Indian chieftain. [volume], July 31, 1884, Image 2

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The yjaiTCMi,
Published Every Thursday by the
L5CIAS Chtkftaix Pcbusuisg Co.
j Governor Cleveland was official
'lv notified of las nomination for
the presidency last Tuesday.
$LSO
junrcsx.
. J.Ttewn X.E.Xfari, Enters.
TT.Tnuer. Itestecss Xaaager.
riNITA, I. TM JULY 31, 1SS4.
Neosho is alleged to be on. a
boara" in dead earnest.
There seems to be no abatcrc '-at
. the cholera epi&mic in Europe.
The Bismarck Grove lair near
Kansas vail be held
iwrence,
eptcmberlst to Gth.
Senator Dorsey has been ejected
lior vice commander oi the
ir&nd. Army ihc Republic, depart-
lent of Xew Xesico.
The cattle market has regained
kbont one-half of the lorty cents it
ell off" last ireck. Some of our
jome shippers irere bit then by
lat decline.
The democrats of Kansas meet
convention at Topeka on the
. of August to nominate a state
licket. It is probable that every
ididate -will be defeated.
One of the funny things seen
reoently ncw-a-days is rnitcm
. the democratic papers quoting
cme Kansas, man a6 declaring that
i etatt -will go for Cleveland.
There is coasiderable discussion
In New Mexico over the lease of a
KJition of the Acorna Indian re-
re, and an effort is being made
by some to have the same annull-
i. It is claimed by one party
. the terms of the lease were
alsed from, "three" to "thirty"
Icars.
It is stated in dispatches from
Caldwell that as the result of Chief
Josbyhea's recent trip to the vi-
ity, that Payne, Lis paper and
outfit are to be set out. This
ictvs is all right, but the citizens
pf the Indian Territory -arould like
i hear that the removal has been
ie. This "going to be removed"
ftoryis growing-very stale indeed.
Orange Peel is now said to be
collected, dried in ovens, and sold
for kindling fires. It burns readily
and with great fierceness, and is
safer titan kerosene
Camarron,lt5 miles west of Dodge
City was visited by a cyclone last
Saturday night which took down
about one-half of the town. Dodge
escaped. The truth of that "surviv
al of the fittest,'' story is again
demonstrated.
Prudent buisness men will heed
the warnings contained in the bank
failures occurringat frequent inter
vals in different portions of the
country. The times are still pan
icky and the danger of a general
crash, such as was imminent three
months ago and only averted then
by the prompt action of the Xcw
York clearing house, by no means
over. It is a good time, certainly,
for small craft to keep near shore.
XOTES FOR THE STOCK XAISEK.
jughteen members of the salva-
ion army were arrested at Buf-
lo last Sunday for singing while
trading thrcagh the streets. Eight
len and tea women remained all
Light in the police station praying
id singing. The request to pass
ctamborines to the prisoners was
enied. The leaders have been
kotiSed not to sing in marching.
The new Iadian school buildings
Lt Albuquerque have been com
pleted, and were turned over to
ie government last Thursday.
ie cost is $29,700 and it is calcu-
sd that something over one
jiuadred and fifty -students will be
ammodatcd. Heretofore the
Indian children of tho great south-
rest have been sent to Carlisle and
lEampton but hereafter they will
' educated at Albuquerque.
A. "Washington dispatch dated
fuly 25th says the officer com-
iding the United States troops
L with the duty of expelling
squatters from the Cherokee
itlet lands of tho Indian Territo-
r, has requested the interior de
triment to send a man to point
it the persons to be ejected. It
? probable that aa attache of the
id office will be directed to dis-
irgethat duty.
A "Washington letter written by a
boomer" or one of their attor-
eys, virtually gives up hope of
itering Oklahoma at this time.
Ce says, "There is no show now
ly to keep out till congress meets
l December." It has taken these
lllows a long time tq,arrivc at the
inclusion that there is no law
ithorizing them to settle on land
led by the Indians. They will
obably remember it for acor-
sspondingly long time.
