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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19
THE HUMAN BRAIN.
1T IS THE MOST MARVELLOUS MACHINE
IN THE WORLD.

1T is THE MOST MARVELLOUS MACHINE
IN THE WORLD.
The human brain lis the most mar
velous machineiin the world. 1t occu-
pied less space in proportion to its
capabilities than any machine it ever
invented. 1t sends special nerve to
every ultimate fiber of some 500 mus
cles, to many thousand branching
twigs of arteries, to every pinhead area
Of the numerous glands which keep the
machine properly oiled, headed or cool
ed, to some sixteen square feet of skin,
which is the outpost guard of its castle,
with such completeness that the point
OF pin cannot find an unguarded.
1t possesses special quarters for the re-
oeption and translation of a constant
stream of vibrations that are the pro-
duct of all things movable or still in
the outer world. On the 4etina of ev-
cry open eyeis picture of the outer
view, focused imprint of every ray of
light and color, and in the visal cham
Der of the mental palace stands vibra-
scope, a magic lantern that receives the
retinal picture in it's billion speeding
series of light waves and throws them
upon its mental screen as living mov-
ing picture of light and shade and col
Or In the chamber of sound is q vi
braphone, over whose active wires
passes every wave of sound from the
dripping of the dew to the orchestral
fortissimo, from the rancous screech OF
the locomotive to the signing of the
wind through the meadow grass. In
the chambers set apart for scent and
taste and touch are the secret service
guards to report upon the air and food
which give sustenance to the palace
and upon the solid qualities of the tao
tile world. And, wonder of all won
ders, this complex human brain can
think in all languages or in no Ian
guage and even conceive its own phys
ical mortality.-Edward A. Ayres in
Harper's Magazine.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19
COMFORTING WORDS.
MANY A STAUNTON HOUSEHOLD WILL
FIND THEM so.

MANY A STAUNTON HOUSEHOLD WILL
FIND THEM so.
To have the pains and aches of bad
back removed; to be entirely free from
annoying, dangerous urinary disorders
is enough to make any kidney sufferer
grateful. To tell how this great change
can be brought about will prove COM
forting words to hundreds of Staunton
reade RS.
]. w. Walker, policeman, Randolph
street, Lexington, Va, says: "Doan's
Kidney Pills have my highest endorse
ment, as have proven their effiicien-
cy as kidney remedy. For a long
time was troubled by a weakness of
my back, accompanied by dull, mis-
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mended that at last I decided to try
them and procured box. They cured
me and for over year have had no
symptom of a re tun of kidney disor-
ders." +"
For sale by all dealers. Price SO cts
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Remember the name Doan' Sand
AXE no other.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19
BIRDS AS THEY SLEEP.
QUAIL FORM A DENSE CIRCLE WITH
ALL HEADS FACING OUT.

QUAIL FORM DENSE CIRCLE WITH
ALL HEADS FACING OUT.
The nightcap preparations of the
chubby little quail are very interesting.
Each evening the covey forms in new
place, and this selection of the spot en-
tails serious efforts. Bobwhite never
quite loses remem brance of the many
dangers which make his life in a wild
state one great fear. A white throated
male with soft clucks calls together a
dozen of his comrades, and for few
minutes they all huddle together, but
soeH from the farther end of the aviary
clear "Whew-Bobwhite ~ rings out,
and off scurry the whole band, this
time perhaps to settle for the night in
the new place-a dense circle of little
forms, heads all facing out, just as in
their native stubble they rest facing in
every direction, so that at the first hint
Of danger from any point of the COM
pass the covey may explode and go be-
coming off in safety. Poor little fel-
lows, their wild life is strenuous in
deed! Well for their race that every
nest holds from ten to eighteen eggs in
stead of three or four!
The woodpeckers sleep resting upon
their tails, even the fleckers invariably
following this custom, although dur
ing the day the leckers spend much of
this time perching in passerine man.
ner, crosswise upon twig. Small
birds, such as thrushes and warblers,
sleep usually upon some small twig
with heads tucked behind wings in
orthodox bird fashion, but they occa-
sionally vary this in Remarkable way
by clinging all night to the vertical
wires of their cages, sleeping apparent
ly as soundly in this as in the usua
position of rest. A bluebird in a small
cage slept thus about one or two nights
out of each week. Any explanation Of
this voluntary and widespread habit
among perching birds would be difficult
to suggest.
The little hanging parrakeets derive
their name from their custom Of sleep
ing always in a reversed position, and
when distributed over their roosting
tree they resemble some strange, pend
ant, green fruit rather than sleeping
birds.-Outing Magazine.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19
The Lur1d Glow of Doom

