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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-02-08
MORE EVIDENCE
OF LAND FRAUDS
Walter Thorne Finds Two Mortgages,
Warranty Deed And Rental
Contract on His Land.

Another case of what is believed to
be gross fraud in the transfer Of land
titles was brought to light today,
when Walter Thorne of near Kansas
attempted to make a deed to 70 acres
Of land, lying west Of Centralia, to
j. L. Marrs, also OF near Kansas.
Yesterday Thorne gave Marrs an
option on the land at stipulated
price, and the two men then went to
Centralia to see the land. While there
they found there were two mortgages,
a warranty deed and rental contract
against the land, the execution Of
which Thorne declares he had no
knowledge. According to the theory
of Thorne these instruments mad
been forged.
The warranty deed and rental con-
tract held by T. G. Montgomery, at
Centralia. 1t is not known who exc
cuted the deed, or mortgages, as
Walter Thorne says he was in con-
plete ignorance of their existence.
Houston Thorne, a brother of Walter
Thorne recently sold his lands lying
in the same vicinity. Marrs and
Thorne have engaged counsel to make
an investigation of the affair and
some prosecutions are likely to fol-
low The transfer Of title to Marrs
has been held up pending the investi-
cation.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-02-08
NEGROES PAY DEATH
PENALTY FOR ASSAULT.

~ 1Kb5UUIdIFU TF5h'
Kansas City, Mo, Feb. 5. - From
off a single scaffold George Reynolds
and John Williams, negroes, were
hanged, simultaneously in the county
jail this morning at $3.50 o'clock The
crime for which they were executed
was an assault. This was the
first time that the death penalty has
been assessed in Missouri, for this
act. Reynolds was pronounced dead
In seven minutes and Williams in
nine minutes County Marshal Mayes
sprung the trap.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-02-08
SENSATION SPRUNG
BY SW0PE NURSE
Says DR.. Hyde Tried to Get Her to
Persuade swOpe to Name Him
Executor.
BY Associated Press.


Kansas City Mo, Feb. S.-A sensa-
ton followed today. at the inquest, at
Independence. into the death of Col
onel Thomas H. Swope. A few days
before Colonel SwoDe died DR.. Hyde
asked the millionaire's nurse to try
and persuade the ratient to name him
(Hyde) as one of his executors, ac-
cording to the testimony, given by
Miss Pearl Keller. Then she told Of
the happenings on the morning that
Colonel Swope died, of the giving of
the capsule that apparently was d.
gestiye tablet, the following convul-
sions within twenty minutes, the
symptoms of the attack and the dag
nosis by DR.. Hyde as apoplexy, the
treatment and finally death. She
told this in quiet unassuming man
ner.
Miss Kellar's testimony produced
sensation in the crowded court room.
Dr. Hyde, his lips tightly set watched
the nurse closely, as she told the
story, while Mrs. Logan Q. Swope, his
mother-in-law, heavily veiled. listen
ed attentively from another part Of
the room
Or. Ludwig Hektoen, the Chicago
toxicologist, went on the stand when
the inquiries were resumed at 1880
o'clock this afternoon
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-02-08
GOVERNMENT FORCES
RI. OCCUPYING BOACO
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated PRESS.
Washington. D. c., Feb. 8. = The
news OF sharp fighting between
Chamorro's insurgent troops and the
government forces under Vasquez at
Tipitapa river Nicaragua.is expected
monentarily here. Incomplete advices
that have arrived in a desultory way.
Indicate that Chamorro is preparing
to cross the Tipitapa on his way to
Granada and Managua and that the
Madriz forces intend to make a stand
there. General Chamorro eluded
three columns of the government
troops. which had been sent to be-
seige him in Boaca. and has taken to
the woods. The government forces
are re-oecupying the town Of Boaca,
which was captured by the insurgents
under General Mazis. last Friday
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-02-08
National Monetary Commission Issues a CIeal
and Useful Digest of Banking Laws--ProOis-
ions of State Laws Dealing With CircuIa-
tion is Omitted = Systematized Under
Head of fEachState..D Deals WithNearIy
Every Question Regarding Banking

