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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1910
Page
4
Vinita Oklahoma excerpts survey national and local issues, editorials on Judge Ben Lindsey and Kaiser Wilhelm, capital location debates, suffrage, health education, and Oklahoma political intrigues. Mentions Gov elect Cruce, Taft Hughes, and ongoing editorial opinions amid wartime era culture.
The piece surveys California politics noting Hiram Johnson’s slim governor’s victory and a dented Republican congressional delegation led by Judge John Baker over Engelbright. It also covers Oklahoma topics including a home buying creed, a proposed capital move to Putnam City, and praise for J B Lister’s anti cigarette school lectures amid civic endorsements.
Editorial voice blasts Governor Haskell over proposed capital removal and warns that demagogic moves threaten institutions. It mocks Jim Harris for election law aims and cites Roosevelt’s national impact as mirrored in Oklahoma. It questions bank guaranty law validity, notes Epworth League concerns on law enforcement, and argues public opinion governs, not statutes, sustaining statewide prohibition.
Seventeen of thirty four allotted tracts offered by Cherokee allottees were sold yesterday through the Indian agent. Twenty seven bids were placed on the sold tracts, with several bidders from Chicago and Boise, Idaho. Multiple parcels across Craig, Mayes, Ottawa, and Mayes counties fetched prices near or above appraisals, including a 80 acre Towser tract at Welch sold for 1250 dollars and other parcels ranging from 80 to 60 acres with prices from 80 to 1400 dollars.
Rebels led by ex president Bonilla seized Atlantic ports of Honduras and Comayagua department while government troops sent to retake territory joined the revolutionists army, in reports from San Juan Del Sur Nicaragua dated November 29.
Antlers Oklahoma November 29 five bodies of fourteen miners killed in an explosion at 7 am in the Jumbo mines twenty miles north of Antlers were recovered. Nine men were entombed and W W Thomas secretary treasurer says there is no doubt all were killed. The five bodies found were thrown from the mine mouth more than two hundred feet away. The men were at a depth of 290 feet when the blast occurred. A M Dougherty died in the telephone vault at 9 o clock from heart disease brought on by the excitement. Officials have not fixed a cause, but it is believed to involve gas ignited by lamp flames.
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