Vinita Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 96, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 4, 1909 Page: 1 of 4
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VINITA. OKLAHOMA WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4 1900
FIVE CENTS 'PER COPY
VOL. XI. NO. 9G
VJMITA AILY C
ORE SECURES
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Committee at Oklahoma City Meeting
Decides to Locate Home in
Carter County.
Oklahoma City Aug. 4. Following
an all day conference at the Thread-
gill hotel a committee of Confederate
veterans yesterday evening decided
on Ardmore as' the location for the
state home for ex-Confederates. Rep-
resentative John E. Whayne of Carter
county addressed the committee in bo-
half of Ardmore.
Ardmore offered as an inducement
to location a forty-acre tract of lan''
$7250 in cash and free heat
and light for a period of five ears
Three ballots '"ere taken on the lo-
cation Ardwn.-e winning on the third.
Okla"uUUlj City also offering a liberal
bonus in land and money was a close
second. Representatives were here
from Claremore Muskogee Vinita and
Sulphur with similar offers.
W. P. Gilmer financial agent for I'ae
home stated last night that more than
$20000 had been contributed to the
home fund and that $15000 was forth-
coming. The board of trustees select-
ed a committee consisting of Dr. D.
M. Hailey of Haileyville R. A. Sneed
of Lawton and J. R. Pulliam of Ard-
more to take charge of the building
plans. They will hold a meeting with-
in a short time select the site and let
the contract. Building will begin
about October 1.
Forty-five old soldiers have already
applied for admission to the home and
it Is expected that for the next few
years It will have from 100 to 125 of
the veterans as residents there.
The fight yesterday was a spirited
one though there was no ill-feeling
among the veterans and champions
of various towns at is conclusion.
Captain Balrd presented the claims ol
Claremore while J. W. Orr spoke for
Vinita N. F. Hancock for Muskogee
Mayor Emanuel for Sulphur and Col.
Richardson for Oklahoma City.
In the Ardmore delegation were
John R. Whayne John L. Gait Cap-
tain W. R. Wood Felix West and W.
F. Gilmer.
EFFECT OF DECISION
l' IS TO GUST OFFICERS
By Associated Press.
I Lexington Mo. Aug. 4. Judge
Watts Parker in the circuit court to-
day declared the election for citj
officers held in 1907 null and void o
the ground of fraud and corrupt meth-
ods. The effect of the decision is to
oust Mayor Skain and three other offl-
cials from office. The officials wno
are all democrats entered a motion for
appeal.
THIRTY-ONE INDICTMENTS
AGAINST CLERGYMAN
By Associated Press.
New Orleans La. Aug. 4. Thirty-
one indictments against Rev. John J.
Haltgreve pastor of the Catholic
church at Plaquemine La. were re-
turned by the grand jury at Iberville
parish. Twenty-eight of the counts
charge grave crimes and the other
three criminal libel.
A. O. U. W. Pays $2000.
Recorder II. E. Ridenhour of the
A. O. U. W. this morning received a
check for 2000 for the widow of the
late D. M. Pritcbett. The action of
the lodge in making such prompt pay-
ment of this insurance policy is very
commendable. Not a question was
asked and such methods will win
tbem business.
COHFEDERATE
A Rare Exhibition of Modern Tailoring .
The traveling representative of Ridgley-Walker Company incorporated.
Tailors of Louisville Ky. will display in our store on
FRIDAY and SATURDAY AUGUST 6th and 7th
their attractive line of fashionable woolens for the fall season 1909. He is
eiDerienced in taking correct measurements and he will be glad to advise
vouWrding l nest styles. Should you wish to place your order you can
do so either for immediate or future delivery and subject to their absolute
guarantee of correctly fitting well constructs and properly priced garments
This Line or Tailoring
will be Show Kxre
oh Above Date Only
WILL PROBABLY TABLE
ALL THE AMENDMENTS
Washington D. C Aug. 4. Every
amendment offered to the concurrent
resolution to correct the tariff confer-
ence report so as to make the reduc-
tions in boots and shoes and harness
and saddlery apply to the products
manufactured from calf skin as well
as leather from hides hereafter duti-
able probably will be laid on the
table. The New York senators who
desire to have the changes made in
the conference report called on Aid-
rich today with requests that he lend
his influence toward the acceptancf
of such changes but uniformly. He
replied that the resolution could not
be opened up to cover subjects other
than the leather schedule and the nec-
punoiy changes in the maximum and
.minimum provision.
Men Charged With Robbing Hotel
Said They Did So to Secure
Payment of Loan.
