147 YEARS AGO
Saturday, December 15,1877
The Indian Food Supply
The rapid disappearance of game from the plains of the West is becoming a serious matter to the Indians and has no little to do with the wars we are having with them.
In one sense this disappearance is the result of the advance of civilization; but is more strictly the result of the same wanton destructiveness of our principles.
WAR NEWS
Turkish advice of the 4th were to the effect that a Russian attack on Kamaril had been repulsed with great loss to the assailants The Turks also claimed to have secured decided advantages in a fight near Tirnova, in which the Russian loss was estimated at 3,000.
Jimmy Todd is Dead
Jimmy Todd, one of Lees favorite scouts in the West Virginia campaign, was killed last week in a dispute with a hunter on the mountain near Staunton, Va.. The Vindicator says of him: “He was the most remarkable hunter in the Valley of Virginia, having killed over 2,700 deer up to 1860, with one old muzzle-loading rifle, which he had had bored so often that you could get your thumb in it. He had killed bears without number. He was a dead shot and could perform the feat of putting a bullet through a hat on the opposite side of a tree by placing an ax blade for the ball to glance.”
120 YEARS AGO Friday, March 9,1906
OKLAHOMA COMES IN, ARIZONA STAYS OUT
Statehood Bill passes Senate With All Provisions for Arizona and New Mexico Cut out Prohibition Wins – Guthrie Loses A special from Washington brings to the territory the joyful news that Oklahoma and Indian territories are to be given statehood at this session of congress.
At 4:30 today, Friday, the joint statehood bill passed the senate with the Foraker amendment by a vote of 42 to 29. A later motion by Senator Burrows carried by a vote of 37 to 35, which struck out all provisions for Arizona and New Mexico and admitted Oklahoma and Indian Territory.
Pleads Guilty to Disposing
Isaac Frazier was before Commissioner Marshall Thursday, charged with introducing and disposing of liquor.
Frazier had been over in Oklahoma and on his return brought a few bottles of the brand prohibited by the federal authorities. He found on his arrival home that he actually had more than was required by one individual, and while down about Crowder, proceeded to divide with an occasional friend when he encountered trouble.
MRS. BUNGEE GIRLS’ MATRON’
Mrs. Bruce McKinley resigned her position as girls’ matron of the Eufaula High School March 4. She had been connected with the school for several years during which time Mr. McKinley was principal of the school, but when he received the appointment of postmaster, both sent in their resignations to the school supervisor, that of Mrs. McKinley to take effect March 4. Their work in the school has been of the highest standard of proficiency and it was with a degree of reluctance that they consented to give up schoolwork.
Mrs. Lulu Bungee, formerly of this place, but who the past year has been girls’ matron of the orphans school at Okmulgee, has been transferred to Eufaula and now occupies the position resigned by Mrs. McKinley.
100 YEARS AGO
Thursday, November 20,1924
ALLOTMENT SUIT IN US. COURT
Lands purchased by Indians from funds derived from their allotments cannot be conveyed by the Indian without the consent of the secretary of the interior, under a decision of the supreme court handed down today according to press dispatches received here.
The opinion was based on the case of Nathaniel Perryman, half-breed Creek Indian of Muskogee, who sold land purchased with restricted money to J.W. Sunderland of Tulsa.
80 YEARS AGO
Thursday, November 9,1944
Roosevelt preferred by local troops
McIntosh county boys and girls in the service, voiced their preference of presidents by voting 150 to 58 for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Bus, Auto Collide South of Eufaula
Thursday night near 9 o’clock an accident occurred about three miles south of Eufaula, when an auto ran into the back of a north bound Santa Fe bus.
William C. Branum, the owner of the car, was given first aid treatment and his father, who sustained severe injuries, was removed to the Osteopathic hospital in Checotah. None of the bus occupants were injured.
REP. KIRKSEY M. NIX RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL
Rep. Kirksey M. Nix, who underwent an appendectomy in a Checotah hospital recently, was able to return home Tuesday.
ELBERT H. JOHNSON RECEIVES WOUNDS IN
GERMANY BATTLE
Word was received that Elbert H. Johnson was wounded in action in Germany October 6. Johnson is a brother of Debs Johnson of Stidham.
WOUNDED IN GERMANY
William E. Fitzer, a McIntosh county boy was wounded in action in Germany October 6, it was announced in Eufaula this week.
CHECOTAH YOUTH GETS AIR MEDAL FOR BRAVERY Lt. WA. Smith of Checotah, now with the 303 Bomber Group, has received the Air Medal and is getting along fine at his base, his parents,, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Smith of Checotah were notified this week.
COLUMBUS CASEY NAMED LOCAL NIGHT WATCHMAN Columbus Casey, popular Eufaula man, was employed this week by the local council to serve as night watchman. Casey who is already on his new job, relieved J.C. Pitts.
Sgt. John Sellers Is Awarded Army Medal First Sgt. John Sellers of Company H., 180th Infantry, 45th Division, received the Bronze Star medal recently for gallantry, in action on the Belfort, France front.
Sergeant Seller sis the son of Mrs. Lula Kidd of Eufaula.
