Volume 15 , Issue 34

NW Okie's Corner

[Hurt sisters: Anna, Emma, Tillie and Mary.]

Things are beginning to settled in around here while I do some catching up on medical checkups and updating of our websites. Also heard via email from a distant HURT cousin, Melissa Prohaska from Omaha, Nebraska. I have since added the below information to my Paris/Hurt genealogy at ancestry.com (Paris Pioneers-Master file. The image on the left is just one of many HURT family photos that Melissa sent me.

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The Bender Family

We did a Google search for "Kate Bender" and found the following The Bender Family, Photos at Murderpedia.

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Duchess of Weaselskin

"Wilderness, where earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." - Wilderness Act, 1964.

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One Hundred Years Ago - 9 September 1913, Tuesday

Looking back through old news archives from Oklahoma, especially The Daily Ardmoreite, dated 9 September 1913, Tuesday, "Drill For Oil Near Sulphur," we find that a bunch of New Yorkers were buying up leases near Sulphur, Oklahoma (midway between Ardmore and Sulphur, to be exact).

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Property Owners Interested In Proposed Interurban (1913)

Continuing looking through The Daily Ardmoreite dated 9 September 1913, Tuesday, we read the headlines: "Property Owners Become Interested Proposed Interurban Can Be Built."

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Osage Indians & Labette County (Kansas)

It was the aftermath of the America Civil War, and the United States government forcibly relocated Osage Indians from Labette county, Kansas to a designated "Indian Territory" (what would later become Oklahoma). The land formerly occupied by the Osage was made available to non-Indian homesteaders. Labette county is in the southeast corner of Kansas.

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