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2uy no Stove, of any description, until you see W. W miners Supply, gull line of Hardware always inStQck. Imdian Chieftain. $lSO ?ar 7au la. .d-o-a.c mbllshed Thursdays by Tbx Cuin.is PtTKLlsnisu CostrAXT. U. X. HARKS, Editor. X. E. JIILFOKD, Manager. Vinita, Ikd. Ter., Men. 25, 1S96. It is r cold day now when an In dian delegation don't call upon the president. Senator Jones, of Arkansas, re- poited a bill from the Indian af fairs committee, Monday, appro priating $300,000 for continuing the surveying of this territory. The smallpox scars was the only thing in some years that was able to hut up the saloons and gam bling dens of this town. ''It's an ill wind that blows nobody good." Congressman Little, of Arkan sag, Monday introduced in the house of representatives a bill creating an additional United States judge for the Indian Terri tory. Col. Mulberry Sellers was al ways for the "old flag and an ap propriation." In that he was like our mayor, only our mayor is for "the yellow flag and an appropri ation." We print in another column an article printed in the Tahlequah Diily Sentinel over the name of "Fair Tote," which we regard as being both sensible and to the point, at the present time. A Texas congressman has intro duced a-bill to cede Greer county to his state, the supreme court having decided it belongs to Okla homa He will have a difficult task while Flynn is in congress The Chieftain's position on questions of public policyare pe culiarly its own, and it will not sanction anything that it believes to be wrong, no matter who may be interested or who may partake of the spoils. The extra session of council at Tahlequah seems to be proceeding very slowly and cautiously in the matter of the freedmen compromise bill introduced Monday. It is thought council will adjourn some lime next week. A bill is before congress that the maximum rate for a lower ileeping car berth shall be $1.50 and for an upper berth $1. It also provides that when the lower berth is sold and the upper berth unoc cupied that it shall not be let down. Delegate Flynn has succeeded in getting a bill through the house to give settlers in Oklahoma their lands, instead of requiring them to pay the price originally fixed. It is hardly probable the bill can get through the senate and past the president. The proposition of congress to send troops into this country in or der to keep the peace is about as far from the mark as anything that has been done along that line late ly. But then, the soldiers are about as well off here as in other quarters of the union now; they don't fight any more anyway. The president has extended the civil service to nearly all employes at Indian agencies, excepting only the few minor positions of a labor ing character like cooks and wash erwomen. Indians, however, who how their fitness, may be ap pointed by the secretary of the in terior without examination by the civil service commission. Those members of the national council who call to remembrance the closing scenes of the last ses sion, at which time the attempt was made to pas- the infamous 'miscellaneous appropriation bill" will not doubt the wisdom of The Chieftain's position touching an appropriation for this city, that was acked for during the smallpox scare A man who will with bribes and whisky be a party to trying to filch from the tre.-uury of his coun try thousands of dollars, and at a time when it is trembling m the balance, cannot be trusted at all. Nothing but the plain, unvarnished truth is to be stated in the columns ot this paper, and any man or principle that can stand against the truth is entitled to stand. There should be a statute mak ing it compulsorj' upon all physi cians to report promptly every in fectious disease to which in practice their attention may be called. If a doctor don't know smallpox when he sees it, then he ought to be dig ging or plowing, or doing some thing else beside practicing medi cine. If the alarm had been given when the first case of smallpox manifested itself in this city three or four weeks ago, a great deal of expense and anxiety might have been avoided, to say nothing of three or more deaths. There Are none of the popular professions about which the masses know so little as the theory and practice of medicine, and ce.tainly none in which they are so frequently im posed upon. CORRUPTION SOT ME CAUSE. The Dawes commission, and nearly all outside influences have laid great stress on the corruption prevalent in the governments oi the five tribes, and have given that as the strongest reason for the de struction and abolition of these In dian governments. But the real need for the change that it is now conceded by all must come over all these tribes may be found in their system of land tenure and not in the corrupt practices that have perhaps in some instances been magnified. The system of laud-in-common was made and fitted to the conditions of a people in a primitive stale, indeed a great por tion of the United States was equally primitive fifty years ago, and it was perfectly natural for the Indiaiih to