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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-23

citation has been steadily engaged in
an effort to reduce in some measure
this enormous and disproportionate
waste. Through our active member,
the National Board OF Fire Under
writer's, a model building code has
been prepared and freely distributed
to officers of all municipalities who
could be interested Through the
same organization expert fire protec-
tion engineers visit all of the princi-
pal cities of the country and make ex-
tensive reports on the confagration
conditions. In our own organization
we have appointed large number of
committees, each one of which has per-
fected model specifications in various
branches of fire protection engineer
ing and in the field covered by fire
prevention.
Another publication covers specifi-
cations for automatic sprinkler install
lations, outlining in detail the methods
to be followed in equipping buildings
with the most useful and successful
extinguishing agent. Publications of
similar character which have been
distributed in editions of many thou
sands and which are freely used by
property owners, architects, insurance
boards, and others interested, include
specifications for the construction and
installation of fire doors and fire win
dows, fire shutters, electrical signall-
ing systems affecting the fire hazard
valves and hydrants, hose, suggestions
for organizing private fire depart
ments, and various forms of building
construction. Specifications for safe
guarding hazardous appliances and
systems coming under the general
head of explosives and combustibles
have been issued including films for
moving picture machines, systems for
storing fluids which at ordinary tenn
peratures give off infiammable vapors,
acetylene gas machines, gasoline vapor
lighting machines, lamps and systems,
engines and stoves, rules for waste
cans, ash cans, refuse barrels, fire
pals and safety cans for benzine and
gasoline, storage and use of fuel oil |
kerosene oil pressure systems, and
also a suggestion for protection against
lightning.
I'VE are issuing from time to time |
circulars and copy for newspapers on |
both the common and the periodical |
of fire, such as the hazards of |
Christmas decorations and displays,
the menace of the match, the hazards
Of defective chimneys and fiues, and |
also the proper season warnings as to
celebrations of the national holidays,
the Fourth of July"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-23
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Money.


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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-23
The Fire Record.

The fire laddies answered one alarm
of fire yesterday, and one this morn,
ing.
A hole was burned in the roof of the
Lawrence house, 405 East Sequoyah
avenue, just after dinner yesterday
The firemen had no difficulty in ex.
tinguishing the flames. The damage
was slight.
Rev. King, who lives at 155 South
Miller street, undertook to burn off
a patch of grass between his house and
the neighbors next door, but the fire
got so busy that an alarm was rung
in. The danger didn't last very long
after the fire department got there.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-23
Association Would Prevent
Fire Losses to Resources

New York, Dec. 14-The work O.
the National Fire Protection associa
tion was described by w. H. Merrill
of Chicago, president of the organiza
tion, in an address delivered last night
before the National Association of Ce
ment Users at its seventh annual con
yention in Madison Square Garden
THE National Fire Protection associa
ton" said Mr.. Merrill, stands for con
servation of the created resources OF
America" He gave figures to show
the enormous annual fire losses in the
United States and told how the asso.
citation was educating the public to
prevent these losses.
'We believe that the fire waste is
lof great Importance" he said, "as af-
fecting the material welfare of the
nation as a whole and is of direct obli-
gatory and pecuniary interest to each
one of us having families to protect
and property to preserve for our fam
ily's use. Each loss by fire is drain
upon the material resources of the
country, irrecoverable through the col
lection of insurance
THE average annual loss by fire in
the United States in the past ten years
has been over two hundred million
dollars, and during the past five years
has averaged over two hundred and
fifty million dollars An average loss
for the last five years of two hundred
and fifty millions means a loss of
about thirty thousand dollars for each
hour. One thousand two hundred and
sixty million of dollars in the products
of human toll has been wiped out of
existence in the brief space of five
years. The values represented by the
fire waste would more than pay the
stock dividends of all railroads. It
exceeds the revenue of the national
postoffice; it is greater than the pro-
duction of gold or silver.
''The annual number of fires in
cities averaged forty for
each two thousand of population, as
compared to eight of each ten thou
sand population in European cities
The annual per capita loss in Aus
tralia, Denmark, France, Germany,
Italy and Switzerland varies from -
cents in Italy to 49 cents in Germany,
with an average of 33 cents; in the
United States the average is $2.47.
Berlin has a population of three mil
lion. It's average annual fire loss is
one hundred and seventy thousand
dollars. Chicago with it's population of
,wo millions burns up annually nearly |
i've million dollars of values. We de- |
'troy more property by fire than do |
my four nations in Europe.
The National Fire Protection asso-
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-23
FORMER AMERICAN GUNBOAT
PREPARES TO LEAD ATTACK
BY Associated Press.

