Vinita Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 98, Ed. 1 Monday, August 3, 1908 Page: 2 of 4
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Vinita Okla.
Monday Aug. 3
WHY OKLAHOMA IS CBEAT.
So many things have happened before
and since the advent of statehood to em
phasize the greatness of Oklahoma that
people hack east and in other directions
are wondering what really makes Okla
horna great. Aside from its size and
location in the heart of the republic mak-
ing it absolutely the best in point of
clinuite resources and accessibility which
in themselves have the elements of a
splendid commonwealth it has another
and a far more jxttent factor in tin:
. achievement of its brilliant success be-
lore tt nas readied the age ot one year
from its somewhat stormy birth last
year.
The real greatness (if Oklahoma may
very properly be attributed to the spirit
of Its "citizenship. Not long ago men
spoke and wrote of the Western spirit as
peculiar to the unsettled west and south
west 01 a generation ago. mat term is
also obsolete and It is now the Oklahoma
spirit as exemplifying the dauntless
courage the splendid prowess and the
marvelous originality of the prevailing
thought that has shaped Oklahoma ia the
making.
Men who pushed their way into the
wild and woolly west a generation iigo
were called pioneers' Yea for more than
' a hundred years these restless wanderers
have pressed into the unsettled forests
and trackless prairies of our country and
raising the standard of freedom and self-
government have been the real exponents
of expansion that have made the nation
great on the American continent and be-
yond the sons.
The creation of Oklahoma was the cul-
mination of a century and a third of
state-building. It was a part of the
movement of a great race of men-4he
most masterful race of all history. No
human hand can stop or stay the push
and enterprise of the American people
and no region can remain a wilderness
when they undertake to subdue it.
The glory of Oklahoma is the! dauntless
. spirit of her people. The million and a
half of people who rose up and demanded
statehood from a hostile administration
would build a great state in any quarter
Of the habitable globe. These people if
t set down in the wastes of Africa would
erect a state and cherish and nourish the
principles of human liberty and there
establish the highest form of civilization
a Republic.
The very highest form of patriotism is
pride in and love for ones state. Where
is the maapr woman in Oklahoma who is
not already proud of the state. The man
wko would be ashamed of being an 6kla-
homans would be imin-rvious to the pre-
vailing thought that actuates her citizen-
ship. . .
Men of bruins and character from the
whole United States have assembled them-
selves here to erect a model state. When
we wrote the constitution that was
adopted here less than a year ago a few
timid ones said it would be rejected at
Washington because it was not like other
6tate constitutions. Oklahoma does things
differently. The older commonwealths
now wait to see how Oklahoma will do
things and then take pattern.
Oklahoma is great because the most
alert the widest awake and the brightest
people in the world have determined to
make her so.
A group of men were seated on the
shady side of the street. They were talk-
ing almut how good a town Vinita is get-
ting to be her splendid merchants her
strong banks her sole lawyers. Her skiu
ful "nhysicians her artesian water her
army of barefoot boys her troops of bonn
lusses her beautiful women und
thousand and one other things that town
pride would dictate. A knocker drew near.
He bewailed the sending of money for
street navinfl. and denounced the council
that comiH'llcd the building of so man
miles of sidewalk and the work on the
parks. About the time he got fairly un
limbered the crowd had die persed and the
poor knocker put his little hammer tender
ly away and took his departure a silenter
and sadder man.
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If the carrier should drop a copy of the
Daily Chieftain at your door for a few
evenings without your ordering it don
be alarmed. It is only that you may see
it and mayhap subscribe and have it con
tinue regularly. On the rural routes lead
ing out of the city in every direction
samples will be mailed at first to be fol
lowed by a representative of the pnier.
When Governor Haskell and Attorney
General West get through with each other
the Standard Oil company will still be
doing business at the old stand and at its
same old tricks and probably some new
ones. Put up your bean shooters hoys
and fight yourfommon foe.
