The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-01

recently received from Governor Cruce
an appointment as one of the delegates
to the Southern Sociological Congress
at Nashville. Tenn, May 7 to 10.
The Websterian Literary Society
elected the following officers for the
first term Of the second semester this
week: Weaver Johnson of Durant,
president; Frank X. Smith of Musko-
gee, vice president; Henry Lee John
son of Norman, secretary; Roger Saw
yer of Norman, treasurer; B. A. Gar
side of Stringtown, sargeant at arms;
Barnes Mccain. of Quintin critic;
Orion Bowen of Waxahatehie, Texas.
umpire reporter.
Several men interested in the organ
ization of military club among the
students met and discussed plans re-
Gently. The club will admit to mem
bership only those who have seen ac-
tive service on land or sea- 1t is said
that it will have on it's roll students
who have won the colors of the United
States, England, Russia, Germany and
the Boer Republic. All of which shows
that even the enrolment of a western
university is composed of diversified
citizenship.
The freshmen law students, one of
the largest classes in the university,
met Monday and elected Fred Cap
shaw of Norman president for the sec
'ond semester succeeding Owen owen
of Caney, Kans., who was president
during the semester just past. Orel
Busby of Konawa was chosen vice
president; Chas. Orr of Roff, secre-
tary, and John Tobberman Of Norman,
sergeant at arms.
There are so many aspirants for
places on the cast of the annual play
to be given by the senior class com
mencement week that a tryout will be
held in the near future when the can
didates will endeavor to convince a
committee composed of the coach, two
faculty members and two seniors, of
their historic ability.
The latest at the university is an
Architectural Club" 1t begins work
with a strong membership both of
faculty and students. The purpose of
the club will be to study the history,
development, and forms of architec-
ture Prof Jerome Dowd addressed
the first meeting. Addresses by other
members of the faculty and V. C.
Griffith, a graduate from the Archi- |
tectural School of Columbia Univer-
sity, will help make up the programs
for the semester. The officers elected
were j. V. DePorte of New York, pres
ident; Vinson Laekey of Muskogee, |
vice president; Miss Adelaide Loomis
of Norman, secretary-treasurer
Coal Map of the United States.
A special and valuable feature of the
report on the production of coal in |
1910 issued by the United States Geo
logical Survey, in a series of maps
showing the known coal fields of the
United States. These maps are print
ed on a scale of about 40 miles to the
inch, and if pieced together would |
make a map the size of large 6-foot |
wall map issued by the survey. The
various classes of coal areas are indi- |
cateu by variety of colors. The coal
fields are shown to have wide range, |
both as to character of coal-there be
ing half a dozen grades from anthra-
cite to lignite-and as to present
knowledge concerning the deposits, Il
ranging all the way from the results
of detailed surveys on which an almost
exact estimate of tonnage can be based
to the very general information that
the area is underlain with coal-bearing
rocks which probably contain coal
that may or may not be found at min
able depth. All this information is
portrayed on the maps by colors or
symbols.
The maps show the county sub
divisions in the several states and are
therefore the most exact coal maps
yet issued Geologic work by the sur
fey in the coal fields is in constant
progress. however, especially in the
Dublic-land states, so that even these
maps are admitted to be imperfect, in
he light of new information continu
lily acquired. The Geological Survey