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The Washington times., 1912-09-05
INVESTMENT SECURITIES FOR sALE-I

INVESTMENT SECURITIES FOR SALE-I
am offering in sums OF S50000 to $4,000. %
each, six per cent interest bearing county
drafts drawn on the county treasurer at par
and accrued interest to date OF delivery.
Drafts are redeemable and payable in the
years 1913 and 1914. and bear signature OF the
judge OF the county court. viii dispose Of
SIS 900. 90 which Is two-thirds OF the sum they
Issue guaranteed. Will deliver through a ma
tional bank in Washington. D. c.. who Is IA
miliar with this issue of drafts and knows
OF their legality. The county who issued
these drafts OF Indebtedness. has no other In
debtedness of any kind. and has over two
million dollars worth OF taxable property.
For information, address Daley" BOX $40,
in care OF this office.
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Taken to Boston
To Be Electrocuted

BOSTON, Sept. 5.-Codemned to die
in the electric chair during the week
of September Is for the murder Of
Miss Martha Blackstone. a school
teacher OF Hamden county, Bertram G..
Spencer today was to be brought to
Boston from Springfield, to be lodged
In the same Charleston prison death
cell that was occupied by the Rev.
Clarence V. T. Richeson, executed MUIR
derer OF Avis Linnell.
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HENRY B. MOON.

The funeral of Lieut.. Col. Henry B.
Moon 'one Of the heroes of San Juan
Hill. who died at Providence Hospital
after being i'll with typhoid fever for
five weeks, was held this afternoon at
o'clock from Zurhorst's undertaking
parlors. The body will be buried in Ar
lington.
Colonel Moon is survived by his wife,
two daughters and one son, all of whom
were at his deathbed.
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MRS. EMMA THAYER.

Mrs. Emma Thayer, the seventeen
year-old wife of Courtney c. Thayer
died suddenly yesterday at Sibley Hos,
pital. where she had been taken two
days previous. The funeral will take
place from the chapel of William H
Sardo & Co. tomorrow morning al
10 o'clock. Interment will be private in
Glenwood Cemetery. The husband OF
the dead young woman Is employed al
the Government Printing Office.
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MRS. NETTIE E. Johnson.

Funeral services for Mrs. Nettie f.
johnson, the young widow who COM
mitted suicide in a fit of despondency,
caused by I'll health and the death Of her
husband. will be held tomorrow after
noon at o'clock. probably from the
residence. lnterment will be in Con-
Rressional Cemetery. No other arrange
ments have been announced
The Washington times., 1912-09-05
New York Cotton Market.
Sales Today On
the Local Exchange

Capital Traction. SIS, $1,5oo9111; IS, 900
Oil; $5,0O0q111: IS, 5,0OOa111.
Eastern Light & Fuel, 25Q121h; 259
12&; 25d123; 10a122.
Washington Gas, 25486
Mergenthaler, 2d227k.
Lanston, 1885,.
Union Savings Bank, 1od250
After call-Potomac Electric 6's, 81 900
Q106S, $1.0O00106%.
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OBITUARY NOTES
GARDINER H. BELL.

Funeral services for Gardiner H. Bell,
son of Charles ]. Bell. president Of the
American Security and Trust Company.
are being held this afternoon at Twin
Oaks, the country home of the Bells
in woodley Lane. Services will also be
held at st. Alban's Episcopal Church.
The Rev. G. G. r. Bratenahl, Of st. AL
hans. will be in charge on both occa-
Cemetery
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RoyaliSts Confer.

MUNICH, Sept. 6.-Former King
Manuel of Portugal arrived here to-
day for a conference with the Portu-
guese pretender, Don Miguel De Bra
ganza, presumably concerning another
royalist attempt to regain control OF
Portugal
The Washington times., 1912-09-05
Chicago Grain Market.
Rochester Suffers
Its FierceSt Fire

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Sept 5.-People
in nearby houses were thrown from
their beds and windows were broken
by the explosion today of an 5000 gall
Ion tank OF benzine that accompanied
a fire that destroyed the Monroe Coun-
ty Oil Works.
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New York Curb Market.

