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President Roosevelt sends Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock letters from Representative J. S. Sherman and Fulton and requests Hitchcock provide a statement about the Cherokee payment. He chastises Hitchcock and Governor Frank Wayland Higgins for publishing his correspondence with them and discusses the potential political fallout.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-27
Attorney General Bonaparte relays his tentative conclusions to President Roosevelt regarding several potential appointees to permanent federal marshal, attorney, and judiciary positions in the “embryonic State” of Oklahoma (which became a state on November 16, 1907).
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-10-31
John Henry Burford, Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, writes to President Roosevelt to tell him of growing unrest in Oklahoma. Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock has sent secret service agents, including William J. Burns, to investigate Governor Frank C. Frantz. Burford does not know the past private life of Frantz, but attests to his record as a soldier and his present character as governor, and asks that Roosevelt not let his confidence in Frantz be shaken by reports from the Department of the Interior.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-30