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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1909
Page
1
Friday incident at Jack Fork colored picnic grounds near Ada leaves Prank Hatcher fatally wounded by an unknown Black assailant after a knife threat and gunfire. Roan Sugg engages, bullets scatter. Hatcher dies at home after stating details. Police pursue multiple suspects. Dock Black arrested. others sought.
J G Jones will continue management as Sam Harris plans a $25,000 expansion adding a third story with 35 rooms and baths. The office dining kitchen and reception areas will be remodeled and enlarged, with a front veranda and modern amenities in Eastern Oklahoma.
Kr H Lucas, president of the 25 000 Club, says Senator Roddie in Guthrie reports the board of regents has accepted the plans for the South Central Normal school at Ada and the board of public affairs has called for bids to close September 1. This will ease fees for Ada citizens previously doubtful about the Normal.
Archibishop Ryan of Philadelphia denounces a new humanitarian religion promoted by ex President Eliot of Harvard. He warns that removing doctrinal teaching undermines Christian ethics and civilization, arguing morality without faith leads to infanticide and paganism. A provocative contemporary discussion ends with a suggestion to try a News Want Ad.
An absent jailer left Pontotoc county jail unlocked with doors unfastened for a time. Deputy Miles opened and closed the cage door. Dan Scribner under sentence of death warned him to lock up. About eight inmates, six charged with murder, chose to stay rather than escape. Muskmelons for breakfast Carlton Weaver, phone 275.
Kansas City reports a big wreck of a Bashwa or Wa bash passenger train No 4 east of Orrick Missouri with engine and fireman dead and about fifteen passengers missing and twenty five to thirty five seriously injured. The train plunged down an embankment into the Missouri river after a weakened fill collapsed.
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