The Weekly Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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I
OWEII ADVOCATES
HSSI
It
an Agency For the Restoration of
Efficiency And Ending of Cor-
ruption In City Government.
l!y Associated Tress.
Washington P. C. July 7. The
commission form of government for
municipalities was advocated by Sen-
ator Owen of Oklahoma today in a
speech before the senate. The speak-
er took the position that such a form
Cf government would be an agency
for the restoration of Integrity and
efficiency and the termination of cor-
ruption In city state and nation and
the overthrow of the undue Influence
of commercialism In government.
Having declared that the great
problem of the present time Is the re-
storation of equality of opportunity bo
that every man woman and child shall
enjoy a fair return for labor honorably
and faithfully performed the speaker
considered the question in Its bearing
on the integrity of government.
"Tho commission form of govern-
ment" said the senator "has a na-
tional value and a direct bearing upon
the Integrity of the election of sena-
tors because it is en important agency
In overthrowing corrupt machine poll-
tics Sa municipalities and cities. The
proportion of inhabitants living in
cities as compared to the inhabitants
of the United States is between 40
and 50 per cent not countiug towns of
less than 2500 inhabitants. If cor-
rupt government can be terminated in
cities it can not survive in the states
or in tie nation."
Tne senator said the commission
form of government eliminates mere
partisan politics in cities towns and
villages in the government of munici-
palities. It usually carries with it he
said the initiative referendum and re-
call giving a home government a pop-
ular government
"It enables the people through the
Initiative referendum and recall"
said the speaker "to initiate and pass
any law they do want including cor
rupt practices prevention acts and
veto any law they do not want such
as the granting of franchises of value
without consideration. It enables
them to ercall ineffiecients and dis-
honest officials."
Senator Over said that more than
"00 cities and towns have adopted
some form of this improved method of
city government within the last two
years. He explained that the com-
mission form as usually understood
may be Illustrated with the system
adopted in Des Moines Iowa.
The general plan is that the citizens
by primary may nominate candidates
for mayor and four commissioners
who shall have complete charge of
town business legislative executive
and judicial. Any person can be nom-
inated for a petition of 23 citizens.
The ten candidates having the high-
est vote at the primary two weeks
later are submitted to the citizens for J
an election and the five candidates
having the highest votes at this elec-
tion comprise the city council with full
powers legislative executive and
judicial. They manage the business
as completely as the board of direc-
tors could manage the business of a
bank.
NATIONAL PROBLEM IS TO
CONTROL GIGANTIC WEALTH
By Associated Tress.
San Francisco July S. "Disregard
for the law is fast becoming an Amer-
ican characteristic" is the finding in
a report made by the committee on
the system cf teaching morals in pub
lic schools at the first session of the
national council of the National Edu-
cation Association here. Declaring
the nineteenth century to have been
"a marvel of the ages especially in
the accumulation of wealth and cap-
italistic centralization and control of
the output of comforts and necessities
of life." The report declares the chief
problem of the twentieth century is:
'To control these gigantic enriches."
To meet the situation the report says
certain elemental virtues must be in-
noculated in childhood. A tentative
course of instruction is offered to this
end. '
Boys In Juvenile Court.
from Saturday's Daily.
Chief of Tolice Goodpastcr this
morning took two small boys in charge
for shooting another boy in the leg
with blank cartridges in a toy pistol.
These boys were turned over to the
juvenile court and Judge Tarks will
probably take some action to prevent
a repetition of the accidents result-
ing from the firing of these pistols.
Dickinson Goes to Vanderbilt.
By Associated Tress.
Nashville Tenn. July 8. The an-
nouncement was made here today of
the appointment of former Secretary
of War J. II. Dickinson to the chair
In the law department of Vanderbilt
rniversity. Judge Dickinson will de-
liver at each terra a series of lectures
on federal Jurisdiction ana proceea-
ure.
COUNTY COURT HEARING
IRE BOOTLEGGER CASES
The county court is still busy with
tl.e so-called bootlegger cases. Henry
Raines who was Friday convicted
with the recommendation of a fine of
$300 and 120 days In Jail has taken
an appeal and gave bond yesterday.
The Jury found V. B. Raines guilty
on a liquor charge and recommended
a sentence of thirty days and $50
fine. The verdict was the same in
the case of the state vs. Chas. Webb
on a liquor charge.
