The Weekly Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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WILL IITA HAVE
FI THIS FULL?
STOCKMEN AND OTHERS INTER-
ESTED TO MEET THURSDAY.
PLAN 10 CELEBRATE FOURTH
Commercial Club Begins Movement to
Keep Things Dusy Here Want
Location For Large Factory.
From Friday's Daily.
Contrary to expectation;! the r in-
nonlatlve of 1 1 1 propom '1 railroad
from Caiiov. Kans to Sltoani h'pi i n1 :;
Ark. did not attend the Coiimi' iri;i1
Club meeting last night. When invit-
i'tl to do ho lio Informed President Wal-
len tlu'it liis company was not. ready
as yet to make this city n imposition
relative to building this road to Vinita.
lio mild however that a little later
this road would unbuilt a proposition
and would expect Immediate action as
tho road In now under construction
from Caney southeast. I
A letter from an automobile manu-
facturing company desiring a western
locntlon was read and discussed at
pome length. This company would ( -ploy
about 2000 men and will bo the
largest of Its kind west of the Missis-
sippi river. TIiobo who have Invcstl-
gated stated that tho demands of the
company were not known. It In said
tho plant would require about fifteen
acres. Tho club will quietly investi-
gate tho poHHlblllty of securing tho lo-
cation of this plant In Vlnlta.
The propoHltlon that aroused more
Interest than anything discussed at
tho meeting last night was the ques-
tion of whether or not Vinita will have
A Fourth of July celebration. A letter
from Mr. Monroo who had charge of
the celebration last year was read and
tho club voted unanimously to not
consider hla ofTer for this year. A
romtnltteo consisting of John Wise
8. H. Frazee and A. (1 Marrs was ap-
pointed to Investigate nnd formulate a
plan of holding (i big celebration. It
was the unanimous sense of those
present that Vlnlta should have tho
biggest celebration In her history.
The discussion of the Fourth of July
celebration led to the discussion of
tho question of holding ft county fair
here next fall. It was decided to ask
all of tho stockmen who aro Interest
ed to attend the mooting next Thnrs-
made only upon the tangible value of
the property while the ronstitutton
gives the board the right to assess
also "rlRhts privileges and franchises"
and that there Is no evidenco to show
that other than the tangible and fran-
chise values of the property were con-
sidered In making the assessment.
The court dismisses the contention
that the assessment of the company
was unequal in that private property
valuations were reduced 25 per cent
by holding that the reduction was
systematic and equally distributed as
to the various classes and there is
no evidence to show that the board
purpoHfly undervalued other property.
The court holds as to the contention
that the properly of the Western
l. n ion company was not equalized with
that of private persons that the con-
ntltutlon and laws of the state do not
require that all property must be
equalized together or by the kmiiio
board.
The holdings In the Pullman ease
aro Identical with those of the West-
ern Union with th' additional holding
that the Pullman property was as.e't;-
ed alter August 1 the date set ill the
general revenue act for hearing on
thi assessment so that the objections
against the regularity of the assess-
ment could not lie on the ground that
there was no notice or that It was not
made by tho board of equalization.
Tho Pullman property was assessed
at IC40.000 or at tho rate of $20000 a
car which was three times the returns
made by the company.
OEftTHCLlSilllll
NATION S GREAT H11IS1
Samuel L. Clemens Succumbs Late Thursday
to Attack of Angina Pectoris Death Came
at 6:30 After a Lapse Into Unconscious-
nessRelatives Went Away Without
Learning of His Death.
IIIQICTHTS III.
II
II BE QUASHED
Attorney General Wickersham Says
Haskell Case Will Be Prosecut-
ed Even More Vigorously.
Redding Conn. April "2. Samuel
uikhoiiio Clements (Mark 'Twain)
died painlessly at tl:?0 o'clock last
night of angina pectoris. He lapsed
Into coma at I! o'clock yesterday after-
noon and never recovered conscious-
iioHs. It was the end of a man out
worn by grief and acute agony of body.
