New Tariff Rates Now In Effect In Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City Oklahoma Dec 1 yesterday marked the first day of enforcement of the new tariff of class freight rates between all stations in Oklahoma The tariff covers all freight shipped in less than car load lots and all freight in carload with certain articles exempted by United States court decisions The new rate book will show comparative rates from Kansas City St Louis Dallas Wichita Fort Worth and Muskogee aiding jobbers to compare freight costs Oklahoma Traffic association secretary W V Hardee has compiled rates to all towns under the new basis and will distribute to Oklahoma City jobbers soon The tariff is expected to aid local business while some railroads protest and may seek modification later
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Oklahoma City
Ota
Oklahoma
United States
Hook
The
Corporation Commission
Judge Hook
Supreme Court
W. V. Hardee
Oklahoma Traffic Association
Kansas City
St. Louis
Dallas
Wichita
Fort Worth
Muskogee
Hardee
Stato
Texan
Kansan
Obscene Language Charges End With Firing In Court
Three men, Verte Merrill Elmer Golden and Tadlee Wilkerson implicated after a roadside incident involving obscene language. They were fired on and faced penalties, with witnesses recounting the heated exchange but the court expunging the majority of the dialogue. County Attorney Brady prosecuted without defense counsel present.
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Dan Tie
Meredith
Verte Merrill
Elmer Golden
Conte
Tadlee
Toller Wilkercon
Wilkerson
Brady
Four Men Dynamite Garden City Bank. $1800 Stolen
Associated Press reports in Des Moines that four men dynamited the Farmers Bank at Garden City at 1 am and secured eighteen hundred dollars before escaping.
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Garden City Bank
Associated Press
Des Moines
Farmers Bank
Garden City
Election Inspector Freed After Habeas Writ Ruling
The criminal court of appeals granted a writ of habeas corpus to A. J. Shaw an election inspector arrested at Tulea for refusing to permit some Negroes to vote. The court held registration before the grandfather clause did not grant voting rights without meeting reading requirements.
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Associatedress
Guthrie
Okla
Criminal Court of Appeals
A. J. Shaw
Tulea
Vlouse
Typhoid Epidemic Rages in Northwest Missouri
A protracted drought has sparked a violent typhoid outbreak across northwest Missouri with St Joseph hit hardest and many deaths reported. Public health officials urge containment as medical facilities strain under rising case numbers.
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Missouri
Associated Press
St Joseph
St. Joseph
Enid Institute to Receive Feeble Minded Patients
Enid Oklahoma December 2 The state institution for feeble minded is ready to receive patients under law. Children both sexes ages 5 to 14 feeble minded females to 45 epileptic patients may be received when properly committed. Send applications to Dr Frank B Davis superintendent Oklahoma Institution for Feeble Minded Enid Oklahoma. We request a list of all patients who would be in this institution and will appreciate information concerning same.
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Enid
Okla
Hlanka
Frank *B. Davis
Oklahoma Institution
Guthrie Journal Doubts on Capital Move to Oklahoma City
Guthrie Oklahoma voters face a split over the capital relocation plan as the special legislative session advances toward placing the capital in Oklahoma City. Some business leaders pledge no further fight while others plan to challenge legality in court.
JUSTICE KANE PRAISED FOR CAPITAL CASE DISSENT
Guthrie Oklahoma December 3 Justice M Kane of the Oklahoma supreme court who issued a dissent in a recent capital case is receiving letters and telegrams of praise from across the United States. He argued the enabling act locating the sap ihl at Guthrie in 1913 binds as a sacred compact between individuals and should be kept as such. Messages include officials and attorneys from Niagara County New York Kansas City St Louis and other cities.
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Guthrie
Okla
Kane
Oklahoma Supreme Court
United States
Niagara County
N. Y
Kansas City
St. Louis
John G. Park
Ety
Rebuilding Plans Voted After Vinita Fire Debacle
Vinita residents weigh options to rebuild hotel and business blocks destroyed yesterday. Proposals include a modern four to five story hotel on Ming Harris Burrington land or a three story mixed use structure on the entire site, with Ming and Harris awaiting a decision from St Louis. Some shops reopen soon while others seek interim locations and insurance losses mount across Buffington Shanahan and related properties.
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Oklahoma
Vinita
Ming-Harris and Buffington
John A. Wise
Parker-Wise Investment Company
Buffington
Harry Mitchell vi
Shanahan
Ming
Harris
St. Louis
Acgill
Chieftalk
Grage
Misher
Anderson
Hunt Building
Ming & Harris
Indictments Against Three Big Corporations
Associated Press reports in Savannah that the federal land jury in U S district court indicted three large corporations the Atlantic Coast Line Railway Seaboard Airline Railway and Merchants and Miners Transportation for Sherman anti trust and Elkins law violations plus two individuals Harvie Miller and Morris Miller grain merchants of LF Miller Sons Philadelphia. Oklahoma wheat prospects poor three percent less area sown and a 776000 bale cotton crop valued at 55 million dollars due to dry weather.
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Associated Press
Savanah
Federal Land Jury
United States District Court
Atlantic Coast Line I Railway
Seaboard Airline Railway
Merchants and Miners Transportation Company
Harvie Miller
Morris Miller
LF. Miller & Sons
Philadelphia
Oklahoma
Guthrie
Okla
State Board of Agriculture
Jury verdict links murder to Rev Amizi Armstrong shot by John Sears
Associated Press reports in Trenton that Rev Amizi Armstrong was killed by a gunshot fired by John Sears. The jury returned a verdict attributing Armstrong’s death to Sears after the fatal shooting on a December evening.
