Roosevelt Declares Currency Reform Urgently Needed
President Roosevelt's last annual message to Congress praises current finances but faults the currency system. He discusses past monetary actions, canal bonds, and a plan to expand interstate control over railroads and communications while urging tax reform, civil service expansion, and stronger national oversight of commerce and justice.
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Currency Commission
Treasury Department
United States
Rnment
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
District of Columbia
Treasury’s Indian budget details for Oklahoma
Secretary Cortelyou’s proposed 1910 Indian budget includes 300000 for Benedict school system continuation in the Five Civilized Tribes, funds for Dawes Commission work, removal of land restrictions, and minor allottee supervision. The plan aims to open individual accounts, pace disbursements, and settle titles for Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw lands amid court litigation.
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Indian Timber Lands
Protec- CM d
Chiloeco School
Congress
Forestry Bureau
East Oklahoma
Five Civilized Tribes
Treasury Department
Garfield
Oklahoma
Cameron
J. D. Benedict
Sherman
House Committee On Indian Affairs
Curtis
Intrior Department
Dawes Commission
United States
Indian Affairs Committee
Bridge collapse on Fort Sill reserve sinks eight soldiers
On the Fort Sill reservation Cache creek bridge weakened by age and floods collapsed this afternoon. Eight artillerymen and their horses fell into raging waters. two soldiers died Bryant and Maxwell seriously wounded Hicks and several others injured. Twenty mounted artillerymen were fighting a prairie fire when the disaster occurred as some escaped across the bridge while others were still crossing.
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Lawton
Okla
Cache Creek
Fort Sill
Bryant
Maxwell
First Field Artillery
Hicks
Battery C
Wreck near Haney claims two lives on Santa Fe line
Frosty rails caused wheel slip as a fast southbound Santa Fe passenger train applied airbrakes at Haney siding eleven miles south of Amarillo Texas. A collision with the northbound train killed two persons and seriously hurt two others, with several more lightly injured. Track cleared within an hour after wreckage removal.
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Amarillo
Tex
Stanta Fe
Haney
Meeting Point
Pontotoc County Tax List Nearing Completion
Pontotoc County prepares its tax list with about 5 500 taxpayers including realty personal and non residents. Taxpayers paying half before December 15 have until June 15 1909 to pay the rest. If half is not paid by December 15 the full tax is due January 15 with penalties. Very small percentage have paid so far.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Europe
Pontotoc County
Kerr
Rit Erwin
The New Oklahoma State Bank Showcased in Ada
Public notice urges examination of the Oklahoma State Bank of Ada after closing November 27. Bank resources and deposits at Citizens National are not yet liquidated and the New State Bank has just opened. President Col J W Hays and cashier Durwood Hays formerly led Citizens National.
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State Bank
Citizens National Bank
New
Oklahoma State Bank
Col
J W. Hays
Durwood Hays
Citixena
National
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