Fees Widen Deputy Sheriff Earnings in Oklahoma
Oklahoma sheriffs press for a new law to set deputy fees in all misdemeanor cases. They say current pay limits hiring quality deputies and enable corruption. Deputies gain nothing unless fines are paid, leaving them underpaid and unable to sustain office. A January session plan aims to fix fee and salary structures. Also: navy to launch the battleship Arkansas January 14 at Camden, New Jersey with a governor named sponsor.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association
F.C. Carter
Tilman County
Association
Grady County
Lauthan
Arkansas
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Navy Department
Camden
N. J
Tulsa Bar Association Prepares for State Meeting in OKC
Tulsa plans to send one of the state’s largest delegations to the Oklahoma City State Bar Association meeting December 28 and 29. Attendees will include about three hundred attorneys with a two day program ending in a banquet at Leechuckies hotel. Frank Doster of Mullens, Kansas, will keynote the banquet, former Kansas chief justice.
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Tulsa
OAS
Cm Ene
State Bar Association
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Leechuckies Hotel
Nidee Frank Doster
Mutehinson
Jake J. Denarble
Chickasha
Nate Goodwin
Muskogee
John Doolin
Alva
EB. FE. Blake
EL Reno
T. J. Womack
Clinton O. Bunn
Death Toll in Feather Factory Fire Reaches Fourteen
Philadelphia officials report a total of fourteen dead in the feather factory fire that occurred Wednesday night. Firemen and policemen are all accounted for, while William Glazier, rescued after thirteen hours, is improving.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Feather Factory
William Glazier
No Strike of Engineers Reported After Conference
No strike on railroads west north and south of Chicago by engineers was announced at a midday conference between railway managers engineers led by Grand Chief Warren Stone of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and mediator Charles P Neill. No details of Neill plan of settlement were released.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Warren Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Charles P. Neill
Neill
Futile Search for Aviator Cecil Grace Continues
London reports no news on Cecil Grace whose return flight from Calais to Dover disappeared in fog. Brent fleet of motor cars and warships searched the east coast and North Sea all night with wireless inquiries. Grace began at Dover, crossed to Belgium, and was last heard returning late at night.
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Associated Press
London
England
Cecil Grace
Calais
France
Dover
North Sea
Brent
Grace
Belgium
Legal farce at Justice Neville as three lawyers clash over boarding house case
In Vinita a boarding house keeper faces Mrs Zora Beaver in a dispute over a trunks attachment. Attorneys McGary Rye Swartz clash with M Smith and others in a lengthy hearing that adjourns at noon and resumes with more law books and heated exchanges. The judge endures the spectacle as the men spar over exemptions and jurisdiction.
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Dany
Justice of the Peace
C. D. Neville
Supreme Court
Vinita
Zora Beaver
M. Smith
Clyde McGary
William T
Mrs. Beaver
Mr. Smith
Justice Neville
Rye
McGary
Swartz
Mrs. Reaver
Messrs
Rye, McGary and Swartz
Ferris to Succeed Burgess on Missouri Supreme Court
Governor Hadley announced the appointment of Franklin Ferris of St. Louis to the Missouri Supreme Court to succeed the late Judge Burgess. The selection confirms Ferris as the new chief jurisdiction in Jefferson City.
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Ferris
Burgess
Associated Press
Jefferson City
Hadley
Franklin Ferris
St. Louis
Supreme Court
Dr. Frederick A Cook Returns to U S After Arctic Controversy
New York December 23 Dr Frederick A Cook arrives on the George Washington declaring he has nothing to add beyond his prepared narrative and that charges against him are answered in his story. Passengers debate his polar claim and his reception aboard the ship and in Bremen he travels as Herr Dr Frederick Cook.
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New York
Frederick, A. Cook
George Washington
North Pole
Pole
America
Cook
Bremen
Frederick Cook
Officer and Brother Die in Mount Sterling Pistol Fight
In Mount Sterling Kentucky Clinton Allen deputy U S marshal and his brother Walter were shot dead in front of Michael Gibbons saloon last night after a quarrel with James Tipton special policeman. Tipton seized the deputy rifle and fired killing him. Gibbons then killed Walter Allen, as Tipton and Gibbons opened fire. The two alleged assailants were not promptly arrested and avoided reporters questions with brief replies. Mrs Cook and the children remain in France.
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Associated Press
Mount Sterling
Clinton Allen
United States
Walter
James Tipton
Michael Gibbons
Gibbons
Tipton
Walter Allen
Galisty
Mount McKinley
First wedding inside Missouri penitentiary
Jefferson City Mo December 23 Governor Hadley granted parole to Charles Beachamp at the request of Mrs Ruth Ritch of Kennet to wed. Beachamp was imprisoned for two years on an assault charge and his fiancée hoped to marry him upon his release.