was seen in the red face, hands and
body of the little son of III. M. Adams,
of Henrietta, Pa. His awful plight from
eczema had, for five years, defied all
remedies and baffled the best doctors,
who said the poisoned blood had affec-
ted his lungs and nothing could save
him. "But," writes his mother, ''seven
bottles of Electric Bitters completely
cured him." For eruptions, eczema,
salt rheum, sores and all blood disor-
ders and rheumatism, Electric Bitters
is supreme. Only soc. Guaranteed by
B. F. Hughes.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19
The Usual. Things.

81 say, Elsa, what are you going to
serve for desert ?"
''Oh, the usual things-cakes, candy
and opera singers; then ices, liqueurs
and professional soloists; afterward
fruit, coffee and poets. "-Fliegende
Blaetter.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19
Kills Would-Be Slayer.

A merciless murderer S appendicitis
with many victims. But DR.. Kings
New Life Pills kill it by prevention.
They gently stimulate stomach, liver
and bowels, preventing that clogging
that invites appendicitis, curing con-
stipotion, biliousness, chills, malaria,
headache and indigestion. 25c at B.
F. Hughes drug store.
During the last fiscal year over 1,5CO
Chinese entered Canada, paying $7i6,
600 in poll tax.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19

Raising into position in one piece a
steel stack Y inches in diameter and
1O5 feet high, weighing between eigh-
teen and twenty tons, is feat recent
ly performed at the Croker Wheeler
Co.'s plant at Ampere, N. J.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19

1t is reported that the GAINESVILLE &
Meigs Valley Traction line will be- built
by Philadelphia capitalists from Park
ersburg, w. Va, to GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
about so miles. Work will begin this
spring.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19

VIM. H. Harrington of Claremont,
N. H., at the age of 81, is cutting third
set of teeth. He has never had the
toothache nor the help of a dentist.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19

Pittsville, Va.-An officer of the
Staunton Railroad is reported as say
ing that construction will not begin
until late in the spring on the propos-
ed line from Pittsville to Brights, sew
en- miles.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19

The Southern Coal & Transportation
Co. has been incorporated with capt.
tai stock of $500,0O0. Its incorporators
are all prominent men Of West Vir-.
ginia.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19
INDUSTRIAL NEWS
Items That Will Interest Many Of
Our Readers.

The Fort Branch Coal Corporation
of Richmond, Va, has incorporated
with capital stock of $150,OO0.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19

1t is rumored that the Chesapeake &
Ohio Railway contenplates making a
survey either from Orange to WASH
ingto via Fredericksburg, or from Dos
well to Washington via Fir edeficks-
burg
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19

A contract to complete the Holston
River Railroad has been awarded by
the Southern Railway to Lane Bros. Il
Jones. The line is 40 miles long, from
Moccasin Gap, Va, to Persia, Tenn,
and considerable grading was done in
the past year.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19

The Coal & Coke Railway, it is re-
ported, will build an extention from
Gassaway to Sutton, w. Va.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19

Evenwood, w. Va.-An officer of
the Sewell Valley Railroad is reported
as saying that the Morasco-Pasqua-
Lichie Co. has been given contract to
build two miles of line on the railroad
which is being built from Meadow
Creek to coal and timber Ian DIS, about
2S miles. The company is building
the rest. Grading is repoted finished
for about two-fffths of the distance to
the mouth of Sewell Creek.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19

