Vinita Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 100, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1912 Page: 1 of 4
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VINITA DAILY CHIEFTAIN.
VOL XIV. NO. 100.
VINITA OKLAHOMA THURSDAY AUGUST 22. 1912.
FIVE CENTS PER COP
NOR ASKS
AGENTS BARRED
Will Ask Legislature to Enact Bill
Against Personal Visits.
Oklahoma City Aug. 22. Whether
or not to call a special session of the
legislature to enact laws which will
do away with a number of county offi-
ces and effect a saving of from $250.
000 to $300000 per year has ben a
question In the mind of Governor
Cruce even though he has never sig-
nified any intention of calling such a
session.
When tne matter of calling such u
session was first broached it was argu-!
ed that action taken in a special ses-
sion would become effective imme-
diately whereas if a law was enacted
at a regular session there was some
question as to whether or not it would
become effective at once or whether
newly elected officers could serve out.
their terms before the abolishment o?
their offices.
In order to ascertain at what time
legislation enacted at a regular ses-
Examinatior.j For City Teachers.
The city examinations will be given
at the high school building on Tues-
day and Wednesday August 27th and
28th beginning at 8 o'clock each
morning and the following is the order
of the subjects:
Oklahoma History 8:00 a. in. to 9:00
a. m.
Agriculture 9:00 a. in. to 9:400 a. m.
Domestic Science 9:40 a. m. to
10:20 a. m.
Geography 10:20 a. m. to 11:20 a. m.
Penmanship 11:20 a. m. to 12:00 M.
Grammar 1:00 p. m. to 2:00 p. m.
History of Ed. 2:00 p. m. to 2:40
p. m.
Drawing 2:40 p. m. to 3:20 p. m.
Reading 3:20 p. m. to 4:00 p. m.
Method and Manag. 4:00 p. m. to
4:40 p. m.
Second Day the 28th.
Arithmetic 8:00 a. m. to 9:00 a. m.
Physiology. 9:00 a. m. to 9:40 p. m.
Music 9:40 a. m. to 10:20 a. m.
Rhetoric and Comu. 10:20 am. to
11:00 a. m.
j Spelling 11:00 a. m. to 11:40 p. m.
Civics 1:00 p. m. to 1:40 p. m.
Psychology 1:40 p. m. to 2:20 p. m.
Phys. Geography 2:20 p. ra. to 3:00
p. m.
U. S. History 3:00 p. ni. to 4:00 p.
m.
sion of the legislature would become
effective Governor Cruce recently
wrote to Attorney General West ask-
ing for an opinion. In hiB reply the
attorney general holds that a law pro-
viding for the abolishment of county
offices enacted at a regular session of
the legislature is valid after the offi-
cers are elected and have qualified ex-
cept where the constitution specifi-
cally prescribes the term.
Under this interpretation it is be-
lieved that Governor Cruce will not
call a special session of the'legfslature
to put through any economy planks
proposed by him.
In connection with the matter of let-
ting the contracts for school text
books Governor Cruce recently ex-
pressed himself as being opposed to
the idea of calling upon the represent-
atives of all book concerns in competi-
tion to submit their bids in person.
The governor can see no valid rea
sonwhy
FIVE SHOOTINGS
WITHIN A MONTH
lire S. C. Beck of Canadian Used a
Shotgun to Stop Her Husband
Baby Was in His Arms.
Canadi'u Okla. August 21. Fear
that her husband was about to kidnap
their child from her father's home
seven miles east of here this after-
noon led Mrs. Sam C. Beck to riddle his
head with a shotgun as he. held the
baby in his arms. Beck died almost
instantly.
The two had been separated for
COL ROOSEVELT
OKLAJTINERARY
Tentative Schedule Does Not Include
This Section of the Country.
OklEhoma City. Aug. 22. Frills and
entertainments such ;i receptions and
banouets are to be "cut out' oil Col
onel Roosevelt's sixty-day campaign
ing tour according to a telegram re
ceived by Chairman McDonald of the
progressive state committee from the
national committee today. Time of
the condidate will be spent in building
party fences. Colonel Roosevelt will
leave Denver September 1 reaching
Wichita Kahs. September 23 and the
following day is to be spent in Okla-
homa. According to tentative arrange
ments of the state committee. Colonel
Roosevelt will travel from Wichita to
Enid by regular train arriving at the
latter place at 6:15 a. m. From Enid
to McAlester the trip will be by spe-
cial train and from the latter place he
goes by regular train through Arkan-
sas making no stops until Memphis Is
reached the following morning. He
will travel in a private car.
