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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15
Why Special Session Of
Legislature is Necessary

putting to them desire to draw a sal
airy for a few days as being the sole
reason for their desire to be called in
special session, ought not, and in the
fact of the grave questions now con-
fronting the state and pressing for set
tlement, believe will not be sufficient
to deter the governor in calling this
session. Speaking for the members of
the senate as now constituted, be-
lieye they are as public spirited and
patriotic as was the editor of the Ok
lahoman when he was a member. Six
dollars per day would as likely inf1u-
ence him as any member of the present
body and the present body may have
as good congressional timber in it as
the editor of that paper, and there
may be members of the present body
who are not afraid to submit their
candidacy to a district composed of
their neighbors. | doubt very much
both houses could be found who would
leave their business, come to Okla
homa City and remain forty days for
six dollars per day, and | know that
the sole purpose of the vast majority
OF both houses in advising a special
session is to conserve the best in
terests Of the state.
1t seems as though someone ought
to suggest to the Oklahoman that
consistant policy upon public matters
is the best policy and that personal
tlings unwarranted by any facts will
leave the impression that the paper
is degenerating into a common scold.
In the old days common scolds were
publicly ducked in a pond and then
placed in the stocks an dit is lust pos
sible that the democrats of this state
will duck the Oklahoman if it con-
tinues its present course. One might
overlook the answer with which this
letter is started if it was the first time
the Oklahoman had offended but for
months the same dirty filings, low in
uendos and near charges have filled
the columns of that paper against
every board and nearly every officer
in the state.
AS for myself l am in favor of the
special session because | know it is
needed and it will take more than
the insinuations of the Oklahoman to
change my position.
]. Q. NEWELL.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

conscience whatever A good many of
perhaps-hold. such a
man in contempt And yet it is pity
rather than scorn that he merits. He
is the victim of moral miseducation. 1t
is the fault chiefly of the churches.
They are content to concern them
selves only with the conduct of men
in their social relations The church
draws a circle about its own edifce,
and another about The home, and its
estimate of a man is made up entire
ly from his conduct within those two
small circles. What he does outside
them it makes none of its business.
Hypocrisy is thus made easy, and, in
a negative way, is encouraged. The
church countenances a double standard
of morals, by concerning itself only
with the home life of its members. The
church is myopic; it sees but little be-
yond it's own front gate, and only the
shadow of its lessons projects out into
the world where real temptations beset
men.-Dallas News
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

Our late, but by no means lamented,
governor intimates that he will tell
the truth regarding the Indebtedness
of the state when its first governor
retired from office. He also intimates
that Mr. F. S. f. Amos, secretary to
the governor, who has promulgated
most of the official figures recently,
has been indulging in mendacity. Com
menting on this incident, and the vast
changes that have occurred in public
sentiment within the past few months,
the McAlester News-Capital says:
Governor Haskell, through the New
State Tribune, threatens to make
showing soon to disprove articles in
the Vinita Leader, edited by Governor
Cruces private secretary, as to the
cost of administration in Oklahoma
under the Haskell regime He prom
ises to print the figures. But since the
famous private letter from Beveridge
and the purported statement of Judge
Marshall about the Haskell case that
appeared on the front page of the New
State Tribune there are a whole lot
of fellows who will be little dubious
of the former governors proofs, The
fact that Governor Cruce, Immediately
after he was inaugurated, admitted that
the amount of the state debt was about
what the republican campaigners had
said it was. and the further fact that
the republicans got the figures from
the auditors report make it likely that
nobobdy except those who want to be
fooled will pay much attention to Mr..
Haskells figures. And when the few
who are fooled by them pay taxes this
fall they will be thoroughly unde-
luded.'
This is one of the things that the
gentleman is yet to learn-that his old
and favorite defense, You're liar,"
will no longer be accepted by the Okla
homa people A democratic governor
put the Indian sign on Muskogee's
most distinguished citizen this time,
and there's no room for the spacious
partisan detense.-Tulsa World.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

