Vinita Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 246, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 4, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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Y1N1TA BADLY CHIEFTAIK
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VOL XII. NO. 248.
VINITA OKLAHOMA SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4. 1911.
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
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OKLAHOMA ROADS
LEAD 10 VIIIIIA
Mammoth Good Road
Movement
Started In Northeastern Oklahoma
With Vinita as the Center.
Vinita is coming into her own as the
recognized center of northeastern Ok
lahoma. A movement is now well un-
der way for a good roads district to be
created in the northeastern part of the
state With Vinita as the center. The
following from the Tulsa World ex-
plains the proposed good roads
scheme:
"In add'! ion to the good roads
movement which is now underway in
Tulsa county looking to the forma-
tion of the first good roads -district in
eastern Oklahoma as provided by re-
cently the state legislature the auto-
mobilists of the state are now con-
cerned with another movement which
if successfully carried out will do
much towards giving the eastern part
of Oklahoma dozens of miles of good
roads.
"While the proposed movement
comes as an incentive to automobll-
ing and grows out of the intended
route from the larger cities of Okla-
homa to Monte Ne in northwestern
Arkansas its culmination will see sev-
eral hundred miles of good joads es-
tablished not alone for the man with
the automobile but for the men with
the hay wagon as well.
"The proposed routes will lead from
Tulsa Sapulpa Bartlesville Paw-
huska Muskogee Claremore Vinita
and numerous other points. There are
in Oklahoma about 250 members of
the Monte Ne club and between thirty
and forty of these reside in Tulsa.
These automobilists propose to im-
prove some one road connecting all of
these cities and towns so that travel
at all times of the year by auto will be
a pleasure with the club house in the
Ozarks as the objective.
"All of tho routes out xf Oklahoma
will center at Vinita. They will be
marked with white rings "painted on
the telephone poles and fence posts
by the wayside and from Vinita on
ward the route will be similarly mark
ed. This will leave the autoist free to
travel without uneasiness as to the
road he is to take.
"E. R. Kemp of the Tulsa member
ship of the club will take care of the
proposed route from Tulsa to Vinita
according to W. H. Harvey president
and manager of the club' who spent
yesterday in Tulsa in the interest of
the good roads movement. W. F. Mof-
fit president of the Automobile club
of Muskogee will look after the route
from Muskogee to Vinita; the Bartles
ville and Nowata members will have
charge of their route into Vinita;
while Mr. Harvey will personally take
: care of the 90 mile route from Vinita
to Monte Ne. The other distances re-
spectively to Monte Ne are: Tulsa
150 miles; Bartlesville 160; and Mus-
kogee 150. Recently ten of the Bart-
lesville members covered their route
in two machines and went the 150
miles In eight hours. In this party
were George C. Priestly Dr. R. D.
Rood' Prank Phillips Clint Moore and
Judge J. J. Shea. Through Rogers
county the Claremore members are to
be asked to look after the improving
of the road.
"The route now contemplated from
Vinita will pass through Grove South-
west City Sulphur Springs and Rogers
Ark. and while the road Is said to be
good In its present state Mr. Harvey
is now organizing a volunteer move-
ment on the Iowa plan to make it a
turnpike and to have It completed by
April 1.
- "From the very first automobilists
have been the heavy favorites of good
roads and while this has been due
more perhaps to the pleasure of rid
ing over smooth surfaced highways it
has done much to show the farming
M1LF0RD - BERGER
$2.25 for any $3 Hat
in the Store
$2.48 Will Buy Choice of 200 Pairs Ladies
$3.50 and $4.00 Shoes.
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MILFORD -BERGER
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communities the benefits which ac-
crue to them through the building of
roads that will stand up under & var-
iety of climatic conditions. The soil
of Oklahoma is well adapted to the
making of good roads and it is quite
probable that as soon as the first good
roads district now under formation In
Tulsa county is completed and the
work begun there will be a wide ex
tension of road building in the adjoin
ing counties.'
