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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-05-18
WILL ASK BUSINESS MEN
TO DECORATE FOR ELKS
Local Members of Order Meet TO Prepare for
Entertainment of Visiting Brothers on
May 28---PmsOns Band Secured to
Furnish Music for the Occasion
Tulsa Herd Coming on
Special Train

Local Elks held a meeting at the
Commercial club rooms last night for
the purpose of discussing further pre-
parations for the entertainment of the
great crowd of visiting bills" on May
2S. when lodge of Elks will be in
stalled in Vinita.
The work of the various commit
tees was outlined and those commit
tees will leave nothing undone to
make the installation an occasion
worthy of Vinita's reputation as an
entertainer that will open the eyes OF
the visiting band of Good Elks, who
are accustomed to seeing 1--we times.
Committees will visit the lodges at
Muskogee, Tulsa, Bartlesyille and 9TH
er places to ascertain as near as pos
sible the number that will come from
each of those towns. 1t is expected
that 500 visiting Elks will be here.
information was received that a herd
would come from Tulsa on a special
train and would be headed by Tul-
sa's great band
The only definite arrangements so
far is the securing of the Parsons band
to furnish music to cheer up the fifty
two Vinitians who are to pass down
the rough and trying pathway into the
mystic realms of Elkdom There are
about twenty-five resident Elks here
who will assist the candidates in get
ing over the route without any more
-rouble than is of right due them.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-05-18
NO DECISION YET
IN LIQUOR CASES
Case of Injunction Against Jointists
Heard And Taken Under Advise
ment by Judge Fresr.

The arguments OF the attorney for
and against making the injunction is
sued by the Judge a few weeks ago,
against several places in the city,
where it is charged booze was being
sold, permanent We're heard by Judge
Frear in the county court yesterday
afternoon and We're taken under adj
yisement until Monday The attor-
neys who argued for the county were
County Attorney E. Fl. Brady and Paul
Mackey The consel for the defense
are w. P Thompson and Wade S,
Stanfield
There We're no trials in the county
court this morning The entire fore
noon session was taken up in the for
feiture OF bonds and hearing motions
for continuance
This afternoon the case of General
Blunt Martin charged with petty lar
ceny is being heard. Martin is charg-
ed with the theft of leather trunk
from w e Halsell, by whom he was
employed.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-05-18
More Litigation Caused
BY Decision Of Court

Washington, May 19. - The more
recent decision of the court of claims
permitting the freedmen of the Chero-
kee nation to come into court ana try
to establish proof that they we're inn
properly left off the Indian rolls is
studied, the greater the significance
of it becomes. Lwyers who are fa-
maiiar with the case admit that the
decision looks like more litigation on
a large scale.
Here are the two important points
that the decision will approximately
lead to:
The reopening Of the rolls of the
Cherokee nation
Suits to evict, if the freedmen win,
all those Cherokees who have been
allotted land which is claimed by the
l, 400 freedmen, or at least as many
of the Cherokees as were placed on
the rolls as new borns, perhaps others.
1t is claimed that these freedmen
when they were held by court of
claims to have equal rights. with the
Cherokees in the strip payment de-
cision, secured right that have obtain
ed right on down to the present time,
and that they were rejected, as claim
ants, by the Dawes commission,
favorable decision by the courts now
would give them the right to the land
which they have always claimed as
Cherokee citizens and that they would
be in position to dispossess those who
have allotted the land OF course
many serious legal questions arise at
this point, but the more legal questions
the richer the harvest for the lawyers. !
There is large number of law
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-05-18
FIRST ENCAMPMENT OF
UNITED OKLAHOMA G. A. R.

Muskogee, Okla. May lS.-The nine
teenth annual encampment of the G.
A. r. Of Oklahoma, convened here to
day, but the occasion marks the first
regular state encampment of the vet
Grams owing to the fact that when the
G. A. R. of Oklahoma and the G. A. R.
of Indian Territory held their encamp-
ments in Guthrie last year they ANAL
gamated and hereafter will meet as
one body.
The sessions of the G. A. r. will
be held in Convention hall. the au-
ditorium of which has been splendidly
decorated.
State meetings of the Ladies of the
G. A. R. and the Woman's Relief
Corps will also be held coincidental
with the G. A. r. encampment
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-05-18
HELD FAMILY AS
SECURITY BOND
Four Sons Held to Secure $1,000 5or-
rowed to Bring Family to
America.

