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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-08

acre. Last season Oklahoma made
approximately 100000 bales, and since
the state this year has 100000 more
acres planted to the staple, experts of
the state board believe it will finish
with nearly as much as last.
The growing condition of com is
given at 28.9 per cent, very slight ad-
vance over July, the average yield be-
ing estimated at nine bushels per acre;
COW peas with growing condition Of
72.7 per cent, are 2.3 per cent off;
kafiir corn, 1873 per cent, a decrease
of 14.7 per cent; milo maize, 72.4 per
cent, 1876 decrease; and growing con
dition OF broom corn is placed at 70.5
per cent. All crops show growing
condition of 622 per cent.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-08
AUGUST BULLETIN SHOWS
DECLINE IN CONDITION

Oklahoma city, Sept THE August
bulletin of the state board Of agricul-
ture. issued yesterday, shows mark
ed decrease in the growing condition
of all Oklahoma crops on August s5
as compared with the same date in
July. Cotton, the chief crop of the
state this year, appears to have suffer.
ed greatly from drouth and hot winds
Of the last three weeks, although late
rains will assist the top crop great
deal.
July % cotton's growing condition
was given as 81 per cent, while on
August 25 it was 2S,3 per cent less,
and the tabulation shows that the
promised yield, taking the cotton pro
dpcing counties on an average is no
more than three-tenths of bale to the
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-08
OKOEE FAIR NEXT WEEK
WILL Be BIG AFFAIR

The annual fair at Okoee begins next
Tuesday and lasts four days. The pre-
MUM list this year is bigger than ever,
and the fair is expected to be a great
success. The following are the Off
cials of the fair:
Clem Tuelsenkamp and Claude Nj
gent, superintendents classes a, B, c
and d.
Billy Friend, superintendent classes
E, F, G and l.
II. Ward, superintendent class H.
Mrs Zack Pumphrey, superintendent
class
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-08
Resolutions of Respect.

Whereas Death has taken from us
Mrs. Bessie Craig, beloved president
of the c. w b. NJ. of our church. Be
it resolved that we, the members of
this organization express our sorrow
at Mrs Crag's death and show our
appreciation of her work 70 rus. To
her bereayed husband, DR., Craig, we
extend our sincere sympathy and pray
God to comfort and strengthen him in
his sorrow.
MRS. w. c. DRAKE,
MRS. J. r. SCOTT.
MRS. H. NJ. WILLIAMS.
Committee
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-08
ABOLISH OFFICE
Of CLAIM AGENT
New Method Ct Settling Freight Claims
Ard Damages TO Be Adopted BY
Frisco on September Is.

Springfield, No. Sept I'm order
+ to expedite the settlement of freight
claims the Frisco beginning Septem-
Der Is will abolish the Office of freight
claim agent and arrange for the de-
partment creating the claim 10 invest
Iigate and carry it through to a con
clusion.
The settlement of all freight loss
and damage claims will be under the
operating department and in charge
of E. L. Levy, assistant general man
ager, who will appoint J. H. Doggrell,
car accountant at Springfield, Mo, as
superintendent of freight loss and dam
age claims, with headquarters at that
point Mr.. Doggrell will appoint c. E.
Whitelam, chief clerk to assistant gen
eral manager, as assistant superin-
tendent of freight loss and damage
claims.
The handling of all claims for over
charge in rates and weights, switching,
Ireconsignment, elevation claims, etc,
will be handled by the auditor of
freight accounts, ]. d. Nettleship, at
st. Louis, Mo Mr.. Nettleship will ap-
point r. S. Hoxie first assistant auditor
of freight accounts, and he will have
charge of this department with head
quarters in st. Louis.
Accounting to this arrangement the
public will file all freight loss and dam
lage claims, either with the superin-
Itendent of freight loss and damage
claim or with the station or CONNER
cial agents of the Frisco, who will
transmit them to him.
AS it is proposed that this depart.
ment make all of the necessary investi-
cations and settlements of claims, it
is evident that much time will be saw
ed.
In the settlement of claims for over
charge, which is purely a matter of
accounting, such claims will be hanled
by the accounting department under
1.-THE supervision of P. S. Hoxie. This
claims, eliminates considerable loss Of
time and duplication of work, as it also
does away with the need of first send
ing the claim to the freight claim
agent, who sent it to the accounting
department, which department return
led it to the freight claim agent for
settlement.
The Frisco has put into effect mod
ern method by which agents are au-
thorized to settle claims for visible
damage from amounts from $40 to $50,
depending upon the amount of busi-
ness done at the station. Under this
plan the claimant receives his money
for damages at the time the freight
is delivered. Futher, under plan by
which an over or short report is made
upon shipments by the agents, more
than 80 per cent of the Investigations
are completed by the time the claim
lis received.
1t is not expected that this method
of handling claims will be an economy
to the Frisco in any other way save
time, but will be of great assistance
to the shippers in securing prompt
action upon their claims
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-08
waated to ss Loeksa Up.


