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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1910
Page
4
Publication price schedule lists rates by year and half year with mail options and dates. Includes prices for six month and three month periods and a Friday note with April 22 date.
A flood of notices from Vinita and surrounding Craig County announce candidacies for county judge, county attorney, sheriff, district clerk, clerk, treasurer and other posts on the Democratic ticket. Includes calls for support in the August primary and remarks on local politics, roads, taxes, and public issues of the era.
Kansas City stockyards report mixed cattle and hog activity with a strong finish to the week as supplies rise. Quarantine cattle are light. top steer price reaches around 8 dollars, hogs decline about 1.50, with buyers watching imports from Argentina and Australia for beef and mutton implications. Sheep and lamb arrivals total about 9000 head with diverse weights and prices noted.
A stream of public notices lists candidates for Craig County offices subject to the Democratic primary in August 1910. Tam candidate for sheriff. NODART L. CHAMBERLIN and JAB. F McCULLOUGH announce County Commissioner bids. H. W. C. Bholton seeks reelection as County Superintendent. D. T. Witt and others file for various posts with Vinita banner notices.
The market is higher after a moderate advance last week. Woolled lambes bring 10.90 dollars today, near the year’s best. Top clipped lumb today 9.25. Arizona spring lambs 8.50, best year lings 9.25, wethers 8.76, ewes 8.25. Arizona clipped sheep sold at 6.00, Texas muttons 7.26 to 8.00.
Washington notes report a high stock rise after the Supreme Court ordered re argument in the Standard Oil and tobacco trust cases. Senator Gore rallies at a Jefferson Day banquet with a blunt platform, Democrats forecast gains nationwide, and Gore pushes a “square deal” for segregated Indian lands via a senate resolution.
The University of Oklahoma completes a spacious new engineering building in Norman. The brick structure with Bedford limestone trim rises two stories with an ell for foundry and boiler rooms. It features large drafting rooms, libraries, laboratories, offices, and a machine shop.
Guthrie April 21 Attorney General Charlon J Wot will apply for a receiver for Waters-Pierce Oil in Oklahoma and prosecution under state trust laws. The move targets an unlawful combination restraining trade and seeks daily penalties and a court order barring the company from doing business in the state.
The Westville Stillwell county seat dispute in Adair County, ongoing since statehood, is amicably settled by agreement. Stilwell gains permanent county seat location. Westville had sought removal via multiple court challenges. Attorneys for both towns, led by W. P. Thompson for Stilwell, arranged the settlement prior to Supreme Court oral arguments in Guthrie.
AP dispatch from Kansas City reports Pearl Kellar resuming testimony under ruling on defense objections. She described Dr Hyde and Dr Twyman bleeding Hunton after his stroke. two quarts were taken. Attorneys objected to relevance as Hunton’s death tied to Col Swope case.
Preston Brown, one of the men who captured Jefferson Davin at the close of the Jeiva war, is dead in Loonburg. The report from Wareaw, Indiana dated April 21 notes Brown’s involvement in the capture and records his death.
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