Spokane, Wash, May IS. - When
Daniel Mann, a farm laborer, employ
ed by John Kranish ON his Moran
Prairie ranch, five miles from Spokne,
cabled money order for $1,000 to
Genoa, Italy, today, he released his
four sons, ranging from 20 to nine
years of age, held there as security
for funds he borrowed several months
ago to bring his wife and four daugh-
ters to Spokane. Prominent residents
Of Spokane county have interested
themselves in the case, and they say
if a settlement is not made by a steam
ship agency at Bremen that suit will
be instituted to recover damages.
Briefly told, Mann's story is that he
and his family of ten left the village
of Kuraka, Russia, ON October g. 1908,
for Germany, intending to sail from
Bremen to New York and travel
thence by rail to eastern Washington,
and that when they reached the sail
ing point the steamship agent induced
them through misrepresentation to 60
to Brazil; that they were forcibly de-
tanned in an immigrant house in the
forest near Prosttenort. where one of
the children died, and finally he was
swindled out of $1,000, the saving of a
lifetime of toll in the Cars land.
They managed to reach Genoa, where
he was forced to leave four sons as
a guarantee to repay money advanced
by Michael Loufti, who took pity on
the family's plight
'We found thousands of men, wo-
men and children on the densely tim I
bered and rocky lands in Brazil be-
wailing their fate" Mann said. Like
ourselves, they We're imm'sFants from |
Europe. We were warned there not |
to tell any one about the real condi-
ton of the country, and, in fact, we
were told that death by hanging was
the penalty for saying anything about
what we saw and the way we were
treated by the officials in the immi-
grant house Twas told that dozen
others had been executed for disobey-
ing this injunction
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-05-18

yers here in Washington, who make
a speciality Of Indian cases. They also
make big fees. They are not over
looking any of these proposition, and
they are not sorry to see the courts
render decisions that apparently
promise rich harvest of litigation for
years to come. Doubtless some law
yer will bob up with suit in court
some of these days to set aside as i'll
egal every act of the government con-
eerning Indian lands, since the time
the Indians were settled in Oklahoma.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-05-18
COURT CONFIRMS
DEATH SENTENCE
Negro Who Killed Employer With a
Coupling Pin to Be Hanged
on June 30.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Kansas City, Mo-, May 49, ~ The
sentence of death, against Claude
Brooks, Kansas City negro, for the
murder of Sydney Herndon, was af-
tlrmed by the state supreme court at
Jefferson City today. Brooks will be
hanged here June 30th. The murder
of Herndon was particularly brutal.
Herndon. who was a real estate man
lived alone in an apartment owned by
him here. He was a cripple Brooks
worked for Herndon and one night
while the latter lay asleep the negro
crushed his life out with coupling
pin. The motive for the murder was
robbery
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-05-18

Other meetings Of the various com
mittees will be held daily from now
until the 2Sth to make the entertain
ment grand success. One feature Of
the day will be the big parade, parti-
cipated i'm by the visiting Elks and
the candidates.
The mayor will be asked to issue a
proclamation asking the business men
to decorate their places of business in
the colors of the Elks, purple and
white
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-05-18
SENATOR GORE WANTS
COUNTRY TO KNOW
Py Associated Press

Py Associated Press
Washington, D. c., May 1S.-Sena-
tor Cores resolution directing the com
mittee on finance to conduct an in
vestigation into wholesale and retail
prices Of commodities was discussed
before the senate today. at some
length. Senator Gore declared that
he wishes the country to know just
where the responsibility for high
prices rests
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-05-18
SENSATIONAL CHARGES
FILED AGAINST RUSH

Tulsa, Okla, May 1s.-Sensa-
tionaI allegations concerning the
official conduct Of Sylvester R.
Rush, special assistant 10 Attor-
ney General Wickersham and
United States District Attorney
Gregg, Of the Eastern district Of
Oklahoma, are made in two petit
tions filed in the federal court
here this afternoon in connec-
ton with the Muskooee town lot
fraud cases.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-05-18
SENATOR SMOOT WILL
INTRODUCE AMENDMENT
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
Washington. d. c., May iS-In pur-
suance of the decision of the commit
tee on finance, to redraft the para
graphs of the tariff bill relating to
duties on zinc ore and pig zinc, Smoot
will in the near future introduce an
amendment to those schedules. IN
stead of making zinc ore and calomine
dutiable at one cent per pound on
zinc contained therein. They are as
sessed proportionately The duties are
being considerably reduced from the
rate as established by the house.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-05-18
COURT REVERSES
TWO YEAR SENTENCE.

