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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

Cleveland, o., April IL. = Tom L..
Johnson, twice congressman from the
twenty-frst Ohio district, four times
mayor of Cleveland, champion of three
cent street railway fare and leading
advocate of the single tax theory of
the late Henry George, died here at
|8:45 o'clock last night after long i'll
ness. He was 81 years old.
Mr.. Johnson had been ill for more
than a year, but his condition was not
thought to be serious until he suffered
a relapse on Wednesday, March 10.
He had been gaining strength after
spending the summer on Nantucket
Island.
On Saturday night, March II, he
left his apartments and attended a
banquet of the Nasi Prius club, an or
ganization of Cleveland lawyers. He
remained there until o'clock Sunday
morning and when he returned to his
home he complained of not feeling
we'll.
The following Wednesday his con-
dition was such that he was obliged
to go to bed. From that day until the
time of his death his condition was
grave, though several times he rallied,
and despite the fact that he realized
he did not have long to live, he was
cheerful, and optimistic until the last.
Sunday evening he sent letter to the
Cleveland American baseball team. He
said:
81 probably won't be able to attend
the opening game, but don't let that
make any difference Go ahead and
win"
In 1908, when Mr.. Johnson was
mayor, he was nominated for COVER
nor by the democrats of Ohio, but was
unsuccessful at the election. Crushed
in both spirits and health after his
defeat by Mayor Beahr he had hoped
TO regain his health by trip to Eu-
rope, but came home no better. Last
summer he spent in cottage on Nan
tuckett Island. When he returned to
Cleveland in the autumn he was re-
covered and said he never felt better.
Tom l.. Johnson once referred to
himself in public address as "a
stormy petrol" and this metaphor aptly
described him and indicated the course
of his career. From the time he cnter.
ed the Offices of a Louisville street
railway company as a boy of fifteen
until his defeat for a fifth term as
mayor of Cleveland on November 2
1909, he was ever in the center of
some storm, political or financial. He
aften said it was thus he enjoyed him.
self best.
Johnson was born in Georgetown
KY, July 1S, 1854.
Funeral arrangements had not been
completed late last night, but the bur.
ial will probably be in Greenwood
cemetery, New York, where Mr.. John
son had long owned lot beside the
one in which Henry George was buried
It is said that Mr.. Johnson accompani
ed Mr.. George when the latter pur
chased his burial lot in Greenwood
and purchased an adjoining lot.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14


Another unfortunate obstacle has
been placed in the way of advanced
industrial legislation by the decision
of New York's highest state court at
Albany. which unanimously holds un-
constitutional the law passed by the
last New York legislature providing
an automatic scheme by which injured
workingmen shall receive from their
employers compensation for accidents
without regard to the employers
blame There has come to be re-
markahly unanimous agreement among
all men who have studied the subject
impartially. including most employers
themselves, that an industry as a
whole should bear the charge of un-
avoidable accidents rather than in
divdual workmen, and this New York
statute embodied that principle, The
judges who have declared the law un-
constitutional were at great pains in
their decision to express their own
personal sympathy with this view of
the question. But they declared that
they were not at liberty to follow con
siderations of sentiment, however
lofty, but were obligated to render
judgment on strictly technical points
of agreement with the constitution. On
this ground the disallowed the new
statute because they held that il
amounted 20 talking property without
process of law; that is to say, an EN-
ployer was obliged to pay this com
pensation for injury whether he him
self consented or not, and without any
blame for which he could BE- mulctet
under a criminal process. There is ne
appeal from this decision, and the only
way therefore by which the people o.
New York state can put in effect thi:
approved industrial principle is tC
adopt an amendment to the state con
stitution, specifically providing for al
automatic form of employers liability
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14
Ellis Forgery Case Dismissed.

