Congress passed a law a few years ago providing for the establishment of ten mining experiment stations, at the same time appropriating an annual fund from the Federal treasury for the operation of these stations, all of which were to be under the supervision of the Bureau of Mines. In…
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…is now but five years old, yet the official United States census report of 1920 gave it 9,676 inhabitants. Within its first two years it grew to be a town of 5000 people without any form of municipal government, except that by common consent its commercial club exercised a sort…
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…abundant, supply of good water, first class hotels, handsome brick business blocks and a live Chamber of Commerce composed of 400 active business men. Miami was one of the first towns in Indian Territory in which complete titles to lots could be secured. On the third day of March, 1891,…
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…neighborhood during the summer of 1872 and the two prosperous towns of Checotah and Eufaula were established, although an Indian settlement had been in existence at Eufaula for many years prior to that period. The old Asbury Mission School, located two miles northeast of Eufaula, was established and maintained for…
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…a forty acre tract into town lots adjoining the original ten acre townsite, erected a commodious -frame building on it and tendered it to the commissioners for use as a courthouse. The offer was accepted by the commissioners, but the newcomers who had settled on the original ten acre site…
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…a white man who was running a little corn mill east of Tahlequah, near the Arkansas state line and decided to kill him. Proctor went to the mill where he found the white man in company with his Indian wife who was a distant relative of Proctor. A brief quarrel…
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…James Mooney of the U. S. Bureau of Ethnology gives the following account of the Indian Ghost dance of a hundred years ago : “From the venerable James Wofford of the Cherokee Nation, the author, in 1891, obtained some interesting details in regard to the excitement among the Cherokees. According…
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…Nations, at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, the day and year first above written. “John G. Pratt “Wm. A. Phillips “Edward S. Menagus “Ratified by the National Committee, June 15, 1867. “Smith Christie, “President National Committee. “Jno Young, “Speaker of Council.” In 1872 the Delaware Indians,…
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…companies. The Behring wholesale company began business in 1904 in a small way, but its business has expanded in proportion to the growth of the city and the surrounding country. The daily sales of this company are now in excess of its weekly sales during the first few years of…
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…these amendments provides as follows “All native-born Cherokee, all Indians and whites legally members of the nation by adoption, and all freedmen who have been liberated by voluntary act of their former owners or by law, as well as free colored persons who were in the country at the commencement…
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