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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1905
Page
2
The Ada News announces advertising rates on application. The item references a garden of Eden analogy and cites Ethan Allen Hitchcock. It notes post office mailing as second class matter and mentions Horrors Proprietors Otis B Weaver & Co with unclear context.
A severe flood Saturday inundated Johnson avenue and surrounding blocks with water rising to twelve feet in places. Homes, a skating rink tent and the Frisco culvert were flooded. residents were rescued from flooded houses while the electric plant suffered major damage to its belt drive. The Katy line endured washouts and caved banks with miles of track washed away near Konawa.
The Ada Savings and Loan Company is formed in Denison with stockholders P. J Pegues Tom Hope Frank Ones John W Beard O E Can T J Chambress and S W haus. Capital stock $50 000 with $5 600 subscribed. Savanas Texas to reopen as a flag stop Saturday after abandonment during a strike. coal mines to reopen and town population expected to return with Katy departure reversed.
Ajman drove to Ada on Saturday and informed Reed Harrison store of a Sandy Bottom family forced onto the roof by rising waters. W J Reed, Robert Wimbish and others sprang into action, pursuing a boat to reach and save the exhausted family before they fall into the deep water below. The rescue party quickly moved to render aid.
The Oklahoma Indian Territory Bankers' Association passed resolutions condemning Secretary Hitchcock's administration of territorial affairs and urging Roosevelt to support a statehood bill. A. J. McCandless of Perry was elected president, with Bird B. McGuire addressing the convention.
Jerome Wilson was sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary after a United States court manslaughter conviction last week. In St Louis, Earnest Morgan files a $20,000 damages suit against Zach Mulhall for shooting him during a disturbance at a wild west show at the world’s fair. Mulhall, recently convicted for three years, is out on bond pending appeal.
Abe Clement, 21, was fatally stabbed at 2 AM in Tishomingo with the knife blade entering his temple and penetrating the skull and brain. Albert Johnson surrendered to Marshal Colbert and is jailed. Johnson recently arrived from near Weatherford Texas.
Commandhe Texas May 25 Henry Carter was shot twice with a shotgun near the passenger depot after a dispute over pasture land. The rider fell dead within minutes, his body riddled with birdshot and his neck broken. W Robert, son‑in‑law of Henry Martin, was imprisoned.
The Oklahoma and Indian Territory Bankers Association holds its ninth annual convention in Muskogee with about 250 visitors from New York Chicago St Louis Kansas City Texas and Arkansas. President Frank Craig reports eight states exceed Territory banks and only five bank failures in the past year. He notes 5 National banks in Oklahoma 135 in Indian Territory and 25 Territorial banks in Oklahoma 136 in the Territory. rd S. McGuire addresses the gathering.
Judge Talbott ordered a commissioners court to sit at Stonewall. The court will convene there on the first Thursday after the first Monday of each month.
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