Monday, July 15, 1901. Tom Horn goes visiting.

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1901    Tom Horn, returned from Army service in the Spanish American War, and employed by John Coble, member of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, visited Jim and Dora Miller's ranch near Iron Mountain, as well as Glendolene Kimmel, the 22 year old teacher at the Iron Mountain School.

The Millers and Horn, including the Miller children, engaged in target shooting later that day, with Horn shooting his .30-30 Winchester.

Kimmel would go on to be a defense witness for Horn at his trial for the murder of Willie Nickell, one of her students.  That would end up in her being charged with perjury, although the charges were dismissed.  She moved to Missouri and thereafter lived with her family in Hannibal.  She moved with her mother to California in 1913, and lived there until her death in 1949 at age 68.  She never married.

The Kimmel story has been a feature of the Tom Horn legend from nearly the beginning, but in truth she had very little connection with Horn, having met him on a very limited basis.  On this occasion, he told stories, and given his role as a frontier scout and in the Spanish American War, he had stories to tell.  But Horn was nearly 40 years old on this occasion and Kimmel, a single woman in Wyoming, would have been sought after by nearly any single male in the region.

She would claim that one of the Miller boys claimed the murder, which is certainly possible even if he didn't.  She swore an affidavit to that effect.  She also wrote an unpublished book on Horn defending him.  While that might show a strong degree of interest in him, it didn't rise to the level of a romantic relationship as suggested in later day.

A better view would be that based on her limited interaction with him she took an interest in his fate, and felt honor bound after hearing a confession of the murder, whether it was true or not.

Indeed, the more surprising things is that she never married.

The Edison Manufacturing Company attained a monopoly over the production of American motion pictures after a federal court in New York ruled in its favor in a suit against the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company for patent infringement.

The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers went on strike.

Christy Mathewson pitched no-hitter for the Giants against St. Louis

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Saturday, July 13, 1901. A good effort.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Aircraft, Art, Automobiles, France, France (Paris), William McKinley

Saturday, July 13, 1901. A good effort.

Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont became the first person to fly around the Eiffel Tower three times, a requirement for winning ta prize of 100,000 francs sponsored by oilman Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe.

He didn't get it as he failed to timely complete a round trip between the Longchamp Racecourse and the Tower within less than half an hour. 

William McKinley became the first President to ride in an automobile.

It was a Saturday, and the Saturday Evening Post ran this odd cover.

The accompanying article was "An American Invasion".

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Wednesday, July 10, 1901. Registering for 160 acres of Oklahoma.

Labels: 1870s, 1876, 1900s, 1901, Agrarianism, China, Crime, Minnesota, Minnesota (Northfield), Northfield Minnesota Raid, Oklahoma, Qing Dynasty, The James Gang

Wednesday, July 10, 1901. Registering for 160 acres of Oklahoma.

Registration opened for the Oklahoma Territory land lottery at 9:00 a.m in El Reno and at Lawton.  By 6:00 p.m. on July 26, when registration closed, 167,000 people had spent the $25 registration fee to be eligible for one of 13,000 tracts of land of 160 acres each, with drawing to begin on July 29.

Cole and Jim Younger were granted parole after almost 25 years in the Minnesota State Prison in Stillwater, Minnesota for their attempted robbery of a bank in the James Gang's Northfield Minnesota on September 7, 1876.

Chinese Imperial troops were defeated by the Allied Villagers Society at Chichou.

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Sunday, July 7, 1901. McKinley opens more of Oklahoma.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Native Americans, Oklahoma, William McKinley

Sunday, July 7, 1901. McKinley opens more of Oklahoma.

William McKinley proclaimed certain Indian lands in Oklahoma Territory, including the Creek Nation, open to settlement effective August 6, 1901.

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Wednesday, July 3, 1901. Last train robbery of the Wild Bunch.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Montana, The Wild Bunch

Wednesday, July 3, 1901. Last train robbery of the Wild Bunch.

Today In Wyoming's History: July 3: 1901:  The Wild Bunch rob a Great Northern train near Wagner Montana, their last robbery in the U.S.

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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Saturday, June 29, 1901. Large sailing vessels collide.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, boats and ships, Conscription, Finland, Imperial Russian Army, Royal Navy, Russia

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

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Blog Mirror, Creek people, Five Civilized Tribes, Native Americans, William McKinley

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

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

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.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Agriculture, California, California (Imperial Valley), Crime, Japan, Philippines, United States, William Howard Taft, William McKinley

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.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, baseball, Boer War, Court, Illinois (Chicago), Lake Michigan, languages, Orange Free State, Philippines, South Africa, The Boer Republic

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.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Boxer Rebellion, China (Beijing), Chinese Army, Eight Nation Alliance, Monarchy, Qing Dynasty, Russia

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

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

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.

The move, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, is excellent.

Cortez would die in 1916 at age 40.  He fought in the Mexican Revolution on the side of Huerta.

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Friday, June 7, 1901. An example of noble wealth.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Andrew Carnegie, philanthropy, Scotland

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.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Army, Boer War, Boxer Rebellion, Cape Colony, China, German Army

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.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, 1940s, 1947, Alaska, Boer War, Boy Scouts, British Army, Conservation, hunting, Japan, Klondike Gold Rush, Personalities, Robert Baden-Powell, Soldiers of fortune, Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Art, Industry, Labor unrest, Motorcycles, Transportation

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