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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-09-17
ATTEMPT TO WRECK
A Frisco Passenger Train Near
Catoosa Spikes Driven Along
the Sides of the Rails.

An attempt was made Saturday
night to wreck Frisco passenger train
No. Ais, east boudd, near Catoosa, and
was only avoided by slowly moving
freight train passing over the obstruc-
tions ahead Of the passenger.
The would.be wreckers drove spikes
at intervals along the track for about
forty feet, evidently expecting that
the flanges of the wheels under the
passenger train would strike these,
and as it would likely be travelling at
high speed would be thrown into the
ditch.
The heavy freight engine struck the
spikes and, although the engi1eer and
fireman were considerably shaken up
the engine stayed with the rails and
pushed the obstructing spikes aside.
The spikes extended just above the
rails, so that the flanges would be
thrown over the rails. The object OF
the attempt to wreck can only be sur
missed. as no clue to the miscreants
has been discovered.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-09-17
GOV. JOHNSON APPROVES
SALE or OAL GLAND

Tishomingo, l. T., Sept. l6---Goy-
ernor johnson, of the Chickasaws in
his message to the Chickasaw legisla-
ture declares that the visit OF Secre-
tary Garfield to Indian Territory will
do much good
He approves the plan OF the Demo-
Gratis to sell the segregated coal lands
to the new state. He says that the
refusal OF former Secretary Hitch
cock to approve the work of the court
of claims has brought untold loss to
the nation. He condemns the efforts
Of certain attorneys to take away from
the half Indian half negro population
their ailotments. He states that the
Eli-Ayers claim for 100000 which
has been pending for the last sixty
years, has finally been defeated. He
recommends that the legislature send
a memorial to congress asking the re-
peal of the McCumber amendment
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-09-17
KANSAS CITY STOCK MARKET
Special to The Chieftain.

Special to The Chieftain.
Kansas City Stock Yards, Sept. l6-
While total cattle receipts were heavy
last week, the proportion of Quartine
was not excessive. The market on
steers in the quarantine division ruled
steady for the week, but cows declin-
ed 10 cents and calves lost Is to 80
cents. The supply of quarantine to-
day is 100 car loads, containing moth
ing that ranks above medium. Prices
are steady to shade lower all around
today, with some commonish steers
selling at 81 and best cows 1926.
Top grass steers last week brought
S4. 65, calves sell at $3.50 to SO. The
supply of range cattle in the native
division has been readily absorbed
during the past week, the demand be-
ing sufficient to take up everything
close. Feeder buyers took out lips car
loads last week and other buyers for
slaughter shipped out 700 car loads,
and local packers consumed more Unan
DO, 900 cattle during the week.
Hog supplies last week were $4,000
head, a small increase over correspond
ing week last year, the market aver
aging about steady for week. Run is
only 1000 today, market strong to 8
higher, light hogs sc. rs to Sc. 35, medi-
um weights s6.l0 to SO 30.
Supplies Of sheep and lambs were
heavy last week at $4,000 head, mar
ket Is to 25 lower for the week. Sup
ply today is 5000 head, prices steady,
lambs worth S5 rs to 81. 10 including
different grades of natives at 1915
and upwards, and feeding westerers
around $6.75, top westerns s7.4O.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-09-17
ARE FOUND GUILTY
Convicted of Manslaughter for De-
railing Frisco Passenger Train
Near Kosoma, Ind. Ter.

Antlers, Ind. Ter, Sept. 16 The
Jury in the case Of Ben Jorday, charg-
ed with murder, brought in verdict
OF manslaughter.
Jordan was indicted with Carl
Brown for laying a railroad spike on
the track two miles north Of Kosoma
on July 20, 1906 which caused No. 6
Frisco passenges train to jump the
track and roll down an embankment
thirty feet high. Fireman William
Skelton of Fort Smith was killed and
Engineer William Harlin seriously in
jured.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-09-17

Charley Killebrew went TO Chelsea
today on business.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-09-17
From the Very Best Information
Obtainable the Entire Democratic
County Ticket Is Elected.

