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...well-connected uncle. The uncle ran the M. T. Jones Lumber Co., gave Jesse a job in one of its yards. In a year Jesse was yard manager. In three years he was general manager of the whole concern, planning to extend the company further through Texas and Okla homa. It was then that he moved the scene of his operations south to Houston, a growing railway and shipping town connected with the Gulf by shallow Buffalo Bayou...
Last week Death, as it must to all men, came to feeble, impoverished Charles Nathaniel Haskell, 73, in a room in Okla homa City's Skirvin Hotel. He had been ill with pneumonia less than 24 hours. In 1912, Governor Haskell, already scandal-tainted (as were to be most of his successors), celebrated the end of his term by borrowing money from the State to go on a vacation. The next Oklahomans heard of him, he and his family had settled down to a life of wealth on a half-million dollar estate at Glen Cove, L. I. Having...
...companies. In 1924 he was glad to sell out for about $500,000. Three years later the Great Julian Scandal came, made police reserves necessary. Oilman Julian had no connection with the scandal, but it fixed his name in western minds. About a year ago he arrived in Okla homa City, said he would "come back." He proceeded to sell stock in Julian Oil & Royalty Co., started three wells in Oklahoma City Field. Two came in as gushers, the third is near pay-sand. He drives a shiny motor, has a high-speed private airplane. His apartment is modestly furnished...
Sued for annulment. Mrs. Anna Laura Barnett, of Los Angeles, wife of Jackson Barnett, multi-millionaire Okla homa Indian, ward of the U. S. Government; by the U. S. on behalf of its protegé. The U. S. alleges that by the use of ''petting . . . seductive smiles" Mrs. Barnett kidnaped her husband, married him twice (in Kansas, and in Missouri) in expectation of the $500,000 gift of the government authorized by Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall for Barnett...
Senator Elmer Thomas of Okla homa set forth that his state had suffered more property damage than any other from floods; that levee construction would scarcely affect Oklahoma; that the way to start controlling the Mississippi was by impounding its tributaries in reservoirs; that reservoirs affected agriculture and waterpower and should therefore not be a wholly Federal project. Senator Thomas proposed a Federal fund of ten millions, to be administered by the President in national disasters, and gave the Flood Control Committee a bill he had drawn to this effect...