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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-10
FAILS TO AGREE
No Verdict In Suit Against Post Office Con
ftncfor

After being ont for some time yesterday
afternoon jury In the Law and Equity
Court failed TO agree upon verdict In the
damage suit OF A. l.. Deacon against ].
Henry Miller Tnc.). In which damages arc
claimed in the sum OF 5000 and at n late
hour yesterday afternoon the Jury was dis
charged and court adjourned to Thursday
morning.
Deacon was a rivcter at work on the new
government post-offcc building and was
severely injured while at work. lie claims
that a scaffoding on which he was working
gave way with him. the defense being that
the accident was due to his own ncClICenoe
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-10
Mny Lend TO InycStiEntfon.
Court of Appeals OPENS To-Day.

Circuit Judges Nathan Con- and ]. c.
pritchard and several district judges in this
circuit are expected to be in Richmond to-
day for the October session OF the United
states Circuit Court OF Appeals which VIII
open at noon. 1t Is not expected that there
VII! be any arguments. but that tho court
will devote itself entirely TO conference nur
poses and handing down opinions In cases
heretofore argued.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-10
CHILD BADLY BURNED
Clothing IGnitcd by Playmate While Motbor
Was Out of Roam

hehlam'n Ch!!ds. nyc years old. was prob
ably fatally burned ycstcrdoy at,crrabt, y, ~,
ms nome. OH Creek street. when his cloth
ing was set nhrc in some unknown manner
~ playmate His mother was on. ~ ,hs
room ana had no idea OF danger un,ii sn :
hthFd hcf sons screams She rushed into
We place aud found his clothing mass az
about him helpless and dazed She cx,Ine
sn'sHcd the Ire as speedily as possible. and
we city ambulance was summoned T,hs
poy vas attended by Dr. Watts but IL wa,
said last night tina, ne could no, H., ~ was
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-10
Delegates to Duffolo.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT c. c. Vaughan, Jr.,
Colonel r. IF. Leedy. Colonel w. T.
Perry Lieutenant Colonel 3. w. Sal
omonsky and Major c. l.. Wright have
gone to Buffalo to represent Virginia
at the annual meeting of the National
Guard Association
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-10
. Marriage licenses.

The following marriage licenses were
granted yesterday iE. the office of the clerk
Of the Hastings Court:
william ". Meadow and Marion cason;
Casper George Woodal and Mary Elizabeth
Galloway, both OF Baltimore; Harvey E.
and Minnie Burkert: Graham Fred
Kurfces and Lizzie Clark: Vernard EiMore
Anderson md Emma RiddeIl.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-10
Aldermen 10 Meet Tonight.

The Board OF Aldermen will meet to- mig h t
at S o'clock Among n number of important
concurrence Will be that setting apart So 900
for a timber wharf. While there are n
the docket is not n long After to-
night members OF the Council will take
holiday for the balance Of the week in
honor of the fair, all Council Committee
meetings having been called or
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-10
Gcologist. to Meet.

The Governor yesterday issued a
call for a meeting of the Commission
for Geological Survey. to be held .at
noon on October 90. This body Is com
posed of the Governor. the president
OF the University of Virginia. the pres
ident of the Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute. the superintendent OF the Vir-
ginia Military Institute. and A. NJ.
Bowman, of Salem.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-10
Observation-Disclosures.

The Department OF Public Instruc-
tion has issued a circular outlining the
minimum requirements for first
grade normal training high school. and
also giving the course OF study re-
quired.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-10

Taylor the insane wifc-siayer. who
earea rom the Eastern State Hospital
1T 'At insane at W.NamsburG and who
Mae e"piuFed Sunday afternoon in Rich
non, was returned % the asylum Yesterday
-. ION Husrds from the institution
e @",e y ti.'"maHd and returned With. him
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-10
License. Mutun, CONCERN.

Insurance Commissioner Joseph But
ton yesterday licensed the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance Company to do
business in Virginia. This is one of
the oldest companies in the country,
and has s6s,o00,000 assets f. w
Smallman, of Richmond, is the general
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-10
VIII Inspect ARTILLERY.

