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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28

n OUNCIL GROVE, Kan.-Running
~ a hotel for the good of the town
Is the last word in civic pride and
credit for this degree of municipal
patriotism belongs to Mrs. Lewis
Meade
Her husband is president of n
bank here and amply able to furnish
his wife with any money she needs
for enjoying life, but she continues to
manage the Cottage hotel, much to
the satisfaction Of her regular board
ers and the travelling public.
Twenty years ago Meade sold his
hardware business and bought con-
troll of a national bank. He and his
wife decided they would build a new
house and bought desirable lot on
which there was a boarding house, in
tending to remove the building and
erect a modern home.
The house was full of boarders
when they came into possession and
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28
"sILvER SPOON" BEN BUTLER
Because Nine. Hatch Would Not Tako
Oath Of Allegiance Her sllver~aro
Was confsoated.

A great mystery has existed for
many years over the way tho late Gen.
BENJAMIN f. Butler secured the name
OF Silver Spoon" Butler. The charge
has been spread broadcast that when
General Butler was in command at
New Orleans during the Civil war he
confisoated the sllverware OF a resi-
dent Of that city, and, indeed, the car
toonists often pictured him walking
about with silver spoons sticking out
Of his pockets, especially during the
generals memorable political cam
paigns. But the suggestions always
have lacked specifications, | was mus
tered into the Eighth Vermont In 1867.
The regiment was shipped under
sealed orders and landed at Ship
island. The regiment was under the
command Of General Butler, and led
from the Gulf of Mexico up the Mis-
sissippi river by Admiral Farragut's
feet, and was engaged in hard fight-
ing at Forts jackson and st. Phillip.
It then engaged in the attack on the
city Of New Orleans, which was cap'
tured. After remaining in the city
three weeks, my regiment was ordered
to Algiers, on the opposite side OF the
Mississippi. In October a detachment
from several companies we're ordered
to the small town of Gretna. 1t was
there that the incident that led TO the
revelation Of the silver spoons and
General Butler began. One day de-
cided to have some oranges. There
was a plenty of them In the vicinity. l
walked a short distance from camp.
and knocked at the door Of mansion.
In answer a French creole appeared
and said she was mistress Of the
mansion. / asked her If could have
a few oranges. She said: Yes" She
brought me a chair to the porch for
me to sit on. A negro brought pan
Of oranges and placed them on the
porch. l helped myself, writes Lieut.
L. W. Bissell, Eighth Vermont, OF
Lynn, Mass, in the National Tribune.
After l had eaten all / wanted the
lady, Nine. Hatch, ordered another
pan Of oranges brought, and told me
TO come every day. Before left Nine.
Hatch showed me her poultry and
lambs, and said they were what her
husband, who was a colonel in the
Confederate army, lived on, and that
she sent him some whenever she
thought that he was hungry.
was given charge Of sugar plan
.ation some distance from camp, which
- kal with q
comrade, John A Hamard Of the
Twenty-sixth Massachusetts, had to
go out to this plantation one day. 1t
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28
Manager Of Chicago Underwriters
Association Says the Public 10
CrlmlnalIy Careless.

icago.--Losses by ere in Chicago
last year reached the total of $780,
900, according to H. H. Glidden, man
ager Of the Chicago Underwriters as
sociation. The statement was made
at a meeting yesterday afternoon Of
the Chicago real estate board.
"The average annual waste by fire
in Chicago for the last five years has
been at the rate Of 1924 for each hu-
man being in the city" Mr.. Glidden
said. Compare this with an average
Of 61 cents loss per capita each year
in European cities.
IN the last fve years the city has
seen vanish In smoke the vast sum Of
S36,297 ,00O This with whole lake
from which to draw our water supply
and an abundance Of other natural fa-
cilities advantageously arranged.
THE full extent Of our prodigality
not realized until we compare our
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28
KILL RABBITS BY WHOLESALE
"DriVe" in Oregon Dlsposes Of 10000
Little Pests Within Few Weeks
Clubs Are Used.

