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VINITA DAILY CHIEFTAIN. VOL XIV. NO. -JOT. VINITA, OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, DECEMBER .'!. IW2. FIVE CENTS PER COPi LEGISLATORS MEET NW SESSION o - Many Arrive to "Repair Fence." And Find Temporary Quarters "Dark Horse" Talked. Oklahoma City, Dec. 30. With but eight days remaining before the fourth legislature convenes in regular ses sion, the first sprinkling of legisla tors and lobbyists are already upon the city, the former seeking perma nent quarters for the next two or three months or beginning the actual battle over the speakership; the lat ter, making their first stealthy ap proaches toward the legislative bat tlements. The senatorial investigating commit tee resumes its work Monday at U o'clock, and probably will continue right up to January 6, the day before the legislature meets, which is the date set by the senate for reconvening after the special senate session recess. The work of the committee this next (reek will be a continuation of the probe into the affairs of the state board of affairs, and an investigation labor, the chiropractors (who will re of the record in office and policies of new their old light for legal recogni the state game warden and the state ,tion and equal representation on med election board. It is not impossible 'ical boards). The insurance men may that the matter of the confirmation ,have a man "ere; the state bankers of the appointees under lire will goma' (1 likewise; and also, numerous over the regular session, owing to lack if time to complete the probe. Senator Jones of Sapulpa is the first of the investigating committee to re turn; Senator Thomas of Lawton, the chairman, may not be in before Tues day, so it is understood, but his ab sence will not hinder the work being resumed Monday afternoon. Candidates Arriving. Other legislators arriving arc largely jf the lower house, about a dozen of whom were on hand Sunday night. J, Roy Williams of Lawton, candidate for sneaker. came in Friday, and will be ! on hand from now forward. J. H. Maxey of Muskogee, another of the four avowed candidates for the speak ership, is to be over at least by Tucs- day, to establish headquarters. Messrs. will present legislation fully covering Smith of Shawnee and Crawford ofithe subject to the forthcoming legls Ada are also expected to get hero lature. oarly. During the past year Commissioner The speake rship fight still continues I Mahr selected a staff of specialists four-sided affair. And whether the and gave each and every inmate of winner will be Smith, Crawford, Maxey or Williams depends largely upon which man the prognosticator is himself favoring. In other words, each of the candidates show unusual con-1 fidence nnd their friends something more than the usual optimism in their behalf. The last month has added hut one clear development, and that is, an insistent and growing belief that i iifth candidate may come; into sight. The ' dark horse" is said to be no other than Hubert L. Bolen of Okla- tion provide lor examination or eeiy homa City, who managed Senator inmate of state institutions at a eer Owen's campaign. Representative tain period each year, for the purpose Rolen Is exceedingly non-committal, of ascertaining the condition of the but the fact remains that his name in j inmates' health, physical defec ts, and mentioned more and more by incom- for the purpose of determining the ;ng legislators and politicians gener- necessity for any need special care ally as that of a man who may change land treatment, and to protect against the present four-sided light into a com- contagious and infectious diseases by Plete puzzle which he alone will solve, separating those who have never been The fact that the coming session of exposed to a contagious disease, or the legislature will deal with several who may be in a position to endanger very important matters affecting each others by the spread of any c ontagious a multitude of persons and interests or infectious disease. The physician accounts for the early arrival of lobby- in charge of the institution is required ists and the unusual pre-convention to make a monthly examination and activity of local legislative agents. It to keep an accurate, detailed record is believed that the accredited legisla-of the condition of health of each and tivo agents that will file with this 'every inmate. legislature will treble those of other sessions, while all the indications point to a large aggregation of "strict ly on the Q. T." lobbyists who will not appear officially before the legislature. School Book Lobbyists. The school book companies are credited with having the largest rep resentation among the lobbyists al ready on hand. The state teachers' association, just adjourned, probably had something to do with the book WILLOW CALF BUTTON BOOTS Our "big misses" low-heel, mannish shoe which has been such a favorite this fall is again in stock all sizes and also SEVERAL OTHER NOVELTIES MJ0RD - BERGER SHOE COMPANY men arriving so early. The board of education controversy over the July school book adoption, the fact that the book companies will have to light in the courts for the contract they se cured then, and the proximate cer , tainty that the legislature will take I up the matter and have a great deal I to say about future school book pur- chage anyUo, Dlakes at'the prebent time the "storm center" to that small army of school