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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-11-23

entitled Natural Fruits. " This is
a beautiful picture, in six colors, and
makes handsome diniDg-room orna-
rent. Send 80 cents for a three-year
subscription or three one-year sub
scrlptions today. Address all orders to
Farm Progress, st. Louis, BIO.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-11-23

-'AO@A-N @Ntn n-@e ffN-~@ - ?
this morning. VI
Charley Killebrew went to McAles
ter this morning.
Corn is selling on the local market
here today for As cents.
Lee Todd the all round man from
Abba is here today.
Attorney d. II. Wilson received
$500 worth Of new law books.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Curtis of Alton
are here visiting relatives.
Herman Lightfoot and S. H. Dick
MEL of Kelso are here today.
Tom Giles is here today from Kelso.
He has load Of hay ready for ship
ment.
Stan Miller, Bob Allen and JEFF
Collins are here today from timber
Hill.
David Merdith and wife went to
Joplin this morning to visit their son
@. d. Merdith.
Miss Andrie Chisem is sexpected from
Alton this evening to visit friends.
Keep your COW from shrinking in
milk ny using cotton seed meal. See
Garrison. 304-tf
win England and wife of Abba,
we're registered at the Green this
morning.
Mrs. w. B. Coley returned last
evening from visit with relatives at
Emporia, Kans.
Clayton Jackson is here from Par
sons Kans., visiting his parents, S.
B. Jackson and wife.
#. M. Lewis and wife were out
hunting Yesterday and killed wild
goose and four quails.
Harry Gwinnup came up from Mus
kogee this morning to visit his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. +. M. Gwinnup.
The ten year old boy of Mrs. Eliza
Alcorn died last night and will proba-
blg he shipped to Chetopa for burial.
The Cherokee Club held meeting
last night and decided to have mas
querade ball Thanksgiving night.
The County commissioners met here
today to approve the bond Of the
county officers and transact other bus
mess.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tuck Woodall Of near
Okoee have reuted out their farm and
are today moving to their farm neal
Welch.
There will be regular service both
morning and evening at the Presby-
terian church. Mr.. Fulcher will
preach his farewell sermon tomorrow
night.
There will be- the usual morning |
service at the Baptist church tomor-
row but there will be no evening serv-
ice on account of the dedication at
the Christian Church.
DR.. Crawford leaves tonight for
Joplin Mo-, to attend the Dedicatory
Exercises of Of the Catholic lChurch
tomorrow. Services will be conducted |
by Archbishop Glennen.
The Rebekah's gave big box supper
at the /. o. 0. f. Hall last night.
A grand time was had by all
present, especially by HI. M. Williams
who bought the funny box.
There will be regular services at the
Congregational church tomorrow:
In the morning the pastor will
speak on the subject: THE Doom OF
John Barleycorn." In the evening
the subject will be, 'Onesiphorus,
A Type of the True Gentleman"
L. P. Garrison guarantees at least
Is per cent in milk and cream by us
,ng cotton seed meal. Order it at
)nce and see what the results
ire. 304-tf
DRESSMAKING Establishment
low open for business first stairway
outh of postotfice in the Scott build
ng, Room l3. telephone AGA. We So
lcit the patronage of all our old Gus T!
omers and many new ones. Mrs.
George and Miss Maggie War
eh. 8tf. s
Round Oak (name on the legl, heat
rs, the best on earth at Frazee- Hos =
Ter Hardware Co.
We've got it; Wen get il, or it's not
! tOwn. Pure Food Grocery, Phone
So.
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outside the States in which they are
found. and It is difficult TO. conceal
them. But who could guard against
tho transportation of the teeth2 These
can be packed In so small space that
it is impossible 10 detect their pres
ence when they are being struggled
out of the State. and the possibility or
preventing The Wholesale killing by
legal means may he 70 sarded as hope
less.
Recognizing the possibility OF
shortage ir the elk tooth supply and
% a consequent enormous advance in
the price. many dealers are boarding
the teeth. and this has added 90 the
scarcity and the resultant rise in val
ne. The only way IN which the slaugh-
ter can be stopped is 20 make il pro
hIbitive TO wear the elk tooth emblem
and overs OF natural history speci-
m.as and patriots who would see the
fast disappearing horned animal OF the
West preserved for All time are de-
te- mined TO petition Congress. To- take
radical measures to stop the ruthless
war on this splendid ,reature.
President Roosevelt has received nu-
merous requests TO take action. The
elk Is little more plentiful now than
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Pay $50 to 500.

