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vinita, Oklahoma; Monday, October 3. 1910
VOL XII. NO. 141.
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DEM0GRAT1G DAY
TUESDAY HI HUB
pected to Be Attended By State
And County Leaders.
Oklahoma City, Okla., Oct. 1. Lee
Cruee, democratic nominee for gov
ernor, United States Senator Gore of
' Lawton and Beveral other prominent
democrats of Oklahoma will deliver
addresses at the state fair in Oklaho
ma City, Tuesday October 4, Demo
cratic Day. On behalf of the Okla
homa county democratic central com
mittee, E. J. Giddings, state commit
teeman, has extended a statewide in
vitatlou to democrats to be present.
John R. Williams, manager of the
state campaign committee, also has
urged the attendance of democrats
from every county.
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thusiasm among democrats in any
community, it will 4e . removed after
a visit to the fair on Democratic Day,
for the livest state, district and coun
ty leaders will be present. The
speeches and the conferences will
give democrats an idea of the general
plan of the campaign and be replete
with suggestions for individual work.
"On Republican Day, last Thurs
day," says Committeeman Giddings,
"the rank and file of the party in the
state were represented by Jim Harris
and his band of Guthrie followers. The
standpatters generally were not suf
ficiently interested to come and the
insurgents were too mad to come..
When Dr. Threadgill tried to rally the
McNeal club for the 'fair park pro
fession, he mustered Jim Harris,
, Amos Ewing and a dozer, minors who
wore McNeal badges. We desire that
Democratic Day be made a hugh suc
cess and "an invitation is extended to
every democrat in the state. There
are interesting exhibits to see, inter
esting races, plenty of hotel accomod
ations, and a good time in store for
the visitors." ,
PRAIRIE CHICKEN SIN
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in?
Guthrie, Okla., Oct. 3. Hunters of
prairie chickens in Oklahoma this sea
son report they are diminishing rapid
ly in numbers. Like the buffalo, the
prairie chickens in the southwestern
prairies do not seem able to with
stand the advance of civilization. This
is due not merely to their being ruth
lessly slaughtered, but to their in
stinct ,o seek unsettled regions adapt
ed Ho their habits. ,
Four or five years ago chickens were
abundant in western Oklahoma coun
ties bordering on the Panhandle of
Texas, beginning in Beckham county
and running north to the Kansas line.
The chicken did not range east of this
western tier of counties, save in Wood
ward and Woods counties. The few
remaining chickens are found now in
Harper, western Woodward, Ellis and
northern Roger Mills, with scattering
bunches in what once was "No Man's
Land," now composed of the counties
of Beaver, Tex., and Cimarron. Across
the line, in the Texas Panhandle, is a
good chicken range.
Chickens were so numerous in Ellis
county four years ago that lat in the
fall it was not uncommon to see 200
and 300 prairie chickens fly over the
town of Grand. Out iifthe thinly set
tled country prairie 6hickens were a
pest. The tew farmers were delighted
when hunters appeared and encour
aged the shooting of the hardy birds
that were devasting their meagre
crops. Often 400 and 500 chickens
would rise from a single email field.
Notwithstanding its stringent game
laws, enacted since statehood, Okla
homa has been unable 'to protect its
prairie chickens. The tragedy has been
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Guthrie, Okla., Oct. 1. There will
be no prosecutions by the state cor
poration commission against the 8,000
corporations operating in this state,
until it is certain the concerns are
deliberately trying to evade the pay
ment of the capital stock license tax,
which amounts to 50c per fl.OOO an
nually for domestic concerns and $1
per l.ouO for loreign.
The sixty days' grace allowed by the
corporation commission in which to
pay the tax expired' today and less
than one-third of the corporations had
paid. It is generally believed another
extension will be grauted. If the tax
is not paid the penalty Is forfeiture
of charter.
MARTIAL LAW IF
mmt mi
Every Able Bodied Man In Neighbor
hood Sworn In as Deputy to
. Help Protect Village.
By Associated Press.
Winter, Wis., Oct. 3. This town is
under martial law, following the fight
Saturday between Sneriff Madden,
with two deputies, and the two sons
and daughter of John Dietz.
All roads leading into town are
guarded by men armed -with rifles,
fearing an attack from Dietz, for the
shooting of his three children.
Saturday the sheriff started for
Dietz's cabin, at Cameron Dam, to
arrest him for shooting a man Sep
tember 7th. On the way he passed
the Dietz children driving into town. !
