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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-09-24

tor LaFollette of Wisconsin. one of
the leaders of the insurgent movement
in Milwaukee this morning and had
greeted him very cordially.
ITO make party government effee-
tive" the president said last night,
"the members of that party should
surrender their personal predictions
of comparative less Importance, am
not here to criticise those, who felt
so strongly and believed so intensely
that it was their duty to vote against
the tariff bill, because it did not con.
tain all they thought il should Il
was a question for each man TO settle
for himself.
In matters of this kind il is ques-
tion with the party representative
whether he shall help maintain the
party solidarity for accomplishing it's
chief purposes, or whether the de-
parture from principle in the bill, as
he regards H. is so extreme that he
must, in conscience, abandon the
party"
Further along, the president gave
this final word TO the insurgents Il
am glad to see that those who voted
against the bill still insist that they
are republicans, and that they intend
TO keep up the fight for still lower
tariff rates within the party, That is
the right and In their view of things
Is their duty.
"All have to say in respect to Mr.
Tawneys action in voting for the bill
and my action in signing it, is that
believe that the interests Of the
country, the interests OF the party
required me to sacrifice the accom-.
plishments OF certain things IN the
revision OF the tariff which | had hop
ed for, in order to maintain party
solidarity, which believe to be much
more important than the reduction OF
rates in one or two schedules Of the
tariff"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-09-24
DECLINES OPINION
ON THE TAYLOR LAW

Guthrie, okla, Sept i7-Attofney
General Charles West in commune.
alton to Governor HasAall declines to
give an opinion on the Taylor election
law, either as to whether c Is now In
effect, or as to the merits Of the case.
He states that the people OF the state
may soon be given an opportunity 10
pass upon the merits of the law and
for that reason declines to discuss
that feature, while the other question
is now before the supreme court and
that until a decision is rendered he
would not venture an opinion,
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-09-24
TAFT WILL DISCUSS
PAYNE BILL TONIGHT
N AssoeIatea Press

BY Associated Press
Milwaukee. Wis. Sept iT-presi-
dent Taft swung up into the north
west today, after the forenoon kere
The president has been receiving
many queries as to when he viii dis.
euss the merits or demerits Of the
Payne tariff bin. and it Is nov said
that he win make his first atteranee
on this subject tonight, at Nlnona.
MINI. the home of Representative
Towney The president is today IN
the land of the confessional insur.
gents and there was much interest
shown in what he would have 10 say
IN speech, at The fair grounds
here before an immense crowd.
President TAFT aroused a quick fe-
sponse Of applause from The assem-
blage. when he declared that be stood
firm for the redemption Of the re-
publican platform pledge. for the 81
tabllshment Of a system of postal
savings banks.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-09-24
Upheld Action of Tourney and De.
cIGred Republicans Who Voted Against MeG-
sure Had Abandoned the Party Cheered
By Tourney SuppOrters---NOt There to
Defend Payne Bill Supporters
But to Support Them.

Winona, Mimi, Sept 1S.--President
Taft lest night stamped the Payne
bill az the best tariff law the repub-
lican party ever passed" In 1000
word speech at the opera house here
he made a detailed defense of the
entire measure. He vigorously up
held the action of Representative
James A. Tawney of this city. who
supported the bill, and therefore is
in danger of defeat. and said that had
the bill been defeated or had the
president vetoed II, the republican
party would have been demoralized,
the tariff agitation would have CON
tinued, business would have been stall
ed and prosperity halted and the other
pledges of the republican party, to car
ry out the policies of Roosevelt, would
have been impossible redemption.
The president asserted that the in
surgent who voted against the bill
had abandoned the republican party
was it the duty of the member Of
congress. who believed that the bill
did not accomplish everything that
II ought to accomplish. to vote against
it?" asked the president
Il am here to Justify those who an
sewer this question in the negative.
| am not here to defend those who
voted for the Payne bill. but to sup.
port them
TO this statement Mr.. Tawneys
supporters responded with a cheer.
Mr.. Tawney met the president in La
Crosse this afternoon. and accom-
panied him to this city, his home
town. It had been reported for some
time that the president intended de-
Tending Mr. Tawney for his party
regularity, but there were none to
predict that the president would go
SO far as he did last night in char
acterlzing the position taken by the
Iinsurgent senators and representa-
tiyes. The president had met Sena-
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-09-24
Northwest is Pleased
With Government Order

