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

Norman (Okla) Enterprise The
sentiment throughout the country and
especially in the middle west, western,
southern and northern states is grow
ing rapidly in favor of the nomination
of Woodrow Wilso mas the democratic
presidential nominee in 1912 and if the
tide in his favor continues to rise as
rapidly for the next two months as DUR
ng the past two, it will hardly be pos
sible to defeat his nomination
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Wilmington IN. Co. Star: The peo-
pie of the United States will be pretty
apt to want Woodrow Wilson for pres
ident because the president would be
Woodrow Wilson and Woodrow Will
son would be the president. The New
Jersey governor comes within an ace
of standing for everything that the
people want
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01
MRS. PATTERSONS
FATE UNDECIDED
Prosecutor Quotes From Kipling in
Opening His Arraienment of
the Defendant.

DeEver, Colo, Noe 29.-That the
sgeAry retire last night to consider a YER
! dict in the case of Gertrude Gibson
Patterson, charged with the murder of
her husband, Judge Allen ordered a
special session of the court.
All Tuesday afternoon until dusk in
the tiny little court room, attorneys of
Denver since the early day, examined
the exhibits and heard scathing ar
raignment to the defendant by Prosecu-
tor Benson With her fingers stretch
red across her eyes, shutting out the
sight OF Prosecutor Benson as he ex-
planned the killing of Patterson as the
Adeliberate climax of conspiracy, Mrs
Patterson listened.
Attorney Benson closed an impas-
stoned arraignment of the defendant
by exhibiting the coat worn by Patter-
son when he was shot He pointed to
the powder marked hole In the back
and gave it to jurors for closer examin-
alton.
Attorney Hilton for the defense,
painted his client as the unfortunate
! victim of two men. He asserted that
any of the assaults which Patterson
was said by witnesses to have made
on his wife would have justified her
in killing him.
) A Fool There Was
"A fool there was, and he made his
prayer,
Gwen as you and ~
! To rag, and bone and a hank of
hair
We called her the woman who didn't
~E care,
/ But the fool, he called her his lady
fair,
And she shot him in the back"
Was the way Attorney Benson open
Aed his address.
I The prosecutor then took UP the
early life of the defendant in an at
tempt to convince the jury that it was
no unsophisticated 16-year-old child,
but an experienced woman, won the
devotion of Emil w. Strouss in Chi
cago
Benson declared that the evidence
shows that Gertrude Gibson was 81
or % years old when she met the Chi
Cago clothing manufacturer and five
or six years. older than Charles a.
Patterson.
Joe Briscoe, the saloonkeeper, was
Mrs. Patterson's first, and Mr. Strouss
her second, so far as I have been able
to discover" Attorney Benson was
continuing, when Attorney Hilton.
jumped to his feet, objected, and the
court ordered the jury to disregard
this portion of the prosecutors argu-
ment.
At the night session, Attorney Hi
ton finished his argument for the de-
Tense. An hour was consumed in re-
ply by the prosecutor and the case
was given to the jury at $40 o'clock.
Shortly after 10 o'clock. Judge Allen
ordered the jury locked UP for the
night. He told the jurors he would
not be in court before o'clock today
vaa the. verdict cannot be returned be-
fore that hour.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01
Muskoqee Banker Drops Dead.

Muskogee, Okla, Nov. o. = C. A.
Nichols, president of the Guaranty
State Bank, United States commission
er at Muskogee, and wealthy property
owner in Muskogee and Asheville, n.
c., dropped dead on the street here yes
terday.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Commanche (Okla) American; If
each candidate for president could
have his name submitted at primary
Wilson would be the choice by large
plurality, as he would receive 60 per
cent of the votes from the common
people against all his opponents.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Columbus Is. c. States John
Sharp Williams has come out for Will
son, which is exactly what one would
expect a sensible and far-sighted per-
son like John Sharp to do.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Beaumont (Tex) Journal: Cover
nor Woodrow Wilson's refusal to play
politics has been hard blow to the
opposition. He talks so much common
sense and has such faith in the people
that the only way the politicians can
find to fight him is to bring up the
old cry of treorist.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Baltimore Md Sun: The enemies
of Governor Woodrow Wilson in New
Jersey consider him boss If all
bosses were of that type, there would
never be any political corruption for
the grand juries to unearth.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal: Mr.. VIII
son, we believe, is lacking in hte judi
Icial temperament. He is very "daner-
|ous.' He wants to reduce the tariff
and he isn't in favor Of letting Big
Business run the government. In short,
he's terrible enemy Of the people.
But strangely enough, you can't make
'em believe it.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Oliver Springs (Tenn.) Times: AS it
looks now, it is hardly too much to say
that majority of the democrats of
the country are in favor of his nom
ination for president in 1912.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Woodland CCal) Democrat The
people OF Wisconsin seem to have it
down about right They are acclaim
ing Woodrow Wilson as the next pres
ident and Taft as the next ex-presi-
dent.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

