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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
SECRETARY MUST REVOKE
CANCELLATION OF LEASE

Washington, d. c., Nov 11.-Justice
Wright of the supreme court of the Dis
triet of Columbia Thursday held that
the Wellsyille Oil company was en-
titled to a writ of mandamus to com
pei the secretary of the interior to re-
woke his cancellation of lease, made
by Martha Everett, a Cherokee Indian
to the Wellsville company. The Unit
ed States district court for Indian Ter
ritory, after an inquiry authorized and
approved the lease by Martha Everett
TO extend beyond her minority.
Secretary Garfield cancelled the
lease on the theory that the court was
without jurisdiction to make the lease
run beyond minority. Justice Wright
held that Garfield could not review
the action of court and held that
Secretary Ballinger must revoke Sec
retary Garfield's action. The lease is
very valuable, the Wellsville company
having seventeen wells on the property.
Happier and Merillat, of Washington,
represented the Wellsville company.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
.DR. STOPPER HERE
|. ON DOUBLE ERRAND
Declares County Judges Are Too Busy
in Oklahoma to Give Proper At
tention to Juvenile Court.

Or. Stolper, the assistant commits
sioner of charities and corrections of
the state of Oklahoma is in town today
on double errand.
In the first place the state
conference of charities and corrections
is scheduled to meet in Vinita some
time next spring and at 2:30 this after
noon Or. Stolper met the local com
mittee of arrangements at the Com
mercial Club rooms.
The doctor is also here to intervene
in probate case pending in the coun-
ty court Three orphan children,
Bertha l., Fannie NJ. and Sadie NJ.
Brown, have been for some time in
the state orphans home at Pryor Creek
while their property was administered
by a guardian.
The final report shows that he has
received for the three children S622.74,
while his expenses as guardian have
Exceeded this amount by $25S.S3.
objects to the approval of the report.
and asks for an investigation of the
guardians management of the estate.
DR.. Stolper is an enthusiast in his
department. and gave the Chieftain
reporter an extended interview in the
office of Judge Joseph A. Gill; 1--WE are
a young state" said the doctor, and
yet we have every problem in the line
of charities and corrections which the
older states have, excepting the tene-
ment house problem" Special men,
tion was made of the need of sys-
tenn OF state care for the insane, and
of district juvenile judges to handle
cases in which children are involved.
Bills covering both of these points are
in preparation and win be submitted
to the next legislatuRe,a
I'VE have found by experience"
said the doctor, that the county judges
who are the Juvenile judges under the
present law, are too busy to give the
time and attention which children's
cases demand. Besides, the children's
Judge should be specialist in that
particular line of work There will be
great deal of work for such Judge
under our laws. Oklahoma has de-
clared by statute that a child under
sixteen years of age etcannot commit
crime. Only short time ago the
court in Delaware county decided that
a boy under sixteen years of age could
not be tried for murder When we
get the district Juvenile judges and
probation officers in every county, Ok
lahoma will be as well equipped as any
state in the Union FOR dealing with
wayward and unfortunate children.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
DAVENPORT'S MAJORITY
ABOVE FOUR THOUSAND

Tulsa, Okla, Nov. 11.-Incomplete
returns received by the local Daven-
port headquarters yesterday gave Dav-
export, democratic candidate for con-
gress, a majority of 3,S47. The returns
from four counties had not been re-
ceived yesterday. The returns miss
ing are from Okmulgee, Seminole,
Adair and Nowata counties. But one
county. Greek, gave Creager a major.
ity, the republican receiving a major.
ity of 1873 Majorities for Davenport
from other counties are: Craig, 302:
Delaware. 413; Ottawa, 391; Tulsa,
599; Rogers, 42O; Sequoyah, 42S; Mus
kogee, 800; Wagner, 200; Mayes,
260; Washington, 20; Cherokee, 81;
Mcintosh, $50; Okfuskee, 200 and
Hughes 226
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
INDIAN COMMITTEE SOON
TO CONVENE IN WASHINGTON