book com- I PW "agents" who flock here and there over the United States very skilfully and shrewdly persuading this and that state or county or munici pality to adopt their publications. The school book companies have had detectives here working for them for months, and at the present time have still employed and very busy at times one of the ablest, if not the ablest, private detective who is local to Oklahoma City, and will probably still continue such surveillance ofjtraflic manager, lias been appointed conditions here, in addition to their! assistant general passenger agent of usual lobbying. The "open and above board" legis - Iative agents will be numerous also men who come here with proper ere-'in dentials, iile them with the legisla - 'uro, and by fair and honest means : tempt to get the legislature to deal , Mndly with the interests they repre-.souri sent Such will be the legislative com mittees from various organizations of county officers, the state federation of IE THEIR RELATION Oklahoma city, Dec. 3Q. Declaring that all inmates of Oklahoma pcr.al institutions and asylums ar-.' deserv- ing of the same protection against disease as is given to the general pub lic, Dr. J. C. Mahr, state commissioner of health, has prepared far-reaching recommendations to thy governor and the state penal institutions and asy lums a thorough physical examina tion. His findings arc, set. forth in full in the Biennial Report of the State Health Department, which will be ready for distribution in printer form January 10, 1913. This examina tion of state charges was thorough. The conclusions reached offer a most interesting study on the subject of relation of disease to crime. The recommendations for legisla- It is further lecoinmenueii mat hi each of the state institutions there should be a detention cottage for the temporary detention of every inmate, and for keeping of such inmate a suffi cient length of time to insure protec tion from the carrying of contagious or Infectious disease to other inmates. The establishment of a properly equipped infirmary, in charge of a competent trained nurse, should be provided DISEASE ANOCF E EFFECTIVE JAN. 1ST -Mr. C. U Stone, passenger traffic manager of the Missouri Pacific-Iron M 'untain, announces some changes which become effective on the first day of January, 191,'!. Mr. J. 0. Hol lenbeck, at present assistant genera) passenger agent of the Iron Mountain at Little Rock, is appointed general passenger agent at St. Louis, suc ceeding Mr. B. H. Payne who, on ac count of continued ill health, has been assigned to other duties, in the pas senger traffic department at St. Louis. Mr. P. E. Schroeder, for the past live years chief clerk to the passenger the Iron Mountain at Little Rock, suc- jceeding Mr Ilollenbeck. Mr. H. H, Butler, chief rate clerk the passenger traffic department, ihas been appointed assistant, general PACIFIC CHANG at-.passenger agent with headcpiarters at St. Louis. He has been with the Mis- Pacific for the past twenty years and is recognized as an expert on mat ters pertaining to passenger rates. He will have charge' of rates, tariff burei'ii, etc. Mr. Payne has been with the Mis souri Pacific-Iron Mountain for -6 years, all of this time filling responl blc positions. In his new occupation he will not be required to do any traveling, which will afford him an op portunity to recupurate his health. He will take a vacation for several weeks with his family in the south before re suming active duties. Mr. Hollenbeck was for a number of years division passenger agent of the L. & N. railroad, at Atlanta, Ga.; later general agent of the passenger depart ment of the Missouri Pacific railway at Cincinnati, and for the last five years has been assistant general pas-1 senger agent of the Iron Mountain at Little Rock. A circular Issued by .Mr. .1. M. John son, vice president in charge of traffic of all the Gould Hues, announces the j appointment of Mr. John Thomson Hendricks to be general traffic man ager of the Missouri Pacific Iron- Mountain System, effective January 1, if 13. Mr. Hendricks is at present a director and vice president in charge of traffic of the Western Maryland railroad. The new head of the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain traffic department was born at Shelbyville, Ind., Septem ber 20, 1866, and started his railroad career ia 1886 as a clerk in the gen eral offices at Cincinnati of the Cin cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad. Iater he was made contracting freight agent for that railroad at Cincinnati, and iu 1890 became a traveling freight agent for the Santa Fe out of the office of the general agent of that road in Cincinnati. He was made general agent of the International & Great Northern at Cincinnati in isski. Later he was transferred to Houston, Tex., then to San Antonio as traveling freight agent for the line, and was finally sent to Dallas, Tex., as general agent of the company, in 1897 he went to the Union Pacific as general agent at Philadelphia. He left there November I, 190.r, to accept the posi tion of assistant general freight agent of the Western Maryland railroad at Baltimore, Md. On January 1."