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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-09-29
CoIonist Fares.

Second class colonist fares, daily
Sept. Is to and including Oct. Is, 1904.
San Francisco, Sacramento, Los An
geles, San Diego, Cal, and Phoenix,
Arizona, and Ell Paso. From Vinita
s25. Continuous passage from start
ing point to destination. Stop overs
will be allowed in California except at
San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Also very cheap colonist tickets on
sale to many points in the northwest
daily Sept. Is to Oct. Is, 1904.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-09-29
ANTI-SALOON
ORGANIZATION
Large and Enthusiastic Meet
ing at South MCAIester.

There were 167 delegates in attend
ance upon the anti-saloon workers
convention at South McAlester, and
all we're enthusiastic.
A permanent organization was ef-
fected and constitution was adopted,
of which the following is part:
Article Name. The name of this
organization is: Indian Territory
Church Federation for Prohibition
Statehood.
Article 2-Object. The object of
this Federation is to prevent the in
PRODUCTION, sale, nanufature or giving
away of Intoxicating liquors within
the Indian Territory after the inaugu-
ration of statehood. To this end we
invite the cooperation Of all persons
in harmony with the object, regard
less of their religious belief, whether
they be or be not members of any local
church organization; and to this end
the federation pledges itself to avoid
afflliation with any political party as
such to maintain an attitude Of neu-
trality upon the question of single or
statehood for the two terrific
ties, and upon all other questions Of
public policy not directly concerned
with the traffic Of intoxicating liquors.
81, 700 was raised to defray prelimi-
nary expenses. Captain A. S. McKen-
non was chosen delegate to the Mo
honk conference.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-09-29
SEOUOYAH CLUB.
Interesting Session Held Last Satur-
day-Next Meeting October 8.

The Sequoyah club held an inter
esting session at the home Of Mrs N. p.
johnson Saturday, September "a. Mrs.
r. ID. Lahman read very interesting
paper on the life of Bacon. Other
members gave topics concerning the
Essays and other writings of this pop
ular author. The next meeting Of the
club will be held at the home of Mrs.
Joseph A. Gill, Oct. s. Mrs. J. w.
Orr will lead and Joseph Addison and
his works will be discussed.
The following topics are assigned:
ADDISON.
/ Paper-His Life-Mrs J. w. Orr.
2 AS a politician-Mrs. Blakeney.
3 Reading-"The Duke of Marl-
borough and Marlborough at Blen-
heimp-Mrs. d. II. Wilson.
His "Criticism on Paradise Lost"
Mrs. N. P. johnson.
5 "On the Pleasures of the Imagi-
nation Mrs, Gatewood.
"Walk Through Westminster
Abby''-Mrs. J. W. Sanders.
7 "Mountain Of Miseries"-Mrs. f.
Kelley.
8 "Rehections by Moonlight on
Divine Perfection" Mrs. G. A. David
son.
8 "Tragedy of Caton-Mrs. J. B.
Turner.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-09-29
(First Published Sept. 2, l9O4,l
Warming Order.

In the United States Court at Vinita, in the
Northern District of the Indian Territory
Editha Mullen. Plaintiff.
Va. No. 2l68
Marcus l.. Mullen, Defendant.
The defendant, nj ARGUS L. Mullen.is hereby
warned to appear In this count within 30
days and answer the complaint of the plain
tiff, Enitha Mullen.
Ordered at Vinita this First day of Sept.
OHAs. A. DAVIDSON, Clerk.
E. B, DAVIDSON, Deputy.
John B. Turner, Attorney for Plaintiff.
S. f. Parks, Attorney for nonresident De-
fendant.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-09-29
Land Office Bulletin.

Return number cards only called on
Monday Of each week during Septem-
Der.
CAN each day this week starts with
1924.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-09-29

Account above occasion the Frisco
will sell round trip tickets to St. Loui
at rate of $7.6O. Dates of sale, Sept.
20 and 80. Limit, seven days from date
of sale. This does not interfere with
our daily $3.50 rate. W. ii. DECK.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-09-29
Low Rate Excursion TO Galveston

On October 2, 1904, the Frisco will
sell round trip tickets to Galveston,
Texas, at low rate Of SO. Date of sale
Oct. 2. Return limit Oct. l2 No
stop-oyers allowed. W. Fl. DECK, Agt
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-09-29
Fall Festivities at Kansas city rIo.
October z to ,. 1904.

