The Weekly Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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D. M. MARKS PRINTING COMPANY
PUBLISHERS.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
0 Tr by mill $1.00
8U IIobUh by mil AO
Thrtm Month by mttl . .25
D. M. MARRS
Editor
Vinita Oklahoma Friday October 21
XJ Stamp Here
State.
Governor Lee Cruce of Ardmore.
Lieutenant-Governor J. J. McAlea-
ter of McAleater.
For Secretary of State Den J. F.
Harrison of Calvin.
Treasurer Robert Dunlop of New-
kirk. Auditor Leo Meyer of Sayre.
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion R. H." Wilson of Ckasha.'
Attorney G en er al -Ch a r les West of
Enid.. : '.T; "
Commissioner of Charities and Cor-
rections Kate Barnard of Oklahoma
City.
Labor Commissioner Charles F.
Dauglierty of Oklahoma City.
Corporation Commissioner George
A. Henshaw of Madill.
President Hoard of Agriculture
Thomas Bryan of Perry.
State Printer Gilea Farris of Man-
gum. Inspector and Kxamlner C. A.
'Taylor of Pond Creek.
Mine Inspector Kd Boyle of
Chant.
Assistant Mine Iii:-tpectors John
O'Brien FirBt District Lehigh; Mar-
tin Clark Second District McAleater;
Frank Haley Third District Henry-
etta. Insurance Commissioner P. A. Bal-
lard of Coyle.
Clerk Supreme Court W. H. L.
Campbell of Ada.
Supreme Court.
For Associate Justice M. J. Kan-.'
of Kingfisher.
For Associate Justice J. J. Dunn
of Alva.
Criminal Court of Appeals.
Thos. H. Doyle Northern District
Perry.
Henry M. Furinan Southern District
Ada.
J. A. Armstrong Eastern District
Hugo.
Congressional.
First District N. K. McNeil of
Pawnee.
Second District M. L. Fulton of
Oklahoma City.
Third District James Davenport of
Vinita.
Fourth District -Charles Carter of
Ardmore
Fifth District Scott Ferris of Law
ton.
A hobble tongut won id be better for
some people than a hobble ski i t.
Vinita has no complaint against the
census taker yet as no report has bce
made.
i .
O- :
The first step the republicans made
townrd fair elections was the appoint
ment of Jake Ha mon on the election
board.
The death of Senator Dolliver re
moves from life one of the really great
men of the country and Is a distinct
loss felt by the whole nation.
Weston walked across Hie continent
and back and If flying is good Well-
man will fly across the ocean. This
Is a great year.
-O
nether alter Wellman crosses
the ocean in his airship or not ho has
already broken all records of flying.
With Jake Hanion on the state elec
tion board there should no longer exist
doubt about the republicans getting
theirs.
A suit between Governor Haskell
and Frank Greer will be about the
thing to break the lull that Is expected
to come after tho election.
Jake Hamon is the right man to
r present the republican party on the
state election board. At any rate he
is the man the party managers want-
ed. O
Col. Roosevelt seems to be utterly
incapable of pleasing: the standpatters.
If he goes to Africa on a hunt they
find fault. If he makes a tour of the
west or faouth they find fault and now
that he has tried going straight up
they are mad about that.
t Crai? county took most of the big
2ne stock premiums at the Ozark ex-
position at Joplin tiria week. The
kingdom of Craig is Just beginning to
show the outside world what Its pos-
sibilities are.
1 o
The wisdom of the "Outlook" select-
ing Col. Roosevelt a? a member of its
editorial Eta.7 is cow fully apparent.
He is a good advertiser.
0
Jake Hamon can be depended on to
carry out the Joe McNeai idea of a
fair election to say the leagt. The re-
publican party in Oklahoma ought to
be satisfied that a fair election will be
had.
0
The democratic party would much
rather come into power on some great
issue before the American people than
through a division in the republican
ranks. But the issue that Is now
splitting the republicans hopelessly
open is the revision of the tariff and
it Is the only successful issue the dem-
ocrats have bad in half a century.
0
The cost of white paper Is the big
item in every newspaper office and
the Payne-Aldrlch tariff law makes it
so. Let's get men in congress that
will put print paper where it belongs
on the free li3t. Creager voted with
Joe Cannon and made the cost of pub-
lishing a newspaper as high as pos-
sible. O
"More business and less politics"
was a sad slogan for Joe McNeai to
start out with in this campaign. It
has proved a boomerang one of those
thing.3 when thrown out comes back
and knocks the sender down.
