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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-08-20


e. D. Bennett Of Caney, Kans., was
a business visitor here today.
L. L. Smith of Sapulpa was among
the guests at the Cobb last night.
There are other good fours but none
as good as Red Star Garrison.
Emmett Ridenhour has gone to sa-
pulpa for visit with relatives.
DR.. A. M. Clinkscales made a pro-
fession visit to Kelso this morning,
Mrs. Hynds and Miss Carrie
Hynds went to Chanute this morning.
Golden Gate Coffee and Red Star
flour the best Garrison.
w. P. Thompson went to Pryor
Creek this morning to attend court.
Lon Conner and family returned
this morning from visit at Fairland.
John Mcdonald of Tulsa is expect
ed here this evening for visit with
friends.
Red Star -four has no equal for
bread Garrison
Miss Kate Perry of SaIisaw is the
guest of Misses Susan and Jack
Smartt.
Miss Laura McDaniels and Miss
Bessie Butler went to Pryor Greek
today.
Mrs. H. E. Ridenhour left this af-
for Lannigan. Mo-. called there
by the sickness of a relative.
Miss Clara Fields and Grant Fields,
Of Grove, who have been visiting Mrs.
R. F. Nix returned home today.
Golden Gate coffee has no equal, at
sarrison's.
DR.. Oliver Bagby. Mr.. and Mrs.
John Thomson and Frank BurckhaIt-
sr left last night for Colorado Springs.
A message received today from
Judge Parker states that he and Mrs.
Parker arrived in New York this
DR.. E. T. Mccartney will leave in a
lay or two for Wisconsin and Mime
'ota to spend bis vacation visiting
'elatives.
Dr. T t. Winner was at Pryor Greek
Oday.
Luke Sixkiller was here today form
Alton.
Mrs. Rosa Doublehead Of EsteIla was
n vinita today.
Thomas Ketchum was here today
rom Big Cabin.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-08-20
ELECTRICAL STORM ENDS
ToRRID WAVE IN SOUTH.

BY Associates Press.
Alexandria, La, Aug. 20.-The heat
wave accompanied at one time by a
temperature Of 10 was suddenly
broken today by one of the most severe
electrical storms ever experienced in
this state Two persons were killed,
one paralyzed and two rendered un-
conscious by lightning.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-08-20

3 LOCAL AND PERSONAL c
3 90 0 o o o 0 0 o 0 0 0 0 0 Q
H. Hurst went to Chelsea today.
Judge Gill went to MuskOges to
day.
A. T. King went to Tulsa this morn
ing
J. /. Morning was at Chelsea and
Tulsa today
Lowney's candies at the post Office
cigar and news store.
R. ]. Wright returned from Seneca
this morning.
l. Cannon was here from Tulsa
this morning.
Garrison has new electric coffee
mill it grinds your coffee just right.
c. NJ. Mckay, Of Tulsa was in the
city last night.
Dick Stevenson came in from Mus
kogee last night
J. W. Ratcliff and wife returned last
hight from Tulsa.
Lowney's chocolates. 10 to S. cents
per box. Post office news stand.
w G. Reamer returned from st.
Louis this morning.
George Kapp was at Alton this
morning on business.
Mrs. Clarence Rider left last night
Tor a visit at Denver.
Smoke Chief Bufinstor. vinlta and
Certified Check homemade sc cigars
Miss Katherine Chamberlin is visit
ing friends at Bluejacket.
C. E. Starmer. a lumber salesman
= Muskogee was here today
Any coffee win be better ground on
N electric mill. Garrison has one.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-08-20

FOR SALE-Two new feather beds.
weight 25 pounds each. Made Of gen
uine grey goose feathers. Price SOC
per pound. Inquire Of M. S. Runyan,
phones 1ss and Black <72. 6-s
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-08-20

WANTED-YOuEs man to clerk in
store also young lady cashier. Box s27.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-08-20

L. L. Smith of Sapulpa was among
the guests at the Cobb last night.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-08-20

E. D. Bennett Of Caney, Kans., was
a business visitor here today.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-08-20

There are other good iours but none
as good as Red Star. Garrison.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-08-20

