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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-02-28

A large crowd attended the Broth
crhood Of Railway Trainmens annual
BAH given in the Elks' bali room,
Monday evening The bail room was
tastefully decorated in national colors
The C%avanaugh orchestra furnished
excellent music throughout the even
ing.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-02-28

The annual banquet given by the
University boys In honor of the birth-
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-07-30
AN INNOVATION
IN CURFEW LAWS
OFFICIALS Urge Parents And Guardians
to Prevent Children From vio-
atlng curfew Law.

Spokane. Wash. July 28.-Children
under is years OF age will not be per
mItted to frequent streets or public
parks after $50 o'clock between
April and October 1 and o'clock in
the fall and winter months, and boys
and girls between the ages Of 16 and
IS years must be under the super.
vision of their parents or guardians
after $3.50 o'clock and one hour earl
Ter from October ! to April /, accord.
ing to spokanes new curfew law, eff
fective July %
No direct penalty is laid upon de-
linquents, nor win arrests be made
Instead, police officers viii report IN
fractions Of the ordinance 70 the
county probation onieer for further
action. Conviction carries with It q
fine not exceeding so and cfsts Of
the trial, to be paid by the parent OF
guardian Of the offender
Judge william A. Huneke Of tbs
Spokane county superior court, wht
has made study of Juvenile delin
queney, says in an open letter urging
parents to take a hand in the mattel
OF enforcing the law, that the chic
good IN this legislation lies in lts pre-
yentiye character rather than its pun
itIve provisions. adding.
~ temptation, too frequently thi
result OF promiscuous association frei
from supervision or restraint esn b
thus removed, many a grieylous faul
viii be prevented. Il rests largel,
upon the people Of Spokane to insis
upon the enforcement of the clrfes
law If parents and guardians VII
look after the children under theI
care there will be less work for tn
authorities.
Parents and guardians have Il /
their power to prevent. while the dut
OF the authorities Is largely to punls
ylolators of the provisions Of the lap
trust that every parent In this eft
viii awaken to the responsibility b
owes 10 his child"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-07-30
CHAPMAN MAY NOT
RESUME HIS OFFICE
Regulations OF Commission Provide
That Employees Give Their Full
Time to Duties.

Guthrie, Okla. July 26.-W. L. Chap
man, secretary of the state corpora
tion commission, left his Office and
whether he viii again resume his
duties is a question. When the com
mission was organized It adopted rules
providing that all Information gather
ed by It should be for the benefit Of
the public and was to be given 20 the
public without asking And besides,
every employee of the commission was
to give his full time to the duties of
his place. which would debar anyone
for receiving compensation from any
other source.
It is reported that an investigation
win be held by the commission soon
to determine If Mr.. Chapman has lived
up to all the rules. All members Of
the commission are not now at Guth-
rie. Chapman lives In Shawnee and
once was secretary Of the state demo-
cratic committee j. e. Love, chair
man of the commission, said Sunday:
Il do not believe Mr. Chapman has
been dlsloyal to the commission, but
II he has violated It's rules. neither he
nor any other employee guilty OF such
disobedience can remain In the com.
missions employ, so far as | am con
cerned"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-07-30
Constitutional Amendment
is Aldrich's Gold Brick

was that senator's should serve three
years only one third Of that body re.
firing each year, and of the senators
In Office one should be selected by
the senate for president. for one year.
The other was that the president be
chosen by lot. Each state was to sci.
eet fayorite son, beans were TO be
put Ia box from each state and the
state drawn out was to be entitled
to place its man in the presidential
chair.
Fourteen amendments were propos.
ed limiting the presidents veto power,
and two dispensing with 1t, entirely
Any man who accepted title of no.
bility without the consent Of the con.
gress. was to lose his citizenship
From 1860 to 1870 three amendments
were passed Among numerous ones
rejected was one that abolished the
presidency and in It's stead there was
to be an executive council Of three
members. From 1870 to 1889, 400 were
offered. Almost every feature OF the
government was assailed
Since 1872 there han been growing
demand that senator's be elected by
direct vote OF the people In the
years between that date TO 1889, there
were 25 more; Is state legislatures
ratified the proposed change.
i The following four states represent
ing per cent OF the voters OF the
UNITED states, could block all the 9th.
or states representing 90 per cent Of
the voters Delaware, Rhode Island,
Vermont Oregon Nevada, Wyoming
North Dakota. South Dakota. Montana
Washington. Idaho and Oklahoma.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-07-30
OF TULSAS
NEW PAPER SHOT
Mark eassett Found Win Pistol Be
side Hlm--Theerles Of Suicide
And Murder Advanced.