Portland, Ore.-Killing rabbits by
wholesale is a favorite winter sport
In the Lakeview country in southeast
ern Oregon No fewer than 10000
rabbits have been killed off in this
way, it is estimated, within the past
few weeks.
Hundreds OF men and boys engage
in the rabbit drive. They form a line
extending across the prairie several
miles, while bunnies are driven in
one general direction until they find
themselves between two lines of
hunters, and the only escape is into a
pen, where they are killed with clubs.
No firearms are used in the hunt.
Were it not for this method of ex-
terminating the rabbits, they would
destroy the crops of the farmer in
that district. Coyotes kill large mum
bers of rabbits and between the two
enemies the pests are kept down to
a comparatively small number.
A recently announced project was
to establish a rabbit cannery near
Lakeview and put the meat of the
slaughtered hares up in tins for sale
chiefly in foreign countries, where
rabbits are highly priced for food
There is now a tremendous waste OF
the meat, only few of the killed rab-
bits finding their way into the Port
land markets and practically all the
remainder are not used at all.
Every winter when the farmers
have plenty of leisure time to kill the
rabbits, they are slaughtered in very
large numbers, and 1t appears that
the meat and skins could be put to
profitable use. The supply seems In
exhaustible.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28
Like Miracles to Mountain Folk

shows the hoolworm disease, he calls
in the family physician and gives him
the data obtained and consults with
him as to treatment. DR.. Olin West
of Nashville says:
I'm middle Tennessee a little boy
who had had been fiat on his back for
three years walked six miles to see
field doctor and walked home again
the same afternoon. This was within
a month after his first treatment"
A woman who had been doctored for
years for heart trouble was treated
for hookworm and complete recoy.
cry followed.
1--WE are literally taking them out
Of their BEDS" says DIR. West, "and
many cases are reported of men bed
ridden for several years who are now
able to work"
While this hookworm campaign is
on the field workers are making re-
ports on general sanitation, tubercu.
losis and typhoid fever.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28
|DrROst

N EW YORK.-Puzzling conditions
" surrounding the murder OF DR.,
Frederick Eugene Post, wealthy
dentist of New York city, have been
cleared up, revealing a wanton crime.
Or. Post was mortally shot while in
supplied condition by John Dalton.
youthful criminal with a long rec
ord, in the presence of another man
and two Chinatown women. Police
Commissioner Cropsey has issued cir
culars for distribution throughout the
country, asking for Dalton's arrest on
sight.
Information on which Dalton is
charged with the crime was given to
the police after much persistent ques-
honing by Lulu Smith, 2S years old, a
lodger in the Chinatown district
81 had known DR.. Post pretty well
for a long time," she said. HE
didn't have to live in Chinatown be-
cause he had a good deal Of money,
but he seemed to like the life there
knew him well enough to know he
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28
1910 FIRE LOSS $7,5OO,OOO

losses per capita with those Of Eu.
rope. In thirty European cities last
year the average fire loss was only 81
cents per capita, and in six European
countries only 33 cents. There is no
sane reason why ours should be
larger. We simply are criminally
needless; we are blinded by our pur-
suit of business. In piling up cities
we take no caution against the ele-
ment that in a week could sweep all
the cities of time into ashes"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28

The Chinese, 1t seems, are not so
prompt in cutting off their queues as
might have been expected from the
immense vociferousness with which
their queue-cutting program was her
aided to the world. The North China
Herald says that so far there are
only a thousand queues the less in
Hongkong, and half that number the
less in Shanghai" Another observer
thinks the last state of the Celestial
with his picturesque queue not cut
off short but only MANNED beyond
recognition, is worse than the first.
In every part Of the world habit has
a strong hold on the masses, and it is
not strange that China, pre-eminent-
ly a land of habit, should be slow in
making a revolutionary change, even
II the change is favored by Cinnamon
as influential as WI Ting Fan.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28
BREED FOXES IN CAPTIVITY
Yukon Territory Man Also Discovers
Black Ones Are Not Freaks-Hlgh
Price for Furs.

