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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1929
Page
3
A writer admits a mistake about the county egg show date, thinking Friday was the day and only realizing after The Weekly went to press. The note expresses hope no one was affected and a promise to avoid similar errors.
Oklahoma Governor Holloway says the May 16 special session will cover only necessary matters. He promises a short message, with no broad agricultural or local-issue agenda, and hints highway legislation may be the focus.
Buck Garrett 58 longtime Oklahoma peace officer died at his Ardmore home at 6 am after a seven week paralytic stroke. He had a storied career from frontier lawman to Ardmore chief of police and Carter county sheriff, involved in notable captures and a later political rise and fall. Funeral set for 3 pm tomorrow at the family home.
Oklahoma City May 4 The Washita county district court and the state criminal court of appeals uphold a five year penitentiary sentence for Charlie Patterson for the October 1924 robbery of the first state bank of Canute. Two robbers held three workers at gunpoint, stole about 4400, and fled. The state alleges Patterson acted with Jim Cellan alias Jim McGraw. Cellan testified after pleading guilty to other bank robberies and was a star witness.
A mother accompanies her son’s body to Oklahoma for burial after he was killed by R H Hamilton a former Texas jurist over a secret marriage to Hamilton’s daughter Theresa 19. The incident triggers a grand jury investigation and a hospital scene in Austin.
Walter Blackie Hagar, condemned for murder in Ottawa County, has a stay of execution granted until August 23 by Governor Holloway after a writ. Dr John Q Newell warden said Hagar, 40, entered the penitentiary March 7 under a death sentence.
A tornado outbreak near Wheatley and Brinkley Arkansas killed at least five and injured scores, with more dead in Missouri and Illinois. Severe damage, freezing temperatures, and snow disrupted farms from Missouri to Texas as officials corrected earlier casualty counts.
A tornado struck near Embreeville ten miles southwest of Johnston City at noon. Two people died including Mrs. Matilda Storey and two and a half year old Benjamin Springer. At least five others were injured and four houses were demolished.
A small tornado-like storm hit Crane Missouri and damaged the Missouri Pacific round house with no injuries. The railroad building suffered most of the damage while nearby houses remained largely unharmed.
Fort Smith Arkansas on May 2 CP reports rehabilitation work facing delays. Local officials and workers coordinate to resume repairs and assess progress amid ongoing construction.
The Tres Ritos land and cattle company ranch owned by Albert B. Fall, comprising 700000 acres, was sold at public auction in Alamogordo New Mexico to Edward L Doheny for 166250 dollars plus 2000 dollars interest to satisfy a mortgage foreclosure judgment. Doheny's representative Olin Wellborn was the only bidder.
A Berlin May Day riot left seven communists dead and many wounded. Police reported 900 arrests with 725 released after examination. 175 still held for riot and public peace violations as armored cars helped clear barricaded northern districts. The city was quiet today with normal traffic.
On May 6 Toronto officials announced a two hour test of radio tied telephone between a moving train and a stationary point on the Canadian National Railway. The system uses telegraph wires along the right of way and aims for service between Chicago and Toronto with possible installation on fast trains.
In Berlin street fighting linked to May Day demonstrations continued into the night. The final big encounter occurred in the southeast where 150 police stormed a barricaded bar. Two people were killed and seven seriously injured.
Harry H. Rogers president of the Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce says public sentiment favors a substantial state bond issue to fund a basic road system in Oklahoma. The statement released in Tulsa on Monday urges a bond program large enough to create a rudimentary network of roads.
Drillers deeper to 1152 feet in the I. T. L. Foster and ipenvene No. 1 Bertha Johnson NEC NW 25-11-3w, south and west of the Oklahoma City discovery. A trace of gas appeared as the final column neared. Earlier test showed salt water at 4951 feet.
Phillips Petroleum reports a successful showing of tin in canyon sand at 6435 feet in Sutton county Texas. The test well sits near the center of a large Phillips block as drilling continues.
A third Layton sand test at Foster No 1 in CNW SW 24-11-3w Oklahoma City found brine. Each test yielded water and the well had been cemented back to 4,192 feet. A prior test showed 35 barrels per hour after a cas show, with an estimated 50,000 feet.
Phillips Petroleum reports its No. 3-A James in Moore County Texas reached oil at 3,216 feet in the Matilda Robinson survey. Drilling continues with 500 feet of oil in the hole as of May 7 in Bartlesville.
The 0-1 W. T. Waczener drilled by Consolidated Oil in the north part of section 40, M. E. P. railroad survey, has been brought in as a 700 barrel producer. Payland was topped at 1,850 feet.
Andrew Creech appeared before Justice of the Peace T. O. Cullins on a second violation of state prohibitory liquor laws. He posted $2,000 bond for district court on May 14. He is alleged to possess seven half pints of whiskey.
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