The Weekly Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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IH1WIIE DIE
III TRAIN WRECK
Day Coaches Plunge From Trestle
o River 40 Feet Below Striking
the Abutment.
anchester N. V. Auk. 25. Speed-
eastward behind time Lehigh Val-
passengcr train No. 4 ran into a
ad rail on a trestle near hero Fri-
and two day coaches from the mid-
ion of the train plunged downward
y feet striking the east embank-
it like a pair of projectiles. At
t twenty-five persons are believed
have been killed and more than
y Injured. The Injuries of several
so serious that they probably will
rease the list of fatalities.
he wreck was the worst In the
ory of the Lehigh Valley line In
state and one of the most dis-
rous ever recorded on the system.
'ollowlng Is a list of dead at the
rtsville morgue:
. C. Madden Trenton N. J.
rangburn veteran Brooklyn.
. M. Hunsieker Vineland Ont.
"harles Ilicks Newark N. J.
t. S. Uncle Southfield N. J.
frs. A. E. Zudick Buffalo N. Y.
Ielen Fownell address unknown.
P. Johnson or Dr. Johnson T'hil-
Iphia or Cleveland.
Mrs. C. P. Johnson.
foseph Hlcky address unknown.
Woman about 40 "M. E. II." on
ast-pln.
Man 70 with "P" on cuff button.
Woman aged about 33 gray and
ick finely checked dress.
Girl blonde blue eyes aged 18 blue
rge skirt green and white striped
k shirt waist "M. C. II." Initials.
Girl aged about 22 black hair and
rk eyes.
Woman white skirt with black
ripe gray skirt aged about 42 years.
Woman about 3." years with "E. T.
" on watch.
Woman wearing gold band wedding
n? with inscription "Mame Nov. 23
5" about T0 years of age.
Woman aged about " years dark
ue jacket black skirt.
Woman 70 years "A. M. K." on
gnet ring.
Man about " years body crushed
yond recognition.
Unidentified boy about 6 years old.
The dead at Rachester are:
I). M. Bell veteran Los Angeles.
Henry Becker brakernan.
Among the Injured are:
Two nuns. Sisters Hortense and
-Ida of Geneva; Rt. Rev. Mgr. Hend-
ick of Ovid; Charles Richardson Phil-
delphia; Mrs. Harry Hamilton San
Antonio Tex.; Captain Robert Salis-
ury Philadelphia; S. P. Draper and
Aniline Draper Lancaster Pa.; Mr.
nd Mrs. S. W. Walker Lakewood
)hio and Col. E. A. Kellar Washing-
on D. C.
At the hospital in Rochester are the
ollowlng:
Emil Kohler Lancaster. Pa.: Rev.
Ir. Whittley and Mrs. Whittley an
ged couple of Boydston Va.; Charles
I. Saddler colored porter Sharonvilie
a.; Mrs. Sweeney Philadelphia crit-
cally injured: W. P Rundle postal
lerk on Lehigh Valley seriously in
ured; Mrs. Ida Douglas 7 ! Mount
lope avenue Chicago. Three other
ictims also are unconscious and un-
dentified.
At Canadaigua are the following in
ured.
Mrs. Harry Smith of Sayre. Pa. who
s reported as dying; Miss Agnes Gar-
len Atlantic City; George Irving and
ife and son John aged 12 Philadel
phia; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ruddach
Baltimore.
ANOTHER DEATH RESULTS
FROM FEUO AT PO
Muskogee Okla. Aug. 2S. The
silent hand "of death again swept
through the feud-ridden country sur-
rounding Porum Okla. last night
when Charles McClure a wealthy
stockman friend of the Davis boys and
one of the alleged leaders of the Davis
faction was slain from ambush.
With hia brother McClure was rid-
ing on horseback on the way home
from town and had just passed the
high school building when seven shots
were fired four taking effect. Mc-
Clure died soon after falling from his
horse and before aid arrived. His
brother escaped unhurt. Two masked
I men were seen to leave the school
fl building Immediately after the shoot
ing.
Excitement is running high at
Porum. McClure recently received
threatening letters ordering him to
leave the country upon pain or death
but he paid no attention to the warn-
ings. The dead man was a close friend
and important witness for Pony Starr
in the cattle stealing cases soon to
be tried in Muskogee courts. "
Incorporated Hit Family.
Spokane Wash. Aug. 26. William
Huntley vice president of the Ex-
change National bank and secretary-
treasurer of the Inland Brewing and
Malting company of Siokane who in-
corporated his family as the Huntley
Investment company with a capital of
$1200000 giving his wife and 10 chil-
dren and himself each $100000 In
stcM k a year ago now is defendant in
an action for divorce filed in the Spo-
kane county superior court. The
charge is abandonment. This is the
second suit filed by Mrs. Emma V.