capital required to be paid in to begin
business; when the remainder must
be paid; requirements as to surplus;
| liability of stockholders; number of
directors and their qualifications
number of examinations by directors
required; special banking supervisor,
If any, with his term of office; cases
where supervision of banks is assign
ed to other officials; bank reports re-
quired; publication of unclaimed de-
posits; official examinations: mini
mum reserve requirements, and what
proportion must be In cash; limita-
tions on loans, including real estate;
and provisions regarding branches.
The table relating to state banks
shows that the minimum capital re-
|4uirement is in many cases below that
of the national banking law, even
since that was reduced in 1900 to
$25,000 Among the cases where the
minimum is comparatively low are
Alabama, $4,000; Colorado, $1O,OO0:
Florida, $4,000; Kansas, $4,000;
Kentucky, $4,000; Louisiana, s1O,-
900; Minnesota, $4,000; Mississippi,
10000; Missouri, 10000; Nebraska,
$4,000; Nevada, $4,000; North Caro-
lima, $4,000; North Dakota, $1O,OOO;.
Oklahoma, $4,000; Oregon, $4,000;
South Dakota, $4,000; Texas $4,000;
Utah, 10000; Virginia, $4,000; Wis
consin, $4,000; Wyoming, $4,000.
These are in each case the minimum
for the smallest communities, and a
higher minimum is required in some
states in towns above certain pop
ulation.
The summary in regard to state SUI
pervision shows about half the states
to rely upon some other official than
a superintendent or commissioner of
banking, although in some of these
cases examiners are appointed. Thus.
in Alabama, the duty of supervision
falls upon the state treasurer, in ATi-
zona, upon the auditor of the terri
tory; in Delaware, upon the insurance
commissioner; in Florida, upon the
comptroller; in Georgia. upon the
state treasurer; in Illinois. Indiana,
and Iowa, upon the state auditor; in
Kentucky, upon the secretary Of state:
in Nebraska, upon the state banking
board consisting of the governor,
auditor, and attorney-general; in
North Dakota and Oregon, upon a
similar board; in North Carolina and
Virginia, upon the corporation com
mission
The tabular summary in regard to
savings banks deals with such ques-
tions as whether mutual or stock
companies are provided for; qualifi-
cations of directors and their duties;
processes in insolvency; restrictions
on real estate loans; limitations on
other investments; and the maximum
deposit allowed to an Individual The
tabular summary in regard to trust
companies shows gaps in legislation
in certain states, but in those where
a trust company law has been fully
worked out, many, If not most of the
questions dealt with under banks are
discussed.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-02-08
MISSOURI UNIVERSITY
WILL NOT LOSE HILL,
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
st. Paul, Mimi. Feb S.-The regents
of the university of Minnesota, today,
received a telegram from DR.. A. Ross
Hill, president of the university Of
Missouri, declining their offer of the
presidency of the university Of Min
nesota .sDr. Hill said his duties to
the university of Missouri forbade
him accepting their generous offer.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-02-08
VIII Walker Dead.

Earl Walker today received a mes
sage from San Antonio. Tex. saying
that his brother. VIII Walker. was
dead, at that place. The fun
eral and interment viii occur at Nc
Alester. VIII Walker was the Oldest
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Walker. of
this city.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-02-08
Canning Factory Man Here.

A. Byrd. of Oklahoma City, who
owns number of canning factories
over the state, was here today look
ing over the ground, preparatory to
establishing a factory. He was much
impressed with vinita and declared
this to be the prettiest and one of the
livliest towns in Oklahoma.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-02-08
WILL Be BUYING ORE
AGAIN IN FEW DAYS
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
Joplin, Mo-, Feb. S.-There will be
little change in the management or
methods of the CockerilI Smelling
company. the bankruptcy of which
was announced last night, according
to statement today, by A. B. Cock
erill, president of the concern. Cock
erill said that he will be general man
ager of the recognized concern and
that it viii be buying ore again in
the Joplin district within a few days
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-02-08

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Reed arrived
from Wichita this morning. Mr.. Reed
has accepted position as bookkeeper
at the Vinita National
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-02-08

Misses Ruth and Bessie Brady. of
Tulsa. were here last night, en- route
to Nevada, Mo-, where they are at
tending college,
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-02-08

Morris knight. Pryor Farley and
John Thomason went to Tulsa today
to attend a meeting of the directors
of the First National bank of that
city.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-02-08

Bob Messenger has begun the cree
ton of a new residence in the Col
lege addition. He has sold the one
just finished.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-10-14
RICE CROP HALF MILLION SHORT OF LAST
YEAR
Rice Crop the Cheapest Ever Raised,
Says the Journal.

