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VINITA DAILY CHIEFTAIN.
VOL XIV. NO. 27.
"VINITA OKLAHOMA TUESDAY MAY gg 1912.
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
IS
WANT
TAXES REFUNDED
Meeting Called For June 3 at Ard-
more to Hold Discussion And
Appoint Committees.
Ardmore Okla... May 26. Since the
Indians have won in tneir fight against
the taxation of their lands they are
now seeking a method to have refund-
ed to them the taxes they have already
paid into the treasuries of the several
counties on the east side of the state
where these lands are located.
A meeting has been called to be
held in Ardmore on June 3 at which
time the enestion will be discussed
and committees will be appointed for
each county to bring proceedings to
obtain the refund of their tax moneys
already paid. Following is a copy of
the call that is being mailed to Indians
in this county and four surrounding
counties :
A public meeting of the Chickasaw
and Choctaw citizens who are inter-
ested in the recovery of such taxes
illegally paid by them upon lands and
who are interested in a concerted ac-
tion and an immediate solution of this
problem and any other tribal matter
affecting their interests is hereby
called to meet at the city of Ardmore
in the Assembly Hall at court house
thereof at 2 o'clock p. m. on Monday
June 3 A. D. 1912.
All citizens of Love Carter Mar-
shall and Johnson counties are urged
to be present and participate in this
meeting. Joe Williford James Alver-
son Sam Fry W. T. Ward Cliff Love
T. F. Howell Richard H. McLish John
R. Washington William Harkins C. H.
Brown B. H. Colbert Jesse L. Jordan.
Hunter Cochran.
Cajffee imports of The United States
And Share of World's Consumption.
More than one-third of the 2Vi bil-
lion pounds of coffee annually enter-
ing the international commerce of the
world is consumed in the United
States its imports of that arUHe be
ing Wiw ttuch as 1wsc of tier
many UlNc times those at
land font Wnses those of France.
nearly ten times those of Great Brit-
ain and tndf as much as those of all
Europe next to the United States the
great coffee-consuming section of the
world.
The world's leading importers of
coffee according to the latest official
reports of the various countries thus
far received by the Bureau of Statis-
tics Department of Commerce and
Labor are: the United States 875
million pounds; Germany 404 mil-
lion; Netherlands 265 milHon; France
245 million; Austria-Hungary 127 mil-
lion; Belgium 96 million; the United
Kingdom 88 million; and Sweden 65
million. Italy Norway Swftberland
and Denmark also consume consider-
able quantities ranging from 45 to 25
million pounds each. Of the countries
on the western hemisphere Argentina
and Cuba each import about 20 million
pounds per annum; Canada about 8
million; Chile 7 million and Urugary
about 3 million while Australia the
island continent consumes between
1 and 2 million pounds per annum.
Afpfvn ef ii African countries are
comparatively large importers' Of
coffee the imports into Egypt averag-
ing about 15 million pounds a year;
the ( ape of Good Hope. 20 million and
Alg ria about 15 million pounds.
While .the United States is the
world's largest consumer of coffee
the imports have not increased dur-
ing recent years. In the fiscal year
1902 for example the imports aggre-
gated 1091 milHon pounds; in 1905
1048 million; in 1909 1050 million;
in 1911 875 million; and in the pres-
ent year will probably aggregate ap
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proximately 800 million pounds or
I considerably less than the annual av
erage of the period since 1 900. In
1871 imports of coffee amounted to
318 million pounds; in 1881 455 mil-
lion; in L8M 520 million; in 7901 855
million; and in UU1 875 million.
Cocoa has to a large extent supplant-
ed coffee as an American beverage
the imports having increased from
million pounds in 1871 to over 140 mil-
lion pounds in 1911.
The world's leading coffee-producing
countries are according to the
Department of Agriculture: Brazil.
2i billion pounds in 1909; Venezuela
94 million pounds; Mexico 80 million;
Colombia 92 million; Porto Rico
45 million; Haiti 41 million: Dutch
East Indies 35 million; British India.
28 million; Arabia 15 million and
Abyssinia 10 million. The world's
supply in 1909 aggregated nearly 3
hillion pounds but in 1910 fell below
2 'billion pounds due to a decrease of
about 950 million pounds in the ex-
portsfrom Brazil.
