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The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16

and found them tied together
with huge bows OF white ribbon and
decorated with green boughs and
white blossoms. The laughter broke
out In a storm when peal of bells
came from somewhere near the cou.
pie. Across from them the practical
Joker was working his arm back and
forth suspiciously. Then the bride
caught her foot In the string and the
cowbells and sleighbells were discov-
cred attached underneath her chair.
The bride laughed and blushed as
a bride Is expected to do and the
groom grinned as idiotically as the oc-
CASTOR demanded But the romantic
spinster at the other end of the table
had a shocked, hurt expression on her
face.
Somehow. after all his trouble, the
practical joker seemed 10 be the only
one who would venture 70 intrude into
Arcadia,
We'll, who told you they were bride
aud groom, anyway" demanded the
practical Joker later after he had lis
tened with apparently good grace to
the reproving lecture of the romantic
spinster and the echoes of her words
from the others.
Any one with any sense would
have known 1t" said the spinster
sharply. And only a person OF no
sentiment would have forced his So
ciety upon them and made the poor
dears so uncomfortable"
YES" drawled the practical joker
Then what am |. anyhow? The fact
h that they've been married five
years-eloped when she was le and
he 20 They think it's a great joke
that you people think they're Just mar
ried. They helped me to fix up the
dining room scene. They asked me to
extend their apologies to you all for
fooling you, for they are going home
to the children tomorrow
without a word. Ia solemn dignity,
the romantic spinster rose and left
the porch. forgetting her beloved
drawn-work. which later blew into the
river-Chicago Daily News,
Rats and ravens denote disgrace. III
will and destk, Il
Flowers. goats or flying In the air
are good omens to all.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16
Paw Paw, Mich.
Another Operation Avoided.
EMMA DRAPER

Chicago, Ill. - want women to
know what that wonderful medicine,
Lydia +. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, has done for me- Two of the
best doctors in Chicago said | would
die If l did not have an operation. and
4 never thought of seeing Well day
again. had small tumor and female
troubles so that | suffered day and
night. A friend recommended lydia
L. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
and ii made me a well woman. Mrs.
ALvENA SPERLING, II LangdoD St,
Chicago, Ill.
Lydia L. TiDkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from roots and herbs.
has proved to be tile most successful
remedy for curing the worst forms of
female ills. including displacements,
Inflammation, fibroid tumors, irregu-
larities. periodic pains. backache, bear
ing down feeling, fiatulency, indiges-
xion. and nervous prostration. Iteosts
but a trifle TO try il. and the result
has been worth millions to many
suffering women.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16
LEGATIONS UNDER FIRE

St Petersburg, July 15.-The Novoe
Nremya has sen atioual dispatch
from Teheran stating That the foreign
legations were under fire by the Ma
tionalists. The dispatch says the
Russian legation was partly demolisa-
ed and the entire staf Of the various
legations were removed outside OF tae
city.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16
Loss to Growers Along Mississippi River Reaches
Into Thousands of DoIars-S0me Build
ing Levee in Hope Of Saw
ing Some of Crop
Still Rising

in the fields was soc-c,, but some 81
ii was threshed and y may yet spoil
In storage or transit.
c. A. Marchild9n, oae of the large
land owners in that section, will prob.
ably lose $4,000, and many others will
lose sums which will maze stupen.
dous total Threshers We're operated
day and night and the crews worked
in water threshing and hauling wheat
from the fields in the hope of say.
ms H.
The private leyee around j. r Nc
Cures farm broke tuesday night de
stroyiug all OF his corn and a acres
.of p-tatoes 1t is prooao,e that all
growing crops within a radius of sew.
eral miles will be total loss. The
corn on Picayune AMI Deylls islands
is all in water
on Smth'o Land
Several Cairo residents, some OF
whom are farming on Z, A. Smiths
land outside Of the leyee as a side line
will lose heavily from tie high water.
w c. Charles and Byron Herbert
have already lost about one-half of
G00-acre field Alderman E A Burke
lost about 60 acres, CiauGe Winter
lost . acres and Jas Marvin and
Julius Serbian have eacn iost several
acres. Alderman Fred Nellis. Andrew
Serbian and Charles and Herbert are
building a levee at Tenth stree5 in The
hope that it will save the remainder
of their crops if the river does not
rise above the 45-foo, stage.
Old residents say that this IS the
highest stage at this seaon ince 1879.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16
MAJ. CLARK DbMiSSED.

