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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1911
Page
8
Our city will host a modern wireless telegraph station with complete apparatus and recaling stations brought by expert Wm B Patty. He arrives January last day and will demonstrate wireless messaging, ring bells, start motors, and show radium and liquid air experiments at the Auditorium in full view of the audience.
Washington D C Jan 19 after a week long pause the senate resumed consideration of Senator Lorimer's case Two speeches followed one by Burrows supporting Lorimer and another by Borah alleging corruption since Lorimer began his bid for the senate Both speakers analyzed testimony and quoted witnesses while criticizing Representative White whose Chicago newspaper statement sparked the investigation Burrows opens the affirmative defense and observers expect aditional debate before any vote is possible
Oklahoma City faces a political flare as Senate considers Hatchert’s joint resolution to restore the temporary capital to Guthrie due to inadequate Oklahoma City quarters and record storage. A proposed $70,000 loan to Guthrie’s school board for a temporary capitol is likely to fail after attorney general guidance on required public vote.
An exploding engine on a New York Central slow freight near Wende station east of Buffalo killed engineer George Dwier and fireman Cook. Brakeman Richards of Fort Syracuse died later at the emergency hospital.
The state supreme court moved to open the ballot boxes in the election contest case brought by defeated Democratic candidates. It ordered the St. Louis election commission to compare ballots with voting and registration lists and certify if ballots are numbered to match the lists and to recount them.
San Diego California January 18 securing the services of Frank P Allen Jr director of works for the Panama California Exposition ensures Balboa park buildings and grounds will be ready when gates open Director General D C Collier notes two buildings to begin within three months Olmsted plans call for larger grounds and more buildings than prior expositions with expansive archaeological ethnological displays an art museum and spectacular features planned for a more attractive west coast show than any prior event.
United States senators were elected in many states with varying outcomes. Alabama reelects John J. Bankhead. Connecticut picks George Payne Molean. Indiana selects John W. Kern. Maine, Charles F Johnston. Massachusetts approves Henry Cabot Lodge. Michigan elects Charles H. Townsend. Minnesota reelects Vlapp. Missouri elects James A. Reed. Nebraska G M Hitchcock. New York William F Sheehan leads. North Dakota McCumber and Grenna win. Pennsylvania George T Oliver reelected. Rhode Island Henry P Lippitt. Utah George A Sutherland. Washington Miles Poindexter reelected. Also note: Muskogee Indian Agent Dana H. Kelsey summoned to Washington to confer on Choctaw lands disposal bill.
James A. Reed of Kansas was formally declared elected United States senator in the Missouri legislature joint session in Jefferson City on January 18. The proclamation came after a formal session where Reed secured enough votes to clinch the seat.
In Washington on January 17, lawmakers reenacted their earlier clash with Cannon as Fitzgerald led a bid to discharge a committee under the new rule. The house defeated Cannon’s ruling 145 to 126 after insurgents and Democrats rallied, defining the rule’s status and its limits on moving army appropriations ahead of committee actions.
Oklahoma City Jan 17 Warden Robert W Dick was fully exonerated on all charges from a select legislative panel investigating McAlester Prison The report cites 350 pages of evidence and finds the prison run economically and professionally with audited expenditures and proper discipline It notes no favoritism nor improper supplies and confirms Dick punished gambling inmates The committee also mentions convict labor for a street railway and an expense recount of 1579 29
Oklahoma City Jan 17 The House sidetracked a resolution by Kesterman Devereaux Rose and Jamison favoring Owen plan to require legislature to vote for the candidate receiving the highest popular vote for US senator. The chamber sent the measure to privileges and elections. The session included discussions on the Roddie Danking bill and several bills affecting state officials and districts.
Washington January 17 President Taft sent to the senate the nomination of Representative Walter J. Smith of Iowa to be circuit judge of the eighth circuit and also nominated Joseph E. De Oliver of Missouri, consul at Madras, to be consul at Managua.
The German submarine U 3 sank today in Kiel harbor after water bunkers flooded. A salvage ship with heavy cranes assisted. the commander reported he and the crew were in no immediate danger as oxygen would last forty eight hours. The U 3 was raised after hours of effort and all crew members were saved.
Washington report says lobbyist McMurray loses favor in Taft administration after D. C. McCurtain is named governor of the Choctaw Nation. Longtime opponents suspect removal of Governor Johnson and curtailment of Indian land and mineral-sales schemes. Cobwebbed tensions rise as federal oversight tightens on Choctaw and Chickasaw affairs amid creditable bribery probes.
In Vinita last evening Isaac Brown Hitchcock died after months of decline at his daughter Mrs Burns home on North Scraper street. He was four o clock yesterday afternoon aged man who guided Cherokee history, survived by son Dr L D Hitchcock of Afton and daughter, with another son Brown Hitchcock deceased at Afton. Funeral at Methodist church at two o'clock. Born February 28 1825, Hitchcock taught among the Indians and spoke Cherokee as fluently as English, often leading congregations in hymns. He was son of Jacob Hitchcock who helped found Dwight Mission.
Washington Jan 17 Senators Aldrich submits a long awaited plan to revise national banking legislation. He endorses a central bank model and proposes a Reserve Association of America with local bank chapters, stockholding banks, fifteen districts, a presidential appointee governor and deputy, and the association as fiscal agent influencing exchange and discount rates.
Eight men were killed and one injured on the U S battleship Delaware as it traveled from Guantanamo Cuba to Hampton Roads. The crew was burned by steam and no further details were released in the wireless message to the Navy Department.
Washington January 17. Society led by Mrs Taft was seated within the bar to hear the closing arguments in the government suit to dissolve Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Mrs Taft and accompanying ladies attended the session.
In Albany on January 17 a deadlock arose from separate ballots by the senate and assembly for United States senator. William F. Sheehan led the Democratic candidates with ninety-one votes in both houses, eight short of the required majority.
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