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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-11-03
SUNSHINE AND STRIKES

Some of the English hygienic
experts asserted recently that
the labor upheaval in the United
Kingdom, with its attendant
strikes and with the general dis
arrangement of the national normal
life, was due primarily to the
extraordinary heat wave which
made the people bad humored.
This is now disputed by another
expert, who declares that "a new
spirit OF courtesy" is observable
among Englishmen as result of
the many days of warm sunshine.
Northern races being used to
leaden skies and dull rainy
weather and subjected to severe
weather conditions in the winter
tcrd to produce in the long run
according to the d octor hardy,
stubborn. Gelf-contLined, rather
melancholy but. cool-headed and
business-like men-the thinkers
and the fighters whereas the
southern climes favor poetry of
living, joyousness, gallantry and
produce passionate. warm-hearted,
quick-temprred men and women.
The great difference in tempera-
nent between The Swede and the
Spaniard is due. the doctor thinks,
almost entirely to the influence
of the sun.
1t puts a rather severe strain
upon ones credulity to believe
either that the hot spell in England
caused the strike or that it
effected any change in John Bulls
attitude toward the workingman.
A comparatively brief period of
either hot or cold weather does
not suffice to alter a nation s
character or even its manners.
The Eskimos and Laplanders are
exceedingly affable. Exchange.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-11-03
Had TO Find Out.

Under ordinary conditions, he was y
man OI prOminence-but.a as he ascend.
ed the steps Of his residence. very
early in the maning. II was very evi.
dent that he desired to be az much
otherwise as possible The cabby was
lingering near by to see that his
charge was safely disposed al for the
night. The door opened before the
man on the steps could get the key to
work, and he was greeted with the
question Henry. where have you
been?" (SileDce.) Henry. Where
have you BEEN" lie turns To- descend
the steps, Are you going TO answer
my question:" Yes. dearje heart. I
am. From my personal knowledge
beloved o my 'sul. } cant give tn de
sired inf'mation SO you Jest lay down
again while I go back an ask tn hack
driver"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-11-03
SUNDAY SCHOOL .....
ANNOUNCEMENTS

Sunday, November 5th, 1890 o.
m. there will be Sunday School
Rally Of all Sunday schools in the
town and county at the Presby-
terrain church; at 8 o'clock the
first session Of the County Sunday
School. Association will -onvene
Regular services at 1880 in the
evening. Further services to be
announced at Sunday night
services.
Rev. w. C. Merritt. from the
international Sunday School AS
ISOLATION will be here to preside at
these services.
Mr.. Merritt is a college trained
educator. who has had wide en-
perience as teacher and leader
Of young people, and is specials t
along the lines of Sunday school
work. .o....
He comes to us with a mind
richly stored with Interesting
topics, and you cannot afford to
miss hearing Mr.. Merritt. Join
in the rally.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-11-03

Nov, Harry, go to Smiths, the
grocer, and get a pound of the
best syrup" said his mother, and
she handed the young hopeful a
coupl ! good sized jugs. When
the boy had gore the wife said:
You didn't tell him to get any
thing in the other jug. Is he going
to leave II at the shop?'
No, ma'am; he's going to bring
it back here again"
But why send two jugs to get a
pound Of syrup"
well, you see, it's this way.
II he has a jug in each hand, he
can't go dipping his finger in the
syrup and eating it as he comes
along"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-11-03
Insects That Use Rubber.

When Para trees are tapped, after
The gum has run into receptacIes and
stinened, a species OF large black ant
Is accustomed to cut out pieces OF the
rubber and carry them away. Bees
also find uses for india rubber, and
some species IN South Africa actual
~ cut the bark OF trees that produce
resinous substances in order to cause
a now OF the sap The gum is EN-
ployed by the bees az a roady.made
wax for their nests.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-11-03

The examination Of e.. W. Grow
or on the charge of threatening
the life of George +. Wolford be-
gan before Ju dye Katie this fore
noon. At noon an adjournment was
taken until 2 o'clock. The case
was still going on when this was
put in type.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-11-03
"Oueer EnoIjsh."

