Crop report shows best prospect in twenty years
Guthrie Oklahoma April reports from the state agriculture department describe unusually favorable March weather and growing conditions across most counties. The bulletin notes 62 of 72 counties reporting no wheat damage from the season’s threats, while corn and alfalfa show strong progress and moisture averages remain high in places. Overall prospects point to record production and expanded cultivation statewide.
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Guthrie, Ohin
Grant County
Kay
Dewey
McCurtain
Seminole
Bryan Cimarron
Custer
Marshall
Murray
Okfuskee
Pontotoc
Roger Mills
Texas
Woodward
Jast
Oklahoma
Caney Celebrates Rail Line Groundbreaking Event
Caney marks a holiday as streets close for the Cherryvale Oklahoma and Texan railroad project. A noon banquet and 3 pm procession lead to a camp in Oklahoma where the southeast branch to Wann Nowata and Fayetteville Arkansas will begin. Senator Porter, bonds sold in Paris, speaks with officials present. Speeches honor and a gold headed walking stick is given, with four months expected to complete the Wann line and eventual expansion to Perry El Paso and beyond.
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Caney, Kang
Caney
Cherryvale, Oklahoma & Texan
Oklahomia
Wann
Nowata
Fayetteville
Ark
8. M. Porter
Paris
Brewster
Independence
Dale
Perry Okla
Oklahoma
Tuskett
Caney Commercial Club
Hai
Asylum Money Is Raised by Commercial Club Leader
Secretary Wise of the Commercial Club says five hundred dollars due to Cobb on the asylum project has been raised and contractors are ordered to begin work.
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Wise
Commercial Club
Cobb
Tulsa Hearing Set On Haskell Case At Tulsa
Tulsa April session opens with Judge Campbell to hear motions in the Haskell Creek defrauding case. May 4 trial date set before Judge Marshall with about 125 witnesses from eastern states expected. Government prosecutors include Gregg Huener Rush while Henry Asp leads defense counsel for the Santa Fe railroad.
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Tulsa
Okla
Ralph Campbell
United States Court For
Eastern District of
Oklahoma
Charles N. Haskell
Muskogee
Campbell
Pollock
Kansas
John A. Marshall
Salt Lake
Utah
Marshall
Tulan
Gregg
United States
Ardmore
Ornl
Munkogee
Tulen
Guthrie
William Gregg
Bayard
T. Hujner
Oklahoma Territory
Sylvester Rush
Omaha
Naka
Henry Asp
Ney
Santa Fe
Treasurer to Begin Writing Checks at OWGE in Washington
Washington April 4. The comptroller treasury rendered a decision on preliminary matters connected with Eastern Cherokees payment and actual writing of checks will begin at once. T. P. Gore.
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OWGE
Washington, D. C
Comptroller
Treasury
T. P. Gore
Convict in Leavenworth Seeks Death by Own Action
An Arkansan counterfeiter, serving a federal sentence in Leavenworth, attempted suicide in his cell last night by hanging with a rope improvised from his bed. The night watch cut him down. the outcome was not disclosed. Governor Haskell vetoes the Anti-Dispensary bill, calling it unconstitutional and alleging it would empower hardened lawbreakers.
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Ascoelate? Press
Leavenworth
Kana
Pone Endsly
Newport
Ark
Night Watch
Associated Press
Guthrie
Oklo
Haskell
Retaliation Proposes Rate Cut on Oklahoma Railroads
Oklahoma’s corporation commission begins retaliation against railroads, proposing a general order to reduce intrastate carload freight rates by nineteen to thirty six percent. The plan covers all classified freight except livestock, with a hearing set for April 28.
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Associated Press
Guthrie
Okla
Oklahoma
State Corporation Commission
Tax suits threaten Oklahoma tax collections in 1909
State Auditor M B Trapp reports $8,000,000 or more in 1908 1909 taxes are being withheld or restrained by federal suits. Frisco Katy Santa Fe railroads and others filed 24 suits in Garfield Cleveland and 16 in Muskogee and surrounding counties. Proceedings tied to 1909 ad valorem and 1908 gross revenue taxes, with hearings set for April 15 and possible further actions.
