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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01
IN POLITICS.

The candidate goes forth to tell how
well he did his duty; he held his office
passing well-his record is a beauty.
He stands before painting crowd and
winds through wordy mazes, and in
raucous voice and loud he sings forth
his own praises. No other man in all
the earth would dare to stand before
YOU and prate of his own sterling
worth, and with his virtues bore you.
IIf should stand around and boast
about my bughouse verses. you'd hand
me what I'd need-a roast, and
sprinkle me with curses. You'd say:
"The man who wants to charm should
be a trifie modest, and this skate is
false alarm-a prophet stuffed with
sawdust." The preacher doesn't tell
the town how we'll he fills the pulpit;
that sort of stuff we couldn't down
he knows we wouldn't gulp it. The doc
tor doesn't make the claim that hes
the one physician who knows the way
Ito carve your frame when you're IL
had condition. The statesman is tht
only lay who has the nerve to face us
: and boost himself for half day ant
sing his charms and graces. es.-Wal
Mason.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

The revival services at the Christian
church conducted by the Rev. j. =.
Hunley ana wife have been going on
for the last two weeks have, and are
resulting in much good to Yinita.
These meetings have been carried on
quietly. without any unnecessary noise
or blare Of trumpets but gradually the
city is waking up to the fact that
genuine revival is in progress in Via
ita. All over the city people are dis
cussing the revival and knots OF men
on the street may be heard talking
about what is going on up at tie
Christian church.
Stripped Of the usual clap-trap meth
ods of some evangelists Rev. Hunley
is a very foreeful gospel preacher and
is making an impression in Vinita
that will last. Services of this char
acter are always conductive of good
to any community and not evil. II
would be we'll at this time-Thanks
giving week, for the people of all the
lehurches to take the time and attend
these meetings, during this week
which will probably be the last. Mrs
IHunley has delighted the large con
gregations, nearly every service witt
lher splendid singing. and many hay'
attended: drawn by her music.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01
A GLANCE AFIELD.
Mason.

a GEANIE RFlEGD
II seems TO be definitely settled that
there are to be two, and only two DEM
ocratic candidates for the United
states senate Senator Robt l.. Owen
and Ex-Governor c. ~ Haskell. The
logical conclusion is that every demo-
crat in the state will line up for one or
the other Of these two very able gentle
men. But as the lineup is yet to be
arranged it is interesting to speculate
a little as to how the fight will open
and who will be who among the big
politicians in the democratic ranks in
Oklahoma. Political friendships are
more easily broken than any other and
it is also true that political enmities
are Just as easily mended or turned
into friendships
Governor Cruee, through one OF his
cupbearers. has given it out that he
viii be against the first one of the two
candidates for the United States SEN
ate who attacks his administration.
This threat carries with It the implied
agreement that if Owen and Haskell
win keep their hands off him he will
remain neutral and let them scrap 1t
out. But can the campaign go on with
out the Cruce administration being mt
in some vulnerable spot? We trow
not Governor Cruce has already said
to the people of the sta.e that the for
mer administration left him an awful
burden to carry and debt that his
administration could not nor would not
pay. Haskell is a fighter. and he has
already cleared for action. He never
heard of the "other cheek doctrine,
and is just as sure to hit back as he
lives and he don't know nor care about
Queensbury rules either
( w II. Murray as a choice between
two evils (they have both knitted him
deep and under the fifth rib will
choose Haskell. A man is always
maddest at the fellow who hits hin
last and it has been SO long since Has
kell swatted Murray that he has hac
time to cool off. Besides Cruce has
nothing to offer Bill Murray tha
would in any measure placate him fol
the lambasting he got last summer
Haskell is diplomatic enough and mag
jnetic enough to warm up to the wors
enemy he ever had and he'll warm VI
TO Bin Murray when the time ecmcs
on the other hand Cruee is so cold b.
nature OF that severed friendship. VII
note unite. Red hot iron viii not well
with cold iron. Rain would never We
, Lee Cruce it would freeze and fall OF
him like shot of a roof. Statesman
scholar and gentleman. clean, consel
! yative and able. yet he is cold-to
) cold TO unite with Haskell or Murra
and viii be found in the Owen eamI
: and the fight may as well proceed.
r To sum up: The outlook is that Gov
/ ernor Cruce viii be found in the Owe
/ camp. Haskell, Bill Murray. Bob Wi
: liams. J.gP. Thompson and other @sel
a Sc eking politicians" viii line up agains
owen and the administration
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

