Governor of Oklahoma to be tried for bribery
— Sequoyah County Democrat, Dec. 1,1922
This Week in County History
— Sequoyah County Democrat, Dec. 1,1922
From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago
(From Nov. 30 and Dec. 4, 1997, issues of the Sequoyah County Times)
-The Sequoyah County Jail has new bed supports this week, after an inmate was stabbed recently with an instrument made from the old springs which supported the beds’ mattresses.
Walter Ross, Sequoyah County undersheriff, said the mattress supports on the jail beds were replaced last weekend.
“We replaced 27 bed springs, that were made from that old wire, last Saturday,” Ross said, “because they (some inmates) were making weapons out of them.”
The bed springs were replaced with 12-gauge metal sheets, at a cost of $1,192.50, taken from the county’s general fund.
—Blue Ribbons Down’s owners and operators hope to hear within 10 days from Wednesday whether or not the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma in Okmulgee will accept the Sallisaw racetrack’s bankruptcy plan.
The court accepted the ballots from Blue Ribbon Downs’ creditors Wednesday morning, said the track’s bankruptcy attorney Bob Inglish of Okmulgee.
In the bankruptcy proceedings Inglish explained, all those creditors to which Blue Ribbon Downs owes money voted, by mailed ballot, on whether or not they accepted the track’s bankruptcy plan.
50 Years Ago
(From the Nov. 30,1972, issue of the Sequoyah County Times)
—Three out-of-town men were being held early this week at the Sequoyah County jail following a Saturday night episode that left one local business with nearly $1,500 in damages.
Oklahoma Highway Patrolmen Skelton and B.L. Jacobs were traveling East on U.S. 64 Saturday night about 11 p.m. when a 1966 Chevrolet, driving west toward Sallisaw, swerved and nearly hit the patrol car. The troopers turned around and started pursuing the vehicle.
The Chevrolet did not stop and the troopers
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