Volume 9 , Issue 36

1905 News - News From The Capital

Since we are coming into the early weeks of September, 2007 and moving closer to the time of Oklahoma's Centennial celebration, we found another old newspaper article that appeared in The Oklahoman, dated September 1, 1905, on pg. 2, with the headlines: News At the Capital.

It concerns school land lessees around the Cleveland area of the Oklahoma & Indian Territories who were having problems of land being jumped by oil prospectors. The rest of the story is below:

"Governor Tom Ferguson received a query early today, from the attorney for the school land lessees, near Cleveland, whose land has been jumped by oil prospectors. The attorney represents 30 of these lessees, and he says that if it is lawful to stake out mineral claims on these lands, that the present lessees want the preference right to stake off much claims and not have their holdings for which they have paid, jumped by outsiders.

Although Governor Ferguson has not yet heard from Secretary Hitchcock, relative as to what stops to take against the prospectors who jumped the lands, yet he has notified the attorney for the lesses to begin immediate action in the courts to eject the jumpers, and also to lay the matter before United States Attorney Speed."
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