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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Craig county has eight tick inspec.
tors at work in the field at a salary
of 800 month. This is a state Office
but the county has TO bear the expense
which will soon run into lots of money.
OF course the great benefit to be de.
rived from the effectual eradication of
ticks is to be considered. but high
taxes is causing the public some little
worry at this time.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

At a certain home in this city may
be seen a basket Of peaches Of the
Elberta variety. none Of which meas
ure less than eleven inches. These
peaches grew without artificial water
ing on old trees and in the natural
way. and were subjected 10 the long
est drouth in the history Of Oklahoma.
The question presents itself: Would
III not pay to grow peaches on a larger
scale in this locality?
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Tanlequah is arranging to give an
old soldiers and settlers reunion, Oe-
tober &c, q and 2S. and if carried out
according to plans mapped out in ad.
vance will be a great event and very
largely attended. The old settlers of
eastern Oklahoma have witnessed a
marvellous transition, and in which is
wrapped up the most wonderful chap
ter in American history. The man
who has lived in the Cherokee coun-
try, along the slopes of the Ozarks. or
beside her pearly streams. or out on
her magnificent prairies for thirty,
forty or fifty years, has seen what will
never be seen again IN the American
continent These old settlers have
seen the slow, relentless and ever in
creasing movement of civilization on
a large scale, and have watched a
pageant grander and more thrilling
than the crusades. When the council
fire of the Cherokees burned on the
mountain side, and the Indian cabins
dotted the valleys these hardy pio-
neers were here, and now after the es-
tablishment of settled government to
meet and talk over events of the past
will be appropriate. The Chieftain
hopes to see the Tahlequah reunion
made a great success.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

The idea some people have Of sup.
porting the home merchant is TO dc
their cash trading in Chicago and
when in close place ask the home
merchant for help. On the other hand.
it very often happens that the mer-
chants idea Of supporting the home
paper is to get all he can for nothing
out Of the paper and send elsewhere
when he needs any printing done
Ada News.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Farmers all over the country are ar
ranging to SOW wheat, and the wheat
acreage will be large in northeast Ok
lahoma. This is the thing to do and
will help the farming interests more
than nearly any one thing. This is a
splendid wheat country and it will give
the farmer a chance to rotate his
crops. Wheat is cash crop that
comes in early and helps business.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

A matter of more than passing i'm
portanee is the employment of home
labor by employers in Vinita. The
men who are making this town grow
and prosper are the working men and
they should have the preference where
ever there is job to let. Men who
have families should be first to get
good places. The home man spends
his money at home. He is a part of
the community.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Youth has beautiful traits il is sin
cere, faithful, honest, pure, trusting.
devoted, loyal, generous, grateful. In
growing old try to preserve the yir-
tues of youth, even after you have lost
the illusions; become men and remain
youths II is in accordance with this
law that fine natures are developed
and great hearts formed Enthusiasm
is at the bottom of true wisdom. The
wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

A number of families are on the
look out for dwellings to rent and are
moving to town TO get school privi-
leges. When our new high school
building is finished and equipped the
population viii see a material increase.
People who move to town to get
school facilities are the best people in
the world.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Captain F. ]. Barrett will attend the
Confederate reunion at Ardmore, Sep
tember 6, and s. The captain is
capable of doing the honors and doing
them well. AS type of the genuine
old southern gentleman the captain
will do.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

If this state government is to be
run along political lines it is riding
to hard fall. The same may be said
of any department of the state admin.
istration, and it may, with equal verify
be said of any county or city or town.
The political machine is a menace to
decent government any and every.
where.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

The state equalization board found
the state awfully in debt on account of
the extravaganza of the Haskell ad-
ministration and undertook to pay it
all of at one lick instead of in INSTALL
ments, is the way one paper puts it..
Hence the high valuations this year.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

The corn market for Craig, Ottawa
and the north half of Delaware is going
10 be worth while when the gathering
season comes on. There will be lots
of corn TO SELL 1t will be sold off
close by ninetenths of the farmers and
will afford chance for speculation on
no small scale.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

The commission form of government
ought to appeal to every citizen who
wants every department of the city's
business placed upon a systematic
basis free from politics, favoritism and
graft. The contest is going to be the
people against the politicians
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

There is a good deal being said about
state machines. The inference is that
there is a Cruce machine and a Muir
ray machine and perhaps others. One
machine in politics is generally about
as bad as another.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

The making Of every section line in
Oklahoma a public road was a piece
of legislative folly that should be
amended Roads should be construct
ed in the most practical places and
where needed
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

