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NORMAN
OKLAHOMA.
TERRITORIAL BRIEFS
SIX PROPOSITION ACCEPTED
A charter was granted last week to
the Farmers Cooperative Mill and Ele-
vator company of El Reno with a capi-
tal stock of $ 150,000.
Wagoner has granted an exclusive
gas franchise for ten years. Gas will
be furnished for 25 cents and the plant
will be in operation within six months.
Fire at Appalachia last week de-
stroyed the general store of C. B. Huf-
ford. The loss was $5,000 with an
insurance of $2,000.
Last week a business lot In Sulphur
was sold for $7,000. This is the high-
est price ever paid for such property
la the town.
The directors of the Grant county
fair, at Medford, have set their dates
for' September 4-7, a month earlier
than nsual, in order to escape the
October rains. Jefferson, also In Grant
county, will likewise have its fair
this fall.
Jesus Villelovos, the one-armed
Mexican who has been in jail tor sev-
eral months at Cordell for the killing
of Roman Gonzales and Santiago An-
drellus, two of his fellow countrymen,
has been released from custody as a
result of the failure of the grand Jury
to return an indictment against him.
W. R. Farris, superintendent of the
cotton seed oil mill at Stroud, while
putting in a heavy timber at the mill,
lost his balance and fell to the floor.
The heavy timber fell with him and
crushed his breast. He lived only a
short time after the accident.
Secretary Morris of the Oklahoma
live stock sanitary commission, is re-
ceiving replies In answer to lettVrs
sent out urging the sheriffs of the
counties of Oklahoma to lend their as-
sistance in enforcing the tick exter-
mination campaign. The replies as-
sure the hearty co-operation of the
officials.
A Conference of Senate Leaders Agree
to Part of Allison's Amendments
WASHINGTON: Conferences in the
senate resulted In a positive agree-
ment on six propositions to be incor-
porated in the Allison amendment to
the railroad rate bill were ratified by
additional conferencces of senate lead-
ers representing all republican fac-
tions. That there could be no further
misunderstanding the data for the
basis of the agreement was prepared
and agreed upon.
"The Allison amendment Is to in-
clude six propositions:
"First—The words 'fairly remuner-
ative' in section four of the bill to be
stricken out.
"Second—The words 'In Its judg-
ment' In the same section are to be
retained.
"Third—Jurisdiction Is vested In tho
United States circuit courts to hear
and determine suits against the com-
mlsson.
"Fourth—No preliminary Injunction
or interlocutory order is to be granted
without a hearing and notices.
"Fifth—The application for parlia-
mentary injunction or Interlocutory de-
cree by three judges.
"Sixth—A direct appeal from the in-
terlocutory order or decree to lie only
to the supreme court of the United
States."
Under the first and second clauses
of the agreement the rate making sec-
tion of the bill will authorize the in-
terstate commerce commission when,
after full hearing, it shall be of the
opinion that rates are unjust or un-
reasonable, or unjustly discriminatory
or unduly preferential or prejudicial
to determine and prescribe what will
in its judgment, be the just and reas
onable rate or rates charge or charges
to be thereafter observed in such cases
as the maximum to be charged."
The third clase is the original Alii
son compromise amendment and simp-
ly confers jurisdiction on the circuit
courts to hear and determine suits
against the commission. The fourth
fifth and sixth clauses place certain
restrictions upon the granting of in
junctions and provides that for the ap-
peal from such orders to the supreme
court
The Indiahoma Union Signal at
Shawnee, tho official organ of the
Farmers Union which was recently
denied admission to the malls at
second-class rate of postage, has been
granted the privilege of again entering
its publication at regular newspaper
rate.
The plumbers of Oklahoma City
•went on a strike last week and from
present appearances will be of long
duration. A demand for $5.00 for an
eight-hour day with a Saturday half
holiday with pay was presented to the
employers, but was turned down,
later proposition with the half holiday
clause was presented, but not agreed
to by the men who pay the salaries.
EFFORT OF RAILROAD TO SECURE
ALTERNATE SECTIONS OF IN-
DIAN LAND
KANSAS, AS TRUSTEE, IS PUSHING CASE
EXTENDS JURISDICTION
As a result of a preliminary hear-
ing, C. B. Steadman, who was arrested
last week upon the charge of murder-
ing his wife at Binger, was released
from custody on account of insuffi-
ciency of evidence. Steadman was the
station agent at Binger and he claimed
his wife was killed by negroes who
were attempting to rob the railway
depot.
