The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28
SEEMS AMENDMENT
HAS BEEN ADOPTED
Exceedingly Light Vote Cast And Re-
turns From Rural Precincts Slow
in Coming in.

So little interest was taken in the
statewide election yesterday on the
amendment to article 8, section 8, If
the state constitution, that the returns
have been unusually slow in coming
in. The full vote in Craig county will
not be known before late this evening.
but from the returns received from
fifteen precincts out of twenty-five,
the indications are that the amend
ment lost in this county by about fifty
votes. The fifteen precincts heard
from give a majority of 105 against
the amendment, but as the precincts
yet to hear from are in the northwest
part of the county, where the senti-
ment favors the amendment, it is be-
lieved the majority will be reduced to
fifty.
The city of Vinita gave majority
of 49 for the amendment. Only one
ward in the city, the third, went
against it. The vote in Vinita was:
First ward, for SS, against IT; second
ward, for So, against 26; third ward.
for 25, against 40; fourth ward, for
27, against 16. The vote was extreme
ly light, being about one-fourth of the
normal vote.
Early reports from the state at large
| indicate that the amendment has been
adopted by majority ranging from
5000 to 10000.
/ Oklahoma City, April 26. - Incom-
plete returns up to midnight last night
indicate that the proposed amendment
to article 8, section 9, of the constitu-
tion, which will permit the purchase
and leasing of Oklahoma railroads by
lines outside the state, has carried
from 5000 to 10000 majority. Less
than half the normal vote of the state
was polled, not far in excess of 100000.
The evident adoption of the amend
ment is a decided victory for the
Cruce democrats over the Haskell dem
Eocrats and a rebuke to w. ]. Bryan,
who came out in opposition to the
amendment
The majority in Oklahoma county
for the amendment was approximate
ly / 900. A majority against the amend
ment is reported from Muskogee, for
mer Governor Haskell's home town,
but in most other cities of the state
the majority for the amendment rang
ed from to 1 to to 1. The country
precincts already heard from is rather
close, but the meager returns from
country precincts already received in.
dicate balance in favor of the amend.
ment.
Early reports from Chickasha indi.
Gated about four to one for the amend.
ment, Ada two to one, Oklahoma City
about two to one.
An era of railroad building unpre-
cedented in Oklahoma is expected to
follow the adoption of the amendment
many projected lines having announc-
ed that they were awaiting the result
of the election yesterday.
i Guthrie, Okla, April 25.-Guthrie
voted to | today in favor of the pro-
posed amendment to the state consti
tuition permitting interstate lines to
purchase railroads built within the
state. Some of the local wards gave
even a 10 to / majority for the amend
ment, although only about one-third OF
the total voting strength was polled
Tulsa, Okla, April 25.-The propos
ed amendment to article 9 of section
8, of the state constitution seems to
have carried by large majority in
every precinct in the city. The coun
try vote on the amendment was light