as well as Texas, has also accepted
the line, and the New Mexican consti
tutional convention is without power
to alter the action of congress, because
congress was the sole Judge as to
where the boundary should be. and has
definitely settled the question.
six or seven years ago w. d.
Twitchell of Amarillo. surveyor for the
state of Texas. and Arthur D. Kidder.
special commissioner sent to Texas
from the government land office in
Washington. met to determine the line.
Kidder's report told where the Clarke
line was, and agreed upon it, This is
published as a congressional docus
ment, many years before Howell, who
was the surveyor of the counties in
New Mexico, and Twitchell began and
ran north, and agreed upon the line as
Originally run by Clarke as far as the
capital syndicate and which is near
.Texico or Farwell. Similar action was
taken from the north The surveys
have been acted upon by the federal
government The authorized bound
ary of New Mexico and of Texas show
ing that the boundary as now shown
upon the map has thrice been agreed
to- The area involved is about 500 ,000
acres"
Mr.. Stephens says that he does not
enthuse over the recently assumed
magnanimity of Speaker Cannon, who
now favors modification of the house
rules so that the speaker may not
dominate the organization In Mr.
Cannon's regime the house was pre-
sumed to have little to say about it,
Mr.. Stephens declared, and now that
republicans have lost the control. the
Texas congressman is in favor of
granting no concessions. Il am in
favor of fighting the devil with fire"
said Mr. Stephens.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
George Coney Found Dead.

George Coney was found dead Sun
day morning in Raines' livery stable
He had been seen by friends late Sat.
urday night in an intoxicated condi-
ton. The body was sent at first to
Houck's undertaking rooms, but at
Mrs. Coney's request was turned over
to Undertaken Lewis Rogers. The
funeral services were held at the house
this afternoon at o'clock. Rev. ]. e
Pershing officiating. Mr.. Coney leaves
a wife and child, who have the sym
pathy of all the people of Vinita in
their bereavement.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
KANSAS IS VICTOR
OVER OKLAHOMA
Jayhawkers Win Doubtful Victory
over sooners, Scoring Safely in
Last Few Minutes of Play.

Oklahoma City, Nov. 14.-CIearIv
outplaying their opponents at every
stage of the game, Oklahoma univer
sity lost to Kansas university here to
day by safety in the last three min.
utes of play. When time was called
the grand stand was of the opinion
that the game was tie, the play which
had been declared a safety appearing
to have been touchbaek. The play
was made in the extreme corner of the
field, Mort Woods of Oklahoma inter
cepting a forward pass and picking the
ball up from the goal line after it had
touched the ground outside. This was
the testimony of the field judge who
further declared that Woods had but
one foot on the line when he got pos
session of the ball; the umpire also
declared in favor of a touchback. but
Referee Curtis decided in favor of
Kansas.
Though having the score decided
against them, the Oklahoma students
celebrated as if the decision had been
in their favor, for they outelassed the
yietors throughout the game and held
their own against vastly superior
weight. Right Halfback Capshaw was
the stellar ground gamer for Okla
homa, twice getting clear of the line
Of scrimmage, but being downed by
the safety before reaching the line.
The Woods brothers, the other back
field men, were also able to plunge
through the heavy Kansas line for con-
sistent gains, while Mort Woods punt
ed the ball out of danger every time
the Kansans threatened Ambrister,
the young Sooner quarterback, repeat
edly electrified the crowd by brilliant
dashes around the ends.
Kansas had only one chance to score
touchdown, that being in the last
five minutes of play, but Oklahoma
held three times on her 5-yard line
and booted the ball out of danger. Ok
lahoma made no substitutions, but Kan
sas sent Wilhelm to try for goal in the
second quarter and after that injuries
and weak places in the team called for
several changes.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
LABOR CONVENTION TURNED
into A POLITICAL RALLY

st. Louis, Mo-, Nov. 14-The open
ing session of the convention of the
American Federation of Labor here to-
day was turned into an insurgent po-
litical rally, by Owen Miller, president
of the Missouri Federation of Labor.
Jeers greeted the name of Joseph G.
Cannon and loud applause welcomed
the name of Champ Clark.
Seventy-five women were in the con-
vention as delegates, one of them is
Miss zula Taylor, twenty years old,
who will cast the vote of the state OF
Kansas. having been elected represent
atiye of the Kansas Federation of La
Dor. She is secretary and treasurer
OF the Kansas garment workers union.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
MUSKOGEE JOINTS OPEN
AGAIN AFTER ELECTION

Muskogee, Okla, Nov. 14-Fifty al
legged joints where liquor is illegally
sold ran openly today, following two
weeks drouth to the thirsty. Ten
days before election all joints closed
simultaneously one day by agreement,
and the 'lid" was on. Since the local
option clause was defeated the joints
Ireopened
A number were raided Sunday, and
forty-six arrests made, but the places
opened again within half an hour after
the officers left the places. It is given
out here that the state officials have
been given the tip from the state capi-
tai to use all efforts to close the joints.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
May Get Biscuit Factory.