There is nothing in the cry raised in
some quarters that the government suits
against alleged crooked land deals will
retard development land cloud titles in
this country' It. is the wail of the g?aft
ers and is intended to induce a cessation
of prosecutions.
For lack of time we have been unable
to solicit all the business houses in the
city in the interest of the Daily Chieftain.
No one is to be slighted intentionally.
Just send in the copy for your ad. and the
cash for your subscription.
The people at home as well as tho out
side world ought to be told oftener than
once a week what is going on in this good
town hence the daily edition of the
Chieftain.
The good citizen who neglects rb vote
at the primary fails in a duty he owes to
his fellow men and is that much less a
good citizen than be otherwise would be-
There willf not beTmany in Vinita or
along its four rural rotites'who don't read
the Daily Chieftain. We'll make them
want to see it.
Miss Charlesworth Entertains.
Miss Blanche Charlesworth was hostess
to several of her young friends Saturday
evening at! the beautiful Charlesworth
home on the east side. The party was
given in honor of Miss Catharine Quimby
of Cassville Mo. who is Miss Charles-
worth's guest for a few days. Informal
conversation games and music were feat-
ures of the evening.
The Chieftain desires to express its ap-
preciation of thesplendid response the peo-
ple of Vinita have made to its'pronosition
to again place a daily edition of the paper-
in the field. The owers of the paper are
but showing their confidence in Vinita
when they are willing to put their money
and labor into the production of a daily
paper. We ex pea to give the paper cir-
culation enough from the first issue to
justify the advertisers in spending their
money for space in its columns. Money
spent for advertising is an investment-
end unless it pays the sane business man
will not buy it. If we print a newspaper
that will reflect the standing of the town
commercially and socially: at home and
abroad we are willing to risk the venture
tnat it will meet with proier support.
Vinita has a larger population than it had
when the present owners conducted the
daily before and the country adjacent has
ten families now to where it had one
when the .daily was started some ten
years ago. Through our four rural routes
we expect to reach practically all the
people who do business in Vinita. The
Chieftain will have on its pay roll a num-
ber of men who will spend practically nil
their wages right here in Vinita. The
institution that furnishes employment for Suite
a dozen or more people the year .round is
worth vhile. We invite the business
Frank Bullington colored was arrested
yesterday by Chief of Police Lee Webb
for disturbing the peace.
I). B. Bottenfield of the Vinita Gas Co.
went to Miami to spend Sunday. It is
reported that Mr. Bottenfleld's father has
discovered one of the richest mines in
the Miami district.
John Spalding of Chelsea spent Sun
day here.withihis brother M. J. Spalding.
Will D. Spyres a former member of
the Chieftain force arrived this morning
from Jonlin and resumed his "sit" on
this paper.
R H. Spencer of Chelsea was among
the Saturday evening visitors in Vinita
J. R. Blocker and son of San Antonio
Texas are here looking over the land sit
uation.
W. J. Strange President of the Union
Grain Co. will be here from Chelsea to
morrow and he and George Kapp will go
to Foyil on a business mission.
Jasper Martin this morning shipped a
fine saddle horse to his brather Louis at
Bennington Oklahoma.
W. E. Clapham went to Miami this
morning in the interest of the Buckeye
Mining company.
W. L. SHORT M. D.
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The Old Reliable
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SEE H0WELL6.
Used as a "Boomer" for a
New York Library.
If there Is any public library In New
York that thinks itself just a little bit
better than any other library it Is the
one that William Dean Howells visits
every little while when in town.
"Why shouldn't we be proud?" said
one black-eyed attendant. "He is
such a dear and then he is a splendid
drawing card. There was a time oh
months ago when the people In this
neighborhood seemed to lose Interest
In the library. Well one day one of
the girls let It out accidentally in the
heating of several subscribers that
Mr. Howells had been In the library
most of the morning and had just
gone away about halt an hour before.
The way everybody within earshot got
Interested was simply wonderful.
"lie was?' gasped half a dozen
women. Does he come here on en?
