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Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

JEALOUSY between the house and
j senate has broken out in a new
form. This time it has nothing to do
with procedure or Legislation. 1t has
been discovered that Representative
Adamson Of Georgia can dispose Of
more food at one sitting than any
other member of the house. Senator
Stephen B. Elkins CT West Virginia,
who stands high on the list of million
aires in the senate, has the reputation
of being able to eat more at one meal
than most of his colleagues can get
away with at two sittings. Mr..
Adamson is strongly backed by the
southern members of the house while
the senators are willing to back Mr..
Elkins. The sporty members of con-
gress are anxious to arrange a con-
test at which the question will be set
tied. The plan is to have Dick Shaw,
The caterer of the senate restaurant,
make all the necessary arrangements.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13
Why does Great Britain buy its oat-
meal Of US?


Certainly IL seems like carrying
Goals to Newcastle to speak of export
Ing oatmeal to Scotland and yet, every.
year the Quaker Oats Company sends
hundreds of thousands of cases OF
Quaker Oats to Great Britain and
Europe.
The reason is simple; while the
English and Scotch have for centuries
eaten oatmeal in quantities and with
regularity that has made them the
most rugged physically. and active
mentally of all people, the American
has been eating oatmeal and trying all
the time to improve the methods OF
manufacture so that he might get that
desirable foreign trade.
How we'll he has succeeded would
be seen at glance at the export re-
ports on Quaker Oats. Tlis brand is
without a rival; is packed in regular
packages, and in hermetically sealed
tins for hot climates. 81
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13
ROSY COLOR
Produced by Postum.

"When a person rises from each
meal with ringing in the ears and q
general sense of nervousness, it is
ranged stomach.
81 found 1t was caused from drink
ing coffee, which never suspected for
a long time, but found by leaving OF
coffee that the disagreeable feelings
went away.
II was brought to think of the sub
ject by getting some Postum and this
brought me out of trouble.
1T is a most appetizing and invig-
Grating beverage and has been of
such great benefit to me that 1 natu-
rally speak of it from time to time
as opportunity offers.
"a lady friend complained to me
that she had tried Postum, but it did
not taste good. In reply to my ques-
ton she said she guessed she boiled it
about ten minutes. l advised her to
follow directions and know that she
boiled 1t fifteen or twenty minutes, and
she would have something worth talk
ing about. A short time ago I heard
one of her children say that they were
drinking Postum nowadays, so I
Judge she succeeded in making Il
good, which is by no means a dificult
task.
'The son of one of my friends was
formerly pale lad, but since he has
been drinking Postum. has a fine color.
There Is plenty of evidence that
Postum actually does make red blood
as the famous trademark says"
Read THE Road to Wellville," found
In pkgs. There's Reason"
Ever read the above Ietters new
one appears from time to Time Tkrv
are genuine. trues and full of human.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13
In New Hampshire.

That irresponsible Manchester Union
man gave himself surprise party By
going to church last Sunday and this
was the result: "On this first
Sunday of Lent, while George Bailey
of the Houston Post is sacrilegiously
fishing for eels in Texas bayou, and
the (married) paragrapher of the
Kennebeck Journal is tapping his
boots, and the Ging-Ging Goophus Of
the Springfield Union is playing seven
up, we, in common with other good
New Hampshire people, shall dutifully
attend church. Union.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

