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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1909
Page
6
Guthrie March 3 A senate committee reported favorably on bills to locate state normal schools at Davenport and Tahlequah with plans to decide the Eastern Oklahoma Insane Asylum site later. The panel kept to funds for existing institutions, touched tax law changes, and sent penitentiary and reformatory location bills in for action while outlining calendar placements for related educational and public works measures.
Guthrie Oklahoma March 2 Governor Haskell signs a bill approving sale of 56 percent of the state school lands valued about 12 million dollars. The signing pens are prized. he notes sales aid for public buildings and prefers sale over tenancy, urging voter understanding of the measure.
Wibkburton Oklahoma reports a surge in mining deaths over sixty days. In Adamson Reed coal mines three men were killed when a worn engine car pin failed. Their families, including widows and eighteen children, face destitution while legal action looms.
G C Harbaugh a Chicago waiter is held for arraignment after killing Charles Keily a cook with a carving knife. He claimed the two eggs ordered were short causing a quarrel that led to the fatal blow. The arresting sergeant commented on the case noting Harbaugh's grouch and deranged nerves as contributing factors.
Miss Jewel Breafoot was seen visiting Francis this morning. The brief sighting notes a casual daytime meeting with no further details or outcomes reported.
Guthrie March 3 The Putnam good road bill now partly passed by the house and sent to the Senate envisions road districts of at least three miles square led by a township board appointing a road supervisor It imposes a 5 mill road tax and requires able bodied men 25 to 50 to work the roads 2 to 6 days yearly or pay 1.50 a day to the road fund If adjournment occurs March 12 the second half may not clear. The Senate will prioritize the bill after the general revenue measure.
Guthrie Oklahoma March 4 according to a statement by State Examiner and Inspector Taylor counties largely reduced their tax levies to meet running expenses of counties school districts townships and municipalities. Counties Caddo Creek Haskell Johnson Logan Pawnee Payne and Washita still under review with liberal allowances for running costs.
Miss Ella Lewis of Centrahoma is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. H. Collins.
Zemo a clean liquid for external use draws germs and toxins to the surface and destroys them leaving skin clear. Two to six bottles will cure pimples and blackheads. Write for sample E W Rose Medicine Co St Louis. Sold by Gwinn Mays Co.
Nearly 500 patients are at the Norman asylum, about 200 more than after Fort Supply troops left. The present legislature may not fund an east side facility, risking even larger numbers at Norman. Fort Supply admissions have dropped off.
Ardmore Oklahoma March 4 Joe Wolfenbarger of Marietta and Elmer Finley Ardmore both intoxicated planned suicide by poison Finley was arrested after taking an attempted shot with an officer's gun during custody Finley and Wolfenbarger purchased carbolic acid but friends retrieved the poison from Finley Wolfenbarger's body to be sent to his Marietta home
After about an hour, a Canadian county jury convicted Dave Atchison of first degree murder for the slaying of Merle Anderson on his farm last October. The jury recommended life imprisonment. The trial, marked by strong defense of self defense and dramatic testimony from Atchison’s eldest daughter, drew crowd after crowd in El Reno Oklahoma. Judge J. J. Carney presided with Prosecutor John Clark and E. G. Mc Adams handling the state’s case.
Norman Oklahoma March 3 Miss Kate Barnard visited the Oklahoma Sanitarium and is said to be pleased with conditions observed during her visit last week.
State Bank Commissioner Young authorizes the Enid Guaranty state bank opening, converting from First National Bank of Enid with 100000 capital. Officers: T. Goltry president C. W. Goltry vice president John P. Coox cashier. Enid, missing a national bank, gains a state charter in a town of its size.
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