Furnished to The Washington Times by
Hartman g. Co.. New York: G. B. Chip
man, manager local branch. Colorado Build
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PLUMBING AND GAS FILING

HOW ABOUT figuring and estimating on
your plans. Mr. Builder. A speciality made
Of joboing and remodeling. A. BELLMoRH
1854 lAth ct. N. W. Phone N. io7a. y
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WORKINGMAN'S WANTS

wORKINGMEN. what our announcement
means to you IL worth a deep study OF
spending and saving clear cash. as we have
a fine stock slightly used coats and vests 81
to IS. JUsTH's OLD STAND. 6ls D.; on1
price. l.
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HELP WANTED
Male and Female
WANTED--AGENTS

CANVAsSERS-Male and female, big none
experience not necessary; investigate. {
9th 81. n. w. Il
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LATEST designs of wall paper; exert work.
manship; work guaranteed; reasonable
prices. IMPERIAL WALL PAPER CO., lsi
G n. W. Phi. NJ. 73H Il
PAPERHANGING 2O96 less than other frmH
Phone Line. 2239, drop postal for estI-
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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-08-16

The last act in the tragedy of race
will be written when congress passes,
as it seems likely to do, the bill to re-
lease the Apache prisoners of war, who
have been confined for thirty years at
Fort Sill, Oklahoma. and return them
to their old haunts in New Mexico
These are the remnants of old Geron-
imo's band and their descendants, for
many of them were born In captivity
For years they have been the only
prisoners of war in the United States
They are broken in spirit and reduced
to habits of peace, yet in the hearts of
the elders still lives the fierce longing
to see their native mountains again.
II they go, they Will go as free men,
each with his allotted share of the
tribal possessions
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-08-16
POPULARITY.

We all desire the worlds applause
and for it strive and strain; it's labor
in worthy cause, but often done in
vain. Reverses come and come again,
and kindred bitter pills; you cannot
win the love of men, unless you pay
your bills. One fellow cultivates his
voice and sings like golden Tyre. and
hopes to make the world rejoice or
set the same on fire; "and" say the
worldly rubbernecks, he'd fill our
hearts with thrills, and be credit to
his sex, if he would pay his bills" One
follows up Demosthenes and binds us
with a SPELL and much he hopes the
world to please, and please it passing
we'll; but mankind hears this guy
orate, and says, in tone that ehills:
He'd be the glory of his state, if he
would pay his billsi" No matter to
what heights you go, or how you con-
quer fame, the story of the scads you
owe will cling around your name. And
so it's better far to climb the law and
humble hills, and leave the shining
heights sublime until you've paid your
bills.-Walt Mason.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-08-16
MccoMBs AS AN EXAMPLE.

Those who profess to believe sick
ness or physical disability is an aid
to mental ability apparently have gain
ed an argument in the appointment Of
William F. McCombs to the chairman
ship of the democratic national COM
mittee.
McCombs was born in Arkansas,
and as boy was thrown from buggy
and permanently crippled. He is thirty
six years of age and a lawyer by pro-
fession. He is given credit for being
the original Wilson man-at least the
original one who felt the courage of
his convictions to the extent of back
ing them with personal cash. His
conduct of the preliminary campaign
was open and devoid of gumshoe tao
tics and 1t is certain his conduct of
the bigger campaign will be conducted
In like manner
1t is said there is never a day passes
but that McCombs suffers physical
pain. But he refuses to allow it to
bother him mentally and he is rapidly
gaining the reputation Of having un-
usual political sagacity, combined with
an abiding love of cleanness and hon
Iesty in political practice. = Joplin
Globe
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-08-16
SHALL WOMEN WEEP?

