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Newspaper
The Indian Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1900
Page
2
A Vinita clothing sale offers deep cuts across menswear and boys suits. Lot items include 12.50 to 20.00 suits at 10.00, 6.00 to 7.40 suits at 8.67, pants 1.50 to 2.00 now 1.25, and dress shirts and neckwear at reduced prices. Also featuring Monarch shirts, sample ties, and hats with broad wares touted in urgency.
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate a price decision on silver at an offered rate of seventy percent, with instruction to observe or execute by others. The text is incomplete and lacks names, places, or dates for fuller context.
The Indian Chieftain outlines tax enforcement effects on tribal communities, Dawes commission progress, and governance concerns. It cites incidents in McAlester and Muskogee, discusses timber contracts on public lands, and surveys political issues affecting Cherokee and Choctaw nations along with references to smallpox funds and census anomalies.
A collage of scanned clippings recounts a Choctaw Nation census note about a 100 year old woman, then details William Vann born 1796 near Norfolk Virginia now 104, with his slave bill of sale from 1815. The rest narrates rodeo results in Vinita, a Robinson Crusoe stage piece, and wedding gossip, all mingled in a single, jumbled historical miscellany.
A July 27 stroll beside the cool evening breeze through Roanoke's elegant suburbs reveals newly built mansions and perfumed gardens. The narrator recalls a ride with a friend to the Thirty fifth and Malin mansion, marveling at earthly glory yet noting its fragility. The next morning the Kansas City Times announces Robert L. Taylor died far from home while traveling for health, with his address listed as Fifty Fifth and Main.
Bert Oskison captured first prize in a roping contest held on the Vinita college campus yesterday afternoon. The event, described as exciting and near perfect for cattlemen, featured about 15 longhorn Texas university steers driven into an arena near a well kept prairie grounds with a grandstand and crowd enjoying the competition.
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