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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03
INSURANCE COMPANY WANTS
REIMBURSEMENT OF POLICY


Sparks from locomotive set fire to
barn full of hay Property worth
$4,000 is destroyed. An insurance
company pays policy of $1,000 and
sues the railroad company for REIN
bursement. The railroad asks that
the owners of the property be brought
into the suit. Want to settle the whole
question of the liability for the s4.500
on one trial How about it?
This was the question over which
Judge Luman +. Parker and Mr.. W.
P. Thompson scrapped for an hour or
so before Judge Brown in the district
court this morning.
Judge Parker, as usual, represented
the Frisco Mr.. Thompson the Scot
tish Rite National Insurance company.
The burned property belonged in Mi
ami. At adjournment Judge Parker
seemed to be having the better OF the
argument. which was pretty strenuous
at times.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03
CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN
IS DRAWING TO 4 CLOSE

Tulsa, Okla, Nov 3.-Candidate
James S. Davenport. democratic nom
inee for congress. is making a fast
finish of his campaign Tuesday he
spent in Washington county, talking
with the voters. making important
speeches. Wednesday he was in Mus
kogee. and today he is in Wagner
county. In Wagner county, he found
the democrats very optimistic over
the results, with prediction of com
|plete democratic victory for the coun.
Ity ticket
Friday Mr.. Davenport spends in Ok
mulgee county. where he will make
several speeches. He speaks in
Mounds and Kiefer Saturday, and will
possibly visit Sapulpa during the day
twenty-five speakers are busy ever
the district making speeches in behalf
of the democratic congressional nom
inee
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03
Davenport Denounces
Campaign Falsehoods

and believe this story to be true, they
would have published it earlier in the
campaign, for the reason l had chal-
lenged Creager to a joint discussion
Iof the issues.
AS to the other part of his letter re-
garding the amount of salary that l
drew during the Goth congress / will
say that drew the same salary as did
Hon. Bird S. Mcclure and the other
Oklahoma representatives and no
more. The salary was appropriated
by republican congress and paid the
same to all Of the Oklahoma represen.
tatives alike. and II the man who signs
his name as William S. Cochran will
put forth his candidate Charles q
Creager and meet me in joint discus
sion any day between now and the
night Of the 7th of November, and
Creager will make charges and state
ments as Cochran makes. / will take
pleasure in showing to the people Of
1.-THE Third congressional district that
The is wilful liar.
JAMES S. DAVENPORT.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03
WARMING ISSUED AGAINST
LATER CAMPAIGN LIES

Tulsa, Okla. Nov. 3.--Look out for
campaign lies. Already representa-
tives Of the republican nominee for
congress are circulating lies by mail
lin regard to Hon. James s. Davenport,
and in hope Of doing 1t without giving
the democratic nominee an opportunity
to refute it, owing to the last hours of
the campaign being at hand.
These are the same tactics employed
by Creager two years ago. He waited
until the last Of the campaign and then
circulated a malicious and vicious let
ter in regard to Mr.. Davenport. Not
having the courage and the nerve to
come out in the open and make 4
charge, he sought the privacy Of a let
ter, and many believed what they read
This election. the same letters are be
ing circulated.
Il hope to call attention to the fact
that these letters are untruthful, on
Mr. Creager would have openly made
the charges he makes in them said
John d. Porter. chairman of the demo
cratic congressional committee I'll
there was any foundation for them
they would have reached the public Ii
a different way, but being lie pure
and simple, 1t becomes necessary fol
those responsible for them TO use the
mail for circulating them, in hopes o.
this committee will have not an op
portunity to meet them and refut.
them
"A campaign lie so grossly unsup
ported as this needs no further denial
II it had any foundation in fact. Mr.
Creager would not hesitate to com,
out in the open and make whatever
charges he has against the democratic
candidate, and would not have refused
to discuss the charges in a joint dis
cussion with Mr.. Davenport when Dav
lenport challenged him during the earl.
Ipart of the campaign. If you hear |
campaign statement, ask for proof
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03
HEADQUARTERS IT TULSA
HOLD NEAR RATIFICATION

