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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-11-20

Miss Mary Ross Parker is visiting
Miss Mamie Blount of Nacogdoches.
V. T. Echols of Edge was in the
city today.
Father j. p. Gleissner went to Cal
vert today.
Tom Gloss was down today from
Edge.
Charley Conlee was over today from
Grimes county.
P. H. Arlington was up today from
Millican.
Miss Ora Powers returned today
from visit to Houston.
Philip Endler was in the city today
! from Kurten.
J. II. Hearne was in today from
Kurten.
]. r. Smith of Reliance was in the
city today.
J. P. Cllpin was in today from
Kurten.
Herbert Lavender, a we'll known cit.
izen of Grimes county, was in the city
! today.
Lost-My railroad credential book,
( No. SD 11132. Finder please return TO
Hotel Bryan. w. o. Marlborough.
Mrs. NJ. w. Sims went to Houston
this afternoon to attend the State
! Federation of Women's Clubs.
Col. r. T. Miner, president of A. &
NJ. College, was a visitor to the city
this afternoon.
G. II. Fullerton of Tabor was a
pleasant caller at The Eagle office to-
day
Attorney A. F. Brigance of Nava
sofa was in Bryan today on legal bust
ness.
Joe Sample of Cottonwood was q
pleasant caller at The Eagle office
! while in town today.
S. T. Brogdon of Beaumont was
here today for short Visit 10 MS par
ents. He was en- route to Marlin tC
attend the Texas conference.
Miss Ella Prinzel of kurten re
turned today from visit to Houston
She was met here by her father, Mr.
Henry Prinzel, and cousin, Mr.. Angus
Endler
Prof. and Mrs. Henry Hudspeth ar
rived yesterday and Prof Hudspet'
lwll take up his duties as membe
of the faculty Of Allen academy a
once.
Mrs. ]. A. Mcqueen and Miss Hettit
Smith are in Houston to attend th'
ball given by Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Street
Dr.. at the ITALIAN Club in honor o
Mr.. Streets sister, who is one of tn
seasons popular debutantes.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-11-20
WON IN OLD FlppLERs' CONTEST.

Uncle Sam Sheriff., formerly OF
Cooks Point, Burleson county, who is
now residing in this city, won the first
prize in the odd folders contest at
the Waco Cotton Palace. The contest
was held last Saturday in the pres
ence of very large audience and the
whole program was rendered amid the
most enthusiastic cheering. When
Uncle Sam appeared he brought down
the house, even the judges Joining in
the applause, and before he completed
the required numbers it was evident
to all that he had won. The first prize
was So in cash.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-11-20
HIGGS-JONES

Mr. Wiley Higgs Of this city and
Miss Maggie Jones, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John d. Jones of Harvey
we're married yesterday afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock at the home of DR.. NJ. +.
Weaver. pastor of the First Baptist
church, DR.. Weaver officiating.
Both bride and groom We're reared
here. and are two of the community 5
most worthy young people and are
very popular with a large circle o.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-11-20

friends. Each belongs to one of the
county's best families.
They will make their home In
Bryan. The Eagle joins their many
friends in congratulations and best
wishes.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-11-20

For Sale-Fifteen acres N south
west part of town, the most elevated
place in the city; siX-room house, good
barn, cement cistern and well; woulf
make an ideal truck farm, or could be
cut up into beautiful residence lots
See Fountain Bros
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-11-20
Gnral Arms

j. w. Coulter is visiting his daugh.
ter, Mrs. w. F. Hoppess, in Hllsboro
am still sawln. wood. Phone 229.
J. l.. Robertson.
|. b. Todd and Devalson Buchanan
Of Harvey were in the city today.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-11-20
KNIGHTS of Pythlas, Attention

All members are expected to be
present at the regular meeting Tues
day night, November 81, it being the
annual roll call of Brazos Lodge No
GA. All visiting knights will be cor,
daily welcomed.
]. B. STEVENSON, C. c.
J. B. WELLS, X. of r. and S.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-11-20
WOOD! WOOD!!

