THE CALDWELL JOURNAL.
[FROM SEPTEMBER 6, 1883, THROUGH DECEMBER 27, 1883.]
W. B. HUTCHISON, EDITOR.
The Caldwell Journal, September 6, 1883.
OKLAHOMA.
Judge McCrary Renders a Decision in Effect Against the Oklahoma
Colonists. [Boomer story.]
The following opinion rendered by Judge McCrary a few days ago will be read with interest by all persons who contemplated moving to Oklahoma.
In the Circuit Court of the United States, District of Kansas, August, 1883.
David L. Payne, complainant, vs. Robert T. Lincoln and John Pope. In equity.
MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION.
The complainant alleges that he is a citizen of the United States, and that he served as a soldier of the United States during the war of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged; that he is entitled to settle upon certain territory described in the bill for the purpose of taking a homestead and of obtaining and keeping his home, residence, and his citizenship therein; that he has been attempting by all means in his power to enter upon said territory for that purpose and would have done so were it not for the acts of the defendant, who is a major-general in the army of the United States, having command of a large body of United States soldiers, and who, under orders from the president, has by force prevented complainant from entering upon said territory, and thus unlawfully deprived him of a right guaranteed to him by the constitution and laws of the United States. The bill avers that the territory in question is public land of the United States and open to settlement under the laws hereof.
The particular territory in controversy is described as follows, in the bill.
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Being that portion of the so-called Indian Territory lying south of the State of Kansas and west of the State of Arkansas, and being that portion thereof situate and lying between the North Fork of the Canadian river on the north, and the Canadian river on the south, and extending from the Indian meridian on the east, which meridian nearly corresponds with the sixth principal meridian traversing the state line of Kansas from north to south to the north and south township line between townships seven and eight to the west of said Indian meridian, as will more fully appear by reference to the United States survey thereof.@The prayer of the bill is for an injunction to restrain the defendants from molesting, interfering with, seizing, imprisoning, detaining, or prevent complainant and others similarly situated accompanying him from going to or remaining upon said territory.
There is no service upon the defendant, Robert T. Lincoln, and the present order is only asked as against the defendant, John Pope.
The motion is submitted upon the allegations of the bill in connection with the statutes and treaties applicable to the controversy.
S. N. Wood and Waters & Ensminger, for complainant.
J. R. Hollowell, United States attorney for General Pope.
McGraw, Circuit Judge.
Is the land under question subject to enter under the pre-emption and homestead laws of the United States? This is the controlling question in the case. It is, to say the least, a question of doubt, and one concerning which there is a serious dispute. The executive branch of the government after the investigation, and being advised by the attorney general of the United States, has decided it in the negative, and have accordingly issued orders to the defendant, John Pope, who, as major-general of the army, has military control of the Indian territory, to prevent by force the occupation of the disputed territory by white settlers. Under such circumstances, all that this court can at present be reasonably asked to do is to preserve the status quo until the final adjudication of the controversy. Were the parties at issue upon a question of legal right, and an injunction is necessary for the purpose of preserving all existing rights until final hearing, a preliminary injunction will generally be granted; but in the present case the existing status would be destroyed, not preserved, by granting the writ. The sole purpose for which the injunction is granted in advance of a final hearing in such cases, is to preserve the rights of the parties pending the suit, so as to leave the subject matter intact, to be dealt with by the court in the final decree. It is to compel the party against whom it is granted to maintain his status merely until the matter in dispute shall by due process of the court be determined.
Hight on injunctions, sec. 8, Mammoth Vein Coal Company
=s appeal, 54 Pa. St. 182. To grant the preliminary writ to this case would be in advance of hearing upon the merits, to open up the disputed territory by settlement, and this in effect to predetermine the controversy as well as to destroy the present situation.To refuse this writ is to preserve, or at least not to disturb, the existing status. Without, therefore, considering other questions, the motion for preliminary injunction is overruled upon this ground.
The Caldwell Journal, September 6, 1883.
The Cherokee fair begins at Vinita on the 18th inst. The premiums will aggregate $5,000. A band of wild Indians will be in attendance.
The Caldwell Journal, September 6, 1883.
Shot Through the Head.DODGE CITY, KANSAS, September 2.
News has just reached this city by telegraph from Camp Supply, Indian Territory, of a murder committed on Wolf Creek, near there, last evening. G. C. Smith, of Oxford, Ala-bama, boss of the Dominion Cattle Company
=s outfit, was shot through the head and instantly killed by Al Thurman, foreman for the Jackson Cattle Company, in a dispute about a stock range. A warrant has been issued. A deputy United States marshal started tonight to arrest Thurman.
The Caldwell Journal, September 6, 1883.
Serious Charges. [Boomer story.]
Special to the Kansas City Times.
ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS, August 31. The greatest excitement that has ever been known in this country exists now. The Oklahoma War Chief, a paper published in Geuda Springs, in this county, makes charges of not only a serious nature, but criminal in character, against Hon. P. B. Plumb, United States senator from Kansas, and Secretary of the Interior Teller. Right on top of this some buck the men driven out of Oklahoma by the United States army. These men are desperate and say, as all now believe, that Judge McCrary was improperly dealt with by these syndicates in Oklahoma. In a word, that McCrary knew that these lands were or were not public lands; that there is no excuse for this delay. The War Chief claims to be able to prove that Hood, a banker in Emporia, and partner to Senator Plumb, has men now taking up these lands, and that the settlers are held back that the syndicates may get hold of all the best lands. Certain it is that there are men now surveying, and taking up land there, and that they have the support of the United States army while all men not in the rings are driven out.
The Caldwell Journal, September 6, 1883.
MUCH OF THIS ISSUE IS ILLEGIBLE...HAD TO SKIP MUCH OF IT!
The Caldwell Journal, September 6, 1883.
Sergeant Wilson, with a detachment of the 9th U. S. Cavalry, arrived last Friday from Fort Reno with a party of Oklahoma boomers, captured the week previous. The boomers numbered 125 and had 38 wagons. A few of them went through town while the others went to Hunnewell and Arkansas City. Our interviewer failed to get hold of any of the party, and consequently we can
=t give their opinions regarding the unprofitable trip they made.
The Caldwell Journal, September 6, 1883.
Stock Notes.
Walter E. Treadwell and C. C. Clark, of Harper County, have purchased the Northrup & Stevens range in the Territory with 500 head of cattle.
J. W. Hamilton last week bought from Mr. Demman [?] 2,500 head of steer cattle
Cyearlings and upwards
Cwhich will be placed in his pasture on Pond Creek.Chas. Blackstone has sold his cattle and range on the Cimarron to R. H. Campbell. The price received we understand to be in the neighborhood of $30,000.
The Texas Land and Cattle Company have recently received at the Horseshoe Ranch 5,500 head of young steer cattle from its ranges down in the [? COULD NOT READ REST.]
The Caldwell Journal, September 13, 1883.
There are only two saloons running at Hunnewell at present. The city government raised the fine to $100.00 per month and the two most disreputable were forced to close their doors. The two remaining ones are compelled to close their doors on the Sabbath. There are two marshals that are paid $100.00 and $75.00 each per month to maintain order in the town, and affairs are running smoothly at present.
The Caldwell Journal, September 13, 1883.
Wilkins, one of the men arrested last spring for stealing a horse from the Carnegie & Frasier range, was convicted at Wichita last week. We failed to learn how many moons he will remain in retirement.
The Caldwell Journal, September 13, 1883.
The Geuda Springs Herald says the JOURNAL was mistaken about Payne going to Oklahoma, and states that the boys got all ready to start, but Payne skipped out for Wichita, and they are still awaiting his return. [Boomer story.]
The Caldwell Journal, September 13, 1883.
The U. S. Grand Jury at Wichita failed to find an indictment against Phil McCasker or Colonel Manee. There was no evidence to show that either one of them had given or sold whiskey to any Indian in the Cheyenne country.
The Caldwell Journal, September 13, 1883.
Tell W. Walton returned on Saturday, having completed his job of surveying the ranges in the middle division of the Cherokee Strip. Tell has done his work satisfactorily to the stockmen, and has only to make a plat of the country surveyed, in order that the Live Stock Association may know how much each one holding in that division will have to pay.
The Caldwell Journal, September 13, 1883.
Robbed and Cruelly Beaten by Highwaymen.
Arkansas City Democrat, September 11.
A gentleman by the name of James T. Watson, called at our office last Wednesday evening, and informed us that he had been robbed and beaten by highwaymen near Elgin on Monday the 3rd inst., and by request gave us an account of the affair, which is as follows.
He said,
AI reside near Sun City, Barber County, and left home three weeks ago last Saturday, for Baxter Springs, at which place I had some business matters to settle up which placed me in possession of something over $1,200. When I got ready to return home I placed $700 in a pocket inside my shirt, and the remainder, about $500, in my pocket book. I did not apprehend any danger and consequently was unarmed. Just before sundown last Monday I stopped at a farm house some eight or ten miles the other side of Elgin and asked to stay overnight; they told me the family was sick and they could not keep me, so I thought I would ride on to Elgin. It soon commenced to get dark, and I noticed two men on horseback in the road about three hundred yards behind me, and thinking it would be pleasant to have company, if not only for a short distance, I waited for them to come up. When they got along side of me, I saw they were both armed to the teeth, but as they looked and appeared like gentlemen, I felt no apprehension.A
One of them asked me if I was a stranger in those parts, and I told him that I was, and that I wanted to make Elgin that night. He said, there is where we are going, and we will pilot you through. We rode along and chatted pleasantly for about a mile until we came to a little creek and stopped to let our horses drink, when they drew their revolvers and told me to hand over my money, or they would shoot my d___d brains out. I told them I had no money and started to ride on, when one of them struck me over the head with a loaded quirt, and knocked me off my horse. They then dismounted and pounded me with their revolvers until I was unconscious. When I came to, my pocket book and watch were gone, but they did not find the $700 inside my shirt, and my faithful >cow pony= had not deserted me, and I mounted him and rode about two miles to a farm house, where I was taken in and cared for, and after hearing my story a number of cowboys who were stopping there mounted their ponies and started out, and did not return until the next morning, but found no trace of the ruffians.@We have no reason to believe but what the above story is correct, as Mr. Watson had a very bad looking phiz, and unquestionably had been very badly dealt with. He has probably arrived at his home in Barber by this time, a wiser if not a richer man.
The Caldwell Journal, September 13, 1883.
The Six Shooter in the Panhandle.
Word came last week that a man named John Stevenson had been killed on the Malaley Ranch, on the Washita, in the Panhandle, on the 25th, ult., by Alfred Hartman. Last Monday Mr. Malaley arrived home, and from him we learn the following particulars as reported to him while down in the Cheyenne country.
