Vinita Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 27, 1909 Page: 1 of 4
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YINITA BAILY CHIEFTA
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VOL. XL NO. 38
VINITA OKLAHOMA THURSDAY MAY 27 190U
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
200 ELKS GOB
MUSKOGEE
Muskogee Bills Will Come on Special
Train With Band to Enliven
Occasion With Music.
The following from the Muskogee
Times-Democrat of Wednesday is a
sample (Si what may be expected here
tomorrow night:
Vinita is going to come alive Fri-
day afternoon lu a fashion that will
make the citizens Of other towns sit
up and take notice. The town is to
be Invaded 'With the llvest bunch of
Elks that ever herded together and
they are going from Muskogee as
members of the local lodge of Elks
for the purpose of installing a local in
Vinita.
For this special occasion arrange-
ments are being perfected for the
most stupendous bIiow that has ever
visited Vinita members of the Mus-
kogee herd being the chief actors and
the Vinita candidates the victims.
Nor will the Muskogee bunch ride
to the scene of action In a common
train. No sir. From indications so
far a regular train won't be able to
accommodate the big crowd and for
fear that such might be the case
the Elks have arranged for a special
train over the Katy which will leave
here Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
To enliven the trip Owen's band
of twelve pieces has been engaged
to furnish music assisting the Elks'
band which will appear much the
same as a few weeks ago when it
paraded during the Elks' fair.
Among the many Muskogee "Bills"
who will make the Vinita trip are
Bill Owen Col. Ury Gid Sleeper Jack
Land Harry Oliver and about two
hundred more live ones.
METHODIST DISTRICT
CONFERENCE MEETS HERE
The Vinita district conference of the
.Methodist church met at 8:30 o'clock
this morning and held devotional ser-
vices this was followed by a business
session and the reports of the min
isters were heard. And at 11 o'clock
a sermon by Rev. Crow district evan-
gelist. After which conference ad-
journed till 2 o'clock at which time
there was a committee meeting. At
2:30 devotional services. 3 o'clock a
Sunday school institute led by V. J.
Moore of Lawton. 4:30 qualifications
and duties of a good Stewart were dis-
cussed by Rev. V. J. Sims and Rev.
T. T. Goddard.
DISAPPEARING
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
SEIZE MORE LUMBER
Muskogee Okla. May 27. Advice
was received here yesterday to the
effect that in compliance with the re-
cent order of Commissioner Wright
regarding the removal of sawmills and
lumber camps from the Choctaw se-
gregated areas government officials
had attached thirty thousand feet of
railroad ties in the possession of T.
I. Manning at Bengal.
At present government agents are
working throughout the areas affect-
ed by the commissioner's Order and
more seizures are daily expected. In
many instances the lumbermen have
been given from thirty to sixty days
to remove their property from the
lands.
Mill men and lumber manufactur-
ers operating in the affected areas
are now preparing evidence to be for-
warded to Washington protesting that
the report of the federal inspector
who recently visited the reservation
does not contain a fair and impartial
account of the conditions existing in
the segregated and unallotted areas.
JILTED GIRL COMMITS.
SUICIDE AT NORMAN.
Old Buildings at Fort Gibson Made
Famous by Visits of Great Are
Being Razed.
Muskogee Okla. May 27. One by
one the old landmarks of historic Fort
Gibson the being torn down. The old
house on Garrison Hill where Jeffer-
son Davis leader of the Southern Con-
fed racy once lived has been gone for
two years. The old barracks building
2000 feet long and two stories high is
half torn down. The stone is being
used for a modern dwelling in Fort
Gibson. The old Presbyterian church
and schoolhouse . where Henry M.
Stanley the African explorer once
taught school is now only a dilapidat
ed old structure. This building was of
wood resting on great stone pillars
and was erected in 1835 by the Pres
byterian board or missions it was
for many years Hie only church edifice
in old Fort Gibson where the officers
and soldiers worshiped.
James G. Blaine while sojourning in
Fort Gibson after his defeat for the
presidency in 1884 with Colonel Cop-
pinger his son-in-law attended church
services here. It was in this building
that A. Grant Evans now president of
the Oklahoma state university was or-
dained a minister.
Ambassador Bryce of Great Britain
while visiting the old fort a year ago
saw the building in which Stanley
taught school and took from the build-
ing a piece of lath which he carried
to England as a memento.
CHARGES DATE IK 10
LETTER EM A I'll
Maben Case Did Not go to Jury as Expected-
Moman Pruitt Entertains Spectators with
Fiery Arraignment of Prosecution-
Attacks Motives of Attorney
General Said West is
Trying to Further Po-
litical Ambitions
GOVERNMENT WILL START
SPECIAL MAIL TRAIN
ynn
n nun
ENDS
DECORATION DAY IS
FITTINGLY OBSERVED HERE
Norman Okla. May 27. Unable to
gain the words of endearment and a
promise of marriage for which her tir-
ed heart hungered Miss Anna Shaffer
22 years old heard Tuesday the re-
peated declaration of the man she
loved that he would not marry her
drank carbolic acid and died.
