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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-01-09
NEXT YEARS. TAXES
MAY Be LOWER
Only Sixty Per Cent of The Needed
Revenue Likely Will Be Levied
Other Income Grows.

Oklahoma City, Jan. Sit probably
will be necessary to raise but so per
cent of the expenses of the state gov
|ernment for the coming year by direct
taxation, according to an estimate
made in the annual report of the state
auditor, transmitted Saturday to the
governor.
The estimate of necessary expendi-
ture for the coming year, together
with the 20 per cent which the law
provides shall be added for delinquent
taxes, totals $3,O45. .415 OF this amount
$723, ,440 will be raised by sources other
than taxation, thus making the pro-
portionate amount of state expense by
direct taxation 1853 per cent and the
amount from other sources 29.7 per
Icent.
1t is figured, however, that the rev.
enue from other sources should be ma
terially increased by the collection of
corporation taxes now in litigation and
by the expected increase of the gross
revenue department of the office, and
that the amount to be raised by direct
taxation thus should not exceed so per
cent of the total state expense.
The following sources of revenue,
other than direct taxation are given:
Secretary of state. 500 900
Insurance commissioners .... 100000
Oil and mine inspector ... $4,000
Board of agriculture. .... $4,000
Commissioner of labor. .. 200
Commissioners of land office. 1900
Gross revenue tax. .....,. 10000
License tax .. $4,000
inheritance tax .......... 1000
Income tax ..... 1000
Rebates on insurance. ..,. 1000
Fines and costs. .......... $4,000
Graduated land tax ........ 500
institution for feeble minded. 500
Interest on deposits. .....~. $4,000
IRefund on freight and tickets lOC
Refund on warrants -... LOG
State training school ..... 1OC
insurance ....... 1,OOC
miscellaneous ...... S,444
Total ......,,..eS 1923, Az
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-01-09

The planning of a bond issue by Mayor Starr to take
the declared by Davis and
other Indebtedness of the city will with
favor by the taxpayers of Vinta
Vnita has present bonded Indebtedness. including
school bonds of $217OOO with the present high
of taxation it should this time The
people of Vnita stranng under load and
another bond issue would be unbearable.
The city should think repudiatng any just in
debtedness but give the people who pay chance
breathe little adding their by another
bond issue
There is room for economy in administration and
that is the place begin rather than additional
bonds 1t is bad enough for the state board to raise the
valuation of Vnta taxable property fifty per cent
of already high valuation, but should not impose
additional burdens upon ourselves by voting another bond
issue at time when everybody is smarting under high
and unjust taxation.
Cut out this talk of another bond issue.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-01-09

Sunday evening the child was returned
to its native state and placed in the
home of its relatives.
SUBSCRIBER.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-01-09

VIM. Frederieks was sent to Jail yes
terday on whiskey conviction.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-06-22
PIONEER NEWS
WRITER GONE

In reminiscent mood the editor
of the La lara Chronicle has the
following to say of one of the old
boys who helped to blaze the trail
into the San Juan country:
"The body of Ed. F. Curry, a
pioneer San Juan newspaper man,
passed through on Tuesday nights
train. Mr.. Curry died at Cortez
and will be cremated at his boy
hoods home in Aurora, Ill. In
1881, he took the first printing
press into Telluride, the outfit was
purchased in Del Norte and
freighted across the mountains on
wagon. The press tipped off the
road and rolled down the noun
tain, but finally arrived, and is
still doing duty on one of the Tell
uride papers. At that time Mr..
Curry owned half of the then strug-
Cling mining district and was max
ing money rapidly. Easy come,
easy go, and Ed lost out as many
other men have done before and
since. He was smooth and too
forceful writer, his articles often
involving himself and friends in
worlds of trouble. In later years
he Joined the Elks' lodge and when,
broken in health, he faced the set.
ting sun, the final rounds of his
journey were made much easier by
kind ministrations of members Of
that order"
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-06-22

w. A. Grindley and daughter
left Tuesday night for Champaign,
Ills, where he has brother who is
very sick. They will be gone
about month.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-06-22

