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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-26
RAILROAD AGENT
SHOOTS HIMSELF
Hour And a Half After Being Checked
IN He Fires Bullet Into his
Own Brain.

In an endeayor to end his life, Just'
one hour and a half after he had been
checked in as Katy agent, at Kelso,
small station, five miles north Of here,
James Preston, a young man recently
from Burlington, Kans., about $3.50 yes
terday afternoon, fired bullet from a
22-calibre rifle squarely into the cen
ter of his forehead The bullet pene-
trated to the brain, the doctors be-
lieve, lodged there, but did not cause
immediate death.
A hurry-up call was sent here for
physicians. Dr. Craig, Drs. Louis and
oliver Bagby hurried to the scene. Asl
the young man was an employee of>the
Katy. he was taken to the company's
hospital at Sedalia, Mo-, for treatment
DR.. Louis Bagby said there was little
chance of recovery. However, the bull
let may have followed the skull and
not penetrated the brain and the mans
lige might be saved
While en- route to the hospital, Pres
ton told DR.. Oliver Bagby that he hadI
attempted to take his own life becausel
he was tired of living.
Before coming to Kelso, young PresJ
ton had been an operator at Burlinj
ton, and bore a good reputation.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-26
COMPTROLLER MURRAY
EXPECTED TO RESIGN

Washington, d. c., May 23.-Law-
renee o. Murray of New York, comp
troller of currency, is expected to re-
sign within the next few days to ac-
cept the presidency of the First Ma
tional Bank of Pittsburg.
He has acquainted Mr., MacVeagh,
secretary of the treasury, with his in
tention, and the secretary has asked
him to reconsider or at least to re-
main in the Office until the close of
the present session of congress. A
definite decision in the matter will
probably be reached today.
The rumor has been current for sew
eral months that Mr. Murray would
soon sever his connection with the
government on account of criticism of
his administration coming from prom
inent bankers Throughout the country.
President Taft is said to have been
dissatisfied with his work
Mr.. Murray was a member of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's famous tennis cab.
met" and when he became comptroller
he posed as a reformer.
Two men are being considered by
President Taft to succeed Mr.. Murray
One is George e. Roberts, director OF
the mint, who is favored by Secretary
MaeVeagh. The other is William B
Ridgley, one time comptroller of cur
rency.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-26
counter RescoIutIon Immlne!

Paris, France, May 24.-The
correspondent of the Temps
received from Badajoz indicat
the Portuguese authorities have
precautions to guard the frontif
exit of many Portuguese refug
Spain induces the belief that 4
ter revolution is imminent in
gal.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-26
Board Sues Bartlesville Bank.

Guthrie, OKLA, May 24-The state
banking board filed yesterday in the
district court at Bartlesyille against
the Bartlesville National bank asking
$2,7SS,S7. The bank recently purchas-
ed the holdings of the Citizens Bank
and Trust company, a state bank, and
the banking board claims the Citizens
had failed to pay its last guaranty fund
assessment.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-26
PRINTER TESTIFIES NYE SAID
HE WOULD PUT UP $500
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
Columbus, O., May "a. = The first
direct testimony that Representative
George B. Nye had solicited a bribe
for pushing through a bill in the legis-
lture, was offered today in the Grim
inal court here. when State Printer
Crawford testified that Nye told him
that he, (Nye) was willing to put up
five hundred dollars to put through the
bill, providing for new judicial districts
in Adams county.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-26
Commercial Congress to Kansas City

By Associated Press.
Kansas City, Mo- May 24.-The an
nual meeting of the Texas-Mississippi
Commercial Congress set for Septen-
Der next, will be held in Kansas City,
instead of Oklahoma City, as original
ly decided. Oklahoma City failed to
meet the conditions required. This
decision was reached at a meeting of
the executive committee here today.
Governor Hadley of Missouri, Stubs
of Kansas, Shafroth of Colorado, and
Cruce of Oklahoma attended
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-26
Oklahoma state Fair.

The annual premium list OIL
annual state fair at Oklaho1
September 26th to October 9
is now ready for distribution
for a copy and prepare an exn
that your county and commu
represented at the state fainq
the great advertising mediu9
state. For full information
I. S. Mat,k secretary, oklahe
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-26
Fails to Raise Guaranty

Oklahoma City, May 24.-Th'
of directors of the Chamber q
merce declined yesterday to
about $4,000 necessary to gu
the expenses of the next trans
sippi congress, which was to hal
held in Oklahoma City next fall
1t is possible that the executl
mittee of congress will trans
meeting to Kansas City as a rq
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-26
JURY FAILED TO AGREE
IN c. H. JENKINS CASE
From Wednesdays Daily.