desire just the free-and- easy system that they have enjoyed in a very satisfactory and progress ive manner for more than half a centurj. There have been various agencies at work, that were evi dentlj' foreseen from the beginning and that would eventually necessi tate a change. In the fir&t place the land holdings of the Indians have been cut down and lopped off continuall from time to time, with and without their consent until at the present time there is barely enough land in the Cherokee coun try for a small sized home to the individual, and even that is being lessened as the days go by. This state of affairs of course causes a state of uneasiness and unrest to prevail, for it must be admitted, some of our people are without homes in a country that is tup posed to be held in common and for the mutual and equal benefit of all its citizens. This is probably the most potent reason for a change, and the one which all classes of citizens, at least ii. a measure re alize. But there are other causes scarce!' less serious, and probably more complicated, and not the least of them is the ever-present and greatly complicated question of citizenship. In addition to a great many thousand out-and-out intruders with no shadow of a right in the country, there are the Shaw nees, the Delawares.the Freedmen and the white adopted citizens, whose status is unsettled, and will in all probability remain uneetlled until settled finally in the courts of the United States, and even then the trouble will not cease, a3 is known by the cases that have al ready gone there. The present call session of the national council is for the purpose of a compromise with the Freedmen and will cost the Cherokee government several thousand dollars, and it is by no means certain that anything satis factory will be accomplished. In the matter of asking aid for this town from the Cherokee govern inent, there was only one question that could possibly be involved.and we candidly submit it to the think ing, reasoning portion of the peo ple concerned: Shall the city offi cials pocket the revenues of a municipality that pays more than S2.000 a year in taxes alone, and then in an emergency where money is required, seek aid from the gov ernment? And even this proposi tion could not be entertained un less help was absolutely needed, which was not the case a week ago, at the time of the fright. IS THE FORE rUONT OF IUTTLE. The Health Hoard Made to Piar the Part of a Modern Uriah. Vinita, I.T., Mch. 20, '9G. It is the sense of this board of health that the recent criticism by The Chieftain of Col. L. B Bell relative to his request for an ap propriation by the national council lor relief of Vinita, is unwarranted by the facts in the ca-t. It is not our purpose to discuss the propri ety' of the appropriation further than to say that it is both a fre quent and a humane practice for governments to aid afflicted com munities, and that on a former oc casion when visited by smallpox, Vinita was voted liberal assistance and honorably turned the greater portion of it back into the trensur' by her board of health Vinita is at the threshold of the Cherokee nation and her whole citizen&hip is more or less effected b' her health operations, by her we.il or her woe. So we see no reason why the national council may not see fit to render assistance in this com mon cause of our people. This bo.ird being in touch with the mayor it qualified to fatate without res-rv.ition that he is dis charging his duties in this matter in such mariner as to entitle him to the confidence and gratitude of everybody, and that no sort of sus picion can attach t-- him. Geo. W. Hill, A M. Clinkscalep, B. F. Fortneu. Well, probably the best comment on the above would be to state that time has shown that The Chieftain was right, and that no appropriation was needed. The board and the mayor have done good service in stamping out the pestilence that broke out .wo weeks ago in this city, but the' made tho mistake so common to frail humanity they wanted an appropriation. Many things promised by con gress are now abandoned because of the fee simple titlo. The Dawes commission will bo continued. THE CHIEF'S HESSAUE, To the Special Session of the Cherokee Council. Executive Department, I ChcroVeo Nation. Taiilfquaii, March 16, ISM. ) To tbc honorable national council: That you may understand the object for covening you in extra session I submit herewith two agreements, one batween your at torney, E. C. Boudinot, and R. H. Kern, attorney for the Cherokee Freedmen, on the 2Sth day of Jan uary, 1S9G; and the other between the Chief of the Cherokee nation, and the said Kern on the same date. These two agreements are similar in their specifications, the main features being as follows: "This agreement made and en tered into on the 2Sth day of Jan uary, 1S9G, by and between E, C. Boudinot, acting as the duly auth orized attorney of the Cherokee nation, for the purposo of settling the suit of Moses Whitmire, trus tee of the Freedmen of tho Chero kee nation vs. tho Cherokee na tion and the United States in the court of claims at Washington, D. C, and Robert