The War Department has again
designated Colonel Grin 3. Mitcham. of
the ordnance department to inspect
the three Virginia batteries of field
artillery. The dates will he announced
later.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-10
Associntion Feast,.

buffet lunch was served the mem.
bers OF the Richmond Blues Associa-
ton after the regular monthly meeting
last night at the armory.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-10

state Fair, admission 30 cents every
day, including Wednesday, Richmond
Dry.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-10

st"fc Fair, admission so cents every
ony' including Wednesday, Richmond
Day.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10

manufacture was $65, $4,000 and in
1904, Sal, 1,735,000, an increase of $685.
$4,000, or 81 per cent The value ad-
ded by manufacture in 1909 formed
20 per cent of the total value of prod
ucts and in 1904, q per cent.
Miscellaneous expense includes such
items as rent of factory or works,
taxes, and amount paid for contract
work, which will appear separated in
the final reports, as we'll as such items
of Office and other expense as can not
be elsewhere classified In 1909 the
amount was $13,576,00O and in 1904,
$8,S7U,0O0, an increase of s4,7O6,000, or
So per cent. The average miscellan-
Ieous expense per establishment in
1909 and 1904 was approximately
$4,000.
The salaries and wages in 1909
amounted to s32,773,0O and in 1904 to
$22, $4,000, an increase of $10,197 900,
or As per cent.
In 1909 the number of salaried Off.
cials and clerks was 6,S01 and in 1904
1921, an increase of 1850, or SO per
cent.
The average number of wage-earners
in 1909 was 43,532 and in 1904, $3.50,
an increase of 1862, or % per cent.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10
APPROPRIATIONS FOR FARM
SCHOOLS PASSED By SENATE

Oklahoma City, Feb Adoption by
the senate of the provisions of the
Thomas-Franklin bill appropriating
5000, ,625 for the erection of new build
ings at the six secondary agricultural
schools, together with the final pas
sage of IL bills by the house, consti-
tuted Mondays proceedings in the leg
islature. The Thomas Franklin bill
provides for dormitories and farm
buildings with each of the agricultur-
al schools located at Wagner, Tish-
mingo, Broken Arrow, Lawton, Helena
and Goodwell. The money is about
evenly distributed to each.
Bills were passed by the house, by
Moore of Coweta, authorizing rewards
in the state for conviction of fish dy-
namiters; by Barrett and Akin, pro-
viding for attendance Of school chill.
dren in other districts than those in
which they reside; by McDuffee, ap-
propriating $4,000 for a deficiency in
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10
TO GIVE DECISION
NEXT THURSDAY
Supreme Judges Will Go From Guth-
rie to Oklahoma City to Render
Removal Finding.

Guthrie, Okla, Feb. 7.-Official an
nouncement was made Sunday that the
Estate supreme court will, next Thurs
day, hand down its decision on the le-
gality Of the removal of the state cap
ital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City.
The judges will go from Guthrie, where
they are still living, to Oklahoma City
| to give the decision.
Following the action Of the special
Legislative session, called in Oklahoma
City on December by former Cover
nor Haskell, in enacting capital re-
moval bill, the attorneys representing
Guthrie challenged the legality of the
law in the state supreme court, alleg-
| ing the legislature an illegal body be-
cause the men comprising it could not
take Office until after January /, that
the governor had no authority to call
the special session in Oklahoma City
after the supreme court had designat-
ed Guthrie the legal seat of govern
ment; that the legislature, even if legal
could not change that provision of the
enabling act locating the temporary
capital at Guthrie until after 1913 but
such change, even though the enabling
act be not binding, must be made by
a vote of the people the same as con-
stitutional amendment and that the
capital removal bill is special or local
law and not advertised as such as re-
quired by the constitution.
The Guthrie attorneys again declare
that the enabling act provisions are
binding and on this question, if neces-
sary, they will appeal to the United
States supreme court.
In November, with only Justice
Kane dissenting, the supreme court
held the enabling act not binding.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10
RUNAWAY GIRLS S.:
FOUND At ALTON
Left Sacred Heart Institute Sunday
Night And Went to Their Former
Home at Alton.

