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Newspaper
The Indian Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
2
The Indian Chieftain surveys Cherokee and Oklahoma Territory politics, Dawes commission actions, and proposed statehood. It notes political strife, fiscal issues in the Cherokee treasury, land sales disputes, and calls for reform while reporting on local infrastructure and community debates.
The Interior Department boards a commission under the Curtix Act to survey and appraise townsites in Cherokee nation lands. It outlines town lot creation, appraisal, payments, and possible condemnation if owners fail to meet purchase terms, with tribal and federal oversight and various distribution steps. Population and paper counts for Creek Chickasaw Cherokee and Choctaw nations are cited as context.
Aug 19 Peirce City reports a mob of about 40 000 hanged Will Gailey a Black man accused of killing Mira Geeelle Wild. The victim was found fatally cut after an attempted rape near the city. Suspected accomplices were pursued and some were detained. guns and bloodhounds aided the search.
Eleanor Goodin a Chelsea I T postal clerk committed suicide in the afternoon by silk ribbon strangulation. Her body was found by Roxie Steel a colored domestic in the Poole family home where she boarded. Her mother in Holden Missouri known in Kansas City had relatives there. A gloom falls over Chelsea where she was popular.
District Attorney Pliny L. Soper received a telegram from the attorney general naming him to represent the Daw ommivelon in the Freed man Tojonetion case to be heard before Judge Gill at Munko gee on August 25. The article notes potential involvement of African Americans and pending appointments, with broad discussion of Cherokee matters and council issues as the period’s politics unfold.
A famed medical analyst from New York arrives at the Green hotel in Vinita for a single day appearance every four weeks beginning September. He offers free preliminary examinations and claims cure for chronic ailments including lung, eye and nerve issues, with a push to deter late, incurable cases. He promises travel and assistance to patients, including youth confronting health risks and mental decline. Also notes court session opening with various lawyers and a fence cutting incident near Olflae.
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