Wednesday was a bad day for the
little knot of anxious watchers at the
bedside. For long hours the gray
acquiline features lay moulded in the
inertia of death while tho pulse sunk
steadily but late at night Mark
Twain passed from stupor into first
natural Bleep he had known since he
returned from Tiormuda nnd yesterday
Washington I. C April 25. At-
torney General Wickersham announc-
ed Saturday that the Indictments
against Governor Haskell In the Mus-
kogee town lot cases will not be
quashed but on tho contrary will bo
prosecuted with vigor.
Considerable pressure has been
brought to bear upon iho department
of Justice to have the Indictments
quashed but without avail. Indeed
so strong has been the representa-
tions in the Interest of Governor Has-
kell that Attorney General Wicker
sham has found it necessary to give
the case his personal attention ami 1
it Is only after ft thorough investlga-t
.' ! ' .'' - '.
Ik. Mark Twain
morning he woke refreshed even
faintly cheerful and in full possession
of all his faculties.
lie recognized his daughter Clara
Mrs. Osslp Gabrilowltsch spoke a
rational word or two and feeling
himself unequal to conversation wrote
out in pencil.
"Give me my glasses."
They were his last words. Laying
them aside he sank first Into reverie
ind later ii to final unconsciousness.
There was no thought at the time
A I . . t - . 1 11. t ...... -1 .... .. A. I
day night and give their views toward un" UH1 umy lu UU! ut 111 however that the end was so near.
nas ueiermineu 10 assist. .;u.iociAt 5 oVk)ck j. Hobert Halsey who
States Attorney Gregg and Assistant jha(J b((n ronnmnsly tendance
Attorney General Hush. Tho case will Ig.jij.
be heard next month and the co-opera-j clt.H.nB la ot strong nt
uou oi uie uepaiuuem m justice iui (h3 lmr ft8 u; wa8 ftt th(1 (.orrPHjmni.
the l nlted States attorney is assured
tho permanent organization of a fair
association to be composed of stock
raisers farmcrB and others who may
bo interested In the exhibiting of coun-
try produce.
I '
WESTON SUFFERS COLLAPSE
BUT IS ABLE TO CONTINUE.
lUIca N. V. April 2:1. Edward
Payson Weston walking t. this city
along the tow path of the Kile canal
collapsed tills morning two miles
west of Chltteiiango. Those with him
carried hlni to a farm house where
he has been put to bed.
Weston resumed his trip at one
this afternoon having almost recover-
ed from his sudden Illness.
Senator Bailey Retained. '
Senator llailey of Texas has recent-
ly Interested himself in the case and
has conuferred with the attorney gen-
eral on several occasions with refer-
ence to the Haskell indictments nnd
the Impression Is general that the
lag hour yesterday but he has wonder-
COMB MUST
m STATE TAXES
Judge Cotteral In Federal Court For
Western District Dissolves In-
junction In Favor of State.
junior senator from Texas has been
retained by Governor Haskell as his
personal attorney. Recently Senator
llailey has considered the advisability
of offering a resolution in the senate
tailing on the department of justice
for the Investigation of the United
States attorney's ol'iee In the Haskell
prosecution hut has changed his
mind and there seems to he little or
no llkllhood of the case being dragged.
Into congress.
ful vitality and he may rally again."
Albert Iligelow Paine Mark Twain's
biographer and literary executor said
to a caller who desired to Inquire for
Mr. Clemens. "I think you will not
have to call often again."
Nevertheless. Mr. and Mrs. lv H.
EUGENE HAYES DIES FROM
WOUNDS RECEIVED ARPIL 9
Guthrie. Okla. April 2-'. The suits
brought by the Western 1'nion Tile-
graph company and the Pullman com-
pany involving Il'OS taxes amounting
to over $."i000i) were decided yester-
day by Judge John II. Cotteral in the
federal court of the western district of
Oklahoma In favor of the state. The
court dissolved the temporary Injunc-
tions granted in both cases against
tho collection of these taxes and the
levy can now be collected unless the
companies go to a higher court.