FIUM WeuHtsudy UdIIJ'
After several hours of deliberation
the jury in the case of C. II. jenkins,
charged with assault with intent to
kill, announced failure to agree and
was dismissed by Judge Davis.
The jury brought in verdict of
guilty in the case of Jake Martin,
charged with false spretense, and rec
commended a three year sentence. Mar
tin is being triel today, on the second
of the five charges against him.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-26
Lumber Men Begin Defense.
By Associated Press.

st. Louis, Mo-, May "a. = Lumber
firms, charged by the state of Mis-
souri, with forming a trust in restraint
of trade, began their defense today, in
the hearing of the states custer suit
in progress here. George X. Smith,
secretary of the Yellow Pine Manu-
facturies Association, whose admis-
sions Of autocratic fixing of prices caus-
ed him to be termed the "czar," by
the assistant attorney general, was
cross examined today
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-26
Steamer Strikes Rock in Fog.
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
Queenstown, May 24.-The Cunard
liner, Ivernia, which left Boston May
16, for Liverpool, struck Daunt Rock
at noon today, during fog and was
badly crippled. The vessel is now an
chored close to the eastern bank Of
Kinloch channel in the inner harbor
None on board were hurt.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-26
Bankers Meet at Kansas

Kansas City, Mo, May "a
lin MacVeagh, secretary of th
ury arrived here today to add
Missouri and Kansas Bankers
ton tonight. Over a thousand
will attend.
Arizona republican., 1911-04-02
BASQUE SHEPHERDS.

The 150 Basque immigrants who landed at Ellis Island the other day will be met in Montana and elsewhere in the sheep raising country of the far west by people of their own race. and great flocks of pure bred merino sheep will present a familiar sight Even the country itself will remind them of their native provinces in the north of Spain. Basque shepherds are in demand in the Cordilleran states on account of their knowledge of the habits and ail- ments peculiar to the merino.
 Nearly one-half of all the sheep in the United States are grazed on the Cordilleran pleateau on Montana. Wyoming. Colorado. New Mexico, Utah. Nevada and Idaho. The sheep raising industry is extensive also in the mountain districts of the three Pacific coast states. Except in the country sheep raising is an incident of general farming. and as it is conducted quite as much for mutton as Tor wool cross bred stock is pre- ferred. In the wool growing states of
Arizona republican., 1911-04-02

the lord chancellor are obliged tO worry along on a bare s5O,O0O a year each. A half dozen or so of English shipping kings also have similar in- comes. Colonial governors also are we'll paid; Lord Dudley in Austral- ia and Earl Grey in Canada, each having annually $5O,OOO to sAd. The viceroy of India draws more than double that amount.
 The world of law is exceptionally rich in fat salaries in England, and the judges are far better paid than here. The English attorney general has S35,000 a year, and the solicitor general s30.000; both. however, have additional fees. Then there are five English judges with s3O.OOO each. and no fewer than thirty other judges of the supreme court who receive $25.000 annually. The same amount is paid to but one Scottish judge. and the Scottish lord advocate as well as the attorney general and lord chief justice of Ireland. The report quotes thirty eight English lawyers each of whom has an income of $26.500 a year.
 Churchmen do not fare quite so well. only nine receiving $25.0O0 and Over including two archbishops and the Bishop of London. The Bishop of Durham has $3500O. There was a time when he had an income of s350.000 a year. and he was then the most richly gilded officer in England. Ten members of the British cabinet have to share annually s275,000 among them, while eight others en- joy an aggregate revenue of $1O2, ,OOO.
 Continental European countries do not pay large salaries, and amounts which here, and partly also in En- gland are not surprising would in frugal Germany or in poverty -strick- en Austria seem like tales from the Arabian Nights-Washingto Herald.
Arizona republican., 1911-04-02