Two cars good dry post oak wood
on l. G. G. n. track, $3.50 per core
delivered. Leave orders with Howell
Lumber Company.
J. ]. JONES
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-11-20

Miss Lucy Christian spent Saturday
and Sunday at her home in this city,
returning to her school in the bottom
yesterday.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-11-20
AN INVITATION TO ALL.

You are cordially invited to inspect
our line of brass goods See on,
windows
TYLER HASWELL.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-11-20
SAVE MON EY.

Before you buy get our prices on
percolators, chatting dishes, plain ana
electric Haswelrs Book Store.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-11-20
FOR SALE.

A pair of German coach mare colts
. II years old, broke TO ride and drive
See w. l. McCULLOCH.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03

The Joplin Morning Tribune, Jop
Inns new and popular newspaper is
now showing up the Joplin Globe as
the most open and bare-faced trust de.
fender in the west
Yesterdays Joplin Morning Tribune
copies a column editorial from last
Saturdays Globe; written in defense
of that greatest and most harmful
trust in the United States-the steel
trust. The Globe says:
'The men who are at the head of
the steel corporation are master
minds They are leaders today be-
cause this is day of business. The
of just such minds were
the great generals in the DAYS of
great ecclesfasts in the
days of church dominance, the war
riors bold in the days of chivalry."
The Globe must think that the peo-
ME OF the west are deporably ignorant,
if it expects them to swallow such ut
ter nonsense today In 1912 neither
great party can expect to elect a ma
tional ticket except upon a platform
that promises the people some relief
from the encroaehments of these great
nobber combinations. Yet in the face
Of all this the Globe wants us to start
little Sunday schools. to teach the peo-
pie to fall down and worship trusts.
Joplin is to be congratulated that
n the new Morning Tribune 1t has at
ast secured purely democratic news
PAPER, that will represent the people
md not the trusts.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03

Just now they are initiating bill to
take the place of prohibition in Okla
homa. If the present law was en-.
forced there would be no need of such
measure. The saloon is obnoxious
TO a majority of the people of this
state, but the bootlegger is more OBJ
noxious. The laws must either be en-
forced or we will have the licensed sa-
loon. 1t is time to side track the
cranks and nincompoops and get down
to business. Enforce the law or give
the people the licensed saloon.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03

Rev J. H. o. Smith. pastor of one
of the leading churches in Oklahoma
City and one of the most brilliant cler.
gymen in the southwest takes a whack
lat newspapers and preachers that is
worthy of notice, and touches upon a
topic that is Of vital Importance to the
public Mr.. Smith says:
do you know l think that news
papers and preachers are responsible
for goodly percentage of crime com
mitted in the United States?"
AS a man thinketh in his heart. so
is he" DIR. Smith continued. and the
perusing of salacious newspapers and
the hearing of certain kinds of SER
mons are in reality conductive of more
crime than people may think. Did you
ever notice that murders and suicides
happen in punches? We have seen that
illustrated in this city recently. Get
IA persons mind on certain subject
and his actions will be in accord with
his thoughts 1t seems a pity that
journalism has sunken so law that the
misdemeanors of some addle-headed
boy and featherminded nonsencial girl
should fill the front pages of our daily
papers. Everyone reads the news
papers, and when you fill the mind of
the community full of scandal, their
actions are very likely to become scan
dalous, too
Preachers are guilty of the same
thing, in my opinion. 1t is possible to
SO graphically portray sin to a congre-
cation that the people will leave the
house of God thinking about sin. It
is possible think. in that way to
make sin easier
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03
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In the death of Fred L. Kelley Vinita
loses a good citizen and a man who
was worth much to the town and coun-
try. When we stop to think it oyef
this is very high compliment to pay
any one. To be useful to a whole
community and for whole section to
feel keenly the loss of man shows
that man to have been much more than
an ordinary citizen Aside from tie
great loss to his own family the town
of Vinita and far beyond it feel the
loss of a splendid citizen and a man
of enterprise.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03

