Roosevelt deflects questions on Africa trip plans
Oyster Bay ailing to reveal travel dates Theodore Roosevelt meets NY reporters at Sagamore Hill and confirms sailing from Hoboken on March 23 aboard the Hamburg He says he is a private citizen and will not take a secretary or stenographer on the voyage and declines further discussion of tariff topics.
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Inaugural Ceremonies Claim Three Dead
Washington reports three fatalities and seventy five injuries from the inaugural events. Samuel Young aged 25 of the city died after stepping on a live wire. No Man Stall 45 of Richmond died from epilepsy while watching the parade. Andrew Doran of Pittsburgh died of heart disease upon arrival at Union Station. Police and other injured named.
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Richmond
Andrew Doran
Pittsburg
Dirk
Samuel Carter
Virginia
William Deneoil
Samuel Young
Stall
Doran
Union Station
Presidents luncheon with 130 in Roosevelt tennis cabinet
President Roosevelt hosted 130 guests in the state dining room including M. Jusserand and U. S. Marshal Abernathy of Oklahoma. Notables like Justice Moody, Bill Sewall, Bacon, Loeb, Garfield, and Seth Bullock attended as the president praised his administration and singled out Secretary Garfield.
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U. S
Marshal Abernathy
Oklahoma
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Bill” Sewall
Maine
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Garfield
Seth Bullock
Deadwood
Durant and Tahlequah win state normal school sites
In Guthrie on March 6 the senate approved moving the eastern district normal schools to Durant and Tahlequah pending governor approval. Ada contested Durant while Tahlequah passed. Passage included a normal for the southeastern district and a separate school for the feeble minded to Enid with $45,000. Other measures moved through, including taxation, banking, and court district changes, with adjournment tentatively set for March 12.
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Franklin Child Labor Bill Signed by Governor Haskell
Guthrie Oklahoma March 6 Governor Haskell signs the Franklin Child Labor bill ending years of effort led by Miss Kate Barnard. The reform aims to protect tender childhood and marks a moral achievement for the legislature and people. Barnard’s work on prison reform and education is cited as foundational to the law. The piece contrasts past appraisals of prison reform and notes shifts in funding and health measures for prisoners.
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Oklahoma Taylor bill would schedule April election date
Guthrie Oklahoma March a, the house committee on municipal corporations reported favorably the Taylor municipal election bill setting an election on the first Tuesday in April with a primary on the third Tuesday in March. The measure lists elected city officers and council members from each ward with terms and nomination rules.
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House Committee On Municipal Corporations
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Lot
Roosevelt Bids Farewell as He Departs Washington
President Roosevelt leaves Washington for Oyster Bay at 3 40 pm amid a vast crowd. He expresses happiness at ending official duties and thanks supporters and Cabinet associates during a farewell at Union Station.
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Theodore Roosevelt
National Capitol
Oyster Bay
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Wheat Brines $1.07 as Oklahoma wheat tops market
Red Rock Oklahoma March 4 Will Collier a Glencase farmer got in at the finish of the advance prices of wheat. He sold several thousand bushels and kept 3000 at a low price in the fall. Last week he sold the balance on hand to Donahoe Brothers at Red Rock and parties at Oklahoma City for 1.04 and 1.07 the latter being the highest price ever paid for wheat here.
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Oklahoma City
Governor Pardons Guthrie Man Under Prohibition
Gov Haskell following the State Board of Pardons grants a pardon to John Watkins of Grady County. Watkins had been sentenced to thirty days in jail and a $200 fine for violation of the prohibition law.
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State Board of Pardons
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Grady County
Requisition Not Honored For Illinois Trial
Muskogee March 4 Sheriff Ramsey received word from Guthrie that the Illinois governor’s requisition for E. A. Hill a Muskogee real estate man to be returned for trial on a confidence charge was postponed ten days. Hill was a noted con man who swindled Ada residents out of about one thousand dollars.
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Ramsey
Guthrie
Illinois
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Ada
Hill
Governor sends nom n of Richard Alexander for Board seat
The nomination of Richard Alexander of Chant, Oklahoma, as member of the Board of Arbitration and Conciliation was sent by Governor Haskell to the Senate today for confirmation.
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Richard Alexander
Chant
Okla
Board of Arbitration and Concilliation
Haskell
Senate
Governor Haskell Signs Franklin Child Labor Bill
Guthrie Oklahoma March 4 Governor Has kell has signed the Franklin Child Labor bill after two sessions of the legislature. Senator Franklin drove the measure through despite prior veto attempts on technical grounds.
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Guthrie
Okla
Haskell
Franklin
Oklahoma
Hail Kills Quail in Noble Oklahoma Storm
March 4 report from M Padienit on his farm near Noble describes a hail storm that killed hundreds of quail and a calf belonging to Louis Tullius. Stock suffered severe losses with birds found dead after the storm.
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Governor Sions Bills Signed in Guthrie
Gov Haskell signs bills appropriating 66957.70 for district agricultural schools at Warner and Tishomingo. Tishomingo gets 3000 for eight acres land purchase. Another bill makes Prague a court town in Lincoln county.
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Haskell
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Tishomingo
Prague
Lincoln County
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