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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30
SUPREME COURT HANDING
DOWN MANY DECISIONS

Guthrie, okla, Sept 2S.-The SUI
preme court refused a rehearing in
the case of Sydney c. Chapple, a po-
lice court habitue of Muskogee, VS..
Samuel e. Didney, prominent Mus
kogee attorney, whom the boy accused
of using undue and fraudulent meth
DDS in getting possession of the es-
tate of Mrs. Chapple, the latter's
mother.
Gidney claimed the estate through
a deed, and later attempted to buy the
boys claim. The lawyer loses finally
by the refusal of the supreme court
to reconsider the case.
Thomas ]. Bodine of Oklahoma City
was refused a rehearing in his dam
age suit against the now dissolved
Times-Journai Publishing company, a
case that Bodine lost in appeal.
J. NJ. Crook, of Durant who lost the
district judgeship by only forty votes,
was appointed referee in the Kay
county seat contest between Black
we'll and Newkirk.
The court denied the petition of the
mayor and commercial club of Ok
mulgee for an advancement of the
case of James Parkinson VS.. L. S
SHELTON, contest over piece OF
land adjoining Okmulgee which the
city wants for an addition and factory
site. Chief Justice Dunn and Justice
Kane dissented, they being in favor
of giving the city the advantage of an
advancement on the docket since this
would expedite final settlement.
The corporation commission won
it's application for a rehearing in the
Nowata depot case and the case was
remanded to the commission for new
evidence touching the commission S
claim that the old Iron Mountain de
pot cannot be remodeled to meet the
demands OF traffic. The commission
had ordered a new depot built but the
Iron Mountain won on first appeal by
stating that it was ready TO remodel
and enlarge the old depot.
Chief Justice Dunn handed down an
opinion granting the prayer OF Bates
B. Burnette of Sapulpa for writ oi
prohibition against County Judge w
c. Jackson of Muskogee county pro
hibiting the latter from proceeding
with certain guardianship matters per
tanning to Edith Durant, ward, pend
ing an appeal to the district court
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30
CRUCE WILL SPEAK HERE
NEXT WEDNESDAY, NIGHT

The democratic campaign in Craig
county will formally open next We'd
nesday when Hon. Lee Cruce. of Ard
more, the democratic candidate for
governor viii speak in this city at 8
o'clock p. M, and will speak at Cen
tralia the next day at II a. m, at
Bluejacket at 2:30 in the afternoon
and at Weleh at 500 that night A
letter was received this morning from
the Ardmore man stating that he
would be here on the date set
Preparations are being made to
have the opening of the campaign a
memorable day in this county, and
after the opening there will be no let
up until the polls close on the night
of November 9. The county commit
tees are preparing to wage the warm
est campaign that has ever been wag-
ed in the county.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30
STATE BOARD WILL GIVE
SEED WHEAT TO FARMERS

Sulphur, Okla, Sept. 2S.-The state
board of agriculture yesterday began
the distribution of a carload of better
wheat seed to Oklahoma farmers. The
wheat was purchased at Medicine
Lodge, Kans., and a total of 1000
bushels have been ordered. 1t is
known as the Kharkof species, having
originated from a Russian wheat, and
is otherwise known as hard Turkey
red wheat.
The board of agriculture is selling
this to the Oklahoma farmers, in five
bushel lots at $3.50 per lot, or $3.50
per bushel freight prepaid to pur'
chasers where the price of the wheat
and the freight does not come to $3.50
per bushel.
President Connors of the state
board of agriculture has shipped 100
bushels of the pure wheat seed to the
McAlester penitentiary, and will plant
100 acres of the penitentiary farms in
it. It is thought that with a good
yield this 100 acres will grow enough
to make the penitentiary a distrib-
uting point itself next year.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30
LAW AND ORDER
LEAGUE At WORK
Special Committee Will EndeaVor to
Get Governor Haskell to Order
Complete Investigation.