Crowley, Oct 1.-The October num-
Der of the Rice Journal and Southern
Farmer, in it's review of the rice situa-
ton says today:
''The last week in September finds
the Honduras crop practically all TN.
der cover in Louisiana and Texas and
the harvest and threshing we'll ad.
! vanced in Arkansas. The harvest
season has been favorable and rice
has been in good condition to thresh.
The harvest has, therefore, made more
than ordinary progress. Japan has
begun to come into the warehouses on
the gulf coast aud the first week in
October will see the Japan harvest
we'll advanced.
"The yield per acre on the river
has been about the same as usual.
| On the gulf coast the yields have been
better in Southwest Louisiana and
Eastern Texas, because the poorer
lands have not pulled down the aver.
ages. but in parts of Western Texas
the yields have fallen off on account
of lack of water, The yield in Mata-
gorda county is estimated by some TO
be not over 20 per cent OF last years
Weld.
1.-The acreage on the river has been
materially increased, Southwest Lou.
isiana acreage is decreased nearly
third, Texas acreage is about the same
as last year, and the acreage of Ar
kansas has nearly doubled. The net
acreage is somewhat reduced,
ut is generally believed that the
total crop will fall short of last year
| about half million, making this crop
in the neighborhood of five and one
half millions.
sit is agreed that this crop is the
cheapest one ever raised since the
American rice industry reached its
present proportions, Less seed has
been wasted, less ineffective acreage
has been prepared and planted and
/ less expense has been incurred in wa
tering and harvesting poor crops,
Farmers throughout the rice belt
have raised more stock poultry and
forage crops than ever before.
"The rice market opened at the be-
ginning of the season on basis lower
than usual, but with an exception OF a
brief squirt in September, did not hold
up to the opening prices. A remark
able feature of the rough rice market
this season, has been the fact that riv-
er rices have actually sold under SINH.
lar grades from Southwest Louisiana
and Texas. On account of the rapid.
ty with which the rough crop has come
into the market, offerings have been
untaken and farmers have withdrawn
their rice from the market, where Il
was possible for them to do so. 1t is
the prevailing opinion of rice men OF
experience, that the statical position Of
rice at this time justifies the prediction
that it will advance in price. The
consumption has increased over that
of last season and the visible supply
IS not as large as it was year ago.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-10-14

Sunday will be communion Sun
day, at the Congregational church.
Regular services every second and
fourth Sunday.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-10-14
Notice.

The Tax Roll for the year 1910 is
completed and in the Tax collector s
hands. All taxes are now due and
will become delinquent on JAM, 1911,
after which 2 per cent per month will
be charged.
S. Blackboard,
Tax Cox.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-10-14
ATTENTION!

L ~ y i 1Ol ~
invited to the values featured below, each of which
but one of the many special values every department
abdsn with
Silk Petticoats $3.50.
black and all the beautiful Fall coors, made of soft
~ mailing Taeta with plated and strapped founce-very
aisl at $780,
Tailored Suits $500.
hath mixtures French Serge and Broadcloh -32-inch
& eoat the skirt depicting the lines accordance
~ The latest dictates of Fashion, in brown, blue, black
d Green; great value for $500
M any new models in Tailored Suits at SIS co. $3.50, $2
40 s2a5O, $3.50, $4,000 and upwards.
One Piece Dresses $3.50
@ pce we show unusual collection of snappy ideas in
Piece French Serge, Storm Serge, Broadcoth MesaIne
@ and Tseta Silk Dresses-some plain tailored others eab-
4tv timmed-all specially priced at $780, Many other
s nrced at $40 Co., $780, $780, $4,000. S225O, $780,
saO0snd upwards.
Girls Wool Dresses.
Girls Wool Dresses in plain Seges onepiece model, with high
@ and long sleeves trimmed BRAID full plated skirt
$500 $3.50, $3.50 and $1,000
Trimmed Hats S.. oS and $4.08.
Hhee two prices feature unusual collection Of Womens
and Misses Tailored Trimmed Hats depicting the seasans most
clever style creations in browns, naves, greens, geys reds
hack white and combinations of black and white great values
st$a98 and $4.9S
Other attractive values Trimmed Hats priced at $780,
$1,000 S12 So $500 and upwards.
We fDmal orders We prepay the ex-
:: :: M :: =: =: :: :
The furnishing Of funded both ways
s, f Lake Charles Biggest Best IN To five ner cent
- and Busiest Store If ,our nurcbases
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-10-14
Estate Snap.
second -

