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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-10-06
VEIPULI CUAS | AUATNJI Tunn

I'ripoli, Sept 29.-The Italian flee
is demonstrating off this port, but h,
not yet attempted to land men.
Gordon has been drawn along th
coast to prevent the Turks from Ian,
ing arms and men. All last nigf
Italian warships passed and repasset
throwing their searchlights on tn
town. Five Italian battleships, on
cruiser and six destroyers arrived ye
terday afternoon, but did not ancho
They are still visible.
The greatest excitement prevail
everywhere. Banks and bushes
houses are closed and trade is con
pletely paralyzed. The European
yTho remain in Tripoli are gathered
groups in the streets. Nearly all I'll
Italians have sent their families AVA
the consul giving them free passag
The steamship Adria, with steam uI
is kept here at the disposition of til
Italian consul.
The Turkish authorities are doin
their utmost to maintain order, bl
there is an undercurrent of gray
alarm Turkish pickets are patrolin
the town day and night The mo-
threatening danger is that the Aral
may rise against the Italians. II
departure of many Europeans has i
tensified the feelings of the Aral
against Italians.
: Trading vessels lie in the roads les
their cargoes undischarged. No n
tive or foreign labor can be obtaine
SO threatening is the native populatio
Probably the remaining members
the Italian colony, who are at the co
! sulate, will leave TTipoli today.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-10-06
BANDITS GET BEER
IN ROBB|NG TRAIN
Katy Train Held Up BY Masked Men
Near BartlesvilIe-only About
$40 in Cash Taken.

Bartlesville, Okla, Oct 5-The
bandits who held up the southbound
ESKaty train at Okesa, nine miles south
'ei this city, at 1:1lo'clock yesterday
morning, deliberately broke open sew
eral cases of beer in the express car,
/ dank all of the beverage they could
~ nveniently hold, took about $40 in
money from the express messengers
safe, and two gallon jug of whiskey,
/ and hit for the hills. They did not
touch the trunks in the baggage coach
in which reposed several hundred
dollars worth of jewelry samples.
Special officers and a sheriff's posse
from Pawhuska are still securing the
Usage country for the bandits, but so
far their quest has been futile, accord
ing to the report brought here yes
|. terday afternoon by Bartlesville man
who went to the scene of the robbery
1arly yesterday morning.
At o'clock yesterday morning
masked men held up the Katy station
agent at Dewey, a small station four
miles from here, and secured about
$l5 in money. 1t is possible that they
We're the same men who held up the
train and forced Engineer Jimmie
Mairs and Fireman Switbensky to de-
ttach the engine, and the mail, express
and baggage, cars and take them a
short distance up the track from the
rest of the train, where they leisurely
frified the express car, filled upon beer
sand then made their escape
Superintendent Brown of the Katy
Eailroad, who was here yesterday, is
POI the belief that the robbery was
sdone by members of the Wichita gang,
&who are known by the officers to be
Adown in this section of the country.
gssssascret service men and special Off
GERS of the railroad have been on the
Grail of the gang in this section for
some time and are assisting in the
chase after the train robbers.
The Katy railroad published an of
FER of 81 900 reward for the arrest and
xeonviction of the Okesa robbers.
& When the news of the hold-up was
telephoned to Bartlesville this morn
&ng by Conductor Mccormick, the
south bond Katy flyer, which arrived
Vere at 2:35 a. M, was held until q
s Iposse could be organized and sent or
1the train to the place two miles south
yof Okessa, where the hold-up occurred
ISheriff Jordan of this city was i'll and
did not join the posse.
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% $50 PER CAPITA
/: FOR CHER0KEES
vsr Payment of Present Claims
dWould Be Less Than Million to
!, Distribute, Says Officials.