The election in Vinita and Craig
county pulled off without any unusual
incident. The polls were opened at 8
O'Clock and will be kept open Til 6p.
m. A good vote Is being polled by
both parties but everything indicates
the election Of the entire Democratic
ticket in Craig county as we'll as the
state ticket.
Rouslng meetings were held
throughout Oklahoma last night and
both parties are sanguine of success.
The managers of the Democratic
campaign claim that the total vote
polled will reach 225,OOO and that
Haskells plurality will exceed 10000.
The Republicans on the other hand
claim Frantz's election by 25,Oc0 plu-
rality and say that he will carry all
but three of the thirUY-eight counties
in Oklahoma proper and break even
with Haskell in the territory. People
familiar with the situation here do
not confirm the report, but rather
think that Haskell will pull through
with handsome majority.
Col. Davenport, for Congress is
elected without a doubt, with hand
some plurality TO his credit
That the entire Democratic ticket
Of Craig county is elected there is not
n rho dow nf n d01ht
Returns of the election will be re-
celyed at Democratic headquarters
tonight, but it will be late before the
exact situation is known as reports
from the outlying precincts will be
slow coming in.
The Chieftain reporter visited the
various voting precincts just before
going to press and got the number OF
votes polled in each ward, which is as
follows:
First ward-145 votes polled; regis
tration 100.
Second ward -l8o votes; registration
2ss.
Third ward-16O votes; registration
2O8.
Fourth ward-14O votes; registration
1873.
At all the precincts the judges an
ticipate full vote and even larger
than the registration books show.
From Nhat can be learned by floating
rumors statewide prohibition will
carry BY a handsome majority.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-09-17
FATAL DUEL WITH KNIVES
AT AN OKLAHOMA DANCE

Oklahoma City, Okla, Sept. 16-In
a fight with knives at dance at the
home Of George Balzar, fyemiles north
of here early Sunday morning, Samuel
O'Conner was almost instantly killed
and John Freed is in serious condi-
tion, suffering from cuts in the abdo-
men.
There were no witnesses to the fight,
which occurred in the back yard, Off
GERS are guarding the room where
Freed is receiving treatment.
H. J. Swartz was up from Chelsea
yesterday.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-09-17

Oklahoma City, Okla, 4:30 p. NJ.
{ Especial Great fight being made
here, with prospect Of final result IA
yorable to Haskell, though close. The
county precincts will all 90 for Has
kell and the entire Democratic ticket.
Prohibition will be defeated Ia the
city. Democrats are iubilent and pre-
dict Haskell's election by at least 30,-
900 plurality.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-09-17

Tt was exected that Frantz would
carry Oklahoma City and Muskogee by
handsome pluralities, but the splen-
did fight put up by the Democrats
and the gains Haskell will get
throughout the country districts in
sures his electIon beyond doubt
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-09-17
Very Gratifying.

The great success Of "The Irish SEN
atoru on its present tour has been SO
nbenomenal that the city managers
have commenced to bid for it to HI
CITY time much to the disappointment
of many one night stand managers.
However, the date in this city Will be
Eent as Manager Crawford has no
cancellation clause in his contract to
tbat effect. 1t remains to be seen how
the comedy win be received here.
Charley Killebrew went TO Chelsea
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-09-17

Muskogee, l. T., 4:3O p, m. Especially
The 1900 votes so far cast here in
dicates that Haskell will carry the city
by a small plurality, although this is
not conceded. Outside the city this
county will go largely Democratic
Prohibition will carry by safe major
ity.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-09-17
REV. DINWIDDIE SAYS
IT IS PROHIBITION

Guthrie, Sept. 16-Rev. E. G. Din
widdie, manager of the prohibition
campaign said last night that state
wide prohibition would carry today
from 25OOO to 1000 majority Of which
$4,000 will come from the Indian Ter
ritory. He makes this estimate after
talking with his managers In sixty Of
the seventy-fiye counties since Satur-
day night. He said the Anti-Saloon
League had distributed ten million
pages of political matter during the
campaign.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-09-17