The average reader of the city
pcrs will be glad when the days
'conventions and politics arc over
id they are given a little news
ra change. Whether llr. Cleve-
ld as sheriff of Buffalo hung a
juple-of murderers or Mr. Blame
vetb sot c Roman Catholic,
Lakes Try little difference, but as
ae moon wascth and waneth it
t-ows very tiresome. Ecen the
ttfe cabled lelc-a-tctc of President
thur and Queen Vic, over the
kecess of ths Greeley party, is re-
3g-
It & said that the people of the
untrv at larcc have but a faint
;ea of the rapidity with which the
Mormon population is increasing
Arizona. At the present raw it
not be many years before they
, be strong enough to assume
jlitical control of the Territory,
il the best agricultural lands
e being taken up by them, and
steady stream of immigration is
Instantly pooring in from Utah.
; the United States bringing up
bother child to be an abomination
the eves of the enlightened
jirld? It certainly is to be hoped
at whichever political partr is
cccssful in the coming struggle
Usee that itis completely stamp-
: out- i
Many Americans would like to
engage in stock rasing in Mexico,
but unless the laws were more
strictly enforced it would be useless.
Over 200,000 head of cattle are
controlled by A. H. Swain, of Chey
enne, "Wyoming, valued at 56,000,
000. His individual property, in
land and stock, is estimated at
nearly three million dollars.
According to the Dodge Citv
Globe of the Sth instant 216,979
head of cattle had pasEed that point
up to that date. From these 340
strays had been cut by the inspect
ors," 150 of which were range cat
tle. There is some excitement at
Manhattan, Kansas, owing to the
receipt at that place of a large con
signment of cattle which have the
Spanish fever. Pension Agent
Adams is the owner and purchased
at KanBas City. Several of the
animals died in the cars and oth
ers as soon as unloaded.
It seems that Montana is afflicted
with an epidemic of horse thieves.
The bullet has sent soms of them
to the erazinjr grounds over the
river, but it will take the hangman's
noose to put an effectual stopper
on their depredations, and the
present temper of the people seems
to indicate that it will be called
into requisition presently.
A special dispatch from St. Louis
saysr At a meeting of the repre
sentatives of railroads centering in
this city to consider rates for dele
gations and others whomav attend
the great cattlemen's convention,
November 15 next, it was decided
that all roads west of the Missis
sippi river would make a rate of
one fare for the round trip, and
roads east of the river, one and
one-third fare. A special commit
tee was appointed to carry out the
agreement.
The Secretary of the State Board
of Agriculture o"f Kansas, states that
Kansas for the year 1SS3 was but
2 per cent. In'viewofthe fact that
the average loss for the United
atates was 4.3 per cent, for the
same year, the showing is verv
flattering in favor of Kansas. He
states further that most of the cattle
in western Kansas were almost
entirely without shelter and had as
feed but little besides buffalo grass
throughout the entire year; and the
largest per cent, of loss has hereto
fore resulted from lack of shelter
and from insufficient food.
Caldwell Journal 17th. A pool
of all the cattle men holding be
tween the Cimarron and Canadian
river, in Oklahoma, was formed
Tuesday. The pool is composed of
seven outfits, and will contain,
when stocked up to the limit, 50
000 cattle under its control. A
board of seven-directors was elect
ed, and on August 1st a full set of
officers consisting of president,
treasurer, secretary and pool boss
will be elected by the directors.
The ranchmen turn all their stock
into the pool in his own brands
and then put the pool brand on
in addition thereto. The pool pays
all expenses by assessment pro
rata with the number of cattle held
by each member. To a 1,000 cat
tle one man and eight horses are
turned in. The annual pay roll
and expense bill on the pool" plan
will be cut down over 75 per cent.,
as under the pool plan twenty-five
men and 150 horses will do the
work that it now takes 75 men and
50f horses to accomplish. The
name is to be Cimarron and Cana
dian pool. As the brand has not
been decided upon yet, we are un
able to give it.
som every dcscribable character of
impurities. Did you ever in child
hood days dig a minature well by
some gravel fringed brook or upon
a sand bar? AVhen you reached or
passed below the level of the wa
ter in the stream you got water in
your well. Whether you dug one
foot nr two or ten you got the same
result in water which you knew to
be a part of that of "the stream.