WASHINGTON you hungry?
w And do you think the cost of liv-
ing is too high? Then listen.
Go out to the back yard and run a
nice fat, unsplintered sirloin bone into
the corner near the fence. If it
squeaks, sprinkle few grains of salt
and cayenne pepper on the exposed
spots. Stop all further cries by cov-
ering both ends with bit of dough-
boil it little while and serve on
toast. It's great! It's cheap and also
1t is nutritious. Uncle Sam, culinary
expert, says so. and he ought to know.
Uncle Samuers new cook book is
Just out and it gives cards and spades,
a couple of right bowers and also a
few straight hushes to the high-priced
beefs of the country and even then
comes out winner.
The title of the new cookbook is
Economical Use of Meat in the
Home" and it Is modestly listed as
Farmers Bulletin 391."
1t was prepared by C. F. Langwor-
thy, Phi. D., expert in charge of nutri-
ton investigations in the office of ex-
pertinent stations, and Miss Caroline
l.. Hunt, A. B..
Uncle Sam puts his official foot
right down on the vegetarian craze
and comes out boldly as an advocate
of the food values of meats.
For many reasons" says the vol
ume, 1T seems fair to conclude with
the majority of the Psychologists that
this widespread habit of eating ami
NAL foods is the result of experience
and that it has it's foundation in bod
lily needs"
"Of course" continues the work, "it
Is possible to overeat of these foods,
as it is of butter or olive oil, for ex-
ample; so in meat eating as in other
food habits moderation is desirable"
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

Commend us to that Toledo man
who had ten tons Of turnips to sell,
but was not satisfied with the price
offered him by the wholesalers, and
deliberately gave the entire lot to the
populace. who carried those turnips
away in baskets. says Chicago Trib.
une. He could AFFORD to do it, and he
dit 1t. and through his indignant gen.
erosity. so to speak. more people in
Toledo probably feasted on boiled tur-
nips during the next "a hours than
ever before in the history of the city.
while all the circumambient atmos-
phere was Fedolent of their more or
less grateful perfume But suppose IL
had been a carload of onions,
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13
Bar Tips in the Senate Restaurant

posed to be under the supervision of
the committee on rules. 1t cannot be
learned whether the committee re-
ported out this no-tipping rrie. Any
way 1t Is supposed to go. But what
is this? A senator has finished his
luncheon. He gives his waiter a bill.
The waiter brings the change. There
is pause while the senator counts,
jingles and folds his money. Then
there Is motion toward the waiter
with deft turn Of the senatorial
wrist. Who's afraid of a committee
rule, anyhow? Let US defy. say ta4
wearers of the togas.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

trowel, putting the mortar on about
two inches thick.
l gave the whole inside of the tank
a thin coating of cement moistened
with water, and l am happy to say
it has never cracked or leaked.
The vat when finished was two feet
wide at top and six inches at the bot
tom.
l neglected to say that the top of
the tank should be two inches above
the top of the ground.
/ also made a drain ten feet long
and two feet in width, which was
plastered three inches thick with the
same mixture used for sides and ends
of tank.
The whole cost of vat was $3.50 for
cement. Sand costing nothing but
the hauling
Another man and myself dug the
hole, hauled the sand, and completed
vat and drain in three-quarters of a
day.
l find cement not only much cheap,
er but more durable than lumber, and
find many uses for it.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

The fair goods of a western univers-
ity have issued proclamation against
the wearing of mustaches by either
students or professors, threatening q
boycott of all who disobey this order.
Any professor who wears his face
as 1t suits him, in defiance of their
wishes, will find the goods absent
from his lectures Which gives room
for thought on the effect of discipline
and the higher education on character
building.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

cording to the government bulletin on
which we base these conclusions.
Sometimes it keeps a neighborhood
awake at night. If allowed liberty 1t
will wander far, roost high in the open
and subsist on grass seeds and in
sects; small flock will noticeably re-
duce the number of farm pests. The
cock looks very like the hen, but can
be distinguished from her by his habit
of walking on tiptoes" when ex.
cited.
1t is very easy to excite the guinea
fowls. The hens will desert a nest If
you approach it, or If the eggs are
handled. Some dealers use wooden
spoons in securing the eggs, and leave
four or five nest eggs. The mothers
are so restless that as soon as the first
chick is out they are inclined to aban,
don the unmatched chicks and run Oh
with corporal's guard of young ones.
For that reason it is better to hatch
guinea eggs in an incubator or under
the auspices of a motherly barnyard
hen
The government is of opinion that
there is money in guinea fowls, and
that more of them will shortly be
raised. 1t is just case of educatiy q
the market to appreciate them.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

An ungallant French Judge has de-
cided that spinsters of 80 have no
legal redress if they are Tilted, because
by that time they are old enough to
know whether a man is in earnest or
not and it is their own fault if they
are swindled out of their mature af-
fections. This decision will be a blow
to the spinsters whose hopes are
blighted. but whose thrift remains.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13
Silence.

