The Weekly Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 26, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, May 21, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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VINITA CRAIG COUNTY OKLAHOMA. MAY 21. 1909
NlM&ER- 49
KATT 10 DOUBLE
TRACK ITS UIIE
Money Has Been Appropriated For
Work of Laying Track From
Parsons to Denison.
Kansas City Mo. May 18. Katy of-
ficials are pushing the work of track
improvement on the Oklahoma divis-
ion of their road between Parsons
Kans. and Oklahoma City in order
to hasten the shortening of the run-
ning time between hero and the Okla-
homa metropolis which will be re-
duced one hour. About twenty miles
of new track are now being built be-
tween Fallis and Arcadia Okla. at an
approximate cost of 400000 in order
to avoid the flood-ridden bottoms of
the Deep Fork river which has given
the road trouble nearly every year.
This cut off will only shorten the dis-
tance one mile but together with the
other improvements under way such
as straightening curves and easing
grades the opera "n of trains will be
much facilitated. The Katy now has
the short lint from here to Oklahoma
City a distance of 344 miles which
will soon be reduced to 343 miles. The
division was first ballasted with burn-
ed gumbo in V.M)7 but the advent of
the panic put a stop to the work of
improvement. The "second raise" of
ballast will be laid this year.
Recently the double track from Den-
ison Tex. to Atoka Okla. a stretch
of CO miles was completed and money
has been appropriated to continue the
work as far north as Parsons. It will
be two or three years before this work
is finished however. It will give the
road a 274-mile stretch of double track
from Parsons to Denison. When its
contemplated work is completed the
Katy win have the easiest grade of
any large road In the southwest. The
engineering department has decided
on a maximum grade of two tenths of
I per cent.
FINAL ARGUMENTS IN
ARIZONA FRAUD CASE
liy Associated Press.
Kansas City Mo. May Is. The final
arguments were made today in the
trial of Horn Itrothers E. S. Frank
If. and John K. Kaniond P. May and
P. II. Snides promoters of the "Two
Queens" group of mines in Arizona
who have been on trial in the federal
court here during the past week on
a charge of using the malls to de-
fraud and it is expected that the jury
will have the case late today.
SENATOR GORE WANTS
COUNTRY TO KNOW
Py Associated Press.
Washington D. C May .Sena-
tor (lore's resolution directing the com-
mittee on finance to conduct nn in-
vestigation into wholesale and retail
prices of commodities was discussed
before the Benate today at some
length. Senator Core declared that
he wishes the country to know just
where the responsibility for high
prices rests.
UNKNOWN ASSASSIN KILLS
FRIEND OF PETROSINO
Py Associated Press.
New York May IS. Marked for
death the police nay because he had
been a close friend of former detective
Joseph Petroslno of the New York
police department who wag assassin-
ated In Palermo Italy Plogalo Pucclo
was hot and killed by an Unknown
assassin here today.
DEPUTY ATTACHES PROPERTY
OF LUMBER COMPANY
Oklahoma City Okla. May IS. Co-
incident with t:e completion of a re-
port to the department of the interior
relating to conditions in the timber
reservation of the original Choctaw na-
tion made by J. M. Mueller a special
representative of the department
writs were issued by the United
States court of the eastern district of
Oklahoma calling for the seizure of all
property of some of the sawmill com-
panies on the reservation. As a result
a deputy United States marshal of Mc-
Alester levied on 5 million feet of
lumber six sawmills one planing mill
several miles of tram railroads olllces
and other property belonging to the
Pine Hill and Walker-Hopkins Lum-
ber companies and other smaller con-
cerns. The Mueller report Is expected to be
filed with the clerk of the United
States court in Muskogee this week
charging unlawful depredation of tim-
ber on the reservation.
FRISCO METEOR
GOES l DITCH
One Man Killed And Seven Passen-
gers Injured in Wreck Near
Chelsea.
Speeding at the ra about sixty
miles an hour the j risen Meteor
number 410 due here at 11:40 last
night was derailed on a curve two
miles west of Chelsea. The engine
two mall ears two baggage cars and
a coach left the rails. One unknown
man supposed to have been n tramp
who was riding the blind wns killed.
Two other hoboes and one passen-
ger received slight injuries none
of which 'however are expected to
prove fatal. The injured passengers
were taken to Chelsea for medical
care. The passenger Injured was
John T. Hrown of Chelsea who sus-
tained a broken rib.
All of the night trains after that
hour were detoured via Wagoner and
the M. K. & T. to this city. The
wreckage was cleared away this
morning and trains are again running
on time.
The only cause given for the acci-
dent Is that the train was running
too fast around the curve.
