1982.294. William H. Murray Collection, 1889-1944

File 1. Correspondence: (undated) - politics of the day - also being prepared to defend our country if necessary.

File 2. Correspondence: Letters discussing politics, defense preparedness and an article written about Murray by Sturn - 1907-1909.

File 3. Correspondence: Campaigning 1910.

File 4. Correspondence: endorsements from state committees 1913.

File 5. Correspondence: January thru April 2 1914.

File 6. Correspondence: obtaining compatent postmasters - rules for probate procedure of the County Judges of Oklahoma - most people know nothing about diplomacy because they do not know international law - widow seeking pardon for mentally impaired son in prison - setting the record straight on attacks on Sen Gore's reputation - farm demonstrations -April to June 1914.

File 7. Correspondence: expenditures of Indian money - frank discussion about Murry's candidacy - schools supported out of Indian money - Gateway amendment - June 1914.

File 8. Correspondence: published transcript of Anderson Webb is nothing but lies - learning what about laws in other states so as to enact them in Oklahoma - Murray explains his religious beliefs - candidacy secured - re-elected to congress - July to September 1914.

File 9. Correspondence: affidavits about ballot boxes - school for incorrigible boys - charge of irregularities in election boards of several counties - cotton market - meeting of Choctaws and Chicksaws at Tushkahoma - extension of national boiler inspection law - September to October 1914.

File 1. Letter: 1914 Campaign letters; Bolay postoffice; parole request for Roy H Lusk; Roy Hoss cashier at bank in Fairfax accused of making the bank fail; Cushing oil fields; deplorable Indian conditions in Okemah.

File 2. Letters: 1915 claimants to Indian Citizenship; request for pension D M Myers Ada, OK; Soldiers affidavit D M Myers Jan 9; Farmers National Bank - bank examiner Jan 27; letters on appointment of postmaster in several towns; requesting that Choctaw Dick Locke our acting governor and Pat Hurley our attorney be removed from office March 9; farmers have been promised a rural banking system March 16; remembering Murray as his old school teacher at Old Cade; reference to the legislative approval of proposed removal of restrictions on the alienation of part of the allotment of Daniel Hayes, a Chickasaw Indian and the erection from the proceeds of dormitories to be leased to Oklahoma for use in connection with the State Normal School at Ada March 31.

File 2a. Letters: 1915 continued - Letter from Venezuela offering scholarships April 10; supposed immigration of Choctaw and Chickasaw to move from West to East of the Mississippi - brothers Chahta and Chekasha leaders of their people April 26; Society for the Development of American Shipping May 11; to TT Mutchler from C S Longacre 16 page Biblical discussion of authority to worship on the 1st day of the week - Sunday May 11; to Boyd Cannon, (Colored) 13 pages of detailed job instructions May 24; Choctaw Chieftanship and attorneyship - removal of a Chief of one of the Five Civilized Tribes May 27; Murray School of Agriculture May 25; Oklahoma Bankers Assoc in Dallas district to be moved to the Kansas City district May 27; intervention in Mexico May 29.

File 3. Letters: 1915 continued - "union" of American countries or union of all neutral countries to protect rights of neutrals in the European War June 3; graphite claim in the mountains; son Stuart came in Friday and left Sunday for Annapolis - discussion of military tardiness; rural schools of the state; resolution to have all documents, reports, laws of the state be put in all school libraries; importance of bird life and its relative value to crops, health and the interest of the citizens; candidates for postmaster of Stroud.

File 3a. Letters: 1915 response to Murray's request to have bound copies of agricultural year books reports of the geological dept and the census bureau, etc.; prospectus of the National Marketing Committee main work being undertaken by the large progressive farm organizations and their locals; going to Hawaii please send letters of introduction; archives of the Chickasaw Nation Aug 16; ought not to pardon this young man because I know nothing of him; if we had not been dallying with Mexico - Europe would have taken us serious Aug 31.

File 3b. Letters: 1915 making speeches - "Our Foreign Relations and the Cotton Farmers' Troubles"; Mexican Matters Sept 1; Murray State School of Agriculture at Tishomingo Sept 10; requesting train tickets to go to Mexico and bring mother back who has been lost there for a year; Young Men's Democratic Club requesting a lyceum course at the High School; response to young man requesting passage for the mother of Mrs Lula Greer from Old Mexico; traded my interest in the Eagle of Roff, OK for the Swastika in Des Moines, NM; state department will pay transportation for your mother from Old Mexico; publication of the Laws Relating to the Five Civilized Tribes in Okla.

File 4. Letters: 1915 cotton agent for Pottawatomie County; heard probate attorney in Sapulpa about to resign; transportation be furnished to Mrs Henrietta Smith from Tampico, Mexico upon proof of citizenship; thank you for securing us a Rural delivery many promise but you followed through; requests for special session of the legislature; transportation for Mrs Henrietta Smlith from Tampico Mexico; considering retention of the duty on sugar Nov 15 (long discussion on sugar); transportation for Mrs Henrietta Smith - whereabouts unknown Nov 15.

File 4a. Letters: 1915 importance of giving constitutants your picture and biographical sketch; 2nd letter on the grandfather clause "was an amendment offered to the Oklahoma constitution in 1911 having for its purpose the elimination of the Negro vote Nov 27; son of Thomas Ivey of Roff, Wm L Ivey enlisted in Company E 14th Infantry now stationed at Ft Lawton - your request for discharge Nov 20; Murray State School of Agriculture.

File 5. Letters: Dec 1915 -3 pages Preparedness position; opposed to spending money for a large army and navy; desire to lead one of your state schools of agriculture; 7 pages request you take a stand against preparedness; necessity of the merchant marine; marine insurance policy; amount of sweet clover seed required per acre; critique of Governor Douglas H Johnston; I am for preparedness and lots of it; interests of railway men; Emergency Revenue Act; a number of letters on applicants for various postmaster position Dec 19; 4 pages House Document No 154 "Fiscal Affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior; Soil Survey of Pottawatomie County.

