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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25
RATCLIFF SANDERS
TO HAVE NEW HOME
Big Grocery Company Preparing to
Build Reinforced Concrete
Structure at Tulsa.

Tulsa, Sept l9.-Plans have been com
pleted by Architect J, J. Glanfeld for the
construction Of the big new warehouse
which the Ratcliff Sanders Grocery Com
pany will shortly build on their First
street property in this city. The building
will cover a space 100 by i20 feet, two
stories and basement and viii cost in
the neiehborhOod of $4,000,
The bnildine will be constructed of re-
inforced concrete, with paving brick
curtain walls The first floor of the struc
ture will contain 10000 feet and the
other floors will have floor space of l2,-
900 feet making a total floor space Of
10000 feet. The building will be of such
a substantial nature that the floors will
sustain d weight Of 800 pounds to the
square foot,
The building will have colonial en-
trance and the general exterior of the
building will be beautfed by the use Of
the red paving brick between the beams,
contrasting with the stone effect, will pre-
sent an exceptionally fine effect
The interior will have an electric ele-
vator located in the southwest corner Of
the building and 9th er improvements Of
a modern nature will be included in the
structure
The building will have adjoining it
loading platform 40xi20 feet which will
cost an additional $4,000. Switches will
run alongside the platform and drayage
charges will therefore be reduced to a
minimum.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25
A CATHOLIC SAYS ATTACK
ON BIG jim IS BASELESS
Republican Press Attempt to Drag Catholic
Church into Mire of Politics Denounced BY
Leading Catholics Bishop Denies Alleged
Interview in MuskOgee Phoenix Wild
Scheme to Alternate Catholic Vote.

Muskogee. Sept i9.-The managers of
the republican Creager campaign for con-
gress from the Third district received, and
are still receiving, a distinct series of
shocks from the boomerang effects of an
article printed in the Muskogee Phoenix
with the hope of alternating the Catholic
vote from the big democratic congressman,
Jim Davenport
Immediately after Colonel Douglas with
drew from the editorship of the Phoenix,
one of its news writer's, setting under in
struetions from the Creager press bureau,
wrote a lengthy article, the purport of
which was that Bishop Theodore Nicer
sehart, of Oklahoma City had made a
speech at a banquet in Muskogee, and had
taken shots at Davenport because Of
some remark alleged to have been made
by the latter in a recent speech
The Phoenix article was a deliberate
distortion of facts, and the alleged shots
at Davenport existed only in the writer s
Imagination,
Local Catholics are incensed at the way
in which their church was dragged into a
political controversy, and this was inten-
sified a day or so later when the Bishop,
in the McAlester News-Capital, a republi-
can paper, permitted an interview in
which the Phoenix article was Indignantly
Iefuted. Follows the interview which was
given out by Father Blynn, at whose home
in McAlester Bishop Meerschart stopped,
as reported in the News-Capital,
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25
FRISCO MAY Be ASSESSED
DELINQUENT PENALTY

Guthrie, Ok, Sept l9-According to an
opinion by Assistant Attorney General
Spillman, the Frisco railway company is
liable to pay a penalty of Is per cent up
on the second half of its 1907 taxes in
Oklahoma from June IS last.
The Frisco paid the first half Of It's 1907
taxes December Is last year During the
latter part of June the road, through its
attorneys, Flynn & Ames rendered the
second half of 1907 taxes to reasurers
Of Lincoln and Grady counties, who re-
fuse to accept the payments on the
grounds that the taxes had become due
on June Is, and entered the taxes as de-
linquent with the penalty added
Flynn & Ames took the position that
this action was unwarranted and that the
second half of 1907 taxes did not become
delinquent Until January, 1909. The at
torney general office reverses this posi-
ton and holds that where the first half Of
the personal taxes were paid December Is
of the year in which the levy was made
the second half becomes delinquent June
IS of the year following. All railroad
property is elassed as personal in Okla
h0ma.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25
ROOSEVELT MAY ATTEND
IRRIGATION CONGRESS