Washington, July l5-Upon congic.
ton by courtmartial fe passing bogus
checks and failing to pay his debts
Mai Chas. j. T Clar, Twenty-ninth
infantry, Jas been dississed from the
army, according to al announcement
at the war department today.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16
Potato cocoanut Candy.

Take two baked potatoes, mash fine
while hot, and stir in one pound con
fectioners' sugar. To this add enough
grated cocoasnut to stiffen and flavor
II desired. Drop with spoon on plate
TO harden.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16
CHURCH FIGHT IN PROGRESS.

Chicago. July 1j--Withia 100 wards
Of the grave Of John AleXa deg Dowis
Gfy Methodists viii soon erect a
church n Zion City.
This is the first demonstrate n
against Dowcism in the city Of lis
founder. and a fight TO a finish Is ex-
pected. Oyerseer No,ivia IL said TO
have saicCn in tn confess OF Zion
City than d Methodist church.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16
SON BORN 70 iE SAGANS.

Paris, July IA an was bora to-
day TO the Princess De Sagan, who
was Miss Anna Goub OF New YcrE
Sagan and Nine. Goud We're married
on July !. 1908, after Ter divorce from
Count Boni De Castelhne.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16

laxative.

81 wouldn't objeck TO de man dat
keeps talkin' all de time" said Uncle
Eben, III he didn't inss on th'owin' In
question every ten minutes or so dat
you's got TO answer to show you'a
keepin' awake. Washington Star.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16
M'KINLEY BUYS ANOTHER:

Dcs Moines, Ia. July tj.-Cougsc.s-
man William b. Mckinley. of Cham
paign. H.. tonight purchased the De-
Aoines Electric Company The url.
exceeds 100000 = great iuter,r-
ban system radiating from Des
Moines is a part OF the plans Of ths
purchasers.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16

The WEATHER
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Yesterdays Cairo Temperature.
General Conditions.

Yesterday was clear up till about
the middle OF the afternoon. when thr
sky became cloudy. Later in the
afternoon rain fell measuring IL OF
an inch, and the atmosphere was
cooled materially, Al noon yesterday
it was very sultry in the city. EN-
tremes of temperature in the Uaitad
States yesterday Vert a degrees at
Denver. and Jos at Phoenix, Ar!z.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16
10 Clean Eurnlture.

Take tepid water and CASTLE soap.
wash furniture and rinse well; then
take piece of old silk and rub until
II shines. You can make it look like
new.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16

With the river gauge showing a
stage OF AIS feet and the water rising
at the rate Of ~ feet in n hours.
there seems no hope cor the crops in
the low land sections or Alexander
county The rise DANG the twenty
four hours up to o'clock last evening
WAS los feet and a stage of - feet IS
predicted by the weather bureau The
damage to crops in -ae low land sec.
tions of the county is already enor-
nous and much greater loss viii result
from IS foot stage.
The greatest loss 50. perhaps fall
to the farmers along tile Mississippi
river near what IS known as Dos
Tooth Bend. Hundreds OF acres Of
fine Germ has already been destroyed
and great deal more is threatened
Water is many feet deep over the
road between VIM. Greenley's place
and the Atherton farm, AMI the peo-
pie residing in the low sections are IN.
able 10 come to Cairo
Among those who will lose hundreds
OF acres OF the finest promising corn
grown in Alexan Ter county are VIM.
Greenley Steve Jackson, Jas Brown.
Geo Ryal. Jas lee j C. Lemay, and
John Bowers, the latter being a ten
ant of the Atherton farm. Probably
total of 2.00) acres of corn will he
destroyed in the Dog I'ootu Bend dis
trict alone.
Northern Part o. County.
In the northern part OF the county
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16
DOCTOR
/ ADVISED
OPERATION
CuredbyLydiaE. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

i suffered terr1-
bly, from female ills,
including inflam-
nation and conges-
ton, for several
years. My doctor
said there was no
hope for me but an
operation. l began
taking Lydia f.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound, and
/ can now say / am
a well woman"
E.s,sa I'm
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16
Largest Refrsetine Telescope.

The largest refrscting telescope ever
constructed was presented to the Uni
versity of Chicago by Mr.. YeTkes. Il
has 2 to-ineh object glass.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16

Sun and Moon.
Sun will rise today ....- $50 a. m.
Sun will set today 49,. 7:55 p. m.
Moon will rise tonight .. 1872 a m
Mote. The above sun and moon
record is for Illinois and approx
mates the time at Cairo within a few
secondsl.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16
Easy Humiliation,

Dried lemon peel sprinkled over
Goals will destroy any disagreeable
door about the house
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16

Washington July l5.--l Illinois Far
Friday and Saturday; light west "ihdS
becoming variable
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16

Read the Bulletin every morning for
NO cents per day.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16
Northern Part o, County.

