The Weekly Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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Established 1883
0. Af. MARRS PRINTING COMPANY
PUBUSHFRS.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Yenr by mart - - f 1.00
Six Months by mail -50
Three Months by mil 25
D. M. MARRS : - Editor
Vinita Okla. Friday February 24.
No the burglars have not been
caught. Not yet.
O
The love feast between the two
houses of the state legislature con-
tinues. O
The registration books will be open
before -the primary election on March
21 and all legal voters who from any
cause have not registered should avail
themselves of the privilege of regis-
tering. One week before the primary
will be the time the books are open.
O
The price of coffee has been advanc-
ing for several months owing it was
asserted to the prospects for a poor
crop. Now the existence of an alleged
coffee trust has been called to the at-
tention of the department of justice
and It is claimed that this Is the rea-
son for the adwuice of 4 c?nts on the
Brazilian product.
O
The "grandfather clause" is still the
law in Oklahoma and will continue to
be until declared unconstitutional by
the supreme court of the
States. The election officers who en
Russia hasn't picked anybody she
can whip lately but China Is about the
most helpless victim that could be
selected.
O
Advices from Washington Indicate
that Senator Owen has backed up on
his bill to reopen the "too late baby
case." It is . little late but we are
glad to see the senator getting right.
"We commit this matter to the care
of the Canadian Parliament" said W.
3. Fielding Canadian minister of
finance introducing the reciprocity
agreement In the Dominion Parlia-
ment "with the firm conviction that
it is going to be a good thing for Can-
ada and a good thing for the United
States and that we will continue to
have it and maintain it not because
therV is any binding obligation to do
so but because the intelligence of the
two countries will decide that it Is a
good thing for the promotion of friend-
ly relations and for the development
of commerce of the two countries."
The contest between the two
branches of the state legislature has
about resolved itself into a battle of
the bosses Haskell & Cruce. One
bosB that is out of office and Is a meas-
ure at least discredited and the other
as governor of the state with all the
duties and obligations of his office up-
on him and in the best standing with
the people of the state. Cruce has the
advantage of a clean record the con-
fidence of the people and the swing of
appointive power and will eventually
win out. ' -; ' ' "J
- o hrtj i
Senator Lorlmer made a mighty
pretty "human interest" plea to be
allowed to retain his seat In the Unit
ed States senate but the confessions
of the bribe-givers and bribe-takers are
against him.
O
The Chieftain's proposition to plant
A new beatitude has been; added -to
the New Testament list. "Blessed is
United the man who is too short." Not too
short in financial matters but short
forced it at the last election were un- jn saying what he has to say and in
der oath to do so and could not havejnot boring people .to long speeches
done otherwise. If the supreme court .The writer who says his say in a few
should knock It out then It will be .lines the preacher who finishes in
time to stop enforcing it. thirty minutes or less the singer who
concludes with a few stanzas the visi-
Those fool geese that flew north last
week will have it all to do over.
O
Its funny how many women have
absolutely nothing to wear when a big
sale is announced.
' O
Oklahoma City hasn't given a bonus
for a state capital nor a newspaper
since Governor Haskell went out.
O
One of the most important problems
before the people of Vinita is the cas
ing out of the salt water brought in
by the new artesian wells. This mat-
ter should have the serious attention
of the people of Vinita.
O
To Messrs. imms and Costly the
two county commissioners who stood
against Vinita monopoly we extend to
you our hearty approval of your wise
Judgment and far-sightedness. So
long as gentlemen of your principles
are on this Important board the peo-
ple of Craig county on the outside of
Vinita need have no fear of the hog
gish desires of that burg. Again we
compliment you publicly for your ac
tion in the matter of dividing the
coun'y funds in six piles instead of
one.. Welch Watchman.
The decision of the county commis-
sioners In the matter of the disposi-
tion of the county funds by deposit-
ing in six banks instead of one was
not the matter of criticism or conten
tion. The offer of all the banks was i a fellow terming himself 'Gander-
the same except that of cashing county bone's Forcast' located at St. Louis
warrants at par which of course was offers to furnish us a lot of poetry and
an Important consideration to every j other silly stuff if we will run an ad-
man jjhe. county i who has or. may vertisement In the Register each week.
haViwarrant tojcish. Ten. per cent . "A "fellow out west wants us to run
means many tb.otfsa.nds of dollars to 1 a lot of advertising for him for noth-
the 'People of the county. The Chief-j ing and if it brings results he may
tain insists that every bank in the become a customer
county should have made the same "A gun firm wants us to run $19
proposition and placed the county on . worth of advertising and then send in
a par basis. The Chieftain certainly $io in exchange for a shotgun. Such
has no choice as to which bank should a gun would retail at about $6. For
have the deposits' other than that the running $17 worth of locals we can
best proposition should be accepted In get a $1 magazine telling us how to
Pryor is attempting to support two
daily papers the Call and the Clipper.
