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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1903
Page
2
The jury found the defendant guilty as to law for applying an extra territorial statute and guilty of bigamy under the same proceeding. The verdict reflects the court's ruling on jurisdiction and the marital offense.
Assistant Secretary Armstrong of the treasury issues a circular to enforce the Pure Food Bill approved March 3, 1903. The act authorizes the treasury to direct sampling by customs officers at any port of origin foods drugs and liquors and to withhold delivery to consignees when products are dangerous, restricted, falsely labeled, or misrepresented in regard to manufacture or contents.
Daniel Tohee, about 40, chief of the Iowa Indians near Ripley Payne County, dies from wounds inflicted by a tribesman with a garden hoe. Robert Roubideaux was arrested for indirectly causing the death after a dispute at Tohee’s home last week. The tribe, numbering under 100, has tensions over crop management and leadership succession.
The Muskogee Indian Agent Shoenfelt will hold the $600,000 payment for Loral Creek claims at his discretion. Payment will occur once the authentic claimant roll, now in Washington, reaches him. Muskogee is likely to be the distributing point for convenience.
In Hobart district court Judge McKeen was named receiver for notes contested between Hobart citizens and B E Line Construction Company. The appointment follows the company's request amid litigation over a $25 000 city bonus guaranteed if the Blackwell Enid Southwestern railroad is built. The main dispute set for November hearing.
In resolutions by the Western Federation of Miners executive committee, President Roosevelt is charged with treason to organized labor for ordering federal troops to quell disturbances at Morenci Arizona. The document claims his actions as a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen violate labor principles.
Oklahoma City's saloons and gambling houses, banned after the last city election six weeks ago, reopened late and remain open past midnight with some extending into Sunday. The schedule allows reopening after midnight and portions of Sunday while enforcement resumes.
Frederick E Pierce, labeled by Yale professors as the brightest man the university has seen, entered Yale from a South Britain Connecticut farm three years ago. He supported himself with odd jobs, arriving with $30 in a handkerchief and ill-fitting clothes, yet won three prizes in his freshman year and the Woolsey Scholarship for best Latin composition, with faculty believing he deserves the highest honors.
Artmore city officials move to limit Sabbath games after incidents at the city park. Council directs the city attorney to draft a measure banning Sunday baseball to enforce Sabbath observance and curb disturbances.
Jimmy Baker, a Chicago barber nicknamed a Summer Millionaire, quits his job to vacation in Oconomowoc Wisconsin. At the swank hotel he courts Miss Maginn and funds, with telegraph offers of large sums, while chasing romance and a fortune. He leaves after ten days with barely enough to ride home, leaving two women with marriage proposals pending.
Col. Alexander cites two Colorado men as odd figures. One owns the state’s richest silver mine yet takes ore only to Denver and never develops the mine. The other runs a curative spring with basic cabins and no hotel, insisting visitors take what is offered or stay away.
John Kirk faced a bigamy charge before United States commissioner Hy Jennings, bound over to the grand jury for 4000 dollars. Five wives testified, three others joined later, all staying at the same hotel. His trial is set for next September.
The Tuskahoma party of the Choctaw nation at Atoka announced its nominations for tribal offices: George W. Scott as national treasurer, E. H. Wilson as national secretary, P. J. Hanson as national auditor, and C. S. Vinson as national attorney. The convention backed a citizenship court, McCurtain administration, and timber land allotment policy while urging an allotting commission to aid citizens in locating and platting allotments. The piece ends with a Social comment about poverty and old age.
Judge Raymond aims to tidy the western district probate docket and requires 89 guardians and administrators to file reports inventories and appraisements. Prior orders were common to be ignored but this time attachments will be issued without bail if reports are not submitted.
Harvest of the potato crop in Muskogee area has started. Early fields yield from fifty to seventy bushes per acre, with expectations of heavier output on later crops. The industry is new to the territory, but about thirty to forty carloads may be shipped in coming weeks.
Local plan prompts admission requests from a few black pupils who completed common school in Newkirk and Ponca City. A Newkirk attorney says the law requires that they be admitted if they pursue it this fall.
Fragmentary text notes a dispute in Milwaukee Wisconsin over a union label on cigars and workers' welfare issues. The readable portion mentions a decision process or determination by possibly local labor or manufacturers in connection with the label.
Charles Swinghamer a blacksmith with Schuler and Swinghamer was shot three times in May Oklahoma City. Larry Reidy a recent employee and secretary of the horseshoers union is accused of the attack over a Labor Signal article that labeled the firm a scab shop. Swinghamer is hospitalized and Reidy jailed as witnesses describe a public fight.
Page Was Exonerated Here After a three day trial before the board of regents charged with incompetency and mismanagement. Inman Page, former president of a college at Jefferson City, Missouri, had served at the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College and was fully cleared.
Indian police will be employed to remove intruders and prevent them from taking possession of land given allottees. They will be continued until the conditions are a little more settled.
Dr. B. F. Hamilton, president of the territorial board of health, cautions that while overall health is strong, hot weather and overflowing rivers may bring fever and bowel trouble. He urges pond drainage, cess pool disinfection, and ensuring pure drinking water to curb disease.
The poem contrasts lively past work with the weary present. It reflects on spinning knitting and factory life, noting cheerful productivity in youth and dwindling joy in weary days. Harrold Johnson quotes London Daily News.
An Englishman extols self denial and smoking as a useless habit while a Yankee recounts a Nebraskan who quit smoking instantly. He claims the man was lighting his pipe when an explosion sent the match into a barrel, ending his smoking forever.
Prince Henry sails with Germanys largest modern squadron yet including battleships Kaiser Frederich I Kaiser Wilhelm II Kaiser Wilhelm Der Gross Kaiser Barbarossa Wittelsbach Zahringen Wettin armored cruisers Prinz Heinrich Victoria Luise and four protected cruisers Amazone Ariadne Medusa and Grauenlob.
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