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VOL. XXIX.
VINITA, CRAIG COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. DECEMBER. . 19 1
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NUMBER 17
CHAMP GLARK
LIVED IN KANSAS
The Grasshoppers Limited the Speak
er's Residence in Wichita to
Eleven Weeks.
Charter Prohibited by Constitution. Q Q 0 Q $ SOS'OOOOS fa S O O O O O 00080000
Few persons in Kansas,
know that Champ Clark, speaker of are used by any other than the rail-
the house of representatives, once liv- roai itself.
ed in Kansas. Mr. Clark sometimes ra- j, The articles of incorporation filed by
fers to the fact when he makes the Vinita company stated that the
speeches in that state, but he always corporation proposed to condemn right
limits the account of his residence 0f-way, build and acquire railroad lines
there to the short statement that he to be operated for hire,
once lived there eleven weeks. To a
friend Mr, ( lark told his experience
as a young lawyer m Kansas ana tne
reasoiiS he lift the state. Here it ia:
When he was about twenty-five years
old Mr. Clark was graduated from the
Cincinnati Law School at Cincinnati,
O. After his graduation he started to Plant City (Fla.) Courier: We have
Fredonia, "Kans., to become the law been convinced for some time that
partner of T. J. Hudson, a classmate. Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, was
For some reason, however, Mr. Clark the man of the hour for democracy,
never reached Fredonia and a lawyer and as we have read the adroitly word
he met in Kansas City persuaded him ed editorials which have appeared
to go to Wichita. from time to time in a certain chain
Wichita at that time was the wntet of interestedowned, money-controlled
of the cattle industry and the town newspapers and have watched the
0 ,nnotAroH , nmiaw AM fnr fl shrewd manipulations of certain po-
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uwanoma City, Dec. 28. A charter
probably will be rei'used to the Uait i
Blue Flint Chat and Gram uiaipuoy ;
of Miami, which proposed to mine ai,d ,
manufacture, and transport its prod-(
ucts over its own raiuoad. Assistant
Attorney General Moore advised Sec
retary of State Harrison Monday that
the state constitution would operate
to prohibit the concern from carrying
jon business under the conditions it
had specified.
J Article nine of the constitution pro
hibits railroads from owning mines or
perhaps, manufactories, the products of which
NOW FOR 1912
WHAT EDITORS SAY OF WILSON
young lawyer. Mr. Clark had no sooner
reached the place, however, when the
cattle center moved to Great Bend and
then the grasshoppers descended upon
Kansas. Everyone nearly is familiar
with what those pests did to the peo
ple of Kansas and Mr. Clark, short of
funds when ue went to the town, soon
found that waiting in an office for
clients who never came was .unprofit
able business. '
In exactly nine weeks he was
"broke." The only possessions he had
were a few law books, and a silk hat,
a pair of pearl gray trousers and what
was then called a "swallow tail" coat.
As Pike county, Missouri, was settled
mostly with Virginia and Kentucky
people Mr. Clark decided to go there
when he got enough money to pay the
railroad fare. To his friend the speak
er laughingly told how he got the
money.
"I went to a farmer and got a job
hoeing corn. My pay was $1.25 a day.
I tell you the Kansas sun never was
bo hot as it was that year. I plugged
away at that corn In that high hat
and my other 'barrister clothes, the
only ones I had, until I got enough
money to go to Missouri. I certainly
was glad to leave the state."
Most persons are familiar with Mr.
Clark's political battles after he be
came a resident of Pike county. Yedrs
after his experiences In Kansas he met
T. J. Hudson in congress, where both
were members of that body.
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Now is the season when nearly every one determines
upon some resolution for the new year. It should be the
sowing season for seed that will produce better lives in
all of us.
Oklahoma is a great state, and its development has
been the marvel of the world. We all want to continue to
grow and make 1912 the greatest year in the history of this
wonderful commonwealth. There are problems to solve that
even now are puzzling the brains and the intelligence of the
people of Oklahoma. .
What can be done to develop our unlimited resources
and thus make the state better and make it loom larger in
every way? What is your opinion about it? Have you an
idea as to what is wrong and a remedy. Write to the
Chiettain in a short, concise manner your suggestions. Get
your story into from one hundred to two hundred words.
What the people say 13 public opinion and will command
those in power. Do not try to argue but couch your sug
gestions into brief statements. The country will listen and
you will thus help do the thing we all want to do.
