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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-22
ORAL COMPLAINTS
WILL Be HEARD


Oklahoma City. March 21.-The state
board Of equalization will hear oral
complaints at a. m, March 27 against
the assessments II has fixed thus far
on public service corporations. The
assessment Of the Western Union Tel
egraph company was fixed upon the
same basis and practically at the same
figure of last year, about 81 100000.
The company returned for this year
$4,000 valuation, an increase of s27.-
o00 Last years assessment was ap-
pealed to the supreme court and by
that tribunal referred to referee.
The return by the Prairie Oil and
Gas company of 5000, 600, an increase
of 100000 oeer last year, was ac-
cepted by the board on the same basis
as the assessment last year, with the
exception of storage oil, which was
fixed at so cents per barrel. The same
rule was fixed for the Oklahoma Pipe
Line company, the Texas company,
the Gulf Pipe Line company and the
Gulf Pipe Line company of Oklahoma.
Valuation of the Clinton, Oklahoma
& Western Railroad company was ad-
vanced from $4,000 to $4,000 per mile
of main line, and that Of the Orient
was reduced from $4,000 to $4,000
The Katy is left the same as last
year, s50,504 the Kansas City South
ern is assessed at $4,000; Wichita
Falls & Northwestern, s14,OOO Texas.
Oklahoma & Eastern, $3,S54; Webber
Falls, Shawnee & Western, $4,000;
Western Tulsa Belt Line, $6,172; Ok
lahoma Land & Development Line.
$12,475; Clinton Street railway. ST.
200; Oklahoma railway Control nearly
all lines in Oklahoma City,, SO, $500 900;
Peoples Electric railway, Muskogee.
$4s,0O0 The board declined to change
its valuatio nof the Shawnee-Tecum-
sch Railroad company and the street
car lire sof Muskogee. Enid and Tulsa
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-22
sPAvlNAW ITEMS.

Mr. and Mrs. Dave Coy spent the day
with Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Coy Wednes-
day.
Mr.. Williams, who bought the Bum
garner farm, is a great deal like Abra-
ham Lincoln, he is clearing ground
and splitting rails.
Lee Lake VIII begin drilling wells
next Monday for Frank Summers at
Salina.
| The five-months-old baby of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Young died last week.
Funeral services were conducted by
Rev. Love Friday afternoon from the
church.
John West and Rev. Love were visi-
tors OF Mr.. and Mrs. II. D. Payton one
day this week
There is to be big dance at the
hall tonight (Friday)
Mrs. Hiney West is making some
Improvements about her farm
The four-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Tom Condor died last week Of diph-
iberia and was buried Saturday after
noon.
Rev. Love, who has been holding a
meeting here will begin revival at
Lynch Monday night
Vent West made a flying trip to
Vinita Monday
In spite Of the recent bad weather
the farmers are plowing and making
garden.
The new railroad is progressing fine.
The manager is trying to make con-
tract with Frank Summers, at $500
per day, to drill 1876 holes, 60 feet deep,
II feet apart on the bluq between
Little Spavinaw and Big Spavinaw.
Lem Young of Greenbrier has bought
the Ose Benge boat at the mouth of
Rock creek, and moved it to the mouth
of Spavinaw.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-22
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.


Tonight the last basket ball game
of the season will be played in the
gymnasium between the Tulsa girls
and the Vinita girls.
The nice warm weather the first
part of the week caused an epidemic
of spring fever to break out in the
student body
Grounds have been secured at Elec-
trio park for the baseball games this
season and practice is held there every
afternoon. getting into condition for
their opening game of the season next
Friday with the Miami high school
The Seniors nave their annual al
most completed and expect to go to
press in about a week.
DR.. George, president of Drury col
lege, visited the high school Wednes-
day afternoon and spoke to the stu
dents in the auditorium
Only nine more weeks Of school,
which means forty-five more days of
work-or trouble.
The high school glee club under the
direction Of Miss England, is getting to
be very good and helps to break the
monotony of school life.
The track team is working every
afternoon now and expect to carry
away the honors in the track and field
meet the 20th of April.
Beginning next Friday afternoon the
high school will render literary pro-
gram every two weeks
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-22
Gregg And Victor Were Scared.