OWEN URGES SALE OF
SEGREGATED GOAL UNOS
By Associated Press.
Washington D. C Feb. 4. Senator
Owen of Oklahoma called on President
Taft today to urge him to send to con-
gress a special message urging legis-
latlonVto provide for the immediate
sale of four hundred and eighty thou-
sand acres of coal and asphalt lands
in Oklahoma belonging to the Choc-
taws. The president said he would
consider the matter.
TICKET TO VIIIITft
Friends of Tool Dresser on Starr's
Driling Crew Fear Man Met With
Foul Play En Route Hero.
J. C. Starr has been trying for some
time to locate one of the tool dressers
on the big drill. Mr. Craft took a vaca-
tion for the holidays upon the comple
tion of the artesian well at Frohawk
for Janie Patton Hall and was to re-
turn the first week in' January. His
wife lives in Pennsylvania and when
he did not return in January a tele-
gram was sent to him and the reply
was given thut Craft left his home in
Pennsylvania on January 25th 1911
and had purchased a through ticket to
Vinita. At the time Craft should have
arrived in Vinita nothing more was
heard of him and nothing has been
heard of him' since. Fred Thomas a
toll dresser has been working temp-
orarily with Driler Wetstine on the
afternoon tower from noon until mid
night so as to keep the machine going
day and night and it has been expect-
ed that Craft would arrive at any mo-
ment Letters of inquiry and tele"-
grams have been received from Penn-
sylvania and Mrs. Craft is making
every effort possible to locate Mr
Craft. Itls feared that he has met
witn foul play some where on the road.
Mr. Starr says that Craft is a strictly
sober and Industrious young man has
excelent habits owes nobody and is In
good financial circumstances and so
far as can be seen there Is no cause
for his disappearance unless It be'foul
play some where.
MRS. ACHG1LL TAKE? LEAD
IN 016 PIANO CONTEST
The following is the standing of the
contestants in the Chieftain's big
piano contest:''
MRS. AVA ACHGILL... 22125
MRS. J. N. TAYLOR 15575
MISS MILDRED BRITT 3325
MISS JIMMIE CONNELL. . . . . 5250
MISS EULALA KELL. 1025
MISS BLANCH JOHNSON....
MISS FANNIE GARRELI
MISS S. WRIGHT
MISS MARGIE COMBS Chelsea
MISS SADIE CASTO
MISS EVA GARRETT
MISS ETHEL O'NEIL Woodley
MISS IDA WILLIAMS Catale.
550
250
175
50
ies
25
675
300
LIge Henderson will open his under-
taking parlor in the Riddle building
Monday or Tuesday of next week.
SHOE COMPANY.
SHOE COMPANY
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GRAFT PURCHASED
SENATE PROPOSES
El'J
Oklahoma City Feb. 4. The senate
passed. a joint resolution proposing a
new capital contract Friday afternoon.
The resolution was amended at the
suggestion of Senator Hatchett of Du-
rant to provide that the old $71200
contract should not be annulled until
the new agreement had been closed
between the building of public affairs
and the citizen capital expense com-
mittee. The new contract proposed makes
the citizens capital expense commit-
tee liable to the extent of $71200 on
which the rent of state offices for the
coming year will have the first claim
Should there be any left the resolu
tion preferred claim is to reimburse
the state $3450 paid Judge C. B. Stuart
of McAlester for his services in the
capital litigation.-
The expense of the removal of the
offices and equipment from Guthrie
occupies the third preferred place in
the contract and Senator Eggerman
was frank to say that he believed the
first three items would exhaust the
company's liability.
However lest there should be a
surplus even the new contract speci-
fied that attorneys fees connected with
the Oklahoma City side of the capital
litigation should have fourth claim
and last W. A. Ledbetter with a claim
for $9200 which he advanced the old
capital committee in the summer of
1910.