Tulsa, Okla, July 26,-With a %
caliber pistol lying on the floor beside
him, Mark Bassett, editor Of the Tulsa
Daily News, former published at Mat
toon and Kankakee, H., and manager
Of the Yates press bureau In the repub'
lican primary campaign In Illinois last
year. was found in the shop of the A..
f. Black Printing company Sunday
morning.
This discovery was made by his lit
tie son, who had an appointment to
meet his father there, as the two were
expecting to attend Sunday school to-
gether at the First M. p. church, The
ball had not carried instant death with
It, although Bassett was shot through
the brain. He is still alive at the hos
pital where he was removed.
The statement was given out last
night, that there is but little chance for
recovery. with no powder marks on
the face, when in case Of suicide, It Il
almost impossible to escape them, and
without a known motive for self-de
struction, the suicide theory is divided
with the opinion that 1t was murder
The Tulsa News, heavily financed
was to make It's appearance mex
month as the organ of the Independ
ent element In politics in this part o
the state. Mr. Bassett was principa
owner in the paper, as well as III
head.
Among the promoters of the papel
was Mayor John O. Mitchell. The po
lice have taken possession OF the pisto
found, and a complete investigation o
the mystery will be made.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-07-30
ANOTHER VIEW OF
STATE TAX LEVY
Criticism Of Republican Press Does
Not Come In Good Grace Con.
slderins Old Tax Levies.

Guthrie, Okla, July Many OF
the republican papers of the state are
criticisIng the administration on ae-
count Of the tax board having levied
two and onefourth mills for state pur.
poses and one.fourth mill for common
school purposes. This comes with
bad grace from the representatives Of
a party which controlled the territory
for so many years and who annually
levied six and seven mills. AT that
time the United States government
paid the greater part of the expenses
OF governing the territory. Since
statehood many new schools and state
institutions have been established,
none Of which the good citizens OF
Oklahoma would be willing to do with.
out but all OF which must be provided
for by taxation.
The republican papers would have
us believe that the tax Is very griey
ious one. Let us suppose chat farm
er has a farm valued for taxable pur
poses at $2,500 and real estate valued
at $500. This is above the ayeragc
valuation OF the average farmer This
will require six dollars and seventy
hve cents to pay his state tax. The
savings on his freight bills and pas
senger fare alone would probably
amount to several times this amount
The state is annually saving to th'
farmers many times its cost of admin
istratlon. These are cold facts bu
we invite republican papers to shoy
wherein they are not true.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-07-30
BOTH ELEMENTS ARE
PREPARING FOR FIGHT
BY Associated Press

BY Associated Press.
Washington, D. G., July 26.-In both
the senate and house, the anti-free
hide element is making active pre-.
parations for vigorous resistance to
any report from the tarin conference
committee. which may look to taking
the duty of hides, while the free raw
material men are declaring success
must come to their efforts Every.
body appreciates the fact that the
tariff bill Is in a critical condition.
However before the eonferees took up
their work this afternoon Senator Aid
rich told all callers that there was YET
a chance to patch up all differences
so the report could be made to the
house tomorrow.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-07-30

Tulsa, Okla, July 26.-Later-Mark
Bassett, editor of the Daily News,
who was found shot in the head in a
printing office here yesterday is still
unconscious today, with but slim
chance Of recovery. The police today
are still undecided as to whether Bas-
sett attempted suicide or was attack
ed by some one with murderous in.
tent. There seems to have been no
cause for the editor taking his own
life, however
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-07-30

Washington. D. C.. July 2s.-F. E.
Smith Of Perry, Okla, has been a2.
pointed atenogranher Ia the land office
at Minot. y = and r NJ. vance 81
Craig county, Okla, land law e'erk n
the land once sergice
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-07-30
MANY RESCUED FROM
BOOMING HOUSE FIRE

By Associated Press.
Denver, Colo, July 26. - A dozen
men. women and children we're resou.
ed, unconscious at $3.50 this morning
from roomins house az 18th and Wei.
ton street. as & result Of fire that
started II the basement 0f butcher
shop Al are expected e recover
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-07-30

Please call and see D. s. Warren
before buying your harness, - nets.
buggles. wagons. binders, mowers and
ali kinds Of hav toola We pay ~
fsnt therefore We can ssll ehezper
ghan those dsalera who pay hls rent
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-13
Motor Car Filtration.

