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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26
DECISION IN INSURANCE
CASES HANDED DOWN

Oklahoma City July 19.-Opinions
in these cases were delivered BY dt
vision No. 2 of the supreme court com.
mission;
BY Judge Rosser-American Insur.
ance company, Nework, N. j., VS.. Mrs.
L. M. Rodenhause, Carter county: af-
flrmed; Phoenix Insurance company.
Brooklyn, VS.. w II. Quinette; Mercan-
tile Fire and Marine Insurance COM
pary, Boston, VS.. same: Queen Insur-
ance company vs.. same, all from Car
ter county; reversed and remanded
George w. Barnes, Sr., VS., Leander A.
Keys, Muskogee county: reversed and
remanded; Charles w. Brooks VS.. Mat
thew Reynolds and Jack Hunt, Okla
homa county; reversed and remanded;
Cook County Liquor company VS.. State
of Oklahoma, Murray county; affirm.
ed.
BY Judge Brewer-Missouri, Kansas
& Texas Railroad company VS.. B. o.
Johnson and Charles A. Mantz. Pot
-awatomie county; affirmed.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26
CLOUOBURST KILLS
TWENTY IN NEVADA
Several Bodies Were Found ; Miles
From Place of Residence-com-
munieation Cut on.

Reno, New, July 1S-Tweuty lives
we're reported lost in cloudburst that
wiped out the small town Of Seven
Troughs, New.
From Lovelack, near Seven Troughs
came word that seven persons are
known to be dead and that the hotel
at Mazuma had been turned upside
down by the rush of waters.
Communications by wire was badly
crippled and the roads were so fur
rowed that automobiles were obliged
to make wide detours in seeking news.
The known dead at Mazuma are
John Trenchard and wife: Mike Qua
zen, Mrs. Mclean and Mrs. Reese.
The bodies of the Trenchards were
carried three miles from their home.
A mile of track of the Nevada and
California railroad, a branch of the
Southern Pacific. was washed out be,
tween Nina and Keeler. Telegraph
wires are down
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26
THE KATY
RAILROAD
To Be Part Of the Great North And
South System Dreamed BY Hill
And Planned BY HawIey.

Chicago, July 1S.-A Chicago news.
paper prints the following railroad
gossip or interest to citizens of Okla
homa
Edwin Hawley was presumed ten
years ago to have worked out a plan
for construction and unification of a
system which would fulfill the dream
OF Huntington for trans-continental
line with terminals at Newport News
and San Francisco, with New Orleans
/as the chief central point. But when
It became apparent to Hawley that the
Panama canal would be built, he was
not doubtful about the commerce it
would carry. He began to change his
Mans to create great north and south
line in the Mississippi valley with
terminal on the gulf. This was not
original with Hawley. James ]. Hill
first realized there should be nation
bisecting north and south lines if the
Great Northern was to realize its full
opportunities. Products of the north
west could furnish profitable traffic
southwark whereas, products of the
south could furnish adequate exchange
traffic.
AT his death, Hawley had measured
the opportunities for north and south
traffic and means by which a unified
system could be operated. Now, the
surmise is that Mr. Erb is to attempt
to fulfill what Mr.. Hawley had in mind.
Mr.. Erb plans new road. He would
finance and construct that part of the
system needed for extension Of the
Milwaukee and ST. Louis and Iowa
Central to the Canadian BOUNDARY. |
Then through identification with the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas, a through |
trunk line to the gulf, which traverses
the rich Oklahoma country, a through |
trunk line to the gulf will have been
perfected in time to obtain much of
the first commerce created between
the Mississippi valley and the gulf,
and designated for the Panama canal.
Very likely close traffic connections
viii be made with the Canadian North
ern."
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26
CHASED NEGROES
IN CHOCTAW COUNTY
White Citizens Fire Two Hundred
Shots Into Black Residence
Section.

