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"Banking Made Safe."
Tried by a throo million dollar fall
uro In -vvhlch tho depositors lost not
no cont, and sustained by tho supromo
court of tho United Statos, tho Okla
homa stato banks stand unrivalled for
security amonff financial institutions.
On tho basis of absolute safety wo ask
?rour patronage Satlsflod depositors
n ovory stato of tho Union attest our
ability to handlo your account right.
Intorost paid on Timo Deposits and
Savings Accounts.
GUARANTY STATE BANK,
Muskogee, Oklahoma.
M. 0. Haskell, Vice President.
M. C Sells, Cashier.
ECZEMA
Theodoro Roosevelt left for a
trip through tho south and will
spend somo time In Arizona.
Abo Ituof, San Francisco boss, Is
now wearing stripes. He is at work
In tho jute mill of tho prison.
Tho lower houBO of the New
Hampshire legislature, by a vote of
268 to 70, adopted a plan some
thing like tho Oregon method of
selecting United States senators.
Tho body also adopted a resolution
calling on congress to give tho people
direct election of senators.
The Ohio supreme court has hand
ed down a decision that Judge Blair's
action in disfranchising tho 1,100
voters in Adams county for selling
their votes was legal. Hundreds
of cases in Scito and Adams counties
have been awaiting tho decision of
tho supromo court. They will now
bo speedily disposed of.
Judge Edward S. Dunne has con
ceded tho nomination of Carter Har
rison for mayor.
Coonoy entered the chamber during
the forenoon and took an obscure
seat. No one paid any particular
attention to him in the crowd of
spectators. It was observed, how
ever, that he listened intently to
tho arguments in favor of the bill
providing for the abolition of capi
tal punishment. When the bill doing
away with legal executions was
finally passed by the assembly
Cooney, apparently greatly relieved,
calmly went in search of Sheriff Finn,
whom ho found in the senate cham
ber. To the sheriff he revealed his
identity and declared he desired to
surrender himself. Cooney killed
his cousin because he fancied his
landlady had transferred her affec
tions to him."
was supported by eventy members
and opposed by 112, the government
majority being forty-two. Only two
liberals broke away and voted with
the opposition."
The board of directors of the New
York Central railroad reduced tho
quarterly dividend to 1 per cent.
The lower house of the Minnesota
legislature passed a bill providing for
the direct nomination of United
States senator by the Oregon plan.
Isaac T. Parker, former lieutenant
(governor of Delaware, died in Phila
delphia.
Hero is a Sacramento dispatch to
the Chicago Record-Herald "Joseph
W. Cooney, wanted in San Francisco
for the murder of his cousin, James
Cooney, walked into the assembly
chamber, listened to the arguments
in favor of the abolition of capital
In a speech before the Canadian
parliament, Premier Wilfrid Lau
rier indorsed reciprocity with Ameri-
J ca, affirmed loyalty co Great Britain,
and urged friendship between the
farmer and manufacturer through
out the dominion.
A number of the farmers living
along the rural free delivery lines
of mail out of Baynesville, Kan.,
have pulled down their mail boxes
and refused to accept their mail from
a negro carrier recently appointed.
punishment, and, after assuring him
can wis ourot). Mr wild, eootiiinj, tutranUed cure self the bill had been passed, sur-
V "! "f'Er wTLjtQw"1TonT5paTnBnouiMa rendered to Sheriff Finn of San Fran- Benjamin D-. Green and John F.
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DR, CANNADAY, 174 PARK SQUARE. SEDALIA, MO Cisco, a memoer of tne senate, uaynor, convicted embezzlers, were
sent oacK to prison on the refusal of
the government of the pauper's oath
privilege to avoid a $575,000 fine.
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Judge W. B. Sommerville, of the
New Orleans civil district court, was
elected associate justice of the
Louisiana stato supreme court.
Mayor Gaynor, of New York, has
suggested Herman Ridder, the Ger
man publisher, as a comnromlsR r.n-n-
didate to break the senatorial dead
lock at Albany.
A Pleasant Prairie, Wis., dispatch
carried by the Associated Press,
says: "The town of Pleasant Prai
rie, Wis., was blown off the map;
a region circled about Chicago from
Cleveland, O., to Clinton, la., were
shaken as by an earth auake; a mil
lion and a half dollars of property
was damaged and 'two people killed
were the results, summed up of the
terrific explosion of fifty tons of
dynamite and other explosives dt the
DuPont powder mill in Pleasant
Prairie. Practically all of the 500
inhabitants of the little town, where
every building was razed or
wrecked, were housed today in Ke
nosha. Of the two persons killed,
James S. Thompson, superintendent
of the glaso room of the powder
plant, waB killed when the dynamite
let go. His body is still In the ruin3
of the mill. The other fatality oc
curred at Elgin, HI., where Miss
Llllie Finch dropped dead from
shock when the explosion shook her
home. About two score of the sur
eruption of flame and wreckage and
Pleasant Prairie "were treated here
today. Many -were caught in- the
shower of debris that followed the
eruption of flame and wreckabe and
were injured. Only two of the in
jured are seriously hurt. Most of
the injuries were caused by falling
bits of wreckage and broken glass.
Altogether, seventy or- eighty 'build
ing in Pleasant Prairie were totally
demolished. Many of them were
small frame dwellings that 'came clat
tering down about their tenants'
ears, driving the whole town into
the streets in a panic." .
Champ Clark made a speech at
Pittsburg in which he declared that
tho democratic party is "united" for
victory.
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The United States supreme court
has declared the corporation tax pro
vision of the Payne-Aldrich tariff act
to be constitutional. Justice Day
delivered, the opinion.
The city elections in Maine demo
crats won many notable victories,
securing four out of five cities.
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James R. Porter who was the
democratic nominee for governor in
1868, died in Haigler, Neb. Ho was
ninety-three years of age.
' The Kansas locislaturA rmaaoi
bill appropriating $50,000 to found
a state tuberculosis hospital. No
location is named.
Speaking at Dallas, Texas, Theo
dore Ro'osevelt .said that failure to
fortify the Panama' canal will be an
act of criminal folly.
Postmaster Thomas, of Omaha, is
under investigation, charged .with
"pernicious political activity." .
V.-V
The legislatures of New York and
Colorado continue in deadlock on
seantors.
Associate Justice Holmes, of the
supreme court of the United States,
celebrated his seventieth birthday
anniversary.
hi?W P dIsPat carried
by tho Associated Press, says: "The
strength of the government's posi
tion on reciprocity was shown by a
vote taken in the house tonight on
JadS 5 Kos; Sartdans
taken up by the Canadian parHa
ment 'until tho electors shalfS
had an opportunity of passing onite
merits.' The motion to defe? action
Press dispatches from Mexico say
that a lamine in that country is at
hand.
Mrs. Mary W. Harriman, widow of
B. H. Harriman, has .paid- $798,
546.85 inheritance tax in Utah.
Judge Harpers Cunningham, for
mer Attorney General of the .Terri
tory of Oklahoma, died at Long
Beach, Cal.
In a' speech at Birmingham, Col,
Theodore Roosevelt expressed his ap
proval of tho commission form of
government. He declared for drastic
and rigidly enforced laws controlling
the hours and ages of yrorking children.
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