Washington, ID. c., Oct 4, The
rrokees of eastern Oklahoma, Al
Il in number, will not share in the
I per capita payment authorized by
\ last session of congress, because
Rr holding back out of the accumu-
I'd Cherokee fund the sum of ST.
1000, which is tied up by a judg-
mt of the court of claims in favor
some 1000 Cherokee freedmen,
vre would be less than a million dol
e left to be distributed.
his decision was reached Tuesday
"a conference between Superintend-
9 Kelsey of the Union agency at
oskogee, Acting Secretary of the In
or Adams and Indian Commission
Valentine In an official statement
/ night, EXPLAINING the decision
the department in this matter, Act
Secretary Adams says:
$50 far as the Cherokees are con-
med 1t is impossible for the depart
int at present to make the $50 per
pita payment recently authorized by
hgress, or, in fact any distribution
tribal funds to the individual mem
is of the Cherokee Nation in eastern
Ilahoma.
1t is estimated that it will require
br $1,000,000 to equalize the allot-
nts of the so-called newborn and
her Cherokees already enrolled. The
hrt of claims recently rendered
Ilgment in favor of perhaps about
poo freedmen claimants in what is
own as the Moses Whitmire case
W on appeal to the supreme court.
this case is not reversed, it will re-
bire approximately $1,30O,OOO to pay
lese claimants money in lieu of allot-
tents. As the Cherokees have to
leir credit in the treasury at this time
lly approximately $2,225,000 it will
z A1iuily obNu llldi W ItbGlNt 5ulll-
nnt for the newborn and freedmen
Guild require all of this money; and
/ &he face of the litigation involving
9th of these claimants, particularly
he favorable judgment in favor of the
-eedmen, the department considers it
bsolutely incumbent upon it to re-
erve sufficient tribal funds therefor.
IF the Whitmire freedman claims
hould eventually be denied, the money
ow reserved for them would in all
be subject to distribution
, the individual Cherokees.
THE resolution of congress author
1es the secretary of the interior to
vithhold per capita payments and use
anne for the benefit of the Indians of
he restricted class, and in all prob
bility the regulations he will prescribe
ill carry out the intention of con.
ress and provide method of super
ising the payments, particularly to
he full blodds"
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WILL TEST VALIDITY or
LAW CREATING ASSESSORS

Oklahoma City, Oct. 4.-The state
organization of township officers, in
semiannual session here yesterday,
decided to test by quo warranto pro-
ceedings the validity of the act of the
last legislature abolishing the office
of township assessors and creating the
Office of county assessors, who begin
their duties January /. They agree
that the legislature has the authority
to make the change, but declare it was
not made properly. Governor Cruce
was a speaker before the officers yes.
terday, and he differed with them with
regard to the assessor matter.
The organization also will recon-
mend to the legislature that the laws
affecting township government be re
duced to a uniform basis, ard made
free from abiguity. AS it is, lawyers
do not agree as to what the law is
which renders township government
burdensome. United States Senator
Owen and Walter s. Gilbert of the
state highway department spoke a
the meeting.
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At TTORNEY GENERAL WEST IN .
TART REPLY To GOVERNOR.
Declares No Court Decision is Necessary to
Determine Who is Custodian of School Land
MOney---Sys State Treasurer is Only
Legal Custodian Implies Custer
Proceedings Might Be Brought.

seem proper to protect the public
funds from illegal expenditure
ALLOW me to express great regret"
says the letter, that any executive
officer of the state, after having been
duly advised of the contents of any
opinion of this Office, should continue
to do what such opinion holds to be
"a violation of the law. The illegality
of Withholding from the state treasurer
the school funds, as well as to illegal
ity of employing an attorney already
have been sufficiently decided by the
courts. No decision of the court, how
ever, may be necessary to cause the
law to be observed"
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SON OF TULSA CAPITALIST
WEDS At EUREKA SPRINGS