the far west, among which Montana of 5000 to 15,0OO merino sheep are not uncommon.
 The occupation of herding such flocks with a few companions in wild mountain regions during the summer is familiar work to the Basque. While his
 ''swarms of hoofed locusts." to borrow phrase from John Muir. crop every
 green thing within their reach he keeps sharp lookout for signs of bear as he was accustomed to do in the Pyrenees
 Bears are fond of mutton and levy
 heavy toll on every flock driven into
 the mountains. They come to the cor. ral at night and in the course of each visit numbers of sheep are suffocated to death through the crowding of the flock against the corral wall The mountain shepherd must be able to shoot straight at four-footed marauders that advance boldly out of the brush
 in the daytime, and at night he must be ready to take turns with his com panions in keeping up a circle of fires around the sheepfold.
 The life of some of our Basque immi- grants during a great part of the year is hardly less primitive than the language they speak. That language, a survival from the neOlithic, pre-Aryan age in Europe. seems bound to disap- pear. as the seclusion of the Pyrenean provinces has of late been disturbed by a notable mining and industrial de- velopment. Our own semi-arid Cor dilleran plateau is likewise emerging from pastoral conditions. There irri- gatiOn is making intensive farming profitable in numberless valleys. the rich lands of which are now taken up by sheep and cattle ranches.
 These lands will presently become too valuable for grazing and must eventually be the seat of a dense az ricultural trading and industrial popu- lation. The lumber industry of the re- zion is expanding rapidly under the stimulus of railway building and new mines are constantly being opened Will the great herds of sheep and cat tie which have retreated from the prai- ries into the Cordilleran highland be able to subsist there permanently?- New York Sun.
Arizona republican., 1911-04-02
A Means of Education

Golfers in the current issue seems
 to acquiesce in a statement by Wal
 lace Irwin in the course of a series of articles on American newspapers
 read up, through and out of them. " That is, the Hearst papers constitute CTS who become educated to a point where they will demand something the lower grade of muck raking mag aZines which appeal to popular pas sion and prejudice by concealing the merits of one side of a controversy, magnifying its demerits as we'll as the merits of the other side. will finally educate its readers to a point beyond its power to instruct or rather, to deceive them further? For instance, when a magazine takes the recent supreme court decision in the bank guaranty case and construes the opinion handed down to mean that where an act supported by prepon- derant public opinion is found to be in conflict with the constitution. the constitution must yield-when we say. magazine thus pretends to trumpet a victory for the people,, is there not danger that its more intelligent readers will come to believe that they have read up and through it.?
 The people of the United States have stood for great deal of printed folly within the last decade. They have not only stood for it but have seemed to like it. but we trust. as IT, win says and Golfers believes. that the seed of common sense is still alive and that when the muck becomes suf- filthy, nauseating and rich. the seed will germinate and send sprouts up through and beyond.
Arizona republican., 1911-04-02
Current Comment
Salaries Here and In EnoIand


 The salary of the president of the United States steel corporation has been cut in half, and yet even the reduced pay would be considered d big allowance for the average Euro . pean in high position. There are hundreds of men in this country who draw pay in five figures. MT Schwab was a veritable king among this class. In addition to his $500, 900 annual salary, he held some $20. .00O, . 900 worth of stock in the billion dol lar concern of which he was head. His income at one time was more than $5,0O0 a day, or more money than he made in a year only a short time previous to his elevation. No wonder that he could afford the luxury of palatial mansions at Pitts burg, Braddock and Loretto. the .at- ter his home town, where as a boy he had been glad to do farm work for few cents a day, and later to carry mails between that place and Cresson.
 In Europe such salaries are so very rare that one can count them on the fingers of ones hand Not single one of them goes beyond an eighth of MT Schwab's recent sti- pend which was more than the pay of the entire British cabinet. En- glishmen are not, however, altogether unfamiliar with salaries that are reckoned in five figures. The lord lieutenant of Ireland draws $100.- 900 annually, but he has to spend much more than that to maintain his praat nffipp AppnrdiDO tO cords, Lord Dudley expended more than twice that sum. The Arch bishop of York has a salary of $75,- 900. while the Archbishop of Cam terbury, the Bishop of London, and
Arizona republican., 1911-04-02
LITTLE JAMES
Concerning the Blishting Effect of the Reclamation Act.)

