Oklahoma Railroads Seek to Restore 2 Cent Passenger Rate
Federal Judge grants temporary injunctions blocking Oklahoma 2c passenger fare law and key freight rate orders. Railroads must record all charges and keep records at every station while seeking reinstatement of the 2c passenger rate or a lower rate, with bonds posted and possible Supreme Court appeal.
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Guthrie
Hook
The
Corporation Commission
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Midland Valley
Kansas City Southern
Katy
Achison
Gulf Line
Commission
Libery
Oklahoma
Union
Missouri
St. Louis
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
8. Louis
Supreme Court of the State
Federal Court
Western District of Oklahoma
Oklahoma AG asks governor for emergency rate-case funds
Guthrie Feb 5 Attorney General West asked Governor Haskell to seek emergency appropriation to carry on rate cases begun in St Louis. He cites temporary injunctions in Leavenworth restraining Oklahoma from enforcing the two century law and seeks funds for travel printing costs and court expenses through 1911. West aims to reopen cases in St Louis with counsel Frederick Judson and urges a law to compel corporations to produce books. West heads to St Louis tomorrow to advance the matter.
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Guthrie
Okla
Haskell
West
St. Louis
Hook
Leavenworth
Oklahoma
Fur Her
Frederick Judson
Wreck kills passenger on Rock Island line near Fourche
At 5 50 this morning a head on collision between east bound freight No 187 and Rock Island passenger No 43 near Fourche Arkansas killed Edward Rawls of Beard Arkansas who rode the blind and injured fifteen passengers and crew. The dead and injured are named with home towns and injuries. Cause cited: passenger was due and waited too long before taking a siding.
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Rock Island
Fourche
Arkansas
Little Rock
Ark
Ait
Edward Rawls
Beard, Ark
Beard
O. T. Fowler
Guthrie
J. M. Hoover
Sickley
Chester Hoover
Mary Hoover
John Hoover
Grigg Palmer
Mayfield
Ohio Republicans Alarmed Over Ellis Resignation
White House announces Wade Ellis resigns as assistant to the Attorney General to chair the Republican Executive Committee of Ohio and lead the state campaign. The president agrees Ellis will be replaced by Bilis after discussions with Senators Burton and Dick and Ohio party leaders.
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Wade Ellis
Department of Justice
Republican Executive Committee of
Ohio
Ellis
White House
Vorys
National Committee
Walter ‘Brown
Republican State Central Committee
Henry A. ‘Williams
Republican State Executive Committee
Deermine
Washington
Bilis
Harmon
Republican Party
Williams
Pittsburg
Cleveland
Burton and
Walter Brown
Pilis
Indiana mine explosion kills ten Hungarians and one American
Ten Hungarians and one American died in a gas explosion at Earnest mine Number 2 slope near Indiana Pennsylvania. One rescuer Andrew Krazzer escaped crawling through gas. rescue bosses and 110 other workers escaped from other headings. Bodies were recovered and to be sent to families for funeral.
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Indiana
Earnest
Jefferson and Clearfield Coal Company
Andrew Krazzer
M. D. and G. Carrying Mail From Monday's Daily
Reading notes indicate M D and G are handling mail duties as listed in Monday's Daily. The item outlines delivery routes and responsibilities assigned to the two parties.
Senator Gore Loses Wallet In St Louis Rush
Senator Gore of Oklahoma arrived in St Louis from Washington penniless after forgetting his pocketbook in the sleeper. He searched for a free telephone to call David Francis and others, then rode away after an automobile exchanged a check for coin.
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St. Louis
Senator Gore
Oklahoma
Washington
David Francis
A Defeat for the Party
Washington dispatch notes that if the next House is Democratic and a Democratic speaker is chosen the defeat is a party one, not just Speaker Cannon’s. If Cannon quits now, it signals personal defeat. his leverage, history, and leadership would suffer while he risks losing influence with a Democratic House and Republican Senate.
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Tav
Washington, D. C
Joe
Cannon
Uncle Joe
Adrich
Boutell
Illinois
Scott
Kansas
Abraham
House
Senate
Cannon Spars With Coalition Over House Rules
Washington reports Speaker Cannon avoided a direct ruling by allowing the House to interpret the rule on the unanimous consent calendar. He noted reforms urged by newspapers and magazines and sought to let the chamber construct its own rule while denying any plan to govern with a small, favored group.
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Washington
Cannon
Republian
House
McLachlan
California
Bank Robbery Strikes Wister Oklahoma early morning
In Poeau near Wister Oklahoma robbers looted the First State bank at about 4 AM and fled toward Kavanaugh Mountain. Bloodhounds were expected to pursue the desperadoes with a loss near 1800 dollars. The entry site showed railroad ties and shingles arranged as a makeshift barrier.
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Poeau, Ok
First State Bank of
Wister
First State Bank
G. A. Nalley
Snow
Konawa Swindler Sam Cook alias Sam Blue Captured
The strong arm of the law arrests Sam Cook known as Sam Blue after five months of beguiling Konawa residents. He posed as a poor, ill man with a sick wife, collecting money for his desolate family while fleeing warrants in Texas. Authorities in Wewoka and Brownwood pursue further charges including adultery and property crimes with rewards offered.
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Sam Blue
Texas
Konawa Bank
Konawa
Sam Cook
Blue
Wolf
Marshal Hoff
Wewoka
Oklahoma
Brownwood
Tex
Marlow
Okla
Cook
Blue-Cook
Conspiracy Indictments Reported Against City Officials
Pittsburg Feb 8 The grand jury returned conspiracy indictments against delinquent tax collector Mex Leslie bank president E H Jennings former councilman Charles Stewart and retired capitalist F F Nicola. Indictments allege bribery of councilmen to select city depositories in 1908.
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Pittsburg
Mex Leslie
E. H. Jennings
Columbia National Bank
Charles Stewant
F. F. Nicola
Cty
Yale Receives 250000 Gift for Mechanical Engineering Lab
New Haven Conn Feb 8 a gift from George G Mason of New York City and William S Mason of Dransen Till both of the days of 1688 in the scientific school amounts to 250000 dollars for a laboratory of mechanical engineering at Yale announced Monday.
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New Haven, Conn
George G. Mason
New York City
William 8. Mason
Dranson, Til
Yale
Clyde Mattox Captured by Osage Officers in Pawhuska
Clyde Mattox, an outlaw, was captured in Pawhuska by the Osage county sheriff s posse in a notorious house of ill fame. He had traveled here hoping his mother still lived in town, but sheriff Bird deputy Ware and other officers moved in with Winchesters and seized him without a shot being fired. Mattox smoked a cigarette after capture and was taken to the sheriff s office, having lived in town for several months since parole.
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Pawhuska
Okla
Clyde Mattox
Osage County
Bird
Ware
Heinze bulk mince meat sale at Walsh's
Bulk mince meat advertised by Heinze at Walsh's with details from the store circular. July 1998 pricing noted.
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Walsh's
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