There are a good many men who
would feel affronted if asked to play
game of cards, merely for the sake of
passing time. who would nevertheless
thank you for an invitation to become
a partner in real estate venture
which depended on deception for its
profits. In the one case in the refusal
to join in the card game, they would
be suffused with a sense of righteous
ness, and in the other. in the accept
ance of a share in the real estate ven
ture, they would suffer no qualms of
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

The are too many men drawing
salaries in Oklahoma This is true in
state. county and municipality. Taxes
will never be lower until there is mark
ed retrenehment Along with the high
cost of living the whole nation is run
ming wild in the matter of official ex-
penditure. Cut down the number Of
salary drawers.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

They are now saying that Governor
Cruce is actually afraid of his own
state legislature If he calls them to-
gether he don't know what they might
do. There are a few things the gov
ernor would like to have done but
there are number of things that the
governor would like to have left over
for his successor.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

If the republicans ever get the
chance to redistrict the state there
will not be five or six solidly demo
cratic districts. There is a growing
belief that if something is not done to
relieve excessive taxes the whole state
may go republican
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

The Chieftain has two subscribers
whose combined length is 1862 inches
or 1874 feet They both live in Vinita
and were at the Office at the same time
today. Can any other newspaper in the
state beat it?
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

The necessity for a modern hotel in
Vinita was never more sorely felt than
now. This town is getting black eye
far and near on account of its lack of
hotel facilities.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

In 1900 Oklahoma had $4.054.000 in
vested in factories. in four years it
had increased to $t6,124,OOO; in 1909
it was $3S,S73,O 900 and now it is $40,
600 900. The output last year was
worth over $60,000,00O
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

Now if the people of Oklahoma have
any respect for Senator Owens wishes
they will refrain from discussing can
didates for the United States senate
until next spring.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

After a trial of more than half
century the state of Maine has re-
pudated prohibition Doubtless a ma
jority of the citizenship of Maine
would vastly prefer dry state, but at
last have come to realize that prohibit
tion is not the best way to handle the
liquor question. The time has come
when the people will not be controlled
by sentiment in the matter of dealing
with this great problem but will seek
out the most sensible way of doing it.
The average citizen would prefer to
live in a community where no intoxi-
cants were manufactured or sold, but
this is an impossible condition. 1t is
time to be reasonable and to discuss
this question clearly and without abuse
or rancor, and reach a conclusion that
will be best for the whole country
Whenever the American people get
ready to begin at the source of this
evil there will be some chance of eradi-
eating It, As long as the United
States government is in the business
of the manufacture Of liquor just so
long will the people engage in its sale
and use. If there is a dead dog in
the spring the water will be impure.
1t may be boiled and filtered daily but
the source being poisoned the trou-
BILE will continue. Go to the head of
the fountain and take the dead animal
out and the greatest problem of the
ages will have been solved.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

The Chieftain objected to the pur-
chase of thousand water meters at
an exorbitant price and precipitated
a row that has taken the form Of
persecution and business
injury but the public will eventually
be the gamer
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

There are not more than one or two
firms in Vinita with bigger pay roll
than the Chieftain and perhaps none
whose employees spend more money in
Vinita.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

No boy or girl of school age should
be out of school if it can possibly be
avoided Now and then children are
so badly needed by widowed mother
as to make it impossible for them to
attend school but certainly no boy or
girl should be permitted to idle about
the streets as a matter of choice.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

The next thing the taxpayers of
Vinita knows they will be asked to
raise money to pay the interest on
the bonds or to replenish the various
sinking funds, and that may be the
limit of forbearance.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

Governor Cruce should not be ac-
cused of playing politics but the legis-
lature will be called before the regular
session. Mark the predictions.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

Whether Governor Cruce calls an
extra session of the legislature or not
there are some things that will not
keep over till the regular term.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