Huntley. The first entered more than
a year ago alleged that the banker
was close in money matters. Soon
afterward Huntley organized the Hunt-
ley Investment company and follow-
ing the money settlement the case
was dropped. Huntley's counsel has
filed an answer admitting that he
abandoned his wife on April 1 1910
denying that this action was without
cause. The suit will be tried during
the September term. Before coming
to Spokane Huntley was a bonanza
wheat rancher In the Palouse country
in eastern Washington where he
amassed a fortune.
SIXTH LUND SALE BY
u
ulAlL ulnhlu I lituUAT I
Oklahoma City Aug. 28. Oklahoma
starts its sixth sale of public land to-
morrow at Hobart Kiowa county and
by November 4 expects to offer at pub-
lic aucition a total of 234251 acres all
lying in Western Oklahoma. None of
the tracts exceed 160 acres. In the dis-
trict sales will be held as follows:
Hobart August 29; Cordell August
30; Mangum August 31; Hollis Sep-
tember 1; Lawton September 4 and 5;
Anadarko September 6; Chickasha
September 7; Wa tonga September 9;
Fairview September 11; Taloga Sep-
tember 13; Sayre September 15; Chey-
enne September 16 18 and 19; Arnet
September 21 and 30; Buffalo October
3 to 11; Woodward October 13 to 18;
Alva October 19 to 24; Cherokee Oc-
tober 2"; Enid October 2C and 27;
Medford October 2S; Newkirk Oc-
tober 30; Perry October 31; Chandler
November 2 and Tecmnseh Novem-
ber 4.
Under the rules of the department
buyers may bid through agents and
unless a lessee takes the land at the
appraised figure there being no other
bid loses his preference right.
GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE
IN ARBUGKLE MOUNTAINS
Norman Okla. Aug. 28. A notable
geological conference will be held in
the Arbuekle Mountains this week. Dr.
J. W. Beede professor of geology at
Indiana University; Dr. Chas. N. Gould
state geologist of Oklahoma; Mr. F.
C. Green assistant state geologist of
Missouri and L. C. Snider assistant
geologist of Oklahoma left yesterday
for a few days tramp across the moun-
tains in the vicinity of Dougherty and
Sulphur. Each of these gentlemen is
a specialist in his particular line. Dr.
Beede has been spending the summer
studying the problem of the origin of
the Oklahoma Redbeds. He began
work near the Kansas line and passed
south through Pawnee Stillwater and
Chandler. The party is now in the
vicinity of Shawnee.
As the work has progressed during
the summer. Dr. Beede has become
convinced that the material which now
makes up the Redbeds was originally
washed out from the Arbuekle Moun-
tains. This happened during the Car-
boniferous times when the mountains
stood two miles above their present
level and when all of northern Okla-
homa was an open sea.
The object of the conference now be-
ing held in the mountains i sto studv
the rocks which now stand on edge
and to endeavor to trace if possible
the deposits from these mountains out
into the Redbeds plain. It is well
known that there are vast deposits of
conglomerate or pudding-stone rock in
the country lying north of the moun-
tains; for instance Bromide Cliff at
Suiphur is made up of this conglomer-
ate which is composed largely of peb-
les derived from the hard limestone
washed down from the former Ar-
buekle Mountains.
The party will traverse Falls Creek
visit Turner Falls on Honey Creek
climb the East Timbered Hills which
as Dr. Gould expresses It is "the gran-
ite core of the old mountain range"
will visit Rock Cut and Washita Gorge
near Crusher will collect fossils near
White Mountain climb the Burning
Mountain and visit the stone crushers
and asphalt mines and glass sand de-
posits in this general region. It is be-
lieved that the result of this conference
will be of great benefit in settling
come extremely difficult geological
problems which have been bothering
Oklahoma geologists for a number of
years.
Motoring Through New
England
(Number 9.)
There is a splendid automobile road
all the way from Bo.itrn to Prince-
town. It is built by the sta'e smooth
and hard with a foundation of crush-
ed rock 18 inches deep covered with
a mixture of fine sand and crude petrol-
eurn which packs down and becomes
as elastic as rubber.
Princetown as you know. Is on the.
extreme end of the curved strip of
land the southeast part of Massachu-
setts and by hard riding may be reach-
ed from Boston in one day a distance
of 120 miles. Fifteen villages appar-
ently very interesting were passed but
regret we did not stop long enough to
learn any thing worth the telling nor
inquire except the way to our distina-
tion which was not often for the state
road and sign boards made it quite
plain.
