Governor Benedict Arrested Again Over Editorial Charges
Oklahoma City reports Omer K Benedict editor of the Times was re-arrested on a criminal libel charge after bond posted in Guthrie. The governor accuses Benedict of lying about meetings with James O Neil and a Prinrie Ol and Gas official, amid Central railroad receivership ties. Benedict posted bond and was released.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Guthrie
Bond
Haskell
Omer K. Benedict
the Times
Oklahoma Central Railroad
Benedict
Tech Times
Oklahoma
Brown Convenes District Court In Vinita
The August term of the district court convened with Judge T L Brown presiding. Jurors were selected and the grand jury charged to duties. prisoners faced the panel including Mary James and others on assault burglary and rape, with murder cases of J T Scott and Ed Harlan awaiting indictment.
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T L. Brown
Claremone
Brown
Theoughe
Mary James
Chas, Smith
Ellis Miller
J. T. Scott Jourder
Davis
Gus Roberta
Bud Williams
Asaault
Will
Milton Flowers
Tom Merritt
J.T. Scott
Harlan
Scott
Vinita Courts
gild bird cage care tips for gilding and finishing
If the bird cage is tarnished on an old painted cage, release the bird in a closed room for a while. Then give the cage a coat of gilding inside and outside. The gilt should dry quickly. Do not apply too thickly or it will become lumpy.
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Birdie
Name of the Same Color in Chicago Store Scene
In a Chicago shop a nervous street tale mentions a streaman Grevy Small Clarence and a Mr. Green. Two men lie near the door, one bearing a name that shares the color with Mr. Green, hinting at a curious coincidence in a bustling storefront vignette.
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Chicago
Grevy Small
Clarence
Mr. Green
City council approves extensive magadam paving on Foreman Street
Tuesday session saw votes on multiple paving projects including 11 or 12 blocks on Foreman Scraper and Wilson streets with curb and macadam roadway. A city safe purchase and several street widenings were also approved amid debate.
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Foreman Street
Mayor Parks
Parks
Flint Avenue
Canadian Avenue
Foreman, Scraper
Wilson Streets
Paul F. Mackey
Vann Street
Hingis Avenue
Shall the people rule in all questions now under discussion
Bryan argues that the overarching issue dominating current debates is whether the people should govern themselves. The quote frames a populist concern about democratic control and authority in public decision making. The remark foregrounds a tension between majority rule and representative governance.
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Bryan
League Offers Help to Stop Oklahoma Lands Sale Referendum
In Guthrie Oklahoma citizens back the Oklahoma School Land Preservation league formed to oppose a legislative bill to sell school lands valued at nearly 30 million dollars. The group aims to delay dispossession until voters decide next November, raising funds for literature to warn of risks to the lands and urging retention under careful management.
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Guthrie
Okla
Oklahoma
Oklahoma School Land Preservation League
Otter Public Lands
League
How the Chieftain is Regarded Abroad
The resurrected Vinita Chieftain under editor Dave Marrs is hailed as a strong voice from the past. Marrs remains independent and denounces political manipulation by a corrupt machine, urging reform. The Tulsa World notes the revived paper will likely influence Oklahoma politics soon.
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Vinita
Dave Marrs
I. Marrs
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Bank of Afton Elects New Set of Officers
Afton Oklahoma August 19 The Bank of Afton in trouble over the disappearance of cashier Tom Reynolds forms a reorganization. W H Curtis resigned as president. Fred Walker named president. S G Victor elected vice president with Rufus Gillis as cashier. The Oklahoma state charter and director set by the guaranty law.
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Afton
Oklo
Bank of Afton
Tom Reynolds
W. H. Curtis
Bev Ait
Fred Walker
Grcceed Bith
S G. Victor
Rufus Gillis
Ok Hee
Lector Ciel
Special officer Barnhill stabbed on Frisco train
Special Enforcement Officer Barnhill of Sapulpa, an assistant to B J Waugh, was seriously wounded when an unknown attacker stabbed him aboard a Frisco passenger train between Vinita and Chelsea. The assailant was arrested by the train crew and turned over to Chelsea police. Barnhill was treated and returned home.
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Vinita
Barnhill
Chelsea
Barnttt
Sapulpa
Frank Smiley Aids Two Traveling Men to Centralia Run
Frank Smiley assisted A B Hicks of the Rateliff-Sanders Grocery Co and E B Woodward of Muskogee to Centralia and back in a Ford Runabout, covering forty four miles in a single day. They left at nine in the morning, reached Centralia at ten, left at four, returning home by five. The trip highlights the growing role of automobiles replacing horse rigs as roads improve.
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Centralia
Frank Smiley
A.B. Hicks
Rateliff-Sanders Grotery Company
E. B. Woodward
Muskogee
Hicks
Woodward
Smiley
Centraln
Craig County
Bids Open for Vitrified Brick Wall Construction
Sealed bids will be received up to 8 PM on August 21, 1908 for building a vitrified brick wall. Specifications detail the brick plant and methods, with site noted on the north side of a block in Adair. Names such as L. Panne and Ton Cannaisn are referenced in notices.
