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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-02
OOSEY MURDER CASE
TO JURY SATURDAY
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
st. Louis, Mo-, June Mrs. Dora
E. Doxey, accused of poisoning VIII
liam ]. Erder, took the witness stand
in her own defense today. She deni-
ed emphatically all connection with
the death of Erder, excusing her other
acts on the ground that she was vic
tim of the morphine habit. The de-
fenses attorney announced this morn
ing that they expect to complete their
side Of the case today. In that event
the argument Of the counsel will prob
ably begin tomorrow and the case will
reach the jury Saturday.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-02
Well Attended Meeting.

There was large attendance at the
rally of the Sequoyah democratic club
last night, at the Sequoyah school
house, two miles southeast of town. A
number of democrats from town were
in attendance and candidates were
more than plentiful. Among those who
spoke were: w. L. Trott, who presid-
ed over the meeting; E. ]. Hobby,
Billy Friend, w. H. voyles and Judge
Frear.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-02
TWO POLICEMEN
TU Be DISMISSED
Mayor And Council Reach Agreement
in Executive Session Held
Wednesday Night.

The city council met last night in
adjourned session and if the expected
warm meeting developed it was in the
executive session, into which the coun-
cial went almost Immediately after be-
ing called to order.
1t is understood that as result of
the executive session, Mayor Rider
has agreed to the demands of the dem
Iocratic members of the council for
the dismissal of two of the city police.
Upon this agreement to abolish the
terms Of the call for the special ses-
sion.
Aside from what was done in the
executive session the council passed a
resolution authorizing the delivery of
the paving bonds to the Southwestern
Construction company, when the South
Wilson street paving is completed,
which will be in few more days
The council also passed a resolution
authorizing the water committee to
enter into a contract for the drilling
of another artesian well, to eincrease
the city water supply. The committee
is expected to have this well drilled at
|once.
An ordinance was passed making
appropriations for the salary of all of
the city's elective officers. The ap-
pointive officers will get no money
until after the regular meeting of the
council next Tuesday night.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-02
Boy An lncorrIqibIe.

George McHenry, boy about fif-
teen years old, was turned over to the
juvenile officers yesterday by Fred
Woodard, who has been caring for the
boy. The boy is charged with truancy
from school and with being an incor-
rigible He is being kept in the county
jail pending his hearing tomorrow be-
fore Judge Frear.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-02
Reconsiders Former Action of Increasing KaIu-
alton of all Main Line Property Ten Per
Cent--Santa Fe Raised Seven Per Cent
and Frisco Two Per Cent. Okla
homa Central Cut to
$4,000 Per Mile.

Guthrie, Okla, June 2.-The state
board Of equalization, after hearing
protests from several railroad com
panies against the tentative raise of
10 per cent over the assessment of
last year, made on all main line track
of all railroads in the state, at a pre-
vious meeting, yesterday reconsider
ed its former action and made several
reductions in the assessments.
The assessment on the Oklahoma
Central was cut from s10,500 mile to
$8, 900, and all others of the new roads
in the state were left as assessed last
year The Santa Fe main track was
raised per cent over the assessment
of last year and the Rock Island and
Frisco were raised 2 per cent over the
basis of 1909. The next meeting of the
board will be held next Tuesday.
Representative of several railroads
operating in Oklahoma appeared be-
fore the state board of equalization to
enter protests against the blanket
raise of 10 per cent on all main line
track of railroads which was made at
the last session of the board over the
1909 assessment.
w. P. Dewar, representing the Ms
o. & G., a new road now building from
Wagner, Okla, through the eastern
portion Of the state to Denison Tex
declared that his road has been oper-
ating at a loss and that the 10 per
cent raise should be revoked as to his
road. He stated that the road bor-
rowed money to pay its taxes last
year and operated at a loss and that
while the line is struggling to build
up the country and get footing in
Oklahoma the assessment should not
be raised. He declared that the road
cannot be sold unless article 8, section
8, of the constitution is repealed, and
that if this amendment stands the
value of the road as a going concern
is greatly deprecated.
]. H. Grant, assistant counsel for
the St. Louis & San Francisco rail-
road in Oklahoma, also declared that
his road lost money on its Oklahoma
business last year, and took the posi-
ton that the road should be taxed
upon a basis of its earning power. If
the Frisco is operating at a loss under
the basis of taxation of last year he
declared that it would be reasonable
to suppose that it would lose money
during the coming year and that a
raise in assessed valuation would be
unjust He stated that the Frisco was
assessed at $49,OO0,O0O in Oklahoma
last year He then eproceeded to give
figures from the exhibits made by the
road in the two-cent fare suits. where
upon Attorney General West declared
that he would not agree to any figures
compiled by the road in connection
with that suit as being correct.
George H. Parker, attorney for the
Oklahoma Central, protested against
a raise in the assessed valuation of
his road. and declared that the assess
ment of last year which was $10,500 a
mile, was unjust. He estimated the
actual value of his road at what the
steel and other property was worth,
or about $4,000 a mile, declaring that
the road has absolutely no going value
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-02
Lonu Drawn Out suit.