NEW CITY DIRECTORY
SOON TO BE COMPLETEO
Hoffhlne lirothers have completed
the work of gathering data for the
new city directory and announce the
population of Vinita to be 5.2S9. This
directory is the most complete work
of its kind ever done here. It gives
the name residence vocation or busi-
ness of every person lu the city above
a certain age and will enable strang-
ers to locate Vinita people with little
difficulty. Th books wnl be ready
for distribution in about three weeks.
HUNG HERSELF WITH
ROPE OF BED CLOTHING
Kansas City Mo. May 19. Miss
Katherlne Stuckey of Kmporla Kan.
aged thirty-three secretary to the
president of the state normal school
there committed suicide at a sanitar-
ium in drandvlew Kans. across the
line from here early today by hang-
ing herself with a rope made from
'bed clothing. Mis Stuckey entered
jthe sanitarium three week ago fol-
lowing a Dreakdown due it was stat-
ed to overwork.
ALLEGED ST. LOUIS FORGER
IS ARRESTED IN PARIS.
Iiy Associated Press.
St. IxniU Met. May 19. M. Dwlght
Fortner a fugitive St. real es
tate operator was arrested today la
Paris according to a cable message
received nere by the detective agency.
He 1 under Indictment on a charge
of obtaining over eleven thousand dol-
lar by means of forged Indorsements
on checks.
f'AY REQUHE DRAWING
OF ANOTHER VENIRE
lly Associated Press.
Tulsa Okla.. May 18 An effort to
secure another federal grand Jury of
sixteen men to reinvestigate the Mus-
kogee town lot frauds will be niade
here this afternoon. As only sixteen
men were summoned It Is feared the
full number will not qualify today and
an additional venire will then have to
be drawn.
ML NX BUSINESS
0 DECORATE F(
R ELKS
Local Members of Order Meet to Prepare for
Entertainment of Visiting Brothers on
May 28 Parsons Band Secured to
Furnish Music for the Occasion
-Tulsa Herd Coming on
Special Train
a
Local Klks held a meeting at the
Commercial club rooms last night for
the purpose of discussing further pre-
parations for the entertainment of the
great crowd of visiting "Hills" on May
2S when a lodge of Klks will be in-
stalled in Vinita.
The work of the various commit-
tees was outlined and those commit-
tees will leave nothing undone to
make the installation nn occasion
worthy of Vinlta's reputation as an
entertainer that will open the eyes of
the visiting band of (iood Klks who
are accustomed to seeing live times.
Committees will visit the lodges at
Muskogee Tulsa liui tlesvillo and oth-
er places to ascertain as near as pos-
sible the number that will come from
each of those towns. It is expected
that ".no visiting Elks will be here.
Information was received that a herd
would come from Tulsa on a special
train and would be headed by Tul-
sa's gfeat band.
The only definite arrangements so
far is the securing of the Parsons band
to furnish music to cheer up the fifty-
two Yinitlana who are to pass down
ti.e rough and trying pathway into the
mystic realms of Kikdom. There are
about twenty-five resident Klks here
who will assist the candidates in get-
ting over the route without any more
trouble than is of right due them.
Other meetings of the various com-
mittees will be held dally from now
until the 28th to make the entertain-
ment a grand success. One feature of
the day will be the big parade parti-
cipated in by the visiting Klks and
the candidates.
The mayor will be asked to Issue a
proclamation asking the business men
to decorate their places of business in
the colors of the Klks purple and
white.
SENSATIONAL CHARGES
FILED AGAINST RUSHTulsa Okla. May 18. Sensa-
tional allegations concerning the
official conduct of Sylvester R.
Ru-rh special assistant to Attor-
ney General Wlckersham and
United States District Attorney
Gregg of the Eastern district of
Oklahoma are made In two peti-
tions filed In the federal court
here this afternoonln connec-
tion with the Muskogee town lot
fraud cases.
BIG CREAMERY COMPANY
PLACED UNDER BAN
duthrie Okla. May lit. The state
board of agriculture is in receipt of
u complaint from Joe Jung a cream-
ery man of dishing. Okla. in which
he bitterly complains of the unfair
competition of the Continental Cream
ery company in an effect to force in-
dependent creameries from the field.
He charges that the Continental
puts the price of cream up but at
the same time makes the test higher
than the standard thus gaining by
fraud what they have lost by paying
above the market. He also charges
that the Continental will pay above
the market where there is an inde
pendent competition but that on the
same day they pay two or three cents
less where there is no Independent
competition.
The matter has been referred to the
attorney general and it is not unlikely
that if the facts as alleged can be
substantiated that Oklahoma will
have the opportunity of witness-
ing a battle between its legal depart
ment and that great and powerful cor
poration the Contir nttat Creamery
company.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
WILL HAVE TARIFF
BILL BY JUNE 20
Bloud Burst Causes Panic In Dense
Crowd Around President at
Charlotte.
