The Weekly Chieftain from Vinita, Oklahoma • 2

j(JW -iiIP- 7 7 -4-- :1 i 1-1 r--r glk xAL 4 14ff0M00EMIM ocero annummonsenumundbaniplemOMMINESII allIMIMMIMIIN NATIT-GIA BUSINESS LOCALS next Saturday week Indian Chieftain BETTER ALLOTT It seems to bo the universal opinion that some law restricting St-'30 rex Year In Aalraraoe the wholesale monopoly of the Publinhed Thursdays try public domain will be enacted at ttlit INDIAN PUI3LISIIINtiComrANY Ant VJrok On 1110111SCIE AT FAIRLAND Take Co line' ague cure for the liver It cures chills up stoves was a work gea erally engaged in Tueaday Look Here i A good house and lot for ealertt a bargain See Ilueston Smith ATINITA I SATURDAYOCTOBER 17 '91 T111i GREAT You can save money by buyik riur drugs of Mitchell Star Drug Store Seneca Mo 9-11tf Plantation Chill Cure (Regular and Taste lesa) la the only remedy prescribed by phyeicians For ale by Patton L1111 Fir VAN AIV1BURG IN P1I1UE WE 11E11 Three car load of goods consisting of Dry Goods Groceries iloots and S1IOC49 lints Caps and Clothing Making a splendid and complete stock have been put on the shelves in our store and wiil be sold at prices astonishingly low VE ARE HERE to SELL GOODS And have got them so come to see us for prices We not be unOcrsold Come in and see us and let us show you our goods and give yoti our prices UNITED ALL-FEATURE SHOWS Take Collins' ague cure It Stets on the liver and cores your chills No cure no pay Patton (Jo wholesale agents Our sales of Plantation Chill Cure (Regular and Tasteless) exceed in amount of all otlics together For sale by Patton dr Co hen in (Metope Kft111508 stop at the National hotel A Strode proprie or if you want first-chtms acconunoda Ions Rates $200 per day are located But: will they May there? Oh no they will never stay anywhere long 4hi1 there are any Indian lands not open for settlement They must be moving on Prol-lbly the next rush will be "On tt the Strip" When Indian land is once open to the boomer after the first grand rush it loses all the attraction it may have had The charm is gone A boomer would scorn the idea of settling down upon land that had not come fresh from some Indian reservation In other words he would not have a place that he did not need a "gun" to protect- The Kansas boomer has done more to open Indian lands to 'white settlement than the whole United States army The Indian problem that has puzzled the intellects of statesmen und philanthropists alike for centuries is fast being solved by the Kansas boomer but in a few fleeting years his occupation will be gone In another decade there will be no Indian lands to open judging from the present outlook and then the government will probably pension the surviving boomers and their memory will be pelpetuated in song and story along with John Brown and Jennison and Jim Lane of early Kansas fame But there is one thing the Indian race should be especially proud of and that is there are no Indian boomers no Indian tribe has ever produced a boomer You may call him a "wild untutored savage" but not a boomer Ile may contend for his own rights as he understands them but he sel dom if ever interferes with the rights of others We refund money in every inatanee if Plantatitin Chill Cute (Regular lintl Taste lesa) ever it never fade For oale by Patton tit Co We would not urge an article with out merit Ve urge and guarantee Plantation Chill Cure (Regular and Taste tem) For sale by Patton et Co 141 641 to311 4 tita IA PIrmit fr Jtt 11111W 111 '44-7tt lkiirill? 2 14 4 pAiltirrithowe i ttli'illeVA 4 47 t1 4- rueit1 4 kl 111WV 0- )1474 41)1 fe ii jfeik 441 -A 's I -A110 0 $1 Al 4 --A7 40-relb or 0 00--jor fw -1 1 tetk 4:4 tit aT4 -1---t LIT SMITH SON FIRE I SMOKE I WATER I Stop and think! Plantation Chill Cure (Regular and Tasteleso) cures IY0 casom out of every huudred it price only 50 cent or ogle by Patton Co IV hy paY 75 cents or $100 when you can buy Plantation Chill Cure (Regular and Tasteless) tor 50 eenta which IN guaranteed to cure you Ferrate by Patton St Co Have Slightly Damaged the next council A prominent I) MARRS Editor member of that body was heard to MILFORD Manager remark the other day that he would VINITA IND TER OCT 8 1891 introduce a bill to allow no one to fence more land than their pro rata THE Choctaw council convened share would be if a division was Monday had The question would natural- ly arise "what is a