Secret Session Held Wednesday in Guthrie Capital Question
State board of equalization held a meeting in Oklahoma City to decide tax levies amid a dispute over Guthrie as the de facto capital. Governor Haskell opposed the meeting there and may not attend the Guthrie session, while some members feared court orders could halt tax collection. Equalization of county assessments must be finished within days to allow levies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uaiy Guthelé
Gkla
Lee Autboueh
State Board of Equalization
Owabore
Haskell
Guthrie
Guthrie Ia
Oklahoma City
District Court
Board of Equalization
Atate Board of Equalization
Excine
Remarkable Sale Monday At College Addition Aransas Pass
A. D. Powers & Company promote a major sale in the College Addition with one hundred lots offered. Prospective buyers will face a one fourth cash payment and balance in four, eight and twelve months. The firm has mounted large-scale advertising and a dramatic kite banner event to attract crowds. Leven Jones badly injured after a horse fell near Gray livery on North Wilson Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. D. Powers & Company
United Srates
Aransas Paso
Tex
Lake Hew
Ore
San Luis Valley
Woome
College
Avery
Powers& Company
Fo Racline
Vinita
College Addition
Associated Press
Levh Jones
North Wilson Street
Army captain acquitted. review disapproved
The Twenty-fifth Infantry captain Samuel K Lyon was acquitted at Fort Myer after irregularities tied to the Brownville Texas case. General Walter Wale, commander of the department of the east, overturned the finding citing reviewing authority. Also reports Belgian aviator Daniel Kinott died from air crash injuries after a two hour flight setting a world record. A Pacific Mail steamer Mongolia ran ashore at Shiemadon, Yokohama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Gamuel K. Lyon
Twenty
Ffth Infantry
T. 8
Fort Myer
Brownville
Tex
Walter Wale
Department of the East
Associated Prensa
Kinet
le Dead
Gaud
Belgium
Daniel Kinet
Kinott
Yokohama
Japan
Pacife
Mongolia
Hong Kong
San Francisco
Shiemadon
Island
Hondo
Retail merchants form northeast Oklahoma association
State organizer Frank Cammock helped Bluejacket and nearby towns organize the Retail Merchants Association. J. F. Waskey was elected president and J. M. White secretary. branch groups in Welch Big Cabin Claremore Nowata Muskogee Tahlequah Wagoner and Fort Gibson are also active, with Vinita upcoming. A statewide convention is planned for Wagoter in January, with Vinita likely to send a strong delegation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluejacket
Frank Cammock
J. F Waskey
J. M. White
Mr. Cammock
Welch
WW. B. Dowell
Frank J. Keener
Big Cabin
F. M. Adama
EB. J. McBride
Choleen
W. W. Bratts
H. G. Roberts
Miami
A. G. Martin
M. L. Robards
Afton
J. D. Hitchcock
P. Martin
Wyandotte
Chas
Lewis
BL Lundy
Choutea
M. H. Lindney
Wagoter
Vinita
Cummock
Indians and Muskogee Toughs Strain Local Peace
In Miskogee Ola on July 1 Indians gathered at Tablesqual for payments triggering unrest. Reports describe robberies of sleeping Indians, a Cherokee woman and child losing $290, and a man who gained nearly $500 in cash then faced multiple drunk fines. Muskogee residents warn street crowds near Litt Midway draw troublemakers. Guthrie, May 18: German landowner William Marquardt drowned while bathing in the Cimarron River nearby.
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Miskogee
Ola
Tablequal
Milale Moore
Hee Torrell
Muskogee
Fort Gibson
Muskoges
Guthrie, Okt
William Marquardt
Cimarron River
Love urges public disclosure of railroad amendment spending
Guthrie Oklahoma July 16 1910 chairman Love publishes a statement detailing Corporation Commission costs tied to the campaign against the railroad constitutional amendment. He notes printing postage and staff time many volunteers and newspapers provided free space while opposing candidates paid own costs. the amendment failed by over 55 000 votes.
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Corporation Commission
Pomiabo
Seady
Congress
Ple
Forces Express Companies to Accept Shipments
Fort Smith Arkansas July 15 John Ty Rogers judge of the federal court of western Arkansas issued a writ of mandamus compelling express companies to accept shipments to Hovern town in Oklahoma and old Tholion Territory Friedman Co sued seeking to force United States Express to receive a shipment The court delayed the matter for a month and a decision was expected today or soon Wholesalers awaited the ruling as the case set a precedent for future shipments and express firms now accept quarter shipments under this ruling
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Smith
Ark
John Ty Rogers
Federal Court of Western
Arkanane
Oklahoma
Old Tholion Territory
Man Vanishes After Note Says Body Will Be Found
Traveling man W. Plummer from St Joseph disappears at night. A note found in his hat on the Missouri River bridge states his body will be found in the river. Reports say he faced domestic trouble after marrying a Wichita girl last May and she returned to Philadelphia. Also, Pennsylvania Railroad directors approve resisting employee demands.
