Toll Rises as Gulf Coast Hurricane Wrecks Key West
Widespread devastation from a massive hurricane hits the Florida Keys and southwest coast. Reports from Tampa indicate 800 to 1,200 lives lost, thousands homeless, and $2 to $3 million in property damage. Martial law imposed in Key West. troops urged to quell looting.
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New Orleans
Tampa
Fla
Gulf Coast
Keys
Key ‘West
Key < West
Florida Keys
Key West
White City
United States
Itv
Florida
Washington, D. C
War Department
Army
Oling
Dukes Kills Man in Defense of Home Near Stigler Oklahoma
Stigler Oklahoma October 12. Dink Dukes a resident of Canadian bottom eight miles north of town shot and killed Marion Ross at Dakes home. Ross and companions who were intoxicated visited Dukes daughters. Dukes ordered them to leave. On porch Ross advanced with a club. Dukes fired six times from a revolver, killing Ross instantly. Dukes surrendered and is jailed awaiting preliminary trial.
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Ross
Dakes
Dukes
Central State Bank to Open in Old Columbia Bank Building
Oklahoma City October reports state no reorganization of the Columbia Bank and Trust Company, now in state hands, will occur and its affairs will be liquidated. The Central State Bank will open soon in the former Columbia location with C J Webster of Sulphur as president and R M Estes as cashier, capitalized at 200000.
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Oklahoma City
Columbia Bank and Trust Company
Haskell
Norton
Central State Bank
Columbia
Columbia Bank
Banking Board
Guaranty Fund
Secretary of State
Guthrie
C. J. Webster
Sulphur
R. M. Estes
Webster
Security State Bank of
Estes
Cement
Cyril
Elgin
Sterling
Lookeba
C. S. Leeper
J. D. Leeper
Gainesville
W. A. Ledbetter
J. Co. Crenshaw
Fort Worth
C. G. Frost
W. B. Womack
J. S. Estes
C. F. Estes
Sidney, la
W. S. Derrick
Madill
Brents Escapes White Earth Saloons Raid
Deputy Brents, a U S Indian Service officer, escaped pursuit after aiding a raid on White Earth saloons near Detroit Minnesota. The operation closed saloons in Mahnomen Calloway Ogema and Waubun and seized 626 gallons of whiskey and a wagon of beer. Brents led a breakout under gunfire and fled via a dry creek bed toward Helena Montana.
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Sioux City
T. E. Brents
United States Indian Service
White Earth
Detroit
Minn
Great Northern
Helena
Mont
Department
Brents
Secret Service
W. E. Johnson
Pussyfoot
Mahonomen
United States
Oakley
St. Paul
Wawbun
Johnson
Mahnomen
Calloway
Ogema
Waubun
Heating Delay Shuts City High Schools A Day
A cold wave halted heating at Gold Wave Inter Fer and public high schools. Temporary arrangements are in place and classes will resume tomorrow as furnaces are installed, with Sunrise and North Side enrollment at about 100 and 170 respectively.
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Roberson
Verdict in Scribner murder case: life imprisonment
The trial of Andy Scribner for murder ended after about a week with a life sentence. He insulted the jury as officers escorted him to jail and overturned a stove in rage, then grew calmer after the sentence was pronounced.
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Andy Scribner
W. M. Gayne
Joe Foster
One Sport Makes Escape Officers Braddy and Gay
A raid on a North Broadway gambling house ended a poker game with four players. Officers Braddy and Gay pursued all four, detaining three. one escaped on horseback. The three arrested pleaded guilty before the Police Judge and paid fines of 12 dollars 75 cents each.
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North Broadway
Braddy
Gay
City Warrants Call Ada Notice Payment Before November 1 1909
Call for warrants issued before 3455 in Ada Oklahoma. Warrants payable from Ada funding issue perfected in Pontotoc County district court. Warrants must be delivered to the Ada city treasurer for cancellation before bonds are signed by the state auditor. Deposit warrants and receive receipts by November 1 1909 with interest from registration to May 22 1909.
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City of Ada
District Court
Pontotoc County
Oscar Peeler Returns Without Clear Family Ties
Oscar Peeler arrives from Ardmore with his mother amid claims of two women seeking marriage status. He rejects one woman as his wife as part of unfolding family questions connected to the Jim Miller lynching case.
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Oscar Peeler
Jim Miller
Ardmore
Oscar
District court verdict in Cransford case reported
The jury returned a guilty verdict in the Cransford case with a five year penitentiary sentence after testimony and pleadings. Henderson is still being heard at press time on the alleged theft of funds. Oklahoma Baptist Journal publisher Otis B. Weaver moves to relocate the paper to Oklahoma City with Reverend D. J. Austin endorsing the publication’s future in Ada.
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B. M. Cransford
George Henderson
Otis B. Weaver
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Baptist Journal
The
Oklahoma Baptists
Weaver
State Baptist Organ
Ada
Baptist Journal
D. J. Austin
Journal
Brother Austin
Oklahoma
West
Bolton Shoe Styles Protect Feet in Cooler Weather
The S. E. Chapman Exclusive Shoe Store highlights the Bolton Shoe offered at 3.00, 3.50, and 4.00 dollars, praised for comfort and durability as temperatures drop.
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S. E. Chapman
Are You Protected Against Fire Insurance for One or Three Years
An advertisement offers fire dwelling and household goods coverage from old line companies at 3 4 and 11 2 percent for one to three years. It promotes the O B Weaver Fire Insurance Agency at 12th and Broadway and includes an aside about Stacy Adams shoes sold exclusively by Chapman with a marriage pledge promotion.
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Phoenix
Royal
New York
O. B. Weaver Fire Insurance Agency
Corner 12Th
Broadway
Stacy-Adams
Chapman
Oklahoma Central in Town in Two Weeks
Hon Dorset Carter president of the Oklahoma Central and Ada Terminal Railway Company announces completion of finances for the railway into Ada. A railroad directory meeting signed all articles and delivered coupons as rails and ties are bought and track to be laid next week. Depot planned at west end of Main Street despite objections to location near Frisco and Katy holdings.
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Dorset Carter
Oklahoma Central
Ada Terminal Railway Company
Railroad Directory
O. C
Main Street
Adam Terminal Railway
North Broadway
Frisco
Twelfth Street
12Th Street
Katy
Refuses Package No 18 at Wichita Post Office
Wichita Kansas October 10 local post office faces a problem as Johnson a Negro refuses to accept registered package No 13. He fears latent hoodooes inside the package and would not take it despite the possible wealth inside. Authorities find no postal law covering the case. Shoes advertised by Chapman.
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Wichita
Kan
Johnson
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Eugene Gill
Guthrie State Capital
State Board of Public Affairs
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