q never seen." sez my Paw last nite when he come Home an drunk tn Hydrant Dry, any Crate Enter prize wich so Utterly Failed of its l Purpous as this here Reklymashun Service has. l don't wonder at it's | been Attackt by the Los Anglous Times as Incompetent an Designed to Waist tn Public Mummy with Worser'n no Results atall.
 We all S'posed at it was Intended to Pervide Moisture fer tn Salt River Value sos to Ennable us to Rage 10 Crops of Alfalfa where only 5 Grode before; at it was intended to Crowd Back tn Dessert to the 1t hills an even up the Mounting Sides: at it was to convert Marry Copy county into a Parrydise till it lookt like a Crate Emmyrald with Feenix like a Priceless Jool sat in the Cen ter
 But jest see how fur it's Fell Short of our EXpectashuns. We've spent most ten milyun Dollars an fer what To Crowd Back an Repress tn Des- sert into more Narrower Limmyta- shuns? O. no my Countrymen. but fer to Create a Sahairy Rite here in our Mist. Dessolate Beyond tn Dreams of Avyrice. as Dreer as tn land ore which tn Sphai's Hoof has trod', as tn Pote has sed
 "Werever tn. Reklymashun Service sets up a camp it Blisters tn Coun- try fer jist Six Mile around it. Tn Butifle City Of Feenix now sets in wun of them Offal Sollytudes wich has been Created by the Reklymashun Servis. Where wunst Plenty Smiled an there was joy an Hilarity, they aint now nothin' but tn Mones of them at is Purrishun of Thirst an Wastin' away what little Strenth they have left Cussin tn Day when this here Bite in tn Gize of a Blessin' fell onto tn Land.
 Tn only Releef at is afforded tn Dwellers in this Dreadfle six-mile Area is tn Miridges wich Springs into Vue but wen We rush Toards 'em they Disappeer an we heer fum Someres d Mockin' Latter an where we seen tn Miridse they ain't nothin' but Crollin' Snaiks an Mebbe a Pink Row.
 ''I seen ? O them Miridges this Af- ternOon. Tn first wun. was shure. was a Laik of Fomin' Annizer Beer, but wen l gently Aproched it at tn Rate of 20 Miles a Hour. it Vanisht an wasn't there atall Then I seen a Most Butifle Site wich seemed to be only a fue yards ahed. Under a Spreddin Shade tree, I seen more'n a DuzZent Large Silver Vessels filled with Crakt Ice from wich Pertruded tn Mex of a grate many Shampagny Bottles an wen l Strolled to tn Spot Where I seen this Vishun, they wasn't no tree or Nothin It was jest Miridge wich had loored me into Workin' up a Bigger Thirst n I had before wich God Knows was full Size.
 Tt was a Sad Day when this here Relaymashun Ack become a Law an we was led to Bleeve it was goin' to make tn Dessert Blossom as tn Rose Tn Reel Effeck of it is at Wun cant even Raise a Blossom on his nose no more.
 James. Tellyfoam to 'em down to tn Wotter Work to put on more Presshure l want to Maik wun more Vain an Footile Effort to Aswage this here Offal Thirst which has been Conferred onto me by Paternal Guverment"
 LITTLE JAMES.
Arizona republican., 1911-04-02

There Caarrh in this section Of the country than all other diseases together and until the last few years supposed to be incurable For a great many years doctors pronounced 1t local disease and prescribed local remedies and by constantly failing to with local treatment. pronounced 1t mcurabe. Science has proven Catarrh to be q constitutional dis ease and therefore requires constitutional treatment Halls Catarrh Cure manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,. Toledo Ohio is the only Constitutional on the market IL Is taken internally in doses from 10 drops teaspoonful. IL acts directly the blood and mucous surfaces Of the system. They orer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.
 Address: F. J. CHE:SEY d CO.,. Toledo. Ohio
 Sold by Druggists f5c.
 Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Arizona republican., 1911-04-02