From $ to $l5 is the usual price paid
for elk teeth. but II Is not uncommon
for $50 or 500 TO be expended in the
purchase OF q perfect pronged tooth
well set by a competent Jeweler.
Elks declare that the charge OF ex-
terminating the animal after which
the organization Is named is not well
put They point TO the fact that thou
sands and thousands OF the tusks ara
purchased from. the Indians and that
the original Americans WI vouch FOR
the age OF the teeth ana prove that
the animals were killed long before the
order sprung into existence.
From the time death first invaded
the tribes OF the Indians down TO the
present Il has been customary u bury
a chiefs robes with him The chiefs
OF early days wore gorgeous blankets
ornamented with hundreds OF eIks-
teeth. Since the Indians have Iea==ea
these teeth have a commercial value
they have dug u the graves OF Their
ancestors, and. removing the rsr.l
from the elk teeth shipped then 10
markets where good prices are re1I-
lied. That IS how Ellxs throughou
country account for the vast nan.
OF teeth worn by members OF tle
ganization
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the American buffalo. Laws have
been passed 10 prevent extinction OF
the North American bison, and Il is
not unlikely that similar steps viii be
taken for the antlered herd
IT the convention IN Denver p year
ago the first complaint was heard
President Roosevelt requested that an
investigation be made regarding the
wholesale slaughter OF elks Past
Grand Exalted Ruler O'Brien, OF Bal
'imore. chairman Of the good OF the
order committee. was then directed to
make the investigation Mr.. O-Brien
in his report submitted to the Grand
Lodge session declared that although
the number OF elk teeth worn by mem
bers of the B. P. O. Elks ran way I'D
in the thousands. this was not respon-
sible entirely for decrease I'm the herds.
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In order TO show The public that the
3. p. o. Elks were serious I'm irvestI-
eating the elk-slaughterlng charge.
Mr.. o'Briep urged that the Grand
Lodge adopt resolution requesting
members not to display any Elk tooth
jewelry until the report of the com
rrittee next year. This caused 81 great
zeal Of discussion. in which Grand
Exalted Ruler Melvin and Western
members took part. but the resoIu-
ZION passed almost unanimously.
The membership Of the order or EIks
in America numbers about 250.O60 men.
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and shelter Year BY year these val
leys are being settled. and the elk
often returns IN the fall to find barbed
wire fences and usurpers on his domi-
Gle OF the year before. Shut of from
his feeding ground, he wanders back
TO the mountains and dies Of hunger
or cold.
There was no evidence. Mr. O'Brien
continued. 70 show there was organ
lied killing Of tho elk by persons who
wanted the teeth or the animal FOR
commercial purposes.
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Loo Feeding Gronnds

He then told how the advance or CIV
ilization was depopulating the noble
North American animal by taking
away its feeding grounds. Elk browse
on the mountain tops in summer. but
with the coming Of cold weather must
descend to the valleys for sustenance
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COMPENSATION.

Medicine is bad-but sul.
1 have fun when ] am III.
Uncle comes, and with him :. f,..
Such lot Of TOYS and things
Doctors cannot always tell
What viii make a fellow wei
Uncle says. And he thinks tow
often cure sick little boys.
30 ne brings ire JUMPING it-tc-
Soldiers. horses railroad Jelc
NOah's arks and games and d-t.a
On, it's gay when uncle como
Oscar Llewellyu. IN October = ,
olss.
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and lay him low so that his teehl
might be extracted and sold as
watch charms. When you see two
men wearing ornamental elk
teeth on their watch chains it is
evidence, although not indisputa-
he, that harmless, well-behaved,
and beautiful animal has been slain,
not for food or sport, but in order
'rat some one might realize coin
OF the realm on his molarS. Strange
rs it may seem, only two of the
elks many teeth are used for
watch charms. These two are
pr0ngej, and, when polished and
set in gold, make most unique and
attractive ornaments for a chain.
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Law Against killing.