New Orleans, La, Dec. 19.-Great
excitement was created this morning
when it became known that the former
United States gunboat Hornet" pur-
chased several months ago from the
government, by local firm, had coal
ed, provisioned, signed a crew and
would make an effort to leave today
for Central America. statement
here says the Hornet will lead an at
tack which the revolutionists plan
against the republic of Honduras with
view to overthrowing the Davila gov
ernment.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-23
BUFFALO BILL ON HIS
LAST HUNT FOR BUFFALO

Pawnee, Okla, Dec. 16.-Blue Hawl
Peak, the former eyrie of an old Paw
nee Indian chief, with lookout il
every direction of over forty miles o
surrounding hill and vale, THURSDAY
witnessed the official opening of
splendid modern mansion as the per
manent home of Major Gordon Lille
I"Pawnee Bill"
With 500 acres of land, new bunga
| low of native stone, novel in architect
Iural design and with every modern
equipment, companion in style, gar
age and stables, splendid speciment
large in dimension, of a typical old
time settlers cabin, an Indian coun
Gil house, rs feet in diameter and Sc
feet to apex, especially constructed by
|experts from the Pawnee and Usage
tribes, covered with three feet of earth
and sond thus forming a seeming nat
ural mound, backed by a prairie re.
buffalo, a combination of three ears
|of historic worth is represented that
gives picturesque interest to this valu-
ed addition to the city of Pawnee.
An assemblage of old times, led by
Col. w. F. Cody, Buffalo Bill" and
some of the aged Pawnee warriors
who acted with him as scouts in the
north over forty years ago, led by old
White Eagle, former boomers, settlers,
ranchmen, farmers and business men
added melange of reminiscent in
terest to the assemblage.
This was heightened by the presence
of such nited artists of western scenes
as Charles Schreyvogel of New York,
Charles Stevens and E, w. Lenders of
Ph 'ladelphia, H. H. Cross of Chicago,
and E. w. Deming of Boston, each of
whom contributed an oil painting panel
feet by on the following subjects:
''The Coroned Scout" "a Westedn
Dawn Indian Courtship," "An Elk
Hunt" and "a Buffalo Herd"
An Indian dance and council were
held to inaugurate the mound-like
aboriginal capital"
A buffalo meat barbecue was a fea-
ture, the produce being the result of
an early morning real hunt by the re-
nowned old scout, Cody.
An unruly bull, whose ill-treatment
Of his fellows necessitated it, was con-
1emned to death so as to keep peace
in the family. The colonel, under the
consented to execute
he sentence and the occasion will, in
he history of the chase, be known as
Buffalo Bills last shot in the story of
bison hunting.
Major John NJ Burke Zone of the
wo last of Indian peace commission
,rs), Mr.. Lewis E. Cook of New York,
Mr.. j. NJ Miller of Bliss. Mr.. Mike |
RUSSELL of Deadwood, Mr.. James Ham
lton of Philadelphia, renowned arch
tect, were among the fifty house
quests while Pawnee county and city |
we're well represented.
Mrs. Lille and bevy of Pawnee
ady friends rendered the occasion
,astronomically and socially attrac-
i've.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-23
INVESTIGATING LYNCH|NG
OF ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ
BY Associated Press.

