Oklahoma Territory Update Amid Growth in Industry and Law
reports from Muskogee and surrounding areas note a new wholesale cream plant planned for Vinita and a $16,000 livestock shipment to market. bridge funding and road work advance at Galston and Hugo. census data show cotton output of 409 691 bales and $90 per remaining. local hotels reopen in Sulphur and an Oklahoma City moral shift closes slot machines. multiple surveys and planned rail and road projects outline a busy territorial development period with community events in Checotah and Muskogee.
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Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Seized Sawmills in Choctaw Territory After River Conflict
Indian officials seized seven sawmills near Harrington Illinois after the Scratch Sawmill Co and associates operated without permission. About 1,000,000 feet of lumber was confiscated along with mills and barged lumber. Funds from sale would go to the Choctaw Nation per department orders.
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Harrington
IL. T
S. B. Scratch Sawmill Company
Little
Scratch Company
Muskogee
Lumer
Indian Territory to gain new inspector J George Wright successor
Col F C Churchill of Connecticut is slated to replace J George Wright as Indian inspector for the Indian Territory. Wright’s health failed after typhoid fever. J W Zevery has been acting in the role until Churchill takes permanent charge for several years on a roaming commission.
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J. George Wright
Col. F. C. Churchill
Connecticut
Muskogee
Indian Territory
Indian Service
Secretary of the Interior
Inspector Wright
Chicago
J. W. Zevery
Francis
Missouri
Law Department
the Indian Service
Wright
Col. Churchill
Hunting In The Territory Rigorous Enforcement For Hunters
Regulations against hunting and fishing are being strictly enforced in the Indian Territory. A fishing party near Paris and Antlers faced threats of outfit confiscation by Choctaw lighthorsemen after assurances they would not use dynamite or seines. The federal court at Antlers will probe dynamiting causing thousands of dead fish and public funds are being raised for a World's Fair exhibit in St Louis with a $25,100 goal.
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Tex
Paris
Antlers
Dees
Turkey
Grand Tain
Muskocee
Hubbards
Hitchcock
Indian Territory
St. Louis
War Department lacks authority to issue arms in Indian Territory
War Department informs local military units in Indian Territory it cannot issue arms or equipment to citizens at sites within the territory. The advisory limits military provisions and clarifies official powers over local rations and gear.
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War Department
Indian Territory
Salaries Increased for Cherokee Board of Education
A message from Tahieqash cays notes that the de partment of the interior has approved salary hikes for Cherokee board members. Each member will now receive 9800 dollars annually, up from 980 dollars, effective immediately.
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Cherokee Board of Education
Tahieqash Cays
Buffington
Deaf
Interior
Chickasaw Stockman Officers Elected At Purcell Meet
Aneusl Mesting Weld at Purcell ends with unanimous re election of the same officers for the Chickasaw Stockman association. Twenty seven new members admitted and a $961.35 balance reported. Officers named include President Dr T P Powell and vice presidents W L Green J L Thomas George Sims Joe Kemp. Chickasha chosen for the April 1904 annual meeting.
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Association
Mir
Lapsiey
Roff
W. T. Brees
T. P. Powell
Davis
W. L. Green
Ardmore
W. A. Calwell
Barneyville
J. L. Thomas
George Simons
Cornish
Joe Kemp
Paoli
F. Haley
Gainsville
Matt Wolf
Chickasha
Porcell
Tribal Tax Matter Court of Appeals Upholds Tribal Fees
The Court of Appeals sustains tribal authority to require permit fees or taxes for grazing cattle and livestock in the Indian Territory by nonmembers and supports Interior Department power to remove cattle and livestock lacking payment. The Morriss suit sought to bar such removals by the secretary of the interior.
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Court of Appeals
Washington
Court of Ls
District of Columbia
Indian Territory
Secretary of the Interior
Edward T. Morriss
Texas
Hitchcock
Sary Agen
Fall of the coal baron and anti trust fights erupt in markets
The piece notes officers of the combine plan to quell unlawful interstate commerce conspiracies after a Chicago injunction. It mentions a $15 million merger among small plants to handle maturing notes and a deadly explosion on a ship deck with several workers killed and others saved. The United States suit against Northern Security Company ends with a unanimous ruling by four judges, led by Judge Thayer, to halt stock voting but permit return of already delivered stock to the holding company.
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Combine
Chicago
Outlaw Jack Dooley Shot Burned in Creek Nation
Indian Agent Shoenfelt reports Jack Dooley a notorious intruder in the Creek nation was shot near his home, burned on a brush heap. He had troubled authorities in Indian Territory and Choctaw and Creek nations, with a bench warrant outstanding and removal orders issued. Police search continues.
