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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-03-26
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

EOONG NiNG EN0OlNNEs
e*s 80 es y
Tom Byrd was in chelesa today.
Fred Ratcliff went to catale today.
Jim Lacey Of Eucha was in vinita
today.
J. l. Morning made a trip to Chelsea
today.
r. A. Wilson of Centralia is a visitor
here today.
Matt Hawkins went to Okmulsce
this morning.
Rev G. w. Snodgrass left this morn
ing for Bristow.
Andy Hampton of White Oak was
here today on business
f. ID. Pulsue, real estate man from
Welch was transacting business here
today.
]. II. Sisson and Richard Sisson are
here today from Kansas. transacting
business.
Dr. Louis Bagby. Lee Webb and
Lewis Rogers made an automobile
trip to Centralia today.
Tomorrow is the day. and the Bar
ret building, the place where the Meth
odist ladies will serve dinner.
j. Frank Knowles. of Horton. Mo-, |
who has been in Vinita several days
closing up deals for farming lands, he
has purchased near here, left this af-
ternoon. Mr. Knowles will probably |
return here in very short time to
remain.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-03-26

The county election board is in ses.
sion today for the purpose of giving
all candidates for Office in the coming
election a last chance to file applica
tions for having their names placed on
the tickets to be voted in the primary
on April g.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-03-26
Sugar Takes a Jump.

BY Associated Press
New York, Mar. 26.-All grades of
refined sugar advanced ten cents a
hundred today
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
VARS ON GARD EVIL
foHm6R CHAMPION WOMAN
PLAYER WOULD STOP PAsTIME.
GIVES WR,ING TO HER SEX
woman Who Won National Whist
Honors Declares Game is Menaee
to American Homes.

Des Molnes, Ia, Special: After
having won the title OF champion wo-
man whist player of the United States
MIS- A. Is. Sims. OF Des Moines. con
Guided that after all there was more
eVli than good In all games Of cards.
n for five years she has lectured
all over the country against card
playing. When she starts on her next
occurring campaign. she will begin or
sanizing an anti-card-playing league,
and In every place she visits will en-
oeavor TO organize a branch of the
order opposed TO all games with cards.
The time is ripe for starting a ma
tional campaign against this great evil
which confronts the American people
today declared Mrs. Sims.
The example being set every day
by the people who should be fighting
against card playing Is deplorable.
Every time | deliver my lecture | be-
come more convinced that no one per
son or set Of people can check the
card-playing evil. IL is a danger which
confronts especially the women of the
country, and 1t is time that a crusade
national in scope were i~naugurated.
| predict that within a few years a
oNhAAiiAtnA dEdliSI cara DlaN-
ing VIII sweep over the country from
one end to the other. AT present the
temperance wave Is carrying all be
lore IL. IL the American people will
awaken 10 a new danger, which in
many ways is more dangerous TO our
country than the liquor question, then
they VIII rise In their might and gamb-
ing VIII be reduced TO the minimum
degree. The card-playing evil is the
sllckest game If you will pardon the
expression. of which the devil is past
master. What harm can there be TO
a little game of cards? is the Ques-
ton which | often answer. IL is
only the hrst step the devil uses TO
tempt his victim toward gambling.
For years | refused 10 play for prizes.
More than once | had hidden my score
Tor Tear | would win. Finally / Yield
ed to temptation; carried away one
prize. From hat time on for several
years won prize after prize. Today
these prizes are in the safes OF one
OF the jewelry houses OF this city.
When | went to ST. Louis to enter
the national whist tournament. | was
In just the condition that a great
many women now are. was card
playing crazy. / won first honors. and
was heralded as the champion woman
whist player of the United States.
One day il dawned on me hat il was
all wrong. The longer | thought on
the subject the more convinced | be-
came Then came the determination
TO quit forever all kinds Of card PLAY
Ing. | was soon OIL the platform
speaking to large audiences. Since
that time | have spoken to thousands
of people. from many platforms. in
parts OF the United States. The
work started is yet in its infancy. and
! expect TO see the day when card
playing will be abandoned in the
homes Of the American people"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
TAFT AT FIv6-cENT THEATER.
President Sees Pcssums Crawling All
Over His Picture.

