Chickasha Merchants Relent on Occupation Tax Fight
Merchants in Chickasha abandon plans to challenge the 1 percent occupation tax on business institutions after United States Marshal Colbert and deputies began collecting. The attorney general supported the tax, citing townsite and Chickasaw nation laws, with the tribal treaty in force. Colbert proceeds toward the Rock Island line boundary to continue collections.
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Chickasha
Colburt
United States
Colbert
Rock Island
Ten Indians Arrested After Atoka Murder Near Atoka
A brutal murder near Atoka last week led to ten Indians jailed on suspicion. Two white hunters Douglas Allen and Horace Allen were attacked by a band of fall blood Indians led by Ellis Carnes who killed Douglas Allen and wounded Horace Allen. Carnes confessed and named nine companions. The arrests target Lake Ostah Daniel Drew Aaron Colbert Marvin Thompson Isaac Nelson Solomon Loren Billie Harley Charles Jefferson and Peter Nail under Creek nation administration.
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Atoka
McAester
Douglas Allen
Horace Allen
John Scarberry
Ellis Carnes
Winchester
Carnes
Scarberry
Allen
Lake Ostah
Daniel Drew
Aaron Colbert
Marvin Thompson
Isaac Nelson
Solomon Loren
Billie Harley
Charles Jefferson
Peter Nail
Oklahoma Headlines and Local Developments Briefly Noted
Six stone buildings rise at Pauls Valley with bids sought for six more. Oklahoma Supreme Court adjourned to February 4. El Reno residents raise 19000 for a new 86 Louis railroad line. A six year old boy Willie Thompson injured amid a family incident. Hobart News-Republican profiles town pride. A Hobart resident returns after two months away believing he was delayed at Oklahoma City. McLean First National Bank authorized to begin with 25000 capital. G W Perkins Carter store fire destroys premises with limited losses.
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Hobart News-Republican
Hobart
Oklahoma City
Sayre to boom as adjoining farms are sold for town lots
Reports say Sayre will grow as three surrounding farms are divided into town lots and placed on the market. The Katy asks Hobart about possible city incentives for a rail line through Sayre. A two story brick hotel is planned in Temple.
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Sayre
Preacher and Sunday School Teacher Arrested for Cattle Theft
James Grandy a preacher and William Burwell a Sunday school teacher have been jailed at Homestead Oklahoma on charges of stealing cattle. Their home is near Dane.
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James Grandy
William Burwell
Homestead
Oklahoma
Dane
Muskogee Seals Deals on Factory and Cotton Plant
Vinita court stenographer Nat Rider was thrown from his carriage while driving and sustained injuries. The Chickasha commercial club has undergone a reorganization as part of local business activity. Lot jumpers are said to be numerous in the area.
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Vinita
Choctaw Chickasaw citizenship court reconvenes after vacation
The Choctaw Chickasaw citizenship court reopens with Judges Adams Weaver and Foote present. J G Ralls for claimants and Melven Cornish for both nations appear as three suits ready for trial. The court defers major action to allow more time for filing appeals and to resolve common legal questions. The session will stay open through the month but no immediate sessions are planned. Judge Adams notes ninety day appeal window from the December 17 decision. The interpretation of section 32 awaits announcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sovurm McAlester
Adams
Weaver
Foote
J.G. Ralls
Melven Cornish
Tulsa Town Lot Installment Payments Progress
Last day for installment payments on the town lot appraisement. About $9,000 paid last week. Estimated that at least 40 percent of the $60,000 appraisement has been paid. Twenty to twenty five percent of real estate in the town is fully paid.
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Tulsa
Tula
Cobb resigns from townsite survey post to start private practice
S A Cobb chief draftsman in the United States Indian inspector's Muskogee survey resigns to pursue private work. He will open offices at Muskogee and Vinita.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. A. Cobb
United States Indian Inspector
Musogee
Secretary of the Interior
Mee
Muskogee
Vinita
Opposing Indian Territory Delegations Push Statehood Split
In Washington two Indian Territory delegations advocate opposite paths to statehood. One group backs a non partisan single statehood plan while another from the Okmulgee convention seeks separate statehood. A vote on the omnibus bill is anticipated around January 26 as Senator Beveridge markets his Oklahoma and Indian Territory single statehood proposal and the removal of New Mexico and Arizona.