Stevenson had been employed on the range for some time, while Hartman had been there but a few weeks. The two men got along very well until the night of the 24th of August, when all hands in camp got into a wrestling match, during which Stevenson lost his pocket knife. After strict search the knife could not be found, and the next morning Stevenson saw Hartman using it. Stevenson asked for his knife, and Hartman denied all knowledge regarding the piece of cutlery. One hot word after another followed, until, as the men in camp state, Stevenson called Hartman
Apet names.@ Both were armed with revolvers, and it seems both made an attempt to use their weapons. The result was, Stevenson got killed, and Hartman jumped on a horse, bare-back, rode to where a line-rider had a horse, saddle, and bridle belonging to Mr. Forbes, Mr. Malaley=s partner, made an exchange, and skipped out. Word was at once sent to Mobeetie and a warrant sworn out for the arrest of Hartman.Mr. Stevenson has two brothers living in this township, a few miles northwest of town, who are greatly concerned regarding the death of their brother. What steps, if any, they will take regarding this matter we have been unable to hear.
Without wishing to point a moral, it will not be out of place to say that had neither Stevenson nor Hartman been armed, no serious trouble would have arisen from their quarrel about a cheap pocket knife. To quote old Solomon, slightly altered,
Ahe who takes up the six-shooter will perish by the six-shooter@Cor hemp.
The Caldwell Journal, September 13, 1883.
Bat Carr Heard From.
DALLAS, TEXAS, September 7, 1883.
ED. JOURNAL: I notice in the local columns of the JOURNAL of the 30th, ult., a paragraph setting forth that Bat Carr, former city marshal of Caldwell, had been killed in one of the border towns of Texas. This short message from Bat himself will suffice to deny the report; and through the columns of your valuable paper, let me extend to the citizens of Caldwell my kindest regards and well wishes for their future prosperity; through life will I cherish in memory the fond recollections of my sojourn in your little city. When the JOURNAL is returned, marked by the P. M.,
ANot taken,@ then you may suspect the correctness of a like report.Respectfully, BAT CARR.
The Caldwell Journal, September 13, 1883.
Aleck Franklin, accompanied by
ATall Horse,@ came up last week with a bunch of T 5 beeves, which were sent to Kansas City.
The Caldwell Journal, September 13, 1883.
Rev. S. S. Haury, in charge of the Mennonite mission at Cantonment, came up on the stage Tuesday morning, and went north on the afternoon train. Mr. Haury is doing good work among the Cheyennes.
The Caldwell Journal, September 13, 1883.
Jo. Leonard, of the Wichita Agency, passed through town last Monday, on his way home from Washington, where he had been to consult the
AGreat Father@ in relation to matters concerning the Wichita Indians. He was accompanied by L. H. Pike, a son of General Albert Pike.
The Caldwell Journal, September 13, 1883.
S. Jackson, manager of the New York Cattle Co., was arrested at Dodge City last Friday and taken to Wichita, charged with complicity in the killing of G. C. Smith, of the Dominion Cattle Company, by Al Thurman, an account of which was given last week. As the Dominion Cattle Company are the successors of the late Millett Cattle Company, which maintained a crowd of killers and cattle thieves, it is barely possible that some of the old Millett crowd still hang around the Dominion range. If such should prove to be the case, the presumption is that Thurman acted in self-defense, and that Jackson had nothing to do with the trouble or its results.
Since the above was put in type, we learn that Thurman was indicted by the U. S. Grand Jury at Wichita, upon his own voluntary statement as to the occurrence resulting in the killing of Smith.
The Caldwell Journal, September 13, 1883.
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Man-on-a-cloud,@ a Cheyenne chief, was in town from last Saturday until Monday, hunting a horse which he said had been stolen from him last July, and which had been seen on our streets. He failed to obtain any trace of the animal, and left for his wigwam on the banks of the North Fork, evidently a little disappointed. Man-on-a-cloud, although dressed in the regulation style of his tribe, seemed to be a higher order of Indian, being scrupulously clean in his person, with a rather refined face and a quiet, dignified manner.
The Caldwell Journal, September 20, 1883.
The Other Side.
Mobeetie Panhandle, September 7th.
On Saturday, September 1st, a dispute about the ownership of a portion of their range on Wolf Creek occurred between G. C. Smith and Al Thurman. Thurman with some friends, approached Smith, who was riding alone, when Thurman said to Smith:
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You must move your ranch.@Smith replied:
AI will not do it.@Thurman said:
AIf you don=t move, I=ll move you.@Smith said:
ADon=t do that; it will cause trouble.@Thurman said:
AIf you mean trouble between you and me, it may as well begin right here,@ and immediately shot Smith through the head, killing him instantly.Some deputy U. S. Marshals are pursuing, but we have not heard of his being captured.
The Caldwell Journal, September 20, 1883.
Senator Bill Hackney has been firing off his mouth again at Topeka. He thinks St. John is an epitome of all virtues which the human race is capable of sustaining.
The Caldwell Journal, September 20, 1883.
If Bill McDonald can
=t beat more sense into the head of his party than was exhibited at Wellington last Tuesday, then he ought to lay aside that cane and reduce the altitude of hat.
The Caldwell Journal, September 20, 1883.
The water works at Winfield were completed last week, and the papers of that enterprising village are in ecstasies over an exhibition of their power to throw water in any quantity desired.
The Caldwell Journal, September 20, 1883.
Wm. H. Lockridge has been tendered and has accepted the foremanship of the Cheyenne & Arapahoe Cattle Co., operating the Fenlon and Malaley grass leases. Mr. Lockridge is a range man of experience and ability, and will, as heretofore, make a successful herd manager and general range man for his company.
Cheyenne Transporter.
The Caldwell Journal, September 20, 1883.
PAYNE ARRESTED. [Boomer story.]
D. L. Payne, J. B. Cooper, G. B. Calvert, and A. W. Harris, officers of the Oklahoma Colony, were arrested at Wichita, on Wednesday of last week, on complaint of U. S. Attorney J. R. Hollowell, charging them with a conspiracy to violate the laws of the United States, by settling upon its lands in the Indian Territory.
The arrest is a good thing for Payne, because it relieves him from promises made to his deluded followers, and gives him what he dearly loves above all other things, a little cheap notoriety, and at the same time will enable him to work a new batch of sympathy that will likely aid in replenishing his treasury. Save the above results, and putting the government to an unnecessary expense, we can see no good likely to arise from the arrest of Payne and the men associated with him.
It may be, however, that the U. S. Attorney has taken this step in order to get the case into court in such a way that a decision must be rendered as to the status of the lands in question. But it is claimed that the decision of Judge Parker, of the Western Arkansas district, and the more recent decision of Judge McCrary, practically settles that point, and leave no ground upon which Payne can claim a right to settle upon the Oklahoma lands. Look at the move on the part of the U. S. Attorney from any point we may, it has the appearance to us of being a farce.
The Caldwell Journal, September 20, 1883.
MAJOR LIPE
=S NOTICE.Elsewhere will be found a card from Major Lipe, treasurer of the Cherokee Nation, notifying all persons on the strip who are in arrears for taxes to settle by the 26th of this month. Those holding cattle on the strip and claiming ranges, who neglect or refuse to settle with the Cherokee Nation, will be compelled to move out, therefore, for their own good, it is necessary that they give due attention to Major Lipe
=s notice.Notice to Occupants of Cherokee Strip Lands.
All persons not having license in the Cherokee Strip by September 26th will be reported by me to the Interior Department as intruders, and their range rights disputed by me before the Board of Directors of the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association.
D. W. LIPE, Treasurer, Cherokee Nation.
The Caldwell Journal, September 20, 1883.
Penitentiary Statistics.
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AVisitor@ to the Kansas penitentiary furnishes some interesting statistics, gathered during his visit, to the Spirit.Since the penitentiary has had an existence, there has been admitted into it 3,101 prisoners. There are now in the prison 662; of this number, the Caldwell Wagon Company employ 217; Burdette & Hess marble workers, 18; John Sovieson in making furniture, 27; H. S. Burr & Co., making boots and shoes, 40; B. S. Richards, making harness, 13; in and about the coal and air shaft, 146; the remainder in the dining room, kitchen, laundry, etc.; in the wagon shop, a wagon is turned out every twenty minutes during the working day. The state receives from the contractor for each day
=s labor of convict sixty cents. These men work hard and are certainly remunerative to the contractor. Of this sixty cents the prisoner gets 8-3/4 cents per day for himself. His board costs about 12 cents, his clothing about 5 cents, leaving a net balance to the state of about 39 cents per day.The following statement was taken from the librarian
=s office for the month of July: can read and write, white, 513; blacks, 83; Indians, 1; Mexicans, 2. Those who cannot read or write: Whites, 15; blacks, 17; Indians, 1; Mexicans, 8; Chinese, none. It will be seen that the Chinese have no illiterates. This is always so.The library contains 3,582 volumes of books and 1,027 magazines, the legislature appropriating $500 a year.
During the month of July the convicts read the following volumes: Biography, 293; classical, 20; encyclopedias, 9; histories, 237; juvenile, 97; legal and political, 37; light literature, 741; magazines, 1,294; miscellaneous, 141; poetry, 67; statistics, 402; religious, 261; scientific, 490; novels, 240; foreign, 93; total reading during the month, 4,351 volumes.
The only luxury the convict receives is tobacco to chew, no smoking being allowed. The state appropriates $500 a year for tobacco for the prisoners. Each convict is allowed 3-3/4 ounces per week.
Of the prisoners, 231 attend school on Sundays. They study the different text books and are taught by other students, the chaplain superintending the whole. The Chinese are the most enthusiastic and progressive students.
The Caldwell Journal, September 20, 1883.
Luke Short, disgusted with the moral reform recently instituted at Dodge, has sold out his saloon and gone to Texas to engage in the cattle business.
The Caldwell Journal, September 20, 1883.
Big Tree, a Kiowa Chief, came up Sunday from the Agency, and left on the train Monday afternoon for Kansas City to make arrangements for sending some of his tribe to Geuda Springs to be treated for various diseases.
The Caldwell Journal, September 20, 1883.
Rex Akin lost eight cows out of a little bunch he has in Harper County. They contracted the disease from the Boyd herd of Arkansas cattle which was held on the same range with Mr. Akin
=s cattle for over half a day.
The Caldwell Journal, September 20, 1883.
The Vinita Chieftain has changed hands, Mr. R. L. Owen retiring, and Wm. P. Ross and J. W. Scroggs assuming the editorial management of the paper. We dislike to part with Bro. Owen as a newspaper man, because he has the earnestness of a man honest in his convictions and firm in the course he believes to be right. The new editors are good writers, and we believe will keep up the reputation of their Chieftain.
The Caldwell Journal, September 20, 1883.
