Vinita Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 208, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 26, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL XIII. NO. 208.
VINITA OKLAHOMA TUESDAY DECEMBER 26. 1911.
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
VINiTA BIG USER OF
CHATS AND GRAVEL
The subjoined letter from one of
the big chats companies indicates that
Vinita is doing something in the way
of steady growth and improvement.
Mr. D. M. Marrs
Vinita Okla.
Dear Sir: I wish to submit to you a
statement of the business done by the
Vinita Blue Flint Chat and Gravel
company shipping chats to your city
the past two seasons this does not
represent the amount of chats you j
have used or half the amount as we i
were loading with teams and a great!
many times could not load on account
of the roads and being unable to get
' the teams.
We are now - arranging to build a
track from Quapaw to the rock piles
and after March 1st will be able to
load all the chats the market will de-
mand. We have contracted for all the chats
owned by the Petersburg Land and
Mining company and al Ithey make
for the next ten years they produce
about ten car loads per day we have
on hand at the mines more than three
thousand car loads at this time these
chats are all blue flint free from dirt
and of the best quality known.
This company is a corporation or-
ganized under the laws of the state
of Oklahoma with a capital stock of
thirty thousand dollars divided into
three hundred shares of one hundred
dollars each the stock is owned by J.
L. McCracken and J. D. Mclntyre of
Miami Okla.
This company will make their head-
quarters in Vinita Okla. and will open
an office in that city in the near fu-
ture. To give you an idea of the amount
of chats you use in Vinita will say
that the records of shipments show
that from April 25th to June 18th 1910
you used 3293 tons of this material
and from March 21st until August 8th
of this year you used 1218 tons and
daring this time we had to refuse
orders for more than fifty car loads
we were unable to load this season
we will have no such trouble as we
will be able to load as many as twenty
cars per cay
We appreciate the business Vinita
has given us and will make our head-
quarters in that city. 4511 tons of
chats shipped in two hort seasons to
one city is no little business.
We ask the co-operation of the citi-
zens of Vinita in building up this bus-
iness we believe that the demand for
crushed rock of this kind will be al-
most unlimited.
Respectfully
J. D. McINTYRE ;
Secretary The Vinita Blue Flint Chat
and Gravel Company.
Miami Okla.
Prohibition League Oratorical Contest.
In all the colleges and universities
of Oklahoma preparations are being
made for the big oratorical contest of
the Prohibition League for College
Men to. be held under the aspices of
the Christian University at Enid early
next spring. The state university the
agricultural and mechanical college
most if not all of the five normal
schools Christian university Kingfish-
er college Oklahoma Baptist college
Oklahoma Methodist university and
Oklahoma Baptist university will en-
ter representatives in the big forensic
contest. Most of the schools have al-
ready begun preparations as the local
contest at which the representatives
will be chOBen are scheduled to occur
immediately after the Christmas holi-
days. The winner of the Enid con-
test will represent Oklahoma In an
interstate one to be held somewhere
in Texas later in the year. The suc-
cessful competitor at that time will be
designated to speak for the southwest
in the great national contest to be held
in 1912. Thus it is possible that some
Oklahoma college man who enters the
contest at Enid may have accorded to
M1LF0RD - BERGER SHOE COMPANY.
Rubber Footwear of
Every Kind.
Some Slickers; Too
him the much coveted honor of being
styled the premier college orator of
the United States. The contestants
will be required to speak on some
phase of the liquor question. The
state university league leaders made
their preliminary announcement last
week scheduling the Sooner contest
for the first week In February . Much
interest Is manifest and It Is probable
that a number of men will aspire to
represent the university of Oklahoma
at Enid.
Uncle c w. U. Gibson.
Banta At his home near this city
Monday afternoon December 18tb
1911 of disease incident to old age
Judge Andy Banta aged 87 years. The
passing away of Judge Banta removes
another of the once active citizens of
Nicholas county and adds another to
the great majority. Judge Banta was
'a native of Bourbon county but the
greater part oi his life was spent here
in Nicholas where his business and
political activities made him a noted
man among men. During his business
career he was a factor in every enter-
prise and undertaking in this city and
county and made and lost several good
sized fortunes. He was a handler of
lohacco for a number of years and was
quite a dealer in lands. As a leader
in political affairs he was a recogniz-
ed power and was twice elected judge
of the county court. Carlyle Murcury.
Judge Banta was a brother to my
mother. The last of a family of nine.
He was named for president Andrew
Jackson was sheriff of Nichols county
Kentucky when the civil war began
and was run out and broken up by
home guards of federals and went
through the war in the Confederate
army had two brothers killed at
Shiloh in Jno. C. Breckenridge's com
mand. After the war was elected
county judge twice. W. L. GIBSON.
A FREE MAN
Muskogee Okla. Dec. 26. A Christ-
mas gift more precious than money
can buy to Suzanne LaHoma the
"Cherokee Nightingale" yesterday in
the shape of a telegram from her
uncle Howea Cobb who for twelve
years has been serving a life sentence
in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta
Ga. for murder.