These specimens Of queer English"
are given by writer In the Cleveland
Review and Observer: 81 heard man
talking OF political candidate the
other day say: 'Tf he only takes the
stand when he runs he'll have a
"walkover" and N Galyestonian
who has a mule for sale. hearing that
a friend in Houston wanted TO buy a
mule, teIegraphed him: Dear friend
II you are looking for No. ! mule.
don't forget me-"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-11-03
|SALMAGUNDI

Rtv. Howell and family will ar
We or No. 3 this Afternoon.
Mrs. V8, johnson and family
me IN yesterday from Gold CT eek.
hey expect TO make their home in
Ike.
MAJOR Miller returned from CAL
ornia this morning. He says he
ad a good time and is feeling
Inc.
Rev. L. T. Barkman will hold a
ervice in the Good Will" Chapel
Far tonight at 1870 The subject
pill be Harvest Time.
4 l9O9 there were 247.643,l97
(airs of boots and shoes manufac-
ured in the United States. accord
.ng to a census bulletin.
j. W. Ebert of Palisade is in
own. He says contractors have
heir outfits at Palisaue ready to
begin the building of the E. & P.
abroad. From what he says it
lppears that the contracts have
lsea let for rob liliing the road.
Job Hartman the socialist can.
aidate for mayor Of Los Angeles
&c eived the highest vo te cast for
that office at the pri mary election.
Hartman is one of McNamara's
lawyers. George Alexander the
present mayor received the next
highest vote. Hartman and Alex
ander will fight it out IN Deem
Der.
Someone called up this Office this
forenoon and wanted to know
when the courthouse would be ded-
Gated. So far as VIC know that
eveht will no occur until the meet
ing Of the district court. The
phone worked SO badly that Meth
nor the Writer could
understand who it was at the other
end of the line.
The fianl distribution of the Cal
fornia estate of the late L. O..
Mills, capitalist, valued at So, OO0-
DO, was ordered by Judge Graham
Wednesday, the balance Of the
estate y New Yo'k state. All of
the pro Tty is divided between
Ogden Mills and his sister, Mrs
Reid, wife of United
States Ambassador Reid.
A negro had lively time at Haz-
en- Wednesday,. He was stealing a
ride on a freight car and took a
shot at a brakeman who after pied
to put him off. He then took to
tile sagebrush ard a unmber of cit
liens armed themselves and went
afTer him. About IL miles from
Hazen, the negro fell exhausted
and was captured. He had two re-
vo4 1ers and about 200 cartridges
in his pocket. He was hound and
taken to the Fallon Jail.
1t mas been shown tina. nearly all
the failures of steel occur very
early in its history. If a plate or
bar If mild steel lasts for year in
service, it may be trusted to last
for many years. The most injur-
ious thing is the continued bending
back ward and forward, as in what
is Gale the painting" of boiler
end. Az one authority puts il,
steel has somewhat "tumultuou
youth" but Gin middle age it is
trustw orthy and in old age beyond
reproach." In regard to corrosion
there is a dierence of opinion, some
holding that steel corrodes more
readily than ircn. - Harper's
Weekly.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27
rAE POINT OF VIEW.

Joplin Globe: When John G. Mil
burn, of New York, attorney for the
Standard Oil company, remarked, in
the course of his argument against the
dissolution of the company in the
United States supreme court, that the
decree would be ruinous to many sub
sidiary companies, because they have
no Independent existence Attorney
General Wickersham scribbled a note
on his pad.
81 mean" added Mr.. Milburn, hastily
from the point of view of value"
Inadvertently, he had admitted one
of the governments most important
contentious, so he FASTENED to seek
refuge behind point of view"
In another portion of his argument
he declared that the contracts between
the railroads and the Standard Oi
company, made in the SOS were not il
restraint of trade, eff viewed in the
light of the days in which they were
made" Another point of view"
Similarly points of view, shifting anC
uncertain as the colors of chameleon
are sprinkled through the trusts argu
ment Doubtless the court will con
slider them upon their merits.
Neither Mr.. Milburn nor any of hi
colleagues has yet called attention t,
the most important point of view,
in connection with the case, namely
that of the people of the United State
If laxity of law permitted John I
Rockefeller to legally proceed wit
the organization of a trade-killing nor
opoly twenty-five years ago, he ma
not be held liable for violation of law
enacted since that time. The publ
point of view has changed, however
and he must abide by the statutes o
today even as he seeks shelter behin
the lack of statutes of yesterday.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27
TOO LATE DECISION
BY JUSTICE DAY
Nothing Whatever in Decision on
Merits of Cases But Only on Power
to Pass JurisdictionaI Act.

