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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

this brothers ministry. There are
dozens of preachers in Texas ruined
that way. They can't keep back their
personal feelings They must be hit
ting at somebody 1t is all bad, very
bad 1t is taking advantage of high
calling to do a little and low thing
Preaching out to be noble, generous,
the deliverance of Gods lofty mes
sages to men calling them to high and
holy living. Pesky preaching is as
sorry a performance as the sorriest OF
us is capable. Let us all do better,
What glorious themes the Bible offers
u.s. How sweet and solemn and per.
suasive is the Christ's message to err
ring souls. Pesky preachers are about
the worlds worst. They shame their
high calling and degrade themselves
If no where else in the world, in the
pulpit the preacher is not his own
Think of Paul using time to indulge
in pesky spites on people whom he did
not like. Impossible! O! to be d
high-souled preacher, above spites
swept by a passion for the erring, is
to be the greatest man on earth
Baptist Standard.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07
OKLAHOMA RESOURCES.

The state of Oklahoma is said to be
very rich in minerals. According to
Professor C. N. Gould, director of the
geological survey, Oklahoma is ext
celled in the amount and variety of
her minerals by very few states in the
Union.
Professor Gould says that Okla
homa has 100000 tons of coal, un-
mined, produced 4O,O00,OO0 barrels of
oil last year, and has hundreds of gas
wells, yielding all the way up to 50,-
100000 cubic feet daily. Neither the
coal fields, nor the oil and gas fields,
have been developed up to anything
near their capacity The abundance
of these fuels, insures power for many
generations. Besides, there is a vast
amount of undeveloped water power
Among raw products, Oklahoma has
100, 100000 tons of glass sand, 9,000,-
100000 tons of rock asphalt, 125,000,-
100000 tons of gypsum, and salt water
going to waste to make 1000 tons of
salt day. The deposits of limestone,
marble, sandstone, granite, gabbro,
valuable clays, and Portland cement
rock, are all practically inexhaustible
and are widely distributed in the
state There is also iron, zinc, tripoli,
novaculite, and volcanic ash, all I'M
developed.
With this array of valuable mater
ial, Oklahoma is manufacturing prac-
tically nothing. Not one per cent of
the mineral resources are now de-
veloped.
There is no part of Oklahoma where
sand does not occur 1t is every
where sufficient for local demands. In
several localities large deposits of
glass sand have been recently discov-
cred near natural gas. The value of
this discovery will be understood when
it is remembered that the glass fac
tories in southern Kansas obtain their
sand from Illinois and Iowa it being
cheaper to transport the sand to the
fuel than to bring the fuel to the sand.
The Oklahoma geological survey is
now at work trying to find out the ex-
tent of the deposits.
Those who have been over the
ground tell us that there are in west
ern Oklahoma vast deposits of gypsite
or dirt gypsum. All that is necessary
to manufacture this gypsite into plas-
te is to dump it into a ketter and
cook it for an hour or two. Gypsum,
plaster, stucco, plaster of Paris, staff
and other gypsum products are being
used more and more each year, and
in the near future a considerable part
of the supply for the United States
will come from Oklahoma. As soon
as some one invents a method for
making a kind of gypsum stucco that
will withstand weather, this material
will take the place of wood and Port
land cement in outside work.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

Those who so strenuously advocate
statewide prohibition generally fail
to recognize the fact that there are
two sides to this great question. We
live in a practical age and among a
practical people. Every good citizen
wants the very best order and desires
that decency prevail. But the best
way to handle the liquor business is
not the way it is being handled. Give
us something better. Local option
and high license appeals to the busi-
ness man and the tax payer
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

The defendants in the celebrated
Muskogee town lot case have been
given their liberty and are free from
further molestation but have not been
proven innocent. That, we believe, is
a fair, accurate statement of the Mar.
shall decision.
The courts decision forbade the gov
ernment from presenting evidence re-
lating to overt acts committed after
the government patents to the lots in
question had been issued, and further
held that the statute of limitations be-
gan to run against the offense from
that date. AS the statute of limita-
tions in such cases is only three years,
and as the preponderant majority of
the evidence against the accused was
based on overt acts prior to the issue
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

