Volume 11 , Issue 25

Headlines In The Oklahoman 100 Years Ago

If you would have picked up a newspaper in Oklahoma 100 years ago, June 22, 1909, in The Oklahoman, you might have read these headlines: "Leon Ling Is Yet At Large" & "Vain Echo To Court's Call" & "Executive To Dictate Tax" & "Thirty Injured When Flyer Leaves The Rails" & "Sensation Seekers Given A Surprise" & "Mixed Strychnine In Her Husband's Whiskey" & Colored Smokers To Be Installed by Railroads" & Boy Killed In Runaway At Mangum, Father Hurt" & "Mauretania Smashes All Records For Big Liners" & "President Diaz Desires To Meet Taft On Border."

The local weather on that day, June 22, 1909, was furnished by J. P. Slaughter, and forecast of cloudy weather, with morning tempperatures at 73F at 7:00 a.m. and rising to 90F at 1 p.m. With a High of 92F at 2 p.m.

As to the headlines that read: "Boy Killed In Runaway At Mangum, Father Hurt," It had to do with a runaway horse & buggy near Mangum, Oklahoma late in the afternoon of June 21, 1909 when the 8-year-old son of Peter Richardson was thrown from the buggy and killed, and the father, Peter Richardson, received a broken leg and a broken arm.

The "Mixed Strychnine In Her Husband's Whiskey" headlines had to do with a Pennsylvania woman confessing to murdering her spouse in York, Pennsylvania, June 21, 1909.

Mrs. Minnie Tracey was arrested on a Saturday, June, 1909, pending an investigation of the sudden death of her husband, Joshua Tracey.

In a statement which was held by the police, Minnie Tracey implicated her brother-in-law, William Brown, who also was in jail, declaring that he purchased and gave to her strychnine which she mixed with her husband's whiskey.

"Thirty Injured When Flyer Leaves The Rails" headlines had to do with the Oriental Limited on Great Northern ditched in Montana.

It was near Ural, Montana, June 21, 1909, when the Great Northern westbound "Oriental Limited" passenger train was derailed near Ural, on the Kootenai river. Thirty passengers were injured, but none killed. A landslide was the cause.
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