Very few men know how to keep
still. The Italians have a proverb.
Hear, see, and say nothing, If you
wish to live in peace" The man who
is bent on telling all he knows, gen.
orally ends in telling good deal more
than he knows. The tongue is harder
to bride than the widest horse that
ever roamed the prairie. The Ger
mans say truly that talking comes by
nature, while silence comes of the un-
derStanding
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13
MAKING Good siIaoe.

Almost any proportion of cowpeaa
soy beans and corn may be used foG
making silage; the more legumes thal
are used, the richer will the silage b
in protein. but since the decomposition
of protein causes the silage to hava
rather strong odor. mixture Of nol
more than one load OF eowpeas and
soy beans should be used I'd each three
loads of corr
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

The ice cream ptomaine has started
in to work, poisoning 60 patrons of a
church fair in New Jersey town.
But 1t takes more Than this to fright
en- the brave who treat the fair.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

Now an Illinois farmer comes for
ward with what is practically a cob
less variety of corn In this case the
grains grow directly from the stem.
and the resulting waste is said to
much less than In the cob kind. win
the evolution proceed until the husks
also are eliminated?
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

Even though the average wages Of
workmen in Germany have increased
20 per cent. during the past 20 years.
they still look small in comparison
with the wages of workmen here in
the United States.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

One trouble of the city farmer will
be how to pitch his crops for the
coming year when he looks over the
price OF everything he has been buy
fBg as a consumer.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

Another plot has been discovered in
Portugal. That kingdom is closely
running Russia's old established rec
ord for plots.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

Calculations of the enormous theo-
retical losses in slump in the New
York stock exchange afford very little
consolation to the lamb who was in
for few thousands of real money.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

II the comet has so much gas in its
tall will not the gas companies of this
mundane sphere warn it by injunction
from trespassing ON their domain?
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

A Paris editor gets four years for
praising the murderer of policeman,
and the murderer Of a Cuban editor
serves one day. What Is the moral?
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

Mastodon steaks. preserved in ice
for 25O,000 years. are said by cold
storage advocates to be perfectly de-
licious. But that has nothing to do
with the scarcity of strictly fresh
eggs.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

The hen is bird, says the treasury
department. Any one buying strictly
fresh" eggs these days will agree that
she is a luxury.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

In 1912 the Chicago papers we're
voicing mild protests against the large
spring bonnets. Millinery, like his.
tory, is a repeater.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

One trouble is that a statesman in
endeavoring to get to the level of the
plain people is in danger of underesti-
mating the plain peoples intelligence
and refinement.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

Comets and the end of the world are
no longer being worked simultaneous
H. They have dissolved partnership.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

Did It ever occur to you how much
easier the word "aeroplane" would be
to pronounce if we could call 1t "areo
plane?"
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

A pessimist is a man who believes
that spring as an institution has been
done away with.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

The Harvard professor who says a
man can live on 20 cents a day speaks
academically for academic purposes.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

Uncle Sam owns 1,5OO hens at Pan
anna and he expects every one of them
to do its part nobly.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

kissing dangerous? Get a breach
of promise suit and find out
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

A baby was born in New York re
Gently with a full set of teeth, but II
had no meal ticket.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

nN THE menu card of the senate res
" taurant there is stamped admoni-
ton not to tip the walters. Now, this
restaurant used to be a concession.
Then the government took it over and
paid the steward to run it 1t Is sup
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

Weather that makes the plumbe
kick and the iceman grow. is the kline
most folks like.
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

Billiards that linger on the way be-
come harmless as summers rain
Barbour County index., 1910-04-13

Baseball will soon make politics
look like 80 cents The sap is rising.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-11
COPE 8 LEWIS TO BUILD
RACE TRACK IN v|NITA

