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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1908
Page
7
County officials in Vinita Oklahoma announce the official tax levies for the 1909 fiscal year ending June 30. County Treasurer E D Ficklin and Craig County Clerk Nix certify levies totaling 1 1/4 mills across Knox and Craig counties.
In a statement Samuel Gompers denounces President Roosevelt as shifting from friendship to bitter antagonism over the writ of injunction in labor disputes. He recalls discussions on rights and liberties and notes Roosevelt did not deem labor aims as lawless or brutal, though views differed.
The Associated Press reports widespread snowfall across northern Kansas with four inches measured in parts since last evening, much of it melting. Weather director Jennings notes improving conditions ahead. Meanwhile in St. Joseph Missouri and Leavenworth Kansas, early snowfalls marked the season with heavy flakes beginning today and continuing into forenoon.
Call issued to colored teachers across Ottawa Delaware Mayes Craig Nowata Rogers Washington Tulsa counties to gather in Vinita Oklahoma Saturday October 31 1908 at 9 am and 2 pm in the colored school building Public entertainment at County courthouse 8 pm Program includes songs prayers addresses readings and discussions on temperance agriculture and citizenship asserting property ownership as civic good
Denver, Colo Oct 23 The thirty fifth annual National Womans Christian Temperance Union convention met in the Auditorium with a three session per day program. Key events include Lilian M N Stevens delivering the homing address and the afternoon report of the secretary and treasurer.
A gasoline speeder collided with a freight car on the Newton & Northwestern railroad four miles northwest of Gowrie Iowa. John Shiver and Ed Guinn both of Rinard were killed. One person fatally injured, two seriously hurt and two slightly hurt in the crash.
Rain lashes Vinita and vicinity with 4.3 inches in 36 hours breaking local records. Caney and Verdigris rivers rise across Bartlesville and Coffeyville regions, washing out bridges and delaying trains. Flooding menaces bottom lands while weather spreads across Oklahoma.
High Verdigris River near Catoosa floods tracks forcing detours for Frisco and Katy routes. Trains across the Frisco lines were halted, then rerouted via Okmulgee Muskogee Vinita and Claremore while officials gauge damage. Water crest believed past. service expected to resume tomorrow.
Report notes gas supply not endangered in Vinita with current flow rising by noon. No danger of immediate cutoff. No tata more than a day without gas in Nowata due to line washout on Verdigris River. Wells on this side limit exposure. risk remains from Big Creek or smaller streams.
The Craig County Sunday School Convention closed after a large meeting at the Auditorium with another session earlier. President Beeler of Henry Kendall College Tulsa could not attend due to high water. Elected for the year: John Franklin president. T F Thompson, vice president. C W Day, assistant secretary. J N Butler superintendent of teachers training. Scott Thompson Welch head of House to House visitation. J R Hopson Welch Home department. T B Harp Temperance. J E Pershing elementary work.
Nashville Tenn October 26 A special term of Oban county court convened at Union City to lay before the grand jury all collected evidence. Governor Patterson attended a court meeting. A man named Weber faces horse stealing charges in the justices court after arrest by Sheriff Riley of Nowote county.
Centerville's prominent physician and surgeon Dr WL Swayers has been summoned to Paris to aid the Duchess of Chauines who is expected to become a mother soon after November tenth. The Duchess is the daughter of TP Shonty and was formerly a Centerville girl.
By Associated Press New York Oct 26 Missing this rain on the Erie railroad by a narrow margin of a few seconds William J Bryan today was compelled to dash through mud covered roads to Patterson New Jersey to keep his word with the people of that city that he would return and make a political speech Bryan arose at six o clock this morning and thought he would have ample time to get to Jersey City and board the Erie train leaving there at 7 10 but he was oestaken His program today calls for an address before the womens democratic club there a speech at Yonkers White Plains Port Chester New Rochelle and Mount Vernon a fist reception and dinner at the national democratic club here and speeches at Cooper Union Palm Garden and at Madison Square Garden.
Guthrie Oklahoma October 24 The St Louis & San Francisco Railway Company yesterday appealed to the supreme court from an order in Tulsa consigning 107 cases of whisky confiscated to the state and turned over to State Dispensary Agent R E Losier The road claims the whisky was shipped from outside the state and that the court interfered with an interstate shipment
The Oklahoma Supreme Court hears a dispute over Wagoner’s status as a first class city and the rightful police judge. Plaintiffs contend the April 7 2008 election was invalid and that Oscar Applegate and others hold or should hold city offices, while defendants claim lawful succession and appointments. The case involves city population, statehood precedents, and who may oust certain officials.
In Tokio on October 23 the American fleet began waving as officers and men prepare to depart Japan. Final farewells will be exchanged at Yokohama before leaving.
New York October 26 Taft faced a strenuous east campaign schedule including a New Haven trip Port Chester speeches a parade a Brooklyn reception and a farmers institute potato race and bucking horse riding contest won by Dan Titte and Bud Belew respectively.
Judge Albert Akers appointed John E Lineham as receiver for Hatfield Creek Breakfast Food Company Limited after a quiet Saturday filing by B S McCay of Buffalo New York. Lineham posted a 200000 dollar bond and immediately assumed control of the property and business of the firm.
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