Davis News 2000 Jul 5 - Murray County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Deborah 13 Oct 2005 Return to Murray County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/murray/murray.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Chigley, Crossett Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UaB.2ACI/1365 The Davis News, Wednesday, July 5, 2000 -- Page 2 posted the following infoamation: "100 YEARS AGO: Private Mose CHIGLEY of Davis was reappointed a U. S. Indian Policeman charged with preserving the peace, suppressing crime, keeping the Union Agency fully informed of persons taking or stealing timber from the reservation, setting fires to prarie or forests, introducing or selling intoxicating liquor or having same in their possession, herding or driving cattle on or through any of the nations of Five Tribes by non-citizens without permission. He could also examine boxes he suspected of containing intoxicating liquor. The results of an election to dissolve the incorporation of Davis had 16 more in favor of dissolving it. 'The pros are not satisfied and say that many illegal votes were cast by the antis and that the election will be contested. Lawyers are engaged on both sides,' Editor Fay CROSSETT said. The ballot box was being stored in a vault. CROSSETT wrote: Now You Know. If you know an item kindly tell us about it. Every week we tell what we know. Every week we know that you know things that we don't know. And we know that you know that we don't know, and still don't tell us. Now, if you tell us what you know, then we'll tell you what we know, and also what you know, and then our readers will know what they and what you know and also what we know, and what you know we know we know, and what you know we know you know. Five instructors were added to the corps of instruction at University of Oklahoma. 'The privileges of the University are open to people of the Indian Territory the same as the rest of Oklahoma, CROSSETT said. Typed exactly as spelled and as printed with the exception of capitalization of surnames. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Murray County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/murray/murray.htm