While riding through the country
yesterday Roscoe Tarrant lost fine
s35 gold watch II was driving some
cattle and cannot imagine how the
timepiece slipped from his pocket
without being noticed.
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are so high that you require two men to
pull you onward as you climb from terrace
to terrace. 1 am told that old Cheops
weighs something like five million tons; so
much that If the blocks were torn apart
and loaded on wagons 1t would take some
thing like ten million horses, or more than
ha.l of all the horses in the United States,
to drag II off to the sea. .-r.
For such an undertaking the stones would
have to be broken to pieces. There are few
of them which do not weigh at least two
tons and some of the large blocks which
cover the kings chamber inside the struc-
ture weigh sixty tons. AS measured in
climbing up 1t there are about two hundred
courses and the blocks vary in height from
two to five feet 1t is estimated that the
Great Pyramid contains, all told. almost
ninety million cubic feet of limestone. This
is SO much that If 1t could be split into
hags, four inches thick 1t would furnish
enough to make pavement two feet wide
reaching over sea and land clear around
the globe.
A Quarry for Ages.
When Cheops completed this great struc-
ture he coated the outside with limestone
and granite slabs. The sides were as
smooth glass; they met IN a point at the
top and the length of each side was eight
cen feet longer than 1t is now The Pyra-
mid was great deal higher. and as the
bright sun played upon its polished surface
The outside coating has been long since
torn away. Throughout the ages the people
Of the Nile valley have been getting their
building stone from It, Many OF the
mosques of Cairo contain pieces of old
Cheops and 1t has been the quarry of this
part Of the world for generation after gen.
Grafton these thousands Of years.
AS 1t Is today wheE one views 1t from
afar. the Great Pyramid still looks like a
| smooth block of stone. 1t Is only when he
comes closer that one sees that 1t Is made
of many blocks, and only when he stands
beside 1t or attempts to climb 1t that he
| appreciates the enormous size of these
blocks. The Pyramid is built of yellow
limestone and conglomerate. The stones
are piled one on the other in regular lay
ers. There is no cement between them, but
they chinked with rough mortar
which has withstood the weather for more
than four thousand years. 1 dug at some
of this mortar with my knife, but could not
loosen 1t. and went from block to block
| along the great structure on the side, fac
in: the western desert, finding the mortar
| everywhere solid.
And this great structure was built over
1000 years ago. 1t seems a long time, but
when you figure out how many lives 1t
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k0

nee the home Of whisky, the
south is going dry.
mighty moral movement has
been sweeping over the states
south of Mason and Dixon's line
and teaching the principle that strong drink
IN the basis Of all that Is evil
90 prompt has been the response OF the
people that Georgia. Texas, Mississippi Ala
banna and even Kentucky have been swung
into the prohibition ranks.
Georgia has gone over outright, and after
January !, 1908, the law to which GOV.
IIoke Smith has Just attached his signature
viii mako Il a crime to sell drop Of liquor
nnvwhore within the confines OF the state.
when the governor put his signature to
,,,s law he deprived himself Of some sixty
Thousand dollars for It 10 said without
iiouor the big hotel IN which he holds
controIIinr share will cease to bo paying
proposition.
But the governor mover hos!.ated, for he,
too, 10 a prohibitionist. and sharing the
rreat impulse that threatens TO abolish the
Nouor trade IN the south.
The Georgia colonels OF fiction and OF the
stnae, Of real life, IN fact, whose one most
characteristics motion was that which In
yolyed a crookng OF the elbow. and the
raising of a bit OF glassware as far as the
face, will exist no more in the old state.
ON August 8, when Gov. Smith signed the
state nrohibition bill, there were several
hundred people IN his office, all who could
crowd in. while the capitol grounds at At
lanta were packed 10 oVernoWlnS win nun
AZ soon as the governor wrote his name
the crowds inside and outside the capitol
sang Praise God from Whom All Bless
ing. Flow"
Used Special -.
Gov Smith used a special pen provided
by a merchant OF Atlanta. who is a prohi-
bitionist. This pen is TO be presented TO
Emory College. the Southern Methodist in
stitution OF Georgia.
The prohibition bills number was %. The
measure originally was known as senate
bill No /. 1t was the twenty-third bill TO
reach the executive Office for approval, how
ever. and that number displaced the senate
No. l.
,o the north dodgng. of course. Maine.
Kansas and North Dakota. which have
already preceded Georgia in the teetotaler
ranks.
involved a loss to the distillers and brewers
of 100000 yearly. and to the state In
lost revenues about $2OOOOOO-
Mrs Lillian NJ. n. Stevens, president OF
the Women's Christian Temperance Union,
gives a large share OF the credit for the
movement to the organization. whose chief
she Is.
In her opinion it was because public men
the country over but especially in the
south. are beginning to believe that the
worst for OF q mans patriotism and his duty
10 the commonwealth Is strong drink. that
they have resolved to help along the cause
OF better government by curtailing the op-
nortunities of the saloon.
The terrible race riots of Atlanta few
months ago are attributed TO the trouble
producing tendencies OF Georgia whisky. In
the saloons have been fomented much of the
ace-preiudice excitement.
thus though In elections the prohibition
ists have been able to cut but little figure.
nevertheless they contend that their never
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widest part of the old commonwealth,
ness and 1t is said that the next legsla-
ture of North Carolina will consider a pro-
hibition law.
Even "old Kentucky"
Kentucky. the last stronghold, is capitu-
lating. and Gov. Beckham is helping all he
can to make it a prohibition state.
The blue grass commonwealth, where for
century whisky has been credited with
being the food Of every native. from baby
hood to the grave. his solace In trouble.
helper in Joy, warmth In winter and cooling
agent in summer, has not yielded without a
struggle, but the friends of prohibition are
making steady gains, which can only have
one ultimate result.
The first triumph came in Kentucky
when despite protests of strong liquor in
terests, the legislature was forced by public
opinion to pass what Is termed the unit
law"
This gives every local community the
right to decide its liquor law. Immediately
on its enactment county after county voted
for prohibition.
The most wonderful metamorphosis was
made in Louisville. and though prohibition
is far from being complete, 1t is no longer
possible to purchase a drop of strong drink
on Sunday in this city of distilleries.
Prohibition sentiment Is sweeping over
Kentucky, and 1t Is not out OF the question
that eventually 1t will gain a clean victory
over the saloons.
In most of these southern states the VIC
tory in the country has been comparatively
easy. Only in the cities has there been g
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THhRcHMhM5 CEMETERY

