This information is offered FREE and taken from http://www.okgenweb.net/~okcaddo/ If you have arrived here using a pay site please know that this information has been donated by volunteers in a joint effort to provide FREE genealogy material online. Caddo Co. OK - Newspaper The Minco Minstrel Submitted by Nancy Charlton ============================================================================== 23 Jul 1893 A. M. Dunn the gallant forwarding agent for the government post at Anadarko has taken flight from Minco and is now located at Chickasha in obedience to orders from the interior department. In the future the government supplies for Anadarko will be forwarded from there instead of Minco. ============================================================================== MINCO MINSTREL July 28, 1893 Frank Clayton brought in this week a sample of millet grown on a sod field on the Shirley claim just over the line in the Wichita reservation. It is a splendid growth and adds one more evidence to the fact that this country will produce almost anything with only half an opportunity. B.C. Townsend, the brick workman who put up the foundation and walls of the bank and store building, has done a handsome job and a permanent one, every portion of his work shows the care and attention of a man who thoroughly understands his business and allows nothing shoddy or inferior to enter in the work. Mr. Townsend has shown himself easily able to satisfactorily meet the demand for the fine work in brick and stone. =============================================================================== 4 AUG 1893 Agent Brown, of Anadarko, passed through Wednesday to attend court at El Reno in a suit to recover the cattle recently seized by Officers to satisfy a dept against Jim Deere. John Downing and Jim Deere's wife joined the agent here and went on with him as witness in the case. MINCO MINSTREL 4 Aug. 1893 Thomas Murphy, brother of John Murphy, the bootmaker, is now here for a while and may remain. He is of the same trade, and the two brothers are now working away together, Thomas Murphy comes from Dallas, Texas, their old home. The Government has been monkeying with the Wichita and Caddo Indians ever since 1872 and had never given them any right yet to the land they occupy, and there is not evidence of any intention to ever give them a title. Now what are you going to do about that? Boomerism for the sake of boomerism, may be reprehensible; but intelligent agitation for legitimate business proposes in a very proper use of nerve and judgement. The Minstrel is getting it's crowbar firmly attached to the Wichita reservation and will yank the thing wide open when the time comes. s. If the government would recognize the title of any Indian people of the Wichita reservation the case would be different, but the government will not do that. The present agitation, and the attempts to follow, will bring matters to a crisis. Our government must say its say and quit monkeying, all hands are getting weary of double dealing, the reservation is a public land and settlers have better right than cattle, and this fact is liable to be demonstrated in a short time. Mr. Casey lives with his wife, and children in a small box house south of Nelson's blacksmith shop. He is hauling hay and storing it in the livery stable near by. Last Monday his team was standing hitched to the wagon just after the wagon had been unloaded, the team suddenly took fright at something and started home as fast as their heels could clatter, wagon and all; Mrs. Casey saw them coming and tried to turn them away from the house, but was struck and knocked down though not badly hurt. Both horses struck the house full and fair and were thrown back by the recoil, while the weight and velocity of the wagon and heavy frame tore the wagon tongue loose, from the gearing and drove it through the wall of the house to the double tree. A bed was upset, and a cradle with a little child was struck and and turned over, but the child was not hurt. Such a sudden and general wreck of things could hardly occur again without somebody getting killed. The house looks like it had been visited by a cyclone ============================================================================== MINCO MINSTREL 11 August 1893 Mrs. Murphy of Anadarko, who is having a nice cottage built just west built just west of the church, came over last Tuesday with her little granddaughter, to have a look after fitting the house up. The Wichita reservation association is growing in members right along. It holds a meeting on every Monday night, and after the next meeting there is likely to be news of interest. The Minco Club, under Capt. Will Tuttle, will play the El Reno club under Capt. Barrett, a game of baseball next Sunday afternoon on the Minco grounds, a nice game is anticipated Agent Brown, of Anadarko, passed through Wednesday to attend court at El Reno in a suit to recover