' 'Oh yes very often' said that
same girl mendaciously because you
see Mr. Howells hadn't got into the
habit of coming often then. Hut he
really did take to dropping in fre
quently after that and where he goes
the crowd follows. Our list of sub-
scribers soon swelled enormously.
People with a taste for reading drop
n at all hours when Mr. Howells Is at
home hoping to find him here. Some-
times they see him sometimes they
don't but even if they miss seeing
him it Is something to be able to say
that they belong to the same library
where Mr. Howells goes."
MIGHT BE WELL TO WARN THEM.
Aunt Martha Wai Impressed with
Danger Threatening Soldier.
"Bless me Marthy!" exclaimed
Uncle Cyrus looking up from his
magazine says the Youth's Compan-
ion. "We're getting a navy that don't
need to take a back seat for any o'
them European nations." Aunt Mar-
tha' continued placidly measuring out
the Ingredients of "mountain" cake
and manifestly was hot unduly excited
over naval affairs.
"Just listen to this: Some fellow
has been making estimates. Any half-
dozen of our big cruisers have engine
strength equal to the pulling power
of all the horses in the Russian cav-
alry! "The engines of our big battleship
Louislany are strong enough If they
could be fastened anywhere to pull
the hull United States cavalry into
the sea an' "
"Mercy sakes!" cried Aunt Martha
with arrested spoop for the first time
impressed with these interesting' sta-
tistics "I hope to goodness our cav-
alry'll keep away from the shore!"
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JF BUGGIES I
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DOGS CLIMBED UP ICY WALL.
St.
Bernards Saved from What Looked
Like Certain Death.
We have a very large stock of Buggies
and Runabouts that we are going to
move if price will sell them and if
YOU ARE THINKING OF BUY-
ING A BUGGY this year we can
save you from 20 to 25 per cent and at
the same time sell you one of the best
buggies made.
Hoping we may be favored with your
.business in this and other lines we are
Yours Truly
FRAZEE-HOSMER HARDWARE COflPT.
VINITA AND BIG CABIN
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WHEN A MAN IS WELL DRESSED.
Smart Clothes
Splendid
Declared to Act
Mental Tonic.
If would do yourself full Jus
tice dress well." This is the advice
of a well-known London specialist In
mental nd nervous diseases. "A good
tilt of 'clothes;" he says "acts as a
splendid tonic upon most of us.
"The mere fact of being smartly
dressed Is a strong mental stimulant
and the man who Is shabby and knows
It is often less capable than his well
dressed mental Inferior.
"To the average man shabby or 111
fitting clothes are a source of con
stant worry which frets away his en
ergy and takes the keener edge on
his wits.
"I most strongly condemn the prac
tice of providing lunatics in public
sylums with ill-fitting old clothes for
the mentally afflicted when recover-
ing his or her reason cannot but be
worried and upset at having to wear
hat are very often grotesque cos
tumes.
"The general Impression Is I think
true one that the man in a dis
graceful hat baggy-kneed trousers and
shocking coat who can appear quite
self-possessed among a number of
smartly-dressed people is either a mil-
lionaire or a man of extraordinary
brain power.
"Few men can get along successful-
In life without the moral support of
smart clothing."
Hooked a Big Shark.
The officers of the steamer LImon
which reached her berth at Long
wharf the other day told a story of
the capture of a man-eating shark
while the big fruiter was taking on a
cargo at Tort Llmon Costa Rica says
the Boston Globe. One of the negro
fruit' handlers was fishing over the
side. He had thrown out a small hook
baited with meat and almost Immedi
ately It was snapped up by an exceed-
ingly voracious man-eater.
