Rain Abates Drought as Oklahoma Sees General Showers
Following a week of heat, northeastern Oklahoma receives its first heavy rainfall since fall. The rain, starting Friday afternoon and lasting into today, boosts winter wheat and provides much needed stock water. Forecasters note general rains across forty one counties with potential snow by Sunday. Local reports say ground is too wet in the southeast, while the northwest also reports good rains. A farmer in Guthrie notes fences require twelve buckets to set a post, illustrating soaking conditions. A general rainfall update from Guthrie records two inches in the last twenty four hours.
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Oklahoma
Guthrie
Okla
Aince
Weather Bureau
State Board of Agriculture
Fftyone
Fred L. Wenner
Guthrie Township
Haid
Irrigation Awakens as National Congress Promotes Study
Chicago February 18 The people of the United States are alive to irrigation says Governor Joseph M Carey of Wyoming at reference to the National Irrigation Congress. The congresses educate the uninformed and create public sentiment on reclamation of desert lands west of the Missouri River. Carey urges broad support and attendance. he notes his own presidencies of the congresses in 1897 at Lincoln and 1898 at Cheyenne.
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Chicago
United States
Nates
Joseph M. Carey
Wyoming
National Irrigation Congress
Carey
Missouri River
Lincoln
Neb
Cheyenne
Wyo
Thirteenth Census Returns Published by Associated Press
Washington February 18 statistics from the thirteenth census were announced today listing populations for several Oklahoma towns. Figures include Granite 3807 El Reno 1872 Mangum 3677 with accompanying counts showing total residents for each location.
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Associated Preas
Washington, D. C
Okla
el Reno
Mangum
State Refuses Notice of Armour Packing Withdrawal
Based on attorney general advice the state will not permit Armour Packing Co withdrawal until the ouster suit now before the supreme court is decided.
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Etary
Bute Rosch
Armour Packing Company
Supreme Court
Wreck Caused By Obstruction On Switch
A failed wrecking attempt on the Philadelphia and Reading line near Tamaqua Pennsylvania killed a 50 year old man named Camuel Giltner. The locomotive jumped the track but no passengers were hurt. only the engine left the track bed. An investigation is underway.
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Associated Press
Tamaqua
Penn
Philadelphia & Reading Railway
Here
Camuel Giltner
Trade Papers Back Movement Aimed at Parcels Post
Nashville, Feb 18 Trade papers nationwide express unity with the Southern Merchants Convention aims to oppose the parcels post law. Noted journals and governors support the effort as four day meeting in Nashville opens February 28 with no admission, featuring a free merchant school and daily ladies’ entertainment.
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Nashville
Tenn
Congress
American Artisan
Chicago
Merchant and Manufacturer
Iron Age Hardware Reporter
St. Louis
Hardware Dealers Magazine
New York
Dry Goods Economist
Dry Goods
Drygoodsman
Woodrow Wilson
New Jersey
Judson Marmon
Ohio
Lee Cruce
Oklahoma
C. B. Colquitt
Texas
Noel
Mississippi
Augusta
Merchants and Manufacturers Association
Austin
Tex
Business League
Little Rock
Board of Trade
Chattanooga
Chamber of Commerce
Frankfort
Cluir
Arkansas
Fort Smith
Agricultural Interests Request Hearing On McCall Bill
The Senate finance committee, in Washington, considers the McCall bill to implement the Canadian reciprocity agreement. Most hearing requests come from agricultural interests. The committee met about an hour and a half and adjourned, with a vote forecast not known until Monday.
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Associated Preap
Washington, D. C
Nnance Committee
Senate
Burglary at Big Cabin Store Stindle and Dobkins
Robbers entered via a back window and cracked the safe at Stindle & Dobkins in Big Cabin. They took five watches, two diamond pieces, twenty dollars, four dollars eighty cents, and possibly some shirts. Police pursue leads and review shop records.
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Stindle & Dobkins
Big Cabin
Prohibition Measure 15 Passes House as Senate Fails Key Provision
Oklahoma City Feb 18 The Senate kept the prohibition bill with no governor empowered suspension for county officials. Governor Cruce could still instruct the attorney general to investigate negligence charges. Debate featured Hatchett and Redwine over executive power while the House later approved the Roddie banking board bill 88 to 11, with changes including no emergency paper for impaired banks.
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Oklahoma City
Senate
Cruce
House
Hatchett
Durand
Redwine
McAlester
Washington
Hatcher
Ald Redwine
T. F. McMeachan
State Banking Board
Roddie
Banking Board
Willie Willie 15 Loser In Third In Tulsa Boxing Bout
From Saturday's Daily results show Kid Dion forfeiting after a foul by Logan Smith in the fifth round, but Dion never won a round. Willie Willie, Tulsa's fast lightweight, fought Johnny Davis and knocked him out in the third round. Davis pressed the fight with sharp jabs, but Willie Willie landed a solid right and left that sent Davis to the canvas. Davis recovered later, and the crowd left impressed by the bout's ferocity. another such show could boost Vinita boxing flavor.
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Akating Rink
Kid Dion
Logan Smith
Dion
Smith
Dion-Smith
Willie Willie
Tulsa
Johnny Davis
Young
Hererra
Willie Willie Ip
Dayia
Oklahoma Bankers Indicted by Federal Grand Jury
Muskogee Oklahoma February 17 Former Farm era National Bank Tulsa president F B Blaise arrested and bonded for misapplication and false reports In two indictments. Other cases and indictments involve the Columbia Bank and Trust Co Oklahoma City and Norton charged with false reports to currency officials.