II may be remarked that there Is
law against the killing OF the elk. L
is forbidden 10 transport the horns
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ANNES IUNS WURE
Members Of tho order Of
Elks say thousands Of
teeth Of the animal are
purchased from Indians.
who from early times
have buried n chiefs
blankets with him. In
olden days these blankets
were Orndntutrd with
hundreds OF elks' teeth.
Now the Indians dix t.u
the graves Of their am
cestors and sell the teeth.
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. XTINCTION of the elk,
II one of North Americas
nobleSt and most beau
. tiful animals, IS threat
ened.

COmmerGallSnl and taddlSm are
closing in on this proud beast, and
if stringent methods or more hui
name precepts are not adopted this
gorgeously antlered, fleet footed
animal will be exterminated from
the forests wherein he has dwelt
since, and probably before, the
days of the aborigines.
Stupendous demand by mem
bers of the Benevolent and Protec-
tive Order of ElkS for the ivory
like, odd-shaped teeth of the elk
has prompted hunters in the north
west section of the country to
camp on the trail of the animal
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hunting. Notwithstanding that. how
ever. an exhaustive investigation is be-
ing carried on by the foremost p0tcn-
tates Of the order. and members have
taken SOLEMN pledge not to wear or
exhibit elk tooth Jewelry and as'3rn-
ment until the final report Of a COM
mission is read at the next annual
convention at Dallas. Tex.
The Elks are a noble and benevolent
set. and II the commission reports that
the demand for elk tusks is RESPONSE
ole for the wholesale killing on OF this
moffensive animal. resolutions doubt
less viii be adopted 60 suppress the
wearing OF such ornaments
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OF the nnest noer. lortIsst idsAis u--u
with the warmest hearts who 'prsc-
tee charity without ostentatlon" and
write their brother faults IN the
sand" About 20 per cent Of thu mem
bership wear elk teeth held In n gold
setting OrnRmented with a full antler-
ed eIks head and q clock recording
the hour OF II, The time when a toast
is drunk 70 the absent brethren"
This shows that there are 5000 elk
teeth worn IS charms. Many Of them
are manufactured. but after all the
limitations are thrown out, II Is safe 10
say that 5000 or 1000 genuine elk
teeth adOrn the chains OF members OF
the order. illustrating that 1900 ami
mails have bean killed.
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Elks Are Slain
For Two Teeth

Only two OF the
E.lks many teeth
are used for watch
charms, and just
TO get these. the
noble animals are
slain.
The log cabin Democrat., 1907-01-10
PLEASED THE BOSTON MAN.
Thought Indian Was Acknowledge
 Culture of Modern Athens.

The following story is often told among the old pioneers and mon enlightened Indians of Oregon though it has probably never ar peared in print.
 At the time the Hudson Bay com. pany was founding the city of Port land in the early ffties, there was ! party of Bostonian speculators b cated farther up the Columbia river This party was often referred to a "the Boston men" and from ire quently hearing this expression, the Indians came to apply the term Of 'EBoston man" as their only expres. sion meaning white man. In further explanation, the Indian word foi expressing bad and dishonest I "cultus."
 One day while number of h dians were sitting by the roadside, couple of the Boston speculators no versed in the lingo of the Indian coming upon them, stopped to So what they were doing.
 An old Indian looked up and turning to his friends remarked "Cultus Boston men" (Bad an thievish white men).
 Then one of the speculatol turned to his friend and said ] amazement:
 "Just to think that even the poor ignorant Indians acknowledI the 'culture' of the Bostonian."
The log cabin Democrat., 1907-01-10
HE ENJOYED THE SERMON.
One Phase of 1t Particularly Pleased
 Uncle John.