The National Biscuit company has
filed articles of association in Okla
homa, and intends to establish four
branches in the state, each employing
from 80 to 80 men. One of these
branches is to be in Oklahoma City,
but the location of the other three is
undetermined. 1t is hoped that Vim
itas railroad facilities and pure water
may attract one of them to this city
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
Big Farmers Convention.
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
Atlantic City, N. j., Nov, 14-Hun.
dreds of members of the National
Grange Patrons of Husbandry are here
for the convention of the farmers or.
ganization next Wednesday. Twenty.
eight states are expected to be repre-
sented. Among the matters to come up
will be the federal aid to highway i'm.
proyements, the parcels post, and the
stringent enforcement of the oleomar.
garine laws.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
Charged With Serious Crime.

Deputy Sheriff Sheehan last night
arrested B. M. Hollifeld, of Westville,
charged with a serious crime The
sheriff's office here was notified by
telephone yesterday to look out for
Hollifeld, and Mr.. Sheehan finally To-
Gated him in a rooming house here
Deputy Malone of Adair county, came
for Hollifield this morning, and took
him away on the II o'clock train.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
GOVERNORS PROMISE THEY
WILL PREVENT LYNCHING
By Associated Press.


Washington, D. c., Nov. 1.-THE
fulfllment of President Taft's promise
to President Diaz to bring about the
punishment of persons who burned
Rodriguez at Rock Springs, Texas, and
to protect Mexicans in this country
appears to depend upon the good will
of the governors of Texas and Okla
homa. Governor Campbell of Texas,
has promised to investigate the lynch
ing. Governor Haskell, answering the
urgent request of Secretary Knox, to
guard the Mexicans in Oklahoma and
particularly to prevent the lynching of
the supposed Mexican who assassinat-
ed the chief of police at Anadarko, has
promised to comply with the request.
The state department is unable to con-
firm the report that Rodriguez is ma
! tive American.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
NEW MEXICO REFUSES TO
FOLLOW ROOSEvELT'S ADVICE
By Associated Press.

Santa Fe, N. NJ, 1.-THE constitu-
tional convention disregarded the ad.
vice given by Roosevelt to make the
constitution easily amended, and
adopted an article requiring a two
thirds vote of the house to propose
an amendment, and p BIG majority OF
the electorate to approve it. The re.
vision of the whole constitutional con
vention was made even more difficult
An article on mines making the
minimum age limit for employment
during the school term of fourteen
years was adopted.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
Taft Welcomed at Panama.

Colon, Nov 1.-THE armored
cruiser Tennessee. bearing President
Taft and its convoy, the cruiser Mon,
tana, arrived here this morning. Lieu.
tenant Colonel Goethals and the others
or the receiving party were waiting on
BOARD the tug, Cristobal and formally
welcomed the president to Panama
president Taft plans to be there four
days.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
MAY SUE TO RECOVER
LANDS IN CALIFORNIA
BY Associated Press.

" -hHoVNIoLNI 7 N3os
Washington, D. c., Nov. 11.-Attor-
ney General Wickersham, by direction
of President Taft has begun an inquiry
to determine whether six thousand
acres of valuable oil lands in California
were known to contain oil when pat
.ented to the Southern Pacific Railway
company. If such is the case, a suit
to recover will be instituted.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
Troops Shell a City.
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, Nov
l4-The troops were called out to su'
press a political demonstration at
Leon yesterday and meeting with re-
sistance, swept the streets with grape
and canister. Many persons were kill
ed and the excitement Is intense.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
Obstruction Discovered in Time.
BY Associated Press.

y +N7oVN IutVU = Eoo.
Sedalia, Nov. IA. = An obstruction
was placed on the Missouri Pacific rail-
road track near Houston Mo. last
night, presumably to wreck an incom.
ing passenger train, but it was dis
covered and removed in time to pre-
vent the accident. This is said to be
the second attempt to wreck a train in
that vicinity in the last two weeks.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-18
Millionaire Packer seriously III