Sophia and Mabel Thomas, aged Is
and IL years, respectively, who ran
away from Sacred Heart Institute Sun
day night, were found last night, at
Alton, where they had gone, en- route
to their home at Grove.
Mrs. Mary Thomas, mother of the
runaway girls arrived here yesterday
in search of her daughters and insti.
tuted the search that resulted success.
fully.
The girls formerly lived at Alton and
when they tired of school life here
they made for that place. The two
girls left the Sacred Heart Institute
about ten o'clock Sunday night and
no trace of them was found until last
night.
1t is not known whether or not they
will re-enter the Sacred Heart school
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10
WASHINGTON NEWS ITEMS.

Cash Cade, national republican COM
mitteeman, and Jim Harris, state re-
publican chairman, have been engaged
in mortal combat here over the Unit
ed States marshal for the western dis
trict of Oklahoma. 1t was in one sense
Ia dog fall with the odds in favor of
Cade, as his brother W. S. Cade got
the plum.
Taft Worried.
President Taft is sorely perplexed
over the civil war raging in the re-
publican party between the standpat-
tiers and progressiVes. He is afraid to
progress lest the standpatters defeat
him. He is being consumed between
two fires. The progressive movement
in the republican party is now being
organized in every state. 1t is feared
that it will dominate that organization
The plan is to organize in every pre-
cinct in the United States and make
a concerted and vigorous fight for the
nation control of the party.
Walter |. Smith, the standpat con-
gressman from Iowa, has been nomin-
ated to a vacant seat on the federal
bench in the 9Th circuit "By their
fruits ye shall know them"
Attempt to Defeat Direct Election.
The republican leaders in the SEN
ate are engaged in an attempt to load
down the constitutional amendment
for the direct election of United States
senators with intolerable amendments
which would lead to it's defeat and
thus cheat the American people of
that most salutary reform which every
body favors and nobody opposes except
a few trust chosen senators.
The senate is still debating the ques-
tion as to whether "The Senator or
Santa Claus bribed the members of
the Illinois legislature.
The Ship Subsidy Graft.
A frantic effort is being made by the
standpatters in this congress to pass
the ship subsidy bill in the interest OF
the shipping trust before the present
republican congress dies and dem
ocratic congress comes in. which will
never consent to that unblushine
graft.
Gore in Oklahoma.
Senator Gore is making brief visit
to Oklahoma. He says not for the pur
pose of resigning for to ascertain the
wishes and needs of the people of Ok
lahoma. He says that everybody
knows more than anybody and he
wants to know what the people want
done.
Oklahoma Visitors.
The following Oklahomans were in
Washington this week: w. I. Gilbert
of Oklahoma City, Attorneys Appel
and Franklin of Ardmore, and Mitch
Bonner. of Ardmore, and Attorney
IDeckard of Okmulgee.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10

the chief mine inspectors office; by
Anthony appropriating $1,3S6.S7 for a
deficiency of state board of public af-
fairs; by Milburn and Barrett, re-
appropriating $14.575.44 to complete
the Tishomingo agricultural school
buildings; by Jones, providing free
tuition in state school for crippled and
deformed persons; by Watrous, allow
ing benevolent institutions to retain
10 per centum of the receipts from
cemetery lots; by Stein, allowing dis
trict judges 81 day and 3 cents a
mile expenses while outside their own
districts; by Patichell and Redwine of
the senate, providing for bringing ac-
tions against surety companies; by
Moss, relating to the fees of justices
of the peace; by Searcy, allowing 81
day and five cents a mile for mileage;
by Tehee, of the house, and Landrum,
of the senate, empowering the COM
missioner of charities and corrections
to appear in court as next friend"
for minor orphan Indian children.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10

1t should be gratifying to the tax
papers of Craig county to know that
the enormous expenses of the county
court, made large on account of the
persistent and successful prosecution
of whiskey cases is being more than
met by the receipts The court is not
running the county in debt as has
been asserted but shows safe bal
ance. If all the counties in Oklahoma
win stand up and show as good rec
ord as Craig, the state is safe from
bankruptcy on this account
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10
sTATE.oWNED RAILWAYS.

