Oklahoma Constitution Draft Shaped by Apportionment Changes
Guthrie reports detail the Oklahoma convention’s second reading of the apportionment plan. New counties and districts redefine senatorial seats, including Alfalfa joining Blaine and Major, Kingfisher Canadian district creation, and Lincoln and Greer redivisions with voter approval rules for county changes. It also covers suffrage limits, officer roles, and mining and highway provisions shaping the proposed state constitution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guthrie
Oklahoma
Woods County
Blaine
Major
Kingfisher County
Canadian
Oklahoma County
Oklahoma City
Lincoln County
Chandler
Greer County
Greer
Supreme Election Board
United States
Regular
Commissioner of Charities and Corrections
Department of Highways
Oklahoma town lot auction in big pasture eyed by interior department
The interior department plans a May 15 public land sale in Oklahoma with six new town sites in the big pasture. Auctions may replace sealed bids as Lawton Hobart Anadarko precedents. Proceeds go to Kiowa Comanche Apache Indians. buyers seek refunds over misrepresented land quality and bid errors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interior Department
Oklahoma
Randlett
Eschite
Qualah
Isadore
Ahpeatone
Koonkazachey
Lawton Land Office
Oklahoma City Republicans name city ticket
Oklahoma City Republicans held their nominating convention and selected a ticket headed by J. H. Johnston for mayor, with John Hubatka as chief of police, John Hayson as police judge, G. A. Paul as city attorney, George Hess as city clerk, and J. L. Wilkin as treasurer.
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Oklahoma City
J. H. Johnston
John Hubatka
John Hayson
G. A. Paul
George Hess
J. L. Wilkin
Broom Corn Experiments In Oklahoma Start Branch Farms
Guthrie reports expansion of the Oklahoma experiment program under W L English. Branch farms will be established in Woodward and Roger Mills counties to test broom corn and cotton practices, with emphasis on soil, climate, curing, and seed selection to boost Oklahoma yields and profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guthrie
W. L. English
Oklahoma
Stillwater
Territorial Board of Agriculture
Farmers’ Institutes
Woodward County
Oklahoma Broom Corn Belt
Roger Mills County
C. A. McNabb
English
Roger Mills
McNabb
Illinois
Northwestern
Southwestern Stations
Southwestern
Greer County
Stillwater Experiment Station
Mandamus Orders Guthrie City Elections Held
Judge Burford rules that the Guthrie mandamus case requires a spring city election. The enabling act did not suspend city elections and they proceed as usual, affecting all first class cities in Oklahoma Territory. Mayor Duke will abide by the court decision and not appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burford
Guthrie
Duke
Territory
Oklahoma
Supreme Court
Robbers Blow Open Safe Near Negro Family Home
In Muskogee a safe was blown open at L. L. Ellis's grocery store thirty feet from his residence. The cracksmen took $304.65, escaped, and the blast woke nearby residents. Ellis and his wife were asleep with three children in the home. pennies were later found in the wreckage.
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Muskogee
L. L. Ellis
Ellis
Ells
Measure to Benefit Intermarried Whites in Cherokee Nation
Washington reports that Congress bungled a law granting intermarried whites sixty days to sell improvements on allotments in the Cherokee Nation. After the Supreme Court ruled they could not hold such allotments, the president shut the land office to prevent filings. The Indian Bureau drafted a bill to grant whites a sixty day period to dispose of improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Supreme Court
Land Office
Indian Bureau
Fulton Nominated in Second District for Congress
E L Fulton of Oklahoma City was chosen by the Second district democratic convention as the standard bearer against former Governor Ferguson on the fourth ballot after Caddo county shifted 26 votes. The move gave Fulton 107 votes and a unanimous nomination. The meeting opened at 2 pm in the opera house with various committee reports and a memorial urging low interest sales of inherited Indian lands to settlers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geary
E. L. Fulton
Oklahoma City
Ferguson
Oklahoma
Fulton
George E. Black
Taloga
M. R. Shanks
Blaine
Black
Caddo
Canadian
Custer
Woods
George Black
Dewey
Beaver
B. F. Willett
Woodward
Opera House
Agee
Claud McCrory
Alva
Woods County
Scofield
America
Committee On Permanent Organization
J. Will Culwell
Beaver County
L. C. Bradford
el Reno
R. E. Stafford
Secretary of Interior
Constitutional Convention
Shanks
Willett
Nominate
William Jennings Bryan
United
Church Granted Land After Dawes Opinion In Cherokee Case
The attorney general issued an adverse opinion in the Dawes commission contest over J. H. Gleason a mixed Cherokee who willed his allotment to a Catholic church. Gleason’s citizenship was denied in 1902 but he was on the 1880 Cherokee roll. the opinionU grants the church possession of the land for the time being despite Gleason’s bequest and later contest.