The Kiowa train which left here on Tuesday took a carload of barbed wire to be used in fencing a pasture for the Kiowa and Comanche herd. This is the first step toward carrying out Col. Hunt
=s scheme for the benefit of the Indians under his charge. The scheme is an excellent one, and, if carried out, will at the end of ten years make the Kiowas and Comanches self-supporting.
The Caldwell Journal, September 20, 1883.
On Friday night, during the storm, a bunch of beeves, numbering something over five hundred, belonging to the Cragin Cattle Company, en route for the stock yards here, and held fifteen miles southwest, stampeded and from reports seem to have scattered to the four winds of the earth. On Tuesday two hundred and seventy-three head had been collected, and were shipped to Kansas City, but the remainder, nearly one-half, will be hard to get together, from the fact that they are so badly scattered.
The Caldwell Journal, September 20, 1883.
We were in error last week in stating that the Dominion Cattle Company was the outgrowth of the old Millet crowd. The range and cattle now owned by the Dominion Company were sold to them by Doc. Day, who held that range for six years previous to disposing it to the Dominion folks. At the time of the sale, G. C. Smith, the man killed by Al Thurman, foreman of the New York Cattle Company, was in the employ of Mr. Day, and was retained by the Dominion Company, Mr. Day, stipulating that whenever the Company got through with his services, they were to let him go back to his old employer. It is also stated to us upon the most reliable authority that Mr. Smith was one of the most peaceable men employed on the range in the Panhandle, that in no sense was he identified with the
Akiller@ class, and that in all respects he was entitled to the confidence and respect of everybody with whom he came in contact. The taking of his life is regarded by the Dominion Cattle Company and his old friends as nothing less than a cold-blooded and deliberate murder, and they are determined to prosecute the affair to the bitter end. We trust this may prove to be the case, and that if it can be demonstrated that the death of Mr. Smith was the result of a conspiracy, everyone of the guilty parties will be brought to speedy punishment, without regard to their standing or former reputation.
The Caldwell Journal, September 20, 1883.
Barbour County.
Medicine Lodge Cresset.
The pasture now being enclosed by Evans, Hunter & Newman on the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation, is an immense affair, taking some 250 miles of barbed wire to enclose it. There will be about 150 miles of cross fencing, making in all about 400 miles of fence. The range, thus secured, is one of the finest in the southwest, having an abundance of fine, pure water, and a luxuriant growth of nutritious grass. This, with their interest in the Comanche Pool, will make them the largest cattle owners in this section, and if they have the success that has heretofore met their investments, they will make a mint of money in the next few years.
[WHO IS THIS NEWMAN?]
R. B. Clark purchased, through C. G. Taliaferro, the W. W. and H. H. Whitney cattle yesterday. This herd numbers 700 head, for which R. B. paid $29.00 around. Roll bought the cattle in the morning, and before night had almost consummated a trade by which the Wicks Bros. of the Salt Fork & Eagle Chief Pool, were to become owners. Up to the time of going to press, however, Roll was the proprietor of the herd.
The latest sensation in connection with the Boyd herd of cattle occurred on Monday. It seems that Jackson, acting, we presume, under the sheriff
=s orders, had marked the cattle by bobbing their tails. This circumstance displeased Mr. Boyd, and he proceeded to interview Jackson in a very forcible manner, and disfigured his countenance in various localities, by pealing off large sections of the epidermis. Jackson claims that Boyd attacked him in the back, when he attempted to draw his revolver, which Boyd caught and held, and then proceeded to mark him as mentioned above.Hamilton, the young Englishman who worked last winter for M. W. Brand, but who has since been employed for some time at Geo. Hendrickson
=s ranch, skipped out on Friday last, riding one of George=s best horses, which he has forgotten so far to return. He rode from George=s place to Kiowa, where he purchased a saddle from A. W. Rumsey, gave an order on Geo. Hendrickson to pay for the saddle, and then sloped with the entire outfit. When last seen he was riding east from Kiowa. George has offered a reward of $50 for his apprehen-sion. Hamilton is a rather tall, stooped-shouldered man, and speaks with a strong English accent. When he left, he wore a mustache. We understand that he got away with a hundred dollars, or such a matter, which he owed Mr. Brand. He has also beat other parties out of various sums. He is a tolerably slick rascal, but would be taken at first sight for a harmless sort of a dude, who hadn=t sense enough to steal a horse. He claims to have been in the Zulu war, a circumstance which he takes special pride in relating, and which may lead to his detection.
The Caldwell Journal, September 27, 1883.
THE CHEROKEE STRIP LEASE.
Ratified July 5th, 1883.
Full Text of the Lease.
THIS INDENTURE made the fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three (1883), by and between Dennis W. Bushyhead, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, for and on behalf of said Nation, party of the first part, and E. M. Hewins, J. W. Hamilton, A. J. Day, S. Tuttle, M. H. Bennett, Ben S. Miller, A. Drumm, E. W. Payne, and Charles H. Eldred, Directors in trust, for, and on behalf of the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association, a corporation organized, and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Kansas, for themselves as Directors in trust, their successors in rust and assigns, parties of the second part, witnesseth:
SKIPPED THE REST....REALLY THE SAME OLD STUFF AS GIVEN BEFORE! WONDER WHY THEY BOTHERED TO REPRINT IT!
The Caldwell Journal, September 27, 1883.
Roadway Through the Strip.
The Cherokee Advocate copies an item published in the JOURNAL two or three weeks ago in reference to roadways through the Strip, and makes the following comments.
It would no doubt be a great accommodation to drovers and freighters to have a four miles wide road left, here and there, unfenced, through the lands recently leased by the Cherokees to a company of stockmen. It would probably be good policy for the lucky Company to make some such provision. But, as their obligation to the public to do any such thing, that is a pony of a different color. The Cherokee Nation leased to Cols. Drumm, Hewins, Eldred, and associates, 6,000,000 acres land, more or less, for grazing purposes, with no material restrictions except as to timber and the three salt springs and their approaches. The Company acquired the right to utilize, for their own benefit, every foot of land on which they pay rental; and while of course they would have no right to close up a well established highway
Csuch as a mail or military route, of ordinary width, it is entirely optional with them whether they do more. An open way four miles wide would contain 2,560 acres per mile, or 128,000 acres for 75 milesCa district capable of sustaining upwards of 8,500 grown cattle or horses at the low estimate of 15 acres per head. It is unreasonable to expect the gentlemen who leased these lands, or the Nation who owns them, to contribute, without consideration, so large a district and valuable a franchise simply to public con-venience! It may be good policy for the Stock Association to do soCbut we cannot see that it is their duty, unless in securing the lease they gave assurances that certain routes, of certain width, would be held open. In the cattle business as in war and politics, Ato the victors belong the spoils.@ The Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association are the victors so far as the AStrip@ is concerned. They will, in our opinion, work it for every dollar that it is worth. If it pays best to keep wide through routes, they will keep themCif not, they will close up some, and narrow othersCand who shall blame them? Not we, while they fulfill all their obligations to the Cherokee Nation.
The Caldwell Journal, September 27, 1883.
BIG INDIANS ON THE WASHITA.
Stumbling Bear and Big Tree.
An Interview With the Latter.
Last week the city was full of noble red men, and among those conspicuous by their appearance and evident authority, were Stumbling Bear and Big Tree, chiefs of the Kiowa tribe. Both had passed up the road the week previous, on their way to Olathe, where they expected to meet Inspector Haworth, and confer with him relative to matters concerning their tribe. They met Mr. Haworth in Kansas City, on his return from the West, and had a conference with him, but, owing to the fact that there was no interpreter along, they failed in completing the object of their mission. Consequently, they returned, Big Tree going back to the reservation, while Stumbling Bear waited until his son arrived from the Carlisle school, and then went over to Geuda Springs to try the effects of their waters upon his eyes. Stumbling Bear is a large, fine-looking man of about sixty years of age. He was one of the chiefs that signed the treaty made at Wichita in 1865, and since that time has strictly kept its stipulations, refusing to go off on any raids, and has always been a friend of the whites.
Big Tree is a man about thirty-six years of age, about five feet ten inches in height, weighing about 260 pounds, and rather corpulent, but at the same time, very active, and in every action exhibiting great strength and a full command of his physical and mental powers. His face is bright and intelligent, showing to the most casual observer that he is an Indian of more than average native ability.
Through the kindness of Phil. McCusker, who happened to be here when Stumbling Bear and Big Tree arrived, we had an interview with the latter. Big Tree said he wanted to tell his story so that through the JOURNAL it might get to the ears of Washington, that thereby something might be done toward Washington fulfilling the promises it had made to the Kiowas. He stated that some time ago Washington had sent instructions to have the Kiowas go to freighting; but the Indians held back. Big Tree took hold of the affair, and by his personal influence induced the Kiowas to take hold of the freighting business. In considera-tion of his services, the government promised to give him a wagon, but up to the present time no part of the agreement had been fulfilled on the part of Washington. The Kiowas had also been induced to go into farming, the government agreeing to break up the land if the Kiowa Indians would make the rails and build the fences around the land to be cultivated. Some land had been broken, but the greater portion could not be, on account of the lightness of the teams employed. The Indians, on the other hand, had made the rails, but the land was not ready for fencing, and the consequence was that nothing could be done for another year. Big Tree said his people wanted more wagons and better teams, and then they would do the best they could. When the tribe was wild, he said, they could take care of their own affairs, but now that they were under charge of the government, nothing could be done for them.
Big Tree also spoke about the education of the children of the tribe, stating that he had used his best efforts to induce his people to send their children to school. As for himself, he had lost his only son, but had sent a nephew to school.
Knowing that Big Tree was one of the Indians who had been arrested and taken to Texas along with Satanta, we endeavored to question him on that point. It was, however, a tender subject with him, and we did not press it. He said, however, that since he had been pardoned by Gov. Davis, of Texas, he had endeavored to follow the white man
=s path, and strictly fulfill all the promises he had made.At the close of the interview, which took place in the JOURNAL office, our business manager presented Big Tree with a cigar and a match, and the editor, in his usual impressive and hearty manner, thanked him for his talk. Big Tree then gathered his flowing drapery around him, shook hands with all present, and stalked out with all the dignity of a United States Senator from Kansas.
The Caldwell Journal, September 27, 1883.
The Catholics of this city have fitted up a room in the upper story of Reilly
=s block for a chapel, and Father Dugan celebrated mass in it last Sunday morning.
The Caldwell Journal, September 27, 1883.
Hewins & Titus bought last week twenty-four Galloway cows and heifers and thirteen Polled Angus bulls, cow, and calf. The lot were imported by John McCulloch.
The Caldwell Journal, September 27, 1883.
The work of plowing fire guards around the pastures on the Strip goes on with unabated vigor. Owing to the rank growth of grass this year, cattlemen are making extra efforts to guard against prairie fires.
