The Weekly Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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IIY GOOD THINGS
COIIGJO VHKTA
One cf Greatest Irduttries Desires to
Locate There And Commercial
Club Wiil Secure Site.
Severs! matters cf great interest
were taken up it t.l.e Commercial
Club meeting last night and plana
made for taking thesi up for action.
The leading ones were the location
ef one of the bige.t industries in the
southwest here the purchase of the
Willie IlaUeii college building and
grounds for a high school git the
building of the Porter railway and
tLe completion of the foundry and feed
mill plant. Great interest was taken
in all these matters by those present.
Several of those present felt it
would be test to try and procure the
location of the high school at the col- j
lege site owning to there being less
noise and further from the business
center and plans were made to further;
consider this most important question i
to the welfare of Vinita.
It was reported by the president
that Senator Porter bad advised him
that in about thirty days he would
put a proposition up to the citizens of
Vinita for building the railway line to
this city on which grading is cow go-
ing forward as far south as the Verdi-
gris river.
A letter from the Woodcock Manu-
facturing company wag received and
ia of such general interest that it was
decided to publish the game and ap-
pears belowi
The feed mill and foundry building
will be completed in a few days and
the supplies have been ordered bo that
it may be put into operation by No-
vember 1. The building committee of
the Commercial Club desire it to be
called to the attention of all subscrib-
ers to the bonus that it is up to the
club now to make good its agreement
for bonus and for every one to pay in
their subscriptions and will appreciate
it greatly it every one will hand in
their subscriptions the first of next
week or be ready to pay the same on
call of the Commercial Club secretary.
The sentiment of the whole meeting
last night was: "Let every fellow do
his part and do it now and we will
build a greater Vinita yet."
Letter From Woodcock Company.
Vinita Okla. Oct. 13.
The Commercial Club
Vinita Okla.
Dear Sirs: It will be of interest to
the Commercial Club and citizens of
Vinita to learn the progress of the
building and business of our companj
up to this time since the enterprise is
the direct outgrowth of a public spirit-
ed move on the part of the club.
The building is practically complet-
ed and every one visiting the plant
seems to be highly gratified at the re-
sults achieved and say we have a much
better building than they anticipated.
There yet remains to be done some
'rnportant matters to complete the
agreement of the club with the com-
pany and Mr. J. C. Woodcock which
the company respectfully urges should
be done by the club at once in order
to facilitate the early operation of
the plant.
It in found that the company will
need to expend about $4o) for addi-
tional building; that it in desirable
and necessary to expend about $"00
at present in lathes saws and other
machinery in order to do general
foundry work; and it is estimated that
it will take $2100 or over to stock
up for the season trade with pig iron
coke molding sand fire clay etc. so
the company has decided to sell $.1-
eeu of additional treasury stock in or
der to have with the funds resulting
from the first sale of stock ready cap
Hal to handle the business of the com
pany to the best advantage.
This additional stock is also to be
offered to the citizens of Vinita in or
der to comply with the promises mad
them by the building committee of
the Commercial club when soliciting
bonus to the effect that all contribut-
ing to the bonus should also have the
opportunity of purchasing stock.
The company at a directors meeting
this afternoon decided upon the above
course and designated a committee
consisting of Dr C. W. Day Joseph A.
Gill and Marshall Stevens to handle
the matter.
The business of the company prom
ises a flattering outlook as isinstanc
ed by a sale recently of one of the
best feed grinders manufactured by
the company to J. O. Hall who had
visiting Dallas hunting for such a feed
mill as he wanted aud not finding one
came to our plant and purchased and
stated he wanted it sh'pped to his
ranch in Texas and that it would in all
probability lead to the selling of many
more there.
Please advise the citizens so that
all who may desire to purchase stock
in this new industry which will be one
of the growing plants and one of the
money making investments of this
part of the state that they should ap-
ply at once to W. B. Depue secretary
of the company who will take their
subscription and Issue the stock.
TrS.y your.
woodcock manufacturing co
HA SCHOOLS
HIGHLY ENDORSED
Course of Study in Local School it
Given Warm Indorsement cf
State University
That the Vinita high school rank3
among th'; best in the state is evidenc-
ed by a letter from the state univer-
sity in which the course of study in
the Vinita school is highly commend-
ed. The local school's coarse will
give graduates twenty-one units for
admission into the state university.
This is more units than any of the
other high schools of northeast Okla
homa offer. The folio wine la the let
ter:
Secretary School Board
Vinita Oklahoma.
Dear Sir: Superintendent Master-
son kindly sent the university a copy
of the Vinita high school course of
study. From our standpoint the plan
of work is excellent and we think
that it i a good plan from any point
of view.
