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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28
ASSESSORS MUST GIVE IN
FULL PAOPERTY VALUATION

Oklahoma City, April 27-The state
board of equalization today sent out
a circular letter to all boards of coun-
ty commissioners laying down the ulti-
matum to the local boards that unless
the assessments in the counties are
based upon full valuation they will
be returned by the state board. The
letter says in part:
1T is the intention of the board of
equalization to see that this law is
complied with. We have information
from the various counties that prop
erty is being assessed at from so to
25 per cent of its cash value. All
boards permitting such assessments to
stand, violates not only the letter, but
the spirit of the law, as well as their
oaths of Office, and if property is re
turned to this board on the above basis
the assessments surely will be re
turned.
"The raising of assessments will not
necessarily increase the burden of tax
alton, as levies should be correspond
ingly decreased. Would it not be much
better to show the world high valua-
ton and low rate of taxation than
a low valuation and high rate?"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28
ABSOLUTE BREAK
BETWEEN FACTIONS
Demands Of insurgents Are Positively
Refused at Two Meetings of Com
mittee on Committees.
By Associated Lress.

by Associated freSS.
Washington, D. c., April 26. = Al
though further concessions were made
to the progressive republicans, by the
senate committee. on COMMITTEES, the
executive session of the committee
broke up abruptly today, with the an
nouncement, by the progressiy-s, that
they would appeal to the caucus to be
held later today and if necessary to
the open senate tomorrow.
The split in the republican ranks,
which threatens the republican su.
premacy in the senate, assumed grave
proportions when the regular republi-
cans fiatly refused to meet the de-
mands of the progressives. Senator
Gallinger presented the list of COM
mittees.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28
THE EplToR,s PuLPlr.

Lutte Taylor, a Wisconsin editor, at
meeting years ago of the State Edi-
torial association made an address
which has recently been unearthed
and is going the rounds of the press
today Mr. Taylor was an editor and
the wonderful rhetoric of his address
is but the reflex of his facile pen. The
following is the address:
"The editor stands on the widest
pulpit known in modern society. The
lawyer has narrow sphere before
him: the senator and representative
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

populous land, the daily papers speak;
the walls hedge in their voices; the
minister has his parish walls about
his church. But there is a pulpit that
now has no limit-it is the press. 1t
is, literally, the voice of one that cries
in the Wilderness; for all across the
and there is not in modern civilization,
place of power that can compare
with this. Rev. Dewitt Talmage once
said: In the clinking of the printing
press l hear the voice of the Lord
Almighty proclaiming to all the dead
nations of the earth: Lazarus! come
FORTH and to the retreating surges of
the darkness: Let there be light"
Come with me into the composing
room. Come here to this case. Look
at the multitude of little boxes filled
with pieces of metal. What are they ?
They are the civilizers-they are the
types. Look at them. They are not
dead, but sleeping. There is a soul
in every one of them. Collectively
they are a dictionary reduced to its
lowest denomination. They look dull
enough, but all the glorious possibili-
ties that the human heart can hope
for are in their possession-you have
but to learn the secret they so closely
keep If you but knew how to pick
out and properly arrange a handful
of those type, immortal fame would be
yours. There are finer strains there
than Homer ever sang; there is elo-
quence unspoken yet; there is keener
wit, more fearful pathos, more per-
suasive prayer than tongue ever utter
ed or ear heard Get it out, if you can.
The types are there and are patient
of delay.
Let us go into the press room. Here
is where the wondrous transformation
is wrought; where matter becomes the
exponent of the mind The forms
are properly placed. The great press
moves slowly; it's arms are reaching
for their strong embrace. Stop the
press' The giant rests again. There
is an error of statement to be correct
ed or an Objectionable article to be
withdrawn The types are taken out
and borne away-corpses of a dead
thought.
Look now again at the mass of
type-dead! inert as the ground you
tread upon. But see! The white
sheet has fallen upon their upturned
faces-the touch of the press has bap-
tised them-the life that was in them
has passed upon paper and the new
creation is pregnant with thought--a
thing with soul, for its sheet so blank
before, is a living power now. A
change has passed over it as marvel
GUS as if, in an instant, the unwritten
face of boy should put on the fur
rows of age, the lines of care, the i'm
press of manhood's experiences,
thought and toll Thus the paper is
borne and goes out into the world. No
messenger can overtake it. Its utter
ance is unalterable now. 1t may be
explained, but not erased. The printed
word can no more be recalled than
the departed spirit can be wooed back
to the body which it has just left.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