Tulsa. Okla, Nov Q. - Joy untold
that bordered on q ratification was
measured out In democratic congress
sional headquarters yesterday and to-
day, over the decision Of the federal
court on the grandfather clause. 1t
absolutely cinched the election Of
Honest Jim Davenport for congress
from the Third district. The only pos
sibility of the majority being under
ten thousand is over confidence Of
democrats who fail to 90 to the polls.
Congressional headquarters received
many messages OF congratulation from
well wlshers. both democratic and re-
|pubIicans. Candidate Davenport came
lin Wednesday morning from Wash.
lington county. and when he heard the
decision of the court he Immediately
gave orders to double the otiice force
and doub.o the energy of the workers
at headquarters.
Let it be said that Jim Davenport
made the majority fifteen thousand
democratic, If possible. It will be
heard easier back in the stand-pat dis
tricts that rank stand-pat in OKLA
homa does not meet the endorsement
of the majority Of the people"
Additional speakers have been as
signed for the remaining few days Of
the campaign, more literature is being
lprinted. the fight is being waged more
energetically. and every effort is being
made to swell Davenport's majority
from eight to ten thousand to as high
as fifteen thousand.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03
GAS TURNED INTO
CITY ON FRIDAY
Main From weIch to This city Now
Has Pressure And Line is Being
Inspected.

The Joy of Manager Bottenfield Of
the Vinita Gas company is as near
complete today as it has ever been
since he took up the managerial bur-
dens of the local gas office. If the
patient patrons Of the gas company
were aware of the fact that real gas
is gushing through the main from
Welch to this city and pounding
against the regulator in Vinita at a
pressure of from seventy to one hun
|dred pounds they too would be joyous.
That is just what is happening. The
inspection of the line was complied
and Is satisfactory. The main will be
disconnected and blown late this after
moon.
Blown means that the dirt, that
has accumulated in the pipes will be
blown cut. in order to prevent clog
lying of the main
Tomorrow morning, in all probabl-
ity the gas from the new main win be
turned into the city mains. and the
patrons need no longer stand in terror
of the approach Of old King Winter.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03
DOGS PREY ON CHICKENS
OF PROMINENT FAMILIES

Chickens are all right So are dogs.
But the conjunction Of the two, in the
wee sma' hours, like Macbeth, doth
murder Sleep"
So a citizen of Vinita found last
night. His wife has about two hun
dred chickens. Various heighbors
have five dogs. The citizen aforesaid
was wakened in the middle Of the
night by the chickens flying the c. Q.
d. signal st the tope of their squawkers
and being a man of courage, sailed
forth as soon as he could get his
trousers on, to do battle with whatso-
ever might be molesting his be-
loved birds.
Four of the five dogs were on the
job chewing chicken like hungry
preachers. He drove them away but
as soon as he returned to bed, they
got back at the workers in the egg
factory. No chickens were killed out
right but at least twenty were badly
mutilated Some we're bitten through
the back and others stripped Of their
feathers.
The owner of the chickens will have
his clothes on and be otherwise pre-
pared for trouble II the dogs come
hack tonight.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03

To the Public: My attention has
been called to what purports to be an
tpen letter fiom one William s. Coch.
ran, published in the Muskosee Phve-
int; under date of NovemDsr ?, iSir.
addressed to myself in whic:i the said
Cochran undertakes to give state
ment of testimony given by one Quig.
ley before a grand jury in Oklahoma
county. According to the paper, if the
statements were given by Quigley at
Jail, it was given in 1909, more than a
year ago, and this campaign has been
lon since August 2, 1910, and nothing
has been said about it.
The statement In the Phoenix is the
first time have ever heard of the tes.
|timony, and / am therefore, at loss
Ito know whether or not it is true. II
lit is true, the testimony would be the
best evidence, and if it had been true
Cochran would have given the testi-
mony, but this statement is given al
1.-THE last moment when he thinks all
the weekly newspapers have gone to
Ipress and cannot be corrected.
One of two things exist, they know
that the statements are false or they
would have given them out earlier in
the campaign. AS to one Quigley, as
Istated in the paper, do not know
whether he ever testified to such {
fact. because do not believe that any
man would swear falsely. and II hs
did testify, as stated in the letter. i
would be untrue, and I say now tha
IL believe the statements contained ii
Cochran's letter are falsehoods, and
believe that Cochran knows them tt
be false, and If he or his candidate
Creager have any manhood about then
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03
MAILING CLERK CAUGHT
RIFL|NG OECOY LETTER