Let Vinita and Craig county lead in the great work of
progress and development. Do not hesitate to write to the
Chieftain and tell the people what you think should be
done. We are growing but want to grow along intelligent
and Bure lines.
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Beat the Abernathy Boys.
Editor Daily Chieftain: I see in the
Chieftain of December 21, where the
Abernathy boys rode horse-back across
the continent from New York to San
Francisco in sixty-two days, and lost
the prize. They were equipped with
the very best saddle horses that could
be found and furnished money a
plenty. I want to tell you what I did
last year. I left Crossttcld, Alberta
Canada with two wagons and teams
and reached Oklahoma in fifty-eight
days, over two thousand one hundred
miles. I got through without the loss
ROBERT 6ILL1 A
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Ardniore, Okla., Dec 28. Judge S.
M. Davis, a prominent attorney of this
city who has returned from a trip over
the state in which he visited Musko
gee and the greater portion of the
of a single horse and the Abernathy j counties south of that city, says the
boys killed four good horses and did 'people are taking an active it.erpf?t in
not make the time I made.
W. D. STROUD.
Estella, Okla.
j politics and that there is more inter-
THE
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THREE TIMES FIRE VICTIM.
Antlers Editor, After Losing Plant and
Wife, is Again Visited.
Antlers, Okla., Dec. 28. Fire broke
out yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock
and totally destroyed the millinery
store of Miss Lucile Watson. The
flames broke through into the grocery
store of George Reed and the News
Record office, owned by J. B. Regner,
the prompt action of the fire depart
ment saving the Pioneer drug store
and the Antlers postoffice.
The first originated from a stove in
the millinery store, but there was no
one in the building at the time. The
loss is about $1,000. Reed's loss is
$500. and Regner's loss, mostly by
water, is $400. All are partially cover
ed by insurance.
This is the third time Mr, Regner
has been injured by fire. In Septem
ber his plant was totally destroyed by
fire and in November his house caught
fire and his wife was burned to death
Craig County Taxes.
In 1910 the Craig county tax est!
mate was $64,053. In 1911 the esti
mate was $89,385. This is an increase
of $25,332 in one year.
In 1910 the valuation was $12,408,-
967.
InlOlt it is $17,671,126.
In 1910 the county levy was 5.9 mills
In 1911 it is 5 mills.
The total amount to be raised from
direct taxation is $88,355. The amount
tr he raised from public service corpor
anA frnm nil other' sources is
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$16 30.
Craig county Is raising beyond her
own tbiiuute $15,310. Only about -
nf the counties of the state have re
norted to the state auditor but these
are raising beyond their own estimates
litical forces, we have become more
firmly convinced than ever before that
upon the nomination of Wilson depends
to a considerable extent, the hope of
democratic success in 1912.
Woodrow Wilson is of that class of
American citizens who believes that
the benefits of our government should
be equally dispensed and its burdens
shared alike by the people of all
classes and for this reason he is being
opposed by the big business interests
of the eat and their attellites. But de
spite all this we beHeve that Wood
row Wilson will be nominated as the
democratic standard bearer and if he
is nominated we believe that he will
be elected president of the United
States. The time has passed when the
people can be fooled into electing a
man president whose soul has already
been bartered to those whose interests
are inimical to the interests of the
whole people.
The Growth of Wilson Sentiment.
Huntsville (Ala.) Times: From
every section of the United States
comes most encouraging news about
Woodrow Wilson's candidacy for pres
ident of these United States. The most
favorable part of the activity back of
Mr. Wilson is the fact that it is vol
untary and gratuitous. Wilson as the
man is what appeals to the people be
cause he is square-honest. That's the
greatest essential element entering
into this campaign. We believe be-
lyond all doubt that Mr. Wilson will be
nominated to lead the democrats to
national victory an dthat the people
will elect him. The growth of the
Woodrow Wilson sentiment for presl
dent is simply wonderful. He is be
coming more popular and stronger
with each passing day.