Muskogee, Okla, March PA scare
was thrown into Grant Victor and w.
j. Gregg Thursday when rumor
reached the federal court house that
Republican State Chairman James
Harris had indorsed James Il. Fore for
United States marshal and Peter
Deichman of Tulsa for United States
attorney. 1t was stated that Victor's
name has been sent to the senate by
President Taft, and later withdrawn
and Mr.. Fores name substituted The
federal court house crowd have been
eagerly scanning the dispatches of the
daily papers to see il the rumor is
true
1t was generally understood that
Taft would make no appointments in
Oklahoma until after the republican
state convention. AS Harris was in
strumental in carrying the Fourth dis
trict for Taft, and Grant Victor pulled
off Taft convention in the Third dis
trict, both hope to be in line to say
who shall be re.appointed. Harris is
standing by Deichman and Fore, but
Victor comes in and says he is entitled
to consideration The federal crowd
is expecting these two plums to be
given out at any time now.
It is said that former Federal Judge
&c. W. Raymond is favorable to the ap-
pointment of Deichman and Fore, and
that the president will heed his wishes.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-22

Tulsa, Okla, March 2l-With two
federal judges on the bench and
twenty-one damage suits and other
suits and other actions against rail-
road companies alone set for trial, the
United States district court for the
eastern district of oklahoma will con-
vene in Tulsa on April 1st Judge
Ralph Campbell will open the court
and hear ali motions and demurrers,
while Judge d. FLA. Youmans of the
western district of Arkansas. will pre-
side during all trial cases.
At this term of the federal court,
the criminal indictments against Eu-
gene f. Blaine, president Of the de-
funct Farmers National Bank OF Tulsa,
which failed three years ago following
the collapse of the Columbia Bank and
Trust company Of Oklahoma City. win
be taken up. This case is set for April
10
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-22

make farming more profitable for the
man on the farm. enriching country
life. in the farm home.
With the other speakers President
Howard H. Gross. OF the National Soil
Fertility League. expressed the opin-
ion that the measure under consider
alton represented the greatest econ
omic question that has been before the
country in many years He praised
the work of the department of agricul-
ture and strongly urged extension work
by the agricultural colleges and expert
ment stations, and contended that the
farmer is alive to a concrete fact and
imperyious to a theory That is not dem
onstrated. Hence, the necessity for
personal contact instead of the long
range methods now in vogue. Mr..
Gross illustrated the substantial in
crease of croppage in European coun-
tries and in the United States show
ing that where direct demonstration
plan was used the yield from soil was
greatly increased and the cost per unit
almost cut in two. He called attention
to the greater demands of the Amer
lean people. with constantly 1essening
production and asserted fatty that
thtre must be better farming or we
will be compelled in few years to
establish different living conditions.
According to Mr.. Gross, the American
farmer knows he is not getting the full
returns of his labor and realizes that
science will help him, but he must
have that science brought to him in
such for mthat he can understand it..
The only way to do this successfully
lis by individual instruction, demon
stration and application. He regards
the agricultural college man as his
guide, philosopher and friend. With
the nation and the state working to
this end, as proposed by the pending
Legislation, situation that seriously
affects the welfare of the people of the
country, in the factories the shops,
the cities and towns, even as much as
in the agricultural communities, will
be provided for in the best possible
manner.
The measure is receiving careful
consideration and according to present
indications will become a law during
the present session. President Taft
and the leaders of both political parties
are working together in full accord, all
parties agree that this is question
that rises above politics and one that
should be dealt with as business
proposition. The proposed demonstra-
tion plan will start in a small way and
increase as men can be found for the
work. 1t may take ten years before
the plan is in complete operation with
full complement of competent in
structors, so that all farmers may be
served 1t is big question and must
be handled in big way
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-22
THE PUBLIC FORUM.
A Farmers Argument Against The
Parcels Post And Mail Order
Business.

