Republican clubs to elect delegates in Indian Territory
Indian Territory Republican executive committee calls all Republican clubs to meet on Thursday August 16 1908 to elect delegates for the convention in the court town. The plan details township ward committees and campaign duties for constitutional delegates with one delegate per township and one per every twenty five members.
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G. Victor
Indian Territory
Republican Executive
Territory
Republican’ Club
Meong
Republican Executive Committee
Birtieaville
Ind
Ter
Republican Party
Inord
Chin
Republican Executive Conte Bee
Toe
Bank collapse fears grip Milwaukee Stensland case widens
Depositors lose hope as bank scandal widens. August 7 reports say President Stensland of the Milwaukee Avenue bank may be arrested on embezzlement charges. Detectives seek Cashier Hering. Canada is suspected as the pursuit expands across the US and into Detroit.
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Chicago
Stensland
Milwaukee Avenue Bank
Jones
Hering
Tots
Detroit
Cannon
M Hering
Gald
Canada
United States
Drunk farmer shoots stepdaughter and wounds wife near Nowata
Crazy with drink, Childers a farmer twelve miles northeast of Nowata shot and killed his stepdaughter Lena Atwood and fatally wounded his wife on Monday afternoon. He is arrested at Wowta and will face a preliminary hearing before Gillully, then be brought to the federal jail in Winita. Relatives say he had a longstanding drunken spree and may have turned violent insane before the killings. His wife likely cannot survive. Childers attempted suicide after the crime and has a brother named Charles in Coffeyville.
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Pleas Childers
Nowata
Childers
Wowata
Connealas
Gillully
Winita
Lena ‘Atwood
Coffeyville
Sid
Charles Childers
Courtney Whitney Held for Murder in Bartlesville
Courtney Whitney charged with the killing of James R. Edwards in Bartlesville on July 2 faced a preliminary hearing yesterday before Commissioner Gillully. He was bound over to the grand jury without bail and will be held in the Vinita jail.
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Courtney Whitney
James R. Edwards
Bartlesville
Gillully
Ce Vinita
Warren company official arrives to advance gas franchise work
Mark Carr of the Warren company, Tulsa HQ, visits the city with orders from George C. Priestley to unload and store twenty two miles of inch gas main fittings and material. He discusses rates Pittsburg to Bartlesville 63 cents, to Winfield 58 cents. bond of 86 000 to be presented tonight. council may abrogate franchise if work does not start within the 30 day grace period.
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Warren Company
Uinois Avenue
Wallen
Lim
Seaatu Eeeey
Mark . Carr
Winitw
Cay
Tulsa
Carr
George C. Priestley
Mr. Carr
Shanahan
Mane
Rae
Ene
Orthacity
Indian Explains Why He Supports the Republicans
An Cherokee editor argues that many Indians should choose the Republican Party for freedom and prosperity. He recalls past Democratic missteps, warns of future taxation and poverty, and links Cherokee loyalty to the United States and Oklahoma. The piece urges education before choosing sides and criticizes Democratic leaders for harming industry and credit.
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Vinita Chieftain
Kith
Cleveland
Democratic Party
Thal
Plead for funds for territorial prohibition effort
The Indian Territory W C T U seeks financial support to back efforts for constitutional prohibition in the Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Leaders Mrs Mabel R Sutherland and Mrs Lila J Ross urge readers to donate, warning that aid is crucial to protect homes and youth from alcohol and to achieve statewide prohibition.
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Oklahoma
Mabel R. Sutherland
Lila J Ross
Chelsea
Okishoma
T. U
Lodan Territory
Ice Men Indicted by Grand Jury in Philadelphia
A Philadelphia grand jury returned true bills of indictment against fourteen members of the Reform Coalition for conspiring to raise prices on ice. The case centers on alleged coordination to inflate cold storage costs.
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Philadelphia
Jane
Police search for Stensland after sighting in Superior
A police sergeant reported seeing Paul C. Stensland carrying a grip on a street this morning in Superior Wik. Detectives are conducting a search for him.
Englehart Buys Insurance Agency and Expands Business
T Ki Englehart yesterday acquired the insurance business from International Trust Company and added de Grist companies to his agency. He now handles fire insurance and real estate loans with foreign and local capital, after ten years in the industry. Born in Lee County, he came from Kirksville Missouri and won a Gom City business college scholarship by writing 4 125 words from the college name.
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T. Ki. Englehart
International & ‘Trust Company
de Grist Com
Gishart
Engtehart
Ib Vinlta
Hai
Furance
Lia
Eoglehart
Kirksville
Laws
Havin
Lee County
Gom City Business College
Quincy
United States
Ringheart
Heat Relief Eases New York Heat Wave Strain
In New York on August 7, the heat eased at noon with fewer heat related prostrations reported. The city experienced milder conditions providing brief relief from the ongoing conditions.
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New York
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Victor
Theodore Stensland
Rentano
John
Peter Revelver
Bank
Severson
Nowata Man Khled
She Fair
E. W. Stryker
Selig
Gas Company
Okinnana
Damosratea
Geo
Albert Pike
John Roks
Pike
D. M. Hodge
W. C. TU
Ice
Englehart
Trust Company
Vanieat
Abel
Cherokee Nationa, Bank Vinita, Oklshoma
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