William McKinley proclaimed certain Indian lands in Oklahoma Territory, including the Creek Nation, open to settlement effective August 6, 1901.
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Tuesday, July 3, 2001
Wednesday, July 3, 1901. Last train robbery of the Wild Bunch.
It is unclear if Butch Cassidy was present or not. The Sundance Kid was not.
1901 First automobile appears to appear in Calgary, Alberta.
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Labels: 1900s, 1901, boats and ships, Conscription, Finland, Imperial Russian Army, Royal Navy, Russia
Friday, June 29, 2001
Saturday, June 29, 1901. Large sailing vessels collide.
George W. Wells.
The only two six masted schooners in the world, the George W. Wells and the Eleanor Percy, collided off the coast of Cape Cod in fair weather. Both would need to be repaired.
Elanor Percy
The Royal Navy received its first dedicated hospital ship, the HMS Maine.
Czar Nicholas confirmed the law incorporating Finish residents into the Russian Imperial Army.
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Tuesday, June 25, 1901. Proclamation 457—Ratifying an Agreement Between the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes and the Muscogee or Creek Tribe of Indians
Monday, June 25, 2001
Tuesday, June 25, 1901. Proclamation 457—Ratfying an Agreement Between the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes and the Muscogee or Creek Tribe of Indians
Proclamation 457—Ratfying an Agreement Between the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes and the Muscogee or Creek Tribe of Indians
June 25, 1901
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Whereas the act of Congress entitled "An act to ratify and confirm an agreement with the Muscogee or Creek tribe of Indians and for other purposes," approved on the 1st day of March, 1901, contains a provision as follows:
That the agreement negotiated between the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes and the Muscogee or Creek tribe of Indians, at the city of Washington on the 8th day of March, nineteen hundred, as herein amended, is hereby accepted, ratified, and confirmed, and the same shall be of full force and effect when ratified by the Creek national council. The principal chief, as soon as practicable after the ratification of this agreement by Congress, shall call an extra session of the Creek national council and lay before it this agreement and the act of Congress ratifying it, and if the agreement be ratified by said council, as provided in the constitution of said nation, he shall transmit to the President of the United States the act of council ratifying the agreement, and the President of the United States shall thereupon issue his proclamation declaring the same duly ratified, and that all the provisions of this agreement have become law according to the terms thereof: Provided, That such ratification by the Creek national council shall be made within ninety days from the approval of this act by the President of the United States,
And whereas the principal chief of the said tribe has transmitted to me an act of the Creek national council entitled "An act to ratify and confirm an agreement between the United States and the Muscogee Nation of Indians of the Indian Territory" approved the 25th day of May, 1901, which contains a provision as follows:
That said agreement, amended, ratified and confirmed by the Congress of the United States, as set forth in said act of Congress approved March 1, 1901, is hereby accepted, ratified and confirmed on the part of the Muscogee Nation and on the part of the Muscogee or Creek tribe of Indians constituting said Nation, as provided in said act of Congress and as provided in the Constitution of said Nation, and the Principal Chief is hereby authorized to transmit this act of the National Council ratifying said agreement to the President of the United States as provided in said act of Congress.
And whereas paragraph thirty-six of said agreement contains a provision as follows:
This provision shall not take effect until after it shall have been separately and specifically approved by the Creek national council and by the Seminole general council; and if not approved by either, it shall fail altogether, and be eliminated from this agreement without impairing any other of its provisions.
And whereas there has been presented to me an act of the Creek national council entitled "An act to disapprove certain provisions, relating to Seminole citizens, in the agreement between the Muscogee Nation and the United States, ratified by Congress March 1, 1901," approved the 25th day of May, 1901, by which the provisions of said paragraph thirty-six are specifically disapproved:
Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, do hereby declare said agreement, except paragraph thirty-six thereof, duly ratified and that all the provisions thereof, except said paragraph thirty-six which failed of ratification by the Creek national council, became law according to the terms thereof upon the 25th day of May, 1901.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 25th day of June, A.D. 1901, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth.
Signature of William McKinley
WILLIAM McKINLEY
By the President:
DAVID J. HILL,
Acting Secretary of State.
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Monday, June 24, 1901. Oil in Oklahoma.
Labels: 1900s, 1901, Creek people, Cuba, Disease, Heroes, Medicine, Oklahoma, Oklahoma (Tulsa), Philippine Army, Philippine Insurrection, Philippines
Sunday, June 24, 2001
Monday, June 24, 1901. Oil in Oklahoma.