A guide told us that the old board
walk on the main street in Princetown
was built with funds from Andrew
Jackson. We learned upon further in-
quiry the only justification for such a
yarn was the fact that certain taxes
collected in the town during his ad-
minislration as president were refund-
ed and the proceeds devoted to much
needed public improvements includ-
ing this plank walk.
"Old Hickory" gave the Yankees so
much trouble at one time and .another
that it is interesting to note this effort
to preserve a tradition of him and
illustrates the general veneration ac-
corded the man every where regard-
less of the differences existing during
his life.
The ride around the cape is delight-
ful exhilirating and the ocean bear-
ing numerous craft on its bosom with
the waves breaking against the rocks
close by most facinating to the "land
lubber" especially where the scene
is changing every minute as one speeds
along for miles and miles. Light
houses and life saving stations are
numerous on both coasts of Cape Cod
peninsula and are built of wood in
order that they can run away to save
their lives when necessary.
Before the government officials un-
derstood the eccentric habits of Cape
Cod gales the light houses were built
of stone but many of them were un-
dermined by the action of the waves.
Now the lighthouses are built of wood
so when the waves wash away the
bluffs on which they are located rol-
lers can be placed under them and they
can be moved back where they will be
safe. The life saving stations are
treated the same way.
Water used to be pumped from the
sea by windmills and dried for the
saft but the discovery of salt deposits
throughout the country has destroyed
this industry.
A few years ago somebody discov-
ered that the sandy soil in certain por
tions of the cape is peculiarly adapted
to asparagus and the acreage planted
to it has been increasing annually
until now immense tracts of land that
were considered worthless are pro
ducing a large revenue.
Cranberry culture next to summer
boarders I would say is the most im-
portant industry. It may be a com-
fort to some over worked men out
west as well as bachelors "unlocated"
to know that in both of these lines of
business the work is done by women.
This gives the men plenty of time to
meditate on affairs of state gossip and
spin yarns of past experiences.
Very little labor is necessary in the
cutlivation of cranberries and the
vines can be made to produce twice
their natural crop by proper attention
so I was told.
When the picking season comes
every woman on the Cape goes to the
cranberry swamps and works from day-
light to dark. With proper energy and
facile fingers one can pick a barrel a
day.
1 he cranberry is natural to the
Cape. Reference is made to records
of Massachusetts as early as 1677
which specify among the gifts to
Charles II from the Colonists were
ten barrels of Cranberries from Cape
Cod. Nothing is said about turkeys
in the list nor whether the king was
contented to apply sugar freely before
taking.
Of late the cranberry crop has be-
come too large to be picked with local
fingers and train loads of women are
brought down from Boston and else-
where. Some of them it is said make
as much as $5.00 a day and besides it
must be a great thing for these peo-
it s'eui imug lor uiese peo-
the city to have a few weeks
timulating salt air sleeping
pie from
of this s
in tents on high places eating fried
fish and berries. Many we were
told make and save enouch Din monev
to last them the rest of the year.
There is no begging poverty or poor-
houses on the Cape. It is customary
as a matter of economy to make
rangements with some farmer to take
care of the homeless friendless and
indigent.
Returning along the southern shore :
by Orleans and Tahnouth skirting the
beautiful coast of Buzzard's Bay fam-
ous as the shooting and fishing ground
of President Cleveland and also dis-
tinguished fo rthe endless number of j
beautiful homes we are soon at New-'
port. 1
This now magnificent and preten-
tious residential city was at one time
an active business center of which no
vistige remains except a guide to tell
the story. Settled in 1639 it occupies
a low peninsula in the southern part
of Rhode Island on a very fine natural
harbor. Until 1770 Newport was sur-
passed only by Boston as a port and
its trade was very much greater than
that of New York. It however never
regained its trade and prestige after
the Revolutionary war having now-
only about 25000 inhabitants and is
noted today for its summer colony of
ultra fashionable Americans.
Facing the square is the old city
hall or "state house" built in 1738 and
also a monument erected to the mem-
ory of Commodore Perry of Revolution-
ary fame. Following Touro street we
come shortly to the old Stone Mill in
Touro Park claimed to have been built
by the Norsemen about the year 1000
long before Columbus landed here.
A beautiful Casino or Auditorium is
conveniently located with play grounds
It is here the international tennis
championships are decided when play-
ed on this side.
