The Weekly Star and Kansan from Independence, Kansas • Page 2

questionable ability are preferred THE before them in the distribution of STAR AND KANSAN In Every Friday by H. W. YOUNG- is MB the offices. As between Jim Hal- THE INDIAN TERPJTORY Thousands Heading for Oklahoma The Old Mines In that Country A Fatal quarrel. -H will die from their bites.

The rattlesnake ol these plains is larger, more vicious and more deadly than his brother of the states. People are sure to die when bitten by them here. As for the tarantulas, and the centipede, they may sometimes be seen a dozen at a time in the rocky poises and canons. lowell, ho nearly wore out his vocal machinery in denouncing dem Store Jbee 11 TERMS OF SirBSCWITION. ive ocrats and foully abusing the people's president, and Judge George Onecopy one your One ropy six months IOC Single copies 5 THE u' Tl, 1 Congressman ti.i Cherokees have no ni enoupn eutiuacco uac uu i Chandler who, mindful of the dignity of his high office and the eter Ut'lUiOU luab luc to make the hair of a nervous person FOR uue wiiauner tuts snip, auu 11 mc rJ stand on end.

nal fitness of things, made no FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1889. stump speeches and kept the er they wili not get anything for the land. Ia Jears to thc tradition? 1 of the Iudian territory and the Oklaho- The old Oklahoma linnniprs in the i CINCINNATI uia e-uuuiijf win ue leau nvim interest, locality about Arkansas city are raisini BARGAINS! money to erect a monument to the lat ana eyen now they are ot more tnan passing note. That there will be found gold, silver and coal in large cpuantitiea hardly any one doubts, but when you Captain D. L.

Payne. They have al ready about $200 raised. The monu merit will be erected at the capital city speak ot old '-Danish gold mines, peo of Oklahoma. mine out of the mud, there could be but one choioe. For a position requiring profound learning and legal abilities of the first class, like that of assistant secretary of the interior, Geo.

Chandler is as exceptionally well qualified as Jim Hal-lowell is conspicuously unfit. Still, we give no great credit to the I Iarrison administration for the appointment of the former over the latter. But for the cat-and-dog fight between the two Wichita as ple smile as they do when you speak of Laptain tud burned treasures. They Twenty-three young ladies from Quincy, Illinois, arrived in Arkansas (r 1 1L City last Monday, ihey are going to Oklahoma on the 22nd to take up ml don believe there ever was any such thing. But while in the Indian territory on a late exploring expedition the writer became thoroughly convinced that I u.

claims. They are all good looking and have plenty ot money, but every one of there was such a thins as hidden mines. them have a pledge not to get pirants, some howlincr dervish of So far as the sale of liquor goes, according to the decision of the Interior Department officials at Washington, Oklahoma is still Indian country, and it will be exceedingly risky business to traffic in the ardent there. The fellows who are going thithere to open saloons should understand that there i a strong probability that they will, by so doing, pre-empt a cell in the Leavenworth or Little Rock penitentiaries. IIakkison's administration is letting "I dare not ait upon I would," in the matter of the appointment of the confederate General Longstrcet to succeed the union General Rose-crans as register of the treasury.

Longstrcet insists on having the place and the administration is anxious to promote the prospects of its party in the south by giving it to him but the fear that such a change would not be popular in the north has thus far deterred it. married ior live years. In 1S50 Chouteau, Valley had a trading post at or near a point that is now known as Walker a few miles from Pureell. The Indians used to The Oklahoma fever is taking the Head carefullly and call for prices on Dress Goods in Sateens, Lawns, Zephyer Ginghams. White Goods in plain, stripe and checks, Novelties in Embroideriess in match goods, a full line of Cassimeres and Jeans.

Ladies', Misses' and Children's Underwear in ribbed and plain. Gentlemen's riuk rwear in Cotton and Lisle Thread, complete line. THE LAEGEST LINE OF political pandemonium like Ilal-lowell would have secured the place, instead of a jurist and a gentleman like George Chandler. renters out of this cation by the whole pale and the prospect is that the area of bring in gold every day. Sometimes it was in dust form, but often they brought SE cultivated acres wnl be materially 1 creased this season.