The social given by thie Episcopal
Guild last evening at the home of W
P. Thompson was well attended and
very much enjoyed by all present
Music and dancing were tho diversion
for the evening and a delectable lunch
eon was served.
O
There is said to be a movement on
foot by congressional legislation to
give free mall delivery to Bmall towns
and villages. At present the rural
loiites are being extended into nearly
every community and the smaller
towns are about the only places not
served with free delivery of mail.
The McAlester Capital is authority
on church matters generally and one
of its latest and best observations is
that the man who shakes hands with
people so warmly at the church door
on Sunday night find time and occas
ion to nod to people on the street
through the week.
O
Missouri has on hands the problem
of filling up its country districts that
have been depleted by emigration to
the cities and elsewhere. Country
schools and churches have suffered in
consequence. Rob't. G. Ingersoll a
generation ago In his lecture on home
life declared the time would come
when people would live in villages
around which would be ranged their
farms. The love of social life he le
clared would bring about such a con-
dition. The days of the scattered set
tlement are numbered and who will
not welcome the day when every fam-
ily will have near neighbors.
One of the reasons why political
meetings in Craig county are not bet
ter attended Is for want of proper ad-
vertising of dates. When speaking is
to be had at a given place it Bhould be
thoroughly advertised in that parti-
cular neighborhood. It is not entirely
due to indifference that small crowds
turu out to hear political speeches at
the country school houses.
Joe McNeul declares that there are
too many state Institutions in Okla-
homa. That evidently means that if
he is elected governor he will set about
the task of reducing the number. Craig
county has one the east side state
hospital for the Insane. It Is fair to
suppose that McNeai would use his
influence to take this institution away
from us If he ever has the chance.
If the republicans are sincere in
their demand for tax reduction why
do they not reduce taxes in those
counties where they have the board
of county commissioners? Logan
county has the highest county tax rate
of all the counties of the state and In.
Wagoner county taxes have been in
creased three dollars on the thousand.
O
One of the problems and about the
only one the democracy of Oklahoma
is confronted with now is some means
to get the vote out at the election next
month. There are democratic votes
enough if they can be gotten out on
the day of election.
Perhaps few IVinita people realize
that yesterday the Frisco put on the
finest and the fastest passenger train
ever run over a western road. The
'Hustler" from Kansas City to Hous
ton and Galveston. This fine new
train passes through Vinita through
an alliance with the Southern Pacific
railroad and Is the fastest train ever
run through Vinita. It la all steel
brilliantly Illuminated and with an In-
terior finish that dazzles the eye.
This makes twenty-two regular pas-
secger trails that Vinita has per day
bich makes It the best served city
so far a passenger service is concern
ed in the state.
0
The republican party has begun war ifytng the contracts. Such ratification
on the Grandfather CTause. Their would have meant enormous fees for
purpose is to ignore the law and op- McMurray and his associates
pose its enforcement with the hope Whether or not the Gore charges
of its ultimate destruction became ap- will be sustained is still a question
parent as refusing to comply with its Until the decision of the investigating
provisions and as determined to work j committee it might seem to be a mat-
for its ultimate repeal or destruction. ter of oEcal dignity for the governor
Notwithstanding it and notwithstand- of Oklahoma not to have honored so
ing the fact that it is at present the
law of the state they refused to yield
obedience to its enforcement and be-
tray their determination to destroy
the law if ever given power to do so.
Thus the Issue of the recent prim-
ary becomes the issue of the coming
state election. The people who fought
for white domination in July must re-
new the fight in. October. A vote for
Cruce is a vote for white domination
a vote for McNeai is a vote for negro
domination. The "railroad bondsman"
and his entire ticket : stand pledged
to destroy the Grandfather Clause if
elected to office. If the people who
voted for the preservation of Okla
noma Dy securing to Oklahoma a
white mans' government wish to har-
vest the fruits of their former victory
they must oppose the election of the
republican ticket for every vote in
favor of McNeai and his followers is
a vote for the immediate destruction
of the political and social lie. The
voters of the state are now to answer
with their suffrage the ominous ques
tion "Shall Oklahoma be Negroid or
Anglo-Saxon?"
O
HOT-AIR EFFORTS AT SANITARY
REFORM (?).