The Caldwell Journal, September 27, 1883.
Major Dewees returned Saturday from a trip to Leavenworth and Kansas City, and took the afternoon stage for Fort Reno.
The Caldwell Journal, September 27, 1883.
Sol. Taylor, Major Randall
=s old clerk, passed through town this week on his way to Washington, having recently been discharged from the 23rd Infantry, after twenty-three years= continuous service as a soldier in the U. S. Army.
The Caldwell Journal, September 27, 1883.
Wm. Crimble came up from Ft. Reno last Saturday, and reports everything running along smoothly on the North Fork. He has some work to finish up for Reynolds, Doty & Hubbell, and also a building to put up for Evans & Co., which will necessitate his return, and possibly keep him at the Fort until about Christmas.
The Caldwell Journal, September 27, 1883.
During the present season, Harry Hill, for A. J. Snider & Co., Live Stock Commission men of Kansas City, shipped from Caldwell 11,800 head of cattle. Harry is a worker, and, representing a first-class house, finds no difficulty in securing a full share of the business.
The Caldwell Journal, September 27, 1883.
Dr. C. G. Thompson, of Fort Reno, passed through the city yesterday on his return from Dakota, where he accompanied the northern Cheyennes who had been permitted to return to their old reservation. The Doctor stated that the trip was a tedious one, occupying over sixty days, during which time the Doctor was in the saddle every day. He promised to send the JOURNAL a description of the trip, with an account of the most interesting incidents connected with it.
The Caldwell Journal, September 27, 1883.
The Wichita Times of last Wednesday, the 19th, inst., says it was reported that the marshal of Caldwell had been shot and killed, the night previous. The Times of the above date reached us on the Thursday following, and without any hesitation we started out to interview Mr. Brown, our city marshal, regarding the statement. We found him a lively corpse, engaged in the work of trying to keep down a difficulty between two irate barbed wire freighters. As he didn
=t appear to be very dead, our reporter concluded that some fellow had put it upon the Times man, and the investigation proceeded no further. The reporter, before leaving Henry, exacted a promise that whenever our city marshal was killed, the JOURNAL would get the first and only reliable information regarding the affair.
The Caldwell Journal, September 27, 1883.
Loss of Cattle on Chikaskia.
Mr. Carter, living on the Smith place, on the Chikaskia, last week lost 24 head out of 35 head of his Shorthorn cattle. The cattle were taken sick and died within twenty-four hours. Mr. Carter also has four Polled Angus and two Holsteins, but none of these seem to have been affected with the malady, whatever it was, while every one of his Shorthorns was ill. Thinking the disease was Spanish fever, Mr. Carter used belladonna, but only succeeded in saving eleven of his Shorthorn herd.
Of the 24 that died, Mr. Carter opened three, and found the manifold dry and congested, the gall full, and running over in two, while in one the gall was thick and black. Two of them, when the hides were taken off, had a thick bloody and watery substance on one side, while the other carcass was bloodshot on the hips and back.
Mr. Carter says that in the pasture where the cattle are kept, there are several pools or ponds, and that during the summer, a herd of through Texans had been driven across it. The herd had gone into these pools, and around the edges had left the impress of their hoofs. These places were subsequently filled with water by rains, and his cattle would drink out of those places. It seemed, Mr. Carter said, almost impossible to keep the cattle away from them.
The disease may not have resulted from any infection left by the Texas cattle; and we think, from the description given by Mr. Carter of the condition of the stomach, gall, and liver of the deceased cattle examined, that it did not. The JOURNAL corps lays no claim to being veterinary surgeons, and therefore with diffidence offers the theory that it may have been murrain which caused the loss. On the other hand, it seems singular that neither the Holsteins nor the Polled Angus were in any way affected. If anyone, from the statement above made, can tell what caused the death of the cattle, we should like to hear from him.
The Caldwell Journal, September 27, 1883.
Cattle Deals.
The JOURNAL has had to record few heavy cattle deals for some time, but this week it can state that M. H. Bennett has bought the Hewins & Titus cattle in charge of Sam Garvin, paying therefor, in cash, the modest sum of $90,000. The herd numbers between 7,000 and 8,000 head. Some time next month Milt will go below, round up, and brand his calves.
Hewins & Titus, in turn, have purchased all of E. Wilson
=s interest in the Indian Springs Range, paying therefor, as we understand, the sum of $135,000. Mr. Wilson, we understand, has made up his mind to locate in Colorado or New Mexico.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
Sheriff Thralls left on Tuesday morning
=s freight train for the state penitentiary in charge of John W. Griffith, who goes to serve a sentence of three years for forgery; Chas. Davis, tried for the murder of Geo. Woods, the dance hall proprietor at Caldwell, who will serve a sentence of three years for manslaughter in the third degree; James Turner, who will serve a sentence of three years for grand larceny; and W. F. Gage, who is sentenced for eighteen months imprisonment for horse stealing. Henry Gilby, the boy who stole W. G. Foraker=s horse, is still in jail, but will be taken to the reform school.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
NEWS NOTES.
A
Oklahoma@ is the name of a new post office in Kingman County, and Joseph H. Wilson is the postmaster.The greenbackers unanimously nominated Ben Butler for governor on the 25th ult., and the democrats endorsed it on the 26th.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
Resolution passed by the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association, October 3, 1883.
RESOLVED, That the Caldwell JOURNAL be and is hereby declared the official paper of the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
Bob Perry, a Texas desperado charged with murdering a man by the name of Hart at Hunnewell, August 1st, 1882, was brought to this city on Monday, by J. S. Crozier, U. S. Marshal of Texas, and turned over to the U. S. authorities here in pursuance of a preliminary examination held before a U. S. Commissioner, at Dallas, Texas, where Perry was captured. He was jailed, and will have to remain in confinement for a year. Wichita Eagle.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
D. L. Payne, J. B. Cooper, W. A. Harris, and A. B. Calvert, the leaders of the Oklahoma boomers, were bound over last week, at Wichita, by U. S. Commissioner Sherman, in the sum of $1,000 each, for their appearance at the U. S. Court, which meets at Leavenworth on the 8th inst. The prime object of this prosecution is to fully determine the question of the right of white people to occupy the Indian Territory, particularly that portion which the Payne crowd claim to be public lands.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
CHEROKEE STRIP LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION.
Meeting of Board of Directors.
Pursuant to notice the Board of Directors of the C. S. L. S. Association met on Thursday of last week to receive the reports of the surveyors selected to run the lines of the pastures in each division, and to fix the amount to be assessed against such holder, and make a levy to raise the first semi-annual payment to the Cherokee Nation.
The report of S. T. Wood, surveyor of the eastern division, the survey being incomplete, showed 1,909,000 acres. Mr. Wood is still at work, but it will require a couple of weeks to finish the job; so as to obtain the exact number of acres in the division.
The middle division surveyed by Tell W. Walton, showed an area of 1,764,446.49 acres. The report also shows that there are 23 ranges in the division, running from 8,500 to 299,526 acres. All but three ranges are entirely enclosed with barbed wire fencing, and the three are fenced on each side.
Mr. C. H. Burgess had the east half of the western division, running west to the V__ range. West of that was under charge of Fred Erkhart, who has not completed his survey. The district surveyed by Mr. Burgess comprises 1,108,390 acres.
This makes a total of 4,781,865.49 acres surveyed and platted on the Strip. When the surveys are completed on the extreme eastern and western ends of the Strip, it is altogether likely the total acreage will exceed 6,000,000 acres.
From these reports, the Board levied an assessment of two cents an acre upon each occupant, in order to meet the first semi-annual payment to the Cherokee Nation, and to meet other expenses, and on Friday morning the Treasurer, M. H. Bennett, began the collection of the amounts due from each occupant. We did not learn the total sum paid in, but by Friday night there were sufficient funds in the Treasurer
=s hands to meet all obligations due the Cherokees, and on Saturday morning he started for Tahlequah to make the first payment in accordance with the terms of the lease.Since Thursday afternoon the Board has had under consideration cases appealed from the Board of Arbitration. In the case of Broadwell vs. The Eagle Chief Pool, the Board rendered a decision making Broadwell
=s west line begin on the southwest corner and run north seven miles, leaving his west fence in a different shape from what he had it built.In the case of Chase against Ewing, the Board affirmed the decision of the Board of Arbitration, giving Chase his range.
Wednesday morning the Board of Directors adopted the following resolution.
Resolved, That the Caldwell JOURNAL, be and is hereby adopted as the official organ of the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association.
Yesterday afternoon the case of the St. Joe Cattle Company vs. E. M. Ford was referred to the parties in contest, and settled by the Wyeth Cattle Co., purchasing all the interest of the St. Joe Company.
In the case of Peter Stewart vs. E. M. Ford, the decision of the Board of Arbitrators was affirmed, giving Stewart nearly all he asked.
The Board meets this morning at 9 o
=clock, and will continue in session from day to day until all disputes regarding range are settled.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
BANDITS IN KANSAS.
Attempt to Rob a Passenger Train at Coolidge.
Engineer and Fireman Killed.
An attempt was made to rob a passenger train at Coolidge, on the A. T. & S. F. Road, west of Dodge, at 2 o
=clock last Saturday morning. The following particulars are gathered from the associated dispatches of the 29th ult.TOPEKA, Sept. 29. The facts concerning the attempted train robbery at Coolidge this morning, as obtained from passengers and officials of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road are as follows:
The train arrived on time and remained at Coolidge ten minutes. When Conductor Greeley stepped forward to give the signal to go ahead, he saw two men ahead of him, one of whom jumped on the platform between the cars. The other sprang into the side door of the express car, landing on his hands and knees. Greeley stood asking what he was doing there, when the robber half arose and pulled a revolver and shot in his face, so close that the powder burnt it, but he was not hit. The robber then turned and fired at S. S. Peterson, the express messenger, who returned the fire and then built a barricade around him, and the passengers say he continued a lively fusillade, though Peterson says he fired only once. The fellow ran out of the baggage door and escaped, probably with the one on the platform. Conductor Greeley then went to the engine and found Engineer John Hilton dead, with a bullet through the head under the eye, and fireman Fadle fatally shot in the breast. Fadle stated that a man jumped on the engine and ordered engineer Hilton to pull out. Hilton answered that he would when he received orders, and the robber then shot him down and fired at Fadle, with the result above stated. The plan was preconcocted, the wires having been crossed east of Coolidge since September 23.