A triangle of belated wild geese
passed over, flying low this morning.
They will be little late reaching
their summer home amid the northern
lakes but perhaps were not quite GER
tain of the advance of the season on
account of the cold, backward spring.
These passing migrants are worthy of
notice, and it is a wonderful instinct
that guides their fight twice a year
from north to south and back again
with each recurring season. Three
thousand years ago the prophet sang:
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth
her appointed times; and the turtle
and the crane and the swallow observe
the time Of their coming.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28
Celebrating Anniversary
of Bible Translation

book, because it was in the seven.
teenth century the only book which all
the people know and all the people
revered. And if our ancestors in that
century an dine next set an example
to other countries in their love of
freedom and their willingness to make
sacrifices for freedom, yet knowing
how to use freedom with moderation
and justice, is this not largely due to
the stimulus they received from the
knowledge of the Scriptures in their
own tongue and from the sense that
freedom, like other gifts of God, is to
be used with a sense of responsibility
to God for its use?
"These were some of the things
which the Bible did for the individual
soul. And it also formed the one COM
mon basis for the literature of the
medieval and modern world. 1t was
the common ground on which all
Christians met; whatever their differ
ences as to it's meaning, the commoEz
starting point for their poetry and
their ethics. Chaucer and Tacce and
Goethe have their roots in it as well
as Dante and Milton. 1t has been a
visible symbol of the underlying moral
unity of the civilized nations, even at
times when some of them have least
respected its authority.
''In the message from King George
which have read to you this evening
the English version is truly called,
our common heritage" 1t is such
heritage as brothers may enjoy in com
mon, each having all and each rejoicing
that the other has no less than him
self.
Let us hope that the year we COM
memorate as the anniversary of
great event in our religious history
may also be remembered as the year
in which a solemn reunciation Of war
as means of settling their disputes
was made by two mighty and kindred
nations, grateful to God for the light,
more precious than the wealth and
the power which he has given, and
grateful also for the peace of nearly
century which has subsisted between
them"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
New York. April 26.-In delivering
a special message from King George
to the meeting in Carnegie Hall last
night to celebrate the three-hundredth
anniversary of the English translation
of the Bible, Ambassador Bryce of
Great Britain spoke of the effect the
translation had had upon the English
speaking race. He said in part;
"The great event which we are met
to commemorate was, like most great
things, no sudden achievement of a
group of gifted scholars but the ma
ture fruit of desires and purposes
which had long been ripening in the
minds of our ancestors.
Much had been done towards an
English Bible. before King James the
First commissioned his company of
learned scholars for their task. Using
the labors of their many predecessors,
the translators produced a version
which was wonderfully exact for the
scholarship of those days, so exact
that after three centuries the changes
which repeated collations of the man
uscripts and repeated examination of
the precise meaning of the Hebrew and
Greek texts have led modern critics
to make are few and unimportant in
proportion to the whole.
How much of the excellence of our
great writer's from Milton, Jeremy
Taylor, and Baxter downwards is trace
able to their knowledge of the diction
of the Bible. We can feel it in four
great masters of our tongue who
adorned the last generation to all of
whom the Scriptures were familiar
from childhood. We recognize it in
the speeches of John Bright and Abra-
ham Lincoln, in the sermons and es-
says of Cardinal Newman, and in the
earlier writings of Thomas Carlyle be
fore his style became Germanized. The
names of Lincoln and Bright suggest
the immense and unique service which
this translation rendered to men of
our stock. 1t brought this wonderful
storehouse of historical narrative and
moral reflection, this Incompatible
record of the progress of the human
spirit and of all the forms in which
its conception of the relations of man
to God were expressed within the
reach of those who like Bright receiv-
ed no very wide education and those
who like Lincoln received no educa-
tion at all.
British and American character
have been largely formed by this
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
New York, April 26.-The following
letter from President Taft was read
last night to the meeting in Carnegie
Hall in the celebration of the Tercen-
tenary of the Kig James translation of
the Bible:
THE White House, March Z, 1917
ITO the Tercentenary Celebration of
the King James Version of the
English Bible
81 desire to express my deep inter-
est in the recognition Which is being
taken in this country of so notable an
event as the Three Hundredth Ami
versary of the King James Version of
the English Bible
The publication of the Version of
the Holy Scriptures in the year 1911
associates 1t with the early colonies of
the English people upon this continent.
1t became at once the Bible of our
American forefathers. It's classic Eng
lish has given shape to American lit
erature. Its spirit has influenced
American ideals in life, and laws and
government
81 trust that this celebration may
continue and deepen the influence of
the Bible upon the people of the re-
public.
WIN. H. Taft"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