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Muskogee
Dawes Commission
J. H. Gleason
Gleason
Indian Schools Closed in Choctaw Nation
About forty six month and in nine more month government schools in the Choctaw nation have closed for the current school year with reports that thirty additional closures will occur soon. The nation operates 165 educational institutions with fifty seven Choctaw and 108 government maintained.
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Muskogee
United States
False arrest suit filed by former railroad agent
R E Dailey, once agent for Chicago Rock Island and Pacific at Minco Indian Territory, sues the railway for 2000 dollars for false arrest and imprisonment. He was arrested February 25 on telegraphic orders, charged with embezzling 160 dollars, released next morning on habeas corpus, re-arrested by a US marshal, and finally released by a US commissioner on March 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
R. E. Dailey
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Minco
I. T
Dailey
Prairie fire kills mother and daughter near Tulsa
Mrs. Frank Carnes and daughter Mary died in a prairie fire on a Collinsville area farm eight miles north of Tulsa Saturday. Frank Carnes, husband and father, was badly burned while trying to rescue them.
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Tulsa
Frank Carnes
Mary
Collinsville
Carload of deeds to deliver tribal titles
A Dawes Commission car bound for Choctaw and Chickasaw lands carries 25 000 homestead and allotment deeds and 7 000 freedmen deeds. The train includes six commission representatives Warren P. Chaney in charge A P Conant J L Gary W A Rambo Frank L Doble Jacob Homer.
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Dawes Commission
Muskogee
Warren P. Chaney
A. P. Conant
J. L. Gary
W. A. Rambo
Frank L. Doble
Jacob Homer
Fatal Train Accident Outside Depot
Henry Butler, who ran a lunch room near the depot, was killed when struck by a Missouri, Kansas & Texas engine while crossing tracks. He was thrown about seventy feet and his body flew through a board fence fifty feet distant as the engine sped by.
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Prior Creek
Henry Butler
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Butler
Boutler
Funds for Comanches to be distributed from pasture land sale
Chief Quanah Parker says, per Indian Commissioner Leupp, proceeds from the big pasture lands sale will be shared with Kiowa and Comanche tribes along with the usual grass money payment this semi annual period.
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Quanah Parker
Indy
Leupp
Two Cities Made First Class Kay County Leads Oklahoma
Acting Governor Charles H. Filson issued proclamations declaring Tonkawa in Kay county and Frederick in Comanche county to be cities of the first class. Lawton is the only other first class city in Comanche. Kay county has Newkirk Ponca City and Blackwell, giving Kay the most first class cities in the state.
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Kay County
Guthrie
Charles H. Filson
Tonkawa
Frederick
Comanche County
Lawton
Kay
Newkirk
Ponca City
Blackwell
Oklahoma
Farewell for Egypt Tackles Tropical Flies
James Hazen Hyde jokes on January hardships in Egypt Morocco and Algeria noting flies as a pest. He recalls a Sahara waiter story about a dead fly in couscous and a comical fatal choking explanation reflecting travel humor.
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Egypt
James Hazen Hyde
New York
Morocco
Algeria
Sahara
Nothing Hard About It Josiah Main Pranks Elders
Josiah Main a Rochester New Hampshire figure famed for wit competes in a bet at a local grocery with Elder Runnals on who can pray better. Main delivers a louder longer prayer, claiming he finished where the elder paused and added what was left out to win the wager of two quarts of rum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josiah Main
Rochester
N. H
Jamie Soutar
Runnals
Siah Main
Main
Kidney and Bladder Ailments Treated by Simple Home Mixture
A well known specialist claims kidney and bladder troubles are often relieved by a home mixture. Fluid Extract Dandelion one half ounce Compound Karyon one ounce Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla three ounces. Dose is a teaspoon after meals and at bedtime. Ingredients are available at pharmacies and mixed by shaking. Victims of urinary diseases should consider this prescription.
Brooklyn mother reforms child with public train spankings
A Brooklyn mother, after failing to control her four year old on an elevated train, warned she would spank at every station. She carried out a spanking at a dozen stations before the bridge, and afterward the child behaved in public.
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Brooklyn
New York Globe
Dog and Rabbit Ase Friends at Dunfermline
A correspondent reports a friendship between a Scotch terrier and a hare in Dunfermline Scotland. They share a hutch and sleep side by side. The dog acts as guardian guarding the hare from near strangers and accompanies it on garden outings.
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Dunfermline
Scotland
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