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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-10-04

To the Honorable Preston S. Davis,
Judge of the District Court for the
Twenty-third Judicial District of the
State of Oklahoma.
Your committee heretofore appoint
ed for the purpose of taking suitable
action in regard to recent death of
Honorable Luman F. Parker, Jr.. do
most respectfully report the follow
ing:
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-10-04
Dead Body Arrives.

Taylor and Henderson last night re-
ceived the body of Mrs. Maude r.
Murphy from Milwaukee, Wis. which
they will take to the Snyder burying
ground near Chelsea tomorrow for
burial The deceased died at Mil
waukee February II. 1912, and has
been kept in a vault since The body
is in as good a condition today as it
was the day it was placed in the
vault
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-10-04
James GaskY Burned.

James Gaskey, one of the employ
ers at the Vinta Oil Refinery was
badly burned Saturday while lighting
fire in a kiln. Gas had formed in
the furnace and when he set a match
to it the gas exploded and burned Mr..
Gaskey from the waist up to the top
of the head pretty badly. singing all
the fair off his head.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-10-04

On October 7th the Sacred Heart
Institute of this city will add to its
literary and music courses as CONNER.
eial course Bookkeeping, arithmetic,
English, stenography (Pitmans short
hand) and typewriting will be taught.
The new teacher who has arrived
from New Orleans, will also give in.
structions in oil painting, water colors,
crayon, pastel and china painting Next
Week the senior music pupils of the
Sacred Heart Institute will reorganize
the ST Cecilia Harmony Circle" They
will give monthly reeitals to which
their parents and friends will be in
vited The art class will also have on
some of their work at the
occasion of the musical entertainment.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-10-04
1t Pays to Advertise.

Sanders Wright Mercantile Co. vi
nita Okla Advertising radically diff.
ferent from the average ad was used
by this firm in July. 1t was in the
form of a six-page circular 15x22
inches However, when folded it
measured 5xS Each page contained
interesting information relative to the
clearance sale 4 pro-
fusion of illustrations were used 1t
is one of the best clearing sale ads
that has come to our attention recent
". This ad is what we would call a
business creator The items are set
in an attractive manner and many Of
them illustrated The women's ready
to-wear and mems clothing depart
ments We're particularly well featured.
A great deal of space and the most
attractive cuts We're used to exploit
them. The Drygoodsman. St Louis.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-10-04
Oklahoma All stars Win.

The Oklahoma All Stars won the
prize in the contest at the bowling
alley last night by a score of So pins
This makes a game each for the two
teams and the tie win likely be played
off next week.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-10-04
IN vINITA 80 YEARS AGO.
From the Files Of the Weekly chIeftaiu

Robert little is building a nice resi-
dence in the southeast part of town.
Dick Glass was captured while seat
ed in barber chair in Winfield, Kans
A. p. Goodykoontz is putting up a
fine barn, the finest in town
Rev. A. n. Chamberlin was in town
from Pheasant Hill this week.
Hoolie Bell has the chills.
You can sell anything fro ma water
melon to a herd of cattle to w. C.
IChamberlln.
John Duncan cred Cloud') we are
sorry to say is prostrated in Flint dis
trict with a severe case of rheuma-
tism.
Work on Worcester Academy is pro-
crossing finely. School viii commence
Immediately after the fair
Rev. W. A. Duncan. the best super
intendent the orphan asylum has ever
had, and we fear ever will have is
visiting friends throughout the nation.
One thousand copies of the Indian
Chieftain were printed the first issue,
that is. this issue.
The murder trial of Wyley Melton
is set for next Monday. the 25th, by
Judge Parks.
Nice new corn was offered at soc
last Saturday.
About eighty persons take dinner at
the San Francisco House every day. |
Dave Suagee, sheriff of Delaware
district, was in the city Tuesday.
SUIT Beck, prosecuting attorney for
Deleware district, is in town. 4
The screw worms are awful bad in
this section. Lots of stock being killed |
by them.
Don't know where the coon is, but |
his skin went to w. C. Chamberlain's
where you can always get the highest
market price for furs. hides, wool and |
game.
Col. VIM. A. Phillips, special agent |
1f the Cherokee Nation at Washing |
ton, ID. c., made most welcome call |
ast Tuesday He had been to Table. |
luah attending to the leasing of Salt |
Plains, west of 96.
Daniel Chuluka died at George
last Saturday He was from
the Canadian district and was visiting
friends here. He died praying and
said he was tired of life.
We learn that the Frisco will be ex-
tended 100 miles farther This will |
give us 167 miles west of Vinita.
s. 5. stephens resigned the teach
ership of the Vinita public school. No
Dne has as yet been appointed to teach
in his place. We hope Hon r. L. Owen
will appoint good man.
Our vinita band will during the fairs
at Musqogee and Vinita give enter
tainments of a theatrical order They
do anything they undertake we'll.
The Vinita cornet band will play
for the Muskogee fair.
The fair ground fence came very
near being burned up one day last
week. The timely work of our citi
tents saved it.
We learn that a negro at Caney, on
the Kansas line, on resisting arrest
was shot and killed by Marshal Marks.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-10-04
AN EARLY FOOTBALL VICTIM.
Oklahoma High School Boy Died Of In
iuries Received in a Game.