4 Coincident with the publication of
d Col. Roosevelt's voluntary testimony
before the congressional commission
j investigating the steel corporation, in
which the ex-president said he had act
ed upon his own initiative in permitting
the trust to absorb the Tennessee Coal
and Iron company, comes the report
from Muskogee in which it is stated
that Roosevelt while president and
in conversation with Chairman Charles
Hunter of the republican state com
mittee of Oklahoma, said of his job as
president
This is hell of a job
'I'll tell you, Charley, nobody in this
republic knows the rascality of these
men.
"They came down here and l saw
them. First they sent their ennis
saries. Then Morgan came. | never
dreamed of anything like it. But they
had the power | have fought them
and whipped them out in everything
before, but this time they had their
own way.
"I1l get them yeti When l am
through with this l am going away to
Africa. | will be gone a year. Let
them alone little while and they will
tie themselves up. Then I'll come
back. Yes, I'll see them again.
They told me that they would ruin
my administration. They told me
how they could precipate a panic and
spread disaster through the country
/ knew they could do it, They told
me how they could home out while the
people were in distress. | knew how
they could do that They had every
thing in their power Something had
to be done, and I did the thing thar
was necessary. But things are chang
ing. There is hereafter. 1t is COM
ing rapidly. They are digging their
own graves"
c. F. Phillips. editor of a magazine
published at Muskogee, narrates the
story as having been told to him by
Mr.. Hunter. There is no reason for
believing that they have not repeated
the utterances substantially as they
came from the lips of Col. Roosevelt. |
One would like to hear Mr.. Roosevelt's |
answer upon being questioned as to
the authenticity of the story
Given, that the statements are au- !
thentic, the first question arising in
the mind of the reader is, "Was Pres
ident Roosevelt sincere?" If the story /
that the statements were made is true,
and if President Roosevelt was sincere
in his utteranees, the public may or
may not approve of his course in per
hitting these men" to have their own /
way in order to avoid the horrors of I
great panic. but the public cannot APP
prove of his subsequent silence re-
garding the rascality of these men,
If his sentiments were as quoted. it
was his duty to inform the public by
what means they compelled the con-
session, and also the menace such in
-erests represent to this country and
is people.
Granting that the story is true and
hat Roosevelt was sincere, it was pos
iible for him to have turned defeat
nto victory He was at the acme of
lis popularity at that time He might
have conceded the demands of the
pirates of high finance and then turned
ipon them. The people of this coun-
ry would have rallied at his call and
hey would have eliminated the strang-
ers.
But Col. Roosevelt was silent then.
lie is silent now. If that story is true
md he was sincere then, he is today
nuzzled-oklahoman.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Taxpayers of Vinita with a fifty per
cent raise in valuations are wondering
where the en- dof high taxes is and
when the limit of endurance will be
reached But all the cities of Oklaho-
ma are sufferers. which may or may
not be some consolation.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

The Chieftain takes its hat of to the
host of small boys in Vinita who work
at some job or other day after day and
earn money. These hustling little
fellows are the most hopeful and cour-
agous bunch to be found anywhere.
Energetic boys make successful men
and there isn't much hope for lazy
boy or man either
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

The newspaper that takes a posi-
tive stand upon any public question is
bound to make enemies more or less
virulent whose action will be dictated
by spite and hate.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

The fact that Theodore Roosevelt
was seen by the trusts while occupying
the presidential chair is no surprise
nor information. There has been no
president since Cleveland that has not
been seen by the trusts.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

To put the town on a correct water
meter system is vastly different from
unloading on the people one thousand
out of date and unreliable meters at
an exorbitant price
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Hard times has put a quietus on
nearly every form of human enterprise
with the exception of the Salvation
Army.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Oklahoma is pretty sure to elect
three more democratic congressman
without an extra session of the legis-
lature. and without any sort of a gerry
mander.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

II is a pretty hard task for an official
to have to protect the bootlegger and
stand up for the Law and Order League
at one and the same time.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Muskogee has secured a material re-
duction in taxes for the coming year
by stenuous and concerted laboring
with the excise board
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Just think what it will be to have
three congressional candidates running
at large in Oklahoma But it won't
be three it will be at least dozen
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Vinita doubtless viii have greater
years than this. but there has been
none in the past that has exceeded it
in growth and volume of business. This
thought may very properly be enlarged
to cover the entire northeast corner of
the state. 1t is going to be a great
crop year, a great fruit year and a
year great in general development of
town and country. The gloom that
was about to fall upon us a few weeks
ago was effectually dispelIed by the
glorious rains that came to break the
drought and insure the yield of the
crops. This section of the country is
showing off now to splendid advantage
and ii is with a sense of pride that we
can invite newcomers to locate among
US. When a rea lestate man starts
out to show new people the country
he is not ashamed to brag a little as
the whole face of the earth is eloquent
in its own praise.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

A Kansas newspaper is mean enough
to print the story of a young woman
Of 20 summers who has a twin brother,
81 years old.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

1t now transpires that the original
Casey Jones ran on the Frisco. out Of
Monett when guards sat in the express
cars to keep off robbers.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Now that ViDita has a Kentucky so
ciety number of mint beds will be
grown without unnecessary delay.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Eighteen big fat loads of old corn
rolling into town this morning was a
good advertisement for this section.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Hot wave number two seems to
aspire to again break the record.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