Washington. Special; President
Tart went TO a little scent theater In
Ninth avenue the other day and saw
himself In moving pictures. He
seemed TO enjoy the spectacle and
Joined in the laughter when a fat
possum was thrown upon the screen.
and. with Its young clinging to its
back, crawled all over a big picture
OF the President, adorned with the
national ensign and the Confederate
flag.
The films were made at Petersburg,
va. several weeks ago, when the
President participated in the cere-
monies OF the unwilling of a monu.
ment to the Pennsylvania troops at
Fl. Malone and TT. Stedham. Repre-.
sentative Lassiter. who lives at Pet.
ersburg. liked the pictures and asked
President TO see them. and he as.
scented. as he does TO nos PROPOSE.
tons advanced by his friends.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
SEA WALL SAVES CITY
GALVESTON ENERGIES UNscATH.
ED FROM ToRNAoo's GRIP.
PROFITS BY DISASTER OF 1900
Great Gulf Storm Falls to Harm Texan
Town Which Spent st,5oo,ooo
for Protection.

Galveston, Texas. Special: Cut of
from communication with the outer
world, Galveston last week pitted its
sea wall against the fury of wind and
OF wave. and won.
Though the wind reached a maxi
mum velocity OF 20 miles an hour and
thousands OF tons OF water were hurl.
ed against the masonry break-water
which surrounds the densely settled
portion OF the city, not one life was
lost on Galveston Island.
Ten persons we're drowned when
Bettison's pier. on the north jetty col
lapsed under the onslaught of the
angry waters and was washed away.
The hurricane swept the entire gulf
coast with an intensity hat has sci.
dom been equaled in a country where
destructive storms are not unusual.
IL had its origin on the Atlantic
coas and swung westward and south
ward, devastating the entire gulf
coast, even as far south as Matagorda
Bay.
The hurricane struck Galveston
Wednesday morning. The wind. at
tanning a velocity of 20 miles an hour.
whipped the tr~eache:ous waters of
the Mexican Gulf into a fury of de-
struction and blindly assaulted the
grim parapets of stone which man had
built to restrain its attacks.
In vain II hurled it's thousands OF
tons Of water upon the splendid
breastworks. Only a feeble burst of
spray and a little water reached the
b~eleaguered city.
The Galveston sea wall cost s 1.5OO.-
600 and was built after the terrible
disaster of September s. 1900. when
C.OO0 lives were lost and $40 900. 900
worth of property destroyed. Con
struction Of the wall was begun when
the city had recovered from the shock
of the previous wave and was COM
pleted within four years. The first
disaster made il imperative that the
city have protection from the sea.
The funds for this immense under
taking were raised practically by the
people of Galveston. The Legislature
Galveston county TO issue
81 100000 in 4 per cent bonds, running
for forty years. and these the citizens
Of the town Immediately subscribed
Tor. The sentiment OF the people OF
was behind this work and
public credit which was invoked
10 carry IL into effect. and as such IL
without parallel.
Galveston Is the natural outlet OF
Texas. and as such will probably re-
a permanent port, II the walls
millions OF dollars. proposed
built after the first disaster. have
be heightened and strengthened on
a more elaborate and expensive
scale.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
STRIKE LEADS TO FATALITY.
Conductor swope Held Responsible
for Shooting Of Herbert Happier.

Evansville, Special: Herbert Kap.
pier. 10 years old, was shot and fatal.
ly wounded on an inbound Second ave
nue. car at Second and Vine streets
at 1918 o'clock Sunday night. in an
argument over the street car strike
and Thomas NJ. Swope. conductor of
the car. is held for attempted murder.
Feeling developed rapidly and a
crowd of 200 or more persons followed
the arrested conductor TO police head.
quarters. while half the night the no
lice squad was called to headquarters
TO pacify the crowd and keep holder
persons out of the station when an
examination Of the witnesses was
made.
Swope denies having fired the shot
He says he does not know who done
Il.
Happier and two other young men
who escaped Immediately after the
shooting, and who are being sought
by the police. boarded Swope's car In
the lower part OF the city. The con,
ductor SAYS that they began TO taunt
him about being a "scab" and then
one OF them struck him on the chin.
A rough and tumble fight followed. he
says. and he heard two pistol shots.
Happier dropped TO the floor Of the
car. The conductor started TO run
away. fremen of No. 2 hose house
a half square distant, ran to the car. |
which had stopped. and Fireman
Cecil arrested Swope.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
ACCUSED Of GRAFT
CHICAGO POLICE INSPECTOR Me.
cANN UNDER INDICTMENT.
CONDITION AS BAD AS FRISCO
Supposed to Have Accepted Bride
Money From Keepers Of
illegal Resorts.