Guthrie okla, Sept. 20 Roy
Shiedler high school student at Black
well, died yesterday of internal in
iuries received several days ago in a
football game. He was knocked un-
conscious in the game and remained
in a semi-conscious condition until he
died
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-10-04
EraernaI Ald Assoolatlnn.

Members are requested TO be pres
ent at the call meeting at 500 p. m.
Some special business will be the
question Of the evening.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
FOREIGN.

1t Is estimated that 10000 men are
Idle along the Thames and Midway
rivers. England. These include dock.
ers. carmen. 'seamen. firemen.
The "Imperator" the worlds largest
steamship. was launched at Hamburg
on May %. Her length, 900 feet;
horsepower. $4,000. Emperor William
acted as sponsor.
The gravity Of the situation in Cuba
was emphasized by the issuance by
President Gomez Of q proclamation Ia
the Cuban people, urging them to arm
and organize In the face of the ma.
tional peril.
France suffered another marine dis.
aster and lost her fourth submarine
when the vendebiaire. in the mimic
warfare off Cherbourg peninsula, was
crushed down by the battleship saln.
Louis and disappeared In l5O feet Of
water. The submarine was undoubtcd.
ly ripped apart by the steel prov of
the battleship. An official statement
issued by the minister OF marine fixes
the number Of men aboard as TWEEN.
ty-three, including the commander, all
Of whom were lost.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
Report on Grain Crop.

Washington.-The June grain report
of tho government, giving the acreage,
not previously announced, planted to
the various important crops; the con.
dition Of the growing crops of June l,
the indicated yield per acre and estl.
mated total production, based upon the
ratio Of the average condition on June
/ to the final yield in the five years,
19O6-191O, as reported by the CORE
spondents and agents Of the bureau of
statistics, department Of agriculture,
was issued by the crop reporting
board as follows:
Spring wheat: Acreage, 19,201 900.
compared with 2O,3S1,OOO acres last
year. Condition, 95.S per cent OF nor.
NAL, compared with 94.6 per cent last
year and 1873 per cent. the ten-yelr
average. Indicated yield per acre, 1873
bushels. compared with 9.4 bushels
last year and 1874 bushels, the five.
year average. Estimated total produc.
tion. 265,000,OOO bushels, compared
with 19O,6S2,OO bushels last year.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
WASHINGTON.

The House voted 72 to At not to In.
clude In the sundry civil appropriation
bill the money necessary to continue
President Taft's tariff board.
According to tho Agricultural De.
partmGnt, there Is no. other state
whose cotton crop can approach the
condition Of the Imperial valley Of
California.
Tho Woman's Christian Temperance
Union has sent q protest to Senator
Work against the appropriation Of
$500.D0O for rifle practice In the pub.
lie schools.
The United States paid homage to
the discoverer OF America by the un.
yelling OF a magnificent memorial
fountain. erected In Washington by
Congress to Christopher Columbus.
The Navy Department has ordered
Admiral Osterhaus to proceed forth.
with from Key West to Havana with
ono dispatch ship and one other ship
These orders were issued by the State
Department after the receipt Of q dis.
patch from Minister Beaupre reporting
that conditions In Havana had as.
sumed the character Of o race war.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
Road improvement.