Brazil is now and has for nianey
years been the chief source of coffee
imported into the United States. Of
the 875 million pounds imported last
year 651 million pounds were from
Brazil as against 224 million from all
other parts of the world chiefly Amer-
ican countries. The second largest
source of our imported coffee is Co-
lombia 55 million pounds followed in
order by the Central American States
52 million; Venezuela 40 million; the
United Kingdom 27 million; Mexico.
25 million; the Dutch F.ast Indies 9
million; Haiti and Santo Domingo 4
million; the British West Indies 2
million; Netherlands 2 million; Aden.
1 million; Turkey in Asia 1 1-3 mil-
lion and Germany 1 million pounds.
Less than 15 million pounds it will be
observed are imported from Asia even
including the arrivals from European
countries whose exported coffee is
presumably largely the product of
their Asiatic colonies.
The average price of the coffee im-
ported Into the country has greatly in-
creased in the last few years. During
the present fiscal year so far as elaps-
ed the average import price has been
13c per pound as against 10c in 1911
8c in 1910 and 6c iu 1903. Present
import prices are still however some-
what below the high level which pre-
vailed in the period 1890 to 1896 when
jrae average import price ranged from
1 4c to er 1 6c per pound.
DomeHHc oonsumption per capita
reached tr fcighest total in 1902. 13.34
pounds as against S pounds in 1891
lOVi pounds in 1901 and 9'4 pounds
in 1911.
Porto Rico aifl Hawaii are the only
portions of the United States in which
coffee is produced and from which it is
exported in any considerable amounts.
From Hawaii the exports to foreign
countries last year aggregated about
1 million pounds and the shipments
to the mainland about 2 million.
From Porto Rico the exports to for-
eign countries in 1911 amounted to 34
million pounds chiefly distributed to
Cuba 20 million pounds; Spain a
little over 5 million; and Austria-Hungary
France and Italy each about 2
million pounds. About a quarter of
a million pounds of Porto Rlcan coffee
were shipped in that year to conti-
nental United States.
Even In Those Days.
The children stood in awe before
one of the museum mummies. At
last the elder whispered to her father
"Why Is the old woman wrapped up
In bandages? Did she die of an ac-
cident?" Before he could reply the
younger girl said "Oh yes! She
must have been run over by a motor
car. There's the number 'B. O.
1461.' "
Wisdom of Mrs. Wyse.
Mrs. Green You spoke just now of
social tact. Precisely what do you
mean?
Mrs. Wyse By social tact I mean
getting familiar with all sorts of peo-
ple without letting them get familiar
with you. Boston Erening Transcript
ELIHU ROOT
IS
Oklahoma Delegation Will Ndt Stand
For Him as Temporary
Chairman.
Oklahoma City May 28. The Okla-
homa delegation to the republican na-
tional convention will oppose Senator
Ellhu Root for temporary chairman
according to A. E. Perry the original
Roosevelt booster in Oklahoma and
member of the delegation. Root does
not stand for Roosevelt ism principles
declares Perry and the Oklahoma fol-
lowers of the militant colonel along
with several hundred others of the
same ilk do not propose to have him
preside over what is intended to be a
perfectly Teddyesque gathering.
This is the initial clash between the
Roosevelt followers and the national
committee. Root has been selected by
the committee. It is not obligatory
upon the convention to accept the com-
mittee's recommendation but there
is only one instance on record where
the recommendations of that body
have been rejected. This was the
Blaine convention of 1884. Roosevelt
however put his foot down upon the
committee's plan to have Root make
the keynote speech and from what
could be gathered from Mr. Perry's
remarks there seems to be a mutual
understanding among the Roosevelt
forces not to stand for Root as the
temporary presiding officer.
Perry is sanguine of the outcome at
Chicago. He is confident the commit-
tee on credentials is going to do the
right thing by Colonel Roosevelt in
the numerous contests now pending.
You see this matter of. "pie" or to
put it more politely "patronage" is
going to cut a mighty big figura in de-
ciding the little rumpus between Taft
and the colonel. It is a rather vulgar
tiling to drag into a fight which in its
initial stages the public was promised
would he flee frtm personalities but
there are several thousand federal Job
holders in the United States who dis-
like the idea of being pried loose from
their easy berths by a bunch of dem-
ocratic upstarts.
And so the "pie" brigade is hammer-
ing the national committee men of
their respective states to see that the
colonel is not slashed too severely in
the matter of seating contesting dele-
gates. Perry says the federal office
holders have their ears to the grass
roots and they realize the desire of
the common herd the voters to have
Roosevelt returned to office and they
do not intend to have their positions
jeopardized by the action of the na-
tional committeemen. He says that
the rank and file of the federal job
holders the country over do not feel
that Taft can win and regard Roose-
velt as the best possible republican
bet.
