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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
BEGINS INVESTIGATION OF
OEFUNCT TRUST COMPANY

Oklahoma City, Jan. IA. = Charles
Taylor, state examiner and inspe ctor
has begun an investigation of the af-
fairs of the defunct Columbia Bank
and Trust company of Oklahoma City.
which failed about year and 4 half
ago. He will inspect all the securities
and records of the bank now in the
hands of the state banding board and
the manner of it's liquidation.
When Inspector Taylor started to in
spect the securities Of the bank held
by the bank commissioner and banking
board about year ago, both refused
to allow such examination on the
grounds that the inspector was exceed
ing his powers. The matter was re-
Gently decided by the supreme court
in favor of the state examiner. In
spector Taylor will be assisted in the
examination by Deputy Inspectors
Alexander, Valentine and Gerner.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
FRIDAY UNLUCKY DAY FOR
THREE MUSKOGEE MEN

Muskogee, Okla, Jan. 14.-On Fri
day, the 18th, three wealthy men of
Muskogee county were sentenced to
two hours in the county Jail and fined
$50 each by Judge Mccain of the SUI
perior court for contempt of court. The
men are Otto Stump, banker of Council
Hill; Oscar Hayes, wealthy merchant
of Webbers Falls, and T. R. Palmer, a
wealthy property owner of Muskogee.
Until recently they were county COM
missioners and let number of bridge
contracts in violation of an injunction
issued in Judge McCain's court. The
men were tried and convicted of being
in contempt of court and yesterday
Judge Mccain passed sentence. They
were taken to the dark, dingy county
Jail and served their two hours They
joked and laughed all the while and
when released paid their fines.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14

Searcy providing for increasing jury
panels from "a to 35. Brown of Cana
dian, republican, introduced a nesolu-
tion which asked that a committee of
five, three democrats and two republi-
cans, be appointed by the speaker to
investigate the affairs of the state
board of agriculture, declaring that
there is much dissatisfaction among
the farmers of the state with the pres
ent board. The resolution was referred
by the speaker to the committee on
agriculture.
The administration prohibition bill
by Webb and Anthony of the house
and Thompson of the senate providing
for the abolishment of the dispensary
system and giving the governor power
to remove local officers who fail to en-
force the law, was recommended for
passage by the house prohibition COM
mittee with few amendments. The
senate passed finally the Goulding bill
authorizing the county commissioners
of Garfield county to levy tax of
one-tenth of one mill for the support
of agricultural and live stock exhibit
tions of that county.
The senate also passed a joint reso-
luton by Kendrick relinquishing any
claim that the state may have to the
Platte national park at Sulphur which
was turned over to the federal govern
ment by the Indians with an under
standing that it should revert to the
state when created.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
OFFERED TO BR|BE NURSE
TO POISON HER HUSBAND
BY Associated Press.

Wheeling, w. Va, Jan. 14.-Eleanor
Zokler, a nurse in the Shenk household
placed on the stand by the prosecution,
|testifying today, in the trial of Mrs.
Shenk, charged with poisoning her
husband, said Mrs. Schenk had tried
to bribe her to poison John. Miss
Zokler said that once when a message
came saying John was worse, Mrs.
Schenk said; 81 hope to God he will
die"
While John was in the hospital Mrs.
Schenk had said: every time they call
me up from the hospital and say that
ma mis- worse, am the happiest wo-
man on earth. l wish he would die.
/ feel | could kill him. why don't
you do it?" the witness said she asked.
Then Mrs. Schenk said she would
get a pill and bring it to the hospital
and give me thousand dollars to give
it to John" Miss Zokler continued.
She said could put the poison in his
medicine, but the next day she did not
bring the pill but called up by tele-
phone and said she couldn't get it,
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
CALL FOR ORGANIZATION
OF COMMERCIAL CLUBS