The marshal of La Jara is COM
planning because Russian beet
worker to whom he had extended
the hospitality of the city cooler,
had in a drunken fit cut the bed
ding into ribbons. What the beet
man could have done if sober is a
matter upon which the peace pre-
server should ponder long.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-06-22

Last week County Clerk Farrow
received for record the largest in
strument ever filed in his office.
1t is an adjustment mortgage in
which the d. & X. q. railway is
grantor and the New York Trust
Co. is grantee.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-06-22
WILL CELEBRATE
BEET SUGAR DAY

The citizens of La Jara have
voted to pass the celebration of
the Fourth of July in that town
and will devote their best efforts
toward big time on Sugar Beet
day later in the season,
The Chronicle says:
at is the intention to make
Sugar Beet Day the biggest cele-
bration of its kind in the Valley
this year, and it will probably be
held sometime in the latter part of
September, the dates to be decided
later"
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-06-22

The La lara Enterprise is boost
ing for bigger school building;
and half. holiday for the mer-
chants during the summer months
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-06-22

John McCunniff, La Jara boy,
has been given position on the
faculty of the Greeley Teachers
college for the coming year.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-06-22

Miss Helen Hamilton of Monte
Vista, is visiting her friend, Miss
Helen Dillon, in the city, La
Jara Enterprise.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-06-22

Michael Shea left for Canon City
Sunday evening where he goes to
bring home his daughter who has
lust finished her school.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-06-22

Mrs. A. Fl. Webster went to
Denver Sunday evening on a visit
with friends and relatives.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-06-22

Mrs. W. ID. Heilman and daugh-
ter, Florence, went to Boulder
Monday night on visit.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-06-22

A. B. Bartlett and wife went to
Canon City Tuesday night on a
few days visit.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28
Was Published Earlier Than Bos-
ton News Letter.
Periodical, In Manuscript Form. Called
Master William" Issued 800
Years Ago by French on
st. Croix Island, Me.

New York.-An industrious digger
| INTO the depths of the past has
brought to light the interesting fact
that Americas first newspaper was
published a full century earlier than
the date commonly ascribed. If it
was not a newspaper in the later ae-
ceptance of the term it was at least
| a periodical. prepared and published
with more or less regularity for the
eager perusal of the little community
which it served.
In short 1t was on St Croix island.
few miles below the present city of
Calais; that the Master William was
published during the winter of 1904
O5 by the members of the French ex-
petition under DeMonts and Cham
plain. who were seeking to establish
there the capital of the vast and
vague empire claimed by France in
America. They were the first Euro
peans to pass a winter on these north
ern shores of the new world since
the days of the legendary North
men centuries before; and at that
time they were the only Europeans
in America north OF the Spaniards in
Florida.
Samuel Champlain himself, later
the founder of Quebec and the father
of New France. was the chronicler
of the expedition, and In his vivid
story of that winter on ST. Croix is
land be makes express mention of the
Master William. the significance of
which appears to have been over
looked by historians generally. He
relates that the paper was prepared
from time to time by the bright spir-
its of the party" to while away the
tedium of the long and severe win
ter. 1t was passed around in writ
ten, not printed. form; but among a
few score men. all deadhead sub
scribers. that was a wholly satisfac-
tory method of publication.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28

only one. An attempt was made to
publish a newspaper in Boston IN
1890, but only one issue was put
forth. Ii was called Public Occur
rences, and the watchful authorities
promptly snuffed 1t out for uttering
reflection of very high order" How
success sfully have most newspapers OF
later years steered clear of any such
dangerl
But we are wandering far from the
enterprising young adventures of ST
Croix island and their newspaper OF
1904. Their effort was a small one
and the results were transient; but
there is a certain sentiment which
attaches TO first things. and in his
torical matters certain Importance
also. The Master William deserves
its rescue from oblivion, and should
not again be neglected when the
story Of the feeble beginning of new
world journalism is told But what an
opportunity was missed by the pub.
fishers of tfs Calais lines or the
Eastport Sentinel a they failed
to take the name of the pioneer sheet
and to put forth the claim of being
its direct successor.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28
French Socialist Bill Doomed