one OF the greatest gifts is the pos
session of gentle voice. We don't
mean to be able to sing well-though
that is certainly a great accomplish
ment but to possess sweet voice is
to be endowed with one of natures
bountiful gifts. The sweet voice is IN
some measure a matter Of cultivation
and by practice can be acquired. The
charm of a good conversationalist lies
largely in the voice. No harsh voice
can ever fascinate the hearer very
much.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Bathhouse partitions are not sound
proof and consequently a sweet female
voice full OF dismay was plainly heard
at Atlantic City one Sunday afternoon.
a Philadelphia paper says. "oh, Laura
cried the voice. evidently addressing
her girl chum in the adjoining house.
u have forgotten my shoe horn. Have
YOU one that you can loan me@
whats the matter?" queried a deep
bass voice a few yards away before
Laura could reply. Cant you get your
hobble skirt on?"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01
MUSEOGEE MINISTERS NOT
WITH EVANGELIST FRIAR
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily
Interviews with a number of clergy
men of local churches indicate that
Rev. Friar, the travelling evangelist.
who shot and killed negro bootlegger
at Boynton this week, is without the
mora. support of other members of
the cloth. The minister interviewed,
while denouncing joints and joint
keepers in the strongest terms are
agreed that Rev Friar acted inadYised
ly.
From what | have read of the af-
fair should judge that Rev. Friar is
radical" said Rev. Aydelott, pastor of
the First Christian church. "Of course
/ do not know the entire circumstances
surrounding the affair but do not be-
lieve that any such action is justiti-
able"
Rev. Simmons. pastor OF the First
Congregational church. is strong in his
denunciation of the action. 4 do not
believe said Rev Simmons, that a
minister IS ever justified in killing. If
Il were forced into a corner and had
| to shoot in self defense-no, believe
even then would let the other fellow
do the shooting. I do not think that
there is any proyovation strong en-
ough to excuse a minister of the Cos
pei from taking human life"
/ Rev. Goddard, pastor of st. Paul's
NJ. e. church says: while l do not
tolerate the Joints or iointists for a
minute I do not think that Rev. Friar
should have fired the shot. Such a
course is seldom justified have not
been able to understood by what au
thority Rev. Friar ordered the joint
keeper to leave town and l think that
the authority Of the law rather thar
personal violence should have been re
sorted to-"
]. Rev. Roland Martin, pastor OF the
First M. E. church said: From wha
I have read Of the affair. Rev Frai
was too hot headed Such an actor
as his is rarely justifable but have
not fully learned the details of th'
affair"
Now don't ask me to give an opin
, ion" said Rev. J. X Thompson. BE
cause don't know enough about tn
case to make any definite statement
I All that can say Is that the takin
of human life is never justifabIe e'
cept as an extreme resort in self dc
i, fense and whether this applies to thi
, particular case l do not know.
Rev. f. S. stockwell. pastor c
5 Trinity ". E. church. said when que:
, toned that he had read very little G
: the case and was not in position t
: ssy anything. only as last resol
I IN case Of self defense is the takin
3 Of human life iustifable," Mr.. Stool
we'll said-Times-De Democrat
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01
Laakford Appeals Bank Case.

