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VOLUME 1. Reminiscences of the Cherokees. .7. W. 11. UNDERWOOD, of Rome, '*% Georgia. * CHAPTER XVI. Gopyrightal IHSS. All rights reserved.| “BKUOI.ii A SPARK KINDI.ETII A FIRE.” In 1 SIO Mr. J.trues Monroe, being then Its- Fieri lent of the United States, made atom through the Cherf»k«je Nation. lie traveled the roa 1 cutout and worked by the United States Army, in 1804, for a military road, which entered the Chero kee Nation at Weems’ Ferry,on tlie Chat tihooehe river (now in the county of Forsyth), and went by Longswamp (near Tate’s farm), and down Talking Rock c - eek to Coosawatie Old Town (now the farm of Col. Sam Carter, in Murray county, (ia.,) and thence to the “Agen cy” lon, on the Iliwassie river, in V /nnesse* ). Night was ap proticiiift Mr. Monroe arrived near the re.-idcnce of Mr. Jacob M. Soudder, of whom I have formerly written. Mr. .S■•odder was apprised of his coming and had his watchman out to a k him to at hi- loai-e, tendering him the hos pi:alities of his mansion and such en tertainment as was needed for the way worn traveler, There had recently fall en a iv heavy lain, and there were no bridges over the Hightower river which was in-.ir. The river was rising rapidly, nud had to bo forded at what was then, and Is now, called the old Field ford. Mr. I.cwis Blackburn lived on the other aide of the river, about one mile. Mr. Monroe and his guides deemed it pru dent to cross the river and sp< ml the night at Blackburn's. Mr. Soudder was highly oll'ended, and never forgave Mr. Monroe or Mr. Blackburn to the end of Uia ni'e. Mr. and Mrs. Scudder both be longed to the white race, wero raised and highly educated. Here I desire to correct a mistake of mine: Mr. Blackburn was a full-blood ed white man, born in Golden Cave, Greenville District, S. C. Mrs. Black born, when he married her, was the wid ow Buffington. I believe she was the sister of Joe Lynch, a very distinguished Indian Town Chief. I write from mem ory only, and have been, and now am, drawing upon a memory ol lorty years without note or diary, and it would be most wonderful if mistakes are not made, it is intended, in these papers, to put <1 own the truth for tiie future historian concerning tiiis wonderful people and and tills great,country. To write of the Indians only and say nothing of the har dy frontier people who settled here, and redeemed it from the wilderness, and say nothing of the country, would bo very much like performing Shakespeare’s great play of “Hamlet” with the part of llamlet out. Amlsometimes the dull ness ot the prose may be relieved by an anecdote. Just at this place it may be proper to mention tin: remark of a distinguished Georgian who resided in the southern part of the state. There had been an election for governor, and the south end of tiie state had given a very large ma jority for thd democratic party, which elected the democratic candidate for gov ernor. The gentleman speaking was dis pleased and complaining very much of this, end ended his complaint thus: “Well, l think we made a bad trade when we swapped oil"the original inhab itants, the aborigines, for the present white population there.” Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn intertalned President Monroe in a very satisfactory manner. The president was much pleas ed with them and they with him, and complimentary remarks were indulged in m i v freely by both sides, and the vis it ot President Monroe was a green spot in tin* memory of the Blackburn family. Mrs. Blackburn w;is aline housekeeper ami economist, ami saved this money that was made, and the family became well <tf in worldly goods for their day and generation. In 18155, two white men were killed on the road leading from Allatoona by Slllesboro, Montgomery’s farm, Cave jSpiii g and to the Alabama line, called then, and now, the Alabama road. On the top of a ridge west of Enharlec eieek, in a gap, there were two white men shot ami hmtantly killed. One of them was rained .lames 11. Knox and tire other Hubert Katchford. The two Indians ttiat killed them escaped to Arkansas. Knox and Ratchfonf, l ’tiunk. were both from Jackson county, Ga. R&tchford had h on to Mississippi ti> look at the country, and was on liU return home; Km \ was on his wa/ to look at Ala l«int!M*4d Mississippi, and had been in search of a sew' country. Knox and Kitehford, after being robbed, were dragged from the road a distance of about twJhundred yards into a lime sink, and ami buried in a hole made by the blow ing down of a tree, and the earth loosely placed over them. Knox had spent the night at the house of Mr. Henderson, and bis iiorse went back to the house of Henderson. The country at that time was very sparsely setttedf the few peo ple in the neighborhood made such search as they could, and found nothing except Ratehford’s horse, in a lime sink, some two miles from the seene of the murder, shot