In the case of the Western Union
vs. Trnpp state auditor the court
holds that the contention of the com-
pany that the assessment was made
by the Ptate board of assessors instead
of the utate board of equalization. In-
validating tho assessment that the
legislation vesta both the powers of
assessment and equalization in the
board and tho legislative act creating
the board of assessors did not effect-
ively separate these powers. In de-
ciding the contention that there was
a lack of notice the court holds that
the general revenue act itself consti-
tuted sufficient notice.
As to the action of the beard in mul-
tiplying the returns of tho company
which amounted to f 3S1D:4.10 by
three raising tho value to $1141602.30
the court holds that the returns were
P.y A-soclated Press.
F.lgln Kans April Kugeno
Hayes a wealthy cattleman. well
known In the southwest died at his
home at Pawhuska Okla. early to-
day of the wounds received on April
S. when he was shot three times
by Amos Hayes of Pawhuska.
Fugono Hayes at the time of his
death was under Indictment In Kan-
sas City for killing his business part-
ner Fd ward Hayes In a hotel there
September last.
lMward Hayes ar.d Amos Hayes
were half brothers. Kugeno I Inyo
however was not related to the two
others.
Guett of City of Parlg.
Dy Associated Press.
Paris. April 23. Col
I.oomis who had come up from New
York to give their love In person left
"Storintield" Mr. Clemens home with-
out seeing him and only heard of his
death as they were taking the train
to New York again. Mrs. I.oomis was
Mr. Clemens' favorite niece nnd Mr.
I.oomis is vice pn..ldent of the
I.ni kawiinna railroad.
i Similarly Jarvls l.angdoii a nephew
who had run up for tho day left even
earlier and wholly uninformed.
At the deathbed were only Mrs.
Gahrilowitch (C'wa Clemens! and
her husband. lr. Robert Halsey Ir.
Quintard. Albeit Higolow Paine who
will write Mark Twain's biography
ami the two trained nurses. Hestora-
tlves digitalis strychnine nnd cam-
phorwore administered but the pat-
It nt failed to respond.
A tank of oxygen still stands un-
called for at Redding station. Oxygen
was tried and the physicians explain-
ed that It was of no value because the
valvular action of the heart was not
disordered. There was only an ex-
treme nnd Increasing debility accom-
panied by labored respiration.
I Angina pectoris is a paroxysmal af-
fection of the thest of daffling and ob-
scure origin characterized by session
of the splrltes. The pain Is severe
and of nn oppressive crushing' or stab-
bing character. The attacks progress
in frequency and severity with uncer-
tain Intermissions sometimes of long
duration to a fatal termination.
j The mere chronology of Mark
The earlist ancestor the Twains have
any record of was a friend of the fam-
ily by the name of I logins" The
county (hronU'les have it that the eid-
er Clemens failed In business and died
leaving his sou the ample world to
make bin fortune In.
Accordingly Mark Twain's acquain-
tance with literature began in putting
words Into type not ideas into words.
Fducated only in the public schools
he was apprenticed to a printer at
thirteen and worked at his trade in
St. Louis. Cincinnati Philadelphia and
New York until at eighteen he could
gratify a boyish ambition to becomo
cub to a Mississippi river pilot lloth
these disparate happenings reacted
profundly on his later life. Varied
and eventful as that life was It might
almost be said that only two things
happened to Mark Twain he learned
the river and ho learned to set type.
His knowledge of river life acquir-
ed when he wan a pilot took form in
Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn and
Life on tho Mississippi regarded
abroad as his surest title to fame. It
even suggested his pseudouymn for
"Mark Twain" Is a linesman's cry to
tho pilot In shallow stages. And his
familiarity with printing turned him
naturally first-into ' newspaper work
thou into creative writing and finally
Into the publishing business wherein
like Sir Walter Scott he suffered a
bankruptcy disastrous to everything
but his honor and like Sir Walter
again paid off his pen debts not of his
own making.