Rev. T. B. Gregory, of New York, widely known by his weekly sermon cites in the Sunday World, was, for a short time in the middle eighties, pastor of the Universalist church in Belfast, Me. At that early period in his career he was already an orig inal thinker, a forceful speaker, and by his unconventional attitude a rather unique character.
 While his singular qualities as a clergyman did not appeal strongly to certain of the older parishioners, they gained for him a notable popu- larity with that mass of the people who ordinarily took little interest in church service.
 Uncle John Wesley Maxwell, a kindly old man from a neighboring village, who failed to inherit that love for matters theological which his name would indicate that he was born to, upon one occasion went to hear Rev. MT. Gregory preach.
 Speaking about it to friend the following day the honest old man said with great earnestness:
 "By jolly, l am glad l went to hear him-he's a smart feller That's jest the kind of a sermon l like; there wasn't so darned much religion in it."
The log cabin Democrat., 1907-01-10

poor editor will be unable to attend the meeting of these associations, and that all press excursions, through the means of which the editor is given an opportunity to become broaden educated, will al-
 so have to be abandoned.
 A committee from the National Editorial Association took the matter up with the commission, but it refused to modify its ruling, and the association has taken the question direct to congress. A bill has been introduced in the senate by Senator Stone and in the house by Representative Gar rett, providing that nothing in the law shall be interpreted to prohib- it such contracts between railroads and newspapers, but in the short time left to present session the chances of its passage are doubt ful.
 It is hard to escape the convic- tion that the ruling of the commits sion was made only by taking ad vantage of a technicality in the law, and was made only with the intention of rendering the rate bill unpopular with the public press. Of course, if the press of the entire country should raise its voice against this law, its eventual repeal in toto might the more easi- ly be accomplished.
The log cabin Democrat., 1907-01-10
MESSENGER BOYS IN BED, ;.
Useful as Escorts for Lon. w.
 and Substitutes for Nurs.n,,sua uas

Berlin has just adopted the a. trict messenger. The boys jaunty polo caps with leather s,'' under their chins like Engli,h fantrymen.
 Their uniform is blue with :, pipings and red stripes down ~. seams of the trousers. The o..s are military blouses with stiff. b,,;; ed upright collars. There are s' buttons in groups of two so arran.s that both regular and shoulder bs1s ss may be worn. The latter has a rsr, lar cartouche case for the safe kss,' ~ ing of letters or small parcels,
 Oddly enough, it is not so nm, in a business way that the system h. attracted the Berlinese. They b,,. taken it up as a kind of social sM domestic auxiliary.
 The boys are already in request n escorts to lone women; this is s. cial boon in a city where a respea, able woman can hardly stir out d doors after dark without either q cort or chaperon.
 Many households are also savn, the expense of a nursemaid by cali ing a boy to trundle the babys pa ambulator for an hour or so or pa haps to romp with the larger chi dren in one of the parks. Boys q also seen giving French poodles the airings and Berlin lovers are s to have found them a more trul worthy medium of communicat, than the mails.
 The peaceful Berlinese are not J accustomed to the novelty and as { boys go about the streets on tn various errands crowds stand to 2, at them. The boys are rigii drilled, especially in politeness.
The log cabin Democrat., 1907-01-10
OUR DISTANT SUB-
SCRIBERS.

Shortly before the first of the first of the year The log Cabin Democrat notified all of its distant subscribers living outside of Faulk- ner county and immediately adja- cent territory that the paper would no longer be sent to them unless their subscriptions were paid in ad- vance. To those who were in ar- rears statements were also sent. The responses to these notices have been very gratifying to us. We had thought that we would lose in the neighborhood of POO sub scribers by the adoption of this rule. But the Epresent indications are that the loss will not amount to one-half this number. Several persons, however, have refused to pay the amount our books showed was due, for various req sons. A typical example, with the names omitted, is given below:
 "In answer to your communica- ton of recent date, I will say that I never ordered your paper, The Log Cabin Democrat. In 1905, my father had it sent to me three months. But did not pay any attention to it after the first few copies, as I had all the reading matter I could do anything with, and as I have never ordered it l don't want it, I don't think I owe you anything" etc.
 Now, this is precisely the kind of subscribers The Log Cabin Dem ocrat wants to eliminate from it's books. It does not and never did desire to force itself upon anyone. There is no way, however, that we can keep a record of those of our subscribers who want the paper and those who do not want It,, (for there have been many like the gentleman whose letter is quoted above, who are prone to wait several years before telling us that they never did want the pa per), unless they pay in advance, in which case we are justihable in the assumption that they do want it.
 With our subscribers here in the county and in the trade terri
The log cabin Democrat., 1907-01-10
WOMEN TO THEih ne
...,,,,.r Politics Reformed by the
 Work of the Fair Sex

