Vinita Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 301, Ed. 1 Friday, April 12, 1912 Page: 1 of 4
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VINITA DAILY CHIEFT AM
VOL XIII. NO. 301.
VINITA OKLAHOMA FRIDAY APRIL 12. 1912.
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
REGULATION
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LOWER HISSISS1PPI
New Orleans La. April 12. River
regulation in the words of George H.
Maxwell must become the campaign
cry ot the people of the Mississippi
Valley no matter what their party
politics If their fertile fields are to
he made safe from overflow and their
country is to be freed from the ad-
verse opinion of the remainder of the
world.
"The flooj waters of the Mississippi
river and its tributaries can be regu-
lated and t .ich regulation in conjunc-
tion with a good levee system will
forever safeguard the valleys from
overflows" said Mr. Maxwell who is
an ardent supporter of the Newland's
River Regulation bill to-day. "The
entire country will back up the de-
mand of the people of the Mississippi
the Ohio and the Missouri valley for
constructive legislation of this chai-
acter." In proof of his assertion he exhibit-
ed the following telegram from the
far west:
Stockton Cal. April 8. i:U2.
Mr. Geo. H. Maxwell Executive Chair-
. man Board of Control National
Drainage Congress. St. Charles
Hotel New Orleans.
Dear Sir: We extend our heartfelt
sympathy to the sufferers from the
present floods In the East and South.
Our sympathy is tinctured with shame
as we know that the appalling loss of
life and property could and ought to
have been prevented. As a people
we have the intelligence and the
money to dp the required work that
will control forever the flood area of
our country whether in the East the
South or the West. We knew how to
change the awful destructive flood
forces into constructive and beneficial
powers. With these forces we can
improve aTid make permanently nav-
igable our inland water ways generate
enormous quantities of electric power
make safe the investments and . in-
crease the improvements in our great
valleys and while doing so shall re-
move the danger or drought or fear
of it. The time is opportune fvr an
immediate start oa this great work.
The Panama Canal is now nearly fin-
ished. Even now the services of a
part of the spleudii working nnnv is
being dispensed with and part of the
equipment is being sold. These train-
ed men should be kept together and
the equipment U'at can be usel m
the south and east or in the west
should be at once put in order for the
work that must be done to sav3 tlio
lives and property .of our people by
properly conserving the natural fctrces
and resources of our country. There
can be no excuse for another hunt's
delay. The sinking of the Main? with
so large a part of her gallant crew In
Havana aroused our people to war.
What can we say to a watching world
if we refuse to act as promptly and as
energetically when the lives of our
people are being taken by floods that
we can control or droughts that we
can prevent? To the loss of life we
must add the destruction of propeity
so vast that its value if wisely used
would prevent forever such losses.;
Under such conditions can we still
say that we have a government of the
people by the people and fop the
people? To enable us a people to
claim without shame that we so gov-
ern ourselves. We pray that you will
take such action at New Orleans and
immediately thereafter at Washing-
ton that the Newland's bill may be ..n-
acted into law and the good work of
conservation and control be started
without further delay.
Yours truly
The River Regulation Commission of
Stockton California. "
By J. L. Craig Chairman.. '
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Big and little will all find the kind of shoes and
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1 M1LF0RD BERGER
' No Crime to Steal Liquor.
Guthrie Okla. April 12. That it is
not burglary In Oklahoma to break
into a building and steal intoxicating
liquors that are being held for sale
in violation of the prohibition law
was the finding of a district court jury
here yesterday. George Windsor a
negro was acquitted on a charge of
taking twenty-four quarts of whisky
and fifteen bottles of beer from a
building. Tnder the Oklahoma law
there are no property rights in liquor
held for sale.
SILL AUDIENCE SEES
' BEST SHOW OF SEASON
That such a show as that presented
at the Grand last night should come
to Vinita find have only 112 people in
the house to see It ' y disgrace to
this city. Last week a very ordinary
show filled the house to overflow al-
most every night. One ot the best
shows ever produced in th's city was
greeted by an audience last nitht th:'t
looked almost like an empty theatre.
