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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01

A writer in the Marble City News
points out some of the local results of
prohibition that doesn't prohibit six
bright young men from this commun-
ity" he says, ARE now in Jail charged
with murder, boys who are human,
who have affectionate mothers. hon
orable fathers and loving sisters; boys
who have many admirable traits of
character but who, perhaps we're
transformed into brutes for a time by
the use of combination OF wood all
cohol jamaica ginger and cider Then
follows news from Sallsaw that Clay
Agent, prominent business man there
had brutally beaten his wife with a
gun, finally shot her and is now in Jail.
Then from Wan comes report of a
drunken brawl in which w G. Myers
was killed and Charley Pender and
Peter and James Gault are being held
pending an investigation of the af-
fair James Gault is an old and high.
ly respected citizen of the place. has
held several responsible positions there
and is connected with many of the
best families in that community. That
he was in the crowd brings a disgrace
upon his good wife from which she
will never entirely recover The
writer continues The origin of all
of these affairs does not lie in prohibit
ton The county is being put to an
enormous expense in trying to convict
the men who traffic in this poison, but
their business will continue to thrive
and will go so long as time lasts in
some form or other There is one way
and only one way. SO far as We know,
to prevent these awful crimes, and
that is to open up a respectable saloon
in every large town in the land, regu-
late them. employ sufficient peace Off
GERS to control them, to enforce the
Inv. and let the consumer of liquors
the bill"
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01

The press of the country from time
to time take turns at discussing the
question of free advertising for the
churches. 1t has been the concensus
of opinion that 1t is legitimate ad
vertising and should be charged for
But it is rule in many newspaper
offices to make no charge where no
money is taken in at the door Every
newspaper is ready to help the pastors
of his town by free advertising OF
their services, and indeed such an
nouneements are good news items But
the papers that do this seldom gel
any other business from the churches
II they have job Of printing 1t goes
elsewhere, perhaps on the theory that
its favors should be distributed as
evenly as possible.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01
What She Wanted.

81, for one, am in favor of the bill
TO abolish the use of aigrettes and
paradise plumes in ladies' hats.
favor this bill not only for moral res-
sons. but for financial ones as well"
The speaker was Col. Lionel G. Har-
ris, the well-known ornithologist of
Memphis He resumed:
The cost of these aigrettes and
paradise plumes is dreadful thing
for any husband to conptemplate. ]
saw yesterday a Virot hat covered
With aigrettes that was ticketed 5000.
And that reminds me-
"A lady novelist wrote to q pub
Usher last month:
Please send check In advance
Of royalties want to buy new hat
for a June wedding
THE accommodating publisher sent
the lady check for $50 She as
knowledged 1t Indignantly.
II said, she wrote, that | wanted
hat, not veil
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01
Hume,s Temporary Orthodoxy.

It is not chiefly as skeptic that most
Of us come to commemorate David
Hume. But the story OF his very tenn
porary orthodoxy is worth recalling
Having fallen into swamp at the
back OF Edinburgh castle. he called
for assistance to woman who was
passing.
At first she took no notice, bpt pres
emily she asked. Are ma ye Hume the
atheist?' "Weel, weel, no matter,
said Hume. Christian charity com
mands you to do good to everyone
Christian charity here or Christian
charity there" said the woman, I'll
do naething for you till We turn O
Christian yoursell-ye maun repeat
the Lords Prayer and the Creed, OF
faith I'll let ye grafel (groveD there
as found ye"
And he had to repeat them.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01
NOT A SUBJECT FOR PITY
Little Boss Of the School Made Careful
Inquiry and Then Acted
Promptly.

