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

The great fair to be held at Musko
gee October 10, II, IL, and 13 promises
to eclipse anything of the kind ever
held in Oklahoma and unsurpassed by
= anv fair of the southwest, not except.
ling the Texas state fair annually held
at Dallas.
The exhibits will be of high char.
acier and the applications for space
aad the entries already indicate tlat
this feature will in itself make the
fair a success.
The list of attractions is without a
parallel in this section of the coun.
try. For the lover of the horse the
visitors to the Muskogee fair will have
an opportunity of witnessing an eX-
hibition of that greatest of all pacing
horses, Dan Patch. The entry lists
for the numerous harness and running
races now exceed three hundred many
of them being among the best known
horses in the country.
The amusement attractions will be
numerous and of higher order. The
Reiss Carnival company will bring
with them a dozen or fifteen small
attractions, making in the aggregate,
a complete circus. There will be a
plethora of music, three bands having
been engaged, including the famous
American ladies concert band, of Chi
cago. Elaborate fireworks displays
will be feature of every night. Every
accommodation for out-of-town visitors
will be provided and Muskogee will be
ready to extend everyone hearty
welcome.
Reduced rates on all railroads will
be in effect during the fair
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07
DISTRICT COURT
OPENS IN V|N|TA
First Day Of October Term of Distric-
Court Indicates Term Will Be
Record Breaker.
From Tuesdays Daily

From Tuesdays Daily
The October term of the district
court, with Judge Tom Brown, Of
Claremore presiding, convened in this
city this morning for a four weeks
session. There are many important
cases on the docket for this term and
from the manner in which court went
to work this morning this term prom
ises to be record breaker.
The forenoon session was taken up
with rearranging and setting of the
cases on both the civil and criminal
docket. This afternoon the court will
hear motions and demurrers. Many
cases were settled by agreement or
continued in the arrangement of the
docket this morning and it is thought
that the court will be ready to begin
the trial of cases requiring a jury,
when the court convenes for the morn
ing session tomorrow.
The grand jury will meet tomorrow
morning and 1t is rumored that some
sensations may follow the work of
this body. Captain McKennon, Of Nc
Alester, has been appointed by Gov
ernor Haskell to make an investiga-
ton into the affairs of this county,
and the evidence gathered by this
special attorney will be submitted for
the consideration of this grand jury.
The October term of the county
court also began this morning. but
owing to the session Of the district
court and the fact that Judge Frear
did not care to put the county to the
added expense of renting another court
room, all jury trials in this court were
postponed until next month.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07
Tonight Big Tent Theatre.

The Gertrude Ewing company open
their weeks engagement tonight in
the finest tent theatre in America. one
block north of the Frisco depot pre-.
senting the four-act comedy drama,
Work and Wages" with high class
vaudeville between the acts. The
doors are open at Z p. M, perform
ance at S.15. 1000 seats at 10 cents
to everybody. Don't miss it.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07
MAY YET HAVE CHANGE
TO ADOPT RUSSELL PLAN

Guthrie, Okla. Oct. 3.-While Guth.
rie and Oklahoma City are waiting for
the state supreme court decision on
the capital location, the New Jeru.
salem" bill of Campbell Russell will
be submitted to voters at the gen.
eral election November 8. This bill
provides for the purchase of a large
tract of land within fifty miles of the
states geographical center. From the
proceeds of the sale of lots, Russell
would build an ideal capital city, all
of the public utilities to be owned and
operated by the municipality
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07
Make Lands Available to
Settlement Says Potter