the cattle recently seized by Officers to satisfy a dept against Jim Deere. John Downing and Jim Deer's wife joined the agent here and went on with him as witness in the case. W.G. WILLIAMS Mr. Jeff Willliams with Miss Mary Delk, called on us to marry them, which we did. Mr. Williams had procured his license at Cloud Chief, the county in which he now lives. Glad to say to his many friends in the Chickasaw country that Jeff has him a nice home and a accomplished wife, which he so justly deserved. With others we hope they may have a smooth sailing through life. D.G. CARGILE The Minstrel is truly sorry to learn of the death of Mrs. Schlegel, wife of Fred Schlegel, the government blacksmith at Anadarko. She had been unwell for some months, and with the hope of benefiting her Fred took the wife to Wichita, Kansas and placed her under the best medical treatment. Word came back form time to time that she was growing stronger, when the startling news came about ten days ago of the death. Schlegal is a noble hearted fellow who almost worshipped his wife and the sympathy of his many friends will go out to him in his sorrow. Last Saturday without rain, without cause without premeditation and without warning the old Canadian River took a notion to go on a spree and it went. Sunday it got higher, and on Monday it wrecked the railroad bridge on the Rock Island, and put a stop to all business and then slunk back to the usual size of a tub full of water to a hundred acres of riverbed. About all of this week the Railroad Company had been repairing damages, while passengers have been walking across the bridge to meet trains waiting. When the river gets up it is just so much wet sand coming down in waves, and five feet of it had weight enough to destroy anything in its reckless path. =============================================================================== MINCO MINSTREL December 29, 1893 G.W. Charleville has just returned from Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and tells how he disposed of a $500 property at that place for a $80 horse. Ladies Call at the millinery store of Doyle & Shirley, Main Street, Minco, and see the new and stylish hats displayed. Mrs. Sanders, of Guthrie, will make your dresses in the fashionable mode and guarantee satisfaction at the DOYLE & SHIRLEY MILLONAERY STORE Card of Thanks To the generous citizens of Minco who have so kindly, and without regard to church preference contributed to the purchase of an elegant suit of cloths for me I wish to return my sincerest thanks. Hoping the spirit of peace and prosperity may continue with you. I remain. Your warm friend. A.N. AVERYT Christmas Tree In the evening of Christmas day there was displayed an old-fashioned Christmas Tree at the Methodist church. Lighted with wax tapers and glittering with gifts of all colors it was indeed a pretty scene. The house was uncomfortably jammed with spectators and the distribution of the presents was a difficult frat. One item worthy of remark is the fact that the Methodist Sunday school. Appropriated ten dollars for the purchase of gifts for all the less fortunate children of the town. These gifts, far more than any other, carrying with then the fullest meaning of the occasion to many glad little hearts. It was a success. The Christmas ship at the school house was a fine display, and the occasion was well attended notwithstanding the downpour of rain. That was on Saturday night and the tree at the church was on Monday night. A.L. Campbell of Whitewright, Texas, father of J.A. and Will Campbell, made his sons a pleasant visit here during the week past. He is a jolly, lively and intelligent companion anywhere, and his visit was too brief. A Grand Ball will be given in the Cameron Hall Wednesday evening, January 3, under auspices of Minco Social Club. Every effort will be made to make this dance the best one of the season. There will be plenty of good music, and the different committees will do their best to make the evening pleasant and a good time in general. All are invited. Bob Holtz Dead Poor Bob Holtz, after suffering for two months, died about 3 o'clock in the morning of December 26. By birth he was an Indianian, and by trade a railroad brakeman. Through an accident in that state some years ago be lost his right arm, and had to give up the business. Drifting down this way during the building of the Rock Island out of Minco, he stopped, and was employed at light work here and there until his sickness, at which time he was acting as porter and night watch at the Crescent hotel. He was taken down with typhoid fever a slow, lingering disease, from which he never recovered. He was moved from the unavoidable noise of the hotel to quiet quarters and a nurse employed to attend him by his friends. He was buried the following afternoon. With religious services by Rev. C.W. Wyatt ===============================================================================