It was reported Commissioner P. S. Mooke of last week that a list ot lt0 had been Vis nuggets ot the pure gold. No one could ever earn where they wit it. Either the key to the mine has been lost or the present Indians don't know made up in this immediate vicinity.

lair proportion of them will be coming back in six months and a year. Vinita where the precious metaf is. Chouteau, Valley were at one time at the Chieftain. Mocks Has just received one of the FINEST and LARGEST of head of the American rur Company, Word has reached here from Fort and the Chouteaus are now among the Smith that Pearl Younger, daughter of this district made a gallant fight in the board of commissioners last eek in favor of economy and reform, while the printing bill of the Tribune was under considerat'on. He thought some of the items charged for stationery were exorbitant but when it came to charging between Syo and $100 fur publishing the commissioners' proceedings he objected most vigorously, and recorded his vote in the nega wealthiest people in fct.

Louis. They Belle Starr and Cole Younger, succeed made considerable of their money off ed in organizing her party, and that they left before day break on etines the Indians, tradins tor gold at this old post but tliev never could discover tbiy. They number 125 whites, and MM SUMMER CLfifHl tio to Verbeck ou the Santa Fe railroad where much of the best watered land lies. Pearl rode at the head of the ex IX THE CITY AND AT where it came A Corrupt fountain corrupts the stream. Use Warne't) Los Cabin KOSK CREAM for Catarrh.

It has no equal. Sold by drutrgists. tive. At the time the old board of pedition and will superintend the cutire march. -AND- commissioners made the new contract for printing with the Tribune, in January, we told the people that it would largely increase the cost A New York dispatch of last says Eighty men who described west themselves as doctors, surveyors, engi Tin-; newspapers of the Cherokee nation are now busily engaged in discussing the question whether to sell or not sell the strip lands.

As the Cln iokces have really no title to the lands, the grant having been made for an "outlet" to western hunting grounds which no longer exist, the Indians will do well to close quickly for the best offer Uncle Sam will make them for th'-ir mythical "interest" in the trip, namely, $.25 per acre. Thf. following from the Muskogee I'hu nix, edited by Dr. Leo E. ISennett, the new Indian agent for the five tribes indicates, that the In neers, clerks, gas fitters, bakers, etc.

left for Oklahoma yesterday under the charge of Grauman, a railroad ticket broker. They carried Winchester rifles at Window GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS Pver brought to this part of the country, ami arc oH'crins? the same at prices to suit the Shades and Curtains Eastern Prices. and tools. They will enter the terri tory on April 21, preempt a town site and lOO acres spiece and then elect each other mayor, marshal and common councilmen. Light hundred people wanted to go with Mr.

(jrauman party dians are able to read the si'ms of A recent Caldwell dispatch says If It will take the boomers here fully three days to eross the strip, which is sixty miles wide, while those who are massed HKADY FOIl TIIK IHSH. Tin" Train Arrangements of lie Naiitti Fe for the 'i-iU -The Crowd at ArkaninaM City. An Arkansas City dispatch of the 10th says: Agent Emery of the Santa Fe at this point, who is acting under instructions from headquarters, informed your correspondont that special trains will commence leaving here for Guthrie aud points south at t' o'clock a. and one will continue to leave every few minutes until all the Oklahoma settlers are ou the way. From this city to Guthrie, the objective point of nearly every settler, it is ninety-four miles a little over four hours' run.

The hour of 9 o'clock has been selected for leaving this city, so that no trains will be in the Oklahoma country at 12 o'clock. From this city to the north line of the "promised land" it is a little over three hours' run. The first train will arrive at Guthrie shortly alter 1 o'clock p. giving four hours for the transaction of land office business. Agent Emery says that the understanding at present is that no special trains will hi run from ml Til IS along tne southern ana western lines cm settle on the best claims within a the times The npcinnir of Oklahoma umlcr the presi- Ii-tiI's jiiuclauiHIii'U provi'lcs homes tor ten li'iii-ainl M-nleis.