The homes or rather palaces and
grounds are beyond the dreams of
avarice. Even a photograph fails to
give an adequate idea of the color
luxury and magnificence on every
side. Private walks around precipi-
tous bluffs to the shore below are cut
in the rocks at enormous cost and one
palace has a tunnel electric lighted
150 feet long from the sea into the
rock under it where an elevator trans-
ports the pasesngers from the launch
to the house above. The lawns and
grounds all extensive look like noth-
ing so much as a velvet carpet and
are better kept than any we have seen
in this country or in Europe.
(Number 10.)
The Puritan was in himself and in
all that he did a vital and distinct
power in founding and building the in-
stitutions of New England supple-
menting the work of the Pilgrims re-
ferred to in a recent letter and carry-
ing it forward with that energy and
force so characteristic of the Puritan
nature a force acquired during a cen-
tury of struggle in England beginning
early in Elizabeth's reign and exem-
plified in its predominance by the
creation of English freedom. Histor-
ians accord to the Puritan the crea-
tion of the English constitution and
the establishment of the modern
House of Commons that house so
feeble when the Puritans came into
power in it that it was the cringing
agency of despotism; when they left
their seats it had come to be the
strongest freest and most respected
body the world had known and from
recent events I might add is still so.
During the Puritan ascendency in
England all who opposed them in their
reformation were brushed aside or
crushed. Stopping at nothing history
tells us in their onward sweep king
ministers prelates all bent their heads
over the block as the axe fell. And
it was this invincible spirit uncon-
querable in all that it determined up
on that was brought to our shores by
those Puritan pioneers in the spring
of 1024. They came in a small sail
ship of but fifty tons with scant sup-
plies but stout hearts expecting to sur-
vive on what they could catch kill and
produce. At the end of two years re-
duced to thirty in number under the
leadership of Roger Conant from Ply
mouth this handful of men settled at
what is now Salem Mass. organized
and secured a grant as the colony of
Massachusetts Bay."
Later in 1628 several men of means
and religious determination to the
number of thirty sailed from England
under the leadership of John Endicott
This expedition however had a great
er interest behind it han mers plant
ing fishing and trading. They pur-
chased the interest of the first settlers
to what they called the "Massachu
setts Bay Colony" and for the sole and
declared purpose of providing an asy-
lum for th" "persecuted non-conformists"
of England. They become at
once the bone and sinew of the colony.
It would seem therefore that we
should attribute the real settlement of
the Puritans in America to religious
considerations entirely and rejoice
that no country in the world can de
v v uv-
duce its orlKin from men guided by
such Pure and disinterested motives as
these which inspired these settlers on
our eastern coast.
Freedom of worship being the cause
.for which their sacrifices and suffer-
iKs were endured among tiie nrst
.things undertaken to organize a new
ar-jand wholly independent church. It
pvas thus as I understand that the
foundation and organization was made
of the first Congregational church in
America
The colony prospered and after a
few years the immigration had in-
creased the population to 30000. Gov.
Winthrop moved the capital first to
Cambridge then to "Boston a settle-
ment on a neck of land easily pro
tected."
Among the interesting monuments
I saw was one evidencing the trans-
fer of Boston Common from William
Blackstone the first settler to the peo-
ple. A levy of six shillings (about
$1.50) was made on every householder
which not being sufficient enough
was added to make thirty pounds
(about $150) the consideration asked.
Also an order given in 1634 empower-
ing the sale of out-lying lands to new
comers: "That the towne allot two
acres to every man able and fit to
plant and one acre to every able
youth."
And yet nowadays there are men
seemingly unable (or unwiling) to
support a family with a quarter sec-
tion! But it must be remembered our
ancestors knew what work was and
self-denial as well.
The Puritans began to fortify the
"neck" which Boston then occupied
against the Indians but this was soon
found unnecessary for the Indians
were not only friendly but seeing the
dire want of the settlers brought sup-
plies to them. These acts of kindness
were reciprocated of which many in-
teresting accounts are given. One in-
stance "to show their friendship was
not pretended" a general order is in
existence dated September 7th 1630
causing one Thomas Morton to be
placed in the stocks then sent back to
England. All his goods were seized
and sold to satisfy the Indians for a
canoe which he had stolen from them
and his house was burned in their
sight as further "compensation" for
the wrongs he had done them.
There are many evidences extant of
the wonderful capacity and character
of Rev. John Eliot. He arrived among
them in 1631 and at once became the
closest of friends with the Indians; he
learned their language in a remark-
ably short time preached the Gospel
in it to their perfect understanding
translated the Bible as well as Several
other books for them. The originals of
these are well preserved in Pilgrim
Hall at Plymouth and were exceeding-
ly interesting to me.