Washington.-Th raising Of the
black fox, the pelt Of which is the
highest priced fur on the market, is
proving a profitable business and has
demonstrated the fact that black and
silver foxes can be bred in captivity,
according to consular reports.
Recently Carl W. Faulk of Carcross,
Yukon territory, captured litter Of
black fox puppies and decided to
raise them for breeding purposes. His
enterprise not only has proved sue
cess financially but has contradicted
the general belief that black foxes,
like black sheep, are merely freaks.
offers Of as high as $1,500 have been
made Mr.. Faulk for the pelt Of one
Of the black males, and he has sold
pelts of silver foxes as high as $1,000
each.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28

M ASHVILLE, Tenn.-Mountaineers
~ regard as miracles the hook
worm cures recently performed in
Tennessee. The state has four field
workers out and they have discov-
cred about 1000 cases since last July.
These field workers do not treat
cases unless there is no other physi-
elan available. The plan 10 for the
field worker to travel through the
country calling upon such persons as
are reported suffering for prolonged
period He explains his mission and
asks permission to make the hook
work investigation. If a diagnosis
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28

The servants themselves seem to
consider the system a success from
their point of view, for Mr.. Salmon
said they preferred the regular wages
to the uncertain earnings Of the wait
er who depends on tips.
Many people here are of the opinion
that such places as their hotel are
quickly bringing about the death of the
boarding house keeper. 1t stands to
reason that If for price so low one
can get all the high-class hotel com
forts not many are going to remain in
the boarding house.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28

Seven and one-half miles up in the
air the temperature is 80 degrees be-
low zero Future man, oppressed by
the heat, will simply take a balloon,
rise until the temperature strikes his
taste and there rock himself to sleep,
instead Of hunting the Elusive sea
breeze.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28

women dress foolishly because
they haven't time to think about
clothes" opines feminine highbrow.
However, the average man labors
under the impression that women
think about clothes even in their
sleep
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28
British Road Quits steam.

New York.-The first Of the main
railway systems of England to be cleo
trifled on the American plan through
out it's length will be the London,
Brighton & South Coast line. The
system is 479 miles long The work
will be completed, 1t is announced. by
1916.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28

A line Of Canadian steamships have
created the new office of ships
mother" who will dress in uniform,
rank next to the captain and have
charge of the feminine passengers,
particularly Of the brides. At first
glance this seems a beautiful and
touching idea, but there is the dam
ger Of the bridegrooms regarding the
new officer as an official mother-in-
law and on honeymoon trip, too.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28
Whv tla Had Como.

'Is Mr.. Rockingham in?" asked the
railway president, who had just en-
tered the anteroom.
"Yes." replied the office boy. 'Do
you want to see him?
"Oh, mono, not at all. don't care
to see him. ! have come here solely
for the purpose Of having pleasant
little visit with you"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28

A Boston girl about to be married
has limited the invitations sent out
for the ceremony in order that her
friends will not feel compelled to
send presents. 1t looks reformatory,
but It might have been just as effec-
tive to put on the cards the legend,
s'No gifts received"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28

A Texas lawyer has declared that
the Bible is an unfit publication to
pass through the mails, and names
several parts as particularly ap-
plicable to his objection. The prin-
cipal effect of this declaration will be
20 make those read the Bible who
never read it before.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28
Looklno for the Best Of It.

"Clugglns is fearfully selfish since
he got that new motor car" said the
critical friend.
"In what way?"
every time ho honka to warn a
pedestrian he thinks he ought to have
q life saving medal
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28

Persons who have had experience
are understood to be ready to give pri-
vate advice to the effect that real and
permanent happiness is not invariably
secured by mortgaging the home to
buy an automobile.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28
selfPreservatIon.