The finding shows that grain
amounted TO 1897 per cent of the to-
tai state tonnage carried by the com
pany over its lines In Washington
and to 1907 per cent OF the total ten
miles. and furnished 1899 per cent
of the total revenue received by the
company IN 1908, Sixteen million
bushels OF grain was carried by the
company The cast Of movement, ex-
elusive of taxes, interest or dividends.
was approximately S966s a ton, while
the average receipt per ton was APP
proximately $500. the moving cost
being approximately 8201 per cent
of the gross earnings. the operating
expenses Of the road on all les bust
ness being 5411 per cent of the gross
receipts
Carload merchandise constituted
1t54 per cent Of the state tonnage
and 14.s4 per cent Of the ton miles.
while It contributed 1916 per cent
of the total state earnings. and the
cost of moving was only 25.S9 per
cent Of the gross earnings Less than
carload merchandise constituted 3S3
per cent of the tonnage, 354 per cent
of the ton miles an9 contributed 1926
per cent of the total state earnings.
the cost of moving being 5t.9S per
cent Of the gross earnings there from
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-09-24
SECOND STRIKE At
WKEE'S ROCK ENDS


BY Associated Press.
McKees Rocks. Pa. Sept. 1.-THE
second strike OF the workmen OF the
Pressed Steel Car company, ended
abruptly today, when two thousand
American workmen carrying the
stars and stripes at their head march
ed in a body to the plant ard went to
work. On the way they were joined
by two Thousand Italians. When the
gates were reached the one thousand
Russians and Poles, who had threaten.
ed trouble in the event any men At
tempted to enter the works were en-
countered, but they. too fell into line
and entered the plant
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-09-24
JACKSON ATTEMPTS
TO GUST FOREIGNERS
by Associated Press

BY Associated Press.
Kansas CITY Kans. Sept l7-At-
torney General Jackson, Of Kansas,
today, brought suit TO oust one thou
sand foreigners, now living ON the
five acre tract Of land near the Mis-.
sour.Kansas line. known as the
patch. and which has been the
source Of trouble to the police author
itles for years Jackson declares the
colonization 2f suoh a large number
or foreigners, on such a small tract
Of land. Is a menace to the health and
morals Of the community
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-09-24
JULES HAMPTON KILLS
HIS FATHER-IN-LAW
BY Associated Press

BY Associated Press
Dnrant okla, Sept It'd T Lamb
was shot and killed by bis son-inlaw,
Jules Hampton, at Gaddo. near here.
late last night When Lamb. Hamp-
ton and the latters wife emerged
from a theatre. where they had spent
the evening, Hampton II Is said
seized his wifes arm and hurried her
along. Lamb demonstrated and
wheeling quickly, Hampton shot him
through the chest. then lied The
officers pursued and ared several
shots at the fugitive but they al went
wild
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-09-24
OUTLAWS FLED WHEN
THE POSSE ARRIVED
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Denver, Col, Sept 17-Posses are
securing the mountains IN pursuit Of
the outlaws. who late last night held
up a Denver & Rio Grande passenger
train. near Malta. Col, and attempted
10 dynamite the safe in the expfess
car, but were driven on by the ar
rival Of posse. before they could
force an entrance to the safe The
express officials admit that the safe
contained a large amount Of money
but refuse 20 state how much
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-09-24

Rev Gilbert Thompson Of Musko.
gee occupied the pulpit At the presby.
tefian church Sunday morning and
evening
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-28
ARE DRAFT TED
FOR FARMING
CONGRESS
BOARD OF CONTROL FOR CON-
VENTION AT BILLINGS TO BE
ORGANIZED.

