Hoffman and Owens Appears Easy Winners in Oklahoma
Unofficial returns from seventeen counties show Haskell trailing Cruce in governors race yet leading by small margins as the tally widens. Owen dominates the U S Senate contest with Hoffman second. other state offices show mixed results amid reports of uneven county counts and disputed returns.
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Oklahoma City
Haskell
Cruce
State Committee
Muskogee
Pittsburg
Tulsa
Oklahoma County
Carter County
United States
Robert L. Owen
Roy V. Hoffman
Hoffman
Owen
W. M. Cross
County vote tallies by county for governor race
The list shows vote totals for three candidates Cruce Doyle and Haskell across numerous counties including Carter Choctaw Cleveland Coal Craig Creek Delaware Dewey Grady Haskell Hughes Jefferson Latimer Love Marshall McIntosh Murray Noble Okfuskee Okmulgee Osage Pittsburg Tulsa Woodward.
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Carter County
Cruce
Haskell
Doyle
Choctaw County
Cleveland County
Craig County
Creek County
Delaware County
Dewey County
Grady County
Jefferson County
Latimer County
Love County
Noble County
Okfuskee County
Okmulgee
Osage
Pittsburg
Crute
Tulsa
Woodward County
First Philippine Legislature Proclamation Calls July 30, 1907 Election
Governor Frantz receives the proclamation issued by the governor general of the Philippines calling a general election on July 30, 1907 to elect representatives for a general Philippine assembly with its first session in October. A. J. Titus of Cherokee is president Henry Bowers of Fairview secretary treasurer and Sayre's George Whitehurst is first vice president.
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Iguthrie
Frantz
Philippines
General Philippine Assembly
A. J. Titus
Cherokee
Henry Bowers
Fairview
George Whitehurst
Sayre
Pastor Thwarts Elopement in Lawton Tale
In Lawton, Pastor C. M. Barnes stopped his daughter Elsie Barnes from eloping after finding a letter with details of a planned marriage with P. D. Pevehouse of the Dawson and Suler Produce firm. Elsie, 17, remains at home while Pevehouse has vanished before the meeting.
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Lawton
P. D. Pevehouse
Dawson and Suler Produce Company
C. M. Barnes
Elsie Barnes
Pevehouse
Representatives of New Counties Gather in Lee Hotel
Twenty five representatives from the fourteen new counties met at the Lee hotel in Oklahoma City. They discussed funding and strategies to carry on the injunction fight against submitting the constitution while county boundaries remain fixed.
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Lee Hotel
Oklahoma City
Thain Wreckers in Seclusion Near Lawton
Secret service investigators indicate that a revenge motive drives the Thain wreckers who opened a switch at the Oklahoma City and Western yard in Altus about four weeks ago, causing a derailment and the death of an engineer in April. Detectives report repeated switch tampering but no further accidents have occurred, and arrests are expected soon.
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Lawton
Frisco
Oklahoma City & Western
Altus
Oklahoma Man Killed in Panama Canal Zone Rail Accident
Robert Hulme son of L H G Hulme a Weathford merchant was killed in a railroad accident in the canal zone on the Isthmus of Panama. Hulme served as a Rough Rider under Roosevelt in the Spanish American War and twice in the US Army. Remains to be shipped to Bowie Texas for burial.
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Lawton
Robert Hulme
L. H. G. Hulme
Weatherford
Canal Zone
Panama
Hulme
Roosevelt
United States
Bowie
Texas
Creek Nation mourns John Francis a longtime Creek council member
John Francis a full blood Creek and longtime Creek council member since post civil war reorganization died this week. A Union veteran who fought all four years and wore his uniform at burial he was praised for organizing skill and power to block or pass measures. Funeral featured interpreter William McCombs delivering Creek language oration amid strong audience applause. Francis lived 72 years and was mourned as a brave figure who stood on every hilltop of the nation during the war.
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Eufaula
Joe Cannon
The
Creek National Council
John Francis
Creek Council
William McCombs
I Creek
Francis
McCombs
Design for Oklahoma seal blends five tribes with Territory emblem
Jap E Peddicord of Oklahoma City explains the state seal adopted by the constitutional convention. The central five pointed star bears the Labor Omnia Vincit device from Oklahoma Territory. Rays show Cherokee seven pointed star, Chickasaw warrior, Creek wheat and plow, Choctaw tomahawk and arrows, Seminole village and canoe. Forty five stars cluster around, with the inscription GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA 1907.
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Territory of
Oklahoma
Jap E. Peddicord
Oklahoma City
Territory
Union
State OF
Would-Be Slayer Guilty Tulsa
In federal court Joseph Smith pleaded guilty to robbery and received a ten year Leavenworth sentence. He had robbed a boy at Jenks and attempted to drown him, then fled. A posse tracked him for 20 miles until capture four miles north of the city. Jim Turner, a colored boy, pled guilty to larceny and was sent to the Boys Industrial School in Washington DC.