pro rata share A THREE foot Snow was reported of the hind?" Some kind of a cal-in Montana last week culation would have to be made in THE Arkansaw way of ending order to know bow much to allow strikes is to hang the strikers an individual to occupy Now would it not be far better to go THE insane asylum at Okmulgee further and settle the land queswas destroyed by fire recently tion once for all by seetionizing and allotting That would surely THE United States is exporting per put an end to monopoly That about 5000 barrels of apples would restrict cavil individul to week his or her pro rata share In our THE New York Presbytery is opinion all restrictions and at-trying Dr Briggs on a charge of tempts to protect the public do-heresy main will be almost futile and AN explanation that does not affordonly temporary relief at best explain anything is not worth This people have reached a point much in civilization ivhere they no longer need the fostering care of a TEN prisoners broke jail last guardian They no longer need to week in St Louis tnd made their be wards of the government They escape are of age and no legal disabilities PARNELL the great Irish ex- are in the way of their- taking leader died suddenly at Brighton charge of their own affairs and Tuesday night it is worse than folly for a people as far advanced as the Cherokees WE will send THE CHIEFTAIN to to hold their lands in common any address from now until Jan 1 The system of commonalty of 1892 fot 25 cents lands was only intended for SECRETARY RUSK does not be- ilized and nomadic tribes of Inlieve that human ingenuity can dians and even then only as a tern-ever produce rain porary arrangement to obtain until they became acquainted with the THE annual horticultural fair of methods of civilization None of northwest Arkansas will be held at the surrounding states can boast of Springdale next week a better educated better clothed THE senate committee will visit us in November prior to the corn- and better equipped people gener- ally than the Cherokees are and it is easy to see the absurdity of jug of the Cherokee commission clinging to the primitive way by THE work of allotting the Chey- holding lands in common But if enne and Arapahoe Indian land is it was ever the best way that time progressing and that country will has most assuredly passed The be thrown open before long time has come when if we would THE Cleveland baby- did not maintain our existence as a separ- ate commonwealth having special make its appearance in time for privileges such as controlling our the baby show at the great Vinita lair which was very unfortunate own land and governing ourselves the Clevelands we must individualize our land title The United States has about GLAND and Germany through decided that no Indian title held in their government representatives common is good That undoubthave asked for 400000 square feet edly is the line of policy to be car of floor space for exhibits at the ried out by the general government world's fair at Chicago in 1893 and Judge Green's late decision is in keeping with that line of policy THERE are a good many men SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS Worth of 191541110-- A TRULY WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF Earth's GreatestLiving Curiosities Carefully selected and acceptably presented to the I ublic an array which can not be duplicated A multiplication of Modern Marvels from foreign lands Rare wild beasts birds and reptiles from the jungles of India the wilds of Africa and the Pampas of south America! Co 11s' ague cure has cured thousands ao ivi1 cure you It at en the liver and is positively the best liver InediehiC on the market Patton sts Co wholesale agents When you are sleepy sleep when you are tired rest when hungry eat when chilly take Cheattiam's'7W1teless Chill Tonic and your daya in the land will be many 50 and 1i mite Guaranteed Sold by Patton ti If people would lake the advice of Patton Co the 'druggists they never would Mart MY' a jemrney without a but tie of UhafflInklairOW Col-lc Cholera and lharthma Vemedy It can always be depended upon itt1 is pleasant to take DRY COODS CLOTHINC Boots Shoes Hats and Caps AT CITIZENSHIP MEETING WHOLE CIRCUS OF IMPORTED ARTISTS! THE ALLIANCE STORE 1 1 I i 1 Picked from the leading arenas of every continent and for the first time presented in this country to arouse the