SENATOR OWEN
E
CROWD LAST NI6NT
Despite the lateness of his train and
the threatening storm Senator Robt.
L. Owen addressed a packed house at
the court room last night. On account
of the untoward conditions the speech
was cut short but the crowd stayed
witli him until the last word was spok-
en and insisted that he continue. The
speaker dwelt largely upon his work
in congress and the problems and con-
ditions he found there.
Senator Owen is known by nearly
everybody in this section of the state
having at one time lived in Vinlta. He
was editor and owner of the Chieftain
in 1883.
NOTICE.
The lawn party and ice cream social
to have been given by the Guild of the
St. John's Episcopal church this even-
ing has been postponed one week and
will be held Tuesday June 4.
NOT
WANTED
ADDRESSED
LA
All school children are requested
to meet on the City School p."unds at
9:30 a m. Next Thursday Decoration
Day.
W. C. MASTERSON
City Superihtendart
HEAVY
BURDEN
OF THE COURTS
Declares Unjust to People Practice of
Reversing Convictions Unless Ac-
tual Error is Shown.
Oklahoma City -May 26. The case
of John Gonzalus of Comanche county
given a life sentence in the peniten-
tiary for murder was affirmed by the
court of criminal appeals in an opinion
delivered by Presiding Judge Purman.
Noerror justifying reversal of the
case was found by the court. Judge
Form an announced the following in
the opinion:
"The habit of reversing cases upon
light and trivial grounds is to be rep-
rehended from every standpoint. While
it is true that a price should never be
placed upon the administratio not jus-
tice and no man who has been unjust-
ly convicted should ever be denied a
rehearing upon the ground of expense
of a second trial; yet this court will
take judicial notice of the fact that
the people of the state are already
heavily burdened with taxation and
that one of the principal items of ex-
pense to the state is the enforcement
of its criminal laws. It would there-
fore he unjust to the people of the
state to add to the expense by revers-
ing convictions and sending hack cases
for retrial thereby greatly increasing
the expense of government unless a
necessity for doing so really existed."
Conviction of Pearle Lawyer of
Kingfisher given one year for larceny
of a calf was affirmed iu an opinion
by Judge Armstrong.
DEMOCRATIC PRESS BULLETIN.
When the republican spellbinders
begin their eulogy of their national
platfocm ask them if they have ful-
filled the promises recorded in their
last Rational platform.
Roosevelt asserts vehemently that
Taft is not fit to be president. Taft
replies with equal emphasis that
Roosevelt is unfit to he president. And
for the first time in our life we be-
lieve that they are both right.
Arrangements for holding the state
bar examination will fce hejd on the
third Thursday In June. .More than
200 applicants will take the examina-
tion. Owing to a lack of funds there
was no examination at the regular
semi-annual period last December.
The hearing of the protest against
the Akin bill has continued for the
past week before the secretary of
state. A number of witnesses have
been examined and careful attention
has been directed to all the natures
contained on the petitions. It is be-
lieved that the hearing will continue
for some time.
There Is not an American voter
alive who would attach any impor-
tance to the words "immediate re-
vision of the tariff." if they should be
found in the next republican national
platform. There is not an honest re-
publican voter alive who could read
those words without a blush.
U. S. Russell state pure food in-
spector was among those who attend-
ed the meeting of the State Press as-
sociation at Muskogee last week. Rus-
sell i sone of the veterans of Okla-
homa journalism and while engaged
in the newspaper work had the repu-
tation of being one of the most bril-
liant writers in the southwest.
Corporation Commissioner Geo. A.
Henshaw and C. B. Bee the rate ex-
pert of the commission are in Chi-
cago attending a hearing before the
linterstate commerce commission. The
matter under consideration is the sus-
pension of classification of Order No.
51 In which are designated the various
classes of freight Wfelc hare handled
as commodities.
James A. Harris of Wagoner who
packed the grass roots convention of
1910 witn his henchmen who tried to
pack and steal the Guthrie conven-
tion of 1912. who recently attempted to
cheat George C. Priestly out of the na-
tion coinmitteemanship and whose
political machinations have Invariably
been of a dark lantern variety has
tiled "a fair election law" with the
secretary of state. It is now thought
that the habitues of the different ten-
derloins of the state will soon Initiate
a law demanding the. rigid enforce-
ment of the seventh commandment.