With the avowed intention OF dig
ging into the why's" and "wherefores
of the alleged failure of the county off,
GERS to enforce the state prohibition
laws the Law and Order League held
mass meeting at the court house
last night and decided to appoint a
special committee to go to McAlester
and lay the matter before Governor
Haskell and try to get him to send a
special assistant attorney general to
this city to make complete investiga-
tion of the existing conditions.
The meeting last night was we'll at
tended and that the league means to
delve to the bottom of the affair was
evident from the fact that more than
500 was subscribed last night to be
used by the league in carrying on it's
work. There were about 200 people
in the court room when the discussion
of the matter was taken up by short
talks from those present. The rec
ords of the county court were gone
over and the league decided to make
an investigation of the cause of so
many persons indicted having never
been tried and why those convicted
had not been sentenced.
The meeting last night was presid
ed over by E. w. Stryker and nearly
all of the pastors of the churches OF
the city were in the assembly and
took an active part in the discussion
Upon the motion of ]. c. Starr, mem
Der of the city council from the third
ward, the league decided to appoint
the committee to wait upon the cover
nor and the following were today ap
pointed on that committee: Rev. j. III
Cantrell, J. C. Starr, ]. NJ Jones, C. B
Rogers, and G. N. Bebout. Those oi
the committee who can do so will go tC
McAlester today to see the governor
in regard to the matter.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30
HAVE HAD ERA OF FRENzIEO
FARMING DECLARES SMYTHE
By Associated Press.


Pueblo, Colo, Sept. 28.-William E.
Smythe, of San Diego, Cal, known as
the father of the irrigation congress,
spoke of "The Gospel; a Little Land
and a Living" He said in part:
Just as we have had an era of
frenzied financiering so we have had
an era of frenzied farming. Settlers
have been land-grabbers, speculating
in the public domain, and trying to
reap where they have not sown. They
have followed the same speculative
policy in planting crops, aiming not
to get living, but to get rich. This
has given us the evil of a single crop
where men gamble on one staple, sell
ing all they produce and buying all
they can consume.
"The new farmer will be a real
home-builder. He will use intensive
and scientific methods of cultivation.
His true policy is to take only so much
land as he and his family are able to
bring under the highest cultivation
without hiring help
I'm the last twenty-five years, we
have become a town-dwelling people.
The colonization of the future ought
to be directed largely to the settle
ment of lands lying close to large
cities. These should be divided into
very small areas and brought under
greatly diversified cultivation. The
settlers aim should be independence
and contentment rather than specula-
tion and sudden riches. Under such
conditions, the advantages of city life
will be mostly within reach of the
man on the soil. We shall have a new
type of citizenship-the garden farm.
er. And new kind of community
the garden city.
This is a work in which the gov
ernment ought to take the lead at
least to the extent of educating our
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30
PAYNE -ALDRICH TARIFF
LAW IS NOT FULFILLMENT

Madison, Wis, Sept. 2S.-A portion
of the republican platform, as adopted
by the resolutions committee, was
made public before being read to the
delegates today 1t praises Senator
LaFollette and the Wisconsin progress
siyes and declared the Payne-Aldrich
tariff law does not fulfill the party
pledges The present tariff board is
declared not adequate. The railroad
law should be amended to allow the
physical valuation of railroads. The
graduated income tax is favored and
national control of national resources
is advocated
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30
.ROOSEVELTS WIN
SAR|T0G0 EVENT
Barnes in Statement This Morning Ad.
mitted That Sherman Would Not
Be Chosen.
By Associted Press.

