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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1905
Page
7
In Naples a writer recalls climbing Vesuvius with his father and a Chicago woman who befriends him. A tense ride up ends when the woman helps his father, then disappears amid chaos. A jealous husband confronts the narrator and the tale veers into comic danger and escape.
James Crow was instantly killed and his wife critically injured when a ridge pole of their dugout broke causing a cave in near Texmo. Crow's body was found after three hours. six children in the dugout escaped unharmed.
The Oklahoma supreme court ordered Judge Burwell to convene in Tecumseh May 8 and Judge Hainer to hear Logan county cases where Burford is disqualified. Burford will cover Pawnee in Hainer's place May 15, with Beauchamp presiding in Tecumseh May 29 where Burwell is disqualified and Burwell goes to Enid. Beauchamp will hold court in Grant county May 13.
Rev Noeh B Wickham superintendent of the Oklahoma and Indian Territory Children's Home Society was arrested by Policeman Mitchell and fined five dollars and costs for disturbing the peace on Sabbath. The claim notes Wickham was angered by chickens owned by W H Minschell which invaded his garden and led to the confrontation.
The Wm. bh. Bryd Camp of Confederate Veterans met Sunday with Daughters and Sons present. Mrs. Anna Wilmouth Breckenridge selected as sponsor to represent the camp at the Louisville reunion. The groups will meet at Union Hall Thursday at 2 PM to arrange the July Ada reunion events.
In Idaho Carl Foster of Waukomis wins the Rhodes scholarship. In West Virginia Morton House of the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College at Stallwater earns a 34000 scholarship to study at the Berlin University in Germany.
Oklahoma City officials closed all saloons on the Sunday rule in force with the first dry Sunday in two years. Saturday midnight raids hit three gambling houses for noncompliance and about thirty inmates face court today.
At about 1 to 1 30 last night in the negro end of town a shooting left Daniel Ross dead and Daniel Hoover wounded in the arm. A negro woman was also slightly wounded. twenty five shots were fired. The cause of the clash could not be learned.
Cases pending in the commissioners court today with verdicts for the plaintiff in Watson Bros versus A M Colvis and in Mrs J P Riehings VG Farlin as the jury returned verdict for the plaintiff.
Ice manufacturers from the two territories will convene in Oklahoma City on May 20 to set uniform rates and discuss freight charges.
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