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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1902
Page
7
Series of notices reports towns to build schools and depots iron works and water systems. Investments include an $8,000 school house and a $50,000 wagon factory while bond issues and leases appear in Purcell South McAlester and Broken Bow. Local crimes and court cases also noted.
The Vinita Leader editor says he got seventeen attraction passes for the territory and Texas but has no meals or railway tickets and must stay home. Frank Igles was struck by a passenger train on a railroad track near Okarche and lost one foot above the ankle.
In Oklahoma Territory reports note E I Rabbet of Cleo offering a bronco ride purse in Wichita. Lone Wolf trains carry cattle to Shreveport. A Rock Island Kingfisher operator is held up for 21.90. J C Richardson’s sons, aged 12 and 17, are missing, feared captured. Pabst Brewing Co plans Guthrie blocks but faces Commercial Club protest over height.
Will Snodgras, a driver for the Brown C. O. D. grocery in Oklahoma City, was short in his store account and camoused to repay the debt. Police will search for him. L. A. Bowers donated to Oklahoma City Oak Park and pledges to spend $1,000 annually on improvements.
Election returns show a strong ratification majority for the supplementary treaty in both nations. Chickasaw districts report 327 in favor, Choctaw counties unanimously back the treaty, with executive figures citing a total majority near 1,500 across the two nations. Returns from enough counties confirm a glowing victory.
Ardmore vote tallies show Pontotac 76 82 against Panola 45 7 Pickens 100 14 Tishomingo 281 84 in favor of the treaty. Washington reports ratification by both nations with broad support. The treaty encompasses coal land sales totaling about half a million acres, prohibits asphalters leases, and reserves 64 acres for Malphur governance, plus enrollment and civil motions for Choctaw and Chickasaw members and freemen.
Attorneys for the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations filed suit in the Choctaw Chickasaw Citizenship Court to determine status of court citizens. The petition asserts two grounds to nullify judgments and seeks to prevent over 2000 court citizens from participating in tribal funds and land distribution.
Shriners in two territories will select plans next week for a new temple in Oklahoma City. The five story building will include a basement and use stone and buff brick for its exterior.
Tracy Keyes of Grand Rapids Michigan was found beside a Choctaw railroad near Yukon three miles from town with a fractured skull. A train crew discovered him after a night presumed asleep on the rails, he was carried to El Reno and doctors fear he will die.
The Indian agent advertised payment of Cherokee general fund warrants to retire public debt. Payments begin October 1, 1902, totaling eight hundred thousand dollars.
Mrs. Magdelene W. Rode died from a spider bite after three weeks of suffering. Dr. Walter H. Morris, her physician, and E. J. Williams, the undertaker, are both stricken with blood poisoning from contact with the patient.
Opponents plan to challenge the Atoka vote on the treaty claiming freedmen were allowed to vote under tribal law. They cite conflicting sections that exclude versus include freedmen, while the treaty enjoys a strong majority and certainty among supporters.
The All Saints Hospital annual report for the year ending August 31 shows eight hundred patients treated, totaling 9 999 days, with nearly six hundred from the Choctaw Oklahoma and Gulf railway and fifty eight from coal mines. The hospital earned 8 316 95 dollars and received 1 511 30 in gifts, with expenses totaling 9 000 dollars. Superintendent Biller and management receive praise for noble service.
R F Burnett former Kerwin postmaster I T now Lavergne near this city was arrested by a U S marshal and taken to Guthrie I T on a charge of attempting to defraud the government in his postmaster role details unavailable.
A petition circulates to establish a rural free mail delivery route northwest of Newkirk. The plan aims to complete service in all directions around the Newkirk post office.
In Dewey county Oklahoma a minor mortgaged and sold property. The attorney general ruled that a minor's contract is not binding and there is no mortgage legally, so the boy cannot be prosecuted. The minor may be guilty in mind but is legally guiltless under the law.
A Frisco freight derailed between Peckham and Middleton due to rail spread from bad weather. Three loaded cars left the tracks with merchandise brick and steel. no one was injured. The Frisco passenger train was diverted via Ponca City on Santa Fe tracks until repairs. A horse drawing a nearby cart died in the incident.
The injunction against the current city officers is ended and both sides were denied further action. The city council will operate from the old stand and City Clerk Hamilton will maintain records. Last spring voters ousted the old officers who then sued to remove the new ones, arguing the election was not regular.
Officer Frank Dixon spotted two men targeting a stranger near the Santa Fe. Coyle and McVeagh claimed Guthrie origin while the victim, Robert Lee, had $60 in his sock. Police note a pattern of thieves operating in town.
Robberts report to the governor and Interior secretary says Oklahoma lax on admitting foreign corporations and insufficient protection for residents. He also criticizes insurance rules allowing firms to operate without guarantees and urges legislature to enact tighter measures. He notes the free range law for Western Oklahoma cattle causes endless litigation and should be amended.
