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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1902
Page
2
The Ada News reports local events in Ada Oklahoma territory with coverage by Patton and Weaver.Reader notes reflect community matters, politics and commerce in the Indian Territory community.
Ardmore aims for sidewalks and free delivery as Coyle pushes school reforms. Mangum to install electric system this month. Norman Baptist church expands. Geary brick plant outputs 1200 bricks daily. Mulhall hosts Endowment rank K of FP section. Norman merchants raise funds for road improvements. Cushing Commercial Club formed for 20 years. Oklahoma City Y M C A begins with 25 members. Medford to vote September 23 on 25000 water works bonds. Muskogee cotton gin opens and handles about twenty loads daily. Seminole Capital sees profits in Indian Territory potatoes. Grant county school land lessees form a permanent group at Medford. Three-year-old boy near Alva injured by horse, skull fracture. Coal vein found on Simpson farm near Waterloo. Oklahoma has three banks at 100000 capital each. Perry voters back 75000 waterworks bonds. Samuel Rich gets railway mail job in Shawnee. Shawnee lawyers plan Creek country move for prosperity next spring. Tonkawa man’s track horse “moves like clockwork” likely drinks spring water.
J. B. McNally, Rock Island city passenger agent in Omaha, will succeed George H. Lee as general passenger agent of the Choctaw. Captain Barnes, former superintendent of the western division, has withdrawn his resignation.
Quarrel at Ft. Cobb ends with Frank Leroy stabbing Ernest Zeumwelt in the left shoulder. Both youths. Meanwhile Oklahoma City begins work on a new Shriners temple, to rise five stories high, serving both territories.
Dick T. Morgan came home from Indiana with his beard shaved off causing many acquaintances to hardly recognize him at first glance.
Will Cochran, a Negro, was arrested in Oklahoma City charged with stealing a pocket book containing 150 from R. R. Seymour of Luther. John James, working in a planing mill at Straud, was struck in the abdomen by a falling piece of wood and died shortly afterward.
The regular quarterly payment of annuities to Osage Indians will be made at Pawhuska to full bloods on September 15 16 and 17 and to mixed bloods on September 18 19 and 20.
Norman plans to spend 5000 dollars to locate a reliable water supply. Professor C N Gould offers a forfeit if water is found at a depth under 100 feet, signaling a competitive test of underground sources.
Limestone country in eastern Kay county features farms fenced with limestone posts costing 35 cents each. Quarried and set in the ground, these posts are described as almost indestructible.
Lhe Price-Meyer Oil company reports strong gas pressure at the Wakefield site four miles southeast of Mangum. Drilling has passed two oil streams and reached a depth of 900 feet.
H. H. Muse, a farmer near Carmen, suffered serious injuries when a runaway occurred. His foot was torn off and three ribs, his collarbone, and jaw were broken. he was trapped beneath wreckage until help arrived.
The defense filed a demurrer with no evidence offered at preliminary, delaying proceedings to allow the state to complete its case. The state aims to show arsenic purchase by tracing poison to a drug store register listing strychnine beside Mrs. Frost, noted as a possible favor. The defense contends Mrs. Frost was with Mrs. Henry Cole when the crime alleged to have occurred.
The Choctaw nation school board awards four year contracts for Bloomfield Seminary to Prof. E. B. Hinshaw, Collins Institute to Prof. A. B. Honnold of Kansas, and the Chickasaw Orphans Home to Mrs. Polly Tarman. Governor D H Johnson and superintendent S Mosely oversee, with Bloomfield and Collins contracts pending legislative approval.
M W Cheatham, a traveling man from the Indian Territory, sues Hardwicke & Etter of Sherman in U S district court seeking 60000 damages. He says a revolver bought from the firm misfired in Havana Cuba in 1902, firing a bullet into his back and causing permanent paralysis. The weapon allegedly fired only when the trigger was pulled.
Blackwell set for a fall carnival and street fair October 1 to 4 with first class attractions. Manager G M Warriner returns from St. Louis providing confidence to promoters.
Captain George M. Elerick, head of the Bank of Oklahoma City, escaped serious harm after a deer with a bell followed him from his son’s home. The buck charged, knocked him down, but he held its forefoot until his son arrived and shot the animal. The 72-year-old man remained alert and spry through the incident.
The government acre at Guthrie is selected as the public building site. The Oklahoma City site selection will be announced in a few days.
A northbound Chicago Rock Island and Pacific train derailed one mile south of Comanche on Saturday. Seven cars carrying oats and wheat were destroyed. A brakeman was injured and likely to die, and he was transported to Fort Worth, Texas.
A brakeman on the Choctaw railroad named J W Murphy sustained serious injuries while coupling cars at the depot. His left thumb was mashed, his lower lip cut, three front teeth knocked out, and he suffered other head injuries.