At last we have put our finger on the
man most responsible for the high
cost of living His name is Middle
man" In an informal talk to some
Pennsylvania grangers, Colonel Roose-
velt said, Il do not object in the least
TO paying more for something If | am
paying more to the farmer and the
laborer. What I object to is paying
profits to three persons who stand be-
tween me and the worker" No one
would say that all middlemen should
be eliminated or that all the response
bility for high prices should be placed
upon their shoulders. A large per-
centage, those who simply add to the
cost of living, could be dispensed with
In looking through a wholesale manu-
featuring establishment recently. the
writer took up a ladys suit marked
1915 and was surprised to learn that
this suit would sell at retail for S15.
Another handsome suit marked at
$3.50 wholesale would bring at retail
S75. When there is such disparity
between wholesale and retail prices.
the public pays too much to the middle
man. In the case of farm products. as
recent investigations have hown,
the disparity is even greater.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03

The press of the country from time
to time take turns at discussing the
question of free advertising for the
churches. 1t has been the concensus
of opinion that it is legitimate ad-
vertising and should be charged for.
But it is a rule in many newspaper
Offices to make no charge where no
money is taken in at the door Every
newspaper is ready to help the pastors
of his town by free advertising of
their services. and indeed such an
nouncements are good news items. But
the papers that do this. seldom get
any other business from the churches.
If they have job of printing it goes
elsewhere, perhaps on the theory that
its favors should be distributed as
evenly as possible.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03

The school land department has just
completed the sale OF the advertised
school lands in Woods county. There
were l2S tracts sold, all lying in the
poorest section of the county The ap-
praised value of the land was consid-
.erably less than the price paid by the
purchasers. the 128 tracts bringing
$100.673. This was S37,26S more than
the land had been appraised at. The
department is making every effort to
get full value for the school land when
ever sold, thereby guarding the best
interests of the state In most of the
sales that have thus far been made
in different parts of the state the land
has brought more than its appraised
value.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03
GIVE US MEN.

We are weary of your parties
With their hallow battle-cries
We are sick of broken pledges.
We are sick of specious lies.
You have promised, We have trusted
You have failed and failed again;
We have had enough of parties;
Give us Men! Give us Men,
on. trtce TO poor excuses
We have seen and We have heard
Is it hard to do your duty?
Is it hard to keep your word?
Is it hard to deal the justice
You nave sworn with tongue and
pen?
We are done with trade and barter!
Give us Men! Give us Men!
We shall find them, we shall know
them;
We shall call and they will heed
Downright men, however labeled,
-HSh VI HOHeSt luOuBHJ anu ueeQ,
Men who will not shirk or palter
Who will shame your weakened
sloth,
Then,-a plague O. both your houses
We have had enough of both.
We are coming, we, the young men,
Strong of heart and millions strong;
We shall work where YOU have trifled,
Cleanse the Temple, right the wrong.
Till the land our fathers visioned
Shall be spread before our ken.
We are through with politicians!
Give us Men! Give US Men!
Arthur Guiterman in Life
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03
WHO GETS THE PROTECTION?

In the textile mills of Rhode Island
it is not the operative who is getting
the benefits of the protective duties
which Mr. Aldrich says are laid for
"our people in the United States" He
is barely getting living, and getting
it under conditions which make lfe
to himself, his wife and children a
constant menace The tax We pay on
textiles never gets beyond the stock
holders.-Ida NJ Tarbell in "The Tariff
in Our Times"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03
TULSA WILL CELEBRATE
EXTENSION OF RAILROAD