At half-past 5 o
=clock this evening it was announced the arrest of two men had been made, one of whom is supposed to have fired at Peterson. The robber is about 5 feet 10 inches in height, stoop-shouldered, and has a long, thin nose. It is believed he can be identified. The remains of Hilton will be taken to Milwaukee tomorrow for interment. He lived at Dodge, where he had a wife and four children. His wife is unconscious. Fifteen hundred dollars reward is offered for the arrest of the parties.KANSAS CITY, Sept. 29. A Journal
=s Las Vegas, New Mexico, special says: AA prominent railroad man of this city, speaking of the Coolidge train robbery, said today that he believed that the trio of robbers went from New Mexico to do the job. There are four in the gang altogether, he said, and they went east only a few days ago. The original design was to take the train on New Mexican soil, but the division superintendent was appraised of the intended attack and took precautionary measures, which defeated the object of the gang and sent them to Kansas.A
Dave Matthews, known as >Mysterious Dave,= who is leading the pursuit, was formerly of Las Vegas and ferreted out the gang which robbed the trains here in November, 1879.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
Harry Donnelly, a barkeeper employed at Donahue
=s saloon, and a man named Dean, are the parties arrested for the attempted train robbery and the murder of the engineer and fireman. Dean is described as a man five feet ten or eleven inches high, well built, light complexioned, with a clear steady eye. He is said to have been employed on one of the cattle ranches in the Territory. From reports, the officers at Dodge seem to be satisfied that he was the leader of the party.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
Wire-Cutters Killed.
Reporter, Gainesville, Sept. 20.
HENRIETTA, Sept. 15. News was received here this morning about 8 o
=clock, by telephone, from Post Oak, of the killing and wounding of three of the wire-cutters last night. A man named Butler, one of the ring-leaders, was shot about twenty times and two others badly wounded. The shooting is supposed to have been done by the line riders. Butler=s body was found about three miles from where Sherwood=s fence had been cut for several miles. Great excitement prevails among our prominent stock men. About twenty of them mounted on horses and heavily armed, left for Sherwood=s ranch at 7 o=clock this evening, where a lively time is anticipated tonight. The city is wild with excitement.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
Publish Your Brands.
From the Cheyenne Transporter.
There are two or three parties in this country who think their brands are
Atoo well known already,@ and that it is not good policy, more especially for small owners, to make their brands and range locations known through the papers. If it is policy for the large owners, it is doubly so for the smaller possession in stock to make public their brands, as they have not so many men in the field to look after their interests. It is of vital importance to make public all brands, so that every honest worker knows whose they are and where they belong, as otherwise he may not consider it to his interest to inform himself, as he is busy in his appointed tasks. But the only thief to be feared is the best posted man in the range, and to be successful, he must and does know every brand, large or small, and to what part of the range it belongs. The Arustler@ knows your brands already, even if your herd numbers only a dozen head, for that is business; but you must constantly remind the honest toilers, else they will forget, and neglect to gather in. A brand is never Atoo well known already.@
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
Capt. Peters bought two young Polled Angus bulls of Hewins & Titus, last week, for which he paid the modest sum of $3,000. The Capt. says Hewins & Titus have the best herd of Polled Angus cattle in the West, or in the United States, for that matter. George pins his faith on the black uleys, and is confident they are the coming breed of the West.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
E. Tuttle, of the stock firm of S. & Z. Tuttle, has bought A. J. Day
=s residence on lower Market street, and will remove his family from Wichita to this city. Mr. Day will remove to his old home at Austin, where he has large property interests.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
Messrs. Burgess & Walton are preparing a map of the ranges on the Cherokee Strip, made up from surveys by the various parties recently engaged in that work. The map will be invaluable to every stock man on the Strip, and no time should be lost in making subscriptions, as no extra copies will be published. If the plats made and submitted to the Directors are any criterion, the map will not only be a beauty, but a necessary adjunct to every well governed ranch.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
Cattle Fever.
Last week we gave an account of Mr. Carter, on the Chikaskia, losing several head of cattle by what he supposed to have been Spanish fever. Yesterday we were informed that the balance of his herd had died. Mr. Wykes, on Bluff Creek, south of town, informs us that the disease has made its appearance in his herd, and that several head of his work steers have died from its effects. He states that an examination of the deceased animals shows the same condition of the liver, spleen, and gall bladder as exhibited in the Carter cattle. Mr. Wykes also states that none of his cattle had been brought in contact with any through Texas cattle. Talking about these cases with an old cattleman
Cone who has raised and driven Texas cattle for the past fifteen yearsCwe suggested the theory that the disease was more of the nature of malaria. He replied that he thought so, from the fact that the disease affects cattle about the same time in the year that bilious malaria affects the human family. AIn seasons when there is little or no diseases of a malarial nature,@ he said, Ayou will find but few cattle dying from what we choose to call >Texas fever.=A
I have observed this fact for several years, and am satisfied that almost the same remedies that will cure a man affected with the malaria will cure a cow or a steer affected with the fever.@He further stated that cattle affected with the disease act just as man acts while laboring under an attack of malaria, save that there seems to be no cessation of fever from the time the animal is attacked until it dies, as it usually does unless the proper remedies were applied in time.
AThe exact nature of the disease has not been discovered,@ he said, Abecause every veterinary surgeon who has attempted to investigate it has started off on the theory that the disease originated solely from contact with cattle brought from the south.@He stated that while such contact might communicate the malady, he believed that the state of the atmosphere and the water the animals use had more to do with it than any other cause.Of course, we don
=t pretend to say how far he is right or wrong, but it is nevertheless a fact that the disease is imperfectly understood, and some steps must be taken by the stockmen of this section to discover its cause, and, if possible, ascertain the proper method of treating it.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
C. S. L. S. Association.
At a regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association, held in Caldwell on the 3rd day of October, 1883, the following action was had.
On motion of A. J. Day, seconded by A. Drum, it was ordered that a committee of four, consisting of Ben S. Miller, S. Tuttle, E. M. Hewins, and J. W. Hamilton be appointed on quarantine grounds, in place of the old committee, who are hereby discharged; and that said committee have full power to lay off and define quarantine grounds.
The following resolution was adopted.
Resolved, That the Hunnewell quarantine grounds shall be bounded on the north by the Kansas state line, on the west by Forsythe Bros., Moore & Roher [? THOUGHT IT WAS ROHRER?], and G. W. Miller
=s fences; on the south by the Nez Perces reservation; on the east, by Helm & Horseley=s fence. The Caldwell quarantine ground shall be bounded on the north by the Kansas state line; on the west by Garland & Corzine=s fence, and run due north to State line; on the south by J. A. Blair=s fence; on the east by W. E. Malaley, Bower Bros., Barefoot & Santer, Moore & Roher, and D. T. Beals.J. A. BLAIR, Secretary.
Caldwell, October 3, 1883.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
Stock Shipments.
There has been a revival in stock shipments at this point since last Sunday. On that day Corzine & Garland sent out 25 cars, Capt. C. H. Stone 20 cars, Lamont 4 cars, and Foster & Mitchell 2 cars of hogs.
On Monday Capt. Stone shipped 21 and Frasier 20 cars.
Yesterday J. W. Carter, for the Texas Land & Cattle Company, shipped 45 cars.
We have not been able to ascertain the total number of cattle shipped from here to date, but from the best information we can obtain at present, it will not go over 20,000 head.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
SKIPPED THE BARBER COUNTY ITEMS...PROBABLY SHOULD REALLY INCLUDE THESE BUT NOT ENOUGH TIME!
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
W. H. Doty, of the firm of Reynolds, Doty & Hubbell, Darlington, Indian Territory, came up on Tuesday, to look after some delayed freight. He reports Mr. and Mrs. Hubbell in good health, and that the firm is doing a good business.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
The Cragin Cattle Company is represented here by the following gentlemen, who arrived from Philadelphia last Thursday: Chas. S. Cragin, J. Warren Coalston, Geo. K. Cragin, Dr. E. P. Huyler, Wm. Clark, Chas. Ochme, S. A. Curtis, and Thomas Curtis. The party, under charge of R. D. Cragin, manager of the company, started for the Company
=s ranch on Sunday, and while in the Territory, will enjoy themselves hunting.
The Caldwell Journal, October 4, 1883.
C. S. L. S. ASSOCIATION.
Notice in Regard to Rewards.
CALDWELL, KANSAS, September 29, 1883.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association, held this day, it was ordered by the Board that all rewards heretofore offered by the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association for the arrest and conviction of persons stealing stock from members of this Association, be, and are from this day, revoked.
BEN S. MILLER, President.
Attest: JOHN A. BLAIR, Secretary.
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
The
AByrd@ Has Flown.Dodge City Times, October 2.
William M. Byrd, who has been lying in the Ford County jail ever since August 26th, and under the charge of grand larceny, i.e., stealing, branding, and shipping eight car loads of cattle shipped from the Dodge City Stock Yards August 25, 1883, among which shipment eighteen head of cattle were found belonging to as many different parties and members of different associations of the southwest. Byrd at his preliminary examination was placed under a bond of $6,000 for his appearance at the October term of court, and in default of bail was committed to jail.
On the 24th inst., his attorney, H. E. Gryden, swore out a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that Byrd was illegally restrained and without probable cause, and that the bond under which he was held ($6,000) was excessive, and praying that he might be brought before the Honorable Probate Court of the county and these facts inquired into. The court made an order commanding the sheriff of the county to bring said Byrd before the court, naming Sept. 26th. On the day named the case was called, the state being represented by J. T. Whitelaw, and assisted by M. W. Sutton, additional council for the association; H. E. Gryden for the defendant. State took a continuance for two days on account of absent witnesses, which would have carried the case to Oct. 6th. On the 28th day of September, counsel for defendant filed a supplemental petition of the testimony as given before the examining court, and withdrew so much of their former petition as alleging
Aillegal restraint and held without probable cause,@ and stood upon the single prayer, Aan unreasonable, unjust, and exorbitant bond,@ and asked the court to reduce the same. By agreement of County Attorney Whitelaw and assistant, M. W. Sutton, who represented the Southwest Stock Grower=s Association, and H. E. Gryden, who in turn was assisted by Hon. Thos. West of Jacksboro, Texas, for the defense, a prominent stock man of that state and a member of the Northwest Texas Stock Association, from the members of which Byrd is charged with stealing cattle, or rather cattle were found in his possession belonging to members of said association. Without much argument either for the prosecution or for the defense, the attorneys between themselves appeared to think the bond excessive, and with one united appeal to the court from this innocent body of lawyers, the court was inclined to think that as the State and members of the Association who came here represented by their able attorneys came to the relief of Byrd and plead for him, why truly the charge against him cannot be as grave as at first repre-sented, and why not comply with this modest request and reduce the bond, not to the amount they had agreed on, but the court would meet them half-wayCand make it $4,000. Thus the bond on this injured, innocent Byrd is reduced two thousand dollars, which enables his friends to get him out of jailCif not entirely out of the clutches of the strong arm of the law of KansasCfor just that much less money. It is easier to pay $4,000 than $6,000 to get to breathe the fresh air of southwest Kansas once more, and perhaps Byrd may decide that it is easier to forfeit $4,000 to a Ford County jury and a possible trip to the State penitentiary, and therefore may forget to return.It is also possible that this man Byrd may get sick and be unable to be in attendance at the October term of court; such cases are not improbable, and a good strong affidavit setting forth such a statement of facts would carry his case over to the next term of court. We do not know that this man Byrd will get sick or that he will be in attendance at next term of court, neither would we wager very much on his being here. It is claimed by our stockmen that the evidence against him is strong enough to send him to the penitentiary, and if that is a fact, we think the court erred in reducing the bond. We are also asked why this great haste in having this writ of habeas corpus passed upon before the time named to which it had been adjourned to, at which time all interested parties could be present, and if released, other warrants could be sworn out against said Byrd on a statement of facts not known at the time when first placed under arrest. But the real parties in interest it appears were not consulted, and the case passed upon without their knowledge or consent; but the action of the attorneys in this case looks a little cloudy. There is a nigger in the woodpile somewhere, and perhaps our people may recall to their minds the case of the State vs. Geo. U. Holcomb, who stole one hundred head of cattle from Dunham & Ward, in 1878, who wore the State out on bonds, and was never brought to trial nor even had his bond declared forfeited. Will the Byrd case prove to become a similar one?