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Associated Press
Jefferson City
Missouri Penitentiary
Hadley
Ruth Ritch
Kennet
Charles Beachamp
Beachamp
Tilly charges Fort Gibson blind school mismanagement
Dr. W. T. Tilly, president of the state board of medical examiners, accuses the Fort Gibson state school for the blind of mismanagement. He cites poor conditions at Muskogee hospital where Dora, Addie and Clara Howard were treated and questions the eye operations as routine. He calls for an immediate investigation and condemns the published story as untrue but commends the physicians involved.
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Muskogee
Okla
State School For the Blind
Fort Gibson
W. T. Tilly
State Board of Medical Examiners
Dora
Addie
Clara Howard
Oklahoma
Tilly
Kate Barnard
Correstions and Charities
Tulsa County Unallotted Lands Sold by Agent
Fourteen thousand acres of unallotted Indian lands in western Tulsa county sold at a government land sale in a vacated Globe Clothing store room. The sale grossed 12 000 dollars with 55 of 55 tracts disposed of, prices from 5 25 to 176, none below appraised value. Auctioneer Sherman Moorer of Stroud, with J L Granger and others from the Indian land office, conducted the sale. buyers came from across the midwest while Creek county sales totaled 120 000 dollars earlier in the week.
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Tulsa
Okla
Tulsa County
Globe Clothing Company
Middle West
Sherman Moorer
Stroud
Oklo
J. L. Granger
W. E B. Wirdinstone
W. A. Rambo
Office in Sheriffs' Hands in Wichita Kane
The attorney general won a temporary injunction against the B. C. Christopher Grath company in Wichita and Kane. The sheriff now controls the offices as the firm faces charges of operating a bucket shop.
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Associated Press
Wichita
Kane
Attorney General Today
B.C. Christopher Grath Company
Farmers Accused in Abduction and Assault Case in Oklahoma
In Muskogee Oklahoma December 23 a prominent farmer June Walt stands charged in two justice court cases with criminal acts tied to abducting Bertha, a 14 year old girl, and abducting Martha, the daughter of W J B Parton. County officers aim to arrest Walt following the parents reports and warrants.
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Muskogee
Okla
June Walt
Warner Webbers Falls
Walt
Justice T
Webber Falls
W. J. B. Parton
Ben
Parton W
Justice Bailey
Bertha
Fat
J. Garret
Farret
Aga Walt
Martha
Parton
COUNTY TICKET ELECTED IN COMPETITION BETWEEN PARTIES
Guthrie Oklahoma December 23 Secreta Seth Cordon of the state elect board reports the 49 county results with only one fully Republican ticket. Kiowa and Marshall counties chose socialist surveyor and sheriff with commissioner. Eight women won county superintendents. several registers of deeds face potential legal contest by the state association in Tulsa.
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Guthrie
Okla
Secreta Seth Cordon
State Elect Board
Pnce
Kiowa County
Marshall County
Register of Deeds
State Association of Registers
Vision At
Tulsa
Military funeral planned for stock yards fire victims
Fire Marshal Horan and 23 others were killed in the Chicago stock yards fire, to be honored with a military funeral. A cavalry regiment and mounted police will lead the procession as the blaze continued to burn and more fatalities or injuries might follow. Twenty-one bodies were recovered with several firemen still missing as embers cooled.
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Fy Associated Press
Chicago
Horan
Winnheim
William Sheridan
Car Inspector Murdered in Wellington Kansas
Amos Rhodes a Santa Fe car inspector aged forty was found murdered with a hatchet in his Wellington home this morning. The crime occurred in December in the city located in Kansas. Police are investigating the case as a violent homicide.
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Associated Press
Wellington
Kans
Amos Rhodes
Santa Fe
Aviator Ceci Grace Still Missing in English Channel
London officials report the amateur aviator Ceci Grace remains missing after a fogged attempt to cross the English Channel from Dover. A fleet of torpedo boats from Sheerness searched the waters but did not return this afternoon, continuing the hunt.
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Grace
Associated Press
London
England
Ceci
English Channel
Dover
Sheerness
Vicinlty
Colburn Sentence Upheld by Court of Appeals
Guthrie Okla Dec 22 The state high court yesterday affirmed the life sentence of Bill Colbert convicted of robbery in Pittsburg County Colbert was indicted with Joe Jolly and Claude Colbert for assault and robbery of John Whit lin Alderson January 12 1908 White testified Colbert and another man entered his home while he slept hit him with a revolver fed him and forced a stick of wood in his mouth knocking out several teeth He was later found unconscious by neighbors The court also reversed a prior larceny sentence due to faulty instructions.
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Guthrie
Okla
Court of Appeals
Bill Colbert
Pittsburg
Colbert
Joe Jolly
Claude Colbert
John Whiti Lin Alderson
White
J. Doyle
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Waldorf-Astoria
Copenhagen
Managem't
Republica
Colburn
Court OF Appeal
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Eccles
W. Va
New River Colliery Company
E. F. Orr
Grand River Couy
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