The Daily Chieftain, 1898-10-20

ceny and concealing stolen prop property; - erty; property; dismissed. The case of Isaac Nolen, charged . with the murder of Andrew Ater Ater-eon, - eon, Ater-eon, was taken up this afternoon. The killing occurred sometime last year near Sapulpa. Nolen is a white man with Indian wife and children, and the deceased was also a white man. From the ar array - ray array of witnesses the case will oc occupy - cupy occupy a day or two.

own courts shall have jurisdiction over the Cherokees? There are many more of these hard ques questions, - tions, questions, if the Cherokees continue in their present frame of mind and push them to answer in the , court of: last resort. - The closer; the strange conditions of this problem are viewed ther greater the respect felt for. the policy which has kept the Dawes-commission at work talking the way to tbe agreements.

Cherokee School Fond. The treasury department, in. an opinion just transmitted to Secre Secretary - tary Secretary Bliss, confirms the view of the . interior department, thatcongress, by the Curtis Indian Territory act, did dot intend to cripple the cause of Indian education, which has heretofore been carefully fostered. The decision is on a question look, ing to the immediate relief of the

Leave worth penitentiary. Charles B. Moore, larceny; plead guilty, sentenced to two years and six months in the penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth. Joseph Bough, larceny; plea not guilty, on call. Silas Tilders, liquor; plea not guilty. The larceny case against the Wycklifls was continued gener generally. - ally. generally. Read Vann, larceny; plea guilty. Sentenced to five years in the pen

This government has played at treaty-making with Indians from the earliest times. The pipe of peace has been smoked at frequent intervals and elaborate agreements have been entered into. The farce that tribes were nations has been performed over and over. Indian treaties have been recognized as binding until it pleased the gov

court in connection with passing what may to some seem a severe sentence, if men will persist in selling the vile liquors offered in tbe "doggeries", of this town and elsewhere, they certainly deserve no sympathy when indicted and arraigned before ' tbe court. No man can longer plead ignorance on

otherwise than authorized by exist existing - ing existing treaties and laws. It is, ac accordingly, - cordingly, accordingly, within the power of the secretary, of the interior to pay these funds through some United States disbursing officer for tbe purpose as authorized.'

of the Indian nation. ' A Disappointment. Mrs. H. C. Cook fears from recent communications with her son, Allen, of the New York, that he will be ; un unable - able unable to make the expected visit next month. The ship Is now at the Brooklyn navy yard and owing to the