Details of the Tour.
From 8 utnil 8:30 of the morning
of September 24 Colonel Roosevelt
will spend in Enid and make a speech.
The stop at Kingfisher is from 9:30
to 9:45 at El Reno from 10:30 to 10:45
and at Oklahoma City where the chief
speech in the stage is to be made
four hours to be allowed. The train
will leave here at 4 p. m. arriving at
Shawnee one hour later leaving at
5:15 p. in. arriving at Holdenville at
6:15 p. m. leaving 6:25 and arriving
at McAlester 7:45 p. in. where the
car will remain until midnight. The
state committee telegraphed the de-
tails to the national headquarters for
approval.
GORE
IS SURE
OF
VICTOBJ
Believes Election of Wilson But a
Matter of Counting the
Votes.
nearly a vear and Beck had romp to
the merits of publications fl reconciliation it is
cannot be submitted to the text booksajd Hg wjfp ha(Kbeen living wjth
commission by mail or express as well ner father Q McNeeey at Bower
as by personal trips to the capital bystore Beck.B effiort8 tQ obtajn a
representatives of the book concerns. U wKh hig wjfe proved u.
Governor Cruce stated that he would succeBSfnl Ag fle gtarted tQ cave
ask the legislature to enact a law for-)he piched up lheir ;j.year.old eWj and
bidding representatives of publishing started t0 run wlth t
houses to appear in person to present Mr(J Beck raQ foa ghotgln and
the merits of their books. dered her husband to stop it is re
ported and when he failed to heed
her command she pulled the trigger
but the first attempt was unsuccess-
City Sunday School Union.
MAY
RECOVER
BACK TAXES
If Case is Decided For the Taxpayer
Many Can Recover.
The Vinita Sunday School Union has j'Wj s0 she fired the other barrel. The
been organized for the purpose of pro- sht b'ew the top of her husband's
moting the interests of Sunday school head off- The cnid. which Beck was
work in this city the principal object holding was unhurt
being to secure an attendance of 1.600 j Tne news of tne murder had scarce-
pupils each Sunday instead of about (fr reached this place before it was
800 the present attendance. The idea ; learned that another woman Mrs. A.
came from Gene Englehart. president ! Tnrley of Crowder had attempted
of the Craig County "Sunday School to km Mrs- Lena Shoemaker whom
sne accusea ot ueing intimate witu
her husband. She shot Mrs. Shoe-
president and Miss Detta Higgins sec- um5B W1U1 a
retary have been elected to serve!anU at a late nour last "V 11 was
until the annual election in Septem- 8aid that her victira W0lld not re"
ber. . cover
A constitution has been adopted Mrs- Turley- before tne footing
and considerable preliminary work had boarded a traln at Crowder City
has been done towards a thorough Win she waB olnS t0 McAlester
canvas of the city for a Sunday school wording to the story received here.
h.h . aftr whinh thor- She shot off however at Kiowa the
Association.
Temporary officers Gene Englehart
ough follow-up system Is to be in-
augurated. A general secretary is to he elected
whose duty it will be in conjunction
with the Sunday school seretaries to
home of the Shoemaker woman who
formerly was a bookkeeper for Tur-
ley owner of a gin at Crowder. She
had been wlvorced from her husband.
At Kiowa Mrs. Turley it is said
keep card index record of all Sunday went dlrect'y t0 e home of Mrs.
school pupils. These cards will show Shoemaker produced letters that she
which Sunday school the pupil attends sald had been wrltten y Mrs. Shoe-
or whether he does not attend either maker to Turley and accured the
of the six Sunday schools. This secre- K1wa woman of bating her hus-
tary is to be compensated for services. band'8 affections. She then drew a
At Tuesday night's meeting held at vover and flred three timeB- a" of
the Methodist church the executive the shots taking effect. She then sur-
committee composed of the pastors rendered to the officers and was taken
and Sunday school superintendents to McAlester and placed in jail
were instructed to get busy divide the 1 Mrs- Shoemaker is a niece of R. T.