passed to private owners. of which
the latter amount 81 individuals and
corporations own 31S,640 acres, while
small owners and original locators,
purely as a timber investment, hold
2O5,0S0 acres. These lands, amount
ing to total of 523,72O acres. are
now lying absolutely idle.
This does not Indicate much pro-
gress in the bona fide settlement of
the country" said MIR. Potter. "On
timber claims held by 100 settlers, the
area under cultivation is only $40
acres, or an average of 81 acres to
each claim" An examination of tim
Der lands taken by homestead settlers,
he added, showed clearly that a very
la ge portion has not been cultivated.
but has been sold for it's timber or
abandoned after the timber had been
sold and cut from the land"
1T is economically wasteful to
clear land for farming where a farm
will not be permanent" he continued.
"a nomad farmer with a trail of used
up land behind him impoverishes, not
enriohes, the country"
The various laws enacted in the in
terest of the national forests were ex-
planned by Mr.. Potter. He told of the
acts leading up to the passage of the
forest homestead law, providing for
the settlement of the agricultural
lands. "This law, first of ALL" he
said, placed upon the secretary of
agriculture the responsibility of de-
termining which of the lands were
chiefly valuable for agriculture and
might be occupied for agricultural
purposes without injury to the forest
reserves and which were not needed
for public Purposes
The secretary of agriculture" he
continued, ''in the exercise of his dis
cretion requires that only lands which
can be cultivated will be listed under
the forest homestead law, but where
ever there is adjacent land which is
valuable for grazing purposes, the
listing of an era of grazing land equal
to that of the cultivable lands is al
lowed, providing the entire area does
not exceed 100 acres"
up to June 80, 1910" continued the
associate forester applications had
been received from 17,167 persons for
the listing of lands under the provi-
sions of the forest homestead law. OF
lthese 1884 have been rejected because
the land applied for was found to be
chiefly valuable for its timber or was
needed for public purposes, and 2,756
applications have been withdrawn. A
total of 5,647 applications, covering
an era of 626,773 acres, having been
approved and the land recommended
for listing. The lands applied for in
the remaining 4,170 applications have
not yet been examined on account of
the inability of the limited number of
men available to meet the growing de-
mand for their services, but it is ex.
pected that favorable action will be
taken in large number of these
cases.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07
A Modern Crusader.

T'GY. j. ~ Mccormack who lectured
on the prevention of disease at Bever-
] ley Theatre Wednesday night, is one
of of the greatest exponents of the gos-
the pei of good health that this country
de- has ever produced, and man better
. equipped to disseminate the propa-
here ganda of sanitation could hardly he
elief found the world over.
OBJ The immense audience which heard
3 as his lecture recognized this and de-
edly plored the fact that all their kith and
kindred were not within sound Of the
speakers voice.
Mr.. Mccormack is interesting be-
cause he speaks the truth-because
he talks entertainingly and convirc-
Tn1E ingly with the facts behind his argu-
! uII ments; because he strikes out fear-
lessly, exposing sins OF omission and
commission, hitting a head wherever
over4 he sees it, and then pours the oil of
o be- kindness ard humanity upon the
ines wound he is compelled to make. His
Mt Of object in exposing faults and showing
rdin4 up the fallacies of human acts is not
re tof merely to crticise, but primarily 20
I has correct His lecture of over two
Bhours, covered a field as broad and
wifi expansive as humanity itself. He
e-wids went over the different professions and
pointed out the envy and jealousy OF
5 here Individual members of those segregat-
as baed, that initiated against harmonious
n anaaetion and barred the way of progress.
Happily, he said, the medical profes-
os tn sion had passed through the worst of
on lis slough, and was being waited to
nen the brigher shore on reform wave,
THE like of which has never been seen
before in the history of the world.
Doctors are organizing and working
together for their own advancement,
and for that of the cause of humanity
IIkIlTIand the science of the prevention and
I'M the cure of disease is going forward
by leaps and bounds. Physicians rec
ognize this So do thousands OF lay
ita WHmen but the great men at the head
Hd public affairs, whether they recog-
re hoYaize it or not, are slow to admit IT, or
one ggiye their influence to the further
nat hfance of the crusade The result is
MlalRhat while the federal government is
nada Rspending three out of every four dol
e aDoaars of its revenues on the army and
'lll tafaaVy and pensions, for the slaughter
adiuS Yof humanity, its spends not one cent
tropoiIiOr the preservation of human life by
trlpue1the prevention of disease. 1t spends
Oh 'fnillions of dollars for the preserva-
7 1aon of trees, the promotion of animal
eo "iIausbandry, for the cure and preven-
py Iuon of diseases of plant life, and the
SFssemination of literature "a all these
subjects yet it has appropriated not
. 474 Ioae single cent for the crusade against
'ae dreadful diseases which are de-
lmating the rank and file of the ma.
-The.l goh, men, women and children alike.
statistI Isalions it spends for the preserya-
e OkFoh OF its inanimate fora and fauna
in 19Faa not one cent for the preservation
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07
Hobson Returns to Court.

