Governor Wilson ends long speech making tour
Washington reports Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey returning to Trenton after a west and south tour. He praised Democratic House efforts on tariff revisions and argued for gradual tariff reduction while supporting free raw materials and the Canadian reciprocity agreement. He said party success in 1912 should serve the country, not self.
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Wilson
Washington
D. C
Woodrow Wilson
New Jersey
Trenton
House
Valorem
William J. Bryan
West
Passing of Tribal Schools With Advent of Statehood
An Oklahoma City Times piece by Gean Finley Puryear recalls the Cherokee Male and Female Seminaries and related institutions. It traces their origin from 1850s openings, war disruptions, fires, and eventual state transfer, highlighting notable alumni such as U.S. Senator R. L. Owen and lawyer W. P. Thompson while lamenting the destruction of the Cherokee educational system.
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Gean Finley Puryear
Oklahoma City Times
Cherokees Open Mixed Sex Seminary After Sale
The Cherokees, opposing education restrictions, convert the Female Seminary to a coed Male Seminary to meet a unique demand. The school belonged to the Indians and each child felt personal ownershi p, with the aim of uplifting educational facilities for their people.
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McGregor
Reprimand from President Taft
Washington D C June 5 Colonel Bob Garrard of the United States army commanding the cavalry post at Fort Myer Va was reprimanded by the secretary of war under orders from President Taft for reporting adversely on soldiers right to take examinations for promotion to the commissioned grade on the ground of Jewish parentage The president said it was hard to deal with the matter with patience and without condemnatory words that had better not be written The soldier involved is Frank Bloom a private of the battery of the third field artillery now serving on the Mexico border Bloom failed the examination Garrards endorsement of his papers sparked the incident Taft assured Bloom another examination that shall be fair in a letter directing inquiry into the matter he said Garrards statements about Jews were not true and he resented that any officer should show such prejudice in an official document
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Washington, D. C
Bob Garrard
United States Army
Fort Myer
Secretary of War
Taft
Frank Bloom
Third Field Artillery
Mexico
Bloom
Garrard
Oklahoma Charters Issued for Various Oklahoma Firms
On June 2 and 5 the secretary of state at Oklahoma City announced new charters for multiple entities. Ada based Howe Title Guarantee company and Okmulgee Refinery company join Thomas Commercial College in Thomas, Guthrie Methodist University of Oklahoma and Coyle Cemetery Association among others, with varied capital stocks and listed incorporators. Also named are Craver-Barnes Mining company of Bartlesville, Miami Concentrating company, Oklahoma College of Chiropractics of Enid, Cochran Abstract company of Chickasha, and Lyons-Ellis company of Oklahoma City, detailing capital, incorporators, and home towns.
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Oklahoma City
Howe Title Guarantee Company of
Ada
Capital Stock
John W. Davis
Fred W. Brydia
John P. Crawford
C. H. Rives
A. T H. Constant
Okmulgee
Skelton
George W. Mitchell
E. BE
Oklahoma
Ben Morrison
Craver-Barnes Mining Company
Bartlesville
Capital
W. H. Barnes
A. B. Craver
L. A. Rowland
Bartleevi ‘S. Miami Concentrating Company
Miami
M. Harvey
J. FP. Robinson
G. L. Coleman
W. G. Stevens
Chickasha
Lyons-Ellis Company
Scott Braden
William Taylor and Co
L. Lyon
Proposes Home Rule For Alaska
Washington June 5 The house territories committee will report favorably a bill advancing popular government over Guggenheim rule in Alaska. The plan creates a small legislature with eight senators and sixteen representatives for the territory and four judicial districts with two senators and four representatives each. Fairbanks is favored as capital though no city is named. Representative I D Young noted Alaska’s vast area and long travel times between homes and the capital. The valley at Fairbanks supports agriculture with oats barley and vegetables thriving.
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Washington, D. C
Guggenheim
Alaska
House Committee On Territories
Washington
James Wickersham
United States
Soit
Fairbanks
I. D. Young
Kansas
Northwest
Taft Opposed to Any Amendment to Canadian Reciprocity Agreement
President Taft reiterated opposition to any amendment to the Canadian reciprocity agreement. Senator Stone of Missouri had heard reports that the administration opposed the Root amendment only superficially and that the president would not be displaced if the amendment passed.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Senator Stone
Missouri
Taft
Stone
Root
Seymour Riddle Judge in Doublehead Trial
In district court Judge Davis stepped down from the bench amid disqualification in the Bert Doublehead murder case. Seymour Riddle was chosen to try the defendant as jury selection proceeded. Earlier, Charles Valin was acquitted of selling liquor to a minor, and Mike Martin, charged with shooting Fred Martin, was also acquitted.
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Davis
Bert Doublehead
Seymour Riddle
Charles Valin
Mike Martin
Fred Martin
Noted Prison Reformer Brinkerhoff Dies at 83 in Mansfield
Mansfield Ohio June 6 General R B Brinkerhoff statesman and prison reformer died at his home last night aged eighty three He held an international reputation as a prison reformer and was brevetted brigadier general in the Civil War.
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Associated Press
Mansfield
R. B.) Brinkerhoff
Brinkerhoff
Fourth Aviator Reaches Rome in Paris Rome Turin Race
Vidart, the fourth contestant to reach Roma, arrived here this morning after the second stage of the race. He fell and broke a wing at Orboello, seventy miles from Rome, then obtained a new aeroplane and covered the remaining seventy miles to Rome.
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Associated Press
Rome
Vidart
Roma
Turin
Orboello
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Séchool
Cherokees School
Northeastern State Normal
Cherokee Orphan Asylum
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Cherokee I National Male Seminary
R. L Owen
W. W. Hastings
W. P. Thompson
H. B. Smith
Southern Episcopal Diocese of
Joel B. Mayes
H. Mayes
Sons of
Duncan
Wickersham
THE
Kansas City Weekly Star
Weekly
STAR
Kansas City
F. M. Gwinnup
San
Massell Building
Vinita, Cohlahoma
Farmers State Bank Vinita
Okla
Cobb Hotel
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