Broken Bow, Okla, July 19.-Within
the past week the town of Browen Bow
the eastern terminal of the new Texas
q Eastern Oklahoma railroad. has
been depopulated of its negro citizen
ship. more than one hundred negroes
having been driven out by the white
citizens. The method employed was
an attack, following a warning on tba
negro section in which 200 shots were
fired but no one killed or injured
Most of the negroes, according to
prominent white men, were introduced
by the local saw mill as Iaborers
against the protest of white men. Two
weeks ago, it was decided that they
no longer We're wanted, and notice
was posted advising the negroes to
leave the town, with death as the
penalty for staying.
Some of the negroes, about fifty in
all, left soon after the notice. but the
sawmill company urged others to stay
and 1t was reported that 1t armed
them with fifty rifles. This report can
not be affirmed and is not denied, but
no arms We're used by the negroes.
Following the attack on the section.
most Of the negroes hid in their homes
until the shooting ceased and then
left town, all of them on
foot or in buggies. They did not wait
Tor trains. Friday, not one is left, but
Il is feared they may return, and to
provide against attack, large amount
Of ammunition has been ordered by
The white men here. The negroes are
gathered in other settlements in Choc-
Jaw county.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

NEW TOPOGRAPHIC MAP.
Area in Northern New York Surveyed
by State of New York and United
States Geological Survey.

Area in Northern New York Surveyed
by State of New York and United
States Geological Survey.
The state of New York and the
United States Geological Survey. work.
ing together are pushing forward a
complete topographic survey of New
York state. The surveying is being
done in rectangular units known as
quadrangles. Each of these units of
area includes Is degrees of longitude
by IS degrees of latitude, or about 22O
square miles. The resulting maps are
being published by the Geological Sur.
yey, and the latest of these mans is
sued is that of the Hammond quad.
rangle, lying in the northern portion
of the state. This is a comparatively
little settled section, although well
by roads. Oswegatchie river
flows into the east-central portion of
the area, trending in southwesterly
to the village of Oxbow. and
then making radical loop and flow
ing back again in northeasterly di-
rection. It is interesting to note. as
shown by the map, that il desired it
would be a comparatively small engi-
neering feat to connect the two por-
tons of this river by canal near the
town of Wegatchie, so nearly does the
river double on its course, and thus
create an island of considerable ex-
.ent.
The topographic surveying of the
lrea was done in lsOS-191O by ]. NJ. |
Whitman ard W. H. S. Morey, of the
United States Geological Survey, in
cooperation with the state of New
FORK The sheet is a fine example of
opographic mapping and engraving.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26
GIRL ARRESTED
FOR BOOTLEGG|NG

Muskogee, Okla, July 1S.-Miss
Cora Watkins, sixteen years old. of
Alton, was brought here today from
her home at Alton, where she was ar
rested by United States Marshal H. H.
Trott, charged with bootlegging.
According to the girls story. she
was going to Joplin to accept a posi-
tion as waitress, but lacked enough
money to pay her car fare. When she
started to pawn her watch, she said.
a young man she knew volunteered to
pay her railroad expenses if she would
bring him some whisky from Joplin
She went to Joplin, obtained two suit
cases of whisky, containing eight
quarts, and returned on the next train.
Officer Trott was suspicious, since he
had seen the girl depart the same
morning and he picked up one of the
suit cases and investigated. A pre-
liminary hearing of the case will be
made tomorrow.
The girl has been on the stage for
the last six years, and was to have ac-
cepted position as waitress this
week. She said the trip for whisky
would give her an opportunity to in
vestigate the kind of position she
was offered.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26
AGREEMENT REACHED
As TO PARCELS POST
Senate Committee Reports compro-
mise on Bourne Bill Accept
able to 5rstow. -