Oklahoma City, April 1.-THE case
against Nick NJ Ellis, former cashier
of the failed Planters and Mechanics
bank of this city, charging him with
forgery of a note for $4,000 was dis
missed Monday by Justice Samuel
Bartell
c. M. Reed, whose name was alleged
to have been forged to the note by
Ellis, took the stand and testified that
the note had not been forged by Ellis
but that he had signed it himself. The
prosecution was started at the in
stance of the state banking depart
ment.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

The commission form of city govern
ment may possibly not reduce running
expenses but the people will get more
for their money. Most cities which
have adopted the commission form of
government have elected five commits
sioners though for city the size of
Vinita probably three would do. Each
commissioner becomes the head of a
department or bureau. The work is
divided by the commissioners who are
all elected at the same time. There
are so many good points in this form
of municipal government and so few
bad ones it is remarkable that more
cities and towns do not adopt it.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

William Jennings Bryan has nearly
been offered two million dollars to
dwell in Memphis and refused the
offer. On the other hand Illinois
would probably give that amount to
get rid of Lorimer. Such are the in
equalities of human life.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

At last the government is about to
discontinue the sale of license for the
Illicit sale of intoxicants. In Okla
homa the chief purchasers of such IL
cense are bootleggers and those who
make no pretense of selling openly,
But back of all the trouble is the fact
that the government itself is the chief
beneficiary from the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

The people of Oklahoma have been
thinking about the bank guaranty law
long enough to come to the right con-
clusion and that conclusion is that
they are going to have bank guar
anty law
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

Twenty-one years ago today the limo
tyne that sets this paragraph into
type was invented. If newspaper folks
and printers in general were not too
busy today would be holiday. How
ever without this wonderful machine
the modern daily newspaper could not
exist.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

Just what sort of matrimonial
trouble Mayor Robert E. Lee of Spring
field, is having the papers have ne
elected to state but they must have
been bad indeed to make him quit his
home and his bride within three days
after the wedding.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

Vinita is getting to be distinguished
as a place where fine poultry is grown.
Within two miles of the city limits
there are several thousand of the best
breeds of chickens that can be had.
It is becoming an industry of no mean
Importance
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14
Aims Blow at Old Custom.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Washington, D. c.. April 11.-Repre-
sentative Murdoch, the militant Kan
sas insurgent, today aimed deadly
blow at the time honored custom,
which permits congressman to print
speeches in the congressional record
that never were delivered in the house.
Murdoch proposes that here after the
record shall show in plain type that
such speeches were not actually spok-
en-.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14
TOBE
BURIED THURSDAY
STORMY Petrol" Loses Fight Against
Death And is to Be Buried in
Brooklyn Cemetery.
By Associated Press.

Cleveland, O., April 1.-THE body
of former Mayor T. L. Johnson, who
died last night of corrososis of the
liver, will be laid to rest Thursday, in
the Johnson family Tot in the Green
wood cemetery, Brooklyn, in the
shadow of the monument over the
grave of Henry George, the great
single tax advocate, whose diciple
Johnson was.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

Considerable opposition to the re-
peal of article nine of the state consti-
tuition has developed. It is believed
to be in the interest of the railroads
which refuse to domesticate.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

McAlester has taken advantage of
the recall and by petition signed by
400 of her citizens asked for the abdi-
cation of Mayor Pete Hanratty The
mayors name is against him and will
prove a handicap whatever may be or
may have been his conduct.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

During the past week friend want
ed to know why we didn't try and run
paper little more along the lines
of how Christ would run a paper. We
don't know just how that would be. In
the first place, If Christ was back on
earth we don't believe that he would
go into the newspaper business at all
If our friend had wanted it more on a
religious plane we could tell him
frankly that it wouldn't pay. There is
not an editor or a preacher that could
tell the truth for thirty days and stay
in the community in which he lived. II
our friend doubts this let him try tell
ing the absolute truth for just one
week and see where he lights.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

The cemetery north of town is much
in need of attention. A resident sex
ton should be located there without
delay. There is work for the year
round there for the right man.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

The Chieftain's big piano contest is
drawing to close. Next Saturday will
be the last day and upon the work
done during the coming week will de-
pend the victory
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

A drive about the city indicates un-
mistakably that a large number oil
trees nave been planted. There is yet
a little time to plant others.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

