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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1906
Page
3
The editorial endorses Mayor Wood's push to enforce Ada's health ordinances. It urges citizens to support stricter sanitation, warns that dirty towns breed disease, and calls on residents to cooperate with the scavenger and neighbors to clean up.
In Muskogee Oklahoma on April 26 the federal grand jury in session hears testimony on alleged graft related to the Canadian Valley Trust Company. Commissioner Tams Bixby and secretary Wm O Beall were summoned and about twenty witnesses examined with subpoenas issued for several tied to the trust. The panel planned to conclude investigations and report on Friday morning.
The senate last afternoon struck the commute amendment giving Indian territory clerks of courts 25 percent of deed recording fees amid a Lodge point of order. Lodge moved to reconsider and objected as new legislation. Wyandotte named a recording town as amendment. bill set aside to address executive business. An adjournment today may bring a third attempt to remove restrictions on surplus lands of mixed bloods.
Roff I T April 27 The O Neil Construction Company won the waterworks contract. Work starts immediately and will finish by September 1. Contract price is 23700 dollars.
A cyclone leveled Bellevue in Clay County at six in the evening destroying all but three buildings. Thirteen dead and fifteen injured were reported as fires burned wreckage from a drug store and smoldering homes. Rescue crews and neighbors carried wounded to safety as livestock perished. Names of the dead and injured include R L Russell and his family, R Carr, Tom Blount, W W Bell, and others. Further reports awaited.
San Francisco leaders estimate 107 companies face insurance loss between 175 and 200 million dollars while New York voices a lower 125 million figure. A special legislative session is requested to pass calamity laws enabling city bonds for reconstruction. Relief funds total 2.3 million through April 24.
I McNair agent announces ten percent savings on the purchase of round trip tickets. The notice appears in a travel sale listing with a reference code 8:584.
A travel offer lists daily low rate round trip tickets from Ada and Wichita stations to points in Florida Cuba and several southern states. Tickets valid until April 30 1906 with return by June 1 1906. Through sleepers and Fred Harvey meals. Rates schedules literature provided by I McNair Ada and F E Clark Wichita.
Ada saw many men in town from nearby areas on circus day for business matters. Women present appeared engaged but their roles are not detailed. The scene reflected a bustling day as the circus arrived and locals moved between commerce and entertainment.
Special round trip rates listed by C F Orchard agent across cities in the United States and Mexico. Example fares include Atlanta April 30 to May 8 at 22.70 dollars Decatur May 14 to 17 at 21.85 dollars Kansas City May 14 to 17 at 14.50 dollars Los Angeles April 25 to May 5 at 50 dollars St. Paul May 28 to 31 at 26.85 dollars San Francisco June 25 to July 7 at 52 dollars Mexico City June 25 to July 7 at 40 dollars and April 25 to May 5 at 38 dollars Chattanooga May 10 to 15 at 24.85 dollars.
Reduced round trip tickets to Denver available until May 31 with limits on May purchases. Tickets sold in May expire after thirty days. For full information contact Frisco agent or D. C. Farrington T P A Oklahoma City. Wichita Kansas.
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