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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1905-02-04
THE DIGNITY or THE BENCH.

When the charges preferred BY Clarence B. Douglas
against Judge Raymond appeared in print, thoughtful
and unpreudced persons who read them gave 1t as their
sDlnon that the case would have been much stronger
0resented had Mr.. Douglas confined himself to calm
temperate and respectful language In approaching the
Department or Justice o the United States on 50 grave
4 mission as asking the removal Of Federal Judge.
Judge Raymond in response to a complimentary reso-
sutton from his petit jury recently came back at Mr.
Douglas IT, as is suggested Mr. Douglas departed far
enough from temperate and decoous language to weaken
s cause before the Department Of Justice we believe
5udge Raymond did 50 in response to Ire jur
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1905-02-04

Tie Allison Stock Co. will open foI
a three nights engagement at the
Byrd Ada opera house Monday night
This company comes highly recon-
mended, and vinita theatre-goers are
sure to receive o treat at each OF THEN
performances Remember the dates,
Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday
nights
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1905-02-04

To cure Constipation and Liver trou-
bles bs gently moving the towels and
acting as tonic to the liver, take
Little Early Risers. These Famous
Little Pills are mild, pleasant and
harmless, buteifectiye and sure. Their
universal use for many years is a
strong guarantee Of their popularity
aud usefulness. Sold BY Peoples drug
store
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1905-02-04

The Muskogee Times is so much in the habit OF steal
ng items from its exchanges that seldom gives credit
sor anything daY or ago t stole jail item from
the Cheftain which didn't fit Muskogee and came near
sanalng its whole Times force in jail.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1905-02-04

1t is now being argued that statehood Will not Abolish
government control in this country This bright idea
comes from Muskogee Of course II it don't then state
mood is not what people Of this beleaguered territory
are looking for.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1905-02-04
Are You Restless at Nighr.

And harrased by bad cough2 Use
Ballard's Horehnund Syrup, it viii
secure you sound sleep and effect a
prompt and radical cure. PIC. 50cand
sI.0o Sold by Peoples Drug Store.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1905-02-04

Husbanc-What makes YOU yell q
through the phone? Do you think thu
machine II deaf?' X
Wife-No. but want that woman
la the next flai To know that l. hav'
5oN oF AMERICAN Beauty roses. Sh'
IA bnt whcu they came Detroit FTea
i'ress ffL
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1905-02-04

The Pryor Creek Clipper greatly elated because the
town has become flag station oa the Katy Fact Is
Pryor Creek is the best between Vnita and MUS
koqee and in the best section Of country.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1905-02-04

some Of our misguided exchanges would have Us be-
eve that We don't want that about
20 get it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
His Name was NsterIInp. y

At the Union League club the other
evening, the conversation of several Of
the members turned to the subject OF
graft. One of the party told the fol-
lowing story, which he had heard from
the lips of James B. Dill, whose recent
speech on Graft" at Oberiin college,
impressed the entire country.
THE hero is a tramp OF an alert
INSCRIPTIONS, bold mind that makes
grating successful.
HE was walking down a city street
one day when he saw little boy stoop
and pick up something He crossed over
to the boy quickly.
said.
q Yes. SIR said the innocent boy. I
have found a silver ring
I thought so.' said the tramp. IT'S
the one I just dropped. Now Amt it
lucky I had my name cut In it?'
What is your manner said the boy,
suspiciously.
Sterling, lad
Take it, then. It's yours said the
boy handing over the ring with 4 dis
appointed air-"-Los Angeles Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
THE BURTON TRIAL.