in the head and killed. Af ter some weeks or months the bodies of the two murdered men were found, un der the clay root, in the shikHmentfc*)ed, and on the person of Knox was fortfd a gold button with the letters ‘M. 11. K.” engraved upon it. This gfihl button was long In tlie possession of a white man named Gassett, who ioutnl it on the de compiled remains of J. 11. Ivnox, and it was of much service as evidence after wards. Some time, say twelve months, after the murder, 11-iruey Swimmer, an In dian, cauie to Floyd county, Georgia, THE CARTERSVILLE . from Arkansas, in company with one, Teraapin. George M. Lavender, a white man, who was an Indian trader, and had been for many years selling goods to the Indians and trading with them in furs and deer skins, cattle and ponies, and whose trading house and store house was near the residence of Major Ridge, the father of John Ridge, about one mile and a quarter north of the present city of Macon. The house is shaded by a large white oak tree, in the yard where Dr. A. S. Jones now resides, formerly the resi dence of the lion. A. R. Wright. Bar ney Swimmer and Terrapin had wander ed abeut among tiie Cherokee Indians, who had emigrated to Arkansas before the making of the treaty ot 1835, with the crime of murder on their conscience, restless and unhappy, and were drawn hack to the scene of the murder by an invisible, indefinable power unknown to them and very imperfectly understood by the wise men, philosophers and scien tists of the age. Swimmer and Terrapin came back to this (Floyd) comity, and visited the store of Lavender. Mr. Lav ender had heard of the murder and Hie finding of the gold collar button by Mr. Gassett. Swimmer had with him a pair of saddlebags marked with the letters J. R. K., and Terrapin bad on a line shirt marked with the letters J. H. K. Laven der traded for tiie saddlebags, and when S wimmer emptied them there was found among the contents another shirt mark ed “Robert RatehforU.” The bodies of Knox and Batch ford were identified by the marks on their clothing, and the ini tials corresponded with these marks. Swimmer and Terrapin were arrested and committed to jail, and in a few days Swimmer, in the presence of Terrapin and the sheriff, one Williams, made a full confession of the murder, which was committed for the purpose of robbery. Floyd Superior court convened in a short time. lion. Owen 11. Kenan was then tiie judge of the Cherokee circuit, a very stern man of strong hard sense, but of rough exterior, and he exercised tiie powers of his office with a strong hand, fn his manners there was little of the suavitor in modo and" very much of the fartiter in re. Swimmer and Terrapin were promptly indicted for murder. Henry L. Sims was then the solicitor general. Mi. Situs was raised in Augus ta, Ga., and studied his profession under John Forsyth, afterwards governor of Georgia. Senator in congress, minister to Spain and secretary of state, under Gen. Jackson. Mr. Sims and Gov. George W. Crawford, were admitted to practice law about tiie same time, and formed a partnership under the firm name and style of “Sims & Crawford,” Mr. Sims being the senior member of the firm. Mr, Sims afterwards moved to Gaines ville, Ga., and w'as the law partner of William If. Underwood at that place. When he was elected solicitor-general he moved to Camming, Forsyth county, Ga. He was recently living in Whitfield county, Ga., and as far as the writer knows is still living in that county. Lewis A. L Lumpkin was the foreman of the grand jury that presented the bill of indictment, and Reuben Herndon was foreman of the traverse jury that found the defendants, Swimmer and Terrapin, guilt}' of murder. 'The defendants were prosecuted by the solicitor-general, Sims, and the late John 11. Lumpkin, and were defended by Barron & Irwin and William 11. Underwood. Judge David Irwin was of the firm of Barron & Irwin. The trial excited great interest. The confession of Barney Swimmer, made in the presence of Terrapin and not denied by the latter, and the corroborating cir cumstances, satisfied the jury and the public of Hie guilt of the defendants, The defendants, Swimmer and Terrapin, were hanged within the limits of the present city of Home, near the upper end of Broad street. This is another in stance that proved the truth of tiie old adage that “murder will out.” Geo. M. Lavender was a Northern man, with good business qualifications, and made a fine estateasan Indian trader. He was the brother of the late Mrs. Robin inson, Mrs. McGuire, who resided near Pinson's store, in Floyd county, and the late Mrs. Joseph J. Printup. lie gave them all fine farms. Lavender’s moun tain, in Floyd county, is named for him. Lavender’s trail crossed the mountain going in the direction of the home of Nancy Overtake, a beautiful, fascinating and attractive Indian Princess, which was near the Anvil spring, now on the farm of Col. John