If the sand or gravel was course
the filling was rapid; if fino and
compact it was correspondingly
slow. (We ar! to-day big children
digging big wells but the same
principles and results arc identi
cal.) This was a case of diffusion.
Liquids sink perpendicularly more
rapidly than they diffuse, until
they reach a surface of impermea
blc'stone or dense clay when the
case is reversed. The inclination
oi the stone determines their fu
ture course. The surface ofthc
earth may slope in a given direc
tion and that of the underlying
solid stone in the opposite. When
water has once entered the earth
its direction is not to be
judged by any surface inclina
tion, riltny accumulations arc
usuallv adjudged safe because they
are upon an inclination of surface
below the well and they arc sui
posed to travel from the well.
This is true as long as the liquids
do not enter the earth, but when a
vault is made, or they arc conduct
ed by any means into the earth it
may be turned back into the well
by some solid substratum whose
inclination is in the opposite di
rection. From the foregoing it
follows that if we dig a deep hole
in the earth we drain from the
shallow ones until their level is
reached. In soil like this in Vini-
ta when a well is sunk it makes a
drain from every direction as a
cupping glass would do. It turns
the course of all ths water to that
common center, detracting a por
tion from every filthy source with
in reasonable distance, if a well
be sunk within forty feet of an un
clean vault a large portion of the
latter is dratrn off tor drinhinnmir-
votes. If the distance be a hun
dred feet we get less, and what we
do get is better filtered and by
reason of time and distance is
chemically improved, ilie amount
and quality being alwavs an in
verse ratio to the distance and den
sity of soil. There is a notion in
the world that gravel soil is a bet
ter purifier of water than compact
soil. If so, why not strain milk
through a wicker basket? Char
coal has an intrinsic virtue of ab
sorbing impurities, but gravels
have none. They may take up
something possibly by accrition,
but the common idea is essentially
a fallacy. Transfusion through
clean dense soils is very slow as
compared with porous gravel soil,
hence the greater time for chemic
al changes, and particulate mattor
is more perfectly "strained out."
Organic impurities arc discovera
ble at long distances in gravel un
derlain with compact clay, and
they may enter crevices in rocks
and be transported in exceptional
cases in abundance long distances,
even beneath hills from one side
to the other.
Water may be cool and sparkling
and yet abound in impurities. An
epidemic of cholera sporadic with
a mortality of 40 per day ocairred
in the city of Nashville, Term., in
the year 1S65, resulting from the
polution ot the public reservoir,
and yet nobody perceived any al
teration in the taste of the water.
Tho health authorities analyzed
and condemned the water. The
consequence was complete subsid
ence of the disease within a few
days. Filtering of liquids through
the earth relieves them of thoir
odor and may change favorably
their taste,butdoes not correspond
ingly relieve them of their disease
germs. Again it might be disgust
ingly filthy and produce no dis
ease. Not every unclean thing is
capable of engendering disease, yet
we apprehend that few people care
to cat trash because it neither pois
ons nor kills. There is nothing
belter established in the causation
of disease than that a very com
mon means of communicating ty
phoid fever is through the dairy
supply. Our medical journals teem
with instances of communication
of this and other affections in that
way, and yet no perceptible change
in the taste of the milk. Upon the .
other hand not everything that'
tastes and smells bad is poisonous '
by anv means. These senses are
entirely unreliable. Limberger
cheese is not poisonous but the
most delicious dish of mushrooms
are often intensely no. However
it may be stated in general that
filthy alleys, streets and privies
most seriously endanger the health
of a town by polutingthc wells and
the air which we breathe.
SASITAXr XATTERS 0. 3.