Given young woman in an electric
runabout and a young man driving
alone in a drab touring car. The
young man desires to convey the in
formation that he has taken hurried
note of the facial contour of the young
person in the electric machine and
that unless he's mistaken an acquain.
lance might ripen into mutual esteem.
1t is evening. He honks three or four
little honks for the purpose of at
tracing attention. Then he winks
twice with the little electric light over
the clock on the dashboard She gives
two similar electric flashes. That
means-well, never mind what it
means. The young man knows. OF
course, she might have flashed or
the light just to find out what time
is. Still, after you've been at it awhile
you can get so you can tell. This is
Just one instance There are a lot
of other ways. 1t takes little prac-
tice and patience, but one can master
the entire code in little while.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-13

Cook and Peary both claim the
North pole, and both claim the ex-
elusive right of telling about it, each
one of them trying to have their
stories copyrighted. Success makes
snobs of most men, and how snobbish
that is in Cook and Peary. Here they
are wanting To do the exclusive act,
and confine their story to few pa.
pers, for a few paltry dollars, wheii
really the newspapers as much as
their discovery have made them sud-
denly and violently famous Nobody
would know they had ever lived, if it
were not for the newspapers. IT
the newspapers had not told their
story for them, or if only few news
papers had taken it up, they would
still be as unknown to fame as the
Eskimos who accompanied them, and
were discoveries as much as they
What fools these mortals be- and
how easily mans head is turned.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-13
Free and Easy in Frisco.

There is probably no city in the
world where all classes meet on such
free and easy terms as San Francisco,
a social state of affairs which has
probably descended from the old min
ing days, and this haphazard equality
is seldom appreciated by the British
tourist, who passes through here on
his cut-and-dried tour round the world.
81 remember once sitting in the en-
trance hall of the Palace, with we'll
known racing man and privileged
Joker, known as White Hat Mccarthy
when a gorgeously appareled young
Englishman, just landed from a Japan
liner, walked up to the office to regis
ter, while his private servant respect
fully looked on. When they had
disappeared to inspect their apart
ments, Mccarthy strolled up to the
desk, glanced at the register book, and
while the clerks back was turned in
scribed something on its open page,
and waving me a farewell left the
hotel.
Curiosity impelled me to inspect
the volume, and this is what I read:
The Honble. Archibald James Fitz
Alan and valet while underneath it.
in my racing friends somewhat
cramped and shaky handwriting, ap
peared the following entry: Mr.
White Hat Mccarthy and valise!'"-
From "My Restless Life" by H. De
| Windt.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-13

Copyright laws ought not to coun-
tenance any copyright of news. The
idea of any one newspaper having the
exclusive right to tell the world of the
discovery of the North pole, is absurd.
The government expends great sums
of money-the peoples money, in aid
of science and discovery, and no
sooner is the thing attained than
selfish newspaper syndicate and
mercenary explorer, seek to establish
a trust and pocket the spoils. 1t is
all right to copyright inventions and
books and any coinage of mans
brains, but news should be dissem:nat-
ed as freely as the air we breathe.
Suppose the news feature of Edison
| inventions and discoveries had all
been copyrighted. Suppose the
| stories of the battles of the Spanish
American war had all been copyright
ed. Suppose the first fellow who
gets to it should be permitted to copy
right any and all great events, think
how slowly the news would travel and
what fund of general information
the world would never get If the
great newspapers of the country
would boycott Cook and Peary for a
few days, it would show them how
small they are. The newspapers, il
they would by common consent and
agreement could take up any one OF
the unknown Eskimos who blazed the
way for Cook and Peary, and make
them more illustrious and endow them
with more enduring fame than Cool
OF Peary have. The great metropoli
tan newspapers, if they would, coult
send their special correspondents on
and deny both the stories of Cook ant
Peary and give all the credit to al
Esquimo, and the name of that Els
quimo would be written down in his
tory. The idea of two puny little me,
; wanting to bottle up a great worlC
story from the great news gatherin:
agencies of the world when these new,
agencies could take hold of thes'
worthy but puny little gentlemen ant
in two days make them look Xix,
thirty cents. a
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-13

dses not alter the man.. After cele-
brating mass the pontiff takes little
coffee. Precisely at noon he lunches
in company of Mgr. Peschini and Mgr.
Bresson.. Tehy are always served by n
particular valet de chambre.
The repast is modest in the extreme
Some soup, little meat from the soup
and rarely is there a roasted joint. Al
at night the Pope takes his supper,
more frugal, if possible, than the mid
day meal. Vegetables and a little
meat is the night repast. In winter
the pope takes more soup than in SUM
mer, made from dried vegetables.
His holiness is very fond of the 'po
ientina" (soup de mIaisD, made as i
was in the days past in Venice, ant
! it is generally accompanied by some
fish sent from Civita veccria or Ven
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-13
TREASURE OF THE ZUYDER ZEE
How Gold and Silver Lost in Ship
wreck Will Be Searched For.
S. & H. KATE.
(London Globe.)

