Tishomingo Urges the Statehood Boycott
A mass meeting in Tishomingo I T March 24 denounces Speaker Cannon and the House vote on the statehood bill. Resolutions call for trade spurn by Kansas Missouri and Illinois merchants, pledge opposition to representatives from those states, and threaten action if statehood fails.
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Tishomingo, I. T
Cannon
House
Senate
Kansas
Missouri
Illinois
Oklahoma
Washington
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
Williams
Joke on the Judge in a Kansas Prisoner Case
Judge Dickerson, famed for jolly remarks, presided over a petit larceny arraignment. A prisoner, long jailed and not a resident, pleaded guilty and received a dollar and a day, with orders to surrender all money for a ticket back to Kansas and board the train. The judge then resumed the docket.
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Dickerson
Kansas
Startling Revelations Concerning Lease Grafts
In Muskogee Indian Territory on March 24 surveyors report startling findings about lease schemes on Choctaw and Chickasaw lands. White men allegedly entice Indians to lease land and then file on it, claiming improvements as payment, leaving the Indian ignorant of location and status of titles. Five field men are surveying allotments to identify leased lands, as leaseholders withhold information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskogee
I. T
Indiana
Beveridge Heads the Senate Conference Committee
Washington reports Beveridge to head the Senate conference on the statehood bill with Dillingham and Patterson as colleagues. The group includes early opposition to amendments but aims to align with Senate position. Foraker yields to avoid humiliation and preserve Senate customs. Conference meet set for Monday with no immediate decisive outcome expected for weeks.
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Babcock
Adam
Bede
Grosvenor
Hamilton
House
Conference Committee
Michigan
Brick
Indiana
Moon
Tennessee
Senate
Beveridge
Foraker
Senator Foraker
Washington
Dillingham
Vermont
Patterson
Burrows
Mr. Foraker
Mr. Beveridge
Packers immune from prosecution in conspiracy case
Chicago March 22 All of the packers indicted by the Federal Grand Jury last summer for restraint of trade and commerce were granted immunity from criminal prosecution under the indictment. The indictments against the corporations will stand. Judge J Otis Humphrey delivered an oral opinion saying the indictments would not lie against the individuals.
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Chicago, Ill
Federal Grand Jury
J. Otis Humphrey
United States District Court
Humphrey
Investigators Multiply in Oklahoma as Probes Expand
Guthrie Oklahoma March 24 Special government investigators grow in number amid charges and prosecutions. Inspector Glenn E. Husted pursues the Embry case in Lincoln County with inner and outer office conduct observed by witnesses. A Justice Department prosecutor joins cases against Capitol National Bank officials as grand jury work resumes. Fort Towson fires destroy twenty seven business buildings with losses estimated at forty to fifty thousand dollars and insurance covering much of the damage.
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Guthrie
Oklahoma
Glenn E. Husted
Speed
John Embry
Lincoln County
Chandler
Husted
Embry
Garfield
Beef Trust
Chicago
Roy Hoffman
Interior Department
George Healey
Beaver County
McGuire Organization
Woodward
Capitol National Bank
Department of Justice
Billingsley
Robb
Philips
T. A. Neal
Fort Towson
I. T
Daws Commission
Kelly House
Andy Ryan Convicted of Manslaughter in Local Trial
The jury found Andy Ryan guilty of manslaughter and imposed a $750 fine and sixty days in jail. Foreman J. F. M. Harris announced the verdict after about 24 hours of deliberation. The judge had not announced whether a new trial would be sought.
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Andy Ryan
J. F. M. Harris
Farmers Union Organizes Exchanges Across Oklahoma
The National Farmers' Cooperative and Educational Union proclaims a minimum price for farm products effective March 1. Oklahoma farmers organize additional lodges and cooperative exchanges, starting with Centerville Farmers' Union Stock Company in Caddo county, $100,000 capital, to be based in Binger with a market and produce exchange for the common good.
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Guthrie
National Farmers’ Co-Operative and Educational Union
Farmers of
Oklahoma
Centerville Farmers’ Union Stock Company
Caddo County
Binger
Indian Territory
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Tishomingo
Evening News
Euch
Law
R. R
Ardmore
Farmers Loan & Trust Co
Ada, Lindian Territory
Farmers Loan and Trust Co
Ada
Ardmore Loan and Trust Co
Ss. M. Torbett
Sec. and
Treas
Brevard
S. A. Steel
Ada, I. T
Jim Jones
Farmers Union
Little Buster Brown
Mary Jane
Big Buster Brown
Mary Janes
Reed
Harrison
Buster, Brown
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