I wish to congratulate the Vinita
board on the excellent showing made.
Vinita high school is affiliated with the
university in group I and is accredit
ed for all work that is of such a nature
as to be accepted as entrance credits.
Yours very truly
ROY GITTIN'GER
Chairman Committee on Affiliation.
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"The Squaw Man."
Edith Milton Royle's drama "The
Squaw Man" comes to the Auditorium
on October 24. Mr. Westfield imper
sonates a gallant and manly young
officer of the English government; the
scion of a noble house who takes upon
himself the crime committed by an-
other that the family honor may not
be smirched and Innocent lives ruined.
He leaves England under this cloud
and plunges into the life of the far
west which he pursues for several
years; but finally emerges with his
name cleared and comes into posses-
sion of an earldom and a wife. The
character is embodied by Mr. West-
field in a manner that proclaims his
adaptability for this kind of stage
work. His entiment is always fine
and manful and he seems especially
happy in his appeal for public interest
and sympathy.
Enid Okla. Oct. 14.
Manager Theatre
Vinita Okla.
"The Time the Place and the Girl"
company opened in the state here. It
played my theatre tonight to capacity
house. Unsolicited I recommend this
attraction as the best all around musi-
cal show that has played my theatre
since it opened. It has my personal
endorsement and so yoi can inform
the public.
ALBERT LOEWEX
Manager Loewen Theatre.
TEREST
N GOING GAME
Football Contest Between Missouri
And Oklahoma Universities Wii!
Draw Big Crowd.
Norman Okla. Oct. 14 The foot-
ball game between the state univer-
sities of Oklahoma and Missouri
scheduled to be played at Joplin Mo.
October 25 is arousing a great deal
of interest over the southwest and it
is expected that a record breaking
crowd of students and "grads" will
avail themselves of the special rates
granted by the railroads and witness
the contest.
Oklahoma has a squad of almost
seventy players thirty of whom are
strong candidates for the first team
having shown first rate ability during
the work outs. Her eleven will be ac-
companied by a big crowd of rooters
from the university and it is possible
that the band will be sent along. Coach
Hollenback is pounding the Tigers
into shape for what he considers one
of the hardest struggles they are
scheduled to enter this season. Both
teams are as yet practically unknown
quantities as only practice games have
been played up to date. This game
will help to decide the football cham-
pionship of the southwest.
1
Six State Questions To Be
Voted Upon in November
Six questions to which the voter
must direct his attention are to be
separately submitted at the general
election on November 8. Three are
initiated measures under the initia-
tive and referendum procedure; one
is a popular or people's referendum.
Four are offered as amendments to
the constitution.
Chief among the lot is the proposed
constitutional amendment to substi-
tute local option and high license for
statewide prohibition which was in-
itiated by the Sons of Washington
a state organization opposed to gen-
eral prohibition. The proposition has
been through the courts not as to its
legality but as to the procedure em-
ployed in getting it to a vote. When
matters are initiated under the Ok-
lahoma law petitions calling for a
vote are filed with the secretary of
state from which either side has the
right to. appeal to the supreme court
but the latter's finding is final.
Another initiated proposition is
Campbell Russell's New Jerusalem
project proposing to locate the state
capital within five miles of a town
and within a specified distance from
the geographical center of the state.
If adopted the New Jerusalem pro
ject which also includes the building
of a city around the seat of govern-
ment would supercede the location
attempted at the election of .June 11
which is now before the supreme
court. The New Jerusalem Idea does
not move the seat of government from
Guthrie until after 1913 in obedience
to the Oklahoma enabling act.
The third initiated proposition is an
amendment to the suffrage section of
the constitution giving women the
right to vote and like the local op-
tion and New Jerusalem propositions
has been through the courts on points
of procedure only.
The only straight people's referen-
dum is the Bry:.n election law en-
acted by the Second legislature in
special session and is presented at
the instance of the state republican
organization. The Bryan law propos-
ed a repeal of the Taylor ribbon bal-
former's passage before the supreme
court upon referendum petitions also
filed by republicans and while it
was nominally charged that reference
of the Bryan law was in effect on at-
tempt to prevent the repeal of the
Taylor act at the special session en-
acting the Bryan law a bill was
passed giving an independent repeal
of the ribbon ballot act thu3 effect-
ively putting it out of the way by
legislative action. While the Bryan
law now being referred to proposes
to return to the emblem ballot of ter-
ritorial days republicans assert that
other features are manifestly unfair
and partisan for the party which hap-
pens to be in power.