Uondon Globe)
The Dutch await with curiosity the
results of work undertaken in the
Zuyder Zee. On Oct. 8, 1899, the
English ship of war Lutin sank in
Dutch waters, carrying with it to the
bottom thirty millions of gold and
silver in bars that the British Cabi-
net was sending to Hamburg to help
at a financial crisis in the Hanse
towns. The cargo, insured for near.
ly twenty-five millions, was entirely
lost.
The Dutch Government, urged b.
France, tried to recover the wreck
but violent storm covered the shil
with such thickness of sand that II
had to be given up. After the resto
ration of European peace the king o.
Holland abandoned his rights to his
English colleague, who coded them tt
the company of Lloyd.
The company made a new attemp
in 1920, and its efforts were not un
successful, for they drew from tn.
ship 1913 bars Of silver and 1000 in
gots of gold, total value of $4,000,
600. Probably francs are meant.
The company of Lloyd has entered
! into contract with another societ,
which today undertakes the work witt
the help Of new apparatus invented
by an engineer named Lake. Thi
apparatus is composed of floating
bridge, at the keel of which are fixet
the instruments for diving. They con
sist of a number of pipes which cal
pump up in twentyfour hours 1000
tons of sand. At the extremity o
these pipes one finds the room of tn
divers, all built Of metal. iris cham
Der rests on indented wheels place.
In action by a motor of particula
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-13
THE PAPEL COOK.
Called to Vatican From Venice-Popes
Frugal Meal.

Stefano Inchiostro is the name Of the
pope's cook. He has recently been &c
lating his experiences in the Veneto
from which it is seen that his post is
veritable sinecure.
For twenty-seyen years he was the
cook in the seminary of the Patriarch
of Venice, the dignity held by the
pope before his call to the chair of
st. Peter, and consequently was well
known to his holiness. On June %,
1908, Stefano received summons
from his old master to repair to the
vatican.
He went, and was conducted to the
presence Of the pope, and it was only
the geniality of the pontiff that placed
the cook at his ease, for he was great
ly moved.
| The cook enables us to have a
glimpse of the daily life of his ven
cradle master, who is an example Of
Horace's "obiter" that change Of place
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-13

year is ahead of the world. This
statement has been repeatedly made
and published and not denied; and If
denied can be proven by statistics.
That is one great staple, but only one.
This is fine corn country; especially
in the lowlands. 1t is great potato
country. That is, the few who grow
potatoes grow great crops. The land
is here all right, What is needed Is
more tillers of the SOIL more cotton
growers, more corn growers, more po-
tatoe growers. And the purpose OF
this new press association idea Is to
decide upon the ways and means to-
advertise these resources to the world
and bring men here to build up this
rich country. Talk about your rail-
roads and manufactures, and all that,
but it is men and women after all
who build up a country. Convince
the people that this is good place;
a better place to live and make money
and rear families than the places they
are now living, and they will come
here. That conviction has brought some
fifteen or twenty thousand people here
in the last ten years, and it will
bring some fifteen or twenty thou
sand more in the next ten years if
the statistics, the facts, the news, the
story of this secion is properly pre-
sened and told to the world.
The Press Association people are
the ones to tell the story, That they
may know it and know how to tell it,
it is we'll that they meet and organize
and inform each other, that they may
the more intelligently inform others.
That is the purpose of the proposed
Press Association meeting and We
hope it will be well attended.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-13
Quaint Injunction in viii.

The quaint testamentary injunction
of an eighteenth century gardener
and botanist was observed for the
enc hundred and eightieth successive
year at Shoreditch parish church,
says the London Standard, when
what is known as the vegetable lee
ture," was preached by the vicar, Rev.
e. r. Ford. In 1929 Thomas Fair
child died at the age of SO years, and
bequeathed 925 to the church war
dens Of Shoreditch, STIMULATING that
the interest should be paid each Whit
Tuesday for the delivery by selected
preacher of an address on 1.-THE Won
Gerful works of God in creation, or
the certainty of the resurrection of
the dead by certain changes of the
animal and vegetable forms of the
creation" Fairchild had extensive
grounds in the days when "the Hox-
ton hamlet" was noted for its produc-
tons, and he introduced many varie-
ties of foreign fruits and flowers. In
the borough councils small public
garden in Hackney road, close to the
church, there is a tombstone record
ing the injunction as to the lecture.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-13

If Hattiesburg is to have big eel
ebration and reception on October
first, it is high time the committees
were getting busy. 1t is not enough
to meet and resolute to do a thing.
But to make it the big success il
ought to be requires system, organiza.
ton and work. Just as we'll do the
thing right while we are doing it.
Just as well have big reception while
we are celebrating.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-13
Beware Of Ointments for Catarrh Tha
Contain Mercury.

as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except
on prescriptions from reputable ply
sicians, as the damage they will do is
ten fold to the good you can possibly
derice from them. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney
C Co., Toledo. o., contains no mer-
curry, and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get
the genuine. It is taken internally
and made in Toledo, Ohio. by F. ].
Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists Price 75c pcr
bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti.