Three Territorial Adversities Reported in One Item
Rosa Jenkins was struck and killed crossing a railroad bridge near Mazie by a Frisco train. Brothers Bob and Rube Brashear drowned in the South Canadian river near Starville while eight were seining and could not rescue them. The Commercial National Bank of Muskogee is named as the depository for Indian Territory funds. Chickasaw crops are reported to be badly in need of rain.
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Rosa Jenkins
Mazie
Bob
Rube Brashear
Starville
Brashears
The
Commercial National Bank of
Oklahoma City Ball Team Returns After Wichita Trip
The Oklahoma City ball team went to Wichita and has returned to finish the season at the former venue. In territorial civil service exams for Philippines teaching positions, only E. E. Wilson of Watonsa filed as an applicant.
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Oklahoma City
Wichita
Territory of
Oklahoma
Philippines
E. E. Wilson
Watonsa
Crooks Hunter Chris Madsen Sets $500 Reward
Chris Madsen announces a $500 reward for the arrest and conviction of James Moran who was found guilty of killing Jay Beamblossom near Rush Springs in August 1901.
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Chris Madsen
Crooks
James Moran
Jay Beamblossom
Rush Springs
Druggists in Muskogee Close Sundays 10 to 4
Muskogee druggists sign an agreement to close all stores on Sundays from 10 a m to 4 p m except to fill physician prescriptions. J B Kent of Chandler is named official photographer by the world's fair commission.
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Muskogee
J. B. Kent
Chandler
The
World’s Fair Commission
Chamber Chief Pushes Ardmore Start for Santa Fe Train
President Heyman of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce urges the Santa Fe morning train to originate in Ardmore instead of Purcell. Outcome pending. Katy to run service between Oklahoma City and Fall on August 15, official notice states.
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Heyman
Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce
Santa Fe
Ardmore
Purcell
Katy
Oklahoma City
Ardmore to Install Gamewell Fire Alarm System
Ardmore plans a Gamewell fire alarm system costing 1165 dollars. Kaw City constructs a bridge over the Arkansas River and may contribute to a second crossing. Salvation Army unit in Oklahoma City will set up a Salvation Army hotel at the site.
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Ardmore
Kaw City
Arkansas River
The
Salvation Army of
Oklahoma City
Salvation Army
West Virginia Youth Dies in Wagon Ride Near Oklahoma City
A young man named Williams from West Virginia died suddenly while riding in a farmer's wagon near Oklahoma City. The report notes a local character Jack Colbert of the Creek nation as a heavy coffee user, consuming about four pounds weekly as a chronic coffee fiend.
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Williams
West Virginia
Oklahoma City
Chandler News
Jack Colbert
Creek Nation
Jack
Oklahoma City Plans 150000 Waterworks Bond Issue
City council moves to place a 150000 waterworks bond before voters to extend mains and improve the water system.
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Oklahoma City Council
Santa Fe Conductor Bert Clay Killed by Own Train
Bert Clay, a Santa Fe conductor from Guthrie, was struck and killed by his own locomotive in Oklahoma City. His body was mutilated in the accident.
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Bert Clay
Santa Fe
Guthrie
Oklahoma City
Durant Inches Forward on New Federal Court Building
Construction has begun on the two story brick federal court building at Durant set to be completed for the October term. The lane is nearly finished and work progresses smoothly on the site.
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Federal Court
Durant
Bristow Builds New $8000 School House
Bristow advances a new school building tagged at eight thousand dollars with rapid construction under way, highlighting local educational expansion and civic efforts.
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Bristow
Holmes Hotel at Shawne Destroyed by Fire
The Holmes hotel at Shawne was totally destroyed by fire with an estimated $5,000 in insurance coverage. Origin of fire remains unknown.
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Holmes
Shawne
Board of Regents meeting set for normal school contracts
Superintendent Baxter announces Edmond meeting on August 21 to set contracts for erecting the main normal building at a cost of $40,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baxter
Board of Regents For Normal Schools
Edmond
Acting Governor Grimes Returns Suspect to Kansas
Acting Governor Grimes honors a requisition from Governor Bailey of Kansas to extradite Bert Colby from Watonga where he is held for horse stealing. Colby is also sought in Winfield for the 1904 killing of Santa Fe detective George Montgomery.
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Grimes
Bailey
Kansas
Bert Colby
Watonga
Winfield
Santa Fe
George Montgomery
Rural routes set in Oklahoma counties with carriers
Rural mail routes will be established in Oklahoma on September 1. In Noble County at Billings two carriers cover forty four square miles serving a population of nine hundred ninety six. In Logan County at Seward one carrier serves twenty one square miles with an unspecified population.
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Oklahoma
Billings
Noble County
Seward
Logan County
Ed Haynes Arrested Near Durant on Maiming Charge
Marshal Wilcox arrested Ed Haynes near Durant on a maiming charge tied to Hillary Ven. Haynes is held on a $354 bond.