Vinita is going to have a race track
Cope & Lewis have bought a 70-acre
piece of land at the south end of vii.
son street and are already at work on
a standard half-mile track and laying
plans for racing meet and fair next
year.
Mr.. Lewis explained the plans to
a Chieftain reporter this morning.
Besides the track, there will be
stables with about so stalls and a good
sized grand stand 1t is hoped that
the track can be affiliated with the
state racing circuit
Other plans include an exhibition
building for fair, and a row of booths
to be occupied by local real estate
agents and promoters during the rae
ing meet and the fair. Cope & Lewis
are determined to make the new
scheme a good thing for Vinita as well
as for themselves.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-11
RETURNS IN FULL
FOR CRAIG COUNTY
Official Canvass Confirms Early Re-
ports-Local Option Defeated in
Craig County BY $50.

When the county election board had
finished the canvass of the returns of
Tuesdays election, the democratic
majorities shown by the first reports
were verified.
The only republicans elected in this
county were George Costley, commits
sioner from the second district and
David Meredith, justice of the peace,
and Clem Huelsenkamp, constable, in
Vinita township.
The constitutional amendment pro-
viding for local option was defeated
by $50 votes, The initiated law for
the equal distribution of the school
taxes of the state, collected upon the
property of public utility corporations
and the amendment to article 8, sec
tion9 of the constitution carried in
this county. Woman's suffrage and
the other state questions were defeat
ed by good majorities.
The following is the official vote for
the various state and township officers
in addition to that announced yester-
day:
For governor-Lee Cruce, democrat,
1854; McNeal, republican, 1894, Cumbie
socialist, 81.
For lieutenant GOVERNOR ]. Nc
Alester, 1854 Gilbert W. Dukes, re-
publican, 1912; John G. Wills, social
list, 5S; l. A. Briggs, prohibition, 20.
For secretary of state, Ben F. Har-
rison. 1866; Donald R. Fraser, republi-
can, 1888; j. V. Kolachny, socialist,
5S; H. E. Strickler, prohibitionist, II.
For state auditor-Leo Meyer, demo
crat. 1910; Thos. S. Dulany, republi-
can, 1164; H. A. Kembel, socialist, 60.
For attorney general-Chas. West,
democrat, 1871; Joseph NJ. Dodson, re-
publican, 1896; F. NJ. Alice, socialist,
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-11
DOUBLED WORK FOR
RAILWAY CLERKS
Department Orders Count of Every
Piece of Mail Handled During
Week Beginning Nov. 13.

Double work for practically every
railway postal clerk in the service
Throughout the United States for the
week beginning November 19, was
made unavoidable by the general or
der issued from the postoffice depart
ment at Washington to every chief
clerk throughout the country. The
order calls for count on every piece
of mail handled in the mail car during
the seven days of that week.
This order was issued at the re-
quest of congress, it is understood, to
secure information considered neces-
sary to make intelligent legislation
possible The order calls for a spe-
cific report from each clerk to the de-
partment at the close of the count.
The order issued for special sep
arate count on all letters and paper
mail. All circulars thrown as letters
are to be counted as letter mail, and
all tied up pieces, no matter how
many single pieces they contain, will
be counted as one item Each clerk
is requested to note the number of
pieces of each sort taken from each
sack on the back of the slip accom-
panying the sack and to file these
with the chief clerk at the end of the
run. The clerk is requested to keep
separate the amount of mail handled
in full mail cars and apartment cars.
AS soon as the order was received
in Tulsa, Chief Clerk r. R. Johnson,
sent himself and his Office force at
work to figure out the best way to
distribute the extra force he can
muster to assist in this work His
first general order was issued last
night and the complete schedule of
extra assignments for the week will
be posted shortly. Mr.. Johnson has
been pushed to he limit to keep up
the work in his division with the help
available even without this extra la
Dor, but his men have always respond
ed Loyalty when necessary extra work
was ordered, and he feels certain that
the seemingly Herculean task will be
accomplished successfully.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-11
Recount in st. Louis.
Rr Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
ST. Louis, Mo, Nov 10.-Chairman
Shannon, Of the democratic state com
mittee, announced today that the next
legislature. which will be democratic
will be asked to recount the ballots
cast in st. Louis. The republican tic
ket polled $4,000 more votes than the
democrats. The election, Shannon
said, showed thirty thousand voters
on the registration books not count
ed for in the returns. There are no
definite figures on the count and state
ticket and supreme court judges. The
latest figures show that the republican
judges have a plurality ranging from
eight to twelve thousand.
HamIin Reelected to Congress.
Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 10.-Court-
ney Hamlin, of Springfield, Mo, demo
cratic congressman from the Seventh
district claims the election over
Holmes Hall, of Sedalia. Mo. his re-
publican opponent by from two to
three hundred majority.
Halls secretary. by telephone from
the reelection of Congress man Ham
Sedalia, said the returns indicated
the reelection of Congressman Ham
lin,
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-11
DEAL IS CLOSED
FOR OIL REFINERY
Representatives of Refinery Here Ana
Assert Material is Ready to Ship
And Work viii Stare Soon.