A suburban youngster who has long
been the boss Of his neighborhood has
been attending, temporarily. school
connected with an orphanage. YerI
nearly all the pupils are dependents.
The school has a dozen bright red
chairs which are greatly fancied by
the boys, and there is either a general
scramble for them or else the boys
who live in the asylum are in tiem
first.
This particular outsider was not TO
be denied when all the chairs were
filed, and with his superior streugta
and courage would dump one OF the
occupants before the teacher arrived.
Her attention was called to this and
the small bully was told that he should
have a feeling of pity for the unfor
tunate.
The next day he found all the chairs
filed, one by new pupil He went
to him and said
Have you a fome?"
yes"
"A good homer"
Yes"
Father and motherfH
yes"
"Have you always had a father and
mother?"
"Yes."
We'll, get out of my chair" and
the intruder was hurled against the
wall.-Chicago Evening Post.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01
PROPER JEWELS FOR GIRLS
Pearls the Best They Can Wear, and
Turquolses Also Are Appro-
pirate.

Pearls are girl jewels par excellence
and necklace of pearls is frequent
gift for a first ball, while a pearl
cross has been supposed to be pro-
lection from evil A modern Indian
novelist mentions the nine rows OF
pearls worn by Hindu maiden, and
the same jewel is worn by brides
alike In the west and the east.
In the olden times the daughters of
Hindu rajahs are said to have signi-
fed their choice OF a husband by
throwing round the neck of the chosen
lover a chain Of pearls and Of flowers
At recent high caste Indian we'd
ding, when the rite of the "Sehra
bande" or Tying of the Veil" was OBJ
served, the Sareb or veil consisted of
strings of pearls" edged with a ruby
fringe.
Turquoises are also jewels for girls
The forget me not azure of the stones
Is the symbolic color of youth and
hope. They are beautiful surrounded
by diamonds and there is pretty old
saying that the wearer Of a turquoise
will never lack friends. Delicate col.
ored gems such as peridots and tour
malines, chrysophrase and cornelian
are also much in favor with the young.
er set of women.-Lady's Pictorial.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01

A writer describes the forenoon
Sunday Strand and Fleet Street as
"a shuttered desert and doubtless
he is quite satisfied with the phrase
But is it accurate? How many shut
tered windows does he think he would
see in these thoroughfares on a Sun
day or at any other time when the
shops are shut? As a matter of fact
the shutter has gone from central Lon
don, and is rapidly passing even from
the suburbs. At what date did TIE
shutter begin to disappear? 1t was
a fitting of all shops as late as the
Sos. The worst the modern shor
shows on Sundays is the blind. And
most shops present the weekday
terrtation with a closed door, Lon
don ChroAic.e.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01
Dorst Want ,Em Back.

An economical young man who was
much bored by the requests of tickle
young women to return their photo
graphs decided upon desperate meas
ures to put stop to the unnecessary
expenditure Of time and postage,
He announced his intention of start.
ing Venus collection to contain the
pictures of the 100 most beautiful wo-
men in the world, and now the girls
never ask for their pictures.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01
A Fountain Marvel.

One of the natural marvels OF
France is the fountain or source OF
the Coulomp, small river in the de-
partment OF the Basses-Alpes. Out Of
mighty limestone wall about 4,600
feet high springs a fountain of water,
yielding even in the dryest times
about 800 gallons a second, and form
ing full born river, which begins its
career with series of leaps aggregat-
ing 100 feet OF descent. 1t is thought
that the water must pass under the
mountain by subterranean channels at
least mile In length.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01
Birds for Mosquitoes.

Experience of the past few days
has convinced everybody that the
scientific war on the mosquito is a
aat failure. Insectivorous birds are
the only remedy. and not all of them
like mosquitoes. The swallow, which
does, is not a street dweller; the
night hawk flies high and is rarity,
and the bat is promptly driven out
of every house he enters. What's
left but to slap and scratch?-.
Brooklyn Citizen.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01
A Musical PRODIGY.

in 1S41 arrived in London a Russian
boy, called Antoine Rubinstein, not
twelve years old, whose performances
on the piano had excited wonder
and delight among the musical anna
teurs. He was equally skilled in the
ancient as well as modern style OF
playing and gave with wonderful ef-
feet the most difficult passages of Bach
or Thalburg. All this, too, was done
with the utmost apparent ease, and
in the most difficult passages he fire.
quently INDUCED himself in grotesque
limitations of the peculiar trickeries OF
the composer upon whose music be
was engag Jd-The Russian Boy.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01
wauners Parentaae.

