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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26
WAYsIDE SCHOOL.

Born January 18th, son, to Rev,
f. ]. Johnson and wife of Frontenac,
Kansas. Rev. Johnson was formerly of
this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mack Adair gave. a
party Saturday night several were
present and all report jolly good
time
Albert Hooker called ON David Adair
Sunday
Literary was well attended Friday
evening, every one report that splen-
did program was furnished.
John Redman spent Saturday night
and Sunday with Harry and Ralph
Martin.
The debate, Resolved, that the de-
yotion to fashion has wrought more
harm to mankind than the tobacco
habit was ably contested Friday
night; and some thought with impro-
pretty on the part of some of the
speakers, otherwise, however, it pass
ed off smoothly and the decision was
rendered in favor of the affirmative by
a small margin.
Several neighbors and friends cslled
on L. Martin Sunday and spent the aft
ernoon playing finch. Those present
were. Mr.. and Mrs. McCaleb, Misses
Blaneh and Winnie Gentry, Edith
Carr and Maggie Hunt; Messrs. Bruce
and Teddie Carrico, Albert McCoreen-
dale, Joe Adair and John Redman.
Every one should attend the Way
side Literary next Friday evening, jan
uary &c. The program is spirited
one prepared under the good manage
ment of Messrs. w. r. Hooker and Jim
Woodall. Bring your friends and fam
lily to spend the evening in side
splitting" laughter. The program con-
sists of recitations by Joe Adair, Paul
Furgason, Blanch Gentry, Ethel Cher
rington, Edith Hunt and Ralph Martin.
The debate, Resolved that the Indian
has suffered greater wrongs at the
hands of the American government
than the negro" will be ably discussed
by ten clever speakers. The closing
feature of the entertainment is a song
entitled Meet Me Tonight in Dream
land" sung by the Wayside Glee Club,
after which readings from the rip
Saw will be given.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26
Uncle Jacks Dream.

II thought all of the county officers
was running for Office again. Well
we were all at the Rogers school house
thought, the first on roll was Sam
Parks.
He said he still stands for law in
forcement just as | did before and |
think you all ought to elect me again
and l will try and do better than |
did before. l thought the next on roll
was f. n. Williamson, well boys ! am
out again and want to be elected
know boys | have tride to make you
people a good officer and have en-
plOyed a hole lot of clerks TO do the
work and | have stayed rite in there
and watched them do the work so
know it was don and stand well with
the best people in town and tend all
the card parties that are in town and
can take care of the Office better
than anybody else.
Next on call was our old sheriff H.
e. Ridenhour
Well my friends | am out again and
want your support | told you that l
would make you a good, officer and l
did and want your support because
can make you better officer than
did any one of my other terms be-
cause / know how better than | did
before. | done the very best l could
appointed all the men l could get to
work for me and | stayed rite in the
office all the time and l bet you can't
get any one else to do that like l did
and | thought the boys all agreed to
vote for him because they all know
that Sam had told us the truth
Just then somebody's team got
loose and we all ran out ana / woke
up UNCLE JACK.
Know me Chieftain think this is
just as good as some of Capt. Whites
so do as you like about this dream
Yours very truly.
]. G. BARKER.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26
EsTELLA.

There was prayer meeting at the
Timson chapel Wednesday night
Prayer meeting will be held at that
place every Wednesday night
Mrs. G. F. Hold visited at the Fallen
school Thursday evening.
Owing to bad weather the attend
ance has been small at school,
There was quiet dance at the
home of Charley Parks Friday night
There wasn't very large crowd but
all reported good time.
Frank Hold has been hauling hay to
White Oak this week.
Mrs. Mollie Downing has been suffer.
ing severely with sore throat.
John Humphreys children are re.
ported very sick with, pneumonia, but
are better at this writing.
The ladies are organizing Ladies
Aid Society at the Timson chapel
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26
The Revival.

From Wednesdays Daily.
Last night proved to be the greatest
service since the revival began. DR..
Mcintosh made plain scriptural talk,
explaining the plan of salvation. The
sermon seemed to get hold of the
crowd better than any yet delivered.
There were about fifteen forward for
prayer. Three men over forty years of
age made confessions and five gave
their names for church membership,
making twenty-five in ALL The house
was crowded and if you want front
seat you must come early. Mr..
Phillips says the singing was the best
ever. He is delighted with the way
singers from the other churches are
helping with the music.
Subject tonight: Alexander, the
Coppersmith.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

Clifford Pinchot is a high tariff re-
publican and his comment on the
Payne-Aldrich bill is of more than or
binary significance when he says, The
cotton cloth schedule was increased in
the face of the uncontradicted testi-
mony of the manufacturers themselves
that it ought to remain unchanged. The
steel trust interest by trick secured
an indefensible increase in the tariff
on structural steel The sugar trust
stole from the government like petty
thief, yet congress by means of dis
honest schedule continues to protect
it in bleeding the public
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26
Had Dope on His Person.
From Wednesdays Daily.

