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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1909
Page
2
An inmate serving time for killing his wife attempted an escape in the jail corridor. A guard confronted him with a Winchester pump shotgun as the inmate ran from a cage door into the courthouse hallway. An alarm sounded and the inmate fled while the guard surrendered his weapon.
Prof. J. Monett of George Washington University discussed joining the law department at Oklahoma University in a conference at the Lee hotel with state university and regents representatives. He declined immediate acceptance but signaled interest in teaching the full law course, aiming to build a premier western law school as the new department opens at the start of next school year.
Oklahoma City Aug 2 A hotel keeper recounted a striking tale from Mrs Mettie Trewn who described her husband H I Trewn being murdered. She claimed Arthur Brown and Meg Hume Waley with Mrs Carson proposed a plan to flee to Missouri while Brown’s stepmother and the girl’s aunt provided statements about the family’s turmoil and alleged crime. The story followed arrests and confessions tied to the Carson hotel, as Mrs Carson traveled to Oklahoma City to attend a typhoid-stricken grandchild.
In Holgenville Otia a state case argued against County Judge P W Gardner seeking to compel him to surrender fees from approval cases of inherited Indias Lamas. The court ruled a public official cannot use office time to create personal remuneration. A mandamus was issued to report the fees. Gardner appealed. County totals run around three thousand dollars with broader regional impact potentially totaling about one hundred thousand dollars.
Associated Press reports Indianapolis August 20 Barney Oldfield attempted to lower the world mile record. He clocked 43.2 seconds, just behind the record set by Zongelin and Chadwick at 49.2 seconds? and De Palme’s Fiat effort at 48.6. The run was said to be carefully timed and deemed safe.
Thousands gathered along the Platte River embankments in Denver as floodwaters from Lake George surged downstream. Residents received timely warnings and moved belongings to safety while the river subsided later that night.
A full scale Viking ship, an exact reproduction from the Gokutad mound, is under construction at Hothel on Lake Washington for the Norwegian Day exposition. Forty rowers and forty soldiers in Norse attire will man the ship, armed as in ancient times, with a major pageant of 400 participants illustrating nine periods of Norwegian history from Horuli to modern times.
Associated Press reports the Alabama Senate approved a prohibition bill today though one senator voted against it. The measure seeks to ban the sale of periodicals and magazines containing advertisements for meat products.
If over, but while tin home Friday afternoon. She will be doubt be an important witness at the trial of the cases which have been set for next Wednesday.
Louisville Aug 3 dual arrest of two Roberts brothers and other suspects exposes a counterfeiting plot centered at 100 Wall Street New York. John Roberts, arrested in Shelby county, admits intent to plead guilty. Marion Roberts aided by broker W G Osborne led to undercover police action. millions in counterfeit peso notes traced to their scheme.
Four young women and a chauffeur are killed when a speeding touring car plunged from a tide gate trestle at Dead Man's Curve near Seattle. The victims include Agnes Cowen, Magele Paul, Mrs J Calvin, Mrs M McGirothe, and Ira Perry the chauffeur. Mary Paul and Kate Blweep survived. All were prominent residents of Vancouver.
Detectives monitored a marked tree near the business district as a man demanded a thousand dollars in a bucket near six trees. His sixteen year old son allegedly threatened death if the payment was not given. No one appeared to claim the package through the night.
A Tulsa lawyer, mistaking a man named Shaver for a burglar, shot and likely fatally wounded him last night. The incident occurred when the lawyer, identified as B. Robtaite, reacted to an apparent intruder. The victim was described as a man and son of a mother, with uncertain background details. Further investigation is expected to determine motive and legal responsibility.
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