Washington.-According to conser.
vative estimate about 81. 400, 900. 900 has
been spent in road Improvement in the
United States during the last twenty
years. The state and local expendl.
lures for 1911 aggregate $l4O.OO0.OOO.
OF this sum about s20,0OO,0OO was dc.
voted to building better highways IN
the state of New York.
One Of the most interesting exhibits
at the recent travel and vacation show
at the new Grand Central Palace was
the good roads exhibit OF the United
States government. The exhibition q.
lustrated the various types Of road con.
structlon and maintenance from the
earth road to the bItumlnous macadam
and brick, including the sand clav,
plain macadam and bituminous ma
cadam.
In 1906 the Legislature at Albany ap.
propriated s50.0OO.OOO, and a bill Is
pending to borrow another $50, ,0O0, 900
to continue the work.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
JOSEPH MOORE, WIFE AND FOUR
CHILDREN, AND TWO YOUNG
WOMEN VICTIMS.
WORK OF MADMAN
NO ROBBERY WAS COMMITTED
CRIME THOUGHT TO BE
FOR REVENGE.
western Newspaper Union New, Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Villlsca. Iowa.-Joseph Moore, .
dealer in agricultural implements and
one OF the leading business men OF
Villisca. his wife and four children and
two young women visitors were found
murdered In their beds at the Moore
home.
Their heads had been beaten to pulp
apparently with an ak, which, covered
with blood and human hair, was found
in the house. There is no clew to the
murderer, who is believed to have
been either mailman or some one
actuated by revenge. The house was
not robbed.
Tho Moore children were Herman,
eleven years old; Catherine, nine
years; Boyd. seven years; Paul, six
years.
The young women were Edith and
Blanche Spillinger, sisters, twenty and
eighteen years old, respectively,
daughters Of wealthy farmer living
few miles from Villisca. They had
been in attendance at church enter.
tainment here.
No robbery was committed and It
seems clear that only revenge could
have prompted the murderer, unless
the crime was committed by mad
man.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
To Build Black Mesa Road.

Gunnison.-Delta county good roads
enthusiasts. the commissioners Of Gun
nlson county. and committee from
the Gunnlson Chamber Of Commerce
discussed construction OF the Black
Mesa automobile highway between
Gunnison and Delta at a recent meet.
Ing.
1t was agreed that Delta shall build
that portion Of the road In that county
at once, and that funds for construct.
Ing the portion In the northeast corner
Of Montrose shall bo raised by public
subscription In Crawford and Meaher.
Following out this agreement, sur
veys OF the route will be started
June 20.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
Irrigation Bill Favored.

MISUNDERSTANDING Taylor
from the committee on public lands
reported favorably to the House the
Senate bill to permit settlers under ir.
rigation projects to obtain patent 70
their homesteads In three years, the
title being subject to the liens OF the
government for such water assess.
ments as still may be due.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
Reed Breaks Wrist: WEIGH wln,.

Grand Junction.-In the third round
OF a scheduled ten.round bout with
Jack WEIGH, the Australian champion,
David Reed of Montrose broke his
right wrist when he struck Welch on
the head. Welch was declared the
winner. Young James of Fruita has
been matched to fight Welch ten
rounds juno II.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
sPoRr.
wEsTDax LnAcuE srAxD1vo.

The Canon City and Pueblo teams
OF the Rocky Mountain League have
had their franchise transferred to
Ration, N. NJ. and Trinidad. Colo, 70.
spectively and played their first games
under the new arrangement.
England's featherweight champion,
Jem Driscoll, has cabled to friends In
this country that he is making prep.
arations to visit this country again in
few weeks with the intention Of Sc.
curing date with Johny Kilbane, the
featherweight champion of the world.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13

New York.-standard copper quiet;
spot $l6.5O4l125; June, July, August
and September, $l6.62hG1125.
Tin firm; spot, $4,000 1905; June,
$4b.6Og46.Oo; July, s4375Q44.G2h;
August. $43.55043.75; September,
H27504a.25; October. 3425o@43.Oo.
Lead quiet. $4.2OG4.3O New York;
N.l094.15 East st. Louis.
Spelter steady. S6.0O0IOO New
York; $6.75gG.s5 East st. Louis
Antimony quiet; Cookspn's. $500.
lron-Locally Iron Is steady, No. 1
foundry Northern, ti5.250i5.75; No.
2. i4.76Ql5.25; No. Southern and
No. l Southern soft. s1s.5O015.75.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
Fort Morgan Gets Big Rain.

Fort Morgan.-The heaviest rain
storm In three years drenched this
section and brought smiles to thu
farmers whose crops have been In
need Of water for over u week.
The rain was heaviest about this
city. considerably over an inch fall.
Ing within not more than half an hour.
Brush and Weldona also reported
heavy precipitation.
The rain will be worth thousands OF
dollars to the beet crop Of the sec.
ton as ranchers have Just finished
thinning the fields.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
Plan to Develop Quarry.