The show however was deply appre-
ciated by those who sa v it . nd if Miss
Delia Clark ever ' returns to Viu'.ra
there will be a decided difference In
the number of the audience.
"Introduce Me" is a splendid c;iu-
edy written by Miss Clark who was
leading lady in the production here
last night. The play is a good whole-
some story filled with real comedy
situations. It is founded on the story
of a young wife who resolves to write
stories in order to make money made
necessary by the failure of some of
her husband's plays. The husband ;s
considered a genius but for some rea-
son was unable to produce a drai.ii
that would take In New York. The
wife writes under the pseudonym of
Francis Everton and one of her books
is so good that It attracts the atten-
tion of Edna Somers a theatrical strn'
who sees great possibilities for 'her
in a dramatization oft the book. It is
agreed to take the book to the hus-
band who does not know that Frances
Everton Is his wife. . The actress anl
the husband start a warm flirtation
which furnishes much of the comedy
aided by the timely or untimely ap-
pearance of an .aunt of the wife from
the country. . The play is produced
and is a great success. The play-
wright goes to meet the author of the
book from which his uccessful drama
is taken and imagine his surprise
when he finds the author is his wife.
An opportunity is furnished Miss
Clark to show her ability as an emoj
tional actress' at the close of the third
act when her husband whose sus-
picions are aroused by a statement of
the aunt that "Yesterday a strange
man makes love to the 'wife and to-
day the husband makes loves to a
strange woman." in the end it is
shown that the strange man is only
Frances Everton's publicity agent and
it all ends well. .
Few actresses the equal of Miss
Delia Clark have been seen in Vinita.
She was simply superb and her sup-
port was. splendid. The costumes
worn by Miss Clark and Miss Clare
Krall an Edna Somers the actress
were beautiful. Many who saw the
play last night pronounce it the best
attraction offered in Vinita during the
season now closing.
APPROPRIATION INSUFFICIENT.
Oklahoma Live Stock Inspection is
Relieved From Duty April 30.
Oklahoma City April 12. Fourteen
live stock 'inspectors of the state board
of agriculture comprising the entire
force in that branch of service will
be taken off duty AprN 30 owing to
a lack of available appropriation for
the fiscal year ending June 30.
This will end the live stock inspec-
tion work until July 1 when the new
fiscal year begins notwithstanding
there remains in the funff"$10000 of
the total amount appropriated by the
last legislature.
SHOE COMPANY
100 EXTRAVAGANT
IS
(By Win field Jones.)
Special to The Chieftain.
Washington D. C" April 12. The
postoffice department under the man-
agement of Postmaster General Hitch-
cock needs a thorough over-hauling.
What the department needs Is busi-
ness system.
At the close of the Civil War the
total annual revenue o fthe post office
was $M56CirS.T0; last year it was
237648926.6S. The pereapita rev-
enue was in 186.") 42 cents; it is now
$2.".3.
The one cent per pound rate for sec-dnd-class
matter which covers week-
ly and daily newspapers and maga-
zines did not go into effect until 1886.
Up to that time there was not a limit-
ed circulation for newspapers because
of the high postage. It is significant
thnt coincidently with the postage re-
duction for newspapers in 1886 the
revenues of the post office department
began to increase rapidly.
In the next twenty years the per
capita revenue Jumped to $1.20 and
increase of 100 cents as against 34
cents in the preceding twenty years.
This great Increase of revenue came
largely from second-class mails. There
was a natural increase in other classes
of mail but in only small degree did
It figure in this rapid growth qt rev-
enue. The total weight of second-class
mail in 1886 was 110000000 pounds.
In 1911 it was 893000000 pounds an
increase in-twenty-five years of over
800 per cent. '
These figures tell the story of the
beneficial results growing out of a
cheap postage rate.
There are abuses of the second-class
mail privileges but if the department
would use but a small part of the
energy for eliminating abuses than it
Is expending in the effort to increase
second-class postage it would do bet-
ter.
The legitimate publications to en-
joy the second-class privileges are the
weekly country papers the daily pa-
pers certain legitimate trade . and
class papers and certain magazines.