There will lie nearer sixty lliouan.l than ten tboiisjin-i people those lim.ls liy the first of May. What is to iKtome o( 'them? Where will the overflow It is 1 'lull iiiin.l that eaimot find reasonable ao-suer to these queries, and the sooner some of tho hnlian statesmen realize the impemlii'sr peril anil make the lu st of the situation ihe sooner will the solution of the so-ealleii Indian problem be reaeheil. Fuels ami conditions ii'iifront us. not theories and sentiments. few hours after the president's proclamation goes into effect.

Mayor Iiilcy of Caldwell also claims that there are a of the county printing, and such is proving to be the fact. Mr. Moore had nothing to do with the making of that contract, but he rightly considered the charge as extortionate, and objected to it just as strenuously as if it had been some other bill instead of that of the republican organ. Probably the Tribune could have recovered from the county under its contract, had the bill been disallowed at any rate it would have had a good case against the commisioners. After the bill had passed, Mr.

Moore offered and secured the adoption of an order to publish only the matter required by the statute the financial statement. This the Tribune pads and stretches over white paper enough to make it cost as much as the full proceedings did before. Doubtless Mr. Moore will have something to say about this, too, in July. It is a refreshing novelty to find a republican commissioner who hasn't the fear of the Tribune before his eyes and who starts out with the ev ident intention of guarding the interests of the taxpayer, even when they are opposed to the interests of the county organ of the party.

large lot of Clothing to close out at The Largest Stock of Boots and Shoes in Southern Kansas and will be sold at one-half price. Call and see for yourself. This is no Humbug. You will get the Shoes at prices that will surprise you. sireat many cowboys in the territory on eattle ranches who will be at the north Don't Forget the Place.

line promptly at 12 o'clock on the 22d. and, being mounted on fleet horses, will be able to secure the best locations. A Washington dispatch of the 10th says A number of office holders are preparing to go to Oklahoma. In Next Door 10 the P. 0.

Cincinnati Clothing House. most eases they will on a month's leave of absence so that if thev do not any city north ot here but should Cud the country all that it has been painted they can return. General Al there be any they will not precede trains from this city. On their arrival here they Till be made up into sections and bert Pike, the poet pioneer, said traveled all through Oklahoma in 13o2 sent out as sections of train No. 1, that will leave here at 9 o'clock a.

m. INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS. Hon. John N. Rittek, of Columbus, has been appointed to the judgeship of this judicial district made vacant by Geo.

Chandler's resignation. As Cherokee county has never before had the judge, while Labette and Montgomery men have held it ever since the organization of the district, the selection is a lair one in view of locality though in reality that ought to rut but very little figure. The hot contest ill come in the republican judicial convention next fall, however. Each county will have a "favorite son," and they will fight for the honor with the usual Kansas vim when an office is in sieht. and have been there since many times Willi the exception of the land on the Santa Fe rulling stock is being con border of the north branch of the Ca centrated Here, and ttie last ol tins week trains will be made up on fifty nadian river you cannot find any water --'-T V.Vf Our cut'iiirrs for repeated such performances as were formerly witnessed in some of the fit to driuk.

There is no sood timber uiilt-a of side tracks in the yards at this TAILORING I have just receive I a lanre line of latest stvh except cottonwood. The land as a ix last Monday's press dispatches we find the following: I.KAVENWoitTH, April In pursininee to reeeived from the war department, l.enernl Merritt, commanding the department halls in tastern cities, where the notice is posted up, 'For Gentlemen whole is poor, except along the river. point. Al' passengers are to be put aboard of trains, and then the order is to be given fur the head train to move. nut- I fear there will be trouble and blood killer, ami we itnn't find it I'mtU-v ble to keep any otlier.

J. X. Ilirhardsun A' Sou, Kichtielil. Minn. shed before because there will be She wa and no train is to be in Oklahoma until after 12 o'clock.

By this arrangement so much disappointment." 11 a quarrel arising over the Choc and il.O". the Arkansas City and Oklahoma set taw net proceeds fund, Dr. I. N. Folsom shot and fatally wounded John Ilarkins tlers will land in Guthrie about three haurs ahead ot those from any other city or starting point.

From ten to E.PJ1.1.ES, G.L. Remington, President. Vice-Pres't. J.H.Spkncek Cashier. A daughter of my customer su tiered from suppressed menstruation, an i her health was completely wrecked.