Billings, March 27.-Arrangements
were perfected today in this city by
convention which was presided over
by Governor Edwin l.. Norris for the
organization of state board of con-
trol for the session of the National
Dry Farming congress in Billings in
November. The board will be made
up of delegates from each of the
counties of the state; one for each. of
the five railroads in Montana and one
each for the Al principal cities and
towns of the state. Sixteen members
of the board We're selected by the
convention.
1t was decided to select an executive
board of 25, of whom Is shall reside
in Yellowstone county and a COM
mittee of five members will name the
executive committee.
Governor Norris addressing the
convention, declared that the future
welfare of Montana must to a large
extent depend upon the proper cultiva-
ton of it's dry farming land, and he
predicted that the November Conven-
tion of the dry farming congress
would be the greatest in the history
of that body.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-28
AMBASSADOR BRYCE
IS RENDERED
BANQUET
ENGLISH RESIDENTS OF SAN
FRANCISCO HONOR BRITAIN'S
REPRESENTATIV

San Francisco, March 27.-Over 100
British residents of San Francisco and
their invited guests paid honor to
Ambassador James Bryce at a ban
quet given by them tonight in the big
ballroom of the Fairmont hotel. The
room was appropriately decorated
with California poppies, smilax and
British and American flags. The ma
tional airs of the two great English
speaking peoples wee played during
the dinner and toasts of an inter
national patriotic nature were given.
Before the company sat down to the
table w. Greer Harrison, one of the
oldest British residents of the city,
presented to Ambassador Bryce, in
the name of mis- countrymen living
here, a handsome Illuminated address
of welcome, bound in white silk and
containing these words of greeting:
ITO the Right Honorable James
Bryce, p. c., o. M, LII, D., D. c. l.. d.,
Lit, F. r. S.
May it please your excellency; we,
the British residents of San Fran
cisco, bid you a most cordial, sincere
and respectful welcome to the Pacific
coast.
I'VE welcome not only King Ed
wards trusted and faithful represen-
tative, whose work has already done
so much to bind and strengthen the
friendly relations between the two
English-speaking nations, but also the
distinguished scholar, author and
statesman, whose name is as famous
in this as in the other hemisphere,
whose work and writings have made
that name a household word in the
United States as in Great Britain, and
in her dominions beyond the seas.
May your stay among us be pleas
ant and may you bear hence none but
happy recolections Of this favored
land, discovered by Drake and de-
veloped by men of your race, and may
you end yours be blessed with health
and happiness"
British Consul General Walter Risey
proposed the toasts, ",rhe President" ,"
The King" and His Majesty's AM
bassador," to the last of which Mr..
Bryce responded.
california" was proposed by DR..
c. F. Buckley and was responded to
by Governor James n. Gillett. United
States Justice Morrow responded to
the toast, "The Law in Relation to Di-
plomacy," while '"The New San Fran
CISCO was proposed by the Hon.
James McNab and answered by Mayor
Taylor.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-28
LLOYD IS ACQUITTED
ON ASSAULT CHARGE

1t was a long trial, but the verdict
was quickly reached in the court of
Justice Small last night when once
the jurors got into their hands the
case of Rufus Lloyd, who was charged
with having assaulted Pat Centor.
When the talesmen came to consider
the case it was found that every one
of them, with a single exception. was
convinced of the innocence of Lloyd,
and the one exception soon came
around to the way of the majority. A
verdict of acquittal was returned and
Lloyd was cleared of the charge OF
having struck an old man.
The hearing of the case was a
lengthy proceeding; there We're nu-
merous witnesses and each had a long
story to tell. The further the case
proceeded the more evident it be-
came that the charge was without
foundation and that the complaining
witness had either wilfully misrepre-
sented matters or else had a mighty
poor memory. There was nothing in
the testimony to warrant the charge
and the jurors had a right to complain
over the time that was consumed
needlessly. But Lloyd was acquitted
and that was the redeeming feature
of the tedious affair.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-28
TRAMP" ATHLETE WILL FIND
NO FOOTHOLD IN MON
TANA COLLEGES.
IMPORTANT RULING MADE
Advisory Board OF the Inter CoIIes ate
Athletic Assoc alton Holds Meeting
at Helena and Decides That Scholar
ship Shall Be the First Requisite to
Matrrc ulation.