Ira Lane, negro dope fiend, "
ARRESTED yes erday for being intoxicl
ed with cocaine or some other DIR
and on reaching the county Jail v
searched as is the rule at the :sf5rF
ton to ascertain what he might ha,
concealed on his person. The inye1
cation revealed a quantity of cocal
tied up in the pr 'soner's shirt tail, a
it nearly broke his heart when it \
taken.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

4 late issue of the Tonkawa News
contains a communication signed
"Citizen." 1t is probably the purpose
of Citizen to discredit the governor OF
Oklahoma alleging that extravaganza
exists in his office. 1t is necessary to
use the word probably because one
who reads the article would naturally
think that Citizen was simply trying
to show haw much ignorance can be
crowded into a half column Judging
from the article, if ignorance is bliss,
Citizen is already enjoying his harp
and halo. Others may be ignorant,
but they are merely cheap amateurs
when compared to the yerdant Ton
kawan. For monumental greenness he
is It.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

Reports from county superintend-
ents show that there are 556,S52 per-
sons of school age in the state includ-
ed in the enumeration, and the report
is from the state treasurer and the
school land department indicates that
the state apportionment will be great
er per capita this year than ever be-
fore. Oklahoma lias advanced Won
derfully In education since statehood.
The present system is an emphatic inn
provement over the system prevailing
before statehood, when in more than
one-half the state free schools facili-
ties were denied to all except certain
Indians and negroes.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

Eugene Gill says that democratic
government in Oklahoma is a failure
because Tennessee with a larger popu-
lation spends less money for state gov
ernment. Is not Tennessee democratic
also? Why not discredit democracy
in oklahoma if possible. by comparing
this state with a republican state? Did
Gill choose Tennessee for comparative
purposes because he knew that there
is not a republican state in the Union
whose per capita cost of state govern
ment is not greater than that Of Okla
homa?
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26
TOTAL DEPRAVITY


The winter of 1879 was. a illinois
legislature visitor the Illinois pententary
went committee TO get general knowledge the instu
be better prepared requests appro
praton On Sunday morning the the
and walking along the corridor daughter
in arms AS passed CELL noticed that
still in there and stopped spoke him. sitting
back his and when him forward
speak to he declined in growing told him
what there for and asked him how the
other conditions then view my
ity" The mans everyone
cludng himself Ii there redeemng line could
it, but determined to search for it him
the barred door of his celtold him wished he
the chape-sad in short that sorry him
befiend him Not line single mis-
changed Presently little babe with
between the bars. caught him chubby
pinched his cheek
Have you the break suddenly through the
clouds? If you have
in that face? The hard lines melted; lips
rembed into pathetic SMILE the eyes shone into
the babys and rolling
He staggered back his and covering his with
hands, sobbed like child.
The babys fingers had pointed the spark divinity
my philosophy could I held my child
walked into the chapel less wise
ceit with faith innocent childhood
there is of God in all of usBy
Senator William E..
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

It is often argued that the protective
tariff benefits labor by increasing
wages. Even if such argument should
be true, 1t should be borne in mind
that 1t is savings not earnings that
makes laborers prosperous. Where is
the saving grace in system that adds
one dollar to wages and three dollars
to expenses?
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

With tens of thousands of strikers
storming factory gates in Massachu-
sets, with the police clubbing strike
sympathizers, with the mil'ti threat
ening the mob with bayonets and Cat
ling guns, and with extra troops rush
ed to the scene of trouble, what be-
comes of the stock charge of republi-
can partisans that strikes and lock-
outs are the products of democratic
administration?
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

If the democrats can carry a Kansas
congressional district the first month
of the year, what viii they not be able
to do before the years close?
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

In 1908 Maine expended for purposes
of state government $S.495,236. This
was about S1.4O0,000 greater than the
cost of state government in Oklahoma,
Maine is only 43 per cent as large as
Oklahoma and has only 63 per cent the
population of Oklahoma. Maine is
also more than 200 years older than
Oklahoma. Yet the expense of state
government in Maine is 20 per cent
greater than it is in Oklahoma. But
Maine is republican.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

To borrow a crude but apt illustra-
tion that has often been used before,
it may be said that the protective
tariff is an immense COW fed in the
west and south and milked in the east.
The people of the west and south furn-
ish nearly all the feed while the man
ufacturers of New England get all the
milk and butter.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

