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IIU m 11 11 HJ L RATIFIED AT LAST. The Cattle Barons Insist That They Had to nay tto Mark. Rents Too High on the Square. We propose to stay here in our old stand, so we can give you goods at lower prices. Why, be cause our rents are 40 per cent, cheaper. Listen isn't it reasona ble that we can sell you jTH MEW Tinware and Steel Nails. Much Lower. Will give you a few Examples. 16 14 2 pounds Orleans Sugar for Brow n " bulk baking power, u i 00 00 25 We are not selling goods at cost, a small pro fit is all we ask. Don't for get the Place. NORTH MAIN STREET, Three doors south of P. 0. A round million dollars! That's the sum the Cherokee Cattle and Lire Stock association will have to pay for their lease durinjr the next five ye irs. It has been Lo the poor Indian, but now it is Lo the poor cattle barons. Five years ago the Cherokee Cattle association secured a lease from the Indians of a portion of the Cherokee strip for which they paid an annual rental of 100,000 a year. In October the lease expired and the association with 200,000 head of cattle on hand had no place to graze them. The Indians were offered 100,000 a year, then 125, 000, finally $150,000 and then 175, 000. The council at each time rati fied the contracts, but Chief May each time vetoed the lease and it could not be passed over his veto. He had the cattlemen where he wanted them. They could not leave the strip, and he could fix the price. He placed it at 200.000 a year. Tii3 i cattlemen refused to look at it. A temporary arrangement was fixed up that would last until January 1st. Now the barons have had to give in President C. M. Hewius, of the asso ciation, and T. S. Huttou, one of the directors, arrived from Talequah this moruiug and aunouueed that ' the levse had been signed and de livered them to Chief May at a fixed rental of 200.000 per year. They positively refused to be interviewed on the subject. Director Snyder was not so retic ent on the subject. He said: 'The price is too high, a great deal too high, and I for one am sorry I made it. I wish I could got out of it It was a victory for the Indians.'" Maj. John Lyons, attorney of the association, said: "Yes, the lease has been signed. It was too much. We have been ravmr siuu,uiu a year. Perhaps the lease was worth 150.000. It was not wortli more than that, but we had to do it.' The major leaves to-night for Wash inirton, and says no meeting of the aseociation will be held there. Icrats of this country, and especially flo tii: : ,:v i:ti .viwdc ui xiuuuis, iiutr uiiyun inner for "senatorial courtesy." Republi can senators and congressmen abuse President Cleveland like a dog. Thev claim everything, and then for dem ocrats to talk about no "factious op position" makes one "tired," as the boys say. Mr. Cleveland cared very little about '''courtesy" to monopo- lists in his last message on commu nistic capital, and the people want a little more of that "factious" sneak ing. Claiming everything ha9 been characteristic of the republican party for years, and it won this year, and always will, if democrats allow "sen atorial courtesy" to hoodwink them. Illinois democrats have no senators to fight for them, and mighty few congressmen, and we look to Mis souri. Tell George Vest to open Lis batteries, load with grape, ai sail in as he is capable of doing, and not let courtesy prevent his sending a 6hot gun, even though the enemy's bomb-proof. Yours for victory in 92. J. M. Page, Editor Democrat. door to interminable vexation and a j general disturbance of the peace and quit-t of the couutry. The game j which the Republicans bropose is j one that two can play at, and it ! might be well for them to pausejand j consider the consequence to which ! their zeal for increased representa tion in Congress and in the electoral college may lead K. C Star. A GREAT MAGAZINE. WH!TF. OA P I!A1IS IX OHIO. -M'wi 'U".i amines i- oiiovi ii ny Lasliiiiiss Notices at Fostoria. corn Taney, Co., Mo., Dec. 8, '88. Ed. Times: Our hunting party, consisting of ten in number, left Butler on the 4th of Dec. and arrived in Taney county on the 6th, having hunted two days without success. The deer hare all left this section on ac count of the failure of the mast and gone to parts unknown. The crops in this county the past season was almost a failure, for want of rain at the nroDer time. Corn is worth & fifty cents per bushel, wheat sixty fire cents, pork high, cattle very cheap. The farmers here claim that their hogs have died off rapidly this fall with a disease which they pro nounce to be measles. This is a fine country for poor people from the fact that they seem to enjoy themselves fine. Owing to the fact that the deer have left this section, we will return to Butler in a few days. Respectfully, D. G. N. J3A total eclipse of the sun will take place on January 1, 