In a letter written January 29, by
McGown, Serven & Mohun, of Washing
ton, D. c., to j. C. Starr, more light
is given in the matter of the "too late"
baby case known as the Muskrat case
and the Gritts case, known as the case
to test the constitutionality of the Nc
Cumber amendment to the Curtis act
of April &c, 1906, extending the re-
strictions on full blood Indian lands
in the Five Civilized Tribes as fol-
lows:
1--WE were present in the court when
the decision in the Muskrat case was
ANNOUNCED. 1t was rendered by Mr..
Justice Day and was unanimous. Of
course we presume that the two new
Justices, Lamar and Van Deventer, took
no part as they had not qualified when
the case was argued. Mr.. Justice Day
after reviewing the facts stated that
the primary question was, whether it
was within the constitutional power
of congress to pass an act, the sole pur-
pose of which was to determine the
constitutionality of a prior law. He
then dwelt upon the fact that the only
purpose of the jurisdictional act in
this case was as above stated and fur
ther that it provided the United States
should be defendant Mr.. Justice Day
mentioned the fact that the United
States was not party in interest be
cause the question was one between
the Indians and involved solely the de
Termination of their rights in the reser
Ivation. The court in answering the
Iprior question above mentioned stated
lit was clearly of the opinion that il
was beyond the power of congress tc
Ipass such an act and it was, therefore
Unconstitutional and void There was
nothing whatever in regard to the
merits of the controversy. We expect
printed copies of the opinion to be
available by Thursday or Friday o.
this week and we will see that copy
is promptly forwarded to you. Al
stated in our telegram, of course the
Curtis act stands exactly the same az
though no jurisdictional act had eve
been passed"
"All we have stated above applies
also to the Levi Gritts case as the!
} were both included in the opinion o
the court"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27

The deliberate opinion of man who
has spent most of his time on the
streets of Vinita for the last twenty
years is that the town is better than
it was at the beginning. The streets
are little crowded and it is not near
ly so easy to get up and down the
sidewalks as it used to be. When the
hogs and cattle and other stock ran
at large and said up all night, there
were many privileges that have been
curtailed or taken entirely away About
the only inhabitants that have not suf-
fered loss are the dogs which have
gradually been increased in number
and in variety and social standing until
tax of dollar a head would pay all
the expenses Of government.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27

The legislature will forget that a big
appropriation is needed for the next
two years work on the hospital for the
insane, unless Vinita remembers
Leader.
The people of Vinita and of the whole
state are at loss to know what mean
ing the Leader seeks to convey. Is not
the hospital for the insane a state in
stitution? Is anything expected more
than has been done and is being done
Vinita gave 100 acres of land costing
$4,000, the most desirable location in
the state. Is this a threat or not?
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27
PROJECT TIE BIRDS.

Representative Nesbitt has introduc-
ed a bill making it unlawful for milli-
ner or any other person to sell feath-
er or wing for trimming or to sell a
hat on which such trimmings are used
The bin also makes it unlawful to
wear hat so trimmed.
Hurrah for Nesbitt,
The cruel onslaught on birds should
be stopped, and there is no way to stop
it so long as vanity will use them for
decorating peach baskets and other
Uranium covers.
The bill is commendable one, and
at the risk of mourning the i'll will OF
some of our less humane lady friends
we say
God speed the Nesbitt bill.
1t may prove the forerunner of a
general law that will protect the feath
cry tribe of this and other states.
The bill should not only become q
law but the game warden with his
force of deputies should get behind il
and enforce 1t to the letter.
Year by year birds of all kinds, ex
cept the English sparrow, are grow
ing less numerous because of slaugh
ter carried on over the land by those
who furnish the hat trimmers.
The farmers best friend is being
ruthlessly slaughtered.
Every bird that fits over the farm
er's field is a crop protector.
Even the woodpecker is valuable
bird to the fruit grower and nursey
man.
We cannot have laws too rigorous
provided they are enforced, for tn,
protection of the birds of our state.
Again we urge passage of the Mes
bitt bill.-State Capital.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27

