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Indian Journal Stories from the past
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June 19, 2024
Indian Journal Stories from the past
By JERRY FINK MANAGING EDITOR,

The Eufaula

147 YEARS AGO

Thursday, April 26, 1877

Communicated Arkansas District, April 20, 1877

Editor Journal: – The criminal court for Arkansas District, Mvskoke Nation, closed a few days ago. Tobe McIntosh (colored) was the only prisoner. Four indictments against him for larceny. He was tried on the first and acquitted – on the second, and in spite of all the efforts made by his counsels Sugar George and William Frank was found guilty; sentenced assesed and received 50 lashes on the bare back. Tried on the third, found guilty, and received 100 lashes; after which court was dismissed to allow him to make opportunity to make preparation for the remaining charges. If what we hear of the case is true, we think it quite likely that he will be set up by the side of a stump; but Sugar George still works and who knows what will be proven in T. McIntosh’ behalf at the time of trial.

EUFAULA

A Brief History

Midway between the northern and southern boundary of the Indian Territory, near the 35th parallel about 100 miles from the western line of the Arkansas, the north Fork of the Canadian river joins the main stream, a little farther east they mingle with the waters of the Arkansas, Verdigris, the Grand and the Illinois rivers.

In the angle formed by the meeting of the Canadian and its North Fork, six miles to the west, on the line of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway nestles the neat little Forest City, Eufaula, a name dear to all the Muskokes, an ever present reminder of the old nation, east of the Mississippi.

••••• 120 YEARS AGO

Friday, September 12, 1903

KILLED BY OFFICER

Passengers on the west bound Chowtaw train Monday night were shocked by a tragedy which seems to have occurred without any provocation. F.M. Short, a newly appointed deputy marshal at Howe, shot and killed Tom McElvane, an Indian miner at Howe, who was considered a pretty decent sort of a fellow.

It seems that the whole party had been spending Labor Day at Hartford, Ark., and the deputy as well as some other members of the party were well under the influence of liquor. Some sort of row arose, and the deputy paraded the train with a drawn revolver in his hand. He got into an altercation with McElvane and shot him in the head.

McElavne was on his knee when the shot was fired and tried to arise to his feet when he was shot in the breast by the drunken deputy.

Toad’s Bite is Fatal

Guthrie, Ok., Sept. 8 – Annie Fredericks died near Alva yesterday in great agony after suffering two days from the bite of a horned toad. She was traveling overland with her parents.

••••• 100 YEARS AGO

Thursday, May 15, 1924

INDIAN SCHOOL WILL HOLD COMMENCEMENT

Commencement exercise for the graduating class of the Eufaula Boarding school for Indian girls will be held the night of My 29. The annual school play will be presented May 28. Miss Mary Morley is superintendent of the school.

DENIES OLD EUFAULA SCHOOL WILL CLOSE Emphatic denial that the Eufaula Boarding school for Indian girls was to be discontinued on account of the lack of funds was made today by Herbert C. Calhoon, supervisor of Indian School.

Eufaula Wins Thrilling Ball Game from McAlester Sunday In one of the most exciting baseball games witnessed in Eufaula for some time, the local boys defeated the fast-fighting team from McAlester here Sunday n a ninth-inning whirlwind finish, 6 to 5.

••••• 80 YEARS AGO

Thursday, May 4, 1944

COUNTY BOYS LEAVE EUFAULA NAVY/ARMY

Forty-five McIntosh County boys left Eufaula Monday for Tulsa, where they were inducted into the United States Navy, according Mayor Washington Grayson, clerk of the county draft board.

Twenty-five more boys in the county will leave here this week for Fort Sill, where they will join the United States Army.

James Sulphur Made First Lieutenant

With The Fifth Army, Italy – Second Lt. James Sulphur of Eufaula recently was promoted to first lieutenant. He is leader of a heavy machinegun platoon, an infantry unit of the 45th Thunderbird Division with the Fifth Army in Italy.

