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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1911
Page
4
The Weekly Chieftain printed by D. M. Marrs Printing Company Publishers in Vinita Oklahoma. Listed publisher details indicate a local newspaper operation serving the Vinita community.
A collage of quotes and observations covers politics, religion, society, and local life. Topics include Roosevelts and Bryans coverage, charity needs in Vinita, a Wichita sermon critique of society, fashion gossip, Judge Allen’s remarks, Governor Cruce’s circus, and a planned Thanksgiving service led by Senator Robi Owen at Congregational Church.
The item notes Roosevelt’s traditional charges against trusts and Taft trimming his presidential message to six thousand words. It highlights Oklahoma’s tax pain as a case of excessive taxation, with a farmer facing higher assessed value and taxes on property not owned, illustrating public discontent with state tax policy and political rhetoric.
A poem from the Hollis Tribune laments Sephus Jones once trusted by neighbors now shunned. It portrays neighbors accusing him, a hostile hunt by Apaches, and Sephus left friendless and hunted as guilt and fear rise in the autumn day.
A satirical critique of self praise in politics. The speaker mocks candidates who boast of duty and virtue, likening them to preachers doctors and self styled statesmen who hype their own merits while the crowd eyes their rhetoric with skepticism.
The piece analyzes a likely two candidate Democratic race for the U.S. Senate with Robt. J. Owens and ex Governor C. N. Haskell as front runners. It notes Governor Crace may stay neutral if neither attacks his administration, while figures like Bill Murray James Thompson and others align with Owen as the campaign unfolds.
The piece extols Thanksgiving as a national, solemn pause for gratitude and prayer, highlighting Rev. J Hunley and wife leading a two week revival at the Christian church in Vinita. It also recounts a Shady Bend Kansas tar attack on a young schoolteacher, noting jealous women incited men, sparking mob violence and several imprisonments.
Local clergy discuss Rev. Friar the traveling evangelist who shot and killed a bootlegger in Boynton this week. Several pastors condemn joints and joint keepers, while some question the necessity and authority of the minister’s action. Most emphasize law and self defense as limits to taking life.
New York financier Irving T Bush argues the canal will shift world trade routes toward Gulf ports like New Orleans and Galveston, boosting southern exports of cotton. He urges banking reform to finance American commerce and reduce dependence on European lenders, noting rapid southern bank growth but calling for closer interbank cooperation.
Oklahoma City, Nov 28. State Bank Commissioner J D Lankford appeals to the supreme court from a district court judgment in Cade county holding the state cannot enforce the double liability clause of the banking law against stockholders in the defunct Columbia Bank 97 Trust company of Oklahoma City. The appeal covers cases against Boone D Hite seeking $2,000 and former State Treasurer James A Mifeo seeking $25. The lower court held the double liability provision could be applied to stockholders of a trust company organized under trust company laws prior to state law.
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