When he asked them to stop they
fired on him. The sheriff's men re
turned the fire and all three children
were wounded. The girl and the older
brother were arrested. The other es
caped. Dietz has treatened to come man and bis policies,
in and shoot up the town. Every able j "Colonel Roosevelt is not a new
bodied man in the neighborhood has character. Eleven years of promln
been sworn in as a deputy to protect J ence( offlciai power without policy
the village. Dromotlne leeitimate business or nro-
that the birds were most numerous in
the remote regions, where game war-
dens rarely went, and where they tows and others, and every one of
would have difficulty in overtaking whom had pursued their reform ideas
law breakers. The result has been against Colonel Roosevelt's vicious op
that in addition to the native gunners position, yea, even official oppression,
others have poured over the border without assuming to settle the ques
from other states and helped hasten 'tion between the standpat and the in-
the destruction of the prairie chicken,
The chickens are trying hafd to might, though differing from, still ad
stay in their old haunts in the new mire a candidate advocate of either
county of Harper. Two hunters scour- principle honestly applied, but can' we
ed the Harper county prairies for two admire or approve, one who, to win
days last week, and got only forty popular applause and gratify a limit
chickens. This, in all conscience, was less ambition, would stoop to mislead
enough, but a poor showing compar- 'or deceive the people?
ed with other years, when that many j "I believe my opinion of Colonel
birds could have been killed easily in Roosevelt has been free from predu
half a day. 1 dice, and after weighing with care
These two hunters had the-good for- the evidence before us, indeed feel
tune to see a species of game that is ing that the policies of government
disappearing more , rapidly than the that we in a moderate way have con
prairie chicken. Coming suddenly ' tended for and put in operation while
over a sandhill, they saw four antelope 'others have been content with unful
and a fawn in the distance. They saw j filled pledges, has even led me to
four antelope on the same range a hope that Colonel Roosevelt's declar
year ago. The herd apparently had I -
been able to add one to its number,
despite the constant danger of ene
mies that lurked at every crossing and
gap.- - .'
The hunters found in the small, nar
row creeks of Harper and Woodward
counties the best bass fishing they had
ever seen in Oklahoma, the streams
in this prairie country are mostly)
pools, many of them scarcely ten feet,"1 reaencK toaay received looser
wide, yet twelve and fifteen feet deep.T- Washington and conversed at
No man knows when or how bass first j length with him on the subject of the
reached these upland watars. TheyIneEro race. Later, as the guest of
have spawned and hatched unmolest- j leading Danes, Washington motored
ed for ages and grown to their maxi-t0 Roskille, the old- time capital,
mum size, feeding on the abundance i where he visited the school and had
of grasshoppers and other iifeect life. I luncheon. Tonight he will dine at
' - ; jthe palace, meeting members of the
" 'I7TZIfL. ' royal family. Including the queen
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SKELL BECL
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Oklahoma Governor Tells Why He Doesn't
-Care to Welcome Roosevelt at Hot Springs
Says Teddy Only Seeks Gratification of
His 0wn Personal Ambition-Believes
His Opinion of the Colonel is Free
from Prejudice - Although He
Doubts f He Hopes for Sincerity
-No Mention of Town
Lot Cases.
Oklahoma City, Okla., Oct. 3.-In alations in his tour of the west were
letter addressed to George R. Belding,
secretary of the Arkansas State Fair
association, Hot Springs, Governor C.
N. Haskell, invited to be on the, re
ception committee to receive Colonel
Roosevelt there on October 10, has
declined, and tells the reason why.
An American citizen is not to be
criticised, the governor says, if filled
with laudable - ambition to lead the
public thought or to aspire to the ad
ministration of public affairs, provid
ed in seeking public approval, ho says,
he shall meet the people sincerely, ad
vocating those principles of govern
ment for which he really stands. The
letter continues:
"Colonel Roosevelt does not cOine
to the people today, whether at Hot
Springs or, Osawatomie, for any pur-
pose other than to attract them to his
personal standard that their support
may gratify his boundless ambition.
It is then our duty to lend no aid or
encouragement, slight though it may
be, unless we can fully indorse the
tecting the toiling, masses, had gener-
ated in his own party a multitude of
LaFollettes, Dolivers, Cummins, Bria-
surgent elements of Republicanism we
BOOKER T., ENTERTAINED
BY KING OF DENS
By Associated Press.
Copenhagen, Denmark, 'Oct. 3.
late King Edward of England.
Hobson Returns to Court.
Ed Hobson arrived in the city last
night from Atlantic City, N. J., to ap-
pear in t.hef district court here. Hob
j son was charged with complicity in
the forgery of a check Ttpon Dan
I Myers, for which a young man named
Kelly was convicted at the lasfeyerm
.of the district court and who is "?o
serving his time in the penitc ntiary at
jjMcAlesUr. Both Hobson and Kelly
j j were chauffeurs and Hobso". says that
I is the only acquaintance he ever had
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sincere, although wholly different
from his former official conduct."