There is fair reason to hope, If not TO
expect. that President Roosevelt will grace
the Sixteenth National Irrigation Congress
with his presence within the week be-
ginning September 20. There is no tell
ing what our strenuous President may do.
To be sure he is at Oyster Bay for his va
cation but too long a vacation wearies
man of his intellectual and physical activ
ity, and, since he has not been in the
west lately and occasions for a trip are
offered he may start out. First, there is
the second invitation for him 60 attend
the Irrigation Congress. This is written
upon gold plate, especially made for the
President. and has been borne to him by
Governor Curry, who went to Oyster Bay
solely for that purpose Then there is the
Trans Mississippi Commercial Congress
the following week in San Francisco, Here
are two big events west of the Mississippi
River, and besides there would be crowds
all over the country, coming and return
ing, waiting to welcome and hear him
So tourists who come 10 Albuquerque for
the Congress may have the added pleasure
Of seeing the President of the United
States.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25
HASKELL WRITES
DEFY TO HEARST
DARES HIM TO MAKE OATH OF
STATEMENTS
PUTS MATTER UP TO HEARST
Governor Proposes to Settle Infa-
nous Slander by Going Before
Committee Of Five Represen-
tative Newspaper Men

Chicago. Sept. 2l-Governor Haskell
of Oklahoma last night gave out the fol-
lowing letter, which he said he had tele-
graphed to William Randolph Hearst:
William r, Hearst. care New York Ameri-
can, New York City:
"Sir:--You are stating in speech and
press, in substance, that during the year
1890, when Attorney General Frank S.
Monnett, of Ohio, had several cases pend
ing in the supreme court of that state
against the Standard Oil company,
sought TO influence him TO dismiss those
suits. | have said, and now repeat. that
your statement is absolutely false and
that | never had any relations Of any
kind or character with the Standard Oil
company, Our conflicting statements
prove nothing.
you as newspaper man may and
should desire a reputation truthfulness. /
as public official, demand that those
who accuse me stand forth and make their
proof. You know that a suit against you
for civil damages or acriminal prosecution
against you for libel means long delay
and affords your character of journalism
a chance TO cover your expenses before
being called upon TO settle. | do not want
your money; simply desire to expose you
to the public as a false accuser who has
distorted public records and manufactured
statements for base political purposes.
For the purpose Of forever settling this
infamous slander which you are circulat-
ing in your newspapers and on the stump.
| now propose that committee Of five. or
any three of them, composed Of the edit
ors Of the Springfield Mass. Republican
the Chicago Journal, the New York World.
the indianapolis News and the st. Louis
Republic be selected to hear you and
under oath. and all other evidence they
may desire as to the truth or falsity q
your charge, at the earliest possible mo-
ment, and render their decision TO the
public in writing. Should this COMMITTEES
find your charges sustained eslall With
draw from all connection With the present
presidential campaign; shoslld the seIe'cf
be against you, as ksow i VT theFss &
no other penalty than the public ronlcRps
due every assassin Of character.
&C. N HASKELL.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25
". j. BRYAN TALKS
TO NEW WORKERS
Great Nebraskan Heard by Thous-
ands in Americas Greatest
City.

Carnegie Hall, New York. Sept. a.
Democracy's presidential campaign in
Greater New York had It's advent last
night, when William J. Bryan. at a mass
meeting under the auspices Of Tanamany
Hall, spoke before enthusiastic thousands
who filed Carnegie hall and overiowed
into the streets. The ovation accorded 10
the presidential candidate was q brilliant
climax to a day in which a united party
gave Mr. Bryan a continuous reception.
Mr. Bryan spoke for over an hour on
Republican Tendencies" at Carnegie hall
On his arrival yesterday Mr.. Bryan SPOKE
X 9 noon-dag useeiing. and dufiae u
afternoon held consa leve BIZ etsi
where democratic leaders d .he eisg ana
state called upan hIln
Previous 70 the garaeea BAT mee1al
last night Mr.. Bryan was entertained 8
dinner at the home Of Melbert E. Carey
On approaching Carnegie hall little late
Mr. Bryan was given an ovation BY
crowd Of 10000 or more persons whf
could not get IN the hall The eandldatt
was taken TO @ flag draped cart, and fro
It he made a brief speech He ~
cheered repeatedly.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25