For several months the friends and
sympathizers of Senator Burton have
seen that stories got into the newspa-
pers alleging that Burton would prob
ably never be tried again on the ST
Louis charges indicting him for enter
ing into an agreement to represent a
get-rich-quick concern before the post
office department to keep it out of
trouble with the federal government.
These stories have usually appeared
under Washington date line. They
purported to emanate from somebody
in Washington who pretended to know.
Sometimes it was said that the govern
ment was afraid of its case since the
supreme court gave Burton new
trial, and sometimes it was said that
the government thought Burton had
been punished enough and would not
push the case further, but would let it
drop.
The real powers that be, however,
said nothing, and the case has been
set for trial at st. Louis on October 3.
The government has subpoenaed it's
witnesses to appear at st. Louis on
that date, and it would hardly do this
if the case were to be dismissed. The
government officials are evidently pre-
pairing to enforce the laws.
There is undoubtedly considerable
sympathy felt for Burton in Washington.
Washington is hot-bed of grating.
Burton is by no means the only United
States senator who is guilty of wrong
doing, as has been shown, but he is the
first one who was caught. Other grafters
would like to see Burton go free so as to
lessen the chances of their being found
out and punished. There has been con-
siderable talk. too, among Burton S
friends, that Burton was singled out
by the administration for punishment,
while other high grafters were not
touched but that this is not true is shown
by the conviction of at least one other
United States senator since, and the
prompt dismissal from the service of
numerous high officials who have been
guilty of transactions that appear ques-
tionable. Burton was simply the first
senator to feel the hand of justice under
President Rossevelt's programme to do
away with grating.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14

The dispatches a few days ago con-
veyed the information that Mr.. G. Cleve-
land has turned from statesman and
fisherman to farmer. He has purchased
two farms up in New Hampshire and
will hereafter spend his summers up
there in agricultural pursuits, rather
than in hanging on to the big end of
fishrod down at Buzzard's Bay.
Mr.. Cleveland has made a great mis-
take. If he is going into the farming
business he should have moved to KAN
sas. If he is skeptical on this subject
the State Journal would refer him to
Mr.. F. D. Coburn for proof
BY selecting the flint hills of New
Hampshire instead of the fertile plains
of sunny Kansas for his agricultural
work Mr.. Cleveland has missed a great
opportunity. Had he Consulted some
enterprising Kansas real estate agent he
would have discovered that two Kansas
farms would have cost him no more
than the WORKOUT acres which he pur-
chased in New Hampshire, and their
fertility would have far surpassed any
thing in the White Mountain state. Out
on these boundless prairies Er. Cieve-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
fFrom the Philadelphia Record.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
The proof of the pudding is sometimes
in the vermiform appendix.
The dishonest grocer realizes that he
must have a lot of sand to make his
weigh
A metropolis is a town of SO much
Importance that it no longer has to
brag about it.
At every wedding there is some dis
appointed girl to remark that the fools
are not all dead yet.
Women may be divided into two dis
tinct classes; those who are married
and those who are still hopeful.
Nell-"Maud says she believes in
making hay while the sun Shines" Belle
Evidently. She has lots of freckles."
First Kid-'sMy grandfather was a
pirate Second Kid-"Dat's not'in'. My
grandfather was cab driver
Blobbs-" Henpeckke has named his
new auto boat after his wife, Slobbs-
Yes; you know he can't manage it."
Wigg-''Miss ShaDely says she had
her bathing suit sent down from the
city by mall Wagg-"Huhi 1t looks
as though she might have had it sent by
telegraph
Mans wants are small. as such things
go,
And here's the simple test:
Man wants but little here below
And woman wants the rest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
No.hinr the Matter with kansas.