This afternoon the court Is hearing
the case of the state vs. William Fred
ericks charged with selling some beer
to one Chas. Thillips.
GREAT ENTERPRISE
IS OIL REFINERY
Vinlta Producing & Refining Company
is Turning Out a Splendid
Quality of Oil.
u'ithin the past few months ther
has located in Vinita an Institution
the future possibllitief of which few
people in the city have come to realize
or appreciate. This institution is the
Vinlta Refining & Troducing company
which has just started the operation
of its refinery a mile west of town.
It has been the pleasure of the writ
er to see some of the product of this
new refinery and is convinced that
the refined product of the Vinita plant
is as fine as the market affords.
Manager E. M. Corah of this plant
has had great experience in the manu
facture of oils and it is with much
satisfaction that the people of this
city learn that the local refinery is
doing a splendid business. They are
shipping oil as far as Manitoba Can-
ada. The capacity of the plant here is one
thousand barrels per day and they are
having very little trouble in disposing
of their entire production. They do
nothing but a strict jobbing or tank
'siness.
Jack Kendall an old resident of this
section and an experienced oil man
has opened a distributing station here
and is doing a jobbing business hand-
ling only the product of the Vinita
plant which the merchants of Vinita
and surrounding country will handle
ana" appreciate all the more because
it is a home institution.
The local refinery is deserving of
the patronage of the home merchant
and should be a great success. They
employ a number of men who spend
their money in Vinita which is a great
thing for the local merchants. If Vin-
ita had a few more such enterprises
it would soon have a telling effect
upon the growth of the city. These
are the kind of institutions that build
cities.
Every business man in Vinita should
be loyal to this company and lend
them all of the aid possible.
CONGRESSMAN iTCHELL
DIED AT LAWRENCE
By Associated Tress.
Lawrence Kans. July 7. Repre
sentative Alexander C. Mitchell of the
second Kansas district died at his
home here at 7:43 o'clock this morn
ing following a long illness. Mitchell
was elected to the house of represen
tatives last year on a progressive re-
publican platform defeating Repre-
sentative Scott a "regular" republi
can. Two weeks after he took his
seat in March he became ill and re-
turned to the west and on April 30
underwent an operation in Kansas
City or a disease of the stomach.
Two weeks later he was brought to
his home here.
Representative Mitchell was elected
to succeed Charles F. Scott former
chairman of the last house committee
on agriculture and had voted for but
one legislative measure and that was
Canadian reciprocity. This he. did
under a terrific strain despite his
hopeless ynysical condition. He in
sisted upon remaining in Washington
to vote for the bill. Immediately r.fter-
ward he left for his home at Lawrence.
S HUNDRED 11ILLI0
OR 10 BUILD GOOD ROADS
Virginia Senator Declares Annual "Mud Tax
to American Farmer is $23000000-
United States Has Poorest Public
Highways of Any Civilized
Nation
Washington D. C July 8. An an
nual appropriation of 20 million dol
lars for five years to improve the post
roads and rural delivery routes of the
government was urged in the senate
yesterday by Mr. Swanson of Virginia.
Contending that despite the amazing
achievements in many directions
scored by this country it is notorious
that the United States has the poorest
public roads and highways of any
civilized nation. He said he regarded
the subject as the paramount one be
fore the American people.
Mr. Swason explained that his plan
would open up more than one million
miles of roades to government aid
that the states or local authorities
would furnish an amount equal to that
appropriated by the federal govern-
ment and that the total would be di-
vided among the states according to
population.
He said the limitation to postal
roads and rules eliminated any con-
stitutional objections. The bill wouid
create a road department consisting
of engineers and capable officers to
carry out the project. The measure
he explained v&s modeled somewhat
after the Virginia law.
"The federal government" said Sen
ator Swanson "should delay no longer
extending to the state and local au
thorit'es generous aid for road im
provement. When the federadl gov
ernment begins to bear its fair share
of the burden of improving public
roads that day will work the begin
ning of the end of bad roads in this
nation.
"Our weath" Senator Swanson con
tiuued "is greater today than that of
any other nation; we have become su
preme In finance and foremost in the
world's commerce; we surpass in
money expended for primary and gen
eral education and mileage of rail
C0II5PIICY TO
DESTROY AGENCY
Assert Postoffice Officers And Burns
Detective Agency Are Working
For Their Destruction.
