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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1905
Page
2
The Ada News announces advertising rates available on application. The notice lists Otis B Weaver Co. as proprietors and notes Ada post office mailing as second class matter since May 10.
Special to Evening News reports Owl Iowa struck by a severe tornado, likened to a cyclone. The public schoolhouse and Baptist church are wrecked, Prof Vinson and several students injured, others displaced as wind damages buildings and debris scatters across town.
Kansas City reports Charles Evans, an Ardmore I T immigrant, fined $10 in police court after being found sleeping in railroad yards near the depot. Four razors were found in his shoes, he claimed they were no weapons but to deter tramps. Oklahoma news notes statehood convention preparations and letters from Senator Beveridge praising Oklahoma’s future.
In Hobart Oklahoma on Tuesday evening Walter Hodson, a tenant, killed Mathew Strickland at Lagert post office after Strickland ordered him off the farm. Hodson had armed himself and fired in return, killing Strickland instantly. Both men were highly respected locals.
Ardmore Oklahoma May 5 hundreds view the flower parade led by the First Regiment and Carnival Bands as the big street carnival progresses through town.
In South McAlester on May 5 the First Baptist Church divides over missions. J D Bruner, Sunday school superintendent and deacon, requested his church letter and was granted it. Seventeen members have withdrawn. Rev J M Nogard of Little Rock will preach tonight at the city hall with plans to organize a new church of about twenty members afterward.
Convicts Runnels and Pink Smith in Guthrie seek parole under a new law passed by the recent legislature. Runnels serves twenty years for killing Jap Salisberrs, a fellow policeman, while Smith serves five years for killing W O Mitchell, a farmer and neighbor.
Chicago on May 6 faced a march of 2000 police to guard 1200 wagons amid violent strike clashes. Chief O Neill ordered arrests of anyone following guarded wagons to incite riot, as unions hampered coal deliveries to six power houses and a mob attacked workers.
The British steamer Ormley capt Olsen, sailing from this port for Cavita with coal, is ashore off Bodkin's Point. Tug Britannia has moved to assist the vessel.
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