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II. Hurst went to CheIsea today.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-08-20

In addition to the regular program
at the Auditorium tonight will be the
pictures, THE Moonstone," Lovers
Triumph" and an illustrated song,
After ALL"
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-08-20

Emmett Ridenhour has gone to Sa-
pulpa for visit with relatives.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-08-20

FARM LANDS WANTED-We want
to buy some Oklahoma farm lands.
Must be a bargain. Give full particu-
lars, price and best terms. Address
Box 531, Chanute. Kans
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-08-20

WANTED-To exchange a stock Of
merchandise for Oklahoma land. For
full information. address Lock Box
6S6, vinita, Okla. 1O4-9
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-08-20

The interior of the Dan Myers big
store is beginning to take shape.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-08-20

Button Brothers played to packed
house at the Auditorium last night,
and everyone was more than pleased
with the performance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

tie center play. There still plenty of chance of
my gettn the low tackle.
IF l might ask. says he smooth as silk lid,
what is your name!'
"Ah, watts the USE" says l, duckin' my head.
Look at that hair! You nights well begin calm
me Torchy; you'd come to it."
He didn't grin nothin' only | see his
eyes wrinkle little at the corners. Very well,
1'orchy," says he. II suppose you have your
references?"
NAH l amt" says I. But if you're stuck on
sich things can get EN-; mere teller down down on
"So?" says he. Then We'll pass that point.
Why did you leave your last place."
BY request" says l. The stiff gives me the fire.
lie said was too fresh
He was mistaken, suppose says Mr.. Pepper.
. You're not fresh, your"
Well say, amt no last years lined egg" says /.
If you're lookin' for somethin' that's been in the
brine all winter you'd better put the hook in again.
He rubs his chin at that. DO you like hard
work." says he.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

fourth member of the household John Bates, the
father of the young He employed at the
navy yard, and when he returned from work he said
that his mothers name Mary and that her
father John
Il think my mother died about 1885, said John
Bates II have lived on Park-ave. all my life and
think know about every Bates family in Brooklyn.
One thing I'm about, and that is the
only Bates family that lived on Park-ave."
Fox was congratulating himself upon the easy So
luton of the problem when Bates brought out the
family Bible according 70 which Mary T. Bates had
died at 1913 Park-ave. O., Lober Is 1884 at the age
of sixty seven.
Alasl the air castles tun'linq into the dust.
The Mary Bates of the savings bank was seventy
years old in 1884, il tead of sixty-seven, and she
alive in April, 1885. year and more after the
other Mary Bates had died
There was, of course the possibility of a mistake
verified by the death certificate the Office of the
Board of Health, and the Bates family at 1913
longer to he considered.
1t evident that Coincidence had been playing
hide and seek; but Coincidence past grand
mistress in the art of trickery, and the following
day the search began all over AGAIN.
Within the next week every family of the of
Bates in Brooklyn called upon and at the Board
of Health the death of every female Bates in both
New York and Brooklyn investigated from
April 1886 down to the very date of the search.
Thus were established three facts-that Mary
Bates living in 1886 that she had died in
either New York or BROOKLYN and that she had dis
appeared leaving considerable sum of money in the
bank.
Was she dead or alive? If dead where had she
died. If alive, where she living? To both ques-
tons New York and Brooklyn made negative
replies. Moreover, there was the question perhaps,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

Think I'd be chasin' up an office boy snap, if
did," says l.
He takes minute to let that soak in
knockin' his cigar ashes off the rug that
less way that amt married does and then he
springs another.
7 PRESUME that if you were left alone in the
office occasionally" says he, you could learn to
the busneSS?"
Nix, notl'' says l. when plays myself for a
confidential manager wants to pull down more than
four per. Givin book agents the quick back up and
runnin errands is my strong points For tips on the
market and such as that | charges overtime.
Course I'd figured it all off by then, seem as
was SO free with the hot air. Mr.. Pepper he squnts
at me good and hard, and then pushes the call but
ton.
Mr.. Sweetwater" says he, this young mans
name is Torchv. I've persuaded him to assist in
running the affairs of the G'ory Be Mining Company
Put him on the payroll at five week, and then in
Continued page II
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