., 1900, iie was made freight traffic, manager of the road, and on the 16th of last October was promoted to be vice pres ident in charge of traffic and also elected a director of the company. No inmate should be admitted to any state institution until he has passed a careful examination by the county superintendent of health, for the pur pose of ascertaining if he is suffering from any disease that might be trans mitted to other inmates of the state institutions. It is pointed out by the state com missioner of health that in the past typhoid fever patients in the maniacal stage of the disease have been com mitted to the hospital for insane, at Norman, thus endangering the inmates of that institution to typhoid fever. It is pointed out that an epidemic of typhoid fever resulted at the state io formntory at Grauit e as the result of admitting a prisoner suffering from the disease in the second week stage. Tile danger of mixing tuberculous persona with other inmates of stale institutions is pointed out by Dr. Mllir. lie recommends the enact -neut of legislation authorizing the r itc om missiouer of health to f pt such rules and regulations for tli i purpose of examination, lassifh i' m, treat ment and maintenance of Cie various public charges in the state institutions as their health may determine, and HEALTH CERTIFICATE BEFORE MARRIAGE Eleemosynary Institutions Tell Sad Tale of Neglected Eugenics. Oklahoma City, Dec. SO. -That a de termined effort will be made at the forthcoming session of the legislature to enact a law requiring the presenta tion of a health certificate by both parties contemplating marriage before the issuance of the regulation mar riage license is forecasted by the ac tivities of the state health department, the State Federation of Women's Clubs, and other organizations, includ ing many of the medical societies of Oklahoma. In the Biennial Report of the State Health Department, State Commis sioner of Health Mahr gives some in teresting information on this subject. He declares that the records of in spection recently made by his depart ment of all state institutions will show that had medical certificates been re quired of the contracting parties 50 years ago, many of the inmates of the penitentiaries, reformatories, asylums and poor farms would not now be charges of the state and a source of expense to the public. Commissioner Mahr says in part: "Society recognizes only such unions as are legalized by a license and a regularly performed ceremony. Yet under this cloak these are daily per formed crimes every bit as heinous, and far more blighting, than that lor which an Oklahoman recently arose in his might as a father and took the life of his daughter's seducer. "Statistics throughout the United States show that from 60 to 80 per cent of all abdominal operations per formed lot1 the purpose of relieving pelvic diseases In married women are the result of a contagious disease from which tho husband was suffer ing at the time of marriage. Statistics from our State Home for Feeble Minded, located at Enid, show that ?8 per cent of the inmates of this insti tution are twrt of tho crop of "wild single nu n. Forty SHRDLU ItFRKR oats" sown by their fathers when single men. Forty per cent of the c hildren In the State School for the lllind are denied the right to see the beauties of this world, because their fathers sowed wild oats. They must suffer and pay the penalty for their fathers' few years of reckless life. Then are at least "00 inmates in the State Hospitals for Insane whose brains are as blank as a stone wall. They are doomed to live in a mad house lor the rest ol'Uheir natural lives, the result of alcohol, vice and immorality on the part of their fath ers, and the neglect of their maternal grandfather. In the State Deaf aud Dumb School located at Sulphur, 40 per cent of the Inmates can safely at tribute tiieir present physical defects to parent, indifference." Commissioner Mahr declares that such conditions will always exist until they an; remedied by law and become a well-understood subject that is fear lessly handled by the pulpit and the press. He declares that "there are many doctors who, for tear of losing business, will not advise a patron, thai should his daughter marry the young man of her choice, that he will be permitting her to dedicate herself to a life of mental and physical suffering, With the prospect of her becoming a life long invalid." commissioner Main- says further; "The writer regrets that he ie not sufficiently gifted to draw a pen pic ture so vivid ttiat he might impress upon his readers the danger of pater nal indifference in permitting daugh ters who have been treasured and guarded, innocent of all worldiiness, without knowledge of the disease which are a result of immorality and vice, or of the dangers that He in wait for them, to become a sacrifice when they give themselves at the altar to the men whom they hope to make happy." .Miss Bessie Spaulding left last even ing for Kansas City after spending the holidays with her parents here. i . - that an annual examination be made, or more frequently, if necessary. Commissioner Mahr declares that he believes that the state is obligated to properly care for all human beings placed in its custody, and that, this obligation can only he met when some authorized agent of the government Is designated and armed with sufficient authority to bring about such reforms as may be necessary to preserve the health of the state's charges. "The County Sheriff." O. E. Wee will present at tho Grand tonight his new version by Law It. PUker, "The County Sheriff," a strong comedy drama in four acts. The play has been entirely rewritten and this version is