world by daring deeds 14 MA SNA1111' CI 11A RAFE ItSI The latest and most daring arid achievements That tired feeling which is experienced by so many people living in malarial districts can be cured by taking Grove's tasteless chill tonic 50 cents Is as pleasant as lemon syrup To get the genuine ask for Grove's Sold by urrow Co TUilitt 1 10-21 To get rid of them at the earliest possible moment and to make room for more they tvill all be sold LOVELY LADY RIDERS HEGARDLESS OF COST! Skilled juggling artittic tumbling thrilling bar acts new crisp and Sparkling Features The entire shows original it) presenting a model complete and wonderful exhibitional enterprise NV ich all amusement patrons can enjoy At 110011 every day rain or shine a Grand High way Holiday In addition to the stock on hand at the time of the fire a large stock of 1317111ATr 1VMAT Or have since been opened and other eLipinenta will follow as soon as we can possibly make row receive them in our etore You run no risk All drugit guar an tee Grove's tasteless chili tonic to do all that the manufacturers claim for it Warranted no cure no pay nevi are many To get the genuine ask for Grove'a Sold by Murrow CoTuisa 1T 10-21 Grove's tasteless chill tonic is a per feet malarial liver tonic and blood purifier Itemovea biliousness about purging As pleasant am lemon syrup it is as large as any dollar tonic and retails for 50e To get the genuine ask for Groev's Sold by Morrow At Co Tulsa 1 10-21 FREE STREET PARADE Immediately after which may be seen upon the show grounds the Nlan of the Air in his swing to the clouds The greatest Free Show on Earth Remetnber this is the only big show of the ruited States Amuse ment pool visiting this place this season The prIprietors of these shows do fully maintain the prowl distinction of lionesty and MIrality for many years accorded its celebrated founder We allow no gambling no gatnes ot chance no dishonest practices of any sort upon our patrons We maintain that sanie reputation of sincerity so long ait811 003 The lady who imported a Peruvian dog for the sake of his Pernyisn hart to cure chills had IleVPI heard of Cheat haM's Tasteless Chill Tonic It cures the chills an somehow elected to the senate and council that were never heard of until they ran for office last ummer and will probably never be heard nor heard of when they get to Tahlequah in ov ember LIVE STOCK COMMISSION MERCHANTS KANSAS CITY STOCK YAIIDS CONSIGNMENTS Soucrra and all it costs la 50 and Ti cents per 1 the characteristic of the great founder and hy which he won his hottle Guaranteed Sold by i established reputation as "The Greatest Showman" Two perform-Potion it Co Vinit unties daily Doors open at 1 and 7 l'erformanee one hour later What io more discouraging or Ruing than a bati rase of chills? Notb- -VDMASSION AS 17-ITA14 ing Why then mope around all summer when a bottle of Cheatham's Will Show at Muskogee Monday October 19 amteless Chill Tonic wilt cure you? It never fails Put up in 50 and 75 cent bottles and guaranteed Sold by ii M1 1 awo mn Afton I -1-VZ Proceedings of the Meeting Held At Afton The Cherokee Citizenship association met at Alton last Monday about fifty stronv Chastain was called to the chair and Rev Crawford to act as secretary After prayer Watts was calledfor and entered into a detailed statement of the workings of the association showing advantages of membership etc Several new members were enrolled A committee reported by reading a memorial praying congress to provide some means for settling the vexed question of citizenship and to allot the lands in severalty which was adopted The meeting then adjourned until Tuesday On reassembling the following resolutions were adopted: Resolved that the memorial adopted by this association be circulated throughout the nation as soliciting the signatures of the whole people as memorialists for the end set forth in said memorial and that immediate action be taken to secure the signatures of the officials of the Delaware and Shawnee tribes also of the colored population of the Cherokee nation Resolved that the committee on memorial be and they are hereby constituted a committee to see that at least 500 copies of said memorials are printed for circulation among the people by such agencies as will solicit signatures to the same calling in said printed copies not later than the VD) day of November 1891 checking