In the northern part OF the county
around Gale and Mcclure the damag
will also be great to ali crops A por
ton of the wheat that was shocked
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16
Eoreraets For TIC da,
Sun and Moon.

Cairo and vititity: Fair and cooler
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16

Virtue that parleys Ia wear . suFres
der.-FFeneA
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16

Flowers. goats or flying in the afr
are good omens to all.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-16

Rats and ravens denote disgrace. III
will and death,
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-22
MANY NATIVES DROWNED
IN FLOODED GOLD MINE
BY Associated Press

johannesburg. Africa. Jan. 22.-Ten
white men and one hundred and fifty
natives were drowned today in the Rand
gold mine. which became flooded by the
bursting of a dam, caused by heavy rains.
The water from the dam also flooded the
lower sections of the town of Elsbure,
where thirteen persons were drowned.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-22
Liquor Question Belongs in Politics Declares
PiHsbuger in Speech Before Model License
League - Says Prohibition in Kansas
Means Graft and Enables Dishonest
Officials to Reap Harvest

are desperate enough to defy the law,
that instead of protecting the young from
the temptation to drink, brings the vilest
decoctions to the very shadows of the
home and that there is no way to protect
the youth from the influence of the boot
Logger who is here today and there tomor-
row, who has no responsibility, and whose
only aim like that of many of his more
respectable brothers, is money only
money.
IF it should be more generally under
stood that the quantity of liquor consumed
is as great or greater in a prohibition
state than in Others that there is no
regulation Of the sales or. of the quantity
of the stuff sold, no revenue to the state
from such sales in prohibition states. and
that often the prosecutor becomes a per-
secutor who alternately protects and prose-
cutes.
Prohibition means not temperance but
lawlessness, and the more powerful the
movement becomes and the more numer-
GUS its advocates, the nearer we approach
the reign Of anarchy and outlawry.
Dr. Callen discussed the effect of the
anti-liquor law in Kansas, particularly in
Salina and Pittsburg. As a temperance
movement he said prohibition in Salina
is a failure, both morally and financially
and the end is not yet. This was true of
other cities in the state, he asserted.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-22
VERDICT OF JURY
FAVORS P|TCHFORD
Jury by Vote Of Five to one Awards
Judgement of $256.75- Begins
Sounding Criminal Docket

The jury in the case of Pitchford VS.
Lawless returned verdict last evening
for the plaintiff. and awarded a judgment
of $256.75., The verdict was not unani-
nous being signed by only five of the six
jurors.
This case has occupied the attention Of
the county court for the last three days.
1t is a suit in which A. j. Pitchford as
guardian for certain minors was suing P,
]. Lawless for an alleged balance of pay
ment on tract of land. 1t was heard at
a previous term of the court but new
trial was asked. 1t is not yet known
whether, or not the defendent will appeal
the case.
This morning the court began sounding
the criminal docket, and criminal business
will occupy the attention Of the court for
the next few days. Most of the criminal
cases are for the violation Of the prohibi-
ton laws.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-22

Louisville, KY, Jan. 22-National regu-
lation of the liquor traffic was urged by
Dr. j. F. Callen, of Pittsburg Kansas, a
speaker at the convention of the Model
License League today. THE liquor ques-
tion' the speaker said, belongs in
politics; it has the same right there that
the tariff question has; it is a national
question, not question that can be
determined in veStry meeting, or even
in one State Legislature, and it should be
governed and regulated from the nation.
The United States owns every drop of
liquor and beer in the country today.
There is not a distiller in the state of
Kentucky or any other state, that dares
to make me a present of a gallon Of
whisky today that cost him to make and
store twenty-five cents, unless he first
pass Uncle Sam $110, and the state or
states, that set up laws to prohibit the
sale of this product are in measure boy
cotting, not only product of the govern
ment, but product that paid in the forty
years after the Civil War over fifty-seven
per cent Of the entire cost of the war, or
in other words, eighty-three per cent of
the combined cost Of the Navy and
Pension Departments.
IF the federal government needs the
revenue it collects from liquor it should
lend its protection to the man who dis
penses the product and who pays the
government tax.
Prohibition is not temperance move
ment as applied to the sale and use of
stimulants. Prohibition movements seek
to wipe out the legal sale of all alcoholic
stimulants and beverages-that is, if we
are to believe the advocates of the cause
who are stumping the country. But pro-
hibition does not mean that out in Kansas
where live. Prohibition out there means
graft. The prohibition law out there is
the power that upholds graft and enables
dishonest officials to play fast and o,e
with the "Jointists.'
Il believe state wide prohibition would
never be mentioned if it were generally
understood by our people, that prohibition
is but the name for a law that takes the
sale of liquors out of responsible hands
and places it in the hands Of men who
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-22
HASKELL EXPLAINS
TOWN LOT MATTER
Attributes Controversy to Hearst's
Agents Whom He Claims Arer7
Seeking to Indict Him.