After spending Sunday with friends
here, Harry Hall, of Tulsa went to
Eureka Springs, Ark, where at noon
Monday he was married to Miss Maud
Wheeler, of that city. The happy
young couple returned to this city last
night and are the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Garland Marrs today. The groom
is the son of J. M. Hall, prominent
banker and capitalist of Tulsa, and IS
now living on ranch near Wekiwa,
in the Usage nation, where he and his
bride will make their home The wed.
ding yesterday was the elimination
Iof pretty romance begun, when the
two met at Springfield, Mo-, several
months ago. The bride is the daugh-
ter of prominent family at Eureka,
and is an accomplished young woman.
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MICH INTEREST IN
V|N|TA SALESDAY
Plan Suggested For Erection of Sales
PavilIion-WiIl Publish List of
Articles For Sale.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
The success of the first tradesday
in Vinita has aroused interest among
the citizens and many suggestions
have been made for improving the
sales and getting larger crowds.
Judge Parker today suggested that
arrangements be made with the Frisco
and the city for the use of the plot of
ground between the Electric light plant
and Frisco tracks, extending from Will
son street to the Katy right-of-way, on
which a temporary pavilion, for the
sales could be erected, for a small
cost. In this pavilion could be ar
ranged platform for the exhibit and
for the sales. A small stock pen
could be built for the live stock to be
'offered for sale or exhibited. The pa
vilion would also afford shelter for
sthe crowds, who attend the sales.
Judge Parker said he felt sure the
Frisco would be willing to allow the
,pse of their part of the ground He
hlso said that w b. Coley and Judge
nGill might permit temporary pa
dvilion to be erected on their lot, at the
,corner of Canadian avenue and Scrap
,er street.
j Another suggestion, which already
,rhad been contemplated by the retail
men, was the publication of list of
1.-THE things to be sold, at least two
weeks before the sale. The Chieftain
! will gladly publish this list free of
icharge.
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OhldHOIld AlNyt OCl. .. - lie COu-
troVersy between the state treasurer
and the board of land commissioners
over the custody of school land money
and a letter from Governor Cruce to
Attorney General West, advising West
that the board has determined not to
follow the attorney generals advice
brought forth a tart reply from the at
torney general, addressed to the gov
Iernor.
Attorney General West in his opin-
ion held that the state treasurer is the
only custodian of state funds, while
members of the board were advised
by Attorney James H. Chambers of
the school land department that the
board is custodian of the school land
money. The governor in his letter ask
ed the attorney general to institute a
suit to determine the question.
Replying to Governor Cruce, Mr..
West refers to the boards refusal to
abide by the attorney generals advice
in the controversy, and adds:
"The president recently, under SIM
liar circumstances, stated that an Off
cial who knowingly and Intentionally
persisted in a course of conduct held by
the attorney general to be illegal ought
| to be removed from office.
The suggestion that / may be in
error is immaterial. The law makes
no provision for appeal from my opin-
ion to the court. This means that my
opinion should be followed by the Off.
cial. The courts also may make mis-
takes. They often differ and some
times reverse themselves, yet their
opinions must be followed until they
are changed in due course of law.
You say the action of the school
land commissioners is upon the advice
of their paid counsel In other words
instead of following the opinion of this
office, the board intends to follow the
opinion of its paid counsel. | take il
that it is the duty of my office, and nc
one else, to determine what should be
Illegal action
The letter refers to the Central Law
Journal which stated that a governor
is not qualified in any official sense tc
speak upon the Interpretation of law
and continues:
1T may naturally be supposed tha
the board is no better qualified than il
the governor
AS to their paid counsel, you vii
please notice that on December 29
t190S, | informed the board members
at their request, they were not author
Iized to employ an attorney. OF course
they have no authority to pay one, ant
lhsving neither authority, it is unneces
sary to add that his advice should no
be followed unless it be in accordance
with that function of governmen
created by the people for this pur
pose"
The attorney general says that h
ipresumes the commissioners will fol
low the law when they know what i
lis, but when he is convinced to tn
contrary, a condition he hopes vii
not occur, he will take steps as ma,
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Resident Minister Eor VInIta.

The F.ght ReN-sa N - ~ h-----.- :
5i the two states. Should the conten-
itions of Shreveport be sustained. either
the Texas rates must be increased so
as to place them on an equal footing
with those now applying from Shreye-
port to Texas points, or the interstate
rates reduced to the Texas schedule,
which latter step would enable Louis
lana shippers to become strong com
petitors for Texas business.
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Rural Sunday Schools And County
Sunday School Convention.