75 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 6,1949
Committees Okay Appropriation For Eufaula Dam Study Washington – Senate and House conferees agreed Tuesday to appropriate $634,920,090 for flood control and navigation projects, ending a four-month deadlock.
The money is for use by the Army engineers during the 12-month period ending next June 30. Included in the agreement was an appropriation of $150,000 for a continued study of the Eufaula reservoir and dam project.
New Bleachers
Eufaula and Stigler fans enjoyed the last football game here with equal pleasure most of the time.
It was the first time most Eufaula fans had enjoyed the privilege of sitting while witnessing a ball game here. The new bleacher seats proved to be an inducement to fans to remain for the entire game.
Water Use Begins Seasonal Decline
Water consumption in Eufaula for the month of September totaled 5,520,000 gallons, a sharp drop from the season’s high mark of nearly 7 million gallons used in August, George Hubble, chairman of the water committee, reported to the city council Monday night.
Of the total pumped to the city reservoir,4,799,000 gallons were sold to consumers and 721,000 gallons were lost fighting fires.
Expenses of the water department for the month totaled $689.82, Hubble reported.
65 YEARS AGO
Thursday, September 3,1959
House Passes Bill On Eufaula Land
The House of Representatives passed and sent to the Sente Monday a bill which would authorize sale of 40 acres of the Eufaula Indian Boarding School’s property to the city of Eufaula.
Officials of Eufaula asked to buy the property, which will be across U.S. Highway 69 from the school’s campus when the highway is relocated, for a housing development or for persons whose homes are in the area to be flooded by the Eufaula reservoir.
The 40-acre tract was purchased by the government for the school, but never has been utilized.
The relocated highway will cut a swathe 300 feet wide across the east side of the tract.
U.S. Moves Tuesday To Condemn More Land A declaration of taking, transferring the Government title to 367.47 acres in the area of the Eufaula reservoir, was filed in Federal Court in Muskogee Tuesday by Assistant United States Attorney Paul M. Brewer.
With the declaration and option for condemnation of the land was filed a Treasury check for $60,932.20, the estimated value of the land.
Many small tracts in McIntosh and Pittsburg counties were included.
DAN GEORGE TO ATTEND NM MILITARY SCHOOL Dan George, son of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe George, Stidham, and a graduate of EHS, 1959, left Monday with his father, Monroe George for Roswell, New Mexico, where Dan enrolled as a freshman at the New Mexico Military Institute, Tuesday, Sept. 2
55 YEARS AGO
Chevrolet Dealership Sold
Thursday, December 18,1969 G.R. “Dick” Van Natten has purchased the Moore Chevrolet Company here, as of Dec. 1 and it is now being operated as Circle Chevrolet Corporation.
Van Natten, a native of Erie, Pa., has been in a family auto business for 32 years. He plans to expand the complete operation, sales and service parts, to provide Eufaula area residents with a complete service for all automotive needs.
Quiet Christmas Expected
With the warm balmy weather it’s hard to realize Christmas is so near – one week from today. Most churches of the city are planning Christmas services for Sunday, Dec. 21, however some may have Christmas Eve services or Christmas mass.
34 YEARS AGO
Thursday, January 9,1992
Bill Fife Takes Oath Of Office As New Creek Nation Chief Overcast skies failed to dampen the spirits of those who turned out Saturday, January 4, to witness the inauguration of Bill Sunday Fife and Shelly Stubbs Crow as Principal Chief and Second Chief of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
The crowd, estimated at over 1,000, gathered on the East steps of the Mound at the Creek Nation headquarters in Okmulgee for the ceremonies which also saw the installation of the Creek Nation National Council, the tribe’s governing body.
Fife, only the second elected Chief of the Creek Nation since statehood, won the tribe’s general election in December and assumed duties as Principal Chief on Monday, Jan. 6
Fire Destroys Hanna Bar; Post Office A Total Loss A fire in Hanna Jan. 2 destroyed a Hanna Bar as well as the Post Office.
Dave Spear, operator of the bar, said he got a call about 1:15 a.m. telling him that smoke was coming from his business.
“I took off down there as fast as I could and when I touched the front door it was hot. All I could do then was call the fire department,” stated Spear.
Hurst Family Files Lawsuit Against Midway High School
A $20,000 lawsuit has been filed against Midway High School by the mother of Jerry Don Hurst, a Checotah High School student who died after drinking a cyanide-laced drink outside CAPS Convenience Store in August of 1991.
The poison was traced to a science room at the Midway School by law enforcement officers.
10 YEARS AGO
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Cops shopping with kids an arresting sight First Shop With a Cop a hit with the kids It looked like a presidential motorcade. A dozen or more police cruisers pulled into the Walmart parking lot in Checotah, emergency lights flashing.
The passengers in the vehicles jumping out may have felt almost as important as the president as the cops chauffeuring them around town escorted them into the building.
Those being treated like royalty were residents from around the county who were facing a bleak Christmas if not for the efforts of more than 20 area law enforcement officers.
More than 50 young people took part in the first Shop With a Cop, which started humbly this month with an idea by some offices with the McIntosh County Sheriff’s Department and took off like gangbusters.
Jail Administrator Mary Martin, Deputy Bud Martin and K9 Narcotics Deputy Kevin Branscum came up with the idea.
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