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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1911
Page
4
The Vinita column muses on June and summer beauty, contrasts old and young, and urges action on civic issues. It urges a new hotel to meet growth, praises Electric Park, and calls for park upkeep and city beautification alongside remarks on agriculture and local business life.
A mix of reflections mentions Oklahoma City capital move critics and a Vinita building boom, with bank deposits guaranteed and Memorial Day sentiments. It recalls Trusts, religion, and a call to live kindly, amid references to July and the civil war anniversary and a poetical line on mortality.
A household near midnight awoke to a feared burglar haunting the stairs. The father urged calm while the mother exclaimed murder. The hired girl fled after revealing stomach troubles and discomfort meeting the householder in his night shirt.
A narrative from a family scene unfolds with a mother angry at a cheating claim in a bridge game at home. The father jokes about weather while the mother accuses others of unfair scoring and hints at social consequences for impropriety. The dialogue reveals pride in a high score and tension over a prize.
The piece argues Col Roosevelt as an advocate for peace even when force is used and contrasts Oklahoma's Porum fight with Kentucky’s Breathitt affair. It notes masked duties by officers and citizens, questions openness, and recalls old Oklahoma history with the Maledony hangman and Parker’s court. It contemplates state obligations under the enabling act and Prohibition’s reach now seen as potentially void.
Memorial Day observance in Vinita included citywide business closures at 10:30 am and bank and post office shutdowns. Citizens gathered at the courthouse for Captain F. J. Barrett’s address, Manton Marrs presented and accepted a Boy Scouts flag, then a procession to the cemetery followed for memorial services and grave floral tributes.
Spokane report details a four million dollar electric power plant planned by Washington Water Power at Long Lake twenty three miles north of Spokane. Four turbines with ninety thousand horsepower capacity will drive power to eastern Washington northern Idaho and western Montana via sixty thousand volt lines. The project expands a growing system that has already invested over seventeen million in street railway lighting and power, and includes construction of a massive dam taller than any in the United States.
R. J. Wright of the Sanders Wright store was suddenly taken ill after lunch today at a downtown restaurant. Medical aid arrived quickly and he was returned home, where he is reported resting better. Cause of the attack is not known, possibly ptomaine poisoning or acute indigestion.
A Sunday night statement by William J. Bryan that he would not seek the presidency centers Washington speculation on his role in nominating a candidate. He is tied in rumors to Clark, Wilson, or Harmon camps, with advisers weighing whether Bryan backs Clark or shifts to Wilson or Harmon's bloc, amid fears of reactionary opposition to a Wilson bid.
In Porum Oklahoma Monday at 10 o clock a masked posse of about thirty members of the Anti Horse Thief Association attacked Pony Starr and Joe Davis at Starrs home. George Maxwell was killed and several others wounded in a half hour battle lasting long.
A mobile posse led by Sheriff Wisener gathers in Porum with twelve deputies two doctors and one nurse as search parties from surrounding counties scour the area for Pony Starr and Joe Davis accused in a killing. Clifford Hosler eighteen died from a Porum fight wound in Muskogee after the incident. The sheriff has halted the search pending promise of voluntary surrender with safety guarantees.
Washington May 30 Associated Press reports that the cabinet and Department of Justice weigh possible criminal charges against members of the tobacco trust dissolved by the Supreme Court. No statement on probable cause was given by Attorney General Wickersham or aides. The ruling declared the American Tobacco Company and allies in violation of the Sherman Act and ordered disintegration or government receivership within six to eight months.
Washington May 40 Willam Jennings Bryan attacked the Parry tariff program in the House and sharply condemned the majority of Democrats who backed the revised wool tariff. Chairman Underwood of Ways and Means said the revised tariff would pass the caucus with a two thirds majority.
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