VIGE-PRE1EIIT
TO SUCCEED WYLY
Resigns Presidency of Tahlequah Nor-
mal to Accept Position As
Federal Supervisor.
Outline Okla. May IS. President
A. H. Wyly of the Tahlequah normal
has resigned to accept the federal ohI-
tion of supervisor and director of the
United States Indian schools of the
Cherokee nation; Vice Iresident Redd
of the normal will be elevated to the
presidency . and the vice presidency
given to Prof. Ira L. Cain of Musko-
gee superintendent of the Muskogee
high school. This Is the plan of the
normal regents hhii only awaits for-
mal action to be comple te.
Cain is the second man high In Mus
kogee incHtlotiHl affairs who has been
taken by the new normals City Super-
intendent Utiles going to Ada to take
the presidency of the normal there.
A. S. Wyly is one of the most pro
tninent men of Cherokee descent of
the state and for year has been at
the head of education In the Cherokee
nation. As federal supervisor of In-
dian school he will have 3.10 schools
under hi control. Hi thorough sym-
pathy with the state government and
depointment as federal supervisor at
this critical period when these Indian
school maintained by the United
State ere being merged Into. the state
public schools.
His resignation 1 the second of the
new normal president. Rev. K. M.
Sweet who received the appointment
of the Ada normal resigned to con
tinue in the ministry and the fight for
state wide prohibition.
TULSA VISITED .
DY CLOUDBURST
Terrific Downpour of Rain Was Gen-
eral Over Kansas And Oklahoma
of Great Benefit.
CAPTAIN HJUBS LEAVES
JAIL FOR SING SING
Hy Associated Press.
New York May 18. Capt. Peter C.
Main Jr. sentenced yet?rday to an
lnderminate sentence of from tight to
sixteen year imprisonment for .killing
William K. Annls le't the county Jail
today for Sing Sing prison to begin
Rfrving hi term.
The heavy downpour of rain that
began falling here early thin uwning
wan general over Kansas and Okla-
homa and lias practically assured a
bumper wheat crop J these two
states v.y.i !;as been of great benefit
Lit corn and other crops. While the
rainfall wns very heavy here it as-
sumed serioim proportions in other lo-
calities. In Miiic place three to four
inches of rain fell in a ft-vv hours. The
rain came from tin northwest. It be-
gan falling in Kansas as early as six
unlock last evening but did not reach
this liinlty until about live o'clock
this morning.
Ily Associated Press.
Charlotte N. C May 20. A cloud
burst broke over the city this after
noon and caused a panic in the dense
crowd gathered lu front of (he stand
on Milch President Taft was review
ing the Mecklenburg celebration pa
rado. No one was seriously hurt.
President Taft arrived here today
tc take part la tl.e annual celebration
of the signing of Mecklenburg deelar
ulion of Independence which It Is
claimed took place May 20 173 and
was the lirst step toward liberty by
tie American colonials antedating the
declaration of July I 177C by more
tkan a year.
President Taft made a positive
statement here today that he has
come to the conclusion that Ihe tariff
bill will be In hi hands not later
than June 20. He advised also the
belief that when the bill finally
come from conference It will consti
tute a revision in the generally nc
cepted sense and w ilt be such u nn-as
lire as will warrant his signature.
SUSPENDS CTIO
Asp Wires Congressman Asking For
Complete Investigation of the
Action of Attorneys.
Tulsa. Okla.. May S. Tulsa and
vicinity wen visited by a cloudburst
early today. Rain accompanied by
hall fell in torrent for three hour
and was driven by a high wind. The
streets were flooded but no serious
damage is reported.
Hutchinson Kans. May 18. Rain
commenced falling here at 8 o'clock
last night and before midnight an Inch
had fallen. The rain wus general In
a iadiu of some fifty mileB according
to report. It Is especially beneficial
to wheat which I now believed will
not need further rain before harvest.
Lamed Kans May 18. Between
two and three inc he of rain fell here
yesterday afternoon breaking a drouth
which had commence! lo affec t crop.
The rain commenced about 6 o'clock
and continued all night. Reports from
Jet more Hurdett Rozel and other
point west on the Jetmore branch of
the Atchison Topeka &. Santa Ke In-
dicate that the rain was general all
over Pawnee county and part of
Hodgeman county and It I known to
have extended as far east a Kllln-
wood. T' e storm wa accompanied
by a little hail but no wind. The
wheat crop has ben slightly Injured
by the dry weather but very little of
It baa been killed and tl.la rain will
practically Insure a normal haivest In
Pawnee conrfy.