' o
There Is yet time for the announce-
ment of a few more aspirants for the
office of chief of police.
o
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Guthrie Okla. Feb. 21.-
The legislature has not fully de-'adoption of the fifteenth amerdmJ
elms along the drive-way to the hos- elded to tax the people of the state to'tQ the United statea constitution
pitai for the Insane is meeting with"""" ' '"" . . . Searate R-wr
favor by most of the land owners along w t . . ' .... 1
.v. ... .... tJ t rxTi ii ho. you can put him in a "Jim Cm
i i m i wi rn iiD in r itivi inn fiti 1 1 i ui'it .iu ini iriti pi luriiLi i nun lc- b
this work could be reached this sea- lieves in more business and less poll- -udi.u uecaus ui ma race ana co
son it would be a long step toward altics as he has not decided to aecom- but you cannot take from him the
pany Frank Greer to Oklahoma City .tlve franchise
O
thing that would gladden the whole
state in a very few years.
O
Next to liquor the carrying of con-
cealed weapons gets more men into
trouble than any other one thing.
There ought to be a law passed and
enforced that would make it so hot for
the pistol toter that guns would be
left off. The man with a gun in his
pocket is looking for trouble and
sooner or later will get what he is
looking for.
o
It is not good policy to give business
secrets away but as many people won-
der how editors get rich so quick we
give out the following information
remarks the editor of the Paxton (111.)
Register hoping that every; one of
our readers will not take advantage
of this and engage in the newspaper
business.
A few days ago a child wa3 bitten tor who don't stay all day the man
in the western part of town by a dog who stops talking when you want to
hear him go on. "messed is tne man
who is too short.
0
Some Oklahoma papers seem to
supposed to have hydrophobia. The
animal's brain was sent to the Pastuer
Institute at Oklahoma City and pro-
nounced an unmistakable case of
hydrophobia. More than a score of
the interest of all the people.
do dressmaking at home. By running
Vinita water is the greatest single
asset the city has and to allow it to
become adulterated is a piece of short
sightedness that would be inexcusable.
O-
Remember the meeting of the Com-
mercial Club tonight. The interests
of Vinita are paramount and should
have the attention of every business
man in the city. If the Commercial
Club Is not just what It ought to be
maybe it is partly your fault. Come
out tonight and make the meeting a
rousing one.
O
The memorial of W. W. Hastings
attorney for the Cherokee Nation re-
monstrating against the passage of the
Owen bill to authorize William Brown
and Levi Gritts to institute and prose-
cute suits in the court of claims in the
"too late baby case" has been ordered
printed for the use of the committee
on Indian affairs rnis memorial is
an able presentation of this case and
ought to have the effect of knocking
the Owen bill into a cocked hat. This
bill cannot be urged on the ground
that it would extradite the final settle-
ment of Cherokee affairs and it is cer-
tain it would not .benefit the Cherokee
people.
Today the teachers of Oklahoma are
Journeying to Muskogee to attend the
annual convention of he state teach-
ers' association.
The body should speak as a unit in
The Watchman is captious and $50 worth of advertising and sending Ifavor of the raerlt gystem in the pub.
Yx AH tirllftllw s-v tnrnAvntiMi? -rr n f y- - in? A 1 il.it. "111. 3 Jll V I
think there are only two men in the
other dogs are known to have been state that stand any show of going to
bitten by the mad ranlne yet little the United States senate at the expira-
has been done to counteract the pos- tion of Senator Owen's term. The
Bible effects. The board of health state is certainly not so poor as to be
might very properly get busy.
