County seats set in all but one Oklahoma county
Oklahoma constitutional convention notes county seats located in seventy-four of seventy-five counties with Sayre named despite earlier Sayre and Pond Creek shifts. Deliberations include a six mile rule for temporary seats and a controversial Bristow Sapulpa clash. Debates over terms for state officers and rail land ownership also outlined.
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Moman
Wagoner
Beckham
Sapulpa
Bristow
Grant County
Pond Creek
Medford
Alderson
Hendricks
Herring
Elk City
Sayre
Hansam
Coweta
Murray
Haskell
Congress
Filson
Cobb
Burford Likely Judge in Western Oklahoma District
Judge John H. Burford of the Oklahoma Supreme Court presses his bid for federal judge of the Western Oklahoma district after meetings with Attorney General Bonaparte and talks with the president. Western leaders expect his victory while appointments for marshal and clerks are outlined, including Aburnathy for Western marshal and Porter for Eastern marshal.
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Oklahoma
Washington
John H. Burford
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Bonaparte
Burford
United States
Marshal Abernathy
Marshal Porter
Indian Territory
Roosevelt
Charles Watson
Representative Watson
Indiana
P. Harrison
Muskogee
Speaker Cannon
Cannon
Illegally Issued Chickasaw Warrants Total $62,000
Secretary Hitchcock reports Congress that Chickasaw Indian officials issued warrants totaling $62,000 without department approval. The overdrawn salaries include $1,876 for Governor Johnston and $8,584 for council members.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Congress
Department
Johnston
Council
Oklahoma County Seats Fight Recalled From Committee
Insurgents won a narrow vote to send the county boundaries report back to the boundaries committee delaying temporary county seat locations in Eufaula McIntosh and other counties. The move follows clashes over removal of Capital of Grant county and a push to ease ballot access for rival towns. The initiative and referendum measure faces opposition over constitutionality concerns.
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Guthrie
Moman
Harper
Geckham
Eufaula
McIntosh County
Checotah
Grant County
Pond Creek
Medford
Murray-Haskell
Oklahoma
Kornegay
Winita
Washington
Two Put 27 to Flight Battle With Winchesters on Territory
In Sapulpa a group claiming to be Texas Oil Co employees, led by J. M. Sloan and J. S. Sharp, drove 27 Litchfield & Sawyer workers from Zeek Morris farm and seized a newly erected derrick amid gunfire. The dispute over overlapping leases is headed to federal court for decision. Zeck Morris, landowner, is jailed in Kansas for fraudulent leases. Sloan runs Oklahoma Iron Works Tulsa. Sharp works in Texas Co leasing.
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Winchesters
Sapulpa
Texas Oil Company
J. M. Sloan
J. S. Sharp
Litchfield & Sawyer
Zeek Morris
Federal
Zeck Morris
Kansas Penitentiary
Solan
Oklahoma Iron Works
Tulsa
Sharp
Texas Company
Sulsa
Gulf
Adrain Melton Elected City Attorney
Adrain Melton of Bond and Melton in Chickasha was elected city attorney for the current year replacing resigning Attorney Burna.
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Adrain Melton
Tuttle
Attorneys of Bond and Melton
Chickasha
Burna
Oklahoma asylum bill moves to president for Fort Supply site
The senate passed a measure legalizing the Oklahoma territorial legislature to locate the asylum at Fort Supply. The bill already cleared the house and awaits the president's signature. The decision ends a long running feud over the asylum location in Oklahoma.
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Washington
Senate
Oklahoma Territorial
Fort Supply
House
Oklahoma
County Seat Change Debate Shapes Constitutional Amendment
A special report outlines proposed amendments to county seat relocation rules. It details voter thresholds, petition requirements, and election timing, with changes to post 1909 majorities and stricter center-distance rules. The convention debated initiative thresholds and handled Moman county status amid narrowing recommendations.
Oklahoma seeks federal talks on lands in Indian Territory
Guthrie reports the constitutional convention special committee on segregated coal and asphalt lands has drafted a memorial urging Congress and the president to begin negotiations for Oklahoma to purchase the lands. The panel estimates a price near 15 million dollars and backs state ownership and operation of the mines and lands.