The message stated that he had just
been pardoned and within a few hours
would leave for home. He will arrive
in Muskogee today.
Eight years ago LaHoma long be-
fore fame had been her share then
a young girl began her' efforts to se-
cu'rt a pardon for her uncle. Last
year she in person carried her appeal
to President Taft pleading with her
golden voice.
Taft Remembers LaHoma.
The man who held her happiness
and the happiness of Howell Cobb
promised LaHoma nothing merely
saying that he would consider. But
he remembered the Cherokee singer
and on Christmas day Howell Cobb
was pardoned. Neither he nor La
Homa nor any member of the family
knew the action was to be taken.
Twelve years ago in the town of Sa-
pulpa Okla. Cobb killed a negro in a
quarrel. At the time he was a mor-
phine fiend. Two years after he was
sent to prison he was pronounced
cured and it was then the family be-
gan its efforts to secure his pardon. .
Howell Cobb nas passed his fiftieth
year. He is a brother of Bent Cobb
a police officer and an uncle of La
Homa.
- LaHoma's Tragic Life.
It seems that the tragic events in
LaHoma's life are destined to burst
upon her suddenly. Several months
ago when as a great singer she came
back to Muskogee the city she had
left for a short time before in the care
of Schummann-Heinke as a girl with
a beautiful voice to make her first
triumphal appearance before the pub-
CHIP CLARK
01
Muskogee Okla. Dec. 26. The un
dersigned has just been advised that
Honorable Champ Clark speaker of
the national house of representatives
will make a speaking tour through
Oklahoma beginning Wednesday De
cember 27th at Guthrie; Thursday
night December 28th at Oklahoma
City; Friday December 29th at Mc-
Alester; Friday night December 29th
at Muskogee; and on Saturday De-
cember 30th at Tulsa Sapulpa and
Vinita.
Mr. Clark as is well known to the
democrats of this state has hereto-
fore in many campaigns evinced his
friendship and partiality to Oklahoma
democracy by leaving his work and
complying with the request for aid
and assistance from the organization
of the democracy of this state in sev-
eral of its hard-fought campaigns and
many times his great ability and elo-
quence have been freely given to or-
ganizing the democracy of this state
and informing and advising the vot-
ers as to democratic policies and prin-
ciples. As a democratic speaker of the na-
tion house of representatives he at
present occupies a peculiar unique
and important position in the public
affairs of the United States. No man
is more capable of discussing the governmental-
problems which every
voter should know and desires to
know than is he and for these rea-
sons and many others as chairman of
the state democratic central commit-
tee of this state I desire to request
and urge that all democrats as far as
possible and especially the members
of the state county and precinct or
ganizations of the state use every
effort possible tc be present and hear
Mr. Clark discuss the important ques
University Equipment Increased.
During the two weeks immediately
preceding the holidays much equip
ment which will be invaluable in con-
ducting the work of the institution has
been reeeiyelat the state university.
Most of this has been In the depart-
ment of chemistry school of law and
college of engineering. Recently the
chemistry department received be-
tween seven and eight thousand dol-
lars worth of material. A large part
of this wa sexpensive chemicals indis
pensable for the practical work given
the students in the laboratories in con
nection with their class room recita-
tions. This was the last shipment of
a foreign order placed some time ago
and most of the chemicals came from
Germany. Of the permanent equip-
ment received one of the most valu-
able articles was a balance which will
accurately detect differences of one
hundredth milligram weight. Two
new furnaces of the best type and a
big ore crusher have been installed.
Many samples of silver and gold ores
also were received making the de-
partment especially well prepared for
work (iti assaying. For the law school
library the $2000 shipment of books
is arriving. A complete set of the
Federal Reporter in 200 valumes and
valuable sets on real property evi-
dence and procedure are among the
books being placed on the shelves of
the law library. The college of en-
gineering has received much new
equipment for both the-electrical and
mechanical departments and is well
prepared to give both the practical and
theoretical work in engineering as out-
lined by the best schools in the coun-
try. The particular advantage it has
over larger engineering schools in the
east is that with the same equipment
and a strong faculty the small classes
enable the student to receive more in-
dividual instruction and to master
more thoroughly the prcblems of his
profession.
lie the first great tragedy of her life
was enacted- The morning she arriv-
ed her brother Ben was foully mur-
dered and the town buzzed with the
excitement of the crime as LaHoma
not knowing smiled and bowed and
sang to a fashionable audience thai
filled the Hinton theatre. She had not
been told for fear that it would spoil
her first great success.
When after the concert Vy broke
the news to her she collar:' :d. The
rries cf her grief rang -T rough the
corridors of the Turner I ntel where
she was staying and those v ho did not
know listened and wondered.
WILL
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SPEAKING I
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tions of the day at one of the points
at which he will appear.
Yours in militant democracy
FRED P. BRANSON.
