Volume 9 , Issue 23

NW Oklahoma News of 1906

The Alva Pioneer, Alva, O.T., Woods County, dated January 26, 1906 Oklahoma News - Bills Affecting Oklahoma Introduced -- A bill ratifying and approving an act to appropriate money for the purpose of building additional buildings for the Northwestern Normal school, of Alva, O. T., passed by the legislative assembly of Oklahoma Territory and approved March 15, 1905, has been introduced by Delegate McGuire. Also a bill to provide for seven district judges for Oklahoma, or one additional judge for each of the seven judicial districts, at a salary of $3,000 per year; neither shall be a member of the supreme court of the territory, but shall hear such cases as may be directed by the justice of the supreme court resident in the district. They are to have no ower of appointing clerks of United States courts, United States commissioners or referees in bankruptcy, but may appoint a stenographer. Also a bill creating and establishing a territorial park in Woods county, to be paid for by the governnment at the rate of $2.50 per acre.
(Is this the downtown square where the courthouse, post office and city hall stand today? government park? Territorial park?)

City Marshal Assassinated -- T. J. Radford, city marshal of Enid, was shot by John Cannon, dying within an hour. Radford had just gone into a saloon to warm himself, when Cannon walked up behind him and it is alleged, without a word of warning, shot him in the back. The wounded man turned and received a shot in the left breast, just above the heart. He ran out of the saloon and Cannon again shot, the ball entering the head just above the ear. Radford fell in the street dying, and never regained consciousness.
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