Ed Hobson arrived in the city last
night from Atlantic City, N. j., to ap
pear in the district court here. Hob
son was charged with completely in
the forgery of a check upon Dan
Myers, for which young man named
Kelly was convicted at the last term
of the district court and who is now
serving his time in the penitentiary at
McAlester. Both Hobson and Kelly
were chauffeurs and Hobson says that
is the only acquaintance he ever had
with Kelly.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07
p0IICE BELIEVE WAPLEMEYER
WANTED TO GAIN REWARD
nv Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
Chicago, H., Sept 30.-After placing
= bomb beside the residence Of Mrs
potter Palmer and cutting his coat
into shreds with butcher knife, Fred
Wamplemeyer, 26 years old, attempted
last night, to gain entrance to the
mansion of Mrs. Palmer He demand
cd an audience with Mrs. Palmer, but
the watchman had him arrested. He
said another man planted the bomb
and that he got his clothes torn strug-
Cling with him. The police believe
Wamplemeyer sought to gain n re-
ward for having saved the house from
the mysterious bomb thrower and
mutilated his clothes to substantiate
his claim.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07
PRAIRIE CHICKEN SOON TO
Be EXTINCT IN OKLAHOMA


Guthrie Okla. oct. 3.-Hunters Of
prairie chickens in Oklahoma this sea.
son report they are diminishing rapid
ly in numbers Like the buffalo, the
prairie chickens in the southwestern
prairies do not seem able to with
stand the advance Of civilization. This
is due not merely to their being ruth
lessly slaughtered, but to their in
stinct to seek unsettled regions adapt
ed to their habits.
Four or five years ago chickens were
abundant in western Oklahoma coun-
ties bordering on the Panhandle of
Texas, beginning in Beckham county
and running north to the Kansas line.
The chicken did not range east of this
western tier of counties, save in Wood
ward and Woods counties. The few
remaining chickens are found now in
Harper, western Woodward, Ellis and
northern Roger Mills, with scattering
punches in what once was mo Mans
Land" now composed of the counties
of Beaver, Tex, and Cimarron. Across
the line, in the Texas Panhandle, is a
good chicken range.
Chickens were so numerous in Ellis
county four years ago that late in the
fall it was not uncommon to see 200
and 300 prairie chickens fly over the
town of Grand. Out in the thinly set
tied country prairie chickens were a
pest. The few farmers were delighted
when hunters appeared and encour-
aged the shooting of the hardy birds
that were devasting their meagre
crops Often 400 and 500 chickens
would rise from single small field.
Notwithstanding its stringent game
laws, enacted since statehood, Okla
homa has been unable to protect it's
prairie chickens. The tragedy has been
that the birds were most numerous in
the remote regions, where game war
dens rarely went, and where they
would have difficulty in overtaking
law breakers. The result has been
that in addition to the native gunners
others have poured over the u rder
from other states and helped hasten
the destruction of the prairie chicken.
The chickens are trying hard to
stay in their old haunts in the new
county of Harper Two hunters scour-
ed the Harper county prairies for two
days last week, and got only forty
chickens. This, in all conscience, was
enough, but a poor showing compar-
ed with other years, when that many
birds could have been killed easily in
half day.
These two hunters had the good for
tune to see species of game that is
disappearing more rapidly than the
prairie chicken. Coming suddenly
over a sandhill they saw four antelope
and fawn in the distance They saw
four antelope on the same range a
year ago. The herd apparently had
been able to add one to it's number,
despite the constant danger of ene-
mics that lurked at every crossing and
gap.
The hunters found in the small, mar
row creeks of Harper and Woodward
counties the best bass fishing they had
ever seen in Oklahoma. The streams
in this prairie country are mostly
pools, many of them scarcely ten feet
wide, yet twelve and fifteen feet deep.
No man knows when or how bass first
reached these upland waters. They
have spawned and hatched unmolest-
ed for ages and grown to their maxi
mum size, feeding on the abundance
of grasshoppers and other insect life.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07
BY Associated Press