$50 yoa have sold your pair Of
horses aud bought an automobile?
"Yeg," replied Miss Cayenne. 4
have concluded that it is better to be
tho cause of a runaway than to be
in It."
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28

A number Of people who think hey
own the ground on which the City Of
Montreal stands have appeared. We
DO not hesitate to predict that they
WIN be- unable to get possession Of IT.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28

Friend-W When do you expect Mr..
Rich to recover2
Doctor-I don't know; he's the only
patient have at the present time
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28

Many married man loses almost as
much money playing poker as his wife
losas huying bargains
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28

one mans wickedness may easily
become all mems curse.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-04-28

awaiting with interest the
Of
Carolina Nr
is and in Wash.
ant in her
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-11
URGE GOVERNOR TO DENY
PETITION OF SUFFRGETTES

Spokane, Wash, Jan. 11.-Promin-
ent workers in the suffrage movement,
members of exclusive clubs and scores
of working women in Spokane are writ
ing letters to Governor Marion e. Hay,
urging him to deny the petitions of
women electors requesting to be re-
lieved from jury duty if called upon
for service.
when | asked for the privilege Of
citizenship" said Mrs. Hay Arkwright
Hutton, president of the Washington
Equal Suffrage League, Il was ready
and willing to accept all the require.
ments. am willing to serve on a
jury and will do so without protest, if
called to that or any other duty re-
quired by theh state"
Mrs. Hutton is the wife of Levi w.
Hutton, a millionaire mining operator,
and has extensive interests in Spo-
kane and the Coeur d'Alene mining dis
ltrict in northern Idaho. She financed
a statewide campaign for equal rights
in 1910 and was a factor in securing
the ballot for women at the last state
election.
Mrs. A. p Fassett, who has been
identified with the suffrage and other
womens movements in Spokane for
years, said:
II have written to Governor Hay,
asking him to refuse to take any action
on the petitions of women voters re.
questing to be released from jury duty
have also interested large number
of club women to write similar letters
when | worked for equal suffrage
| fully understood all the duties that
would devolve upon the women as
voters. | am afraid now that if the
women start to baluk at sitting on a
jury they will lose their right of fran,
chise."
That the women of Spokane are in.
terested in the ballot is evidenced by
the large number registering for the
spring election in March, when five
commissioners will be chosen to re,
place the present city government
headed by Mayor Nelson S. Pratt.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-11

Atoka County, Atoka, 1883 tracts
145,2OO acres, Jan. 25.
Coal County. Coalgate, $50 tracts
$4,000 acres, Jan. 30
Pittsburg County, McAlester, 1920
tracts. 212,2OO acres. Feb. l.
Hughes County, Calvin, 701 tracts,
$4,000 acres, Feb. 9.
Latimer County, Wilburton, 299
tracts, 1920 acres, Feb. II.
Haskell County, Seigler, 72S tracts,
46,S00 acres, Feb. 13.
Lefiore County, Poteau, 52S tracts,
$4,000 acres, Febs16. *
Pushmatahas County, Antlers, SOC
tracts, $4,000 acres, Feb. 1S.
Choctaw County, Hugo, 758 tracts,
4S,9OO acrest Feb. %; McCurtain
County, Idabel, LILO tracts, so, 200
acres, Feb. 25.
]. G. WRIGHT,
Commissioner to the Five Civilized
Tribes.
Muskogee, Oklahoma, November 7,
1910
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-11

ply to the Creek, Choctaw and Chick
asaw nations.
The court held that land that is inal-
lienable cannot be subject TO taxation,
and that in all the Five CIVILIZED Tribes
the homesteads OF all Indian allottees
lof one-half or more Indian blood or
of deceased allottees who have chill
dren surviving and born subsequent
TO March 4. 1906, are inalienable and
Inon-taxable. In the Creek case for
1908 all lands owned by fullbloods,
whether adults or minors, are non-tax-
able. All inherited lands held by mix
ed bloods were taxable in 1908. All
lands owned by freedmen, except
lhomesteads. were taxable. The lands
allotted to minors and held by them
were not taxable, but all lands held
by heirs, whether minors or adults,
we're taxable. All land allotted TO
freedmen in the Choctaw and Chicka-
saw nations were subject to taxation
in 1909. Land allotted TO Choctaws
and Chickasaws having one-half or
more, or less than three-quarters In
dian blood, except homesteads, both
adults and minors, were subject to
taxation in 1909.
These decisions will cause vast
amount of classification work The
government will not appeal from the
decisions. 1t is doubtful If the state
will.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-11
ENORMOUS PRIZE OFFERED
WINNING BOWLING TEAM