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
The Kansas City Times says of an individual whom many of our people remember not in the most kindly spirit:
A
Mr. J. S. Danford, a well known banker at Osage City, Kansas, is in the city from Colorado, where he has been prospecting for some time. Mr. Danford has concluded to remove to Washington Territory, where he will engage in active business, establishing a bank at a thriving town in that territory. Mr. Ainsworth, formerly associated with Mr. Danford at Osage City, contemplates accompanying him to the northwest.@
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
The Directors of the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association have made arrangements with Mr. Drew to occupy the south half of the second floor of the new block which is building south of the JOURNAL office. The floor will be divided into two rooms, furnished with folding doors. The front room will be furnished as an office, and a bookkeeper has already been employed to take charge of affairs. This is certainly one of the wisest things the Directors have done, and is a great improvement over the old order of affairs. The JOURNAL compliments them on the wisdom of their choice.
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
E. R. Bates, formerly of the firm of Beale & Bates, and well known among stockmen, appears to be in serious trouble. It will be remembered that something more than a year ago the inspectors at St. Louis seized sixty or seventy head of cattle from a shipment by the above firm. Last spring he sold out and returned to Boston to reside. Week before last, Sheriff G. W. Arrington, of Wheeler County, Texas, went to Boston, arrested Mr. Bates, and brought him back to be tried on the charge of driving stray cattle. As the matter may come before a jury at some future time, we refrain from comments, desiring justice to take its course.
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
Chief Bushyhead has appointed R. M. Wolfe and Chas. Starr to complete the surveys and locations of springs on Cherokee lands.
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
G. S. L. S. Association.
The following are the public proceedings of the Board of Directors of the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association since the last issue of the JOURNAL.
F. Y. Ewing vs. Salt Fork and Eagle Chief Pool. Board decided the line between Ewing and the Pool to be as follows: Beginning at a point where the present fence crosses Big Boggy, thence direct to the point where the present fence reaches its most southerly point; thence along said fence to the point where said fence joins Streeter
=s southwest corner. Also, that F. Y. Ewing shall allow the Salt Fork and Eagle Chief Pool $150.00 expense for moving fence.The resignation of D. R. Streeter of the Board of Arbitrators was accepted, and Ben. Garland appointed in his place.
I. B. Gilmore vs. Northrop & Stevens. Decision of Board of Arbitrators affirmed, and that Northrop & Stevens are to pay Gilmore $150 per mile for what fence he built.
In the case of Hammers & Co., vs. C. Lynch, decision of Arbitrators affirmed.
Tracy, Doubleday and others, vs. Northrop & Stevens. Decision of Arbitrators affirmed, giving Northrop & Stevens the range claimed by them.
On Friday, the Board adjourned until Nov. 13th, at which time all cases of appeal to the Board will be settled. Parties having appeals must be promptly on hand, as it seems to be the intention of the Board to close up all contest business at their next session.
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
AD. HACK LINE! FROM GEUDA SPRINGS TO CALDWELL VIA HUNNEWELL.
Hack leaves Geuda Springs on Mondays and Fridays at 8 o
=clock a.m.Leaves Caldwell on Tuesdays and Saturdays at 8 o
=clock a.m.Anybody desiring water from the Springs can leave orders at Sharp
=s restaurant, and the same will be promptly filled.J. F. CONNER.
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
Northrop & Stevens have turned over their range and farm to Treadwell & Clark [? COULD NOT REALLY READ THIS WORD?]. The sale was made some time ago, but the transfer was not made until some range disputes were settled.
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
BOARD OF ARBITRATORS.
Decisions Rendered.
The Board adjourned last Friday until the 13th of November. The following is the action of the Board during its late session, as furnished by the clerk, Mart Miller.
McDonough & Co., vs. Geo. A. Thompson. Decision, Geo. A. Thompson was entitled to all the pasture inside his pasture. No appeal taken.
Hammers & Co., vs. Ben. Garland. Tried by special board of arbitration. Range viewed by board. Decision, Ben. Garland entitled to all range inside of his fence. No appeal taken.
T. C. Gatliffe vs. J. P. Richmond. Case dismissed on the ground that Gatliffe was not a member of the Association.
Manning & Montague vs. Larrimer & Crane. Case withdrawn by plaintiffs.
R. L. Owens vs. J. V. Andrews, same against Arthur Gorrham, J. M. Day, Spencer & Drew, Hi [?] Kollar, Reed, Word & Byler. Compromised and settled in all cases.
Gregory, Eldred & Co., vs. Comanche County Pool. This case occupied four days, some forty witnesses being examined, and a pile of affidavits thrown in to confuse the minds of the Board. The Board, out of the mass of testimony produced, decided that Gregory, Eldred & Co., were entitled to a range described as follows: Beginning at the line of the State of Kansas, at the southwest corner of Gregory, Eldred & Co.
=s pasture; running thence south to where East Greenwood merges into main Greenwood; thence south to the Comanche County Pool fence; that Gregory, Eldred & Co., shall pay the Comanche County Pool for all fencing east of the aforedescribed line, and the Comanche County Pool shall pay one-half the fencing on the west line. Appeal taken by Comanche County Pool.H. Stunkle vs. Hammers & Co., same vs. Northrop & Stevens. Cases continued until the next meeting of the Board of Arbitrators, at which meeting these last two cases will be dismissed, for the reason that since their continuance the Board of Directors of the Association have decided that H. Stunkle is not entitled to membership in the Association, and have ordered their treasurer to return to said Stunkle his membership fee, notifying him at the same time of the decision of the Board.
M. H. Northrup vs. Bridge & Wilson. Board decided that Northrup was entitled to the right of holding 400 head of cattle in Bridge & Wilson
=s pasture, said Northrup paying his pro rata share of all expenses connected with said pasture. Whenever Northrup refuses to pay his share of the expenses, he shall forfeit his rights within said pasture.Dominion Cattle Company vs. New York Cattle Company. Case continued on special agreement of parties in contest.
A. L. Raymond vs. Geo. A. Thompson. Compromised and withdrawn.
The Board adjourned on Saturday morning until November 18th, at which time all cases must be brought forward and settled.
The Board has had a most arduous and disagreeable task in hearing the cases brought before them, and in every instance have endeavored to mete out even and exact justice to all without regard to fear, favor, or affection.
On Friday D. R. Streeter tendered his resignation as a member of the Board, and, as stated elsewhere, Ben Garland was appointed in his place by the Board of Directors. Mr. Streeter, while a member of the Board of Arbitrators, performed his duties in the most conscientious manner, convincing all parties that his only object was to ascertain the exact facts in every case brought before the Board, and then decide accordingly. Not only his associates on the Board, but everyone who has come in contact with him, either in a private or official capacity, speak in the highest terms of his manliness, integrity, and affability which marks him as a true gentleman.
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
Milt Bennett left for the Washita on Monday to look after those cows he bought of Hewins.
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
Hon. C. V. Rogers, an influential citizen of the Cherokee Nation, was in the city last week, returning on Friday.
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
Major Drumm started for his ranch Saturday afternoon, to rest for a few days, and start a bunch of beeves for market, we surmise.
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
J. C. Shaw, foreman for Tony Day, leaves this week on a visit to his home in Texas.
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
R. W., better known as Dick Phillips, of the Comanche County Pool, was here last week, leaving for Chicago Friday, where he will remain for some time. Of course, he had to have the JOURNAL sent to him in order to keep posted.
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
M. H. Bennett, treasurer of the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association, returned on Friday, having completed his mission of paying over to the treasurer of the Cherokee Nation $50,000, being the amount due on the first semi-annual payment on the lease of the Strip.
One week ago last Friday morning, Mr. Bennett commenced receiving the money from the members of the Association, and before night had taken in over $80,000. On Saturday morning, accompanied by City Marshal Henry Brown, he started for Kansas City, where he had a check cashed, and expressed the money to Muskogee, he and Brown going on the same train. Arriving at Muskogee, Mr. Bennett could not find anyone to identify him at the express office, and had to drive over to Tahlequah, where he found Judge Geo. O. Sanders. The latter returned with him to Muskogee, where the cash was received and taken to Tahlequah. The distance between the two places is about 35 miles, over a road none the best, and lined on each side with brush a good portion of the distance. Milt says the trip is the most disagreeable one he ever made in his life, and nothing could induce him to repeat the experience. Notwithstanding the assurance he received that the road was perfectly free from all highwaymen or would-be robbers, all the time he was on the road, a suspicion prevailed in his mind that a half dozen men were liable to jump out of the brush at any time and compel him to throw out the grip containing the money.
The provision in the lease requiring the Association to pay the lease money in cash at the Capital of the Nation is a very foolish one, because the money has to be sent to St. Louis, where it is kept on deposit for the benefit of the Nation. It might just as well be paid in St. Louis at first, thus saving an expense to the Association, and also to the Cherokees.
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
Thos. E. Fenlon, of Leavenworth, and one of the best lawyers in the State, sauntered into the JOURNAL office last Friday. One of the early settlers of Kansas and an old-time personal friend, it did us good to see him and talk over the past, when Leavenworth was, in name and fact, the metropolis of the State. Fenlon
=s visit was for the purpose of taking affidavits in a case before the U. S. Circuit Court, against the Stage Company. He finished his work Saturday morning, and returned home on the afternoon train.
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
Letter From the Territory.
FT. SILL, October 2, 1883.
DEAR HUTCH: I reached here yesterday, after a stay of six days at Reno.
I found considerable sickness among the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, some twenty of the latter having died in the last two months. There is considerable sickness among the Kiowa and Comanches, as there is every fall; but so far, no deaths have occurred. This is probably owing to the fact that the Indians are widely scattered over their reservation.