spartanbugr Is. CD Journal: Wood
row Wilson is one of the most effective
and forcefal public speakers. Every
thing he says is true, and it is all inn
portant and worth saying
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Houston TEX Chronicle Wood
row Wilson has made a cracker jack
governor of the trust-ridden state of
New Jersey, and this is a trust-ridlen
nation; the moral is obvious.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Alexandria (s. ID Jourral Gog-
ernor Woodrow Wilson continues to
grow in the favor OF all thinking Amer
leans and people are everywhere look
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal: What
would Mr.. Taft do running against
such an opponent as Woodrow Wilson?
No wonder he's seeing visions of de-
feat
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Pensacola (Fla.) Journal: Henry
Watterson thinks that democracy will
win with Woodrow Wilson, and this is
one time when Marse' Henry thinks
well.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

Jefferson (Ga.) Citizen: The very
best is not a whit too good for these
United States. So: For president,
Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

er, democracy win sweep the countr,
in 1912.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

jackson (Ga.) Progress With
Woodrow Wilson as its standard bear
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01

ing to him for some progressive re
form
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01
WHAT EDITORS SAY OF WILSON

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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23
GAMBLED FOR A GIRL.
Prince Lucien 5onaParte Won a Bride
From His Brother Pierre.

Prince Lucien Bonaparte Won Bride
From His Brother Pierre.
It Is said that the two brothers,
Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte and
Prince Pierre, In their early youth
when shooting mouions in the noun
tains in Corsica. came across beau
tiful peasant girl with whom they both
fell violently in love.
Who she was and whether she favor
ed both brothers or neither | cannot
tell BE that as 1t may, they quar-
relied. Les preux chevaliers of old
would no doubt in similar occurrence
have had recourse to lance and sword.
The Corsican princes decided to play
for their belle a game of cards. They
went to the nearest inn and wrote and
signed paper agreeing that which
ever won the game should marry the
lady fair. Prince Lucien won and,
faithful to his word. a short time after
married her
She never left the island as far as
know. Prince Lucien lived In England,
securing to her "a comfortable income
which she received till her death, some
where about the spring of 1S91.-From
the Princess Murat's Memoirs.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23

A Traveller writing in an Italian
magazine says that the Swiss canton
of Ticino is inhabited by the most hon
est folk it is possible to imagine. In
most Of the Ticinese villages, the
writer says, the oldest inhabitants do
not remember any case of theving,
however petty. within lifetime. Lost
objects when found must never be
taken away: they must be left where
they were dropped or placed in a con-
spicuouS position so that the rightful
owner can find his property more easi-
ly. The case is cited of an American
woman tourist who lost her purse on
an excursion in the Val Capriasca.
The purse contained gold coin and
iewelpd watch, Upon returning from
her trip she found the purse with its
contents intact on little heap of
leaves. SO placed that it could not fail
to attract her attention. York
Sun.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23

1t was at point near the ancient
city of Surat that the Parsees first
landed in India when driven out of
Persia by their Mohammedan conquer
ors eleven centuries ago Few things
are more remarkable than the manner
in which this small community has re-
tanned its religion and racial charac.
teristicS unchanged during that long
period The peculiar style Of head
dress worn by the Parsees is said to
have been made compulsory by the
Hindu king Of India when the Parsees
first obtained refuge in that country.
and they have used it ever since. To-
day the Parsees are the leading COM
mercial nation of India.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23
ANIMALS TOILETS.
Fur Seals Are as Particular as Women
In Fixing Up.

In Fixing Up.
The cat carries her clothesbrush in
her mouth, for with her rough tongue
she cleanses her glossy coat as a boy
brushes off his clothes. She licks one
of her front paws and rubs it over her
face and she is ready for her break
fast.
Foxes, dogs and wolves do not use
their mouths when they need to wash
and brush. but scratch themselves Wig
orously with their hind paws and are
as fresh as ever.
The COW with her long, rough tongue
combs her coat Of hair until it Is clean
and curly The horse more than any
other animal depends on his owner to
keep his coat in proper condition. but
often he will roll on the green grass
or rub himself down against tree or
fence.
Field mice comb their hair with their
hind legs. and the fur seal in a similar
manner spends as much time as wo-
man in making herself look smart.
Although the elephant appears to be
thick skinned and callous, he takes
great care of his skin. He often gives
himself a shower bath by drawing
water into his long trunk and blowing
it on the different parts of his body.
After the bath he sometimes rolls him
self in q toilet preparation of dust to
keen off the fies.-Our Dumb Animals.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23
HUMAN SKULL PUZZLE.
A Cavity That May Have Been The
Seat of a Sixth Genga.


