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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1911
Page
5
Monday’s Daily notes numerous residents traveling for business and visiting relatives. Highlights include Gray in St Louis, Bethell headed to Kansas City, Pollard from Claremore, and Rogers of Tulsa visiting. Inauguration attendance cited for Davis Hill, Buffington, and others. real estate and mining ventures appear in county notes. Additional entries record shooes, jewelry, and agency installation efforts around Pryor, Chelsea, and Vinita.
ROS. TUESDAY'S TATLY, R. S. Andrews is reported quite sick. W. H. Kornegay is attending court at Pryor. W. C. Andrews of Muskogee was in the city today. John Wise went to Welch on business. D. C. Powers came up from Muskogee last night. Ed O'Brien of Florence Kansas spent today in this city. Judge L. F. Parker left this morning for a visit in Texas. Amos Stoalabarger left today for a business trip to Enid. R. W. Houx of Welch was in the Letty today on business. J. Overley of Joplin spent today with friends in this city. T. C. Montgomery of Centralia visited the city last night. Miss Jacqueline Parker returned home to Tulsa after a visit. Mrs. R. D. Fulton and child are here in Coffeyville visiting Mrs. Fulton's mother, Mrs. Oce Trott.
Oklahoma City January 12. A joint session of code committees adopted a Hatchett offered resolution stating the code commission is entitled to no pay as the appropriation was exhausted almost a year ago. The commission has worked since 1910 hoping for a deficiency appropriation. Today's action leaves commissioners unable to collect salary or expenses.
January 9 report shows good attendance despite cold days. Fourth years finish physiology and add time for spelling. sixth and seventh years hold a geography contest with sixth years three points ahead. Notable notes include new students Mahle Casto and Dave Hardin. Beulah Tucker from Afton visited. Maynard Rafferty started arithmetic work. Bessie Sweatman back in school. plan for entertainment and box supper. seventh year students build houses and plaster, now laying carpets.
Spokane activists civic leaders and working women urge Governor Marion B Hay to deny petitions to excuse women electors from jury service. Led by Washington Equal Suffrage League president Mrs Huy Arkwright Hutton and Spokane clubwoman A P Fassett, letters argue duties of citizenship require jury duty. Voters also register for March city elections to choose five commissioners replacing Mayor Nelson S Pratt.
Federal Judge Campbell issued four rulings on taxing Indian lands in Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw nations. Inalienable homesteads of one half or more Indian blood or certain heirs are non taxable. Full blood lands in 1908 are non taxable, while mixed blood inherited lands were taxable. Freedmen lands, except homesteads, were taxable. minors’ lands were often non taxable. Government accepts, states may resist.
Kansas City stock yards report week long price shifts with cattle receipts up while feeders hold, steers 5.00 to 6.25, top 6.50. cows 4.00 to 5.26, veals up to 8.50. Hog market up last week, run 11,000 today, top around 7.97, average week value 7.92. Lambs and sheep wobble, lambs 6.40, yearlings 5.60, general nervousness in the market remains.
Oklahoma City reports both houses convened only for brief sessions Tuesday except for a joint session when Governor Cruce delivered his first message. One bill was discussed and then indefinitely postponed regarding punishment for publishing secret fraternal works, claimed as protection for Odd Fellows. Also, a resolution urged creation of an orphan’s home on the east side. Senate chairmanship began with Lt. Gov. McAlester presiding. In Washington, the House passed the Sulloway general pension bill granting Civil War and Mexican War veterans pensions and adding about forty-five million dollars over four years.
The state supreme court issued numerous rulings yesterday across counties including Stephens, Pontotoc, Garf ield, McClain, Oklahoma, and more. Many appeals were affirmed or reversed and remanded. several cases were dismissed or otherwise disposed of. The proceedings also include a habeas corpus remand and a note about a bank and life insurance policy interpretation. A classified line seeks straw for shipment in Kansas.
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