Muskogee. OKLA, Nov. S.-Postoffce
Inspectors Lewis and Stonerook Tues
day night peered through the windows
of the Wagner postoffice and witness
ed Mailing Clerk Albert B. Cacteel
rifle registered letter and secure
$6.75 in cash. The letter was Fixed
one sent out from the Muskogee office
to Mudrow. passing through the Wag-
oner Office.
Since last September when Casteel
became mailing clerk at Wagner he
has stolen In the neighborhood of 5000,
according to his own admission, and
the records Of the lost mail in the
hands of the postal department His
hours in the evening were from to
8 o'clock until nine. and as he was
alone he had plenty of opportunity to
carry on his thefts. At one time Cas-
teel was a school teacher near Table
quah. His parents live on a farm
near there and he is said to have a
brother, George, at Enid.
Casteel was given a preliminary
hearing in Muskogee yesterday and is
now in the federal Jail awaiting the
grand jury at Chickasha on November
Ia.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03
SENATOR GORE CONFIDENT
OF DEMOCRATIC VICTORY

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. S.-"Millions
of people believe that President Taft
is busy as a bee carrying Roosevelt's
policies out-on stretchers.''
The foregoing words Senator Thorn
as P. Gore used in an address at Con-
vention hall last night in discussing
one phase Of the national political sit
uation. His entire speech was of a
mild, sarcastic nature. He freely pre-
dicted a victory for the democratic
party in the coming election, saying
that the party had awakened the en-
tire nation.
He said in part:
"The east looks to the west for gold
and grain. The west looks to the east
for sunrise, presidents and panics. The
highest proof of the wisdom of the
three wise men of the Bible is that
they came out of the east.
I'VE are giving them something tc
think about and the democracy of the
west has pervaded the east to such an
extent that even Maine. with the ira
ditlcn of republicanism, has seen the
light. The republicans have come tc
worship before the shrine of strange
and unknown gods"
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03
HONDURAS SITUATION
GROWS MORE CRITICAL

BY Associated Press.
New Orleans, La, Nov. 8. - TeIe-
grams were received last night by
representatives of the American inter.
ests in Honduras, confirming the AS
sociated Press dispatches of the revolu.
tionary outbreak at Amapala That
the United States will within the next
few days take an active part in oust,
ing General Jose Valladares, leader Of
the rebellion from his entrenched pos
ition on the Islands of Amapala is the
belief here. The Honduras govern
ment has small army and as Valla
dares has several hundred armed fol
lowers and isreported to have severa
modern machine guns, it is thought
President Davila will ask assistance
of this government. Noted for his
hatred Of foreigners Valladares recent
| ly publicly announced he had namet
his dog Taft" in order to show hi.
contempt for the American govern
ment.
Washington, D. c., Nov. 3.--Martia
law has been declared in Honduras al
a direct result of Valladares, accord
ing to cable advices to the state de
partment today, from Minister Nc
Creery at Tegucigalpa. The port o
Amapala is closed and the island is il
state of seige.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03
Gus Williams Acquitted.

Gus Williams was arraigned before
Justice Meredith Yesterday, charged
with stealing some tools from the new
factory which is being erected in Vim
ita. Assistant County Attorney Mac
kay prosecuted and Gus was defended
by w. M. Sims. "By golly l shore
wasn't guilty dis time" was Gus only
comment on the decision which dis
charged him.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03
vIhlIA HlGH SCHUUL
TO MEE[ OLD RIVAL

Tomorrow afternoon the old rivals
on the gridiron-Tulsa and vinita high
schools win meet in their annual
game In the games of 1908 and 1909
Vinita was the victor, and this fact
has caused the Tulsa boys to practice
diligently with one aim-defeat Vinita.
Tulsa met and won from Broken Ar
row. Vinita only held the corn raisers
to a tie However Prof. Fitch has
been hammering away in an effort to
weld his bunch of raw material into
football machine capable of wrestling
victory from the Tulsans This prob
ably viii be the most interesting game
of the season.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03
NUMBER OF POLICE FOR
STRIKE RIOTS IS DOUBLED

