Oklahoma--Indian Territory

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethan Allen Hitchcock

President Roosevelt comments on the difference in the statements of United States Geological Survey Director Charles D. Walcott and William Cameron, Mine Inspector of Indian Territory regarding the value of coal in the Indian Territory fields, and asks Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock if there is anything they need to do about the matter at present.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-04

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Joseph A. Gill

President Roosevelt appoints Judge Gill a member of the board which will apportion the Indian Territory into fifty-five districts, from which delegates will be selected to attend a convention to create a constitution for the proposed state of Oklahoma. Roosevelt has designated Judge William H. H. Clayton as the other judge authorized to be given this duty.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-22

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. H. Clayton

President Roosevelt appoints Judge Clayton a member of the board which will apportion the Indian Territory into fifty-five districts, from which delegates will be selected to attend a convention to create a constitution for the proposed state of Oklahoma. Roosevelt has designated Judge Joseph A. Gill as the other judge authorized to be given this duty.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-22

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethan Allen Hitchcock

President Roosevelt sends Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock copies of the text of several letters concerning grants of land and oil and gas leases held by Richard C. Adams. He tells Hitchcock that it would be unfair to deprive Adams of privileges he had been assured of by one of these earlier letters, allowing him to lease 9600 acres rather than the usual 4800 acres, and therefore directs that newly amended regulations not apply to Adams’s leases.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-01

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Moody

President Roosevelt would like to consult with Attorney General Moody regarding why they chose to not reappoint C. W. Raymond as a judge in Indian Territory, as Roosevelt has forgotten the reason (although he comments that he has a vague memory of Raymond being labeled “a cantankerous crank” by the bar). When Roosevelt spoke with Raymond recently, Raymond mentioned that he wished Ernest L. Kistler could be appointed District Attorney instead of the incumbent William M. Mellette.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-05-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Emory Smith

President Roosevelt asks Charles Emory Smith if the enclosed letter to Attorney General William H. Moody covers Judge Hosea Townsend’s case. Smith should tell his friends that, like in Alice Through the Looking-Glass, “what the President tells them three times is true–and I have said this thirty times three.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-03-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Moody

President Roosevelt tells Attorney General Moody that if Judge Hosea Townsend’s character and career justify it, he should continue as a judge in Indian Territory whether or not it becomes a state. Roosevelt forwards a letter written by former Postmaster Charles Emory Smith to Moody.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-03-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethan Allen Hitchcock

Following the report from Burns, President Roosevelt notified Attorney General William H. Moody that he would appoint Grosvenor A. Porter to succeed Benjamin H. Colbert as United States marshal in Indian Territory. Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock to have his department make specific recommendations for actions that should be taken regarding the matters discussed in Burns’s report.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-23

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Moody

President Roosevelt has read the report that Burns submitted to Secretary of the Interior Ethan A. Hitchcock. He believes that two men in place in Indian Territory, District Attorney George Richard Walker and U.S. Marshal Grosvenor A. Porter, could conduct the investigation. He asks Attorney General Moody what action he recommends.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-20

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Chester I. Long

President Roosevelt has concluded that it is not appropriate to appoint Mr. Allen in the Indian Territory as he does not have the experience to make him fit for service. He has appointed Edward W. C. Humphrey because he is the best man from the standpoint of the Native Americans. The next year and a half will be “critical” for the Native Americans, and Roosevelt wants to consider their interests.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-22

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Albert J. Beveridge

President Roosevelt is pleased with how Indiana has done and tells Senator Beveridge he will congratulate John C. Shaffer when he sees him. It seems evident to Roosevelt that there is “an active intrigue” against joint statehood of the four Territories, which he will nonetheless recommend in his upcoming message.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-08

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles J. Bonaparte

President Roosevelt thanks Charles J. Bonaparte for his vote and explains his plans for the postmastership in Baltimore, Maryland. He wants to get the best man possible and would like to discuss the situation with Bonaparte in December if he cannot suggest someone offhand. The president also asks Bonaparte for his opinion on an enclosed letter, and inquires if Bonaparte can get Jacob H. Hollander’s opinions as well.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-23

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William D. Bynum

President Roosevelt tells William D. Bynum that he has already been committed to Judge Thomas C. Humphrey for the judgeship in the Indian Territory, but offers his assistance in future vacancies.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-04-28

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Philander C. Knox

President Roosevelt would like to nominate Judge Edward W. C. Humphrey to a judgeship in Indian Territory. Humphrey has been endorsed by Judge Iglehart and Senator Beveridge.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-04-22

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Merrill Edwards Gates

Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock and Francis E. Leupp are opposed to the bill referred to by Merrill Edwards Gates. Roosevelt is also unaware of any men who have been “pointedly discredited by recent investigations” being given positions in Indian Territory. He asks Gates to back up his accusations with facts.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-04-19

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Alice Robertson

President Roosevelt is further encouraged by Alice Robertson to reappoint J. George Wright as an Indian reservation Inspector.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-04-04

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Tams Bixby

President Roosevelt would like Tams Bixby to discuss the creation of a forest reserve in Indian Territory with Gifford Pinchot.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-06-21

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Albert J. Beveridge

President Roosevelt believes that John Burton has acted well and has a “special and peculiar” point regarding the marshal in Indian Territory.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-05-22

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethan Allen Hitchcock

President Roosevelt has been informed that Tams Bixby returned to Indian Territory ten days ago.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-05-22

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Knute Nelson

President Roosevelt wants Tams Bixby back in Indian Territory as soon as possible.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-05-19