At my suggestion she used one bottle of Bradfield's Female Regulator, which cured her. J. W. Heli.i Water Valley, Miss. Write The Bradfield Eeg.

Atlanta, for particulars. Sold by Frank F. Yoe, Druggist. at Atoka, on Sunday last. It seems that Dr.

Folsom aud Mr. Ilarkins had fifteen minutes will elapse before section 2 of the train pulls out and so on been drinking a little and both were ings. Those who desire to dress well will please call and see them, ami compare iuality, style ami prices with others before purchaMiig. I have number of GOOD T5TJSIXE8S SUITS which I will make at $25.00 each to close out patterns. DonLavy.

First National Bank, of Missouri, has issuoii an order to the troops iti anJ about Oklahoma, as to the method that should be pursued in allowing- the emigrants to cross the Cherokee strip. The troops will lay out the line of march, and all roads can be used, tint the boomers must camp in certain places, and move at repular hours. None will be allowed to tarry in the strip, and alter they have once passed over, will not lie allowed to return that way, nor will others be allowed to follow them. The Indians will be shown that the passage thi-ousrh the strip is not with the intention of abroa any of their rights, and all stravrh'i'S will he driven back into Kansas or into Oklahoma. This indexes a nice state of affairs certainly and shows in how petty and contemptible a business the United States army has been engaged for ten or fifteen years armed.

When Ilarkins went in to Mr. Folsom's store, the latter produced his until all are on the way. Should no special train arrive here from the north, Last Sunday's dailies were filled with details of the terrible disaster at Samoa, by hich six men of war, three American and three German, were wrecked, with a loss of 150 lives and 3,000,000 worth of property. The storm was the severest ever known in that part of the world, coming from the north so that it blew directly into the mouth of the little harbor at Apia, which contains dangerous coral revolver and began Mr. Harkins OF INDEPENDENCE.

it would be well lor all who are coming to arrange it to arrive here on the morning train, so that they will be able to catch one of the specials. Should their returned the shots all without effect. Mr. Folsom immediately produced a Winchester and shot Harkins through See those 75c fancy braid hats. They go like ''Oklahoma Boomers." Buy one for a hack hat.

Owes MIhooveb's. the bowels. On Monday the Doctor The ships dragged their an- gave bond in the sum of $j00 and left the town until the excitement could blow over. Both parties were very prominent and had many friends and reefs, chors coming be deferred until the afternoon, they will be compelled to go to Oklahoma on the regular train and arrive at Guthrie at 4:30 p. m.

By this method all trains being made up at this point will have an epual chance. and dashed aeainst each past. iV man wishing to pass Cotllns and C'asketM at W. E. C.

M. ilizer's furniture store, which has been removed to the west side of Pennsylvania avenue, half a block north of Main street. No chartered trains or trains in the other in the harbor until they went down, carrying scores of brave sailor lads to a watery grave. The wonder is that so many survived of ali the hundreds on board the doomed ships. interest of private individuals will be run.

tickets are already beinir sold in this city for stations in Oklahoma to be used on the 22d. Cp to 6 o'clock 3,600 Field Hollers. Farmers, roll your Wheat and Corn ground. Buy the best Holler at Least mm LAST CALL! Our entire stock of STOVES for less than first cost. Now is the Time to get Bargains at tickets had already been sold.

This is being done to avoid the rush and jam. much trouble was expected Sunday. This is indeed a very lamentable affair. Muskagee Phoenix. The following dispatch from Pur-cell indicates the condition of a good many of the Oklahoma boomers The condition of many of the Oklahoma settlers this side of the Canadian river is desperate.

Hundreds are practically without shelter or money to buy food, and every day men, women and children can be found begging in the streets. They have sold or pawned their camp outfits, and though they are practically Money ot me, as 1 have large stock. Hcfus Williams. On this moruing's train there were eight coach loads of passengers and this after noon sixteen coach loads. Two hun dred and sixty-six boomers' wagons ar PAID "JPCAflTAL SD SURPLUS S60.000 01 AUTHORIZED CAPITAL tOO.000 CK rived to-dav.