bill. are doing so with very little en-
| thusiasm.
An excellent Indication OF the
strong feeling against the bill has just
been given by the debate and vote OF
the Paris municipal council on a
resolution presented by Councillor
Robiglia, protesting against the crea-
ton OF cooperative shops. At the
meeting of the council. which was
exceptionally well attended. forty
members voted for the resolution and
thirteen against It. All the latter
were avowed colleetiyists, but num-
Der Of extreme "lefts" or radical
members abstained from voting al
together
In accordance with the large
majority of votes a protest. strongly
worded. has been forwarded to the
prime minister. Thus this extremely
important experiment in municipal
trading, supported by the govern.
ment. has been rejected by the great
est municipal body In France.
The feeling among the public is
correspondingly strong 1t is pointed
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28
Strain of Husbands Fight With Chassis
Too Great for Passaic IN. ~
Woman.

Passaic. N. J-Illness brought on
by worry over the troubles her hus-
band had with the members of the
North Side Christian Reformed church
and the Chassis of Hudson, to which
it belongs, FASTENED the death of Mrs.
Arie j. Vandenheuvel, according to a
statement made by her physician.
Six months ago Mr.. vandenheuvei
was dragged into the divorce suit OF
one of his churchmen as a witness
His testimony was a large factor in
causing Vice Chancellor Stevenson ~
annul the marriage. but caused a row
in his congregation. which resulted is
his being suspended by the Chassis
Mrs. Vandenheuvel. who helped her
husband in the fight. was taken i'll. but
even in her illness she kept in touch
with every movement made by her
husbands enemies
Recently the members of the church.
a majority of whom favored Mr.. Van
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28
HAD PAPER IN 1904

Christmas day, 1904. was celebrated
by the colony with special zest-it
was the first Christmas obserN ance.
by the way. in what is now New Eng
land-and after the religious exercises
OF the morning and before the feast
ing and drinking and general merry.
making became too boisterous a spe-
cl2l Christmas issue Of the Master
William was read to the company by
the editors. So early did the idea of
the extra" and the holiday mum
her' take root in American journal.
ISM 1t is a great pity that the
chronicler did not include a copy of
the Master William in his record, or
something more about it than the
bare mention of its occasional appear
ance.
II was not until 1904. a full century
later, that the Boston News Letter
was established. commonly spoken of
as the first newspaper in America. and
continuing for fifteen years to be the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28
May Not Ask Women's Ages

perVisors will send out canvassers 10
take registrations so there viii be no
stampede as there was last month.
There will be no further purging OF
the great register of dead timber
and fraudulent names. because Of a
new one after January 1. County
Clerk Lelande said he expects TO make
this new one The most complete and
accurate in the political history Of the
city and county
To accomplish that, the proposed
great register Oil contain several
innovations for Los Angeles. A new
affidavit blank. which Lelande thinks
IS decided improvement ever the
one now In use. viii be used.
There will be a receipt coupon.
which goes TO the person making the
affidavit This receipt win show that
the person named has registered. and
gives the name Of the deputy register
ing him.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28
California Legislature May Pass
Law for Their
Benefit.

Los Angeles. Collaborating to the
ideas of County Clerk Lelande women
win not be required to give their ex-
act age when registering again. The
present register terminates in Janu-
airy and every voter must register
again for the coming two years. Lee
lande is preparing new blanks and as
serts they viii not require a woman TO
do more than state her age Is twenty
one or more. He is anticipating the
passage Of such law by the legisla-
ture now in special session. as the
present Jaw regdres the exact age OF
every petsoH Nho registers.
It will be news to many women that
that they will have to go through the
registration process again within sixty
days. But the law requires all eligi-
bic to register in the eEen-numbered
Years or be disqualified at the polls
Earl next month il is expected the 81
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28

out that cooperative shops not
being obliged to make a profit and
being backed by the funds OF the
municipality will be able to retail
goods at low prices and thus badly
damage, If not ruin. the business OF
private trades people.
At the same time the probable
raising Of taxes and the various
notorious instances of mismanage-
ment by the state when It has tried
to compete In trade or commerce
are pointed to as proof OF the un-
soundness of the measure.
The bill has caused the greatest
CONSERVATION among the small shop
keepers Of the country, who see them
selves threatened with ruin. Their
unions are prepared TO defend them
selves to the utmost against the fav-
ored competitor.
In view OF the almost universal
disapproval OF the governments pro
prosed plunge into socialism It seems
probable that the bill will quietly be
dropped.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28
Trades People and Pc 'itlcians of Re-
public Fight Measure That Would
Lower Living Cost.