A call for the organization of the
secretaries of the various commercial
clubs of the state, as we'll as the bust
ness men themselves is contained in a
circular signed by the Representatives
|of the commercial bodies of Tulsa, Ok
lahoma City, Muskogee, Lawton and
Chiekasha. A meeting has been call
ed for Tuesday in Oklahoma City,
when the organization will be formed.
The exploitation of the resources of
Oklahoma is the principal object of
theh meeting. The meeting of the
state legislature will also attract some
attention, the body making certain rec
concentrations as to laws needed.
The call is signed by F. P. Suther-
land of Tulsa C. B. Douglas, Musko-
gee; J. H. Johnson, Oklahoma City;
L. P. Arnold, Lawton; C. C. Kirkpat-
rick, Chickasha
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
COMPTROLLER TO
INVESTIGATE BANKS

Washington, Jan. 14.-An investiga-
|tion of the relative strengths of the
various classes of national banks is
about to be undertaken by the comp
troller of the currency. Bankers in
general expect the result will be high
ly important ,as it probably will have
much influence in determining the
question of the advantages and dsad-
yantages of so called branch banking" :"
For the purposes of this investigation
the banks will be classified according
to their capital. When it is concluded
the comptroller expects to know
whether the average $4,000 national
bank in small town is relatively as
well managed and in as sound condi-
tion as the $5,OOO0O0 bank in large
city
Statistics of the comptroller's office
show that share holders in national
banks have received dividends averag-
ing per cent annually for the last
forty years and that surpluses have
been general, increasing until last year
they were equal to Ga per cent of the
capital employed.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
KELLOGG FLAYS
TRUST TACTICS
Makes Enormous Profits" - zone
Small Pipe Line" Yields $23,ooo,-
600 to Standard.

Washington, Jan. 14.-Painting the
Standard Oil organization as bred by
depressing competitors and hanging as
a threatening cloud over the country,
Frank B. Kellogg, special assistant to
the attorney general of the United
States, Friday pleaded with the SUI
preme court to dissolve the Standard
Oil company of New Jersey as violative
of the Sherman antitrust law.
Mr.. Kellogg gave the beginning of
the governments side of the contro-
versy and probably will complete it
Monday or Tuesday. Mr.. Kellogg
spoke for nearly four hours following
the closing remarks in the case of John
G. Milburn for the Standard Oil COM
pany.
Mr.. Kellogg went over the early
years of the Standards business lead
ing up to the central point of the pres
ent controversy, the reorganization of
the Standard Oil company of New Jer-
sey, in 1899. He characterized this
reorganization as merely the substitu-
ton of one illegal form of holding to-
gether the oil companies for another
illegal form. The first was the trust"
of 1882, with its several trustees, and
the second, the STANDARD of New
Jersey"
Touching on a point of the defense,
Mr.. Kellogg said if the companies
whose stock was procured by the
.landard in 1899 were not competing,
it was because they were held to-
gether in illegal trusts, that of 1879
and that of 1882.
"Toke away the fear of prosecution
by the government and the Standard
Oil would put every independent out
of business in five years." Mr.. Kel-
logg continued. "The independents
can exist only under the protection of
the law" Mr.. Kellogg dwelt upon the
enormous profits" of the companies
as further evidence of monopoly. The
record did not show where all the pro-
fits went, he said. For instance, there
was nothing to show what happened
to 100000 of the earnings of "one
small pipe line"
Il tried in every way to learn where
that little sum went" said Mr.. Kel-
logg. "The officials of the Standard,
when on the stand, told me that they
could not find out Mr.. Milburn once
said he would not grantify my curios-
ity by telling me-
Large profits at home were argued
as not justified to offset small profits
in foreign trade.
Build up the foreign trade if you
can,' said Mr.. Kellogg, but I denv
the right to do so at the expense of
the American people"
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
MRS. AVERY GIVES RECEPTION
At TULSA FRIDAY AFTERNOON