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Ed Haynes
Durant
Marshal Wilcox
Hillary Ven
Haynes
Mill Creek Celebrates Third Anniversary with Monster Barbecue
The town marked the third anniversary of Mill Creek on the 20th with a monster barbecue and picnic drawing over five thousand attendees.
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Mill Creek
Post Office at Mat ter Renamed Lucien in Noble County
The Mat ter post office in Noble County Oklahoma Territory has been renamed Lucien. Mary E. Ruh is appointed postmistress at the new Lucien office.
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Matter
Noble County
O. T
Lucien
Mary E. Ruh
Lynching of Mayfield Triggers Riot at Danville Jail
A mob of about 600 in Danville Illinois lynched J D Mayfield from Evansville Ind after he shot a man named Henry Gatterman during an altercation. The mob then mobbed the county jail seeking James Wilson who confessed to assaulting Mrs Burgess. Troops may be called.
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Danville
Ill
J. D. Mayfield
Evansville
Ind
James Wilson
Thomas Burgess
Alven
Mayfield
Wilson
Mein Street
Henry Gatterman
Fortress Monroe
Gatterman
Burges
Burgess
Ben Rice
El Reno Cemetery Rail Line Case Appeals to Territorial Supreme Court
The city of El Reno challenges Rock Island Railroad Company over a proposed railroad line crossing the town cemetery. The case began May 1 with the railroad holding a legal edge and now proceeds to the territorial supreme court for decision on merits.
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Guthrie
City of
el Reno
Rock Island Railroad Company
Territorial Supreme Court
Day County Farmers Face Irrigation Question
Government engineers advise against irrigating crops from the South Canadian river. Farmers in Day county proposed using the stream, but surveyors say benefits would not cover costs due to the river’s swift, shifting current and already adequate moisture absence.
Oklahoma lakes turn water ways into wildfowl paradise
The project along Eastern Oklahoma between Newkirk and the Chickasaw Nation creates 250 acres of lakes at Newkirk Yost Avery Tecumseh and Byars. Roads double as dams with sluiceways. Yost lake becomes a wild fowl resort stocked with bass and crappie. Wild rice planted willow edges and geese and ducks attracted. Government hatchery at Neosho will stock more fish.
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Oklahoma
Newkirk
Chickasaw Nation
Yost
Avery
Tecumseh
Byars
Club of Stillwater
Squire Named Day County Superintendent Amid Turmoil
In an Oklahoma case the County commissioners, citing a lawyer's opinion, named A L Squire as Day County superintendent after Bouldin’s mental decline and departure. Bouldin’s deputy disputed the move, but Attorney General Roberts supported the appointment. The other item reports Sheriff Hamonds capturing Indian suspect Jim Nicholas in Lawton, identified by Felix Crow as the attempted murderer, with Nicholas to stand trial.
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Grand
Squire
Bouldin
Robberts
Hammonde
Lawton
RE. F. Mitchell
Felix A. Crow
Hammonds
Mr. Crow
Jim Nicholas
Crow
Cunningham
Lee Parrish
Scott Lockart
Welsh
Nicholas
Curious Minded Experiments On Light and Matter
In a Boston Journal note, experiments claim a tallow candle shot from a gun through a door causes no injury to the door, a musket ball in water flattens as if against a solid, and a ball through a pane leaves a hole the size of the ball without cracking the glass. Also cork sinks 20 feet, and Arctic cold allows speech over a mile. Dr Jamieson says he heard a sermon two miles away.
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Arctic
Jamieson
Boston Journal
Indians to Make Brooms at Muskogee Mission School
A new broom factory will be built and operated at the Indian University Baptist mission school near Muskogee to teach 200 students a trade and provide work. The plan aims to help poor Indian children pay for schooling and marks the first industrial department attempted at an Indian school in Indian Territory.
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Baptist Mission School
Muskogee
Indian University
Baptist Mission School For
Indian Territory
Shawnee Council Lets Farrall Park for New Cotton Mill
Shawnee council approves transfer of Farrall park to the cotton mill project valued at $150,000. The mill will employ about 300 people in the town.
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Farrall Park
Shawnee
First Bale of 1903 04 Cotton Sold in Texas
The first bale of the 1903 04 season was auctioned at the Galveston Cotton Exchange. It weighed 470 pounds and sold for 136 dollars, about 28.93 cents per pound. The bale came from Zapata county, the first ever raised there, after a 107 mile haul to a gin and railroad station.
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Galveston
Tex
Cotton Exchange
Zapata
van Ware Soleeunsitene A
Cassius M. Clay Dies at Whitehall Kentucky Sage of Whitehall
Cassius M. Clay a noted Kentuckian and former minister to Russia died at his Whitehall home in Richmond in his 93rd year after a life of seclusion. He had long believed a conspiracy to assassinate him and was cared for by a court-appointed committee. His estranged children were with him at his death. The obituary notes his sobriant life and public roles.
