Oklahoma special session strains to finish after five weeks
Guthrie Okla Feb 28 Gov Haskell expected three weeks for the special session but it has stretched to five weeks with ten days to go. Twenty four bills and twelve resolutions have been sent to both houses, only two major emergency measures passed, and many measures under consideration include tax payment extensions, public warrants, state capital site, and an array of county officer salaries and tax rules.
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New Jerusalem
Ee Ideal
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H.W. Y
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Bligh
Enid
Game Protective Fund
Criminal Court of Appeals
Owen Favors Postal Bank in Senate Speech
Washington february 26 senator Owen of Oklahoma spoke in the senate in favor of an amendment to the postal savings bank bill. The plan would have the comptroller of the currency use the annual tax on national banks to fund a depositors guaranty fund for immediate payment when banks fail. He argued Oklahoma’s guarantee system boosted public confidence and promoted high quality banking.
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Washington, D.C
Owen
Oklahoma
Senate
Oklahoma Bank
Ayetom
Evangelistic Meeting Ends with Numerous Conversions
Evangelist J. B. Wolfe of Burdett and Droxel Missouri led revival meetings over past months yielding nearly 200 conversions. Wolfe plans to return to Merwin Missouri in a few weeks to begin another revival series.
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J. B. Wolfe
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Droxel Mo
Wolfe
Merwin
Post Office Refutes second class postal rate argument
Washington report cites Postmaster General Hitchcock saying higher rates to cover costs would allow lowering letter postage to one cent. It states 2 cent stamps subsidize distribution of magazines and outlines government costs for second class matter and rural free delivery with magazine and newspaper haul distances averaging 1,084 and 291 miles respectively.
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Associated Press
Washington
Post Office Department
Periodocial Publishers Association
Hitchcock
Negro Confesses Murder of Brook in Girard Case
Thomas alias Ed Young, a 26 year old Black man, confessed in Girard near Pittsburg, Kansas, to murdering William Bork a white farmer his wife and child and another Black man. He pleaded guilty and received life imprisonment, sent to the state pen at Lansing. He implicated Ed Charles, arrested for safekeeping at Fort Scott.
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Associated Press
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Kane
Pele
Gua ‘Thomas
Ed Young
Girard
William Bork
Landsing
Thomas
Ed Charles
Charles
Fort Scott
Kana
Thomax
Desides
Hundred Lose Lives In Slide At Mace Burke And Black Bear
Walla Walla February 28 five hundred rescuers recovered twelve bodies and freed twenty five people from the Mace slide. One hundred more are believed dead as a half mile long thirty foot deep slide swallows houses across Black Bear Gem Mace Burke. Three box cars on a side track held fifty section men feared lost. Burke later seen with sixteen dead and Italians rescued from an outfit car eight accounted for by four am.
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Associated Press
Walla Walla
Wash
Mace
Black Bear
Gem
Burke
Northern Pacific Railroad
Jtrack
Spokane
Absconder Captured With Wig and Blue Goggles
George Capron an 82 year old cashier at the Englewood U S Express branch was arrested in Chicago wearing a wig and blue goggles after absconding with 5000 dollars. A woman reportedly disappeared with him after December 24 and they were said to have stayed in Palm Beach Florida. Capron posed as a bankrupt business man claiming to come to Chicago to rehabilitate his finances before a detective exposed him.
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United States Express Company
Englewood
Palm Beach
Fla
Capron
Express Company
Governor Haskell Signs Four Bills In Oklahoma
Guthrie Okla Feb 26 Gutsy Haskell signed four measures House Bill 36 creates a vice chief justice to be chosen by the court and fills a term vacancy House Bill 8 authorizes levies by township assessors for 1909 and earlier and rejects an emergency House Bill 101 legalizes a special bond issue in Ardmore to fund street work and fire protection House Bill 100 authorizes a $200000 bond election for Ardmore school improvements
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Shattuck
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Deep Fork
George O. Johnson
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Markell
Guthrie
Okla
Goys Thor Haskell
City of
Andmore
Help Oklahoma in Enforcing Prohibition
Washington reports the US Supreme Court will decide if it will assist Oklahoma in enforcing its prohibition laws. The state issues licenses for places suspected of keeping liquor and selling it, leading to many actions in federal circuits to stop prosecutions. Governor Hankel sought court injunctions against lower court decrees.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Oklahoma
Nws
United States
Hankel
Supreme Court
Aged St Louis Banker Dies of Pneumonia at 90
Rufia J. Lockland, president of the Boatsmen's Bank, died today in St. Louis Missouri from pneumonia at age ninety. He was one of the best known bankers in the state.
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ST. Louis
Associated Pres
Rufia J. Lockland
Boatsmen's’ Bank
Missouri
Arrested on charge of inciting riot
John Murphy, president of the Centre Labor Union, was arrested on a charge of inciting riot and held in a $3,000 bond awaiting trial. He denied the statements attributed to him, amid rising tensions in labor circles. Separate notes list Craig County census enumerators and appointment details for the April survey.
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Associated Press
Philadephia
John Murphy
Centre Labor Union
Murphy
Craig County
M. B. Moss
Wagoner
Edwin M. Robe
G. T. Vaidever
A. T. Buriie
W. A. Snyder
J. D. Sheehan
Pred Tmin
John EB. Butler
Indicted Packers to Face Capiuses and Indictments
Prosecutor Garven ordered capiuses for the arrest of the indicted meat packers and summonses for six indicted meat corporations, to be handed to the sheriff for execution. The sheriff will determine which defendants are within his jurisdiction. Taft Urges Navy Personnel Reform in Special Message to Congress.
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Garven
Taft
Associated Prega
Washington
Congress
Moyer
Nee
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