After further giving his opinion of
the it-president as a public man the
governor concludes:
"With these views I can not in jus
tice to the good people of Arkansas
nor to myself, even in a small way, put
myself in a position of approving
either Colonel Roosevelt or his poli
cies, as I belfeve them to be. There
is always a possibility of mistaken
Judgment in every human being, and
If 'later developments prove that I do
now misjudge Colonel Roosevelt I
shall certainly concede my error, but
until I have reached other conclusions
I would not stand upon a platform
with Colonel Roosevelt in the pres
ence of the good people of Arkansas
if I am required in so doing to as
sume an attitude of approval of either
Colonel Roosevelt's official miscon
duct of the past or his attempt to de
ceKja the people in the present."
The letter is free from reference to
the recently disposed of Muskogee
town lot cases.
DISTRICT COURT
OPEHS IN VINITA
First iDay of October Term of Districts
Court Indicates Term Will Be
Record Breaker.
The October term of the district
court, with Judge Tom Brown, of
Claremore presiding, convened in this
city this morning for a four weeks
session. There are many important
cases on the docket for this term and
from the manner in which court went
to work this morning this term prom
ises to be a record breaker.
The forenoon session was taken up
with rearranging and setting of the
cases on both the civil and criminal
docket. This afternoon the court will
hear motions and demurrers. Many
cases were settled by agreement or
continued In the arrangement of the
docket this morning and it is thought
that the court will be ready to begin
the trial of cases requiring a Jury,
when the court convenes for the morn
ing session tomorrow.
The grand jury will meet tomorrow
morning and it is rumored that some
sensations may follow the work of
this body. Captain McKennon, of Me
Alester, has been appointed by Gov
ernor Haskell to make an investiga
tion Into the affairs of this county,
and the evidence gathered by this
special attorney will be submitted for
the consideration of this grand jury.
The October term of the county
court also began this morning, but
owing to the session of the district
court and the fact that Judge Frear
did not care to put the county to the
added expense of renting another court
room, all jury trials in this court were
postponed until next month.
Town Entirely Destroyed.
Enid, Okla., Oct. 3. The town of
Jet, thirty miles west of here on the
Sana Fe, is reported as entirely de
stroyed by fire Sunday afternoon." A
call for help was sent here, but there
being no extra engine here no relief
could be sent. It is Impossible to otr
tain any information this evening as
to the loss but it will undoubtedly
reach $50,000.
Mil FOUND SERIOUSLY ILL
DIES AT- COUNTY JUL
John Coyne, who was found III, near
the Green hotel late yesterday and
taken to the county jail, died last
uifeut auei ttu uiuesb ui neveiui noma.
The causes of the death was appar
ently a kind of cholera morbus, result
ing, according to the statement of
Coyne, before his death, from eating
a lot of green apples. Coyue had no
money and said he had become so
hungry that he had eaten a number of
apples from an orchard near town
and that they had made him sick. He
has no relatives in this country ex
cept an uncle in Idaho. The remains
probably will be buried in the Potter's
field.
BODIES OF VICtlBS
CAlOTBEFOUl
Seventeen Men Now Under Arrest on
Suspicion of Participating In
Placing of Bomb.
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By Associated Press.
Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 3. It is
doubtful if the bodies of the victims
of the explosion Saturday in the Times
building will be recovered. It is be
lieved they were consumed by the
flames.
The police believe that the five
men seen about the premises, were
directly concerned In the placing of
the bomb that wrecked the building
and in constructing the time bomb,
found under (the Zeehandelaar home
and the Infernal machine, found at the
residence of General Otis, y.'
To assist in running down the
dynamiters, the city council today au
thorized the appointment of forty ad
ditional policemen, ten sergeants and
a lieutenant. The reward probably
will be ten thousand dollars for each
of the dynamiters.
Seventeen men are now in the city
jail, suspected of having a part in the
crime.
The best clew so far came from the
giant power company in San Francisco
saying-that three men recently pur
chased there five hundred pounds of
explosive, similar to that found in the
infernal machine at the Zeehandelaar
home.
GQDO ROADS MEETING TO
OPEN AT FAIR TUESDAY
Oklahoma City, Okla., Oct. 3. Gov
ernor C. N. Haskell will deliver the
address of welcome at the opening
of a three days' meeting of the Na
tional Good Roa'ds association, begin
nings tomorrow morning, at the fair
grounds auditorium. Following the
governor Mayor Henry M. Scales will
welcome the delegates 6n behalf of the
city.
At Tuesdays afternoon session G.