II. Kern, acting as attorney lor said Whitemire. wit nnsseih: "That the said Robert II. Kern hereby agrees with said Boudinot to obtain the consent of said trus tee and said court of claims that the provision in the decree therein m-iking the Wallace roll binding on the Cherokee nation shall be stricken therefrom and in lieu thereof a provision inserted, pro viding that the identity of the number of Freedmen mentioned in said decreo shail be ascertained by a commission approved by said court, and the aid Boudinot agrees with the said Kern in con sideration of having this done, to have the principal chief of the Cherokee nation call together the national council thereof within a reasonable time, and to have said national council so convened, ap propriate such sums of money as ma' be needed in excess of the amount decreed to be due the Freedmen in the above case as may be necessary to equalize tho said Freedmen in the amounts the Cherokee? have paid themselves in the three payments complained of in the suit. It being under stood that if the said calling of the council and an appropriation bv it of said sum shall fail, then the provision striking from said de cee the Wallace roll shall be set aside and the decree shall remain in lorce as it now is." In the agreement between my self and Mr. Kern the same pro vision is mentioned, the only dif ference being a "Sum in excess of the judgment for $H)ds2ait now standing in said decree in favor of the complainants therein, an additional sum of $400,000 in said act of December 7, 1S95, with the reservation that any surplus is to be returned to the Cherokee na tion." The act of compromise referred to and date given, herewith sub mitted, increases the courts judg ment for tho S903.254 to S1.300, 000. The surplus, an mentioned in the words just quoted, is to be returned to the Cherokee nation, if any, after the distribution is made. Although the parties to these agreements obligate themselves to accomplish certain purposes mentioned, it appears from a de cision of the court handed down since, tho conditions on part of Attorney Kern, has been accepted and promulgated by the court, as appears from the following takon from its decision: "And it is further ordered and adjudged that for the purpose of ascertaining and determining who are the individual Freedmen of the Cherokee nation now entitled to share in the distribution of the aid sum of syiW.obo the secretary of the interior be authorized to ap point three commissioners, one on the nomination of the defendant, the Cherokee nation, but both nominations to be approved by him, to proceed to the Cherokee country and hear te.-timuny both for and against the identy "of all freedmen, froe colored persons and their descendants, claiming to be entitled to chare in the distribution of said $903,365, that may be of fered by the respective parties to this suit; and that each ol said par ties shall be entitled to be rcpre sentod before said commission, either at the taking of testimony in the Cherokee couutry or else where, and the said commission in as-ceitaining the identity of the freedmen entitled to share under this decree, shall accept what is known as'the authenticated Cher okee roll, the same now being on file in the office of the secretary of the interior, having been furnish ed to him and purporting to have ieen taken b thu Cherokee nation in 1SS0 ?how the number of freed men entitled to citizenship in said nation under the terms of the tieaty between the United States and the Cherokee nation hereto fore referred to, and their descend ants; and the said commissioners shall ascertain who of said persons named on said roll were alive on May 3, 1S9 1, and no evidence shall be aepepted by said commission tending to disprove the citizenship of any person wnoe name appears on said roll." "And it is further ordered and directed that when the foregoing roll so reported by said commis sioners shall be approved by the secretary of the interior be shall cause the amount remaining of the said fund of $903,305, after deduct ing the cost and expenses herein directed to be paid and distributed to the persons entitled thereto, such payments, however,not to ex ceed $250.34 per capita, and the cost of such distribution and pay ment likewise being charged upon the fund of the complainants so to be distributed, pursuant to the act 2d March. 