The following account, in the Tulsa
Democrat, of the reception given yes
terday by Mrs. Cyrus s. Avery, former
ly Of this city, win be read with in
|terest by Vinita friends of the hostess:
There has been no more notable
representation of Tulsa's elite at any
affair TINS season than this afternoon
when the matrons and maids of fash.
|ionable and exclusive society turned
|out en- masse between the hours Of
three and six o'clock to attend the
large and brilliant reception given by
Mrs Cyrus S. Avery in honor of Mrs.
Ed Avery, who has recently come here
with her husband from Pittsburg, Pa,
to make this city her future home, ard
which function will go down in social
history as one of the most recherche
affairs of the year.
"The Avery home on South Boulder
avenue, which is distinctive for the
exquisite taste with which it is fur
nished, and for the beauty and hand
some finish of the interior which is
done in strictly mission style with pan
eled walls and beamed ceilings, seem
ed more than usually attractive this
afternoon, when it was simply but ar
Itistically decorated throughout the
lower floor with ferns, palms, roses and
carnations. In the drawing room, a
color scheme of crimson and green
was predominant and this was en-
bodied in ferns and palms together
with rich colored crimson roses placed
in bowls and jars on piano and mantle.
Crimson shaded candles and many
side-wall lantern lights with green art
glass shades furnished the subdued
illumination for the pretty picture of
the large assemblage of women and
girls in their daintiest and handsonl-
est of frocks and gowns.
THE dining room with its paneling
of rich, dark oak was vision of beauty
and act in pink and green which color
motif was also carried out in the dainty
china and the benu of the luncheon.
"Air plants in small brass and old
silver bowls were placed on brackets
around the room, and the table was
lovely with its Cluny lace cover and
center piece of graceful long stemmed
pink roses. Carnations in the same
dainty shade adorned the buffet, lend
ing charm and spicy fragrance to the
room.
In the receiving line were the hon
oree, Mrs. Ed Avery, Mesdames Cyrus
S. Avery, Luman F. Parker of Vinito.
Edward Lyle Orr and Miss Helen
Logan of Hannibal, Mo.
"Matrons and maids asked to assist
in the drawing and dining rooms were,
Mesdames Dan J. Davisson, w Lyle
Dickey, F. NJ Rodolf, Howard Kiser,
E F. Harmon, ]. w. DIR, Robort f.
Macarthur. w. E. Gordon, w. A. Cook
and Misses June Boyer of Punxsuta-
lwney, Pa, and Carolyn Dickey"
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
CHARLES WILLIAMS HELD
FOR DEATH OF TWO BOYS
BY Associated Press.

Holman, Mo-, Jan. IA. - Charles
Williams, aged sixteen, was arrested
here in connection with the death of
Henry Stoffle, and Roy Plege, who
were run down and killed by freight
train on the Frisco railroad near here
Wednesday, Williams confessed that
he hit Stoffle on the temple with a
stone. He was placed in Jail at Marsh
field. The officials say Williams fought
with Stoffle and Pedge, and that Stoffle
being struck with a stone fell on the
railroad track. unconscious, where
Pledge was trying to aid him when the
train struck them. Stoffle and Pelge
were aged fourteen and seventeen, re-
spectively and were from Falls City,
Neb.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
INSURANCE MEN
FOR MARSHAL BILL
Senator eouIding offers Bill Creating
Office, Fixing Salary Ard Duties.
Board of Civil Engineers.