Paris.-The governments proposal
to reduce the present high cost OF ny-
ing by the establishment OF municipal
bakers and butchers shops through
out the country is meeting with deter
mined opposition from various quar-
tiers.
It was of course foreseen that the
trades people, whose business would
be subject to competition. would
raise an cutlery, but it has come as a
great surprise that many politicians.
who might have been expected to
back It heartily. are either maintain
ing a neutral position or support
ing the opposition.
In nearly all cases the radical so
cialists have criticised the project
severely as unavoidable and ineiiica-
cious and the very few-that is the
collectivists-who have felt bound for
the sake of consistency to favor the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28
FLAX GROWING
Is PROFITABLE
WESTERN CANADA FARMERS BE-
COMING RICH IN ITS
PRODUCTION.

So much has been written regarding
the great amount of money made out
OF growing wheat in the prairie prov
inces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta. Western Canada, that many
other products of the farms are over
looked. These provinces win always
grow large areas of wheat-both
spring and winter-and the yields VIII
continue to be large, and the general
average greater than in any other
portion of the continent Twenty, thir-
", forty. and as high as fifty bushels
per acre of wheat to the acre-yields
unusual in other parts of the wheat
growing portions of the continent
have attracted worldwide attention,
but what of oats, which yield forty,
fifty and as high as one hundred and
ten bushels per acre and carry of the
worlds prize. which, by the way, was
also done by wheat raised in Sas-
katehewan during last November at
the New York Land Show. And then.
there is the barley, with its big Yields.
and its excellent samples. Another
money-maker, and big one is flax.
The growing of fax is extensively car
ried on in Western Canada. The
writer has before him a circular is
sued by a prominent farmer at Saska-
toon. The circular deals with the
treatment of seed fax, the seeding
and harvesting and attributes Yields
of less than 20 bushels per acre, to
later seeding, imperfect and illy-pre-
pared seed. lie sowed twenty-five
pounds of seed per acre and had
yield Of twenty-nine bushels per acre.
This will probably dispose of at $3.50
per acre. Speaking of proper prepa-
ration of seed and cultivation of Soil
and opportune sowing. in the circular
spoken of there lis cited the case of a
Mr. White living fourteen miles
south of Rosetown. who had fifteen
acres OF summer fallow year ago
last summer. upon which he produced
thirty-three bushels to the acre, when
many in the district harvested for
want of crop. Now, there can be no
proper reason advanced why such
crop should not have been produced
on all the lands of the same quality
in the adjacent district, provided they
had been worked and cared for in the
same manner. This year (1911l the
same man had one hundred acres OF
summer fallow. had something over
$500 bushels of wheat. He also had
1900 bushels of oats and 800 bushels
Of flax"
There are the cattle, the horses, the
roots and the vegetable products of
Western Canada farms, all of which
individually and collectively deserve
special mention, and they are treated
of in the literature sent out on appli-
cation by the Government agents.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28
Domestic Difficulties,

Observation-Disclosures the matter, dear?
Why do you look so worried?
Wife-Oh, I've just got everything
all ready for Mrs. Neatleigh's visit.
I've done up all the curtains and
pillow shams and bureau covers and
centerpieces, and they're all spick and
span.
Husband-Well, if everything is in
such apple pie order why look so dis
consulate about It?
Wife bursting into tears)-Oh. |
Just know, as soon as she sees them,
she'll know l cleaned everything all up
because she was coming! Judge.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28
Saved a Thousand Dimes