A Queensland man told mn me ooln' ,ln' ho d donbted if in his part of the coun. !, trv tl~ u they could have achieved much aa1,l ll ;t ;t' had s, not been for the women, says . s' writer in Everybody's Magazine < Fvorv avenue of employment was aO- solutelv in the hands of the h. trancbed governing classes and every man that a5itated for election re ti5rm form was was nc not only discharged but but bIacklisted tTa ok and boycotted. He found it impossible then to obtain emp employ, y ment anywhere; no man dareu '' hire him. ,,,eou George Ryland was blacklisted tor five years. They would not let nm blow nor chop wood nor drive horses. It looked like hopeless fight against power so great and so arbitrary. Often the men were discouraged, but the women. never; they had more nluck than the men. The savage ln- iustice had stirred their utmost re- sentiment; one and all they urged their husbands to keep on and never to yield. In many cases wives aS- sumed the burden of supporting the family. Some turned dressmakers and some cooks.
 One family that know lived four years on weekly income of between s3 and s4 earned with her needle oy the wife and mother. The husband tramped Queenstown looking ln Valn for work. With such spirit among the women the situation could not long continue. A body of voters grew up not of the labor element ou' painfully convinced that exlstln@ conditions were wrong. These united with the few labor men that had tht franchise, the 'better" element wal outvoted and overturned, the sui frage was reformed, the labor part, swept into possession of the Queens land state government and holds tn government to-day.
The log cabin Democrat., 1907-01-10

In an editorial in this paper last week, the following sentence oc- cured: County Clerk J. H. Hartje informs us that the average cost of term of circuit court in this county is about S4ooo." In getting the data for this article we misunderstood the statement of MT. Hartje, and instead of using the word term" we should have said year" which is quite different proposition, as there are two terms of circuit court iu each year. In order to be exact, how ever, we obtained from the regis ter of county warrants the total ex- penses of circuit courts for the past eight years, and find that the average cost per year has been S4334.4S, and the average cost per term has been S2167.24. Since 1898 the annual cost of circuit court each year has been as fol- lows: 1899, $4325.I5; 1900, 4o47.- 60; 1901, S6I53.2S; 1902, $36o6.- S7; 1903, S44I2.97; 1904, S3o53.- 29; 1905, S299I. 34; 1906, S4285.- B. It will be seen from the above statement that the expenses of this court are growing less, a mat ter in which every citizen should take pride. For the first four of the eight years given above, the average cost per year was S4759.- 22, and for the last four years of the period, the average cost per year was only S39Io.73.
The log cabin Democrat., 1907-01-10

Our good friend, w. M. Steven son cf Decatur, Texas, is one of the kind of subscribers that make a newspaper mans heart glad.
 In remitting to pay his subscrip- tion a year in advance last week,
 he said: "I have read the Log Cabin ever since the first copy was printed and can hardly afford to do without it now. My friends back there fail to write me some ti ucs, but I get the news out of the good old Log Cabin just the same" How many other readers can can claim the distinction of MT. Stevenson, that he has read
 his paper throughout its existence "a period of nearly thirty years?
The log cabin Democrat., 1907-01-10

Mayor Lemon, together with the entire administration ticket, was renominated for mayor of Little Rock at the primary held last week. The Gazette made hard fight upon him on the ground that his administration had diverted m oney which ought to have been used for streets and sewers to the erection of an unnecessarily expen- sive city hall, but the victory of MT. Lemon was decisive.
The log cabin Democrat., 1907-01-10
CHARGE IT IN THE BILL,

"Doctor," said a shrewd looking man, Chow many feet of gas does it take to kill man?"
 ''Thats queer question:" replied the doctor. 'FWhy do you wish to know?"
 'One of the guests at my hotel used enough of it to kill himself and T want to send in a proper bill to his executors.