Chairman State Democratic Central
Committee.
What Clark Said of Oklahoma.
Eighteen years ago (December lo
1893) Champ Clark made a speech in
the house of representatives on the
admission of Oklahoma as a state.
Among other things he said:
"One gentleman here I forget who
talks about the population of Okla
homa Territory being 'inchoate' that
they do not know one another. Let
me tell you that they are American
citizens all; they are the adventurous
spirits of all that western country
Illinois Missouri Iowa Nebraska
Kansas Arkansas and Texas. They
are the same sort of men that laid the
foundations of free government In all
the Louisiana purchase in California
Oregon and Texas. They belong to
the class of men such as old Sam Hous-
ton who fought for liberty at San
Jacinto and such as Davy Crockett
Travis and the brave men who died at
the Alamo in defense of American
freedom. (Applause) An 'inchoae'
population is it? Why sir take one
hundred and fifty thousand American
citizens place them in the middle of
the great African desert tomorrow and
in less than a week they will have a
constitution and laws and be living in
peace and order under them.
(ApplauBe) That is the distinguishing
charactertistic of the race from which
we sprang. (Applause) These Okla-
homa people are flesh of our flesh and
bone of our bone. (Applause) They
are an honor to any country. . They
Our Business Saturday Was the Largest
in the History of Our Store. Thank You
1
End of the Year Clearance of all
Women's A at 2.0S
and Children's Ji ii or 1-5 off
Ladies for
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This Week Only
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Underwear
20 Per Cent Off I; "VINITA'S BIG DEPARTMENT STORE
are fit to have been the fathers and
mothers of the Gracchi. (Applause)
Iet no man. I do not caro here he
comes from assail the hardy pioneers
that go out into the wild country and
conquer the wilderness making it
blossom like the rose. (Applause) God
bless them! They are state makers.
After awhile your children will go
there; it may be a good while but
finally after these hardy pioneers have
smoothed the pathway your children
will be proud to be citizens of the
great state of Oklahoma that Is to be."
(Applause). From the Congressional
Record Vol. 26. part 1. page 274.
FIVE HUNDRED PARTY AT
CHEROKEE CLUB ROOMS
What is conceded ti be the most
elaborate card party tver attempted
in Vinita was that given last night at
the Cherokeo Social Club hall by Mr.
and Mrs. W. P. Thompson.
The hall was beautifully decorated
in a color scheme of red and green
and the setting was made to carry out
the Cheristmas idea and carried with
it a patriotic table placement to carry
out the idea of the principal Ameri-
can forts. When the guests arrived
two ladies and two gentlemen were as-
signed to defend each fort. When a
game was won a small American flag
was given the victors to place on their
"fort" and the fort having the most
flags was declared the winner of the
evening's contest. This Idea was
unique in Vinita and found great favor
with the guests.
Five Hundred was the game select-
ed for the evening and when the flags
were counted it was found that Fort
Gaines defended by Mr. and Mrs. Lee
! Barrett and Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Skin-
'ner had won the greatest number of
victories and they were each given a
beautiful prize. The ladies' prizes
were handsome cut glass bowls while
a Bridge Whist set In a beautiful Mo-
' roeco bound case was awarded to each
'of the victorious gentlemen.
" There were about one hundred
your choice
any
the
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1 NEED OF
MY REMOUir
Washington D. C Dec.
26. Major
his annual
General Leonard Wood in
report to the secretary of war regards
as a national calamity the shipment of
thorouphbred horses .abroad; for he
sees the time when the army will be
tnableHo secure proper remounts.
The Southern Comrasrcial Congress
announced today that it has been for
some weeks preparing to consider the
! whole subject of horse and mule bleed-
' ing in a section of the fourth annual
convention of the congress at Nash-
ville next April. The section will be
i under the chairmanship of George AI.
Flannel chief of animal husbandry di-
vision United States lepartment of
agriculture. The following gentle-
men will speak to the subjects Indi-
cated. . E. B. White Leesburg Va.
"The
Oraf t Horse in the South."
Capt. C. H. Conrad Jr. in charg)
Front Royal Remount Depot Front
Royal Virginia "The South as a
Source of Army Remounts."
Gen. John B. Castleman Louisville
Ky. "The American Saddle Horse."
J. L. Joues Columbia Tenn. "Tho
Mule Breeding Feeding Management
and Market Requirements."
The purpose of the congress In hav-
ing this" thorough discussion of horse
and mule 'Reding is to Increase the
wealth of tle south by showing the
farmers of the south how both climate
and soils lend themselves to the suc-
cessful raising of stock
guests in attendance una there were '
twenty-one tables at Five Hundred. At
eleven o'clock time was called on the
games and a delicious one course
luncheon was served following this
the prize winners were announced and
then the tables were moved aside and
many of the younger guest3 took ad-
vantage of the opportunity for an im-
promptu dance.
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Ladies
and Children's
Sweaters
20 Per Cent Off
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