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Caddo County - Newspapers
submitted by Nancy Charlton

Minco Minstrel 
Editor Lewis Hornbeck

Secured allotments
12 Jul. 1901

Quire a number of whites, principally husbands and wives of those who held 
rights by birth, sought admission on the rolls for allotment in the Wichita 
reservation.  Besides there were some of different Indian parentage, and some 
on yet different scores. In all there were about forty such applicants, whose 
membership and right to allotments had been favored by the Indians in one way 
of another.  During the process of regular allotment all these names were 
held up to await the decision of the Secretary of the Interior as to their 
right to allotment.  On Monday of this week the decisions of the Secretary 
were made known to the various applicants from the office at Anadarko.  Out 
of the whole number only twenty-seven applicants were approved by the 
Secretary, all the others being rejected:
 The lucky ones were: Nicholas Araspar, Adophus Araspar, Mrs. Susie Araspar, 
Tulie Araspar, Ellen Araspar, Mrs. Belle Kenoyer Brown, Mrs. Kate Dagnett, 
James M. Davis, Mrs. Emily Davis, Frank Garen, John Hansell, Mrs. Winnie 
Hendrix, Mrs. Ellen H. King, Joe Leonard, Mrs. Nancy Long, Ben 
Montoyah, Mrs. Alice Osborne, Bill Perdeere, Pat Pruner, Mrs. Mary N. Purdy, 
Frank Purdy, Earl Purdy, Vernon Purdy, Mrs. Jane Shirley, William Shirley, 
Mrs. Adelia L. Strong, William Hansell.
   Among the losing applicants are W.G. Williams, the wife of Charley 
Williams, the wife of Robert Williams, Lyon Bingham, Willis West, Ed Parrish, 
Bob Curtis, Will Henry, Will Gray, W.H. Campbell, Mr. Cornett, and several 
others whom we cannot now recall,  some of the losers are taking the matter 
comely while others are pretty warm in the collar
Everybody in the county will be glad to learn that Mrs. Jane Shirley was 
given a homestead in the Wichita reservation that decision, at least, will be 
unanimously approved by all who know her.  Her husband, Dr Shirley was Indian 
trader and government physician among the Wichita's from the days of 1856 to 
his death in '75.  Mrs. Shirley has continued to live in the country and 
raise her family, as best she could since.  Her children are now all married 
but one, Miss Cora, a resident of Minco. The homestead is the northeast 
quarter of section 11 in township 10, range 8,  it is about five miles 
northwest of Minco and one mile south of the Canadian river .