Discussing the autobiography OF
Richard Wagner, the oesterreichische
wochenschrift says that no one will
ever know whether the truth has all
been published as to the masters
parentage. 1T is fact. though. that
he was registered at school as Rich.
ard Geyer and did not take the name
Wagner until he was fourteen years
old" saws this authority.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01
swlmminn Ghosts.

Lecturing before the Camera club
Of London, England, DR.. Francis Ward
said that In an attempt to photograph
fish in their natural surroundings, he
had constructed a pond with an OBJ
servation chamber let in at the side,
below the surface of the water.
Through the window of this chamber
unseen by the fish he could watch and
photograph their movements. He dis
covered by this means that the pro
lection Of fish when in their natural
state is much more thorough than is
generally supposed.
All silvery fish were in reality mere
ly mirrors III the water, rejecting the
tone and color of their surroundings
so as to appear to their fellow fish
gray, unsubstantial, swimming ghosts
hardly to be distinguished at all. II
was only when the dace, for example,
rose to the surface, causing its body
to reflect light. that the pike at the
bottom of the pond could see and go
for its little victim.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01
Young Workers Tragic Death.

The sweeps boy-the "ramoneur. "
HIS still to work his tortuous way
through the chimneys in France and
an accident which has just occurred
ut Fleury-sur-Andelles calls attention
to the necessity of putting a stop to
the practice. A little Savoyard, named
Charles Ravolse. fourteen years Of
uge. was sent UP the chimney of a
baker and at the end Of three-quarters
Of an hour he had not descended. The
alarm was given and the boy was
perceived blocked In the chimney
which had to be demolished before
lis dead body could be freed He was
hanging by the neck, having been
caught in a portion of the chimney
measuring less than six inches across
and asphyxiated.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01
Made a Practice Of It.

Mrs. Upperten says l may present
you. You are fortunate. She does not
care to meet many strangers"
"Oh, she always allows me to be
presented l have been introduced to
her a great many times. Washing
ton Herald.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01

The Mcnamara and DR. Hyde trials
and the Lorimer investigation seem
to be running neck and neck against
time.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01
An Illustration.

The sweet and sour are strangely
mingled in life"
"Yes. indeed. Take bad crowd. ri
example. where you're in a pickle Ne
cause you're in q jam"
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01
a Kids INTERPRETATION.

Caller-So your sister and her
fiance are very close mouthed over
their engagement?
Little Ethel-Close mouthed? You
ought to see them together!
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01

II Cal p Rodgers has good luck he
may spend the holidays on the Pacific
coast.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-01

II is wonderful how easy it is to de-
fend a state administration when it
carries with ii a good salary.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-05
EALDTON.

Healdton, Okla, Feb. 4.-Summer
in the winter, is what to call it.
January left us with record of 80
degrees and February came in with
% degrees. and the ground hog saw
his shadow, so what shall we look
for?
Those blowing, say they will soon
have to stop, unless we get rain. The
ground is very dry.
Fruit trees and vines are all bud
ding out without an accident will get
killed. Weeds and grass growing
The farming outlook is gloomy still
as good crops We have seen raised
here were planted without winter
plowing. So no use to get discourag-
ed over the outlook
Grandpa Smalley, father of c. l..
and J.. 4. Smalley, died and was
buried here Sunday last. He was
quite old and had been sick for a
long time. Honorable and upright
and loved by all who knew him.
Ardmore mail failed to reach us on
Thursday last.
w. T.. Smith, the father of DR.. Smith
has moved here with his family. He
has purchased DR.. stephens house
Little Zan Orme has been quite sick
but is reported better today.
Mr. Talaferro is here on visit to
his son, Dick, who has very sick
child.
O. X. Darden, county commissioner
and George Sherlock, trustee, were
here this week
Mr.. Richmond made a trip to Ard
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-05
Fatally Shot-Accid cident.