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Mousxoage
Shoenfelt
Jack Dooley
Groods
Dooley
Indian Territory
Contentious townsite dispute over Krebs city lots erupts
Lively fight arises as Krebs townsite survey disrupts homes and stirs conflicts over street boundaries. In Checotah Oklahoma a commissioner from Kansas City is appointed to oversee the matter and resolve competing building claims.
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Sovrn McAester
Krebs
Producers Plan War for Free Market and Honest Competition
A Denver meeting of livestock users discussed resisting packers and a potential 500 million merger. Speakers, including Mr. Sorin, urged forming a new line of packing houses and securing pledges from major cattle producers to back the venture if feasible. The talk framed as a federal push to curb consolidation and protect industry liquidity in Chicago banks.
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Denver
Coto
Soriner
Seamen Injured in Explosive Gan Incident At Sea
Seaman Gocht ordinary seamen Tuesday dell Brown Rothschild and Parracker were seriously injured. The men tilled and injured were on the second organ deck gtmese. Three pieces of the exploded gan weigh ty.
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Mess
Gocht
Tuesdell
Brown
Rothschild
Parracker
Orgun
Big Railroad Deal Out St. Pat
A regional railroad agreement near Saint Patrick’s Day reshapes freight routes and schedules. Officials from the company and local government describe the pact as a major step for regional commerce and transportation efficiency.
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St. Pat
United States
Osu
North and South Road chartered to Kansas railroad
A new railway, named the Nebraska Kansas Gulf Railway, is chartered to run from Republic county through Cloud Ottawa Saline Dickinson McPherson Marion Harvey Sedgwick and Cowley into the Indian Territory with capital stock of five hundred thousand dollars.
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Topeka
North and South
Republic County
Cloud
Ottawa
Saline
Dickinson
McPherson
Marion
Harvey, Sedgwick
Cowley
Indian Territory
Nebraska, Kansas & Gulf Railway Company
Two Horsethieves Caught in Denison Texas
Col bert dispatch reports John DeLashimett and Bob Sime arrested at Silo twelve miles north of Colbert by Deputy Marshal J B Davis on theft of two horses from R D Brooks of Gertie I T at Durant. Defendants placed under bond of 9750. One horse recovered.
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Denison
Tex
Colbert
John DeLashimett
Bob Sime
Silo
J. B. Davis
R. D. Brooks
Gertie, I. T
Durant
Insane Exsense Settled Gurunim
State Ranter L. W. settles a case linked to Gurunim in a terse legal action, details sparse in the readable fragment. The notice mentions a resolution without specifying parties, dates, or outcomes.
Woman Arrested for Attempted Life of Her Daughter's Lover
Blackwell reports a Tonkawa shooting case involving Mrs. Wilhour charged with assault with intent to kill after Coleman claimed he was shot by her when visiting his daughter's hotel in Tonkawa He appeared before a probate judge at Newkirk with bond set at 300 pounds awaiting a preliminary hearing.
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Blackwell
Tonkawa
Coleman
Perkins Gete Life Sentence In Lawton Trial
In a territory case the jury found Mort Perkins guilty of a rig and sentenced him to life imprisonment. The trial involved Beanblossom and statements from a physician, with references to Waurika and Loy ne An repaeal suggesting appeals.
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Lawton
Mort Perkins
Dr. Bomblossom
Waurika
Robbery Victim Left in Ravine After Attack Near Town
John Palmer of Okmulgee was bound and robbed in the countryside near town and left for dead. He was found near death, aided by two dogs that stayed with him after he was abandoned by assailants.
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Haved
Mie
Deg Mousxoare
John Palmer
Okmulgee
Rose Meee Ay
Sere Sane Sy Seeree
Change at Sac and Fox agency slated July 1
The office of Indian agent for the Sac and Fox tribes will be abolished on July 1 and a superintendent will take over the duties.
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Indian Agent
The
Sac
Texas Enacts Stringent Five Year Game Law
Austin reports the most restrictive western state game law, awaiting Governor Lanham's approval. It bars killing female deer and fawns for five years, caps annual buck kills at six, bans sale of deer meat hides and horns, limits antelope, restricts most birds, shortens quail season, and allows year round killing of buzzards owls and crows.
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Austin
Lanham
Territory Confed Sponsors Named for New Orleans Reunion
Miss Floy Mullins of Ardmore appointed sponsor for Camp Sam Davis of Confederate veterans for the New Orleans reunion. Miss Sue Bell Wilson of Parcell appointed sponsor of the Northern Brigade Territory Sons of Confederate Veterans for the reunion.
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Territory
Floy Mullins
Ardmore
Camp Sam Davis
New Orleans
Sue Bell Wilson
Parcell
Northern Brigade
Territory Sons of Confederate Veterans
Running Surveyors Move Southeast From City Toward Rock Island
A group of twenty surveyors started line work from the city heading southeast toward Rock Island. They abandoned spring teams for the western set of economy work as the project proceeds.
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Muskooee
Rock Island
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