on the treasurer for the necessary money Whereas from time to time members of this association are annoyed and often incur expense from forced litigation Resolved therefore that it is the sense of this association that we ehould throw protection around the membership thus suffering and that the treasurer be authorized to assist with any means in his hands not otherwise appropriated such victims of injustice and that as individual members we will use of our personal means to prosecute those who Unlawfully attempt such injustice A resolution was also adopted thanking the trustees for the use of the building occupied requesting publication of proceedings and also calling upon members to pay their dues with promptness TEXAS has enough public land to acconmmdate half a million set tlerR yet there is no rush to that country If it 'as Indian land the rush would be forthcoming imme diately The Indian lands all flow with milk and honey in the eyes of the average "boomer" SoUTIIIIER Cal la Salesmen KIRK Office Jo Rousz flog and Sheep Salesman A1)A it I NDIAN Cheatham's Ta8lCICS8 CARtOr Oil as the name indicates is a castor oil so treated as to become pislatahle The medicinal virtues or the oil is not in the least impaired hot ohl my what an improvement in the taste Price 25 cents Sold by Dawson Afton SOUTI-tEE KIRK ROUSE Live Stock Commission Merchants Room 59 Exchangc Building II)! II Castor oil is a well known safe and reliable cathartic However its nause- Goods Groceries Provisions and Hardware ous taste renders it very disagrtwable tage eA 0y 1 te children Cheathani's Tasteless Castor Oil while I AN IMMENSE STOCK IS ALWAYS CARRIED containing all the active principles of the pure oil is delightful the taste Price 25 cents Sold by I I liangh Wili make it an object for the people of the surrounding country Chouteau to purchase the supplies that they may need at our store Stf During the three years Hunt 's Cure has been in use it has given the most uniyerbal satisfaction as a remedy for kill diseases-and eruptions of the skin Ringworm tetter itch and similar EW BUSIN ESS! troubles clisappear at once under its magic influence 50 cents Soil by Rough Choutean DnNIQML Ci I RONSIDE is in St Louis this Htdrerencet Inttq-Stato National Bank Kansas City Stock Yards THE CATTLE MARKET The cattle receipts at Kansas City St Louis and Chicago this week are falling off some compared with the previous but they are still too large to help the market very materially The daily average at Chicago last week was 16000 head Everything below strictly fancy beeves sold at ruinous prices Tali( altogether the cattle market has been unsatisfactory this whole season for range cattle with little prospect of being better any time soon Some of our closest calculators among the stock men claim they will make very little money this season 13 17 itrin 011111 SlEtt Coors Sas'i Blinds CAnotit Paints Lime Fla-stET Pnis OUP Etc Malaria produces weakness ge floral debility biliousness loss of appetite indigestion and constipation kir rove'a tasteless chill tonic removes the cause which produees these troubles Try It and you will be delighted rsl cents To get the genuine ahk for tirove's Sold by Murrow Tulsa 1021 week purchasing a complete stock of 0 0 Hardware and Stoves Estimates Furnished on ApplicJoion SHY Chetopa Kas 0 0 (4una 4 4m) 41 I and will at once offer to the public in connection therewith a full stock of Hardware itniden's Armes satin The best salve in the woriii for Coln Moises Wires tliverc 0alt hlienoi Fever sores Tetters Chapped Hands Chilidnins Corns and all Skin Ernp tions kind positively cures Piles or tic pRy required It is guaranteed to give perfect satishietionor money refUnded Price 25 cents per box kor sale by Patton Lk Co THE BOOMER The disgraceful scenes enacted when Ok lahorna was opened two years ago the 22d of last April and repeated again the 22d of last month must be distasteful to the general government For the citizens of a great government to resort to such methods must certainly be humiliating in the extreme When Guthrie was located a man's ability to hold a claim especially a town lot depended largely upon his skill in the use of a "gun" Every man's house was his castle literally and the average boomer carried his capital in his hip pocket Possession was everything and not a few settlers found their houses pried into the street and