Houston, Tex., Dec 28. The Wash
ington correspondent of the Houston
Chronicle; sends the following to his
paper:
Men who come here from the Lone
Star State, and who care little or noth
ing for machine politics, say without
hesitation that Woodrow Wilson is the
choice of the vast majority of the
Texas electors. What is true of Texas
is also true of all the states on which
any reasonable line on popular senti
ment can be obtained. To speak of
nearby states, Virginia and Maryland,
Delaware and New Jersey, are from
the best information obtainable irre
vocably fixed in their favorable regard
for the same candidate. In the west
his popularity is at white heat, and all
who hail from the intermountaln and
Pacific coast states report here that
Wilson is the only invincible candidate
his party possesses. ,
Philadelphia, Penn., Dec. 28 A tele
gram to the North American from Car
lisle, Pa., Bays:
Progressive spirit is rampant in
Cumberland county's democracy, and
early activity, preceding the selection
of delegates to the national democratic
president, and all of whom are favor
able to the nomination of Governor
Wilson, of New Jersey.
From Cumberland county, Sheriff
Frank Walters and Dr. M. M. Dougher
ty, of Mechanicsburg, will seek to be
come delegates from thir congressional
district, from which two are to be sent.
TARIFF KEYNOTE FOR
G
HOWELL
COBB
A FREE til
Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 28. Speaker
Champ Clark, on his first day in Okla
homa where he always has been a fav
orite, was given a rousing welcome
here yesterday. i
The keynote of his speech delivered
here last night before a record crowd,
was "Tariff." He recited the elements
of the platform on which he will make
his campaign both for himself and for
the party next year. He dwelt on the
fact that he had whipped the demo
cratic party in the house into line and
assured his audience that the demo
crats would re-commencfe their fight
on the present tariff after the holidays
in earnest. Mr. Clark insisted that
ths coming national campaign would
be fought out almost entirely on the
question of tariff revision.
When Taft Lost Out.
He said in part: "Although Taft
went in with a big majority it seems
that he commenced losing out within
six months afterwards. It is all on ac
count of the tariff, and in spite of the
politicians the coming contest is going
to be fought out on the tariff revision
question. '
"The democrats will revise and re
introduce new bills on the tariff as
soon as the uolidays are over. We set
the example of grafting&fl(urtr AR A
the example of getting together, and
the only cnance we have of losing the
election next year is to depend too
much upon ihe quarrels of our ene
mies.
"The Chicago platform promised a
revision of tariff but not a word about
whether it Was to be up or down. Just
before the election, Taft and his cam
paigners got scared and made the
declaration that the platform meant
to revise the tariff downward. But as
soon as they got in they revised it up
ward instead of downward and they got
their trouncing a year ago.
Those Promises of 1910.
"We won the election or 110 on
promises to liberalize the rules of the
house, that we would pass a bill for
publicity of campaign expenditures;
that we would submit a constitutional
amendment for the direct election of
senators, that we would admit New
Mexico and Arizona as two states;
that we would economize, and that we
would revise the tariff. Our work along
this line met the veto of the president.'
Muskogee, Okla.,. Dec. 26. A Christ
mas gift more precious than money
can buy to Suzanne Lalloma, the
Cherokee Nightingale" yesterday in
the shape of a telegram from her
uncle, Howeu Cobb, who for twelve
ears has been serving a life sentence
in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta,
Ga., for murder.
The message stated that he had just
been pardoned and within a few hours
would leave for home. lie will arrive
in Muskogee todajv , '
Eight years- ago Lalloma, long be
fore fame had been her shace, then
a young girl, began her efforts to ,se-
piirt a nnrrinn fnr lipr unrip. T.nst
year she in person carried her appeal weaUh ' thJ 80utVby '"f
to President Taft, pleading with her
golden voice.
Taft Remembers LaHoma. i
The man who held her happiness
and the happiness of Howell Cobb
promised LaHoma nothing, merely
saying that he would consider. Cut
Treaty to Prevent Dry Niagara
N'iaeara Falls, jn". Y.. Dec. 28. The
United States and Canada have nego
tiated a treaty which controls the di
version of water from the Niagara
rived and preserves the scenic grand
eur of Niagara Falls for all time. The
treaty goes into full effect automatical
ly in March, upon the expiration of the
law which now limits some of its pro
visions
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ARIHIOUNTS
Washington, I C, Dec. 20. Major
General Leonard Wood, in his annual
report to the secretary of war, regards
as a national calamity the shipment of
est being taken in the race for na
tional committeeman than he had sus
pected. The democrats, generally, he
says, are of the opinion that John
Doolin will not be a candidate, that
it is not in harmony with the Cruce
administration to attempt to build up
a political machine in the state and
there is a sentiment against Dooliu
founded upon the fact that he is a
state office holder and that the honors
should be distributed as fairly as pos
sible. With reference to Tate Brady
and Robert Galbreath of Tulsa, both
of whom are candidates, Judge Davis
said neither of them Is making great
hpfldwnv for tht rpncstui that ihnv nr
thoroughbred horses abroad; for he unabJe tQ Be(Ue differences be
sees the time when the army will be
unable to secure proper remounts.