Oklahoma City. Nov. estate Bapa
Commissioner ]. D. Landlord has az
pealed to the supreme court from tE
judgment of the district court Of Cadd;
county holding that the state could nc /
enforce the double liability clause 6
the banking law against stockholde.
in the defunct Columbia Bank ans
Trust company of Oklahoma City.
The appeal was taken in the tNs
cases against Boone D. Hite, in whicsi
the bank commissioner sought to n
cover a Judgment OF $4,000. and again
Former State Treasurer James A. Me-.
efee asking for Judgment for s2o,oo.
The lower court held that the dou1.
liability provision of the law could NJ
be made to apply to stockholders ih
trust company organized under W
trust company laws before statehooSs.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

A mail delivery device one sees In
many places on the rural routes in
northeast Oklahoma is an arrangement
of neighborhood letter boxes fastened
to an old wagon wheel. the wheel being
pivoted on a post by the roadside so
the postman can whirl the boxes
around to deposit the mail. This home
made contrivance holds as many as
ten boxes and will accommodate that
many families. 1t will not be long un-
til Uncle Sam will deliver the mail OF
every family at their door.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

The usual custom Of a union Thanks
giving service will be observed this
year in Vinita but with the innovation
of having a layman instead of a min.
lister deliver the address. Senator
Roht. l.. Owen has accepted the invita-
ton extended him and will speak at
the Congregational church Thursday
morning at 1880 o'clock. All the
churches in the city we understand
will unite in this service and it should
be well attended by the townspeople.
Thanksgiving comes only once a year
and let's make an occasion worth
while this year. The Congregational
church will seat 500 or 500 people com
'fortably and with some decorating and
son.e good music the occasion ought
to attract enough people to fill it to the
doors,
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

The fact that Governor Cruce never
saw a circus until he was grown. inn
presses the average Oklahoma boy
with a sense of sadness, at how much
fun the good governor has missed. The
governor had to grow into manhood
without ever getting up before day to
see 'em unload the animals But GOV
.ernor Cruce has circus-in fact a
whole menagerie now of his own AID
the performance is continuous.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Judge Allen. the MuskOgee magis-
trate who liberated Evangelist Friar
on bond with the statement that when
a man OF Friar's reputation shoots a
worthless negro bootlegger' bail VIII
be granted without evidence at $4,000.
makes the explanatory statement that
he was tired. But the whole state is
tired of Allen.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

A bunch of exceedingly brave and
men up at Shady Bend,
Kansas. took a good looking young
school ma'am out and applied a guam
tity of tar to her anatomy. This brave
act should not be put down wholly to
the credit of the chivalrous men of
that little Kansas town. A group of
envious women were behind the whole
shady business at Shady Bend. The
young woman teacher was cookbook
ing. vivacious and entertaining. So
far as the evidence showed her char
acter was good A few gossiping wo-
men got jealous of the handsome young
teacher and worked themselves into a
rage and melted their brave husbands
and sweethearts to get the girl out
and apply the tar to humiliate and dis
grace her. She was alone in the world
without father or brother to protect
her and her only crime was being
good-looking. She was also accused
of carrying on" with the husband OF
woman who worked her friends into
frenzy that resulted in the outrage
that placed Shady Bend on the map o.
Kansas for the first time. Five or sil
of these brave men are looking through
lprison bars as result of their folly
but the real instigators of the crime
are meditating at home about how easl
lit is to incite a mob.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01
attorneys

President Taft has decided to cut his
message down to six thousand words.
and thus insure a few more readers.
We know some newspaper paragraph
ers who would cut it to half column
and everybody would read it too
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

California Independent: The scrip
tural injunction to be wise" is before
the one to be harmless The order in
dicates the relative Importance. An
unwise but Jealous Christian will do
more harm than good. His injudicious
acts and words provoke comment and
are charged up to the religion he pro
fesses. While he thinks he IS doing
the cause Of righteousness great good
he is. in fact. an instrument of evil.
If he would have Christianity prosper
he should enter some kind of an
ecclesiastical asylum where he would
he restrained from rash acts.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

The biggest fool in the world is he
who. being fool, thinks himself wise;
and the wisest man is he who. being
wise. considers himself among wis
dom's riches, pauper. Isaac Newton
said he was only a child who had gath
cred few grains Of sand on the shore
OF truths ocean.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01
II a body trust a body.
And fail to get prompt pay,
May a body ask a body
Please remit today

