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Show BRIBERY TRIAL OF GOVERNOR IS DATED OKMULGEE, Okla . Nov. 17 Trial of Governor J 13. A. Robertson of O::-lahoma O::-lahoma on a charge of accepting a ; bribe to permit operation of an Okmulgee Ok-mulgee bank, Which, Js alleged, he knev. to be Insolvent. Thursday woo ordered to be held In Pontoto county, and the date for the opening of the cose was fixed tentatively for next Yf dnesday Judge Thomas A Bdwarda of Cor-del) Cor-del) will preside at the trial. Tho chcange of venue to Pontotoj county was granted hero by District Judge LucleR B. Wright of Sapulpa upon application of L. J. Lytic, Ql punlpa counsel for the governor. Tho application was strongly protested by County Attorney Hepburn, who secured secur-ed the executive's Indictment. |