"The only practical method for the
republicans, divided as they are in
Oklahoma and throughout the rest of
the nation, is to enlarge on apparent
flaws in democratic rule in order to
keep the minds of insurgents from the
issues between the factions" said Sen
ator r. M. Roddie of Ada. when our
platform approved of the acts of Has
kell administration 1t approved of the
beneficient provisions of our constitu-
tion and of practically every doctrine
of Roosevelt's new nationalism; yet
the standpat element of the party OPP
poses Haskellism and therefore Roose-
vetism. Every good prmciple the
Harris machine is fighting in Okla
homa will be involved, without doubt
in the campaign of 1912, and Harris
and McNeal, If they want to be regular
then, will have to reverse their belig-
gerent policy of today. The prospect
| of a dilemma of that kind is one of
| the most encouraging things or this
campaign to democrat. Because of
the manifold difficulties that Governor
Haskell has encountered and because
of the many attacks on his character,
the Harris machine has coined the
word "Haskellism" to blind the eyes
of the fair-minded rang and file of the
republican party to the greater issues
of the contest"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07
SENATOR OWEN IS
MOST SANGU|NE
Real Issue Declares Senator is to
Overthrow corruptness in Official
Dealings With interests.

Muskogee, OKLA, Oct. 4.-Senator
Robert L. Owen has just returned to
his home here from Battle Creek,
Mich, where he spent some time. The
senator expects to remain in the state
until the close of the campaign. Since
his election to the senate he has spent
very little time in Oklahoma. He
is very sanguine about the democrats
winning the next house of congress.
On live political issues the senator
says:
'The democrats ought not fail to
realize what the real issue IS, and that
is the overthrow of corrupt business
interests in alliance with corrupt poll
tical machines.
"That the insurgent movement in
the republican party is an illustration
of this. It was against this corrupt
alliance in Wisconsin that LaFollette
protested. 1t was against such cor
rupt alliance in Oregon that Jonathan
Bourne protested; it was against such
an alliance in Iowa that Cummins and
Dolliver protested; it was against such
an alliance hat Murdock, Norris,
Cooper and Fowler protested in the
house of representatives.
"The peoples rule system as laid
down in Oklahoma will make it i'm
possible for such an alliance to exist,
because the people always have avail
able the power to make any law they
do want, veto any law they do not
want and make such practices impos-
sible because of this power.
Eight states have alredy taken the
first step to the adoption of this sys-
tenn and six more will certainly adopt
| it in 1920, to-wit, Colorado, Illinois,
Nevada, Wisconsin, Arizona and Ne
braska.
"The oyerturn in Maine was due di-
rectly to this issue
'In 1907 the issue of the initiative
and referendum was raised in Maine.
In 1908 Senator Hale circulated RF
In 1908 Senator Hale circularized
Maine with Senator Lodges speech
opposing the public opinion bill then
pending in the Maine Legislature.
81 took this speech of Lodges, ana
lyzed it and had an answer made point
ing out the advantages of the initiative
and referendum, and introduced it as
petition from the initiative and ref
erendum league in Maine and had
twenty thousand copies of it printed
and circularized the state of Maine
with it. When the people voted on it,
although Senator Hale opposed it, and
his lieutenants, the people overturned
the republican machine and supported
the initiative and referendum by a
vote of over two TO one.
''It was this public sentiment that
made it impossible for Senator Hale
to be reelected. If the democrats
made the issue before the United
States, The Peoples Rule System of
Government, nothing will be able to
prevent the democrats from sweeping
the country in 1912.
ut was corrupt alliance between
the protective tariff league and the re-
publican machine that has raised the
| tariff SO enormously has huilt I'm tba
monopolies Of the country and caused
the enormous rise in the market place
of the necessarfes of life"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

There was a time in the history of
this country when prohibition did pro.
hibit in a large and satisfactory meas
ure. But it was under the federal law
and the true saying is that the gov
ernment doesn't care for expenses.
The cost of prohibition under the fed
eral regime will never be known. Now
it comes off the taxpayers and is so
enormous as to stagger the business
interests of Oklahoma.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07
OKLAHOMA.