The county court is still hearing the
unlawful detainer suit of Otto j.
Storm VS.. Chas w. Miller, ct al, which
has been on all week. This is a suit
to oust Miller from his own allotment
to give possession to Storm. who, it is
alleged, sub-leased the allotment from
the original lessees, Starr & Patten.
The case will probably be finished to-
day.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-02
Service on Three Roads.
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
st. Louis, Mo-. June 2.-seryice in
the injunction suit of the government
against twenty-five western railroads,
to restrain them from advancing
freight rates, was obtained on the Off
cials Of three roads here today. Dep
uties from the United States mar
shals office served the order at head
quarters of the Missouri Pacific, Wa
bash and Frisco systems.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-02
Potterton Preliminary BEGINS.

Arkansas City, Kans., June q
Charged with completely in causing the
death of his wife, Mrs. Francis K. Pot
terton, last January, the preliminary
hearing of Louis Potterton, began to-
day. Potterton and Mrs Emma A.
Allen, his foster mother, are charged
jointly, with the crime. Mrs. Allen
died early this week.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-02
To Fly Across Lake.
BY Associated Press.

Rochester, N. ", June 2.-Dr w. NJ.
Greene, the aviator, will attempt on
June 21 to fly from Rochester across
lake Ontario to Toronto. He will use
biplane of his own design and manu-
facture. The distance is about eighty
six miles. Fast boats will relay across
the lake under the aviator.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-02

The Commercial Club meets tonight
in regular session, and it is Hoped a
large number Of members will be
present, as the final plans for the
Fourth of July will be announced.
There are other important matters to
be discussed tonight and every mem
Der is urged to come.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-02
Railroads Advance Rates.
Associated Press.

Washington, d. c., June 2.-Revised
freight rates, effective July 4, were
filed today' with the Interstate Com
merce Commission by the New York
Central, Lake Shore and the Della
ware, Lockawana & Western railway.
There were some advances in commo-
dity rates.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-02

Sam R. Frazee, of the international
Bank e Trust company, underwent an
operation today for appendicitis. The
patient stood the operation well and
is on his way, it is though. to a speedy
recovery.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-22