prominent social worker takes oc-
casion to rebuke another woman who
lifted up her voice and wept while
pleading that the government take
over the Jefferson estate at Monticello.
With Spartan stoicism, which may
after all be only sophistication, the
Iscorner of tears denounces these i'm
memorial weapons of women as too
feminine for the stern puisant woman
Iof today. She would Danish the hand
kerchief. at least for lachrymose pur-
poses, from the wardrobe of her mill
tant sisters. In her dry-eyed strength
she refuses to recognize even the argu-
ment of 'evpediency and declines to
leoncede that If tears will accomplish
an end they are means that may fairly
be used
For thousands of years women have
been weeping and there has been none
till now to say them nay. Tennyson
only voiced universal truth when he
lCAldA AhCu I1dL uSi must NOIk anu
women must weep"-though he did
not tell al 1.-The truth, for lots of wo-
men weep because the men won't
work But it comes with i'll grace for
any woman, even in these emancipated
and manumitted days, to deny to her
sisters the briny boon of tears. If,
Henry Allen could shed pearly drops
at Chicago, why should not thorough
ly earnest woman weep over the shade
of Jefferson? Why, in fact, should any
member of the gentle sex be deprived
of her world-old prergative or be re-
preached for this dernier resort of wo-
mankind? If Henry's gracious drops
were no unmanly-and who so hard
ened in sin as to say they were-how
are the dewy orbs of women unwoman-
lly? It is not the grossest form of
class legislation to admit Henry to the
sob squad and bar out the charter
members of the Ancient and Lachry-
nose Order of Weepers? Let the
ladies' cry if they want to. Fie upon
any that rise to a point of order that
tears are only for weak men.-Kansas
City Journal
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-08-16

That even as rabid aud partisan a
newspaper as the Kansas City Journal
can say nice things about a political
opponent is refreshing and altogether
pleasing. OF w S. Cowherd, the de-
feated democrat for the nomination OF
Governor of Missouri the Journal
says:
In spite of the calm assurances OF
William j. Bryan that one should ac
cept the fortunes Of political warfare
with philosophical resignation. defeats
are not always easy to bear. The fact
that Mr.. Cowherd wild not receive the
democratic nomination for governor ot
Missouri will be sincerely regretted
by most Kansas Cityans without re
gard to political alignment For vii
Cowherd is immensely popular in thi.
community and even those of opposit,
faith hoped that he would be ehoseI
as the standard-bearer of his party il
the coming campaign.
"Mr. Cowherd is an excellent citi
zen More than that he is a man o
strong mental capacity and measures
up 10 every requirement of Leadership
an dexecutive authority, He woult
make a good governor, as he made ,
good mayor and congressman"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-08-16

a wide sweeping unrest. a discon-
tent and rebellion and stubborn
acauiescence among its people is ON
inous for nation 1t reveals the
pregnancy Of a growing monster that
wIll one day rise up in its unsuspeeted
strength 10 destroy Duly in sullen
silence men hear tales OF graft. they
see and hear of fortunes swollen to
prodigious amounts and their own saw
ings through the high cost of living
that made those fortunes possible
dWindie away. Assurance Of the fu-
ture Is undermined. confidence is dis
turbed through the blighting influence
OF graft-of that system so widespread
OF getting something for nothing.
Labor brings but little, competition is
! a thing OF the past. so the blight of
graft develops-an unhealthml obnox.
ious growth.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-08-16
THE REMINDER.

A man might forget the heat If be
didn't forever meet the sweating and
whiting jay who mops at his streaming
brow. and cries in fury: Wow.
Geewhillikensi What day" a man
might forget the strain of the foolish
and loud campaign. and carry care
free head, if the chumps with the
leather throats didn't threaten TO get
the goats of Woodrow or Bill or Ted.
A man might forget the danes and all
of their dippy games, and revel in calm
delights, if the girls didn't hold pa
rade. with banners and signs displayed
demanding their silly rights. And
ever, my friends, It's thus; there's al
ways some foolish fuss recalling the
things you hate; there's always some
futile noise disturbing your humble
Joys. and the foolkiller pays the
freight. You cannot, alas, forget the
wearisome things that fret and canker
and gnaw and tear; there's always
some chump on hand to dig up the
grief you've canned, and brandish il
in the air. There's always some
chump on deck, some pitiful human
wreck, to rake up the Gloomy Past;
and never will end the gloom till we
croak and pass up the fiume, and
dodge all the bores at ast.-Walt Ma
aon
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-08-16