Washington, July 10. = The senate
committee on postoffices and post
roads today reached an agreement on
the postofiice appropriation bill and
the measure viii be reported on Mon
day.
The parcels post provision, the prin-
cipal matter in dispute, finally was
threshed out by Senator Bourne. the
author of the provision in the bin. and
Senator Bristow of Kansas. former as
sistant postmaster general. The result
was a compromise.
Senators Bristow and Bourne sit
ting as subcommittee on the parcels
post agreed on modified form of
Senator Bourne's plan. It retains
Senator Bourne's scheme for a divi-
sion OF the country into zones within
which rates for the transmission of
parcels shall be the same. Eight zones
We're outlined, instead of six as or
iginally planned and the rates slightly
increased. me maximum rate remains
at II cents, the rate of the postal
union
Senators Bourne and Bristow agreed
upon the parcels post zones as fol-
lows:
First zone, length fifty miles, rate
8 cents for the first pound, cents for
each additional pound; second zone.
length $50 miles, rate and 4 cents:
third zone, length 800 miles, rate
and 5 cents; fourth zone, length 500
miles. rate 8 and 6 cents; fifth zone.
length 1000 miles, rate and Z cents;
sixth zone, length 1,4OO miles, rate 10
and 3 cents; seventh zone, length
1900 miles, rate II and 10 cents;
eighth zone, length over 1900 miles,
rate IL cents per pound straight. Max
mum weight, eleven pounds.
A completed by the senate commit
zee the bill carries about 1852 900 900,
'r an increase of about $4,000, 900 over
he house provisions.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26
MCCLURE-QUILLION
WEDDING LAST NIGHT

Last evening at the home OF Mr..
and Mrs. Hugh Mcclure at GIG West
Canadian avenue, Mr.. Roy Mcclure
and Miss Helen Guillian, both of Blue.
jacket. were united in marriage. The
ring service was used in the eere-
mony, which was performed by Rev.
w. o. Davis.
The wedding was very quiet affair
and came as a surprise to their large
number of friends in this city and
near their homes Mr. Mcclure drove
in from his farm yesterday afternoon
and the bride came down on the train
last evening. The ceremony took
place at $50 o'clock and the happy
couple left soon after for their new
home at Timber Hill, taking with
them the very best wishes of their
many friends.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26
west peofdes Aaafnst crnoe

Oklahoma City, July 19.-In an opin.
ion to Governor Lee Cruce, who had
referred in his letter to "the unforu-
nate difficulty of the board of educa-
tion and myself" Attorney General
West holds that the points raised by
the governor in regard to the author
ity of the board to adopt text books at
this time, under the wording Of the
original act creating the text book
commission, are not well taken and
that the board bas such authority.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26
PRODUCTIONS OF COAL IN KANSAS
Output Of ssats in 1911 Valued at
Nearly Ten Million Dollars.

The production of coal in Kansas in
1911 was 6.254,22S short tons. valued
at S9,645.572, according to a state
ment made public by f. W. Parker OF
the United States Geological SurYey,
compiled from data collected by the
federal survey and the Kansas Geo
logical Survey.
In proportion to its coal production
Kansas suffered more than any other
state in the Mississippi Valley region
from the labor troubles in 1910 the
decrease from the output for 1909 be.
ing 1855 per cent and the production
being the lowest during the last de-
eade, 1921, ,451 short tons, valued at
N9l4.709. The production in 1911 in.
creased 1,S22,777 short tons. or 27.0y
per cent in quantity and s1.7SO.S6
or 2LS7 per cent, in value. This, how
ever, was not enough to bring the total
UP to normal for the production in
1911 was nearly $4,000 tons less than
the average production of the preced-
ing five years, which included the
greatly reduced tonnage of 1910.
In 1910 there were 1850 men EN-.
ployed in the coal mines of Kansas
and of these, 1886, or so per cent
were idle during the six months strike.
The average number of working days
in that year was 14S. The average
production for each man was 3S2 tons
for the year, or 2.5S5 tons working
day. In 1911 there were 1925 men
employed for an average of 1s9 DAYS.
the average production for each man
being 5SS tons for the year or 2.S5 tons
a day.
The major part of the coal output Of
kansas is used for locomotive fuel
and some of the larger mines are on
Grated by the fuel departments of the
railroads or by companies affiliated
With the transportation interests None |
If the product of such mines is mar
Eeted commercially.
What is true of shooting coal off
he solid in the other states of the
Mississippi Valley region applies with
'qual force to Kansas. Out of total
# 5,1SS,15S short tons for which the
Methods of mining were reported to
he Geological Survey for 1911, the
of coal shot off the solid was
,S65,l4O short tons, or 1919 per cent.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