The legislature has referred for the
November 8 election an amendment
to the greatly discussed Section 9
Article IX of the public corporation
portion of the constitution. This wa3
an act of the second legislature in
regular session completed long be-
fore the initiation of Section 49 to
the samp article by the railroads of
Oklahoma and which was defeated at
the special election of June 11. The
proposed Section 49 repealed in effect
a number of sections among them
being that governing the keeping and
submission of public service corpora-
tions within the state. The corpora-
tion commission at that period was in
a bitter controversy with the railroad
lines over the production of reports
and earning statements upon which
the commission proposed to base a
new alignment of freight rates and
openly regarded a repeal of the so-
called general office provision as fatal
to its effectiveness as an organization.
Had the objectional feature been
eliminated it was understool at the
time the commission would not have
opposed a reasonable revision of some
of the provisions but the directing
head of the railroad .organization de-
clined to do so. The commission
joined forces with the State Federa-
tion of Labor and the State Farmers'
Union accomplishing the defeat of the
proposition by a heavy majority.
The amendment to Section 9 sub-
mitted by the legislature and to be
voted upon November S is a dupli-
cate of the Louisiana constitutional
provision and will give the railroads
at least a portion of what they de-
sire. In effect it is believed to en-
tirely repeal Section 9 as It exists to
day by giving authority to foreign
corporation to purchase and consoli-
date with their own property the
lines and properties of domestic com-
panies but attempts to hold the pur-
chased part subject to jurisdiction of
the state courts as though no consoli-
dation had taken place. Whether' a
corporation can legally be half of one
character and half of another will
be a matter for the courts to deter-
mine. The sixth proposition is also offered
as a constitutional amendment and
proposes to pro rate the school tax
levied against public service corpora-
tions equally between all the counties.
As it is if one county has railroad
or pipe line valuation sufficient to
gather fl.MK) in school taxes that
county retains the full amount ard
the county having no property of that
character gets none of the tax. Sen-
ator Campbell Russell author of the
proposition using the 1909 levy for
example says it will give to every
school district having no such prop-
erty about 40 cent3 pr capita an-
nually foreach one mill of school tax
levied on a basis of 7 mills average
tax which he regards as a conserva-
tive estimate will yield $2.S0 per
school child the state over.
Any proposition required to receive
a majority of all the votes cast be-
fore coming effective necessarily car-
ries an extra hazard when submitted
at a general election. There were
only 218358 votes cast for all par-
ties in the primary August 2 but for
the general election 700000 ballots
are printed the state election beard
anticipating a much heavier vote for
the parties combined. For illustra-
tion say the total vote for all guber-
natorial candidates on November 8
Is 500000 then to be adopted each
or any of the propositions must re-
ceive at least 250001 affirmative
votes. In the primary election there
were more votes cast for heads of the
tickets than for any other candidate
and from experience such will be the
result in the general election.
Two years ago presidential candi
dates received 250022 votes and not
one of the five propositions independ
ently submitted at the election re
ceived a majority of all the votes cast
or 125012 affirmative ballots hence
all of them failed.
WELCH.
Mrs. F. D. Pelsue is able to be out
again after a few days illness.
Mrs. F. Beaulieu and daughter Mrs.
Singleton have returned from a ten
days visit at Independence Kans.
W. Lyman Marker attended court
in Vinita three days last week.
Mrs. Granvil Craig who has been
sick for several months does not
seem to be improving.
Mrs. W. P. Eddy and granddaughter
Grace left Friday for a few weeks
visit at Fort Smith Ark.
Mrs. C. P. Jones has returned from
a week's visit at Big Cabin.
O. T. Roberts attended court at Vin-
ita Friday.
E. H. Hewitt is transacting business
in Claremore this week.
Carl Craig and wife have moved
into their new home on Washington
street
Welch is having quite a boom in the
way of building. Several new resi-
dences are well under construction
and as many more will be built as
soon as Contractor Wallace can se-
cure carpenters to do the work.
Mrs. G. W. Dixon Mr. and Mrs. J.
A. Dobkins visited in Muskogee last
week.
Mrs. E. H. Brady and Mrs. Sam
Frazee of Vinita visited Mrs. Brady's
parents Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Yadon of
this city Wednesday.
Mrs. W. L. Marker is on the sick
list this week.
We are very glad that our people of
Welch are broad minded enough to
appreciate a talk such as made by
Hon. Lee Cruee in our city last week.