By Associated Press
Muskogee, Okla, Jan. 22.-Governor
Haskell issued assstatement today explain
in5 his connection with the Indian Terri
tory town lot controversy, which the fed
eral grand jury will investigate next
week.
The governor attributes the controversy
to the reports made by the agents of W.
r. Hearst whom, he says, have been trying
to have him indicted Governor Haskell
quotes an affidavit made by U. S. Russell,
editor of the Shawnee Herald to the effect
that Attorney M. L. Mott, who has brought
twenty thousand civil suits TO test titles
to Indian lands. has said: Il cannot find
evidence to connect Haskell with any
criminal action in relation to the Musko-
gee lot matter, but may be able to force
an indictment. which will answer our
purpose"
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-22
DANCE PROVES MOST
DELIGHTFUL OF SEASON

The dance at the Cherokee club last
night proved to be one of the most de-
lightful events of the social season. A
colored orchestra furnished the music,
which while it served its purpose, was
not up to the standard. However this
did not mar the evening. Those who at
tended were;
Misses Odessa Snider, Gertie Nidiffer,
Anna Chandler, Hazel Roberts, Artie Cobb,
Mary Chandler, Flora Roberts. Bertha
Thomson. Henrietta Patten. Bird Dam
eron, Sallie Ridgeway, Malta Stevens,
Pauline Skinner. Nell Smith, Carrie Stew
ems, Lille Wagermann, Jennie Gunter,
Pauline Kelley, Katie Webb, Agnes Gun
ter, Elsie Morrison, Lucille Hunt, Anna
Stapler, Miss Brown, of Tulsa. Messrs.
Vim. T. Rye, Arthur Rodman, Carl F.
Croninger. Tod Linsey, Merlin Lionberger,
Tom Walker, John Crutchfeld. George
Martin, Robert Dameron. Tot Hunt, Pat
Mahoney, Earl Walker, Garland Mars, T..
j. Jordan. Z. w Ewers, Leo Spaulding, j.
7. Blachert, Ted Kelley, Dr. Will Schlicht
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Cobb, Mr., and Mrs
Lewis Rogers, Mr. and Mrs, Heber Skinner
Mr. and Mrs. Hancock, and Mrs. Gunter
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-22
WIDOW FILES SUIT
FOR HALF MILLION
Insurance Companies Have Fought
Payment of Policy on Theory
That Burdette was Suicide

Muskogee, Ok, Jan. .22-Mrs. Susie M.
Burdette, widow of the late Joshua Bur-
dette, and E. c. Million. executor of the
Burdett estate, have entered suit in the
United States court here to recover l-2
million dollars insurance upon the life Of
the late Joshua Burdette against the Penn
Mutual Insurance company of Philadel-
phia, the American National Insurance
company of Galveston, the Provident Saw
ings Life Assurance society of New York,
the Mutual Life of New York and the
Fidelity and Casualty company of New
York
Joshua Burdette. senior member and
founder of the Burdette Mercantile com
pany of Eufaula, a pioneer merchant of
the Creek country and currently reputed
to be very wealthy man, was the victim
of an unknown assassin three years ago.
At the time of his death Mrs. Burdette
was in Muskogee. Burdettes S body was
found on the well curb. Lying on the
ground near the body was found the re-
volver with which Burdette was killed.
For a time it was believed Burdette had
committed suicide, but a thorough inves-
tigation of his business affairs revealed no
cause for such action, and the assassina-
tion theory was officially adopted.
The insurance companies for some time
fought the payments of the claims on the
suicide theory, but having given up this
theory, in the present litigation, they assert
that in answering the examiners
questions in applying for policies
Burdette made false replies, The
further assertion is made that. al
though he said that he was not
addicted to the liquor habit, subsequent
Investigation belied the statement.
The case is set for hearing February s
before Judge Ralph Campbell
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-22
SPENCER DECLARES
PLEA REFUTED
Declares Two Cent Passenger and
Maximum Freight Rate Law
in Missouri Absurd
By Associated Pfess