other fourteen schedules Of the tariff
bill. This bill went to the senate; and
though it was controlled by the oppos-
ition party, we found sufficient assist
ance from the ranks of our opponents
to pass it up to the president. The
president returned it to he congress
of the United States with his veto,
and assigned as his reason that he
had no tariff board report, and was,
therefore, uniformed upon the ques-
ton, and for this reason returned it
with his disapproval, We undertook
to pass this bill over his veto Our
constitution requires two-thirds to ac-
complish this. We had more than one
hundred majority in favor of the pas
sage of the bill, his veto to the con-
trary Notwithstanding. We lacked
only eleven votes of having the neces-
sary two-thirds to pass it through the
house of representatives over the pres
lident's veto. And today the wool trust
stands, not behind majority of the
lawmakers of the republic, but behind
the veto of the president and the
eleven more than one-third of the rep
resentatives of the American people,
picking the pockets of the shiyering
poor and ragged, people of America
Ollie NJ James.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-08-16
DEMocRAcYs OPPORTUNITY.

Would the man who threw his hat
in the ring and sought to slug his op-
ponent over the ropes in his fight for
"a third term rest satisfied with It's
Clearly his lust of power
would have brooked no such limita-
tion. A third term would but have
whetted his desire for more and as the
terms slipped away each renewal
would discover greater injury to our
constitution. to the form of govern
ment established under it and to every
regal curb on his imperious win. This
is the man who menaced us with an
increase of federal power by usurpa-
tion of states rights and without au-
thority of constitutional amendment:
the man who took the Isthmus of Pan,
lama and let congress debate about 1t
afterwards; the man who having
enough money to send the fleet on its
famous cruise to the Pacific. sent it
without sanction of congress leaving
it to appropriate the money for the
return when congress deemed that nee
essafy This is the man who advocat-
ed federal Incorporation for the in
crease of power at Washington and
the tightening of legal burdens on the
corporations; the man who authorized
the absorption OF the Tennessee HCeal
& Iron company by the Steel Trust
the man who by many such drastic
acts. and by unnumbered words has
sought to batter down our statutory
and constitutional safeguards,
He who runs may read the danger
that threatens the country ruled by
such a man. Do We envy Mexico heI
thirty years of welded life. or the wal
the divorce from DiaN precipitated
the end of which no man may proph
ecy9 The way to prevent a life series
of terms is to prevent the present at
tempt to capture the office for third
term. One of our opportunities in this
campaign is to lea dthe fight against
a third term. That opportunity should
appeal to every drop of patriotic blood
flowing in our veins
Unquestionably We have been wrong
in assuming that tradition against a
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-08-16
SNAP JUDGMENT.

There came to town rather sad
and lonesome looking pup, a Spitz
Some fellow yelled: THAT dog is
mad!" And then we all threw sun
dry fits. We never rounded up the
skate to ask him where he got his
facts; we paused not to investigate,
but slammed the pup with cataracts
of bricks and rocks and sticks and
tiles, and kept the poor beast on the
jump; we chased him twenty-seven
miles and killed him by the village
dump. And then his owner came along
and proved to us his dog was sane;
we'd done great and cruel wrong,
and on the village placed stain. For
divers days remorse has burned our
innards, that such things should be;
and yet | doubt if we have learned
lesson from this jamboree. Tomor-
row some one may exelaim that jerks
or Jimpson is a. crook, an then Wen
all jump on his frame and try his
little goose to cook Wen hound our
victim from the start, refuse to list
to his defense, and take his hide and
break his heart, and make him feel
like twenty cents. "Just give a dog
a bad renown," the adage says, then
string him up" We like to run our
victim down, be he human or a pup
Walt Mason.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-08-16

