147 YEARS AGO

General Sheridan Says: On Thursday Josephs band were on the east side of the Yellowstone, on the trail leading from Baronets bridge, at the mouth of the great canyon and Clarks ford mine, and Howard was only a short distance behind them. He probably crossed to the east side of the Yellowstone, at the head of the canyon, on last Thursday It is because so many bodies of troops are moving in so many different directions, and with such celerity, that Gen. Sherman thinks an engagement is inevitable in a very short time.

– The Creek National Council will meet in Okmulgee the first Tuesday in October.

– The largest, best and cheapest stock of cookstoves in the Indian Territory can be had at J.S. Atkinson’s.

– Seventy-three strange tourists were rusticating in Muskogee last Saturday, looking not for work, but a free ride on the M., K. & T. Railway.

– George Fisher brought in more peaches Thursday; they were shipped to Stringtown by W.B. Crabtree.

– The male high school at Park Hill, Cherokee Nation, opened last Monday – every seat full. The female high school ditto. One hundred and fifty scholars in the primary department.

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