Egypt as. under the lashes of their task
masters, the great pile grew. There was
an army OF them. One hundred thousand
men worked three months Of every year
for more than twenty years on this con-
struction, and Herodotus says that the
onions, garlic and radishes which the
price of relishes, what must the real food
have cost? How much must have been
spent on clothing and how much on tools?
The Great Pyramid was composed OF
2.20O. 600 separate blocks of stone. 1t COW
cred thirteen acres and still contains more
than three million cubic yards of solid ma
sonry, taking out the chambers within II.
Its perpendicular height Is now just about
that OF forty-five-story fiat. allowing ten
feet to each story; 1t Is within one hundred
feet of the height Of the Washington Monu-
ment, provided you do not count the alumni
mum tip Of the latter.
These stones of which the Pyramid is
built are of different sizes. Some are as
big as a f1at-topped Office desk and some
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containing a telephone, electric lights and
all modern Improvements.
I took donkey for my ride to the
around it. climbing up the stones here and
there to see how 1t was made. I have
gone to the top and made notes of the
desert as 1t stretches out for miles on
Nile. which with its teeming millions Is in
view not far away. The top Of the Pyra-
mid Is about thirty feet square. 1t is as
big as good-sized parlor and is one Of
the most interesting roof gardens known
to man. AS 1 sat there I could see the
work going on In the sands below me,
and I repeopled them with the men now
being dug up under the superintendence Of
our Americans. In my minds eye I could
see them as they toiled here over 1000
years ago. 1 could see them dragging the
great blocks over the road of polished
stone which had been made for the pur-
pose, and observe the sweat rolling down
their dusty faces under this blazing sun Of
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the same route on an electric trolley. pay
Ing ~ cents for the trip. The street cars
to the Pyramids begin at the end Of the
side Of a wide avenue. which is shaded by
acacia trees. The cars are open and one
can look out over the Nile valley as he goes.
The tracks run along one of the main roads
and we whiZzed by caravans Of donkeys,
loaded with all sorts Of farm products. and
by camels, ridden by gowned men. who
bobbed up and down in the saddle as they
went. There were men, women ana chill
dren on foot, and yelled women on dom
keys.
The cars were filled with Egyptians
Two dark faced men in black gowns and
white turbans sat on the seat beside me.
In front was a yellow-skinned Arab dandy
In a red fez cap and long gown, and just
behind me sat a woman with a black veil
fastened to her headdress by a brass spool.
AS we neared the Pyramids we stopped at
a cafe where they sold American drinks,
and a little further on was great hotel.
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Reisner held the straws. In the drawing
the United States got the tract just north of
the Great Pyramid and Germany and Italy
those to the south of 1t. Our tract was
thought to be the best of all and Uncle
Sans luck has been no better evidenced
than right here. We are making more finds
than both the other nations put together
and are bringing new life to the pages Of
history.
An American Excavator.
I went out to the Pyramids today and
called upon the chief of the American ex-
cavation works. DR.. Reisner has built him
home under the shadow Of old Cheops.
He is beyond that greatest of the Pyra-
mids. with the sanos reaching for miles
away on the north. south and west Of him.
His house is built of stones which probably
came from the Pyramids. 1t is a long,
one-story structure not over twelve feet in
height but large enough to contain a labo-
ratory, a Photographic establishment and
the necessary instruments of an archaeol-
ogist. One part of it Is the living quarters
OF DR.. Reisner and his family. He has his
wife and baby with him. and as We chatted
together his little daughter, a brght-eyed
infant not more than a year or so old,
played about our feet The baby was born
here on the edge of the Libyan desert, and
great tomb of more than 1900 years ago.
were striking in their contrast. AS l
looked at the little one 1 thought Of the |
tombs of the babies Of more than forty |
centuries ago which her father is now ex-
cavatng. [
During my stay we examined some pho |
tographs of DR.. Reisner's discoveries. One !
represented three statues Of well-to-do I
couple who lived here in those bygone |
ages. 1t was Teti and his wife. The faces |
were life-like and doubt not Mr.. and Mrs.
Teti sat for them.
There were other photographs Of objects
found in the cemetery of the rich. and also
some found in the cemetery Of the poor.
The higher classes Of that time were
buried nearer the Pyramid. and beyond |
them, farther up the desert, were the |
burial places of the poor. The latter are,
believe. the only graves of that class so |
far discovered. Each poor person had a /
little coff1n-like hole in the ground built |
round with stones. These holes were
close together, making, as 1t were a great |
series Of stone boxes reminding one of the |
compartments for eggs in a packing case.
This is the third time that have made |
lengthy visits to the Pyramids Of Egypt. |
In 1882 I rode to them a donkey. |
In 1889 1 came out from Cairo in a COM
Portable carriage. and today / passed over
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more puritanical commonwealth than New
York or Pennsylvania for example.
Tennessee and Mississippi sharing in the
wave. have the spectacle of county after
county voting to make liquor selling illegal
In Alabama ir is legal to sell liquor In the
cities as late as o'clock. and in the towns
out in the country up to 8 clock, but the
saloonkeeper who keeps his place open later
than these hours runs the peril Of being
Evening star., 1907-08-24