presented for the first time in this city. The play is one of the Dakota's and deals with the efforts of the county sheriff to break up a gang of cattle thieves, and incidentally to win the heart and hand of Melba. hspeciul attention has been given to the staging of this play. The secood act showing Dayton's ranch in the evening with the mountains in the distance, with a small camp, lights aglow, perched high upon the moun tain side and the singing of the cow boys in the distance, never fails to bring forth vociferous applause at tho rise of the curtain. A new play, new company, new scenic production, and new specialties aud many other fea tures. Special reduced prices. En tire balcony 23o, dress circle 50c, par quet TTic. Oklahoma Charters Issued. Oklahoma City, Dec. 30. The fol lowing state charters were issued: American State bank, Pryor; capi tal, $25,000; incorporators, O. O. Sny der, J. C. Wickham, J. C. Martin. J. H. Qoinn, Ed Swartney, Harry Seaton, .T. A. Lively, John Sullivan nnd George A. Montgomery. Pryor. and A. T. Lan ger, Davenport. Droken Row Light &. Power Co., Uroken Bow; capital, $3,000; incorpor ators, H. M. Kirkpatrick, O. E. Baxter and A. E. Hart, Idabel; F. H. Dierks, II. U Dierks and Herman Dierks. Kdh sas City. Bulled land company, Tulsa; capi tal, $16,000; incorporators, George Bul lott, George S. Berry and J. T. Ander son, Tulsa. Burr Oil & Gas Co., Tulsa; capital, $24,000; incorporators, Edward N. Burr, John S. Glazier, Kansas City; Roger S. Sherman, Helen A. Smith, Tulsa, and R. D. Wallace, Independ ence. Henryelta Development company, Honryotta. capital, $70,000! incorpora tors, W. B. Hudson, J. B. Swan, C. H. Kellogg and C. J. O'Hornett, Henry etta. Dltcinah Gas company, Okmulgee; capital, $30,000; incoriwrators, W, A. Brown, 8. 10. Piersou, Carroltown, 111., and F. B. Schock, Okmulgee. Okmulgee Hardware company, Ok mulgee; capital, $10,000; incorpora tors, R. E. Rea, 1. .1. Hunter, Frank H. Braunlich and Ernest C. Lambert. Ok mulgee. G. E. Barrows, a New York broker, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Malone Sunday and today. Mr. Bar rows was here five years ago and says that he never say a town improve as Vlnfta has during that period. Our Continued Growth is evidence that our store service is satisfactory. It is with considerable pride that we note a healthv in crease in business over each preceding year. Every year has been better with us than the year before This makes us feel that our efforts to please the people of this vicinity have not been in vain. We believe that if we patronize the leading manufactur ers of this country in making our purchases and se cure lor resetting merchandise that is absolutely iruaranteed to us, and that if we reset this merchan dise, at a margin of profit necessary, that the tran saction is, in the majority of instonces, perfectly satisfactory. That has been our experience and is, we believe, the experience of every successful store. We will adhere rigidly to this policy. We have made the largest jrain in sales this year of any year sidce we have been in business. Our December sales were 33 per cent target than December of last year. CORN AND CHICKEN L The Second Annual Interstate Corn And Poultry Show. Pittsburg, Kaus., Dec. 30. The sec ond Annual Interstate Corn and Poul try Show will be held at the State Manual Training School January 29, 30, 31, 1913. Everything iB being done to make this show the largest and best ever held in this section of the country and It should receive the hearty support of every corn and poul try grower in Kansas, southwestern Missouri and northern Oklahoma. Through the co-operation of our busi ness men we are able to offer over $500.00 In cash or Its equivalent as prizes. At this time there will also I be held a Farmers' Institute. There i will be lectures and round tables on 'stock feeding, corn growing, soil fer tility, fruit growing and poultry rais ing. We will have with us able agrl cultural speakers from our agricult ural colleges and tho U. S. department of agriculture. Nothing has been spared to obtain the best agricultural talent in tho country for this occasion. There will also he premiums offered to ladles exhibiting the best bread, cakes, pies, canned fruit, pickles, etc.. also a large number of prizes for the best needlework exhibited. The ladies will have special lectures on the pre paration of food, household sanitation, i economy, etc. Demonstrations will be j given in cooking, baking and servfhg. I It will bo to tho interest of your home and county that you be prosent land do your part in making this the 'greatest agricultural meet ever held in this section. Dinner will be served1 free. Expense small; opportunity great. Plan now to be with us. Bring your family and Invite your neighbors. For further Information and premium list write Prof. 11. W. Scheib. Pitts burg, Kans. j Court Records in New Home. I The Tom Isabell Transfer company today completed the moving of the county records to the new court house in the Bufllngton building. The differ ent officers have their rooms now in order and aro ready for business. The court room will be ia the down stairs room formerly used as the dining room in the hotel and has been fixed so that it will make a splendid place and will easily accommodate the crowds that may wish t attend tho court. The county offices and the IT. S. Indian agents office will take about forty or the rooms upstairs. ANNUA SHOW J