Fort Collins.-Headed by L. L. Sal.
ladin several business men are form,
Ing company to develop granite
quarries sixteen miles southwest Of
here. The granite is said to be Of the
finest quality and an option has been
obtained on 41S acres Of quarry land.
1t is proposed to form corporation
with a capital stock Of 100000. and
1t is estimated that the plant will cost
about $4,000.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
GEN ERAL.

Colonel Jerome B. Rice Of Troy. N.
T.. known In every state Of the Union
as a grower and distributor OF seeds
is dead.
A movement has been started in
New York to place in the Hall of
Fame the bust of Molly Pitcher only
woman sergeant in the U. 8. army.
Volcanic ash is falling thickly over
Cordova, Alaska, showing that the
heavy cannonadlng heard in the noun.
tains recently was the noise of vol.
cano in eruption.
Thomas e. Watson Of Augusta. Ca
former Populist leader and presiden.
tial candidate, was bound over under
$500 bond for sending obscene matter
through the mails.
Undaunted by defeats in the past
the suffragists will again go before the
national Republican convention in Chi.
cago to request the insertion of an
equal suffrage plank in the party plat.
form.
To prevent the production Of NOV.
Ing pictures Of che Johnson.Flynn
prize fight which takes place July 4th.
the House commerce committee re.
ported favorably the bill.of Represen.
tative Rodenberry Of Georgia, prohib.
iting the shipment Of films between
states.
Mrs. Sidney G. Bernhelmer, the wife
Of a wealthy New York clothing man.
ufacturer. was assaulted and robbed Of
$4,000 worth Of jewelry. The weapons
used were potato masher and an Ice
pick. Mrs. Bernheimer's new cook, a
brawny young Swedish woman, who
for ten days had proved a model ser.
want. was said to be the chief robber.
Judges Of the Chicago Municipal
Court must forego BASEBALL and other
summer amusements and pay more at.
tention to business. Chief Justice Har.
ry Olson. In a Confidential" letter
told the judges that he was aware Of
their "hookey playing" and that it
must cease. The jurists we're told that
they must hold court daily until 4:30
o'clock In the afternoon with the ex.
ception Of Saturday.
President Taft signed tho thre,.year
homestead bill. permitting entfymen
on public lands to prove their claims
In three instead Of five years, allow.
Ing fivo months absence from claim
each year and reducing the acreage to
be cultivated on largo claims from so
to 40 acres. The pen used was given
to Representative Taylor Of Colorado.
The bill Is designed 80 to llberallze
the homestead laws as to check the
Of American farmers to
Senator Borah was one OF its
For the purpose Of destroying the
substantial monopoly Of the socalled
aluminium trust, an agreed decree was
entered In the United States District
Court at Pittsburg. Pa. against tho
aluminium Company Of America. The
federal government In its antitrust
suit filed few weeks ago. charged
The corporation with monopolizing the
Industry. The decree entered abro.
gates alleged unlawful contracts and
the company from negotiat.
Ing similar pacts or pursueing unfair
methods towards competitors.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
Studies Prevention Of Disease.

Grceley.-C. L. Fitch, potato expert
is spending much time in the fields OF
the county studying temperatures Of
soil and water in their relation to the
fusarium disease.
He advocates irrigation Of potatoes
cloudy days or after night, when air
water and surface soil are cool. He
advises late planting in this district
He says crop conditions are favorable
here and throughout the state.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
FROM TELEaRAPHlc REPoRTs
THAT COVER THE wEEk'o
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER PosrEo
ON MOST IMPORTANT
CURRENT TOPICS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Fire destroyed store, saloon and
two warehouses belonging to B. A.
Taylor, a Bisbee, Ariz., banker. Loss,
$4,000.
Phillip e. Campbell, aged twenty-five,
and Earl Kron, aged twenty, have
started from Los Angeles on q 5000.
mile hike across the continent.
Robert Phonstell, young farmer
living south Of Modesto. Cal, commit.
ted suicide and made sure Of death
by taking poison. shooting himself and
burning the shed in which he was
found.
The constant popular demand for
new, glistening coins has caused the
United States government to resume
coinage Of gold. although the proper
ton Of bullion which the treasury Is
authorized to hold in its vaults has not
yet been reached.
The double-tracking Of the Santa F6
coast lines, on which depends the put.
ting on of solid express and mail
train from Los Angeles to New York
City, via Kansas City and Chicago. is
being rushed as fast as money and
men can do the work.
Senator George s. Nixon of Nevada
died in q hospital In Washington Of
spinal meningitis. Senator Nixon had
been at the Episcopal eye, ear and
throat hospital several days. when an
operation for nasal catarrh was per
formed. Spinal meningitis developed,
and the senator's condition soon be.
came, critical.
Thousands of citizens in west Texas
are reviving the question Of dividing
the state and making 1t two. or even
three. states. West Texans point out
that conditions there are SO different
from some other parts of Texas that a
division is reasonable. Climate is dif.
ferent, products are different, indus.
tries are different, needs are different,
they assert. and advocates of the prof.
ect point out that Texas Is Of such i'm.
mense size that the division would not
hurt the state.
A blow was given the new Com.
merce Court by the Supreme Court OF
the United States, which upheld the
exclusive Jurisdiction Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission over the ad.
ministrative machinery Of the federal
rate laws. The principal decision was
announced by Chief Justice White in
the so-called "procter and Gamble
case" He was sustained by the en-.
tire court In substance he held that
the Commerce Court was not to substi.
tute Its judgment for the Interstate
Commerce Commission In the admins.
tration OF the rate laws.
Congress has passed q bill which
broadens the scope OF the statute sup.
porting the Bureau Of Mines In such
manner that appropriations may aot
be made extending the work Of that
branch OF the government to the met.
alliferous mining industry. Complete
latitude Is given towards allowing the
director Of the bureau to conduct IN.
vestigations that will lead to better.
ment Of conditions In regard to all
classes Of mining. The measure pre-.
pares the way for the establishment
Of metallurgical and experimental as.
say stations.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
Greeley to Have PuImotor.