Idabel, Okla, Feb. AIRS. j. S.
Brasher Friday morning, in removing
shotgun from behind door in the
kitchen of her home here, accidentally
caught the hammers on the door,
which discharged both barrels, the
loads entering the back of Ben Jor-
dan, who was standing about three
feet away, between the shoulders. Jor-
dan has lived with the Brasher fam
lily about six years. The gun was
loaded with No. shot. Drs. Hooper
and Williams are attending the vic
tim and say the wounds are neces-
sarily fatal. Mrs. Brasher is pros
trated with grief.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-05
Downard Speaks Of Asphalt.

Pure asphalt mined and prepared
in Oklahoma is being Disseminated
against in the construction of streets
in oklahoma City if the statements
OF J. S. Downard of the Downard
Asphalt company, anu sidney Suggs,
state highway commissioner, are true.
Mr.. Downward makes the claim that
by the peculiar wording of the speci-
ficdtions upon which contractors bid,
the state lroduct is barred. not be-
ing sheet" asphalt as called for
in the city's specifications. The claim
is further madethat a saving of about
10 cents per square yard in streetg
paving can be effected through use
OF the sta e asphalt, which Mr.. Down
arl claims shows a better test than
that imported from outside the state.
Mr. DownaEd said Friday:
IF the specifications would be
made to read mercy asphalt, in
stead of sheet asphalt all dealers
asphalt would have an opportunity
70 bid. Sheet asphalt is foreign
oroduct. Asphalt is local product.
Prom a recent analysis made by
Or. Edwin De Barr, of the depart
ment of science, Norman State Uni
versty of the Oklahoma asphalt, that
has been laid as paving in various
cities of the state, it is shown the
grade of the asphalt is the best and
its wearing stability without peer.
AL We want is a fair show,
said the representative of the local
product. Whenever the specifications
read asphalt we can show our prod
uct superior to any o,her. If they read
sheet asphalt that cuts us out
as our asphalt is not sheet aspdli
ii is the pure kind. d."-Oklahoman.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-05

before pulling. A seyen-eighths-inch
steel wire cable is looped high on the
tree. the traction engine starts and
up comes the tree, roots and con
siderable section of ground With Haz-
let's heavy engine, Cherryholmes is
planning on pulling two rows stimuli
taneously. The cable will be attached
to tree from each row before the
engine starts.
Pulling trees singly, a record of
80 trees, uprooted from the ground
and piled aside, was made in fifty
at least 10 trees, it is expected, will
leave the ground in an hours work.
The orchard was purchased by
Cherry three years ago. 1t was
planted by j. j. Johnson more than
20 years ago and has been known as
one of the finest apple orchards in
this section. It became infested with
worms ana later when Johnsons barn
across the road was burned the
blaze jumped and injured many trees.
A year ago Cherryholmes decided
to get rid of the orchard. Ten acres
were removed and, after the ground
was manured, it was planted to corn,
That ten-acre plot, fertilized by the
leaves droppings of 20 years. raised
the banner crop of Southern Kansas
The success of this experiment set.
/ tied all questions of the orchards
utility in Cherryhomes' mind He
/ engaged the traction engine and be
gan to pull Only ten acres of the
nice imposing orchard will remain
when the pulling ceases. These are
the very pick of the grove. The or
chard produces Winesap, Ben Davis,
Missouri Pippin and several other
kinds of apples.
How to dispose of the trees after
they have been uprooted has also
been serious question for Mr.. Cher
ryholmes to solve. To help him in this
he has notified the public that any
one may have the wood by merely
hauling it off his land They may ev-
en- strip the limbs and he will burn
the trash.
Such a wholesale changing from
orchard to agricultural land has never
been known in the county, nor to old
fruit men and farmers. The use of a
traction engine as tree puller Is
also unique in Kansas annals.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-05
DESTROY ORCHARD
TO PLANT CORN
SIXTY ACRE ORCHARD IN KAN
SAS BEING TORN UP-CORN
MORE PROFITABLE CROP.