President Roosevelt survived a severe collision near Lenox after an electric trolley struck his coach injuring Secretary Cortelyou and Governor Crane while Secret Service agent William Craig was killed. Motorman and conductor were arrested as witnesses described a high speed approach to the country club crossing.
Citahoman rancher George E. Storm traced thirty two stolen cattle worth 1200 from Woodward to Kansas City. He accused Arthur G. Sparks, a former detective, of shipping the stock to Ben L. Welch. Sparks said he bought from Reed and his son six miles from Woodward. Storm plans Oklahoma inquiry upon return.
The Rev F G Roberts missionary for the Northern district of the Indian Territory has been named grand lecturer for the Odd Fellows in the Indian Territory. He will focus on raising funds for the proposed Odd Fellows home at Checotah I T.
W. A. Maxwell, editor of the Yukon Sun, was nominated by the Democrats of Canadian county for representation in the state legislature.
A largely dry stretch ended with rain across most areas on the 31st. Heat continued earlier, with hot winds on the 25th and 28th causing crop damage. Cotton deteriorated. boll worms and winds hit middle and top crops, with yields ranging from light to good and quality from poor to good.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the secretary of the interior approve a split of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe agency at Oklahoma into three districts. John H. Seger governs the south of the Canadian river, Bryan E. White runs the Cantonment vicinity, and Major G W S tou ch keeps Darlington as superintendent. The move aims to tighten contact with about 3000 Indians across nearly 4 million acres, rewarding progress and punishing laziness, with prior Pawnee and Ponca division cited as successful.
A Greer county meeting discussed plans to found a colony in old Mexico. Seventy five attendees debated the proposal led by G. E. Babcock who has secured a land option. Several Greer county residents have visited the Mexican land and view it positively. Many intend to move, others will go if they can sell farms. Further meetings are planned to assess the situation.
Tom Willoughby found his work mule shot and a well on his land poisoned with fatal potential. George W. Kleck is jailed on a shooting charge tied to the mule. Mark Wright is bonded on livestock cruelty charges after allegations of harming a steer.
Former Kansas Chief Justice Albert Horton died at his Topeka home after a long illness. Horton served as chief justice from 1877 to 1895, the longest tenure among his predecessors, and was a prominent Republican figure who nearly defeated John J. Ingalls for U S senator.
Directors of the Mexican Trust bank outline a plan to form an international bank capitalized at 10 million dollars to operate in Latin American nations. The proposal envisions merging the Mexican Trust company bank with the Corporation Trust company to create the International Bank based in New York and Mexico.
The Fame of Indian Territory land for farming attracts men from across the Union as leases rush into Creek country. Tulsa becomes the hub with ranches yielding to plow and crops and new towns rising along the Arkansas Valley road from Wybark to Cleveland. Natural gas and coal boom as the M K and O railroad grinds westward.
Joseph H. Cloud was killed with a bullet to the back of the head at Bunch I T after an incident at the depot. Rattlingoard accompanied him to the depot and later a companion pursued, with a gunshot heard while追追追. Cloud’s body lay by the roadside with a jug of whisky nearby.
Jerry Washington, known as a dangerous man in Enid, shot a couple while renting their property on August 24. The woman was wounded in the lungs and the man in the shoulder. both are in precarious condition. Washington fled by freight train, was found in Hutchinson and Anthony, Kansas, then arrested by a city chief and placed in the county jail.
M A Cooper a farmer left home one morning and was found dead next day in the woods near Comanche. He placed a shotgun across a bush and fired it with his foot. No motive or cause was given for the act.
Assistant Superintendent Edgar A. Allen reports Oklahoma Indians will be gathered in Oklahoma City before proceeding to Carlisle Pennsylvania. He will visit Shawnee and then the Sac and Fox agency to collect children for the Carlisle Indian School program.
Promoters plan to settle Beaver county with irrigated homesteads amid semi arid land and Cimarron river water. They claim irrigation could make farms worth 6000 to 10000 dollars each within years, while noting existing vacant lands and potential political consequences ahead of statehood. Ex Senator D P Marum supports the project, warning of tenancy population shifts if large tracts remain non taxable.
A meeting of the Anti Horse Thief association of Pottawatomie county Oklahoma is called in Tecumseh on September 27 to arrange entertainment for the territorial meeting in Shawnee on October 15.
Armchair historical note explains President Johnson era treaty with the Chickasaws and Cherokees naming the territorial governor as head of Oklahoma's government, settling debates over who named the territory. Ardmore report notes a fatal saw mill accident near Cotton Wood Grove injuring W. M. Smedley and cites a docket backlog delaying court cases by about 30 months.
Governor Ferguson names El Reno resident J A Gould as territorial game warden to replace C M Keiger who resigned last March. Gould rose to prominence two years ago by arresting M A Lov.
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