By Associated Press.
st. Louis, Mo, May 1S.-A special
from Jefferson City, says the two-year
penitentiary sentence of Fred Warner,
a former member of the st. Louis
house delegates, convicted OF bribery,
was reversed and remanded by the
supreme court today
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-05-18
FINAL ARGUMENTS IN
ARIZONA FRAUD CASE
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Kansas City, Mo-, May lo-The final
arguments were made today in the
trial Of Horn Brothers, e. S. Frank,
IL. and John e. Ramona. p May and
S. II. Snides, promoters of the Two
Queens group of mines in Arizona,
who have been on trial in the federal
court here, during the past week on
a charge of using the mails to de-
fraud, and it is expected that The jury
viii have the case late today
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-08-26
BALDWIN.

Harvesting is rapidly pro-
crossing in this vicinity and
with a few more days Of fine
weather will soon be ended.
Miss Bell McMichael, who
has spent some time visiting at
her home and with friends at
Fargo, returned to Valley City
recently to resume her studies
at the State Normal.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Smith
spent part of last week at Fargo
visiting friends, and on matters
of business.
Miss Jennie Sowben left last
week to visit friends at wimble-
don and Sanborn, before attend
ing the institute at the Valley
City Normal.
Mr.. Bert Sharp is suffering
from an attack pneumonia. His
many friends hope for a speedy
recovery.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-08-26
Notice ofsSpeciaL Tax Receipt

Notice is hereby given that a Gov
eminent Tax Receipt is issued to E. B.
Knudson; that the date of said receipt
is July /, 1909; that the description OF
the property where said tax receipt is
posted is the frame building used as a
restaurant, situated on Lot 9, Block Is,
Village Of Finley, Steele County, No.
Dakota; that the name of the owner of
said property is E. b. Knudson, and
is occupied by the undersigned.
Dated Aug. II, 1909.
E. B. Knudson.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-08-26
Correspondents Column.
Nv :, ttFt Is.Fs1Ft E
SHARON.

Sharon her. first village election
Monday and elected the follow
ing officers. 1st ward, j. Il. Brua,
End ward, Geo. Long, Bird ward,
4. Duncan, 4th ward, McDuea,
9Th ward, D. D. Mckee; Clerk
Q. Dhantland, Treasurer 2. H.
Gilberson, Assessor p. J. Ham
son, Justice of Peace Albert
Mickels.
Miss Stella Duncan returned.
last Wednesday morning from
Mayville where she has been at
tending summer school.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Sansburn,
of Cooperstown, and A. W. Sans
burn of Millers. Nevada, spent
Sunday here with Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Sansburn.
Rev. Hunter, of Fargo, preach
ed in the Presbyterian church
here last Sunday morning.
Nv. M. Bauffleur Of Viroqua,
Wis. is spending a few days Wis
iting with his cousin, Mrs. Robt.
GSansburn.
Mr.. Kotts of Hope was here
last Friday looking after tele-
phone business.
Mrs. Bently and children are
here from Washington visiting
the Barrett and Meller families.
The rainy weather of the last
two days is delaying the harvest
work.
A son arrived at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Hilstad a few
days ago and a daughter at the
Jas. A. Simpson home.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-08-26
GRAIN PRIZE CONTEST.

The state of North Dakota offers the
following prizes for the largest and
best collection Of grains and grasses
raised in North Dakota, during the
year 1909 and exhibited by any n
person or firm:
First price,. ...............Sl25!M
Second wrize ..................tlOO.W
Third prize Observation-Disclosures. 75.OO
Fourth prize ....... ........... 5000
Filth prize z5.Oo
Five prizes, each ............ 1000
Fifteen prizes, each $500. .... 800
The different grains and grasses
should be equal in quantity to an ord
mary bundle, and the grains should
be stripped.
These exhibits must reach Bis
marck not later. than August Is, 1909,
and should be shipped by express SO
as to prevent delay. Express
charges will be paid by this depart
ment.
All grains and grasses prepared
and shipped for this contest should
be packed in boxes, using as light
weight wood as possible, and the
boxes should have plenty of air space
SO as to prevent the exhibit from be-
coming damp or moldy,
W. O. CELEBRATE,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-08-26
Yours for II Cents q Day!