No news here. Col. Henry is away, which leaves Capt. Byers in command. The hay contract for this post was completed and filled today. There has already been a good many prairie fires, and much of the country between here and the Washita has been burned over. Everything is very dry. Cache Creek and Medicine Bluff are lower than they have been for years. Rain is badly needed.
PHIL. McKUSKER. [McKUSKEE.?]
The Caldwell Journal, October 11, 1883.
Supt. Hutchison, with his Arapahoe school boys, is cutting the crop of corn raised by the school boys in the field west of the stage road. The yield is very large and of good quality, which is the result of labor performed alone by these Indian boys. A large field was also cultivated by the Cheyenne school boys, whose labors were crowned by the same success. If the season is favorable, the boys of these schools each year will raise more than enough corn to supply the school during the winter. Cheyenne Transporter.
The Caldwell Journal, October 18, 1883.
The Vinita Chieftain, says it is reported that Deputy Marshal Grier was killed near Ft. Sill, last Tuesday, while attempting to arrest two horse thieves.
The Caldwell Journal, October 18, 1883.
The Leavenworth Times says that Payne is in that city endeavoring to organize another raid into the Territory, provided the case now before the U. S. District results in his favor. [Boomer story.]
The Caldwell Journal, October 18, 1883.
When we left Leavenworth on Monday, the Grand Jury had not reported an indictment against D. L. Payne and others for conspiracy in attempting to locate on the Oklahoma lands. The probabilities are, no indictment will be found, though both sides seem to be anxious to get the case into court in some shape, in order that the question as to the status of the lands may be settled. [Boomer story.]
The Caldwell Journal, October 18, 1883.
The changes made by the retirement of Gen. Sherman from the command of the army takes Gen. Pope from this department and sends him to San Francisco. Gen. Augur will take his place at Fort Leavenworth. The removal of Gen. Pope causes great dissatisfaction at Leavenworth, because, in his long stay at the Fort, he had become endeared to the people of the city. They say, and with justice, that inasmuch as Gen. Pope has only two years to serve before his retirement, he should be allowed to remain where he is, provided it is agreeable with his wishes. [Boomer related.]
The Caldwell Journal, October 18, 1883.
The switchmen on all the railroads centering in St. Louis and east St. Louis entered upon a general strike for shorter hours and higher wages at noon last Monday. They demand ten hours as a day
=s work, extra pay for Sundays, and 30 cents per hour for all time over ten hours, besides $65 per month of twenty-six working days. The strikers number about 600 men in St. Louis and East St. Louis. The strike will probably cause a blockade of freight at East St. Louis. The strikers are determined to hold out, and if they do, the strike will have a most serious effect upon all classes of freights passing through St. Louis. Stockmen shipping to St. Louis will be compelled to hold off or ship their stock to another market.
The Caldwell Journal, October 18, 1883.
GEUDA SPRINGS, October 11, 1883.
EDS. JOURNAL: Will you permit a reader of your paper to write a few lines from this part of the moral vineyard. Geuda Springs at present is lively, and our businessmen are doing a thriving business, and laying in stocks for the winter. There is a flattering prospect for a railroad through here in the spring, which, added to the present business boom, will make Geuda Springs the liveliest little town in the state. We have recently had a few business changes. J. R. Musgrove is putting up his large sale rooms and laying in a mammoth stock of clothing, as well as groceries, and will compare prices with any clothing house in the west. Mr. Hall is also a wide awake businessman, and is looking up the interest of his hotel which is doing a thriving business. Mr. Hall has had years of experience in the hotel business and is running a first class house in connection with the Springs. Our hack line is doing a lively business and comes in well laden with visitors to the Springs, who speak in flattering terms of our city. D. J.
The Caldwell Journal, October 18, 1883.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoes have driven back such cattle as were over the Territory line to this side of the one hundredth meridian, and burned a sign camp belonging to the Texas Land & Cattle Company on the Washita. The work was done by the Indian Police, preparatory to turning their entire country over on the lease recently made by the tribes to a company of stockmen. The ranges most affected by this action are those of the Texas and Dominion companies, through which the meridian runs. It makes about 20,000 head of cattle more on the Panhandle side of the line than there were before, but we believe those interested have good and ample ranges still, and feel no terrible uneasiness on the subject. Mobeetie Panhandle.
The Caldwell Journal, October 18, 1883.
Stumbling Bear, who is at Geuda Springs, using the water for his eyes, is improving rapidly. Mr. Bear is out of money, but he manages to hang on through the kindness of some white friends.
The Caldwell Journal, October 18, 1883.
Alex Frazier has purchased from the Prairie Cattle Company all of their two-year-old steers, from the old Jones and Hall ranches, numbering 6,500, to be delivered October 25th in the Indian Territory.
The Prairie Cattle Co. have sold all of their two-year-old steers from the Jones and Hall ranches, numbering between six and seven thousand, to Alex. Fraser. They are to be delivered October 25th in the Nation.
[NOTE: BOTH ITEMS APPEARED IN SAME COLUMN...FRAZIER OR FRASER??]
The Caldwell Journal, October 18, 1883.
John A. Blair has received two car loads of thoroughbred and high grade bulls, which he will put on his range. The animals were purchased from Mr. Williamson
=s breeding farm near Independence, Missouri, and are a fine lot.
The Caldwell Journal, October 18, 1883.
Sam Garvin writes us that it is a mistake about M. H. Bennett purchasing a lot of cattle on his range. As Mr. Bennett is below now looking after some cattle he did purchase, we can do no more than give Mr. Garvin
=s contradiction of the statement made in the JOURNAL two weeks ago.
The Caldwell Journal, October 18, 1883.
PROBABLE MURDER.
A Man and Woman Arrested.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Hollister received word that a man had been shot on Sunday night, October 7th, on Hackberry near Skeleton Ranche, in the Territory. Inquiring into the matter, Mr. Hollister ascertained the report to be true, and that the man killed was C. Bothamley, who formerly resided at Newton, and was, at the time of his death, on his way to Texas with 2,000 head of sheep.
It was also ascertained that he had some friends at Newton, and a telegram was sent notifying them of the affair. In answer to the telegram, A. W. Carr, representing the British Association of Kansas, of which Bothamley was a member, came down, and at his solicitation, Hollister went down to Skeleton, exhumed the body, brought it up to this city, from whence it was forwarded to Newton.
Hollister also arrested a man and woman, whose names were ascertained to be Wm. Dodson and Nellie C. Bailey. A boy, who was along with them, was also taken in charge. The woman claimed that she and the deceased were brother and sister, and that Dodson was working for the deceased. That on the night of the 7th, the boy went out to where the man was taking care of the sheep, and while he was gone, Bothamley shot himself. Afterwards Dodson claimed that the Bailey woman was his wife. We did not learn the name of the boy, but understand that his parents live at Newton. The boy
=s story is to the effect, that Dodson was out with the sheep, while the woman, the deceased, and himself were at the camp. The woman told him to go out and help Dodson with the sheep, and he started to do so. He had only gone a short distance when he heard a pistol shot, and on returning found Bothamley lying dead. The three were taken to Wichita, where the man and woman were locked up. The boy was taken charge of by Mr. Carr, who took him to Newton.We presume an examination of the persons will be held before the U. S. Commissioner at Wichita, when all the facts in regard to the parties will be brought out.
The Caldwell Journal, October 18, 1883.
Fin Ewing shipped as fine a lot of beeves Monday as are often seen. Five head were weighed before shipping with the following result: The heaviest weighed 1,670 pounds and the lightest 1,220 pounds
Can average of 1,476. The smaller one was removed and the four remaining ones were found to weigh 1,440, 1,500, 1,550, and 1,670Can average of 1,540 pounds. We think this is about as good a showing for range cattle as anybody can make. Three hundred and sixty-one head of the above cattle were sold to J. G. McCoy, and the remainder, three hundred and forty-three head, were shipped by Mr. Ewing.
The Caldwell Journal, October 18, 1883.
The Vinita Chieftain publishes the following account of the accidental shooting of Capt. J. G. Schrimpsher.
A
We regret to learn that Hon. John G. Schrimpsher, member elect of the Senate, was accidentally shot while sitting on the counter of his store room at Catoosa, Friday night last. The circumstances as related are that a little difficulty occurred between two or three persons, in which one of them attempted to use his revolver. A third person interfered and bore down the weapon when it was discharged. The ball struck the counter, glanced, passed through the wrist of Mr. Schrimpsher, entered the thigh, and lodged in the calf of the leg. The wounds are severe, but are not supposed to be dangerous.@
The Caldwell Journal, October 18, 1883.
C. S. L. S. ASSOCIATION.
Notice to Members.
An adjourned meeting of the Board of Directors, and of the Board of Arbitrators, of the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association, will be held in Caldwell on the 13th day of November, 1883, at which time all matters in dispute regarding ranges will be definitely settled.
The semi-annual meeting of the Association will be held at the same time and place. Every member is earnestly requested to be present, as business of importance will come before the Association.
BEN S. MILLER, President.
J. A. BLAIR, Secretary.
The Caldwell Journal, October 18, 1883.
Capt. R. H. Pratt, who has charge of the Indian school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, arrived on Tuesday from the Territory, where he had been after several Indian children, whom he will take to the school. Capt. Pratt was the first to propose the practical education of Indian children, and is deserving of great honor for the work he has accomplished.
The Caldwell Journal, October 25, 1883.
PAYNE INDICTED. [Boomer story.]
The Grand Jury of the U. S. District Court, now in session at Leavenworth, have indicted Payne and his three associates on the Oklahoma business. It is barely possible the case may come to trial at this term. Should such be the case, whatever the result may be, the case will be carried on up until it finally reaches the supreme court. By the time that very deliberate body acts upon it, Payne will have been gathered to his fathers, and the Indian Territory, as it exists today, will only be a memory.
The Caldwell Journal, October 25, 1883.
Deputy U. S. Marshal H. B. Bell, of this city, returned Friday morning from Buffalo Park, Kansas, where he arrested Charles Ellsworth, better known as
AArkansaw,@ who it is supposed murdered Ellsworth Schuttleman in the latter part of August, who at the time was employed by Mr. Jones. AArkansaw@ was at the time employed at the V____ ranch. It is also supposed that he was the party that stole a horse from J. W. Carter on the Saw Log, as the horse was found and had been sold by AArkansaw,@ and the bill of sale is now in the hands of H. B. Bell. Dodge Globe.
The Caldwell Journal, October 25, 1883.
Gainesville Importer, Oct. 18.
That Boyd Arkansas herd of cattle, stopped in Kansas, has already cost the county more than $1,000 and perhaps, before they get through lawing, it will cost ten times their value. Probably the cattle were half starved and athirst, and not diseased at all.