Mrs. VInnie L. Oakley has com-
menced action in the Noble county
district court against the Frisco rail-
way for $10,000 damages for the death
of her husband. During the construc-
tion of a bridge over the Canadian
river near Thomas tho plaintiff's hus-
band fell through the structure and
was instantly killed.
The property of the Coldsprlngs
townsite company in Kiowa county
was sold last week at sheriff's sale
to R. E. Hobbs for $300. The town-
eita consisted of two hundred and
forty acres. The sale was made by
order of the court to satisfy a Judg-
ment.
Interior Department Will Have Super-
vision Over All Indian Schools
MUSKOGEE: J. D. Benedict, super-
intendent of Indian Territory schools,
states that, beginning with next fall
the interior department will have
supervision over the Indian schools
in the Seminole and Chickasaw
nations. Heretofore the department
has exercised no direct control of
school affairs In any but the Creek,
Cherokee and Choctaw nations leaving
the management of schools in the
other two largely to the local Indian
governments.
Superintendent Benedict and his
school supervisors are the representa-
tives of the interior department In In-
dian Territory school matters. Owing
however, to the wording of the agree-
ment with the Seminole and Chicka-
saw nations Mr. Benedict has taken
no hand in the management of the
schools of these two tribes except to
pay the salaries of teachers in schools
having white children, in the Chicka-
saw nation. By the provisions of the
Curtis bill approved April 20, 190G,
the authority of the secretary of the
interior through his representatives
to exercise control over Indian
schools was extended to the Chicka-
saws and Seminoles, to take effect
immediately. On account of the
fact, however, that the schools in
those nations are nearing the end
of the school year the department
thought It best not to Interfere with
the old systems and the new regula-
tions will not be put into effect until
next fall. Under the Curtis bill the
secretary is given power to change
the regulations now governing Indian
schools and some new rules may be
promulgated before another term
opens.
Lawyers in Congress Say Missouri,
Kansas 4 Texas Railroad Has No
Claim to .Land Claimed—Matter
Now Before Supreme Court
WASHINGTON: In the supreme
court of the United States a motion
was fiied by tho attorney general of
the state of Kansas asking leave to
file an original suit on behalf of the
state against the officers of the interior
department, the head chief and the
subordinate officials of the Muskogee
tribe of Indians and the allottee of that
tribe to establish the right of the
Missouri & Texas railroad company
through the state of Kansas in 18GG.
This is part of the grant concerning
which so much has been recently said
In congress and It covers each alter-
nate section of land for ten miles on
either side of the road through not
only the Muskogee nation but through
the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Cherokee
nations. In the Muskogee nation
there are over 500,000 acres of land
and the entire grant embraces 3,000,-
#00 acres. The value of the land Is
placed at $20 an acre but some of it
Is coal land and Is worth far more.
The motion was taken under advise-
ment.
WASHINGTON: It is the opinion
of well posted lawyers In congress
that the suit instituted In the supreme
court by Attorney General Coleman on
behalf of the state of Kansas against
the United States will have no stand
lng in court.
The suit is brought in the name of
the state, though the real plaintiff is
the Misspuri, Kansas & Texas railroad,
which claims the value of every odd
numbered section within twenty miles
on each side of the railroad in the
Creek nation at a minimum value of
$20 per acre, aggregating 510,480
acres worth $10,329,000. A decree is
asked, finding that the state of Kansas
is the owner, as trustee for the Mis-
souri, Kansas & Texas, in fee simple
of all the lands in the Creek nation
including in the odd numbered sec-
tions to the extent stated.
The names of Joseph H. Choate/
James Hagerman, Adrain H. Joline,
A. B. Brown, John Madden and Joseph
M. Bryson, besides Attorney General
Chiles C. Coleman, figure in the list
of attorneys. The suit is against
Secretary Hitchcock, the Creek na-
tion and the allottees, and the land is
claimed under several grants made to
the state of Kansas to aid in the con-
struction of certain railroads and
telegraph lines in said state. By ad-
ditional grant, by act of congress of
July 20, 1808. leave was given to take
lands In Indian Territory in lieu of
Kansas.
The contention that the case will
have no standing is based on the fact
that the acts provided that the lands
thus taken must be public lands, which
it is claimed was not the case, as they
were held in trust for the Indians.