"a good land, land of brooks of
water, of fountains and depths that
spring out of valleys and hills; land
of wheat, and barley and vines and
fig trees, and pomegranates;N land
of oil, olives and honey; land where
in thou shalt eat bread without
scarceness, thou shalt not lack any
thing in it; land whose stones are
iron and out of whose hills thou
mayest dig brass. ."-Deut. VII: Z, 8,
g."
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

not one of them could be induced to
return to the old ward plan.
The opponents of commission gov
ternment may argue, as they do, that
it is "all right for small cities. but it
is not adaptable to large cities" But
the fact is that the big cities are oper-
ating under a more cumbrous and in
effective development of a govern
mental scheme that even the progress
sive small towns have found wholly
inefficient and inadequate.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

The rank and file of the American
people have had confidence in Theo
dore Roosevelt. They have never
doubted his sincerely; they have
never questioned his honesty. Con
ceding his courage and trusting his
motives, they have placed him upon
pedestal above the shadow of du
plicity and intrigue. Consequently
when he aligned himself with the
western insurgents he instantaneous
ly became the recognized leader oi
the insurgents and the greatest expon
ent of the insurgent creed. From
ocean to ocean he was hailed as the
Moses who would lead his people from
the wilderness of mis-rule into which
they have been decoyed by a derelict
administration. From every insurgeni
throat came the "We have no kine
but Caesar"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

Lee Cruces speech at the Auditor
ium last night was one of the best
campaign speeches ever made in Ok
lahoma. The secret of eloquence is
to have something to say and to say it
without verbosity or Establishment.
Lee Cruce is able to take care of him
self on the stump with all comers in
or out of the state
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

Governor Hadley is quoted as say
ing that he is opposed to prohibition.
It takes courage for a Missouri poll
tician to say that, because good
many thousand voters in all parts of
the state are in favor of it and it is
quite within the possibilities that the
amendment may carry. But Herbert
Hadley usually has the courage of his
convictions.-Ka City Journal.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

Judge Brown made few very rele-
want remarks in his charge to the
grand jury today anent the practice
OF accusing public officials of being
recreant to duty. Accusing and prov
ing are sometimes very different.
When a man accepts public Office he
should not be forced to become a tar
get for every cheap slanderer that
wants to attack him.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

Lee Cruce dealt Uncle Joe McNeal
a body blow when he asked him to
stand by the grandfather clause which
is now part of the state constitu-
tion and therefore the supreme law
of the land
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

A drive through the residence por-
ton of the city shows a continued
healthy growth The number of resi-
dences in course of construction is
larger than ever before in the history
of the town.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

With the additional new artesian
wells that have recently been drilled
Vin'ta has now a water supply com
mensIrate with the rapid growth of
the city. To have an unlimited water
supply of the first quality is a great
advantage
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

This morning at five o'clock Presi
dent Taft. at his executive offices al
Beverly, Mass, pressed a golden but
ton key, the signal for the opening OF
the fifth dry farming congress at Spo
kane. There is three hours difference
in the time between Beverly and Spo
kane so the opening was at eight
o'clock.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

That new hide hanging on Col
Roosevelts fence looks like that OF
the old guard The flesh marks and
brand indicate as much.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

This thing of a man selecting the
company he sits down with at a ban.
quet is going to lead to complications.
The Man of Galilee ate with (re)pub-
licans and sinners,
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

Down at Wagner at yesterdays
municipal election only two negroes
out of 100 tried to vote and both failed
to stand the test of the grandfather
clause
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

How could Missouri help losing a
share of its population when it is so
close to oklahoma? The wonder is
that more of the people of these bor-
der states don't come to a state where
there are opportunities so abundant.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

Henry l.. Stimson is new name to
most of the country, but Col. Roose
welt promises to make it known to
many shortly.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

The very least the admirers of Gov
ernor Haskell can do about the re-
suit OF the town lot cases Is to sit
down and be still.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

When man is looking for holes to
crawl out of trouble he never over
looks even the small ones.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-09-01
Morrison, Tenn.
Special to tie MrsOs.