FIT. Worth Record: 1t is reported
in the newspapers that the state of
Oklahoma is seriously considering the
construction of a state-owned railway,
the road to be built from the proceeds
of bonds guaranteed by the common
wealth. This is all that the news item
affords The initial and terminal
points are for future determination,
and the details of construction and op-
erations have not reached the point
of serious consideration; so that the
public is uninformed as to whether the
road is to be built on an eight-hour-day
plan or thereafter run as a common
carrier on an actual cost proposition.
Almost anything bizarre and out of
the ordinary may be expected from
Oklahoma, and the public will await
the outcome of a state managed rail.
way with considerable interest.
If the powers that be in Oklahoma
are open to receive suggestions we
venture to propose that a survey of
projects of like character on the part
of other governments may yield a pro-
fitable amount of information that may
be valuable, although somewhat de-
terrent in its application.
Not to mention the notorious case
of the Texas-owned railroad that be-
gan at the penitentiary and ended in a
swamp, and whose cost of operation
ran the state in debt and brought dis.
credit upon a jealous administration
nor yet to allude to the Kansas state
railroad whose unfragrant memory
most Kansans wish to be speedily for.
gotten, there are the state-owned rail.
ways of Europe for lurid examples of
traffic kindergartens.
France has just passed through a
railway strike, where sabotage, that
is, the right of the citizen to destroy
railway property at will, because it
was the property of the public and
IHS ClIlAeH 10 pdiI VI lhC puouC anu
therefore entitled to burn what be-
longs to himself, was asserted and put
into general practice, and where this
gentle manifestation was only sup
pressed by general conscription of
railway employees into the army AS a
result, France has about the worst
managed railways in the world if one
may believe the tales of travellers re-
turning thence. Paris had a coffee
famine because of traffic interruption
between that city and Havre. 1t is told
that an American traveller, claiming
his baggage on arrival at Paris, was
rendered a calf in lieu of his trunks;
and such contretemps are common.
The inherent viciousness of a sys.
tenn of state-owned railways in a re-
public is that discipline and eeonom-
ical management cannot be maintain
ed. AT least they are not in France,
and the example of Australia is almost
as bad. There the voting demand for
popular rules of management without
regard to financial returns has proved
a constant menace to the well-being
of such enterprises.
Every voter in Oklahoma would feel
that he ought to be consulted in the
management of a state-owned road,
which would be the beginning of con-
fusion.
Our advice to Oklahoma is. DON'T
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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10

The law that is about to pass the
state legislature disfranchising the
bootleggers has at least the virtue of
consistency. The boast of the liquor
men at the last election was that they
voted for prohibition. Now let them
take a homeopathic dose of their own
medicine or stay out of politics. In
every community in Oklahoma the
whiskey men have been power in
politics.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10

San Francisco will take much less
money out of OkiShoma than New Or
leans would have taken had the Pana
ma exposition been located there.
Now that the building for the state
hospital for the insane here are well
under way and will some of them be
finished in a few months, 1t would be
a good time to advocate the planting
of trees along the driveway from the
city to that institution. Elms planted
fifty feet apart on both sides would
soon make the finest driveway in the
state
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10

A splendid indication of the rapid
development of this section of the
state is the number of people who are
buying small tracts of land close to
town for truck. dairy and poultry farm
ing. A large number of small farmers
of the right sort is better than few
of the larger ones. There was never
a finer opening than now presents 1t
self in the vicinity of Vinita for an un
limited number of thrifty industrious
small farmers.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10

If Senator Owen succeeds in getting
the too late" baby case up in the
courts again, and wrings another big
fee out of the Cherokee people he will
have little support in eastern Okla.
homa when he tries for the senate
again. A long-drawn-out litigation and
big lawyer fee would injure his own
people to an extent that could scarcely
be measured.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10

