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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1909
Page
1
The Ada area hopes for a federal building with post office court and government offices. Senator T P Gore introduced a Senate bill to authorize construction and appropriation of 125000 to acquire site and facilities. He notes Ada's rapid growth and pledges to push the measure.
Tulsa reporters note crowds of Haskell admirers as the governor and co defendants near key motions in the Muskogee land fraud cases. Judge John Marshall sustains a prosecution objection restricting grand jury testimony as the defense argues the quashal of indictments proceeds. Guthrie sees delays in Reliable Hail Insurance Co. Oklahoma City. state official McComb requires mutual wording and 1000 bona fide applications before license.
Guthrie Oklahoma April 6 The state board of normal regents meets to choose faculties for newly located normal schools at Ada Durant and Tahlequah. It is stated Rev E N Sweet pastor Lawton former chair of the Anti Saloon League will be president at Ada. A S Wyly Tahlequah member constitutional convention and M E Moore Marietta member of Got Hackell's textbook commission at Durant named as part of the proceedings.
Tulsa April 5. Grand jury testimony details surface in the Muskogee town lots case as Gov C N Haskell, W R Eaton and C W Turner face conspiracy indictments. Judge John A Marshall heard motions to quash and rules admissibility of grand jury testimony amid defense claims of secrecy violations and witness interference.
Ada morning report places Jesse West and Joe Allen in Pontotoc county jail after being moved from Ada by Oklahoma City officers. They are accused of hiring Jack Miller to kill Gus Bobbitt, who was shot on February 27 near his Ada ranch.
The piece details arrests of J. C. West and A. C. West tied to the Gus Bobbitt murder, notes long-running feuds with Bobbitt, and cites shifts of West and Allen to Canadian Texas. It then lists full Democratic primary vote tallies by candidate and ward, including names such as L. J. Little, W. B. Jones, George Davidson, James E. Webb, and others. Capt. J. C. Shipley, Shawnee resident, is noted in the city.
Vernon W. Whiting of Oklahoma placed Cash Cade, member of the National Republican committee, in nomination as Oklahoma Republicans choice for the state's next governor during an address in Washington. Cade, a Shawnee resident, was praised by local officials including Wilbur Jones the city clerk.
Nornan Oklahoma April 6 In Lawrence on Friday April 23 Oklahoma State University will send Joseph Goodman and William Randolph I to debate Kansas University. The topic is Re solved That the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution should be repealed. Oklahoma takes the negative. This is their first intercollegiate debate and the student body is confident they will win.
Garner, once a Franklin County Texas boy, now a prominent Dallas resident, is in town to reconnect with his roots and engage with local affairs.
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