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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1906
Page
10
Sparks to host a Deep Fork picnic on October 2 as the Oklahoma National Guard holds a large encampment at Guthrie this week. An estimated 50 000 attended the Wild West celebration at 101 Ranch Bliss over the weekend.
The Post Office Department trials removing the back stamp to save time and money. In Chicago six months saved clerks and delivery times from arrival to recipient reduced from 20 minutes to two hours. If successful in Chicago the plan may roll out to New York Boston Jersey City Washington and other large offices. First Assistant Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock spearheads the pilot with no complaints so far.
Washington reports the agricultural department hires poultry expert Robert R. Slocum to study profitable chicken raising. He will set up a poultry feeding station near Baltimore with three pens of 25 hens each testing whole grain dry mash and self feeding, recording production and vitality over three generations using White Plymouth Rocks.
The 13-year-old son of Phillip Sim hols, a farmer near Fargo, died when a shotgun he carried on a riding disk discharged. The full charge entered his neck and chin, splitting his head open. Dr. Schoonmaker of Perham is considering a $50,000 hospital at Enid.
Senator J o O Blakeney president of Citizens' Bank of McLoud announces Democratic nomination bid for the Thirteenth district delegate seat. Nominating convention set for McLoud September 22. Tulsa event plans include William J Bryan visit and speech by Senator William Stone of Missouri.
Ezra Meeker aged pioneer travels from Oregon to Ohio in a wagon used in 1852. He lost an ox named Twist and now travels with one ox and a cow. He has erected 19 monuments to preserve the Oregon Trail memory and has covered 1836 miles at age 76.
Attorney Thomas E. Powell, representing Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, aims to prevent the photograph of the controversial financier from appearing in History of the Penitentiary. The book editor and penitentiary warden both agree to avoid including Cassie Chadwick’s image to curb notoriety and not to publish the photograph.
Norman Ohio area records reveal James Snyder a farmer killed his wife and infant before taking his own life after separating from her due to jealousy over alleged attentions to another man. He had recently bought a gun hired a livery rig and driven to the wife’s location.
Oklahoma City reports Jake L. Hamon of Lewton was chosen to fill the territorial Republican chair after Charles H. Filson resigned. The meeting of the two territories’ committees discussed combining efforts, retaining Guthrie as Oklahoma HQ and Muskogee for Indian Territory, with Grant Victor continuing as chair in that region.
Cicero Davis a prominent Cherokee nation stockman was shot near his ranch twenty four miles southeast of Muskogee as he passed through a hay field. A hidden assassin likely planned flight with a horse in nearby thicket. Authorities dispatched a ten man posse and a special train to Russell with bloodhounds in pursuit. Davis valued at about one hundred thousand dollars with bank stock and strong local ties.
The Santa Fe convention in session nominates O. A. Larrazola of Las Vegas for delegate to Congress and endorses W. J. Bryan along with joint statehood.
Reports from St. Petersburg describe a coordinated assault on the Arsonoff estate officials in Samara province. Seven hundred armed peasants attacked, set buildings ablaze, and looted valuables before troops arrived. many killed. The czar appointed General Dullin to succeed General Trepoff at the royal palace.
W. O. Shafer, who previously served as joint agent at Tulsa for the Santa Fe and Midland Valley, is appointed traveling auditor for Rock Island for the Chickasha to Enid division. His headquarters will be in Chickasha, and he has prior Rock Island experience as an agent at El Reno.
Vernon W. Whiting resigned as secretary but resignation not accepted. In Ardmore a Mississippi Choctaw, A. P. Powell, visiting the land office, forgot his own name while listing his fifteen children for enrollment. Powell secured seventeen allotments worth about eighty thousand dollars. his forgotten child inherits a share. A brother, Robert Davis, was recently jailed for complicity in Old Man Spivey’s murder, amid rising community tensions related to Cicero Davis.
The Coweta County Famer's Educational and Cooperative Union of America plans its first annual picnic at Opwicker Farm, one and a half miles north of Weer, on Tuesday and Wednesday September 26. Governor and department authorities push to finish reports. banner crops and county progress in Oklahoma affect agricultural condition estimates.
In Antlers Oklahoma Ben Jordan and Carl Brown both 20 indicted for murder by a grand jury confessed to derailing a Frisco fast passenger train near Kosoma on July 29. The fireman died and the engineer was seriously injured. They are held without bond. The train wrecking spike was recovered.
Judge Charles E Magoon will leave the Panama Canal Zone for Washington on September 24 then proceed to the Philippines to become vice governor general Secretary Taft says Governor General Smith will remain as head in the Philippines with no planned changes to the commission and no successor named for the canal zone post. Kingston Kiowa sale rules will be announced this week. Enraged seven year old Riley Thurman kills his four year old sister Lillian in Tulsa claiming another boy shot her before confessing.
Roosevelt pleads for Cuban self government and peace as Taft Bacon and Funston prepare to visit Havana. Prolonged Cuba talks, Palma decree suspends hostilities, and U S readiness for possible intervention looms. Negotiations continue with Taft seen able to end the war.
Four Indian agency workers survey Indian Territory to open section lines as public roads. Communities review plans with field parties, then farmers must clear obstructions within ten days or face fines. Creek and Cherokee nations mostly done. Choctaw and Chickasaw rapidly expanding. Seminole slower. Damages paid for removed improvements upon request. A South McAlester conference on segregated coal and asphalt lands set for the 17th.
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