O
The business men of Vinita are mak-
ing a lamentable mistake In their gen-
eral failure to attend the weekly meet-
ings of the Commercial Club. The
club represents or ought to represent
the business interests of Vinita and
deserves the attention of every man
who would do his part toward the
general advancement of the city. The
town like the Individual that ceases
to be active and alert to everything
that promises advancement soon lags
into an apathy that ia fatal to further
development. To gather In the Com-
mercial Club rooms once a week and
discuss matters of importance to the
city ought to be profitable and should
bring results.
0
There died in Oklahoma one day
this week a woman whose life reached
back into a time the turbulence of
which the present generation can have
Httle conception. The mother of the
James boys Frank and Jesse who for
f.jtwo decades were hunted. JlkewUd
animals'- aW'bjer the country from
Kentucky to ' California. Mrs. Zt'felda
(j Samuels the : mother of Hhese - boys'
. I- t V . 1 .1
i wits I Hn i BUiai iimv . ri uiiutw aim
... . i. v..-f w i:i
; motner-UKet never iist iaiii mur.iiopei
in ' her bandit1 sons. Once in a fight
with officers in which the boys were
engaged at the old home near Liberty
Missouri the old woman lost an arm
shot away by a bullet intended for
one of the boys. After a stormy life
reaching toward the cetnry mark the
old lioness is at peace and was burled
beside Jesse in the old family burying
ground at Liberty Missouri. The
mother's love dominant to the last was
the ruling characteristic of her stormy
life.
0
When "knocks" on big corporations
for their heartlessness are so com-
mon it Is a relief and only everjday
fairness to take special notice of the
genuine human generosity of the Dia-
mond Match company which at Presi-
dent Taft's solicitation has just sur-
rendered its patent on the harmless
form of phosphorus for match manu-
facture. The pending bill In congress
that will prohibit the use in match fte-
tories of the kind of phosphorus which
fauses necrosis of the jaws is a meas
tire that by every consideration of
humanity ought to be promptly enact-
ed. But if it had been passed with
this patent still in force only the D'a-
mond Match company or its licensees
would have been able to make any
matches at all and all the lesser match
concerns would have been put out ol
business. The president's request wa3
of course a strong influence but there
was no way of compelling the trust
to give up Its monopoly and let Its
smaller competitors live. So its ac-
tion was voluntary and Is one clear
item to the credit of real unselfishness
In business.
compelled to choose between Haskell
and Owen with no alternative. In the
opinion of the Chieftain the next sen-
ator will be neither of them. There
are a number of men in the state that
would be a credit to this great state
in this high office and men who are
clean of any taint whatever. W. W.
Hastings Bob Williams Jesse Dunn
or J. A. B. Robertson would be among
the number that would make good. It
Is time to stop talking about the
chances of Haskell or Owen and look
up some other available man.
O
The folly of hysterical action was
never given a more forceful illustra-
tion than in the case of the removal
of the capital of Oklahoma from Guth-
rie to Oklahoma City. The present
snarl is almost entirely attributable to
the hasty and ill-considered action of
the then governor in ordering the Im-
mediate removal of the Btate offices
before the vote had been canvassed.
Had common sense methods been fol-
lowed and the general understanding
as to the observance of the restrictive
clause in the organic act been 0bserV-
ed y jjOklahpnta ! City' could' have0 'gone
aseatl.wttjjtUt? buildings for state pur-
posesas she had obligated herself to
demand ould have had them all ready
for occupancy at the tlme( set for re-
moval which would have done away
with all the present trouble in finding
quarters for the various departments
have permitted the business of the
state to have gone forward uninter-
ruptedly and would have given Okla-
homa City a better name and more
substantial benefit than she is receiv-
ing from the present situation Pur-
cell Register.
0
The papers are printing a rehash of
a fight that took place many years ago
between Senator Robt. L. Owen and
Col. L. B. Bell. The Chieftain man
knows all about that fight In fact he
was the referee and of course had to
see It. It took place at the old Cher-
okee court house in what was then
Delaware district. Owen and Bell
were the opposing council in a fam-
ous law case In the Cherokee courts.
Judge Geo. W. Clark was the district
judge and the fight took place in his
court. It wasn't much of a fight as
fights went in those days. Col. Bell
called Owen a liar and the latter told
him he was another and then the men
were fighting over a small table in
the court house. Owen struck Col.