Fred for. 81 ; nSre sOs
5uyer to agra reo' .paga6
ost 81, 600 co % .. %
: for q like sim i!prpl
s oSh; Interest al = ;
o 9tfnIlgot'annually ae :
m mug, pay payable o on
ice in yearln VI viii
ser, up to si paynsa
Ter 69rgram to yeaH
TESTER s5;ER WELsH
| California BIdga
Tacoma, Wan
mott n it who has s.
'e Tyler CONNIE
Ier, rexasfor sewn
returned to VA
lew days visit ~
latives. wv VIC
s s. a retireo minist..
Fa r located at TO-.
Sunday in Ws Js' ]
the, the congregatieoIDas''j
morning and ia r.
church in the evenia r'
in of Jennings, V,
al ais u, son Alfred, e. n
best residence pro,. /
ms n street, for sale s
For information csII
t.; t my place four mile.
W elSh' one three-year.
! mite spotted steer, IN.
is steer came to nv
year 3! ago, Same viii {
to law if not
E. T. Louviere.
eptember LIST, at nv
southwest of Ros.
horse about l2 yesra
10 hands high. Har. H
| shoulder and back. /
the lett shoulder.
J. Roanoke, La. 2Op /
r taken up, at my /
south of Welsh. One /
black heifer unbrand. 1
re to my place about
! !, has been with my
Said heifer will Be !
to process of law.
by owner. lgn 4
Aleide Hebert, Jr.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-10-14

mott it who has IS.
'e Tyler Comne.os3
returned to w.
lew days visit. ~
.Iatives. VIE
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-10-14

best residence pra,
ms n street, for sale IS
For information e Il
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-10-14

IN IN. of Jennings, Va,
his son, Alfred ~
re week. IVY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-03
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Here is another thing. you want to
sink deep in your SOUL" says the Os-
borne Farmer. THE other people are
not throwing the harpoon into you half
as much as you think they are
A card was published recently in the
Anthony Bulletin by a woman of that
town requesting that the twenty-five or
more persons who had borrowed books
from her and forgotten to return them
to send them home.
When Mrs. Polk Daniels kneels down
to pray every night before going to
pet poodle chews her bare toes and
pulls at her night gown until she gets
so mad she has to get up and lick him
and she scarcely ever gets as far as
the Amen in a contrite spirit.
The Leavenworth Times reports that
a man in that town has figured 1t out
that it takes lot of clothes to court
and marry a girl. frs: you have to
pay suit, then you have to suit her.
You have to address her papa in Ian
guage clothed with diplomatic verbiage.
Then you have to have wedding suit,
and if you find you are unsuited you
get law suit.
One of the saddest looking things in
the world it seems to us, is to see a
girl in the chorus of a musical comedy
dressed in overwhelmingly short skirts
and flesh colored stockings, wearing a
SOI1OuS 1OOk OiI uOr ldCc II > ali T1SnI
enough when they smile, but when two
or three Of them look serious we feel we
are particeps criminis in the whole sad
affair and want to go home-but we
never have.-Concordia Kansan.
A funny thing happened in County
Attorney Moxey's office the other day,
which will result in a pretty serious
matter, too, narrates the Atchison
Champion. An Atchison man had BUSH
ness viii the county attorney and some
papers were being drawn up. Mr..
Shukers' visit to Atchison last week
was mentioned and another man in the
office made the comment that the at
torney generals assistant was well
pleased with the way the town is be-
having. 81 guess there is not a place in
town where liquor can be bought
some one remarked. Then the man
who was having papers drawn. up got
into the game. Don't believe that for
a minute" he remarked. "I was in a
place less than a week ago where beer
was sold by the bottle The county
attorney went ahead and finished up
his business transaction with the man,
but the anti-prohibition remark had
soaked in thoroughly. The fellow start
ed to button his overcoat, preparatory
to leaving the prosecutors office, when
Attorney Moxey remarked: Now, Mr..
, just hold up your hand and
will swear you on this beer PROPOSE
ton" There was some hesitancy, but
the man saw what he was up against.
Up went his right hand and he told it
all. He told the county attorney where
he saw beer sold and a warrant will be
issued at once.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-03
DANGERS FROM HIGH PRICES.