Despite the progress uf physiology
the study of the human body is full
of mystery. Some of It's well known
organs have never revealed either
thei" uses or the reason of their crea
ton. The part played by the spleen
in htiman life was discovered but re-
cent !. 1t is now regarded as one of
the principal agents in the circulation
of the blood. But there are in the
marvellous human organism mys-
terious parts which it is possible that
no savant however profound his
learning. may ever understand. For
instance. in the skull, behind the car
tilage of the nose. there is little
cavity of unknown origin, Physiolo-
gistS believe that at one time-several
thousand generations ago-it contained
a gland consisting Of two lobes Joined
by their common base.
This cavity-the delta turcica-is. in
the opinion of certain savAnts, the
vestige Of a sixth sense which was or
great use to the antediluvian ances-
tors Of man. It is believed that this
little gland enabled them to see in the
darkness when they had not yet learn
ed the secret of procuring light; that
it was the seat of the mysterious
sense of situation or locality. the pow
er to orient their course. the sense so
highly developed to this day in saw
ages and certain animals. The theory
is plausible. but it is doubtful whether
man will ever acquire any real knowl-
edge of the reason for the existence
of the delta turcica. Exchange.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23

A garden full Of flowers is more fra
grant when shadowed by cloud than
when bathed In sunshine; at least that
is the conclusion to which experiments
of a French scientist lead. He asserts
that it is light and not, as commonly
believed, oxygen that exerts the great
est influence in desortying odors. Ac-
cording to the same authority, the in
tensity of the perfume given off by
flower depends upon the relation be-
tween the pressure Of water In the
cells of the plant. which tends to drive
out the essential oils that cause the
odor, and the action Of the sunlight.
which tends to diminish water pres
sure in the cells. Sprinkling the plant
increases the turgescence and as a
consequence a more copious production
of perfume At night the air round a
flower bed is heavy with odors, be-
cause then their emanation is not op-
posed by the sunlight. - New York
Tribune
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23
For Sale or Trade at Once

Five acres, we'll improved fruit
ranch, with good Groom house, near
Freewater, Oregon; one .halr mile west
of the oarline, at Sunnyside station.
Two miles from Freewater and one
half mile from church and school.
Owing to the fact that | am in bus
mess at Falloreek, Ore, and my son
who is living on tho place intends to
leave it soon, to take position in
Portland. this leaves no one to see tc
the place, SO | will sell it on easy
terms or would take part in trade. II
Interested go and see the place at
once Price. $4,000.
A. I. Brewer, FallCreek, Greg.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23

Stricter rules are to govern national
hanks, hereafter. as the Comptroller
of the Currency has issued new in
structions to all examiners. 1t will
be harder for persons intending to
start national banks to get charters.
The comptroller points out that many
banks have been started as speoula-
tion in the past-that is. to sell out.
He disapproves such policy, on the
ground that the ouly good reason for
starting tank is to I'LL business
need. Hereafter, the financial respon-
sibillty of all persons subscribing to
national bank stocks must be asoer-
tanned by the examiner.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23

Oregon has received great amount
of advertising in the east. 1t has
come through publicity campaigns
assisted by transportation companies,
and in the exhibition of the products
of the state. That which attracted
the most attention, however, was not
the highly colored literature of ambi-
tious communities, or the exhibition
of the Zig red apple, hut. and really
more important of all, the progressive
laws of the state, says an exchange.
These have Teen hurled in forensic de-
bate from the halls of congress, have
been the subject that has called the
best political authorities into argu-
mentative discourse in the magazines;
has been the subject of debate on the
stump and has figured in the editorial
and news columns of the great dailies.
Oregon used to bo known in the east
because it was near Seattle, while
now it is known as the political para
gon where ultra democratic ideas pre-
vail and the soepter of sovereignty IS
in the grip of the horny fist that votes.
Think of it, tig, brawny, hard fist
ed producer. whose heritage is the
right to full dim bucket, Eeing a
sovereign in fact. He has always been
in theory, but it was Oregon, the last
and the best of the weat. that made
him so in fact. The right of the gov
erned to initiate laws that they must
obey, and to referend laws that they
do not wish to obey, iy principle
now SO universally accepted as to be
beyond the empirical and become pol
itically orthodox.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23