The thirteenth annual convention of the W C T U of Oklahoma concluded in Perry with officers named for the year ahead. Dorothy J. Cleveland of Anadarko is president, Abbe Hillerman of Stillwater is corresponding secretary, Rachel Woodrow of Pond Creek is recording secretary, Kate McWithy of Guthrie is treasurer, Nellie DeSelms of Orlando is L T L superintendent, and L A M Boyes of Perry is Y superintendent.
Sooka Harjo, an Indian woman living near Little River, was assaulted by two white men from the neighborhood. She was brought to Holdenville in a wagon to testify about an attempted robbery before Judge Tate, confined to a wagon mat, and her condition is described as doubtful for recovery.
Choctaw engineers announce a new road from the depot up town extending west from Manuel avenue on Tenth street to Blaine avenue then south to Twelfth street and west to the depot. The project, costing about 7000 dollars, will be funded by the railroad company.
The Baptist Convention for the Indian Territory urged establishing a Baptist college at South McAlester. A board of trustees will be appointed after a committee reported to citizens at a mass meeting. The aim is to found a fully collegiate institution.
A pending deal in Blaine County involves United States Gypsum of Chicago leasing vast gypsum beds across the region. The Oklahoma beds are described as supplying plaster needs for the world.
Sheriff Painter traveled to Hobart and returned Jim Dixon the man implicated in the shooting of Ed Winn in the early part of last month. Authorities refused earlier to surrender him, but this time Captain Painter had a governor order.
John Fewtrell, described as a prominent Okra citizen and gunner, was slain in the engine room at Pacts Valley by a man named Dover. Dover, intoxicated, attacked Fewtrell with a knife, severing his jugular vein and cutting out his tongue. He was arrested and taken to Purcell, with bloodstained clothes reported.
A municipal motion moves forward on expanding the waterworks system led by City Engineer Honesoutt and officials from the public works department. The vote centers on funding and timeline for completing the extended distribution to downtown and surrounding neighborhoods.
Wehunt captured at Fentress with two stolen horses from W C Mitchell of near Newburg. A mob of about twenty men halted Mitchell’s party on the route to recover the prisoners. Two shots were heard. McCullop’s fate unclear. Wehunt may have suspected his associate killed by the mob. Nearby Creek Nation tense as authorities consider the crime. In Russet, Oklahoma, 18 year old Lou Cashion died after being struck by a moving eastbound Choctaw freight near the depot.
Four miles south of Earlboro Ella Blackburn is arrested on assault on a warrant sworn by Justice Reaser. The judge said the case is referred to the grand jury as it is in session, ruling it improper to hear now. Oklahoma City to host railway mail service headquarters for Indian Territory and Northern Texas with a chief clerk and assistants ordered to establish the post.
Sam Oakland, a young man near Sweetwater, was accidentally shot while loading a double barreled shotgun. A wad rammed down and discharged, costing him a finger of one hand, an eye, and part of his face. Dr Edwards treated him. he was moved to Elk City sanitarium and remains seriously wounded but may recover.
A meeting of leading coal operators and mine owners in the Indian Territory reported a plan by C. Scholes fuel agent of the Rock Island system for an early consolidation of the largest mines. Scholes reportedly represented the Moores of the Rock Island system. Another meeting was set for October.
Guthrie residents argue the $65 000 in notes given as a bonus to the Choctaw road project became void after the Chandler to Guthrie line missed the target date. The council vacated streets and granted right of way but rails were removed by Rock Island, eliminating the notes burden from citizens.
The Ozark and Cherokee Central Railroad finishes the Melvin reach twelve miles west of Tahlequah and pushes toward Fort Gibson. Grading progresses from Muskogee to the Arkansas River and from Okmulgee to Muskogee, with the Arkansas River bridge spans completed and materials on site.
A tribal gathering led by Joseph Revard and others discussed whether a majority favoring general allotment could authorize a bill to allot Osage lands. The Osage reservation spans 13 million acres in Oklahoma with lands valued for agriculture, mostly leased as pastures, and only white purchase allowed after allotment.
Weather in Oklahoma City brings cool conditions with heavy rains at times slowing growth and farm work but benefiting crops overall. Cotton picking speeds up in the southern Indian Territory where bolls open slowly and yield prospects improve with rain and later frost risk. Corn, cane, sweet potatoes, and second prairie grass crops show fair to good yields with late crops aided by moisture. Plowing for wheat, seeding, and field work resume as dryness returns. pastures improve and stock remains healthy.
The Choctaw plan to construct a Guthrie line to Sparks twelve miles southwest of Chandler where it would cross the Fort Smith & Western. Rumors say Rock Island may control the Fort Smith & Western with H. Cerick funding, making parallel lines unlikely beyond fifty miles.
Foss expresses strong optimism as plans emerge for a new flour mill with a capacity of 100 barrels. A company is to be chartered with $12,000 capital to erect and maintain the plant, signaling local industrial growth.
The Court of Appeals for the Indian Territory issued sixty opinions and adjourned subject to Chief Justice McGill. An adjourned term is expected next winter to hand down remaining opinions. The court also heard a habeas petition related to a traveling man at Kiowa.
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