The Craig county Sunday school con-
vention to be held in Vinita, October
% and %, is to be OF special interest
to the rural Sunday schools of the
county. Plans and methods for run
ming Sunday schools and teaching
classes will be discussed. The one
minute reports from the Sunday
chools is to be an interesting feature.
Each school must be sure to have one
delegate but try to bring the whole
school. Sundays sessions will be held
in the Auditorium.
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a great deal of attention, and many IN
quiries were made as to the same.
The next sales day will take place,
it is stated by the committee in charge,
Wednesday, November 1, at which
time all of the farmers of the county
are invited to be present. and take ac-
tive part. Bring along your stock you
wish to sell and it will be sold for you
free of charge and premiums will be
provided for a products exhibition and
competition
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-10-06
PRIZE WINNERS At FIRST
SALESOAY IN VINITA

The following is a list of the prize
winners in the Tradesday exhibits yes
terday:
Sweet potatoes, first prize, $3.50,
given by Bears New Store, John Par
ker.
Apples, first prize, $500, given by
Farmers State Bank, b. F. Clark.
Best collection of farm products, $5.
given by H. G. Miller Lumber Co., o..
N. Crawford.
Best hushel white corn. $500, given
by International Bank & Trust Co, T.
B. Harp.
Best peck Irish potatoes, $500, given
by Pearl Grocery, T. B. Harp.
Best bushel yellow corn, $3.50 in
merchandise, F. g. Cowan Grocery Co.,
w B. Mcbride.
Largest pumpkin, X. L. handsaw,
Sunny-Pat. Hdy. Co, j. w. White.
Next largest pumpkin, $1.O0 in mer-
ehandise, Empire Grocery Co, H. ].
Vermillion.
Best stalk of cotton, $500, Jumbo
Mercantile Co., NJ NJ. Wright.
Jar of peaches, China fruit set, S. ].
Burns Grocery, Mrs. M. NJ. Wright.
Best pound of butter, one American
Beauty Corset, Mendels, Mrs. w.
Wade.
Second best bushel white corn, $3.50
set of irons, Watson's, w. Wade.
Largest watermelon, $500 in mer,
chandise, Enterprise Grocery, II. w
Mills.
Best bale of hay, $500 suit case
Marks Ready-to-Wear Store, R. l.
Barlow.
! Best one-half bushel oats, $500 rock
ing chair, Klingel Furniture Co, l. H
Mercer.
Prizes were offered for the best
heads of cabbage best pound of honey
and best peck of tomatoes, but there
were none of these articles put up
and these will more than likely remain
over for the next time.
For the stock exhibit the following
offerings were up:
Best three-year-old draft colt, 10C
pounds -four, Peoples Grocery, J. w
Springer.
best team draft horses, $500 Colder
Rule, Warren Laroe.
Best span three-year-old mules
J $500 in merchandise, L. D. Dalouest
Warren Laroe.
Best mule colt, 100 pounds of flour
; L. P. Garrison, Jas. Shipley.
J Best two-year-old mule colt, $500
g Vinita National bank, Preston Smith
: Best yearling colt, dozen pairs 25
/ hose, Milford Berger Shoe Co, PER-.
e Johnson
= Best draft mares, $500 in .merchar
$ disc, E. C. Robinson Lumber Co., H
e L. Munsey.
+ Second best paid draft mares, re
h ribbon, Myrtle Thurmmel
Best sucking colt, blue ribbon, Z
/ Thurmmel.
S Three coops of chickens were on e.
: hibition, although no prizes were offe
e ed as yet for poultry The committe
s decorated the coop belonging to
5. Pumphrey containing some Buff Orr
it ingtons, with blue ribbon, and tn
II coop of Plymouth Rocks belonging
e T. B. Harp, with red ribbon. A coo
it of Crystal White Orpingtons belon
ing to j. L. Lane, White Oak attracte
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Kentucky w. C. T. U.

Hopkinsville, Ky, Sept 29.-White
ribboned delegates from all over the
state gathered here today from the an
nual convention of the Kentucky or
ganization of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union Beginning with
welcome demonstration tonight tn
sessions of the convention will be cor
tinued until next Tuesday.
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tulsa direct from st. Louis and will
ave several days in which to overhaul
lis engine and get everything in
apple pie" order for the weeks fly
ag. 1t is estimated that not less than
900 strangers, besides the citizens
+ Tulsa, will see the wonderful bird
nan in his flights of Tuesday, October
18th, the date of the First Annual Tulsa
Industrial Durbar.
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Presbyterian Church.