After all, the temperance sentiment
nrevailed in the christening Of the bat
tie ship Kansas. Governor Hocn
daughter, uttering the magic words, L
christen thee Kansas" as the boat GID
ed from the ways, broke over its Prov
a bottle, not of champagne. as nad
heen expected, but of water from the
John Brown spring in Kansas, once
owned by the famous abolitionist, and
from which he frequently drank.
Heretofore all christenings have look
ed alike to the spectators, save on those
rare occasions when the trembling spon-
sor has failed to utter the caoanstlc
words at the proper moment ana mas
cast a hoodoo upon the vessel that notn-
ing may ever remove. But Miss Hocn
made the launching of the Kansas out
Of the ordinary. They do not make
champagne in her state; they drink II
sparingiy and usually only when Wis
itors from other states are IN evidence.
Spring water is good enough Tor your
ordinary Kansan on ordinary occasions.
WHY was it not good enough Tor the
launching of the commonwealth naIns-
sake? There is nothing the matter with
Kansas Just at the present writing
hes MoineS Register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The chilly mornings that are COM
ing on take away the ambition of most
people to be Igorrotes.
The oyster season is with US once
again. And if you will look real close
you will doubtless recognize the soli-
tary oyster in the soup as the same
old friend you have known in former
years.
There will be a big demand for lad
ders in the corn belt this fall, and the
carpenters are already crowded with
work The ladders will be needed by
the cornhuskers.
It was a Leavenworth girl who said
that polygany consisted in keeping sa-
looms open on Sunday:
Of course we like to see Topeka
cleaned up, but we hate to see 1t done
by bookmakers and race touts-
Kisses are said to be more danger
Gus from microbes in winter than in
summer. Now a lot of people will
probably make this an excuse for lay
ing in big supply before cold weather
comes.
Very likely Mr.. BIRTHS admirers
think Mr.. Nelson was real rude and
ungentlemanly.
We wonder if eastern Asia looks any
different to the people of Mars since
the Japs painted some of it different
color on the map.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison {

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Nobody is cute after 30. and shouldn't
try to be.
Remember this, you low down ornery
men: The women of Atchison who made
the flowers for the wonderful flower pa
rade didn't appoint a single committee,
and didn't call themselves General or
Captain, or any other title.
1t is impossible to crowd John Comp
ton off his feet. Mike Quigley went to
him today, and said: John, If there is a
strong wind on the day of the flower
parade, we'll have a terrible time with
our floral ship. The sail is very wide -
etc, etc Mr. Compton was not dis
turbed; he said: That's all right; in
case of a strong wind. unhitch the
horses, and sail your ship down Com
mercial street,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
DISGRACE no KANsAs.


How can the management of the
state fair expect to build the fair up
into q great annual event if it permits
Isure-thing gamblers to come in and
rob the people who visit the fair?
How can Topeka expect to maintain
its fair name among the people of
Kansas If it upholds officials who per-
NIT robbery of this sort to be carried
on. even under the excuse that the
robbers are licensed by the state fair
association?
Following the State Journals ex-
posture of the joints which were OPEN
ly and hagrantly conducted at the fair
grounds, those Iaw-breaking institu-
tons were closed up, and for doing
this the fair association is to be con-
graduated. They never should have
been permitted in the first place. But
games have been licensed by the fair
association that are running contrary
to the penal laws of the state. There
are said to be not less than fifteen
gambling devices in operation on the
grounds yesterday, most of them sure
thing games, in which "cappers" are
allowed to win big stakes in order to
lure on the ignorant and unwary spec
tator, and people were robbed right
and left.
Even aside from the moral and legal
phase of the question, the permission
of this sort of thing on the part of the
fair association is extremely foolish.
The managers are looking forward to
building UP future fairs. How can they
expect to get people to come from over
Kansas hereafter if the management
licenses gamblers to swindle and rob
them? It is also asserted that an ex-
tremely indecent show was giving ex-
hibitions yesterday, another thing that
cannot be too strongly condemned. If
the association wishes the patronage
and support of decent and seIf-respect-
ing people. that sort of thing must be
done away with.
Besides the good name of Topeka is
at stake. The city authorities have po-
lice control of the fair grounds, and
they should not overlook any of these
things that are operated in opposition
to the city ordinances, even if the fair
association does license them. It would
probably be a wholesome thing for the
state, too, if the state or county author
tiles would step in and send a few of
these gamblers to the penitentiary
Since Missouri has had a governor
who will not permit such things, even
in a city like st. Louis, these gamblers
and swindlers have flocked into Kansas
during the carnival and fair season.
Kansas should promptly teach them as
vigorous a lesson as has Missouri by
landing them in the penitentiary, which
can be done under the Kansas laws.
1t is impossible to touch the bookmak-
ers, for there is a Kansas statute,
passed by the same legislature that
sent Burton to the United States SEN
ate, that permits bookmaking in con-
nection with each racetrack two weeks
in each year. but the laws that we have
should be vigorously enforced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IChicago News.1