R. Freeman in what is called Texas Valley, in Floyd county, Georgia. The city of Rome is at ihe head of Coosa. The Coosa is formed by the junction of the Oostanauln and the Etowah rivers. The Cherokees pro nounced the latter name something like the sound o( both Uiijhtoia- r and Jtoicah. L cannot now, and never could pro nounce it as the Indians did. fhe Cherokees had no word ending in “an.” It was always, in all instances “er,” with a grunt. “Walleneter” resided on the banks of the Hightower, (is I shall call it so long as the Constitution of the United States guarantees the freedom of speech,) about one quarter of a mile from and below the railroad bridge. I was often at his house witli the Rev. Richard A. Milner, father of the Hon. Thos. W. Milner, of Cartersville, Ga. Wallaneter had two daughters, Harriet and Polly, both very intelligent, inter esting and fine-looking, for Indians. We oftcu heard them call the name of the river, to which they seemed greatly at tached, an 1 their father also often called the name, and it was nothing like 4,Etta waii ” which is now often used as the name of tlie river. It is monstrous and outrageous that those of us now living, who have heard the native Indians pro nounce “Eitowuh” with their soft, mu sical voice, so pleasing to tlie car, should CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUTJ now have to listen to the harsh, inhar monious and outlandish sound, “Etta wah.” Old Wallaneter, it occurs to me, would turn in his coffin or rattle the ! rocks that may cover his grave at such a sound This is a specimen of modern improvement, lie certainly would never suppose that the beautiful river that rip j pied and murmured by his home was intended by such a sound. The names, in their proper, sweet pronunciation by the aborigines, of the creeks and rivers of the Cherokee coun try, should have been preserved as a per petuai memorial of the wonderful peopteJ who were once so happy and among the valleys and mountains streams of this delightful country. flul It is fondly hoped that some one, wiqM more information and a better memor $ than I have, will take the time am I trouble to learn and write for the Covy haxt, or some other paper, these inteij, esting reminiscences. It would be | , contribution that would aid the historiup of tiiis people—and would also be reading. SJ I see in the papers that some one hsL attempted to give the meaning of name “Coosa.” Coosa means “ercekf„ and was the name of principal tril(j| t( Creek Indians. Muscogee was the . oral name of these lu lians. Ci J was the name of another tribe. ' ’ all came originally from *bo r _ o Coosa rive- means “Creek Indian riv ” 1 Coosawattie means “Creek run.” '% * Creek Indians won Coosawattie C'// Town from the Cherokees in a ball pla. * and named it. Afterwards the Giiero kees won it back, but did not change the name, and continued to call it Coosa wattie Qhl Town.. Many tragedies have occurred in this Indian country. I am trying to rescue some of them from oblivion, and would be pleased to receive all the aid in reach. But when it is ottered in the shape of a statement that John Ross was a full blooded Indian, when every man and woman who ever saw him knows he was a half-breed, and there are many now living, (Judge A. R. Wright and Dr. George J. Dykes, among them, now living in Rome,) who have seen him often and know I am correct, I don’t fell aided much in tiiis history. Your acquaintance, the I]on. E. C. Boudinot, of Washington City, will know, having seen Ross often no doubt. John Ross was the owner of the ferry at Rome at the continence of the rivers, when the land lottery occurred. The Coosa River Land Company purchased the lots of land Nos. 244, 23, 3, upon which the ferry was situated. Col. Dan iel R. Mitchell, then of Rome, demanded of John Ross possession of the ferry. Ross refused to give it up, and proposed to keep it*. £WL MJjLuUbJJ- lixocccded lo gather together some of his friends and adherents to take possession. John Ross was apprised of his intention and had his friends on hand ready for the strife. Ross’ party was headed by Thomas Woodward, a very brave and powerful man, six feet and four inches high, finely proportioned, with a well knit frarno. Woodward and live others were found in possession of the fiat. Col. Mitchell and five others arrived and proposed to take the flat by force. All on both sides were brave, determined men, insensible to fear. Col. Mitchell and his men were fully determined take possession oi the fiat and the ferry. Torn Woodward and his men were as fully determined to hold it. The oppos ing forces paused for a moment and looked at each other. Mitchell demanded possession and Woodward refused to yield. Mitchell insisted that lie was au thorized by a grant from the State of Georgia. Mitchell claimed under the occupant right of the Indians, which just and equitable title was guaranteed to them by nineteen treaties. A