vasion ostensibly led by Payne. We have endeavored to give facts only, ,onccming the movements of the : perpetrators of the outrage; and it is our intention to speak of but a single feature now. There are many reasons why it would he useless for us to discuss the matter. What we might say would not effect the ac tion of the Government in the least, the boomers are not supposed to lis ten to reason, sense, law, or their own interests, and we have no object in urging our fellow men to treason. We have, as have mo.tof tho papers of Southern Kansas, kept silent be cause we thought the character of Payne was so well known that no largo number of men would be made fools of by his brag and bluster. But in this it seems we have been mistaken. From press dispatches we learn that lie has inveigled into his coils a largo number of bar room loafers and hundreds of grangers from the (Iron thy portions of Kan sas, who spent their last two dollars for a membership in the colony. A motley crow to be sure, but they are human beings and not Indian, and even Paync,s parrot must admit, are worthy of some sympathy. Even allowing that these poor men could effect a lodgement without interfer ence from Government or Indians, what hope v there that the will be able to support themselves? Tho Oklahoma land is of the same char acter as that of western Kansas, and it is safe to say is no better. If then, these men fail in Kansas, what ho; e have they ef succeeding in Oklaho ma, where the same conditions con trol? They start to Oklahoma at the beginning of winter with provis ions scarcely sufficient for a month's subsistence and must build, fence1 and fix up for living, and cannot re alize money for their labor, even by the most flattering calculation, untiL they have made a crop. Should their first crop fail, which it is likely to do, their condition would be more des titute than it now is, Payne's object would be accomplished and the set ilcrs might go to the devil. No doubt this will cause Payne's cohorts to toll ten thoutand lies, but they arc used to that and their reputation will not sutler. As for oursolf we know what wo are saying is true, and wo are sorry to see poor men led into such a trap by a set of two dollar-ahead speculators. Wo have no in terest in the matter except to advo cate what wo know to bo right. Wo would not go to Oklahoma against our convictions of right and the pro- lost of our Government, and if it were thrown open we would no more fettle IhcfO than -Pavwo would. THE MEDICINE LODGE CRES SET TA LKS. Having lately passed through a portion of the Oklahoma country, we feel better prepared to speak ad-' visodly on tin; subject than we oth erwise would be. What inducements the Oklahama country ofj'eis that fouth-woMcin Kansas does not offer, except that is forbidden country, wo cannot, imagine. The soil, speaking generally, is ceilainly no better.' During the past season, it suffered from drouth just as western Kansas .lid, and, in our opinion, will always be subject to the same drawbacks. Even if the Government docs not in 'erfero, a failure of rrops ancfhr vcar is likely to caive just such a 1 egira from Oklahoma as has nearly depopulated a good share of west ern Kansas within the past twelvo months The moral of this is ; if yon aro going to Oklahoma, don't go, as bv joing you may render yourselves h abloto a fine of one thousand dol lars,' which is, perhaps, more pocket change thin the most of you arc in the habit of carrying, and even if yon escape the Cino, you will 6tanel twoohanccs of failure to one of success. The Secretary of the Interior is sued an order a short timo ago pro viding for the education of an addi tional fifty Indian pupils to be edu cated at tho Hampton, .Virginia, school and an additional one hun dred to be educated at the Industrial School at Forest Grove, Oregon.- CflldwoLl Posn.