BY Associted Press.
Saratoga, n. Y, Sept. 27.-Colonel
Roosevelt was elected temporary
chairman of the New York state re-.
publican convention here this after.
noon.
When the convention opened, the
hall was packed Chairman Woodruff
made a speech supporting Sherman
for temporary chairman, following
which Abraham Guber, an old orator
gave a stinging denunciation of Roose.
Welt. He said: "a French king once
said 4 am the state no sane man NAV
ever say. I am the United States. ,.
The lungs of the country are not its
brains. Men who few months ago
believed. now disbelieve. Men who
worshiped then, now denounce and
throughout the country business menl
as such, are facing panic, as lovers
of rights and liberties are fearing al
revolution. From Caesar to Napoleon
from Napoleon to the American
jackass."
Roosevelt will be elected temporary
chairman of the state convention, to]
meet at noon today, was the STATED
ment this morning of William Barnes
Jr., leader of the old guard. He pre-
dicted that Sherman would get only
400 of the 1,015 votes.
Stirred by the action last night, o1
the state committee in re-affirmina
| it's support of Sherman, by vote q
twenty-five to fifteen, Roosevelt made
the following statement today; ''Lasl
nights conduct of the committee puta
in the clearest light what the confess
really is. The statements by Grisco4
and others prove conclusively THAI
tricks were used to keep control d
the party in the hands of the men wh5
discredited it by their actions. ThesI
linen who by trickery kept control 4
1.-THE committee and now come here Il
an effort to dominate the conyentid
are the men responsible for the corrut
tion, which produced Aids. Now the5
discredited bosses resent an effort 4
the plain people, who make up a CRED
bulk of the republican party, to rescd
the party from the factions who haf
used it only to further their own bad
and selfish purse.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30
Not a Technical Medical Lecture.

Some misapprehension seems to ex-
ist regarding the address to be deliv-
cred at Vinita on October 3 by DR.. j.
N. Mccormack, secretary of the state
board of health of Kentucky. Many
of our readers have apparently gotten
the impression that the address to be
given by this distinguished gentleman
is on technical medical subjects. We
are assured, however, that such is not
the case. DR.. Mccormack, as the
chairman of the organization commit
tee for the American Medical associa-
tion, is touring the country, lecturing
before medical societies and popular
audiences in the interest of pure food,
pure drugs, better sanitary and hy-
glenic conditions, better medical col
leges and better doctors. He claims
that the public is as much responsible
for present conditions as are the mem.
bers of the medical profession, and he
is, therefore, specially anxious to meet
and talk with representative men in
every community which he visits. Dr.
Mccormack address will be on topics
of vital interest to every intelligent
man and woman in the community
We are asked to especially urge the
presence and participation of all min
listers, lawyers, teachers, members OF
womens clubs, etc.
There are no subjects which have
attracted so much attention and rous
ed so much interest of late as those
connected with the securing of pure
food and the lettering of sanitary con
ditions. We hope that every public
spirited citizen of our town will make
a special effort to be present and te
hear DR., Mccormack address, as well
as to take part in the general discus
sion which will follow
AS an evidence of the impression
which he has made in other states we
Quule lIulu lHe llulu tOHlOI IiDuHt
as follows:
1T is greatly to be regretted that
every man, woman and child in this
county was not present at the meet
ing of the Seneca County Medical So
ciety last night. The lecture was fol
those who are not physicians as well
as for doctors, and should have been
heard by every one. A better and a
more interesting speaker never stood
upon the rostrum and faced a Tiffin
audience than DR.. Mccormack. and
better subject for lecture never
was given here or anywhere else. A
splendid specimen of manhood him
self, possessing a strong personality
and that power of magnetism that
draws audiences to him irresistibly
DR.. Mccormack held his hearers rapt
for over an hour"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30

people in these new forms
and agricultural life. There L
refuge for great numbers of p
who are crowding each other to
point of suffocation in the trades
professions. And there is no re
but the land.
ITO make the land ready fol
people and direct the current Of G
ization into good channels is as
the legitimate work of governmel
the fostering of manufactures
protective tariff, or the encou
ment of the merchant marine by
sides. 1t is as important to org
the armies of peace as to build
navies for the possible emergenc
war. The interests of social lu
and social peace alike demand %
tention of the government to
work of domestic colonization.
United States had not time to 10
1t would deal with this problem \
best advantage"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30
PROMINENT TULSA COUNTY,
FARMER IS FOUND OEI|

