Vinita Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 122, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 4, 1909 Page: 2 of 4
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D. M. MARRS
Editor
Vi ita Okla.
Saturday Sept. 4
The time is here w hen there should
bo no more open Hewers in the down-
town portions of Vinita. The health
of the whole community in at stake.
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The present cro) ir. Craig county is
by no meanw a bumper crop but there
will be more bushels of corn and oats
ami more bales of hay than ever be
fore in the history of this section
The Chieftain's advice to the county
officials of Crulg county is for each
to vie with the other in trying to do
his duty as a sworn official. That
course would command the respect of
everybody and he more profitable
than continually scrapping each
other.
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The expansion of business in Vinita
continues to surprise the casual visi
tor as well as the newcomer. There
was never a Letter time to make in
vestments in 'Vinita than right now.
The Tulsa World now advocates
the shropation of party lines In Okla-
homa. Such division never troubled
Tom Latta to any great extent any
way but it is difficult to figure out
where the World would be in such a
cor.tirgeucjr.
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With a force of engineers at work .
locating the buiidinps for the hospital
for the insane at Vinita and the ac-
ceptance of the state of the 160 acres
tendered by the city dou't give much
credence of the wierd stories in the
Mutkcgee Tiasesltemocrat anent the
delays in building the hospital.
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The man on horseback jogged
along; anon he hummed a little song;
he said "I pity that .galoot w ho plods
along the road on foot; I'd rather in
the grave repose than pound the high-
way with lay toes." A stately car-
riage then rolled by; the fellow in it
heaved a Bigh. "Great Scott!" he
cried "I'd be a corpse before I'd
travel on a horse! To ride upon an
old white mare and get all covered
with her hair well that's the limit
and I vow I'd rather ride upon a
cow!" With many a chug and roar
and jar there thundered past a motor
car; its owner riding thus in style
glanced at the carriage with a smile.
"A relic of the ages dark! I'd rather
ridt in Noah's Ark! Just see those
silly horses shy and kick the driver
in the eye'. They travel 15 miles a
day and paut and sweat the whole
blamed way and they are apt to buck
and pitch and dump the outfit in the
ditch. I cannot see why any chap wiii
ride in such a blooming trap!" An air-
ship whizzed o'erhead afar; the driver
watched the motor car and to his pas-
senger said he: "I'd ride the gallows
tree before I'd leave this trusty ship
in such a car to make a trip! . The
driver makes some slight mistake and
then the whole machine will break
and there will be a sickening thud a
dust-cloud and a shower of blood."
Wait Mason.
BE ALL-OKLRHOA
LEAGUE NEXT YEAR
Enid Okla. Sept. 4 The Western
association 1909 season closed yester
day Knid winning the pennant hy a
good margin. The local team took
the lead several weeks ago and was
never in danger since that time. Mus-
kogee finished in second place after
a hard struggle during the fore part
of the season. Third place went to
Guthrie the Senators working their
way up from the second division in the
past few weeks.
Financially the i.easmi for a time
was very stormy but after the .loplin
and Webb City clubs had been trans-
ferred to Kl Reno and Sapulpa respec-
tively they made money and the af-
fairs of the association improved con-
siderably. It is not probable that Joplin or
Springfield will ever seek franchises
in the association again. There is
some talk of making the association
an all-Oklahoma league next season.
First Baptist Church.
Rev. Church returned from his va-
cation this morning and will conduct
the services at the usual hours.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
Preaching at It a. m.
B. Y.P . I'. at 7:00 p. m.
Preaching at 8:00 p. in.