to the new building on COurt-St and old Mother
Bates forgotten by the bookkeeper who
summed up the monthly interest the big ledger.
the credit of Mother Bates. Then it was that the
officials of the bank took notice of the swelling
count and placed the matter in the hands of Attor
neys Sargent & Sargent. with request to find the
old lady living, or her next of kim if she was dead
In August, two months later, the senior Sargent
sld to his clerk, Another difficult case Mr.. Fox.
For six weeks have advertised in the personal
columns of the newspapers for the heirs of Mary
Bates, without reply.
How old was she?" asked Fox.
"She was seventy-two in 1885, If living she
would now be-let me see-why she would be ninety
four Impossible! She certainly must have died
years ago"
a copy of the record from the card index in the
Phenix Bank produced, and this the slen-
der clue by which he was supposed to locate her next
of kim and the work of investigation to begin
the following day.
That vded thoroughfare Park ave-. takes root
near the navy yard climbs elevation into a
ment house region. and runs eastward for two miles
through colony of small shops. 1t is old street
in old part of town.
In this queer street began the search for the
former habitation of Mother Bates A previous
that there had never been Mary Bates on Parkave.
Then began house to house canvass 1t was a
slow and tiresone proceeding Day after day, UP
stairs and down, in shop, in tenement, in basement,
the oldest residents in each block asked if they
remembered the old lady with the snow white hair.
On the fourth day, in four decked tenement,
~ found a family of the name of Bates, a
young man, his wife, and one child and there was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07
OLD MOT H E R B A T E S
Romantic Tales of Missing Heirs


AkOTHER BATES was a spry old
IVx lady, seventy odd, with snow
white hair.
The teller at the receiving window of
the Phenix Bank in Brooklyn was her
most intimate familiar. Every Saturday
for ten years or more Mother Bates had
handed in her handbook at the window
with few dollars for deposit, and the
receiving teller invariably nodded a
pleasant good morning and remarked as
to how young she looked
In the big ledger near the safe Mother
Bates was credited with an account that
footed up to four thousand dollars. In
the banks cabinet of indexed cards there
was written the brief biography of this
spry old lady with the snow white hair.
The record ran thus: Full name,
Mary Bates; widow; fathers name, John;
birthplace, England; residence, Park
ave-, Brooklyn; occupation, housekeeper;
age in 1885, seventy one years"
On Saturday, April IL, 1886, Mother
Bates made her last appearance at the
Phenix Bank. The next week the re-
ceiving teller missed her familiar face,
and in the succeeding weeks he looked
in vain for the wrinkled old hand at the
wicket.
So the years passed. The receiving
teller entered the Government service in
Washington, the Phenix Bank removed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

'IIelloi' said the clerk. 81 was hoping you would
come back. They found Aunt Mary dead on Tues
day when the bell rang for breakfast, and they put
her away in the island plot yesterday
Joseph turned with quivering lip, and then they
went outside and sat down on a bench in the sun
shine to talk things
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-05-26
Temperance Notes.

A man drunk on the egotism OF 49,
should not add thereto the
in]toxication of drink.
I'VE have had prohibition so long
in North Carolina" said Governor
Burke. that in some counties there
are no jails. There is not mucn
crime in the State"
Think of so-called Catholic papers
and leaders appealing in the name OF
virtue for the extension OF the CLOS
ing time of saloons from IL p. m. 10
midnight:-Catholic Abstainer.
St. Johns is said to be the H.
place in Newfoundland where the sa-
loon survives.
Since Philadelphia Freemasoas
have shut out intoXicants from their
hall and banquets, why should Or
CARNATIONS claiming higher purposes
hold back?
Professor Lombroso, the Italian
criminoloeist. calls attention to the
remarkable freedom from drunken
ness found in the Jewish race. In
the ordinary insane asylum, he says,
fftv-hve per cent. of the inmates 1--WE
,heir condition to alcoholism, while
IN the Jewish asylum at Amsterdam
he could not find one case Of sucn eEI>
gin
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-05-26
Chauncey Depew on Drink.