In due time Mark Twain became a
full fledged pilot lie tells the rest
himself in a chapter of Life on the
Mississippi.
"15y and by the war came commerce
was suspended my occupation was
gone.
"I had to seek another livelihood. So
I became a silver miner In Nevada;
next a1 gold miner In California next
a reporter In San 'Francisco; next a
special correspondent in the Sandwich
Islands; next a roving correspondent
in Furope and the East; next an in-
structional torch-bearer on the lecture
platform! and finally I became a
scribbler Of books and an immovable
fixture among the other rocks of New
England."
This wan In 1872 a year after he
had married Miss Olivia L. Langdon
of Fliuira N. Y who brought him an
independent fortune. At that time
his writings were in growing demand
he had nn assured Income his own
home and seemed Indeed a fixture.
Hut in 1 ssr his popularity as an author
and his acquaintance with the me-
chanics of the publishing trade be-
sides being a prac tical printer he h.-d
been part owner of the P.nffalo Ex-
press before his niarrh.e drew him
into the firm of C. L. Webster & Com-
pany publishers. The firm brought
out the memories of General Grant
and paid his widow $:1".0imi0 but its
prosperity was shortlived and it fail-
ed with liabilities of $1M1.(H0. The fail-
ure had already sucked In $(i'00O of
Mark Twain's cash but he determin-
ed also to shoulder tho debts and to
pay them off undertook in ISUfi-tl a
lecture trip around the world.
Mark Twain was an inveterate smok-
er and one of the most leisurely men
In the world. An old pressman who
was once printer's devil in an office
where Mark was editorial writer tells
this nnecedote of his habits of work.
"One of my duties was to sweep the
room where editors worked. Every
day Mark would give me a nickel to
get away from him. lie would rather
die in the dust than uncross his legs.
Ono day he gave nie a nickel to dot
an T In Ms copy for him. lie certain-
ly did enjoy life that man did."
Yet this easy going dawdler acquit-
ted himself of a prodigious deal of
work in his life and bound himself
voluntarily to pay off debts that he
could have discharged w ithout hurt to
his good name by passing through
bankruptcy. He did not practice as ho
preached. "It don't make no dlffer-
lnto a figure taken In some sense to
typify the American spirit. From
humorist he became the kindly but
mocking moralist and philosopher of
Puddlnhead Wilson. Ills literary out-
put became more occasional and
though written with more finesse
more critical and less creative. His
public appearances grew more fre-
quent his whimsical utterances gain-
ed greater currency and a w hole liter-
ature of anecdotes about him grew
up.
Yale gave him the degree of M A.
and later of L. H. 1). in 1901. the uni-
versity of Missouri his native state
followed with LL. D. in 1302 and in
1007 the university of Oxford with
great ceremony made him Litt. D.
Indeed serious appreciation of
Mark Twain as an artist and not. a
mere Jokcsniith began abroad but his
true worth has long been recognized In
this country. "Mark Twain's humor"
said William Dean Jlowells "will live
fores er. lie portrays and interprets
reel typos not only with exquisite ap-
preciation unci sympathy but with a
force and truth of drawing that makes
them permanent. Ho had tho true
humorist's tender heart and deep ser-
iousness. Like llret llarte.'with whom
he worked like the great west that
bred him his most audacious sallies
were torse and sternly grave. As a
moralist love of humanity hatred of
sham and the sense of duty informed
his most ironic and debonaire preach-
ments. Four children were born to Mark
Twain of whom tsvo a eon and n
daughter died early. Ono other daugh-
ter Jean who had been an invalid for
life was found dead in her bath tub
last fall In her home nt Redding Con-
necticut. Her tragic death greatly
saddened her father who declined In
health from that moment. A third
daughter Clara is Mrs. Ossln Gabrilo-
viteh wife of the pianist whom she
married last year.
