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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1911
Page
2
Unofficial returns show the railroad amendment trailing by about 1500 votes with 74 of 77 counties reporting. Three counties did not vote and ballots in McCurtain Delaware and Seminole are missing. official tallies expected by afternoon may settle the outcome.
Washington April 28 A bill to enlarge the national house from 91 to 430 or 433 members and apportion them by census passed the house after long party driven debates. Amendments to shift redistricting power to governors and to limit future size were defeated amid partisan contention.
The district size proposals drew cross party support and opposition. Republicans argued a larger house would be unwieldy while insurgent Republicans led the vigorous push against the increase, reflecting intra party conflicts.
Representative Cullop of Indiana accused Postmaster General Hitchcock of creating and presiding over a powerful political machine within the post office department. He said the president’s power to appoint government employees is too dangerous to trust in one man.
Judge Ross L. Lockridge addressed delegates of the state conference of charities and corrections in Vinita explaining how crime is financed by city penalties. He cited Shawnee’s success in suppressing gambling dens by strict law enforcement and imprisonment, urging Vinita to adopt similar measures and predicting his future work.
The S W Brundage Carnival company arrived in Vinita from Oswego Kansas after noon yesterday. It will be on private lots along South Wilson Street under Civic Club sponsorship with favorable weather expected to draw patrons. In New York a man claiming to be James Burke said Mrs O H P Belmont was his wife and was arrested after a Plaza Hotel fight. He was fined ten dollars and jailed due to lack of funds.
President Taft begins a Senate canvass on Canadian reciprocity with Senators Owen of Oklahoma and Gallinger of New Hampshire. Owen indicates support for the measure while Gallinger says he will not back it.
In Los Angeles on April 29 the McNamara brothers and Ortie McManigal, accused in a dynamite plot against the Times, refuse to talk to any defense lawyers including Harriman Hilton Darrow. Sheriff Hammel and DA Fredericks maintain strategy centers on the brothers. Burns in Chicago plans to place all evidence with Fredericks. Darrow says he may defend if union backing and unity are secured.
The Oklahoma state food and drug commission adopted a new ice cream standard effective May 1, 1911. It defines ice cream as a frozen product from cream whole milk and sugar with not less than 10 percent milk fat and limits gelatin to 3 ounces per 10 gallons. Artificial colors must be certified and labeled, and fillers or powders are prohibited. The commission outlines concerns about gelatin, gums, and homogenizer technology and rejects skimmed milk and butter products from homogenizers as proper ice cream.
The proposal seeks months to secure relief and avoids hardship on the manufacturer. It calls for a uniform standard of butter fat correlated with current usage. The ruling would establish uniformity, reduce gelatin and gum substitutes, and prevent cream marketed by mechanical processes from gaining an unjust advantage.
In Ottawa Sir Wilfrid Laurier pressed for ratification of reciprocity, saying his duty to Canada overrides attendance at imperial events if opposition blocks the accord. In Washington, Democrat push for reciprocity spurred annexation talk as Prince of Illinois warned the tariff fight may widen.
Oklahoma City April 29 attorney W A Ledbetter filed in Pawnee county district court for C F Seivally Ardmore to begin drilling on a state school land quarter in Pawnee. He claims agricultural lessee Sewell denies access and hosted a shotgun encounter as machinery sits ready. Ledbetter says organized resistance by many agricultural lessees blocks development unless damages cited as exorbitant. State school land leasing act supposedly grants mineral lessee immediate possession. action referred to attorney general for necessary steps.
Representative Carter of Oklahoma left several telegrams with the president protesting against the alleged activities of W. M. Locke tribal chief of the Choctaw nation in Washington D C on April 29.
Federal Envoy confirms El Paso as the peace conference venue for Mexican insurrection talks. Judge Francisco I. Madero may appoint multiple commissioners including Vasquez Gomez. Don Fredericko Moye heads to Mexico City then Chihuahua. Ernesto Madero returns to Monterey. Bernardo Madero’s return causes unease though Madero says tranquility will soon return.
After a Tuesday special election the state board reports about fifty-one of seventy-seven counties with a 3999 vote margin against the amendment barring foreign railroad control. Some precincts remain uncounted and three counties did not vote due to no ballots. A new fight may follow if congress approves the apportionment bill and a special legislative session is called.
The international exhibition of industries and labor in Turin opened today as the largest event of its kind in Italy. Fifteen thousand exhibitors from foreign countries participate, showcasing a broad array of industrial advances and labor innovations.
Vice President Corral of Mexico, speaking to the Associated Press in Paris on May 1, denied ever giving an interview at Santander or elsewhere in which he criticised Americans for fomenting the Mexican revolution.
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