Special to The Daily Missoulian.
Helena, March 27.-The tramp ath-
lete who goes To college for the
sake. Of athletics, viii find nc foot
hold in Montana. At the meeting here
tonight of the advisory board of the
Inter Collegiate Athletic association,
this was decided upon. 1t was the
unanimous opinion that scholarship
should be the first requisite and then
athletics. A new regulation was
adopted providing for the interview
ing of all students when they register
to learn their antecedentS and also
their availability for athletics.
The football championship of 1908
and the basketball championship to
the Aggies.
A dual track meet was arranged
for to be pulled off at Missoula next
May between the university and the
agricultural college, while series to
decide baseball honors was decided on
between the Miners and the Aggies.
Coach Mcintosh challenged the uni
versity to organize wrestling team
to meet the farmers in catch-as-
catch-can bout, the first one to be
held next winter.
l.. j. Hartsell of the school of
mines was elected president of the
advisory board, and F, A. Brunner
of the Wesleyan university, secretary
and treasurer. Missoula was decided
upon as the next place of the annual
meeting.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-28
EVIDENCE is GIVEN
IN BIG BOND
CASE
SUPREME COURT LISTENS TO
TESTIMONY IN THE HELENA
WATER WORKS LITIGATION.

Helena, Mont, March 27.-The su :.
preme court justices today listened
to testimony having to do with the
purpose of a suit instituted in the
district court of this county to deter
mine the validity of the 100000 bond
issue authorized by the Helena city
council on March 1, last, for the pur-
pose of procuring municipal water
plant and which was alleged by
counsel for the Helena Water Works
company to have been the carrying
out of prearranged plan or cullusion
between the litigants. After more
than two hours consideration the mat
ter was taken under advisement.
Oscar Carlson, merchant of this
city, represented by c. w. Wiley, in
stituted the proceedings in the dis
trict court, the application being for
an injunction to restrain the issuance
of the bonds. To this action the city
filed a demurrer which was overruled
byS Judge J. M. Clements, hence the
appeal to the supreme court. Coun-
sci for the water company sought to
intervene in behalf of it's client, al
leging a previous arrangement or col
fusion between the litigants in the
orinigal action, and it was on this
charge that the court adduced tes
timony today.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-28
FORCED TO DECLINE
INVITATION
ROOSEVELT COULD NOT ACCEPT
BID TO VISIT RHoDEsIA coUN-
TRY IN ITINERARY.

London, Mrch 27.-In the hope that
Theodore Roosevelt might be per-
suaded to include Rhodesia in his
forthcoming African tour. the Duke of
Abercorn recently sent him a cordial
invitation from the board of the Brit
ish South African company to visit
that country.
In his letter the duke pointed out the
many attractions afforded by the
journey from Capetown and drew par
ticular attention to the world famed
Victoria falls and the Matopo hills, in
the midst of which is the tomb of
Cecil Rhodes.
The Duke of Abercorn also called
attention to the excellent prospects
for the hunting of big game in north
ern Rhodesia. Possibly this was up
permost in the ex-president's mind
when, in his letter heartily thanking
the duke for the invitation, he wrote:
Your proposal is so very attractive
that I should certainly have closed
with it if there had been time"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-28
POLITICIANS OPPOSE
THE MEASURES
PITT SAYS MEN OF PHILIP
PINES FAVOR FREE TRADE
WITH UNCLE SAM.

Washington, March 27.-Harold w.
Pitt, chairman of the committee on
reciprocal trade and special represen-
tative of the Manila Merchants as
sociation, made a statement today in
which he declared that the opposition
on the part of the Filipino assembly
on that provision of the pending tar
if bill for free trade between the
islands and this country, indicated in
the dispatches from Manila, was to
have been expected. Mr.. Pitt added;
THE members of the assembly are
politicians whose desire is to hasten
the withdrawal of the United States
from the Philippines, in which event
they will be in control. That they
do not represent the material inter-
ests and more intelligent classes is
attested by petition signed by nearly
100000 of the responsible business and
professional people throughout the
archipelago, praying for free trade
with the United States, which is now
on file with the authorities in Wash
ington."
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-28
NEW EXECUTIVE BELIEVES Ex-
PENSES SHOULD BE TRIMMED
WHERE POSSIBLE.
CABINET is IN ACCORD
Matter Has Been ThorouchIy Dis
cussed and It Has Been Decided
That Official Body Shall Constitute
Itself Into a Budget Committee to
Scrutinize All Expense Estimates.