We this
ne sales plan recent
", just to feel the
pulse of the people.
Simply q small cash
payment-then II cts.
9 day. That is the
plan In q nutshell.
The result has been
such q deluge of ap-,
phcatiOns for ma,
chimes that we are
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-15
.REGIsTERING 70 R FLATHEAD
RESERVATION OPENING

Kalisrell. Mont, July i --Registra-9
ton for. the opening Of the Flathead
Indian reservation began here today
and the streets have been crowded With,
people coming to enter their names for
a chance in the drawing for lands The
strangers began coming two weeks ago.
and each day added&to the number of
new faces to be seen. Yesterday the
rush was on in earnest. and the trains
were packed to the doors. iS5
The city council and chamber OF cons
.merce Joined in the erection of a NUM-
Der OF large temporary buildings, which
are electric lighted and supplied With
all conyeniences. 5s
III order to check any tendency to-
ward extortion. the city council has
required all persons establishing tenn
porary restaurants to file a list5of apric-
es, and they wlll$not be allowed to eS-s
coed them The reservation is a splen--.
did body of fruit, agricultural, grazing
and timber lands. containing in all,
about a million and a quarter acres. 1t
is similar in the soil. and general ap-
pearance of the Flathead reservation,
being separated by tho Flathead lake.
being the largest fresh water body in
the west or northwest.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-15
ANNA ABB0TT's JEWELS
She May Have to Pay Uncle Sam Tidy
sum TO Get Them

She May Have TO Pay Uncle Sam Tidy
Sum to Get Them.
Pittsburg. July 15.-James Feldman
and the jewelry gifts from European
royalty which he confessed stealing
from Mrs. Anna Abbott of Philadel-.
phia. were taken back to Philadelphia
Yesterday by detective. But the lit
tie Georgin Magnet" a. Mrs. Abbott
was known years ago on the stage,
may have to pay a large sum before she
regains the jewelry, valued at s35, 000
Agents of the United States treasury
department in Philadelphia were so
surprised by her statement that she
brought jcwelry valued Mt $751; 900 to
this country without paying duty, that
Special Treasury Agent g. w. Stratton
is investigating the case.
Z Mrs. Abbott also was surprised ntthe
inquiry, and said that she had taken
her jeweIry- across the ocean three
times without paying duty, as she said
the jeweiry consisted OF presents to
her from crowned heads and other
European nobility. In 1898, and IN 1897.
she said, she arrived IN New York and
that the customs agents had passed
her, gems free Of duty when they saw
the letters she carried from the dom
sors declaring they We're gifts.
Feldman said he met Mrs. Abbott
through 1natroimcnlal advertisement
inserted by him in a Philadelphia news
paper eight months ago.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-15
PRIEST TAT ALSO
IS STANDING PAT.
He Still Insists Upon Adoption Of
The Corporation Tax Amend
ment to Tariff Bill.
so SAY ALDRICH AND PAYNE.
Has Been in Danscr--Somc Repre-
scntatlvcs Don't Like Method Of
Raising Revenue.

washington, July 15.That President
Taft stands right where he stood all.
along" and will insist upon the adoption
OF the corporation tax amendment -
the substance of q report made to the
tariff conference to-day by Senator
Aldricf and Rep. Payne. The leaders
of the senate and house We're at the
White House late last night, having
been summoned by the president to aeN-
plain "A persistent runlor that the cor
sporation tax proposition was IN danger
of being dropped in conference. II hau
been reported and not denied that q
majority of the conferees were opposed
to the adoption of the measure pro
Viding for 2 per cent tax U pom tiae
net earnings or corporations ORGANIZED
for profit The announcement that the
administration would be satisfied with
a tax or j per cent and that the re-
draft of the amendment made by
Atty.-Gen. Wickersham would contain
this change. did not remove the obJec-
lions entertained by the conference.
The representatives of the house pro-
tested against the federal government
entering upon such a new and radlcai
method .of raising revenues.
Discouraging reports about the re-
ception planned for the proposition
when 1t should be returned to the con-
Eferees determined the president to get
at the bottom Of the situation and leari.
If he could whether the sentiment
against the amendment was strong
enough to compass it's defeat.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-15
WOMAN GUESTS
CONE TOMORROW
Party Of Distinguished Strangers
Will Arrive from Seattle
And be Entertained
BANQUET AT sALTAlR BEACH.
Mrs. Il. b. Wells. NIrs.aJ G. 1Iancllctt,
Mrs. g. e. Allen aud Others
Will Receive Them.