Special TO tie Mans.
A good rain is badly needed here at
present. t
Mr.. and Mrs. T. d. McAfee. OF
Smart, visited their son Of this place
Sunday.
Columbus Tally and family attended
meeting az Caney Branch Sunday.
Tom MORRISON and wife visited at
Jesse Bonner's Thursday Of last week
Mrs. Rubie Paine, of Muncie, Ind,
is visiting relatives here. q
School will commences here Monday
under the management of Prof. Chen
ault, Principle, Mrs. Chenault, prim-
airy teacher, and Mrs. John Crisp. as
sistant.
Jessie Bonner went to McMinnville
Friday. l0tl q.F F-1i MA siTf, ans
Mrs. Hervy Stroud visited Mrs. Jim
Turner Sunday. 81 a. t@
Mrs. Lizzie Rogers spent last week
with her brother, Tom Melton. who
lives near Crisp Springs.
Mrs. B. Cunningham and sister, Of
near Morrison, visited Mrs. j. B. Nc
Afee Saturday.
Inotice in the News where "Cold
Wave" has moved to Jonesboro. Ark.
/ guess we will get some interesting
letters from there in the near future.
Will Faulkner, of Trousdale, visited
his sister, Mrs. John Musson. one day
last week. l43
An extra meeting of the Mason's
lodge was called Friday evening to
confer the third degree on a couple OF
new members of the Morrison lodge.
Farmers Wife.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-09-01
Tracy City.
Speeialf0 tie Mas.

SpeeiaIf0 the Nf10s.
have returned from my Pineset
trip and had good time. While in
that section / met Mr.. Sam Raulston
and was in his school.
The meeting was very good meet
ing and I enjoyed it very much. j
found ont something l did not know
and that was there are people living in
the two Gizzards that haven't been to
church in twenty years, if ever. !
have also come to the conclusion that
IL the christians of our towns and cit
les are what they profess to be and are
really anxious about the souls of men,
women and children around them they
will change their policy and instead of
stufing the paunches and pockets of
tramp preachers who trotfrom town to
town and stay while the money lasts,
they will give it to men who will go
into these CULTS and coyes and help
people who need it. There is not an
evangelist, so-called, that will do it.
Not one, and l am convinced they are
after the money, and believe they are
more the worshipers of mammon than
they are Of God. These slick ducks
know tent and arbor meetings draw
the crowd. and they know they'll gath
er in the sheckels. Get one of them
to 60 down in the Gizzard Cove where
the people are poor and hard run, and
hold a meetingf You can't do it, and
whyi No money to it. Look here.
folks I've lost faith in such preachers
now. Bros. Nunley, Tate, Hart and
Dykes are the only men we have here
at Tracy that have grace and grit
enough to hunt these isolated people
up and preach to them. It's fact.
Well, / forgot Lem Landlord and Bro.
N. B. Brown. Bros. Tate and Hart
are now in Payne's cove holding a
meeting and Bro. Nunley is soon to
begin another meeting near Monteagle
Their works and sacrifices show they
mean something and are doing some
thing while experts pocket the money
and pie,
am on the go and am on the look
out also to find out what the people
need. I leave for Collins River right
away and I know the great need is to
help others and am sure that is, the
best of christianity. When work is
good here at Tracy it is no trouble for
these money-seekers to rake in the
sheckles. Not bit. sE. ras .is
The, want Of rain is cutting the crops
short in the valley on the Pelham side,
though there are some fields of SPLEEN
didicorn. srr a..is A
Well, / am mixing and mingling
with the young folks considerably of
late and enjoy it. Uncle Tom.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-09-01
Browns Ferry.

