Noted Republican Henry Payne Dies in Washington
Henry G C Payne postmaster general died at 6:14 PM Tuesday in his Arlington Hotel apartments at age sixty. Cause of death listed as mitral valve disease and heart dilation after two years poor health and seven days of illness. President Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt offered support as Cortelyon prepared to succeed him when campaign affairs wind up.
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Washington
Henry GC. Payne
Arlington Hotel
Peyne
Henry C. Payne
Payne
Mr. Payne
President Roosevelt
Cortelyou Named Postmaster General in Roosevelt Plan
Washington October 5 George Cortelyou former secretary of commerce and labor and head of the Republican national committee will become postmaster general succeeding Payne. Payne delays resignation pending a department investigation while Wynne acts as postmaster general until Cortelyou winds up the campaign affairs.
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Washington
Payne
George Cortelyou
Department of Commerce and Labor
Chaiirman
Republican National Committee
Cortelyou
Post Office Department
Roosevelt
Department
Bio Health
First Agsistant
Wynne
Seven Missing After Wagon Bridge Disaster Between Lexington and Purcell
Seven men are missing from a party of eight who went down with the wagon bridge between Lexington and Purcell Oklahoma City Monday night. Judge Hocker near Byers says little, while five names on the bridge at the time are Wollver Carnell and Will Taylor among others. Telegraph and telephone lines are down across the region and information is scarce though waters appear to be receding.
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Lexington
Purcell
Oklahoma City
Judge Hocker
Byers
Bridges wiped out halt Frisco and Rock Island traffic
In Chickasha traffic on the Frisco and Rock Island northbound routes is suspended after the Canadian River bridges were washed out. The Rock Island bridge between Minco and Union was completely swept away. In Oklahoma City the sixteenth annual Methodist Episcopal conference of Oklahoma and Indian Territory opened with Bishop David H. Moore of Portland presiding.
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Frisco
Rock Island
Minco
Union
Oklahoma City
Methodist Episcopal Conference of
Oklahoma and
Indian Territory
David H. Moore
Portland
Ore
Bonnie Blue Flag Observed At Daughters Of Confederacy Meet
Daughters of the Confederacy hold annual convention in St. Louis with speakers from Missouri South Carolina Tennessee and Tennessee representatives. Rev Dr James W Lee gave the invocation and a children’s procession with flags and singing of The Bonnie Blue Flag highlighted Tuesday activities.
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Daughters of Confederacy
Louis
Daughters of the Confederacy
James W. Lee
A. Washington Rapley
Missouri
Alexander T. Smythe
Charleston
S. C
Union
Goedeler
Tennessee
Jefferson Davis
United States
West
Frequent Fighting Sets Stage for Oyama Advance
New York reports frequent clashes between Japanese advance guards and Cossacks on the Kuropatkin front. Dispatches to the Russian war office suggest a near general push by Field Marshal Oyama. About 40,000 guards from western Russia are being sent to the far east since Liao Yang. No update on Port Arthur.
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Oyama
New York
Kuropatkin
Russian War Office
Liao Yang
Russia
Far East
Port Arthur
Burial at Milwaukee For Late Postmaster General
Funeral services will be held at St. John’s Episcopal church. The body will be transported to Milwaukee aboard the private car of President Earling and interred at Forest Home cemetery after Episcopal rites at All Saints church. In St. Louis the Cotton Belt railroad re elected its old board at the annual stockholders meeting.
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St. John's Episcopal Church
Earling
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Milwaukee
Episcopal Church
All Saints’ Church
Forest Home Cemetery
St. Louis
St. Louis Southwestern Railroad
Cotton Belt
Minor Matters Hit Texas Towns and States
More than a mile of Santa Fe track washed out near Purcell Oklahoma Territory. A $150 000 cotton mill construction contract awarded at Paria Texas. Wes Bailey fell ill near Paris Texas while picking cotton and died. Webster Flanagan of Austin addressed the Lincoln club of Ardmore Tuesday night. Jim Moore a Black man shot three times at Brownwood Texas. Jack Godwin surrendered. The Eastern Association of Congregational Churches holds its annual meeting in Oklahoma City. Infant of Larson McCarter near Lake Creek DeKalb County Texas drank concentrated lye and may die. Frank Pardee held up at Gainesville Texas behind the post office with nothing secured.
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Purcell
I. T
Paria
Tex
Wes Bailey
Paris
Webster Flanagan
Austin
Lincoln Club
Ardmere
Jim Moore
Brownwood
Jack Godwin
Eastern Association of Congregational Curches
Oklahoma City
Larson McCarter
Lake Creek
Deke County
Texas
Frank Pardee
Gainesville
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Ferankana
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F.C. Nossler
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Katy Service
Katy Flyer
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Jefferson Cotton Oil and Refining Co
Jefferson, Texas
Jefferson Cotton Oil & Refining CO
W. E. Peters, Weigher
D, Wurtsbaugh & Son
Cortelyon
Oklahoma Methodists
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Turner, Ogu
Pal
Dallas
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Ils
Evansville
Indiana
J. F. Crow
Crow Drug
T. F. McGarity
Alpera
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