THE c., {. & o. TO BUILD TO THE OH O
RIVER.
A Bristol, Va, dispatch says that it
is announced upon what seems to be
good authority, that it has been de-
cided to extend the Carolina, Clinch-
field & Ohio railway, which has just
been completed from Dante, Va, to
Bostic, N. c., from Dante to the Ohio
River. Surprises of this kind have
been fioated about for some time, but
it is now stated that plans are decided
upon. The work is to be begun at an
early date, and pushed to completion.
A tunnel must be dug through the
Big Sandy Ridge, and it is estimated
that this work will require two years.
1t is believed that a temporary track
will be laid around the ridge for use
until the tunnel is completed.
This extension, which Is to run
through eastern Kentucky, will con-
meet the enormous untouched deposits
of bituminous coal in Russell and Dick
enson counties, Va, with the Ohio
river, where connections will be found
for the great lakes. 1t is regarded as
likely that the ultimate plants to have
a great trunk line from the lakes to the
Atlantic ocean.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19

A remarkable effect of pile-driving
was lately observed at Rotterdam. On
withdrawing some piles that had been
rammed through quicksand by $50 to
200 strokes per minute, the points were
found to be charred by friction and
they ignited spontaneously on contact
with the air.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19

Consul Felix S. Johnson, of Bergen,
has sent to this country program OF
Tourist and Sport Exposition and
Exhibition of Domestic Industries that
is 20 be he'd ID that Norwegian city
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-19

A dispatch from Wheeling, w. Va,
says: "Fifty or more prosperous West
Virginia and Western Pennsylvania
towns will be connected by SIS, 900, 600
electric railway system. Tentative
plans for the construction of which are
completed. In the near future the
Pittsburg and West Virginia Railway
Company will begin tolay rails. With
in three weeks three corps of engineers
will be placed in the field, and
in the meantime definite plans
for the beginning of the con-
structlon will be made. The new
traction system will traverse 14O miles
and tap Uniontown, Morgantown and
Fairmont, w. Va; Waynesburg,
Brownsville and Washington, Penn,
and many other large towns in both
States.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-22
Zimmerman.RalIev.

A beautiful and impressive wedding
took place at the home of the brides
mother, Wednesday, June 16, at 5
o'clock p. m, when Miss Mabel Bailey
of this city and Mr. Luther thinner
man of Randlett, Okla, were united
in the holy bonds of matrimony by Rev.
Robert j. Church, pastor of the First
Baptist church of Vinita.
Mrs. L. S. Fisher of Woodward
Okla, played the wedding march A
number of friends and relatives We're
present.
The bride was gowned in a beautiful
dress of white silk and carried bou-
auet of white carnations. The groom
wore the conventional black.
Miss Bailey is well educated and
has been a very successful teacher for
the past seven years She is also
great church worker and has gained
many friends by her earnest work.
Mr.. Zimmerman is a highly respect
ed young man, worthy of the love and
esteem of the life-mate he has chosen.
After congratulations, refreshments
were served to those present The
wedding presents were numerous.
beautiful, and useful.
Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman left on the
1: 80 train over the Frisco en- route to
Randlett, Okla. where they will re-
side.
A host of friends wish them nappi-
ness and plenty in their united life.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-22
SHOE BEDECKEO TRUNK
IN KANSAS CITY

Kansas City journal: A tBlnk deck
ed with white ribbons and pink baby
shoes was received at the Hotel Kup-
| per Sunday night. Inquiry developed
that it belonged to Mr.. and Mrs. S. r.
Samuels OF. Pryor Greek, Okla, who
are on a honeymoon trip. They Were
married at Vinita Okla, Sunday and
were unable to keep the brides sisters
from decorating the trunk and writ
ing inscriptions upon it The bride
was Miss Emma Gatewood. She is
about 20 years old Her husband was
for eighteen years with the John Tay-
lor Dry Goods company in this CITY,
leaving four years ago to go into bust
ness at Pryor.
Mr.. Samuels was born and reared in
Callawa county, Mo, and formerly at
tended the state university at Column
bia. After a short visit with his broth
er, j. Ray Samuels, a local real estate
man, the bride and groom will return
to Oklahoma.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-22
REPORT SHOWS
IMMENSE WEALTH
Property Valuation in Oklahoma For
1909 Will Be Between $8oo,ooo,-
600, and $500, 100000.