Bell over the eye and the latter threw
a lamp at his antagonist striking a
deputy sheriff on the arm and break-
ing the lamp. Col. Bell reached over
the table and caught Owen by the
collar of his woolen shirt and nearly
tore It off him. By-standers pulled the
meii apart and the trial went on. Dock
Cunningham was deputy sheriff and
being a giant in size parted the men
easy enough. Everybody laughed and
there was mighty little excitement.
either wilfully or ignorantly mls-statea $25 to an Atlantic City firm we will be
the facts. The International Bank & given a deed to a lot. When the tide
Trust company made the same offer is in the lot stands six feet under
of three per cent interest that the water.
other banks made and went them one "A Kansas real estate firm will give
better by offering to cash county war- us a deed to a lot 22x60 ft for $40
rants at par. Every individual who worth of advertising and $25 cash. We
ever has to discount a warrant can wrote a fellow who knew of the lots
consistently charge it to Commission- offered and he replied that they had
ers Costly and SIrams. no cash value but a trading value of
O about $5.
Senator Owen attempts to justify "If we can run a column write-up of
the introduction of a bill to permit a doings to be held in North Dakota
Levi B. Gritts Frank J. Boudinot and this fall .amounting to about $7 we
Richard M. Wolf to Institute a. suit in will be sent two $1 tickets. Our rail-
the court of claims to test the right of road fare up there and back for two
enrollment of the new-born children would be about $60. We can have al-
llo schools of Oklahoma and also for
the dissociation of the school work
from politics.
" Arafn. at strch convention a there
..... . . nrevented from votine because o
snouia De tne rreest criticism or me - ; .. . . . I
color or condition or servitue
This was the declaration of Ju
John Embry of Guthrie United St
district attorney during his argun
before United States Judge John
fVitfprnl hr Mnnrlnv In annnnri.
thfi Riifficifincv of the indictment
cently returned under Embry as p
cutor against Duke Jeffries and 1 t
lard Smith of Seward J J. Beal ;-;
Guinn and Harry Neal of Klngf
county on charges of . conspi E
through enforcing the state's g
father clause law which is prohii
hy federal statute.
Appearing for the defendants a
tornevs were W. A. LedbetlWui-
Iahoma City former private coun
to Governor Haskell; Judge jCT
Stuart of McAlester former IT
States attorney under President CL
land; Norman Haskell a son o
former governor; Fred Bransoiv
Muskogee chairman of the demo
state committee and C. G. Horn
Guthrie. They appeared not onii
the defendants but also for the
as defending a state law and wi
exception of Horner for the
cratic committee. These attorney
paid by legislative appropriation
proved by Governor Cruce.
Embry made his strong point e
fact that the Oklahoma grand
clause provides on educational
and then submits to the test onty
persons or their descendants who
not vote under some other form o;
ernment prior to 1866.
The phrase "under some othef
of government" Embry de
simply revises the laws of all;
states existing prior to 1866 r-
to qualification' of voters 'an
added that in no state was any
educational system operative in this
state. From criticism comes improve-
ment. The city of Baltimore has re-
cently employed national experts to
criticize its school system. x
Our educational system is not fault
less bv anv means. One criticism fre-1
quently heard is that ft is too. expen-iWs race- color and previous co
cepting the negroes therefore
Oklahoma law by re-enacting
gro disfranchising laws of other
seeks to and does disfranchis
the negro by compelling him i
mit to the educational test beca
slve to the school patrons. Another is eivlluue-
that the pupils are pushed along too1 14 is an iresting fact that
ranidlv for thnmiithnenft. and nmA is a southern man a native ti
u tucky and ther author of the on .
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.upon the ground that it will expedite most any Chicago daily paper sent us 'over-emphasized
i i . l - mi. I : i .. a m i x 1 . I
.a num neat nig ui wie case tuis is in- iree. x lie suusenpuuu rate is uuiy $ 4
other words if a citizen heard that worth of locals.
