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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1905
Page
4
Ordinance No 110 vacates Twentieth Street in the town of Ada Indian Territory and declares the vacated ground an alley twenty feet wide centered on blocks 146 and 147. The ordinance takes effect after passage and publication and was adopted June 6 1805 with publication June 7.
A good flow of oil was struck at Miami at 105 feet. Osage Nation townsite commission to begin July 1. Mill Creek mayor calls for mass meeting to revive the commercial club. John Gray son homestead to be added to Sapulpa with Dawes commission permission. Baptist rites claim largest baptism in Rott last Sunday with twenty converts. John Phelp arrested in Muskogee for desertion from the U S army after enlisting at Tulsa a year ago. Madill News notes waterworks leap, urging action then talk. Oil outlook bright as producers back proposed Kansas field to Gulf line. Muskogee police report twenty-one arrests in one morning. Mother Jones to attend Twin Territories Federation of Labor in South McAlester June 6-7. An eagle’s nest found on Arbuckle peak near Davis. old hunters resisted access to the eaglets.
Berlin June 7 Crown Prince Frederick William and Duchess Cecilia of Mecklenburg Schwerin wed in a chapel ceremony officiated by Dr Dryander. The bride wore Moscow crafted silver brocade with a long embroidered train designed by Doepler, and a blue Grand Star of the Luisen order. Ambassador Tower attended for the United States.
A girl entered a drug store and asked how to take castor oil without tasting it. The proprietor offered lemonade and admitted adding the oil. The girl exclaimed she wanted it for her mother and fled home while the owner remains at large.
The tenth home camp of the Royal Neighbors of America meets in Topeka Kansas with 179 attendees. Delegates from Kentucky and southern Indiana attend for the first time. Gov Hoch gives welcome, committee reports fill the session, a reception to supreme officers is noted, and elections are set for Thursday.
Heavy rain Monday night triggered washouts near Jonia Michigan on the Pere Marquette and the Detroit Grand Haven and Milwaukee lines. Two killed in the Pere Marquette wreck and four train crew injured in the Detroit Grand Haven and Milwaukee crash.
The Ziegler will filed in the Surrogate’s office states William Ziegler aged 14 inherits $30 million or income of $12560 a month. By majority his fortune is expected to grow, making him a potential factor in the financial world.
Reports from St Petersburg say an imperial manifesto will establish a two chamber parliament with a lower Gosudarstvennaya Douma and an upper Gosudarstvennaya sovet. The emperor retains veto power and may dissolve assemblies. Voting would be limited to land and property owners under 1864 rules, raising fears of police dictatorship and unrest.
In New York on June 4 the Equitable Life Assurance Society faced a volatile board meeting after directors Frick Harriman and Bliss resigned. Reports link Frick and Hyde to opposing factions with George Gould seeking railroad expansion. a new chairman is to be chosen soon to enforce economies and reform methods. A plan to seize Hyde’s stock majority also looms. In Norfolk Missouri presented a silver bell to the battleship Missouri, with Miss Cabanne delivering the sponsor address and Capt. Cowles accepting.
Neodesha Kansas June 4 M West and W M Twombly in the Standard Oil Co inquiry under Mr Garfield were joined by T A Carroll bringing to three the investigators here gathering evidence from independent oil producers Like A Kansas Storm.
Miss Madder Perry aged 17 from Marlow, Oklahoma, was examined by the county insanity board at Marlow and found demented. A recent graduate of the Baptist college at Blackwell, authorities say overwork and study affected her mind, and she was sent to the Norman sanitarium.
George Gudgeon aged 45 a city foreman at Western Union Telegraph Company killed himself in the Edison hotel in St Louis on Tuesday two shots heard before a clerk found him dead on the floor A will dated May 27 bequeaths his personal property to his wife and daughter
The June 7 storm in Binghampton N Y brought the severest terrasso in years to the southern tier. It wrecked four houses and damaged about 100 more. One home exploded from within as a vacuum burst walls outward. Occupants were hurled to the yard but largely unharmed. no fatalities reported.
Samuel W. Moulton age 82 former member of Congress died Saturday at his Shelbyville residence. Funeral arrangements pending according to local notices.
J F O Harriss cashier signs an oath affirming truth of the statement for the State of Indian Territory Pontetor County. Notary W H Braley witnesses on June 7, with copperlice and J W Hares listed as directors John P Crawford also named.
The United Sons of Confederate Veteran of the Territory invites veterans sons and daughters of veterans and friends to join a train departing next Monday morning via Frisco to the Confederate reunion in Louisville. Otis B. Weaver commander urges participation to strengthen bonds and enjoy guaranteed Frisco service.
Various brief notices report events and changes including Chancellor von Buelow elevated by Emperor William, President Roosevelt planning a fall visit to Little Rock, A W Smith’s suicide near Hiawatha Kansas, Col Tom J Jackson named Kansas GA chief of staff, a postmaster appointment in Walton Harvey County Kansas, a personnel shakeup at Fergu son, Kansas, a deadly boiler explosion at American Steel and Wire in Cleveland with several dead, A W Benson of Ottawa GOP candidate for Kansas associate justice, Atchison Topeka Santa Fe wreck victims recovering in Topeka, George Wirth 21 drowns while learning to swim near Jefferson City Missouri, and presidential postmaster salaries adjusted in Indian Territory Missouri Oklahoma.
John Whyte Lewis of Fulton Missouri won first prize of 75 dollars in the George Augustus Sandhams oratorical contest at New York University. His oration title was The Highest Pleasure.
Topeka Kansas June 6 railroads announce a one fare round trip for harvest hands to Kansas points. The reduced rate will run from June 25 to July 10 with travel eligible on specified dates.
Local freight trains provide passenger permits with ten percent savings on round trip tickets. McNair, Agent, notes schedules at 5 1 a.m. 8 13 p.m. 7 45 a.m.
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