City council weighs direct pressure water system and street works
City council discussed adopting a direct pressure water system after study in Baxter Springs and review of lead pipe use on South Wilson Street. Bids were opened for Scraper Street paving and North Smith Street curbing and grading. Clerk authorized to collect assessments proportional to ownership for multi owner lots. Council also adds property east of South Wason Street to Excelsior addition to pave Wilson Street. Sanitary action ordered against J R Campbell if septic tank not cleaned. Six month bid for sweeping paved streams advertised.
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Scraper Street
Canadian Avenue
Pint Avenue
Canvons
Smith Street
Board of Appraisals
Baxter Springs
Ise
Rider
South Wilson Street
South Wason Street
Excelsior Addition
Wilgon Street
J. R Campbell
Marrs
Unsuccessful Robbery Attempt at Manitou Bank Office
Two men attempted to rob the cafe in the Manitou bank office but were thwarted when James Morrow the day clerk shot one attacker through the head fatally wounding him and sustaining a bullet through his clothing. The robbers escaped but were later captured.
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Associated Press
Colorado Springs
Colo
Manitou
James Morrow
Commission Taking Evidence Against Katy Case in Guthrie
Guthrie Oklahoma August 18 Chairman Jack Love of the commission takes evidence in the contempt case against the M. E. & T. railroad for failure to provide drinking water and bulletin trains at Bartlesville. Jesse W. Watte of Sallisaw testified he was kept waiting from 11 a m to p m for a Coffeyville trip, told it would arrive in a few minutes, during a six hour wait without a drink of water.
Will Determine County Seat Today in Nowata Oklahoma
Delaware and Nowata vie for county seat with oil districts poised to influence the outcome. Delaware sits near the county center while Nowata, population growth noted, claims prominence amid Hogshooter gas fields and surrounding oil activity. The vote requires two thirds of ballots cast rather than a simple majority.
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Nowata
Oliv
Delaware
Lenapah
Wann
South Coffeyville
Kansas Line
Lenapaw
Goose Creek
Family Physician Reaches Damaging Testimony
In Emporia Kansas on August 18 at W. H McMullen’s preliminary hearing Dr H L Put ter, the McMullens’ physician, testified that morphine causing the wife’s death could only have been administered by her husband as no one else was in the house.
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Associated Press
Emporia
Kans
W. H McMullen
H. L Putter
Auditorium Bond Souse Approved By City Auditor
Mayor O L Rider received a letter from the Oklahoma Bond and Trust Company confirming acceptance of bonds voted for the city hall project. The firm notes the ordinance change removing construction, requests 1908 valuations for railroad and public service properties, and promises rapid processing once proofs of publication are received.
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O. L. Rider
theOklahoma Bond & Trust Company
Oklahoma City
Okla
Vinita
Railroad and Public Service Corporation
Sity Council
Oklahoma Bond & Trust CO
N. D. McGinley
Bank Cashier Dies After Robbery in Kelfer
Tulse Ok Aug 18 Advices from Kelfer say no trace found of two desperadoes who shot City Marshal J B Swineford and mortally wounded Cashier Palmer Wedding in a Keb fer State bank robbery attempt Monday night Chief of Police Thompson says the men likely belong to a bank gang active in Oklahoma for nearly a year Wedding died after an operation at Greasheart hospital in this city Neither the town nor the Glenn pool district yields new clues to the pursuing officers.
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Tulse
Kelfer State
Swineford
Palmer Wedding
Kebfer State Bank
Thompson
Oklahoma
Wedding
Greasheart Hospital
Kelfer
Oll
Glenn Pool
Riot as strikebreakers attempt to enter steel car works
A riot broke out in McKees Rocks Pennsylvania when striker crowds tried to block strikebreakers from entering the Prassed Steel Car Works plant. One striker was injured and several others were struck by stones during the confrontation.
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Associated Press
McKees Rocks
Prassed Steel
Miss Rob Browning Visits With Mise McSpadden
Miss Rob Browning went for a short visit this morning and will stay a few days with Mise McSpadden.
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Rob Browning
Chelea
Mise McSpadden
Guilty Verdicts in Conspiracy Case Involving Japanese Strikers
Three Japanese editors and Makibo, president of the higher wage association, were found guilty of conspiracy related to a movement by Japanese strikers to seize government control in the territory. The Aug. 18 decision comes as authorities exposed the plot and its aims.
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Honolulu
Makibo
Higher Wage Association
Cool Breeze Ends Ten Day Heat Wave Across Midwest
Weather officials in Washington predicted relief as a cool north wind moved in ending a heat wave that caused widespread distress. Temperatures dropped from 110 to 79 in Kansas City and Topeka, with cities across Kansas and Oklahoma seeing cooler conditions. John Hall of Claremore left for Ohio after his cousin's drowning.
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Weather Bureau
Washington
Kansas City
Kanann
City
Ohio
Topeka
Kansas
Oklahoma
Simmiter
Muskogee
John Hall
Claremore
Chelsea Man Struck by Train Near Frisco Station
A young man named Eddleman from Chebassa was struck by a moving train near Frisco station while intoxicated. He lost a leg above the hip and one arm in the accident and is in critical condition after being taken to the Garrison building rooming house on South Wilson Street for treatment.
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Frisco Station
Eddleman
Chebsea
South Wilson Street
Miami club forecasts population boosts for towns
The Miami Oklahoma article notes a new all male commercial club forming to promote material development and its constitution forbids political activity. The group's population projections for five towns include Muskogee 50,000 Tulun 49,000 Bartlerville 26,000 Vinita 2 000 Miami 26,000.
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Miami
Okla
Muskogee
Tulun
Bartlerville
Vinita
Visitors Return and Pittsburg Man In Town
Misa Alice Washington, guest of Miss Eve Ratclut and Miss Magda Clark, returned to Muskogee last evening. John L. Kirkpatrick of Pittsburg, Kansas, was in the city today.
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Misa Alice Washington
Eve Ratclut
Magda Clark
Muskogee
John L. Kirkpatrick
Pittsburg
Kans
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Manitou Bank
Milford-Berger Shoe Co
Oxfords
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Ikeifer Bank
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