…commissioners at the Cherokee Agency and negotiated their Eleventh Treaty, by the terms of which the Indians ceded a large portion of their rapidly disappearing reservation east of the Mississippi in exchange for an equal number of acres out in the White and Arkansas rivers country. The United States authorities…
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…us, and to induce them to join the South and take up arms in the war then raging. “The Cherokee generally, under the influence of their chief, John Ross, assumed a kind of `Kentucky neutrality.’ Later in that year that neutrality was thrown off and two regiments were raised among…
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…in the heart of the shallow oil field of Nowata County and immediately adjacent to the city is a vast coal field which is now being opened. Nowata has an assessed valuation of $2,839,669 and an estimated valuation of $5,000,000. The 1920 census gives the following figures: Population, 4,435, of…
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…from year to year as various outposts of civilization were established in Western Oklahoma and New Mexico and reached its highest point soon after the numerous prairie schooners joined the overland procession to California, and Arizona in search of gold. About the year 1870, twenty steamboats were plying the rivers…
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…but his regiment was poorly equipped with guns and ammunition and he was soon overpowered and compelled to flee to Kansas. After the ratification of the Cherokee Treaty many of the loyal Cherokee were also compelled to abandon their homes, some seeking shelter in Kansas, while others tramped their way…
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…Railroad, eighty-five ; Dawes Commission eighty, and forty-six persons were employed in connection with the United States Court. A contract had just been awarded for the construction of the $150,000 water plant, the new Katy hotel and depot was completed and the City Council had just purchased the first steam…
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…County Court returns more revenue by half than the District and Superior courts combined. “Judge Enloe V. Vernor has a wider jurisdiction in both civil and criminal cases than the judge of the City Court. He has all the jurisdiction of a committing magistrate in felony cases, original jurisdiction in…
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…was treated by you with every kindness and courtesy, I had repeated talks with many of you. The facts obtained from you in those interviews have been treasured up in my memory, and shall be fully communicated to the Government. In the meantime, however, I desire to say a few…
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…shipped, fin fact, practically all of the corn raised here is fed. Mayes County is well adapted to livestock growing and feeding. Winters are so mild that an open shed is all the shelter needed; summer pastures are cheap, only 40 cents to $1 per acre a year; a great…
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…past six years they have successfully maintained a free county fair which has steadily grown better during each successive year. It is held during one week of September, each year, and aside from the customary horse racing and side shows, it is fast becoming an educational institution, especially for the…
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