of champagne. that the boat should be
named with nothing stronger than water.
Accordingly when the giant snip sippeo
down the ways to take the initial plunge
the governors daughter smashed bottle of
water over the steel sides of the warshfp.
as a demonstration to the nation that Kan
sas' belief in prohibition was lived up to
even in the smallest details
In the southwestern part Of Virginia, the
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put out of business after paying a heavy
fine
In Kansas. the prohibition law, once
treated as joke, is now a stern reality. for
Gov. Hoch Is an ascetic believer in prohibi-
ton. even carrying his aversion to strong
drlpg so far that when his daughter was
selected to christen the Kansas he insisted
that instead of breaking over the prov Of
the superb battleship the traditional bottle
Evening star., 1907-08-24
Texas Going Dry.

Texas Going Dry.
Texas. beloved of the small boy the
home of the desperate outlaw. the bad men
who could drink their quart OF firewater
without blinking eye, is the last place
where one would think of looking for the
influence of the white ribboners. yet more
than one-half of the 224 counties of the
Unions biggest state are dry, and 1t Is a
probability of the not distant future that a
law as stringent as Georgia's will be
enacted.
Travellers who visit the smaller towns
find 1t necessary to resort to subterfuges
to get drink, and in many cases find Ii to be
impossible. County laws and local regula-
tions have made the Lone Star state a far