this is considered good policy. 1t
would also be a good policy for all
the towns to contribute in proportion
to their grand lists toward the con-
struction of trunk lines regardless of
where those lines would run. We
will go even further and say it would
be a good thing if all highway tax
was paid into the state treasury and
the highways of the entire state were
built and maintained by the state
government The highways belong
to all the people and not to the diff
ferent towns and this principle is re-
cognized when the present law per-
mits the smaller towns to reach their
hands into the treasures of the lar
ger ones and take therefrom money
to spend on the highways of the poor
er communities The state should
build and maintain all the highways
because they belong to everybody and
everybody is interested in having
them built and maintained in the
right way
The Londonderry contemporary
wants to know if those who favor the
states building trunk lines also IA
vor the states going into the differ
ent towns and developing waterpow-
ers and establishing and maintaining
manufacturing plants. This is an
entirely different proposition. Such
development would not be for the
benefit of all the peaple as in the case
of the highways There would be nc
more sense in the states running a
manufacturing plant in Londonderry
than in its running a hotel on Lowell
Lake.
II it provides a good road to q
manufacturing plant in Londonderry
or a hotel at Lowell Lake operated
by private capital and gives the en-
enlargement to both enterprises tina
easy communication affords II is al
that can be expected. Highways arr
everywhere recognized as Legitimate
wards of the state, but manufactuT
les nowhere unless in the dreams o
the ocialists.-Bellows Falls Times
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-22
TOBACCO SUIT DISCUSSED
No Decision as to Proceedings
Against 5urley Society.

Washington. Jan. 21.-What action,
if any, to take on the charges OF
pooling in restraint Of trade against
the Burley Tobacco Society, whose
operations extend over portions Of
Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. is still
undetermined by the Department Of
Justice.
There are many reasons, IL is said,
which make the officials hesitate to
bring action. it being held that AFR
native steps would lay the govern
ment open to the charge of playing
into the hands of the tobacco trust.
while, on the other hand. serious al
legations that the operations of the
organization are interfering with in
terstate trade would seem, in the
opinion of some. TO warrant immed'
late proceedings to stop the prac-
tees complained of. The impression
prevails that no immediate action is
likely.
officers and counsel of the com
pany conferred today with Wade H
Ellis, assistant to the Attorney Gen
eral, in charge of antitrust suits
They were accompanied by members
of Congress in some of the districts
where the organization operates
The whole situation was gone owe
carefully, but without definite result
There are two methods, it is said, b,
which action might be taken again
the society-one to dissolve it unde
the antitrust law and the other I
proceed against certain of the off
GERS individually.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-22
Curtiss Beat Paulhan in Speed Con
test at Los Angeles.

Aviation Field, Los Angeles, Jan.
21.-As dusk gathered over the old
Dominguez ranch last night the first
international aviation meet held in
America was finished
Few of the spectators knew that
while Charles X. Hamilton was re
turning yesterday from a fifteen mile
fight toward the ocean the crank
shaft of his machine snapped a mile
from the field and he narrowly escap-
ed death Hamilton shut off the en-
CINE and so leveled and swayed his
planes that he came down gently.
Paulhan went up in the afternoon
for an endurance fight. After he
had done two or three laps, Curtiss
started a ten-lap speed trial, half
lap, or more than three quarters of
mile behind Paulhan. Then there
occurred the first real race of the the
days meet The two aeroplanes
came down over the grandstand with
the speed of express trains. Curtis
gained swiftly on Paulhan and on the
third lap he reached Paulhan, flying
above him. The Frenchman for a
| few seconds held even. Then Cur
tiss in his American machine forged
ahead length and finally half lap.
1t was no race after that The Amer
lean machine was the faster beyond
question. AS Curtiss rushed over
Paulhan he received the greatest APP
plause that any of his efforts had
gained. Paulhan went GA miles and
had been in the air nearly an hour
and a half. Curtiss came down after
a thirty-mile trip.
The Curtiss machines won all the
prizes for speed, quick starts, perfect
landings and those events where 6
light machine showed best.
Paulhan won all the cross country
passenger carrying and endurance
tests, having heavier, slower mach
inc and an engine which he trusts
absolutely. Paulhan took more thar
. $4,000 in prizes and broke tn,
worlds records for altitude and eros
country flights, alone and with
passenger.
Curtiss broke no worlds record
and won less thar $4,000 in prizes
Hamilton and Willard took secon
and third prizes in most events.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-22
Highways and seIflshness