Dr. II. F. Forlacr CorUhhcs his Sug
gestions which Skoald be Carcfally
rcrascd and ObwrTcd.
We know that living matter in all
its forms may lose its chemico
vital status and pass to other forms,
being often transposed at a single
step from the vegetable to the ani
mal kingdom and vice versa. All
life and growth is but transforma
tion a rcapplicatiou. The food we
cat forms the brain and blood and
bone, and yet of that very forma
tion it is written "earth to earth
and dust to dust." Wc have bor
rowed from earth a body, from
heaven a mind; with a cycle of
changes it returns. These tilings
remind us that above us. beneath
us and in us all is activity; rest
is nowhere. Mutation is written
upon everything, and that machine
preserves" its integrity longest
which having least friction is most
in harmony with surrounding
forces. That life is longest and
beet which is most in harmony
with natural law. The dashing
rain, the lightnings flash and tho
moving of the atmosphere are so
many natural devices for the cleans
ing of this mundane habitation of
maa; and yet it would seem that
li -norf-istflntlv strives to neutral
ize them bv asysttmatic poisoning J
ft!ic cartf. v burying in !- bo-1
SADDLES! HARNESS!
Large Stork of Everything
in my Line to Select
From.
r2r Pricos Lower than any house
in the Territory.
Cowboys' Saddles,
Belts, Quirts, &c.
lima
OPPOSITE SAX FRA5CISC0 HOTEL, '
VINITA, !nd. Ter. '
GEATSYILLE
The Business Centre !
fJSOICE STOCK OF GENERAL MER
CHANDISE On Grand River, 4 Miles East of Cliotcan,
63-Our stock of Dry Goods, Clothing, Xotions, Hats, Groceries, Qucensware, Tinware, Cutlery.
Saddlery, Harness, Boots and Shoes always complete, and sold at lowest prices.
I Have Purchased tlie
GEAT FEOURMG AJSD SAW MILL,
-Ajid am Prepared to do a General JMilling Business.
Ind. Ter
P. O., Choteau,
THE OLID RELIABLE
General Store,
Where you can depend on getting
UNTGr a,23.ci JFLUCJElfS JS LO"T
Full & Complete Assortment
Of Evcything needed by the peojle of the Nation. My longjcxpericncc
has tauyhl me just what kind of goods the people uant.
I Cany No Dead Stock!
The profits on goods I sell arc not eaten up by losses on goods not salable. I can afford to sell for
small profits, and will do so. One trial will con . iucc the most skeptical.
esr
B5T
Still at the Front !
G. "W. GREEN,
Post-oiBce. Yinita, I. T-
Crop.ifflcft earand
split in ri?ht.
Rant - InJonos
cref!i,eij:ht miles
northeast of Vi
nita, I. T. 2a
BIES. J. B. CUSL.
Postoffice, I'ofTeyviHe, Kans.
3 C on left hip or
siile, and saddle
stirro on right side
ornin.
Itangc on Carl
creek.
41
ItSEULT!
Y. C. PATTON & CO.,
Post-oflicc, Yinita, I. T.
Smooth crop in the
left ear.
Horses branded the
same on the left
hip.
Range Rock creek
rjuXrnwiilJ
NATHANIEL SK3NNEB,
Postoffice, Yinita, I. T.
Fnder-
slope in
i each ear.
Ranee.
Pryor's
i creek, 20
in. Fontn
ofYinita
I near M.,
K. & T.
ilt-R.
pJBp '
l- Hr?ggglll
BKmmmmiizzzz3
WJL DONALDSON,
Fostoffice, Yinita, Ind.Te'r.
Pome cattle Wnd'd
I on left side.
Range On
Little Cabin
I'rev'fc. nine miles
northeast of Yinita
hhmmE!
T. F. TE0MPS05,
T O. Yinita, I. T.
Range on Big Ca
bin Creek. 3 miles
south of Yinita.
W. T. DAVIS.
P. O., Yinita, I. T.
vriHBEa
Rang on
Grand river
between Ca
bin A Duck
creeks.