general fight ensued. To the credit of all concerned on both sides, no one was armed with any deadly weapon. The fight continued some time with va rying results and without anything de cisive. A Methodist preacher had gone down es a looker-on, not intending to participate in the fray. He was a man of peace and followed the Great Master as far as any mere mau in his calling could. All who knew him will bear witness to tlie witness to the fact that be was as good a man as ever lived or died, and there is no doubt that he is now in heaven. His name was spelled Genubeth Wynn. lie had witnessed the affray, lie saw his race contending for what he believed their legal rights, lie had watched the contest with an eager eye. Woodward and his party were, in ids judgment, pressing Mitchell anil his men to the bank away from the flat. Like a lien he rushed into the fiat, seized a pole about twenty feet long, iced to propel the flat from bank to bank across the river, and with one blow lie knocked Woodward out of tlie boat into the river, and catching tlie pole about the middle be swung it around with powerful force knocked two others of Woodward’s party out into the water. The other three dodged his pole and jumped into the river and swam to the north bank abandoning the flat, and all of Woodward’s party were gone, scat tered. Wynn had not spoken a word until all of Woodward’s party had dis appeared. He then shouted the Indian war-whoop, went up on the bank and sat down and wept. Col. Mitchell and his party quietly took possession of the flat and were not afterwards disturbed. It will be perceived that one man was the Samson in that contest, and like Da vid of old, he could fight as well as pray and sing psalms. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Do you want a beautitul skin? Take Curry’s Liver Compound. It imparts tone to the liver, takes away that bilious yellowness from the skin, purifies the blood auJ invigorates the system. TE.\ VEAKS FOKJAS.It. FISH. The Marine Bank President on His Way To Auburn. \ :iit*’ I SRites Deputy , ■ ' u.-uv< • ■ a i n A s •••!••> ' ,1 . l in !>. :: ' ( !»;■ ; <’;i'u:i<v-i ;" pr. at the bar,' * “ : iavc yi.u i the .Lt !_c'“ ol Fish. The pi isoner shook lbs ) :oat^HHBHH ing,” lie replied. While sentence was being passed kept his hands clasped in front of hinpßj He held his head up and looked straight at the Judge. Seated close to him were one his sons, Irving Fish, who is lame, and his brother-in-law, U. H. Dudley, a canned goods merchant. Marshal Er hardt, Commissioner Shields, and others come into the court room to see the de fendant. Some persons supposed from the wording of the sentence that it means that Fish must serve more than one term. So he must, but all the terms begin at once and expire together. After Judge Benedict got through Fish turned on his heel and walked out of court with an officer, lie went to the deputy marshals room, and after re maining there a few minutes he started back to jail. There was a crowd in the street waiting to see him, and at tiie olfi oer’s suggestion, the prisoner’s brother in-law hired a cab for a dollar. Fish remarked that his sentence was “a rough one.” On his return to jail he spent some time writing letters, and then began preparing for his departure to Auburn. He put all his wardrobe in a small gripsack, which had on the out side the stamped gilt letters, “J. D. F.” One of his daughters was admitted to see him in the afternoon, and remained with him several hours. She was plainly dressed, and wore a red rose on her jack et. His son Irving also joined him. His other sons had parted with him earlier in the day. The only other visitor lie had was Jerome B. Fellows. Fish had something to eat in the boarders’ room before going away. The officers said that pork and beans had been his main stay at most meals. Ferdinand Ward was in his piivate room and did not meet Fish, whose last hour in the jail was spent with his son and daughter in the Warden’s room. Ilis daughter came out with tears in her eyes. The old man’s face exhibited no sign of emotion. Deputy Marshals Bible and Jeffries came for him at 4 o’clock. One ol the officers took a pair of handcuffs from his pocket, but the other officer said that it was unnecessary to , use them. Fish shook hands with the Warden and those around him, and at 5 o’clock quit the jail w ith his son and daughter .and the two officers. They walked . through Grand street and got on a Second avenue car. Fish asked in a joking tone if the Government paid the car fares. Then he handed the conductor a quarter for tlie five fares. lie conversed with l is daugh ter most of tlie way up town. The prisoner and the officers took the Gk> train, due at Auburn at 0:20 this morning. When the party reached the Grand Central station Fish went to the new s stand and bought a ten-cent mem orandum book. The newsboy rushed up alongside of him and shouted to the