One of the laws passed by the recent
legislature of Washington and which
took effect last Thursday, provides
that it is a misdemeanor for person,
firm or corporation to engage in sell
ing milk without first having obtained
permit from proper health officer
and they must use caps for bottles hav-
ing printed on them the name of the
seller Another law which goes into
effect limits the employment of women
in mechanical or mercantile estab-
lishments, laundries. hotels or restaur
ants to eight hours labor day. Still
another law PROHIBITS the sale of to-
bacoo in any form to boys under ~
years of age.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23
NESTS IN COLONIES.
Homes of the African Grosbeaks as
Bic as a Natives Hut

Big as a Natives Hut.
The biggest birds nest in the world,
not excepting the stork's. is built by
the African grosbeak. 1t is really 100
nests or more bound together with
closely interviewer sticks, vines and
strands Of coarse grass and is not
built by a single pair of birds. but by
a colony of them. 1t is of such enor-
nous size that at little distance it is
often mistaken for one of the native
huts built in the trees so frequently
found in wild tropical countries where
man eating animals abound, and the
only way to sleep in safety is to ''roost
high"
The birds usually select a thorn tree,
probably because of the protection af-
forded by the sharp. long thorns
against marauders. All around the
nest the roof of sticks. thatched with
dry grass. projects to let the rain run
off. A deep fringe of grass hangs from
this cornice fike a curtain to keep out
any stray drops. These great nests
are added to from year to year. each
pair of mated birds building on the
main nest. Sometimes the nest be
comes too heavy. and the branch
breaks or the great mass Of sticks falls
to the ground. destroyed by its own
weight. The grosbeak is no larger
than an English sparrow and just as
gregarious New York Press.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23

Eight million feet of fir lum ber has
been ordered from one mill on Puget
Sound. This is said to be the largest
order ever placed with one concern.
The buyer is tho Grand Trunk Pacific
Railroad. The Port Blakely Mill
Company is the lucky concern. 1t
has farmad the contract to half doz-
IN other companies in order to make
rapid deliveries. As the Grand Trunk
is doing extensive development work
across the border it has need Of large
quantities of ties. timbers and other
construction materials. The lumber
market is improving steadily.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23

There was recently had before the
Geological society of London a mathe-
matical discussion of the differences In
the shape of eggs. A few eggs, like
those of the owl and the tortoise. are
spherical or nearly so; a few, like the
grebe's or the cormorant's, are clip
teal with symmetrical ends; the great
majority, like the hens, are ovoid, or
blunter at one end than the other. The
hens egg is always laid blunt end fore
most. Eggs that are the most unsym-
metrical are also eggs Of large size
relatively to the parent bird. The
yolks Of eggs Ore spherical, whatever
the form of the entire egg may be.
This has been shown to be due to their
being inclosed in fluid, the white"
which makes the pressure everywhere
on the surface of the yolk practically
constant nt-Scientiflc American.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23
Told Him In Few Words,

A man once wrote to the Rev. c. II.
Spurgeon. the famous preacher, saying
that he had heard he smoked and could
not believe II to be true Would Mr..
Spurgeon write and tell him if 1t real.
ly was so? The reply was:
Dear Sir-I cultivate my flowers
and burn my weeds Yours truly, G. II.
Spurgeon."
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23
lust a Bit Too Ant.

TO eke out his salary the people of
small country church gave their pas
tor a donation party, among the pres
ents being a fine new dress coat for
the pastor and a pretty bonnet for his
wife.
On the following Sunday as they
walked up the aisle in their new habili-
ments the choir inadvertently struck
out with the voluntary-much to the
discontinue of the sensitive clergy
man and his wife-"Who are these in
bright array ?"-Ladies' Home Journal.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23

Many politicians and business men
who are accused of political oorrup-
tion would get people to more readily
believe their protestations of inno-
cenoe If they would abstain from
trying to block investigation. To
raise technical objections and twist
and squirm to prevent inquiry is a
POOR way to convince people of their
hlamelessness.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23

"But mamma thinks am too young
to marry"
"Why should she think that? You're
much older than she was when she got
married. aren't you"
"Yes, but father was drawing a
much larger salary at the time than
you're getting."-Chicago Record-Her-
ald
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23
Practioed, but Not Perfect.

JNck-I'll be frank with you. You
are not the first girl I've kissed by any
means, Maud-And I'll be equally
frank with you. You have a great deal
to learn. even at that.-Boston Tran
script.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23
A Child Wonder.

What Il wonderful memory your
child has for names and faces!
yes" RENTED the proud mother
"She never fails to recognize any of
her former S;epfathers. Judge.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23

MllionS--Do you think you will
learn 10 like your titled son-in-law?
Rilions-I don't know. / can't tell
where TO place him in my expense ac-
count. He is neither Il recreation nor
an investment.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23

True glory consists In so living as
to make the world happier and better
for our living. Pl!ny.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-06-23

Resolve not to he poor: whatever you
have, spend less. DIR johnson.