Sapulpa Okla. Aug 4. "It's no
use to make a holler to the officers
I have them fixed."
This is the reply that Lon Ammer-
man of the famous Buffalo garbling
joint made to Ed. Mitchell when the
latter threatened to report the place
because of Ammerman's refusal to
pay back a $600 loan according to
Mitchell's testimony before the jury
today.
Mitchell swore that Ammerman's
refusal to pay him what he owed him
and his claim to having the officers
"fixed" was the reason that he and
Jim Bothwell held up Ammerman's
gambling establishment and took all
of the money in sight.
In the trial of Mitchell and Both-
well for the robbery and also for at-
tempted jail breaking the former was
placed on the stand today to testify
in his own behalf. Mitchell made a
number of sensational statements
while testifying and gave as the ex-
cuse of himself and four other pris-
oners for trying to break the jail and
escape the fact that the jailer would
not furnish them with water.
MAN WITH TICKET TO .
TODD DEAD AT JOPLIN
By Associated Press.
( jopiin m0. Aug. 4. A man sup
nosed to be M. Powell was found
dead this morning in a patch of weeds
near an abandoned warehouse. He
had a ticket from Kansas City to
Todd Okla. and a letter signed Al
bert Powell Springfield Oklahoma. It
is thought he had lain down to sleep
and died from heart disease. He had
been dead twelve hours.
ARKANSAS CONGRESSMAN
FORCES RECESS IN HOUSE
By Associated Press.
Washington D. C Aug. 4. Objec
Hons from Representative Macon of
Arkansas forced the house to take
a recess in order to enable the com
mittee on rules to bring in a special
order to enable it to consider the con-
ference report on the urgent deficl
ency bill.
L. H. Finley is in New Mexico for
a couple of weeks.
GAMBLER CLAIMS
HE FIXED OFFICERS
Yobt Prtstnct is Cordially Invited.
1FCHD - EERSER SHOE CO.
VINITA - - OKLAHOMA
TIME TO THROW OFF
SHACKLES OF EAST
Western States Should Arise And
Claim Their Share of Influence
in National Congress.
Seattle Wash. Aug. 4. "It la time
that the west throw off the shackles
of the east. I would preach no sec-
tional divisions and no sectional
strifes but Minnesota and Washing-
ton and the states between them with
those to the south of us should arise
in their might and claim for them-
selves that fair share of influence in
the halls of congress and in the ad-
ministration of national affairs to
which they are entitled by every law
of common sense as well as of poli-
tical economy."
This was the declaration of Gov-
ernor John Johnson in his address at
the Minnesota Day celebration at the
Seattle exposition yesterday.
"We as an integral part of the Am-
erican people should cast our influence
and our votes not only to advance the
material interests of our own parti-
cular section but we should be broad
.enough and big enough to labor for
the common good of our common coun-
try" said the governor.
"We have in tne states west of the
Mississippi the undoubted balance o
power no matter under what name
the national administration at Wash-
ington exists. In the years that have
passed our population and our mater
ial wealth have not enjoyed that repre-
sentation to which they are entitled
and furthermore our leaders have
been content to follow in no small
measure the leadership of men who
represent relatively small constitu-
encies and smaller commonwealths."
The governor then made the re-
marks quoted in the beginning and
continued:
"It is time indeed that the great
northwest should come Into its own
and by the force of its energy the
ability of its sons and the co-operation
of its various constituent parts
exert an influence for good not only
as to its own particular prosperity but
to that of the country at large to
which every element invites it."
The speaker declared that the call
of the west among other things is
the call for patriotism and progress
for emancipation from every form of
Old World and New World caste and
privilege from the tyranny of wealth
and birth and alike from the dominion
of the trust and political machine.
Governor Johnson gave an interesting
account of the growth and develop-
ment of the west its industries and
resources.
TO PROVE DELUSIONS
WERE WELL FOUNDED
i.y Associated Press.
White Plains N. Y. Aug. 4. Harrj
Thaw's attorney is getting ready to
prove that his client's alleged delus-
ions regarding White's treatment of
young girls are well founded. He pre-
pared the way for this when he had
Thaw identify the affiidavit of Ada
Dickhart. This document was nevei
before introduced in court.
t!ISSOI!RI POLITICIAN
DIES OE
HEART FAILURE
By Associated Press.
Chillicothe Mo. Aug. 4. John M.
Sillee a prominent attorney and dem-
ocratic politician of Harrison county
died of heart disease at his home in
Beihany this morning. He was a can-
didate for the nomination for attor-
ney general on the democratic ticket
in 1904.