By ASsOcldteu Pfess.
Chicago, H., Nov. 1O--Michael
Cudahy the packer, is seriously i'll at
the Blackstone hotef' here. The pa
tents son, John, of Kansas City was
requested by telegraph to hurry to
this city.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-26
Vernacu1ar of the Race Track

final degree of exaggeration. horse that has accom-
plished good trial or work out tor race IS sad 10
have done the trial distance - in nothing.
He put down the mile, the bit an Just a-oreez1n
in nothin" " is the way the railbird expresses It, not
as might be supposed with obvious enthusiasm sucn as
the remarkable purport of the statement would seem to
call for but in perfectly cool and self controlled sort
way as if he was stating simple tactthat the morse
had travelled over the measured mile without consuming
any time at all in doing it.
The great horse that despite his greatness IS beaten
in noted stake race is held TO be not worth feeding 0
the user of this uncomprOnlslng. out and out And
of track patter. Once a regular remarked OF -l5
mighty HerniS, for whom SIxty-nve thousand do4IS
had been paid but short time before. He ain WORN
eighty-fve cents, and wouldn't give that nucn ior
him if ne was put under the hammer night now
Hermis had lust lost by nose, after Delng al Ou
left at the post and that the answer Inc nolse
that is the idol of to-day is the cur OF toorro" VIII
the regulars.
While the crack thoroughbred IS in the enjoyment o.
up with the turnips he is adverted to as a HIncu
or ''Salvator or Domino (these references Oeils
to famous horses of the gone time: but st as soon :
the acclaimed horse. stating OF or weary OF cainPas
ing begins to lose his races, the hammerIeS U t-1
followers of the game begins, and the shattered ldoL :
eur and bogus and near horse. ana DIS prov"
eSs always exaggerated. and he never Iau me- y
to beat, and ''SysOnby could made nm ook nA' :
bone spawned AngOra, and so on .,r
The cynicism OF the regulars when rlelr ptcAS~
(the horses they select to VIM don run 10 Ihe oP
(when they fail to race up their previous form : C
pressed in many darklv suspicious phrases Il th1 Co
planning regular" believes that the horse WASH ~ ~
tended to win by his owner and trainer ne SAYS -a
New-York tribune., 1910-06-26

road in a game o prisoners base.
He couldn't beat a steam roller goin backward
He couldn't head bull up a lane"
He couldn't beat fat in a Spud race.
Him for the glue works.
He couldn't beat land crab gon up grade
He's lump o Swiss
He's only mOrnin' glory Ga morning glory" in
the turf vernacular, being horse that works great
guns when it speed his morning trials and
fails diSmally when he goes the races in the after
noon).
He can't run fast enough to keep himself warm"
He's phOny and four flush and an in-and-outer''
Cln-and-outer being horse of the now YOU it
and now you don't variety, which galantly to-day,
only to fall down most abhorrently tomorrow thus
lacking in consistency.
He runs for the books "a horse that is to say that
the bookmakers safely LAY against knowing that
they have ace under cover').
He's a sucker horse "a horse, namely, that only the
suckers should back; and the chaps who say this
after having backed the sucker horse wholly overlook
the fact that they including themselves under that
headng).
He ought to be htched to a milk wagon"
He couldnt beat bum with a wooden prop Ilegl IN
a sack sprint
He couldn't beat old aunt goin TO mass
tie was loOkIn for hole in the fence all the way"
He wanted to lay down before he q gone a furlong
look him in the eye, and he said, You can have
lie couldn't beat mich headn for a crick"
He's there with the saffron streak
He cured up like caterpillar in front of CRATE
fire" A'
He let EN- all pass him ii he was tied to a post"
He couldn't raise enough of ope keep his hoofs
from crackin'"
There middle verbal ground for the race follower
Everything must be expressed in terms that embody the
New-York tribune., 1910-06-26

TSPERANTO, it is said, is making headway But
r. how many average people know five words OF
- it? Is it imaginable that the breath OF universal
popularity can be breathed into any manufactured
language which, according to the best information IS SO
rigid fixed unalterable sedate, and proper that pat
ter or patois slang never be evolved out OF 1t
1t ism possible to conceive of baseball tan root
ing" in Esperanto nor a horse bug Esperantst howl,
ing himself black in the face field OF thorough
beds turning into the stretch isn't possible either to
conceive of the baseball fan the horse bug CIV
ing u for all the Esperantos that may be invented
the pat and umnative phrases that they have already
invented, devised, and chosen wherewlth to express
themselves. .
Already we have transferred scores of these baseball
and racing terms to the currency of our every day
speech and this of transportation goes unceS
ingly Men who begin by using quite precise language
become interested in either of the great American out
door sports, baseball or racing.
Recently meeting friend Just returned from the race
track | asked him what horse had a certain
"Dandelion, he win, his Offhand reply-and this
man had taken honors at Harvard. No race track
regular, in talking it over says that he won
bet. Il win a bet, is his way of twisting the tense
about.
The slang of the baseball diamond probably is of
wider currency than the patter of the PADDOCK because
for reason, there Americans interested in
baseball than there racing and because again the
patois of the baseball park readily understood
than the quantity picturesque lingo of the track
1t would be possible for a not familiar with
racing patter to listen to group of racing REGULARS
pony buzzing' for entire evening without in the
least understanding what they talking about.
American track slang differs wholly from the pater of
New-York tribune., 1910-06-26