Everyone on board ship ran to see
the fun. The negro played the shark
until it was exhausted and then one
of the crew went down the Jacob's
ladder and slipped a noose under its j
fins. The monster was hauled to the
deck but before It was killed it
knocked one negro down. Two of the
sailors killed It with a heavy club
The shark measured 12 feet and
There was sorrow In the home of
Bruno Kronich says a tourist in a
letter from Switzerland to a Glasgow
paper when it was learned there that
the three beautiful St. Bernard dogs
Dina Medea and Solna which had
aided In many rescues had been lost
over a snoweovered precipice near
Hochschneebeig. They were with the
party in search of the three moun-
taineers who were lost a few days be-
fore. They slipped off the lee-cov-ered
Hermlnensteig and landed on a
rock which overhung a deep chasm.
From this they could not go down or
Ui and the (helpless animals howled
pitifully. The animals were given up
for lost ana tor that reason the re
joicing was great when at dawn the
next day the dogs appeared at the
Haumgartnerhaus and barked for ad
mission. Investigation showed that
the dogs had worked their way up
against the almost perpendicular snow
and ice wall.
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"Ole Mis' Moon." 1
Madam Fairfax was wont to stand
on the porch of her old Virginia home
and rejoice on moonlight nights In the
beauty. "There's my moon" she
would say as It rose from behind the
eastern hills. "Ijook Dahlia se how
beautiful it is" and her tiny colored
maid who was ever at hand with
shawl or fan for her beloved mistress
would answer enthusiastically "Your
moon certainly do look pow'ful hand
some to-night."
When Madam Fairfax journeyed to
the city to visit her son Dahlia look
lng out of the window with wondering
eyes on the first evening of her life
away from home exclaimed in a voice
of miagled astonishment and relief
"Well I declar' to goodness if ole Mis'
Moon ain't done come along to Wash
ington wlf me and ole mis'! We can't
be homesick nohow wif ole Mis' Moon
shining on us." Youth's Companion
Shield for Modern Warriors.
Recent experiments at Sheffield
England suggest the possibility that
In this century shields may once more
form an important part of the equip
ment of an army. Steel shields three
millimeters in thickness and about 150
square Inches in area have been de
vised which afford complete protec-
tion against bullets fired from the ser-
1 vice rifle at a range of 400 yards. The
I small size of the shield which weighs
only seven pounds requires that the
soldier shall lie prone on the ground
In order to be sheltered. Each shield
has a loophole for the rifle and studs
at the sides so that a series of them
ran be linked Into a continuous screen.
Vinita Ok
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rilYSICIAN & SURGEON
All Calls Promptly Attended to Day
or Sight. Oflice ia McGeore Bldg.
Phones: Res. 14. Otlice
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VINITA. OKLA.
The titea Is thAt hv Iho list nf uii-h
weighed 500 pounds. It was the larg- 1 h w th necessity of olefin
rm. OI us ficuv or. -ru t r im y trcncrs ay be
Limon. . nwv
avoided. Harper's
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Duels.
More duels are fought1 In Germany
than in any other country and Jena
and Gottingen are the cities which
take the lead. It Is said that a duel
takes place in Gottingen every day
and on one occasion some years ago
12 combats took place In the 24 hours.
Jena's greatest number for the day Is
21. The German empire has about
4000 duels a year; France has about
1000 combats which may be regarded
as such; Italy runs to about 270 per
annum. In ten years it boasted 2.759
meetings of which 974 originated in
newspaper articles or public letters.
The great majority of the duels were
fought with swords; only cne with revolvers.
Aid for the Explorer.
"Feary" said a geographer of Chi-
cago "never started on one of his ex-
ploring expeditions without receiving
by mail and express all sorts of pack-
ages from cranks cowhide under-
wear tea tablets medicated boots and
what-not.
"Feary once told me that George
Ade a few days before the start of his
last trip wired hira to expect an im-
portant rackage by express.
"The package came. It was labeled:
" 'To be opened at the furthest point
north.'
"Feary opened it at once however.
It was a small kfg inscribed:
" 'Axle grf ase for the pp 'e' "
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5T PART OF THR TREATMENT.
. . . :..ful Physteian'g "Bluff" That Hap-
pily Convinced Patient.