We see no reason why any one either
democrat or republican should get out
of harness as some people in a near
by town have done. Cruce made a
splendid talk and showed to the peo-
ple of our city that if elected governor
that he would be governor and many
republicans were out to hear him and
expressed themselves as being well
pleased with his talk and we fell that
both Cruce and the out of town visi-
tors realized that Welch is made up
of first class people and a people who
can entertain both sides of the politi-
cal campaigners with a hospitality un-
excelled in any place. Cruce made
good in Welch.
TIFF ILL VISIT
PANAMA CANAL
Government May Go Into Businessof
Selling Coal to Prevent Extortion
by Companies.
Beverly Mass. Oct. 14. President
Taft will sail for the Isthmus of Pan-
ama on November 10th from Charles-
ton S. C on the armored cruiser
North Carolina conveyed by her sis-
ter ship the Montana. The president
will be gone about twelve days. The
North Carolina and Montana can make
the journey in each direction in four
days. This will give' President Taft
about four days on the Isthmus.
The president had practically given
up all idea of visiting the canal this
year until Colonel George W. Goeth-
als chief engineer of the canal visited
him yesterday afternoon. At the end
of the visit the president bad been
convinced that the problems confront-
ing the officials at Panama require his
presence on. the Isthmus.
. Some of the problems to be dealt
within the immediate future are as
follows: j
Extent and character of the forti-
fications; the fixing of the tolls; the
proposed increase in wages; the fu-
ture management of the Panama rail-!
road; the form of permanent govern-.
ment lor me canai zone ana ice regu-
lation of the sale of coal.
The government may go into the
business of selling coal itself in order
to prevent the possibility of extortion
or monopoly. President Taft thought
that several of the questions would
not require settlement for a year or
more but Goethals put the matter in
a different light. The question of tolls
which it was thought could wait until
the canal was much nearer comple-
tion was explained by Goethals to be
one of the most pressing for congress
to meet.
HEW TRAIN'S WE
TO BE "RUSTLER"
Only Two Stops Will Be Made on This
Division They Will Be Vinita
And Tulsa.
L. V. Price division passenger agent
for the Frisco was in the city last
night and made known the new Frisco
time table to go into effect next Sun-
day. While here Mr. Price also made
arrangements with the Cobb hotel to
feed the passengers until next Thurs-
day. The name of the new train to
be installed is the "Hustler."
The Hustler east bound No. 124
will leave Vinita at 5:55 a. m. con-
necting with the trains at Baxter for
Carthage Webb City and Joplin due
at Joplin at 8:00 a. m. and will arrive
in Kansas City at 11:59 noon.
The Hustler westbound No. 123
leaves Kansas City at 5:00 p. m.;
Joplin 8:55 p. m.; Vinita 11:00 p. m.;
Dallas 11:00 a. m.; Fort Worth 12:50
p. m.; Houston 6:00 p. m.; Galveston
8:00 p. m.
Vinita and Tulsa are the only stops
for the Hustler on this division.
New time table October 16 1910:
West Bound.
Train No. 413 3:50 a. m.
Train No. 407 8:509:15 a. m.
Train No. 411 11:3511:59 a. m.
Train No. 401 7:50 8:15 p. m.
Train No. 9 2:10 a. m.
Train No. 123 Hustler 11:00 p. m.
East Bound.
Train No. 414 1:20 a. m.
Train No. 10 11:55 p. m.
Train No. 408 6:407:05 p. m.
Train No. 412 3:55 p. m.
Train No. 402 8:008:25 a. m.
Train No. 124 Hustler 5:50 a. m.
GQFFEYVILLE TO
RAVE OILED ROAD
Montgomery County Kansas Will
Build Road From Coffeyville to
Independence in One Day.
Coffeyville Kans. Oct. 15. At a
meeting of the Montgomery County
Good Roads association held here yes
terday afternoon definite plans were
adopted for the building of an oiled
dirt road between this city and Inde-
pendence a distance of about twenty
miles. The highway that is to be im
proved is the old thoroughfare estab
lished more than thirty years ago.
The road is to be built in one day
November 15 being the date selected.
The work is to be prosecuted system-
atically. The route along which the
highway is to be constructed is to be
divided into two divisions north and
south a general superintendent being
named for each division. The road is
to be divided into mile sections a fore
man to be appointed by the general
superintendent who shall have charge
of the work in his section. All of the
available roadmaking machinery in
the county is to be used. Everything
is to be in readiness and at a certain
hour on the morning of the fifteenth
a thousand men or more with teams
plows and scrapers will commence
work at what is to be Montgomery
county's first good road.