1889, along a track 80 miles wide, extending from the Aleutian Islands and running centrally through Point Alene, Cal.; Winnemucca, Nev.; Mountain Mead ow, Idaho, and terminating at Lake Winnipeg. Elsewhere in North America it will be partial. . At St. Louis and in this vicity it will begin at 3:19 p. m., real time. There will be a partial eclipse of the moon Jan uary 16 '89, visible everywhere in America. An Osceola, Mo., corraspondent of the Kansas City Times writes to that paper that: a fine vein of zinc ore has been struckfour miles east of town, and the Southern road con templates building a switch thereto. Several other minerals have been found in the county, including a very superior quality of lithographic stone, and the people have gone wild with mineral excitement. Several Kansas City gentlemen are looking over the prospects. THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR PHARIS & SON WHOSE AD. WILL APPEAR NEXT WEEK. It is all rot to call Chickasaws In dians and to consider them wards of the nation. They laugh at the idea themselves. A careful observor can see very little difference between the Chickasaws and the Texans, Missou nans, Kan sans or surrounding peo pie. Although they claim that there are 2,000 full blood Indians in the tribe, it is not often that a copper- colored citizen is encountered. The people are well educated. It is their boast that every Chickasaw can at least read and write. The educa tional facilities of the Nation are am pie. There are four firstclass acad emies capable of accommodating 200 pupils each maintained by the Na tion. There is also an academy conducted under the auspices of the Methodist (Jnurcn, boutn, that is liberally patronized. There are 10 free district schools. When the academies are crowded, or tor any other good and substantial reason the parents or guardian of children can claim a pro rata of the school funds, and send the children wherev er they desire.For instance there are several Chickasaw children attend ing a convent school at Dennison and the parents of these children draw from $160 to $200 per yearac cording to grade for each pupil from the national treasury. And not only this, but if there are Chickasaws by blood residing in the Choctaw or Cherokee nations or in Texas, Mis souri, or elsewhere they are entitled to their portion of the school funds, and many of them receive it regular ly. Here is an idea for States and people that boast of a more perfect civilization than can be found in the Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 13. A man ! named Martin living a tew miles from Bowling Green received notice early in the week that if lie did not. go lo work and support his family he would meet punishment at the hands of "Wood county vigilants." Martin paid no attention to the no tices and Tuesday evening as he started for home in an intoxicated condition he was siezed by a band of masked men and taken into the woods. A rope was thrown around his neck, one end thrown over a limb. He began to pray. Twice the men cut the prayers short by sviug their victim up uutil he t -it' a 1 . mi- . 11. uangieu 111 lue air. iuimi mey stripped him, fied him to a tree and applied beech switches until his back was a mass of bleeding liesb. His clothes were again replaced and he was taken home where he now lies sick. A few nights ago a man named Miller, living at Leipsie received a notice similar to one sent Martin. He paid no attention to it. He was visited early in the week by White Caps, taken from the house and un mercifully lashed. At Fosteria notices were posted a week ago and when they were torn down by those to whom they were directed others were seDt. General notices were addressed "To whom it may concern," were tacked on the trees in front of ex-governor Fos ter's residence and the yards of the prominent citizens. Tuesday a band of men, mounted and equipped in white cap outfits, dashed through the town. An attempt was made to follow them, but they- scattered and were soon lost in a dense forest a few miles from the town. Defiance, Napoleon, Perrysburg and Maumee have been visited al though no actual outrage was at tempted. The. skull and cross bones with the representation of a bowie knife beneath, is a favorable sign of the order in this vicinity. At Napo leon a nobce bore the words: God hates liars, perjurers and adulterers. The white cappers are Lord's chosen people to wreak out His vengeance on the wicked and un. just. The people are becoming much alarmed. Miiiso Items. The weather is line. Fanners are done gathering and are rushing the fall nlou J. L. Shaw has traded his Butler property for a mill which he has moved to his farm, where he will saw aud grind regularly. We wish him success in his new enterprise. Rev. Tinsley is holding a protrac ted meeting it Peter Creek school house; success to his efforts. Mr. Whitaker