Oklahoma City, Jan. 14.-Insurance
men, as well as the state department
of insurance, will indorse the idea of
state fire marshal, believing that un-
der proper supervision insurance rates
can be lowered. Commissioner Lasa-
ter makes such a recommendation in
his annual report. A bill has been Of
fered in the senate by Senator Gould
ing creating the department and de-
signaling a state fire marshal. to be
appointed by the governor, following
the laws of North Carolina and Ohio.
The salary is $4,000 per year and the
chief is allowed one assistant and two
deputies.
The fire marshal and chiefs of fire
departments in cities having an or
ganized department and the township
clerk in cities having no such depart
ment are directed in the proposed act
to investigate the causes of each fire
within two days of its occurrence for
the purpose of determining the origin.
whether by cause or design. The mar.
shal is given power to summon wit
nesses and take testimony and where
the fires are found to be OF incendiary
origin to institute prosecutions. Where
the marshal finds buildings in bad con-
dition he is given power to see that
they are remedied, feature which
will tend, Senator Goulding thinks, to
lower the percentage of fire liability.
A bill by Mr.. Woodsen of Woods
county creates a board of civil engi-
neers of five members, who shall hold
meetings on the first Mondays of June
and December of each year for the pur
pose of examining persons working as
surveyors and engineers. The board
is to be composed of the state highway
commissioner, the professor of engi-
neering of the state university. the
same of the Agricultural and mechani-
cal college and two civil engineers to
be appointed BY the governor from,
list nominated by the Oklahoma Engi-
neering Society. The secretary of the
board, who shall be one of the mem
bers, may receive neg 10 exceed 500
per month, and the other members get
80 per day, and 1t is provided that the
board must be self-sustaining and
without appropriation from the state.
These are the classes upon which
certificates may be grant.
ed by the board; Land and township
surveying, city engineering designing
waterworks, sewerage, lighting plants,
paveRlents), county engineering. in
cluding highway construction and
maintenance and bridge designing, and
upon irrigation and drainage.
After January 1, 1912. it is made nm
lawful for any surveyor or engineer
TO practice his profession without
certificate from the state board of ex-
aminers, exempting, however those
holding public office at the date the
act becomes effective, and after June
J, 1912, no candidate for Office she'll be
eligible to such without first having
been qualified by the state board. The
bill requires applicants for licenses to
practice to pay fee Of $40 and upon
issuance of certificate $i5 additional
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
HOUSE ASKS FOR CONTRATS
TO REPAY REMOVAL COSTS

Oklahoma City, Jan. 1.-THE house
yesterday without opposition passed a
resolution by Charles Barrett of Shaw
nee calling upon the executive depart
ment for the submission of all con-
tracts entered into between former
Governor c. N. Haskell and Oklahoma
City by authority of the state capital
bill. The resolution declares that al
though the agreements authorized in
connection with the signing of the bill
locating the capital at Oklahoma City
provided for the payment of all remov-
al expenses from Guthrie of the state
departments, the board of public af-
fairs and state capital commission is
wholly without funds to meet these ex-
penses, and that both are being CON
stantly importuned by freight agents,
draymen and laborers and others who
rendered services in connection with
the removal, and that these boards are
entirely without money to pay these
bills.
The legislature has never yet been
furnished with the contracts which the
capital bill required the governor to
make with Oklahoma City relative to
the Culbertson site the selection of
ground upon which to locate the cap
itol building and the contracts which
the governor stated he signed with an
Oklahoma City holding company bind
ing Oklahoma City to pay expenses of
the capital removal, attorneys and
architects fees and to provide free
quarters for the legislature and state
departments.
The heads of several state depart
ments have paid the expenses of re-
moval from their own pockets, but as
yet have received no remuneration
from the $71,00O fund required of Ok
lahoma City by Governor Haskell as
a condition precedent to signing the
capital location bill.
Both houses introduced a resolution
the sergeant-at-arms of the
house to proceed to Guthrie and to se-
cure all books, records, notes and other
materials used by the old code COM
mission in codifying the laws of Okla.
homa. The resolution also directed
that any of this property now in the
hands of private individuals should also
be procured for the legislature. The
code commission was severely arraign-
ed by some of the members of the sem
ate for continuing it's labors without
authority of the legislature which
created it. Senator Brownlee came to
the defense of the commission.
The house INDUCED in long discus
sion of a proposed. constitutional
amendment by Milburn which author
lied the legislature to enact laws per-
mitting the levy of a sufficient state
tax which together with the interest on
the state school fund and the rentals
on school lands available for the main
tenance of common schools, will pro-
vide a sum equal to S. per capita for
each school child of school age in the
state Cornell Of Custer objected that
the proposed amendment would author
ize a tax of $2,5OO,OOO on the people of
the state. The resolution went over
for two days.
The house passed finally a bill by
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
Entertalns at Harvey House.

Mrs w. H. Hutchinson was hostess
yesterday afternoon to the Friday
Bridge club. in the parlors of the Har-
vey. Miss Mabel Bagby was the only
guest beside the club members. Dur
ing the afternoon a most tempting one
course luncheon. prepared by the chef
of the Harvey house, was served. This
was pronounced one of the most de-
lightful meetings the club has ever
held
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
Parks Passes Second sentence.