newsdealer: “Look out for Fish. He is going up oil the six-thirty.” Fish looked .up and quickly replied: “Yes, and he has got a lot of detectives with him.” The newsman, when informed who his customer w*as, said that he was going to remark that Fish ought to have got twen ty years, and was glad he didn’t. The ex-President walked to the water foun tain and took a drink, and then sat down between iiis son and daughter. He took out from his gripsack a newspaper which enwrapped a number of cigars, lie gave a cigar to each of tlie officers and select ed three for himself before replacing the package. A brother of Judge Benedict passed and looked at him. The assgi e? of the Marine Bank went by on hL way ro a train. FL ii removed ids iron-bowed I spectacles from his ej’es in the sta:ion. When the train was ready his sou shook H *■ * 'ii. i ■i k i; t‘\ i ni ng Ml'. A a--M-ii iiMi'.' lit ii; -^|HHNHBHHhH| by means of a Sadder. was interrupted and Mis,, *_ tured. Watson was threatened 0( j rest, and his sweetheart was put 4.r n j gSI Mrs. Adams eagerly removed all . hij child’s clothing except the night- drc,ss, and locked her in the bedroom after nail ing down the windowsasli. On Thursday evening young Watson visited the house while the family slept, and interviewed his sweetheart through the closed win dow. The girl was compelled to rise from the bed wrapped in all the bed clothing and place her eat to a crack in the window in order to listen to the loving words of her venturesome admirer. She explained to him her predicament in the matter of clothing, and then they arranged for an elopement Friday night. Watson’s broth er-in-law is an engineer on the Shenan doah Valley railroad, and runs an engine north from a little water station near the Adams mansion to Luray every morning about four. He had his engine in waiting at the water station at four o’clock sharp this morning, with fires burning brightly and a full head of steam on. THE RESCUE AND PURSUIT. About one o’clock this mording young Watson drove from bis house to tlio Ad ams mansion, carrying in bis light wagon a full suit of ladies’ underclothing, with black silk dress, bat, veil, gloves, etc., which his sister had prepared for him. The programme was for him to pass the clothing to his sweetheart through the window, and after she had dressed she was to fly with him to the waiting engine by which they were to reach Luray. When Watson arrived at the Adams resi dence, about 3 a. m., he found to his hor ror that during the long drive over the rough country road the bundle of clothing had bounced out and been lost. In de spair he seized an enormous carriage robe which he had brought along and mounted the ladder to Miss Adams’ window. The girl was waiting in fear and trembling, sitting on a chair near the window, with the bed clothes wrapped around her slight form- Watson explained the mishap and desperately proposed 'that the girl should come with him anyhow. It took half an hour of pleading to induce her to accede to the proposal. The lover finally gained his point, and, forcing she window, enter ed the room. Under Miss Bertie’s direc tion he assisted in sewing her quaking form up in a blanket. Then he envelop ed her in the carriage robe and carried her down the ladder, When near the ground the ladder snapped in two, and Miss Ber- tie screamed as they fell about four feet. They were uninjured, but as they re gained their feet Mr. Adams’ head shot out of the window, and he cried to them to stop. Watson sprang at the girl, who seemed half inclined to obey, and throw ing her across his shoulder ran to^the waiting wagon. Ten minutes’ drive brought themjto the railroad. It was now bioad daylight, and as the lovers climbed into the cab they caught sight of Mr. Adorns riding madly toward them, shot gun in hand, and roaring at them to halt. The engine was at once started, and was soon flying towards Luray at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour. They stopped just outside the village, and the two men took turns in carrying the half uneon scieus girl to the house of a friend. Here she was supplied with proper clothing and about 9 o’clock a. m., went into Luray with her lover, where they were married by a ministerial friend. Mr. and Mrs. * Watson then drove leisurely homeward. 