Washington, March 27.-Economy in
the administrative departments of the
government is to be insisted upon by
President Taft and the members of his
cabinet At the first cabinet meeting
after Mr., Taft's inauguration the ques-
tion was fully discussed and an agree
ment reached that the members of the
cabinet were to constitute themselves
budget committee, which, through
subcommittee, should carefully
scrutiniZe each item of the estimates
of appropriations submitted to con-
gress by the several chiefs of bu-
reaus.
This plan received the hearty in
dorsement of the entire cabinet, but
the credit for taking the initiative in
putting it into effect belongs to Sec
retary MacVeagh. Mr.. Macveagh
today addressed the following letter
to the principal officers of the treas
ury department:
THE president wishes the treasury
department as well as the other de-
partments of the government to take
immediate measures TO consider thu
question of such economies in ex-
penditures as may be found by the
most careful study to be feasible.
1T is intended to make the estimates
of expenditures for the next and future
years with the greatest care. 1t is
the intention that the estimates of
the different departments hereafter
shall be submitted to the cabinet, and
that they shall be considered togethe;
and as a whole and in connection with
the treasury estimates of the probable
income.
There is clearly a new disposition
not only in the executive government
but in the congress toward such con-
sideration and study of the govern
ment expenditures as will bring about
responsible relationship between the
expenditures and the revenue"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-28
CONFESSED LOOTERS
SENTENCED
THREE MEN CHARGED WITH
RoBBlNG NORTHERN PACIFIC
MUST GO TO PRISON..

Livingston, March 27.-D. A. Robin
son, Samuel Gibbs and NJ. A. Malone
today pleaded guilty to wholesale
looting of Northern Pacific boxcars
and were given sentences of four and
one-half years in the penitentiary
H. A. Robinson, the aged father of
d. A. Robinson, who is alleged to
have attempted to effect the escape
Of his son, also pleaded guilty, but
his sentence was not announced.
Minnie Gibbs and Ethel May Foster
pleaded guilty to completely in the
attempted Jail break and each re-
ceived 80 days in Jail and a 5000 fine.
Amelia Sandledge pleaded guilty to
secreting plunder and also was given
80 days. The women are related to
the trio sentenced TO the penitentiary.
The men had been trusted employees
in the service of the Northern Pa
cafic.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-28

Oklahoma City, Okla, March 27.-
In a pitched battle at Hickory Ground
at 6 o'clock this evening between a
posse of five officers and 70 Creek
Indians of the Snake clan, Officers
Edward Daum of Checotoah and Her.
man Odom of Checotoah were killed.
Frank Jones and William Carr, other
members of the posse, escaped without
injury and fled to the settlements,
where the news of the battle was tele-
phoned to Sheriff Odom of Mcintosh
county.
Frank Swift, member of the posse
of officers sent to the home of Chitti
Harjo, chief of the Snake clan of the
Creek Indians, to serve a warrant on
the chief, was not killed, but probably
fatally wounded.
Herman Odom, son of the sheriff of
Mcintosh county and Edward Daum,
city marshal of Checotoah, were killed
outright. Swift dragged himself from
the scene of the battle and was later
picked up by William Carr, one Of the
escaping officers, and taken to Pierce,
a station one mile away.
The officers having heard that the
Indians and negroes were again peace
able after the battle of Thursday
morning, approached the cabin OF
Harjo, near Hickory Ground, without
fear of trouble. AS they were in the
act of entering the chiefs yard, 20
guns were leveled upon them from as
many men in the house and around
the corners. Odom and Daum fell
dead at the first volley and Swift was
seriously wounded. Jones ran few
yards and hid himself in a clump OF
trees until the Indians disappeared
Then he returned to the bodies of his
comrades. Finding them dead he hur-
ried to Pierce.
Within thirty minutes after the re-
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-28
DEBATE ON TARIFF
LACKS LIFE
DISCUSSION OF PAYNE MEASURE
OCCUPIES ATTENTION OF
LOWER HOUSE..

Washington, March 27.-Debate on
the tariff bill in the house today was
largely devoted to an academic dis
cussion of the question and the polti-
cal issues involved, although Mr..
Gardner (Mass.) thoroughly reviewed
the question of free hides and a tar
iff on leather goods. Mr.. Long
worth (Ohio) and Mr.. Harrison IN. Y. }
the new democratic member of
the ways and means committee,
were the only representatives of the
tariff ff-framing committee who made
speeches. The house adjourned to
meet again at 10 o'clock Monday. The
house will meet for ten and a halt
hours each day. The hours agreed
upon are from 10 in the morning tc
at night, when a recess of two
hours is to be taken, the house to
continue in session from to 1890 at
night