A painter in civilian life, Lt. Sulphur has served variously as a gunner in a heavy machinegun crew, squad leader, section sergeant and platoon sergeant.

He was given a battlefield commission last Sept. 4, several days after he made the invasion landing at Salerno, Italy.

EUFAULA HIT HARD BY $45,000 FIRE

Damage resulting from a fire that broke out in the projection booth of the Palace theater here Saturday night and spread through adjoining buildings has been estimated at approximately $45,000.

The theater, owned by Roy Creasons’s and Homa’s Leader, a general mercantile store and the oldest business in Eufaula, owned by S.F. Homan, were completely destroyed, with considerable damage from smoke and water done to the Harkey’s Variety store and the Pipkins Drug Co. store.

••••• 75 YEARS AGO

Thursday, April 7, 1949

E.G. Mouser is Again Elected Superintendent E.G. Mouser was reelected superintendent of Eufaula Public Schools for the 1949-59 school year by the board of education at a meeting Friday, April 1.

County Negro War Heroes Returned

Reburial rites for Willie McJenkins, first Negro World War II hero to be returned to McIntosh county, were held at Huttonville this morning.

Rites for a second Negro youth who gave his life in World War II will be held at Huttonville Saturday. Henry Murrell and McJenkins are believed to have been the only two Negro soldiers from McIntosh county to lose their lives in combat during the war.

••••• 65 YEARS AGO

Thursday, February 26, 1959

School Typewriter Decision Is Reversed In a decision handed down last week, the Oklahoma Supreme Court reversed a district court decision in the case of the Howard Typewriter company against the Eufaula board of education.

The case arose several years ago when the typewriter company supposedly delivered some typewriters to the Eufaula high school building. The school claimed the typewriters were never received, but the typewrite firm says they were delivered but a custodian left the building unlocked, and the typewriters were stolen.

M.F. Towry was superintendent of schools at the time. The district court ruled the school must pay for the typewriters. But the reversed decision says the school was not liable sincere there was no legal and void contract.

Curry Engineering Co. Survey Around City The Army Corps of Engineers notified Guy Swadley Jr., mayor, Monday of this week, that Curry Engineering company of Muskogee had been awarded the contract for an instrument survey of lots and land in and near Eufaula to determine just how much will be required for acquisition for Eufaula lake.

••••• 18 YEARS AGO

Thursday, March 2, 2006

Tourist Center in the Works

At one time, Branson, Missouri was a quaint little town.

In 2002, the Lake Eufaula Association exercised the same kind of vision developers of Branson had.

LEA purchased three acres of land located on Business Highway 69 from an individual.

“We got it paid for and received the loan release from the bank on Sept. 9. 2004, my birthday,” said Joe Ward, LEA executive director.

LEA purchased the land with the intentions of building a tourist information center.

Open House Slated at County jail Sheriff hopes to open citizens’ eyes

McIntosh County Sheriff Terry Jones has told people about the problems at the jail. He’s told people about the crumbling walls, about the lack of space. He’s spoken about the escapes, about the security problems. He’s even taken the newspaper on a guided tour of the dilapidated facility.

Now he’s asking for people to come and see for themselves.

The jail, which was bult in the 1920s, is not only falling apart, it’s using an obsolete security system: a 10-inch, black and white security monitor that only captures a tenth of the main area at a time.

••••• 10 YEARS AGO

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Winter storm slows down county

McIntosh County weathered the weather fairly well this week, escaping any major power outages, wrecks, injuries, fires or other catastrophes associated with the winter storm that turned the area into deep freeze Sunday and Monday.

About an inch of ice was on the ground during the severest part of the weather, covered by another inch or more of snow.

Judge reprimands mental health agency District Judge Thomas Bartheld called Green Country Mental Health Services on the carpet in open court Thursday for failure to deliver competency evaluations of jail inmates awaiting trial in a

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