BY Associated Press
Pueblo, Colo, Sept. 2S.-Declaring
that the increased demand for lands
during the past few years by new set
tiers in the west had brought to the
attention of the government the need
for making every acre of land best
suited for cultivation and the raising
of agricultural crops available for
homestead settlement, Associate For
ester A. F. Potter of the United
States department of agriculture,
speaking on The Segregation of Ag-
ricultural Lands in Forest Reserves" /"
before the National Irrigation con-
gress here yesterday, emphasized the
point that if the emigration Of the
younger generation to Canada and
Mexico was to be prevented every
thing possible must be done to develop
and make available for settlement the
lands within our own boundaries.
Mr.. Potter said - was the aim of
the national forest service TO have
evry acre of land in the national for
ests used for the purpose for which it
| is best adapted. To this end, he said.
careful examination of the boundar-
les of all national forests was made
| last year, and recommendations were
promulgated for the elimination of all
lands best suited for agriculture along
the exterior boundaries of the forests.
The total area of these eliminations,
he added, would reach approximately
6 6,250000 acres, some of it very rough
and much suitable only for grazing.
A perplexing problem appeared, Mr..
Potter said, in the demand in some
localities for the elimination of lands
now covered with valuable timber. but
sufficiently level and of sufficient
depth of soil for agricultural use if
the timber were removed. The ques-
tion is not only that of the relative
value of the land for agricultural and
for forest purposes, but the probabili-
ties as to whether it will really be
used for agricultural purposes if allow
ed to pass into private ownership.
"Conceding that, in general, agri-
cultural use which contempletes the
establishment of homes upon the land.
| is higher use than forest use," con-
tinued the associate forester, I'VE are
confronted with the fact that although
the land may be taken by the settler
with the intention of establishing his
home upon it, if the value of the mer-
chantable timber on the land is great
er than the value of the land for agri-
cultural purposes, the chances are in
favor of its passing into the hands of
the sawmill men or large owners of
Understands instead Of being retained
by the original settler and used for
agricultural purposes"
AS an illustration, Mr.. Potter cited
the elimination of 7O5,O00 acres of
land from the Olympic national forest
in 1900 and 1901, as being valuable
chiefly for agriculture, and because
further settlement of that section of
the country would be prevented If it
were not eliminated. OF this area,
according to Mr.. Potter's figures, 2S,-
49O acres reverted to the government,
the state secured 152,6OO acres, now
lying idle, and all of 526,52O acres
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07
Fine Farm to Rent.

400 acres, 200 in cultivation and 200
In pasture in the rich Paw Paw val
ley. Cash rent at great bargain.
Apply to D. NJ. MARaS, vinita. dwtf
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-10-07

Miss Lena Wright of Bixby was the
guest of her sister, Mrs. w G. Master
son Saturday and Sunday.
The Lexington advertiser., 1910-08-05
Confederate Veterans Meet.

Holmes County Camp &c V. No.
39S held regular meeting August l.,
1910. The Camp was called to order
bv X. Il. Baker and prayer was offered
By Chaplain W. w. Lunsford The
minutes of the Juue meeting were
read and the call of the roll omitted,
there was no meeting in July.
The camp resolved TO hold reunion
of all Confederate veterans in Holmes
county, whether they are members OF
the camp or not, and the time set was
September Is, 1910, 7. ". Smith, j.
Moore, Jos. Nswsom. r. F. Porter and
W. L. Young were made committee
on arrangements for q basket dinner
at that time, with power to appoint
others to assist them in the arrange
ments, with the understanding that
there shall be no politics or political
speaking allowed. F. W. Eakin was
appointed committee. ON iuv.t t Cns.
There being no other business tne
minutes were read and approved and
the camp adjourned with benedic.
tion by b. f. Porter.
R. H. BaKER, Commander.
F. A. HOWELL, Adiutant.
The Lexington advertiser., 1910-08-05
Home Brevities