A cordial welcome for ail.
their order No. 235 the corporation
commission ordered and adjudged that
a fine of one hundred dollars and
costs be assessed against the Pioneer
Telephone company for the violatLon
of t'eir order No. 101 which prohibits
Die raising of telephone rates without
first having obtained an order from
the corporation commission authoriz
ing such rates. The order comprises
nine tvne-writteii sheets and la entire
ly too long to be printed In full. The
telephone company admits of having
raised the rates at Oklahoma City
but denies that it violated the order
on the grounds that the ordinance
granted by the city provided that
when the number of telephones in the
city reached five thousand that the
rates should be raised. The complaint
ant denies that there were five thou
sand telephones in use in Oklahomi
Citv except that the telephones used
in the different rooms of the hotels
be counted and alleged that this was
not a telephone In the meaning of
the ordinance on which rates could be
based.
v hat Fried Liver Is Good For.
a !nei at an Atchison home came
':r tl.ree (!rvs and was still there at
the end of f'.ve weeks. "I like all
kinds i:f meal." she remarked one day
as she passed her plate for the third
NJpii:;'. "but fried liver." That night
there" v. -is fried liver for supper; fried
liver ti c reel day f r breakfast din-
ner and supper and the next diy
when t! e guest was aslied to have
tried li.er ehe parked her tru::k and
went ho:i;r A'. ison (ilobe.
Destroying Locusts.
The ire'rod of exterminates lo
custs moil generally adoptee! in Pan
ama has been to dig a trench about
fifty feet in loi grh. two feet wk'e and
one foot rfpep. wilh . perpendi.-ular
sides in which the locusts are driven
by men heating the grass and treas
with switches lit this way millions
ere collected and are de-troy ei with a
solution of strong lye soapsuds. The
trench is then rehijed w ith artn so as
to allay the odor.
A Mystery to Father.
"So your dji ghtr has gone to Eu-
ow after all?" "Ya-as." drawled
Firmer Ihvseed: "she's been daffy
t' go ever since she leu skuk. These
hire female girl colleges dew put
Idas into women's head?. Her maw
an' me never could cakelate w hy she
was so set t' go f Yurrup.. She don't
kuow a soul thar." Lipp;ncott's.
He Saw Double.
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" Yes" admitted the editor. "Dun
can was a valuable man during the
campaign. When sober we'd send
him to the gatherings of the opposi-
tion; when drunk we'd have him es-
timate the crowds at our own meet-
ings." 111 lMtrated Sunday Magazine.
Salt a Poison.
Salt in measure I w holesonie. but
In surfeit is a deadly poUon. Rascal-
ly amateur drovers to make hog
weigh more gouieiimes heavily salt
and water them Just before gelling;
Shla often kill the hogs before they
reach the scales.
Much Relieved.
'ilium-." said the haughty y?uns
dansel. whose ancestors had come
over with William the Conqueror "yott
'Vrpel yourself."
"That It:" excld'iied !.lr. Flippy.
helming on her. "Thank you so much
'iss.Wavbnck. 1 knew I had forgot-
i something and I was so arrald It
as my umbrella."
Despised Wood Is Valuable.
Time brings revenges eran in tb
timber trade and a humble conifer
long treated with contempt seems lit-
erally to be on the point of getting a
rise In tha world. "Hitherto tne black
spruce" says the Dundee Advertiser
"has been despised by our few Hritish
foresters as of meager commercial
alue the yellowish timber being soft
and easily Indented though very light
and long of grain. H has lately been
discovered that by virtue of the last
named two qualities this tree furnish-
es by far the he.-t wood for aero-
planes. As yet the black spruce has
i.irely been planted by our sylvlcul-
tmists kave for or.j.aiont or shelter."
Playing on the Street.
In France children are not a'.'owed
to play In the streets and women do
not promenade on the highways de-
clares an autoniohilist who Is sur-
: -ised that the law should allow such
i:nas In this country with the con-
.equenco of constant liability to ac-
c dent. Children iu this country are
not taught to resect the rights of
t.tlier people and rash In front of au-
tomobiles and street cars In a way
t .at is not known in any other coun
try.
Brutal Indifference.
"It seems since til ma. ':;.' JacSt
Tl ornlev has deve.i.ped into a per-
fect brute."
"You surprise me! Wnat has ha
done?"
"Why th other night while his
wi'e was rejtsllnf him with all the
I articular! of that choice Verifast
ecsndsl lb! noticel that he seemed
vbry qultt. And what do you think!
Hi W!t iOUBi ail!!?!"