Architects are also mentioned but
so far down the line that there is little
probability that they will be noticed.
By a vote Of 21 to 14 in which party
lines were not closely drawn the sen-
ate Friday went on record as prefer-
ing the service of private attorneys'
to those of the attorney general in de
fending the "grandfather clause" cases
in the criminal branch of the federal
branch jof the federal court at Guthrie.
Senator Reuben M Roddle of Ada
was the author of B resolution which
passed both houses of legislature Fri
day requesting the governor to desig
nate the attorneys to defend the elec
tion officials indicted for too strict en
forcement of the "grandfather clause"
in Logan and Kingfisher counties.
Senator Potter republican of Ok
mulgee offered an amendment desig1-
nating the attorney general to defend
these cases. Potter promised to vote
for the resolution in that form. In
this connection Potter said the elec-
tion officers were in a manner acting
as state officials when they served on
election day. He declared that thou
sands of dollars had been lost to' the
state through the friction "between
Haskell and Attorney General West.
There was a roll call on the Potter
amendment resulting 14 to 21. " The
democrats who voted with Potter and
the republicans were Eggerhian of
Shawnee; Hatchett of Durant; Sorrells
of Wilburton and Thompson of Pauls
Valley. ' ; r
On final passage the resolution was
adopted 26 to 10. It went through the
lower house by a viva voce vote most
of the republicans having left ' the
chamber when it was called up.
When the house' by an overwhelm-
ing majority voted not to substitute
"board of public affairs" for the "cap-
ital commission" in Speaker Durant's
bill doing away with the powers of
the latter it was pretty clearly indi
cated that senate bill abolishing the
commission will have hard sledding in
ADVERTISE TRAIN FROM
EASTERN OKLAHOIA T01S
The Tulsa Democrat in its Issue of
Friday February 3 says: '
F. P. Sutherland secretary of the
Commercial Club says that the train
to be sent by the Frisco the latter part
of March from Muskogee for the pur-
pose of advertising eastern Okalhoma
will be a great advertising scheme for
this town for it has almost become
fact that the greatness of this state
partly comes from the greatness of
Tulsa and whenever Oklahoma is men-
tioned in other states the first expres-
sion is: "There are great opportuni-
ties in Tulsa." Of course some other
towns are mentioned but Tulsa is as
well known as any of the othtr places
regardless of size and age.
T'le train will go as frr east as
Pennsylvania and as fur north as Clii-
cnro. atid will b'e purely an advertis
ing expedition. 1 I
About fifteen towns along the Frisco
miiin
flHIMIlO
RED! CONTRACT
the lower branch. The house wrang
led for two hours Friday afternoon be-
fore coming to a vote but left little
room for doubt when It did vote.
The house discussed the district at
torney bill long enough to fix the of
ficers qualifications the same as those
of district Judge.
One bill was passed finally the Sor-
rell's bill appropriating $32500 to pay
the district court stenographers from
June 19 1910 to June 30 1911. A
number of measures were hurriedly
passed to the third reading in an ef-
fort to clear the house calender.
The debate on the capital commis-
sion bill dealt principally with the
rights of two boards to exist where
many members declared there was
need for only one.
Anthony Crawford and the entire
Muskogee county delegation and oth
er democratic leaders were lined up
in direct opposition to Governor
Cruce's emphatic suggestion that the
capital commission should be abolish-
ed. The second in the series of the Mur
ray pure-election bills was introduced
fTmay a general election measure
which was offered by Barrett of Shaw
nee. Kexroat ot Ardmore offered a
bill abolishing the office of county
weigher.
In the senate the Webb-Anthony bill
was called up with the provision re
inserted giving the governor power to
suspend county officers for failure to
enforce the prohibitory law. Little
progress was made Friday.