The man with pull doesn't have
to knock.
Overwork is apt to make man
sour on his job.
1t takes a lot of runs to enable a
baseball team to win in a walk
Health may be wealth, but the
pawnbroker refuses to accept it as col
lateral.
Probably nothing strikes a tramp
more forcibly than the policeman who
gathers him in.
Most people can stand adversely far
better than rosperity-probably be-
cause they are used to it.
It sometimes happens that a man is
immersed in thought and bathed in
perspiration simultaneously.
A girl can never understand why a
man persists in remaining in the bach
elor class after having met her.
A woman with a number four foot
can't be induced to wear a number
five shoe merely because there Is sup.
posed to be luck in odd numbers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
JAYHAWKER .JOTS

One of the meanest individuals in the
state of Kansas is the person who went
into Lace Littrefs watermelon patch at
Powhattan and cut nearly all of the
melons.
The Dickinson County News pins its
faith in the Democratic gubernatorlal
boom of Judge Flack of Abilene, run
ming him against r. w. Blair of Topeka.
Slam from the Concordia Blade: The
Topeka ball team has a lead pipe cinch
on the cellar championship in the West
ern league. Try as it may, it cannot
win games enough now to lose its hold
on last place.
Tom Cordry sights out towards the
Colorado line and remarks that the
Kansas wheat belt, like the star of en-
pire, is marching westward, and the
railroads are doing their best to keep
up with 1t.
A story in one of the magazines COM
mences: There once was a railroad
whose trains were always on time" And
Charlie Harger at once spotted it as a
piece of fiction of the Baron
Munchausen type.
The Barnes Chief had a hard time
getting out last week. The editor, who
the Washington hand press, was sick,
as was also the office boy who presides
over the ink roller, but by hard work
the paper came out.
Arkansas City advertises for the
tramps to come that way. 1t says it has
a good rock pile and is in need of all
the rock erushers it can get. Here is
an instance where advertising won
bring resuIts-except the other way.
I4iawatha Democrat: The biggest
pumpkin ever raised in Brown county
was grown by Mr.. Rutland who lives
on the old Heller farm. It is one of the
Kansas Queen variety and weighs ITO
pounds. The largest one last year
weighed So pounds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14

through the Poe and Weitzel locks IN
the course of twenty-four hours.
The construction of this canal open
ed up rich sources of wealth. As a, re-
suit iron and copper mines in the
neigh borhood of the shores of Lake
Superior were rapidly developed ana
the cost of transporting wheat TO the
Atlantic seaboard from the promo
fields of the middle west is kept at q
low figure. 1t is a part of the water
system of which the Erie canal Is a
link. The enlargement of the Erie
canal will enable the port or rev
York to reap a greater benefit than
ever before from this vast lake trade.
New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
nae Liars, swilnning Bee.

The Liars club went in a body to the
swimming hole last Thursday evening.
AS June rs is the annual date of this
affair, a jolly good time was had. u.
Hemenway got his hair wet: Jones
Weber dived into fish that weighed
2z1z pounds. Ire Cole got stranzied and
the water he took on board lowered the
stream two inches. Jack Frost lost q
ST stetson. Cieve Hale had the kinks
taken out of his hair and he stir looks
white and strange. Henry Conrad went
in with his socks on to keep his feet
from getting wet. On BlatchIey kept
his glasses on SO the water would not
get in his eyes. Roy Hemenway gave 4
representation of Washington CROSSING.
the DeIaware.-Ldberal (Mo.) lndepend-
epf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.

EFrom the New York Press.1
1t is very useful thing to be deaf
when you have a large family.
When a girl stands up straight it is
a sign she thinks she has a good figure.
Lots of women think more of their
complications than they do of their char
acterS.
Before marriage man spends a lot
of time writing love letters; afterward
checks.
A man has a good temper when he
doesn't blame his wife If his shoestring
breaks when he is in a hurry to get to
business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
Senator Allison,s Caution.