The Caldwell Journal, October 25, 1883.
The Bothamley Affair.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Hollister returned yesterday from Skeleton, bringing with him the personal property off Bothamley. In one trunk was found a lot of diamond jewelry, a fine clock, and other wearing apparel, which evidently formerly belonged to the deceased wife. In another trunk was found about 300 pounds of silverware. All the property, including the sheep, was turned over to Mr. Carr, the agent of the administrator of Mr. Bothamley
=s estate.[CANNOT READ THE REST OF ARTICLE.]
The Caldwell Journal, October 25, 1883.
WISH I COULD HAVE READ THE NEXT ARTICLE RE CHEYENNE, WHO PARTICIPATED IN BY NORTHERN CHEYENNES AT AN EARLIER TIME...BUT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO READ...COULD NOT EVEN MAKE OUT HIS NAME. COULD NOT READ MANY OF THE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE.
The Caldwell Journal, October 25, 1883.
[PAPER HAD A SUPPLEMENT...THIS ARTICLE WAS IN IT.]
Mule Stealing. A Slick Job.
Last Sunday W. T. Darlington arrived in charge of several Cheyenne and Arapahoe teams, and went into camp on the bottom east of the depot. Mr. Darlington had two mules belonging to the Agency, which were picketed out with the Indian stock. About 8 o
=clock the Indians were disturbed by a commotion among their stock, and going out to ascertain the cause, found that the mules were gone. They immediately sent word to Mr. Darlington, who was staying with J. C. Covington, but as it was dark, no steps could be taken to track the animals.The next morning the tracks were discovered and followed to the house of J. W. Herrod, about a mile and a half north. Here it was discovered that the thief or thieves had found Mr. Harrod
=s wagon standing in front of the house, with a set of harness on it. They appropriated wagon and harness, and drove off without disturbing anyone around the premises. The tracks of the wagon were traced west some distance to where they made a turn and went east, but were lost, owing to the rain which fell before morning having obliterated them. Mr. Darlington returned to town and telephoned to Hunnewell, South Haven, and Wellington, and then continued his search all day, until a late hour Monday evening, but could not obtain any information regarding the team or those who had taken it.The mules could not be ridden, and whoever took them must have known this fact, and the wagon and harness, otherwise he (or they) could not have gotten away with such ease and celerity.
The Caldwell Journal, October 25, 1883.
AD. A. E. REYNOLDS. D. H. DOTY. W. N. HUBBELL.
Reynolds, Doty & Hubbell
INDIAN TRADERS,
CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHOE AGENCY,
DARLINGTON, INDIAN TERRITORY.
DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE, RANCH SUPPLIES, AND EVERYTHING PERTAINING TO THE TRADE. OUR STOCK IS ENTIRELY NEW! Especially Selected in Eastern Markets by Experienced Buyers for the Indian Territory Trade. Come and Examine our Goods and Prices.
We intend to Sell to Ranchmen, living with a reasonable distance of us, at Prices that will not Justify their going to Caldwell for Supplies alone.
The Caldwell Journal, October 25, 1883.
AD. HARDWARE, CUTLERY, AND SPORTING GOODS.
AMMUNITION, ETC. Guns and Pistols Repaired By a First-Class Gunsmith. All kinds of Tinwork turned out on Short Notice. Employing the Best Workmen, am enabled to Give Satisfaction. Also Agent for the Celebrated Glidden and Northwestern BARBED WIRES! THE BEST WIRES MANUFACTURED.
C. F. HULBERT,
Nearly opposite the Leland Hotel, Main Street, Caldwell, Kansas.
The Caldwell Journal, November 1, 1883.
Sunday evening last we had the pleasure of welcoming back from the Salt Plains and in good health our friends and fellow citizens, Mr. R. M. Wolf and Mr. Cale Starr. Dr. Walker of Chouteau, who was associated by appointment with Mr. Wolf, and accompanied the party, stopped at Chouteau. Dr. Harsha who went with them as surveyor from Hutchinson, Kansas, left the party with his son and team at Harper, Kansas, and returned home. From Mr. Wolfe and Mr. Starr, we learn that the object of their mission was accomplished in locating, surveying, and marking the last of the three salt springs or deposits, authorized by act of Congress and the Cherokee National Council, the other two having been previously located. The saline just located is on the Cimarron, a short distance from the state line and twelve or sixteen miles above the mouth of Buffalo Creek. Cherokee Advocate.
[NAMES COULD BE WRONG! FIRST TIME WOLF/LATER WOLFE. INSTEAD OF CALE STARR, NAME COULD BE DALE STARR. HARD TO TELL!]
The Caldwell Journal, November 1, 1883.
Indian Commissioner
=s Report.WASHINGTON, D. C., October 26, 1883.
The following is a synopsis of the annual report of Indian Commissioner Price.
A decided advance has been made in the improvement among the Indian tribes, particularly in the matter of industrial school education. Some tribes have been persuaded to send their children to school that heretofore resisted all efforts to induce them to do so. One question may now be considered as settled beyond controversy, and that is, that the Indian must be taught to work for his own support, and to speak in the English language, or give place to a people who do. Among the things needed to secure success and efficiency in solving the Indian problem, are:
1. An appropriation to survey out the boundaries of the Indian reservations, so that both Indian and white men may know where they have rights and where they have none.
2. A law for the punishment of persons who furnish arms and ammunition to the Indians. No such law now exists.
3. More liberal appropriations for the Indian police.
4. An appropriation sufficient to defray the expense of detecting and prosecuting persons who furnish intoxicating liquor to Indians. No ardent spirits should be introduced into the Indian country under any pretense whatever, nor their sale permitted within twenty miles of the Indian reservation, but under existing laws upon the subject, it is a notorious fact that ale, beer, and preparations of alcoholic stimulants, disguised as medicines, are sold at military posts to soldiers and civilians, and although post-traders are not permitted to sell it directly to Indians, yet it is an easy matter for the Indians to obtain it from soldiers and civilians, to whom it is furnished. The punishments imposed by the law for this offense should be made more severe.
The practice of approving by contracts to collect from the government the money due Indians is one that ought not to exist. It has for years been the practice to approve contracts by which outside parties have taken from the government hundreds of thousands of dollars for service which ought not to have cost the Indians one cent. During the last few years agreements have been entered into between Indians and different attorneys by which these attorneys were to receive from the Indians $75,525 for collecting from the government money said to be due to the Indians.
It is the duty of the government to see that wards of the nation receive what is justly due them free of cost, and it is equally the duty of the government to see that no unjust claim is paid. Congress should confer both civil and criminal jurisdiction on the several states and territories over all the Indian reservations within their respective limits, and make the person and property of the Indian amenable to the laws of the state or territory in which he may reside, except in cases where such property is expressly exempted by treaty or act of congress, and give him all rights in the courts enjoyed by other persons.
Allotments in severalty to the number of 116 have been made to Indians during the year with the best results, and the commission will adhere to the policy of allotting lands where the same can be legally done, and the condition is such to warrant it.
The attention of congress is again invited to the necessity of legislation to enable Indians to make entries under the homestead laws without cost to them. It is necessary that the land within certain reservations be subdivided, and it is important in some cases that this be done at once, although there is not a dollar available for the special purpose.
[Next part pertains to boomers.]
An amendment to the law in reference to intruders, so as to punish by imprisonment as well as fine, is absolutely necessary. An intruder without property has very little to fear of a fine. Notwithstanding his repeated expulsion from the Indian Territory, Payne and his party of Oklahoma colonists have twice, during the present year, made attempts at settlement in that country, requiring the aid of the military, at great expense to the government to effect their removal. The commissioner gives a detailed account of Payne
=s operations, and asks that the special attention of congress be called to these aggressive movements on Indian Territory lands as illustrating the urgent necessity for speedy and effective legislation in regard to trespassers.Recommendations for legislation for the protection of timber on Indian lands are renewed.
During the year there was paid the Indians in cash its annuity and otherwise $745,000. Less than $200,000 of this amount was for the payment of annuities proper, many of which will expire in the near future by limitation in the various treaties.
The increase in accommodations for Indian pupils, which the school appropriations for the last fiscal year made possible, has been followed by a corresponding increase in the attendance of pupils. Exclusive of five or six tribes, the number enrolled during the year just closed, is 5,143, an increase of 650 over last year. Of the 5,143 boarding pupils, 4,396 attend schools on the reservations or in their immediate vicinity. Boarding and day schools on the reservations have made a creditable record. Eight new boarding schools have been opened, making the whole number now in operation, exclusive of training schools, 77.
The Caldwell Journal, November 1, 1883.
Southwest Items.
Medicine Lodge Cresset:
ATom Wilson, well known to all the boys in this county, was in the city on Monday. The Wilson Bros., a short time since, disposed of their three- and four-year-old Texas and half-breed steers to Ed Hewins at the rate of $50 for half-breeds and $40 for Texans.@
The Caldwell Journal, November 1, 1883.
The examination of Nellie C. Bailey before the U. S. Commissioner on the charge of killing Bothamley began at Wichita last Friday. The only witnesses examined up to Monday were J. C. W. Donaldson and Ralph P. Collins. The first testified that he washed and laid out Bothamley after he was shot, on the morning of Oct. 8th; that Bothamley had a wound under his right eye, and that the ball came out at the back of his head; that there was a door in the rear end of the car, and the body laid on the floor of the car with the head toward the door. Collins testified to having been called into the car by Donaldson, found a lady in the car lying on a bed; could not recall the exact words of the conversation, but as near as he could remember, she claimed the deceased to be her brother; that they were both from England, and that they had started for Texas in order to establish a sheep ranch in that State; she also stated to witness that at one time her brother was sick, and they left him behind, but afterwards returned for him; and more of such truck, all with the intention of conveying the impression that Bothamley had committed suicide. The examination had not closed at last accounts, but the testimony of the two witnesses above named, together with the well-known character of the Bailey woman, is sufficient circumstantial evidence against the theory of Bothamley committing suicide.
The Caldwell Journal, November 1, 1883.
The Oklahoma building, which was occupied by Payne and the War Chief, was moved yesterday to Rodof & Howard
=s coal yard, to be used by them for an office. The building was sold at auction a short time ago to satisfy a mortgage. The material of the printing office is stored away in Musgrove=s wareroom, and it will also be sold at mortgage sale in a short time. Geuda Herald. [Boomer story.]
The Caldwell Journal, November 1, 1883.
H. R. Denman, a member of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Cattle Co., left for the East on Tuesday.
The Caldwell Journal, November 1, 1883.
Will C. Quinlan went below yesterday to secure some cattle. Will says that Kansas City is making grand preparations for the Fat Stock Show.
The Caldwell Journal, November 1, 1883.
M. H. Bennett arrived home from the Washita last Friday nig