On account of the above occasion
the Frisco will sell round trip tickets
to Kansas City at rate of one fare
(S5.6O). Dates of sale October to 8,
inclusive. Final return limit, Oct. s.
w. II. DECK, Agent.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-09-29
Notice to Take Dispositions.

IN the United States Court for the Northern
District at Vinita,
Lucy Buckskin, Plaintiff
VS..
George Buckskin. Defendant
To Georhe Buckskin.
You are hereby notified that depositons of
Witnesses to be read In evidence in the above
entitle cause, on the part Of the plaintiff
will be taken before A NJ Etchen, master
in chancery. 10 his Office in Vinita. l. !. on
the 4th day OF October. 1904 between the
hours of s O'clock In the forenoon and
O'Clock IN the aftnernonn. and that the TAX
ing of said dispositions, II not completed on
said day, will be continued from day to day
at the same place and between the same
hours until completed,
JOHN B. TURNER.
Attorney for Plaintiff.
First Published September 8. 1904.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-09-29
Annual Convention uideons Of Amer

On account above occasion Frisco
will sell round trip tickets to Mime
apolis, Mimi. at rate of one fare plus
so cents S19.65. Dates Of sale Sept. 2S,
20 and 30, 1904. Final limit October
Is, 1904. For further particulars, see
w. III. DECK, Agent.
The Jewish outlook., 1904-08-19

well astonish those who smile at the
quaint Hebrew signs that adorn the Bow
cry. Even the socialistic daily and the
anarchistic weekly papers have dropped
their old system Of rabid attacks. The
stage has rejected the melodramatic SEN
sationalism that used to distinguish it,
and the dramas that now appear are
marked by purely psychological interest
without exaggeration Of sentiment.
AS an example Of the new reading in
Yiddish we translate the following titles
of books lately published: History Of
Culture" three volumes, illustrated;
"The History of the French Revolu-
ton, '"The Exodus Of Egypt, from an
Historical and Geographical Point OF
View," "Life and Philosophy Of Aris-
totle," Life and Works of Voltaire, -
Mechanics according to Sir Isaac
Newton" :" Astronomy" Chemistry, -
"Man and Nature, ""Life and Philoso-
ply of Maimonides, Life and Works
of the Great Jewish Reformer, |. B. Lev
insohn, " America before it's Discovery
by Columbus" illustrated, etc.
1t is asserted that no people on earth
ever created in so short a time a litera-
ture comparable to that produced by
the Jews in New York. And strangest
OF all is the fact that the language Of
this literature is still without a printed
grammar.
The Jewish outlook., 1904-08-19
Obituary

Mr.. Ancel Newhouse, a resident Of
Denver for the past fifteen years, was
inferred last Tuesday afternoon. Mr.
Newhouse lived very quiet life in Den
yer, having come to the city for his
health. Rabbi w. S. Friedman conduct
ed the funeral services
Mrs. Joseph Weinberg passed away
last Monday as the result Of blood pois-
oning. The body was sent to Cheyenne,
where Mrs. Weinberg's parents reside
Mrs. Weinberg leaves husband and an
infant son. Rabbi VIM. S. Friedman Of
ficiated at the funeral services.
The Jewish outlook., 1904-08-19
Questioning DR.. Schechter's Or
th0doxy

When Dr. Schechter assumed the
presidency of the more orthodox Jewish
Theological Seminary at New York,
there were not wanting those of con-
servative inclinations who predicted
that, with all his scholarship, he would
have difficulty in satisfying the ex
tremists The expected has happened.
Even in his inaugural address he awak-
ened criticism by saying that the basis
of his instruction would be the Torah,
for though he recognized the traditional
additions thereto, still he did not seem
to lay stress on the Talmud. Then in
another respect he went beyond even
the late renowned Dr. Isaac M. Wise Of
Cincinnati the chief spirit Of the re-
form element in this country; for DR..
Schechter indicated his adherence to the
conservative school of Biblical criticism.
True, he did not favor the radical school,
and this perhaps is what led DR.. Isidore
Singer, protector and managing editor
of the Jewish Encyclopedia, who pro-
nounces Rabbi Hirsch Of Chicago to be
the only Biblical scholar in America Of
more than local repute, to include the
Jewish Theological Seminary among the
institutions which did not furnish such
scholars, although DR.. Schechter was
sent out by the University Of Cambridge
in England, one of the two great uni
versities Of that land, to discover He
brew manuscripts in the lumber rooms OF
The Jewish outlook., 1904-08-19