another in possession by right of conquest but this was the natural sequence of the boomer way of settling boomer land In other words this was boomer warfare pure and Fimpl The zenith of boomer ambition had been reached After the first grand rush and the subsequent clashing of interests after the principal killings ond riots are over then the boomer sinks into a condition of innocuous desuetude until he sees a prospect for other Indian lands being opened No other kind of lands have any attraction for the boomer He naturally covets Indian land and wouldn't have any other kind It is for the invasion of Indian land that he lives and waits and builds prairie schooners It is for the prospect of getting Indian land that he owns a "gun" and is wit-ling to take the life of his fellowman or lose his own in the effort Kansas is the natural borne of the boomers her PA produces them to perfection There they live move and have their being There they grow to the full statue of "boomerhood" Kansas furnished the boomers for the opening of the Sioux reservation On that event a line of prairie schooners reached from Wichita to Cheyenne When No-Man's-Land was opened for settlement thousands of boomers could be seen weriding their way to that land "flowing with milk and honey" Then "On to Oklahoma! was passed along the line and now the rush to the Sac and Fox and Iowa lands just over is part of the same "irrepressible conflict" Kansas probably grows more boomers than any other crop unless it is farm mortgages A new town is built along on the line between the Sac and Fox and Iowa lands called the Boomer's Glory No more fitting name could have been given Here the dance house the blind tiger on wheels the fakir the outlaw the the Buffalo and all the other Bills that ocnipy such a prominent part in Kansas history ID YOU ElriFR TRY IT? SHOPP'Nn RY MAIL SHOPP'NG BY MAIL A Li Look out for Full Particula rs Next AN't-ok ti 1 i 1 I 1 1 I Lilt IIART ThXAn "Jet 13 183t) Messrs Paris Paris Tenn Dear Ship t18 itfi soon 88 possible 2 gross Grove's tasteless chill tonic My customers want Grove's tasteless chill tonic and will not have any other In our mutectenve pf over Al years Ut the 'dreg business we IIRVO never sold sny medicine which gave such universal satisfaction Yours respectfully 1 Browns At Co 3 We will tell A Dry Goods -i YoTh how for the asking We stII 71 CATALOQ' Curtains Cloaks and Shoes 4 JES AND SAMPLES BY MAIL FREE AI 71 efic DOCCFTT 7'g :17 COCOS CO KAKLIkS CITY MO Ve1 11 --------N-N--' 1 I 7'' 7' 01' tNIVC'4'11'is'' ii 1 rr 564' li ma 1 e- tir ii ii 41 1) 1 a 141 ir 08 0 4461:: Tv i -ii- A 1'' 1-- Oil Sept 1st IS91 I insured my San Francisco Hotel furniture in the Southern California In suranee Coof Los Inge loF and the Greenwich Insurance Co Show me a man who can quit the society of the young and take pleasure in listening to the kiodly voice of age show me a man that covers the faults of others with a mantle of charity show us the man that bows as politely and gives the street as freely to the poor eewhig girl as to the millionaire who valpes viftuenot clothes who shuns the company of such as congregate at publie plues to gaze at the fair sex or make unkind remarks about the passing poor girl show us the man who abhors the libertine who scorns the ridiculer of his mother' 8 sex and the expo sure of womanly reputation show us a man who never forgets for an instant the delicacy and respect due a woman as a woman in any condition or classand you show us a trtte lt Ii 1CA1VAS CITY STOCK YARDS THE IN- MANS NEED LAW The Indian people need more law for their protection although many are adverse to the idea of having more laws passed for the protection of their country Re member the protection you now have is by the laws of the United States otherwise the intruders would fill your country as they have Oklahoma with a rush and hurrah You are protected by United States law and that law is still defective in certain important particulars relating to your welfare You have introduced many white laborers and with these laborers lawfully resident intruders have entered The present laws are totally inadequate to remove the annoyance occasioned by the intruding element and the duty rests on you who want the law changed who need the law changed to see that the law is changed to meet your necessities You should devise a method that would be practicable that