We, as farmers. are very willing to
admit what the fine-toned orator tells
US, that we are the most Independent
people on earth. and so we could and
Ought to be, but are not, We are simply
the serfs and slaves of that great mon
strosity. the mail order house. which is
sapping our financial lives. | put it
strongly, because | hope to awaken
you TO the realization of the slavery
we SO voluntarily accept and seem
ingly enjoy. | do not claim TO be any
different or better than the rest of you
in this respect, but | would like to join
my fellow farmers in throwing off the
thralldom which now exists. People
are SO constituted that it is hard to
make any important move in the com
munity alone. Our families like to
have advantages with others, and so
long as it is popular for families to
use the catalogues for shopping tours
they will feel that they are deprived
of some of the important comforts of
life, if it is suspended ! do not wish
to be considered as talking from a
mean spirit toward my family, but
am tired of having my family sitting up
nights and devoting Sundays to shop
ping by mail and buying many things
which are not necessary for their hap
piness or comfort, simply because a
bargain counter is constantly spread
before them believe We should
build up our home merchants to give
us a good market for our products by
standing by them We can buy all
that we need, and, on the average, as
cheaply, by doing our business at
home, and thus make a better market
for our products. How can we expect
the country stores to thrive and grow
if we, as farmers, refuse to trade with
them, but send our money to some
distant city, which does not interest us
or help us in the least. While there
is always a standard price for some
kinds of farmers produce, how can
we expect the country merchant to
buy our eggs. butter poultry and other
products, 50 vital to us all, If we don't
reciprocate? Is it not an object for
nc ~ h,,i1d IN o,,r n, rIxaf tnxu, and
make markets for our products? Does
it not all to the value Of our land to
be able to point to some thriving near
by town with a ready market with
schools and churches? Is not. land so
situated worth more than If it is isolat-
ed and distant from everything and
everybody?
About the only thing the mail order
house has left us for ourselves is the
production of babies, and shall not
be surprised to see them open found
ling hospitals and furnish ready-made
babies at reduced rates, avoiding med
ical expense and the purchase of bar
rels of Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup.
If my farmer friends would unite
would be glad to refuse the catalogues
table room in my house. | want my
family to have all the finery and gew-
gaws we can afford, but I want them
to go to the home merchant to buy it.
and not give their trade to some one
that has no other interest than to take
our money. FARMER.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-22
Moberiy. Mo. Feb. 2S. 1912.

To Whom 1t May Concern,
I play the Chas. Harrison Stock Co,
annually. They hold the record here
for business. They are supreme fav-
orites with patrons here. I consider
them the best stock company aow tour
ing the west | cheerfully + ommend
them to managers and pub ic. They
will fulfill. every promise they make
Very truly,
D rIATT nr1 A ~
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-22
It,a Enouoh.

How do you get capers? Do you
dig 'em or what?" 'Tve heard of cut
ting EN-. That's all l know."-Wash-
ington Herald
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-22
Rut They Think They Could.

About one man in a hundred can
tand prosperity. The other SO never
i've d chance to find out whether they
IL not
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-24
WICKERSRAM DECLINES
TO COMMENT ON ACTION
OF FEDERAL GRAND JURY

Attorney General Wickersham declined
to comment upon the action of the Fed
eral grand jury in New FORK in bringing
indictments against Presidents MeIlen, of
the New Haven. and Chamberlain. of the
Grand Trunk and Chairman Smithers, of
the board of directors of the Grand Trunk
railroads 1t was pointed out at the De
partment of Justice that the indictments
we're the result of long and painstaking
inquiry.
Several months ago. when the Massa-
Chusetts and Rhode Island railroad COM
missioners made a formal complaint
against the two railroads. Mr. Wicker
sham was dubious about obtaining suffi-
Gent legal evidence to warrant a prose
cution. The railroads offered to permit
the governments investigators free ac-
cess to their books, but little information
as obtained from this source.
When the grand jury inquiry was be-
gun, more complete mass of evidence
was ELECTED on the subject which, resulted
In a stronger case against the railroad
officials than the government officials ex-
pected. Mr. Wickersham has not consid-
cred the advisablity of bringing a civil
action to prevent the execution OF the
proposed merger agreement. officials say
that if the agreement is put in operation
an injunction could be obtained restrain
ing its operation.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-24
WOULD PRESERVE MINUTE MAN.
Admiral Andrews Urges Removal of
Statue to Naval Academy.