That new head of the Tulsa Demo
crat should be a subject to receive at
tention at the press day gabfest at
Oklahoma City on the 30th inst. Indi-
cations are that it will have to be
changed.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

When a man is promised a place un-
der the present city misadministration
and begins at once 10 defend same it
is a good time to drop him
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

Will someone rise in his place and
explain why a majority of the mem
bers of the state legislature favor a
call session of the legislature and a
majority of the editors of the state
oppose ?-Vinita Cheftain. Six dol
lars a day.-Daily Oklahoman.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

Tha little disturbance over at Mount
Aetna will be tame affair compared
to the meeting of Carl Morris and Jim
Flynn tomorrow.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

September starts out to be the bus
lest month in the year so far, and the
Chieftain office Is about the busiest
place in Vinita.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

viii the state neglect important
matters that require legislation, or
will the governor convene the legis-
lature and attend to them?
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

The necessity for more Offices in
Yinita does not suggest itself to the
taxpayer If the men who are in office
would do the work OF their respective
Offices there would be no cry for help.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

The most ungallant bunch of men in
the universe must be the crowd at
Hunnewell, Kans., who won't listen to
the woman mayor.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15
Brazil Will Exhibit.

Brazil, always enterprising, will make
a million dollar exhibit at the San
Diego exposition in 1915, and she will
probably duplicate that at San Fran
cisco.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

The people of vinita have begun
to cry out against excessive taxation,
but the end is not yet. The future
does not hold out much promise of a
reduction
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

It.is a strange coincidence that the
chief opposers of the commission
form of government at Lawton were
the present city officials.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

The Daily Chieftain continues to
reach all the people who trade in
Vinita and then some.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

The city of Vinita has offices en-
ough without multiplying the number
Now is a good time for retrenehment.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

Maine votes upon the question OF
whether she will continue a. prohibi-
tion state or not today.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

Champ Clark is having lots OF fun
these days lodging the presidential
bee.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

Col. Astor's offer of $1,000 as a we'd
ding fee brought the goods
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-15

Up to date Senator Bailey had not
called in his determination to resign.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-09-15
SPORT.
EsTERN LEAGUE STANDING.

Young Bruce of Denver and Trooper
Grimes Of Fort Russell, Cheyenne. are
negotiating for match at Fort Rus
sci at 122 pounds ringside.
The Terrible Swede of Telluride,
Colo, wen the world championship for
drilling and the $500 prize. He drilled
thirty-eight inches in solid granite.
Uncle Joe Cannon is the latest con-.
vert to golf. He is being initiated into
the mysteries of the game at the Brae
Burn Country Club at Newton, Mass.
Louis Disbrown. driving Pope.
Hartford, made new worlds o, tomo-
bile record at Old Orchard beach,
Biddeford, Me-, going % miles in Is
minutes. 25 seconds.
Frank Gotch, holder of worlds
championship wrestling title. de.eated
George Hackenschmidt, the Russian
lion in two straight. quick falls. in 10
minutes and so seconds in Chicago
Labor Day.
Miss Matilda Moisant, sister of the
dead aviator. John b. Moisant. ascend
ed in her monoplane at Hampstead.
N. Y. to height of nearly 1000 feet.
1t is believed to be the greatest alti-
tude ever reached by woman avia-
tor.
After eleven rounds of slam bang
grilling at Victor. Colo. in which he
had shade of the best of it all the
way through, Charlie Pierson, the New
York newsboy, won the decision over
Jimmy Macdonald Of Denver, when
Referee George Wayland stopped the
contest and awarded the prize TO the
Fastener.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-09-15
FOREIGN.