Owasso, Okla, Sept. 27-George
Davis, 55 years of age, promin
and wealthy pioneer farmer, of Owa
township, was found dead in his
at his home, west of Owasso ca
Monday morning.
Heart trouble, which had confr
Mr.. Davis to his bed during the p
week was the cause of death.
Mrs. Davis, who found her husba
dead, when she attempted to arOl
him from what she thought was
unusually sound sleep, was prostra
by the shock.
Uncle" George Davis, as he
familiarly called, had been a residI
of the district where he died for
past fourteen years, and was an
tensiye land owner and farmer.
He was township treasurer
Owasso and district road overseer
was active in political spirits in
Farmers Union as a member of Grd
woods chapel.
Mr. Davis is survived by Mrs. D4
and six children, A. R., Guy, Vid
Harold, Fred and Mrs. George Vol
all of the family reside at OwassoI
cept Victor, who lives in Kansas \
Funeral arrangements have notI
been made.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30
LECTURE BY DR.. MCCORMICK
IN VINITA ON OCTOBER 3

DR.. ]. N. Mccormack, national or
ganizer of the American Medical as
.sociation, will give a free lecture al
the Auditorium, Monday evening, Oc
tober 8, to which the public is cordial
ly invited. Better food, better drugs
better doctors and better health will
be discussed by this learned practi
toner and the public will gain knowl
edge nowhere else obtainable. The
Chieftain will from day to day con.
tain articles relative to this lecture
and it is to be hoped that the people
of Vinita win take advantage Of this
opportunity
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30
Jury Selected Monday and the Famous Mus
kogee Townlot Cases Are Now to Be Tried
-lndictmgnts Against English and Seu-
ers Dismisses- Judge Marshal Announ-
ces He Will Later Hear Arguments
for Dismissal of Cases Against
Haskell and His Associates.


and F. B. Sewers, two of the men in
dicted with Haskell, virtually have
confessed judgment in the cases
against them, turning back 10 lots to
the Creek nation and paying $4,000
to cover the lots now in the hands of
innocent purchasers.
The government took its cue from
the Mott suits and commenced an in
lvestigation. Sylvester r. Rush of
Omaha and o. E. Pagan of New York,
assistants to the attorney general of
the United States, were sent to Okla
homa to assist United States District
Attorney William ]. Gregg of the
eastern district in the investigation.
AS a result of their work, a federal
grand jury at Muskogee returned in
dictments on February 8, 1909, against
Governor Charles N. Haskell, F. B..
Sewers, A. z. English, c. w. Turner,
w. T. Hutchings and w. R. Eaton.
HS ldICcI vas IeSuUDuillSu dl OuCc
to the grand jury, but after several
days of examining witnesses the jury
was discharged by Jesse Marshall on
May Is, at the request of District At
torney Gregg who charged that it was
being unduly influenced by the defend
ants. Another jury was impaneled and
indictments returned on May 26, 1909,
against the same defendants.
The defendants filed a motion to
quash the indictments, and it was sus-
tanned by Judge Marshall at Tulsa on
April 10, 1909, on the ground that the
indictments were returned by grand
l. jury composed of tWenty-three men,
under the federal law, instead of six
teen, under the Arkansas law, which
was held to have been in force in In
dian Territory by virtue of federal
enactment at the time of the alleged
offense.
The case was set for hearing at Ard
more, where Judge Marshall, on Octo-
ber 10, overruled motions to quash
made by Haskell and his associates.
A month later, at Chickasha, he also
overruled the demurrers to the indict.
ments. The defendants pleaded not
guilty and the cases were set for trial
at Tulsa in May, but a continuance
was obtained at that time on the
ground that attorneys for the defense
had been denied access to certain doc
uments in the Office of the interior de,
partment at Washington and the In
dian agency at Muskogee.
Judge Marshall then set the cases
for the McAlester term, but in the
meantime. Senator Gore had gotten
the consent of the senate to include
the methods used in securing the in.
dictments against Haskell in the mat
ters to be taken up by the senate com
mittee named to investigate third de,
gree" methods. 1t was expected that
the committee would visit Muskogee
early in September and that it would
afford an excuse for a further post
ponement of the case, but it is an
nounced that the committees visit to
Oklahoma has been postponed in.
definitely.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30
Miners Expect Busy Season.