There is one statement that Bishop
Meerschart would like to have corrected,
however, said Father Flynn (speakinf for
the Bishop Il refer to the utterly base
less article appearing in the Muskoeee
Phoenix that the Bishop, on occasion of
the Muskogee banquet, denounced Con-
gresham Davenport for any purported
anti-Catholic utterances The Bishop
made no such speech as the Phoenix at
tributes to him,
The sentiment of the Catholics towards
the attempt to entangle their Bishop in a
controversy over a remark falsely attrb-
uted TO Congressman Davenport is we'll
reflected in the following letter written
Mr. Davenport by a prominent Catholic
and one of Muskogee's best known public
men, Immediately after the regretable
article appeared in the Creager organ;
ION two occasions the Phoenix, of this
city, has published a statement to the
effect that at a recent meeting you deliv-
cred an address in which you spoke dis
paragingly Of the Catholic church. | am
confident that the Phoenix has misquoted
you and | want to assure you that the
publication is doing you more good than
harm among our people, who are opposed
to having their church dragged in the mre
Of partisan politics. | was present at the
dinner given here last evening to our
Bishop, and want to assure you that
nothing came up that would in any way
reflect upon you or your work as public
official.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25
MANAGEMENT ANNOUNCES
OPENING OF AUDITORIUM

Managers Butler Byrd make the de-
oidedly interesting announcement that
the great musical extravaganza success,
The Land Of Nod, will be presented at
the Auditorium October 10.
This is one Of the biggest shows now
touring the country, and It's remarkable
careers during the past three seasons
stamps il as an attraction Of the highest
degree Of excellence. The contract for
this city calls FOR the appearance Of the
number one company with all of the orig
inal details Of the production, as 70
scenery. costumes and other effects, which
distinguished the presentation during its
long runs in New York. Boston, Chicago
and Philadelphia That this will be one
Of the bright spots in the amusement sea-
son here may be confidently relied upon
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25
SAY NAMES WERE
TAKEN Off ROLLS
File Suits In Supreme Court to Have
Their Names Restored
to Rolls

Washington, D. c., Sept 2l-Robert L.,
RADON, of Medill, and Charley S. Vincent
two well known intermarried citizens OF
the Choctaw nation, and Robert Burney
Chickasaw freedman, today filed suit IN
the supreme court of the District of Col
umbia to compel Secretary Garfield TO
restore their names to the rolls of the Five
Civilized Tribes, from which they were
stricken by Secretary Hitchcock on the
last day he held Office as secretary of the
Interior
The mandamus suits in their behalf
were filed by Happier & Merillat and Jas.
X. Jones. of Washington. acting in con-
junction with Hardy & Franklin, of Ma
dill j. f. Sharp, of Purcell, and A. s. Nc
Kennon. of McAlester. Justice Gould Of
the District supreme court iSsued a rule
requiring Secretary Garfield to show cause
on or before October 5th why a writ Of
mandamus should not issue compelling
him to restore these parties to the rolls.
Secretary Garfield has decided that each
mandamus suit is a separate proceeding
and that no matter how one case may be
decided no name can be restored to the
rolls without action in the courts. his
power with reference TO the rolls having
expired March A. 1907.
The parties who filed suits today alleg-
ed in their petition that their names had
been stricken from the rolls without no-
tice. and that such action was without
authority Of law. and that furthermore
vested rights had insured to them by
reason Of their enrolment and allotment
Of land Of which they could not be de
prived by an executive order
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25
public sale.

On Tuesday, September 30, beginning
at 10 O'Clock, a. m. will offer for sale at
my residence. on the W. c. Patton farm,
/ t-2 mile southeast Of Vinita. all Of my
dairy equipment, consisting Of 25 head Of
milk cows, one registered Short Horn bull,
10 head Of calves. one Deleyal cream sep
arater. one dairy WAGON one Is gallon
barrel churn. milk cans and pals. one
corn grinder two buggies. one carriage,
two lumber wagons. two set double work
harness, one Mccormick mower, one Deer
ing rake. one sweep rake, one walking
plow. one riding plow, one disk cnltivator
one corn planter, two cultivators, one corn
liner. Terms of sale A credit Of twelve
months will be given. purchaser giving
note with approved security and bearing
s per cent interest from date A discount
of 10 per cent viii be allowed for cash.
All property to be satisfactorily settled
for before being moved from the place.
win also sell lease on 800 acres for
s325 to approved parties. One half Of
fruit from 1000 bearing trees goes with
the lease.
dt37-7 Wis GEo. W. SEIGrL. Prop.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25
NEW PRESIDENT SEES
ANNUAL CLASS SCRAP

Norman. Okla, Sept l9-Complete vic
tory went to the freshmen class in their
annual class fight with the sophmores
early yesterday morning The clash came
after half the freshmen had torn the sophs'
flag from the university pole and put
theirs IN its place. The sophs we're bound
securely with ropes in less than ten min
utes. Eighty-seven freshmen fought
against only thirty-fiye sophomores.
President Evans, who witnessed the
scrap for the first time, took very pleas
ant view Of It, and in the chapel he said
Il congratulate the freshmen class upon
their victory. | also congratulate the
sophomore class for their hard tussle for
victory Both have a harder struggle be-
fore them and that is to Get the best there
is in life.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25
TIMES AND PLACES FOR HOLD
ING TERMS OF THE COUNTY
COURTFOR THE COUNTY
OF CRAIG, STATE OF
OKLAHOMA.