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Tulsa
Joseph Smith
Leavenworth
Smith
Jenks
Jim Turner
Boys’ Industrial School
Washington, D. C
Jim
Lawrence
Post Offices Salaries Raised for July First
Washington announces readjustment of postmasters' salaries with July 1 effective dates across Indian Territory. Cities listed include Antlers Ardmore Atoka Bristow Chelsea Chickasha Claremore Coalgate Davis Eufaula Henryetta Hugo Marietta Marlow Miami Minco Mounds Muskogee Okmulgee Pauls Valley Pryor Creek Roff Salisaw Sapulpa South McAlester Stigler Sulphur Tahlequah Tishomingo Tulsa Winita Weleetka Wewoka with specific new annual pay figures for each postmaster location.
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Antlers
Ardmore
Atoka
Bristow
Chelsea
Chickasna
Claremore
Coalgate
Davis
Eufaula
Henryetta
Hugo
Marietta
Marlow
Miami
Minco
Mounds
Muskogee
Okmulgee
Pauls Valley
Pryor Creek
Roff
Salisaw
Sapuipa
South McAlester
Stigler
Sulphur
Tahlequah
Tishomingo
Tulsa
Winita
Weleetka
Wewoka
Bankers to Meet at Sulphur May 1998 Gathering
T. J. Hartman of the executive board travels from Oklahoma City for Sulphur to review the Okla homa and Indian Territory Banker's association planning. The board organized five regional groups with a president and secretary each to hold at least one meeting before the joint annual session in Sulphur in May 1998.
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T. J. Hartman
Oklahoma and Indian Territory Banker's Association
Oklahoma City
Association For Sulphur
Marshals Wife Suit Sparks Oklahoma Oddity
United States Marshal George H. Pritchard of South McAlester is sued by Dr. J. J. Dunning of North McAlester for alienating his wife’s affections. Dunning seeks 25000 dollars. Dunning, a noted druggist and former priest who educated the wife, accuses Pritchard of engagement in Washington on business and cites his North Carolina sheriff days.
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Muskogee
United States
George H. Pritchard
South McAlester
J. J. Dunning
North McAlester
Dr. Dunning
Mr. Pritchard
Washington City
McAlester
Old Town
Marshal Pritchard
North Carolina
Busby
United States Senate
Oklahoma Magazine plans Jamestown Exposition trip for 75
Editor O P Sturm of the Oklahoma Magazine organizes a two week August tour to Jamestown Exposition for seventy five county young ladies who each secure 200 subscribers. A second trip from Jamestown to New York City and Niagara Falls is also planned with Editor and Mrs Sturm as chaperones.
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Oklahoma City
O. P Sturm
The
Oklahoma Magazine
Jamestown Exposition
Jamestown
New York City
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Strum
Fort Sill Ideal Home of the American Soldier
The piece praises Fort Sill for its rolling prairies timber fringed streams and the Wichita mountains as a backdrop. It calls Fort Sill the ideal home of the American soldier reflecting strong ties to the post and its landscape.
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Major Taylor
Fort Sill
Wichita Mountains
McCracken Acquitted in Barber County Murder Trial
Bud McCracken sheriff of Barber County Kansas was tried before U S Judge Dickers on a murder charge relating to Adam Ward’s death on July 6 1885 and was acquitted He wept when the verdict came and said he was glad the 22 years suspense was over.
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Chickasha
Bud McCracken
Barber County
Kansas
U. S
Dickerson
Adam Ward
Babe Found Dead in Comanche Manger Wrapped in Swaddling
A newborn baby was found dead in a manger at Comanche wrapped in swaddling clothes with unknown parentage. Local authorities are treating the case as an unexplained infant death.
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Comanche
Bigger acreage of cotton revised figures show larger area
The crop reporting board of the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Agriculture, revises the 1906 cotton acreage from June 4 estimate to about 32,049,000 acres, 3,374,000 more than first reported. For 1907 the planted area is about the same as last year, with May 25 crop condition at 70.5 percent versus 84.6 in 1906 and 77.2 in 1905.
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Washington
Crop Reporting Board
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Agriculture
Cop Reporting Board
United States
Conspiracy at Jennings Prompts Suits Against Hold-Overs
A mandamus suit filed in the Oklahoma Supreme Court alleges a conspiracy to block a Jennings town election this spring. Nominees for trustees and town officers accuse current officials of blocking filing papers and seek a July 1 election date. The plaintiffs name trustees N E McNeal C J Shephard and Miller Brown and clerk Frank Adams as defendants.
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Guthrie
Jennings
Oklahoma Supreme Court
E. B. Ham
F. Pierce
J. B. Leep
H. A. Gosney
C. H. Elroy
H. C. Ronake
J. C. Murphy
Wright to Washington on consolidation of Indian agency and five tribes office
United States Indian Inspector J. George Wright was called to Washington to discuss consolidating the Indian agency with the office of the commissioner of the five tribes.
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Muskogee
United States
J. George Wright
Washington
Indian Agency
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Henry M. Furman
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J. S. Murray
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Dunlop
Menefee
Cameron
Kane
Superintendent of Public Instruction
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Campbell Patton
Atoka County
Coal County
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