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Newspaper
The Indian Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1900
Page
1
J B Cook dealer offers about thirty farms from 40 to 800 acres priced 5 to 30 per acre. Listings include bottom land prairie timber stock water coal gas and improvements such as houses barns orchards and fences. Terms include down payment and long time with low down payments and accumulating interest.
James O Hall sold the Vinita fair grounds near Vinita Oklahoma to 1100 Cobb for 1000 dollars. The 80 acre tract includes a seven foot plank fence grand buildings and a half mile track. Once a centerpiece for Cherokee territory events the grounds may become a training and racing site under Cobb to revive interest.
Senator Baker blocked J R Burton from a $5,000 Indian Territory appointment as part of a larger Senate contest. The White House reportedly declined to approve Barton’s bid. Burton refused to step aside and may face further political harm from Baker and allies. In other items, Capt Joshua Slocum’s world voyage tale drew attention in Century magazine with a witty clash over wording at Cape Town.
A broad column covers W C T U aims for home protection through education reform and temperance, plus notes on Indian Territory politics. Also listed are appellate court schedules, judge changes, patronage chatter, and a flood of local society items including dances, costumes and a spoof on farm lease rumors.
Presiding Elder Hicks of the Methodist church delivered a Sunday morning sermon on the signs of the times claiming we are near the millennium. He cited biblical prophecies and current events including wars, false Christs, missionary reach, earthquakes, and Mormon miracles to support his view that the millennium will begin soon. The exact timing was not given, but he suggested it could be before 1915. Lexingtonville Magnet.
Judge Gill arrives in Muskogee from Kansas on Thursday morning and meets District Attorney Soper. Appointments of subordinate positions will be announced soon. Court of Appeals meets next week at South McAlester, likely two weeks. Gill to hold term at Vinita beginning January 15. W. H. H. Blayton to be chief justice. President approves Cherokee council bills including asylum steward appointment and funds transfers. Judge Gill praised. hopes he makes Muskogee home.
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