Ex-Judge Luman F. Parker and
Messrs. Riddle, Chandler and mitchell
the special committee appointed AT
the last meeting of the Commercial
Club, closed a deal with John F. Mill.
ken last night, and the Vinita Oil Re.
finery company is a certainty of the
near future. Mr.. Milliken notified the
committee that the refinery had its
material all loaded and ready to shin
either to Vinita or Chelsea, but he
found the Vinitans ready to do bust.
ness.
The site is to be on the Bagby land
on the west side of Cabin creek and
north of the Frisco, The land is to
cost approximately $1,000.
The company stipulates that the
land must be at their disposal in time
so they can lay their concrete founda.
tions before cold weather.
The buildings are all to be of brick
and concrete. They are to have 35
men on the job in 80 days, and the re.
finery will employ at least 20 men
permanently at the start. The force
will be increased as the business de.
yelops.
The company's representatives state
that the refuse will not be of the same
character as that from an oil well, and
will not interfere with the use of the
Cabin creek water for any purpose
nor with the fish.
Besides the business it will bring
here this refinery is good advertis.
ing proposition for Vinita The com
pany will run it's own cars, bearing
the name, Vinita Oil Refinery Co. 1t
will also maintain an automobile de-
livery in every town throughout the
state, and all it's autos will bear the
same name.
Five of the leading employees Of
the company arrived in town this
morning and are already on the hunt
for high class houses.
Mr.. John F. Milliken, who is back
of this refinery proposition, is a st.
Louis millionaire capitalist. He has
made very careful inquiries about Vim.
ita, as well as about other towns, be-.
fore deciding to come here. Our pop,l
ulation, our general Industrial conSI
tions and our recent growth, were
all looked into. Vinita may well con.
gratulate itself on the certificate OIL
its availability as a commercial and,
industrial center which Mr.. Millikens
decision gives us. The company anti.I
cipates that ultimately the Vinita Oil,
Refinery will become one of the larg
est plants of the kind in the country
The Katy had two representatives
here last night to persuade Mr.. Milli.'
ken to locate on their line But the
location on the Frisco won out. The
Katy location would have required
considerable pipeline and does not
use oil for any of its engines.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-11
New Pastor is Called.

The Christian church of Vinita Sur
day morning extended call to tn
Rev. James NJ. Miller of Joplin, an
this morning, ]. NJ Jones, the chail
man of the pulpit committee, receive
Mr.. Miller's acceptance. He will bt
gin his work here some time durin
the present month.
Mr.. Miller is still quite a youn
man. He was born and brought u
in Diamond, Mo-, and after graduatin
from college in Lexington, KY, bt
came pastor of the Christian church i
his home town. In four years ther
he built up strong church from
very small nucleus. He has bee
preaching in Joplin for about a yea
past. The call of the church wa
hearty and unanimous, in spite of th
fact that other candidates had bee
considered. "A
The Chieftain extends its bes
wishes to the congregation and tn
men pastor.