From Fridays Daily
The unusual spectacle OF a man
hunting up a policeman and asking 10
be locked up for being drunk, was seen
in police court today a big Irishman
had imbibed too freely Of the liquid
JOY and decided that he ought 10 be
locked up Accordingly he hunted up
Officer Lee Webb and told him that he
was stewed. Webb took him before
Judge Williams. who sentenced him
10 five days in the Jail
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-08
NOTES OF THE COPPER INDUSTRY
The United States produces 60 per
cent Of the copper in the world.

The United States produces % per
cent Of the copper in the world.
The world uses one hundred times
as much copper today as II did cen
tury ago.
The copper consuming interests are
constantly on the verge Of a famine
Every mile Of trolley line demands
a ton Of copper
Wherever electricity Is used copper
is absolutely essential
The copper mines of the United
States pay more dividends than gold,
silver, lead and zinc combined.
While our annual gold output is
about 100000 900; our annual copper
output is about $2OO,0OOOO0
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-03-17

my stole philosopher? Have you a
:ade at your fingers ends. like Jean
jacques Rousseau's Emile? Or
worthy NJ. Gerdy, have you learned
economy from the four thousand francs
! month ! allow you for waxing your
noustache? Perhaps you have made
money on the Bourse, Then nly name
aust have seemed very burdensome
to you to bear since you so eagerly
Introduced it into such Il place, Has
Dirt. then. so great an attraction for
you that you must jump FROM your
carriage so quickly? Say. rather that
he company OF my friends emharrass-
ed you, and that you are anxious to go
where you will he anon. your own
equals
Il am very wretched. sir replied
Albert to this avalanche Of insults.
and you would crush met
You wretched. Well. whose fault
5 it? But let us get back 10 my ques-
ion, How and on what viii you
live?"
ITO be continued,
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-03-17

competition--as in the building OF
oattleshlps, there Is no place to
stop. The indictment runs correct
ly against large class OF Ameri-
can women to whom il has been
given to spend swollen incomes. On
the other hand. we recognize in
stinctively the existence of "A num-
erous class of women--the Sound
remnant" --against whom this indict-
ment does not lie. Possibly it may
be answered that those who are not
rich have remained interrupted.
Unfortunately such Il staten ent can
not be made safely. The danger is
not confined to those who have the
means to spend. The passion for
social position is almost universal:
and the example of the rich who
have low ideals is hungrily followed
by those who have low incomes 1t
is the deteri0rating example Of
those who guide the expenditure Of
the rich women that is spreading
widely and thoughtlessly over the
great class outside the well-to-do.
The danger lies in the increasing adj
option of habits, social customs, and
expenditures, based on low ideals
which attracts the weaker and poor
err members of the sex who are most
influenced by emulation
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-03-17
THE AGE OF PLUTOCRACY.
Effect of Increasing Wealth on the
American Woman.

Whether we like them or not, we
must face the facts about us, writes
ii. Lawrence Laughlin in Scribners
The characteristics of the modern
type Of rich women have changed
from those of an earlier generation,
and the consequences which are al
ready noticeable cannot be blinked.
The so-called independence of wo-
|mankind-th greater individuality,
lit may be-shows it's undesirable
side in a widespread self indulgence
and selfishness. Among the richer
classes, the general unwillingness to
do, ore ven to hear of, anything I'M
pleasant is so marked as to be a
common characteristic. This phe-
nomenon of today, however, is only
the explanation of a we'll known
economic generalization in regard to
the family. 1t had long been observ-
ed that the birth rate diminishes as
the scale OF riches rises. With the
growth OF wealth, we must be pre-
pared to expect what is now evident
about us-fewer children and a
weakening Of family ties. AS much
as possible nothing will be allowed
to interfere with the pursuit of per-
sonal qualifications. The growth of
selfishness, under the name of
greater freedom, the avoidance of
tasks and hardships, the desire for
new and frequent excitements, the
personal delight in notoriety, have in
undue measure drawn the attention
of such women away from the care
of their children. But whatever the
cause, the consciousness supervision
of the morals and training CT theil
children is not today what it used to
be.
1t is safe to say that the spread
of divorce is due more than anything
else to the personal selfishness, the
personal extravaganza and the per-
sonal aversion to anything unpleas-
ant of the modern woman of the
world. And her example is of intiu-
ence on the less well-to-do woman
whose unhappy married life is unre-
lievel by the distractions open to
the rich. In the main, the unre-
strained selfishness and the exag-
gerated extravaganza leads many a
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-03-17
WIFE MURDERER TO
BE HANGED.