Spokane, Wash, Jan. 11.-Fifteen
hundred dollars, said to be the largest
single prize yet offered on this con-
tinent for the best five-men team, will
be awarded to the quintet making the
highest score at the annual tourna-
ment of the Western Bowling Con-
gress in Spokane the middle of March.
Other prizes will be in proportion. 1t
is estimated there will be at least 200
fives including seven teams of wo-
men, 300 doubles and more than 1000
singles. A Today program is being
arranged,
Spokane Bowling Tournament asso-
citation has been incorporated under,
the laws of the state of Washington
with a capital stock of $4,000 and the
following officers to finance the tour
ney: President. r. Lewis Rutter, Sec
retary OF the Spokane & Eastern Trust
company; vice president, Frank w.
Smith, promoter and patron of clean
sports; treasurer, W. D. Vincent,
cashier of the Old National bank; sec
retary, w. C. Bell, representing the In
surance league.
President Rutter, accompanied by a
party of business men of Spokane, will
leave on a tour of the western and
central states on January 10, travelling
in a special car The party expects to
pass severaf days in Chicago, also maxi
ing stops at points between Spokane
and st. Paul, after which Mr.. Rutter
will visit eastern cities, with view to
interesting bowlers in the tourney.
Vice President Smith has arranged
to make tour oil Washington, Oregon
and California, leaving Spokane on
January 8. He will go as far south
as Los Angeles, the trip occupying 30
days. He looks for score or more
fives from cities in Oregon and Cali
fornia, saying also that cities and
towns in Washington will send so
teams.
officers of the Western Bowling con-
.gress and theh tournament association
will visit the strongholds of bowlers
in Idaho, Montana, Utah. Wyoming,
the Dakotas and cities in western Can
ada.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-11

ious district agents. Lists of these
lands have been prepared by counties
showing the terms of sale, the descrip
tion of the various tracts and minimum
price of sale. 1t will be impracticable
to furnish each inquirer all of these
lists, and it is suggested that persons
desiring such information specify the
county or locality in which he is in.
terested.
Blue prints of the various counties,
showing the location Of the land to be
sold, will be furnished to applicants by
the Commissioner to the Five Civilized
Tribes upon the payment of $1.00 for
each county, in the form of draft or
postal money order.
McClain County, Purcell, S26 tracts,
55,760 acres, Jan. IL.
Johnson County, Tishomingo, 857
tracts, $4,000 acres, Jan. Il.
3 Marshall County, Madill, 491 tracts,
$4,000 acres, Jan. 20.
Bryan County, Durant, 757 tracts,
$4,000 acres, Jan. 23.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-11
GOVERNMENT SALE OF INDIAN
LANDS.
Absolute Title elveh.

ApSoiuIe ttle 0lNSfI.
About 100000 acres of unallotted
lands of the Five Civilized Tribes in
Oklahoma will be sold at public auc-
tion to the highest bidder at the fol-
lowing terms, times and places:
Not more than 100 acres of agricult-
ural or $40 acres of other lands will
be sold to one person in any one Ma
tion. Terms: 25 per cent at the time
of sac, % per cent in six months and
so per cent within eighteen months,
with per cent interest. Upon full
payment being made at any time, deed
will promptly issue. Immediately after
approval of sale, certificate of pur-
chase will issue and possession given,
but cutting of timber thereon not per-
mitted until full payment of purchase
price. Right is reserved to reject any
or all bids.
For information apply to the Com
missioner to;fHas Five Civilized Tribes
or the United States Indian Superin-
tendent, Union Agency. Muskogee,
Oklahoma, or at the Offices of the var
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-11
COURT DEFINES INDIAN
LANDS SUBJECT TO TAX

Muskogee, Okla. Jan. 11-Federal
Judge Campbell yesterday afternoon
handed down four decisions in the
cases brought by the government in
volving the righ. of the state to tax
certain classes Of Indian lands and
sell them for taxes. The decisions aR-
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-11

paid in Full, will be seen at Vinita
on January 23
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-11
Wanted-To Rent.

Wanted-To Rent.
Want to rent about 600 acres grass
land for pasture, P. 0. Box 572, Mus
kogee, Oklahoma