The Pope is not the only man that
needs cooler weather.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Champ Clark is not running for pres
ident but he could if he wanted to.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-10-19

or in restraint of trade or commerce
between any such Territory and an
other, or between any such Territory
or Territories and any State Or States
or the District of Columbia, or with
foreign nations, or between the Dis
trict Of Columbia and any State or
States or foreign nations, is hereby
declared illegal. Every person who
shall make any such contract or en-
gage in any such combination or con-
spiracy shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and, on conviction
thereof, shall be punished by fine not
exceeding $4,000, or by imprison-
ment not exceeding one year, or by
both said punishments, in the discre-
ton Of the court. rs Stat. 20, C. 647.)
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THE .JEFFERSONIAN

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G. L. Rogers, Sallisaw, Oka.-------------- 100
Miss Lille Hyman, Hatcher Sta, Ga---- 100
Leonora Sheppard, Tennille Ga------ 500
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H. S. Bacon, Little Rock, Ark.------------ 1000
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The Sherman Act.

Sec. 1. Every contract, combination
in the form OF trust or otherwise, or
conspiracy, in restraint Of trade or
commerce among the several States,
or with foreign nations. is hereby de-
clared to be Illegal. Every person
who shall make any such contract or
engage in any such combination or
conspiracy, shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof, shall be punished by fine not
exceeding $4,000, or by imprison-
ment not exceeding one year, or by
both said punishments. in the dis
erection of the court.
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Sec 2. Every person who shall mo-
nopolize, Or attempt to monopolize,
or combine with any other person or
persons, to monopolize any part of
trade or commerce among the several
States, or with foreign nations, shall
be deemed guilty Of a misdemeanor,
and, on conviction thereof shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding
$4,000, or by Imprisonment not ex-
ceeding one year, or by both said
punishments, in the discretion of the
court.
Sec. 3. Every contract, combination
in form Of trust or otherwise, or con-
spiracy, in restraint of trade or COM
merce in any Territory of the United
States, or Of the District of Columbia,
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Underwood ON Taft.

Oscar w. Underwood, chairman of
the ways and means committee and
Democratic leader of the House, in
terviewed at his home concerning
President Taft's Grand Rapids speech,
said:
con the tariff, President Taft oc-
cupies the position of Dr.. Jekyll
and Mr.. Hyde. When tariff legisla-
ton is up the protected interests of
America are always able to convert
him into Mr.. Hyde, standing for all
the indefensible iniquities of high
protective tariff. AS soon as the leg
islation is out of the way and the
Presidents genial smile radiates
from the rear end of Pullman car,
he becomes DR.. Jekyll, with the
gentlemanly intention of relieving
the American people from the indie
feasible burdens of taxation that his
former acts has put upon them"
Mr. Underwood called attention to
the fact that Congress had for it's
consideration the 10000 pages of in
formation collected by the Ways and
Means committee that framed the
Payne bill, and that conditions had
not changed materially in this coun-
try, since then, that Congress had
also all of the up-to-date information
furnished by the census of 1910. and
that the Ways and Means committee
expressly invited any additional testi-
mony that might be offered by any
persons Interested. In quoting Pro-
fessor Emery, the chairman of the
Tariff Board as to the difficulty of as
pertaining the difference in the cost
of production at home and abroad,
he added:
''It is awaiting a report of this
board that is the Presidents excuse
for not signing the bill reducing the
taxes on WOODEN goods from 80 per
cent. to 40 per cent. and further,
the total labor cost On woBen and
worsted goods is only % per cent,
according to the report of the CEN
sus bureau
AS to the Presidents reference to
having the tariff board prepare a
glossary of tariff terms Mr.. Under
wood said:
IF he had taken the trouble to
read the wool report before writing
his veto message he would have
found that it contained a full gloss
airy of the terms. Tampa (Fla.)
Tribune.
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PILES CURED AT HOME BY
NEW ABSORPTION METHOD

II you suffer from bleeding, itching,
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address, and I will tell you how to
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some of this home treatment free for
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locality If requested. Immediate re-
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no money, but tell others Of this Of
fer. Write today to Mrs. M. Summers,
Box $50, South Bend, Ind.
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caved on him, and he was not ready to prose
cute the Steel Trust
Judge Gary and other officials of the Trust
have been bold in their announcements, that
the Steel Trust will not dissolve, and the
international Harvester Company is Of
course, included in that-the Trust that
charges the farmers on an average of $50 per
cent profit.
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PROTESTANT LEAGUE

have been reading the series of articles "he Roman
Catholic Hierarchy the Deadest Menace Liberties and
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Without organization, our work is
wasted. Don't let the week go by
without organizing Progressive
Democratic League in your county.