The man who has induced someone
TO plant and care for a single tree has
performed an act that is public bene-
fit
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14
Editor

We have no Arbor day but every
politician in Oklahoma might at least
plant a plum tree.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

A man named Booz was drowned at
Tulsa yesterday. This was one in
stance where water got the best of
booze.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

The newspaper correspondents have
approached near enough the Mexican
battlefelds to hear the insurrectos
cooking their cannons.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

The Chieftain's piano contest will
run only four more days. Somebody
is going to win fine piano as well as
several other valuable prizes.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

Tom L. Johnson was the most abus-
ed man in the whole county few
years ago, and some of the. very news
papers that are now lauding him as a
great humanist were loudest in their
abuse of him.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

Oklahoma has more elections than
any other state. Two weeks from
Tuesday there is to be an election TO
attempt to change the constitution.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14
Killed in Automobile Accident.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Enid, Okla, April 11.-John Meyers
was killed, Walter Fisher fatally in
jured, Thomas Cotter and Joseph Mann
were badly cut and bruised when an
automobile ran off bridge near here
today, while going at great speed. The
four occupants lived at Ames, Okla.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

A call session Of the legislature to
strengthen the bank guaranty law is
one of the possibilities of the summer,
and if necessary the people will be
glad to stand the expense.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

The man who takes no interest in
garden work, in growing trees and
flowers, don't know what good things
he is missing.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-14

The commission form of govern.
ment is working well in other cities.
Why not in Yinita?
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17

welded to the Idea Of a suprcmcly
happy bachelor existence until he no.
tees particularly attractive stenog-
rapher he has hired. The more he sees
of her the more convincingIy is the
truth pressed in upon his mind that
he is more than ordinariallv interested
in the handsome girl. This interest
finally ripens TO growing attachment
and the first thinp the broker knows
he is head over heels in love.
The stenograpber S name IS known
only as Jenny, whilst her real name is
Milliecnt Rendell She has taken en-.
ployment under the assumed name III
order that she may keep her brother
Billy in college without his knowing
the source Of his school fund. Billy
however, eventually discovers what his
sister is doing and that she loves heI
employer He goes straight 10 Goodale
and tells him what he has ascertaIncl
and III anger insinuates that Goodalc
has compromised his sister. Goodale I'M
mediately decides that he Is in honor
bound to marry Jenny, If she will ac
cept him, and so proposes. Jenny con
fosses her love and all is going spIcn
didly when she discovers the clrcum
stances under which Goodale proposed
He begins his wooing IN earnest, an
complication after complication arise;
under tho fertile imagination OF The
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17
DRAMATIC NEWS
AND COMMENT

The hrmcst friendship that exists be-
tween any two living English play
wrights as some people know. is the
close bonl of understa udlng between
i. NJ Barrie and 4. l.. Mason. They
have known each other anal depended
upon each other for years. In fact, III
east of couptcnancas they might pass
for brothers. Mr.. Mason has none of
Mir. Barrie S love of secuslou. but is
n public man, in fact. 4 member of
parliament. Barrie began life as a
story writer; Mason us an actor. The
accident thar made Mr. Mason and Mr..
they happened upon tho same road to-
ward fame when Mr.. Mason left the
stage and turned 10 novel writing.
But what welded chance meeting
into lifelong bond was the remark
able similarity in point Of view that
they soon found thev had with each
other This similarity in ways Of
thinking is shown most Interestingly in
their writings. Of course the author
Of Pete! Pan" anl Of The Little
Minister is very neariv. if not quite,
Il genius; AMI 4. T.. w. Mason is at
best u very good. widely read much
sought after novelist and playwright.
They have never coilabprate1.
IN form. Their works arc totally Ill
fcren,. and vet in content thew reveal
occasional hkcncsscs that explain far
better than personal description can
do WHY a. f. w. Mason enjoys the
distinction Of being the ono close
friend of j, NJ Barrie For example.
everybody who saw Ethel Barrymore
in Mr., Barrie : exquisite little play,
..rhc Twelve Tnuni Lock. can not
soon forget thr Irving indiGtmcnt that
Dav contains a"airSt materially Wis"
but spiritually foolish success. in
life.
Success is iusi "a fatal oift. WAS
one OF the lines that Miss RarrYmore
hal 20 speak. "Your success was sui.
locating me. sail this wife on uneN-
pcctcilv meeting her former husband
land some of Your most successful
friends knew IL. One or two of them
! looked very sad at times. as it they
thought thev mioht have come TO some
/ thing If thcv hadn't got on. You Ion {
even know what YOUR religion was. AMI
| is and will be fill the day Of your cN-
rcnsiVc funeral, One s religion is
| whatever he is most interested in.
J Yours is success. Thus did NJ. Barrie
| she'd new lioht upon the ethics of sue.
/ cess.
| That this is likewise the philosophy
| of Barries closest friend A. T.. w.
! Mason. is clear from similar. II not
rs trcmchant warning against Tho dan.
gers of "success in "The Witness
for the Defense. :; "Non have hal one
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17