"W. E. HAT.BKTiTi,
Post-ofDco, Vinita, I T.
irSK.
WITH A FULL STOCK OF DRY GOODS. CLOTIIIXG, UOOTFAXD SnOES.JfATS, FUHXISir
IXG GOODS, GROCERIES, QUEEXSWAllE, SCHOOL BOOK?, STATIOXERV, dc. Come and
see vie.
G-. "W. (3-K.SElNr, Vinita, I. T.
A. C, RAYMOND & CO,
HOLD THE FORT
-OT TBCE-
Largest line of Hardware, Stoves and
Tinware kept in the Cherokee Nation.
FURNITURE
-AXD-
J5.T O "7" IE3 S .
Th-s b'and ami mar cror and nn
derbit on" each car) kept np on ranch.
Various ear marks and old brands.
Hor&c brand horse-shoo on left shoul
der and neck.
Ranch, on
Bird Creek,
eizht miles
north of Tulsa
I. T.
??&
B. JL WILLIAMS,
Tost-, iicr, Prairie City, I. T
CropoUT
left ear.
nnderbit
I risht.
Owon
rig h t
bom, X
on left
horn.
Range,
Coal
'creek.
fcflfEU
9PMflM"u9
EVANS, HUNTER & NEW34AN.
roet-Offlca,
Evansvjllo, Kansas.
Doors, Windows, Window Glass, Paints and Oil.
In fact everytning you want in the Household Line.
Bfc?9tKLjV
COFFTNTS
For Good Goods at Bottom Prices go to
L-O.
Vinita,
Ind. Ter
J. S. HUNTEH,
C00YYAH. 1. T.,
Un.VI.EE IN
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Sole .Agent for tlie
VJCTOR
Mowing Machine,
BEST IH THE WORLD !
JESSE COCHRAN,
Postoffice, Chelsea, L T.
Smooth crop off
cf left ear.
Range fonr miles
vest of Chelsea.
ROMAN PILLS
Vegetable
Cathartic.
These pills will
be found useful in
all forms of Bilious
Derangement. 51a
larial Attcctionfl.
Dyspepsia, 8cin
Diseases, Consti
pation, various Fe
male Complaints,
to Purify the Blood
etc. For sale bv
X. ritAZEK & CO.,
Yinita, I. T.
CARDINAL
LIN1WENT.
This liniment
should be on hand
in overr household
as it is an excellent
and prompt reme
dv for rheumatism,
Lame Back. Tooth
Ache, Neuralgia,
Sprains, Bruises.
Swellings, and all
other bodily pains
and aches.
For sale by
K.rUAZEE.fcC0.,
Yinita. I. T.
POST & COREY,
I'ostofiice, Chctopa, Kans.
K Con right si. lc.
AIko Con right side
lean go on ncau
waters! ot Little
Cabin creek.
BiiimT li
A. MILLS,
rostoiHcc, Chctopa, Kans.
Smooth crop and uaderhack in each ear
Horse brand I Z.
J. O. HALL.
Post-olDce, Yinita, I.T.
Undcrbit in each
ear.
Horse brand same
on left hip.
Rauze Between
Cabin and Pryor's
creeks.
JO
KHayMv
trw
Half-breed catle all branded PSS
on left suit an 1 1.ip. N)meear- IVVl
marked PME an x some SZ51 mXM
the lat- ie ter is call KRi ed the
jingje- bob mark."" Texas
steers roau-baand KHR on near
side. Yarious ear-"i M marks.
baxce Commanche county pool.
M. OT. COTJCH.
rost-OF.. , LiLtuinS Creek, I. T.
IHUNhHB
Crop otf right car, and swaIow-fork in
left. ttf
C. H. McCleilon.
Pobluflice, Oowala, I. T.