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Ardmore
Washington
Singe Statehood Convention
Okmulgee
Beveridge
Oklahoma
Indian Territories
New Mexico
Arizona
Winfield and Southern Railroad Survey Reaches Collinsville
A preliminary survey for the Winfield and Southern railroad company runs to Collinsville in Indian Territory through Pawhuska in the Osage country. The 100 mile route aims to reach the Cherokee coal fields from Winfield Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guthrie
Winfield and Southern Railroad Company
Collinsville
I. T
Pawhuska
Osage Country
Winfield
Kan
Government agents fail to locate mineral lands in Choctaw Chickasaw nations
Washington sent agents to survey half a million acres under the supplemental treaty but they report finding only about 300,000 acres of mineral lands developed. The public previously expected a larger find.
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Sorutn McAlester
Washington
Cattlemen Pay Up in Chickasaw Tribal Tax Drive
Revenue inspector Guy P. Cobb reports smooth collection of the 25 cent per head tribal tax on non citizen cattle in the Chickasaw nation. Most large cattlemen paid, with 114000 head held, as officers prep to extend the drive to Rush Springs and Marlow. W O Davis represents cattlemen seeking to halt the tax and may pursue replevin cases to the U S Supreme Court.
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Chickasa
Guy P. Cobb
Indian Police Department
Chickasaw Nation
Rush Springs
Marlow
Colet
Cattlemen’s
W. O. Davis
Gainesville
Minco
Here
Mr. Davis
Supreme Coat of the
United States
Statehood Delegates Chosen From Chickasha For Washington
Scott Jones of the Kansas City Stock Yards company has raised 250 dollars to send Chickasha delegates to Washington to back the Beveridge statehood bill. Benjamin Hampton banker and Renford Bond attorney, both Chickasaw Indians, are selected and will depart for Washington.
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Washington Chickasha
Scott Jones
Kansas City Stock Yards Company
Chickasha
Washington
Benjamin Hampton
Renford Bond
WILL NOT PAY THE TAX ARDMORE
Cattlemen in the western Chickasaw nation refuse to pay 25c per head tribal tax. Indian police plan to eject nonpaying herds, with orders from the interior department. A large cattle firm grazing 100,000 head faced eviction despite earlier compromise talks. Secretary Hitchcock demands full payment.
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Ardmore
Chickasaw
Interior Department
Department
Andes Revenue
Cobb
Hitchcock
Chickesha Club Seeks Carnegie Library Request
The commercial club in Chickesha plans to petition Andrew Carnegie for a library grant. Local leaders say a Carnegie library would benefit literacy and civic life.
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Commercial Club
Chickesha
Andrew Carnegie
Okmulgee Council Sets Bond Election for School and Water
The Okmulgee city council unanimously resolves to authorize the mayor to call an election of qualified voters to issue 30000 dollars of 1y year bonds for town purposes. Fifteen thousand to fund school needs and fifteen thousand for water supply.
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Okmulgee
Okmu
City agrees to pay landowners for watershed site
South McAlester city council at a special meeting approves paying Choctaw and Chickasaw nations 651 for land to be used as a watershed for the proposed waterworks. The Dawes commission appraisal sets value, double the district court jury’s figure, ending litigation and aiding approval of $150,000 bonds by the interior secretary.
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South Mcalester
Dawes Commission
Secretary of the Interior
Noted Indian Held for Murder ArRpéMor RE Harjo
A Chickasaw named Harjo is jailed on murder charges from a recent fatal case within the nation. Claimed fugitive from justice, he was captured in the northern Indian Territory and brought to Ardmore for trial. Ardmore plans to spend 75000 dollars for two new school houses. The city gave a
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RE. K. Harjo
Harjo
Indian Territory
Ardmore
Congress Considers Power to Seize Coal Resources
The judiciary committee was directed to study Congress power to declare a necessity to take possession of all salt coal beds mines and transportation lines for coal. If deemed necessary a bill would be reported detailing occasions modes and agencies for such appropriation. The measure passed 144 to 118 after debate.
