Chickasaw governor urges fair seed prices and law enforcement
Gov D H Johnston transmits the seventh annual message to the Chickasaw legislature in Tishomingo. He denounces a tribal election, urges removal of restrictions, notes patents and progress, and calls for a fair minimum price for cotton seed products to benefit farmers while urging strict enforcement of anti trust laws. The chairman E S Peters signs.
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Tishomingo
D. H. Johnston
Mississippi River
South
E. S. Peters
New District Committee to Meet September 19
In Ada I T on September 15 1906 a call was issued for township committeemen of the Eighthy seventh constitutional district to meet at 2 pm to organize the Democratic party and discuss a primary for delegate to the constitutional convention. The notice lists signatories J T Conn A F Pyeatt S C Treadwell and notes seventeen townships will elect new committeemen.
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Eighty-seventh
Sir
Democratic Party
Oklahoma City
Ada
I. T
Reed-Douglas
S. C. Treadwell
Democratic Executive Committee
Tishomingo
a_J_Rattenberry
McGee
S. W. Parker
A. W. Cope
Fitzhugh
W Henry
Pentcote
A. J. Hardin
Franks
J. M. Harris
Center
Rev. Tabor
Hart
Clary
York
Elmer Pryor
Chas. Long
Midland
J. D. Fussell
Roff
W. C. Neal
Tyrola
W. H. Ebey
Cotton seed price set at 15 dollars per ton
The National Farmers Union session in Texarkana reviewed routine business and education reports. A key section urged greater industrial and agricultural instruction in public schools and suggested reading on economics for all members. A proposal for annual Washington conferences with cotton producers and manufacturers was approved.
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Texarkana
Tex
National Farmer’s Educational and Co-Operative Union
Committee On
Ex Confederate Harris Poised to Win Kansas Governor Race
Topeka Kans September 7 A Virginia ex Confederate Col William A Harris favored to win Kansas governorship over Republican E W Hoch with Democrats and Populists backing him The race seen as a landslide year with rail link allegations against Hoch and Republican campaign rhetoric centered on a Confederate past for Harris The public mood favors moving beyond the Civil War past as election timing looms
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Topeka
Kans
Virginia
Kansas
William A. Harris
London Co
Army of the Lost Cause
Hoch
Republican State Central Committee
Harris
Col. Harris
Confederacy
Furman Attacks District Boards Over Territorial Gerrymander
Guthrie Oklahoma September 8 Judge Furman of Ada and Hon Lee Cruce of Ardmore condemned the territorial districting as a partisan gerry mand, blasting the boards for unequal population in Chickasaw and Pauls Valley districts and warning Republicans could shape the state constitution. Chas H Filson attended.
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Guthrie
Okla
Furman
Ada
Lee Cruce
Ardmore
Territories
Republican Party
Henry Asp
Cruce
H. H. Howard
Pauls Valley
Chas. H. Filson
Oklahoma Districting Board
Ada News souvenir praised by multiple papers
The Ada News souvenir album earns high praise from the Tupelo Times and Coalgate Record, described as an elegant, beautiful piece reflecting credit on the Ada News management and the civic effort behind its issuance.
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Ada News
Ada
Tupelo Times
Coalgate
Indian Territory Ginners Organize in Milburn
Milburn I T Sept 7 a meeting of ginners from Durant Wa panucka Coalgate Tishomingo and Milburn organized a state ginners association Horace Marshall of Durant was elected temporary chairman and E D Gill of Milburn temporary secretary A banquet was held by local business men and permanent organization will be formed at Coalgate on September 18.
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Milburn
I. T
Durant
Wapanucka
Coalgate
Tishomingo
Horace Marshall
E. D. Gill
Coal belt towns plan informal conference in McAlester
South McAlester Oklahoma September 8 coal belt towns will send representatives to an informal conference to discuss disposition of segregated coal and asphalt lands to be held September 11. Resolutions will be drafted and plans for a large convention in November will be set. The convention will ratify the resolutions and present a memorial to the senatorial committee.
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McAlester
I. T
Congress
Holds to the Primitive Life. Nero Perry of Chickasaw Nation
Nero Perry, a 76 year old Chickasaw Freedman living along Caddo Creek, supports himself by bow hunting. He came to Chickasaw country in 1838 from Mississippi with Jim McLish, built the first house there, and after McLish's death in 1861 Perry kept living on the same site. He recounts days with white trappers and hunts of deer and bear using a bow and arrow.
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Nero Perry
Caddo Creek
Perry
Mississippi
Jim
McLish
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