Admiral Andrews. OF the Bureau OF
Navigation of the Navy Department, has
recommended that the figure Of the
'minute-man," which mas been a feature
of the United States gunboat Concord. be
deposited in Memorial Hall, at the Naval
Academy at Annapolis. The sale OF the
Concord has been recommended, as she is
no longer of value for naval purposes, and
1t is expected that she will soon be
stricken from the naval register.
Admiral Andrews also recommended
that the ''minute-man" figure. which is
now on the quarterback of the Concord
be held at Annapolis until there is an
other vessel in the United States Navy
named the Concord. and that the minute
man" then be placed on that ship. thus
preserving the historical associations.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-24
.SALOONKEEPER FINED
FOR SELLING TO MINOR
Emma Coles, Found intoxicated in
Home, Sent to Workhouse for
Ninety Days.

Alexandria, Va, Dec. 23-A fine of $50
was imposed in the Police Court this
morning in the case Of James Haywood,
a saloonkeeper, charged with selling
liquor to a minor. The same charge pre-
ferred against Guy Wood was dismissed,
there being no evidence against him.
According to the testimony of Sergt.
Scott and Policemen Nicholson, Roland,
and Kerns, who made the arrest, they
were attracted by boisterous conduct In
the house of Emma Coles. at the north
east corner of Washington and Franklin
Streets, at 1 o'clock Sunday morning. En-
tering the place, they found the old wom-
an in a helpless condition from drink and
also three youths giving their names as
James Greenwood. fifteen; Charles De-
vine, seventeen, and Daniel SpeIss, thir-
teen. The policemen testified the lads
also were intoxicated.
According to statements of the officers
Greenwood admitted having gotten a bot
tie Of liquor from Haywood's place He.
however, stated that he forged his
fathers name TO n note for it, and this
note was produced TO the court by Hay
wood. The court, notwithstanding, i'm
posed the fine, which, IT declared, is the
minimum in such cases. All OF the lads
denied having gotten liquor from Hay
wood.
The court sent the Coles woman to the
workhouse for a period of ninety days
The breaking OF an arch bar on a north
bound Chesapeake and Ohio freight train
at 3 o'clock this morning at Brandy Sta
ton, Culpeper County. Va, was respon-
sible for the derailment of ten freight
cars, composing the entire train. The
locomotive remained on the track. The
cars were badly damaged. although the
crew OF the train escaped injury. 4 wreck
ing train was sent out and it was eight
hours before the debris was cleared away.
When the cases OF the thirteen mon
caught in the poker raid made by Sergts
Scott, Wilkinson. and Policemen Nichol-
son. Campbell, Reid. and Special Officer
Robey, at an early hour Sunday morning.
were called in the Police Court to-day,
all forfeited their cOiIateral, thereby en-
riching the Golfers of the city treasury
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-24
OWEN OWEN, TAFT'S
TAILOR, PASSES AWAY
Pneumonia Claims WelI-known Mer-
ehant-Native Of Wales and Iden-
tilted with Masons.

Owen owen. President Taft's tailor
died suddenly from pneumonia yesterday
at his home. 1921 H Street Northwest
Mr.. Owen was I'll less than a week.
Mr.. Owen was a native Of Wales, com
ing to this country with his parents wher
a child. The family located in Norfolk
Va. Mr.. owen coming to this city about
twenty-five years ago and establishing q
tailor ship. He gFew to be one OF the
best-known tailors in the country, and
was first president OF the National AS.
ISOLATION of Merchant Tailors.
Mr.. Owen was Identified with the Ma
sons and was a member of several civic
and trade bodies. He is survived by a
son, Richard j. owen.
Funeral services will be held Thursday
afternoon at o'clock at Westminster
Presbyterian Church. InterTnent will be
in Oak Hill Cemetery.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-24
RESPONSIBILITY NOT FIXED.
COroner's Jury Finds Miss Sehooler'.
Death Was Accidental.

Coroner's jury which heard testi-
mony yesterday given at an inquest over
the body of Miss Ida Schooler, nine
teen years old, of 1851 Benning Road
Northeast. who died at the Washington
Asylum Hospital on Sunday from injuries
sustained nine months ago, when she
was run down by a Chesapeake Junction
car at Eighteenth Street and Benning
Road. was unable to fix responsibility
for the accident
In the verdict IT was stated that Miss
Schooler came to her death from injuries
received when she was run down and
that her injuries were sustained in an
accident, but blame for the accident was
not fixed. During the nine months that
the young woman lowered between life
and death a portion of her brain was
exposed to view through the hole in
the skull caused by the removal OF a
piece of bone to relieve pressure on the
brain
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-24
YALE ALUMNI TO DINE.
Annual Banquet Of Washington Asso-
citation January 20.

