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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1903
Page
5
Lawton commercial club cuts initiation fee from five to three dollars while Anadarko school board plans two new houses with two hundred ninety thousand dollars. mass meetings shift views to three houses. Also reported are small town fires, court schedules, and new community efforts across Oklahoma.
A move is underway in Muskogee to organize a potato growers association. Talbert, a new town in the Creek nation, will open January 29. Potawatomi county reports 191 miles of railroad under construction. Hugo sees a two story bank building under erection. Ardmore commercial club hires an instructor for its band at 960 dollars per month. Tecumseh reports three projects completed and assured. Oklahoma council logged 54 bills in one day.
The sub committee of Chickasaw Teachers' association meeting at Tishomingo with E. B. Hinshaw presiding proposed uniting Chickasaw nation schools into one national summer normal. It recommended Hinshaw as director and about locating the normal at the most convenient site with best inducements and accommodations.
W E Halley of the Choctaw nation voices doubt on the coal lands segregation rule. He argues delays in allotment may reduce complications, noting land segregated for coal will not be announced before March 25. He warns locals risk losing favorable parcels and costly relocations if they file early.
Ardmore council in special session awarded the $150000 waterworks contract to an Indianapolis firm. Citizens voted to build waterworks and erect schoolhouses, selling city bonds at a premium. Completion date set for July 15. CuickasHa: James Green, a mill laborer, smothered by seed in the seed house after a load fell.
Mutiny broke out among 136 prisoners in Ardmore as court sat. Marshal Colbert called the fire department, whose water streams subdued the disturbance swiftly. In a separate note, W. J. Beeks and wife of Spirit Lake Iowa were robbed of $50 by a train pickpocket aboard a Rock Island train.
Cattlemen who refused to pay the twenty five cent tribal tax on head have settled by paying the tax in full with added costs. As herds were rounded up owners sought Mr. Cobb and ended the dispute promptly. Five large cattle owners and clients of Davis and Riddle also settled. Penalties ranged from thirteen to fifty dollars. Indian police will continue tax collection along the Santa Fe line.
The attorney general told Congress he will not issue an opinion on whether the four million dollar removal cost from Georgia to the Indian Territory should be paid from the Cherokee trust fund. The dispute is tied to the ongoing Court of Claims case, with Interior opposing an award to the eastern Cherokees to avoid reopening claims with the Cherokee Nation. Congress may be blocked, deferring the decision to the courts.
Mrs Sally McClure files suit against Milby and Dow Coal and Mining for 20000 damages over the death of her husband Duncan McClure in Dow mine in January of last year.
The Dawes commission rules that lands with improvements by court claimants in Chickasha and Choctaw nations will not be allotted until claimants’ rights are finally determined by the citizenship court. The treaty requires court citizens to wait for this determination. Most expect the court to finish by July 1 if appeals few, with potential impact on further Indian land filings if the decision rules against the claimants.
James Hope, charged with killing his wife near Eufaula, was allowed to plead insanity in U S court. He was adjudged sane and ordered sent to the government insane asylum in Washington. His daughter escaped during the assault.
In Sapulpa Lieutenant J M Bayless of McKinley’s Regiment the twenty third Ohio infantry died of pneumonia. He had been appointed postmaster here by McKinley.
Attorneys employed to collect a government claim against the federal government in the Slade Bender case. The action seeks recovery of federal funds with a formal filing and associated legal steps outlined by counsel. The proceedings indicate ongoing negotiation and potential court involvement.
Bert Welty, a life prisoner at Lansing Kansas, was sent back to the penitentiary in Red Rock Oklahoma after an attempt to secure release failed. The district court records were amended to read life at hard labor instead of life.
Attorneys oppose a bill to establish additional federal courts in Marietta Duncan and Comanche arguing the Southern district already has too many courts for one set of officers. The regional planning and local impact are noted as factors in the debate.
Cattlemen have governed western Oklahoma with roaming herds. A bill to extend herd laws territory wide promises a tough battle as hog raisers in the Wichita mountains object to loss of mast and cattlemen fear loss of access to large ranges. A strong lobby supports the measure.
The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of Oklahoma board met to align with Western rules and resolve the Douglas Cup dispute. It sustained a previous ruling awarding the cup to the university after a pole vault controversy, giving the agricultural college ten days to surrender the trophy or face disbarment from the association.