1t is a good move that has been made
by the Commercial Secretarys' associ-
alton of Oklahoma in asking for the
repeal of the law that places tax upon
real estate mortgages While it is a
fact that other states tax such mort
cages, that doesn't make it a just law
land Oklahoma is by no means bound
to follow the laws of other states il
they are wrong.
1t is double taxation when the owner
of land must pay taxes on it and the
holder of a mortgage must be taxed for
the same property The fact that
tract or parcel of land is mortgaged
does not give it double valuation.
The owner of land must pay the taxes
on his property. If he is compelled to
place a mortgage upon it, in effect he
must be doubly taxed, under the pres
ent law, for the rate of interest must
be made higher by the man who makes
the loan and takes the mortgage, with
the knowledge that he is to be taxed
on the mortgage.
Another injustice of the law is that
if the mortgage is taken by an outside
individual or company, the tax does
not apply. The injustice to Oklahoma
capital is apparent at a glance. 1t is
placed at a great disadvantage by sucl
a law. The intention was to encourage
foreign capital, no doubt, and while
this is praiseworthy object, it should
not be done in such a way that loca
capital is placed at a disadvantage.
When land is taxed, that should bt
the end of the transaction, as far a:
the law is concerned. Our statutes
are none to strict in other ways re
garding mortgages, but to tax then
does not serve the purpose that was
intended. The burden does not fal
upon the man who loans the money
as it was intended that it should. TIL,
, Legislature has been asked to repea
, the law and the matter has been plac
ed before it in such light that thu
{ members cannot fail to see the injus
| tice as it really exists.-Oklahoma Cit,
Times.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27
Senator Beueridge, Close Friend of Slain Nop
eIist is in charge of Arrangements Phillips
Put up Grand Fight, but Six Bullet Holes
We're too Much Euen for his Grit
Took Turn for Worse After 8
O'clock and Died at H:1O
Tuesday Night.

whole. At any rate, the obsession gsI
until he shot the man he hated. ~
sacrificed his own life.
Robert Adamson, secretary to h
mayor, said this afternoon that G6d
borough had called upon him at h
mayors Office about a year ago.
"He told me-" said Mr.. AdamsJ
that he was being shadowed witAd
doubt, by two private detectives vi
occasionally amused themselves
throwing stones at him through a'wI
dow. told him to go away and if I
annoyances We're continued to call t
police.
"Goldsborough did not appear To-
violent maniac. He told me he ca
from a distinguished family and Il
David Graham Phillips had written
novel about them. He seemed ratl
pleased about the distinction. He
we'll dressed, wearing a frock coat
high hat"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27

There is a good deal of justice in
the hot protest which Colonel Henry
Watterson makes in his article in The
North American Review against the
glorifieation of old John Brown of Osa-
watomie as national hero. 1t is q
perious matter for any American citi-
zen to heroize Brown before his boys
for Brown was practically everything
that a modern American citizen should
not want his sons to be. Even Browns
religion was sorry type, full of venge'
ance and vacant of love, and his citi'
zenship was vastly more undesirable
than that of most of the anarchists who
are so abominated aby the populace to-
day. The sentimentality which, has
made a patriotic martyr out of this
very vicious murderer is but cheap
Imitation OF really sound and virile
patriotism 97
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27
FIRST PAROLE GRANTED
BY GOVERNOR CRUCE


Oklahoma City, Jan. Ex-Governor
Cruce yesterday granted his first pa
role since assuming the duties of his
office. It was issued to George Rice,
sentenced last July from Marshall
county to ninety days in Jail and $3.50
fine for violating the prohibition laws.
In granting the parole Governor Cruce
appends an explanation that the ap-
plication was indorsed by Governor
Haskell before he retired from office,
but that in the rush of business during
the last days of his administration the
issuance of the official order was over
looked.
Governor Cruce adds that in grant
ling the parole he has not departed
from his policy of refusing lenfency to
Iviolators of the liquor laws, but that
this particular case is a matter which
belonged wholly to the former admin
listration. Under the terms of the pa
role Rice is to pay his fine and costs
of the case at the rate of SIS per month
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27