In a great birthday address at,the
Montauk banquet, Chauncey Depe"'
among other things, said:
when I graduated and began tns
study of the law, bigotry prevailed
all over the country on all contro.
versial questions. Religious sects
were more engrossed in lighting eacn'
other than the common enemy.
There was an almost frantic fear lest
science and research should impair
the Bible, and scientists were de-
nounced as infdels. Not to DRINK
was singular, and not to accept a
treat or to treat in return a breach Oh
good manners. Naturally drunken
ness, either in public or in private
was a forgivable weakness. NOW a
Bible student halls science ana CRU
cism as buttresses Of the sacred pook,
and there is happy and hopeful unity
among the churches. Cresds nave
lost their power, but faith IS nrmer
in higher thinking and a
speech. The progress of temperance
has brought i~ncalculabfe blessings 10
the home society and citizenship.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-05-26

Some years ago I was sitting at din
ner in the large dining hall Of the
Kerby House, in Brantford. At the
same table two we'll known travellers
were afterwards seated. The first
conner had his first course before him
when the other sat down, and looking
for the salt espied it on the opposite
side of the table, out of his reach.
Politely and smilingly he said to his
viS-a-viS:
will you pass the salt, please?"
I supposed the other man was deaf,
for he paid no attention to the polite
request; but I was soon disabused of
that idea ry his ready reply to a re-
mark made to him by a friend at an
other table. Again traveller No. 1
asked him to please pass the salt"
Are you speaking to Ee:" asked
No. 2.
II certainly am" was the reply.
IL have tried, as politely as I know
how, to ask for the salt"
If you want anything you see on
the table, why don't you ask the wait
er to bunch EN- around your plate?
Don't mistake me for the waiter, sir"
And the salt calmly reposed at his
elbow.
"Oh, I beg your pardon. mistook
you for a gentleman. You see you
are dressed like one and my mistake
was quite natural. You'll excuse me,
won't you" sweetly.
Il sat down at this table expecting
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-05-26
Abating a Nuisance.

The Langworths lived in a corner
house so easily accessible from the
street that they were constantly an
noyed by persons ringing to ask
where other possible inhabitants Of
that block were to be found. Finally,
goaded to desperation by these inter-
ruptions, the family boy attempted to
put a stop to the nuisance.
81 guess" said he. complacently,
''there won't be any more folks ask
ing if the Browns. the Biddles or the
Hansons live in this house. I've fixed
'em."
What have you done?" queried
Mrs. Langworth.
Hung out a sign"
And what did you print On 1t,
laddie?"
Just five words" replied Harold
proudly: Nobody lives here but
u.s. "-Lippincott's.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-05-26
Feeding For Eggs.

To produce a number Of eggs in
winter I feed the fowls at daylight a
light feed of mixed grains, about foul
quarts to each 100 fowls. AS soon as
they have their first meal the vessels
are filed with warm water, and these
vessels should be kept: free from ice
by adding boiling water when neces.
sary during the coolest weather.
At 2 in the morning the fowls
should be given all they will eat OF a
warm mash that has been steamed
over night in a covered mixing box.
The last feed should be given them at
3 o'clock in the afternoon, and made
up of mixed grain thrown in the lit
ter. To increase the egg production
a cut of raw fresh bone and meat
should be given. the fowls twice a
week during cold weather. - A. c.
Hawkins, Worcester County, Mass,
CuItivator.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-05-26
Set Eight at a Time.

It is best to set at least eight hens
at a time. Start them on china eggs,
and if they settle down we'll put in
good eggs the next night. When sup
plying the eggs dust the hens and
eggs with insect powder and apply
the powder twice again before hatch
ing. Test the eggs about the eighth
day, put the good eggs under fewer
hens, and reset the other hens. Do
not be discouraged if some of the
hens leave the eggs many hours at a
time. The eggs will hatch, although
a little later than If they had not been
neglected. Sometimes eggs will
hatch when left without the hen for
thirty-six hours If the weather is
warm. Fifteen chickens is the limit
that one hen should care for. More
than that will not do so well.-Mrs.
w. H. Marsh, Tolland County, Conn.,,
in American C%ultivator.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-05-26
THE TRAVELLER AS A "KIDDER"
Joke Two Dpummers Played On Unsuspeeting
Listeners at the Table.