MeAlester, Okla. Sept 2S-Indica.
tions point to busy season with the
coal mines in this vicinity, beginning
within the next ten days. Since the
mines resumed operations a week ago
little coal has been dug, partially due
because much preliminary work had
to be done in getting the mines in
shape for work. Through months of
idleness mules and men had become
softened and they could not stand to
work full days. BY the first of Octo-
ber, if the present rate is maintained,
it is expected that $4,000 men will
have been put to work in this district.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30

The ladies of the Civic Club
meeting yesterday at which u
hibit to be sent to the Ozark 7
tion was again discussed and
decided that each lady should
every effort to make the display
cess. Mrs. H. w. c. Shelton vii.
charge of the exhibit. =
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-25
Your Christmas Present to Yourself
By HERBERT KAUFMAN

do their every day, and therefore each finds them
further on the way
They waster They apply their activities economically
they their vitality for real issueshey their brains
drive ideas while you keep fssng away acky vaesong
your force through all sorts of little leaks.
You lack determination and application out the wrench and
tighten up your loose habits
Strike for the heighs-you can't tell how far you will climb until
you begin to trudge upward
Success free privilege. 1t will be monopozed Enter
the and realize the full value of your latent abilities
1t may be that you must learn stdeyou will be
of Encouragement and opposition. There will be when
doubt will dog your epwhen your feet will fater and your soul
will be sick with fear Every who did anything important
passed through the experience That's the It's the
a
That's how Fortune makes her choice Those who drop the
belong there but the who cling after they've reached their
NAL limit of endurance deserve and get her favor
So you that else bring you this important of
Christmas gifts must be born your bast be nurtured
by your willis the wonderful thing that man
this dreaming of mighty dreams and making them reality
Kaufma
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-25

Now that Christmas is here you're heavng sigh of content
you're glad that the hustle and hustle of the past week ovhappy
the happiness which you brought and you haven't paused to
remember that you forgot that present for yourself
Oh ism such queer idea as No gift important
Now ism made of tin woodyou cant smoke play with it
can't touch it and you cant you must feel sufgng IN
VEINS quckng your pulse pumping good red blood into
vtals.
1t can't be bought must be this wonderful gift
resolution make good do better and to render service.
You've never really reached out for your bhghyouve been
with what easiest when all the while you could have
accomplished anything that any other with the training and
the mentality ever achieved
Today you pledge yourself higher you do
not gain the summit the attempt bound beyond the spot
where you stand The habit of wanting produces the
strength ge Anything clean and real within the reach Of
fearing manhood spued by courage and driven by resolution
Greatness inheritance but achievement The captains
of energy are no different than those who them They made of
the and bone and feed upon the food but they
charged with grit bold attempt and confident Of their destiny
They do advance single eap-hey just progress They
lCopuigh "
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-25
Cheap Stuff
| About Alaska
| Conservation

fca Of this ism that should the opened
would be
Great government this that expects to fight foreign
perhaps
foe Great government this that can not allow its
be utilized the
government for if make with thieves?
This pretty cheap stuff fatty misstating facts making
appeal to ignorant prejudice 1t the consevations who
have stood the opening the Alaska coal for
exploitation but the condition of the law nterposton
secretary ange Long ago Secretary Garfield urged congress
the law in such reasonable shape permit the deye
opment OF Alaska coal beds basis that would be fair
the nation Garfield had remained office matter would
have been adjusted long but the appearance
nger the field of action raised such suspicion that
action became impossible long congress looked to him
for advice.
OF what the Oregonan and other papers of that stripe
want IS wide exploitation of the
ney VIII never get even should 1t postpone development for
of century This question not be settled until it
is settled right
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-25

the reform of the British prison system and the methods Of
treating confinement. Dickens similar way
largely in the abolition for debt Wei
need scarcely mention the powerful influence American thought
by Uncle Toms Cabin may well be that the
drama victory humanity by bringing under the
light of pes publicity those mysterious which have
been said, rightly wrongly be characteristic OF police
methods this country It should be noted that British law and
practice absolutely forbid the questioning prisoner by the
police But there something be said the other side As
long methods employed interests of justice and
public safety suspected criminals should be subject
to examination searching and skilful