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Guthrie
Oklo
M. B. Trapp
Frisco
Katy
United States Circuit Court
Santa Fe
Garfield
Cleveland
Alfalfa
Oklahoma
Lincoln
Osage
Pottamatomie
Hills
Grant
Woods
Kay
Payne
Noble
Wood
Logan
Pawnee
Rock Taland
Muskogee
Pullman and
Western Union
Cotteral
Taft Agrees to Sell Coal Lands Under Five Civilized Tribes
Secretary Ballinger told Oklahoma lawmakers the president wants the Five Civilized Tribes affairs settled quickly With the Creager bill changes the sale would mimic western coal land disposals with bids and a 2560 acre cap to prevent monopoly Some Republicans like La Follette and Curtis oppose private sale preferring government control and safeguards against price gouging and operator combinations
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Washington
Ballinger
Taft
Oklahoma
Balk Unger
House Committee On
Creager
Lafollette
Curtis
King Victor Emmanuel Receives Roosevelt in Rome
In Rome on April 41 Associated Press reports King Victor Emmanuel welcomed Col. Roosevelt. The two walked to the king’s apartment where emissaries opened the door to reveal the monarch with arms outstretched and a smile. They shook hands warmly as the king invited Roosevelt to sit beside him. After a private conversation lasting about forty five minutes the door was closed.
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Associated Press
Rome
Italy
Victor Emanuel
Col
Roosevelt
Culrinal
Npe
Victor Emmanuel
Henry Lair Secures Writ of Habeas Corpus
Henry Lair of San Francisco was released on a writ of habeas corpus after serving thirteen months of a two year sentence in a federal penitentiary in Leavenworth. Judge Phillips voided Judge Landis jurisdiction, overturning the Chicago case tied to the white slave traffic involving Maria Penroy.
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Dy Associated Press
Leavenworth
Kans
Henry Lair
San Francisco
Landis
Chicago
Phillips
Ball
Balr
Maria Penroy
Frabee
Conservation bills divide Congress on land and water powers
In a broad debate over withdrawal and classification of public lands and various conservation bills, Republicans split on validating past withdrawals while Democrats accuse them of whitewashing the administration. Taft plans talks to seek harmony amid a rocky path to unified conservation policy.
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Congress
Taft
Pickett
Town
Parsons
New York
Grenna
North Dakota
Mondell
Smith
California
Morgan
Oklahoma
Pray
Montana
Guthrie Usury Law Signed By Governor Haskell
Governor Haskell last signed the usury bill in Guthrie on April 1 establishing 6 percent as the legal rate and 10 percent as the contract rate and allowing double recovery of usurious interest. The act clarifies remedies and enforces usury limits under the new statute.
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Guthrie
Oklo
Haskell
Land bills divide House on conservation agenda
Washington April 4 Members of both houses wrestle with framing lawn policy to advance conservation. The public lands committee in the House has begun shaping proposed measures to authorize presidential withdrawals and parceling of public lands, with members split into several factions pushing different directions.
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Washington
House
Senate
Houses
Congress
Public Lands Committee
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Cherryvale
Kansas Town
Haskell Case
Repub
Lican
King Victor Emanuel
Professional Directory
C. C. Heidtman
Vinita, Oklahoma
Louis Bagby
Hassell
Vinita
W. B. Depue
Vinita, Okla
Court House
William T. Rye
Scott Bldg
Vinita, Oula
DR. C. S. Neer
Foreman
E. A. Stubblefield
C. ML
McGeorge
W. Day
Empire Block
F. L. Marney
Riddle
Ice
Mack
James S. Davenport
New Halsell Bldg
D.H. Wilson
Attorney-At-Law
Empire
Commonwealth Land Company
City Loans
F. M. Gwinnup & Son
Colonist
Fink Pout
Arisona
Garline Potata
Kansas City
Los Angeles
San Diego
Eblilion
J. Kennedy
Aickinas
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