Oklahoma City Chosen Permanent State Capital After Vote
Governor C N Haskell proclaims Oklahoma City the permanent seat of government after a June election totaling 95,506 votes for location and 64,501 against. The final tallies show Oklahoma City with 96,261 votes in favor, Shawnee 8,382, Guthrie 31,301, and the measure creating the Capital Commission approved.
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C. N. Haskell
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Texas Dept Store Closed by Court Enjoins Sale
A federal court forbids the Texas Department store from retail and proposed wholesale sale of Texas Department Store property as temporarily enjoined actions. The order blocks movements and directs preservation of assets pending further litigation.
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Texas Department Store
Temporari
Hearing at M Alester June 28 on Texas Department Store case
Creditors push for receiver sale while federal court delays decision on involuntary bankruptcy. Receivership was halted by a federal injunction pending a June 28 hearing to determine bankruptcy merits. About $18 000 in liabilities and competing actions across district and federal courts mark a complex dispute.
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Proclamation Calls Oklahoma State Election on June Eleventh
The governor issued a proclamation for a special election across Oklahoma on June eleventh in the hundred and ten year to decide a state question and initiative petition measure. The action invites qualified electors to participate in the vote on the proposed measure initiated by the legislature and seaf.
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Oklahoma
Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy Praise
Advert says the remedy cures and saves lives in bowel complaints with worldwide approval. Claims no other medicine matches its effectiveness. Sold by all dealers.
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Chamberlain
Marriage license price set to rise in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City reports new law raises marriage license fee to three dollars starting June 19 after the legislature fixed the change. Those seeking licenses are urged to apply before the deadline, as many couples anticipate a rush on the prior Saturday.
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Oklahoma City
Stray Dogs Targeted by Chief Culver in Friday’s Daily
Chief Culver aims to rid the town of stray dogs. Four canines fell yesterday afternoon, a number lamented as four rather than forty.
Mail robberies unearthed in Kennedy depot break
Post Office Inspector C. B. Anderson returned from Kennedy reporting a systematic mail robbery discovered after the old San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway platform was torn away. Many packages lost since Christmas were found and some jewelry recovered as authorities investigate. no arrests yet.
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Tex
C. B. Anderson
Kennedy
Aransas Pass
Gas and Oil Found In Paying Quantities At Poteau
Gas in paying quantities has been found in LeFlore county Oklahoma and plans are made to pipe it into Poteau. Oil and gas men from across the state are present and a new field may supply all leading Arkansas cities if constitutional limits on gas exports are removed.
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Leflore
Arkansas
Governor Haskell Leads Oklahoma Capitol Move Victory
Oklahoma City's victory in the capital race is celebrated with a parade and speeches. Gov. Haskell, along with Sidney L. Brock and C. G. Jones, speaks to about ten thousand people at State Fair Park as the capital shifts from Guthrie to Oklahoma City amid legal and political debate.
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Capitol Committee
Guthrie
W. B. Anthony
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Paul Revere
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Rio Grande Matter Before the President
The plan to convert the Rio Grande into a system of reservoirs to irrigate up to one million acres on the Texas and Mexican sides will be presented to President Taft. A Mission group urges abrogation of the navigational treaty with Mexico and a new irrigation treaty to define water rights and enable dams and gravity-fed canals.
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Rio Grande
Texas
del Ario
Brownsville
Taft
Lawrence E. Bennett
Mission
Hidalgo County
Garner
Mexico
Mission Truck Growers’ Association of Mission, Tex
United States
Treay
Ada Post Office Salaries and Limited Number of Offices
The Ada post office pays $2,300 a year and there are only eleven offices, indicating limited postal service capacity and staffing.
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Ada
Runaway Horse Force Water to Give Up Dead
A runaway horse on an Erie canal bridge caused a commotion in the water in Utica New York on June 18. The submerged body of a man surfaced later with a union button and a letter reading Your dear wife Anna found in his clothes.
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N. Y
Anna
Dad Sparks Fined in Shawnee Disturbing Peace Case
Shawnee Oklahoma June 17 Dad Sparks fined five dollars in police court for disturbing the peace after a fracas with Socialist speaker S J Clark on the street Wednesday afternoon Clark was released after proving no part in the affair and the incident was ruled a disturbance of the peace
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Shawnee
Okla
Dad” Sparks
S. J. Clark
Expositions Push Requires $7.5 Million for Panama Celebration
Washington June 16 The House Foreign Affairs Committee says San Francisco and New Orleans must raise 7.5 million dollars before gaining government endorsement for Panama Canal celebration expositions. No foreign nations will be invited to participate until funding targets are met.
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San Francisco
New Orleans
Panama Canal
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Kansas University Records Earthquake Shocks
Earthquake shocks were recorded at Kansas University in Lawrence starting at 12 45 a m and lasting two and a half hours The disturbances are estimated to have originated about 3 500 miles away and were felt across the region.
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Kas
Kansas University
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