Much is also exhibited pertaining to
Roger Williams whose then regarded
extreme religious views caused so
much dissention; also as to Mrs. Ann
Hutchinson "a woman of ready wit
and bold spirit" as one document de-
scribes her whose views regarding the
Holy Ghost actually disrupted the col-
ony and a serious conflict was only
avoided by banishing the woman and
a few others.
To warn invasion of their "religious
freedom an order of the 'Council' is in
existence suspending special payments
to this effect: "That farthings shall
not pass for current pay and that mus-
ket bullets of a full bore shall pass
current for a farthing each." And an-
other order dated 1640 on account of
the great financial distress "that no
man should be compelled to satisfy
any lebt legacy fine or make any pay-
ment in money but satisfaction shall
be accepted in corn cattle fish or
other commodities at a rate appraised
by an appointed officer."
Such a law now would probably be
TUITION FREE!
The Connors State School of Agriculture
Warner Okla.
Offers a Useful and Practic Education to the Boys and Girls of Okla
DEPATMENTS
Agriculture Domestic Science and Art Manual
Training English and Mathematics
SUBJECTS
Arithemetic
Agricultural Botany
Carpentry
Algebra
Cooking
Forestry
Domestic Chemistry
Diseases and Care of
Farm Animals
Household Art
Insects and Plant
Diseases
Farm Economics
Sewing
Soils
Stock Judging
Social Culture
Vegetable Gardening
Domestic Hygiene
tarm Machinery and
Implements
Farm Accounts
Steam heated and thoroughly sanitary buildings; Library Carpenter
Shop Blacksmith Shop Kitchens and Dining Rooms; a farm equipped
with tools implements and machinery; all kinds of Live Stock and
Poultry.
The boy or girl who completes the course of study in the Connors
State School of Agriculture is well prepared to take up his or her life
work. The preparation received is of such a practical nature as to
afford a foundation for the future no matter what profession or calling has
been decided upon.
Address WALTER VAN ALLEN Superintendent
Warner Oklahoma.
Will Open for Students for the
Coming Year Tuesday Sept. 15
NEW POULTRY SUPERINTENDENT
Adam Thompson Amity Mo. in
Charge of This Department.
The appointment of Adam Thomp-
son to succeed Thos. Southard as su-
perintendent of the poultry section of
the American Royal stock show which
takes place at the Kansas City stock
yards the week of October 9 to 14 has
been sanctioned by the official board.
Mr. Thompson is a widely known
breeder and raiser of game chickens
and has many ribbons to his credit.
He is a member of the Southwest Poul-
try Raisers' association.
The poultry division of the Royal
will be larger this year than ever be-
fore and many entries of international
importance are expected. The poul-
try will be housed in the new building
which is now under construction and
which when completed will permit of
better display and more comfortable
arrangement of the birds an advant-
age both to the visitor and to the ex
pert. The exhibitor will find it worth
while to enter birds from the stand-
point Of thus displaying his birds to
practical poultry raisers alone regard
less of the cash prices which will be
offered and premium ribbons which
have become of high value among the
breeders of the United States.
I
W. J. Gambill of Adair county com-
missioner and Mr. Mitchell county
surveyor of Mayes county stopped
over Saturday en route to Kansas City
where they go to see about buying ma-
terial for bridges.
declared unconstitutional. These peo-
ple had no constitution in a strict
sense and yet they were living under
and carrying into practical use the
principles laid down in the famous
compact signed on the Mayflower; and
it is remarkable too that in this 20th
century the very principles of that fam-
ous compact are the foundation of the
government of every town state and
even the national government as ex-
emplified by the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. And the articles of confed-
eration formed in 1642 by the colonies
of Plymouth (Pilgrim) Boston (Puri-
tan) Connecticut Providence and
Maine were the very foundation of the
constitution of the United States. A
comparison shows many identical ar-
ticles and chapters.
When at the general meeting in
1635 on the election of governor the
freemen all demanding a voice for the
first time in America the ballot was
used showing the name of the candi-
date written thereon.
We see in these planters the fore-
fathers of New England a people vh5
were remarkable for their piety and
moral rectitude; who endured every
privation even starvation for the
cause of religious freedom they were
men of erudition of genius of literary
attainments and as they hewed out of
the wilderness a country free born and
independent their deeds coupled with
those of the Pilgrims will go down to
the farthest posterity as among the
greatest blessings mankind has ever
had bestowed upon it.
TUITION FREE!
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