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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-23

Washington, d. c., June 16.-The
subcommittee on post office and post
roads met Wednesday an dtook up for
consideration the Lewis bill, which pro-
vides for condemning and purchasing
he express companies and adding them
to the postal system, and establishing
complete system for the quick trans
port of packages and the eatable pro-
ducts of the farm and truck garden,
etc. At their last conference in Wash
ington the representatives of the bus
mess men of the country and of the
farmers oranges asked congress to
, establish such system, and repre-
sentatives of these interests were pres
ent at the hearing before the COM
-ggittee today.
There are two main reasons why
the express companies must be added
to the postal system" said Mr.. Lewis
in his argument. "First, the express
company service does not reach beyond
the railways to the country or the
farmers, while the post Office does,
through the rural free delivery, which
is waiting with empty wagons to re-
ceiye the express packages and take
them to the country stores and the
farmers, and carry back to the towns
and the cities the produce of the
farms and truck gardens for the peo-
pie to eat, at living prices. Second
the contracts of the express companies
with the railways give them an aver
age transportation rate of three quar-
ters of cent a pound and with this
rate the express charges by post would
be reduced from two-thirds to one-half
on parcels from five to fifty pounds
and about twenty-eight per cent on
heavier weights, as a consequence OF
the coordination of the express com
pany plants with the postoffice and
rural delivery, and the elimination OF
the express company profits, which
are averaging over fifty per cent on
the investment.
"The express companies are posi-
tive hindrances and obstacles to the
business of the country. The average
charge for carrying ton of express
in Argentina is $6.51, and for the coun
tries of Europe $412, while the aver
age express company charge in the
United States is $3120 They charge
Eve times as much, to carry ton Of
express as a ton of freight in other
countries. Here the express com
panies charge sixteen times as much
OF course, these charges simply pro
hibit by half or more of the traffic in
:. the United States. Our average is
less than one. hundred pounds pei
capita, while that of the other coun
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-23
BANQUET TO PRESBYTERIAN
MEN GREATLY ENJOYED
From Fridays Dany.

One of the most pleasant social
events in Vinita this season was the
banquet to the men of the Presbyter-
ian church given by the Ladies Aid of
that church, at the church last night.
There was representative gathering
of the men at the beautifully decorated
tables, and bounteous feast was serv-
ed, to which all present did justice.
After the eating was over the guests
listened to some pleasant toasts. e.
N. Ratcliff acted as toast master, and
responses were made by ]. F. Muir
ply, A. A. Brown, A. L. Churchill, w.
M. Malone, George E. Harris, ]. ].
Robinson, D. NJ. Marrs and the pas
tor, Rev. w. o. Davis. The male quar-
tet rendered several songs that added
much to the enjoyment of the evening.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-23
MARYLAND GRANDFATHER
CLAUSE IN COMPARISON

Guthrie, Okla, June Ig.--Present in
dications are that Maryland and Okla
homa opponents of grandfather
clouse" legislation, intended to pro-
hibit negroes from voting, will fight
together for favorable decision from
the United States supreme court. In
both states the matter is one of the
greatest moment at the present time,
and he ultimate decision will affect
similar laws that have been adopted
throughout the south.
In this connection the fact is of in
terest, that never has the constitution
ality of negro-disfranchising acts been
passed upon directly by the United
States supreme bench; heretofore
when such matters have reached that
tribunal, they have been disposed OF
on tecbnicalities of some kind.
Recently Judge John H. Cotteral, oi
Guthrie, of the western federal district
of Oklahoma, held the Oklahoma
grandfather clause" unconstitutional
and a similar holding was made at the
same time by Judge Ralph Campbell
of MuslIogee, of the eastern federal
district. Following this decision by
Judge Cotteral comes the request, dur
ing the past week, of Charles J. Bona
parte, of Baltimore. former attorney
general of the United States, for copies
of the Oklahoma decision and other
data in the case to use in the Mary
land cases, similar in every respect
that are pending at the present time
The data. as requested, has been fun
ished him.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-23
(First Published in the Chieftain
June IS, 1911
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
BY GUARDIAN.