Tulsa, Okla, Oct. 31.-Tulsa will
httmgly commemorate the extension
'of the Midland Valley railroad from
Arkansas City to Wichita, thereby Civ
ing direct connection between this city
and the Kansas metropolis. A special
train bearing hundred or more Tulsa
business men, with a band and SIM
ply of advertising matter. will make
trip over the Midland Valley system
TO Wichita within the next two weeks
This trip was decided upon At last
nights special meeting of the Tulsa
Commercial Club when the invitation
extended by the Wichita Club 70 he
the guests of that body in the near fu-
ture was accepted. Committees were
appointed to arrange for the trim and
hnal arrangements will be made and
the date fixed at a special meeting 70
be held Tuesday, October 81.
Those who wish to make the trin arc
signing the honor roll" which will he
framed and hung up in the club rooms
after the trip is made. Tulsa last
winter entertained the Wichita boost.
ers on their annual trade trip. The
Tulsa boosters will stop at numerous
Oklahoma and Kansas towns en- route
to Wichita.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03

Nothing broadens a man or woman
more than travel A trip through ones
own country is an education in itself
for the man who keeps his eyes open.
A trip abroad is lesson for ones life.
To overcome prejudices, meet people
and see them as they are President
Taft did well to make an extensive
trip through the west 1t has given
him a great opportunity to meet the
business man. the banker, the farmer
and the workingman. He has been il
touch with the masses. Has he found
them strong, healthy, contented and
happy? Has he heard them clamoring
to bust the trusts and smash the rail
ways? Has he heard them complain
ing of high prices and low wages? Per
haps the presidents trip will leave
him in thoughtful state of mind 1t
will be fortunate for the country if the
trip shall signalize an end to the un-
rest and uncertainty that muck-rakers.
and the yellow press have
created We are hoping for the best
from Taft's travels.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03

Henry Clay Beattie Jr.. the young
Nirginian whose crime and trial has
attracted national attention. has been
condemned to death by the jury in
whose hands the due processes of law
and justice placed his fate
Unhappily there is nothing strange
or unusual in the ways that have led
this young man to a shameful death.
1t is the old. old story. and old as hu-
manity and sin, of him who wilfully
seeks and finds the wages of sin-of
him who blinds his eyes and deafens
his ears to the divine commandments
and the experience of all the ages
who rejects the wisdom that admon-
ishes
The lips of a strange woman drop
as an honeycomb. and her mouth is
smoother than oil But her end is
bitter as wormwood. sharp as two
edged sword Her feet go down to
death her steps take hold on hell.
Let not thy heart decline to her
ways go not astray in her paths. For
she hath cast down many wounded;
yea, many strong men hath she slain.
Her house is the way to hell, going
down to the chambers of death. -
Inter-Ocean.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03

During the past week there has been
a suggestion brought fourth which is
surprise to many in Craig county. if
not all. Taxpayers in the towns of
this county, the only county in the
state where the condition exists, have
been paying a doubel tax" This is the
statement made the Watchman bv
John Johnson, travelling auditor who
has been auditing the books of the
town.
Mr.. Johnson says the towns have
been paying a township tax as well as
town tax where they should only
have been paying the town tax. be-
cause they get no benefit from the
township tax as none of this money is
expended inside the towns.
If this be true which most assured
lv it is, our people should investigate
the matter as it viii enable them to
make a reduction in their taxes.
Mr.. Johnson Furthermore says. "The
railroads traversing Craig county. have
made a fight against this taxation and
their contentious have been upheld.
and money paid into the treasury has
been refunded them"
Corporations are no better than in
dividuals, and if the courts will grant
them this refund it will do the same
thing for individuals.
Mr.. Rogers reports the affairs of our
little city in the best shape of any
town he has investigated in the state.
The towns indebtedness is less than
s70,-Welch Watehman
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03