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Richmond
Cassius M. Clay
Whitehall
Russia
General Clay
Rioting Widespread as 40000 Strike Halts Baku Russia
London reports describe extensive rioting at Baku with about forty thousand strikers. Rioters allegedly fired on a troop train, agitators work amid a labor insurrection. Rail lines torn, ships detained. ministers say disturbances occurred and militia restored order. News censorship is noted.
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London
Baku
Russia
St. Petersburg
Chickasha Woman Wins Third Prize in Territory Letters
Mrs. John W. Brown, wife of an Indian citizen and Chickasha club woman, earned third prize in a contest by the Southwestern Colonization Association. She receives a 600 mile mileage book valid on member railroad lines for letters describing the new territory to promote immigration. The prize honors her intellect and character.
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Chickasha
Southwestern Colonization Association
Southwest
New
John W. Brown
Chickasha Club
Citizens seek incorporation as Gotebo to name town
Harrison residents petition county commissioners to incorporate the town under the name Gotebo. Rock Island refuses to concede Harrison as the station name, prompting residents to agree to a name change.
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Harrison
Gotebo
Rock Island
Pleads Guilty to Peonage in Alabama Court
Fletcher Turner, a white man, pleaded guilty in the United States court for the middle and northern districts of Alabama to holding Glenny Helms, a black youth, in peonage. He was fined $1,000 by the court.
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Montgomery
Ala
Fletcher Turner
United States
Alabama
Glenny Helms
Chickens Stolen in Blackwell Shock Local Farmer Loss
A large theft hits Blackwell as 300 chickens disappear in a single night. Neighbors report the shock and seek clues, with authorities promising investigation.
Conductor H A Shotwell Found Dead on Katy Tracks
The body of H A Shotwell conductor and AFL member was found on Missouri Kansas & Texas tracks near Wybark five miles from Billskogee. Officers found a head wound and missing teeth but no evidence of murder. death believed to be from a train. The railroad company will take charge.
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H. A. Shotwell
Katy
Billskogee
Order of Railway Conductors
American Federation of Labor
Wilburton
Kansas & Texas
Wybark
Mel Bowman
Theo Stidham
Fleming
Bass Reeves
Died From Blow on the Nose
Shawnee report says Sam McFarland a longtime West stage driver died from injuries after Bud Blackwell struck him in the nose following a disputed remark. McFarland left many friends across Pottawatomie county and the region.
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Sam McFarland
Pottawatomie County
Bud” Blackwell
Blackwell
McFarland
West
First National Bank of Wilburton Opens With 25000 Capital
The First National Bank of Wilburton has commenced business with capital of 25000 dollars. It marks a new financial institution in the city aiming to serve local businesses and residents.
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First National Bank of
Wilburton
Preventing Blackleg Vaccination Bulletin From Oklahoma Station
The Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station at Stillwater issues a bulletin on using vaccine to prevent blackleg in cattle. The guide asserts that vaccination with properly prepared vaccine can stop most losses of young stock. Free copies available to stockmen upon request.
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Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station
Stillwater
Mob executes two condemned prisoners in Basin jail
In Basin Wyoming Big Horn county a mob of about twenty five cowboys shot dead J P Walters and James Gorman two men awaiting supreme court review after death sentences. Deputy EB Price was killed and Deputy George Mead wounded as the mob entered the jail and fired through doors and windows. Walters died instantly and Gorman survived five hours before dying.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Basin
Big Horn County
J. P. Walters
James Gorman
Supreme Court
EB. Price
George S. Mead
Price
Mead
Gorman
Walters
Oklahoma plans special car of state products for fairs
Governor Ferguson's committee in Oklahoma City is organizing a traveling car of state products for display at fairs. A county representative network will gather exhibits and ship them to Oklahoma City for loading onto the Frisco line. Planned fairs include Columbus Ohio August 11 and Indianapolis Springfield and St Louis in September and October.
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Territory
Oklahoma City
Ferguson
Oklahoma
Columbus
Ohio
Indianapolis
Ind
Springfield
Ill
St. Louis
Chickasha Club Seeks Grain and Fruit Samples for Exposition
The Commercial club of Chickasha advertises for samples of grain fruit and vegetables for the Indian Territory exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. A portion of the club room is set aside for reception and items will be tagged and accredited as they arrive.
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Commercial Club
Chickasha
Indian Territory
Usually Tropical Summer Reading Quip Cited
A Denver Republican note mocks summer reading as a book best saved for winter heat, implying such works are more suitable for winter than for warm weather. The quip frames a playful stance on seasonal reading habits and book choices.
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Denver Republican
Antwerp car tier pigeon praised by Belgian breeders
Belgians are noted pigeon breeders and the Antwerp car tier is described as one of the choicest and relatively rare birds among these breeders.
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Antwerp
Oklahoma Farmers Targeted by Alleged Medical Institute Representatives
A group claiming to represent a medical institute approached Oklahoma farmers, prompting concerns over legitimacy and potential financial or legal consequences. Local authorities urged vigilance as investigations continue into the outreach practices.
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Oklahoma
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