As a further safeguard, an amend-
ment was made to the so-called Curtis
bill recently, at the instance of Sena-
tor Long, providing that the lands of
the five civilized tribes upon the disso-
lution of said tribes shall not become
public lands nor property of the United
States, but shall be held in trust for
the Indians.
FAVORS RURAL SCHOOL8
President Boyd Makes Plea for Boyt
on the Farm
GUTHRIE: David R. Boyd, presi-
dent of the University of Oklahoma,
Is an advocate of rural high schools,
to be established by consolidating dis-
tricts at convenient points, and ex-
plained his views on the subject quite
fully in his address to the graduating
class of the Enid high school last
night. He makes a plea for a system
which will allow the boys and girls
on the farm to have more than a com-
mon school education. As Dr. Boyd
figures It, 80 per cent of the school
children of Oklahoma can advance no
farther than the eighth grade, for the
reason that the facilities are not
offered. It Is for this reason that he
suggests the central high school as a
remedy. He maintained also that tho
boys and girls on the farm will take
advantage of schools thus offered them
more quickly than will the children in
the cities.
He considers the establishment of
country high schools, such as now
exist in Logan and Woods counties,
as a step in the right direction, as they
give the country students an oppor-
tunity to secure a high school train-
| lng, but the greater number are still
not reached by the country high
school. He also considers the consoli-
dation of rural districts as another
step toward the realization of his idea,
and would have practically the same
plan adopted for the central high
school as is proposed for the consoli-
dated rural school. Including the use
of wagons to take the pupils to and
from their homes.
Instead of having one county high
school, President Boyd would have
several of them. He takes Lincoln
county as an example. The railroads
of that county make several centers,
at each of which a central high school
could be located to accommodate all
tho surrounding rural districts. He
GUARDING LANDS
INSPECTOR OF SCHOOL LAND
BOARD WATCHING SCHOOL
INTERESTS AT CLEVELAND
OIL MEN ARE HANCINC ON LIKE LEECHES
Several Attempts Made by Speculators
to "Jump" the Lands for Mineral
Purposes—Prompt Action Kept Out
a Large Number
GUTHRIE: Ben F. Berkey, chief
Inspector for the territorial school
land board, has returned from Cleve-
land, where he has been stationed for
several weeks guarding the territory s
interests in the school lands in that
locality, where several attempts have
been made by oil inspectors to jump
tho lands for mineral purposes. Mr.
Berkey says all is quiet at the pres-
ent time, but states that, like
Vesuvius, it is still rumbling, and is
likely to break out again at any time.
"Every occurrence in Washington,
no matter how small, that seems fa-
vorable In any manner to the tres-
passers on the school lands is taken
by them as a signal to get busy
again," says Mr. Berkey, "and the con-
dition at Cleveland demands constant
watching."
In all probability Mr. Berkey will re-
turn to the Cleveland locality within
a few days.
Following the arrival of Berkey at
Cleveland, several weeks ago, the ar-
rest was made of several trespassers
on school land, including W. H. Milll-
kan, the millionaire oil operator from
Pennsylvania. Millikan was held to
the federal grand jury under bond on
a charge of cutting timber on school
lands. His case will come up at Paw-
Marshal Leo E. Bennett of Muskogee
is of the opinion that the Wycliff In-
dians, who killed Deputy Marshal Gil-
strap, and for whom a continued
search has been made, have escaped
and are now in Old Mexico.
most critical time of the youth's life,
as it is the time when he is forming
his ethical standard, and believes that
as much care should be selected in
choosing high school teachers as mem-
bers of a college faculty, for the reason
that they have everything at stake In
aiding in the formation of character
and future life of the student.
FOR INTERMARRIED WHITES
Curtis Bill Would Make Them Chero-
kee Citizens, as to Land
WASHINGTON: Representative
Curtis, of Kansas, introduced by re-
quest a bill for the purpose of enroll-
ing certain Intermarried white persons
in the Cherokee Indian nation. It
directs the secretary of the interior to
enroll white persons who, prior to
December 10, 1895, intermarried with
Cherokee, Shawnee or Delaware In-
dians, citizens of the Cherokee nation
by blood, In accordance with the laws
of the Cherokee nation, and when such
persons are enrolled they shall have
the same status and participate in the
division of the real property, and no
other, of the Cherokee tribe or na-
tion, the same as Cherokee Indians
by blood. Provided that they shall
first pay into the United States treas-
ury for the benefit of the Cherokee
tribe or nation, each of the sum of
$325.GO, and further, shall avail them-
selves of the provisions of this act
within six months from the date of its
approval, that they shall have the
right to sell and dispose of any and
all improvements placed by them on
their tentative allotments in the
Cherokee nation to enrolled citizens
thereof within the same period; fur-
ther, that there shall be no restric-
tions upon the alienation of the lands
allotted to such intermarried whites.