In one camp there aie 23 boomer wagons. This is the larg est camp, and each wafjon will average helpless, they still cling tenaciously to the idea of pre-empting homesteads in fHAMSACT GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. Claries. Oklahoma. All they have left is their Not a single colored man has yet been appointed to office by the new republican administration and it has been semi-ofticially announced that the policy in' the south will be to ignore the African and build up a party of white republican protectionists.

This course is not only impolitic but smacks of the basest ingratitude. But for the negro otethe republicans couldn't carry more than six or eight northern states; while to abandon him renders futile the old bloody shirt and pension cries by which it last fall prevented the farmers of the northwest from voting as their interests dictated. When it cuts loose from the negro, the republican party will go down with amazing suddenness. five persons. A gentleman rode all through the country surrounding this city for a radius of five miles and he estimates there are 6,000 Oklahoma settlers here, A gentleman just down from Wichita says there are enough on the way from Wichita here to swell the number to 10,000.

The highways are a moving mass of white-covered wagons. OI.I.Kl TIOXS A through the Indian territory from here to Texas isn't met at the territory line by a lot of blue coats to drive him back into the state. Why, then, has it been found necessary for the United States to maintain a cordon of soldiers along the line of the Cherokee strip, where there are no Indians at all, when it docs not on the boundary of the territory below here where the Cherokees live Simply in the interest of the cattle men. The army of the United States has been bemcancd and degraded by being compelled to act as cow poliPe in all the western part of the territory. And men who are engaged in the private business of fattening cattle on lands hich the highest judicial authority has decided the Indians have no right to lease them, have been waited upon by corporals, and majors, and colonels, and generals and have had the whole United States army at their nod and beck, to keep out the men who wanted to go in and make farms on the unoccupied lands in the territory and in order that the cattle barons might not be interfered with in their illegal occupation of the same territory.

We imagine there will be some lively times when the soldiers attempt to carry out General Mer-ritt's order, which he gives as the henchman and at the behest of the cattle monopolists. Whether Fine Teas and Roasted Coffees A SPECIALTY AT STOCKHOLDERS: ISrown, K. A It. S. Parkhur-t.

L. Kf minion, II. Jr. W. T.

E. P. Allr-n, It. It. V.

Si I. K. fariMTlira, .1. It. M.

lie, A. F. itts. .1. H.

Sp'-neer, H. Hates. II. Wi.rU-v, Thil.us, J. F.

Outt, .1. A. framer. weapons. Ihey have held on to these through all their adversities, so now, rather than part with them, they will beg and starve.

They believe that a six shooter will improve more Oklahoma soil than a plough for a month or two to come. The Pureell Register says From a gentleman who has just eome from th? Pottawatomie country we learn that thousands of people are scattered about in that country, awaiting the opening up of the Oklahoma country. Every day the number already there is being added to and it looks as though the rush from the eastern side ot the country would be as great as that from the south and west, where it was supposed about all the boomers were congregated. Look at the question in whatever light we may, however, there is going to be an immense rush of people into the lands and while a few are to "ft aond locations, manv J. Paul.

H. Kvans. W. D. Miller.

J. M.T.iib.,tr. Mrs. S. MeCuliat'h E'ans Iln.

E. A. Hamilton's where you will also find a LARGE STOCK of all Staple Mid XYiiiey Groceries Canned Goods, lruiiE, Queensware Glassware Black's English Draft Horse, will stand as follows Mondays and Tuesdays, at the B0NHAM FARM, near Radical. Wednesdays and Thursdays at JOhN BU53Y PLACE West Chernr. Fridays and Saturday at BEERS' STABLES.

"DOCK is a splendid dark seal brown; throe-fourths English draft and one-fourth 7 years old and JT hand? hib, and the Heaviest Grade Draft in the County, Splendid disposition and shows for him-elf. Call and see him betorc breeding. TERMS to insure mare with foal: to insure colt to stand and suck, i-i single Jeap. Apply to JOHN LYNX. "The One Horse of Dr Holmes, is full of the genial author's exuberant humor.