This is the way the Adair County
Democrat reported social function
near that town last week
"At dance at the Woodall farm
one night last week, young man by
the name of Pierce, did little shoot
ing, using one of the Woodalls and an
old man by the name of Barrett, as
his targets. The former was shot in
the arm and Barrett in the right side,
near the vermiform appendix. Pierce
is said to have been drunk when he
did the shooting. A number of sports
from town attended the dance in a
carryall and when the trouble com
menced Marathon was inaugurated
through a hurdle of brush piles and
barb wire fences and everybody struck
the finishing tape at the same time.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27

The wholesale purchase and sale OF
votes in which nearly all the votes in
a populous county in Ohio were bought
and sold emphasizes the necessity for
more stringent law for the protection
of the ballot To debauch the voters
of this government is a blow at its
most sacred and vital point. But il
there were no buyers of votes there
would be none sold. The man who
goes out with money in his pocket to
buy votes is as great a menace to good
government as is the man who sells
Both ought to be barred from voting
for life.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27

The opinion of Justice Holmes of
the United States supreme court affirm
ing the constitutionality of the Okla
homa and other state bank guarantee
laws contains some interesting pas
sages 1t was asserted that assess
ment Of one bank to pay the losses of
another constituted confiscation OF
private property. This, said the JUS
tice, might be admitted; but it is es-
tablished that an ulterion public ad
vantage may justify a comparatively
insignificant taking of private property
for what, in it's immediate purpose, is
a private use"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27
One Killed And Twenty Hurt.
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
Philadelphia, Pa, Jan. 25.-An eA-
plosion of a tank of ammonia in the
Locust Laundry here today, killed one
woman, and slightly injured twenty
girls. The two hundred and fifty EN-
ployees. mostly women, were thrown
into a wild panic and rushed for the
stairways and fire escapes and many
were crushed and bruised. Jennie Hal
was blown through a window into the
street and killed. No fire resulted.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27

The government is about to let a
contract for the printing of supply
of stamped envelopes that will last
four years and will net the company
printing them a million dollars. So
long as the government allows itself
to be a party to such shameful con
tracts the people at large will have
grave misgivings and be uneasy and
restless.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
New York, Jan. 25.-The body of
David Graham Phillips, the slain novel
ist. probably will be laid to rest in
Greenwood cemetery at Brooklyn. Mrs.
Carolyn Frevert, who stood at her
brothers bedside as he breathed his
last and Senator Beveridge, Phillips
close friend, visited the cemetery this
morning to select a grave. George
Horace Lorimer, editor of the Evening
Post. Samuel G. Blythe, associates OF
Phillips, the assisting Senator Bever
lidge in arranging the funeral. Colds
borough, the slayer, was buried in
Washington today.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27
Scottish Rite Meets at McAIester.

McAlester, Okla, Jan. 25.-The win
ter reunion of the Scottish Rite began
here yesterday. There are seventy
nine in the class. Many Masons are
here from over the state and some from
outside. The ladies of the Eastern
Star served luncheon to the members
of the order at noon today.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27

Another exceedingly good play came
to the Auditorium last night and was
presented by a company composed of
cultured and very clever artists. This
great character was sermon in hui
man interest. Captain Williams, the
rugged old sea dog, grown hard by
service in the south seas played his
part to perfection and the most strik-
ing line in the production was when
the old Captain declared ut is worth
a whole lot to be decent" Eugene
Dautell in the part of the unselffish
Jimsey Smith won the hearts of the
audience from the beginning. There
is a wonderful fascination in Dautells
voice and manner. Joe Brooks starred
and exceedingly difficult part as the
william" and did it we'll and Emma
was fine type of a true and loyal
woman. "There are only two kinds
of women-the good and the bad" as
the old captain repeated and Emma
represented the good. 1t will be many
day before Vinita audience sees a
finer play or truer lesson than paid
lin Full"