foreign relations, respectively, would
be rejected.
In spite of diligent efforts to pre-
vent the disclosure of the assignments
as agreed upon by the committee on
committees, the interest in the most
important places was so great that
most of them became known. The
majority membership of the great COM
mittees follows:
opriations-Warren of Wyom-
ing, chairman; Perkins, California;
Gallinger, New Hampshire; Curtis,
Kansas; Gamble, South Dakota;
Smoot, Utah; Wetmore, Rhode Island;
Dixon, Montana, and probable Bourne,
Oregon.
Finance = Penrose, Pennsylvania,
chairman; Cullom, Illinois; Lodge,
Massachusetts; McCumber, North Da-
kota; Smoot, Utah; Gallinger New
Hampshire; Clark, Wyoming; Hey
burn, Idaho, and LaFollette, Wiscon-
sin.
The minority members of this com
mittee will be as follows Bailey,
Texas; Simmons, North Carolina;
Stone, Missouri; Kern, Indiana; Will
liams, Mississippi and Johnson, Maine,
Foreign relations = Cullom, Illinois,
chairman; Frye. Maine; Lodge, Massa-
chusetts; Smith. Michigan; Root. New
York, Borah, Idaho; Burton, Ohio;
Sutherland, Utah, and one place to be
filled.
Interstate commerceJClapp, Mime
sofa, chairman; Cullom, Illinois; Crane
Massachusetts,; Nixon, Nevada; Cum
minis, Iowa, oliver. Pennsylvania;
Townsend, Michigan, and Lippitt,
Rhode Island
Judiciary-Cl Wyoming, chair.
man. Nelson, Minnesota; Dillingham;,
Vermont; Sutherland, Utah; Brande-
gee, Connecticut; Borah, Idaho; Root,
New York; Cummins. Iowa. and Brown
Nebraska.
Many changes will occur in the
chairmanships of other committees. 1t
is understood that Page of Vermont
will have agriculture; Curtis, Kansas,
Cuban relations; Lodge, Massachu-
sets, immigration; Gamble, South Da-
kota Indian affairs; Brandegee, Con-
necticut, interoceanic canals; Nixon,
Nevada, irrigation; Dupont, Delaware,
military affairs; Richardson, Della
ware. Pacific islands and Uorto Rico;
Guggenheim, Colorado, Philippines;
Dillingham;, Vermont. privileges and
elections; Sutherland, Utah, public
buildings and grounds, and Smith,
Michigan, territories.
There will be no changes in the
chairmanships of other important com
mittees. Ten additional chairman
ships of minor committees will be Civ
en- to democrats.
The entire committee slate, includ-
ing democratic places, will be present
ed to the senate Thursday.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