A mere thirty days after the Creek National Council had ratified an agreement to cede its land to the Federal government, oil was struck on those lands in Oklahoma Territory at Red Fork.
The gusher would be responsible for the transformation of Tulsa into a major city.
Philippine General Juan Cailles surrendered to the United States along with 650 of his men.
American nurse Clara Maass, serving in Cuba, volunteered to be bitten by a malarial mosquito as part of medical research. She'd contract the disease and die. She was 25 years old.
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Saturday, June 22, 1901. Mixed loyalties.
Labels: 1900s, 1901, Canada, Crime, Heroes, Loyalist, Ontario, Ontario (Niagara Falls), Texas, Texas (Laredo), War of 1812
Friday, June 22, 2001
Saturday, June 22, 1901. Mixed loyalties.
Gregorio Cortez, betrayed by a friend, was captured without incident, near Laredo, Texas. the friend, Jesus Gonzalez, received a $1,000 reward.
A monument was placed on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls to Laura Second, an American born immigrant to Canada who traveled twenty miles to warn the British of an impending American attack.
Contrary to what Americans generally imagine, many Americans retained strong British loyalties in the 1810s and quite a few were sympathetic to the British cause.
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Friday, June 21, 1901. The first governor of the Philippines.
Thursday, June 21, 2001
Friday, June 21, 1901. The first governor of the Philippines.
President McKinley established a civil government in the Philippines and appointed William Howard Taft as its first governor.
Japanese statesman Hoshi Tōru, formerly the Speaker of Japan's House of Representatives and the Japanese Minister to the United States, was stabbed to death by Iba Shotaro, a bank manager and former college dean.
In something debatable to this day, the first waters from the Colorado River arrived in the Imperial Valley in the southern California desert through a complicated diversion system.
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Thursday, June 20, 1901. Boers proclaim for independence.
Wednesday, June 20, 2001
Thursday, June 20, 1901. Boers proclaim for independence.
South African President Schalk Burger and Orange Free State President Marinus Theunis issued a proclamation that neither nation would accept a settlement with the British resulting in the loss of independence of their countries.
Pittsburgh Pirate Honus Wagner became the first major league baseball player to "steal home" twice during the same game.
The Philippine Commission voted to make English and Spanish the official languages of the Philippines.
A court decided in favor of viewing rights to Lake Michigan.
June 20, 1901 -- Chicago Lake Front Sees Another Lawsuit
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Tuesday, June 18, 1901. Insulting the Chinese, Anastasia born.
Monday, June 18, 2001
Tuesday, June 18, 1901. Insulting the Chinese, Anastasia born.
The ambassadors to China from the Eight-Nation Alliance voted against allowing Chinese Army soldiers to return to Beijing, a fundamentally insulting vote.
Princess Anastasia was born.
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Thursday, June 13, 1901. Murderous logic.Labels: 1900s, 1901, Boer Armies, Boer War, Cape Colony, Education, Ethnicities, South Africa, United Kingdom, War Crimes
Wednesday, June 13, 2001
Thursday, June 13, 1901. Murderous logic.
Boer General P. H. Kritzinger authorized Boer troops to shoot any blacks who were riding a horse without the permission of an employer. The illegal order was based on the concept that such Cape Colony blacks must be spies.
The London School of economics was incorporated.
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Wednesday, June 12, 1901. Corrido de Gregorio Cortez
Labels: 1900s, 1901, 1910s, 1913, 1916, Crime, Equine Transportation, Ethnicities, Mexican Revolution, Music, Personalities, police, Spanish language
Tuesday, June 12, 2001
Wednesday, June 12, 1901. Corrido de Gregorio Cortez
The 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, Australian troops, were attacked at Steenkoolspruit and sustained 18 men killed and 42 wounded, their biggest loss of life during the Boer War.
Cuba voted to become an American protectorate.
Gregorio Cortez shot and killed Karnes County Sheriff W. T. "Brack" Morris, who had fired in the gunfight first, after a gunfight erupted from a mistranslation of an interrogation between the two men over a missing horse, with the issue the Spanish distinction between a stud and a mare. Cortez fled on foot and later killed Gonzales County Sheriff Robert M. Glover and posse member Henry J. Schabel two days later.
He would later be captured thirteen days later and sentenced to life imprisonment. Some charges were reversed on appeal and he was pardoned in 1913. He became a folk hero in the region with both a song and a movie made about him.
Cortez would die in 1916 at age 40. He fought in the Mexican Revolution on the side of Huerta.
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Thursday, June 7, 2001
Friday, June 7, 1901. An example of noble wealth.