Nashville, Tenn, March IA
Tomorrow is the day set for the exc
cution here of Napier Byrum, a
white man, for the murder of his
wife. The murder occurred in Will
son county and was most brutal
one. Byrum's case was carried to
the state supreme court, which re-
affirmed the death verdict imposed
by the trial court.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-03-17
DOG SHOW OPENS AT ERIE.

Erie, Pa, March IA The annual
bench show of the Erie Kennel club
opened today with the largest and
most varied display of thorough
bred dogs ever shown in this city.
The exhibition will continue until
Saturday
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-03-17
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS. as they cannot reach
the seat of the disease. Catarrh is blood constt
tutona disease and In order to 1t you must Ia ko
internal remedies Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken In
ternaly and acts directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cure Is not Qlack medL
cine. 1t prescribed by of the best physicians
In this country for years and Is regular prescription.
1t is composed of the best TONES known combined
with the best blood purifiers acting directly tho
mucous surfaces. The perfect combination OF tho
two ingredients is what produces such wonderful re-
suits In curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials. Free
f. J. CHENEY & CO.. Props. Toledo. o.
Sold by Druggists price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-03-17

rich woman to ask What am /
getting out of it?"-not. What am
] bringing to it?' The willingness
to control self from sense of duty.
steady performance OF tasks for
the sake of a given object, the abil-
ity to sacrifice some salts factions Tor
the common good, content with Il
limited income, are rarer than they
/ once were. The forms taken by this
selfishness are protean: but the one
, which has a large economic signiii-
canoe is that of national extrava-
f; sance. Not having had to do with
! the winning, but only with the
| spending of wealth, the rich woman
is more or less responsible for the
criminal lust for riches which is
now curSing the nation More than
she can possibly realize, her dis
content at not having an expenditure
! equal to that of others richer than
herself is the cause of the passion to
get rich quickly. More than she
knows, she is at the bottom Of specu-
| lat!on and OF the schemes for get
ting wealth other than by saving in
order that men may be able to graf
| ity her demands.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-03-17

Ex-Speaker Cannon, who is to take
at the next session. has thirty six
years service il the House TO his
credit.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-03-17
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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-03-17

More than she knows, she is re-
sponsible for the widespread dispo-
sition to live beyond ones means;
for the mortgages on the homes, the
snowy automobiles, and the extrava
giant dresses and entertainments
which aim to express social superior
ity. 1t has not passed unnoticed that
diamonds to the value of $4S, 0o0,-
600 were imported into the United
States last year. Traced to its ulti-
mate analysis, the uncontrolled
passion for pleasure and expensive
form of qualification has caused the
living beyond our means in recent
years and Influenced the extraordin-
airy reversal of late in the relation
of the imports to the exports oil
merchandise. For this our rich and
our would-be-rich women are in a
degree responsible. With low ideals,
additional income does not mean
more of higher satisfactions; it
means only more foolish, cumulative,
snowy expenditures; and in this
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-10-13
SAM JONES FLOORED.

"Sam Jones came up here once
and stumped Tennessee agin
Fiddling' Bob Tay lor, aud among
other things called him the pard-
oning governor" said the old
man with corn cob pipe in his
mouth.
IAN right, sail Bob, reply
Jag to him, "call me the pardon
ing governor if you want to, but
as for Brother Jones. lie has said
in the pulpit many ii time, and
you've all herd him, that if it
hadn't a been for the pardoning
power, as exemplified by his
Lord and Savior, he'd been in
hell long ago Well Sam was
completely floored and didn't
have anything to say about the
pardoning governor after that. .
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-10-13
THE POWER OF DREAMS.


An Irishman and q Scotch
man once went travelling
through a Western prairie. 1t
happened that one afternoon
they shot a single quail, which
would do for breakfast for one
of them OH the followi: & morn
ing. Knowing that the bird
was not enough for the two
they agreed to have it eaten by
the one who should have the
best dream during the night.
When they awoke early in
the morning the Irishman said
to the Scotchman. AN phwat
did you dr-dream Saudy"
"Well," answered the Scot,
81 dreamed / saw a beautiful
basket descend from haven,
and then / got into it and was
borne mp to paradise. !"
"And / dr-dreamed,v said the
irIshman, "that l saw you GO
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-10-13
euTlf ouf. Klpl

Mrs. Brown could only buy
two aisle seats, one behind the
other. Wishing to have her sis
ter beside her, she turned and
cautiously surveyed the man in
the seatnext. She-finally lean.
ed over and timidIy addressed
him: "I4beg your pardon, Sir,
but are you aloneP'
The man, without turning his
head the slightest, but twisting
his mouth to an alarming degree
and shielding it with his hand,
mnttered: "Cut it out, kid, cut
it out muh wife's with me.''
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-10-13
DR.. HALE A FRIEND IN NEED
Proof That He Lived Up to the PrlneI-
pies Of "Lend-a-Hand" Societies
He Founded.