1 u ■ ('mu f ' l:U ] f av ■■ n ‘ lii/< ’ C: ' • mV.' 1 An c -i:v'i)eiV’ as’X* r ■■ 1? Jin.i cabs upon the L ;it p'* f -3 grounds upon which till-. * State of Georgia were repuo'iid, story is a long one, and theuj - State securities disallowed, withTih.m amounts and reasons, have been pu-ig] lished in this paper. Probably the rnbst succinct presentation of the State’s po sition has been made by Congressman X. J. Hammond, of Atlanta, whose admira ble letter was published in the Chronicle on the 10th of June last. In it he shows how the bonded debt of the State was in creased from five to somewhere between ten and thirteen million dollars; how the State’s endorsement had been put upon railroad bonds up to nearly six millions of dollars; bow roads were recklessly chartered and endorsed, until, as Col. Hammond says: “Xo man can imagine where so many railroads in Georgia were needed. The multitude ot our roads to be so aided spawned upon our statute books in that fiuitful ten days, might have increased ad infinitum had not the projectors run out of the names of corporators and of places to connect by railroads on paper, to be built by pa per. Very few of them were ever built or even begun.” In each of these the endorsement of the State for from $12,- 000 to $15,000 per mile was offered upon the terms specified in the Constitution, and the completion of sections of ten or twenty miles of each road. And yet mon ey was advanced or. these roads in plain violation of the Constitution, before the lines had been graded or issued, and it has been shown by the purchasers and it has been shown by the purchasers and holders knew all these facts before they accepted the bonds so endorsed. The Cartersville and Van Wert railroad com pany bonds were endorsed under the law requiring live miles to be completed, where but one and half miles were com pleted, and later on $175,000 was ad vanced when but three miles had been finished. On 7th of July 1871, Mr. Kimball, its President, asked Gov. Bul lock to endoise $300,000 of bonds, in the new name, upon the promise to with draw and cancel those $275,000 endorsed in old name. Governor Bullock en dorsed and delivered as requested, but the first batch were not withdrawn or canceled. Clews was the company’s treasurer, and held these bonds with lull kn iwledge of the facts. These, then, are some of the reasons why the State has outlawed the bonds and declined to allow herself to be sued in the courts for their consideration.—Augusta Chronicle. A Great Discovery. Mr. Win. Thomas, ot Newton, la., says: “My wife has been seriously af fected wit ha cough for twenty-five years, and till' 'pt ing more severely than ever before. She had used many renn dies without relief, and being urged to try Dr. King’s New Discovery, did so, with most gratifying results. The first bottle relieved her very much, and tiie second bottle has absolutely cured her. She has not had so good health for thirty years.” Trial bottle free at D. W. Cur ry’s Drug Score. Large size SI.OO. G iß' ■ I m Ipl ! I “lie Ins a lot (..this *** somewhere at this monied ly afraid they will prove p« obstructing the course of justice.’ Other persons, however, are impress*, with the belief that the money is not entirely out of existence, but is still held in somebody’s possession. Even the at torney of Ferdinand Ward admits that this view is plausible. Some months ago he said : “I do not mean to deny that there is not somewhere a large amount of property, but Ward hasn’t got, it as ho gave up everything when he failed. Who has tills property secreted I will not say.” Senator Ingalls, who has just returned from the Indian Territory, whither he went with a sub-committee to investi gate certain matters by order of the Sen ate, said that he found fifty per cent, of the entire revenue of the Cherokees was spent for educational purposes. Wherever thirteen children could be gathered together a school-house was built and a teacher with ample qualifica tions was employed. Two colleges, one for each sex, were maintained, the build ing of noble proportions and all the ap pointments creditable. The tribal gov ernment not only furnished buildings and paid tiie teachers, but clothed and fed the pupils. A number of graduates were selected eacli year and sent at tho public expense to continue their studies at Yale, Dartmouth and other high insti tutions of tiie East. Of the 70,000 In dians inhabiting that country, there is not a pauper. No person is supported at the public expense and no one lacks a home. Only one insane person was heard of. There is, said the Senator, no occupation of the Oklahoma country at all and as far as the cattle men are con cerned there never has been even an at tempted occupation. The Senator was very glad, to say that in recent inter views with the President and Secretary of the Interior lie had discovered a vig orous determination to prevent an inva sion of the rights of the Indians or any infraction of the guarantees of the treaty under which the land was ceded in ISGG. Never Give Up. If you are suffering with low and de pressed spirits, loss of appetite, general debility, disordered blood, weak consti tution, headache, or any disease of a bil ious nature, by all means procure a bottle of Electric Bitters. You will be surpris ed to see the rapid improvement that will follow; you will be inspired with new life; strenfith and activity will re turn ; pain and misery will cease and henceforth you will rejoice in the praise of Electric Bitters. Sold at fifty cents a bottle by D. W. Curry. G