DIT GORhOIAN.
State of Oklahoma. County of Adair.
SIS: In the County Court.
Notice is hereby given that in pur-
suance of an order of the County Court
of the County of Adair, and State of
Oklahoma, made on the 9th day of
May. 1911, in the matter of the estate
of Esther Daugherty and Lula Daugh-
erty, minors. the undersigned as the
guardian of the persons and estate of
said minors, will sell at private sale
to the highest bidder subject to con-
flrmation by said Court, on the 1st
day of July 1911, at 10 o'clock a. M.
or within six months thereafter. at
the County Court room in said County
of Adair, all the right, title, interest
and estate of the said minors, and all
the right title and interest that said
minors have by operation of law or
otherwise acquired in and to all that
certain lot, piece or parcel of land,
situated, LYING and being in the County
of Craig, and State of Oklahoma,
bounded and described as follows, to-
wit:
The IL of Sc IA of Section SO.
Township 20 North, and Range is
East, containing so acres accord
ing to the Government Survey
thereof; the same being the allot-
ment of Sam Daugherty, deceased,
father of said minors; subject to
the life estate of Addie Eli, nee
Daugherty, mother of said minors.
Said land viii be sold for cash at the
time of sale or upon confirmation by
the County Court
/ Bids may be filed with the County
Judge Of Adair County, Oklahoma, or
with the guardian or may be left with
William P. Harris, attorney at law, at
lStilwell Oklahoma; all bids must be
in writing signed by the bidder, and
accompanied by 10 per cent of the
amount bid.
Dated this. the 9th day of June, 1911.
LEWIS MAT0Y,
1-3 Guardian.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-23
Wall Street Waging War
On the Telepost System

Wall Street, which has been unduly
partial to the telegraph monopoly ever
since the late Jay Gould made that in
stitution the cornerstone of his tenn
pie of high finance is again waglng
war on the telepost automatic tele-
graph system.
Within the last month every agency
in the country that it controls has
been engaged in campaign against
that system that is reminiscent of the
early days Of the telephone, when
Alexander Graham Bell, unmoved by
the threats of Gould and his associ-
ates, undertook to introduce his in
vention to public use, after Wall
Street, condemning it as an impracti-
cal toy of no commercial value had
refused to finance it.
Farmers along the line of extensions
of the system have been furnished
with expensive lawyers by its enemies
to oppose the construction of poles
and wires along post roads in front
of their farms; taxpayers" in cities
through which the system seeks to
pass are encouraged to fight its appli
cations for franchises before city coun
ellis. Wires passing through cities and
rural districts are mysteriously cut OF
put out of business during the busiest
periods of the day. Lists of stock
holders are surreptiously abstracted
from the company's books by em
ployees who when caught in the act
declare that they are being paid tc
get the names by outside agents rep
resenting Wall Street.
Stockholders are flooded with anony
nous post cards and letters attacking
the company, and calling their atten
ton to attacks on it made elsewhere
through the country by agents of the
financial district. Coincidently witt
this its fiscal agents in New York, en-
gagged in financing the construction oi
extensions are assailed in an effort tC
discredit it and force it to abandon its
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-23

plans. Visitors to the company's ex-
ecutive offices in New York are sub
jected to an elaborate system of espion-
age, are followed by detectives to their
homes and Offices and threatened with
reprisals upon their individual busi-
ness enterprises.
Thus in effect the money power
arrogates to itself the right to deter
mine, as its caprice or selfish interests
may move it, what corporations may
peacefully engage in business in the
United States and to prescribe the
terms and conditions under which they
shall so engage.
In so many words 1t says that every
national enterprise, whether railroad,
telephone or telegraph company. which
aspires to offer honest competition
against a trust owned public service
corporation shall be held to be a
buccaneer in the American industrial
world and legitimate object of s.
sault by the small group of men in
New York's financial district who hold
in their hands the country's purse
strings and constitute themselves its
business censors. This is "the public
be damned policy of old Commodore
Vanderbilt, that has embittered the
nation against the trusts and arrayed
against them President Taft, Colonel
Roosevelt, ard every state legislature
and disinterested citizen iii the eoun-
try, who regard coercion of the wea
by the strong, and the strangulation
of competition in the fields that the
monopolies seek to control, to be un-
American, unfair and obviously against
public policy. It wouldn't be counter.
nanced today in England, France, Ger
many or any other civilized eontinen-
tai country, outside of Russia and with
the American people awaking to the
danger of such practice to demostic
enterprise and initiative, it won't be
long before 1t ceases to be counter
nanced here.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-23
(First Published in the Chieftain,
June 8, 1917
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE

Notice is hereby given that in pur-
suance of an order of the County
Court of the County of Craig and State
of Oklahoma, made on the 5th day Of
June, 1911. in the matter of the estate
lof Peter w Grooms, deceased, the un-
dersigned, as the Administrator of the
estate of said deceased, will sell at
private sale to the highest bidder for
cash subject to confirmation by said
County Court on Saturday, the Gath
day of jane, 1911, at 200 o'clock p. NJ.
at the Office of the County Judge of
said County in Vinita, In said County
of Craig, all the right, title, interest
an destate of the said Peter w.
Grooms, deceased, and all the right,
| title and interest that the said estate
| has, by operation of law, or otherwise,
acquired in and to all the certain lots,
pieces, or parcels of land, situated, "
| ing and being in the County of Craig
and State of Oklahoma, bounded and
described as follows and upon the fol-
flowing terms and conditions. to-wit:
The North one-half IN 1-2) Of the
North one-half IN 1-2) of the
| Northeast quarter (NE la and
the Northeast quarter (NE Ia of
the Northeast quarter (NE 1-4)
of the Northwest quarter (NW 1-4)
of Section Twenty-Five (25), Town
ship Twenty-seven (27) North,
Range Twenty t20) East. contain
ing so acres; the Northwest quar-
ter of the Northwest quarter
NV IA NV la and the West
half of the Northeast quarter of
the Northwest quarter CIV IL NE
IA NV Ia of Section Twenty
i five (25) Township Twenty-seven
| (27l North, Range 20 East, con-
tanning go acres; also an undivided
interest in the lands Of Eliza
Gaines, deceased, which lands are
the North half of the Southwest
quarter On liz SW la and the
Southeast quarter of the North
i west quarter (SE IA NV LAD of
Section Twenty-four CAD Town
ship Twentyseven (27) North,
Range Twenty (20l East contain
i ing 120 acres.
Sealed bids may be filed with the
Clerk of said County Court at any
time prior to noon on day of sale but
no bid will be considered unless a
certified check for one-third of the
amount of such bid accompanies same.
Dated the Sth day of June. 1911.
C. S. PEARSON,
Administrator.
It. ]. HOBBY, Attorney 52-2
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-23
Declare Bill viii Be Passed.

Washington, D. c., June 16.-Chair-
man Penrose, of the senate committee,
in conference with President Taft to-
day confirmed the report that sixty
senators expected to vote for the Can
adian reciprocity bill and predicted
that within two weeks after the date
for a vote had been agreed upon to
give the president detailed report Of
the situation in the senate and declared
the bill will be passed without amend
ment.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-23
State Brings Out Point in Lumber Case

State Brings Out Point in Lumber Case
Kansas City. Mo-, June 16.-That
the price of yellow pine lumber has
gone up from ten to twenty dollars a
thousand within the last fifteen years
and that the successive jumps are CO
incident with the issuance of price lists
by the Yellow Pine Manufacturers as
sociation, were the principal points
brought out by the state today in the
custer suit against the alleged lumber
trust.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-23

on the Denver - Rio Grande railway
1t is estimated that the building
work will involve an expenditure by
the government of approximately $780,
900. The contractor mast move S0-
900 cubic yards of earth and 1890
cubic yards of rock, besides laying
1900 yards of paving, 1,400 linear feet
of drain tile and 1,700 cubic yards of
reinforced concrete. Bids for the work
will be received until 2 o'clock in the
afternoon of June 19 at the Office of
the service in Provo.
The reclamation service, which was
established by the government through
the efforts OF the National Irrigation
Congress, whose nineteenth annual
sessions are to be held in Chicago, De-
cember to 8 of this year, is to spend
S48,000,000 in reclamation work dur
ing the coming four years. The expen-
ditures in years past have amounted
to approximately $7O,0OO,0O0 In time
it is expected that 30,000,0O0 acres OF
arid lands will be reclaimed in the
west, while it is not improbable that
within a few years the government
may be similarly employing its funds
for the reclamation of swamp and over.
flowed lands in the east of which there
are S0,000,000 acres. The furthering
of this latter movement is to be one
of the undertakings of the National
Irrigation Congress this year.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-23
None Injured on Disabled Steamer