wright Of the American stage, Cylde
Fifth The Bachelor
The comedy was virtually written as
starring vehicle for that popular and
successful English actor, Charles
Cherry. who scored his greatest New
York hit as George Goodale in the
Fitch farce. Those familiar with the
plans Of the Garricli's management
were aware that strenuous efforts were
being made TO secure permission from
Sam and Lee Shubcrt, the noted New
York producers, 10 present Tho
Bachelor in Salt Lake before April.
That a release OF the comedy could be
secured nrior TO that date was not
deemed possible until a week ago, when
the eastern firm in charge OF the play
ing rights of the comedy notified the
Garrick that the play could be secured
for week s engagement Immediately.
All plans for other productions were
dropped instantly and the members of
the Garrick PLAYERS have been working
morning. night and noon in their ef-
fort TO make of ''The Bachelor one
of tho most laughable and pleasurablc
attractions vet seen there.
The story is that Of George Goodalc,
New York broker who has deter
mined to live the life of bachelor
because of the unhappy termination OF
an earlier love affair He IS quite
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17
New Books for Library

The following thiriv-four ooSss Ms,a
he added 10 the cubllc library w.
December IS. 1871: ,,.rv
MisCellaneous--Amcrican Liolsn p
soclarion. \ Proceedings 1911, ME- MI. sa
CholcgY OF Religious E%perlenoy,r
walter, Rural Us. Urban, CnHp''v vo,g
to Enamel. Jones. ed, Memorlsl .IsJ
Of Jefferson Davis; Kellicoti. SUI
reCtion OF Human Evolution. 100 n
Speech Making; l.esry. Chf'stn,sJs o,,ss
LorcnZ. Tom l.. Johnson to.
OF Tusany. My Own story. lr,asvd.
LamDs for New MandevIlls .is i,
Sir John Mandevills; Mon'as NH
matte Values: Paine, Book OF pos. @
Treasure: Ryan, Falhet n.l,nn. hlnn s!dr
Scott. Theory of Ady'rI,s''nn nnh,ap 4
Miscellaneous works OF SIR Ia VA "a
mex: weed. Farm Frienos AM ~ Iis
Fnes; Williams. Plain IoSnr y'ssys.
Wisconsin university. Weno stst1
Report Agricultural ENper'Hlen. stt
Villains. Art of MordantIns e''
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Fiction Rouvet Smile OF u,s Ter
Cameron. Pretender person. An ~
s!xes snd ssvens; Lincoln. .ap Isnifl
len's Wards TAYLOR. Lo,"S tysll;
'Tbauct. Stories That End
Loan. Big League. ~ Fsrr'
ChilGreu's hootf--bhhe,r,, ,r,,xton. So
Girls in School and CAMP S5soonsds;
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Lauvhlin. History of tae r Suly;
Mott. indoors and out: 1aF'o''
summer Awakening.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17