By Associated Pfess
Kansas City, Mo. Jan. 22-Governor
Hadley made the principal argument here
today for the state in the Missouri state
cases in which eighteen railroads in the
state are contesting the two cent passen-
ger fare and maximum freight rate laws.
Judge 0. M. Spencer of St. Joseph, Mo-,
general solicitor Of the Burlington system
made the leading argument for the rail-
ways. Governor Hadley asserted that the
proposed freight rates were reasonable
and if the railroads would stop discrimin-
ating they could easily comply with the
two cent law, Judge Spencer declared
that the laws under consideration, on
their faces refuted the legal presumption
in their.favor,and that they we're not franz
edafter due consideration. These laws, he
declared, came about as the result of po-
litical conditions and not from any pub
lie demand, Or public necessity.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-22

The Green hotel is looking for J. v. Rob
inson, agent for an advertising scheme
who departed for parts unknown without
performing the usual courtesy of paying
his board.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-22
MOST STRINGENT
BOOZE BILL YET
Senetor Owen Introduces Bill in the
Senate Providing Drastic Enforce
Ment of Anti-LiquOr Laws.

Washington. D. c., January 22.-If the
bill introduced by Senator Robert L. Owen
to amend the act, approved January 20,
1898. entitled an act to prohibit the sale
of intoxicating liquors TO Indians proyid
ing penalties therefor, and for other pur-
poses, becomes a law, the illicit sale win,
in all probability, be entirely obviated.s
The Owen bill reads "Any person who
shall sell, give away. dispose Of, exchange
or barter any malt, fermented spirituous.
or vinous liquor, including beer, ale and
wine, or any ardent or other intoxicating
liquor of any kind whatsoever, or any
essence, bitter preparation, compound.
composition, or any Article whatsoever
under any name, label or brand which
produces intoxication. TO any Indian to
whom an allotment of land has been
made, since May s, 1906, while the title
to such allotment shall be held in trust by
the government shall be pun
ished by Imprisonment for not less than
go days and by fine of not less than
500 for the first ofiense and not less than
$500 for each offense thereafter and the
person convicted shall be committed until
fine and costs are paid
This is said to be the most drastic In
dian liquor bill ever introduced in either
house of congress.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-22

Today was the warmest day experienced
here in January since 1904. The ther-
mometer today reached 7S degrees
Fred Cox of Grove visited here yester-
dav.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-22
Were Married at Sapulpa D..

Lloyd Anderson, the popular young
barber Of the S. L. Beaver shop on South
Wilson street. and Miss Emma Bennett, of
Edna, Kas.. surprised their friends last
Saturday night and went to Sapulpa,
where they were married The news Of
the wedding was slow in leaking out, but
today the friends of the young couple
learned of the affair." They will continue
to make Vinita their home.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-22
PROMINENT WITNESSES IN
PANAMA CANAL CASE
By Associated Press

By Associated Press
Washington. d. c.. Jan. 22.-Secretary
of State Root. Senator Knox, Of Pennsyl-
vania. and Assistant Attorney General
Charles W. Russell. Of the department Of
Justice, were witnesses today before the
federal grand jury investigation Of the
Panama libel cases. The larger part of
the morning was taken up by the grand
jury listening to the reading by Assistant
United States Attorney Mcnamara Of
alleged libelous articles
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-22
M'CUTCHONES GIFT
TO NEW GOVERNOR
Great Furor at Jefferson City Over
Presentation of Large Drawing
of ''the Mysterious Stranger"
By Associated Press

@-NNcC~N~NN~
Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 22-Unusal in
cidents took place in the United States
district court here today, when Gardiner
Lathrop, general solicitor Of the Santa Fe
railroad presented to Governor Herbert S.
Hadley a large sized picture of "The Mys-
terious Stranger This drawing is gift
of John T. McCutcheon, illustrator for the
Chicago Tribune. The representation was
made just after Governor Hadley has con-
cluded his argument before Judge Smith
Mcpherson, in the case of eightheen Mis-
souri, railroads that are fighting the en-
forcement of the Missouri two cent and
maximum freight rate laws The court
room was crowded and the governor was
loudly cheered.