The Southern Commercial Congress
tween them and Tulsa accuples a pos
ition of having two candidates in the
field, pftp.h of whom rtptprminpd to
announced today that it has been for . . . ...
J j remain In the race ud neither can
some weens prepares , cuuiui Hjnope t0 wln UIlder Buch clrcumBtances.
whole subject of horse and mule breed
ing in a section of the fourth annual
convention of the congress at Nash
ville next April. The section will be
under the chairmanship of George, M.
Ronnel, chief of animal husbandry di
vision, United States lepartment of
agriculture. The following gentle
men will speak to the subjects Indi
cated. E. B. White, Leesburg, Va., "The
Draft Horse in the South."
Capt. C. II. Conrad, Jr., in chargi
Front Royal . Remount Depot, Front
Royal, Virginia, "The South as a
Source of Army Remounts." '
Their friends ar& not enthusiastic for
the success of either.
The Ardmore candidate Robert Gil
lam has the south Hide democracy
Bolidiy for him, the fourth and fifth
congressional districts will go largely
instructed for him and the democrats
generally are of the opinion that he Is
the logical man to select for the place.
Robert Gillam is worthy of any honor
at the hands of democracy, he has
been faithful to the interests of the
party, he kindled the first fires of de
mocracy on this side of Red River at
a time when the federal government
held Indian Territory in its firm grasp
Gen. John B. Castleman, Louisville, i and dlstrlbuted thf, offices by appolnt-
Ky., "The American Saddle Horse.
J. L. Jones, Columbia, Tenn., "'The
Mule Breeding, Feeding, Management
and Market Requirements."
The purpose of the congress in hav
ing this thorough discussion of horse
and mule breeding is to increase the
farmers of the south how both climate
and soils lend themselves to the sue
cessful raising of stock.
Uncle cf W. L. Gibson.
Banta At his home near this city,
Mondav afternoon. December 18tb
he remembered the Cherokee singer im of djscase ,nddent to old agGi
and on Christmas day, Howell Cobb Judge Andy Bantat aged 87 years The
was paraonea. iNeuner ne nor i.a . of J d Banta rcmove8
Homa nor any member of the family anotner Qf the once act,ye cltlzen8 of
knew the action was to be taken. nt:k,0 ,i aAA ,tw tn
Twelve years ago in the town of Sa- the great majority. Judge Banta was
pulpa, Okla., Cobb killed a negro ia a a native- of Bourbon county, but the
quarrel. At the time 'he was a mor- Kreater part Oi. his life was spent here
phine fiend.. Two years after he was ln xicholas where his business and
sent to prison he was pronounced political activities made him a noted
cured and it was then the family be- man among men. During his business
gan its efforts to secure his pardon, 'career he was a factor in every enter-
Howell Cobb nas passed his fiftieth J prise and undertaking in this city and
year. He is a brotner or tient uodd,
a police officer, and an uncle of La
Homa.
ment. He was a, loader in the first
fights made by;hla party and has given
freely of his means and of his time
to the cause be hopua to serve, in a
higher capacity by his election to the
office of democratic national commit
teeman. United States Senator Gore,
Secretary of the Constitutional Con
vention John M. Young and many lead
ers of the state arc back of him in his
candidacy, he is a xejentless fighter, a
prince of good fellows and victory will
perch upon nis banner at the state con
vention In Oklahoma City, February
22.
LaHoma's Tragic Life. .
It seems that the tragic events in
LaHoma's life are destined to burst
upon her suddenly. Several months
ago, when as a great singer, she came
back to Muskogee, the city she had
left for a short time before in the care
of Schummann-Heinke as a girl w'ith
a beautiful voice, to make her first
triumphal appearance before the pub
lic, the first great tragedy of her life
was enacted. The morning she arriv
ed her brother, Ben, was foully mur
dered and the town buzzed with the
excitement of the crime as LaHoma,
not knowing, smiled and bowed and
sans to a fashionable audicr;ce that
filled the Hinton theatre. She had not
been told for fear that it would spoil
her first great success.