is teaching school at Peter creek this winter. He seems to be a permanent fixture, as this is his fifth term here in succession. Tom Staley has returned home from Cole where he has been for the past year. Some of the boys were badly dis appointed last Saturday night after having made arrangements to attend the party when they found out that the old man had changed his mind and would not let the girls go. Bet ter have a written contract next time, boys. S. E. War Breaks Out .Again. Chicago, Dec. 12. The passen ger rate war between the Northwest ern roads, which began at St. Paul Monday, was taken up here Tester- lay by the St. Paul and the Wiscon sin Central, when tue rate to bt. Paul was cut from $0.50 to $G for second class tickets. The first-class rate over the Burlington also drop ped from 11.50 to $8.50. Further cutting is anticipated. A prominent ticket agent says that if the two in ter-State Commissioners were not in town people would be riding to St. Paul for five cents. One person in seven in France follows art either as a profession or dilletante. The Century for 1SS&. HE question lias often been -asked, "to what does The Century owe its great cireu latum I" Tte OirultaJi Ukm once answered this by the statement that "it has bees, fairly won, not by adver tising schemes, but by the excellence which characterizes it in every department, In their announcements for the coming year the publishers state that it has always been their desire to make The Cutrg the on in dispensable periodical of its class, so that whatever other publication might be desira ble in the family, Tha lenlury could not be neglected by those who wish to keep abreast of the times in all matters pertaining to culture. And the unprecedented circula tion of the magazine would seem to be the response of the public to this intention. "With the November number The Centura begins its thirty-seventh volume. Two great feat ures of the magazine which are to continue throughout tho new vol ume are already wen known to the public, the Lincoln history and tho papers on "Siberia and the Exilo System." The first of these, written by Messrs. Nieolay and Hay, President Lincoln's pri vate secretaries, contains the inside history of tho dark days of the war, as seen from tho White House. THE SIBERIiX rJUT.XS, byGeorgo Kcnuun, are attracting tho aV tention of tho civilized world. The Chf : cago Tribune says that "no other magazine I articles printed in the English language just -now touch upon a subject which so vitally Interests all thoughtful people in Europe and America and Asia." As is already known copies of The Onfury entering Kuasia have these articles torn out by the custom officials . on the frontier. tJVRixo 1S39 1 " The Century will publish the most Im portant art feature that has yet found place in its pages, it is tne result of four years' work of Mr. Timothy Cole, the leading magazine engraver of tho world, in the galleries of Europe, engraving from the originals the greatest pictures by the old masters. A series of papers on Ire- land, its customs,' land- scapes, etc., WUl appear, anu mere mrv w be illustrated articles on Bible scenes, treating especially the subjects of the Inter-; national Bund ay-School Lessons. George W. Cable will write " Strange, True Stories of Louisiana." There will bo novelettes and short stories by leading writers, OCOSr Bional articles on war subjects (supplement al to tho famous "War Papers" by General Grant and others, which have been appear ing in The Century), etc., etc. The Century costs four dollars a year, and it is published by The Century Co., of New York, who will send a copy of tho full pro pectus to any one on request The proposition to admit Dakota as two states, which is strognly sup ported by the Republicans in Con gress, has suggested the plan of the division of other states as a means of offsetting the political advantages which the Dakota scheme would in sure to the Republicans. It has region bordering on the Wachita and j been suggested that Texas might be Red River. Only the Enerlish lan-1 divided into four states; that Cali- guage is taught in the Chickasaw . ml sn , scnoois. xne inicasaw nave no written language of their own. St. Louis Republic fornia might be cut in two, and that several of the Southern states be sides Texas are large enough and have a sufficient population to admit of division. The division of Dakota, should it be accomplished; would 0 DOT TO EXAMINE rat - -J IMMENSE Holiday Stool Before purchasing. Too Much Conrtesy." To the St. Lsuis EepnbUc. Jerseyrille, El., Dec 12. If you I establish , a precedent that might have any influence with Senators I lead to no end of rivalry between the Vest and Cockrell, please exercise it I two great political parties in the way in convincing thorn that tho Amn. I of state-makinsr, and thus open the West Side Squsffi I