to mind my own business" roared
No. 2. Il shall expect you to do the
same, or I shall appeal to the pro-
prietor to throw you out"
My error in judgment seems to
have been exceedingly bad. I mis-
took you for a gentleman; now l dis
cover that you are a coward-a cow
ard, sir; do you understand me? Why
don't you throw me out? You are
bigger than I am, you big fathead!"
Gentlemen" said No. 2, turning
to the others at the table, II appeal to
you. Do I deserve all this abuse"
"Certainly not" they chorused in
unison. I'D fire the blasted salt at
his head" said one, holder than the
rest. Hes a brute" said another.
By this time No. l had finished his
meal. Leisurely drying his moist
ened lips and fingers on his serviette,
he smiled upon those who were be-
rating him, and bowling like a Ches-
terfield to those at the table, left the
dining room. Close after him fol-
lowed No. 2. The others hurriedly
swallowed their dessert and fastened
from the room ito see the fun" for
they felt certain of a lively set-to be-
tween the strangers. They found
them at the cigar stand selecting in
the establishments an a~fter-dinner
cigar and laughing uproariously at
the joke they had played on the un-
suspecting and indignant listeners at
the table.-New England Grocer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-05-26
Perfect Confidence.

A physician was summoned to a
very sick man, who was very much
preoccupied with troubles Of his own.
On arriving at the sick mans bed, he
said to his wife: Your husband is
in the last throes. Every movement
shows that the end is nearing" At
this moment the sick mans head fell
over the pillow, when the doctor said:
The end has come, your husband is
dead"
In a shrill, thin voice the sick man
said:
faint so. Maria
At once the wife laid her hand on
his head and remarked: Don't dis
turb yourself, Rufus-the doctor
knows best."-Harper's Monthly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-05-26
MARKETING CHICKEN FEATHERS
Dry Pick and Save the Feathers Until
You Have Enough to Sell.

Tons of feathers are probably lost
each veal in small amounts because
farmers and poultrymen do not think
it worth while to save the few ounces
plucked from birds used at home and
for local market. Another reason
probably is that the prices are
thought to be too small to make saw
ing these few feathers seem worth
while.
If a few minutes be taken when
plucking 10 done to separate the vari-
GUS grades and to practice the best
methods of curing them, there is no
reason why a nice little sum could
not be saved in each case, and the ag-
gregate make a considerable advance
in the annual returns from poultry.
Chicken and duck, as we'll as goose
feathers, are always in demand, and
should be saved, but ought to be Kept
separate, and the larger feathers
placed by themselves. In no case
should chicken and turkey feathers
be scalded, because the hot water re-
moves the animal oil and reduces the
grade very greatly. Such feathers
scalded command only a fraction of
the price paid for dry picked ones.
Another good point is to keep the
white separate from the colored feath-
ers, because white stock brings a
higher price than dark. After pluck
ing, the feathers should be spread out
until the moisture Is thoroughly dried
out. During this time they should
be turned daily If they are spread at
all thickly. Turkey body feathers,
while too large as they come from the
bird, are often chopped and used in
cheap pillows.
A leading dealer writes that hen
and turkey body feathers have only
saving value when dry picked, says
the Orange Judd Farmer. They
should be laid out on the floor and
forked over daily, and should be in a
marketable condition in three days,
when they can be shipped in burlap
bags. These grades are worth In
mid-autumn between four and five
cents a pound. Chicken quilts should
be thrown away, never mixed with
softer body feathers, because they
spoil the grade. Turkey quills should
be graded; the long tails placed In
one box, those from the first two
Joints of the wings in another, those
from the last joint in a third. The
shorter quilts and those from the
rump, ranging from five to eight
inches, placed in a burlap bag. After
a thorough airing theymay be packed
for shipment. Moisture allowed to
remain in them rots the quilts quick.
ly and thus reduces the grade.