Not for gain, not for glory-thougn
both have come in plcnty-but 10 be
the humble Instrument for the widest
possible spread of this message Of hope
to n nation of workcrs-that is the
real reason Maude Adams chose TO act
"Chapteclcr,
Among the six new tcnors that Joseph
NJ Gates has added 10 "Thc EDcbant.
rcss company is Paul Rafferty,, IN
whom Mr.. Gates believes that he found
a voice of quite an unusual quality as
Mccormack s. Mr.. Gates has placed
him under Il five years contract. and
is having his voice carefully cultivated
under the hest teachers in the city.
Until recently Rafferty, was a brick
laycr in Mobile Ala. and when he was
not busy with the trowcl, sang IN the
local churches and at private entertain
mcnts. Recently Jake Tanncnbaum
the well known Mobile manager and
former imprcsario for comic opera
companies, heard him and immediately
sent him north TO Mr.. Gates for a trial.
Victor Herbert. author of "rhc En-
chantrcss. - was so impressed with the
range and strength of his voice, that
Mr. Gates placed him Immediately un.
der contract,
The Irish National Theater society
of Dublin. whose players are now at
the Maxine Elliott theater, have dem
onstrated that atruism in the manage.
mcnt of theatcr is not an impracti-
cable ideal. The directors Of the so.
cietv Lady Gregory and William But.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17

When is policeman not a pcHa
man? This is question that ID
seriously agitatcd the Scotch plsy1
appearing in "Bunty' at the Ccst4
theater. New York, since thcy 4
ceiyed letter from distiugiiA1
resident ScotchmRn. In the lette
objected to the use OF the word "A
licemer'' in Bwtv.' and suggct'
that "bailIff or "sheriff he NJ
instead. Policeman. he insias'
would never he heard in Scotland
Scotch policemen. in certain 81
munities. do not work on the Sabhl
There is no such thing as Surd
policeman in Scotland. but upon q
extraordinary occasion. the Sod
PLAYERS contend. any self.respetiiI
policeman, If called upon. would do J
duty.
Win .laxonc, who plays the paH
the policeman. insists that althclI
he has had no personal experience VI
Scotch policemen. he has had sstv
acquaintance with many of them. q
that the word policeman is the oi|
description Of these mon he has tJ'
heard Also Graham Moffat. The \
thor. has also used the word "pcla
man in the actors' lines.
- When We were hovs, We all bad.
good deal 10 do with policenil'
says George Ingleton, the stage ~
ager,
However, The point made br
writer of the letter is not settled.
cause = Scotch policeman is not !
liceman on Sunday.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17
With the Coming of Middle AZ.

There is a letting down IN tns 2
steal forces often shown IN anoeJp
and painful kidney and bladder
ments and urinary irregularities. iu
Kidney Pills are splendid resulh,p
and strengthening medicine at sa''
time. Try them. Schramm''opl,
Drugs. "The Never Substitutofa =
~ good stores.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17

dream all Your life the woman
charges the man in that play, TO rise
out of obscurity TO get on in the. world,
to become famous. 10 hold the high po-
sitions Everything and everyone have
been sacrificed to its fultillment. You
have lain down late AMI. risen early;
and YOU We got on. You are on thc
chariot. Will YOU step down from IT and
run tied to the wheels? No another
perhaps not YOU.
AS in each play it is the same KIND
of self -dcluding, soul-starV,n@ sue
cess" that is ridiculed, there is thus
revealed at least ono strip of common
ground upon which j. NJ. Barrie aud
A. T.. ". Mason can always stand to-
gcther.
II anybody should ask why Maudc
Adams wished, far more than anything
else obtainablc in this world, TO act the
role Of ChanteClor, let THIS be the
answer: Tho darkest hour of his life
is when Chantcclcr realizes that, while
he may not create the hight, hc can
proclaim II TO sleeping world, lie
secs that there is an even greater faIth
than the faith QUO has in tomorrow
faith in many tomorrows, He will find
new courage in work If 1t is faith
fully carried on, other workers who
come after. assigned TO the same task,
will find that task easier 20 do. Still
others that come after them will find
IT still easicr-and in the end there
will be no more night, no more failure
or discouragemeut for the worker.