Rock Springs, Tex, Dec. 17.-With
a half dozen secret service agents of
the United States government on the
ground and special attorneys present
representing a number of citizens, the
grand jury here is today investigating
the lynching of Antonio Rodriguez.
who was burned at the stake after he
had shot Mrs. James Henderson, the
wife of a cattleman.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-23

Clarence Howard, son of |. ]. Howard
who has been looking after the farm
interests near Alton, since Mr.. Howard
and family have moved to Vinita, was
kicked in the breast by horse yester-
day. Mrs. Howard hurried to the farm
on learning of the accident.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-23
FIT. SMITH & WESTERN
Thursday, February 2.
Friday, February 8.

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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-23
PURE SEED TRAIN
COMING TO v|N|TA
Letter From President Connell Wants
TO Know How City Will Receive
Representatives of Board.

The following letter issued from the
state A. and NJ. college at Saltwater
regarding the tour of the pure seed
train next month should receive at.
.tention by Vinita at once:
Dear: This letter is addressed to
editors, bankers and county superin-
tendents in towns and counties on the
proposed itinerary of the A. & NJ col
6lege better seed and live stock train.
You are invited to cooperate actively
Jim securing a large delegation to meet
this train. We shall judge the interest
in your community by the promptness
and tone of your response to this COM
munication. The itinerary is subject
to change until January /, 1911
y. Do you want this train? Two things
will be necessary to insure it; first,
get busy; second, furnish us promptly
the information indicated by inclosed
blank.
Demonstration lectures will be given
on some or all of these subjects:
Alfalfa for Oklahoma; Best Seed
Corn; Cotton a Safe Money Crop;
yTypes of Dairy Cattle; Types of Beef
Cattle; Draft Horses; Vaccination
Against Hog Cholera and Black-leg;
Farm Dairying, Including Use of
Cream Separators and Babcock Milk
Testers; Growing Fruits for Market"
\ Eight or ten lecturers from the A.
& M. college and the state board of
agriculture will accompany the train.
At night stops, popular illustrated lee
tures with moving picture features
will be given provided the town win
furnish free OF cost a,.suitable hall,
moving picture machine and operator.
Suitable quarters for some ten head
of stock overnight will also be needed
at these towns.
County superintendents and teachers
are asked to secure the attendance of
at least two delegates from all schools
within 20 miles of the railroad, and
from boys and girls clubs convenient
to or near your town. Town schools
from the sixth grade and above might
kle present in a body. Where possible
special lectures will be given them.
The editors of your town are asked
TO call meeting of leading citizens at
once; consider these questions, fill out |
the blanks, detach and return prompt
". Keep these facts in mind:
This train will be run.
1 1T will make those towns that show |
the desired interest.
Sincerely yours,
]. H. CONNELL President.
The itinerary is as follows:
M, X. G. T.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-05
INSURANCE COMPANIES
DEAL TAKEN TO COURT,

1t will be up to one of the vice.
chancellors next Tuesday to unravel
the complications arising over the
control of 332 shares of stock of the
T. w. Griffiths Company, an insur-
ance concern with offices in the Union
building, in Clinton street.
Orson A. Miller last May sold 332
shares of the stock out of the 666 he
owned of the 1000 comprising the
whole capital stock, to Frank e. Dav-
to Davenport and Vernon e. Beavers
Jointly. The amount paid for the first
lot is said to have beer 10000 In cash
while for the second lot a note in that
amount was given.
When Davenport & Beavers gave
their joint note for the amount named
they agreed. it is alleged, to pay off
this note at the rate of $50 a week,
Miller to retain possession of the stock
as collateral security for its payment.
One condition of the sale of the stock
to the two men named IA that Miller
was to pay all the debts owing to the
insurance concern figuring in the suit,
and if he failed to do this Davenport
& Beavers We're to pay these debts
and credit themselves with the amount
so paid on their note.
The men paid first $3.50 in the weekly
instruments agreed upon and also paid
So, 800 owing by the insurance company,
Miller failing to make good on the OBJ
legations they discontinued paying the
weekly instalments.
Miller then served notice on Daven-
port & Beavers that he would sell the
1892 shares that he was holding as col
lateral. They came back at him with
a chancery injunction restraining him
from making such a sale. After that
Miller secured a rule on which the two
men are compelled to show cause why
they should not give security for the
value of the shares pending the out
come of the litigation. 1t is on this
rule that the argument in the much
complicated case will be heard next
week.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-05
REPUBLICANS PROCLAIM
DIR. MACHADO PRESIDENT,

