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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1902
Page
6
The Crescent Christian church plans to erect a new house of worship in 1908. Local items report a range of reads from water franchises, railroad capital increases, to public school funding and rail crossings. Prominent names include Dan Rogers and W. T. Ward with other notes on legislative and civic developments across the territory.
Oklahoma parties have announced candidates across districts. Notable entries include John P Hickam in the Second District and June C Foster in the Third District. Other districts list a mix of Democratic Republican Socialist and Prohibition nominees, with several districts naming multiple contenders.
The Oklahoma national guard detail, led by Brigadier General E. P. Burlingame, will attend military maneuvers at Fort Riley from September 29 to October. The unit includes several colonels majors captains and surgeons from Woodward Alva Edmond and other towns. Expenses will be borne by the territory and Governor Ferguson plans a brief visit. The Presbyterian Church synod meets in Shawnee October 24 to 26.
Philip Brombaugh joined a camping party to the Creek nation. He hid in timber to frighten women by imitating a wildcat cry and painted eyes with phosphorus. James Fletcher, unaware of the prank, shot at the trail and hit Brombaugh with bird shot. He was taken to the Santa Fe company hospital in Topeka.
A new government order places parts of Oklahoma under special quarantine due to Texas fever tick infections traced to cattle from the territory. Only cattle inspected and cleared by federal agents may move, with many counties affected and a shift from relying on state certificates.
Development in the Cherokee Nation hinges on completing the Dawes roll and approving the 1902 schedule of about 4,000 alive names. Once the land office opens by January 1, the nation expects coal, oil, and mineral wealth to spur a genuine boom in Bartlesville, Chelsea, Fairfield, and surrounding areas.
Ike Isaacs a 40 year old clerk was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Monneer of Ellis County Texas on three forged $25 checks charges. He was taken to Texas under a governor’s requisition.
A freight train and a soldiers’ special collided about a mile from Little Rock. Two men, Wm Dowdy and David Wyatt, were killed instantly while Patrick Bren of Company B suffered injuries that may prove fatal. Eleven or twelve others were hurt but not seriously. The soldiers were en route from Fort Logan H Roots to Fort Riley for maneuvers.
Granville Bell Henry Goldman and Alice Jones were indicted by the U S grand jury at Muskogee on a murder charge. The victim was a man unknown, a stranger in Wagoner, killed on election day last spring.
George Taylor of near Mulhall was scalded to death when a threshing engine broke through a Skeleton River bridge. He jumped to save himself, broke a leg, and could not move as the boiler burst and scalding water covered him. An Ardmore team waited twenty hours before relief arrived. the owner was fined.
The annual W C T U convention in Indian Territory notes no saloons within the two civilized tribes and petitions President Roosevelt to keep current temperance laws if government changes occur. The gathering highlights the territory as a model of strict sobriety and prohibition.
A tragic incident near Five Mile Stairie, twelve miles east, reports Nixon, a young man hauling hay. A fork prong detached from the handle pierced his eye during loading, leaving him grievously wounded and dying after a few hours in distress.
Vinita United States Indian Agent J Blair Shoenfelt announces payments for Chickasaw school warrants at his Muskogee office starting Oct 1. Warrant ranges issued from 1808 to 1901 will be honored. indorsement by payee or estate administrator is required. powers of attorney not accepted. Present warrants with duplicate lists of warrant number payee and amount.
Judge Raymond closed the Western district criminal docket with a record pace ten to thirty day sentences. Sixty convicts from plainclothes to the courtroom under guard received swift judgments for sixty crimes. juries tried thirteen days with thirty trials, including murder cases.
Marshal Rogers arrested C. A. Fowler before Commissioner Tate on a claim of attempting to rob J. M. Wilson, a Fort Smith and Western gang member at Okemah. Wilson, who had about $10 pay, alerted officers after Fowler, aboard the same train, grew suspicious and fled with his money. Fowler fought with a large spring knife but, given his convalescent state, was discharged after strong evidence was cited.
A six inch vein of coal was struck in the Steinbarg corner well at a depth of thirty feet. The find signals potential mining prospects in the local area and may influence future drilling plans.
Mrs George Scott daughter of John Beard a prosperous farmer eight miles southwest of this place shot herself in a brush thicket near the house. She emptied a No 16 Winchester into her left side after screams drew her mother and aid arrived too late. Married a year ago she left her husband amid domestic troubles.
A Denver letter from Ida L. Gregory endorses Peruna as a remedy that restored her husband’s health and sleep after nervous prostration. The piece explains systemic catarrh linking to nervous complaints and promotes Peruna as a cure, inviting readers to write to Dr. Hartman for free advice.
A boarding house keeper asks the judge to try the chicken salad. The judge recalls trying it yesterday and jokes the chicken proved an alibi.
A collage of ads promotes Red Cross Ball Blue to whiten clothes, Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a household remedy, Defiance Starch with money back claim, and other consumer goods. The copy mixes prices and claims about quality and value to persuade buyers.
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