Certain magazines are conducted
wholly on an advertising basis. A
little cheap reading matter is inserted
between the bulky advertising pages
and this is called a magazine. In the
true sense it Is not a magazine.
Not so with a daily paper which
must cover the general news field re-
gardless of the cost. The daily paper
keeps the -man In the office and on
the farm informed every night and
morning of the world's happenings.
What Bort of a country would this be
to live in without the newspapers? But
Mr. Hitchcock proposes to weight us
down by a postage burden that wou! 1
turn many a paper in this country
from a profit to a loss balance so nar-
row is the line between the profit and
loss for many papers.
The growing cost of print paper has
developed a serious situation. Many
dailies pay over $50000 a year pos-
tage. Double that as Mr. Hitichcock
proposes and the permanecy of these
papers would be endangered. j
There 'can be no doubt that if the
post office department were run on
business principles and with modern
business methods it would be a great
money maker without a single change
in the rates. Like every other gov-
ernment department however its ma-
chinery is entangled in endless red
tape.
Reams of speeches that were never
spoken and tons of books that are
never read clutter up the mails of
Uncle Samuel. They don't yield a
cent of revenue and do mighty little
good to anyone.
If a candidate for office happens to
be in the house or senate he gets
leave to print in the Record all sorts
of campaign material. He then has
this printed separately and sent broad-
cast to the voters he wants to reach
and the government foots the bill for
him charging the deficit to newspaper
postage. And yet there is talk in con-
gress of raising the second-class rates.
The franking privilege should be
abolished or rigidly restricted. Every
department should pay its own postage
bill out of its appropriations. You say
this would be taking money out of one
of Uncle Sam's pockets to put it in
anotner. This is partly trpe. It would
be putting each department on its own
proper footing instead of making the
post office department the goat for. all
the rest of them. It would the" be pos-
sible to say whether the rates needed
changing.
The ladies of the Christian church
will give an exchange Saturday at the
Pearl Grocery.
HITCHCOCK
T
HAS SURRENDERED
General Grant Had Been III For Some
Time But Wa Thought to Be
Improving.
New York April 12. (2 a. m i
Grant is dead.
The news flashed from the apart-
ments of Major-Gen. Frederick Grant
at the Hotel Buckingham shortly after
midnight sent a shock through the
city such as that which startled the
whole country upon the death of his
father twenty-seven years ago.
The news was far more sudden. It
came less than an hour after the first
alarm had been sounded that General
Graut was even seriously ill. 'file
alarm itself had come before it and
been generally learned that General
Grant was even in the city as his pres-
ence here had been kept a secret.
"Get a physician quick! The gen-
eral Is dying!" - This telephone call
received at the night desk of the Buck-
ingham at 11:30 o'clock last night was
the first news.
A bell boy was dispatched to the
office of Doctor Abbey nearby but the
physician was not at home. Mrs.
Grpnt was notified lid chafing at the
delay she cried hysterically:
"Get an ambulance. Get anybody."
The alarm was sent to police head-
quarters from which an ambulance
was dispatched. Calls were put In at
random also for physicians in the
Fifth avenue district and within a few1
minutes two had responded.
Too III to be Moved.
When the ambulance arrived with-
in four minutes of the alarm it was
said the General Grant probably was
dying. He was in too dangerous a
condition to be removed and the am-
bulance drove away.
In the half hour previous to his
death the alarm over his condition had
aroused all the newspaper offices In
most of which the reports were re-
garded with caution in view of the
fact that General Grant's presence
here was not known. Many newspaper
men were on the scene in a few min-
utes however but as none was allow-
ed to go to the apartments the exact
state of affairs was a matter of doubt
until an end was put to all when the
hotel clerk was heard to repeat over
the telephone:
'Grant is dead."
It was state dthat the couse was
GREA
SOLDIER
VI t. J.l : -M. If ! ; I I'
$25.00 New
TAILORED SUITS
REDUCED ONE -FOURTH
heart failure following diabetes and
attending digestive disturbances.
The following statement was made
at 1 o'clock by General Grant's at-
tending physicians. Doctors Abbey
and Dench.