Egyptian and Oriental synagogues, and
so became renowned among scholars by
finding and translating the Biblical book
Of Sirach or Ecclasiasicus, which is not
to be confounded with Ecclesiasties. But
it is lately that Dr. Schechter has es-
pecially come in conflict with those of
different views. His pronouncement in
favor Of reasonable orthodoxy" was
school, But his great offense was that at
the recent graduating exercises he con-
ferred an honorary degree on Rabbi
Schulman Of the Reform Temple Beth
Ell, New York, who has advocated Sab
bath transfer AS result the Jewish
Orthodox Union, made up Of congrega-
tions representing the newer Russian and
other immigrants, met in Philadelphia
under charge of Rabbi Lewinthal, and
declared that it's congregations had no
use for Rabbis who were graduates Of
the Jewish Theological Seminary. This
Union has since declined to listen to
an appeal to retract it's course, made by
Rabbi H. p. Mendes Of New York, who
is reputed to be chief editor Of the Am
erican Hebrew of that city, and is Of
the Portuguese or old Spanish ele-
ment. In New York, representatives Of
various congregations Of the newcomers
also met, and denounced the Seminary
because it does not teach enough Talmud
Still worse, although DR.. Schechter said
in his inaugural that he expected as
much, graduates Of the Seminary have
accepted Reform pulpits. The first
among the first graduating class Of the
Seminary, Rabbi Gerson Levi, who has
just been conducting classes in Hebrew
at the Jewish Chautauqua assembly, has
taken charge Of a Reform congregation
at Helena, Arkansas. Then, as we noted
recently, Rabbi David Levine, who Of
fciated during the absence Of Rabbi Ste
phen S. Wise at Portland, has become
rabbi Of radical Reform congregation
at Spokane; and it appears that Rabbi
Levine is a graduate Of the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary. Both Rabbinical col
leges, however, have troubles in the
danger of diminished attendance now
that the big positions are nearly all filled.
-''The Hebrew"
The Jewish outlook., 1904-08-19
The Yiddish Tongue
Remarkable Development Of the Ian
guage.

The Yiddish language is spoken by
about 100000 people, and is the means
Of conversation among Jews in Russia,
Austria, Roumania, the Balkan peninsu
la, Egypt Hungary, America, etc. Pri-
marily it is derived from the old German,
but it has taken up words from Hebrew
and Chaldaic and from the various other
modern languages of the countries in
which the Jews have lived.
Some twenty-five years ago only a
few insignificant prayer books were
printed in Yiddish, and these were es-
pecially for women, since the men re-
cited their prayers in Hebrew, according
to the immemOrial custom of their race.
Although the great majority Of the Jews
repeated their prayers with almost no
sense of their meaning, still they pre-
ferred the incomprehensible Hebrew to
the despised jargon which they spoke
and understood However, some Jews
in Russia were bold enough to write
few novels in the Yiddish language, and
then a weekly paper appeared in the
same tongue. Immediately the teachers
and expounders Of the language of the
prophets raised cry against this desc
Grafton" and war was declared against
those who dared to speak to the people
in their own tongue. After while the
advocates of Hebrew were vanquished
and innumerable books, pamphlets and
newspapers appeared in Yiddish, and
with them vast reading public was Gre
ated. This was comparatively easy, for
as a matter Of fact, there is no illiterate
Jew. Every Hebrew male is compelled
by a religious mandate to learn to read
the prayers, and the Yiddish authors had
only to use the Hebrew alphabet to be
ineligible.
But the greatest triumph OF the Yid-
dish language was left to America. Here,
particularly in New York, it has attained
wonderful development in the. course
of a few years-15 years to be exact.
Here Yiddish has covered almost every
subject in literature. Beginning with
novels mafazines and newspapers, it
now includes high class drama, realistic
portrayals of life, poetry, philosophy,
philology, biography, history and science.
But strange to say, while it contains vari-
GUS books for the study Of English and
other languages, Yiddish itself is still
without grammar, and has no established
rules Of etymology and syntax Conse
quently, the language is in state of
anarchy, and every writer constructs his
phrases and uses a vocabulary and sys-
TEN of spelling according to his own
taste.
Despite these drawbacks, a glance at
the Yiddish press of the present time re-
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10
The News at PhiIlipsburg.