BADAJOZ, Spain, Oct. 5.-The fate
of Manuel, the boy king of Portugal,
who has been overthrow in the Re-
publican revolution, which broke out
yesterday, Is still unknown.
There are conflicting reports that he
Is a prisoner In the palace and also
that he had effected escape at the first
sign of the revolution.
The latter reports, however, are dis
credited, as the revolution was so
carefully planned and executed that 1t
is considered highly improbable that
the leaders would have permitted their
chief quarry to escape.
Refugees arriving here today from
Lisbon say that the revolutionists are
in complete control of the city and
that a provisional government, pat
termed after the government of Brazil,
has been established.
There Is an unconfirmed report that
DR.. Machado, the recognized head OF
the Portuguese republicans, has been
proclaimed president.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-05
REPUBLICANS REPORTED
INsCONTROL OF OPORTO,

PISA, Italy, Oct. 5.-The Portuguese
legation here while in receipt of no Of
fetal advices understands hat faithfal
troops of the royal palace up to
o'clock this morning had succeeded In
repulsing the Republicans.
The Portuguese legation announces
that it is practically certain that Lis
bon and Oporbo are in the hands OF
the re~volutionists, but adds that 1t
should not be concluded that the entire
realm has fallen. An official statement
adds:
mo definite result has been obtained
since Monday, when the first outbreaks
occurred, and rhe struggle undoubted-
ly continues between the royalists and
revolutionists.'
The Brazilian minister. who is here,
learns by way of England that King
Manuel has sought refuge on the Bra
lillian batt1eship a Paulo.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-05
REVOLUTION HAD BEEN
BREWING MANY MONTHS.

LONDON. Oct. 5-"We have given
King Manuel notice to quit. The COM
ing revolution will tie a kindly affair.
We shall kill the least possible num-
Der of persons
In these words DR.. Alfonso Costa, the
most advanced Of the Portuguese Re-
publican leaders, warned the world Of
the intentions of the revolutionary
party Immediately after the general
elections at the end of August. Part,
at least, of his prediction seems to I've
verified in the brief undetailed dis
patches 10 hand this morning.
The activity of the Republicans no.
only continued but increased, and the
propaganda against the monarchy AMI
the government was carried on with
u~nceasing vigor. At intervals for
months past there have been reports
of conspiracies. in which the superior
officers of the army and navy wer@
implicated. ANA wholesale arrests were
made of mutinous troops. Warships,
the proximity of which to the capital
was regarded as dangerous, were dis
patched to sea from the Tagus.
Crisis WINS Expected.
The foreign correspondents in Lisbon
during the last few weeks mailed the
dispatches to their respective news
papers, drawing sober pictures of the
impending crisis. Writing on Septem-
Der 81 the London Posts resident cor
respondent recorded the rapid and dan
gerous growth of sedition. King Man
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-05
LEGATION STILL
WITHOUT OFFICIAL NEWS,

