| Fort Worth Gazette. January 01, 1894 Fort Worth, Tex. 1891-1898 |
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ARE THEY MARRIED? Thousands of People Said to Have Been Wedded in an Illegal Manner Special to the Gazette.
Guthrie Ok., Dec. 31. – A sensation
has been caused by the discovery that
nearly every minister and Justice of the
peace in Oklahoma has repeatedly
violated United States statutes the
punishment for each violation being a fine
and imprisonment. On March 12, 1887
Congress passed an act to headoff
Mormon secret marriages In Utah, but
made applicable to all territories which
required all persons solemnizing marriages
to file a certificate of same with the probate Judge of the county any failure so
to do being a misdemeanor punishable by
fine and imprisonment. Few people
knew of the existance of such a law
and it has been violated in thousands of
cases in this territory.
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| The Record-Union. January 13, 1894 Sacramento, Calif. 1891-1903 |
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Tragedy In Oklahoma Territory. Guthrie (O. T.), Jan. 12 – S. H. Foss, a wealthy citizen, was killed by a young man named Derr this morning. Foss was being tried for the killing of Derr, Sr., at the time of the killing. |
| The Morning Call. January 22, 1894 (San Francisco, Calif. 1878-1895 |
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WAS HEAVILY CHARGED. Discovery of a Dynamite Bomb in an Oklahoma Office. Guthrie, O. T., Jan. 21. – A dynamite bomb, charged with enough dynamite to blow up a block of buildings, was found in the office of the Townsite Board yesterday. It was a piece of leadpipe three feet long. A party of newspaper men took the deadly instrument to the suburbs of the town and built a fire over it. It exploded, tearing a hole in the ground big enough to bury a horse, and the shock was felt for miles. It is believed the bomb was in tended for Governor Renfrew and School Land Commissioner Blincoe, as it was found in close proximity to the executive buildings. |
| The Morning Call. February 13, 1894 San Francisco, Calif. 1878-1895 |
| Kansas City, Feb. 12. – A dispatch from Guthrie. O. T., says last night the mercury registered 6 deg. below zero. This morning a thaw set in, but this afternoon another cold wave swooped down on the Territory, sending the mercury down to the zero mark again. The suffering through out Oklahoma and Indian Territory must be great. Nothing can be learned owing to the severe weather and the condition of the roads. Trains due on Sunday have not yet arrived. There are snowed in between Red Rock and Cross, and as the country is not well watered or timbered, to say nothing of provisions, the passengers are certainly in a precarious condition. |
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| Guthrie, Ok., Feb. 10. – While Rev. Sam Small, the evangelist, has been absent in the east this week lecturing his business and editorial associates on his daily newspaper published here have been quarreling over the policy of the paper and finally had a pitched battle for possession of the editorial columns. So fierce was the battle that the printers fled from the building and it was necessary to call the police to quell the row. The paper is now being issued with a special policeman in charge to keep the peace and Editor-in-Chief Small has been summoned to return and look and look after his ***********. |
| The Morning Call. May 22, 1894 San Francisco, Calif. 1878-1895 |
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WILL GET LIFE. Arkansas Tom Has Been Convicted of Manslaughter. Guthrie, O. T.. May 21 – Arkansas Tom, the outlaw, was to-day convicted of manslaughter by a jury in the United States District Court. During the famous fight between United States Deputy Marshals and the Dalton gang at lngalls, last September, Arkansas Tom was the only desperado taken. alive by the marshals. The prisoner will get a life sentence. |
| Fort Worth Gazette. June 02, 1894 Fort Worth, Tex. 1891-1898 |
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Oklahoma Christian Endeavors. Special Dispatch
Guthrie, O. T., June 1. – The annual
convention of Oklahoma Christian Endeavor societies met here today and
will remain in session three days over
200 delegates being present. The afternoon was spent in welcoming the delegates and discussing preliminary
business. Tonight Rev. Dr Winters of
Wichita Kan delivered a fine address
followed by the annual address of President Blincoe |
| St. Paul Daily Globe. August 05, 1894 Saint Paul, Minn. 1884-1896 |
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Money for an Oklahoma Road. Guthrie, O. T., Aug. 4. – Ex-Secretary Robert Martin has just returned from London, where he secured the money necessary to construct the Kansas. Oklahoma Central & Southwestern railway, it will run from Coffeyville, Kan., southwesterly across Oklahoma to Vernon, Tex., and on to Albuquerque, N. M. The company has fully organized by electing the following officers: President. Gilbert Martin, Guthrie, O. T. : vice president, George Gardenshire,Stillwater,O. T.; secretary, T. C. Frazier, Coffeyville, Kan.; attorney, S. V. Porter |