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Public Institutions Are
To Be Fought Over Again
Guthrie Okla. Sept. 4 That th
next legislature will have to fight out
again many of the public institutior
bills passed by the last state assembly
is beginning to he believed here. Work
on half a dozen institutions has no
begun and every day puts the building
of these Institutions further off. The
asylum hoard has made a recommen
dation that the building of an Insane
asvlum at Vinita be delayed until an
other legislature so that the appropria
tion can he increased from 1200000 to
$500000; the board of control of the
Whitaker orphans' home at Pryo i
Creek has recommended that unless
Prror Creek will give 640 acres of
land to the orphan home It should not
be permanently established there and
Pryor Creek doesn't seem to mind
much. Enid is said to be almost in
clined to ask that the home for the
feeble minded be moved elsewhere;
Paula Valley and Winnewood are still
fighting over the site : for the boys
industrial school to the detriment of
the final building of the school; and
the matter of the state reformatory
at Granite has reached such a tangled
stage that the citizens of that plac
are alternating between despair an
eussin' whenever the penal Institution
is mentioned.
The blind school was not permanent
ly located at Fort Gibson. Sulphur has
the school for the deaf only at th
pleasure of the legislature. Both ;
these .Institutions will be clamored for
at the next session of the legislature
and probably as in the cases above
be weighed and disregarded whei
once obtained.
The second legislature provided ap
propriations of $200000 for buildin;
of the insane asylum at Vinita; $25-
000 for the training school at Wynne-
wood-Pauls Valley; $23000 horn? foi
the feeble minded at Enid; $30000 for
the state reformatory at Granite; $25-
000 for the Whittaker orphan home at
Pryor Creek (vetoed in part by the
governor); nothing for building at Sul-
phur and Fort Gibson.
The trouble at Enid seems to be that
the people care very little for the pro
posed institution ; at Pryor Creek and
Fort Gibson the same; at Pauls Val-
ley and Wynnewood the two town;
are scrapping each other fiercely to
get the location as near one or the
Signs Order Regulating
The Telephone Companies
Guthrie Okla. Sept. 4 The cor-
poration commission has for souk
time had under consideration a pr
posed order regulating telephon
rates. The proposed order was signed
up yesterday and all telephone com
panics are given until a specified tinn
to appear and show cause why said
order should not be issued. The ol-
der is as follows:
"All telephone companies operatim
in the state of Oklahoma shall makt
such charge for long distance mes
sages and shall compute such charges
for long distance messages only as
is hereinafter prescribed:
There shall be two classes of rates
known respectively as day rates am
night rates and each shall be divided
into two classes of rates known re
spectively as through rates fn
through connecting line rates. The
term through rates applies when the
point of origin and the point of des-
tination of a message are on the linef
ci the same company. The term
through connecting line rates applies
when the point of origin of message
Is on the lines of one company and
the point of destination is on the lines
of another company or companies.
Are correct in design workmanship and style making a
garment that is not surpassed in this country and at prices
within the reach of all. It is not necessary to have a bulg-
ing purse to obtain a corset of the latest style in long hips
sheath and directoire effects and these corsets are made
for women of large form as well as for the slender form
AMERICAN BEAUTY CORSETS
bring out to advantage the graceful lines and correct any
imperfection with absolute freedom and comfort to wearer.
PRICES RANGE FROM 51.00 TO $3.50.
A new line of Ladies Tailored Waists prices reasonable.
Everything for Ladies to
other as possible.
The state seems to be unable to
agree with Granite on the liiO-acre site
to be donated to the reformatory and
the people of that town have spent s
much money coming to Guthrie to ge
the matter arranged that the an
doubtless regretting that the legisla
ture ever proposed to locate the insti
tntion there. What the trouble Is no
one seems to know definitely except
that each site offered is found faulty
by the state officers who have the se-
lection in hand. There is some sug-
gestion that Granite real estate specu-
lators could remove the delay.
Governor Haskell is said to have
denied this recently and to have said
that all who -wished to submit plana
could do so as the asylum board
would be glad to look them over. The
statement comes from Vinita that W.
O. Fleming of Governor Haskellas of-
fice has recently obtained long time
options on nearly 1200 acres of land
near the proposed site at Vinita some
of the options running for ten years.