A writer in the Marble City News
points out some of the local results of
,nroeibition that doesn't prohibit. six
bright young men from this commun-
| ity, he says, "are now in jail charged
with murder, boys who are human,
who have affectionate mothers, hon
orable fathers and loving sisters; boys
who have many admirable traits of
character but who. perhaps, were
transformed into brutes for time by
the use of combination of wood al
cohoI jamaica ginger and cider. Then
follows news from Sallisaw that Clay
Agent, prominent business man there
had brutally beaten his wife with
gun, finally shot her and is now i'm jail.
Then from Wan comes report of a
drunken brawl in which w. C. Myers
was killed. and Charley Pender and
Peter and James Gau1t are being held
pending an investigation of the af-
fair James Gault is an old and high
ly respected citizen of the place. has
held several responsible positions there
and is connected with many of the
best families in that community. That
he was in the crowd brings a disgrace
upon his good wife from which she
will never entirely recover" The
writer continues; THE origin of all
of these affairs does not lie i'm prohibi-
ton. The county is being put to an
enormous expense in trying to convict
the men who traffic in this poison. but
their business will continue to thrive |
and will go so long as time lasts in |
some form or other. There is one way |
and only one way, so far as we know |
10 prevent these awful crimes. and |
that is to open up a respectable saloon |
IN every large town in the land regu-
ate them employ sufficient peace Off
,ers to control them. to enforce the
aw, and let the consumer of liquors
pay the bill"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03
DIsTRUsT OF THE PEOPLE.

Q Speaking of the present kind {
Q of "middlemen" politics. Cover
o nor Wilson said: That is not
o peoples government. There are
o men connected with this system
Q who do not believe it safe TO
Q submit public questions to the
o general judgment Those are c
o the men who you hear going
D about the country speaking of c
D the people with distrust, max
D ing the incredible comparison c
D between the people and a mob, c
, speaking about mobcracy, as if c
, that were a synonymous term c
} with government by the people, G
, evidently supposing that out c
} side of their own circles moth c
} ing but passion, nothing but c
} prejudice, nothing but ire Q
} sponsibile Impulse governs" G
} There was long applause c
when Governor Wilson said of Q
} these persons: Il am perfectly @
} willing to believe them honest, Q
} if they will permit me to believe Q
} them ignorant, but if they in Q
} sist upon my believing that they Q
understand the situation as it is Q
then they must forgive me for Q
} believing them deeply dis Q
honest. - Woodrow Wilson at o
} the Wisconsin conference. Q
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03

The local option measure that is
now being initiated in this state may
be fairly good measure if enacted
into law but it has. in the opinion of
the Chieftain, the serious if not fatal
defect of bringing on an unwonted
agitation at a time when the people
OF Oklahoma crave and need political
rest. The weakness of the initiative
and referendum lies in the tendency
to agitation and continual disturbance.
The ambitious politicians and special
interests in Oklahoma are making one
mistake after another in the belief
that the people like excitement and
never-ending disturbance. This is no
new thing in either state or nation and
attempts nave been frequently made
to infiame the people by attacking
business at some point or other. The
Chieftain has little confidence in the
present liquor laws of Oklahoma and
a miserable farce is being played in
this state, but more intelligent eff
fort would better be made to enforce
the present law than to harass the
people by another campaign of bitter
ness that would not settle anything
after it was over Better suffer the
ills we have than fly to others we
know not of"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03

Vinita Leader: 1T would require a
landslide to oust the democrats from
power in the Oklahoma legislature. "
Landslides have been frequent in
the history Of this country. When
ever one party fails to make good it
is turned out and another given a
trial. Next year will be a great year
for the democrats nationally but in
Oklahoma it may be different.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-03

There was never time In the his
tory Of Vinita when it was more in
cumbent upon Vinita people to exer-
else business friendship among each
other than the present. Other cities
are making a campaign along this line
and making it pay. If the business
men of Vinita would stand together
the town would be inyincible against
failure and business would be good in
every line of human endeavor. The
combined strength of Vinita people
when properly directed crystallized
could do wonders.