Mrs. Emme1inn B. Wells received q
telegram from Seattle this morning
stating that the party of distinguished
women who went from the big Quin-
duennial meeting OF the International
Council of Women recently held at
Toronto, Canada, had left Seattle last
night and would arrive in Salt Lake
over the Short Line tomorrow at $40
p. M, on their loneward3 way. The
party includes delegates from IL
countries. On their arrival committee
Of local representative women Will
meet them at tho train and accom-
pany them to Saltair, where ban
&quat VIII be given. with covers laid
for 200 people. The visitors leave at
5S.45 the next morning and previous to
their departure an organ recital will.
be given at the Observation-Disclosures the
courtesy of the First Presidency. Mrs
-. u. Wells is chairman of the gem
Gral reception committee. Mrs j. c..
sHanchetty chairman OF the banquet
and Mrs. c.. e. Allen will provide a
committee of Interpreters, for
the various foreigners, and ladies'
OF the Maccabees and other
large organizations will take
part III elne& general entertainment ~
The local Invitations include Gov
Spry, Mayor Bransford and other
state officials with the first presidency
OF, the Latter-day Saints Church and
others. A program of toasts will be
given by prominent guests.
The party Of visitors which numbers
about a hundred. were yesterday pre-
sent at the opening session OF the
National Council of Womenga at Seattle,
where courtesies were exchanged be-
tween the Representatives of the many
different countries. England, Austria,
Germany, Italy. Spain, Norway, Swe-
den Australia, Canada and America.
the scene being most Impressive. Mrs.
May Wright Sewall, well known to
Utah women, responded to the adj :
| dresses of welcome as honorary pre-
| sident of the International council OF
Women in place OF Its president, tho
Countess of Aberdeen. and an address
| Of response was also made by Mrs.
Mary Wood Swift, president OF the
/ National Council of Women. Others
i who addressed the council were Mrs
Emily j. Gsun1nlins Of Canada Frau
4 Marie Stritt, president OF the Ma
i tional Council of Women of German
i Mile. PoEelin, president of the Counci
/ of Women in Belgium; Miss En,ily
James, organizing secretary in Great
Britain and Ireland, and FrauIein Alice
/ Solomon of Berlin, correspondents
i secretary of the international Council
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-15
ONLY AssAlLANT's POOR
AIM SAVED HIS LIFE.

. h 44 d.
d ST. Louis, July 15.--only the poor am
Of his assailant prevented the :Assiss N
elton early today of Tom Benzolst - y
wealthy manufacturer and cluptliai.,
who was attacked in his autonf3o DIG On
{, dark country road between W ~ y.
ington university: and Clayton, 81 =.
I Louis county. No attempt was mace =.
ia rob Mr.. Benoist. and the motive tor
the assault Is a mystery. +,
Mr. Renzolst old .tc police th az NJ, ~
was stopped by man VINO tolu MI,
that a companion had been hursS {, anu ~.
asked that the automobile be used 81 70
take the injured I,erson back e, 20; SiaS Y,
ton. ,che machine was starlea# tcW wa y
lie place indicated. but when partlc-5
rlarly shaded place was ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Z er5 man ran from the roadside, lea Y .,p
upon the footboard Of the aut3inopile
ana fired three shots at ~ occupo n;
r. one of the bullets ia sscd through me
crown Of Mr.. Benoists hat ana an :.
other clipped the hair from his Tern
ME. The pistol was held 50 c.oss.to ms
head that his face was fieckrd With
powder ma rlis. 5. :
without waiting 20 see the result OF
the shooting, the assaiart and his con-
fedsrate fled he woods, MI. Ben
dist reported the occurrence I the 81.
Louis police, who in turn notified me
county authoriti IS.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-15
RESIDENTS FILE
CLAIMS ON FLOODS [: D. !.
tTwenty-three HousehoIders Ask
City to Pay Damages Caused
BY High Waters.
ACCUSED OF NEGLIGENCE.
Committee Appraises Injury 10 Prop
criy Involved and Claims Sums
Asked Arc Conservative.

. - q.
-thiee residents on hishth
West street, who live between Ninth
and Tenth South streets, filed claims
:. -, il a. +,,a cit,. thts !, or,,i,,e IN N.
!. 70 W ,..iit' 3,
Guy recorders o once ior damages a.
legged to have been done to their prop
erty by the oyeraowing of the Ninth
I \, (, ,,,,,,,,,. t,ot,,,,,, u,
'eo'st'l cailai uurihs .'e ms !.
ter The damages aggregate Fa,3s6 and
unless the claims are paid suit Will be
filed in the courts. The damage was