The temperance workers of Okla-
homa claim there are forty-two incor-
and he will be prosecuted by the act-
ing United States attorney, Mr. Scot-
horn.
The members of the school land
board feel that they have a strong
case against the millionaire.
While as yet there has been no de-
cisive evidence of the fact, yet the
opinion seems general among the em-
ployees of the school land board that
In case the mineral filings made on
school lands in the Cleveland field are
legalized in some manner by congress,
all the filings, at least in part, will be
transferred to Millikan, who will de-
velop and operate the claims, giving a
share of the profits to the persons
who have filed the claims.
It is the opinion of Berkey that if
the inspectors had not been prompt
in tearing down the oil rigging erected
on school land by some of the tres-
passers that there would have been
forty such derricks erected on school
land there by the present time. He
also says that the oil men In the
Cleveland field, outside of the alleged
trespassers, sympathize with the
school land board in this fight and
will stay with the board in its conten-
tions.
Secretary Hitchcock Wants to Keep
Standard Oil Down
MUSKOGEE: It has become evi-
dent here that Secretary Hitchcock
Is determined to keep the Standard
Oil company from gaining control of
Indian Territory oil fields. It seems
probable that the secretary will re-
voke the leases on 40,000 acres of oil
lands in the Creek and Cherokee na-
tions, and turn the land over to In-
dian allottees to lease to whom they
will.
The operators in Indian Territory
who are supposed to represent the
Standard Oil Interests, and whom the
secretary of the interior is after, are
the Prairie Oil and Gas company, in
the capacity of a producer and con-
sumer of crude oil; Guffey & Galey,
the Pittsburg oil operators and poli-
ticians; L. N. Barnsdall, a Pittsburg
operator, and their various subagents.
The interior department, believing that
these companies and their agents were
gobbling up the field for the Standard,
recently closed operations on the
leases controlled by them and the
wells are still shut down. The depart-
ment has ruled that no person or cor-
poration can hold more than 4.800
acres of land under oil leases. The
Prairie Oil and Gas company, and its
principals picked out 4,800 acres each
of the best oil land they could get.
The next move, it is said, was to estab-
lish subagents and dummies, each of
whom took the limit in acreage al-
lowed by the regulations of the depart-
ment. In this way it is claimed the
Standard Oil company plotted to cap-
ture Indian Territory oil fields.
It is necessary for each person or
corporation taking a lease to make a
financial showing that he has $40,000
deposited in a bank to carry on opera-
tions. It is claimed that many of tho
agents and dummies who had abso-
lutely no financial means, made affi-
davit that they were worth that
amount.
It is stated positively by an operator
that at least 10,000 acres of leases
were taken by John F. Furlong, E. P.
Wh'-comb and others, alleged to be
agents of the Standard, for which the
allottees received 15 cents an acre, or
less, bonus on leases worth at least
$250,000.
It Is claimed that after gobbling
up all the valuable oil land possibe,
the Standard began to use other
methods to control the situation.
Independents say they find it extreme-
ly difficult to get oil into the pipe
lines, and that they get 52 cents a bar-
rel for the same kind of oil that brings
$1.50 in Pennsylvania.
It is said on good authority that
the Standard Oil company is not the
only one suspected of trying to grab
the oil fields. It is claimed that
Richard C. Adams, Deleware attorney,
controls more than 4,800 acres, and
that he has sold several thousand
acres of leases to the Standard Oil
company.
A new rural delivery route has been
ordered established at Mangum on
June 15. The new route will be
twenty-eight miles In length and serve
a population of five hundred and sixty.
Dr. Brown, the territorial veterin-
arian, killed two horses effected with
glanders near Ponca City last week.
George Alderman, convicted In Kay
county on a grand larceny charge for
stealing two hogs, has filed in the
Oklahoma supreme court an original
habeas corpus action to secure his re-
lease from the Kay county jail. He
claims to have given an appeal bond
in the sum of $5,000 but that Sheriff
Wooden refuses to allow him his lib-
erty.