States and cities that seek to regu
late the actions of men and the con
duct of business have about as much
influence through their own regard for
the spirit of the laws which they enact
as they do through the enforcement of
such laws. Therefore and for the sake
of consistency they ought through
their offices practice what they
preach to do w hat they require of oth
ers. Also they ought to require of all
that which they require of some.
Do they? Well hardly.
We have particularly in mind com
parisons which may be instituted as
between some sanitary and hygenic
requirements and the condition of pub
lie and private properties within the
Jurisdiction of the requiring govern
ments.
A passenger riding the railroad
trains through the states of Oklahoma
and Kansas will observe that the por
ters yank the water glasses away be
fore the wheels turn in such states
and if he wants a drink he must buy
a little cuplet of his own. This re-
quirement is made upon the ground
that the indiscriminate use of drink-
ing cups in public places leads to the
spread of disease germs and through
tuberculosis and other maladies swells
the harvest of the grim reaper. We
think rather favorably of the regula-
tion Itself but we do not admire the
consistency of statemen (?) who can
perceive the necessity of regulation
oniy in respect to corporations.
If the passenger will look out of the
window as he rides through the states
above named he will perceive rows of
filthy houses which decency forbids
us- to specifically name or to more
adequately describe. So far as we
have been able to learn the states In
question nave done noting whatever
to protect the passengers from the dan
ger of contagion from without but
have exhausted themselves in the ef-
fort to reduce the dangers within the
cars. Dallas .News.
O
Over at Law ton the other day a
bunch of Comanche Indians found
themselves so completely outdone in
the way of geygaws and fancy colors
worn by Lawton women that they pro
ceeded to tank up on bootleg whiskey
and a number of them landed in the
city bastile.
Now some detractor will say Walter
Wellman never seriously intended to
fly to Europe. But it will make a
great newspaper story nevertheless.
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After all the knocking Vinita and
Craig county continued to be well gov-
erned. The cleanest city and the
cleanest county in this state.
The latest rendering of Burns' fam
ous lines "Oh wad some power the
giftie gle us to see some folks before
they see us."
O J
There is a larger acreage sown in t
wheat in Craig county than ever be- J
fore and it is a sure omen of better
times for the farmer who is already
making plenty of money on other
crops. This Is a good wheat country i
and Vinita needs a big merchant mill
where a market could be found for
wheat. This is one enterprise that
would bring farmers to town and the
successful wheat grower .always has
money to spend.
HASKELL'S LATEST.
The action of Governor Haskell of
Oklahoma in appointing Hamon a
member of the state election board is
construed as an attempt to rebuke
Senator Gore for his sensational
f charges in connection with the fam-
ous Mc Murray contracts. It will be
recalled that Hamoa was charged by
Senator Gore with having tried to
bribe him to use his influence for rat-
signally a man involved in such a mess
as the McMurray tribal contracts.
There are doubtlessly a great many
republicans in Oklahoma entirely
eligible to sit on the state election
board. Perhaps the appointment of
nobody else within the republican
party would have occasioned the
criticism that Haskell's selection of
Hamon has evoked.
It is said that Haskell contemplates
running for the United States senate
and therefore wishes to embarrass
Gore in whatever way it can be done.
Be that as it may the conclusion gen
erally will obtain we think that
though Haskell belongs nominally to
the democratic party which is adorned
by Gore's affiliation with it the gover-
nor and senator are wholly apart in
their views and attitudes in matters of
public policy.
It is quite impossible for Haskell
erstwhile of Lima Ohio later of Mus-
kogee more recently of Guthrie and
now of Oklahoma City with ultimate
destination unknown to humiliate Sen-
ator Gore. In elevating Hamon at
this time the only humiliation attach
ed to the proceeding is fastened iipon
the governor of Oklahoma. Joplin
Globe.
O
WHAT NEXT?
A negro leader of Muskogee county
said at Chickasha last SLturday
among other things: "McGuire is the
kind of a man who would pet the ne-
groes before election and ignore them
and their demands to become minis-
ters at Dacoma after election." "We
stand for a nation-wide revolution in
politics" and "we are tired of being
called the tools of the republican
bosses."
Poor negroes! They are at last be-
ginning to learn the fact that ever
since the great Civil war they have
been nothing but the poor ignorant
tools of a set of bosses who cared less
for them after they votes were cast
than they cared for their dogs. They
now for the first time realize that his
"vote and his liberty" have been a
barter and sale ever since his freedom
and that they have sold their birth-
right for a mess of pottage ever since
their emancipation and that it was dis-
graced the negro race in the eyes of
the world.