"I believe" said Dr. John M. Kltch-
m "I was the first physician in north-
rn Indiana to make use of chloro-
orm. I was a young fellow not much
ast 21 years old the ink hardly dry
m my sheepskin when a man came
nto my office to have an aching tooth
pulled out.
"I had a smell bottle of chloroform
ind with the hardihood of youth I
aiade up my mind to use It. He read-
ily went under the Influence of the
aew anaesthetic I pulled manfully and
the grinder came out. I waited but
the patient did not return to conscious
ness. 1 was badly frightened ana
hastily seizing a bucket with about
two gallons of water in it I poured it
over him. Gasping he came out from
the Influence of the chloroform. Then
he wanted to know what I meant by
giving him such a soaking.
"Mustering all my professional sang
froid I calmly replied: 'That sir is a
part of the treatment' and he went
away greatly to my relief entirely
satisfied." Indianapolis News.
will give you some idea of the style
that goes."
Then he read:
""The worthy pastor appeared at the
manse door his hands thrust deep in
the pockets of his loose jacket while
he turned the- leaves of his prayer
book thoughtfully and wiped hie
glasses with distraught air.'
"'After the door was closed
stealthy foot slipped into the room!l
and with cautious hand extinguished
he light.'
" 'Fltzgibbon lingered over his final '
lemonade when a gentle voice tapped
him on the shoulder and turnjntf lie .
beheld his old friend once again.'
" 'The chariot of revolution is roll-
ing onward gnashing Its teeth as it
rolls.'"
HAS NO USE FOR BATTLESHIPS.
Scotch Minister Somewhat Over-Fer
vent in Devotion to Peace.
Rev. Walter "Walsh of Scotland who
has begun a lecturing tour for the
American Peace society Is a giant in
stature reports as to his height va-
rying. One says that on the Saxonia
on which he crossed he was a head
taller than the biggest man on board.
Another statement Is that he would
measure up to the largest of New
York's famous Broadway squad. Mr.
Walsh is a Scotch minister of the In-
doivmdent school and was In this coun-
try in 1904 when he spoke oA several
occasions in the interests of Interna
tional peace. His topic this time will
he "International Peace and Arbitra-
tion." When a reporter on his ar-
rival the other day mentioned three
recent collisions and a boiler explo-
sion in the British navy Mr. Walsh
said: "I wish thev were all sunk."
Supposed Tomb of Eve.
A correspondent of an English jour-
nal has sent from Jeddah a picture
postcard what a blend of ancient and
moderni of Eve's tomb. He points
out that If the sarcophagus is any- 1
thing 1'ke In proportion to the mother
of mankind she must have been about
300 cubits in height and the tallest of
modern women are mere pygmies to
her. He relates that there Is a slngu
lar absence of trees in the district
but that the wily Arab is not Insensi
ble ot the marketable value of sou
venirs of this interesting spot since
on being asked concerning fig trees.
he offered to procure a leaf of one for
the modest sum of $25. And they say
the modern woman is extravagant Si
dress!
The Styl That Goes.
Clyde Fitch at a dinner given by a
group of illustrators In honor of
Girls" his successful new plav pro
duced one of his famous scrapbooks.
In this srrapbook" said Mr. Fitch.
'I have fathered rEMRecg from lha
ear's "best BtUers.' The casajres
Mourning Canes.
"When I was in Rome recently"
says a New Yorker. "I saw an acces
sory of dress that I never saw an?
whpre else. It was a walking stick.
ebony stick simply and beautifully
fashioned and with a plain gun metal
band near the handle.
"It was intended to go with mourn
ing wear. There was a dull finish to
the ebony that made the stick a fit
ting .accompaniment to other trap-
pings of woe but the cane itself ccuK
have been carried without any suggef
tion of being in mourning.
"la fact I never have seen anybiif
carry his mourning to the extent
cane and I imagine that most m
would not care for it for that
pose."
When You
Determine not
make it a rule to
and to cheer him
Feel "Blue." s
to be "blue" at:
go to see a frlent
tip every day. In
cidetitally you will cheer yourseif "P
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