These nights and early mornings
are fine for sleeping, and there is no
balm so healing to tired nature as
sound. healthful siumber, not of the
lazy sort bat the kind that is needed
When MeBeth couldn't sleep for the
pangs of wounded conscience he
cried out in his longing for rest in
slumber Sleep, sleep that knits up
the ravelled sleave of care"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

The Chieftain doesn't know Just
what effect the amendment to
the constitution that is to be voted
on tomorrow might mean. but ex-Gov-
ernor Haskell is opposing it and on
general principles it is safe to take
the other side of most any proposition
that enlists the support of the ex-gov-
ernor.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

The Tulsa Democrat jumps out and
nominates three candidates for the
United States senate. Evidently one
to succeed Owen and one to succeed
Gore and the third to be held in re-
serve.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

Surcharged and seized with the
prophetic afflatus the Tulsa World de-
clares without qualification that Tulsa
within five years will be the second
city in Oklahoma and crowding the
leader to the limit.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

The democratic house Of representa-
tives has at least made good one of
its promises. The Canadian reciprocity
bill passed yesterday by big majority
vote. Now see what at republican
senate can do.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

The chief contestants for the 1912
convention of charities and correc-
tions are Enid, Lawton and Hugo. The
Lawton bunch announce that they
want 1t for its influence
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

The papers are saying that the gov
ernment is trying to get back all its
81 900 bills and issue smaller ones.
The government is welcome to all of
ours and needn't take the trouble to
issue smaller ones instead.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

Douglas, Arizona. is now on the map
for good. Before those Mexican stray
bullets hit and killed some of its citi-
zens it was almost unknown
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

A few dollars invested in paint will
help the looks of hundreds of homes
in Vinita and nov is the right time
of year to apply it.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

The little interest shown in the
election today is only an indication
that the people have become tired of
so many elections.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

The knockout blow that Governor
Cruce gave the Haskell forces in the
election Tuesday for the repeal of
section nine, article nine, of the state
constitution was given with ease and
skill. The real reason Haskell fought
the amendment doubtless was the re
fusal of the legislature to build a rail-
road for Haskell's bunch at the states
expense.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

Now that Dr. b.. Clark Hyde has
gained his liberty the Kansas City
papers can run something else on the
first page.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

The ridiculous figures given as the
official census of Vinita do not make
its population any less.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

Up to the present the Chieftain has
sought in vain for any plausible rea-
son for the repeal of section nine, ar
ticle nine OF the state constitution.
The railroads are charging Oklahoma
three cents a mile passenger fare.
while just across the line in Kansas
the fare on the same roads is two
cents. The repeal Of this section and
article of the constitution viii not be
IN the interest of Oklahoma.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

The more the bank guaranty law of
Oklahoma is discussed through the
press and by the bankers and the de-
positors throughout the country. the
more apparent it becomes that there is
two sides to the question and that pro
lection must extend to the banks as
we'll as to the depositors. Incom.
petent bankers must be gotten rid of
and confidence between the depositors
and the bank established. Kansas is
having better success with her guar
anty law for the principle reason that
she has an older established lot OF
banks and perhaps on the whole a bet.
ter trained lot of bankers.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-28

In the death Of VIM Little, Vinita
loses a good citizen. an old time resi-
dent and man of rugged character.
During the formation period of this
country Mr. Little stood as man
that could always be depended on to
take the side of right. Without such
men this part OF Oklahoma would not
have been what it is. He was a MAJ.
of strong intellect and full of general
information and gilt-edged as to his
contracts and obligations.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-11-16
THE BRITISH CABINET.
How It's Secret Documents Are Pro
tected and Printed.