Iu icplyo ;i letter" from Representa-
tive Lewis o Beckham county Attor-
ney General West has rendered an
opinion to the effect that any voter
has a right under the law to vote In
any party primary. It is the opinion
of the attorney general that republi-
cans or socialists may vote in the dem-
ocratic primary if they have any de-
sire to do so and that they may not
be prevented from exercising their
wish. The opinion has excited consid-
erable comment throughout the state.
Judges of the superior court will
hold office until the second Monday
in January 1911 according to an
opinion rendered last week by Aattor-
ney General West. The question was
finally decided says General West by
the supreme court in the case of the
state vs. Breckenridpe from Tulsa
county. Ambitious attorneys who were
anxious to run for superior judge in
the present campaign will have to
wait for two years.
A petition has been presented to
Governor Cruce asking him to call
an election for the purpose of per-
mitting the people of the southwestern
portion of Comanche county to vote
on the proposition of becoming a part
Of Jefferson county. The territory ef
fected is eight by eleven miles In ex-
tent and contains four hundred and
forty-Seven legal voters whom have
signed the petition for the election.
BOOSTER WEEK
AT
Spokane Wash. May 28. Repre-
sentatives of all financial commercial
and industrial enterprises and military
fraternal and social organization's in
the city have pledged support to the
"booster week" campaign beginning
May 28. The celebratlu. will be In
connection with the formal opening of
the new $5000(10 home of the Spokane
Chamber of Commerce of which R.
Insinger Is president.
Arrangements are under way to en-
tertain several thousand delegates
representing the various communities
in the Pacific and intermouutain coun-
try also the people of Spokane. Mem-
orial day exercises arranged by patri-
otic and military organizations will
be featured by the Mag day committee.
Among other things there will lie num-
erous stands of flags and banners of
a.l nations.
Charles Hebberd chairman of the
executive committee of seven chosen
at a mass meeting on May 1.1 an-
nounced today there will he a series
of parades of the various industries In
the district. The Pioneers' Society of
Spokane will have charge of the old
SPOKANE
Something
BIG
is going to commence
at our store
Saturday
June the 1st
VINITA'S BIG DEPARTMENT STORELf
- ' 1
JACK BESSEY OPENS
AT THE
The Jack Bessey Company opened
their first engagement in this city last
evening with a strong bill entitled
"The Burglar and the Lady" and the
fair sized audience present went away
more than satisfied with the play and
pronounced the company to be even
better than the play. Mr. Jack Bessey
was seen in the role of the burglar and
he proved himself to be all that has
been claimed for him and is destined
to become a favorite with the theatre
patrons In this city.
Miss Nell Paul needs no introduc-
tion in Vinita as she has a host of
friends and admirers in this city
made lit previous engagements. Miss
Paul took the part of "Norma Gray"
in last night's bill and did more than
justice to her role though she Is cap-
able of much harder parts and her
friends feel that she will be able to
further establish herself before the
week Is over.
This company also carries with
them one of the strongest "heavy" ac-
tors playing the middlewest and Mr.
Herring was seen as Sherlock Holmes
in last night's play.
This splendid company will lay off
tonight on account of the Sacred
Heart entertainment to be held in the
theatre but they will re-open Wed-
nesday with their feature bill "The
Home Run" and on Thursday night
they will play Thomas Dixon's master-
piece "The Sins of the Father."
CITY LEAGUE STANDING.
W. L. Pet.
Milford-Bergers 4 1 .800
High School :( i .750
Bankers 2 4 .333
Golden Rule 1 4 200
timers' procession showing the stage
coaches and prairie schooners of the
early days. Indians from several reser-
vations will participate. It is expect-
ed to have 18000 school children in
one of the parades.
The Musical Art Society of Spokane
headed by Dr. Francis Walker will
present Gounod's "Faust" in concert
form with professional soloists as
principals and a chorus of 250 men
and women. In addition there will be
a series of receptions and a banquet
in the new quarters of the Chamber of
Commerce. The Spokane Ad Club of
which R. E. Blgelow Is president is
arranging a novel street parade.
Military organizations including
eight companies of the 25th regiment
infantry U. S. A. the Washington Na-
tional guard and two posts of the
Grand Army of the Republic and the
Boy Scouts and Gifl Guides of Amer-
ica will have a program on one of the
days.
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