arate school law Oklahoma hai
n ... 1 . l. J a . : i 1 liau. - t'
I 1L ttUUiU LIB UlLei eSLlllK IU Cie W K 1 r- If
deed a very. unsatisfactory excuse. In . but all we have to do is to run $36 i in The attorneys for the def$
i i uviua cuutawia luiuaic a uiutciucul i
ureine nation-wide uniformity In text-iarBueQ inai ine UKianoma
" r rt j.i r iii.!-
Kvb-o o fKof rV v fv. iaiuei ciause BLamie ia vuusui
confusion of principles nor confound- !that lt has been stained by
ine nhraneolow. Pnnila mmlmr Into iPeIate courtS of tne state
Oklahoma from other states find the prfncrpal8 6ave been sustafne((
nhraseoloev and terms of our text I umtea fatates supreme court
books radically different from those iularly r? wlllJams vs- Unftetl
they have heretofore used and vice11? fl"BSlsslPP1'
versa. It would seem that much
might be gained by general uniformity
in the text-books and methods of our
public schools. Oklahoman
someone else had a claim against "For $40 worth of advertising and
I them would it be to that citizen's 'n- $25 cash we can own a bicycle. The
terest to run to nim and provide an.wneel sens ror just $12. ADout one
attorney and funds with which
bring suit upon the alleged cailm? shares in gold mines for advertising.
That is exactly what Senator Owen is nursery firm will send us a 25c rose
l
to dozen firms are wanting to give us
providing for. Everyone knows that bush for only $5 worth of advertising.
(all that these parties and their attor-jFor running a six inch advertisement
.neys want is a large fee to be paid out for one year we get a gross of pills."
j WHAT OWEN BILL MEANS? 'Centerville (Mich.) Observer
of the Cherokee tribal funds. Take j O
I the prospects of this fee away and no
suit would be instituted. Of this there
WHAT IS MAN?
The average man ariseth
In the
himself
is no question. If Senator Owen had morning debateth with
jtold these parties frankly that the leg- whether he shall take a bath or not
ilslatlon of congress providing for the and decideth not says Life. He ar-
enrollment of the new-born children ray eth himself in a dozen different
jwas enacted upon the petition of the garments of varying thickness and
.accredited representatives of the Cher- uncomfotablenes8 and descen.deth to
thai nncA waft mie-htv Th ulrnnnur
l "-.rrri - o
onee matron uiai me uierunee ua- uie'uruusi liawel.wuee :uuiy . - - - -r nL eiaie.grau
tional ceu'ncii' has asked for it and that devoupet&ibe; headli.ne5.-pt the mo unconsUtutioijal
the people of the Cherokee nation ing1 paper-and a cup of coffee which! :"''Q.' ;'ji !. j . - fendants could
AJ 11 1-.1 4 1 A 1 .1 J A J I. . 1 UL .1 .
ouj- "'"""S c w vueu ui.ayye . Ji "r: . ii T . - Vlnnlv lmBW fha hollow or otomna nf
paid out of their tribal funds no suit a cigar; and having the. njght before . . J A". '5 th . h owvV the Wi'now state .law wtIctt the state-
would ever have been Instituted resolved never to smoke another be-' peopie( with'all the-discords-'artd the eoir. had held constitutional
Everybody knows that. On the other fore noon he biteth off the end and 'i!armonjes Dj 'civilization ( defendants therefore could
hand the attorneys for these people lighteth it up. He kisseth his wife asi . . ... ' . . charged with any criminal tr
u a v.n- i iu v. i n. J v t "" -"' 1"" cuni.ui
nave ueeii euvuuiageu 111 iuc ueiiei tie passeiu uci in me nan aim iiuiicliii
They argued also that the
criminal statute under which
dictments were returned Is i
tutlonal and that it was so
Chief Justice Brewer of the
The cowboy of the picturesque days f &tes suPrem? court In 'Ja
a i: i. ii v..x Bowman from Kentucky and
a.uu uiaietjt literature lias ttu uuu van- . J
laheH ht .till in nhuna o.n onmlr0m Jud?e Lurt0fl f the United
and twisted bandana he canters across I Cirit court' ut recently
the ranees dotted red with cattle the t0 the supreme bench by Mr.
J i mi. a- it. . I
xuey maue me iniru point at
.numerous precedents that thq
dfather clause.Bt
even then -
not be found i
feeble law-abiding remnant of a clan
Stripy with; steel 'and the silence" that f crimf beCse
niv knW ;'hi heiiow on fMw. fInS Into effect the provisio:
T . t 1 . .
of innM ruo n I 111 maKing nis argument
i lugciiaui o l o L tj u UUULC1"
ated and hrnnrhn nniT HVTer are rfnnm. I
them a handsome fee if by any techni- tem where he standeth up and readeth ' . .