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Prexa
Acchison
Kane
Pred
W. Plummer
St. Joseph
Jim
Missouri River
Plummer
Wichita, Kans
Whiskey Gases Require Jury of Twelve Men
Outre Oklahoma July M A e ante mated when Associate Judge Richardson of the criminal court of appeals knocked out the jury s in the superior court a number of bootlegging cases will be appealed that otherwise would have been disposed of Today Dan Miter Frank Nurgess BR Schafer and W C Berkley appealed from the superior court of Logan county in which they were convicted of bootlegging in March 1910 As grounds for reversal in all four cases it was contended that the men were denied trial by a jury of twelve men and that the court instructed that five out of all could render a verdict
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Outre
Okla
M—Ae
Joutloe Richardson
Criminal Court of Appeals
Alsman
Dan Miter
Frank Nurgess
BR. Schafer
W. C. Berkley
Superior Court
Logan County
Mrs Eddy Celebrates Eighty Ninth Birthday at Brooklyn Home
Mrs Mary Baker Glover Eddy founder and leader of the Christian Science denomination observed her eighty ninth birthday at her home in Brooklyn Mass on July 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Mass
Mary Baker Glover Eddy
Christian Science Denomination
Cloudburst damages Kentucky crops and rail lines
A heavy rain and cloudburst drenched central and western Kentucky last night, with Louisville reporting 1.83 inches. Henderson saw a miniature cloudburst as the storm moved east, causing about two million dollars in crop damage and flood losses, with livestock drowned and the Illinois Central Railroad embankments under water for two miles.
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Prowa
Loulaville
Central
Kentucky
Henderson
Ideal Weather Bureau
Mlinois Central Railroad
Initiate Class of Nine at Local Lodge
The local lodge of Pika initiated nine new members. Five hailed from Chelsea, two from Grove and two from Vinita. Names include J. W. Coybii Jr, J. F. Pat ton, Louie B. Holman, Job Harrnng ton, FM. Scott, H. B Anderson, W. J. Cross, W. G. Williams, and pery of Vinita.
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Pika
Chelsea
Grove
Vintta
J. W. Coybii, Jr
J. F. Patton
Louie B. Holman
Job Harrnngton
FM. Scott
H. B Anderson
W. J. Cross
Ice
W. G. Williams
Pery
Vinita
Campaign to fund new machine shop in city
A Commercial Club meeting failed to reach a quorum but members resolved to start fundraising to move and improve the foundry and machine shop from Litchfield to the city. Secretary John Wise will begin soliciting funds immediately. Pinchot to speak at Kansas City dinner on natural resource conservation.
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Commerceial Club
Litchfield
John Wise
Pirates raise flag of truce on Catowan Island
Hongkong July 15 pirates of Catowan Island hoisted a flag of truce to remove their wounded. Chinese authorities dispatched ten gun boats and 1,200 soldiers from a nearby island to back the operation and ready to resist Portuguese soldiers if needed in exterminating the outlaws.
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Associated Press
Hongkong
China
Catowan Island
Portugese Solidiers
Retail Men at Afton Organize to Guard Local Trade
Friday's Daily notes rapid formation of Retail Dealers' Association in Oklahoma towns. Fifteen leading firms in Afton organized to lower prices, curb frauds against farmers, and defend against mail order competition. Board of directors to be chosen. State had about 225 such groups. national network spans around 35 states. In addition to price relief, aims include protecting members from bad debts and opposing injurious legislation from mail order houses.
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Afton American
Oklahoma
United States
Mal
of Oklahoms
Notate
Oklahoma City
National Association
Mutual Protection
Waco Man Gives Year’s Pay to All Old Employees
A Waco Texas report notes a Stamford Connecticut holder of Tex road holdings has notified the company to pay all old employees for service years. The plan includes conductors agents brokers and the entire staff and amounts to a full month’s wages.
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Waco
Tex
Stamford
Conn
Tex ‘Road
Pa ‘Ment
Socialists Seek Injunction On Grandfather Clause Ballot
Guthrie Oklahoma July 15 Court fight over the grandiiever amendment to the constitution continues as socialist attorney Patrick S Nagle plans to file for an injunction against printing the amendment on the ballot The Republicans failed to obtain an injunction The Taylor bill is challenged for not following constitutional forms and for potentially miscounting votes by marking ballots with the phrase for the amendment and allowing scratches to count as a vote in favor
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Guthrie
Oklo
Republican State Committee
Patrick S. Nagle
The
Oklahoma
Senate Bil
Taylor
Nagle
Corporations face tax hardship in Guthrie incident
Guthrie Oklahoma July 15 report shows many corporations worry over a new license tax enacted by the second legislature and collected by the corporation commission. The tax equals one dollar per 191,000 actual capitalization and may bankrupt firms lacking capital. Crescent Mercantile of Logan County and Jones Hay Pressa of Stanford Texas are among first to remit. Fire damages Roseway Bros straw hat factory in Philadelphia leading to extensive losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guthrie
Oklo
Mann
Corporation Commission
Crescent Mercantile Company
Logan County
Jones Hay Presa Company
Stanford
Tex
Presa
Bourkemouth
England
Armstrong Drexel, & Son
Anthony Drexel
Philadelphia
London
Leon Morane
Frevelman
Straw Hat Factory Burns
Prosa
Roseway Bros
Novel Fen shows a heat driven fan invention display
George Hinehan presents a novel fan operated by a heated metal drum. A gun jet heats the drum to cause expansion and rise, then exposure to air makes the drum contract and fall, driving continuous motion as the fan rises and drops.
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Fen
George Hinehan
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Love
Guthrie, Oklo
B Love
Chairman Corporation Commission
Forces Express Companies
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
James S. Davenport
Vinita, Okla
Onion Rooms
New Haleell di
D.H. Wilson
Attorney-At-Law
Empire Block
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