The Londonderry Sitter devoted
little space last week to the discus
sion of trunk lines of highways and
asks few questions. 1t wants to
know if the newspapers that support
the idea would still support it if they
knew that the trunk lines would not
go through their towns. Speaking
for itself alone the Times believes in
the trunk line proposition and would
give just as enthusiastic support If
it knew that trunk line would never
pass through Bellows Falls. The
Times believes that opening up the
state with two good trunk lines its
entire length would greatly benefit
the entire state, the towns through
which the lines did not pass as well
as the towns through which they did
pass. The state as a whole cannot
prosper without every towns sharing
in that prosperity, though in varying
degrees. Trunk lines would of
course greatly increase the automo-
bile travel and the towns on the
trunk lines would reap a big summer
income but the towns on the lines
would also be benefited Trunk lines
would mean better roads in every
town. The example afforded by the
state roads would stimulate better
road building everywhere. Better
roads would mean the development of
the mountain peaks and beautiful
lake resorts, most of them in the
smaller towns. A good road to the
top of the principal mountain peaks
and good hotels there would add an
nually many thousands to Vermonts
income from the summer tourist bus
mess. Summer hotels located beside
some of the many beautiful lakes of
| Vermont would add numerous other
thousands. New Hampshire derives
over $10O00,000 annually from its
summer business and the three trunk
lines about to be built in that state
will add other millions. What is
Vermont getting from this source?
Perhaps a half million, hardly worth
mentioning when compared with New
Hampshires splendid showing.
When good roads and trunk lines
are considered local jealousies and
petty selfshness should be forgotten
when reasonable, sensible plan Il
agreed upon, every town should fall
In and help push along good thing
even though some towns will be more
directly benefited than others.
We also believe that the state
should build these trunk lines. The
larger towns have been contributing
.',.lHln.highway construction IN tn,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-22

Prof. Willis l.. Moore the head of
the weather bureau, may be right
when he says that Mr.. Pinchots
ideas about the increase of freshets
as a result of deforestation are all
wrong, but unless Mr. Moore knows
more about floods than he does about
predicting inauguration day weather,
most people will continue to believe
that rain will flow more quickly into
the rivers off bare land than it will
soak through the messy leaf-mold of
a forest.-Boston Globe.
Likewise some people will be
tempted to hold to the opinion that
land which is exposed to the direct
rays of the sun will lose its moisture
more rapidly through evaporation
than that which is shaded all the
year around by evergreen and during
the warm months of summer by de
ciduous trees. From personal obser-
walton and the testimony of men who
lived in the northern section of the
state so years ago the writer ad-
vances the opinion that the smaller
streams and brooks in Vermont do
not contain nearly the amount OF
water that was the case half cen.
fury into the past. There are today
water courses dry several months in
the year from which the ancestors oil
the present generation were in the
habit of catching good strings Of
trout, and these streams have beer
dwindling from year to year as the
water sheds which supplied then
have been gradually stripped of thu
protecting timber. Whether or no
these streams, which do not exist a
all in summer, carry more water il
the spring than formerly it is, o
course, impossible to state for there
are no records upon which to max
comparisons, but il seems only rea
sonabe to conclude that the waite
must come down from the bare hill
sides in greater volume than wa
the case when It was held back b,
the spongy land of the forest AM
swamp floor. More water in tn
spring when we don't want it an,
less in summer when we need it,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-22
Notice

| hereby notify all persons that |
shall hereafter pay no bills contract
ed by my wife Mrs. Mabel Bentley
and all persons are warned not to
enher on my account.
-. '-,, r. A. Bentley
90, Jan. IA, 1910.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-22
THE TEST OF MERIT
Bennington People are Given convin-
cling PROOF