Chicago. H.. Nov. s.-The number Of
police reserved for riot duty in the
garment workers strike was doubled
today, oyying to the turbulence yester-
day. THE strikers seem to be gain
ing at every bound said Inspector
Healy, and we have found it a great
task to send enough police to handle
the mobs. The method Of the strikers
is a clever one. We have found it i'm
possible to prevent strikers getting
to the shops. which in this district
have already lost two thirds of the em-
lployes.s
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03
PERMISSION GRANTED TO
CARRY MAIL IN AEROPLANE
BY Associated Press.


Washington, D. c., Nov. S.-Oficial
sanction was given today by the gey-
ernment for the transmission of Unit
ed States mails by aeroplane, for the
first time in history. Permission was
granted by Postmaster General Hitch.
cock for ]. A. D. McCurdy to fly from
the outgoing liner Kaiserine Augusta
Victoria with the mails to New York
next Saturday, when the vessel is fifty
miles at sea- McCurdy will carry
pouches containing letters from the
passengeres to all parts of the world
The only condition imposed by the
postmaster general is that the writer's
Of the letters be informed that the
mail is to go by aeropIane
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03
BARNEY OLOFIELD WILL NOT
BE- ALLOWED TO ENTER
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Atlanta, Ga, Nov. S.-At the opening
of the speed carnival today an order
was given to the gatekeepers not to
allow Barney 0ldfield to enter the
paddock, in his Bitten Benz. The pur-
pose being to prevent him giving an
exhibition spin in defiance of the auto
mobile associations ruling barring
him. Thirty-six of the most daring
drivers in the country are to pilot cars
in the races for prizes aggregating
twelve thousand dollars Twenty-four
makes Of cars are entered.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03

A boy was born night before last to
Mrs George Franklin, who is visiting
her father. Mr.. J. T. Martin. Mrs.
Franklin has never fully recovered
from a serious operation several
months ago, but both mother and child
are reported as doing well.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03
Poll Tax Notice.

The city poll tax is now due and all
persons subject to this tax must be
prepared to pay when the collector
calls. This tax must be paid.
JOHN sHFEHAN,
4e7.17o esafs aotar
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03

Ex-Governor's Condition Unchanged.
BY Associated Press.
AtcI son, Kans., Nov. 3.-The condi-
ton of Ex-Governor George w. Click,
who is very i'll at bis home here, was
reported unchanged by his physicians
f~fav.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-03
PORTER REPRESENTATIVES
HERE TO CLOSE ROAD DEAL
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o
great the
of vnta ownbude The
will make their
build this city This proposition action
every person vna interested the cys industrial
o requested o Commercial Club tonight
o
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-02

growing more food and feeding stuffs,
put we must sound word of caution
and advise against allowing the sue
cess OF the wheat crop this year lead
ing any one into planting too large
an area this fall We can grow wheat
in the South. 1t did not need the
splendid crop of this year to prove
that, but we shall probably have
few seasons as we'll adapted to wheat
as this one. Had April and May
been hot and wet, instead of cool and
dry, different results would have fol-
lowed. Rust, the bane of wheat
growing in this section, would have
found proper conditions for develop
ment and have ruined much of the
crop.
Unusually large yields are being
reported, but as these reports are
guesses or estimates, they are worth
less as indicating the actual yield,
but beyond question this years crop
is a good one. This should not lead
us to the conclusion that we can pro-
duce as good crops of wheat every
year, for past experience proves we
can not. q.
We advise any farmer, who has
suitable land, to SOW a few acres of
wheat; but we caution our readers
year is true index of what the crop
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-02
The Lookout Mountain Potato.