One or more other facts they are
now learning for the first time and
among these is the one that in their
blind allegiance to the republican
party they have engendered the dis-
pleasure of other parties and that
through all their loyalty to that one
party that party has been disloyal to
them by keeping them in ignorance
of the true condition of party relation
to each other and in their not redeem-
ing the pledges so often made to them.
This action of the colored race forms
the basis of a crisis in the republican
ranks that they can not well afford at
this time not only in this state but if
it becomes nation-wide will completely
disrupt the entire party. Enid Wave.
O
OLD OCTOBER.
Old October's purt night gone
And the frost is comin' on
Little heavier every day
Like our hearts is that away!
Leaves is changin' overhead
Back from green to gray and red.
Brown and yaller with the stems
Loosening on. the oak and elms;
Gettin' balder every breeze
Like the heads we're scratch!V on!
Old October's purt night gone.
I love old October so
I can't bear to see her go
Seems to me like losen' some
Old-home relative or chum
'Pears like sort o" settin' by
Some old friend 'at sigh by sigh
Was a-passin' out o sight
Into everlastin' night!
Hickernuts a feller hears
Rattlin' is more like tears
Drappin' on the leaves below
I love old October so!
Can't tell what it Is about
Old October knocks me out!
l sleep well enough at night!
And the blamdest appetite
Ever mortal man possessed
Last thing et it tastes the best!
Walnuts butternuts pawpas
lies and limbers up my Jaws
Fer raal service sich as new
Pork spareribs and sausage too
Yit fer all they's somepin' 'bout
Old October knocks me out!
James Whitcomb Riley.
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The city of Vinita has solved the
water problem not only for the present
but perhaps for all time. The new
jwell Just finished near the power
house Is a real gusher and flows at
least three times the volume of water
'of any other artesian well in the city
This well is eleven hundred feet in
depth five hundred feet deeper than
the average well la Vinita thus dem-
onstrating that the flow of artesian
water here is not confined to a mere
strata but that it continues hundreds
of feet below. This new well is only
thirty feet from another well and the
flow in the other is not diminished in
the slightest thus showing the water
supply to be inexhaustible.
0
The spectacle of an aviator sailing
the air far out over the stormy At-
lantic and remaining in the air some A case of considerable local interest
two days and nights presents to the was heard in the district court today
world the dawn of the complete sub- It was the case of F. A. Klinfelter vs.
Jection of the air to the genius of man A. B. Watson in which the plaintiff
as a medium of safe and rapid trans- wa3 suing Watson for the invoice
portation. The failure of Walter Well-'price of a stock of hardware. The
man to reach Europe the first trial will stock of the old Vinita Hardware com-
not be a total failure in the light of pany was sold to Watson the price
other years for some one ere long it wa3 agreed would be the invoice
will succeed as surely as Columbus J price. The latter claimed that "in.
sailed the unknown seas and discover-
ed the new world.
0
The country is getting ready for a
democratic landslide in November.
Like panics these landslides come
when everybody predicts them. If the
democrats don't sweep the country
even the republicans will be disap-
pointed. -O
There are more new people coming
into this section to stay than ever be-
fore. They are going to stay because
they like the country and the town
and they are all very welcome.
0
The republican party seems to be
in a great straight on account of Col.
Roosevelt. It can't get along with
him nor without him.
0
To be a prize fighter of Ketchel's
reputation and go down before a 22-
calibre pistol is the extreme limit of
the irony of fate.
O
Missouri and Kansas have neither
as yet claimed that the census that
reduced their population was padded
They charge it all to Oklahoma.
Luther Okla. Oct. 19. Through
me eirons oi win nappen oi uutn-
rie the negroes of this section have
icamcu tuai awfec ul uifydiduuu iur
action that will lead to bloodshed on
election day. Chappell voted in the
legislature for mixed schools and
against separate coaches and separate
waiting rooms and in so doing made
himself the negro's supporter. He
is
Tint rhflnfrt r. n w tl-HH lnitiniy
0 .v 'uUe a
riot among the blackskins he so dear
ly loves but the incentive that he
gives an illiterate negro may lead the
negro into at least deplorable straits.
Regarding the situation here the
Lutnrre Register a republican news-
paper says:
For some time rumors have been
circulated that in some country pre-
cincts they have made threats to
vote on election day or capture the
polls by force and run the election to
suit themselves. In other words if
they can not vote legally they will
become law-breakers and rioters and
cast their ballots illegally.