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Muskogee
Okla
BR. F. Blaise
Farmera’ National Bank
Tulsa
Columbia Bank & Trust Company
Oklahoma City
Blaises
Nation
Bartlesville
Norton
Blaise
United States Grand Juty
Federal Grand Jury
W. L. Norton
Columbia Bank and Trust Company
Comptroller of Currency
Two Men Electrocuted at Lake City Minnesota
Private telecommunication accident at Lake City Minnesota leaves Peter Gludt and his son Elmer dead after a lineman attempting to clear a fallen high voltage line was shocked. Mrs Gludt freed them both but suffered injuries.
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Lake City
Minnesota
Associated Press
Winona
Minn
Peter Gludt
Elmer
Giudt
Lorimer to Speak on Bribery Charges Wednesday
Washington February 18 Senator Lorimer announced he would address the senate on Wednesday about questions surrounding bribery accusations tied to his election.
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Lorimer
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Senate
Rattlesnake Killed by County Surveyor Thursday
County Surveyor George Ashby killed a rattlesnake found in the bottom of an old well on the George Hanford farm about twelve miles northwest of Vinita. The snake, about three feet long, likely emerged from hibernation due to spring weather and was killed yesterday afternoon.
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George Ashby
George Hanford
Vinita
Police to Make War on Vinita's Stray Dogs
After a child was bitten by a mad dog last Saturday in Vinita, police vow to curb hydrophobia risk. Officers issue a notice that dogs at large must be confined or penned, urging owners to act before the danger period passes. The public backs the crackdown on stray canines.
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Vinita
Dany
Chas
Pfannkuche
Oklahoma
Four Bandits Robbed Train at White Sulphur Station
Cainaville Ga Feb 18 four bandits held up the north mound train on the Southern railway at White Sur Phur Springs at 3 45 this morning and took seven hundred dollars. Covering the crew with revolvers they ordered the crew to start and escaped into the darkness. Nobody was hurt.
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Associated Press
Cainaville
Pour Bandite
North Mound
White Sur
Phur Springs
Captain of Federals 15 Sentenced to be Shot
Lauro Carrimo, captain of the Mexican federals, was found guilty at Chihuahua and sentenced to be shot. Reports from Guadalupe say Madero and Gonzales with insurrectos have left for the hills. Guterrez DeLara, Los Angeles socialist captain of the insurrectos, says all U S labor unions will be appealed to to protest against the country maintaining an army along the border. He adds the army disarms federals captured on U S soil but arrests insurrectos.
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Associated Press
Ei Paso
Tex
Lauro Carrimo
Chihuahua
Guadalupe
Madero
Gonzales
Guterrez DeLara
Los Angeles
United States
Bankruptcy Petitions Flood District Court in Guthrie
Fifteen involuntary bankruptcy petitions filed in the U S district court at Guthrie include L Humphrey Dennis Bros W E Lakey Allen H Richmond John H Wagner BP Ledbetter Co George F Miller Robertson Bros J W Bell T Hulse F I Reynolds John A Gates Co James B Buckles J H Drury and George C Whitehurst The record notes several names and local counties with no further action details. The item also contains unrelated moralizing text praising the idea of a happy home and a call for good government from a Woman's Christian Temperance Union member.
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Guthrie
Okla
United States District Court
L. Humphrey
Dennis, Bros
W. E. Lakey
Oklahoma
City
Allen H. Richmond
John H. Wagner
Orlando
BP. Ledbetter & Co
Mangum
George F. Miller
Ingersoll
Robertson Bros
Texhoma
J. W. Bell
Osage County
T. ©. Hulse
Walters
F. 1. Reynolds
Elk City
John A. Gates & Co
Longdale
James B. Buckles
Fottawatomie County
J. H. Drury
Fof Elmer
George C. Whitehurst
Sayre
Humphrey
Gates
Buckles
Miller
Dennis
Warner
Richmond
Whitehurst
Denver
Quack Opticians Barred in Oklahoma City
The optometry bill signed by Governor Cruce will end itinerant spectacle peddlers and quack optometrists in Oklahoma. It creates a board of examiners empowered to issue certificates only to professionally qualified practitioners, with heavy penalties for violations.
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Oklahoma City
Cruce
Oklahoma
Optometry
Direct Election Measure Faces Adjourning Day in Senate
Washington D C February 13 officials reported a tangle over the joint resolution to provide direct election of U S Senators by a direct vote. Speakers in opposition included Senate Rayner while Custer and Heyburn supported it. An attempt to set a definite voting time failed as Heyburn objected to a quick agreement. The session adjourned with plan to resume today though a night session was discussed. President Taft was urged to oppose a night session but no action followed.
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Washington, D. C
Uni
Congress
Senate Rayner
Custer and Heyburn
Ff Heyburn
Heyburn
Borah
Senate
Gallinger
Taft
Calendar of cases to be tried at the March 1911 term
United States District Court for the District of Oklahoma assigns trials at Vinita on March 6 and 7 1911. Cases include violations of quarantine law introducing liquor on Indian allotments impersonation of a US officer and retail liquor dealer charges. Bonds conditioned for defendants to appear are set and attendance is required. Also an advertisement for straw demand from North Star Mfg Co of Oe ville Kansas.
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United States District Court
Eastern District of Oklahoma
Vinita
United States District Court For
Chicago Rock Island & Pacific
John Prophet
Bert Wheeler
Dave Dushane
Vernon Hill
Mike Gabbert
United States
Otis Tittle
Clay ‘Tittle
John G. Hale
United States Oficer
C. M. Lakes
Winita
Oklahoma
William J. Gregg
Eastern District
Frank Lee
Muskogee
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Negro
Dion Smith
Federals
THE
Wo. T. U
Quack Opticians
Henry Holderman
Charley Whitesides
Henry Raines
George Kessler
Straw
North Star Mfg. Co
Oeville, Kans
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