Mark Twain's first book was the
Jumping Frog. His best known in this
country were possibly Innocents
Abroad. Ills surest title to fame Is
generally believed to be Torn Sawyer
and its companion volume "The Ad-
ventures of Huckleberry Finn. In all
his books had a sale of more than !00-
000 copies and were translated into six
languages. Others among the better
known are: A Tramp Abroad The
Prince and tho Pauper A Yankee at
the Court of King Arthur Puddlnhead
Wilson (dramatized) Joan of Arc A
Doubleharrelled Detective Story and
Eve's Diary. He left an unfinished
autobiography portions of which had
appeared serially.
Grants Time For Appeal.
Guthlre Okla. April 23. Federal
Judge Cotteral Friday granted tho
Western Union Telegraph company
and the Pullman Car company forty
days in which to p rfeet appeals to
the appellate court at St. Louis from
a decision in the tax suits rendered
against them Wednesday. The court
stipulates however that the appeals
must be accompanied by a request
that the casts be brought from final
decision next September. The taxes
Involved are about $12a000.
Tsvain's life Is soon to' I Like most
Theodore dwellers in the Imagination his slgnl-
Roosevelt was the guest of the city of fleanco to posterity lies not as with
Paris today In the magnificent Hotel men of action in hosv he wrought up
DeVUIe or town hall which has played on events but rather in hosv events once" ho had Huek Finn say "wheth-
so conspicuous ft part In French his- wrought upon him; for from such re- er you do right or wrong a person's
tory. An Immense crowd In the actions resulted bis Imaginative out-1 conscience ain't go no sense and Just
streets acclaimed the former presl- put one of the most considerable of goes for him anyway. If I had a
dent as he left the building.
E. It. Cockrell of El Reno who has
been appointed by Governor Haskell
to succeed A. M. Young as state bank
commissioner h a cousin of Ross
Cockrell and brother In law of 11. A.
Farthing of this city.
his time and. as it now seems one of yaller dog that didn't know no more
the securest. j than a person's conscience did I'd
Priefly then Mark Twain was born 'plsen htm. It takes up more room
Samuel I.anghorne Clemens. In Flor- ihan all the rest of a person's Insldes
Ida Mo. on November 30 1S3". "My and yet ain't no good nohow.
parents" bo writes in his own Burles-
que Autobiography "were neither very
poor nor conspicuously honest
With Mark Twain's lecture trip
around tho world began bis interna-
tional celebrity and his gradual rise
DEIf Hill OE
GIFFORD PIIIG1T
President of Many Public Service
Corporations Calls Popular Re-
sentment f jtile.
St. Louis April 22. In an address
before the league of electrical inter-
ests last night. Henry L. Dougherty of
New York president of nineteen of
the greatest public service corpora-
tions in the United States In New-
York Denver Philadelphia nnd other
cities bitterly attacked Gifiord Pin-
chot as the man who has done more
to prevent development of water pow-
er than any other and a man who
has been guilty of frequent and dis-
astrous mistakes.
"If Pinchot did not directly in-
augurate many statements which were
unture ho at least by reiterating
these sensational statements manag-
ed to stir up almost universal anger
on the part of the American people
and resentment toward the various In-
terests accused by him" he said.
Dougherty denounced the "popular
craze for attacking all quasi-public
corporations" as unjust and futile.
"We are living In an atmosphere
which might be termed the tyranny
of Intolerant public opinion. The one
great obstacle to our needed reforms
is the modern reformer. Our ills are
like human Ills and need tho art of
skilled physician ani not the art of
a pugilist.
"In the minds of many people the
only true badge of respectability Is
poverty and possession of a compet-
ency is conclusive evidence of crime.
"Both competition and municipal
ownership may be looked upon today
ns practlcnlly dead Issues.
"Much of 'the high cost of living'
can easily be shown to be the cost of
high living."