Senator Allison, who. it appears. is
noted for the caution which character
ICES his utterances. was seated in
railway car gliding through Iowa when
his travelling companion directed his
attention to a flock of sheep. Il see
they have begun shearing," he remark
ed. The. senator gazed thoughtfully
for a moment at the shorn lambs. ana
reluctantly admitted, They certainly
have sIeared 'em on this side. -
Harper's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
MRS. NATIONS VIEW.

Poor old Carry Nationi What a
jaundiced view she has developed. She
now believes that President Roosevelt's
anti-race-suicide views are due to his
being in league with the saloon power
of the country, that he wants more
large families in order that there may
be more boys for rum to ruin. Her
paper states: "You vote into office a
party which licenses boy killers. home
wreckers, wife beaters and pauper- max
ers. You have Joined the human vul-
lures that want 100000 boys annually"
Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
.,o,,,u,erce of the Lakes.

The average easterner has little con-
ca1tion of the immensely Of the COM
merce of the Great Lakes. Last year
the number of vessels which passed
the canal of Sault Ste Marie
was greater than that which entered
nc, &c hSrhor of New York. The freight
on these vessels equaled in tonnage
that recorded at the New York custom
mouse as entering and clearing from
this port last year. As many as ninety
nine vessels. laden with ISL 1893 tons OF
freirft. have been raised or lowered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14

Says the Washington Post, miss Ida
Tarbell says she was not paid to quit
writing about the Standard Oil com
pany. It is probable that she auit
from sheer exhaustion Out here in
Kansas the impression is abroad that
she hasn't quit, and that she is more
refreshing than ever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14

Albert Reid is using one of his car
ICONS of Henry Allen for his post
prandiaf' heading in the Leavenworth
Post but this is all right, of course. as
long as Leavenworth isn't in the Sec
ond distict.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14

Where Congressman Calderhead is
not known his opposition to President
Roosevelt's idea Of railroad rate reeu-
lation creates considerable comment
Up in the Fifth district where most
people have ideas of their own about
Mr.. Calderhead's opinion it has
created scarcely a rinnIe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14

land could have attained the full. free
life of q real agriculturist. which he
can never do in a state where one can
stand on a hill and see almost over
into the states on either side. If the
sage of Princeton wishes to do the thing
right he should move his farms to Kan
sas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14

Governor Folk put decisive stop to
race track gambling at Delmar race
track. near st. Louis. although he had
to threaten to call out the militia to
do it, for Delmar is one of the great
est resorts for bookmakers and race
fouts in the west. Yet here in Kansas,
where we pride ourselves On our mo-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14

The rainmaker who gave Los AnSe-
les eighteen inches of moisture last
winter and got a thousand dollars for
It, wishes to be encored, but while Los
Angeles is willing to pay for the rain
If necessary, it suspects that the rain
will come just the same without the
rainmaker, especially as it is beginning
to look cloudy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14

The Fort Scott Republican is mean
enough to call attention again to the
oft-repeated declaration of Governor
Hoch that he considers bribery with
the gift of an office as great crime
as bribery with money. and then it
asks what the appointment Of Senator
Haskell as warden of the penitentiary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
HOMIE NEWS WHILE AWAY.

SubScribers Of the stats journal
0lsE1nS snS sunaIaer may have
E2a9 paper mailed regularly each dax
- any address at the rate of thirty
Eeats month. Addreas changed as
Sotten e. desired. While cut Of town
EAe State Journal viii be to you like
- daily letter from laorne.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14

OF course Mr.. Burbank is a good deal
OF CRATER when it comes to dealing
with some kinds of plants but he has
never tried any grating in connection
with municipal service plants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
AN TSSTTE.

Nobody knows what the issues of the
next compaign will be. The politicians,
of course, can be depended upon to
hatch something to fuss about. Why
not work up excitement over good
roads? That would be an issue worth
while. Everybody needs good roads,
Holton Signal.