1895, section 11." Thus it'appcars that the Wallace Roll is eliminated from the court's decree and a substitute entered providing for the appointment oi three commissioners to determine who are rightfully Freedmen citi zens of the nation. A provision of the court's decree, above quoted, directs the secretary of the interior to have paid to the persons entitled $252 34 out of the remainder of the $903,365, after certain expenses are deducted therefrom. You will perceive from this that the Freedmen are to be paid at the direction of the secre tary, but inasmuch ai your honor able bodies are expected to appro priate an additional sum to insure a full payment to all entitled, any amount over the 8903,365 necessary to make a complete payment will be done by our own authorities. From the foregoing you may not be able to gather the reason for convening you in extra session. Your act of compromise, December 7, 1S95, did not make an' addi tional appropriation for the Freed men over and above the court's judgment of S903.635 in their favor. It only authorized tho court to in crease their judgment to $1,300, 000, but the court having passed its decree could not make any change in it, and consequently no provision in law is made to pay the Freedmen any amount in excess of the court's judgment. It will bo necessary, therefore, to appropri ate the amount with which you au thorized the court to increase its judgment to $1,300,000. Thus it ma' prove in the end that the amount of the court's judgment in favor of the Freedmen may be suf ficient to satisfy all demands on their account against the nation. and your appropriation not needed. Very respectfully, S H. Mayes, Principal Chief. In a Muddle. Tahlequah Sentinel. Since Chief Mayei submitted his me.'Bage to council, relative to the equalization of freedmen with Cherokees in per capita distribu tions, it seems that many mem hers of the council, as well as the people on the outside, are floun dering about in Cimmerian dark ness as to its meaning or what is to be done or should be done. Not understanding fully the compro mise in all its particulars, or its results as may be revealed at some future day. it is like plunging out into intense darkness and into the midst of unseen dangers made more terrible because more im agined than known. Under the circumstances nothing else need be expected, not only as a conse quence, but as a measure of self defense against uncertainties and the possibility of being misled. Thi3 is certainly right. A matter involving such a vast interest and consequences, should be thoroughly understood by all directly con corned before committing them selves to some irreparable action It is quite plain, as all seem to un derstand, that the freedmen to some unknown number, are to be made equal with Cherokees in three several per capita payments, amounting to $295 35 each. This is all plain enough, but to many there is an ugly incubus concealed in some advantage to be taken of any surplui there may be after matters are equalized. The gen eral belief is that the $1,300,000 will not be needed, but if needed, what is to be gained by the com promise? Some seem (o entertain the be lief that no better state of affairs will be secured to the nation by setting aside the" Wallace Roll or by making a new roll to be man aced bv a commission to pointed in tho way specific court s decreo. 1 Here sli no apprehension as to any intended ..-: : ti,:. .!. ti, unfairness in this matter. The I only cause for any fear is in the possibility of making mistakes, or 1 annuities, S210,400; total, SI. 1S5, 111 some advantage to be taken by j 60S 91 false testimony. This is to be 1 Chiekasaws Funds in the trcas guarded against. In either case, j Ury in lieu of investment, S1.30G, whether the compromise is effected , G95 GG; capitalized permanent an or not, a new or levised cen.-us of nuities,SG0.000; total,$l,3G6,G95.G6. the freedmen will be taken subject I nreek Funds in the treasurv to the objections just rehear-ed. The court's decree of S903 3G5, is all the freedmen on the Wallace ' roll will he entitled to in cue the compromipo is rejected, out hub i will not make them and their de- scendants less citizens of the nation having all the right" of native Cherokee They may not get any more just now, but is there not a chance and a probibility of them suing the nation for any balance due them ae Wallace freedmen? If this is so there can be no escape from what seems to be dreaded. Looking at the question on the other side, we have an authenti cated roll of 2052 freedmen, less by i.iTC u U11 n . I :.. niu uu me 11 uiiulc iuii, iu 11111 with as the number to ho added to , ,, - , , , ,, ., I by their descend ints and by others . wrongly or inadvertently omitt-d 1 from the Cherokee roll of 1SS0 It is very evident that comparing re (ults either way, there is some thing to be faved by accepting tho compromise and in ikiiig an ap propriation a" a contingent fund to pay thoe found to be Cherokee freedmen under the 9ih article of the treaty lSbG by the commission to be appointed, should the sum decreed them by tin- court of claims prove to he unsuflicient. In such carie there can be no appoal for any deficiency, the 84.300.000 should any bo found, as could be done in the event the compromise is, refused. From this it therefore appears that our safety heo in the proposed compromise. Fair Tote. FOUT SMITH LETTER. The Lait or Cherokee Hill's Cases Other Criminalities. Thursday the name of Cherokee Bill was entered for the last time on the docket of the United States court. Col. Crump made his re turn of the death warrant and all cases against Crawford Gnldsby were dismissed They were one murder, eight robbery and two lar ceny of postal funds. Tne other murder case is pending in the su preme court. The body of the out law was taken from here on the afternoon of the execution and