PITCHED BATTLE EXPECTED
WITH THREE KORSETHIEVES
-y Associated Press.
Fort Smith Ark. Aug. 4. Should
Sheriff Allen of Haskell county Okla.
and his posse succeed in overtaking
a band of thrne men alleged horse
thieves today it is believed certain
that a pitched battle and probably
blood shed will follow. The trio it is
declared are headed for the Spavinaw
Hills and are heavily armed. The
chape began late yesterday.
II BLOCKS IRE
m
ASKED
FO
City Council Passes Ordinance Re-
quiring Registration of Automo-
biles' and Regulating Speed.
Vinita took on more metropolitan
airs last night when at the regular
meeting tiie city council passed an
ordinance requiring ail owners of
automobiles in the city to register
with the city clerk and regulating tts
speed of such vehicles on the streets
of the city. The maximum speed on
the paved streets of the city shall be
eight miles an hour and on the other
streets fifteen miles per hour Is the
limit.
A petition was presented for the
paving of two blocks on South Wil-
son street but as one block of that
is not within the corporate limits of
the city the council has no Juris-
diction. The c'ty attorney was in
structed to draw an ordinance pro-
viding for the annexation of the Ex-
celsior pddition in which the above
mentioned block is located.
Beyond allowing the bills and rou
tine business there was little for the
council to do and adjournment was
taken early.
The council agreed to pay one half
the cost of a five foot concrete walk
from the northeast to the southwest
corner of South Park. The Civic club
has agreed to pay the other half.
McCracken Case Dropped.
Oklahoma' City Okla. Aug. 4.
Since Sheriff Bird's return from Lon-
don Ky. without Mrs. McCracken
County Attorney Roberts of Osage
county has decided not to continue
the investigation of the McCracken
matter further.
I
AUDITORIUM BOND
ELECTION CARRIED
Although the vote was light the ma-
jority for the bond issue for the pur-
chase of the Auditorium was large at
the election yesterday the vote being
261 for and 02 against the proposition.
This is a much lighter vote than was
east at the election in February on
the same question.
No where doei the call for an elec-
tion state that the bonds are for the
purchase of the Auditorium but to
buy a city hall. If the right kind of
a deal can bo made there is little doubt
that the Auditorium will be bought
as it is ideally located for a city hall.
If however the deal for the Auditor-
ium and for a Harvey eating houst
falls through the city can buy another
site.
PLACES GAIIII0I1 III
AWKWARD POSITI
Friends Urge Speaker Not to Disci-
pline Insurgents Owing to Boom
of Payne For Speaker.
By Associated Press.
Washington 1). C Aug. 4. A num-
ber of the "rule Insurgents" have not
gone back to the "reservation." The
close vote Saturday on the tariff con-
ference report in the house showed
this. The incipient boom for Payne
for speaker of the next congress cuus-
ed several of Cannon's friends to con-
clude that Cannon cannot afford to
discipline those republicans who held
important committee assignments in
congress and who voted with the
to make August
the biggest month
are in force now and more
ON SATURDAY
UNDERBOUGHT
MERCHANDISE
to boost August Sale is be-
ginning to arrive sent out
by our buyer who is on his
Eastern buying trip.
SHIPPED
GI1ILD0E
AWAY III TRUNKS
Three More Arrests Made in Kidnap-
ping of Grace And Thomaso
Vivlano.
St. Louis Mo. Aug. 4 Three addi-
tional arrests were made early today
In connection with the kidnapping of
Grace and Thomaso Vivlano Monday
and held for twenty five thousand dol-
lars ransom. The police believe the
children were put in trunks and ship-
ped out of town. Lamantia Giraloma
a grocery driver one of those arrsted
admitted taking three thunks to the
express office from the home of Jos-
eph Pagano arrested yesterday. The
clerk at tho express office said two of
the trunks wero shipped to Chicago.
The police there were notified. Offi-
cers left hero immediately for Chi-
cago. "insurgents." At tho beginning of the
present session there is no indication
that the speaker has changed his de-
cision on this point but a number of
stalwarts have expressed to him the
belief that he cannot afford at this
time to be vindictive.
NEW ORLEANS LAWYERS
BEGIN LONG SENTENCE
By Associated Press.
New Orleans La. Aug. 4. To be-
gin serving a sentence of fourteen
years Robert J. Maloney formerly r
leading lawyer of New Orleans will
be taken from here to the state peni-
tentiary tonight. Maloney was charg
ed with forgeries exceeding one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
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