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Guthrie
Indian Territory
Congress
Oklahoma
Suffrage Committee Plans Report On Woman Suffrage
Chairman George Henshaw says the committee on suffrage is drafting a report on woman suffrage and will report soon. Two propositions before the committee on suffrage limit the vote by education or a poll tax, but both likely to be rejected in favor of unlimited suffrage. Henshaw advocates removal of voter qualifications to improve political and social conditions and expects a broad convention stance.
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George Henshaw
Committee On Suffrage
Henshaw
Labor Arbitration Committee Reports Progress at Convention
Delegate Pete Hanraty chairman of the committee on Labor and Arbitration says the panel is well under way and will report to the convention in a few days. He notes the eight hour proposal will require all operators to refer labor disputes to a state board of arbitration.
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Pete Hanraty
Committee On Labor and Arbitration
Land sale by secret bids on Creek homestead at Weleetka
On Monday February 18 forty acres of Martin Lowe’s Creek homestead in Weleetka will be sold by secret bids. The property sits near townsite potential with three acres already condemned for school purposes. Bids open in the office of Tams Bixby.
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Martin Lowe
Weleetka
Tams Bixby
Oklahoma convention roils over immunity and corporate power
A heated Oklahoma convention session centered on corporation immunity, with Johnston and Kane pushing for records access while Baker and Murray sparred over legal principles. Debate touched on separate coach proposals and a provision requiring witnesses to testify without immunity, as delegates weigh business influence and constitutional change.
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Oklahoma
Rock Island
John A. McAtee
Cassius M. Barnes
Santa Fe
Johnston
Baker
Murray
Kling
Capitol Nation
King
Hughes
Committee On
Rose of
Blackwell
Asp of
Guthrie
Ellis
Orlando
Kane
Committee On General Provisions
Fred C. Tracy
Beaver
Roosevelt
Tracy
Johnston of Perry
King of
Haskell
Muskogee
Wewoka
Kornegay
Winita
Williams
Durant
Rose
Pittman
Enid
Spoons and Tillman clash over Brownsville affair in Senate
In a heated Senate session Senator Spooner rebuked Senator Tillman for his anti presidential critique over the Brownsville incident. Spooner cited inability to identify suspects and condemned lynching remarks while Tillman warned he would respond to the insults.
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Washington
Spooner
Wisconsin
Brownsville
Senator Tillman
Tillman
Texas
Cuba
Mr. Tillman
South Carolina
Commissioner Prouty Named to Conduct Freight Hearing
Judge Charles A. Prouty is assigned by the Interstate Commerce Commission to Oklahoma City to hear complaints from local shippers alleging discrimination in freight rates by Rock Island and other railroads. Hearings run January 31 and February 1 with hearings across the U.S. through March. shippers praise the move as delays in freight service menace cotton coal and grain trades.
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Commissioner Prouty
Charles A. Prouty
Interstate Commerce Commission
Oklahoma City
Rock Island
Oklahoma
Washington
United States
Lane
Pacific Coast
Prouty
Denver
Texas
Clark
Middle West
Clements
San Francisco
Houston
Fort Worth
Wichita
Cedar Rapids
Kansas City
Omaha
Chicago
St. Louis
Cromwell
Charles West
Enid
Oklahoma Board of Health moves to curb smallpox spread
Oklahoma health officials order county officers to combat a smallpox outbreak in Comanche Kiowa and Lincoln counties. Physicians failing to report cases face prosecution while principals push vaccination for school children and tighter medical licensing and quarantine powers. Rock Island line progress near Shawnee noted.
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Oklahoma Board of Health
Guthrie
Oklahoma
Comanche
Kiowa
Lincoln
County Board of Health
Board of Health
Small counties seek fair judicial districts in Oklahoma
J M Sandlin of Prague chairs the constitutional convention committee on judicial apportionment. The panel has met once and will not push results until the judicial department reports. Potawatomi County Bar backs creating a new Seminole nation district with Pottawatomie, avoiding Oklahoma county. Smaller counties fear being crowded by larger neighbors. Objections target Tulsa Muskogee McAlester and similar pairings.