sSSsSN
Each member of the cabinet is sap.
piled with a key which fits the lock OF
a certain dispatch box retained by the
prime minister. At any particular
crisis, when important papers reach
Downing street, the premier, after
perusing them. places them in the dis
patch box and hands the box to spe-
cial messenger. who takes II round to
each member of the cabinet i'm success
sion. Each member opens it with his
key and relocks it after he has read
the documents it contains. In this
way the papers are prevented from
falling into the hands of strangers or
members of parliament who are not in
the cabinet
Now and again 1t is found necessary
to print copies Of ''secret" which
comes up for discussion at n meeting
Of the cabinet The document is cut
up into many small pieces and dis
tributed among goodly number of
compositors In the government print
ing works, each of whom sets up his
little piece, and the little piece may
represent only a dozen lines of type.
When all the fragments are in type a
highly trusted official collects both the
copy and the type and put the latter
together. The printing OF the docu
ment is then done in secrct under hc
eyes of this official, and the men v
work the printing machine are IN
hidden to handle any of the paper ~
it Is printed upon.-Nationa Magazin,
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-11-16
Reverse Methods In India.

Lady Wilson, the wife Of an eminent
Anglo-Indlan official and long resident
In India, In her book, Letters From
India" says: ut amuscs me to notice
the way the Indians reverse the orde.
in which we do things. For instance.
mt home men fake off their hats when
'hey come into 81 house; Indians keep
OH their turbans, but take off their
shoes. We beckon with the palms OF
our hands turned inward; they beckol.
with them turned out. My ayah lays
my slippers in II row with the toes
pointing toward me. The cook begin-
to read his Hindustani book OF recipes
from the last page backward and
writes his accounts from right TO left
When the native carpenter uses M
tive screws he screws them in from
right to left and saws inward, Which
makes one nervous"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-11-16
MAKING UMBRELLAS.
Tho Way These Necessary Articles
Are Put Together.

SNs0 w sVSVSuVTs
In most umbrella factories the task
Of turning out ribs and stems is left
10 other factories making Il spccialt
Of those parts. These are sent to the
manufacturer. and the man whose
work 1t Is to assemble the parts inserts
bit Of wire into the small holes at
he end of the ribs. draws them to-
ecther about the main rod and adjusts
the ferrule.
In cutting the cloth or sill, seventy
five thicknesSes OF thereabouts are ar
ranged upon a table Mt which skilled
operators work. In one department
there are girls who operate hemming
machines. n thousand yards of hem
med goods is but days work for one
Of these girls. The machines doing
this job attain Il speed of some 5000
ming has been done the cloth or silk is
cut into triangular pieces with a knife.
MS before, but with pattern laid upon
the cloth. The next operation is the
sewing Of the triangular pieces togetll-
er by machinery.
The covers and frames are now
ready to be brought together. In all
there are twenty-one places where the
cover is to be attached to the frame
The handle is next glued on, and the
umbrella is ready for pressing and In
spectinn.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-11-16
HER ENGAGEMENT.
.. Started Conflicting Emotions {

tt Started Conflicting Emotions Ct
Work In Her Mother.
Mrs. DeGrolf drew a deep sigh when
her daughter told her that she had be-
come engaged to Mr.. Bodies.
IL suppose It's foolish OF me To feel
so bad about It," She said, wiping her
eyes. but can't help it, know it's II
woman's destiny to he married. dear,
ana have always Hoped that YOU
would marry and be happy. But u
mother can never lose Il daughter
without feeling deeply on the subject.
She can never help regarding it as an
awful loss-a tragedy. She cannot
give up her little girl, even to the best
man that ever lived, without the deep
est reluctance"
"Rut, mother. dear, shall come and
see you often. And you mustn't cry as
IL it We're roing to happen right away.
You will have time to get used to it,"
will I? How soon are YOU ito lie
married?"
Not for nearly year: Bob thinks
that
Not for year? What on earth
does he mean by putting it off that
long? don't believe he intends Ia
marry you ct all, the Sinking youns
snip! If he did he'd insist on having
the wedding right away. And shall
tell him so. You bring him to time,
Clara. You tell him that he'll either
marry you next month or never. Huh!
I'll show HINT"