The girl had been here since May
16. where she located the man after
a long search. He was working in
the laundry of the Insane asylum
where the girl was employed at the
time of her death.
It is said that when she again ask-
ed him if he was going to marry her
he refused putting her off till Satur-
day. The acid she is said to have
purchased at Ada two weeks ago while
on her - way here.
Decoration Day was fittingly ob
served in Vinita today. At 10 o'clock
this morning the parade was formed
and headed by the excellent band of
the Brown Brothers show marched
north to Tahlequah avenue where
conveyances were provided to carry
all who desired to go to the cemetery.
At the cemetery memorial services
were held and the graves werebeauti-
futly decorated with (lowers. The
school children of the city took a
prominent part in the parade.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon the
crowd assembled at the Auditorum
where speeches and songs in tribute
to the memory of those who have
passed away were heard.
MUSKOGEE BOY DIES
FROM EFFECTS OF
OIL.
Muskogee Okla. May 27. With
physicians unable to get the oil out
of his lungs Herbert Mead the 6-year
-old son of General Manager Mead of
the Parker-Washington Paving com-
pany died here yesterday. The lad
fell into an oil tank last night and
was rescued by his father.
Milford-Berfi'er Shoe Co.
"HELLO BILL"
"Take Keer of Yourself"
You'll need a pair of
Nettleton's Fine Shoes
To-morrow and need them bad
We are at your service
Shawnee Okla. May 27. The
charges which resulted in the trial
of Judge Maben on a charge of re-
ceiving money to protect bootleggers
date from the writing of a letter by
Mrs. Brown Howell the wife of a con
verted jointist.
Brown Howell has testified that he
is one of the men who gave the ?S00
which Judge Maben is accused of hav
ing accepted to protect bootleggers
against indictment. He was convert-
ed at the Bulgin revival and is now
a member of the Presbyterian church.
Howell had been a saloon keeper for
twenty-seven years and after his con
version he drove to his former joint
and gave all his intedest in the estab-
lishment to his partner. Howell is
about 50 years old.
Mrs. Howell has long been an earn
est church worker and is known here
for her kindness and charity. She
wrote a letter to the Rev. Mr. Bulgin
telling of the alleged corruption in
Pottowatomie county. Mrs. Howell
then put her statements Into the form
of an affidavit the reading of which
at the Bulgin revival brough the earth
quake that .is still shaking things in
Pottowatomie county.
The spectators of th3 Maben trial
yesterday found entertainment in the
address of Moman Prueitt for the de-
fense. Prueitt has a fiery tempera-
ment. He is widely known in demo-
cratic politics in Oklahoma. In a
speech of more than two hours the
court adjourned before he had finish-
ed Prueitt savagely attacked both At-
torney General West and B. B. Blake-
RELIEVE GRAND JURY
WILL REPORT SATURDAY
Tulsa Okla. May 27. Saturday of
this week it is belived will see the
finish of the investigation of the Mus-
kogee town lot frauds now going on
here before the federal grand jury.
When the jury resumed its sitting yes-
terday twenty out-of-town witnesses
were on hand ready to testify. There
are twenty-five others in t&e city yet
to be examined.
The witnesses who testified yester-
day were Allen Graham M . P.
Ooetschus and W. II. Harper Jr. of
Ottawa O.; J. H. Katon Bucyrus
O.; C. H. Duffy New York; T. B.
Stewart Columbia Mo.; Joseph Van-
arman Detroit Mich.; Dora Rumsay
Lansing Mich.; W. R. Cook John
Robinson Dr. John A. Worten Gard
ner b . Chidester C. . I larK ana
wife Albert R. Renkes and wife J.
W. Bentley Gertrude Bentley. C. F.
Field and Marion Goodyear all of
Hastings Mich.
Most of the persons testifying be
fore the federal grand jury Hint is
investigating the Muskogee town lot
cases today were ORianonia citizens.
About twenty witnesses remain to be
examined.
REFUSED TO STRIKE OUT
! DUTCH STANDARD TSST.
By Associated Press.
Washington D. C May 27. The
senate refused by a vote of thirty-six
to forty-seven to strike the Dutch
Standard test out of the sugar sche
dule as proposed by Bristow of Kansas.
ney who is assisting in the prosecu-
tion. He applied epithets to West and
Iiiakeney that caused the spectators
and jury to listen in astonishment.
Prueitt Impugned the motives of West
in tlie prosecution of Judge Maben.
He said that West was trying to add
to his political prestige for the cam-
paign of 1910 by being able to show
that he had convicted a district judge
whom Prueitt says is guiltless of any
political crime. Blakeney had pre-
ceded Prueitt and in his speech uiade
a careful analysis of the evidence.