Pursuant TO che provisions OF Senate
Bill, No. 23l OF the legislature OF the
State OF Oklahoma, In effect on Jane
4, 1908, 1, the undersigned County
Judge of Craig County In said State
OF Oklahoma, do hereby order and APP
point terms Of the County Court OF
Craig County, TO be held until other
wise ordered, at the Court House In
the CITY OF Vinita, County OF Craig
of said State, at the follswing times,
to wit: Commencing
on the lst Monday Of January In
each year;
On the list Monday of April in each
year;
On the lst Monday in Jvly in each
year;
On the drst Monday in October in
each year;
Each one of said terms will be for
the trial OF issues of law and OF fact
and Jury will be required to attend
at each one of said terms.
|, the undersigned, also appoint
terms of said Court TO be held at the
County Judges rooms Ia said County
Court House, In the City Of Vinita,
Oklahoma, on each and every Monday
during the year, except legal holidays;
and during the months of July, August,
and September for the hearing OF
motions and proceedings without a
jury.
The judges chambers will always
be open for the transaction OF ex-parte
business.
The County Court will always be
open for the transaction OF Probate
business.
Dated at Vinita, Craig County, OK
lahoma, this 10th day OF June, 1908.
THEo. D. B. FREAR,
Judge OF the County Court.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25
MAN DIES FROM
DRINKING ALCOHOL
BODY FOUND BY BOYS BY THE
ROADSIDE
HAD STARTED FOR HIS HOME
Coroner's Inquest Results in Decis-
ion That Death Was Due to
Alcoholic PoisOning-DOc-
tors Examine Body

The remains of Marshal Liechlder for
merly of Newark, Ohio. were found on
the wagon road about a mile and half
south Of town last night, by some boys.
According to the information received
at the sherifI's Office Liechlider had been all
day yesterday at the pumping station on
Cabin Creek drinking alcohol. He started
for his home late in the afternoon and
reached the wagon road running west
from the NJ. X, & 7. railway just south Of
the pumping station and had gone about
one hundred and fifty yards west, when
he, evidently, suddenly fell dead, The
boys who were passing there about six
O'Clock last night found the body and
went to the home of T. F. Thompson,
nearby. and told of finding the dead man.
Mr. Thompson telephoned Sheriff Rden-
hour who, went down to that place and
brought the dead body here, where the
remains were placed in charge Of Under
taker Lewis Rogers.
An inquest was held this afternoon
and the jury returned a verdict that the
deceased had come to his death by alco-
holic poisoning Drs Slough, Craig, and
Mccarthy carefully examined the brain
and heart of the deceased, and from their
testimony il was cleaned that Liechlider
wasnot accustomed to drinking alcohol and
thus his dissipation Of yesterday brought
about his sudden death. The inquest was
held at the Lewis Rogers Undertaking
rooms and interment was made this af-
ternoon by the family and friends of the
deceased.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25
NEW PIPE LINE is
COMPLETED TO NOWATA

Tulsa, Sept. i9.-"Tomorrow the Prairie
Pipe Line company will begin running oil
through their new pipe line from Nowata
to Caney Kans., and the black clouds
which have overhung the oil industry in
the shallow field will be dispelled," said
r. X. Long one of the big producers in
the Nowata field, who was in this city
yesterday.
Beginning tomorrow the Prairie com
pany will run $4,000 barrels day out of
the shallow field, as the new pipe line will
give an increased output of $4,000 barrels
per day. AS the Prairie company pays
Al cents a barrel for oil, you can imagine
what this means to the producers in the
northern field.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25
First published Aus. 2s
Warming Order.