would be effective You should present that method and the drafting of the law to the judiciary committee of the senate of the United States and of the house of representatives of the United States and get their support for it because it is right and be cause it is necessary to make effective the promises of the United States government made to you by treaty This duty is upon you as a highly civilized people and when you shall have performed this duty you will no longer be troubled by the "intruder of New rorkilpresented at Vinita by Messrs BETHELL LlTTLE Before the policy had been in elect 18 hours the hotel and its contents were in ashes Sixteen days later 1 received a qight draftwithout discount for the amount of the settlement This was highly satisfactory to me and 1 judge would have been to anyone placed in a like situation Respectfully A GREEN' Are by far the moat commodious and best appointed in the Ikliesouri Valley wlth amp le capacity for feeding weighing and shipping cattle bogs sheep horses an mules They are planked throughout no yards are better watered and in none is there a better system of drainage The tact that higher prices are testi zed here thau in the cast is due to the location at these pude of eight Pnrk liIi houses with an aggregate daily capacity of and 37200hogs and tti regular attendance or t4harp competitive buyers fir the packing lionskv of Omaha Chicago 8t Louis Indianapolis ChwitinatiNew York anti Bost() A II the Aix teen roads running into KMISRS City Lave direct connection with the yank adoding the hest accommodations for Mock coming from the greal grazing gronitik of all the western elates anti territories and also for 810Cst: deStIned for eastern markets The busineEs of the yards is 1101IP systematically and with the inmost promptness so there is no delay and no elashing and stockmen find here and "01 cOntitille to find that they get all their stock is worth with the least pos site delay Receipts for 1890 were I472229 cat tie 7(15118 calves 2811171 hogs 535869 sheep 37118 horses and mules Total number of cars 108160 Stop those chills! Collin' ague cure will do it No cure no pay We mean it (3 Patton et Co OF Patronize Home Industry Trees Vines Small Fruits Roses ito from the UNITA NURSERIES We will begin digging packing and shipping about the first of November and continue until frocri weather pret'enta We have among other stock about 1130000 One and Two-Year-Old Apple Trees (very fine) to other to the fall trade at VERY LOW PRICES Those wishing to plant this fall should order early so as to insure prompt attention Write for price list Address MARRS FRAZEE N'inita I All stock guaranteed true to name No' a Full supply of "chattel mortgages with power of sale" the regulation Ark ansaw and territory pattern at this office We are at your SCT1 Ike with all classes of Insurance Policies Fire and Life Horse and Mule Department BETHELL LITTLE General Insurance Agents Vinita Ind Ter Mr Jones of Fpring Hill Iowa says "I have used Chamberlain's Bain Baku for severe and painful burns with better ellect than anything else I have ever tried It relieves the pain instantly and cures without leaving a Mir" Pain Balm is one of the most useful medicines that any family can be provided with especially for rheumatism lame back spraina bruisca toothache earache and like ailments One application will relieve the pain and a fair trial insure a cure 50 cent bottles for sale by Patton oct TOUGH Manager This entapany has m010111000 fl Conn- In connection With the salve market are Mon with Ih 3 ante en extensive Morse and terve teed Ristolem aud pens here all strica Mule Market kouwn No th hANS Ft IiwiIl receive the bl'At attention Special attenSToCk 1 ARDS liflItSb: A MULE RIX llon glecu to rocelYing anti lora arding The Mare always on hand a large stock or all grfoles facildiee for handling this kind or stock it' fit hiinte Find tattles which are bought atol unsurpassed at any stable in this outfit Sold on ColnMision or In cgr 100 ItU iteg-Wonignments are solicited with the guar' tiler trade a nettAC141 every NVtheid1y anti that prompt itettlementa Will be inad Saturday iP Rohl MORSE RICHARDSON CHILD 131 i113 Manager Sea sad Treas Superluteudent A sett el heo ititt 1 reas bliperiuteudent A THE CHIFFTAIN Office does nice Job Printing at very reasonable figures and does it promptly Mail orders solicited Try us A' I.