Mrs. Margaret M. Robinson of Ada
has commenced a suit against the
Frisco Railway company for $10,000
on account of the death of her hus-
band, a conductor on that road, who
was killed In a wreck near Sapulpa
In June, 1304.
OKEMAH HAS A FIRE
Half a Block of Frame Buildings Ds-
stroyed—To be Rebuilt With Stone
OKEMAH: Okemah was- visited
by a disastrous fire Monday mo.'nlng.
Fire broke out in the old Delmonlco
restaurant building, destroying the en-
tire half block of which this was the
center. For a time it looked question-
able whether the Okemah National
Bank building could be saved, but the
wind veered straight to the north and
no damage was done to it except
cracking plate glass windows.
The buildings destroyed were all
frame ones. The following werf the
heaviest loosers: B. F. Perkins, John
Bost, A. H. L. Mosler, Philip Young, J.
H Henn > sey, W. B. Nutt, C. W.
Allred and Thomas R. Gert. This is
the most serious fire Okemah has ex-
perienced. Steps will be taken lo re-
build this block with stone.
CHIEF PARKER ILL
Comanche Tribe of Indians May Have
to Elect New Leader
LAWTON: Chief Quanah Parker,
of the Comanche Indians, is danger-
ously 111 with a complication of ma-
larial fever and a severe attack of rheu-
matism. He has been in bad health
for the past year and has been con-
fined to his bed for a month or little
more. Little hope is entertained of
his regovery, and the tribesmen are
already figuring on his successor.
Chief Parker's only son died some
years ago and the next chief will be
elected by the tribe. It is probable
that White Eagle, a medicine man
porated towns in the territory where j tlle lightest of the Comanches,
intoxicating liquors cannot be legally ; w,jj succee<j parker as chief, should
sold. j he succumb to this attack.
MUST PAY BILLS
Judge Hainer Rules that Indians Can
Sue and b: Sued
PAWHUSKA: In a case in the fed-
eral court here a white laborer sued
an Osage Indian for wages due. The
Indian refused payment upon the
ground that he was a ward of the gov-
ernment and was not vested with tho
power to make contracts. Judge
Hainer, before whom the case was
tried, held that excepting contracts as
to land and annuities, an Indian al-
though sustaining tribal relations, can
contract, and can sue and be sued;
that it is the policy of the government
to educate the Indians and to teach
them to transact business and become
self-sustaining, and to hold otherwise
would be contrary to public policy.
Judge Hainer held also there is no
congressional act which forbids ordi-
nary contracts being entered into by
-r, Indian and its enforcement by the
United States courts.
The session of the grand lodge of
Knights of Pythias which adjourned
at Okmulgee last week selected Sul-
phur as the meeting place In 1907. A j
number of towns were asking for the j
honor, but the territory's watering j
place and summer resort won out
Filson Pardons a Prisoner
GUTHRIE: Acting Governor Filson
has granted an unconditional pardon
to Ben C. Buehrmann, sentenced from
Canadian county for four years for
murder in the second degree. His
term would expire July 25. The par-
don was recommended by Warden
Haskell and Prison Physician C. E.
Grlgsby, of the Lansing penitentiary,
the latter stating that Buehrmann
has heart disease, which would result
in his death it kept in confinement
longer. Ho Is afSo reported as a model
prisoner
JUDICIAL DIVISION PROFITABLE
Clerks of Court In Western District
Turn in $50,000
MUSKOGEE: The annual report
for the western judicial district of
Indian Territory made by R. P. Harri-
son, clerk of the court shows that the
government has one profitable depart-
ment in the territory at least.
The report shows that during the
past year the total receipts received
from all the recording offices of the
district, and the fees and other monies
received by the clerks of the court,
amounted to a trifle under $50,000,
above the expenses of maintaining the
office. Tho recording division turned
in $37,000 in excess of the expenses of
that division, and the clerks division
turned in over $10,000 above expenses.
The total expense of both departments
Is a little over $11,000.
This excess money from the record-
ing division goes into the permanent
school fund for the western district
and the excess from the clerks division
goes to tho funds of the United
States government. Because this
money goes into the permanent fund,
it cannot be utilized for immediate
school purposes. If this could be done
there would be sufficient money to es-
tablish 144 new schools In the west-
ern district under the present system.