Guthrie, Okla, June 22.-Oklaho-
mas assessed valuation for 1909 will
reach figures between $500, 100000 and
$500, 100000, estimates R. C. Cain Of
State Auditor Traps office. Mr.
Cain is the secretary and accountant
of the state board of equalization and
assessment
The assessment was 1927 ,722,5l6.
The board has not completed it's work
by any means, but preliminary figures
fix a probable increase of rs per cent
on public service corporations prop
erty, with the exception of telephones,
telegraphs, railroads, etc, which are
still out. Railroads will have val
uation approximately 5 per cent high
er than last year. Local assessors,
according to the 16 counties out Of
75 which have reported will run their
totals 10 per cent higher than 1908.
The counties of eastern Oklahoma are
reporting higher totals, due to natural
increase in valuations and to removal
of restrictions from Indian lands,
There is a natural increase over the
entire state perceptible in the reports,
and Mr. Cain thinks his estimate con
sevative.
Corporate property of a public serv-
ice nature will probably run towards
$3.50, 100000
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-22
STATE LOANS MADE
DURING LAST WEEK

Guthrie, Okla, June 22.-The follow
ing loans were made during the week
ending June 18th, by the commissioner
of the school land department
John L. Woodwork, Curtis, Wood
ward county, $4,000.
Mary B, Glasgow, Elk City, Beckham
county, 100000.
John L. Harden, Cordell, Washita
county, 100000
L. T. Ferguson, Floris, Beaver eoun'
ty, $4,000
Maggie S. Couch, Cleora, Delaware
county, 100000.
Joseph S. Norton, Cordell. Mashita
county, $1.50000.
Luther NJ. Canada, Ripley, Payne
county, $25O.OO
Alexander standley, Glencoe, Payne
county. $4,000.
Theo H. Frakes, Beggs, OiCmulgee
county. 100000
Annie Binns, Non, Coal county,
81, 10000,
Isam E. Watkins, Kinta, haskell
county, s1,5OO0O.
Total, $12,45OOO.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-22
POST OFFICES
ORDERED ESTABLISHED

Washington, June 22.-The follow
ing postoffices have been ordeRsd es-
tablished in Oklahoma:
Gee, Pushmataha county, Henry V.
Gee, postmaster.
Trenton, Okfuskee county, Lnsey
III. Collier postmaster.
The postofice at Fairview. okla,
after July ] will be located on the
west side of Main street, between
Broadway and f. streets.
The postofIice at Sallisaw, Okla,
after September /, will be located oil
the west side of Oak street. between
Cherokee and Choctaw streets.
The postoffice at Fry, Tulsa county,
has been ordered discontinued, effeo-
tive June 80. Mail goes to Broken
Arrow
The following fourth class post
masters have been appointed in Ok
lahoma; Brantley, Roger Mills coun-
ty. Alfred P. Meyers, vice w. A. Bur
ren; Noah, McCurtain county, J. E.
Hill, vice d. J. Griffin
The postOffioe at Waynoka, Okla.
will become an international money
order Office on July l.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-22
BOARD APPOINTS
SIX NEW TEACHERS
Vacancies in City Schools Filled BY
6oard-Discuss Plans For New
High School Building.

The school board of the city of Vim.
ita met last night at the Vinita Ma
tional bank for the purpose of appoint
ing the additional teachers for the
city schools. Superintendent Master
son and the teachers were appointed
several weeks ago and the following
win fill the vacancies: Misses Efie
McDaniels, Alma Martin, Bailey, Yer
melle Meacham and Mrs W. e. Sniggs.
Prof. Downing was appointed principal
of the schools.
The board also discussed at some
length the plans for the new high
school building. but no definite action
was taken. The plans which were
made by Architect Church, and which
have been accepted by the board are
for building, that when completed,
will cost about $4,000
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-22
REALIZE GREAT
MENACE OF FLIES
Mayor and superintendent Of Health
Urge Destruction Of Breeding
places Of Flies in Vinita.
To the Public.