The second sentence, since he took
the oath of office last Monday, was
passed by County Judge Parks this
morning. The sentence was passed on
Walter Young, who pied guilty to. hav-
ing liquor in his possession with in
tent to SELL He was given thirty days
at hard labor and fined $50. Judge
Parks says he intends to keep SEN
fencing them until the bootlegging in
Craig county stops.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
GREATEST BATTLESH|P IS
LAUNCHED At CAMDEN
By Associated Press.

Philadelphia, Pa. Jan. 14-The bat
tleship Arkansas, the largest ever built
in the United States was launched to-
day at Camden, N. j. No official dele
cation represented Arkansas, although
Miss Mary Macon, daughter of Repre-
sentative Macon, of Arkansas, was
sponsor and broke bottle of cham
payne over the ships nose. A dispute,
between Governor Donaghey of Ar
kansas, and the navy department, over
the date Of launching led to the abb
sence of the state delegation. The
new ship has the greatest gun-power
in broadside of any ship aloat He
main armament is twelve Pinch guns.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
RACE RIOT At BENTON
FOLLOWS MINSTREL SHOW
By Associated Press.

Benton, Ark, Jan. 14-One negro
was killed and one negro and two
negresses injured in a race riot here
last night, following performance by
negro minstrel organization, from
New Orleans. The members of the
company were en- route to their board
ing house, when attacked by party of
fifteen or twenty unidentified young
white men and pursued half a mile.
One negro's skull was crushed with a
club. E. R. Vogler, manager and a
white man, said he did not know the
name of the dead negro.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
V|N|TA BANKS TO CLOSE
At THREE IN AFTERNOON

At meeting of the representatives
OF the five banks of vinita this morn
ing, It was decided that, beginning
January 20 the banks of this city will
close their doors at o'clock p. m.
This is another metropolitan step
taken by the banks of Vinita and is
in keeping with the custom of the
banks in all the larger cities of Okla
homa. This system win give the bank
employees a chance TO get out and get
some exercise after balancing the
books and will put an end to much of
the night work.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
Revolutions Capture Province.

New Orleans, La, Jan. IA special
from Managua, Nicaragua, this morn.
ing says: "Advices from the frontier of
Honduras reports that General Duron
has captured practically the entire
province of Choluteca, in the name of
Manuel Bonilla, leader of the revolu-
Duron's army is said to be
on Tegucigalpa, theh capital.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
New Grocery Opens Monday.

]. R. Scott and George Martin open
a new grocery in the Scott building,
formerly occupied by the Fair store,
next Monday, both members of the
firm are we'll known among the citi-
zens of Vinita and vicinity.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
CHARGED WITH DEFRAUD|NG
UNCLE SAM ON IMPORTS
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
San Francisco, Cal, Jan. 14.-Carl ].
Cutting and W. A. Wilson, importers
Of oriental goods, were arrested here
last night, charged with defrauding
the United States custom house, by
under-valuation of imports. The secret
agent sent to investigate at last un-
earthed the alleged frauds. The Off
cials say wholesale frauds of this kind
in the last few years have cost the gov
ernment two hundred thousand dol
lars annually.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
Young Woman confesses Murder.


BY ASSOCIdteu PTeSS.
Rochester, N. Y, Jan. 14.-Mrs.
George Meiser, young Schenectady
woman, was arrested yesterday at
Albany on information charging the
murder of her four-year-old son. She
collapsed after confessing to the po-
lice. She will be taken to Albany.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14

E. H. Gill has been employed by
Roberts & McSpadden to do the engi-
neering on their big road contract at
Denison, Tex.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14
Robbers Arrested at Ogden.

By Associated Press.
ogden, Utah, Jan. 1.-THE robbers,
who held UP the Overland Limited, on
the Southern Pacific, week ago, were
arrested here today.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-14

DR.. Louis Bagby made professional
trip to Alton last evening.