El Dorado, Kan, Feb. with a
steam traction engine for motive pow
er, j. II. Cherryholmes. four and
half miles north of FL Dorado is up
roofing 2,SS0 apple trees 60 acres OF
what was the finest orchard Butler
county has ever seen-and preparing
to plant the valuable land in corn.
Probably no country has ever wit
messed such a wholesale pulling o.
fruit trees.
Ten acres, with IS trees TO the acre
have already been pulled. traction
engine owned by Lee lnskeeps was
used Work was stopped when In
ekeers began to prepare for the
threshing season. Cherryholmes has
secured heavier engine from X. II.
Hazlett and will resume his wholesale
grubbing within a few days.
Contrary to custom, the trees are
not chopped and the roots loosened
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-05
Abandoned We'll Found Full.

Texhoma, Okla. Feb. l.-Through-
out the Panhandle section of Okla
homa, where an effort is being made
at the present time to have a system
OF artesian wells installed, is of in
terest the fact during the last week
and abandoned. 1t has greatly en-
near Oshuskey, was found full of
wafer 1t was dug three years ago
and abandoned St has GREATLY en-
couraged the artesian water advo-
Gates.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-05
Raising Of Maine DELAYED.

Havana. Feb. A. Aserious crisis
has been reported in the work Of
raisinf the Maine. or the original ap-
there now remaines bare
ly sufficient to continue the work for
four days. Already eXiert engineers
and skilled workmen have been dis
charged and unless the additional ap-
is made Immediately avail
able the elaborate organization will
be destroyed involving great financial
sacrifice and indefinite delay in the
work
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-05
Teachers of Carter County.

You are hereby notified that the
executive committee has decided that
We will have a spelling contest in
Ardmore on April s, 1911, by a rep
resentatiye from each school. So get
your pupils in readiness.
You are also notified that we will
have a teachers meeting Feb is.
Each and every teacher is requested
and expected to be present as there
are some things to be discussed that
concerns each and every one. BE
sure to fill your place by being pres
ent GEO. w. COLEMAN, Pres.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-05
THE WESTINGHOUSE ASSISTANT
TREASURER FAILED IN sPEcU-
LATlON.
SHORTAGE WAS ANTICIPATED
Edward ST. John, GO Years Old, Of
New York. Didn't Go to Work and
a Shortage of About $4,000 Was
Discovered.

New York. Feb. An the surf off
Coney Island the body of Edward
81. John, 90 years old. assistant
treasurer OF the Westinghouse Elec-
tric Manufacturing Company, was
found today under circums ances in
dicatlng suicide. Today also an officer
of the company discovered that Mr..
St. John was at the most $4,000
short in his accounts.
Mr.. ST. John left the Westinghouse
cOmpany's offices at > o'clock yes
terday afternoon. His private secre-
tl:y said he had been in poor health
for several months and that he had
complained OF being unable to sleep
Tor weeks. A high officer of the West
inghouse company was informed late
this afternoon of the death of St,
Jonn.
The news is more shocking TO
me than | can tell" he said. 1T is
true that from an examination of
he books which began vest erday we
have learned today that Mr.. st. Johns
accounts were short. We knew that
he had been specializing in wall
Street and made the examination out
of prccaution. The examination has
gone far enough now to assure us
that the shortage is less than $500
Mr.. st. John came to the office here
from the plant in Pittsburg ten years
ago.
I'VE thought very highly of MIN, so
highly, in fact, that had he come to
us and made clean breast of his
difficulties, we would have found a
way to keep him in our employ in
| definitely. He was IA valuable man
and 1t is our fault that he had a
nance to yield to this Weakness"
st. John was bonded with the
American Surety company. the Off
cial said, TO an extent which guar
! an h'''u tllt NtSllnSuOuSt w company
from loss, even though his shortage
reached the outside Limit of $4,000.
Mr.. Deming of the American Surety
company said the Westinghouse com
pany had notified him early today
that irregularities had been discov-
cred in st. Johns books. and that
he had not reported at the office
today.
Mr. st. John was married. He
lived in the Flatbush section OF
Brooklyn. Mrs. St. John, Frustrated
over the suicide. refused TO discuss
the case. At first. when told that
a body with letters beariug her
husbands name had been found. she
refused to believe the report of his
death.