All who heard Rev. Anderson last
evening were greatly impressed with
the message which he delivered. We
desire that all who come to these
meetings will be benefited by every
part of the services. Come expecting
a blessing and with the desire to
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-10-06
LONDON ELECTS THOMAS
CROSBY AS LORD MAYOR

London, Sept. 29.-Haying been an
alderman for thirteen years and filled
the Office of sheriff for one term, Sir
Thomas Boor Crosby, wealthy mer-
chant and inanciaer, today went
through the solemn farce of being
elected Lord Mayor of the City of Lon
don. He will be formally installed in
office on November 8, when the time
honored pageant known as the Lord
Mayors Show" will take place.
Unlike all other great municipalities,
London's Lord Mayor is not chosen by
the people, though there was a time
some 200 or more years ago-when
they really were elected by the citi-
zens. But the aldermen, who are
elected for life, decided that position
so exalted as that of Lord Mayor
should not be thrown open to outsid-
ers and made dependent on popular
favor. So they fixed things up so that
every alderman, il he live long en-
ough, is assured of becoming Lord
Mayor when his turn comes. When
Sir Thomas Vesey Strong was elected
last year. Sir Crosby was next" and
now it is his turn to take the civic
chair.
The system pleases the aldermen
and does not make much dicerence to
anybody else. The office of Lord
Mayor has long since been horn of its
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connection with Senator Stephenson's
election 1t was brought out that all
Of the senator's campaign fund of
s107,793 was scattered broadcast over
the state to organizers" who turned
in no itemized accounts.
From the amount Of money spent,
it was apparent Senator Stephenson
had no voluntary supporters in Wis
consin, and from the efforts made to
get out votes, it would seem that the
direct primary for which the people
popularly were supposed to be clam
oring was not such a successful insti-
tuition after all
Am | to understand that in Wis
consin, the home of the direct pri-
mary, half of these people have to be
solicited to go to the poll?" asked Sen
ator Hapburn of Idaho.
E. Edmonds, who had charge of Sen
ator Stephens campaign was ques-
toned.
Il don't know as to that replied Ed
mond, but there being several other
candidates, we felt it necessary to en-
ploy our men to get out the Stephen
son supporters.
There are a number Of items here
charged to general. They aggregate
100000 Who is this general and
what was the money spent for?" ask
ed the chairman.
81 don't know. l suppose for or
ganization."
Don't use the word organize, 1t
is at glittering politica lword to the
menace of our case"
Edmonds said Stone was to render
assistance in the campaign, and that
he named men in the game warden di
vision who were to work for Stephen
son.
"The game warden division had beer
used as an effective force to further
the political ambitions of La Toilette
when he was governor" said Ed
monds.
R. j. Shields, of Superior, Wis, who
was mentioned in testimony given by
the senatorial investigation of Sena
tor Lorimer of Illinois, was said by
Edmonds to have received $3.50 to pro
mote the Stephenson campaign.
Taking up the total of moneys paic
to organizers, Edmond said although
about $9S 900 of the $107,703 campaign
fund passed through the headquarter
at Milwaukee, where he was in charge
He failed to remember any of the item
mentioned that were given to the dii
ferent accounts, saying that no rec
ords had been kept of them and VIII,
they we're spent at that time.
Smyrna times., 1911-09-13
STRICKEN BLIND IN
RAILROAD STATION
Aviator May Never Regain
His Sight.

Stricken with blindness in Broad
street station, Philadelphia, while he
was on his way to York, Pa, to ar
range for a series of exhibition flights
in that city, Thomas J. Towle, a Bos-
ton aviator, was taken to the Hahne
mann hospital and placed under the
care of physicians.
Doctors told the young man that in
their opinion his sight will never re-
turn, and he later employed a man to
act as his guide back to his Boston
home, where he will seek the advice
of skilled Cculists.
Physicians at the hospital gave it as
their opinion that the nerves of the
young mans eyes have broken down
under the strain to which they have
been subjected during recent flights.
The young airman, however, de-
clares his eyes were injured while he
was watching blacksmiths at work on
his machine a day or two ago. The
mechanics, he said, used electrical
machines to weld parts of his mono
plane together. The machine emitted
a light stronger than the most bril-
liant arc light, and he says he watched
| them for more than an hour, with no
| protecting glasses.