Greeley.-Greeley is to have a pull.
motor, a device designed to bring to
lie those who have been drowned, or
asphyxiated. The county commission.
ers agreed to pay twenty per cent Of
the purchase price, the gas company
another twenty per cent and the city .
similar amount.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13

Baby browns In lrrioatlns Ditch.
Johnstown.-Eddie Prott, the two.
year-old son Of Peter Prott, living four
miles southeast Of here, was drowned
In an irrigatlng ditch in front of his
home. He wandered out of the yard
with his mother in pursuit, and fall.
Ing into the stream, drowned before
her eyes.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
Paper Bill Rejected by House.

Washlngton.-The House voted IA
to l0l not to accept the Senate amend.
ment to the metal tariff revision bill
which would repeal the Canadian reel.
procity rider and fix universal duty
Of 81 a ton on print paper.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
Colorado Production Per Aer. Leads.

Colorado Production Per Acre Leads.
Denver.-Colorado led the United
States In the number Of bushels Of ag.
ricultural products produced to the
acre. according to statistics which
have been taken from the Yearbook OF
the Department Of Agriculture for
1910, the latest issue, and compiled by
l.. c. Paddock. state commissioner oil
immigration. The period covered by
bis figures Is from 1900 to 1910. Dur
Ing that time the general average OF
the United States was 14.2 bushels to
the acre. Colorado's production was
25.7 bushels. And this In spite Of the
fact that the figures from the 1910
season, one Of the dryest In the his.
tory Of the state. are included.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS IN COLORADO

July i.-Independence Day Celebration
IPlatteville. Greeley. Pueblo. Trini-
Gad, Walsenburg. Ouray. Durango,
Fort Collins, Longmont. Loveland.
Lamar. Walden.
ISOLATION Convention. Denver.
July lS.19-Gunnison County Cattle
Growers Association. Gunnison. =.
aug. 6-S. International Council
hnights OF Columbus - Colorado
Sept. 3.-Convention National Associa-
uon State Game Wardens-Denver.
sept. is. 10. 20.-San Luis Valley Fair
-Alamosa,
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13

Restoeks St. vrain With Fish.
Longmont. - The Longmont Fish
and Game Protective Association is
making rapid progress toward the re-
stocking OF the two forks Of the St..
Vrain river west OF this city.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
Solitary CO., for LIE.

San Quentin. Cal.--Solltary coniIne
ment for life will be the punishment
for Fred Howard. ringleader In the
pauitentiary riot.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
st. Louis Wool.

ST. Louis.-Wool-Steady. Medium
grades combing and clothing. 2Oh0
2lc; light. fine. l5al9c; heavy fine.
l2Vl5c; tub washed. 2703Oc.
The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
Butter.
Eggs.
Eggs, case count, less com. "a. GO
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Flax.

Duluth, Minn.-l.lnseed, on track.
!2'S!h; to arrive. $2.32h: June,
s2.32h; July. s2.32h bid; September,
S2.Ol bid; October, s2I9 bid.