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Bty
Panne, Te
Bryan Attacks Republican Failure In Banking Policy
In Lincets Nebraska August 19 William J Bryan denounced Republican lenders for backing a currency bill favoring the stock market while neglecting to align national banks with state guaranty deposit laws. He noted Enid Oklahoma National Bank surrendered its charter, and warned other state banks may follow, citing 54 national banks in Oklahoma using the guaranty system to grow deposits while unsecured banks lose.
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Lincets
William J. Bryan
Cen Greene
Oklahoma
Bryan
Enid Oklahoma
Parker Plaza Named For Vinita Auditorium Builder
The Commercial Club of Vinita Oklahoma adopted a resolution on August 14 1908 thanking Laman F Parker for conceiving planning promoting and financing Vinita's Auditorium and park project The park beside the Auditorium is to be named Parker Plaza in his honor and memory by the club representing local business leaders and citizens.
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Commercial Club of
Vinita
Commercial Club
Oklahoma
Laman F. Parker
Parker Plaza
Ite
Replevin Action Over Beer Seized Near Tulsa
Guthrie Oklahoma August 20 To test the constitutionality of the Billups prohibition law section denying replevin for liquor fixtures seized by officers the St Louis and San Francisco railroad has filed to replevin two car loads of beer recently confiscated at Tulsa One wagon remains in state custody until the case is settled
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Guthrie
St. Lewis and San Francisco Railroad
Tulsa
Republican Leaders Learn From the Masses in Wilderness Period
A fragment argues that only after enduring a long period in the wilderness will Republican leaders study public questions from the masses’ viewpoint. The remarks stress practical learning beyond elite perspective and warn of delayed political awakening.
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Bryan
Indian boarding schools to reopen September first in Indian territory
Muskogee Aug 20 thirty five boarding schools for Creek Cherokee and Chickasaw nations to open September first with pupil counts 60 to 160 and average around 80. Superintendent Benedict releases an incomplete teacher list for thirty five Cherokee schools detailing principal and assistant posts plus matrons cooks and janitors at female seminary Tahlequah Tahlequah and An orphan asylum with names of staff and positions.
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Muskogee
Childeen
Benedict
Tablequah
George Hanks
Paden Banks
M. J. Riggia
Heiry Tailor
Ella Welch
E. J. Haney
Mate Seminary
Tahlequah
Walter A. Thompson
William T. Scott
Willan T. Stuart
A. J. Brown
Neosho Ends Dry Victory By Fifty Five Votes
Neosho Missouri August 19 drys claimed a victory over wets by a 707 to 426 margin after a community vote. A continuous prayer meeting ran from morning to evening as advocates held gatherings and publications supported their stance.
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Prohis
Neosho
Afty
A.m. Woul
Osher Ekak Ie Ee
Ance
Taoaal
Tom Wyckliffe to wed Indian girl amid lethal family feud
Pryor Creek Aug 1 Tom Wyckliffe reportedly plans marriage to Matte Tyger the Indian girl at the center of a feud with his brother once accused of killing their elder sibling. Wyckliffe now on bond facing two murder charges. details vary. The Wyckliffe family, once famous for a confrontation with U S officers, is linked to the proposed marriage amid conflicting accounts of the tragedy.
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Pryor Creek
Tom Wyckliffe
Tom
Wyckliffe
Cherokee Hills
Mattle Tyger
Wyckliffes
United States
Kansas
Marrhel Giletrap
Thomas Dixon May Try Acting Role of Dan Wylie in The Traitor
Thomas Dixon Jr author of The Leopard s Spots and The Clansman plans to act the mountaineer Dan Wylie in The Traitor the sequel to The Clansmen His early stage interest dates from North Carolina college days and he will tour the South delivering curtain speeches as part of the film tour for The Clansman The South may be drawn into debate over his dramatic rendition and the play s impact on Southern literature and drama
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Thomas Dixon, Jr
Dan Wylie
Ku Klux Klan
Dixon
North Carolina
Charles Dickens
Mr. Dixon
Southern
Meen
South
Cts
Insurance companies search for body in Nebany area
Tulsa Oklahoma August 19 Believing that William McCracken a furmer near Nebany who is supposed to have drowned recently to live five oil and Kansas insurance companies with whom he held policies totaling 22 000 are making a search for his body The river has been dragged several times but the body is not found McCracken is supposed to have gone fishing a tan living nearby claims to have seen him in the river J R Campbell has sold his property in the Marrs addition to his brother De Wine Campbell of Fairland
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Ohia
William McCracken
Nebany
Wilil Wlive
Ollehorn and
Kenses Insurance Companies
McCracken
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