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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1903
Page
7
Lawson city council passes a fre limit ordinance. Lawton projects include a wagon bridge near Befanla, and April city operations cost nearly 1000. Alva normal enrollment tops 600. Kay county sheriff shuts Ponca City gambling dens. Oklahoma figures include Cherokee land filings and a Blackwell farmers cooperative elevator fund.
The Stillwater WCTU issued the last edition of the Democrat. Huffman and Arterbaam burn in Gertie building with losses about 3004 and 2400 insurance. El Reno commercial club to reorganize and revive activity. Estimated lumber worth 25000000 in Choctaw region. Indian Territory implement dealers to meet at South McAlester in May. Katy f Wyback extension to Tulsa likely in operation within forty days.
J A Rouse of Cooper files to be Langston University regent after P F Tyler resigns. In Eufaula the Baptist church refuses Rev F A Hill’s resignation and he will continue as pastor.
A new line from Ardmore via Provence Mannsville Earl and Nort on to Ravia is completed within two miles of Ravia. Burglars robbed Simpson and Wood’s South McAlester store, taking jewelry firearms and other goods. No crew captured.
Muskogee records a population of 7 246 as per a federal court directed census. The count was conducted to authorize a waterworks bond issue.
An incendiary started blaze at Bache damaging the structures occupied by William West and Tatum Bros. Loss estimated around 3000 dollars with no insurance.
The town will feature a First National Bank with ex Governor Seay and Hon Dennis Flynn named as two of the stockholders signaling prominent civic backing for the new financial institution.
Memphis capitalists decide to build a large cotton mill and coin in Holdenville this season. The plant will be one of the largest in the Indian Territory.
The A and M college at Stillwater will host commencement from May 31 to June 3. The graduating class, the largest in school history, numbers twenty three students.
Secretary Hitchcock told the Indian inspector at Muskogee that his trip to Indian Territory is a business visit for information and not a publicity stunt. He requested no entertainment arrangements and no handshaking events during the visit.
The comptroller approved the application to charter the First National Bank of Indianola with a capital of 50,000 dollars, paving the way for a new financial institution in Indianola.
The Creek and Cherokee leases will be identical though Creek Base documents have not yet been printed. Interior department officials say the Creek bases will mirror the Cherokee leases.
The Osage and Joplin belt areas spark a scramble for oil and mineral lands in the Cherokee Nation. New interior rules require leases to meet department standards, limit surface occupancy, and secure bonds and royalties. Agricultural and grazing leases are allowed with varying approvals, while outsiders may soon buy allottee lands as development expands.
The article states that about thirty million hares and rabbits are killed yearly across the British isles and nearly a million partridges and pheasants. It notes the vast scale of hunting and game depredation in England and surrounding regions.
After an extended term Judge W H H Clayton ruled that each sawmill case must be decided by the secretary of the interior. He also held he had no jurisdiction in ejectment suits to be settled by the Dawes commission. A hearing date of July 20 was set in Antlers for the Hugo and Antlers incorporation petition.
Persistent Shawnee speculation claims the Rock Island will return control of the Choctaw route to its former managers, following the recent anti merger decision.
Lawton grand jury returns fifty six indictments with fifteen tied to the recent election. William Turner faces bribery and procuring unlawful voters charges. Three indictments involve entering election rooms. Some indictments challenged as defective due to procedural issues.
The Fort cemetery, now sold and segregated to protect the grounds, is tended by a War Department overseer. A bronze tablet lists unknown and known dead, while graves form orderly rows around a flag staff. Visitors from all over the Union come to this well kept, serene site atop wooded hills where Old Glory waves for miles. Decoration Day draws many townspeople to observe ceremonies honoring the nation’s dead.
Bartletsville oil field pipeline promoters face legal trouble as J Blair Shougfelt says no authority for construction exists without Interior Department right of way approval. Intrusion charges loom if built. Eyewitness report describes a ruse in Vinita where a fake order halted by moving the land office to Tahlequah after a con man’s Washington bid failed.
Congress reforms advance in Indian Territory by extending Arkansas Mansfield digest, creating twenty five recording districts with deputy district clerks as recorders. Each district designates a recording town and list of towns, spanning Miami to Durant and including Tulsa, Muskogee, Ada, Ardmore, and Chickasha.
Fred Arch and Walter Russell were seized by federal authorities on charges of attempting to murder George Watkins, the Caddo telephone central man. The men allegedly heard an important business plot over the phone, provoked the assault, and Watkins was beaten nearly to death before authorities took Arch and Russell into custody.
Gerald H. Matthis of the Geological Survey Washington D C said the government would surely experiment in the county with irrigation. He proposed a reservoir at the narrows south of Wildman and ditches to supply water to the district.
India now produces about 29 million quarters of wheat annually, a figure one sixth higher than Austro Hungary. The data highlight India's rising grain capacity and regional agricultural shifts.
Durant postoffice was burglarized with a rear door panel cut and a nitro glycerine charge used to blow the safe. About $200 in money stamps and stamped envelopes were taken, with little cash secured, and the thieves left behind blown debris. Police were investigating the break in.
Indian Territory and Oklahoma held dedicatory ceremonies in St Louis for sites allocated for building the liberal areas. Iowa and Oklahoma led the events with a Frisco cowboy band and a large division of cowboys and Indians performing horsemanship to the crowd’s enthusiastic ovation during a day of state ceremonies.
Oscar Thomas charged with killing a railroad construction worker near Chandler last year was moved to the federal jail to protect him from mob violence. Sheriff Tilghman was notified that about fifty railroaders have organized to demand his lynching.
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The National and International Good Roads convention closed a three day session in St. Louis with President Roosevelt addressing delegates on Good Roads. Resolutions backed cooperation between national and local governments for highway improvements and officers were re elected including W H Moore as president and R W Richardson as secretary.
A university diploma is described as a printed and written testimonial that its possessor is now prepared to do something if he is capable.
The Ladies of the Cambridge Club in Guthrie announce an invitation to President Roosevelt to preside at a May baby show. They cite his involvement in child welfare matters and his recent Iowa visit as influencing factors.
George W. Miller president of the 101 Ranch denies any knowledge of the Santa Fe detective George Montgomery’s murder in Winfield Kansas two years earlier. He says J Coffelt, also charged, knew nothing of the crime and Coffelt’s trials failed to convict him.
A new town named Lincoln was laid out May 1 along the Smith and Western railroad between here and Oklahoma. It will be a Black exclusive community with no White residents or property buyers allowed. It is noted as the second Black town after Wild Cat in the Creek nation.
The first brick building in Waurika is under way a two story structure 50 by 80 feet with an opera house above and store rooms below builder Mr McCulough says it will be among the finest in the country. Local pride runs high as construction progresses.
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