Bennington People are Given Convin-
cling PROOF
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made than the test of time and this
is particularly true of a kidney med
icine. Doan's Kidney Pills have
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remedy could you demand than the
statement of Bennington resident
who has been cured and has stayed
cured?
Read the following
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Doans Kidney Pills to anyone suffer
ing from kidney trouble as I have
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results. For a long time was both
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December, 1909
Results Tell
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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-22

The Brattleboro railroad depot was
complained OF on account of its un-
clearly and unsanitary condition and
the building is being cleaned
thoroughly. This infection of clean
ing should spread. The average
railroad station, particularly as to its
toilet facilities, is unspeakably foul
Rutland evening News.
True enough. but at the same time
it must be admitted that lot of law,
less individuals who frequent rail
road stations when they have no le-
Ultimate business in the buildings
are largely responsible for the condi-
tons referred to. Ii the railroad
companies would enforce the law rel
alive to loafing in stations they
would relieve themselves of much OF
the labor of keeping the waiting
rooms and annexes in more respect
able shape
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-22
YERKEs HEIRS TO SELL
Settlement Reached in Order to
Learn Widows Dover

New York, Jan pa settlement
finally has been reached in the dis
tribution of the estate of the late
Charles T. Yerkes which has been in
volved in a suit brought by the I'm
derwood Electric railways company
(limitedl of London. Answers were
filed in the suit today by Mary Adel-
aide Yerkes and others, in which the
defendants assert that the real estate
cannot be advantageously divided
without manifest injury to the par
ties in interest and they agree to the
sale of the property to pay Yerkes'
debts and to ascertain the dover of
the widow, who they say has agreed
to accept a gross sum in settlement
OF her rights. BY this settlement,
Mrs. Yerkes will get 201S per cent
of the net amount received from the
sale of the real estate.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-22
FORTUNE FOR LONG Losr SON
Washington Attorney Seeking VIII
son Shannon Sherman.

Newport, r. l., Jan. ga fortune
is awaiting Wilson Shannon Sherman
formerly "A member of Viewpoints
summer colony, who dropped from
sight of his relations here several
years ago. Chief of Police Crowley
has received a communication from
ia Washington attorney asking for
news OF the whereabouts of Sherman
and stating that a large sum of
money was being held for the lost
heir.
The missing man was the only heir
of his father, Gen. West Sherman,
who died many wears ago, followed
shortly by his wife. The son inherit
ed all the Sherman estate, which was
large. Since his departure from here
nothing has been heard from him.
He is believed to have gone South.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-22
WILLIAMS BASEBALL DATES
Harvard, Yale, Cornell and Dart
mouth on the Schedule

Williamstown, Mass, Jan 21-The
Williams College baseball team this
year will play schedule Of sixteen
games including contests with Har-
ward, Yale, Cornell and Dartmouth.
The schedule is as follows:
Out of town games-April 20,
Princeton at Princeton; April 2S, Har-
ward at Cambridge; May 4, Cornell at
Ithaca, May II. Yale at New Haven
May ~, Wesleyan at Middletown;
May is, Amherst at Amherst May
%, Dartmouth at Hanover; June 4
Holy Cross at Worcester
Home games-April %. Trinity
May Z, Massachusetts Agricultural
College; May IA, Cornell; May 2S
Dartmouth; May 30, Amherst; June
6, Wesleyan; June Is. Holy Cross
June is, FOrdham.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-22
THE sUResr AND SAFEST WAY

ITO shake all cares and business
from our age" is to have an Annuity
which guarantees the necessities of
life at least. Send for rates. 6lst.
year. National Life Insurance Com
pany, Montpelier VT (MutuaD
Earle S. Kinsley, Agent, Rutland, VT.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-22

State officials and the delegation
in congress ought to have a get to-
gether" meeting and devise means
and methods for injecting a little
life into the present political cam
paign. The children are obtaining so
little amusement out of the existing
situation that they may begin to look
around for excitement in other direc-
lions.