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House
Congress
Kansas coal famine sparks legislative push for action
No relief is in sight as railroads send coal cars to Kansas coal districts but output fails to meet demand. Dealers are helpless and residents lack coal. Lawmakers will be urged to act immediately to correct the scarcity.
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Kansas
Riot at Salvation Army coal delivery sparks rush
A wagon of free coal arriving at the Salvation Army depot at Larabee and Elm Streets triggered a riot as a large crowd rushed to the coal. Minor fights ensued but police restored order. no arrests were made.
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Curiaco
Salvation Army
Larabee and
Elm Streets
Larabee
Elm
Army
Congress Passes Bill Freeing Coal From Duty
Congress moved quickly to ease the coal shortage by a House bill from the ways and means committee providing a one year duty rebate on foreign coal. The House approved it 258 to 5 and the Senate passed it unanimously with no debate shortly after.
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Congress
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Muskogee Forms Committee to Push Rock Island Extension
Muskogee appoints a committee led by Tams Bixby to press Rock Island for a new railroad branch surveyed from Joplin through eastern Indian Territory. C. W. Turner H Barber N A Gibson and J Lee Dobbs named to advocate with the railroad firm. Route shown passing near Miami and Needore, crossing Frisco Ogeechee and Katy prior creek.
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Muskogee
Vinita
Rock Island
Joplin
Indian Territory
Tams Bixby
Dawes Commission
C. W. Turner
H. ©. Barber
N. A. Gibson
J. Lee Dobbs
Tuskogee
Miami
Ogeechee
Grand River
Neednore
Katy
Prior Creek
Ozark and
Chero
Lee Central
Boynton
Maskogee
Treaty debate on Choctaw Chickasaw Dawes lands and new allotment plan
The Choctaw and Chickasaw nations and the Dawes commission push for a supplementary treaty to salvage coal lands and prevent large surplus allotments. They argue that selling land under the present treaty harms tribes and urge allotment to individual members. Reports note railway plans near Ardmore and a Davis waterworks contract delivering a spring water supply.
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Pawes Commission
Mcalester
Dawes Commission
United States
Uncle Sam
Testing Seed Germination For Better Planting
The document advises checking seed viability among stored lots as weather and storage can reduce germination. It explains a simple germination test using two plates and moistened cloth, with daily counting of sprouted seeds. Guidance covers cold and warm temperatures and durations for cereals alfalfa and grasses, citing Bulletin No. 92 from the Experimental Station.
Waterworks Progress in Chickasha Advances
Chickasha progress on waterworks shows over 700 tons of piping hydrants and brick contracted. The pumping station will be built first after locating a water supply. Engineer Thompson plans a five foot diameter test hole to sixty feet, then a 350000 gallon daily steam pumped well to supply the system.
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Chickasha
Thomson
Acquitted Stumbaugh Freed in Marshall Killing Case
The jury acquitted Eugene Stumbaugh of killing Mike Marshall at Wilburton in April 1901. He was remanded to custody to await trial for killing George Sobo the same night and place under a separate indictment. Stumbaugh claimed self defense. Judge Clayton did not give manslaughter instructions.
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Stumbaugh
Mike Marshall
Mcalester
Eugene Stumbaugh
Wilburton
George Sobo
Marshall
Sobo
Clayton
Muskogee Waterworks Construction Progress
The Muskogee waterworks project advances with a large cofferdam at Grand River mouth and a major river well for the main pipe. A brick powerhouse 30 by 70 feet is under way, with pipelines extending through the Arkansas River to a western-named well. Lake Moore resigns. Orlando Swain named sixth district commissioner and to serve in several towns.
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Vinita
Muskogee
Grand River
Arkansas River
Lake Moore
Okmulgee
Orlando Swain
Weleetka
Wetumka
Mother Wins Pardon for Man After Fifteen Year Sentence
Washington announces a presidential commute of fifteen years for a man awaiting trial. He has already served five years plus time for good conduct, exceeding the original term. The case involves Starr and a concerned mother advocating for clemency.
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WasHIX@TON
Starr
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