Senator Tom Gore may not be the
smartest man in the United States
senate, but he manages to make fewer
mistakes than his colleague. Gore has
the praise of a well-ballanced mind
and seldom flies off at tangent while
on the other hand Owen is constantly
breaking loose and scampering around
at random. He is wrong on reciproc.
ity, on all the Indian bills and on the
proposition of the government print.
ing. owen favors womans suffrage and
if he don't let up a woman may sue.
ceed him in the senate.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10

Ten thousand pheasants have been
ordered by the state game warden to
be turned loose on Oklahoma farms
to help gobble up the insects. What
particular tribe of insects the pleas
ant prefers to dine off is not known
until they arrive and are turned loose
but Oklahoma can furnish anything
from mosquitoes to buffalos.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10

The inordinate desire to get rich
by fieecing a bunch of helpless In
dians has landed a trio of grafters in
jail at Guthrie After a long-drawn
out fight the trio who so persistently
fought extradition to Mexico for trial
in the Kickapoo land cases have been
sent to jail to await trial in Mexico
1t don't pay to be too eager to get
hold of a little money and trouble
comes sooner or later to those who try
to override all law and decency.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10

The pastor of the Christian church
is preaching some splendid gospel ser.
mons at his church this week. There
is good attendance and the meetings
are held nightly Rev. Jas. NJ. Miller
the pastor, is one of the most forceful
preachers Vinita church goers have
heard lately and it is worth while to
take an evening off if you cannot at
tend regularly, and hear him.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10

Every man in public life has his
limitations and his weaknesses. and
when a mans friends succeed in get
ting him up on a pedestal and begin
to be proud of him he falls down is
the idol shattered?
Senator Owen has started out on a
course that will make him the best
living example of the foregoing in this
country. Owen has been an attorney
in so much Indian litigation in Wash
ington that he has gotten to be obliv-
ious to the rights of the Indians at
large.
In the case recently decided by the
supreme court known as the too late
baby case" Mr. Owen has been instru-
mental in getting the case revised and
suit brought in the district court OF
the District of Columbia and the whole
thing tied up in the courts for the next
three or four years. It can only bene
fit a bunch of lawyers. as the Chero
kee people are satisfied to let it DROP
and consider it settled But Senator
Owen steps in and champions the
cause of the attorneys and will try tc
hold up his own kith and kin for q
large fee
owen has started something new
that will ALLEVIATE the east side Of Okla
homa in the future and he will fine
when he wants office again that his
old time friends will be deaf to his
palaver.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10

The Jeifords minor lease bill now
pending in the lower house of the state
Legislature, should be defeated beyond
all hopes of redemption. This meas.
ure, so far as a reading of it discloses,
has but a single purpose-to make it
easier to skin the Indian minors
easier for the land sharks to perpetrate
their outrages. 1t would have the
whole procedure of leasing minor
lands carried on by dark-lantern meth
DDS, and seeks to avoid the necessity
of advertising the probate courts or
der to sell such leases.
Mr. Jeffords idea seems to be that
the only person having any interest
worth protecting are the oil and gas
lease spectators; he ignores the In
dian children land owners altogether.
1t is fact that among legitimate oil
producers there is no disposition to
avoid competition in a matter of this
kind. Legitimate oil producers, many
of them, are opposed to it. They de
clare that the widest possible public.
ity should be given the courts order
to sell minor leases. In the first place
such publicity protects the legitimate
producer; in the second place it in
vites competitive bidding and in many
cases results in the land owners re
,ceiving several times the amount that
the soft-spoken lease speculator would
give. And this publicity also makes
! it exceedingly difficult for the probate
courts to connive with the guardian
and lessor as has too often been done
under existing conditions.
The Jeffords bill should not receive
moments serious consideration. Nc
fair-minded man can justify himself in
giving such a monstrosity his suppora
Swat it!-Tulsa World.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10

While everybody is rejoicing at the
conviction OF so many bootleggers il
would be we'll TO stop and figure the
cost. The prosecution of this class OF
offenders is costing the state not less
than $4,000 day
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-10

The newspapers have not the able
correspondents in the field Of battle
in the Mexican revolution that were
present during the Crazy Snake war.
The Mexican fighting is too tame