LONDON, Oct. 5.-The Portuguese
legation here also is without official adj
vices. Acting, however, upon the news
dispatches, the Marquis de Several,
Portuguese minister to Great Britain,
called at the foreign office early today
and had a long conference with Sir Ed
ward Grey, the foreign secretary. Sir
Arthur Nieolson, the new permanent
secretary of the foreign office, upon
hearing through private sources last
night that Geographic communication
with Lisbon was interrupted, had sent
a cable message to British Minister Sir
F.. H. Villiers, asking the cause of the
interruption. This message, like all
other messages, was received at the
cable office at the senders' risk, and as
no response was received it is assumed
that the telegraph and cable stations
in Portugal are in the possession of the
revolutionists.
The Eastern Telegraph Company has
had no communication with Portugal
since yesterday. and the Direct Spanish
Company, which works it's wires
through Spain, reports no communica-
ton today beyond Madrid.
The news of the revolution depressed
foreign stocks fractionally on the Stock
Exchange today. Portuguese securities
fell from 6S to &C and consols eased II
in sympathy. There was, however, not
much selling, n the pressure had
little effect on other sections of the
market.
The Portuguese consulate was with
out official information from Lisbon
An official of the consulate said cam
didly that the news of a revolution was
not unexpected. For a long time, he
said, there had been great dissatisfac-
ton with the condition of affairs upor
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-05
SON OF SUICIDE RAILS AT
POLICE CARELESSNESS

Claiming that his fathers address
was plainly visible on a notebook in
his pocket, and hat the Newark police
should have notified him, r. j. Hall.
of Meshoppen, Pa, went to Mullen's
morgue today to identify the body of
his parent, Nicholas J. Hall, who COM
mitted suicide Monday at As Clay
street. The young man declared he
learned of his fathers death in a news
paper which told of the finding of the
asphyxiated body by Mrs. Mary
Howard, the boarding house mistress,
at the Clay street address. He said
that his father had been affiliated with
the Free and Accepted Masons at
Binghamton, n. Y, but the local police
had no reason to cal that town the
dead mans home. when the home was
given. as Meshoppen, Pa, in h note
book. r. j. Hall win make arrange
ments for the removal of his fathers
body to the home, where two other
sons and a widow survive.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-05

had just signed a decree granting
amnesty for press offenses, which
benefited numerous Republican news
paper men who had reviled the kin
and the queen mother. 1t was n OF
several instances of the government
temporiZing with the revolutionists
which led the monarchists to bring
e charges of weakness. This
present liberal government. writes the
correspondent. has for party purposes
favored the enemies, not only of the
monarchy, but of law and order. 1t
prosecuted a few harmless prisoners
but gave rope to dangerous sedition
mongers. Things reached such a state
that the government. the correspondent
said, must either radically change It's
policy or it would dig the grave OF
the monarchy.
wearied with MisgOvernment.
Two or three days later the Chron-
icle's correspondent at Lisbon wrote IN
the same strain, declaring that the
country was on the brink OF a Crisis
which would not ~improbably overthrow
existing institutions. The country, he
said. was wearied with misgoyernment
and political strife.
The Cortes was opened by the KING
on September 20. but was Immediately
adjourned for three months, nomlnally
to permit the tribunals to ~adJudlcate
the numerous election petitions. fully
half the new members being email
lenged. The adjournment embittered
the situation. The opposition declared
IT TO be an INSCRIPTIONS move on the
part of the government. h latter re-
torted that it was constitutionally cor
rect; indeed, the only course possiple'
1t seems probable that the actual III
surrection was precipitated by the muir
der or Monday of Professor Bombarda'
a medical scientist and director OF the
insane asylum. who recently ehtereu
politics and threw himself heart ana
soul into the republican and anti
clerical propaganda. Some dispatches
destined for London, giving details OF
the assassination, were suppressed 9y
the censor, but two versions go'
through which, although differing IN
details, ascribed the murder to a NM
tary officer. Those were the last tele-
grams that left Lisbon until the news
Of the revolution was briefly reeorded'
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-05
BRITAIN BUSHES TWO
WARSHIPS TO LISBON,

LONDON, Oct. 5.-The admiralty to-
day received a brief wireless message
confirming the news of a revolution In
Lisbon, but giving even fewer details
than the press dispatches of last night.
Upon the receipt of this message or
ders were sent to Gibraltar for the
dispatch Immediately of two cruisers
10 watch British interests in the
troubled country.
The cruiser Newcastle, which had
Just reached Gibraltar en- route for
China, proceeded today for Lisbon and
was followed by the cruiser Minerva.
Beyond the wireless message re-
ceived by the admiralty, the foreign
office has no word of the revolution.