Washington D. C July S. Charges
that a conspiracy exists between Unit
ed States postoffice inspectors and the
W. J. Burns Detective Agencv the
conspiracy being aimed at the destruc
tion of their business was made yes
terday in' a petition filed by the Ter-
kins Detective Agency of Thiladelphia
Tittsburg and Indianapolis with the
select " "commitfe-e appointed by the
senate to investigate the "third de
gree methods of the police
Charles A. O'Brien city solicitor of
Tittsburg today will ask that the com
mittee to undertake an investigation
of the circumstances surrounding the
raiding of the Terkins Agency offices
in the three cities and the seizure of
its papers by postoffice inspectors and
operators from the Burns Agency.
G. D. Terkins Walter W. Terkins
and A. Thomas were accused recently
of having written to C. Strong of Erie
Ta. that unless $50000 was forthcom
ing the Strong house and mausoleum
would be blown up.
The letters were alleged to have
been anonymous and forwarded to Mr.
Strong with the idea in view it was
contended that the Terkins Agency
would gain employment in ferreting
out the authors .and preventing the
carrying out of tho threat.
The petition sets forth that raids
were made on the Terkins Agency in
all three cities by postoffice Inspectors
and Burns detectives and that the for-
mer acting tinder federal law seized
valuable papers and personal records.
In addition the officers and employes
of the Terkins Agency the petition
further charges were subjected to
third degree" methods to extort evi
dence or confessions.
In asking for an investigation the
petition says their case is not an iso
lated one but that they are prepared
to prove that like conduct on the part
of the postoffice inspectors is not an
infrequent occurrence in other parts
of the country.
uur petitioners further
believe
roads navigable rivers and improved
harbors; the story of "our progress
reads more like romance than his
tory."
Yet he said no other enlightened
people in the world are cursed with
such a wreched condition of roads
with more than nine-tenths of the pub
lic roads and highways in the United
States during rainy seasons almost
impassable. He said it is estimated
that 90 per cent of our internal com
merce must first or last be hauled
over the public roads. The average
haul of this vast commerce over the
public highways has been estimated
at a little more than nine miles aver
aging in cost twenty-three cents per
ton per mile against seven cents In
France and eleven cents in England
and Germany. Based on estimates of
what he termed good authorities lm
provement of main lines of the system
of roads in this country along meth
ods adopted abroad would save in
hauling more than 3 million dollars
annually to the people of the United
States.
That is what Senator Swanson calls
the "mud tax" paid each year by Amer
icans for hauling their products over
poor roads.
MANY DROWN AS RESULT
OF STEAMER GOING ASHOAE
By Associated Tress.
Surf Cal. July 8. Four members
of the crew and probably several pas-
sengers were drowned as a result of
the going ashore of Tacific coast line
streamer sania uosa near nere yes
terday. A powerful searchlight used
oy a gang oi ranroaa laborers near
the coast is believed to have caused
the ship to leave her course the quar
termaster mistaking it for Toint
Arguillo lighthouse. The wreck was
attended by the utmost danger and
thrilling rescues on the part of her
crew. Two hundred passengers in
cluding many women and children
were aboard. A life raft containing
twenty women being taken ashore
capsized. In the darkness it could
not be told if all were rescued. The
place is isolated and the shore unin-
habited. Rescue parties were sent
out from neighboring towns. Fires
of driftwood were built along the
beach and hot coffee and restoratives
given the drenched survivors as they
were brought ashore. '
Castro Has Landed In Venzuela.
By Associated Tress.
Willemstad Curacoa July 8. The
Venzuelan government has positive
news that Cipriano Castro the exiled
president of Venzuela has affected a
landing In the western part of Ven-
zuela and today has a following of a
thousand men.
and therefore aver" the petition pro
ceeds "that some if not all of the
afore named United States postoffice
inspectors engaged in the conspiracy
in this petition particularly set forth
are pecuniarily in the Burns Detec-
tive Agency and are prostituting their
offices and exercising assumed and
unwarranted powers thereunder for
the purpose of furthering the interests
of said agency to the great peril of
the rights and liberties of the citizens
and the scandalous debasement of the
public service."