When, after the concert, they broke
the news to her she collapsed. The
cries of her grief rang through the
corridors of the Turner hotel where
she was staying and those who did not
know listened and wondered.
FIVE HUNDRED PARTY AT
CHEROKEE CLUB HIS
county and made and lost several good
sized fortunes. He was a handler of
tobacco for a number of years and was
quite a dealer in lands. As a leader
In political affairs he was a recogniz
ed power and was twice elected judge
of the county court. Carlyle Murcury.
Judge Banta was a brother to ray
mother. The last of a family of nine.
He was named for President Andrew
Jackson, was sheriff of Nichols county,
Kentucky when the ii vil war began
and. was run out and broken up by
home guards of federals and went
through the war in the Confederate
army, had two brothers killed at
Shiloh in Jno. C. Breckenridge's com
mand. After the war was elected
county judge twice. W. L. GIBSON.
KROly TUESDAY'S I Alfyr.
What is conceded to be the most
elaborate card party ever attempted
in Vinia was that given last night at
the Cherokee Social Club hall, by Mr.
and Mrs. W. P. Thompson.
The hall was beautifully decorated
in a color scheme of red and green
and the setting was made to carry out
the Cheristmas idea and carried with
it a patriotic tables placement, to carry
out the idea of the principal Ameri
can rorts. wnen tne guests arnveu
two ladies and two gentlemen were as
signed to defend each fort. When a
game was won a small American flag
was given the victors to place on their
"fort" and the fort having the most
flags was declared the winner of the
evening's contest. This idea was
unique in Vinita and found great favor
.with the guests.
I Five Hundred was the game select
ed for the evening and when the flags
jwere counted it was found that Fort
Gaines, defended by Mr. and Mrs. Lee
feet a second on the American side,
out of a total flow of 240,000 cubic feet
Tom Latta Mounts Triood. uarrett ana air. ana Mrs. ti. M. bKin-
Tulsa, Okla.,' Dec. 28. Thomas A.'ner had won the greatest number of
Latta, formerly editor of the Tulsa victories and they were each given a
World, has accepted the position of beautiful prize. The ladies' prizes
editor of the Oil and Gas Journal, for- ere handsome cut glass bowls, while
merly published In St. Louis, but now .
published here. Mr. Latta assumed
his new duties this week and in the
future will be at the helm of this well
known trade publication. He will have
a Bridge Whist set in a beautiful Mo
rocco bound case was awarded to each
of the victorious gentlemen
There were about one hundred
guests in attendance and there were
complete editorial charge of the pa-'twenty-one tables it Five Hundred. At
per.
Since severing his connections with
the Tulsa World a few months ago,
The international agreement was:asecond-
made in resoonse to a general demand! The use of this quantity of water for Mr. Latta has been offered many fiat-
Rprt A Fritchey of Harrisburg and ! that the question of water diversion j power purposes, the engineers found, tering positions in the newspaper field
nr Tohn Walters and George B be settled once and for all in accord- would not affect the appearance of the throughout the southwest, where per
Ke from Lebanon county, who de-'ance with expert opinion. Tie treaty falls sufficiently for the eye to detect, aps his ability as a forcible writer is
sire to 'attend the national convention makers had exhaustive tests conduct- Since only about half the quantity per-better known than any one else in
of democratic reactionaries have no ed by hydraulic engineers, sr.d it was mitted by the treaty is now diverted, this part of the country. Mr. Latta's
DauDhin and determined that diversions EZioum noi iwice iub pieatui .un ow.o xUls
cubic feet a second on proaucea witnoui endangering iue mat ue uiu uuv tuiu w give up m wu-
dace in Cumberland,
Lebanon counties, which compose the exceed 36,000
eleven o'clock time was called on the
games and a delicious one course
luncheon was served, following this
the prize winners were announced and
then the tables were moved aside and
nxany of the younger guests took ad
vantage of the opportunity for an im
promptu dance.
eighteenth district.
the Canadian side and 20,000 cubic scenic boautiy of the cataract.
nections with this city.
One dollar paid now will carry your
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through to the end of 1912.
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