In the District Court for the Second Judi
eial District, Of the State Of Oklahoma,
sitting at Vinlta.
Ella Childers, Plaintiff,
VS. NO.369
Sylvester Childres Defendt
We are hereby notfeld that you have
been sued by the plaintiff, Ella Childres,
in the above named court, for an absolute
divorce. and unless you answer said pc
tition on or before the first day Of the
regular term. the same being the 9TH day
of December, 1908, Of said court, said
petition will be taken as confessed.
a. S. McRea, Atty Ella Chlldres, Pitt.
Witness my hand and seal Of the court
this the goth day of August 1908.
j. ". Roberts, u b. Stutsthan
DEPUTY District Clerk
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25
TWO MORE BANKS
UNDER GUARANTY Ia

Guthrie. Oh. Sept. l8-Two State baf
securing the advantage of the 0klahoi
deposltors' guaranty Law were ehartel
yesterday They were the Welee
Guaranty Bank Of Weleetka, capital 81
600, incorporators. W r. Blake La
Moore and D. W. Johnson all Of Neleetk
Willard Johnson. Eureka, Kars., and 4
Bank Of Hastings. Hastings, Jeief
county. S35.000 capital; incorporates
A. Smith. Enid. J. II. Porter L. c, Vac
er Felix Aubuchon and A. (. Arnold
Of Hastings.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25
TWO HUNDRED NEW
FACES At UNIVERSITY.

Norman, Okla Sept is.-The State
University opened here yesterday with an
enrolment of 200 students who had
never been to the Varsity before. The
freshman class win consequently be the
largest in the history Of the state school.
The formal opening exercises are reserved
for the end of the week.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25

First published in the Weekly Chieftain
Sept H. 1908.
STATE or OKLAHOMA,
County Of Craig.
In the County Court
In the matter Of the guardianship Of
Sterling o. Gossett and James U. Cos
sett. minors. J. M. Gossett Guardian
Probate No II new
ORDER FOR HEARING PETITION TO
SELL REAL ESTATE.
The petition of j. NJ. Gossett, as guar
dian Of Sterling O. Gosselt and James u.
Gossett, minors. having been presented to
this court praying that an order be made
authorizing said petitioner to sell the
whole. or so much and such portions of
the real estate described in said petition
as the Court shall Judge necessary and
beneficial at private sale; and il appear
in9 TO the Court from such petition that
il is necessary to sell the whole or some
portion of such real estate for the pur-
poses and reasons mentioned In said pc
tition, therefore said petition will be filed
herein, and time appointed Tor hearing
the same.
And Il is hereby ordered by the Court
IlHh DHAufudFt IliG AUNN NdJ VI 1NlhbtA5
1908. at the hour of 10 O'Clock a. m. of
said day. that being a day Of the reguler
October. 1908, term Of this Court, be, and
the same is appointed as the time when
all persons interested in said estate are
directed to appear before this Court to
show cause why an urder sh0ald not be
granted to said petitioner to sell so much
Of the real estate of said minors as Is
necessary.
Il IS further ordered that a copy of this
order be published for three consecutive
weeks. the first publication TO appear at
least four weeks before the hearing day.
Said publication 20 be made in news
paper Of general circulation within the
County OF Craig State of Oklahoma.
Dated this the 9Th day Iof September
1908
THEO. ID. B. FREAR,
Judge of the County Court
SEAL
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25

Mr.. Call Of the Green Hotel reports the
influx Of homeseekers so great that he IS
unable TO accommodate all that come 10
his hotel He has to turn away fifteen 70
twenty nearly every night.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-09-25
First Published September IL, 1905
Notice Of Sale Of Real Estate.

Notice OF Sale ot Real Estate
Notice is hereby given that in pursuance
of an order Of the County Court Of the
county Of Craig, state of Oklahoma, made
on the ilth day of September, 1908, in
the matter Of the guardianship Of 0bee
Landrum, a minor, the undersigned as
Guardian of said minor will sell at private
sale to the highest and best bidder, for
cash, subject 10 the confirmation Of the
county court, on Saturday. the Ord day Of
October. 1908 at 10 O'Clock, a. m, at the
Office Of the County Judge in said county
of Craig. state Of Oklahoma, all the right,
title, interest and estate of said 0bee
Landrum, a minor. in and TO the following
described land. situate in the county Of
Craig. state Of Oklahoma, and more accu-
rately described as follows, to-wt.
The NV IA of Sc II of sec. n, twp, "a
north, range 2i east, containing 40
acres, more or less
Bids must be In writing and may be left
az the Office Of the judge Of the County
Court of Craig county. state of Oklahoma.
Dated this 18th day Of September 1908
SPENCER LAEDRua.
Guardian Of Obee Landrum, OF al. minors.