Its fun is superficial and obvious; but more is meant than meets ttte ear or eye. The vehicle which ran for a hundred years and a day without a break, typifies a healthy human body, ana represents the natural term of its service. If. however, a man has catarrhal, bronchial, asthmatic, or pulmonary disease, he cannot live out half his days, unless he eradicates the scrofulous humors whose presence cause these local troubles. The great blood-cleansing alterative of Dr.

Pierce, known as the "Golden Medical Discovery," rids the blood of scrofulous pollutions, and, by improving the nutrition, gives new vigor to the debilitated system, and cures these diseases. Unequalled Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Speaking of the entertainment given by Clark's "Lady Minstrels," who are to exhibit here to-night, the Win-field Telegram denominates them "a combination of bad shape and vulgarity," and berates the management of the opera house there for disgracing themselves by permitting such a thow. It says Ueo.T.

tittit.vtr, i ii. L. HotpnitET, 4 6 111 0 Ik' 4 1 ttt P. V. Hocket.

Vict-I'r'--; I'-nt. 'wiil he disappointed and in all probabil-! ity many of the people who will come a Commercial Bank, independence kan. Designated County Depository. The republican papers of the state are getting unduly excited in discussing the question whether Judge Chandler, of this city, the newly appointed assistant secretary of the interior, is a republican. We can vouch for the fact that he is a good republican and yet candor compels us to add that he work-much at the business." Having been elected to the position of judge unanimously, his name being on the democratic as well as the republican ticket, he certainly would have done discredit to his high office, as well as violated the confidence reposed in him by the voters, had he gone roaming and ranting about the mirtvry as a partisan politician.

hioUi v. is, he was a republican from and voted the republican ticket, but he wasn't a party worker and it is the flows who bore the burden and the heat of the day in accomplishing the Herculean task oi carrying Kansas for Harrison, who are now kicking because independent and fair minded men of Un CAP tji ,000.00 CAPITAL AND SOriXS; $7. STOCKHOI.DES LIA IilLITIES, STOCKHOLDERS. will oe possible to prevent the settlers in from traveling across the sixty miles of strip that intervenes between them and the markets and supply points to be found in the Kansas border towns, rem to be seen. The attempt to do so strikes us as a hih-hand and despotic usurpation.

That when ihe settlers get into Oklahoma, they are to be hemmed in by a regiment soldiers on every side who will prevent either ingress or egress, except by rail, is a condition of things to which General Merritt and the cattle men may look forward as possible and pleasant but it would certainly be one that could net endure for many days. fi, n't utstance to secure a home, will fail to do so and will s-emnre privations in many instances, than they would had they remained where they were. Pur-cell Register. A writer from Fort Reno, I. T.

says "Although a man can exist in this portion of Oklahoma with very little labor, and will find many desirable features about the climate and country, the northern and eastern farmer would scarcely be satisfied to live here, if for no other reason than that the country is the home ot the rattlesnake, the centipede and the tarantula. People here say that these things must become exterminated as the country settles up, but meantime, eyen if this be true, not a few people, and especially children, I A good new First-Class One good Dollar a day Hotel, in a For Baking Purposes. locotion. Will sell cheap. At; Coffevville, Kansas.

For furth-'. MRS. EDGAR II I'LL. SAM BOWL BY, II. M.

WATERS. S. II. ULMER, L. U.

HUMPHREY T. C. TRUMAN. A. J.

FLEMING. V. HOCKETT, HEXRY BADEX. GEO. T.

GUERNSEY, J. B. HOOBEK. B. F.

I.W. BROOK RICK, TOHX IIEBRAXK. W. HAYS. W.

A. LOV ELAND, E. L. FOSTER, L. PflADLEY, L.

S. li EC KM AX, J. A. FUXK. S.

C. ELLIOTT. SODA ulganty is the cfnet attraction of the entertainment and the expectations of those who attended, anticipating something of that kind were certainly realized. Women in gauzy flesh colored tights struck lascivious attitudes and er information address Mar. s-im Coflt'V ville, Kas a irenpral banking business, loans money on lonsr abort time.

Real Ejtalo oansmade atlowest rates without Jelav. Collections a specialty. Qest inthcVforlJ..