buried next day at Fort Gibson be side his old chums and compan ions in criine, Verdigris Kid and Jim French. Bill wanted to be buried on his farm near Talala and also requested that Verdigris Kid be laid by him. His mother in tends to comply with his request and will have both bodies exhumed in the fall. Charley Fianks is mi trial for a double murder committed in the Choctaw nation eight years ago. Gov. Jeflerson Gardner, of the Choctaw nation, was a witness, as the killing took place near his home. For the second time the jury has been unable to decide the Hugh Williams case. They were dis charged Monday afternoon after having been out since Thursday. The United States court has about completed the call of the criminal docket. There are very few more cases to try this term. The most important business which will come up next month will be the sentencing of the six men, whose conviction has been affirmed by the supreme court. Charles Frank, murder; on trial. Tom Lee, violating; plea guilty; 30 days and S100 fine. Freeland Bruner, robbery; ver dict guilty; motion for new trial filed. Hugh McLean, violation; 30 days and $100 fine. Steve Camnbell, same. William Halloran, assault; dis charged. Jasper Crites, violation; mistrial. Marion Landers, violation; ver dict guilty; 40 days and S100 fine. Bee Mellon, manslaughter; mo tion for new trial filed. OF GENERAL INTEREST. A Collection or Notes Gathered Chief! j From Our Exchanges. Uncle Joe Chambers died at Claremoro last week, aged 70. Eufaula ha9 instructed her re publican delegates for McKinley. A bill to permit the constiuction of a railroad from Sapulpa through Oklahoma has become a law. Near Bartlesville one day last week Marsh Wagoner was kicked in the stomach by a plow horse and died next day. Two Cherokees having a contro versy over some property had a trial before the United States com missioner at Muskogee, at their request. A fi'ht is reported in the Os.ige country in which an outlaw named Bud I'ittman was killed and an offi cer named Scott Bruner dangerous ly wounded. Sam Teague, said to be an In dian, shot and killed a negro by the name of Simon Barnes, near Joplin last week and escaped, com ing to this territory. Miss Francis E. Willard, presi dent of the W. C. T. U , lectured at Muskogee last week; Sunday af ternoon she addressed an overflow ing audience in one of the St. Louis churches. The Indian agent at Sac and Fox reports that the absentee Shawnees are relinquishing their patents and coming over into the Creek and Chbrokee nations, probably because the whites are paying them to re linquish. Thu agent suggests that if they are not permitted to settle in tho eastern nations they would not leave home. Funds due Indian nations, as re ported by the commissioner of In dian affairs: Cherokees Funds in the treas ury 111 lieu ot investment and ) be ap , United States bonds held in trust, ' do"n fro,n father ? 60n id in the , $2 71G 970 9S In a meet,nsr of ministers ould be Cl.octaws-Fun.ls in the treasury V??. ; lieu of investment S5S5 000 99- iiniaiim.111, vuojjwu jj. to be appropriated by congress, III V I 390.257 92; capitalized permanent j )ieu of investment, $1.S00,000; to be appropriated bv congress, $475,16S; capitalized in permanent annuities, 8324,200; total, 82,799,- alia UO Seminoles Funds in the treas ury in lieu of invt-.-tineiit, 81,500, 000; ti be appropri.ited bv con gress, 8175.1CS; total. Sl.97o.16S. Grand total, S10.013.S70.55. The senate committee on Indian affairs has indorsed the Dawes commission hill to the extent of recommending an appropriation of I 850,000 to provide lor the entoll- men! 01 all persons entitled to cili 1 zenship in the Indian Territory, .i... ... n r ... ! ,;, ,.' , ., . n,. . . ,. lands-in the territory. I his is the fi f . . f , rp ., , . . . ,. n.... . . ouuuendation oi the D.iwes com- mi-sion. It i- neccs-ary to begin by determining the property rights of all citizen, and not merely of the hindlul of "head men," who not only "want the earth," but t-eem to have taken p.-pesion of it as far a- the Indian Territory is concerned Eqiril rights and jus tice to all will be a "new thing" in the Indian Territory. Star. Smallpox recipe: One ounce of cream of tartar dissolved in a pint of boiling water, to be drank when cold, at short intervals. It can he taken at any time and is a prevent ative as well as a curat ve. It is well known to have cured in thous ands of cases without failure. It never fails and never causes blind ncBi. Deer Shooting In rHotlaiul. Forty-eight stag (including one ronl nd nn 11-pointer) had been killed this scas-on in roril Airlie's for est of Cncnlix'linii, in Forfarshire, which i let to Mr f!. . Henderson, who sjcoeeiled .Mr. IMlkington in the tenancy. This is a remarkable seoie, considering tlu'tCaenlochan comprises only 0,000 acres, the ground nfco in cluding the Tulelian grouse moors. Still more stril.ing was the bag in ihe adjoining forest of (Jlencally, which Is ront'il by Mi. tamltcrt from Sir John Kinloe'i. The etent is little more than 3,000 neiet., and " stags were shot, while the (Ilenisla moors (5,000 acres) yielded .. bag of nearly MM) brace of grouse. These two shootings are on the march with the heat ily stocked deer forest of Glen Doll. London World. He (to elderly j oung lady, after a long waltz) "You must hate been a splendid dancer" Tunth. L ISTEN Another Bankrupt Stock to Be Given AwayL I have bought at ceriesat 50c. on the no. It only cost me to sell it just as low as I got it. Let me tell you, if you will come to my store next Saturday I will show you the cheapest lot of GROCERIES that you ever saw. Our country friends have had such a scare about "smallpox" that we have to do something great to entice them back to town. And as the danger is all over, I am going to make it to their advantage to come on SATURDAY. You know what bargain sheets I have before offered you. I want to tell you before hand that my next will be fun for the customers, and you should not miss it. You know we sell everything. Our Spring 5to:h of Is the best in the city, and our prices are too low to talk about. Come and see us. We have been mighty lonesome for a week or two, and want company: No danger now. Schools ready to open again, and there will be services in all of the churches on Sunday. Everyone in the city is over their scare, why need our country friends be afraid? Come on Saturday and we will make it interesting for you. We always like to mention these BARGAIN 5ALES beforehand, so that our friends can ex pect them; and also to set the pace for our high priced neighbors, who never sell cheap until com pelled to meet my prices. Yours for Trade, r A WITTY OLD CLERGYMAN. Some of 1IU .s.ivlnc That Have Been lluiulrl Down. Years ago there liveJ in Connecti cut an old minister who was quite cele brated for his wit. Many of his say ings hao been preserved and handed one day a ng'tocus- . . a -.a . ,?' crT, . j ell-known, sing-song: tone. One mM objected to the tone of the (cniion and another found fault with something else. The old doctor sat quietly in his corner until his turn to Epeak came. "If you take away the tone," he said dryly, "it seems to me there would be 'ittle left." While traveling :n the western coun try he learned to shave without the aid of a mirror. Long afterward, w hile attending some gathering of ministers, he got up early and was discovered by his friend stnnding face to a blank wall to perform the act of skating:, although there was a good mirror in the room. In answer to his friend's surprised question, he said that he had not Ubcd a looking glass for 30 years. "The last time I looked in one," ha said, with a curious drawing in of the corners of his mouth that always ac companied a joke, "I got so little en couragement I thought 1 wouldn't try it again." lie did not eagerly enjoy having a joke turned on himself, Lut sometimes he fully appreciated it. One day n shift less neighbor called and asked if ho had n wheelbarrow. "Ves," replied the clergyman, "but I don't lend it." "Well," said the neighbor promptly, "did I ask for it?" This plcaseO the old minister so much that the neighbor presently de parted trundling the chris.hed wheel barrow with the old man's full consent. Chicago Xews. Lmrnetl In One Senltm. A truly remarkable fctory of feline in telligence was lately told by a corre spondent. Indeed, it might fairly be called incredible, only that the corre spondent, a.s will le seen, touches for its truth. "I am induced to send you an account of a remarkable instance of feline sagacity which occurred in my house last week. About n fortnight ngo a black Persian cat brought to the house a joung sparrow, and, tak ing it to the front doormat, began strip ping it of its feathers. The cook, not approting of the litter made by the said feathers, doubled the mat over and told the cat he must not make such a litter, but strew the feathers on the wrong side of the mat and not on the top. A fortnight afterward the cat brought in another bird, and, mar velous to sat, turned the mat which was a lieaty coir mat oter with his claws and littered the wrong side of it with the feathers, precisely as the cook had told him to do." This is ab (.olutely true and without exaggera tion. London Spectator. lllfT I l)-lire Arrnunted I"nr. Gas Man Humph! Something queer about this meter. Do you use all those lamps standing there in a row? .New Girl No, indeed, sir, we don't use any. I guess they wants mending, 'cause missus told me to leat c 'em w hero you could see Vm. X. Y. Weekly. The ritcr Kuphrates flowed through the city of I5ab Ion, and on each side of its banks the walls of the city were car ried up to a height as great as at any other point, so that eten during a siege the city was as formidably defended on the rit er as on the land side. TO THIS public sale a full line of Gro dollar did you say? Well, about 25c, and I am going- Dry Goody, Clotbipg, Etc, BADGETT. Virjita, Irjd. Ter. Vinita Market Rport. Corn bythclload .'.1531S Wheat No i .. . .... . .... ... 0 Oats 10312 Seed Oats 2SO30 Seed flax (1J0 Seed Potatoes IS Potatoes for table. a) to 50 Street potatoes, per peck Si Parsnips, per peck 33 Apples 1.00 to 1. 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