Riper testimony links to cotton market manipulation case
The transcript describes Van Riper’s claims of a direct arrangement with Holmes to influence crop reports and market figures. He details supposed payments, prior meetings, and attempts to destroy correspondence while denying threats against Peckham and stressing lack of indictment understanding.
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Washington
Jun
van Riper
Holmes Mate Oy
Price and Haas
Bis
Holmes
the Riper
Census Bureau
Agricultural Department
Peckham
Holmes and
Haas
Beach
Gasoline Explosion Burns Workers at Dye Works Plant
A tank of gasoline exploded during renovations at L. Reigel & Co.'s dye works in Memphis. C Miller died from burns while Robert Garlach suffered serious burns, George Rodgers and Mrs. Louise Faquin were injured as the blaze destroyed the plant.
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C. Miller
Robert Garlach
George Rodgers
Louise Faquin
L. Reigel & Co
Judge Appoints Chester B Dorchester Receiver in Waters-Pierce Case
Bradley W Paussets for Waters-Pierce Oil Co faces court bid for receiver after a Travis county Texas judgment was superseded by an appeal bond. The firm deposited 2,000,000 with Security Company. Chester B Dorchester of Sherman named as receiver for Waters-Pierce Oil properties in Texas. Judge Bryant signals a limited tenure for the receivership.
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Bryant
Chester B. Dorchester
Une
Bradley W. Pausetts
Ss. B. Canty
Fort Worth
United States District
Waters-Pierce 0
District Court
Travis County
Texas
American Surety Company
John H. Kirby
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Sherman
J Mer
Massac
Hoffman Nominates Gore at Oklahoma Democratic State Meet
At the Oklahoma Democratic state convention in Oklahoma City on June 20 R W Hoffman presented T P Gore as the nominee for U S senator, seconded by C H Pittman. Gore spoke of spending about 1000 dollars to fund his campaign by mortgaging his home. Robert L Owen was presented as the other successful senatorial candidate by W H Murray.
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Owen
William H. Murray
Oklahoma City
W. H. Murray
Robert L. Owen
T. P. Smith
J. S. Murray
Emmet, T
C L. Dougherty
Oklahoma City Post
Murray
Dougherty
Escape Attempt Ends in Prison Fire
Robert White, a Black man arrested for wife beating, was held in De Ridder jail awaiting transfer to Lake Charles when the pine structure was set ablaze. Residents found him dead as flames consumed the prison. authorities suspect the act aimed to burn through a wall to escape.
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Lake Charles
Robert White
Longville
de Ridder
Loss of Minnesota launch blamed on steel hawser
Admiral Moore leads naval board findings in Hampton Roads. The launch of the battleship Minnesota fouled by a steel hawser as tug Crisfield towed a barge with loaded freight cars from Cape Charles to Norfolk. No criminality against Crisfield officers. they were unaware of the disaster.
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Crisfield
Washington
Admiral Moore
Hampton Roads
Naval Board of Investigation
Minnesota
Cape Charles
Norfolk
DIES IN CONVULSIONS IN LONGVIEW
Lon Adams a negro talking with two women was struck on the head by an unknown assailant and died after walking several blocks and convulsions. Other items report Cleveland crisis and Narbonne wine protests with casualties. Oliver M Dennett pleads guilty to receiving stolen bonds. A freight wreck near Spokane injures rict men. one fatally hurt.
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Longview
Tex
Lon Adams
Shc
Spokane
Useful Geese Twenty-Eight Prove Valuable Cotton Choppers
In Clarksville Texas on June 20 farmers near Garvinsville turned large flocks of geese into cotton fields and found they eat young grass well. One farmer with twenty eight geese on thirty acres reports no grass grows where the birds roam. Labor shortages have heightened the geese value as cotton choppers.
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Clarksville
Tex
Garvinsville
Fatal Shooting Near Mingo Creek In Oklahoma
Dock Barnes, aged over ninety, shot his son in law Richard Williams during a quarrel near the Williams home on Mingo creek eight miles southeast of Tulsa Oklahoma. A warrant charges Barnes with assault with intent to kill.
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Dock Barnes
Tulsa
I. T
Richard Williams
Williams
Mingo Creek
Barnes
Marti al law in force in southern France
Good rains sweep Hartley county Texas. Albert Aarons prominent Galveston citizen is dead. Jacksonville Texas continues shipping large quantities of tomatoes as regional activity resumes.
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France
Hartley
Texas
Albert Aarons
Galveston
Jacksonville
Tex
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