city into districts and appoint can- Ba8tes- a Prominent farmer living
vasers and arrange plans for the work west f Canadian. Crowder City is
of taking the census. This committee Ju8t three mlIes muth of Canadian
will meet Thursday night at Rev. Ber-' Th shootings today make five that
ger's study in the Congregational Iiave occurred near here within the
church and be prepared to make its month. Only this week a proml-
report to the general meeting to be nent yun man of this city shot his
held at the Methodist church on Tues- uncle wU whom he foulld bis wlfe
day night of next week. when he arrlved horoe on niSht- Tne
Every Sunday school worker in th affalr ha been kePt quiet by the po
nce un juiy winis uwen Kiiieu
his wife and a man whom he found
Muskopee Okla. Aug. 22. A suit
to test the right of a taxpayer to re
cover money that he has already paid
in to the county in the form of taxes
was brought yesterday afternoon in
the superior court against W. H. Wain-
wright county treasurer and the
county of Muskogee. The suit is along
the same line as the numerous injunc-
tions that have been filed in the courts
against the county treasurer to re-
strain him from collecting taxes.
The petition was filed by C. A. Ani-
brister attorney for F. B. Fite and W.
E. Rowsey and asks for the recovery
of $915.41 which it is alleged was
paid in for the first half of the year
in excess of the amount that should
have been collected owing to the ac-
tion of the state board of equalization
in raising the assessed valuation
the county.
If the suit is decided in favor of
the taxpayers it will be a precedent
upon which the two score or more
taxpayers who have already enjoined
the county can recover thousands of
dollars that have already been paid in.
The injunctions that have been grant-
ed were to restrain; the county from
collecting the taxes for the last half
of the year.
It is alleged in the petition that the
assessed value of the property was
raised from $213090 to $319635. The
taxes assessed for each half of the
year were $2746.14 and they should
have been just two-thirds of this
amount the petition alleges.
The same persons also ask that an
injunction be granted against the coun-
ty treasurer to restrain him from col-
lecting $915.41 of the taxes assessed
for the last half of the year.
with her. And Just a short time ago
J. P. Connor killed his son.
city is requested to attend these r..et-
ings and take part In the discussion.
At Tuesday night's meeting Rev.
Berger and Messrs. Wallen and Gilles
pie were appointed to revise the con-!
stitution. This' committee too will' Miss Vivian Smith returned to her
report at the general meeting at the home In Ohio last evening after an
Methodist church on Tuesday night extended visit with Mr. and Mrs. Cary
of next week. Caldwell.
The Vinita Boy ScoutB will leave to-
morrow morning for the Cedar Bluff
where they will make a search for an
old cannon supposed to have been
sunk in a battle during the war. The
boys will make an effort to locate the
gun and if they are succesi-fil it will
be removed to this city and mounted
as a relic.
Mrs. F. M. Ford and Mrs. Wm. Todd
are attending the old settlers reunion
at Pryor today.
New York. Aug. 22. Senator
Thomas P. Gore head of the bureau
of organization of the democratic na-
tional campaign committee gave out
a statement last night analyzing tho
political conditions in the different
section of the country. He predicted
that the popular vote of Governor Wil-
son would be about the same as that
of Presideut Taft and Colonel Roose
velt combined which would give him
a large majority in the electoral col-
lege. "West of the Mississippi" said Sen-
ator Gore "the race is between Wilson
and Roosevelt with Taft receiving
enough votes to throw many republi-
can states into the democratic column.
It seems now that President Taft has
a chance to lead Mr. Roosevelt in only
three or four states beyond the Missis-
sippi with the possibility of carrying
not more than two of these states.
Governor Wilson will have a majority
of the electoral vote west of the Mis-
sippi. "East of the Allegheny mountains
the race is between Governor Wilson
and President Taft with Mr. Roose
velt dividing the republican vote suffi-
ciently to throw several of the large
republican states into the democratic
field. Mr. Roosevelt will probably
lead President Taft in three states in
this eastern section with a chance of
carrying only one state.
"In the five great states between
the Alleghenies anw the Mississippi
confusion in the republican party is
worse confounded. Chaos runs riot in
their ranks in Indiana Illinois Michi-
gan and Wisconsin. Indications are
now that there are only two of these
states where there Is any likelihood
of Governor Wilson losing out. He
has much the best of it in three of the
states an even chance in one of them
and almost an even chance in the
other."
Senator Gore declined to give his
opinion on whether President Taft or!
Colonel Roosevelt would receive elec-
tor and popular votes or to specify
any state either one would carry. He
said the democrats had not conceded
Kansas Nebraska or Colorado; that
Mr. Bryan had carried two of the
states in 1908 and the democrats are
confident of increasing the majorities
this yeaf.