None Injured on Disabled Steamer.
Detroit, Mich, June 16.-The steam
er, Western States" disabled last
night on Lake Erie, carrying the Mich
igan Bankers Association excursion to
Buffalo, is expected to arrive here un-
dere her own steam this afternoon.
Reports to headquarters of the De-
troit and Buffalo line, states the steam
err "City of Cleveland" arrived at Buff
falo this morning, having picked up
the passengers of the western States"
when the two vessels were lashed to-
gether in mid-lake. None were in
jured.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-23
BANK OF BIG CABIN
LOSES IN DISTRICT COURT
From FRIDAYS Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
The jury in the district court, in the
case of J. G. English VS.. the Bank of
Big Cabin, last night brought in YER
dict for the plaintiff and fixed the
amount the plaintiff is entitled to re-
cover at $1,101.03. This case was
heard in the district court for the old
second judicial district and was car
ried to the supreme court, where it was
remanded for new trial.
The court this afternoon is hearing
the case of G. w. Pool VS.. w. ]. Kuhn,
a suit to recover for the cost of a por.
tion of wall on the line between two
lots at Chelsea, owned by the litigants
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-23
(First Published in the Chieftain,
June 8, 1919
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
Notice is hereby given that in pur-
suance of an order of the County Court
of the County of Craig and State of
Oklahoma, made on the 26th day of
May, 1911, in the matter of the estate
of Kennie G.. Housley, ct al, minors.
the undersigned, as the guardian of
said Kennie G. Housley, will sell at
private sale to the highest bidder for
cash, subject to confirmation by said
County Court, on Friday, the 23rd day
of June, 1911, at 10 o'clock a. m, or as
soon thereafter as the same can be
made, at the chambers of the County
Court, in said County of Craig, all the
right, title, interest and estate of the
said Kennie G. Housley, and all the
right title and interest that the said
estate has by operation of law or
otherwise, acquired in and to all that
certain lot, piece or parcel of land,
situated, lying and being in the County
of Craig and State of Oklahoma, bound
ed an described as follows and upon
the following terms and conditions, to-
wit:
Northeast IA of Southeast IA OF
Section 35, and Northwest Ia of
Southwest IA of Section SO, ali in
Township 25 North, Range 19 East,
containing so acres more or less
according to the government sur
vey.
The terms of said sale shall be for
cash on confirmation thereof and de-
livery of deed
All bids to be in writing aecompani-
ed by draft for $1O0. payable to "Clerk
of the County Court" (Or IL bid be in
excess of 100000 ten per centum of
amount bid) Bids should mention es-
tate and describe lands bid for and be
mailed or handed to the County Judge,
Vinita, Oklahoma, or be mailed to
said guardian at Vinita, Oklahoma.
Dated the 9th day of June, 1911.
SIDNEY E. HOUSLEY,
Guardian.
w. B. DEPUE.
Attorney for Guardian. 52-2
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-23
cruce Names County Assessors.

Oklahoma City, June 16-The fol-
lowing additional county assessors
were appointed yesterday by Governor
Cruce: Beaver county, P. B. Moore,
Beaver City; Delaware county, w. H.
Davis, Grove; Ellis county, t. ]. Ed
ridge, Arnett; Latimer county, R. v.
Allen, Latimer.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-23
ElIes suit AGAINST standard oiI.

Abeline, Kans., June 16. - Suit
against the Standard Oil company,
charging restraint of trade and COM
petition in Dickinson county in viola
tion of the state statues, was filed in
the district court here today by State
Attorney General Dawson and County
Attorney Rugh.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-23
GOVERNMENT PLANNING TO
CONSTRUCT MAMMOTH dixie

Chicago, ILL.,, June 16-The Office of
the UI ted States reclamation service
at Provo, Utah, is planning to build a
big dixie on Indian Creek about thirty
five miles from Thistle Station, town
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-18
CITY FILES SUIT
TO COLLECT FINE
Action Charges DR.. Markley
Was Found Guilty of
Minor Violation.

