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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1909
Page
2
A special joint committee favored locating the Eastern Oklahoma Insane Asylum in Antlers Oklahoma after visiting Antlers Hugo and Vinita. The decision sets Antlers as the site with backing from the other applicants. The report follows numerous meetings and anticipates a bill this week.
The Pontotoc County Teachers Association gathered at the county seat with about sixty teachers in attendance. Prof. Pierce urged a two day session to include remote areas. Papers covered Reading Class of Primary Grades, home influence, school library, and country school problems with contributions from Miss Wilson Clark Benson and others.
On February 26 1909 the Ada Democratic Club met at the county courthouse with L J Little presiding. Minutes were approved and the central committee report read and adopted. A city committee on arrangements was formed and authorized to organize the Ada Democratic primary set for March 1909 with full authority over the event.
Nashville reports the Carmack murder trial resumes as Col. Duncan B. Cooper faces cross examination over alleged defalcations. The state claims Polk invested state funds with Cooper in ventures including a Mexican silver mine and a North Carolina scheme while Cooper maintains mismanagement but full repayment. Witness recounts Carmack confrontation and shooting amid tense testimony and requests for broad questioning. A separate note mentions Oklahoma Prison Control official Connors and an exhibition at McAlester.
An office advertises legal blanks for sale, framed by a provocative line about a woman preferring a hidden secret to visible aging. The note highlights catalog copy rather than event details.
Guthrie Ok Feb 25 two more Kansans offered to undergo the water cure in Oklahoma. Miss Kate Barnard says the method was imposed on convicts at Lansing Kansas Penitentiary. Oscar Howe Hutchinson Kan and W Sexton Wichita Kan offered to take the punishment for a $100 reward.
Bills in Oklahoma Senate and House propose locating the state capital within 50 miles of the state center and prescribe a special election for September 1909 to approve the move. A capital commission would select a 2,000 acre site and candidates would pay 25,000 in election expense money.
Guthrie Okla Feb 25 Representative Anthony a newspaper man defends state journalists against insinuations by Representative Maris in debate over the Japp Burnett bill to appropriate 16344.26 for printing and other costs incurred by county election officers for the 1907 constitutional election. Anthony rejects graft accusations noting the house bears no responsibility for a member's ignorance of printing business.
The Seminole county grand jury returned four indictments against County Judge Tom Cobb and three against his brother Joe Cobb. Three Cobb indictments accuse forgery in the second degree and one accuses false acknowledgments to papers. Judge Cobb was arrested with a $1,750 bond. Joe Cobb is not yet arrested. Attorneys West and Moore assist in evidence presentation.
The Sixtieth Congress ends after a 16.5 hour House session that stretched into the early morning. Tempers flare as Chairman Tawney and Mr Beall clash over civil appropriations. Officials report the day’s remarks exceed any in the last 25 years.
Dr Louis Albright a noted corn doctor claims two white men robbed him near a lumber yard of 5000 dollars as he walked from the Frisco depot. He previously reported a 3000 dollar loss at Snyder six weeks earlier, with money later recovered. The man cannot identify the robbers.
Mrs Louise Thies of St Louis, 64, followed a pull of fate to Cordes Station near Nashville NL to reach her dying grandson Henry Hollman. She walked twelve miles along railroad tracks after missing a Coulterville train, carrying two heavy grips, to be by his side.
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