"We can not believe that any great
number of colored citizens contem-
plate or will countenance anything of
the kind. Most of them have sense
enough to know that such a course
would only bring disaster to them-
selves and would fail to accomplish
the ends at which they aim.
"But if there are any who believe
they can force their votes illegally in
to ballot boxes and have them count-
ed in the final result; if there are any
WELLMRN CLAIMS WORLD'S
REDORD DURATION FLIGHT
By Associated Press.
New York Oct. 19. Walter Well-
man and party on board the steamer
Trent were held beck by a fog this
morning and will docK this afternoon.
A wireless from the Trent says the
most thrilling part of the Wellman
voyage was the transfer from the air
ship to the Trent. The airmen drop-
ped to the waves and bounced out in
the life boat. The seas were so rough
that it was impossible for a long time
: for the Trent to pick them up. Fin-
' ally they caught the line and one by
one climbed the rope ladder and were
cheered as they crawled over the rail
to safety. Wellman says the world's
record has been broken having been
seventy-two hours in the afr and cov-
ered a thousand miles on the rough
seas. Ke may try again.
David B. Hill is Dead.
By Associated Picas.
Albany N. Y. Oct. 20. David B.
Hill ex-United States senator and
former governor of New York died
suddenly today at Wolferts.
K Oil
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INCLUDE FREIGHT
Judge Brown Rules In Favor of P!jjn.
tiff in the Suit Over Vinita
Hardware Stock Price.
voice pure" meant the cost of the
goods in St. Louis or wherever the
stock was originally purchased. The
plaintiff contended that the freight
on the goods should be included in
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the Invoice price. As the point in- f J
volved was a matter of law the court 1 1
heard the case without a jury and de-1 1
cided in favor of Mrs. Klinefelter. 1 1
Judge Brown also rendered his de- ?
cision in the suit of Josephine Mosel.i
vs. L. B. Campbell et al in which he"'
ruled that the plaintiff was under the
age of majority when she deeded her
land to Campbell and ordered the deed
set aside.
A motion was filed by the attorneys I
for Henrietta Masley to set aside the
decree of divorce issued a few days'
ago to George Whitmire. A rehearing j
was granted but when it will be heard '
again was not announced. I
Was Law And Order Man.
M. B. Parks was arrested at Afton
yesterday by Deputy United States
Marshal J. C. Wilkinson on a charge
of selling booze without a govern-
ment license. Parks maintains that
he is a law and order man and had
la right to sell the booze.
ON ELECTION DAI
BOLT IN NO OOOD
who are planning to resist the law-
n any there are so ignorant of the!
consequences that they would go to!
me DOHA armPrt and Intimftatrv 41
election board or drive them by forcfV
away from their duty we wisli tof
warn them that they will accomplish
nothing beneficial to themselves byf
such a course. The whole power off
the state is behind the election iaJ
n n .? -! i . i ...
mm nuuiig m me pons win mean jaiii
or flight. And should they succeed)
in intimidating or overpowering the!
election officers and thus force illegalf
ballots into the box it would count!
for nothing. The returns thus forced!
froin such precincts would be throwc'J
out entirely when the facts were pre J
sented to the county or state election!
board.
"No good can result from any suet l
idea and if colored citizens are form!
ing such plans it is better for then
that they drop them at once. Thejl
will bring more harm to themselven
than to anyone else."
Organize to Boost Oil.
By Associated Press.
Tulsa Okla. Oct. 29-r-At a meetina
of directors of the Oklahoma Oil anc
Gas Producers' Association which wii?
be held here October 25 it is said tha
steps will be taken to organize an In
dependent Oil Producer' Agency such
as is in successful .operation in Calf
forma for the purpose of boosting tH-
price of Oklahoma oil.
The California producers by an o
gamzation of this kind brought the'!
oil up in price in the face of ad4W
conditions and it is believed the samf
thing can be done by the independer
producers of Oklahoma.
AMERICAN BEAUTT
CORSETS
Are the culmination
of corset excellence-
the product of
intelligent and ap-
plied reasontng-
honeat and well
directed efforts --the
results could not. be
different than ' they
are-corsets of stylish
lines and fashionable
proportions.
Not a better corset
can be made for the i
money. We carry in stocK all i
me lotest-5tunnmtf.modlSheffect
AMERICAN BEAUTY CORSET
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