.v a ' . .v. v!l ied t0 SalIP onlv alonS the dim vague'
that provision will be made to pay off to the nearest transportation sys- . .Horner said
. .... .... . . ... . ... aieu auu uiuutiiu anu nuer are uoom-1
cality they could succeed In winning the remainder of the headlines
the case against the children. He arriveth at his office and
Again ' how can Senator Owen cometh absorbed in his mail.
justices Brewer and Lui
be-'i ..... " h. tv.tne provision of the fifteentl
He . - . . . . ment must be limited to car
Hav a fnnnish aviator rlrrUncr in on I
justify permitting a suit to be brought worketh until noon when he goeth i v j itl . provisions into effect and if
ociwjjioirc iuuuucu a. iiciu ui tautie aim i
in the name of Levi B. Gritts as a rep- out to a food dispensary. Here . he jyg em to the aviation field a mile I
resentatlve of the Cherokee people meeteth other beings like himself and away. without so much as the tiniest I
He knows that he was convicted of they talk between gulps of stock wo-i . kj;- . a
rf moo of lnRnnnrninatinn to mar the Tfo. I
rorgery and tnat a nunrner or otner men norses .norse racing and pontics
similar charges are pending against He smoketh some and still some more
him in the courts of Oklahoma. He and skippeth back to the office where
also knows that no one in the Chero- he grindeth until nightfall when he
kee nation wants either Boudinot or proceedeth home.
Wolf to represent them; that they He changeth hi3 clothes to a fun-
are not trusted and that they are not eral black and all the time curseth
cipline of the feat.
The crowd in attendance applauded
the exhibition vociferously. Whether
tthey realized that another number had
tbeen added to the aeroplane's program
of utility is immaterial; .probably it
'appeared to them merely as a touch of
. . . - Af iuurlesquene to an otherwise conven-
.ivwo av cue clu w ... shoWi Certain it is that at the
is represented Dy a national attorney. ai me amner tney tain aDoui tne
Why should he seek to set aside the servants (whispering
between the
accredited representatives of the na- courses) and about the people they'
moment of Demonstration the solemn
purport of the performance was not
appreciated the passing of a dramatic
.and beloved institution at the stern
mandate of progress. Oklahoma City
Times.
O
tion with such people as Gritts Boudi- will meet and then proceedeth to the
not and Wolf? We submit that this evening's entertainment whatever It. i
Is a question that the senator w ill be may be. !
called upon to answer. The secretary Some nights the man sneaketh off
of the Interior has made a strong ad- to himself and playeth poker or bridge
verse report against the bill. The with bis best friends. He tryeth to
Cherokee people are very strongly op- get their money away from them and
posed to and the people have been when he succeedeth he rejoiceth
wiring telegrams sending petitions
and letters to the secretary of the in- knowing what he misseth for lie is received yesterday by State Auditor
terior members of congress protest- thoroughly satisfied with himself and (Leo Meyer the value of the road in
ing against its passage and should con- his own doings. The only thing that j Oklahoma according to Its figures be-
tlnue to be aroused until the fight he regretteth is that he may have hading $32746286 The capital stock of
against these grafters is won. Every to pass his time with his wife's silly the corporation is $75000000 with a
one who does not protest is counted acquaintances when he might smoke total bonded indebtedness of $204981-
ln favor of it. " "and drink with his own. Enterprise. 000.
Report of Rock Island.
Oklahoma City Feb. 21. The an
nual return of the Chicago ( Rock Is
At midnight the man retireth not .land & Pacific Railroad company was
was broader then it becan
stitutlonal."
The attorneys for the dii
tacked particularly the statu
which the indictments were
as unconstitutional holding
fifteenth amendment prohibi
from enacting laws to di;
whereas the federal statute
and Is not aimed at the sta
stead specifies that If "two
persons" conspire to prevei
from voting because of race
they shall be punished.
Judge Stewart made the
point that the indictments
ed charge that the negroe
complaining witnesses in t
could read and write wl
Oklahoma law he declare
only such persons as can nr
write.
Only Emry argued for
States whereas LedbetU
Horner and Haskell argu
defense.
Judge Cotteral last nigh
matter under advisement
nouncing that the "grand
dictment cases would be co
this term of court.
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Marrs, D. M. The Weekly Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1911, newspaper, February 24, 1911; Vinita, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc772846/m1/4/: accessed May 27, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.