Both houses of the legislature will
Junket to Enid Saturday.
lines in eastern Oklahoma will be rep
resented on this train and the com-
mercial club In each town now in
cluded In the list is entitled to have
five representatives aboard and to
Carry- all of the advertising inatter
they desire. The train will commence
at Vinita and pick up the delegations
down the Denison division and on the
Paris division in the southeastern part
of the State.
As yet Tulsa has not been mentioned
by the Frisco company nor has the
Tulsa Commercial Club been invited
to ride the booster but the matter
will be taken up by the club with the
Frisco. It is admitted however that
all arrangements have not been com
pleted.
The train will be assembled at Mus
kogee and this will be the starting
point. A special car should be given to
the Tulsa Commercial club and its rep
resentatives the privilege to do with
it as they like and the town would
make a big showing. The train will
stop at the Important commercial cen-
ters en route and without doubt this
section of the state will reap large
benefits from the advertising thus se-
cured. The train is run at the ex
pense of the Frisco and purely for the
purpose of attracting attention of peo-
ple looking for new homes in the
southwest.
"GIRLS."
"Girls" Clyde Fitch's great comedy
success will be here at the Auditor-
ium on February 9. The story in brief
deals vith three girls out of work
who have taken an oath renouncing
the society of men. With this in v'ew law clerk in the office. Pamela the
they rent a studio in a big city and elder girl is still prim and this leads'
seek employment. The first act shows to the discharge of both. Kate's en-
their studio and living apartment com- gagenient to her manager is the last
blned and the girls about to retire for straw. Pamela is horrified Violet
the night when suddenly a man smiles. Soon Loot is veritably drag-
breaks in while escaping an angry ged into Violet's presence by an en-
husband in the same apartment house genious but natural circumstance of
The girls are horror stricken more so business. They part an engaged
when the intruder refuses to leave and couple. That is the second straw. Fin-
announces his intention of remaining; ally Pamela accepts Holt the man
but finally disappears giving them she knew as the midnight Intruder
only a faint trace as to his identity. The cast is composed of metropoli-
Later one of the girls gets a position tan players ana the production is com-
on the stage and the other two in a plete down to the smallest detail.
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BEGNS WED. FEBG1-
Says Negro Stole Hit Wife.
Bill Gunter a negro blacksmith was
arrested this morning on a charge of
threatening to kill Ellis Warren. Gun-
ter says Warren stole his wife and
then went to his blacksmith shop and
started a fuss. He says he told War
ren to get out of the shop and stay
from his bouse and that Warren then
caused his arrest. 1
NO PROBABILITY OF NEW
FEDERAL JUDGE THIS YEAR
Judge Parker said this morning that
while in Washington he became satis
fied that the clamor for a new federal
Judicial district In Oklahoma is a
proposition pushed ty Congressman
Creager to gratify or placate Tulsa
for the loss of the fedr! building
nromlsfid that citv. Jmlse Parker sava
the supposition is that the proposition
will be referred to the Judiciary
mittee and referred by the Judiciary
committee to the department of Jus
tice and then referred to Judges Camp-
bell and Cotteral the present federal
judges In Oklahoma. Then if a new
Judge Is recommended it is not prob-
able that the next house which will be
democratic will pass a bill creating a
new judge to be appointed by a re-
publican president and it is therefore
improbable that the new Judgeship will
be created until after the presidential
election next year.
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AT MIT MOMENT
Border City is Deserted Save For Few
Federal Soldiers There to Defend
It Against the Rebels.
By Associated Press.
El Paso Tex. Feb. 4. Thomas D.
Edwards American consul at Juarez
proclaimed at ten o'clock this morn-
ing a notice advising all Americans
foreigners and non-combatants to leave
the city and stay until a state of tran-
quility shall have been established.
This action- followed the receipt of a
notice from Commander jOrozeo of
the revolutionists saying he would at-
tack within twenty-four hours. Juarez
soon afterward was practically desert-
ed save for the few federal soldiers
there to 'defend it.
