Illness to His se at Lawton Are Rushed
Lawton area rush for currency transport highlights harsh Overland routes as 532,500 acres set aside for homesteads stir open bidding and calls for government action. Citizens press Interior Department to open three reserves and allow rapid settlement amid protest over Creek and Kiowa lands and new homesteading prospects.
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Lawton
Flameseekers
Wton
Ings
Guthrie
Marlow
Heckes
Vole Red
Mr. Billings
Interior Department
Chere
Jobart
Woods May Lose It Over Land Claim Lawsuit
John L. Calvert of Guthrie leads contest against John R. Woods in Brownsville Oklahoma Territory over 160 acres along Lawton townsite. Attorneys plan to show Woods used homestead law with intent to profit from town property, challenging the action as a violation of deed and law, with witnesses to support claims of unnatural homestead velocity.
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Ort Sill
John Rods
Lawton
John L. Calvert
Guthrie
C. H. Drake
McCoy Avenue
Woods
Aittorneys
Hollows
Raes
Ress
Wey
Mt Bealg
Clay County Teachers Seek State Aid for Institute Attendance
Mehers in Clay County Missouri demand state payment of expenses for two weeks of institute attendance. Liberty hosts a meeting where a resolution calls on all Missouri institutes to urge the General Assembly in 1903 to amend laws so the district employing the teacher bears the cost of attending the annual institute.
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Mehers
Clay County
Liberty
Clay City
Kansas-born Manila city attorney linked to political family
Leavenworth Kansas native John W Haussermann, newly appointed Manila city attorney, earns a salary around 4000. He married a sister of E Murphy, a noted Democratic politician and secret society member. Haussermann joined the Twentieth Kansas in 1898 and served in the Philippines before mustering out and remaining with volunteer regiments.
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Leavenworth
Kan
John’ W. Haussermann
Manila
Lassen
E. Murphy
Twentieth
Kansas
Philippines
Ice trust hard hit in Topeka court ruling
Topeka Kansas August 8 Judge Tind of the police court fined W. T. Dickey manager of the People's Ice company 200 for maintaining a trust contrary to city ordinance. Dickey appealed to the district court as protests mount over the ice company price increases and the trial drew a large crowd.
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Big Soi Creek
Thomas E. Chino
J. H. Thorp
Thureday
Independence
W. Iw. Corse
Kelling
Frank Moss
Higginsville
B.D. Ragland Drug Store
City Square
Wellington
Leatma
Topeka
Kan
Tindsay
WW. T. Dickey
People’s
Ica Company
Dickey
District Court
Tca
First American suppliers top May Manila imports
May imports into Manila totaled 2,460,431 with the United States leading at 849,923, followed by England 549,544 and the Chinese empire 250,177. Count von Waldersee arrived in Hamburg aboard the Gera greeted by crowds. Gen. von Wittich welcomed him. The U S transport Thomas reaches Honolulu carrying over 500 school teachers bound for the Philippines and plans to depart August 2 after coal.
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Washington
Philippines
United States
Manila
England
Chinese Empire
Honolulu
Thomas
San Francisco
Legacy tax must be paid within a year after death
Commissioner Yerkes of the revenue bureau rules that a legacy tax must be paid within a year after the testator's death and in any event before payment and distribution to legatees, in Washington.
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Washington
Yerkes
The
Revenue Bureau
Capture of 25 Men Near Sabi River Reported
Lord Kitchener's dispatch from Pretoria dated Thursday states that a post of 25 men from Steinacker's horse on the Sabi river was surprised and captured by the Noera forces.
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Hoera
London
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Steinacker
Sabi
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