When the state Of Arkansas was
reached on the first ballot for a can
didate for vice-president, in the Balti-
more convention, the chairman of that
states delegation arose and announced
that Arkansas cast her entire eighteen
votes for the nomination of William F.
McCombs.
There was murmur of surprise.
Some thought it was intended as a
slur. an evidence of disgruntled feel
ing. and others believed that Arkansas
was trying to be funny Up to the very
list roll call on the presidential nomi-
nation Arkansas had consistently and
unwaveringly voted for the nomlna.
ton of candidate other than the one
for whom Mr. McCombs had served as
campaign manager When the effort
to nominate Speaker Clark had failed
Arkansas turned about and voted to
nominate toy vice president, the man
who had directed the canvass OF the
speakers successful rival But in do
ing this Arkansas was simply paying
nice little compliment to native son
for it was in that state, at Hamburg
Ashley County, that William f. Nc
Combs was born a little less thar
thirty-seyen years ago
By the narrow margin of a few
hours he escaped being a Christmas
: present to his parents Down in thai
section of Arkansas things don't al
! ways move with lightning rapidity. As
J the Hamburg folk-and they are al
very proud to tell stories about Bills
McCombs now. and to record them
selves as charter members OF the
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-08-16

This is Governor Thomas r. Mar
shall's public tribute to his mother:
Il thing back through the years, the
lean and the fat, the good and the bad
ones. to my earliest recollections. I
see a woman with an eye that flashes
swift as an archangel's wing and a
mouth that breaks into laughter and
hardens at the sight of wrong, singing
lullabies; a woman, who, with hand
grasping the Unseen Hand, walks the
briar-bordered paths of life unasham-
ed, unafraid, unharmed. She is clad
in garments of beauty for me and age
does not soil them, nor years make
them cheap or tawdry. Her tongue is
without guilt, having never been the
messenger of lie. It is seventeen
years since her soul went home to
God and her fingers became for me
the fingers of an angel, but l have not
forgotten all she said. She told me
there was a Santa Claus. and believe
her He brings me no longer drums
and flies But he still brings to me
the vision of my mother and the music
of that angelic chorus which sang at
creations dawn and at the hour OF
mans redemption
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-08-16

observation-disclosures the Incl
dent. Old Santa Claus was a little
slow in reaching Hamburg on the
night of Christmas. 1875. and it was
after midnight when he sent a storls
to drop a tiny baby boy down the chin
ney of the McCombs home. So the
date of William F. McCombsN birth
had to be recorded as December 20,
1S75.-From National Monthly for
August
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-08-16
Office Of County Treasurer.

vinita, Craig County. Oklahoma.
August 10th, 1912.
Parties holding the following Craig
County Warrants will present them at
once and receive payment.
Interest ceases after 80 days.
Salary Fund Warrants. Nos. 1877 to
PIG inclusive.
Cattle Fund Warrants, Nos. I06 to
121 inclusive
Court Fund Warrants, Nos. 46s to
475 inclusive.
Poor and Insane Warrants, Nos. 1s7
to 1S9 inclusive.
Road and Bridge Warrants. Nos. Isl
to 16S inclusive.
Supply Fund Warrants, Nos. 223 to-
23S inclusive.
Respectfully,
E. D. FTCKLIN,
1t County Treasurer.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-08-16

The denomination of Senator Robt.
l.. Owen by an overwhelming majority
at Tuesdays primary is of more than
passing significance to the people of
the state. The clean. open methods
of campaigning pursued by Senator
Owen followed by so large majority
reflects the character of the people of
Oklahoma.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-08-16
LIFE AND LOVE.

Love for other animals-for peo-
pie are animals too-will lead to love
for children. and for men and women
of all races. until all barriers of sea
or mountain or creed or casts will be
broken. and people will begin to love
humanity as their own sisters and
brothers. and as II all were friends
and neighbors'