WISCOHSIH 1
ICPM0
IUUUIIUM III
A VINITA BOOSTER-
SAYS VINITA IS TOWN WITH A
REMARKABLE FUTURE.
COMPLETE TOUR OF STATE
After Thorough Inspection of Various
Parts of State Soil Here is
Pronounced Dest.
A nesv Vinita booster made himself
knosvn this morning in tho person of
F. M Dyer of liattesille Wis. Mr.
Dyer has just completed a tour of the
state lasting since last December and
Is of the opinion that Vinita is a town
with a remarkable future and a toss(f .
located in what is undoubtedly the J"1
of
richest agricultural portion
state.
Mr. Dyer was attracted to Vinita by
the words of praise from Mr. nnd Mrs.
James S. Davenport during Mr. Dav
enport's term aa congressman from
Oklahoma. Mr. Dyer Bald ho had the
pleasure of boarding at the same place
as did Mr. nnd Mrs. Davenport in
Washington and often had heard of
tho wonderful section of country
around Vinita andso decided to visit
this place. He said he had a curiosity
to knosv whether the words of praise
were simply tho result of tho natural
lose of one's native country or wertA
really true He says that he is nosv
convinced that the country is even
greater than tho congressman had
told him. "Vinita" he said "of all of
tho towns I havo visited looks the best
and most substantial to me."
Mr. Dyer is somewhat of a soli ex-
pert and has made a pretty thorough
test of the soils in various parts of
tho state. In December he went to
Guthrio and after looking over Logan
county went to Chandler for an in-
spection of Lincoln county. From
Chandler Mr. Dyer went to Enid and
on to the Denver county country. Lat-
er he visited Law ton Chlckasha and
other points In southwestern Oklaho
ma. From Lnwton Mr. Dyer went to
Little Rock Ark. and up the White
river and to Joplln Mo. coming from
there here.
After making this tour Mr. Dyer
says he is convinced that tho soil here
is far more adapted to agriculture
than the otl'ior portions of the state
for the reason that there is little hard
pan beneath the soil which is deeper
than it Is in western Oklahoma and
the soil Is better adapted to holding
moisture than on the west side.
DESCRIBES DEATH
OF YOUNG SWOPE
Nurse Who Led Strike at Swope Home
In December Takes the
Stand Today.
Ily Associated Press
Kansas Ciy Mo. April 22. De-
scribing with striking detail and oc-
oorupanying the story with a vivid
illustration of tho ac tion of her pati-
ent Miss Haulihan a nurse today
began at the Hyde murder trial her
story of the death of Chrlsmnn Swope
It was Miss Haulehati who led the
strike of nurses against Dr. Hyde at
the Swope house last December. Sh
Is a little black-haired woman of pot-
tlve manner of speech. "People are
being murdered In this house" sho Is
said to have declared to Dr. Twyman.
in speaking of her suspicions of Dr.
Hyde nnd after she had stated her
position firmly she put on her coat
and said she or Dr. Hyde must leave
tho house. Dr. Hyde left and Mrs.
Hyde went with him.
The description of the convulsions
suffered by Chrlsmau Swope follow-
ing the administration of a capsule by
Hyde was similar to that which Miss
Kellar gave yesterday of the attack
of Col. Swope under similar circumstances.
"THIRD DEGREE" METHODS
WILL BE INVESTIGATED.
Py Associated Press.
Washington D. C April 23. The
senate committee on the Judiciary
voted today to conduct a thorough ex-
amination Into what is known as
"third degree" methods of extorting
confessions from persons charged with-
crime Also the practice of employing
persons in espeonage of Jurors w ill be.
investigated.
Dentist Declared Not Guilty.
fly Associated Press.
Kocky Mcmt Va. April 2. Tin-
Jury today returned a verdict of not
guilty in the case of Dr. J. S. Cahill.
a wealthy dentist who was charged
with the murder of Robert Smlthers
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