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Newspaper
The Indian Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1900
Page
2
Wide summary of political activity and local events including the Bryan nomination, Dawes commission movements, and Cherokee Nation issues. Reports note Ex-Senator Ingalls ill, Col. Huntington’s death, and Muskogee dispatches. mentions dating shifts, real estate interest in Vinita, and ongoing anti gambling efforts in Cherokee towns.
Master finds a valid executory agreement for sale of Foreman drug stock and fixtures. Nichols paid 700 as part payment, not as forfeit, and breached first. No fraud proven. Foreman’s counter request for specific performance rejected. equity has jurisdiction but plaintiff must sue at law. costs likely borne by Nichols.
The document recalls 1839 Cherokee constitution provisions on belief, worship, and morality and lists dozens of convention signers, including George Lowery and George Guess Bequoyah. A Washington telegram notes Henry M. Tinker’s appointment as townsite surveyor in the Indian Territory, with brief regional items from South McAlester and Vinita.
Washington correspondent reports the Department of Justice preparing plans for three federal jails in Indian Territory. Congress authorized three sites in 1897 with $860,000 appropriated. Delays stemmed from fierce town rivalries over location, especially Muskogee, South McAlester and Ardmore, until sites were deemed central and suitable. Titles to land remain unsettled, halting construction. Jurisdiction plans call for jail sizes proportional to district demand, with Muskogee receiving about 25,000 and South McAlester and Ardmore about 17,500 each. Plans include expandable rear wings as needed.
Over the phone Upton reports from Tablequah after a month away. A Beck school house barbecue will be held Saturday by Democrats. Irvine the revenue inspector is here to collect hay royalties. Langley buys more grain on the Frisco road. thirty cars shipped from Adams. The new Methodist church nears completion. Mrs. Beulah Taylor plans a Tennessee trip. Dennis Lewis and Ed Stewart went to Colorado. Five Adair families have moved to Colorado. School terms start in three weeks. Mrs. Duncan to teach public school, Emmett Hendricks private. River very low. corn needs rain and hay stores are high with one man holding 800 tons. Contract for an eight room public school building to be set this week. A thief robbed Frank Garrett’s house recently. John Countrymen of Horse Creek, 63, wed Miss Campbell, 18. City ordinance underway: stone curb and guttering being installed. Wyandotte material arrives for a horse theft suspect near Joplin. arrest made after chase. A deputy shoots at a prisoner nine times as he escapes from a buggy.
An unclear clipping describes a dubious method to make money by folding a dollar bill to reveal “cranes” and instructs sharing the idea with a pilot who introduced the scheme. The text then mentions a silver dollar dropped on a counter and a misleading outcome, rendered in garbled language.
Bryan proclaims the United States as a century long world power whose self government and independence inspired global political evolution. He argues liberty and the constitution shaped the nineteenth century, resisting imperial glory and upholding republican ideals.
In a tense scene from Londup News, Jon Kitchener confronts resistance as his troops oppose orders to burn Rightman’s farm. A frightened girl guards the doorway while Kitchener, mustering calm, tells his secretary that the commander’s orders cannot be carried out due to unexpected opposition and orders a forward move.
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