Judge Maben does not show that he
is under any great streain. He smiles
and talks at intervals with his friends.
The case did not reach the jury last
night as was expected. Court was
adjourned until this morning at which
time Prueitt will finish his argument
He will be followed by A. C. Crm-e
for the defense who lias said that be
will speak three or four hours. At-
torney Geenral West then will close
the case and the jury will retire to
deliberate upon its verdict. It Is the
Intention of Attorney General WTest
to prosecute Judge Maben under some
other of the eight or nine indjnments
brought against him shotiM the state
not be successful in this fase.
Py Associated Press.
Atlanta Ga. May 27. It was reliab-
ly reported this morning that the post
office department will make a definite
move to start mail service on the
Georgia railroads today by sending
out a train carrying nothing but mail.
The striking firemen have declared
their willingness to run such a train.
CROPS
REPORTED
DAMAGED
Recent Heavy Rains and Storms Are
Causing Much Uneasiness Along
Larger Rivers.
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LETTER OF THANKS
Woman Who Found Lost Mother
Through Aid of The Chieftain
Expresses Gratitude.
Py Associated Press.
Memphis Tenn. May 27. Reports
from the south country bring advices
of much damage done by the recent
rains and windstorms in Mississippi
Arkansas and Alabama. The Arkansas
river is out of its banks and warnings
have been sent out that tho other
rivers will rise above the danger point
As yet there has been no loss of life
reported. In some counties of both
states the crops are said to have been
almost totally destroyed
HIGH WATERS STILL
CONTINUE AT MUSKOGEE.
Py Associated Press.
Muskogee Okla. May 27 The Ar-
kansas river is making a new record
in flood history by continuing rising
and is causing an enormous loss of
growing crops in the low lands. It is
not expected the crest of the Hood
will be reached before Friday. No rain
has fallen here since Monday night
however.
Several weeks ago the Chieftain
published a letter from Mrs. Grace
Cloud of Olustee asking for infor-
mation rijpirding her mother. Through
the publication of this letter her mo-
ther of whom Mrs. Cloud had lost
all trace was found and this morn-
ing a letter of thanks to the paper
and tlie Vinita '!y.ens who assisted
in locating the lost mother. The fol-
lowing is the letter:
. Olustee Okla. May 24.
Editor of the Vinita Paper
Dear Sir: I certainly appreciate
your kindness in publishing my letter
about five weeks ngo in search of my
mother brother and her folks.
I also thank Mr. W. K. Dupree 3.
K. Taylor John 'Swain Mrs. Louis
Gritlin and Mrs. A. Wheeler of Red
Fork Okla. for answering the adver-
tisement and telling me where to find
my folks.
I have been to see my mother and
just returned home a few days ago.
Yours respectfully
MRS. GRACE CLOUD.
STEAMER PRINCESS ALICE
AGROUND IN HARBOR.
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Py Associated Press.
New York May 27. The North Ger-
man Lloyd passenger steamer prin-
cess Alice ran ngronnd in a dense fog
near Fort Wadsworth Staten Island
today while passing out of the harbor
bound for Bremen.
The vessel's own weight forced her
bow high on the rocks but the stern
remained afloat and Captain Felt is
confident that with the rising tide he-
will be able to re-float the vessel with
in a few hours.
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South Wilson
The Dusy Street
POSTMASTER AT FT. SCOTT
DIES FROM PARALYSIS
Py Associated Press.
Fort Scott Kans.. May 27. O. A.
Cheney post master of Fort Scott.
and one of the best known lawyers in I
Kansas died here today following a
stroke of paralysis last night.
You Wouldn't Mind the Rain If You Had a '
RUBBERIZED SILK "UTILITY" GOAT
They are in reality a rain coat but we call them "Utility''
Coat because they make the handsomest kind of a wrap
for all-year wear. They come in beautiful blue gray
green and black watered silk and satin striped brown
navy blue and black. Excep- f A C 1 ' 1 C
tional values at.. 4 1 ft $ I D 1 O
New Wash Suits From New York
Express shipments just received from several New York
Suit Houses the very newest
styles fabrics and patterns price.
$2.98 -$10
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their Clothing Hats Caps Ready-PIade
Dresses Millinery Underwear Shoes
etc. are all on
Sale at Special Prices
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We've never before given so much attention to juvenile toggery as
we have this season. We're making an effort to get every mother
in Vinita into pur store this week we want to convince them
that this is the children's own store.
BUY THEIR CLOTHES FOR THE LAST. DAY OF
SCHOOL AND VACATION TINE HERE THIS WEEK
NOTICE
PIONEER EDITOR OF
KANSAS IS DEAD. '
Py Associated Press.
Topeka Kan.. May 27. P. F. Baker
the oldest newspaper edito? in Kansas. 1
died todav in his ninetieth year. He i
founded the Topeka State Record in
1S67.
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