MIR. and Mrs. E. |. Doty and Miss
Santa Tackett were up from Richland
Monday on visit to friends In the
city. Miss Tackett has just returned
from Knoxville, Tenn, where she mas
been attending summer normal.
Rev. H Nj. Young, of BeIzoni, was
the guest Of Parham Williams ano
family SATURDAY. night.
:. A. Barrentine, of Brozville, Wis
tied Lexington Tuesday.
The absence of w. j. Posey. the pop
ular supervisor from beat 3, from the
meeting Of the board this week on ac'
count of sickness, is regretted bY his
many friends, who hope he will soon
be restored to health.
o. G, Glautham, of the Forest
neighborhood, greeted friends in Lex
lngton Tuesday.
Just received---carioad of all
heart well curbing. McBee Lum-
ber Co.
", N. Muirhead. of the Big Hill,
attended to business here Tuesday.
T. C. DeLoach, of Sails, was here
Tuesday on timber business.
E. P. DaIneIl was up from Brozville
Tuesday.
r. H. Baker, T. W. Smith, F. W.
Eakin, F. A. Howell, v. W. Lunsford,
G. c. Phillips Jos. Newsom, Moore,
T. A. Luusford, W. J, Grace W. 3.
White, Jas. Abel, W. ". Taylor and B.
F. Porter attended the meeting of the
Confederate veterans Monday.
Miss Etfie Lundy returned Monday
evening from visit to her sister,
Mrs. J. Il. Coursey. at Hattiesburg.
Joseph Long, of Tolarville, was here
in business way Monday.
j. T. Mclean, of Cruger, spent Mon
day in the city.
Cypress shingles for sale atrick-
ems Bros. Co. See them for prices.
E. W. Jordan, road contractor Of
beat 2, attended to business here Tues
day.
]. E. Harthcock and family, of Cen"
trail Point, were guests of s. j. Brown
and family Tuesday.
The Board of Supervisors are hold
ing an aIl-week session, equalizinR
personal assessments,
The Lexington advertiser., 1910-08-05

Representative J. B. Mitchell OF
Holmes county, was one of the callers
at the executive office Yesterday. Mr.
Mitchell is engaged in delivering lee.
lures over the state in the interest OF
the work being done at the A. d Nj.
College and being practical farmer
himself, be knows exactly how to talk
to the farmers of the state. jackson
Clarion Ledger.
Squire j. ". Wilmington, of Ore
eon, circulated among his many
friends here Monday.
P. W. Abel, of Eulogy, was noted
in Lexington business circles Monday
j. D. Causev, Sr,, and j. 5. Causey
we're up from Brozville Monday.
Prof R. w. Gulledge, of Bowling
Green, hobnobbed with friends here
Monday.
An ice cream supper will be given
at the Cleveland school house this
evening, the proceeds to be used IN
building an addition to the school
house.
The Lexington advertiser., 1910-08-05

j M. Wigley and son, Jim, OF COX
burg, were noted among the many
visitors to Lexington Monday.
R. E johnson, of Acona. was here
Monday on a business errand.
Ike Russell, of the Big Hill, spent
Tuesday in the city.
]. B Bradley, of Brozville, sojourned
in Lexington Tuesday.
NJ. W. Smith. of Franklin, looked
after matters of business in the city
Tuesday.
c. G. Wright Ice & Coal Co.
makes the best ice cream. Hand
I'd by Swinney & Stigier.
Capt. B R. Hammett, of Owens,
exchanged salutations with his many
friends here Monday,
c. r Hargrave, of Belzoni, had
business at Lexington Monday.
}. N. Sample, of Franklin, exchanged
greetings with his many friends here
Monday.
t. j. Edwards, of-Eulogy, had busi-
ness in the city Monday.
J. W. Jordan, Of Mileston, attended
to business in the city Monday
J. r. Wallis, of Coxburg, irradlated
his genial smiles among friends in the
city Monday.
b. s. Chun. of Zeiglerville, was
noted on our busy narts Monday.
Dr.. A. NJ. Phillips, of Eulogy, greeted
lis many friends at the county capital
Monday.
Guy Malone, Of Eulogy, transacted
business in Lexington Monday.
Heart Cypress shingles at Pick
ems Bros. Co. Ask them for prices
DR.. L. s. Rogers. of West, handshook
with his many friends here and at.
tended to business before the board OF
supervisors Monday,
W. H, Abel, of Zeiglerville, greeted
friends at the county capital Monday.
Miss Myrtice Morris was the guest
of B. T. Weatherby and family, at
Durant, the past week.
W. W. Lunsford, of Castalian,
tended the meeting of the Confederate
veterans here Monday.
Squire ]. S. Shurlds, of Tchula, was
here on business MondaY.
W. W Taylor, of Bowling Green,
greeted friends in the city Monday.
Nj. g. Brough, of.Bowling Green,
was here Monday with products from
his prolific farm.
NJ. W. Parish, OF Valley Home, cir
culated in the city Monday.
Carload of barbed wire and nails
lust received. Lowest prices.
NJ. NJ. Rayner.