gag he rung in2 which interpreted means ,g III ia,
notice how he employed his Sandow b,tepS % P - 1e
hOrse?" They'll say of the suspected locNeS - o,r-
took the mutt into million pockets Went y r;rpss
side got hung the fence by the other cr,oS i - was
had go around horses. and even then ms o,' lost i
climbin over horses at the finish an Iou'yn " ong
the kid hadn't grabbed him from the tap '.r '.rsbGiv
The incompetent Jockey is alluded 10 as SUM-
who couldn't ride in a furniture van active
The starter himself one ms 'o"ti.i +;r;,ra
track officials comes IN TOr MS ~0 - - star-
when by chance he sends field away 20 ! I'ssrr' The
'|Start horses? He couldn't start trolley 1' mn
angry mob bawlS of him. and they 80 50 IN - - L,vs
mate that L guess maybe that starter IN - bev2'
ticket IN his boot that lob he sent a| |lN W had
meaning the quite impossible thing ttt' ''O - b4rre
garnbled on the animal that accidentally beat S
and flashed into the lead from the hitting o ~ Of al
Most of the regulars are deeply SHSPIl's rhe "a
SteeplechaSe races of late years, and WnehS orcej
vorte falls at of the obstacles anu - : - Shoe
eaper wins the race they loudly cal 'lI lIbase nd
in Ia fixed affair that IS IN which the Nt'o meant
have arranged TO drop TO the rear u' -. ,,slv OF
Jumper and shoe" him the wire, they P k thus
course, having got their money down on 'lO
generously treated). -. :, time BE-
Involuntarilv TIE tart writers theIIi9SNe IN theft
gin To employ Curiously eXaggerajeu .-,,,s they
daily accounts of the racing. When TOT % Iav vas
wish TO say that the track on the previous, Jsep u
muddy thev write that the track was Knse 49, would
mud an obvious impoSSbilty, SINCE race ~. or that
be mired before taking ten steps IN SucH mud o.
"the track was a swamp. mOraSS' i Sc :. the tracA
If the track was dry and dusty they SE - aCroSS
was as hard iron, and Sahara Sliroc-
it ali the afternoon made 1t still htTueI ,reriC, ex
The patter of the betting ring IS etult ,jerstand
aggerated. and difficult for the novice -, the pre-
When a bookmaker "rubS, ne leN"
New-York tribune., 1910-06-26

He'll "tiptoe em out in front all the wayovitch-
He'll "be a kickin' pebbles at EN- all the way
He could win three legs
He could carry a bale o hay and member OF the
Fat Mems Club and still win.
He'll run rings around EN-.
He'll ''tie em all in fgure-O eight knots.
He'll ''vamp down to the tape like a scared rabbit
He'll grab the spinach by sixteenth OF a mile
THE Others behind him !" finish next Tuesday week
He'll "be in the barn, munchin' carrots, when they
get in
He'll 'be cooled out and sound asleep in his stall,
when them others reach the wire.
And finally, to clinch it, you informed that this
phenomenal thoroughbred is in Its in, is the
phrase Its n the red board is down (the red board
confirms the numbers Of the three placed horses and
they're payin' off on him
The casual racetraCk visitor uncertain as to what
horse of the field he will go to- Il. gamble On), must
be armored in veritabe Besseer shell of ncredullty
withstand the temptation to choose as his medium OF
speculation an animal of such prodigious speed and
power these rapidly ratified off phrases portray.
But if He Loses
THE favore that fails to do the trick IS consigned by
those who have backed him to win to an unpumbed
and fathomless abyss of scorn.
Hes lob" the dsgruntled ones observe of the de-
feated favorite.
He couldn't beat little sister runnin across the