Fct cows 3SB3 oa leftside. A few
cuttUbran-ELVa ded EfPR behind
left oai.u.- gaafi dcr.lOT
cattle mostly donblo
dcwlapped MIorso brand C. 21.
on left Si le. Ranch on Cancy.
err n "WETT.iwa
rvst-cfEce, Vinita, t. T.
Ranch
on Rock
creek,
15 miles
south of
Vinita.
W. T. 1EATTT, .
Postoffice, Yinita, I. T.
Brand on cither
Side or hip.
i;angeuortn iroai
Vinita. SStf
WB
V. GRAY,
Postoffice, Chouteau, I. T.
come cattle brn f
Y G on left side.
Ear mark Over-
slope in each car.
Kanes on Prvor's
' creek, I. T.
SSly
E3
B.B. TAYLOR.
Post-office, Vinita, I. T.
.Branded off
both sides.
Crop off left
car and split
in right.
kaxgx, Lo
cust creek.
Pf
O. T. THOMPSON,
Posloilice, Vinita, Ind. Ter.
A few cattle bran
ded JH95 and in"
same
herd
seme cattle regfe
ed br Allison
I Thompson- brand-
ii-TTfnr,tf mhiV XY
milM itnnth of Yinita. near
M. K.ftT.K.H.
lt. A. ilcsr. Foreman. P. O. Chou
teau, 1. T.
Hi
iHTi
MOSES KEOETTJrC
Postoflice, Sac and Fos Agency.
Some oliF
cattle bran 67
edonlrKon,
right hip.
H o r s o"
brand K art
right shoul
der. r.r
marks, cropf
Otf the right.
and swallow fork in left. 20tf
Jitt '"Bl"1
JOHN COTJNTBYMAN.
Post-office, Echo, I. T.
" iJranuevea
' up, either sidcf
ilark, crop"
ofl right ear.
under slope cl?
left ear.
Range. Horso
creek, C. Jf.
m i nJU
Cherokee Orphan Asylum.
JlarK,smootnr
cropin left ear
and naderbtf
in right.
firBw
JANE CAPTAINE.
Skiatook Post-office, C N.
Horse
brand same
on left
shoaldor.-
Rango orr
Homin y
creek Osage'
Nation.
i 1 a t
m. cJK vn vB
"&CdHSMV
W.H.Sttrker,
P -stoffice, Vinita, I. T.
"to "Cfc
Crop off o
left ear, un
d c r half
cropinrightf
Njrac cattle bramh."-!
ffjionhip. JSghthip
51
Kaniic Big Ca
bin creek.
on right side.
Z31U
"WELLS BBOS. & PBIGG.
Post-office, CjfJeyville, Kansas.
v anou s
other brands
and car marks"
Any pirtiesr
knowing ot
sttlebrandetl-
. us.'F"
onright L
GideandgHJ,
hip, off of
ip.
their rezular raase on Verdigris river.
above Coody's Bluffs and on Big creek,
will be liberally rewarded br giving, in
formation of the same to ells Bros. Sir
Prigg.
Henry P.
O,
m
. Vinita, LT.
ic7traorf
side. OS
Various other',
marks and old?
brands.
Ranch n
TT,hite Oafc
Creek. 10
JOSEPH HUNT,
Poat-otBce, Yinita, I. T.
Crop-and1
split in left
ear, undcr
bit and zinb
tag in right
Ranch, 12"
miletf west
of Vinita,
at the heait
of Prvor'si
creek. Range, between Pryora antr
Lightning creeks. .
A BOTJDINOT.
Post-office, Tahlequah, I. T.
Branded oi
Ieft de.
Some brand
ed OC on hip
and shoulder,
cither side,
with various
marks. Sold
only to ship.
Ransc. IlU"
nois river, 4 miles cast of Tahlequah.
Mrs. Isabella Hewmon,
Post-office, Skiatook, I. T,
-A-rZS
RanrU "a i!jck Creek, Osage Nation.
T-" ' '
WM1
Arthur Dodge,
P. O., Coffey
ville, Kas.
Range, o"n
Wolf creek, 0
miles south ot
CoffeyviIle,K3