President Tafts special message
recommending economy is tardy rec
ognition of what the nation has seen
for years. 1t is now almost three years
since Taft took the oath of office. He
has had abundant opportunity of dis
covering evidences of that shameless
profiigacy which has characterized gov
ernmental expenditure for the last half
century. He mas known of the Aldrich
statement that he could conduct the
national government at an annual saw
ing of $SO0U0J,00O Notwithstanding
all these facts the president for three
long years of official waste and official
recreancy ignores the most evident
conditions and maintains the silence
of the damned But the president S
candidacy for denomination may have
had something to do with the resurrec-
ton of the presidential conscience
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

Attorney Honeyman declares that it
is politics that is prosecuting the
trusts. Why not? Was it not politics
of the republican brand that created
the trusts?
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

The Muskogee Phoenix is having a
variety of wall-eyed fits because of the
enforcement of the child labor law. AS
the party with which the Phoenix
affiliates opposed the adoption of the
law, has never thought well of it, and
does not think well of it now, it is in
no sense strange that the Phoenix
should resent its enforcement.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

The United States senate is still
trying to find out what all the rest of
the country already knows about Lor-
inner
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

Republican Illinois has state tax
levy of 35 mills. Democratic Okla
homa has a state tax levy of 2 mills.
Republican Iowa has state tax levy
of 3.3.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

The office of Secretary of State Ben
F. Harrison has collected fees aggre-
eating $4,000 between Jan. /, and Jan.
Is. This department collected approx
imately 100000 during 1911.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

During the year 1903 Kentucky with
a republican state administration spent
for purposes of state government 81
07719S.02. During the same year Ok.
lahoma with a democratic administra.
ton spent for purposes of state gov
ernment $2,S49.11155. The population
of Oklahoma is approximately 90 per
cent of that of Kentucky. If, in 1903.
Oklahoma had spent money as liber-
ally as Kentucky, the cost of state gov
ernment in this state would have been
S4,S97, ,20726. But on the other hand
If Kentucky had spent money as eco
nomicaHy as Oklahoma, the cost of
state government in the Blue Grass
state would have been only $S,74S,-
6774S. In other words, Oklahoma say
ed 81, ,S97 ,207 .26, or more than one dol
lar per capita, in 1909 by having a
democratic administration, while Ken
tucky gave bonus of $2,S2S,520.54 for
the luxury of a republican admins
tration.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

the price cahrged by the railroad com.
pany.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

According to Bradstreet's figures the
cost of living in the United States has
increased 60 per cent since the pas
sage of the Dingley high tariff. In
Germany it has increased only 80 per
cent, in England less tnan 30 per cent
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

Marks Store DissoINes Partnership.
Sam Marks has bought out the in
terest of Joseph Steinholtz in the
Marks store. The store will continue
under the management of Sam Marks.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26
DEMOCRATIC PRESS BULLETIN


State Librarian S. o. DAVIS reports
that his Office collected $237 during
tie month of December
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

State Treasurer Robert Dunlop re-
ports that on December 81. there was
in the treasury or deposited in the
banks the sum of 81 .667 .9S024 War
rants that have been drawn, in the
treasurer's Office, amount to about
100000 and S67556.S1 have been
paid. OF the general revenue fund for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912,
there is yet on hand at the first of the
year, S216.9S2.3S. There has been
about 100000, in taxes collected
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

An order was issued by the corpora
tion commission Thursday directing
the Midland Valley Railroad company
to reduce the price of dipping cattle at
its five dipping watts in Usage county.
The price heretofore charged has been
25 cents for the first dip and 10 for
the second dip. The order of the COM
mission is that the price hereafter
snail be 15 cents for the first dip and
3 cents for the second. As there are
more than $4,000 head of cattle dipped
in the Usage country each year. the
Importance of this order will be seen
10 be considerable. Usage county has
been dipping cattle for less than half
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

Eugene Gill declares in a letter con-
corning the cost of state government
in Oklahoma, The expense of the
mine inspectors office in this state ex-
ceeds the cost of maintaining that of
fee in the states of Tennessee, Texas,
Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota,
combined" What is the answer?
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

Republicans are necessarily critieis-
ing the state administration because of
the number of employees on the state
payroll. They never mention except
with eommendation the number of em-
ployees on the federal payroll. In Ok
lahoma there is one state employee for
every 500 citizens. In the United
States there is one federal employee
for every 235 citizens. On the basis
of population the number of federal
employees exceeded the number of
state employees 112 per cent.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