An interesting document on the pres
ent cost of living appears in the jan
Uary American Magazine 1t is written
by Elizabeth Hewes. and is a record of
her personal observation. She writes:
Every one IS talking high prices.
But my topic is different. I wish to
talk not on the high prices themselves.
but on their dangers, the chief dan
gers being. of course, to that trunk
class of a nation. the smalI-salaried
man, the clerk. the shop-girl. The pres
ent high prices are affecting this class
in two ways: first. they are tending to
force them down rather than up in the
social scale; second. they are putting
them to such stress that they are tend
ing to become an underfed class, under
nourished, and certainly the danger of
having the great trunk class of a ma
ton under-nourished cannot be over
rated.
well, I don't pretend to know the
causes of high prices but this I do
know: that I am today paying 8 cents
more for my steak. cents more for
eggs, cents more for butter than
was last year; that a better class of
people than heretofore is beginning to
try and evade the compulsory education
law, and that certain shop-girls whom
know have reduced their lunches from
chicken on toast with rice border to
an eclair and a cup of coffee. In other
words, our great, prosperous CD coun-
try stands at the parting of the ways.
little more, and you will have the
trunk class of America an underfed
class, being slowly but surely forced
10, ha IL l.
man, the miner. the servant girl (who
are being paid more) will force their
children up into the clerk class only to
have their children stick there or return
to them. This would no longer be
American.
This that 1 say is true, and it seems
to me to merit the attention of all
thoughtful Americans who care for
Tbai1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-03
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
A reckless chauffeur maketh a glad
undertaken.
A family tree is seldom so produce
tive of fruit as a good business plant.
If tears were really pearls most
women would be weeping all the time.
Contentment may be better than
riches, but you can't buy a square
meal with it.
The busybody who always has a
finger in the pie doesn't always pull
out a plum.
Household economy is something a
man breaches and expects his wife to
practice.
eff you want a thing well DONE
began the optimist. ''Order it rare
interrupted the pessimist.
There isn't always such a lot of
difference between making fool of a
man and merely exposing him.
The slouchily dressed man always
inspires the thought that he either
ought to get married, or divorced.
Wigg-'T am a great sdmirer of
small feet Wagg-fSo am I. There
isn't so much of them to get cold.''
A jealous woman can make a scene
in much less time than it would take
a stage carpenter and a scene painter.
After a man has been married for
two years and still allows his wife to
buy his neckties, their love will be
lasting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-03

now wake. up to find myself here in your
company "a so1&
Just the same with me, Mabel dear. i
went TO bed with such an anxious mind
Snat must have got up in my sleep, and
Itressed ana come here. You once told me
In the full of the moon"
How queer that we should both be
DC you think we talked to each other7'
~ think we did, and If you will sit
Gown on this bench I will tell you all I
And when he had told her, and the
Katydsds and watch dogs and tree toads
said: W
Don't be foolish any nnore-at least
not until after we are old married foIksi'
copyrighted, 1910. by Associated Liter
airy Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-03


taste, but memory will not remain
silent on the generous help that was
extended to another woman of This
vicinity not long ago when her hus-
band lost his life while endeavoring to
turn off the supply of gas from a big
building that was on fire. This man
wasn't city employe, was not actu-
ally a servant of the people of this
town. Yet his body had scarcely been
recovered from the debris of the fall
ing wall which buried him before the
people of the city had turned loose
their purse strings, nor did they stop
giving until this mans widow and her
children were placed in comfortable
circumstances. That was a fine act,
not Of charity, but of justice.
Is the case of Mrs. Fensen any diff
ferent? The mere fact that she is
suing the city for what she thinks is
justly due her for her husbands death
does not relieve the people of the city
from extending to her the aid she
needs. It's time there was an awak-
ening to duty in this particular.