Colonel T. B. Needles of the Dawes commission says no further treaties with the Choctaw and Chickasaw will be pursued. A Cherokee treaty may pass after the Cherokee legislative council requested one. The proposed Cherokee treaty covers disposal of public buildings and equalization of allotments from surplus lands, though the method remains unsettled.
J. T. McNally of the Rock Island System says top fare from Oklahoma City to California is 25 dollars with tickets on sale February 15 to April 30. He also quotes low rates to North Pacific Coast cities including Helena Butte Spokane Portland Tacoma and Seattle attracting travel to the coast.
Lawyer J M Dillard warned the sporting fraternity that all gambling must end or prosecutions would follow. As a result the joints of the human parasites are closed, blees idle, and many men are left without work.
The town faces severe coal shortages as customers can buy only eighty cents worth per visit, enough for about three bushels. A merchant hauled a wagon load from Arkansas City, Kansas, fifteen miles away. If cold weather persists, suffering will rise. Local dealers report scarce car shipments.
Governor Ferguson favors a parole system for minors in Oklahoma as an alternative to sending youths to Kansas prisons. He backs a board of territorial officials to hear cases, with the legislature urged to enact similar parole legislation and limit potential abuses.
Delegate elect Bird 8. McGuire files answer to Hon. W. M. Cross contest. He claims no legal notice of contest, cites vague notice listing 125 unnamed unnaturalized voters in Woodward county, and argues ballots marked in both parties columns were illegally rejected only if distinguishable after counting.
Jones of Dewey introduces House Bill No. 22 to abolish free range, requiring all stock to be restrained. The measure would let farmers cultivate crops without fencing but reverses current law. Beaver county hopes to keep free range amid growing Western Oklahoma population and farmer-cattleman feuds.
Frisco local agent Penderberry took carbolic acid and died by his own act. He recently faced a $300 shortfall in pay and is said to have been distraught by the supposed loss. He hailed from Louisville Kentucky and left for that city with his wife, intending to follow shortly.
Glover G H a 26 year old farmer is jailed on a rape charge after luring 15 year old Ollie Willbanks from school near Kelly Hollis area. The couple traveled toward Olustee before being halted by Deputy Sheriff E E Jones at Olustee with the girl returned to her father in Mangum.
Judge Burwell of the Oklahoma Supreme Bench rules a justice of the peace cannot admit a prisoner accused of murder to bail. He rearrests Editor White of the Cordell Beacon after White killed real estate dealer A J Johnson. White had been granted 95000 bail by a local justice after the murder.
Nelson and deputies searched a jail after inmates attempted a confidence game. Prisoners produced three steel drills and two small saws as proof of their goodwill, only to have their plan foiled. Under the cell floor two revolvers were found. cartridges were missing due to rats. A tighter watch and full searches are now in effect.
Sixteen year old E. E. Steele shot and wounded intruder Walter Kennedy who attacked his mother Mrs. Steele after Kennedy sought to stay the night. Kennedy died from his wounds. Mrs. Steele sustained a scalp wound and a forehead gash. Steele was arrested and held in Lawton.
Oklahoma lawmakers show strong support for better roads. Representative Nesbit of Pottawatomie County plans a measure to empower county commissioners to grade roads with burned clay and tax adjacent property to cover costs. He argues burned clay is cheap and durable, comparing it to macadam.
Frisco enterprise completes 124 mile preliminary survey from Fort Smith to Tulsa for the Muskogee Southern rail line. Kenefick Construction holds the building contract and work is expected to start immediately. The line follows the Arkansas Valley and passes through rich Indian Territory ground.
Officers Sam Tell and Shirley Dyer trapped Lee Elerick and Barney Fry in a dugout near the Texas line in Roger Mills County after a months long pursuit through Mountain View Hobart Foss and Elk City. The pair were brought to the county jail as eight suspected horses were recovered. Elerick previously fled Edmond after a wife visit request failed.
The Perry Enterprise reports a young couple in Kingfisher county who wed three times in one day. Two parties acted as probate judge to validate the ceremonies, fearing the first wasn t binding. A minister then issued a marriage certificate, tying them together irrevocably.
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