The Office of state mine inspector
of Oklahoma spent for all purposes in
1911 the sum of S22.9S5.5S. The fees
collected by this office during 1911
amounted to s21 ,69797. Thus it really
cost Oklahoma only $1.2S761 to main
tain this office during the year 1911.
Yet this is one of the departments
which Gfrs figures show to be extrava-
CANT OF course figures will not lie,
but sometimes liars will figure.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-01-26

The governor spends twenty-four
hundred dollars for postage. telephone,
and telegraph. This should cover all
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-12
AGED COUPLE
ENDED LIVES
Suicide Pact Carried Out In Llttt.
Cabin Near Western
Village.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
WALLACE, Idaho, Sept. 12.-As a
result Of murder and suicide pact,
Charles Keil, "a, at one time q veal
thy merchant of Minneapolis, and his
aged wife, Frederick, are dead today
in their isolated cabin near Murray.
Keil put two bullets through his
wife's brain and then ended his own
life. The couple concluded they had
been abandoned by the woman's son,
Charles Hyle, a broom manufacturer
of Portland, Oregon, and his half
brother A. F. Keil, now in Oklahoma
pathetic letter addressed to Hyle
was found beside the bodies In 1t
Mrs. Keil begged that she be permit
ted to come to her sons home in
Portland to die, and intimating that
she had been forced into the wilds OF
Idaho three weeks ago to join her
husband, who had been living as a
hermit for years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-12
NEW NEWSPAPER LAW
WILL BE ENFORCED
All Reading Matter Which is Paid
For Must be Marked
advertisement

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service1
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12Work is
being rushed at the government
printing office today on the blank
forms which are to be sent to newspa-
rers and other periodicals through the
country within the next week for the
filing OF sworn circulation statements
with local postmasters and the post
postoffice department. The statements
will also include the names of the
publishers and owners and stockhold-
ers. 1t must be filed twice annually.
A feature of the new law is that all
reading matter" editorial or other
wise, for which compensation is re-
ceived, must be marked advertise
ment" spelled out in full. A heavy
fine is provided for noncompliance.
/, It was said at the postoffice depart
1nent today that the new law will be
vigorously enforced
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-12
NAME OF ALDRICH
WAS TH1 h0ODOO
Bankers Do Not Object to His
Bill, But Don't Like
Him.

United Press Leased WIRE .3tice.1
DETROIT, Mich, Sept s.The
backbone OF the oppositiop H'the en-
dorsement of the, Aldrie kcurrency
plan by the American Eers' Asso-
citation was the naY 4of Aldrich,
said Colonel F. q. Far brorth, Of New
York. secretary of II association,
here today. when d why the Aid
rich currency sche.se endorsed at
last years convention failed of re-en-
dorsement here.
Il don't believe there was a man in
the convention who was really oppos-
ed to the national monetary commits
sion's currency scheme" continued
Colonel Famsworth, but they cid not
want to endorse any specific plan that
might cause the association embar
rassment and unpopularity. The name
Aldrich just now seems to have the
same effect on the people that a bril-
liant red rag would have on a bull"
Colonel Farnsworth admitted thai
some opposition to the plan may
also have developed from the fac
/ that the platforms Of the three politi
cal parties failed to endorse it, two
of them directly opposing it, while
the third ignored it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-12
ON COLONEL IS TRAIL
Will Follow up Roosevelt and Tell
the People What He
Thinks.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-Golonel w.
|J Bryan will take the trail Of Colonel
Roosevelt next Saturday, starting
from Denver. He telegraphed the
democratic national committee his In
tentions today, saying that he would
leave Denver and speak wherever
Roosevelt has spoken in Colorado,
Utah, Montana, NevadA, California,
Washington and Oregon, returning to
Lincoln on October 2, for a couple OF
days of rest. After that he will go
back on the Roosevelt trail and stay
there until election.
The first trip is made at Bryan's
own initiative. He telegraphed the
committee that he will pay all of his
own expenses throughout and that he
has given up all other engagements to
throw his entire force into the cam
paign After October 2, his route will
be mapped out by the speakers bu-
reau at headquarters, but until that
time he is arranging his own itinerary
and it Is understood that he intends
to reply personally to every argument
Roosevelt has raised in the west.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-12
THEY TALKED
ABOUT THE WEATHER
Governor Wilson and Governor Dix
Had Friendly Chat In
Hotel.

limited press Leased Wire Service. ]
SYRACUSE. N. Y. Sept. r. The
governor of New York, John A. Dix,
and the governor of New Jersey,
Woodrow Wilson, met in the parlors
of the Orondago hotel here today, but
they met as governors of neighboring
states and not as democratic presi-
Dental candidate and denomination
candidate respectively
Surrounded by score of rapidly
talking men, the two governors chat
ted about the weather, the state fair,
the crowds and lots of other pleasant
things having no relation to politics.