| The Record-Union. August 16, 1894 Sacramento, Calif. 1891-1903 |
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Obligations of Settlers Guthrie (O. T., Aug. 15. – In the contested lot case of Thorns vs. Newcomb the Commissioner-General of the Land Office has decided a settler must actually live upon his lot or conduct an active business thereon in order to acquire title, and cannot live elsewhere and hold a Government lot through an agent or by the purchase of another settler's right. This decision will give many thousands of dollars' worth of valuable property to actual settlers instead of speculators. |
| St. Paul Daily Globe. September 07, 1894 Saint Paul, Minn. 1884-1896 |
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Tornado in Oklahoma Guthrie, O. T., Sept. 6. – Last night's storm was very severe in the country north of here. In the eastern part of P county a number of houses were destroyed by a tornado and several people injured. At Crescent City, Marks' large general store and four houses were completely demolished and a number of farms ruined. Two children were drowned north of here by the flood of water. |
| New-York Tribune. October 08, 1894 New York N.Y. 1866-1924 |
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NEW-YORKERS DIVORCED IN OKLAHOMA Guthrie, O. T., Oct. 7. – In district court last evening Judge Dale granted Mrs. Susan Best a divorce from Levi Best, and Mrs. Mary St. John a divorce from George St. John, all being from New York City. |
| The Morning Call. October 23, 1894 San Francisco, Calif. 1878-1895 |
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FOUGHT OVER LAND. The Man Who Used a Winchester Had the Best of it. Guthrie, O. T., Oct. 22. – John Henderson, a prominent man, lies at the point of death from a gunshot wound inflicted by J. M. Johnson, a candidate for the Legislature. Henderson's son was wounded by Johnson in the same battle and he died to-night. Henderson and Johnson claim owner ship of the same piece of land about a mile and a half from this city. Johnson sowed the land, and Henderson was intending to plow it to-day when the fight began. Henderson fired several shots from a revolver and Johnson used a Winchester. Johnson was not hit. He gave himself up. |
| The Record-Union. November 20, 1894 Sacramento, Calif. 1891-1903 |
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Hugged By a Bear Guthrie (O. T.), Nov. 19. – While picking grapes on a country road near here, a black bear suddenly appeared and attacked Miss Ann Wormbrough, a pretty young lady, hugging her so hard that it. broke three of her ribs and terribly lacerated her body. Her injuries will likely prove fatal. |
| The Morning Call. November 24, 1894 San Francisco, Calif. 1878-1895 |
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A Mother's Awful Fight for the Life of Her Babe. Guthrie, O. T., Nov. 23. – At Sacred Heart, a hamlet a few miles from here, today Mrs. Caleb's three-months-old baby was almost eaten up by a wild hog. The woman had laid the child on a blanket near where she was washing and while her back was turned she was called to the child by its crying. An immense wild hog was ravenously eating the flesh of the babe, having already terribly lacerated its face. Made furious by the taste of blood the hog refused to give up its prey and gave battle when Mrs. Calab endeavored to rescue the child. The hog finally be came master of the situation and grabbed the bleeding, crying babe in its mouth and started for the woods. It gained several yards before it resented the attacks of the distracted mother. In her wild endeavor to secure her babe Mrs. Calab was herself terribly injured, her flesh being torn from her body in several places. Finally, how ever, she succeeded in grabbing the child and escaping. The babe is dead. |
| The Morning Call. November 25, 1894 San Francisco, Calif. 1878-1895 |
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FRAUDULENT FAILURE. The Jacobs Family Stood In to Loot Their Creditors. Guthrie, O. T.. Nov. 24. – The failure of the Boston Store, John Jacobs proprietor, which was announced last night, has developed much fraud. The store was closed on attachments of several clothing and dry-goods houses, and it was shown that but $6000 assets were on hand, to show for the liabilities amounting to over $50,000. The receiver appointed has ascertained that before the failure large quantities of goods were shipped out of the Territory to other towns and hurriedly sold out. A search of Jacobs' residence revealed trunks filled with fine bolting cloths and other goods: Joel Rosenbleet, a brother-in-law of Jacobs, has been arrested in Perry, where in his branch store were found several large loads of goods, and a warrant has been issued for another relative in St. Louis, to whom it is alleged goods were shipped before the failure. |