Andrew Carnegie transferred $10,000,000 worth of his U.S. Steel bond holdings to improve universities in his Scotland, with half of the money going to a scholarship fund.
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Monday, June 3, 1901. 9th Infantry arrives in Manila, Boers attack Willowmore.
Sunday, June 3, 2001
Monday, June 3, 1901. 9th Infantry arrives in Manila, Boers attack Willowmore.
Elements of the 9th Infantry Regiment arrived in Manila after being withdrawn from China.
German troop commander Count Alfred von Waldersee departed Beijing with a huge ceremony.
Boer commandos under Commandant Scheeper attacked Willowmore, Cape Colony, but were driven back after an all day battle.
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Sunday, June 2, 1901. Frederick Russell Burnham.
Saturday, June 2, 2001
Sunday, June 2, 1901. Frederick Russell Burnham.
American solider of fortune Cpt. Frederick Russell Burnham was left for dead by Boers when his horse was killed and fell on him while he was working to dynamite a bridge. He ultimately came to and pulled off the detonation the next day.
Burnham was an adventurer who had fought in American range wars before relocating to Africa, as it was not settled. He'd fought in various colonial wars for the British prior to the Boer War. He returned to the United States to participate in the Klondike Gold Rush and then attempted to join the U.S. Army for the Spanish American War, but it ended before he could pull that off. He was recruited by Theodore Roosevelt for his planned all volunteer unit for World War One, but of course that unit was not formed. He became involved in the oil industry in the 1920s, which resulted in him becoming well to do.
He was heavily involved in the Boy Scouts, through his friend Lord Baden Powell, and a hunter and conservationist. Surprisingly, given his lifestyle, he was married for the entire period of his adventures and took his wife and children along with him. Upon his first wife's death he remarried while in his 80s, at which time his second wife was in her 50s. He died in 1947 at age 86.
Now that's a strenuous life.
General Katsura Tarō became the new Prime Minister of Japan.
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Saturday, June 1, 1901. Indian Motorcycle introduced.
Friday, June 1, 2001
Saturday, June 1, 1901. Indian Motorcycle introduced.
The first Indian Motorcycle prototype was demonstrated in Springfield, Massachusetts.
It was a Saturday.
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Thursday, May 30, 1901. Truman graduates high school.
Labels: 1900s, 1901, Education, Harry S. Truman, Pennsylvania, Politics, Socialism, William McKinley
Wednesday, May 30, 2001
Thursday, May 30, 1901. Truman graduates high school.
Seventeen year old Harry S. Truman graduated from Independence High School in Independence, Missouri. He went on to attend business college the following fall and spring, but ceased his studies at that point. An application to West Point was rejected.
William McKinley returned to the White House after a month long tour of the United States.
The Socialist Party of Pennsylvania held their first convention.
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Wednesday, May 29, 1901. A mounted Boer charge.
Tuesday, May 29, 2001
Wednesday, May 29, 1901. A mounted Boer charge.
Boers under Gen. Jan Kemp made a mounted charge on British yeomanry at Vlakfontein, killing a large number of them. Up until that point Boer commandos had normally fought as mounted infantry.
Featherweight champion Terry McGovern took on Aurelio Herrera at the Mechanic’s Pavilion in San Francisco. McGovern knocked out Herrera in the fifth round.
McGovern.
He fought a huge number of fights during his career, which contributed to his death at age 37 by which time he was suffering from mental illness.
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Monday, May 27, 1901. The status of U.S. territories.
Sunday, May 27, 2001
Monday, May 27, 1901. The status of U.S. territories.
It was Memorial Day in the United States.
The Supreme Court, in spite of the holiday, issues its opinion in DeLima v. Bidwell and Downes v. Bidwell holding that territories held by the US, such as Peurto Rico, were not part of it but were not foreign territories either.
A mine explosion near Dayton, Tennessee killed twenty one miners.
Boer commandos captured a British outpost manned by the Midland Mounted Rifles.
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Friday, May 24, 1901. British concentration camps.
Thursday, May 24, 2001
Friday, May 24, 1901. British concentration camps.
British social activist Emily Hobhouse returned from a trip to South Africa with photographic proof the British were keeping Boers of all ages and genders in concentration camps where they were suffering horrific depravations.
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Tuesday, May 21, 1901. Speed Limit.
Monday, May 21, 2001
Tuesday, May 21, 1901. Speed Limit.
Connecticut passed speed limit legislation, 12 mph in towns, 15 mph out of towns, becoming the first state to do so.
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Monday, May 20, 1901. The Two Americans
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