The scale Of the map is 1:62 500, or
approximately inch to the mile. and
the contour interval is 20 feet.
Copies Of this and other topographic
maps Of areas in the state of New
York can be purchased from the di-
rector of the Geological Survey, Wash
ington, D. c.. for 5 cents each, or at
the rate of So for 100 shets. An index
map of New York, showing the por-
tions Of the state already mapped, will
be furnished free on application.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26

charged with the study OF the relations
OF the railways to their environment
their economic relations.
A Source Of Accurate information.
The headquarters of the Bureau OF
Railway Economies were established
in Washington that It might be facili
tated in its scientific study of railway
problems by ready access to the sta.
tistics and records of the Interstate
Commerce Commission and of other
departments and bureaux of the fed
eral government. That its main func-
ton as a source of accurate and au-
thentic information be not impaired.
it was forbidden to engage in polemic
and partisan discussion.
In furtherance of its purpose to be-
come recognized source OF accurate
and authentic information in regard
to the railways the bureau is building
up comprehensive library and has
issued catalogue of the existing body
of railway economic literature. It
works harmony with, and sometimes
in at least partial collaboration with.
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The main point of distinction between
the statistical departments of the two
organizations is that while the com
pilations of the Interstate Commerce
Commission principally serve the pur-
poses of record and reference, those
of the bureau are designed to throw
light upon various phases of the exist
ing situation for the current informa-
tion and guidance of its constituents. |
important Inquiries.
The bureau makes special investiga-
tions, analyses, and compilations in |
to specific requests of its
subscribers. 1t publihes a monthly
ummary showing the collective trend
OF railway earnings and expenses, and
from time TO time it publishes the re-
suits of studies of general interest.
Such, for example, is comparison of
the railway status of the United States
which that of the principal countries
of Europe 1t has issued a bulletin
the facilities, serviceability. |,
and utilization of the railways of the Il
United States, the United Kingdom.
France, and Germany; another com.
pairing the railway wages and cost of
living in these countries; and by the
ime this article appears has probably !,
ssued a further bulletin making a II
specific comparison of the freight Il
ates in these countries. These gem
'ral publications of the bureau are !
ent not only to railway officers, but
0 the educational institutions through ]
'ut the United States, in which they r
re being used In increasing degree
y teachers of economics< and to the !
abroad commissioners, by whom they In
re in constant demand. While the c
ureau is not a publicity agency, the
esults of these studies are also made
yailable to the newspaper press for
he information of the public in gen !
ral
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26
Was Thrown From Train.

andrew Adams vas thrown from q
west bound passenger train in this
city night before last and painfully IN
jured by bruises.
Adams was here en- route from Alton
to Claremore and was passing between
cars when by sudden lurch Of the
train he was thrown through the door
onto the brick platform. His injuries
will not prove serious.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26
BULL MOOSE SEATS
SELL READILY.