The late Dr. Edward Everett Hale,
the founder of the "Lend-a-Hand" soci-
eties, practised what he preached. He
lent his own hand time and time
again. Once, says the Woman's Home
Companion, his travels brought him to
town where a friend of his was edit
ing daily newspaper.
When he called on him, this friend
unfolded a tale of woe. His wife was
seriously i'll. She had gone into the
country, believing that a change Of air
would do her good. She was pining for
her husband, and he was pinipg for
her, but he had no assistant, so if he
took a vacation the paper must stop.
DR.. Hale listened and, returning to
his hotel, sat down at his desk.
Before he got up he had written
with that ready pen Of his enough
articles on topics of contemporaneous
interest to I'LL his friends editorial col.
umns for a week. Returning to the
sanctum, he threw his copy on the edi-
torial desk, with the remark:
There, now you can go and visit
your wife!"
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-10-13
AGAIN.

He was a New Yolker visiting
in a South Carolina village, and
he sauntered up to a native sit
ting in frontof the general store,
and began a conversation.
"Have you heard dhout the
new manner in which the plant
ers are going to picktheir cotton
this seasonf" he inquired.
Don't believe | have" ans.
wered the other,
"Well; they have decided tc
import lot of monkeys to dc
the picking, rejoned the New
Yorker. Monkeys learn rapid
ly. They are thorough workers
and obviously they viii save
their employers a small fortune
otherwise expended in wages
Yes calculated the native
"and about the time this mon
key brigade is beginning tc
work smoothly, a lot of you foo
Northerners will come dowr
here and set 'em free!'-Ex.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-10-13
GIRLS AS THEY USED TO Be

Backward, turn backward, o
Time in your fight, and give
us maiden dressed proper and
right. We are so weary of
switches and rats, Billie Burke
clusters and peach-basket hats.
Wads of jute hairin a horrible
pile, stacked on their heads to
the hight of a mile. Something
is wrong with the maidens, we
fear, give uN the girls as they
used to appear. Give us the
girlies WE once knew of yore,
whose curlS didn't come from n
hair dressing store. Maidens
who dressed with a sensible
view, and just as Dame Nature
intended them TO do. Give us
a girl with a figure her own
and fashioned d.vinely by nature
alone. Feminine styles getting
fiercer each year-oh, give us
the girls as theJ used to appear.
Sterling (Kans.) Journal.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-10-13
.peaker. He plefaced his re

speaker. He piefaced his re-
marks as follows:
ladies and gentlemen, - said
Casey, we have with us this
evening a very distinguished
gentlemen, so much so that the
great state of Pennsylvania has
nansed shree of its Cries after
him, namely, pottsville, Polite
dam and ChanIbersbufg. fEx.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-10-13
HIah erade Rlee In ManehurIs.

Experiments in the growing OF rice
IN Manchuria are said to chow that
rice can be grown there more profit
ably than in China proper or Japan,
and more prohtably than either corn
or soya beans. The season is short,
but long enough to produce high grade
rice,
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-10-13
A distinguished speaker.

A man by the name of Potts
was to address a labor meeting
in one of the towns of Eastern
Pennsylvania, and Casey was
called upon to introduce the
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-10-13
The echo answers "whoP''

Il thank you for the flowers
you sent" F" she said;
And she smiled and blushed
and dropped her head.
s'Pm sorry for the words Ispoke
last night;
Your sending the flowers
proved you were right
Forgive me-"
He forgave her.
And as they walked and talked
beneath the bowers
He wondered who in hell sent
her those flowers. .-Ex.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-10-13
WIn Havs to Be More caretuI.

There is an Artemus Ward j., a
New York assemblyman, who is said
to be wit like his famous namesake.
On recent occasion he nominated
Ward f. Clute of New York city for
head doorkeeper, but forgot the office.
and had to rise again TO rectify his
mistake. 1t is to be hoped his reputa-
tion for wit does not rest solely on
this occurrence.
Keeping Worms From Plants.
II air Stacked lime be used in earth
in which plants are potted It will keep
worms away,
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-10-13

ing up, an thought you wouldn't
come back, an so got up ana
ate the quail. m i W au k e e
Sentinel.
The evening world., 1911-08-03
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