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John Sears
Associated Press
Trenton
N. 1
Amizi Armstrong
Tom Owen Plans Senate Race in 1912 Fight
Guthrie Okla Dec 2 Thomas H Owen of Muskogee has a strong senatorial interest and will seek the United States Senate seat held by Robert L Owen in 1912 Two rivals for renomination Senator Owen Governor Haskell Alfalfa Murray and Congressman Charles Carter are also expected to enter the race.
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Haskell
Alfalfa Bo" Murray
Charles Carter
Cross Examination of Wendling Attracts Large Louisville Crowd
A large crowd heard the cross examination of Joseph Wendling, the alleged Kellner killer, in Louisville. Wendling appeared pale and nervous, testified about a blood smeared pair of athletic trunks found at the scene, and claimed his job as church janitor was the best he ever had while denying trouble with his wife.
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Associated Press
Louisville
Joseph Wendling
Alma Kellner
Harris asserts readiness to rebuild in Vinita
Joseph R. Morris, seen by a Chieftain reporter, declares owners of burned buildings must rebuild. Harris, in St Louis court, says there is no question but to rebuild, asserting fire experience and resolve to erect fire resistant structures despite past losses.
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Joseph R. Morris
Chieftain
Judge Ming
St. Louis
Mr. Harris
Tve
Settlement terms offered in Chicago garment strike
Representatives of Hart Schaffner Marx proposed settlement terms today to the strike council. The workers accepted the proposition subject to ratification by the strikers. Local mayor Busse presided over the council as talks continued toward ending the dispute.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ill
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Garment Workers
Busse
Bodies Identified as Missing Artist in West Side Trunk
New York December 2 Commissioner Flynn of the central office announced that the body found in a trunk in a west side house cellar has been positively identified as Albert C Collier, a missing artist.
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Associated Press
New York
Flynn
Central Office
West Side
Albert C Collier
Nine Fatally Injured in Missouri Pacific Wreck
Fifteen people were injured when Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 4 wrecked near Knob Noster. Nine died. The crash was caused by a broken rail and all passenger coaches derailed including two Pullmans and a chair car that tumbled down an eight foot embankment. The smoker remained upright. All seriously injured were taken to the Missouri Kansas and Texas hospital at Sedalia.
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Associated Press
Lamonte
Missouri Pacific
Knob Noster
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Sedalia
Capital bill limits capitol site to five miles beyond city
Oklahoma City December 2 the house approved a capital location bill authorizing Governor Haskell to accept a gift not exceeding eighty acres for a capitol site within or not more than five miles beyond Oklahoma City's corporate limits The measure replaces the prior 1600 acre option and requires any site outside the city to be bought A senate committee will study proposals from local residents and several democrats push to enforce site location inside city limits Furniture moved from Guthrie into the statehouse as both houses met in night sessions
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Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Okla
House
Senate
C. N. Haskell
Capitol
Kite
Guthrie
Widow of Murdered Man Questioned in Massachusetts Trial
Cambridge Mass Dec 2 When the trial of Hattie LeBlanc charged with the murder of Clarence F Glover at Walcomb was resumed Mrs Lillian M Glover widow of the murdered man was questioned briefly by Mr Johnson She was asked if she found letters sent to Hattie LeBlanc by a Canadian relative which Johnson wished to see She replied she had searched for them without avail.
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Associated Press
Cambridge
Mass
Hattie LeBlanc
Clarence F. Glover
Walcomb
Lil Iian M. Glover
Johnson
Hattle LeBlanc
Elks Memorial Day Observed In Vinita
Sunday is observed nationwide as Memorial Day by the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Local memorial services at Congregational church at 7 30 PM with Rev J E Pershing preaching. The Vinita lodge reports no deaths in its two years, but its lodge home burned this week.
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Tommorrow
United States
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Order of Elks
Congregational Church
J. KE. Pershing
Vinita Lodge
Oklahoma City elects three GOP district judges in 26 seat race
Oklahoma records show Republicans A. H. Huston James B. Cullison and Wade S. Stanfield winning district judge seats amid a largely Democratic slate. Vote tallies across twenty four districts list multiple tight contests with Democrats leading in some districts and Republicans gaining in others.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Dec
Oklahoma
A. H. Huston
Guthrie
James B. Cullison
Enid
Wade
Standerd
Sapulpa
Okmulgee
War State Election Board
John H. Pitchford
Bruce L. Keenan
T. L. Brown
Orion L. Rider
N. DeGraffrenried
R. C. Allen
George C. Butts
John H. King
Presiie B. Cole
Harry T. Kyle
Malcom E. Rosge
T. H. DeBois
Summers Hardy
C. H. Biting
Tom D. McKeen
Robert M. Rainey
Beise W
Farmer
Stilwell H. Russell
James E. Humphrey
Jourteenth
Robison McMilnelian
C. J. Moore
Frank M. Bailey
J. T. Johnson
HH. C. Stabblefield
James R. Tolbert
W. D. Walton
H. A. Brown
Charles H. Eagin
Robert H. Loofbaurrow
Sidney B. Laune
James W. Steen
Interurban Line Planned From Oklahoma City to Muskogee
Plans for an 180 mile interurban line from Oklahoma City to Muskogee were discussed by N D Long of Muskogee Electric Traction and P N Miller of New York with Oklahoma City businessmen. The route may pass Shawnee or Chandler and Davenport, with Tulsa connection sought after Muskogee. A survey will start on the selected route as promoters push toward construction and potential extension to Fort Smith. Thomas P. Smith supported the project, linking state interest to the trans state line.
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Muskogee
N. D. Long
Muskogee Electric Traction Company
P. N. Miller
New York
Oklahom City
Oklahoma Railway Company
Shawnee
Chandler
Davenport
Tulsa
Fort Smith
Thomas P. Smith
Okla
Dec
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