TOWN LOT PAYMENT
FOR REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS
Money and Claim Forfeited for Failure ■ congressman Murphy Introduces a Bill
to Meet Payments t0 Se|| Land
MUSKOGEE: There is something ; WASHINGTON: Congressman Mur-
doing in the government townsite line j phy „( Missouri, has introduced a bill
in the Indian Territory now. A pro- j jn the house removing after October
vision in the Curtis bill Is that sixty
days after the act is approved the fol-
lowing penalty attaches to persons
who have purchased town lots at gov-
ernment sales and not paid them out
in full. That if the purchaser of any
town lot shall fail for thirty days after
the payment on such lot is due to make
payment, that the money that has
1, 190G, the restrictions on the aliena-
tion of land in the Choctaw, Cherokee,
Creek and Seminole nations, Indian
Territory, except as to homesteads of
those upon approved Indian rolls and
also land known to contain coal, oil,
gas. asphalt or other mineral, provided
that this act shall not extend to per-
mit any allottee under twenty-one
years old to sell or dispose of his allot-
been paid in shall be forfeited together j ment except through legally appointed
with all claim on the lot and the prop- j guardian and then only in the usual
erty shall be advertised for sale again J legal manner.
by the government. Prior to this time j Any agreements relating to sales of
there was no forfeiture clause except such land made before October 1st are
that an interest penalty attached. declared void and not subject to
The Dawes commission gets an ad- record. Nothing in the act in any re-
ditional class of work on., account of j :ip(,ct uffects the supervisory authority
the town lots. Under the Curtis bill j oI ,he secretary of the Interior, rela-
the commission is to deliver deeds to j ,lve to mjneral leases heretofore exe-
allotmenta and other lands on which | cutej hy an allottee of any of the
patents are issued by the government. ! tribes.
This is constructed to mean that the j
commission will have to deliver town
lot deeds as well as allotment deeds.
FIVE McGUIRE BILLS FAVORED
Ratify Oklahoma Legislative Acts and
Help Schools
WASHINGTON: The house com-
mittee on territories has made a favor-
able report on five of Delegate Mc-
Gulre's bills. Two ratify acts of the
Oklahoma legislature, one appropriat-
ing $05,000 to enlarge the Western
Normal school at Alva, and the other
authorizing the commissioners of Kay
county to change the course of Spring
creek, draining a larger area of low
land, subject to overflow, and giving
the right to condemn land. The three
other bills relate to schools. One
grants a section of school reserve land
adjacent to the University of Okla-
homa to that institution, another a
section of land to the Tonkawa
preparatory school, and the third a
quarter section of land to the school
of Shawnee.
New Church Opening
CHICKASHA: It has been definite-
ly announced by the Rev. W. M. P.
Elevator at South McAlester Burned j Rippey of the M. E. church that the
SOUTH MCALESTER: Spontane-
ous combustion caused a fire that en-
tirely destroyed the Davidson Elevator
company's plant at this place and
badly damaged the frame depot owned
by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail-
way company. The Iobs on the ©le-
vator Is $1,500, with no Insurance.
new church will be opened for services
the second Sunday in May. Special
services will be held in the morning,
afternoon and evening of that day.
Fox's orchestra will furnish the music,
and special vocal music will be ren-
dered also. The church probably will
not be dedicated until a later date.
Do Away With Elections
WASHINGTON: Delegate Mc-
Julre appeared before the senate ju-
diciary committee and urged the sen-
ate to incorporate in the legislative,
executive and judiciary appropriation
bill an amendment providing that In
event of the statehood bill passing,
Oklahoma shall not elect, a territorial
delegate or a territorial legislature.
It having been expected that the state-
hood bill would pass long since, this
provision does not appear in the bill.
The committee voted to insert an
amendment, which was passed.
Last week the government land
office at Guthrie cancelled eleven
homestead entries in Day, Dewey and
Blaine counties, and allowed the con-
testants to make entry on the land.
Shot by His Divorced Wife
GUTHRIE: Oscar Taylor, a Kay
couhty farmer, waB shot last week at
Ponca City by his divorced wife, Mrs.
Lotta Taylor, and will die. She
rushed from her home when Taylor
was passing and opened fire on him
with a 38-caliber revolver. They
were only recently divorced, after con-
siderable domestic trouble, and Mrs.
Taylor was given the custody of their
only child. Mrs. Taylor was placed
In the county jail at Newkirk after
the shooting.
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Burke, J. J. The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 1906, newspaper, May 10, 1906; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc137981/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.