The wichita Eagle is authority for
the statement that Mrs. Billie Sun
days gowns are an of the very latest
fashion. There's many pastors wife
who is not gowned in the latest fashion
and the thought comes that maybe
Billie can make more money as an
evangelist than he could as a regular
pastor.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

( Kansas City woman in divorce
suit talked at the rate OF three hundred
and fifty words per minute, and no
court stenographer was able to keep
up with her. She ought to have the
decree as no man could ever hope to
have the final word with such a wo'
man.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

The money appropriated by the state
Legislature to defend election officials
charged with the violation of the
grand father" clause of the state con
stitution seems TO have all gone to the
attorneys.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Some man or firm that would engage
to buy fat stock for shipment in Vinita
would be a fine thing for Yinita- Farm
ers complain that ready market for
their product is not always easy to
find in Vinita.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

The building Of a $125.OOO hospital
for the insane at Norman probably
means that the Vinita institution will
have to wait a long time for the COM
pletion Of the building so long ago be-
gun
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

The country is taking little stock IN
the statement that Col. Roosevelt was
imposed on by the steel trust as no
one believes Col. Roosevelt could pos
sibly be imposed on. He is too smart
for that
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

4 sigh Of relief should now go up
from a long-suffering publics that the
pietures of Henry Clay Beatue, IT.
viii disappear from the newspapers.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Billie Sunday is about the livest wire
III the American pulpit today and takes
rap 1t nearly every form of sin as
he goes along. Here is what he said
last night at Wichita aneut society
folks
"Why call me Lord. Lord, aud do
not the things which | say in society,"
] would give more for one of those
sock-darning, pant.patching mothers of
Israel than | would for a hundred of
those good-for-nothing. dough-nixing.
beefsteak-frying. frizzIe-headed, rag
time-singing, gum-chewing, fiinger-man-
ieured. fudge-eating sissies, who
couldn't turn fapjack, without spat-
tering the batter all over the kitchen.
II you would kiss one II those frizzle-
headed sas-sie-tee sissies YOU would die
, Of painters collie
Many society women are piggish,
Just piggish. They are merely frame
on which to hang fashionable clothes,
digestive apparatus 70 digest fash
ionable food. You give them good
dinner. some wine to drink and little
bridge to play and they are as content
as a pig. Ii you would begin to talk
to them about tie things that are in
teresting real men and the real women
in the world they would vote YOU a
bore. here are multitudes of society
women whose horizon is bounded bY
pink teas and frappes
Here's a social gathering A lot OF
high-toned men and women sitting
around a mahogsRg table with their
feet on Persion rugs. quaTing wine and
playing cards to see who shall buy the
dinner.
And here's a gang Of loafers in q
stale beer joint, with pack OF greass
cards, and pile ~ niokels. playing <
SEQ which shall get the jackpot an
more afraid OF the society bunch thar
the ioafers in the saloon. Here i
where they start and there IS wher'
they finish. Society is where they ma
triculate and the saloon IS where the.
graduate The society card party |
where they head out OF the yard am
The saloon card game is where tn
,.evn punches their ticket for the las
STATION this side Of he'll.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

The papers are making as much fuss
about W. j. Bryan being shipwreeked
as though he had never had that ex-
perience before.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Rev. w. @. Davis. pastor OF the
Presbyterian church prefaced his SER
mon Sunday morning with some timely
remarks anent the Importance of Vim
tia having some regular organization
for dispensing charity. In every COM
munity there are those who have to
have help. and. no matter how they
came to be in want. must have
assistance and there ought to be a
well.manned relief association. Some
wears ago Vinita had such an organic
alton and the editor of this paper had
the honor OF being its president for
Two or three years. 1t doesn't take a
great deal of money to go a long way
ghen used judiciously. This thing OF
random giving without knowing where
il is going is not charity-not intelli-
gent charity to say the least. To give
through a regular and reliable organic
alton is the best way to give and much
the safest. Rev Davis stated what
many people did not know-that the
EIks lodge gave more to charity than
all the churches in the city combined
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01
. ooooooo oooooooooooo Q Q Q Q . Q Q 8

o Better TO smell the violet cool Q
. than TO sip the glowing Q
o wine. =
o Better to bark a hidden brook G
o than watch diamond c
o shine
o Better to be a little wise than c
o in knowledge 70 abound; c
o Better 10 teach a child than toll {
o to fll perfection's round. {
o George Macdonald {
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