Chicago. Special: Edward Mccain,
police inspector Of the Fourth Dis.
trict. with headquarters at the Des-
PLANES Street station, has been in.
dicted ten times by the Cook County
Grand Jury on charges OF grating
from resorts in the West Side levee.
The police Official has given bonds
a%ggregating $40. 900, obtained suspen-
sion from police duty at his own re-
quest. and issues defiance to the vice
powers of the West Side. whose test.
mony is relied upon to put him in the
p~enitentiary.
On the voting of these indictments
excited attaches Of the States AtJor.
news Office predicted that the coming
week Of activity by the Grand Jury
will develop conditions as bad "a San
Francisco and pointed 10 the fact that
200 subpoenas for witnesses from the
police districts of the city have been
issued. These stories stated that each
police district in turn is TO undergo
the scrutiny OF the grand jury.
The resort owners charge the in.
spector with having accepted money
July ] last from characters Of the Des-
PLANES street vice district.
The five indictments charging NAL
feasaace in Office. each Of which car.
ries a fine Of $4,000 in the event u
conviction. are based upon the respect
i've indictments charging bribery and
accuses the inspector OF malfeasance
in failing TO have the resort keepers
fined and driven away.
The resort keepers. who are named
as WITNESSES on the Mccain indict-
ments. were indicted for keeping IL
legal resorts. the purpose being. 1t
said. to hold clubs over them I'M
til they finally give testimony against
the police in court.
Morris Schaatz. one OF the resort
keepers involved in the grand jury
investigation. made the following de-
tailed statement OF conditions in the
Street District:
Il have been a dive keeper in Chi
for sixteen years. and | will ad-
NIT that every dive keeper in the West
Side 1evee district, as well as other
sections of Chicago. must pay tribute
TO the police. | have been held up
by the police so much of late that
could not stand II any longer.
Perhaps the world in general does
not know how tribute money Is col
There is always a 'go-be-
tween at the head of all vice trusts.
and in the West Side levee district il
is Michael Heitler. known as Mike
ie Pike
Now Mike de Pike is and has
been the right-hand man Of Inspector
NcGann. They dined and wined to
I have often seer them out
automobile riding. For a long time |
paid protection money TO Mike de
Pike who would see Inspector Nc
iann afterward."
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
TWENTY FANS ARE INJURED.
Umplre's Unpopular Decisions Cause
Riot Among Spectators.

Jackson. Mich. Special: During a
riot over unpopular decisions by I'm
pire G. f. Eldridge. OF the Southern
Michigan League. at The conclusion
OF the Jackson-Adrian game Sunday,
nearly a score OF people were injured
when the railing OF the grand stand
gave way, precipitating them to the
ground, twelve feet below.
The Jackson team lost the game
At its conclusion some one made q
start for the umpire, followed by the
crowd, which had become iacensed
by some decisions during the game
The crowd In the grand stand nocked
TO the front of the structure and
pressed against the railing. The
strain became o. great and the rail-
ing gave way, precipitating the people
nearest II to the ground below. Some
OF the falling persons alighted on tho
heads of the ones below and were
piled in a heap on the ground.
The umpire made his escape, pur-
sued by the mob. and was chased
into his room at the hotel. two miles
away, where he was guarded by the
police for two hOur6.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
HANDS LEMON TO SHEA.
Judge AssaiIs Former Labor Leader
in Sentencing Him.

New York. Special: Cornelius p.
Shea. former president of the Inter
national Transfers Union, who led
the Transfers in their bloody strike in
Chicago, has been sentenced to not
less than five years nor more than
twenty-five years in Sing Sing by
Judge Foster. Shea was found guilty
of assault with intent to murder, for
having stabbed Alice Walsh twenty
seven times with a big jack knife
In passing sentence Judge Foster
declared: Such brutes as you are .
menace TO organized labor, not an
aid. 1t is men just like you who have
brought some disrepute upon the hon
est workingmen who make up the
union. You are not only a menace to
the unions, but to the community as
we'll"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
THE SECRET UNVEILED"
Title Of Book Issued BY Thaw's Moth
er in Defense Of Her Son.

