Consolidation urge for McAlesters under single city name
Two Oklahoma towns McAlester and South McAlester push for formal consolidation. A recent committee agreement calls for submitting terms to both councils and a special election to approve or reject the union. The merged city would span a larger area than either town now possesses.
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South McAlester
I.T
McAlesters
McAlester
South Mc Alester
Alester
Heath Places
Guthrie Delegation Heads for Statehood Convention
Guthrie Oklahoma to send a large delegation to the statehood convention in Oklahoma City Wednesday with a special Santa Fe train for delegates and Logan county citizens. Ex Governor Barnes to chair the Logan county election and many delegates travel today to set up headquarters.
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Guthrie
Oklahoma City
Logan County
Barnes
Plans a Two Mile Petition for Statehood
Guthrie Oklahoma July 10 Scott secretary to Delegate Bird and McGuire prepare a mammoth statehood petition to be taken to Congress next winter. The plan aims to place a petition in every township of the territory seeking statehood with as many signers as possible. Estimated to reach 200000 signatures and about two miles long weighing around Hugh Sopounds.
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Guthrie
O. T
Scott
Bird
McGuire
Congress
Hugh Sopounds
Fire destroys Hugo furniture store and homes
A Saturday fire in Hugo Texas consumed the Thomas furniture store and three small frame houses. Firefighters from Paris helped prevent spread by tearing down another small building near the hotel and post office to halt the flames.
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Paris
Tex
Hugo
I. J
Thomas Furniture
Oklahoma City Convenes Statehood Convention Factions Clash
Special to Evening News reports a heated battle over temporary and permanent chairmanship between Flynn and McGuire factions. Robert L. Williams chairs with Charlie Hunter as temporary secretary. permanent chair to Oklahoma. Delegates from the Sixteenth Recording District named to credentials, organization, and resolutions committees, with W. Bolin as delegation chairman.
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Oklahoma City
Flynn
McGuire
Indian Territory
Robert L. Williams
Rough Rider
Charlie Hunter
Porary
Oklahoma
A.G. Winn
A. J. Nims
H. M. Furman
J. W. Bolin
Presbyterian outing near town on Friday
A Presbyterian school plans a three mile southwest trip this Friday July 14. Attendees should meet at the Presbyterian church at a specified morning hour with well filled baskets. The notice emphasizes community members preparing for a church gathering and travel together.
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Presbyterian School
Ben
Presbyterian Church
Petition to Governor to Abolish Corner Saloon
The community circulates a petition to Governor Ferguson asking removal of the Corner saloon. The document lists numerous local residents and officials as signers from Ada and Guthrie Oklahoma Territory, with dates spanning 1902 to 1904 including murders and assaults.
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Oklahoma
Lth Recording District
The
Czar Demands Action to Close Corner Saloon
A territorial petition requests the governor abolish the Corner Saloon adjacent to the Canadian River, citing four fifths of local crime linked to liquor sales at that site. The plea lists assaults, murders, and eighty one liquor arrests, noting jurisdiction limits hinder action. Ed Brents leads the filing with gubernatorial submission planned in Oklahoma City.
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Canadan River
United States Commissioner
James Grayson
Edward McCarty
Olin Rhodes
Hacker
Rob Ridley
Larrion Porter
Arthur Owens
George Culver
Jeck Miller
To Weill
Clurder
Leo Comstock
Willie Coffee
Ames Boren
Henry Lobo
Frank Star
George Miller
Oklahoma City
Ed Brents
Morrow Charged in Fatal Assault Near Muskogee
In Muskogee Oklahoma Territory July 10 a 33 year old man named Morrow was arrested on a serious charge for crimes of assault and shooting a 15 year old girl Mary Alice Coleman Sunday afternoon nine miles west of Muskogee. The girl died from her wound and named Morrow in a dying statement. He remains jailed.
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Muskogee
I. T
Somorrow
Nepro
United States
Mary Alice Coleman
Morrow
Gas Discovery Near Wagoner Shocks Territory
Wagoner Oklahoma reports a major gas find one half mile from town. The Wagoner Oil Mining and Refining Co formed after a meeting at the courthouse drilled a test well southwest of Wagoner. At 900 feet depth a strong gas flow estimated 7 to 10 million cubic feet daily lifted 400 feet of casing when capped.
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Wagoner
I. T
Wagoner Oil Mining and Mfining Co
F. I. Hamilton
Hamilton
Court House
Wagoner Oil Mining & Refining Co
Hinentia
Miller Surrenders at Ada Station After Fatal Shooting
George Miller surrendered to Sheriff W A Jace in Pottawatomie county Oklahoma after killing Ed Hendrix at the Corner saloon last Thursday. Grace and Francis faced Miller's mother Mrs Hendrix and sisters Miss Bertie Hendrix and Mrs Zora Canals at the Frisco depot, a tearful scene before he was taken to Tecumseh jail.
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Geo. Miller
Ed Hendrix
W. A. Jace
Pottawatomie County
Oklahoma
Grace
Frank Francis
Miller
Francis
J. M. McCarty
North Ada
Frank Starr
Frisco
Hendrix
Zora Canals
Bertie Hendrix
Hart
J. T. Grace
Tecumseh
Oklahoma City Hosts Record Statehood Convention
Oklahoma City prepares for the statehood and hardware dealers convention with an expected five thousand delegates and visitors. The chamber of commerce will canvass residents for lodging while a large tent on West Grand Avenue stands as the venue for what organizers expect to be the largest single statehood gathering in Oklahoma history.
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Oklahoma City
C. G. Jones
Single Statehood Executive Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Mittee
West Grand Avenue
Night’s lodging leads to jail break in South McAlester
A South McAlester man, intoxicated, tried to gain admission to a brick building hotel at night and broke into the federal jail by mistake. The next morning he paid six dollars and fifty cents for lodging, remarking hotel accommodations are costly in South McAlester.
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South McAlester
acquittal in federal case linked to Confederate veterans
In Stonewall two deputy marshals arrested Otis B. Weaver at a Confederate Veterans gathering. In U S Commissioner's court a jury of Ada business leaders acquitted Weaver within minutes. The Stonewall News criticizes marshals as anti veteran and suggests a staged arrest to embarrass him.
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Stonewall
United States
Otis B. Weaver
United States Commissioner's Court
Ada
Weaver
Stonewall News
United Sons of Confederate Veterans
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Thos, Carney
Louie Brown
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