Conductor Stephens has quit his job
on the west end to railroad down
south.
Frosty rails are the cause of delayed
trains these mornings.
Ben Woodring is again handling the
switch list in the yards here. He was
off a few weeks, but the company re-
called him to the old place. There are
few better switchmen made than Ben
Woodring.
The operator received a message
Saturday afternoon announcing the
approach of snow. T. arrived that
night all right and COM ~C''ed all the
next day.
Former Passenger Agent Thompson
was a visitor to Phillipsburg saturday.
ance-
Although the new depot may ap-
pear rather ''squatty'' to some, it is a
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around to the main line and is then
found to be headed in the right direc-
ton.
The work of building the switchback
was under the direction of r. r. Suth-
erland. who was division superintend-
ent in charge of that division and Chief
Engineer W. L. Darling, of Chicago.
1t is one of the most unique pieces of
construction in the world and has at
tracted no little attention among rail-
way men everywhere.
The work of rebuilding the permanent
bridge is progressing as rapidly as pos
sible.
The State Journal correspondent at
Dalhart is indebted to ]. 3. Dixon, pho
tographer for the pictures, and to the
officials of the Rock Island company
for the information regarding the
switchback.
BY the use of the regular engine of
each train and two switch engines used
to pull and push, only $50 tons may be
hauled around the sharp curves and
up the steep grades at each trip.
Passenger trains have to be cut in
two parts usually and freight trains are
cut in from two to four or five parts.
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

In every country of the civilized
world the Sisters of Charity are
known.
Not only do they minister to the
spiritual and intellectual needs of
those with whom they come in con-
tact, but they minister to their bodily
needs.
They are as skilled as trained nurses
in their treatment of diseases and are
looked upon as messengers of good
cheer by countless patient sufferers.
Praise From Canada.
Another prominent Canadian insti-
tuition writes:
1--WE are happy to tell you that Pc
runa has given us satisfaction.
Three patients have tried it, one
sixty-eight years old. Renoui Dupuis,
afflicted with catarrh. is much relieved,
more than he has been for a number
of years.
"a young girl. fifteen years old, had
an obstinate cough, which half a bot
tie of Peruna caused to disappear.
"As to myself, two bottles have con-
vinced me that Peruna is magnificent
as a tonic. Before the treatment I
could not walk for a quarter of an
hour without experiencing much ia
tigue. Now I can walk a mile easily.
Through these three cases we de-
sire to make known to the public the
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10
Nerr Train Service.

San Antonio, Tex. Dec. 10.-The
National Railroad of Mexico in con-
junction with the International and
Great Northern, Texas & Pacific and
Iron Mountain route will on January
8, 1906, put in service two record
breaking trains between Mexico City
and St Louis, reducing the running
time fifteen hours for one train and
twenty hours for another. Both trains
will handle mails, and letters will
reach Mexico City from New York and
Chicago just twenty hours earlier than
heretofore. In every respect the new
trains will be first class with the finest
equipment including dining car serv-
ice Vice President and General Man
ager Trice of the International &
Great Northern road has just returned
from Mexico City, where in confer
ence with President Brown and other
officials of the International, the
schedules for the new service were
arranged.
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

ham Lincoln.
In 1866 Colonel Johnson was appoint
ed land commissioner of the Missouri
River, Fort Scott & Gulf railroad, af-
terward the Kansas City, Fort Scott &
Memphis and now a part of the Frisco
system. This position he held until
1870, when he became an appraiser of
lands for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe. In 1878 he became land commits
sioner of the Santa Fe, holding the
place until 1892. 1t was during ME-. John
sons administration of this office that
the land grants of the railroad in Kan
sas were sold and settled It was due
to his faith in the Arkansas Valley,
which, when he went to the Santa Fe
railroad, was an undeveloped wilder
ness, that people were led to settle that
country and make it fruitful and useful
in the civilization of the west. He also
arranged the Kansas exhibit at the
Centennial exposition at Philadelphia
in 1876.
Mr.. Johnson's first wife was Prudence
c. Funk of st. Joseph, Mo-, whom he
married in 1852. She died in September,
1874. and in June. 1877, Mr.. Johnson
married Zippie A. Scott of Manchester,
N. H. For several years they lived in
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