| Special 10 tie jNesOJ. =
Well, las have been absent for some
time. / will give you all the.news Of
this town. which ism t very much. but
yevery little bit helps, you know.
Well 90 it .iss here IL goes, a.,
L EidisH. L. Golston Of Cedar Spring.
was here few days last week.
Miss Grace Hood, of Gadsden, Ala.
is here this week visiting relatives.
John McNabb. Of Kelly's Ferry, was
here Saturday and Sunday.
Walter Boydston went to Cole City,
Ga. Monday.
Miss Belle Tinker, of East Chatta-
nooga, is here this week. visiting her
cousins, Misses Katie and Carrie Tink-
er.
Next Sunday we are going to have a
big time over in these diggins. There
will be an all-day singing and dinner
on the ground. Myl won't I eat.
r. J. Massey attended the Sequachee
Valley Association of Primitive Bap-
fists held at Anderson, Tenn, Aug.
19-20-21.
DR.. A. T. Peay, of Hill City, was
here Sunday.
"Blue Jay, of Whiteside, says he
knows Valley Bird" You have the
advantage of me, old fellow. don t
remember meeting you anywhere in
a II nv travels. t'Vallev. Rird's" in
itials are ~. F. M" What's yours9
What has become of "Cold Wave,
Representative and "More Anon" 2
Come on with your articles, old fell
lows, we like to read 'em, even if they
aren't true.
G.. M. Sharp left for Sewanee We'd
nesday to attend the Collins River As
sociation. Valley Bird
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-09-01
The Lash Of a fiend.

would have been about as welcome tc
A. Cooper, of Oswego, N. Y, as a
merciless, lung-racking cough that de.
fed all remedies for years. SIT was
most troublesome at night, he writes,
nothing helped me till | used DR..
Kings New Discovery which cured me
completely. l never cough at night
now" Millions know its matchless
merit for stubborn colds, obstinate
coughs, sore lungs. Ia grippe, asthma.
hemorrhage, Group, whooping cough
or hay fever. It relieves quickly and
never fails to satisfy. A trial convin-
ces. SOC, $1.00. Trial bottle free. It's
positively guaranteed by Whitwell
Drug Co., of Whitwell.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-09-01
Assessment Certified.

The state board of equalizers have
approved the assessment of eighty three
of The ninety six counties of the state,
and the result has been certified to
the comptroller. Among them are
Grundy, Bledsoe and Seauatchie. Ma
rion is among the remaining uncerti-
fed counties.
The assessment last year was $45S, :
$50, 736. and this year the assessors re-
turned an increase of nearly $50, 000,-
900.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-09-01
Counterfeit Pennies.

''It is remarkable, said treasury
employe recently, show many coun-
terfeit copper, cents come in, especially
when one calls to mind how little pro-
fit there is in making them. Of course,
as they are of such small denomina-
tions they can be passed without much
chance of suspicion being aroused, as
few people trouble themselves to ex-
anime penny. 1t has been found
that most of the, counterfeit pennies
are made by Italians in New York Cit
y, and they put them into circulation
to great extent through peddlers and
small storekeepers. Christian Her
aid.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-09-01
The Standard Sewing Machine Co.,
Cleveland, Ohio, u. s. A.
A Fair Proposition.

Every man, woman, boy and girl de-
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eryone should want the one source Of
healthfulness and real joy combined
which all can enjoy equally and at
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be nothing jnst send to the Taylor
Trotwood Publishing Company, Nash
vile, Tenn, postal and let them tell
you how to make 5000 and secure
bicycle as premium. Yon are not
obligated to accept our proposition.
but we want an opportunity TO tell
you what we have to offer.