New York. Special: Harry Thaw's
mother last week issued her book in
which she attacks the courts. District
Attorney Jerome and all others con
neeted in any way either with the
prosecution Of her son for the murder
Of Stanford White or with keeping
him in the asylum at Matteawan since
be escaped conviction on the plea of
insanity. She has mailed copies to
many newspapers. The title is The
Secret Unveiled" She says:
when | returned from Europe in
July. 1906. | found a cowardly com
bination OF men of professional stand
ing. with disappointed blackmailers.
perjurers and Others all working In
the interest Of the very rich compan
ions Of Stanford White. to prevent a
trial which would result in
They set TO work TO blacken the .
tation OF my son. an average young
mar with a chivalrous nature. Then
the entire family. living and dead.
was attacked by slanderous false
hoods. They pretended my son had
delusiops regarding those three in
famous dens used by Stanford White
and his companions i'm their orgies.
Judge from these ~unlooked-for dis
closures and from the powerful in
fuence Of these miserable degenerates
OF the corruption behind this perse.
cuiion."
She declares Thaw's confinement IN
Matteawan Illegal Imprisonment that
would wreck most men with forti-
tude.'
No attempt is made az a real re-
view Of the case. Mrs. Thaw only
quotes from the arguments used in
her sons defense.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
FLIES ACROSS CHANNEL
NJ. LOUIS eLERIoT MAKES sue.
cEssFUL FLIGHT IN AERoPLANE.
A NILE A MINUTE
Twenty-one Miles Through Windy
Course Made in Twenty.
Three Minutes.

Dover, England, Gable: NJ. Louis
Bleriot, a French aviator, successfully
crossed the English Channel, twenty
miles, in an %saeroplane at an early
hour Sunday.
NJ. Bleriot started from Calais,
France. at 5 O'Clock and landed on the
Cliff Of Dover. He is reported TO have
been slightly injured.
NJ. Bleriot mas for several years
been an active aviator in France and
is said TO have had more miraculous
escapes in his career than any other
aeronaut. He made a cross-country
flight from Toury to Arthcnay, France,
March 81, 1908. In a monoplane.
His latest achievement, prior to
crossing the channel, was a fight on
July ID. from Etampes 10 Orleans, a
distance OF twenty-five miles. He
made a successful landing, covering
the distance in sc minutes, 10 seconds,
including a stop OF eleven minutes
near Toury TO examine his aeroplane.
BY this achievement he Won the
french Aero Club prize OF 81, 800.
Hubert Latham made a daring but
unsuccessful attempt July 10 to ross
the English Channel.
NJ. Bleriot's monoplale is Of the
Latham type, but IL is the smallest
flying machine yet built. 1t is fitted
with a three-cylinder motor. which is
air-cooled and drives a two-bladed pro.
peller. Hhe pilots seat is In a skiff.
like body behind the wings.
Only Saturday NJ. Bleriot received
the decoration of the Legion Of Hon.
or for his efforts in promoting the
science OF aviation.
The route across the English Chan.
mel from Calais to Dover was chosen
because of the various and treacher.
u winds the aviator must encounter
and thus. If successful, establish the
stability of his machine.
Seamen have related how in the
space of a mile eight different winds
have been encountered, and TO be able
to stem them all with an %aeroplane
places the flight over this route on
record as the greatest achievement
reached by the "heavier-than-air" ma
chine OF the plane and propeller type.
Bleriot left Las Baraques. three
miles from Calais. about 4:3O a. m.
He crossed the channel. twenty-one
miles, in tw~enty-three minutes. twice
as swiftly as the fastest mail boat.
He kept about $50 feet above the sea
level and for ten minutes. while about
.midchannel, was out Of sight of both
coasts and the French torpedo boat
destroyer which followed him. with
his wife and friends aboard.
The wind was blowing about twenty
miles an hour and the sea was choppy.
The aviator was swathed in a single
garment of drilling impervious to the
wind, which covered him from the
top of his head TO his feet. only his
face showing. He also wore a cork
life belt.
BY his achievement Bleriot won the
prize OF $4,000 offered by the Lon.
don Daily Mail for the first flight
across the English Channel and stole
a march on his rivals. Hubert Latham
and Count De Lambert. both of whom
hoped to make the attempt today
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
RED LIGHTS ON BABY CABS.
Required in Speed Ordinance Passed
BY Los Angeles solons.

Los Angeles, Special. Baby cabs
ana wheelbarrows are included Ia the
speed ordinance passed by the City
Council, which provides that all We
hicles shall display red lights al the
rear and white lights at the front.
City Prosecutor pointed out the
ridiculous feature OF making no ex.
cepuons to push carts. baby carts.
etc, but the ordinance was not
changed.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
Libby,s Ball Club a worId.seater.