CHARTERS ISSUED BY
STATE DEPARTMENT
(Jutbrie Okla. May lit New ar-
ticles of incorporation were filed with
the secretary of state as follow:
Okmulgee State bank capital $.".0000;
this was a conversion from a national
hank. The Shawnee Klee trie Light
company capital $100000. Shawnee
Railway Construction company capi-
tal $10000. White Swan Laundry
company of Oklahoma City capital
$l'5.000. Uckiidge Lumber company
of Lockrldge. capital $.00(). The Re-
liable Mutual Hail Insurance com-
pany of Oklahoma City with a guar-
antee fund of $tJ000. The Southern
Cypres Shingle company of Oarvin
capital $1000. Idabel Light and Power
company capital $10000. Chamber
of Commerce Okmulgee. The Darling
Mill company of Oklahoma City cap-
ital $10000. The Oklahoma Auto
company of Tulsa capital $10000.
SENATOR 5LS00T KILL
ITROOUCE AL!EN0i'!EN
iy Associated Press.
Washington I). C May IF. In pur-
suance of the decision of the commit-
tee on finance to redraft the para-
graphs of the tariff bill relating to
dutle on zinc ore and pig zlne.Smoot
will in the near future introduce an
amendment to those schedule. In-
stead of maVIng zinc ore and calcimine
dutiable at one cent per pounc? on
zinc contained therein. They are a-;
sesseU proportionately. The duties are
blng considerably reduced from the
rate a established by the house.
Washington. D. C May 19. After
receiving the telegram sent by Henry
iO. Asp counsel for tiovernor Haskoll
one of the defendants In the Oklaho
ma land fraud cases to Senator
Charles Curtis of Kansas und for
warded by letter to the department
of Justice. Attorney Oeneral Wicker-
sham has decided that it would not
be for the best interests of the gov
ernment to substitute other consel for
those now conducting the Haskell
land fraud cases in Oklahoma and to
suspend further proceedings pending
the receipt of testimony in support of
charges alleging improper conduct
on the part of government counsel
having direction of cases before the
grim '. Jury.
In commenting upon the matter At
torney Oeneral Wlckersham stated
it was his firm conviction that the
government attorneys were perform
ing their duties faithfully and ciU-
ciently and that at this long range
he c ertainly would not Interfere with
their efforts. He stated that he rec-
ognized the government attorneys
were c onducting these cases under ad-
verse! circumstances and no doubt
were doing their full duty and should
be sustained.
In forwarding Asp's telegram to
the department Senator Curtis stat-
ed that It was his especial desire that
(iregg who formerly resided In Kan-
sas should be afforded every oppor tunity
to cxp'Hlu bir course before
any action was taken. The telegram
makes the charges against District
Attorney (iregg Sylvester R. Rush
special prosecutor of the -epartment
of Justice and M. L. Mott special at-
torney for the Creek Indians
After giving n resume of the case
the telegram reads: "We aie prepar ed
with positive documentary evi-
dence showing ynrlou purpose on
the part of . Rush Oregg and Molt
Including their determined efforts to
involve partisanship in this investi-
gation. These positive proofs letters
affidavits and papers In the defendants
possession' will clearly show Rush
Oregg and Mott improper persons to
be intrusteu to represent the govern-
ment In the administration of Justice
in these eases.
"We are ready to testify to every- t
tiling In these papers and ask that
proceedings be stayed until we can
present to the Attorney (Jeneial
proof to verify our statements. Please
see the president and attorney gener-
al and ask a stay and wire me at
the earllst moment possible.
"I personally feel that If the at-
torney general knew methods ndopt-e-d
by public prosecutors and facts
surrounding Investigation he would
conduct the investigation Impartially
and fairly without persona.! malice or
partisan consideration."
GAS EXPLOSION MAY
RESULT IN DEATH
Py Associated Press.
Tulsa. Okla. May L'0 Oe. ( Car
men an employee of the brick plant.
was piohably fatally burned and his
wife und two children severely In
jured when an explosion of natural
gas occurred at their home here to-
day. The explosion wa the result of
a leak. The house wti destroyed by
the fire that ensued.
MRS. TAFT RESTED AND
IS GREATLY IMPROVED.
I!y Associated Press.
Washington. I). C Mty 18 Mrs.
Taft. who suffered nervou breakdown
yesterday was much improved today.
It was announced today at the White
House that she had rested comfort-
ably and was much better.
Robbers Secure About $6CC0.
Py Associated Press.
Lincoln .Neb. May 1. Robber se-
cured r'.x thousand dollars from the
bank at Cairo near here early today
by dynamiting the safe. The building
was wreck -d.
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