The petition concludes with the re
quest that the committee inquire fully
into the matter of the alleged perse-
cution of the Terkins' Agency and
also as to whether there is any unlaw-
ful co-operation of connection between
the Burns' Detective Agency and cer-
tain inspectors of the postoffice de-
partment. W. J. Burns head of the Burns
Agency was a former secret service
official in the treasury department. He
achieved considerable reputation for
his work in connection with the anti-
graft crusade in San Francisco and
at present is in the lime-light as a re-
sult of his work in the dynamiting
plot which caused the destruction of
the Los Angeles Times plant. It Was
under his direction that the labor
leaders now being held for that affair
were arrested.
State to Advertise Its Bonds.
Oklahoma City July 8. The state
contemplates advertising for bids for
the sale of the $1750000 bond issue
authorized by the last legislature and
will open proposals August 15. The
bonds bear 5 per cent Interest and
payment is guaranteed by revenues
from the sale of public building lands.
The land is sold on forty years' time.
MANDAMUS COUISSI0B
11 REMOVE IBSKTB
With the issuance of an alternative
writ of mandamus from the county
court last Monday commanding the
county commissioners to compel B.
C. Rose to vacate a room In the county
court house there begun an Interest-
ing fight among at least two of the
abstract firms of this city. Rose has
conducted an abstract business in the
court house and E. M. Kearney filed
a petition for a-writ of mandamus to
compel the county "commissioners to
carry out their order to Rose to va
cate. In the absence of Judge Davis
in the district court the writ was is-
sued by Judge Tarks in the county
court and the hearing was set for next
Monday.
PROSECUTION WINS
FIRST VICTORY
Holds it is Not His Province to Enter
Into How Prisoner is Brought
Before Him. -
Los Angeles Cal July 8- nre -
Angeles Lai. July 8. A P
liminary victory was won yesterday
by the prosecution in the case of John
J. McNamara secretary-treasurer of
the International Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers accussed
of connection with the Los Angeles
Times dynamiting. Judge Walter'
Bordwell sustained the obiection to
the plea of no Jurisdiction introduced
in behalf of the alleged dynamite con
spirator by tis attorneys. In handing
down his ruling Judge Bordwell said
that the Los Angeles courts have
jurisdiction over the pending trial of
McNamara on nineteen charges of
murder.
As to the allegations that oTtra.
dition had been accomplished by ir-
regularities or what the defense.
termed "fraud" Judge Bordwell said
it was not his province to enter into
the question of how a prisoner was
brought Into the jurisdiction of his ;
court but to try him after he arrived
there. It was agreed that the same
ruling should apply to all of the pleas '
of no jurisdiction. I
Replying to the question of
the
prosecution if it desired to have John
J. McNamara plead to the charges
against him the defense answered by
filing motions to quash the indict-
ments the motions being the same as
those filed yesterday in the case of
his brother James B. McNamara so
far as the murder charges were con-
cerned.
VINITA CONTRACTORS FILE
SUIT IN MISSOURI COURT
I
Kansas City Mo. July 8. Alleging
that it is the holder of tax bills aggre-
gating $980019 the contracting firm
of Hippie & McSpadden of Vinita
Okla. filed suit in the United States
circuit court yesterday against Bates
county Mo.
Some time ago a contract for the
grading and paving of several streets
in Butler Mo. the county seat of
Bates county was let to the Oklahoma
firm. The work was completed and
the county delivered certain tax bills
to the contractors. Now it is alleged
the county refuses to pay the tax bills.
Under a new law which has been pass-
ed the county will lose its court house
should the plaintiffs in the suit be
granted a judgment.
CASHIER OF VINITA BANK
WOUNDED BY SMALL BOY
From Friday ts Dally.
As the result of a boy's play with a
toy pistol in which 22-calibre cart-
ridges could be shot J. E. Buffington ey C. B. Rogers of Tulsa representing
is suffering a painful wound in the the Shawnee tribe of Indians has filed
arm. Late yesterday Mr. Buffington a petition in the court of claims on be-
was playing tennis in South Fark and half of the loyal Indian claimants to
as he was changing clothes to go home ' M33000 in property destroyed during
the little son of T. C. Berkland shot the civil war. The money was ap-
him in the arm with one of the dan- propriated by a senate resolution last
gerous toy pistols. Buffington's wound year and after the court of claims
is not serious unless blood poison passes on the amount of depredations
should develop. Dr. C. S. Neer treat-( the case then goes back to congress
ed the wound and today located th for action. Most oi the claimant's re-
i bullet by means of the X-Ray.