revenue district of Kansas Oklahoma both states having constitutional prohibition-there are in force more
 than 2,60O federal licenses for the
 sale of liquor. Prohibition in Maine
 is such a failure that, after a cen
 tury of trial, the people are to vote shortly on an amendment to the con- stitution so as to provide for license and regulation. In more than half the southern states which in recent years have adopted state wide" prohi- bition, the goVernors-some of them elected on prohibition platforms-are declaring that the experiment is a de-
 plorable failure.
 If state wide" prohibition is here a success and there a failure, due to the condition of public sentiment. it data on the results of prohibition un- der local option are still more con- fusing to the superficial observer and furnish arguments convincing to the partisans of either side, according to their bias of mind.
 The investigator who conscientiously searches for the truth is driven to one conclusion always in regard to the results of local option prohibi- tion He is bound to conclude that its success or failure is determined invariably by local conditions. He finds that prohibition is generally a success in rural communities, and is therefore to be advocated as a policy for rural communities. He finds that it is frequently a failure in cities and towns.
 In the light of unprejudiced obser- vation elsewhere. and in the light of all the facts presented by conditions in Phoenix. what is the most reason able prophecy as to results here?
 Two facts stand out prominently. First there is not in Phoenix an overwhelming sentiment for prohibit ton. On the contrary, it is alto gether probable that there is not even a majority for it. Second. we en- counter a peculiar condition in this city which is bound to seriously ham, per any effort to suppress the sale of liquor This condition is one which no careful citizen will overlook
 We refer to our mixed population. Leaving to one side all considera- ton of the unprincipled American who would engage in the illicit sale of liquor. we have to face the fact that we have scores of men in the community for whom ordinary inn prisonment is no punishment what ever The federal authorities are busy with them at every term of court. inflicting confinement in the penitentiary for sale of liquor to In dians. Does any reasonable person believe that mere sentence 10 1dll would deter them from engaging in the highly profitable business of "bootlegging"? As a matter of fact, they would in the judgment of un- prejudiced people gladly go to jail for half the time in order to be free the other half to sell poisonous liquor to men and boys in the alleys.
 In short, it is the old and ever lasting question which bothers good citizens everywhere - the question whether abandonment of the policy of regulating the liquor traffic is succeeded by a much worse condition.
 This question will not be settled in Phoenix by inflammatory speeches and newspaper articles, nor by denuncia- tion as bad citizens" of the men who hesitate to accept the dictum that abolition of the saloon will abolish the liuuOr evil
Arizona republican., 1911-04-02

The innocent bystanders. likely to be most vitally affected by the approach ing special session are Arizona and the American Wool grower.
Arizona republican., 1911-04-02

with the empty honor of the minority leadership.
Arizona republican., 1911-04-02

After so long a term of almost su- preme power Speaker Cannon could not have been expected to be content
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-11-09
IS CLEARED OF
RAISING BILLS
George McSwain Is Acquitted in Unit
ed STATES District Court.

Little Rock, Ark, Nov S--George
McSwain. young white man Oh
Cologne Bayou, Arkansas county, was
declared not guilty by the jury III
the United States District Court yes
terday of the charge Of passing three
one-dollar ire sury bills on George
F.. Gillian, each of which had been
raised to s.. 1t was alleged in the
complaint that MeSwain purc used
from Gillian Il three occasions three
nfnts of whiskey, fer which in eaca
instance he gave Gillian one OF the
raised bills, receiving from nim s4.2'
in chfnge. The evidence showed tAa6
McSwasn purchased only one pint OF
vhiskey from Gillian, for which h
paid hin. three silver quarters, Gil
lam operated a boathhouse on White
river, and was selling whiskey at
Cl3logue Bayou at point where a
Confederate reunion Vas being Eeld
in SeptemBe. Est.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-11-09
IRON MOUNTAIN
OFFICIALS HERE

President f. F. Bush, of the Mis-
souri, Pacific-Iron Mountain system
accompanied by other officials of that
read passed through the city yester'
day on their way south on an .inspec-
ton tour of the road and COMPANY
property The party VS. on special
of five coaches and only remained IN
Pine Bluff a few minutes. Those Oh
the train were, President F. F. Bush.
z. !. Pearson, vice pres dent: j. NJ.
Johnson, vice PRESIDENT; NJ l.. Clardy,
vice president and general solicitor.
c. l.. Stone passenger traffiee mana
ger; ]. w. Higgins, acting general
manager: j. w Gitehens, gener
freight agent; ], NJ. Gearney, manl=
ger of the publicity department. an
Mr.. Buntin, a guest of President
: Bush. The party was uet here b.
T. G. Hollenbeck assistant genera
passenger agent; .. H. Jackson. as
ststant general fYe ght agent. " l..
Hemingway, assistant to the vice
president and solicitor; E B. kinz
worthy. general attorney for tie lros
Mountain; NJ VI. Richey, general ST
harintendenf; and !. A. MeD6agal
division superintendent.