"Gen. Frederick D. Grant died sud-
denly of heart failure without pre-
monition at the Buckingham hotel at
midnight April 11 after retiring at 11
o'clock apparently In better condition
than for several weeks. He had re-
turned from his recent trip much im-
proved and looking remarkably well
and vigorous. His condition since his
return had given no special anxiety
to his physicians who had been with
him during the afternoon and con-
gratulated him on his health. He ex-
pressed himself as feeling rejoiced at
his renewed strength.
With Abrupt Suddenness.
"General Grant had been suffering
from diabetes ami the attendant diges-
tive disturbances wh'eh. seemed how-
ever to be perfectly u'.'.der control.
"ThiB sudden fatal termination came
as a great surprise. His wife and
nurse were with hi mat the time and
the physicians who were called at
once found the heart had stopped instantly."
PRAISE S r1 ASTE R"
Mr. A. C. Parsons state examiner
for high schools of Oklahoma leaves
the following report of our city
schools:
Superintendent W. G. Masterson is
one of the best superintendents in the
state and has placed Vinita schools
at the top he is a fine organizer. Mr.
Masterson has the confidence of his
teachers arid as a result they are do-
ing fine work.
The high school faculty is a loyal
and hard working corps of teachers.
The grades are under the direction of
a strong line of teachers also and all
seem to be trying to make their work
the best. '
Vinita is to be congratulated upon
having such a fine school spirit and
the citizens should stand by the super-
intendent for it Is only a question of
time until your schools will be counted
the very best in the state.
The high school course now with
one or two exceptions comes up to the
exact requirements of the state board
of education.
There is not a school In the state
where the conditions are better than
in Vinita both for buildings and good
work.
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f VINITA'S BIG DEPARTMENT STORI
POLISH AMERIGAHS
II
Washington D. C April 12 Rev.
Paul Rhode the. only Polish bishop in
the United States baa given his un-
qualified indorsement of Governor
Woodrow Wilson on the part ot his
fellow-countrymen who are now citi-
zens of the United Stales. The state-
ment made by Bishop Rhode who
lives in Chicago touches upon mis-
representation of passages in Gover-
nor Wilson's History of the American
People and follows his addresses In
Illinois and Wisconsin In which he
gave his true estimation of Polish-
Americans. Tlie statement follows:
"Polish-Americans who have had
U-9 pleasure of listening to Governor
Wilson's speeches feel that the mean-
ing of the passage in Ins History of
the American People to which excep-
tion was taken has been largely lute-
construed. I am glad that Governor
Wilson who in all respects has the
esteem of our citizens of'PoliBh birth
and extraction look occasion to ex-
plain his mind and to place himself in
the proper light with our people.
(Signed) "PAUL RHODE."
Only a few of the democratic wnty
conventions In Arkansas which v. e
held Saturday gave instructions for
presidential candidates. One hundred
and sixty-eight delegates are Instruct-
ed for the several candidates and the
rest go to the convention unjiistructed
according to a telegram received at
Wilson headquarters today from John
W. Crockett of Little Rock. The
state convention will consist of 580
delegates.
A telegram received at ' Woodrow ;
Wilson headquarters frovn Frank B.
Schutz chairman of the Wisconsin
democratic state commlttee( says:
"Complete returns of the primary
slectlon show that Governor Wilson
carried ten out of the eleven congres-
sional districts. He won In sixty-four
out of seventy-one counties while
twenty-one out of twenty-six Wilson
delegates were elected. - In addition
he will have three delegates who were
elected indistricts carried by Gover-
nor Wilson and who were pledged to
abide by the preferential primary vote
in their district. This makes a total
of twenty-four out of the twenty-six
delegates in Wisconsin for Wilson.
Both congressional districts in Mil-
waukee county went for Wilson. The
foutrh ward settled exclusively by
Polish people was carried by Governor
Wilson."
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Marrs, D. M. Vinita Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 301, Ed. 1 Friday, April 12, 1912, newspaper, April 12, 1912; Vinita, Okla.. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc774465/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.