Chlcago, July 1S.-The sale OF
tickets to the third party national con
vention in Chicago August 5. was
opened at headquarters today. Within
a few hours it was announced 81. 500
had been received, $1,000 of this
amount being for fifty. tickets from
one man, whose name was not given
out. Madill Mccormick said II was
planned to have the receipts from the
tickets pay most of the convention ex.
penses, estimated at $25,000.
A general committee OF arrange.
ments with various subcommittee
was appointed today. Ralph C. Otis
who has been at Oyster Bay consulting
with Colonel Roosevelt, was made
chairman. The commission is TO have
charge of all details, including the dis
posal of tickets and finances. Cover.
nor Deneen was asked by telegram
today when he would receive a com.
mittee appointed to ask him and other
candidates for state officers whether
he would support Colonel Roosevelt or
President Taft.
Teddy Favors Waterways.
National control of the building
through any state of lakes.to-the.
gulf deep waterway and the use of the
Panama canal machinery in guarding
the Mississippi river against floods are
favored by Colonel Theodore Roose-
yelt in letter made public here by
La Verne Noyes, an Illinois supporter
to whom it was addressed.
The letter points out that not only
would such a work protect thousands
Of acres of rich lands from devasta-
tion by flood and prove commercially
important in storing of power. but it |
would do a great social service in wip-
ing out sectional lines, and give the
north and the south opportunity to ioin
IN the great work.
For Social Betterment.
Only by new party in which all
AN Join on equal terms, can the need
ID social and industrial tasks demand
ID by our people be successfully under.
AIKEN, says the letter, "and one of
ne greatest of these tasks is the de-
'elopment of the Mississippi rivern
dr. Noyes had asked Colonel Roose-
'elt whether Illinois should expend
2O,00O,O00 for building its part of the
eep waterway +
Colonel Raaseyelt's reply says there
no need for Illinois to pay $40 .0oO.-
90 or any part of it in individual at
empt to get deep waterways from
ne lakes to the gulf, that being a task
Or the nation, since the nation alone
an properly do it.
THE tremendous devasting foods
the last few months, says the let
sr, with the attendant loss of life
homes and property, have made it
lear that no more time should be
'st in undertaking the control of the
ood waters of the Mississippi and
$ tributaries and the connection of
lie great lakes and the tributaries of {
le Mississippi with the gulf with the ?
'eat commerce-earrying channel. a
al
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-26
WOODROW WILSON
NAMES COMMITTEE
Fourteen Democrats Who Called to
Assist Him Receive Honor Places
Senator Gore Selected.

Geargirt, N. J.. July 1S.-The dem.
ocratic campaign committee. which
will have supreme charge of the pres
idential campaign, was named last
night by Governor Wilson. 1t consists
of fourteen members, with William F.
McCombs, the chairman of the demo.
cratic national committee, as chair
man.
The other members are: Robert S.
Hudspeth of New Jersey, Joseph S
Daniels of North Carolina, William
Saulsberry of Delaware, Robert L.
Ewing of Louisiana, A. Mitchell Pal
mer of Pennsylvania, Joseph e. Davies
of Wisconsin, Will r. King Of Oregon,
all of whom are members of the ma
tional committee, and Senators Thorn
as p Gore of Oklahoma. James O'Gor-
man of New York and James A. Reed
OF Missouri; Representative Daniel
D. McGillicuddy of Maine, Albert S.
Burleson of Texas and William G. Nc
Adoo of New York City.
The appointment of a vice chair
man was postponed and no action was
taken on the appointment of treas
urer or finance committee.
Headquarters will be opened in a
few days in Chicago and New York
and at later date in some western
city, as yet undecided on.
Each member of the delegation of
leaders who waited upon the governor
at his summer home this afternoon to
help select the campaign committee,
was given a place in that body. Mr..
McCombs, as national chairman, was
given the Craftsmanship of the cam
paign committee. The other nine men
who attended the governor in his Sc |
lection were Committeeman Daniels. |
Davies, Saulsberry, Hudspeth and Pal t
mer; Senators Gore and O'Gorman;
Representative BurIeson, and Mr.. Nc
Adoo After the meeting, Chairman
McCombs announced that the cam
paign committee would hold its first
meeting at an early date, to appoint
various subcommittee, among them
being the advisory committee, press
and finance committee.
AS to the latter, he thought it would +
consist of 95 or 40 men, representing.
If course, every section of the United
States. Names had hardly been reach.
ID in considering this committee. he
ldded.
The appointment of the campaign
is but the first act, the gov
'rnor said, Of the real organization of
he campaign. 1t will be thorough and
arried out to the smallest detail, no
ection being neglected or overlooked.
The campaign committee is largely
omposed of men who stood by the
overnor in his fight for the nomina-
ion It
A notable exception is Senator Reed E
Missouri, who was one of the warm
st supporters of Champ Clark An
ther man whose name had not been
lentioRed in connection with the cam
aign committee, is former Judge King
Oregon who, from the bench sus-
aimed the validity of the initiative
nd referendum in Oregon, and after
etiring recently, won his contention
the supreme court of the United n
tates. d
In