Messrs. Editors: Seeing a great
deal in your valuable paper in regard
to raising fall Irish potatoes, | de-
cided to say word for the Lookout
Mountain potato. 1t is naturally a
fall potato, as it will not make any
thing but vines If planted in the
spring. We have planted this potato
for six years with the finest success,
making from 200 to 400 bushels per
acre on highly fortified land, and
consider it one of the most profitable
crops we can grow.
We have found ready sale for
all we can raise for planting pur-
poses at fancy price. The great
trouble is that they are always all
gone before the planting season ar
rives, which time is from July LIST to
August 10th. We never think of
planting our spring potatoes for sec
ond crop as they are so uncertain
and not as good for eating as the
Lookout Mountain.
Strange to say, | have not seen
them advertised in The Progressive
Farmer and Gazette, for surely there
are thousands Of acres in Mississippi
that would grow them to perfection.
certainly agree with Professor
Massey about the cultivation Of the
fall potato-level, frequent cultiva-
ton is certainly the way to preserve
moisture and make potatoes.
p. G.. HAMMETT.
Kinds Co., Miss.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-02
\ FRUIT. TRUCK AND VEGETABLES X

see what he had done to the or
chard; the trees were full IF dead
branches and the tree borer was in
evidence on thousands of them. |
asked him If he never sprayed or
pruned them. He said, NO" He
said the fruit was not much good the
last few years. A number of farmers
had lost money on them, and had cut
down thousands of trees.
That remark made me think of
one Of my neighbors in North Caro-
lima. He has a nice orchard Of
peaches and apples. He takes the
fruit to market and can't sell it. He
became discouraged and decided to
cut down the trees. This is the rea-
son he could not sell it: He goes
to the trees. trails the fruit off with
a pole. picks it up, good, bad and
Indifferent, and puts it into an old
sack that has had cottonseed meal
or corn meal in it, throws it into a
wagon, and tries to sell it in mar
ket where other fruit Is sold in bas-
kets or crates. | have found that
there is almost as much in marketing
your farm products properly as there
is in raising them.
J. H. ANDERSON.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-02
Where Quality Counts.

Messrs. Editors: Lately near
Tryon In the great peach belt
OF northwest Georgia. saw mil
lions OF trees, some OF them very
poorly looked after. l did not see
a tree that had been sprayed or
pruned. Most of the orchards are
owned by men who live In the cities,
and they have tenants to look after
the trees. When the fruit is ripe
buyers come from New York, Boston,
Chicago and other large cities and
buy the fruit on the tree. ship or can
1t In the orchard. All the owner
has to do Is to receive his money
and give few dollars to his tenants.
| was talking with one tenant who
looked after 500 acres. l could not
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-02
(Answer by Prof. w. f. Massey. }

I ~
The varieties of figs grown in our
section viii not make as fine quality
OF dried figs as the imported Smyrna
figs. and we cannot grow the Smyr-
ma figs unless we get the Blastophaga
wasp that visits them and sets the
seed SO that the fruit will hold.
The little wasp that sets the fruit
has been introduced into California
and also the Caprifig, or wild fig, Of
Europe. on which the insect lives,
and they are succeeding there with
dried figs. Our figs which naturally
set their fruit will not make the
quality that the Smyrna fig makes.
But no sugar is used in making these
dried figs, the sweetness being en-
tirely the natural sweetness of the
ripe fruit. An old Portuguese. whom
| once met. described the method
used in Spain and Portugal He
said that they cut off the soil to the
hard clay from hillside facing
south TO make drying floor. On
was baked hard and was swept
clean. They then took the ripe figs
and dipped them in strong I've
made from the ashes OF the trim
mings OF their grape vines. After
short immersion in the I've they
were rinsed in water and placed on
the drying floor.
Grapes for raisins were dried in
the clusters in the same way Some
OF the grapes fell of the lunches
and these are swept up as the loose
Muscatels. and In these loose raisins
you often find little gravel stones
unless cleaned afterwards. The dip
ping of figs In I've is always needed
to remove the acridity from the
skins. You can dry them in one of
the portable evaporators. but can
not make as fine figs as the import
ed. as the fruit is inferior and thick
er skinned than the Smyrna varie-
ties. But after the dipping in I've
and rinsing. you can make preserves
of them or can can them with syrup
and make very nice article.