Fifty three new state laws go into effect today
Fifty three measures approved by the first legislature take effect with or without emergency provisions. Laws include a court of criminal appeals, a board of pardon advisers, a graduated land tax, and a ban on alien land ownership. Other acts cover education, weathered by labor and highway rules, railroad protections, taxation, and municipal incentives.
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Senate
Eect
Court of Criminal Appeals
Board of Pardon Advisers
Justices of the Peace
Justices of the Pusce
Porum
Muskogee
Wapanucka
Johnson County
Curiey
Atoka County
Court Towns
Board of of the
State Auditor
Sperintendent of Public Instruction
Supreme Court
Curt
Two More National Banks Give Up Ghost
Guthrie Oklahoma August 23 Two more national banks have surrendered their national charters and reorganized as state banks to retain the depositors guaranty law. The Madill State Bank of Madill with 50000 capital lists W S Derrick as president and John L Derrick as cashier. The First State Bank of Lamont formerly the First National carries 12000 capital with A C Thompson as president and L H Thompson as cashier.
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Guthrie
Madill State Bank of
Madill
Madill National
W. S. Derrick
John L. Derrick
First State Bank of Lamont
First Natonal
A.C. Thompson
L. H. Thompson
Body of McCracken Found in the Arkansas River
Tulsa, August 25. After twelve days the body of William McCracken of Nelogany was found in the Arkansas river near Tulsa. The skull and part of the hands were missing. Insurance companies with $25,000 in policies protested payout amid suspicions of a life insurance scheme. The body was identified by clothing.
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Tulsa
Okla
Willian Me
Cracken
Nelogany
Arkansas River
McCracken
Campaign for Oklahoma dispensary system faces legal tests
Guthie Oklahoma August 25 Friends of the Dispensary system wage a unique campaign to keep the liquor measure alive after November 3. They push education, oppose illegal sales, and claim enforcement by secret service and clergy allied groups while court cases challenge the Billups liquor bill. The state faces rulings on search and seizure, interstate commerce issues, and potential referenda to decide the dispensary’s future.
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Guthie
Friends of the
Oklahoma
R. E. Loxier
Artomore
Oklahoma City
Guthrie
Flynn & Ames
Frisco Railroad Company
Supreme Court of
Nardin Addition Lot Sale To Open Soon In Vinita
Geo R Veeder representing Hardan Realty of Elm Reno arrives in Vinita to arrange a large lot sale set for September tenth to fifteenth. Sidewalks progress on twenty blocks of the addition, a $2000 bungalow to be given with lot purchases, lots offered at $10 down and $10 monthly, no cost for street grading, taxes paid by the company, streets thirty feet wide with 25 foot parkways, and sales pitched as the start of a home building boom in Vinita.
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Geo. R. Veeder
Hardan Realty Company
EL Reno
College Addition
Vinita
Grant
Tiis
Judge Campbell Dismisses Choctaw Claimant Suit
Judge Ralph E. Campbell of the Eastern District of Oklahoma dismissed a suit brought by J B Fleming and 11 000 claimants to citizenship in the Choctaw and Chickasaw lands. The decision held Congress has sole power to wind up tribal affairs and to appoint an agency for rights of the Indians, with any relief possible only through Congress. A J Ewing of Guthrie was mentioned in relation to the case.
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McAlester
Ralph E. Campbell
United States Court of the
Eastern District of Oklahoma
J.B. Fleming
Cavernors
McCurtain and Johnson
Mansfeld
McCurtain & Cornish
Secretary of the Interior
Garfield Jhidge Campbell
Congress
Ness
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Bennington
Cade Court
Bryan County
M'Cracken
Arkansas
Friends OF Qiopendary
Corteral
United States District Court
Lozier
Higuer
Lozier 9
Nardin Addition
Campbell
A. J. Ewing
Guthrie Ian the Ity
Ted
All Ladies
Oxfords
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