This is taken to mean that the asy-
lum will not be built now and this
Governor Haskell recently gave cred-
ence by an editorial in the New State
Tribu? The governor takes the posi-
tion that 160 acres (the size of the
site as required in the creating act!
is too small and says that the options
were taken on the additional land so
that it could be purchased should the
next legislature thing fit.
Governor Haskell's position merely
approves the report of Robert Dunlop
and C. L. Long members of the board
for the care of the state insane who
recently made a trip of inspection to
the Illinois hospital for the insane at
Kankakee and that of Indiana at Lo-
gansport. From their inspections ot
these insane asylums the acreage of
the ground's and the cost of the build
ings Mr. Dunlop aiid Mr. Long reach-
ed the conclusion that both the 160
acre site and the $200000 appropria-
tion were inadequate for an asylum at
Vinita and recommended as follows:
"In conclusion your board recom-
mends that owing to the inadequacy
of the appropriation for the erection
of ft hospital for the insane at Vinita
that the project be abandoned until
such time as the state legislature can
increase the amount to at least $500-
000 for the erection of a modern In-
stitution." 1. All rates shall be computed or
air line mileage basis from point ol
origin to point of destination.
2. "Through rates." Pay rates
shall he computed as follows: One
cent per mile for the first ten miles
and tour-tenths of one cent for eacl
additional mile or fraction thereof.
The minimum charge for any one
message day or night shall be ten
I cents not exceeding three minutes
j duration.
S. Overtime for each additional
minute or fraction thereof shall be
charged at the rate of one third of
the initial charge."
Section four of the order provide
for the regulation of charges between
different companies over whose wires
a message is sent on a pro rato basis
Section five provides that throng!
night rates and through counectini
line night rates shall he computed at
two-thirds of the day rate and over
time will be charged at one-third o
such initial rate.
Section six provides that the iuitia'
i period of any message shall be three
minutes or any fraction thereof alsi
that al! rates shall be so computed
that the amount to be charged shal'
end in nought or five.
Wear. Vinita Okla.
O'NEIL WELL HEAD '
STATE PRISON SCHOOL
Guthrie Okla. Sept. 4. On his own
accord James O'Neil a convict serv-
ing a sentence for forgery in the Ok-
lahoma penitentiary has organized a
prison school for the education o( his
companions. In their hurry to bring
the convicts from Kansas to Oklaho-
ma the state authorities forgot to
make provision for a school.
The board of prison control learn-
ed of what O'Neil has done and at
once approved his service. Next week
E. D. Cameron state superintedent of
education will go to McAIester and
discuss with O'Neil the needs of the
prison school and will purchase such
textbooks as may be required.
NOTICE.
A new telephone directory is being
prepared. If any corrections or
changes are desired by subscribers
please notify the manager. 7-9
Pionneer Telephone Company.
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Fine and Complicated Watch
Repairing a Specialty
123 South Wilson Street
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Tourist sleeper (built by I'ullman) ; roomy modern and comfortable.
Stop-overs allowed for Grand Canyon and Salt River Valley in Ariiona; a!o i
most points in California including the great San Joapiin Valley.
Santa Fe tourist sleeper service to San Francisco is quicker than any other line. To
Loi Angeles no other line is faster. Personally conducted excursions tri-weeUy.
Meals by Fred Harvey.
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Notice to Public School Pupils And
Patrons.
All pupils who have lately moved in-
to our city and do not know in what
grade they belong will meet the su-
perintendent at his office in the high
school building on the 6tU or 7th of
September as the office will be open
those days for that purpose. Also if
there are any pupils of our schools who
have failed in any subject or subjects
and would like to take the examination
in them for promotion will be given a
chance at the above dates. Please
give this your attention as there will
be no examination? iven at the open-
ing of school also pupils who are not
classified and wait until school opens
will loose one or two days.
W. G. MASTERSON.
SCHOOL BARGAINS Slates 5x7
2 for Gc 6x9 only Ec also tablets com-
position books crayola rulers crayon
pencils lunch boxes and school bags.
Children's low shoes $1.35 and $1.20
values only 65c. THE FAIR.
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