The restaurant connected with the
Eldorado, the largest theater in Nice,
France. collapsed. burying two score
people.
The Chilean steamer Lucapel has
been wrecked near Lima and is to-
tai loss. Eighty-one persons were
drowned.
A French aviator, NJ. lie Jarrestier,
while flying at Huelva. Spain, fell $50
feet and was killed. The motor ex-
ploded.
Capt Matthew Webb's feat of swim
ming the English channel thirty-six
years ago was duplicated by William
T. Burgess, a native of Yorkshire. Eng.
land, but now a naturalized French
man. 1t was Burgess sixteenth at
tempt, he having first essayed the
task in 1904. He made the trip OF
twenty miles in twenty.seven hours.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-09-15
colorado Good Roads Conference.

Pueblo.-The next Colorado Good
Roads conference will be held in
Pueblo during the third week in Janu-
airy of next year, Immediately preced-
ing the annual meeting of the associa-
ton of county commissioners. Edu-
cational and publicity work will be be-
gun in Denver and Pueblo at once and
extended throughout the Rocky noun
tain country in an effort to make This
one of the most beneficial good roads
meetings ever held in the state.
Preliminary arrangements for the
meeting were made at a conference
of the vice presidents representing the
various counties at the Chamber of
Commerce building in Denver. IL was
decided to open temporary headquart-
ers in Denver. with w. II. Emmons in
charge. j. II. jenkins, secretary of the
Pueblo Commercial Club, was made as
sistant secretary and will have charge
of directing the arrangements for the
meeting in Pueblo.
The question of having a first-class
transcontinental automobile highway.
leading through Colorado, completed
In time for the Panama exposition in
1915, was taken up and referred to the
general meeting in January. A COM
mittee consisting of Senator T. j.
Ehrhart of Chaffee county, S. G..
Porter of Prowers county, a. j. Loft
of Pitkin county. Morris Hoover of
Boulder county, f. w. Swanson of
Conejos county and DR.. F. l.. Bartlett
of Denver was appointed to examine
the various routes and report to the
conference.
F. o. STANDBY and other residents
of Estes Park were at the meeting
and urged that an effort be made at
once to have convicts from the state
penitentiary put at work widening the
automobile road through the Big
Thompson and st. Vrain canons. Sam
F. Dutton and C. X. McClain of Ere
mont county were appointed as spe-
cial publicity committee in connection
with the coming conference.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-09-15
change proposed for For. logan.

Denver.-A suggestion that Fort To-
gan be given up as military post
and that in its place be erected and
maintained buildings for western
division of the great West Point Mil
itary Academy has been made to the
Chamber of Commerce by Charles F..
Wilson, formerly president of the
chamber. The suggestion has been
discussed by many of the officers of
the chamber. and, although it has not
been taken up officially, they are of
the opinion that such plan is well
worth investigating and carrying out,
II it is possible. AS a result. 1t is
probable that when President William
Howard Taft visits Denver Oct. 3, the
chambers committee on military af-
fairs will place the suggestion before
him.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-09-15
WA SHlNGToN.

To Improve the horsemanship of
the army, Secretary of War stimsou
will soon issue an order that schools
of equitation shall form part of the
garrison training of all mounted COM
mands in the Military Service.
Suggestions by sentimentalists that
the next session OF Congress should
be urged to appropriate sufficient
sum to keep the wreckage of the bat
tleship Maine intact as a lasting mon
ument to the 26O men who lost their
lives in the disaster which resulted in
war between the United States and
Spain, find no support in the navy.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-09-15
COLORADO NEWS
Gathered From
All Parts of the State
western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

COMING EVENTS.
Sept. 1S-21-Annual meeting Masonic
Bodies of Colorado-Denver
sept. 1S-23-Colorado State Fair
Pueblo.
September 2o-Annual Fruit Day
September 21-Elbert County Fair
Ebert.
September 1s-22-weid County Fair
sertember 19-22-western Slope Fair
Montrose.
Sept. 21-22-Annuai meeting order Of
Eastern Star--Glenwood Syringe.
Sept. 22-23-Knights Templar Con-
clave-Colorado Springs.
sept. 26-Sugar Beet Day-La lara.
September 26-29-Las Animas Coun-
ty Fair rinidad.
Sept; 2S. 80. 3o-Public Lands conven-
September 25-sO-Mesa County In
dustrial and Fruit Association--Grand
Junction.
September 2s-oId Settlers Reunion
AID Pumpkin Pie Feast-Longmont.
September 2S-30-Sedgwick County
fredericksburg.
SEPT. 2s-30-San Luis Valley Fair
Alamosa.
ty Fair-Calhan.
October 1920 : International Dry
Farming Congress and International
Congress of Farm Women-Colorado
Oct. 14-21.-second Annual Show.
Colorado Electric Club. Denver.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-09-15
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL =
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o I N q 9, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
w ES RN.