M. Cooley, state engineer of Minne
sota, will speak on "The Science of
Good Road Construction," and wili be
followed by John Fields, who wilUgive.
the farmer's view cf gcod roads. Lo
gan Walter Page, director of the office
of public roads in' Washington, will
conclude with an address defining the
government's position on the quest1
tion. 1
B. F. Yoakum, president of the board
of directors of the Frisco railroad, will
open the meeting Wednesday morn
ing and following him Mayor A. F.
McGarr of Muskogee will deliver an
address. J. F. Connors, president of
the state board of agriculture,, and
Dick Morgan, republican congress
man, will conclude the days' session.
In the evening Governor Haskell will
speak a second ttae. R. W. Dick,
warden of the state penitentiary, will
give the various phases of prison
labor, and T. P. Gore, United States
senator, is down for a definition of
' The Straight and Narrow Way."
Thursday, the last day of the meet
ing, will be opened by United States
Senator Rolert'L. Owen. He will be
followed by,W. R. Goilt, president of
the Oklahoma State Good Roads' as
sociation, i.nd I. T. Pryor, a speaker
at the trans-Mississippi congress. Con
gressman Charles D. Carter will be the
only speaker Thursday afternoon.
Miss Jessie Fatten is expected here
tomorrow from Grove, for a visit with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs.,F. P. Fatten.
DO. raiM TO
LECTURE TONIGHT
Vinita Peoole tn Fnlnv Rar Onnnr.
tunity of Hearing This Great
Man of Medicine.
The Craig County Medical Society
has announced that a public meeting
will be held nt the Congregational
church tonight, to which all persons
in the city are invited. The members
of the city council, school boards Civic
Club and Similar organizations are
given a special invitation to attend.
This meeting will be addressed
by Dr. J. N. MoCormack, sec
retary of the state board of
health of Kentucky and chairman
of the committee on organization of
the American Medical Association. As
an evidence of the value of this ad
dress and of the way in which It has
been regarded elsewhere, we quote
the following editorial from the Birni-.
Ingham (Ala.) News:
It is to be regretted that the high
school auditorium , was not filled to
overflowing last night, because tha
lecture which Dr. J. N. McCormack
chairman of the organization commit
tee of the American Medical associa
tion, delivered was a highly instruc
tive discourse of this character. Every
intelligent layman in this cit;' should
have heard it.
Dr. McCormack plead for closer co
operation between the great body of
the public and the medical profession
to the end that the public health may
be more securely safegurded. He In
vited and urged the support of every
profession, avocation and class in aid
ing the medical men to secure better
laws, to execute more fully the laws
we have, and to unite in preventing
the spread of diseases which are clear
ly preventable. He touched upon a
variety of subjects akin to the cen
tral idea of better health. Among
them were the enforcement of pure
food laws, the cutting of the red tape
in the army so that our soldiers will
, be better protected, recognition of the
I importance of granting larger power
jto our medical authorities, and like
topics. -
j If Dr. McCormack's lecture does
nothing beyond bringing the laity and
the medical men into closer touch with .
. each other and creating a clearer un
derstanding between them, it will
have borne good fruit, for this condi
tion must eventually make for the
very ends set forth, in tho eminent lec
turer's address intelligent co-opern,-tion,
the enactment of needed legisla
tion, the control of contagious dis
eases, the prevention of consumption
and like plasties, andfinally the rcdue-
Ition of the death rite.
. f Tn'". :r4.'"iiiunject is one whicn
does not receive the' attention it
should. We need a campaign of ogk
tation and education, and let it be
hopt'd that Dr. McCormack's lecture
has marked the inauguration of such
a campaign..
W YET HAVE DIM
TO ADOPT RUSSELL PL?,;!
Guthrie, Okla., Oct. 3. While Guth
rie and Oklahoma City are waiting for
the state supreme court decision on
the capita! location, the "New-Jerusalem"
bill of Campbell Russell will
be submitted to voters at the gen
eral election November 8. This bill
provides for the purchase of a large
tract of land within fifty miles of the
state's geographical center. From the
proceeds of the Bale oi lots, Russeii
would bui'. an ideal capital city, all
of the public utilities to be owned and
operated by the municipality.
Notice to Holders of Registered
County Warrants.
Office of County Treasurer, Vinita,
Craig County, Oklahoma. The follow
ing Registered County WarranU ft ill
be paid on f.esentation at this ofi'.ca)
Court Funds warrants, series II Nos.
1 to 19 inclusive.
Poor and Insane, series A' Nos. 99
to 100 inclusive.
Road and Bridge, series A Nos 93
to 9S inclusive.
Separate School, No. 49.
Interest ceases November 3rd, 1919.
Resnectfullv.
K. V. FICKLIX,
County Treasurer.