Denver. Colo Delayed with letters
and postal cards and gifts coming in
goodly numbers. Miss Ivy Cole. a
waitress In local cafe, who saved up
1000 dimes received in tips within
the year to buy a fur coat. is amazed
at the attention her frugality has at.
tracted
She had received letters and postal
cards from many parts OF the country
and proposals Of marriage from east
west. north and south.
Miss Cole began saving all Of the
dime tips she received a year ago
last Thanksgiving day. She has saved
exactly 800. or 1000 dimes.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28

Vancouver, B. C.-The climax Of
promisc1ous thievery going on hers
for the past month was reatded re-
Gently when misereant broke into
the room occupied by j. Barter Of
Dunsmoir street and stole bis cork
leg The leg wss attached 10 Barton
trousers ard the thief made oil wit.
the trousers. leg. watch and small
sum Of money Barton Is In bed.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28
Worry Kills Pastors Wife

denheuvel, withdrew from the Chassis.
declaring themselves free and indie.
pend and restored Mr.. vandenheuyel
to the pastorate. Mrs Vandenheuvel.
seriously i'll in bed. was oyerjoyed
with the victory, and the excitement
1t brought on, together with the
strain caused by the long fight, caused
her death.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28
The Man and the place.

Andrew Carnegie was giving advice
on a recent Sunday to one of the
younger members of the Rockefeller
Bible class.
Il am an advocate of early mar
riages," he said. The right man, in
the right place. at the right time, is
very good saying. and, to my mind,
the right man in the right place at the
right time is unquestionably a husband
reading to his wife on winters night
beside the radiator.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28
DEFY DEATH IN GOLD RUSH
Race TO New Fields, 1870 Miles From
Dawson, Being Made With Tenn
perature at 40 Below Zero.

Dawson. Y. Two hundred men
with dog teams and prospecting out
fits are making a six days race 10
the new gold field at the head OF
Sixty Mile river. 1870 miles from Daw.
son.
The temperature was about zero
when the rush began, but has since
dropped to 40 degrees below.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28

-N'''-'-@s't'f HtNtI UlSCOuTuEeU.
Finally | seemed not to cough so much
and the pains in my chest got better
and l could rest at night.
Il am well now and cured of a chronic
cough and sore throat / cannot tell
you how grateful | am, and L cannot
thank Peruna enough 1t has cured
where doctors have failed and talk
Peruna wherever | go, recommend it to
everybody. People who think they
have. consumption better give it a
trial.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28
HAD THROAT
TROUBLE SINCE
CHILDHOOD
All treatments Failed. Relieved
by Peruna.

Mrs. VIM Hob
manu-. 1854 Lincoln
Ave, Chicago, H.,
writes:
Il suffered with
catarrh of the bron-
chial tubes and had
a terrible cough eve.
since : child.
l would sit up in
bed with pillows
propped up behind
me, but still the
cough would not let
me sleep. / thought
and everybody else
that / had consump-
tion.
so reading the
papers about Pc
runa / decided to
try, without the
least bit of hope that
it would do me any
good. But after TAX
ing three bottles I
noticed a change.
My appetite got
better, SO | kept on,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28

Coles Carholisalve quickly relieves and
cures burning. itching and torturing skin
diseases. II instantly stops the pain OF
burns Cures without scars Csc and SOC
by druggists. For free sample write TO
j. w. Cole g. Co. Black River Falls Wis.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28

Omaha Mrs. Soutse Zscbau. who
began dieting six months ago In an
effort TO recover her health, starved to
death the other day.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28

All women are interested in good bread
Get our book of awards for using Marvel
Flour. See large display in this paper.
Listman Mil Co, La Crosse, Wis.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28
Touch Preventer.

Howell-Why do you call your dog
Strike Breaker?'
POWELL have done it ever since
he grabbed fellcw who was about
to strike me for money.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28

ONLY ONE "BKsOAIO CUININF."
Tint s LAXATIVE BROMO QUISINE Look for
he signature Of II. w. GROVE. Used the World
over u Cure Cold in One lay. Csc,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28
Lose Either Way.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS my boy. wealth
does not bring happiness.
Rhyme-Maybe not. but fighting the
wolf is no round of pleasure.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-02-28

Wealth may not bring a man happi.
ness, but 1t surrounds him with a
multitude OF would-be friends.