The annual banquet of the Yale Alumni
Association OF Washington is to be held
in the Raleigh Hotel the night of Janu-
airy g. according to notices sent out yes
terday by the association. President
Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale University,
will come from New Haven to attend
the banquet.
4 notice also has been sent out to the
effect that the Yale University Dramatic
Association would give a performance of
Tolstoi's comedy, The Fruits of Gull
ture." at the Columbia Theater Friday
afternoon at o'clock.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-24
Boy Scouts Lead Search.

New York. Dec 23-Twenty-four Boy
Scouts were drafted into service to-day
in search for ffteen-year-old George
Young. an academy student. whose home
is in Minneapolis, Min. who mysterious
ly disappeared from the home OF rela-
tives here three days ago. The company
searched through the sparsely settled
sections of North Eonkers, Hastings,
Uniontown, and Mount Hope, but OBJ
tained no clew. Fifty more scouts will
take up the trail tomorrow and scour
the woods within a ten-miIe radius.
The boy is a student at Riyerview
Academy at PoughkeepSie.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-24
MISS VERONICA MURPHY.

New York. Dec. 23.-Miss Mary Veronica
Murphy. formerly telephone operator on
the Wabash exchange OF the Chicago
Telephone Company, will be married to
PrincipinO di Santa Margherita in this
city shortly before New Years. Cardinal
Farley, it is expected. will perform the
marriage rites. As soon as the ceremony
is over the couple will sail for Italy,
where they will make their home perma-
nently on the estate of the prince. The
prince fell in love with Miss Murphy's
voice about a year ago, when he was
visiting in Chicago. and such was the
beginning of a romance which has its
sequel in another international marriage
between an American girl and a title.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-24
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
+, S. Dept. Of Agriculture Weather Bureau

Q. S. Dept. OF Agriculture. Weather BuTeah
Washington. Monday. December q lsl2-s y. m
The Southern storm will move nOrtheastWard and
cause rains, followed by clearing weather in the
South Atlantic States and SHOWS Tuesday. fol-
lowed by fair weather Wednesday in the Middle
Atlantic and New England States the Ohio Val
ley, and the lower lake region.
Temperature will be lower Tuesday along the
South Atlantic and East Gulf coasts and Wed
uesday in the Northwestern States. Temperature
changes elsewhere will be unimportant-
The winds along the New England coast will
be increasing east; on the Middle Atlantic coast
increasing cast shifting TO west Tuesday night;
on the South Atlantic coast moderate to brisk
variable becoming west; the East Gulf coast
moderate west to northwest: on the West Gulf coast
light to moderate northwest and west: Lake
Michigan mOderae variable. mosctly west.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-24
CONSIDER ME LOST"
Wife's Letter Offered to Court by
Charles N. Caldwell.

\ motion for a rehearing of the issues
in the divorce suit Of Charles n. Cald-
well against May B. Caldwell was filed
by the husband yesterday.
The bill was dismissed on December s.
following representations to the effect
that the couple had become reconciled
AS evidence of the contention that the
couple is still estranged, Caldwell offers
letter written TO him by his wife in
which she says. lin all your future life,
consider me lost
The letter recited at length the wife's
grievance and says there. is no chance
for reconciliation.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-24
SIX TRY SUICIDE.
Four of Sextette Not Expected to
Recover.

Erie, Pa. Dec. 23-Six people were
found unconscious in a house at los Sassa-
frass Street this afternoon. and from the
evidence found. 1t appears as II suicide
pact had been formed between four of
them to be carried out on the eve of
Christmas. The victims are:
Charles Mauer. aged thirty: Mrs.
Charles Mauer, aged twenty-seven; John
Welsh, George Phiel, Lillian Mauer aged
one. and Theodore Maurer. aged three.
Mrs. George Anderson, mother OF Mrs.
Mauer, went to the house about noon to-
day and found the bodies. all dressed.
on the floor unconscious. and two gas
stoves going at full blast in the house.
All were taken to Hanoi Hospital, and
with the exception of the two children,
it is thought that all of them will die