Unless DR.. Stephen C.. Markley, a
well-to-do physician and prominent in
medical circles in the state, pays a
fine of a dollar and costs, amounting
in all to six dollars, for violating the
right and left ordinance, he must
serve six days in the county Jail, the
equivalent to the fine, according to
the complaint which was filed in the
Wayne circuit court on Friday.
The complaint is endorsed by DIR. w.
w. Zimmerman. who as presiding
judge over the city court found his
colleague guilty of driving his auto.
mobile on the left side Of South
Sixth Street on July 81 and assessed
the nominal fine. The defendant ply
sician at that time entered an appeal
to the circuit court in order that he
might test the legality of the city or
dinance, which compells one to drive
on the right side of public highways
The action by the city to collect the
fine imposed is a most unusual one.
There is little likelihood that Dr.
Markley will have to serve the equiva
lent to the fine in the county Jail. He
is under 800 bond, furnished by him
self and his attorney, John F. Robbins
to appear in the circuit court on the
opening day of the October term OF
court. =,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-18
CLAIM VIOLATION
OF 16-H0UR Law
Government Sues the Grand
Rapids & Indiana and the
G.. & O. Railways.

Judgments of $1,000 and $4,000 are
asked by the federal government from
the Grand Rapids and Indiana rail-
way company and the Chicago divis-
ion of the C. & O. railway company
in complaints filed in the
federal court at Indianapolis. alleging
that the sixteen-hour and service laws
were violated.
The specific charges against the G..
r. & l. road is that on January l and
2, a conductor, engineer, fireman and
two trainmen were required to work
more than sixteen consecutive hours
on run between this city and Ft.
Wayne and then on the second and
third of that month another crew of
the same number worked more than
the number of hours allowed by law
on a run between Ft. Wayne and
Ridgeville. Ten violations are alleged
by the complaints and $500 judgment
on each violation is asked
A full crew of the Chicago division
of the c. & O. IS alleged to have
worked more than sixteen consecu-
tive hours on a run from Brighton, O.,
to Peru, Ind, on February 1 and 2.
The total judgment asked is 800,
$500 for each of the five violations
averred.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-18

Model Husband Is Blamed
for Her Act.
National News Association

(NatlOnal news ASSOclatlOnJ
CHICAGO, Aug. 1S.-Myrtle Reed,
the author of several delicate books
which have made her famous, is dead
at her Paradise flat" in Chicago, a
suicide. The author. whose real name
was Mrs. James Snyder Mccullough,
left note, laying blame for her act on
her husband, who for years, she has
immortalized in prose and verse as a
model husband
The note to a servant read: Dear
Annie: l am leaving you a check for
$1,000 for your true and faithful SER
vice for four years. If my husband
had been as good and kind to me and
as considerate, l would not be going
where l am now. (signed Mrs. Mac" :"
Mccullough is out of the city and
SO far has been notified of the suicide
The woman had taken poison and was
lying on a divan in her library.
Myrtle Reed wrote many books, the
best known of which are The Love
Letters of Musician" Lavender and
Old Lace" 'The Masters VIOLIN" and
"The Spinster Book"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-18
TOO MUCH REUNION
And Joy Cab Ride Results
in Arrests.

Having started out to have good
time p. ]. O'ConneN of this city and
Frank Shaffer. living six miles south
evening and each was fined 81 and
costs in police court this morning.
In explaining to Special Judge Abbott,
O'Connell declared that Shaffer was
his long lost pal and that he had not
seen him for several years. In order
to rejoice over the Homecoming they
imbibed freely and soon afterwards
friends placed the two in cab. hired
from a North Eighth street livery sta
BILE This was in the afternoon.
The Joy ride" lasted but short
time as the occupants ordered the cab
stopped at a hotel bar, saying that
they would return within short time.
They did not return.
After a search for the two, the liv.
eryman espied them about 9 O'Clock
on a hack bound for the carnival
grounds. They were arrested by Pa
trolmen Edwards and Longman-
Prior to their arrest the two were
in a Main street confectionery and
frightened mattresses by their queer
actions. O'Connell danced several
jigs and rendered several selections
of popular songs. O'Connell is very
fond of dancing. When he was placed
in the city jail he danced for the
benefit of the officers Shaffer paid
his fine but O'Connell went down
for eleven days,