Helena. Mont, Special: Montana
is believed TO have a baseball club
possessing an u~ndisputed worlds rec.
ord-hfteen years without the loss OF
a single game. Naturally. the club at
the present time does not possess a
single player Of the original nine. but
the organization has been maintained
constantly. with changes from time to
time. This club is not a professional
organization. but just a club" such
az is formed in small towns each year.
The club holding this remarkable rec.
ard u at Libby.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
WOMEN IN WOLF FIGHT,
Attacked in Lonely Cabin, Mother and
Daughter Fight for IS Hours.

San Bernardino. Cal, Special: Elk
hausted and on the verge OF collapse
from their narrowing experiences.
Mrs. w. j. Getker. wife of the Salt
Lake Railway station agent at Crest
line, and her eleven-year-old daugh-
ter reached their home after a two
days battle with a pack OF wolves
For As hours they had been imprison-
ed in a lonely cabin on a deserted
ranch is miles from home.
While the husband and father. aid
ed by a gang of $50 section hands, or
dered out by the division superin-
tendent, searched for them the women
We're beating OF with clubs the at
tacks Of the wolves, which tried to
get at them by tearing of the sides OF
the cabin and digging under its foun-
dations.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
Sioux TO Quit the DaLo,,.

New Orleans, Special: That n col.
ony of Sioux Indians will remove
from the Dakotas to an unsettled
tract OF land in Nicaragua is declared
by Little Bison. "A Sioux chief. who
reached New Orleans from Bluenelds
yesterday. He went to Nicaragua to
arrange the concession OF the land
with President elaya.
Little Bison declares that he will
Immediately take 100 Indian families
to Nicaragua and that this colony will
soon be increased by the addition OF
several hundred other families OF
North American Indians.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
PERcHED IN BALLOONS,
And on AeropIanes. Photographers
Plan to Mug" Africa.

Chicago. H.. Special: w. ID. Boyce
has left Chicago on the first stage of
his trip to study the animals OF AZ
RIGA and take photographs from bal
looms.
His equipment consists OF three bal
looms and several small aeroplanes.
in which he believes the members OF
his party can take short flights to
photograph at short range. particular
ly inviting landscapes.
Large panoramic views will be at
tempted. and at night fashlight views
viii be taken TO preserve a continu-
GUS record OF the trip.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
American Gamblers Clean un.

Paris. Gable: An alleged band of
American professional gamblers. Civ
ing the names of Osborne. Brody.
Royal and Hubbard, have been arrest
ed on the charge Of card swindling
on a huge scale. American and Eng
fish guests at the fashionable vichi
and AK Les Bains and other water
ing places. we're the victims. Guam
titles of marked cards and apparatus
for sensitizing the fingers, we're found
in their possession.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
DIDN'T EVEN NICK HIM.
colored Prisoner Smashed 500 Pound
Block Of Ice With Head.

Columbus. Ohio. Special: An ice
block weighing 500 pounds slipped
from a hosting chain at the Ohio
penitentiary and fell athwart the
woody head az Albert Richardson, q
colored convict from Cincinnati, who
is serving 10 years for shooting.
When he was picked up he was I'M
conscious. but he soon revived in the
prison hospital. Returning TO his
place he announced: 1T didn't even
make a nick in my head" The ice
block was broken into pieces.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
Young Girl Hangs Herself.

Hamilton. Ohio. Special. Hanging
to a stair banister. the body Of Is
year-old Jennie Beckett. daughter of
James Beckett. a wealthy farmer re-
siding at Morning Sun, near Liberty.
Ind. was found by the child's mother.
No reason can be assigned for the
girls act. II is thought by some that
her mind became unbalanced.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
Shotgun Settles Dispute.

O~wingsville. Ky. Special: William
w. Wyatt. a wealthy citizen OF Mont
gomery county. was shot and killed
by Samuel Hedges. a contractor, at
the home of the latter. The men quar-
relied over > contract in which Wyatt
was the architect. and Contractor
Hedges fired on Wyatt with a shot
gun, killing HIM instantly.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-30
How About This Reauest7

McAlester. Okla. Special: The will
OF j. A. Barnett, who died a few DAYS
ago, bequeathing a 800, 900 estate 10
churches. Is being contested on the
ground that he was under the I'm.
fuence of liquor when II was made
Barnett was a close man and not Civ.
en- to going to church.