a handsome home on Topeka avenue
in this city, but a year ago they broke
up housekeeping and went to Dallas,
Tex, to live with Mr.. Johnson's daugh-
ter, Mrs. Charles z. Fargo.
In his prime, indeed until within
three years of his death, Colonel John
son was fine type of physical man
he broke rapidly. When he left here a
year ago he was very feeble and his
friends knew that the end was near at
hand. Colonel johnson was a gentle
man of the old school, a man of fine
manners and breeding. He never bore
resentment, although he was more than
once the victim of dishonest men, At
one time he possessed considerable
property, but he lost it in unfortunate
ventures and died a comparatively poor
man. OF a family of four or five chill
dren only Mrs. Fargo survives. His
eldest daughter, Fanny, died of yellow
fever at Guaymas on the Gulf of Cali
fornia and her body is buried there.
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

terday in this city at the age of 72 years
at the home Of his son-in-law, C. E.
Fargo. The body was sent to Topeka
| last night for interment
From advices received here, the fun
eral will be held on Sunday afternoon
at 2:30 O'Clock from the First Methodist
| church. At 2 o'clock a short service will
be held at the residence OF George NJ.
Noble. Interment will be in Topeka
cemetery. DR.. w. c. Evans will Off
ciate.
Out of respect to the deceased most
of the state officers will attend in a
body. The members Of the Topeka club,
of which he was president will also at
No 5, knights Templar will conduct the
services at the grave.
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson went to Texas
some time ago for the benef1tof his failing
health. The change did not seeem to
aid him in the least, and his condition
grew continually worse.
1t has been claimed that Colonel
Johnson was the first white child born
in Kansas. This has been denied by
some Kansas historians, but other
claimants to the distinction died long
ago, and Mrs. Johnson lived to be the
only surviving representative of that
period, when the Vests history passed
away with the passage of the Kansas
Nebraska act in 1854.
Alexander s. johnson was born July
IL, 1882, in the old Shawnee mission,
few miles southwest of Westport, in
what is now johnson county. in the
state of Kansas. His father was the
Rev Thomas Johnson, a sturdy Mis-
sourian, who established the Shawnee
mission about 1929. The object of the
enterprise was to teach the Indian boys
and girls how to work. and so long as
the Rev. Mr.. Johnson conducted the
school they were compelled to do act
ual manual labor. The Rev. Mr.. john
son took to the mission a young wife
who shared with him the hardships of
the frontier. In 1865 he was shot and
killed by buShwhackers while he and
his wife and their youngest son were
defending home and life at the mis-
sion.
The Jotnsons were pro-slavery advo-
Gates and co-operated with that side OF
the great struggle between the north
and south for supremacy in the terri
tory of Kansas. In 1855, the Rev. Mr..
johnson and his eldest son, who was
then % years old, were members of the
first territorial legislature The father
was the president of the territorial
council and the son was an active mem
Der of the lower house. The first ses-
sion was in Pawnee, in Riley county,
establish the capital of the territory,
but the legislature was rebelltous and
adjourned in a few days to Shawnee
mission where it resumed its session
and enacted what came to be known as
the bogus laws
Mr.. johnson was educated in the
school which his father conducted at
the mission and afterward in Central
college of Fayette. Mo. He began life
as a clerk in the store of J. G. Hamil-
ton at Westport, Mo. Afterward he
became clerk and a little later part
ner in the firm of A T. Ward & Co. of
Westport. When the firm changed to ].
Riddelsburge & Co. and located in
Kansas City, he still was a partner in
the concern. The business of this firm
was the forwarding of commission and
it handled a big end of the immense
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

much land for the government of the
United States. From 1858 until 1852 he
was superintendent of Shawnee mis-
sion, where he was born. The mission
was abandoned and became only the
home of the johnson family after 1852
While Mr.. Johnson was pro-slavery
in his sympathies before the civil war,
he became a Republican after the great
border struggle had ended and the Re
publtcans were in possession of the ter
ritory in numbers, although not in
office. During the civil war he was
hated by the t'bushwhackers, and his
life was in constant danger. He raised
a military company which afterward
became a part of the Thirteenth Kan
sas militia. He was made lieutenant
colonel by Governor Carney, and for
four years he was under arms and in
active service on the frontier. In 1864
he was a presidential elector for Abra-