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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1911
Page
4
The Chieftain surveys legislative battles between Haskell and Cruce, calls for broader senatorial options beyond Owen and Haskell, and notes civic concerns from registration deadlines to a hydrophobia case. It laments capital relocation chaos, praises Diamond Match for humane reform, and references a historic Cherokee court clash between Owen and Bell.
In Vinita the public must address the salt water problem caused by new artesian wells. The issue is presented as serious for residents, with calls for government and community attention. The passage also notes unrelated remarks about fashion and Oklahoma City politics.
Welch Watchman applauds Messia Simms and Costly for opposing Vinita monopoly and supporting county funds in six bank deposits. It criticizes Senator Owen’s bill aiding Cherokee enrollment lawsuits, accusing sham claims and urging continued opposition to payoffs and graft.
Guthrie Oklahoma Feb 21 Judge Cotteral heard election case arguments on the state law and federal Fifteenth Amendment questions. Prosecutor Embry urged the grandfather clause disfranchises black voters and precludes voting unless meeting an educational test, while defense argued the state statute is constitutional and aligned with prior rulings. The judge took the matter under advisement.
A satirical sketch describing the average man from morning to night. He debates bathing, dresses in multiple outfits, reads headlines with breakfast, smokes, kisses his wife, commutes, works, visits a food shop, socializes over stocks and politics, returns home in funeral black, ponders his luck, and ends with poker or bridge with friends, regretfully bored by his wife’s circle.
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