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Guthrie
J. M. Sandlin
Prague
Committee On Judicial Department
Pottawatomie
Oklahoma County
Lincoln County
Indian Territory
Muskogee
McAlester
Tulsa
939 True Bills Against Oil Firms and Trustees
The Hancock county January grand jury returned 939 indictments against Standard Oil of New Jersey Standgra Oil Ohio Ohio Oil Buckeye Pipe Line Solar Refinery Manhattan Oil John D Rockefeller H H Rogers Wesley Tiford John D Archbold Frank C Bartow William Rockefeller and F T Cuthbert for alleged conspiracy to restrain trade.
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Findlay
Hancock County Grand Jury
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Standgra Oil Company of
Ohio
Ohio Oil Company
Buckeye Pipe Line Company
The
Solar Refinery Company
Manhattan Oil Company
John D. Rockefeller
H. H. Rogers
Wesley Tiford
John D. Archbold
Frank C. Barstow
William Rockefeller
F F. T. Cuthbert
Tobacco chewers to be expelled from University of Nebraska
The Boston Globe notes that expelling cigarette stokers would empty many campuses and questions how many students would remain if such a policy were enforced at all universities.
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Rom
University of Nebraska
The
Boston Globe
Quote from Judge on Those Who Never Go
A judge remarks that some men never go and are right not to. The comment suggests a view on attendance and participation in certain matters.
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Tru
Carves Artificial Teeth Miss Bartlett of Boston
Miss Madeline A Bartlett of Boston is noted for carving artificial teeth. The brief item highlights her craftsmanship in dental work and local reputation in the city.
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Madeline A. Bartlett
Bos
Woman Rescued by Porter During Train Incident
Mrs. R A Sullins of Newkirk drew herself in front of a Santa Fe passenger train but was saved by a hotel porter. The couple were reportedly in a divorce proceeding and she carried several thousand dollars. She acted strangely all day, slipped from the hotel, went to the depot, and returned to Newkirk.
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R. A. Sullins
Newkirk
Perry
R.A. Sullins
the Depot
Kentuckians swindled by false Wilburton land deals revealed
Wilburton officials report a large land swindle involving Spiro Townsite and hundreds of Kentucky buyers who paid cash for supposed building lots. Investigations show the hillside plots are rocky and prone to floods with no real access. Montgomery of Providence, Ky, plans to sue for recovery and urges government action. Letters from victims describe failed deeds and misrepresented properties.
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Wilburton
Indian Territory
Wilburtop
Montgomery
Providence
Kentucky
Spiro Townsite Company
Spiro
I. T
Lowery
J. A. Davis
Kelly
M. Roberts
Adair, Ky
Tulsa Girl Drinks Poison to Flee to Her Lover
Gertrude Vann, twenty, staggered to the home of her sweetheart William Grubbs after crying he had taken poison. Grubbs carried her to a physician but she died on a crowded street corner from the strychnine she had taken, a suicide amid a quarrel.
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Tulsa
Gertrude Vann
William Grubbs
Grubbs
Tuttle Approves Plan for New School Building
The city council adopted a resolution directing the city attorney to draft an ordinance issuing school bonds to fund a $15,000 school building in Tuttle by the start of the next school year.
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Tuttle
Work Ceased at Glenn Pool Amid Heavy Mud
Tulsa reports weather delays forcing suspension of all work at Glenn pool for a week or ten days. Mud reaches a foot or more, hindering transport of supplies. Some attempted to drive from Sapulpa but stopped two miles out and walked in.
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Tulsa
Glenn Pool
Sapulpa
Drummer Impersonator Puts On Theatrical Stunt in Nashville
A Cincinnati musician posing as famed journalist Richard Harding Davis staged a life themed prank in Nashville’s prominent social circle known as the 400. No injuries reported as the impersonation drew both intrigue and laughter among attendees.
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Cincinnati
Richard Harding Davis
Nashville
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