The mayors of Coffeyville and Inde-
pendence will proclaim a legal holiday
on the day of the road building and
people from the two cities urged to
join in the road work. Committees
were appointed to solicit cash sub
scriptions from the motor car owners
of the county and the land owners
also. E. S. Rea of the Rea-Patterson
Milling company as motor car owner
started the contribution from this
source with $100. He also promised
the association that he would erect
handsome mile posts the entire dis-
tance of the road.
THREE PREMIUMS
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Vinita Stock Breeders Show Misitjjfl
What Fine Horses Are at the 5
Ozark Exposition.
Oiflce R
Joplin Mo. Oct. 14. One of the t
features of the afternoon ye?ter
at the Ozark Inter-State ex posit; J
was the formal awarding of premil ltl
in the live stock competition. y Room6
Cox general director of all live sto
had charge of this rather g;gatjf
task and owing to the large num
of entries he was kept busily engagt-.
on the job until late in the eveni-0' 1
The following prizes were awards- j
Registered draft horses Best s'?ce n
lion D. S. Warren Vinita Okla. -
ana secona.
Dr.
Best registered mare D. S. Warj :
first and second.
Suckling colt D. S. Warren.
tsesi graue urait mare unaer ci ye
old Clay Neosho Mo. first; CaywC-pe8 pjy.
secona.
Best standard bred roadster &
Magoon Carl Junction first and fr
ond.
Best standard bred stallion colt
year old Cox and McBee first; fnce in
brothers second.
Best mare standard bred WePhone:
brothers first; Walter Tyler seco: Rc
Best suckling colt Webb brothe
Non-standard registered horses:
Dr.
Best gelding and mare Harve CI J
wood first; Mrs. L. W. Winters .
ond. i
1
Best stallion and mare Harve CL
wood first; John Verbrick" second i
Best registered coach horse CL)ffice Ph
first and second. ""
Best team of single drivers ReardS AY!
first; Henry Hangner Carthage ses i Attc
ond. ? !
Best single driver Reardin fir:peciaI J
Webb brothers second.
Pony class:
Best saddle pony Helen Hour"
first; Miss Gust second.
Best girl rider under 16 years old- TT
Helen Houk first; Miss Gust secon; ''
Best lady rider over 16 years old-i Or
Verdia Bush. PHON
Jacks and mules: yj
Best mules over 3 years old Hem
Hangner first and second.
Best mule under 3 years old Wf
brothers. I
Best paid 2-year-old mules Webf
brothers. i
Best jacks over 3 years old Clajl
Neosho first. '.imer
Besf lacks iinrlen- 3 veora rlA Wi: :
Hams first; Webb brothers second.
Shropshire sheep:
Best ram best ewe and best 1-yeai'lAT'
old lamb Buckingham brothers Orti
nogo first and second prizes. r( Fi
Lincoln sheep:
i6cial 1
Best ram and best ewe Hille;;
brothers Carthage first and seconr
prizes. .
Sweepstakes Buckingham brothers! flt
first; Hilley brothers second. g
Angora goats Best ram and famih!
-F. F. Kinnel Reeds Mo.
Prohibition is Non-Political.
fnnofoi
In an adfFICE
Lawton Okla. Oct. 17
dress here Miss Kate Barnard candijjjj
date for re-election to office of com1
missioner of charities and corrections!
positively stated that the prohibitior
campaign in Oklahoma this year wai
not a political issue. Miss Barnarc
is of the opinion that it is a. mattei
that each individual should decide af
ter consulting his own conscience.
TWO REMAINING SLEEPERS
WERE USED AS HOSPIlf
By Associated Press.
Fort Smith Ark. Oct. 14. As a re D
suit of a wreck on the Frisco nea:'j
Compton Okla. yesterday one mar
E. R. Smith chef of the diner will
die. The others will recover.- Forty
two of the Injured were taken to Huge
Okla. Springfield St. Louis and Fort
Smith fhe officials' reports failed"
to give the cause of the wreck. Thev
train left the track at a curve on a
bridge thirty feet above the water
The smoker and diner went into thtf oth
creek. Dr. L. B. Jones of Tahlehinag'
Okla. was the first physician on the""""
scene and attended the injured forlf
four hours before the arrival of the re''
lief train. ' Two sleepers remainingjy)
upright were used as a hospital: J
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Testimony is Completed. I
The evidence in the case of E. N j
Williamson as administrator for the!
estate of J. H. Ritchie deceased vs
C. E. Lee was completed today and (
the case was civen to th inrv lust
j afternoon. The point at issue in this'jpCI
suit was the mental condition
'Ritchie just prior to his death when
he transferred certain holdings to the
defendant. Williamson sued to set-
aside the deed. 1
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