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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1906
Page
8
A local sale event announces its close on Monday night December 24 with advertised discounts and doorbusters. The notice emphasizes limited stock and final opportunities for shoppers at participating stores.
Washington reports that M. L. Mott alleges fraud in Muskogee town lot sales and accuses Commissioner Bixby’s administration of improper conduct. William Dudley Foulke’s forthcoming report is said to support charges, with dummy buyers and trusts named. Indictments aim to block Indian lands restrictions during Congress session.
A U S marshal and Ira H Stevens encountered John McClain and a man named Malone in a remote woods house while making counterfeit money. McClain fired on Deputy Marshal Gray, who shot and killed him.
Eli Edwards, an Indian resident on Newton Johnson's place, was arrested Sunday on a charge of stealing a horse from C. A. Slocum near Guest's store. The horse was later found loose near Amos Hays' place. Edwards claims intoxication and lack of memory. His case was set for hearing today.
Report says Martin C Melville is mentally deranged and has been under care for days. He allegedly escaped watchers overnight, wandered the town, appeared at the post office early this morning muddy and bloodied from a fall, and talked incoherently.
Hog killing days have been ideal with bright weather yesterday and today. The squeal of the hog and the rendering kettle smoke are abroad in the land.
Quanah Parker representing the Comanche addresses delegates opposing county cuts and defending Indian rights to medicine and worship. He attends with wives and tribesmen as committees hear Indian boundary and health matters amid growing territorial county plans.
In criminal libel cases the written matter may be presented as evidence. If it is shown the publication was made with good motives and justifiable ends, the accused shall be acquitted. The text also bans funding any religious sect or denomination or its representative.
The Indian Esi, who rode a farmer's horse off Saturday and was later arrested for grand larceny, appeared before a U.S. Commissioner Monday afternoon. The rate was convinced she was intoxicated and did not intend to steal.
Oklahoma City endures the heaviest early season snowstorm since records began with heavy falling snow since morning. Rock Island trains face eight hour delays, streetcar service halted, and Mangum mayor reports a coal famine risking fuel shortages in the city if relief is not sent promptly.
A two inch snow melts rapidly in Lawton while the region faces a coal shortage. Cache and Hendrick lack coal. Lawton Mangum and Snyder have only a few cars. Man gum farmers seize a coal car and pay the railroad with bank funds as the crisis worsens.
Snow began falling at noon in Guthrie Oklahoma and covers the territory tonight forming a blanket. No serious cattle losses expected unless a blizzard develops.
Four inches of snow blanketed Tulsa Oklahoma today with more likely to fall through the night marking the season’s first snow. Roads are slick and visibility reduced as the winter weather continues.
Frisco agent I McNair has had the station walls painted both inside and out. He is now laying pipes to secure city water and scour the floors.
Robt Wimbish a lawyer operating from First National Bank Building offers abstracts of title and money to loan on intermarried surplus property.
Directory listing for legal offices located in Ada Oklahoma with rooms C and D of the Rollow Building.
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