1t viii require a democratic legisia-
ture TO elect a United States senator in
Oklahoma. Ever think OF that
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

The Sapulpa Light says Sapulpa IS
on the verge Of a great boom Mighty
dangerous place to be.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01
Q 100000 o o o o 0 0 0 o o o

That Roosevelt sold out to the trusts
is no new history It is a matter OF
history that Roosevelt obtained the
sinews of war from Hartman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-25

as are also. verious members otliccrs
or directors in the Northwestern Tufn-
bermen's Association.
AS in similar suits now pending
against other concerns charged with
violations of the Shcr nan antitrust
law, the government alleges that the
lumber trade has, been professionally
restrained by Illegal agreements and
understandings which prevent the
consumer from buying ef whom and
where he will, and which absolutely
forhids competition for trade and
which have divided the country into
n-competitivc territories.
The government asks injunctions
restraining all the defendants from
continuing the acts of which complaint
is made. The suit is in direct charge
OF Clark McKercher, special assistant
to Atty Gem Wickcrsham.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-25
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

The 18th Maine Regiment is to be
raised in Aro9stook county exclusive
~. Hon John NJ. McClesky, senator
from the Aroostook district, is 10 be
made colonel of the regiment.-Port-
lard Advertiser, oct. "a, 1861.
\ partial list of the divorces decreed
in the oxford supreme judicial court
at this term, follows Eta l.. Kennedy
from Rernard Kennedy; William ii.
Holland from Harriet r. Holland; Ada
Hcafcy from Patrick Heafey; MarSa-
ret a. Ames from Fred e. Ames; Dora
A. Moran from Thomas j. Moran;
Amos l.. Prescott from Emma Eliza
beth Prescott; Helen NJ. Bird from
Henry +. Bird; .Almon A. Everett from
Harriet s. Everett; Sidney G. Ihll-
brick from Winnie l.. Philbrick; Chris
tiana 4. Gaul from John f. Gatl' Syhtl
II. Minot from John 6. Minot; winnie
Minnie b. Skinner from Edward g
Skirner; Minnie Manson from Jona
Manson.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-25

officer of the day, Capt oafman.
The returns from furloughs Tues
dav were: john Brady from Halo
we'll. Timothy Daley from Boston,
Robert Ellis from Medford; William
Stino hfield from Charlestown.
Increases in pensions We're received.
TUESDAY. for: William Alexander. late
co. l., 2nd N II Inf, to 500; Charles
w. Carman. late Co. ID, nth Me. Inf,
to SIS: Peter Costello, late Co. f, 11Ith
n Y. Inf, to SIS per month. a
Charles II. Thoms. late CO II, 18th
Me. Inf. has been transferred here
from the Northwestern Branch at
Milwaukee. Wis.
Seven former members have been
re-admitted: Elmer Hayes of Natick
late Co. 4. End Mass II. A.; George
w. Weber Of Mansfield, late navy,
Matthew Carney of Worcester. late
Co f. 42nd Mass. Inf: Charles r.
wedgewood of Plymouth, late CO. G.
1st N H II. A: Joseph w Tufts OF
Lewiston. late 60. G., 18th Me. Inf
George G. Boomer of Worcester, late
60. f.. 18th Conn. Inf. William CASEY,
alias Smith, late navy.
Old smokers among the inmates oi
the Home" can tell You accurately
regarding the quality of cigar. ASK
any of them Who have smoked the
Oakland cigar their opinion of ii.