cal option e's ction. 1t has been e. dry
town for the past year.
Six women and six men compose
the jury to try the first case for the
September term of Superior Court at
Bellingham, Wash.
The authoritative announcement is
made at Austin. Texas. that Senator
Joseph w. Bailey will not be a candi-
date for reelection.
Lincoln Western League Club has
been sued for 10000 damages by
Ralph A. Hanson who was injured by
club employee.
Secretary of the Interior Walter l..
Fisher has returned from tour of
Alaska and will visit several points
in the West before returning to Wash
ington.
Miss Dora Keen of Philadelphia.
who undertook to climb Mount Black
burn, Alaska, 1911 feet, was obliged
to turn back when only two days from
the summit because of the exhaustion
of her supplies.
Because Miss Mary Chamberlain, a
young school mistress of Shady Bend.
Kan, had talked about other wo-
men, she was tarred and feathered by
a mob. Eight men have been arrest
ed.
While she was operating a washing
machine run by a gasoline engine at
her home at Bennington, kas., Mrs.
Charles Simpsons arm was torn off.
A belt broke. catching Mrs. Simpsons
arm and severing it at the elbow.
An ancient city has been dug up in
western Texas. at Alpine, small
town in Brewster county. showing that
an earthquake or some cataclysm
buried city of quite large popula-
ton.
A male fllrt decoy to arrest women
who ogle men is wanted by the Den
yer Fire and Police Board. This is go
ing Los Angeles one better. the Cali
fornia city recently having appointed
a woman to catch Washers.
Hunnewell, Kans., has learned that
it must not play cards on Sunday
while Mrs. Wilson is mayor. To dis
cover this fact four young men paid
so each. Mrs. Wilson said they
played cards on Sunday without even
closing the front door.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher. al
dinner given at Seattle in his hon
or, declared Controller Bay in AlaslSa
to be neither the only, nor the best.
harbor for the output of the Behring
river coal fields; pronounced the ex-
tent and character of these fields
grossly exaggerated a.
Separate indictments. accusing Ma
than Allen of Kenosha, Wis. and John
Il. Collins of Memphis, Tenn, reput-
ed millionaires, OF smuggling gems
valued at thousands of dollars into
the port OF New York. have been
brought to light in the offices of Unit
ed States District Attorney Wise.
Eleven lives lost. fourteen persons
injured, two of whom are not expect
ed to live. and the Juneau hotel and
the McGrath building in ashes are
e results of a fire which started in
the hotel at juneau. Alaska. and was
subdued only after the Douglas fire
department had sent men and engines
to assist the local fire fighters.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-09-15
Secretary Fisher Saves Farms.

Greeley.-Secretary Fisher of the
Interior Department has handed down
a decision that will save to twenty-six
enjoyment under the Laramie-Poudre
irrigation district in Weld county
their farms. The~calims were contest
ed because the entrymen had paid
for their water rights in personal
notes instead of cash, as the law re-
quires. Secretary Fisher finally de.
cided that the notes offered in pay
ment before August %. 1909, would
be acceptable.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-09-15
greeley Potato CROP Poor.

Greeley.-Agricultur experts from
the Colorado Agricultural College at
Greeley made a trip into the coun-
try about Greeley the other day to
determine the potato crop. and report
that the prospects are indeed poor for
a crop in that locality.