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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1909
Page
2
A city board proposes erecting school buildings in the Fourth Ward and asks voters in the April 1999 election to approve bonds totaling 1,900,000. The measure seeks funds for constructions and related costs and asks electors whether the colored school should be located in the Fourth Ward.
A tribute to humane care for the insane and the planned Vinita asylum project. The article argues for public funding, grounds, and facilities as a civic duty, praising the region’s landscape and potential benefits to inmates and visitors. It mentions election law on primaries and civic improvements in Vinita.
A discussion on election law reveals party fault lines with calls for fairness and proper ballot formats. References to Oklahoma politics, candidates, gubernatorial implications, and reform debates are noted alongside views on education funding and local civic boosterism in Vinita.
Transcript fragment from the Thaw case hearings with remarks on the role of a California lawyer and a district attorney. Mentions the Rev. Cyres Twwaered Grady and a public cleanliness initiative in Vinita. Contains discussion on legality of taking a man’s life and the city’s selective duty amid the trial.
Guthrie Oklahoma March 13 The state legislature passed a bill to pension city fire department members for temporary disability from injuries while on duty A fireman may receive for a week of disability or after twenty years service a pension of 49 per month There are 3700 firemen in Oklahoma The pension fund will be drawn from a tax on insurance premiums.
Guthrie Oklahoma March 13 The most important favorable bill to railroads passed the senate and finally went through the house. It allows railroads to domesticate or take out an Oklahoma state charter without paying the 4 percent charter fee on total capital stock. The bill sets a proportional fee based on capital invested in Oklahoma.
The Kansas City Southern Railway reduced freight rates from Galveston to Kansas City to counter a $1.10 offer by the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway from New York to Oklahoma City. Southern plans a rate reduction to align the New York to Kansas City Atlantic Coast route with Katy’s New York to Oklahoma City rate.
Masked men clubbed David Smith and his wife at their Pinevine residence eight miles from here. Mrs. Smith died, the assailants fled, and bloodhounds trail the suspects as investigators pursue leads on the deadly attack.
Report from Washington states that a joint intervention by the United States and Mexico may be considered to preserve peace in Central America. At the Pan American peace conference Central American rulers agreed to refrain from hostilities and submit disputes to arbitration and to enforce the agreement if necessary.
Oklahoma may see a general 2 cent increase in passenger rates. A meeting in Oklahoma with rail executives including K and T, Price, Rock Island, and Missouri Pacific will vote on advancing fares from the current 8 1/2 cents. A St Louis conference followed Judge McPheran's Missouri ruling, urging immediate general rate hikes, though action is postponed to next Monday.
W T Martin Jr former official to the Five Civilized Tribes was discharged by the U S Court of Appeals. He had pleaded that he acted to protect Indians from fraud by selling Creek nation roll copies for general circulation. He was fined 100 dollars and sentenced to one year in prison previously.
Seymour Riddle secures the contract to construct a two story brick and stone structure on Canadian Avenue. Work will begin promptly after the old building on the lot is cleared and removed.
By Associated Press Topeka March 12 Dr. A G Biddle of Emporia a leading Kansas physician and a prominent Mason died at Topeka hospital today from Brights disease.
Farmers advance spring plowing in the Bluejacket area as J R Pallin & Co buys land tracts and relocates from Missouri Jesse Prather of Grove ships walnut logs while W Hlake & Co opens a general store in Police Judge Caab’s office Boyd er Carr leases J Milling Co property Ian Culver dies of pneumonia five miles south east of town Odell to Rio recovers from a severe illness coal shortage and a man loses part of a foot trying to catch a southbound freight train, then to MK hospital Bedalia.
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