TO the Public.
Every resident of Vinita must have
noticed the great number of flies 20 be
seen in every part of the city. If ii
were possible to follow the career OF
one of these pests from dragging its
feet through the filthiest refuse and the
dirtiest gutter until it comes in con-
tact with our various articles Of food
and drink, it would be easy to under
stand how great menace to the
health of the community these insects
are.
Screens help to mitigate the evil and
fly paper catches an occasional one;
but the better plan unquestionably is
to destroy their breeding places, which
are known almost exclusively to be
the piles of manure and offal about
stables and in back yards and neglect
ed surface closets. A great many of
these fly incubators exist in Vinita,
Matching out a generation every four
teen days We cannot ignore these
facts without paying the penalty. The
board of health would urge every re-
sponsible person as a duty which he
owes to himself and to the community
to-
First Remove all accumulations of
manure and other offal from his prem
ises and prevent their reaccumulation.
Second. Systematically clean and
daily disinfect by sprinkling with lime
all surface closets, or If possible, es-
tablish connection with sewer.
The laws of this state constitute the
mayor and city council, board of
nealtn, and empower them TO order
the owner or occupant of private
premises, at his own expense, to re
move any nuisance, source of filth, or
cause of sickness found thereon. Fail
ure to obey such order is punishable
by fine of not more than $500 for
each day such order is knowingly vio-
lated.
1t is to be hoped that a general
sense of public good will be sufficient
to move every citizen of our city to
do his full duty.
0, l.. RIDER,
Mayor
G. s. NEER,
Superintendent of City Health
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-22
GIRL MURDERER
STILL At LARGE
tChinese, Held in Several Cities But
New York Police Say They Are
Not The Missing.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
New York, June 22.-While Chinese
are being held in several of the large
/ fcities on suspicion of being the miss
Eing Leon Ling, in whose room Elsie
Sigel was found murdered, the local
police say none of them is the man
wanted and the search continues. The
report that Chinaman was arrested
at Reyelstate, B. c., appears to be
erroneous. The man held at Schen-
ectady, n Y, has been identified as
Chu Cow, a former New York mer-
chant
With the police throughout the
country on alert the local police be-
lieve the capture of Leon, is only a
matter OF hours.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-22
WHITE SOX OUT FOR
COLORED CHAMPIONSHIP

On Thursday and Friday afternoons
of TINS week, at Sportsman's Park,
the vinita White Sox and Bartlesyille
Tigers will battle for the colored base
bali championship of Eastern Okla
homa. Both of these teams have been
defeated but once, and both are play
ing a fast game The games will be
called at o'clock in order for the
business men to see the contest.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-22
Going After Information.

Robert Dunlop, of Newkirk, chair
man, and C. l.. Long, of Wewoka. sec
retary of the state board of trustees.
for the Oklahoma insane asylums pass
through the city last evening en- route
to Chicago and Kankakee, ILL.,, and
other places in the north central states
to inspect asylums with the view Of
obtaining information which will be of
benefit to them in the construction of
the asylum at vinita, and in the care
of the inmates They will be absent
about ten days.-Guthrie Leader.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-22
DEFENDANTS GRANTED
EXTENSION or TIME

McAlester, Okla, June 22-The
federal court entered an order yes
terday giving the defendants in the
Muskogee town lot conspiracy cases
until August 16 to file preliminary
motions Judge Campbell today
quashed eighteen indictments for tim
ber depredations in the Choctaw ma
tion, on the ground that the grand
jury charged that timber was cut on
unallotted lands, without specifying
who did the cutting or even saying
the parties were to the jurors un-
known.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-22
GREGG WILL HAVE
CHARGE or SUITS

Muskogee. Okla, June 22.-It has
been officially announced that W. j.
Gregg. district attorney for the east
ern district will take charge Of the
thirty thousand land title suits now in
the federal courts of this district a
persistent rumor has been heard late
" that the department of the interior
is not satisfied with the conduct of the
suits mp to the present
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-22
RUh0R SAYS SECRETARY
WILSON WILL RETIRE
BY Associated Press.

by AssOOIHItu TTtss.
Chicago, Ill, June pa Washing
ton special to the Record Herald says,
James Wilson, of Iowa, secretary of
agriculture, who has beaten the re-
cord for the length of cabinet service
will retire from that Office in De
cember according to the best informa-
tion. Charles E. Scott, congressman
from the second Kansas district, it
is reported has been selected to sue
ceed him."