Mayor Martin of Juarez says the
officials of Juarez are deserting their
posts. Assistant Cnlef of Police Val-
entine Onate he Bays is now missing
Jesus Orosco a corporal of the police
has left. An attack is expected at any
time. The United States troops arrest-
ed six Mexican rurals between Fort
Hancock and the Rio Grande this
morning. The prisoners said they had
a brush with a large band of revolu-
tionists and took refuge in Texas.
Washington I). C Feb. 4. Twenty-
two troops of cavalry have been dis-
patched to the Mexican border to main-
tain neutrality. These with the aid of
the customs inspectors and detectives
the government expects to handle the
situation.
law office there to find their late un
welcome visitor a partner in the firm
Violet the younger of the girls takes
a liking to Loot the woman-hating
i"vi j'ir'nf
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XPECTED
GREAT ?LF -PRICE
BORAH
IT I
OVER
GUARD
With Support of Insurgents And Demo-
crats Direct Election of Senators
Resolution I Saved.
Washington D. C Feb. 4. After a
series of thrilling experiences Friday
Senator Borah supported by the pro-
gressive republicans and democratic
senatorf made tremendous advances
through lines of the old guard republi-
cans and piled the resolution for the
election of senators by the direct V-ia
of the people In the most advantageous
Position squarely in the front of the
com-'enemy's goal.
After taking several rebuffs the
Idaho senator with the persistence
not often witaessed in the senate
poun(led away and has placed hla reso-
Iutlon in a favorable place on the leg-
islative program and it must come up
every day as unfinished business.
The moment the Lorimer case was
laid aside Senators Nelson and Borah
clamored for recognition. Vice Pres-
ident Sherman saw Nelson first and
gave him the floor. He moved to take
up the bill to regulate the leasing of
the Alaskan coal lands whereupon
Borah promptly moved to lay that mo-
tion on the table which failed thirty-
six to forty-one. '' i '
The most of the senators thought
this settled the question and that the
Borah resolution bad been successfully
regulated to a position where it would
not prove a dangerous factor in the
legislative program during the short
period remaining of the part of con-
gress. After the senate had preced-
ed with the Alaskan bill for a short
time Nelson gave way to Senator War-
ren to make a motion that the senate
adjourn over until . Monday. Borah
Jumped into the fray again.
He said' he would object and that
he did so. because it had become ap-
parent that the stttors " opposed to
the resolution wour not give consider-
ation to it if they eonld help it. He
demanded a roll eaU on the motion to
adjourn until Monday an this time he
won by a strait margin.' Thus encour-
aged Borah ak4 tfcat his resolution
be made the unftofcfted business of
the senate.
From a previos roll call it appear
ed that this- resolution might be given
preference and Senator Penrose hur-
riedly moved for as executive session.
Such a motion tinder the rules of the
senate may be made at any time and
therefore Borah again found himself
elboyed out of the way.
As the executive motion was being
put to tAie senate Borah made a de-
mand for the roll call- and said that a
sufficient number of seconds and call
odd.. On what was regarded as the
most significant vote1 of the day the
executive session was denied forty to
thirty-six. All of those- who voted In
the affirmative were regarded as lined
up against the popular election of sen-
ators and those Who voted in the nega-
tive were known' to 'DC in favor of the
policy. Recognizing that Borah had
the votes no further objection was
made by his opponents and the resolu-
tion will be unfinished business of the
senate with roll t'all Senator Hale
even aided the supporters of the reso-
lution in accomplishing the parliamen-
tary proceedings necessary to that
end. . '
Good feeling was restored and
Borah announced that he had no dis-
position to prevent any senator from
taking time required to prepare
speeches on the question and he with-
drew also Ms objection to adjournment
until Monday.
Christian Science Church.
Services as usual tomorrow at 11 a.
m. in the Commercial Club rooms. Sub-
ject "Spirit." The public is cordially
invited to attend. .
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