BENNETT SAYS HE
WILL HOT RESIGIt
Republican Member of Haskell's Capi-
tol Commission Refuse to Tender
His Resignation.
' According to the following article
in the Muskogee Times-Democrat Dr.
Leo Bennett has blocked the gover-
nor's plan to place the building of the
state capitol in the hands of the state
board of affairs:
"I have not resigned and I do not
intend to resign as a member of the
state capital commission" said Leo
E. Bennett the republican member
of the commission appointed by former
Governor C. N. Haskell. Dr. Bennett
who has been busy on his farm was
in the city last night and made this
emphatic statement. " '
"Governor Cruce has no authority
to remove me" continued Dr. Ben-
nett. "The place was created by an
act of the Oklahoma legislature and
it will require another act by this
same body to make vacant the office."
Dr. Bennett's attitude ties the state
capital proposition up in a double
bow knot and the governor apparently
cannot turn a hand until Bennett gets
out of the way. - '
The governor decided that the state '
board of affairs could handle the
proposition of building the state cap-
ital and at his request Boone Williams
of Lehigh and Tate Brady of Tulsa.
the' two democratic members of the
capital commission resigned. Now Dr.
.Bennett the republican member re-
j fuses to resign. It Is asserted by the
Dest attorneys In the state that the
governor cannot remove him as his
job was created by an act of the leg-
' slature' Cruce trIed t0 Kefthe last
legislature to pass a bill reoeaHne-th
act providing for a capital commission
but thty refused to do so.
No charges can be preferred against
D.r' Bennett and ns removal brought
about ln thl3 manner because the cap-
. iU" na3 aone notmng.
Just why tne doctor not -
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Just why the doctor
sign he would not state.
D's" "c "uum Ilul Biaie- rrooaDiy ne
6Clu"s eveu WUQ Bome 01 tue P011'
ticians who "played horse" by calling
him to Oklahoma City to testify and
give evidence before the senate rela-
tive to a statement he had made con-
cerning some of the senators receiv-
ing fine presents and spending money
with a lavish hand.
Anyway Dr. Bennett has tied the
PrPsJtion "P and seem- to hold the
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lltll HA! AND uHAIll
RATE FOR OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma City July 8. New hay
and Era11 rates to become effective
Juy 24 were issued Friday by the
corPoration commission and like the
00211 tariff issued a few days ago will
sPPant tne rates enjoined in the
order of Federal Judge Hook. The
distance table is observed beginning
with five-mile hauls and graduated
by flve an dten miles up to and in
cluding more than 390 miles. Accord-
ing to the commissioners the new rates
in the main follow those the Frisco
now has in effect. The commissioners
say they are practically the rates
agreed upon by the shippers and the
carriers prior to promulgation of the
tariff which Judge Hook enjoined.
For buckwheat and flour cracked
wheat prepared Sour and like prod-
ucu ine rRces DeKm for "e miles at
4! cents per 100 pounds with a max-
lmum cnarge for hauls In excess of
u nliles or 16 cents- Shipments
movlng via two lines take a 3-cent
arbitrary. On alfalfa meal mixtures
l)arle5 rn corn flour and meal the
minimm is 3.5 cents per 100 and the
rnaxlmuni 14 cents with a 2-cent arbi-
trary for tw-iine hauls and 4 cents
where t is via three lines. For hay
Etraw and corn husks the rate is. from
4 to 18 cents.3-cent arbitrary for two
lines and 5 cent3 for three lines. For
br0omcorn seed flaxseed castor
beans and I'nseed cake the rate is 2
cents Per 100 added to the buckwheat
rate and 'here the shipments moves
via two lines an arbitrary of 4 cents
is allowed and in cases of three lines
an arbitrary of 6 cents.
ROGERS URGING SUIT OF
! SHAWNEE INDIAN TRIBE
Washington D. C July 8. Attor-
side in Oklahoma.
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