HASKELL DENIES
WILL PRACTICE LAW
"Pipe-Dream" the Governor Emphati-
cally Says of the Newspaper
Report.
New M. O. A G. Lines.
Denison Texas Aug. 21. Fifteen
grading outfits have arrived here over
the Missouri Oklahoma & Gulf rail-
road which will be utilized imme-
diately In grading t..e route for the
extension of the Gulf line from Denl-
son to Dallas. It is announced that
i-q A will Ki nimnlArarl lk ti4Vvii (ha '
I lilt i wm niu w i i i ( n i - 1 1 tyji 7
first of November.
It also has been announced here
that the fifteen-mile extension of the
road from a point near Wapanucka to
j Bromide near which the Galbreath
stone quarries are located will be
I started at once. The branch route has
been held up pending the arrival of a
large stone crusher which is neces-
sary in establishing the grades for it.
A crusher with a thirty-car capacity
will be installed near the city at once.
It is also planned by the road to ex-'
tend the branch out to the glass sand
deposits three miles west of Bromide.
One of the largest deposits In the
state is located here according to geo-
logists and the quality Is good.
All pupils expecting to go to high
school this year should enter the first
.day especially out of town pupils or
'thOBO who have never classified. It
j is necessary to get the righ kind of a
start or the work will be hard for
you.
Muskogee Okla. Aug. 22. The re-
port that C. N. Haskell contemplates
opening a law office In Muskogee was
emphatically denied last night by the
former governor. A statement to that
effect printed in the afternoon paper
was called a "pipe-dream" hy the sen-
atorial candidate. He sent the follow-
ing communication to the Phoenix
"Editor Proenix: Please say to your
readers that the statement in yester-
day's Times-Democrat to the effect
that I have decided or arranged to
open a law office in Muskogee is
wholly untrue. C. N. HASKELL."
In answer to a question Mr. Haakell
said that there was no more to be
said on the subject than he had said
in the statement. He said however
that he had no intention ..flff removing
from Muskogee.
The former governor also emphati-
cally denied thatne aontemplated
starting a newspaper iff Muskogee
saying; that report hrfd come from even
thinner aii than tjje other.
Mayes Thatcher was bound over by
Justice Meredith on five hundred dol-
lars bond today on a charge of attack-
ing Lester Vandergriff with a knife
with intent to kill.
Dr. W. G. Williams has been busy
the past ten days with a force of men
cleaning the pool and making other
improvements about the Electric park.
Homer Trott was in Chelsea yes-
terday and arrested a man named
Scudder on a liquor charge. Scudder
was bound over by Judge Brcwn on
five hundred dollars bond.
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Thousands of Bargains that I
will find their every day use and I
cannot oe oougiu eise-
where at these low
price.'!
We've Reached the Limit in Low Prices
5c the yard for fancy and staple Checked
Ginghams worth 7c.
25c for a 35c value in 56-inch Bleached
Table Linen desirable lengths.
39c the yard for 50c to 5c values in 58-
inch Bleached Damask.
5c for (tlAc Bleached Toweling Crash in
desirable lengths.
Sjc the yard for a 10c value in Bleached
Toweling Crash.
12lAc the yard for 20c Blue Denim worth
20c the yard.
10c for the best possible 15c value in
Hickory Shirting.
$1. the pair for Men's stylish Blutcher
Gunmetal Shoes worth $3.00.
$1.79 the pair for Men's all-leather plain
toe 2.50 tan Work Shoes.
$2.39 the pair for Men's J3.00 12-inch
Tan Bootees all sizes.
$2.75 the pair for Men's $3.50 15-inch
Tan Bootees all sizes.
50c each for 75c values in Boys' black
and brown Telescope Hats.
75c for Men's and Boys' $1.25 Telescope
Hats in all sizes and colors.
39c for 50c Coat Sets collar and cuffs in
pretty new designs.
8c the yard for Martha Washington yard
wide soft Bleached Muslin.
20c the yard for 9-4 Bleached Sheeting
a value always sold at 25c.
27 l-2c the yard for 10-4 Bleached Sheet-
ing as good as tae 35c Pepperal.
45c each for "Lilly" Sheets sizes 72x90
inches as long as 144 of them last.
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i
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$13.98
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Marrs, D. M. Vinita Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 100, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1912, newspaper, August 22, 1912; Vinita, Okla.. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc774469/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.