File 5a. Letters: Dec 1915 continued - Navy Dept is in receipt of a letter stating that you have a device for destroying the vessels of an enemy from a distance; proceedings of a post office primary; tobacco tax; drainage system to build a levy near Olney in Coal County; request for government assistance in District No. 103 in Pottawatoomie County; oil and gas leases.

File 6. Letters: Jan 1916 - Prepardness for war; Robert C Ellsworth pension request; should US retain the Phillipine islands; postmaster; pardon Beall and Guinn; approval for sale of town lots to build a dormitory; lease of oil lands; anti-gambling bill; bromide water.

File 6a. Letters: 1916 continued - preparedness; campaign; Oklahoma Indian rights insulting letter; Charles E Yeaton counterfeit money; county superintendent; Osages vs state of Oklahoma on oil leases.

File 7. Letters: 1916 - Yeaton counterfeit money; Nona B Chesher Stevenson enrollment in Creek Nation; ruling on anti-gambling law; E R Pitchlynn enrollment as member of Chickasaw tribe; preparedness; sale of Osage oil leases; International tribunal; Mollie Chupco equalization money Five Civilized Tribes; postmaster; disaster at Ardmore; Indian Appropriation Bill; preparedness; re-election; Book life and work of Vinnie Ream; history for sale of coal and asphalt deposits belonging to the Choctaw & Chickasaw Indians; politics; HR 12201 A Bill regulation of the use of mails by cattle, cotton, fruit, tobacco, grain or stock exchanges and relating to lottteries Feb 24, 1916; J B & Reed Hearrell employed as blacksmiths; stand firm with Sen Gore to appose the President to prevent the US from becoming involved in war.

File 1. Letters: 1916 Feb - March - Telegram - stay out of war; county registrar; politics; petition preparedness & conscription; views on the liquor issue from an Hawaiian; preparedness; resistance to the state of Oklahoma on taxation of Choctaw & Chickasaw allotments; adoption of recommendations of Gen Gorgas recommendations for adequate medical department in the US Army; delegate to the National convention; proposed bill for the relief of Edwin S Harris; royalties on coal mining; Single Tax; advisability of leasing or selling 80 acre tract allotted to Phoemia Whitehorn and allottee on the Otoe Reservation;.

File 2. Letters: 1916 April - pension for Orrell I Hancock, US Navy; shipping shrapnel for illustration purposes; questions regarding the Oklahoma State Constitutional Convention; Fourth Congressional District Offices of the post office in Oklahoma; speech on preparedness; embargo on munitions of war; payment for shipping shrapnel; removal of restrictions;.

File 3. Letters: 1916 May - Murry's feelings on demands included in the state constitution; political situation in Chandler; Governor's removal of Chas W Briles from the presidency of the E Central State Normal in Ada; delegates to the Washington meeting of the League to Enforce Peace; applying political pressure; John H Morehead desires to be VP to run with Pres Wilson; Hollis Land Bill; fighting you because your wife has Indian blood so your interests are more with the Indian than white man; Pomerene bill; more politics; force Cherokee Indians to divide their land with their ex-slaves; request of J D Betts Tishamingo to get out of the navy to care for his widowed mother; Van M Thornton desire to attend West Point Academy; Buildings at Collins Institute burned; issued false statements to the press; C W Kerfoot "Citizens Committee for Shawnee";.

File 3a. Letters: 1916 May continued - R L Williams addressing accusations that he was campaigning against Murry; endorse your position that we need more county clerks; HR 16008 - A Bill to enroll Robert Underwood as a newborn in the Chickasaw Nation; politics; list of Democratic voters in Tishomingo; politics of appointing positions; proposed amendment of the drainage act with references to the payment of drainage assessments against Indian Lands in Lincoln and Pott. Counties; removal of all restrictions on Indian Lands; preparedness; inclusion of Shawnee in the proposed new federal Court District; Indian Affairs committee;.

File 4. Letters: 1916 June Smith campaign; more politics and appointments; desire to become member of the platform committee at the National convention; printing of the ballots; Deep Fork Drainage District - Lincoln County; Postal Laws & Regulations; request from Alabama Dept of Archives & History for all printed material coming out of Oklahoma; discharge of Tony D Betts; politics of appontment of mail carriers; Smith and campaigning; rotating of candidates names on ballot; politics in Oklahoma schools; politics in Corporation Commission; National Prohibition Act; adoption of the Suffrage Amendment; in case of war with Mexico; federal post office in Sulphur; Rev Hultsman Baptist minister coming to Shawnee; S 5677 "Shall Congress pass Religious Laws"; Major William A Green of Muskogee have appointed to the Mexico border; enrollment claims of Nona B (Cheshire) Stevenson Creek Nation (6 pages);.

File 4a. Letters: 1916 June continued acquisition of territory in Mexico; wish to establish a company here under the provisions of the Federal National Reserve Act; Seminole appropriation on a point of order; Rivers & Harbors bill for lthe dredging of Weymouth Fore River, Mass;.

File 5. Letters: 1916 July - Dec - non partisian league of ND polling of voters; more on Nona B (Cheshire) Stevenson; we got beat; Secretary of War to accept deed to Lincoln's birthplace farm; Oklahoma Farmer's Union in Shawnee; speech Judiciary in Politics; defeat of the people in the 4th district; League to Enforce Peace; President Woodrow Wilson has been re-nominated without opposition; indictment of Tom Hunter; relations between Indian and white man in our state; soil surveys of Muskogee; should be our next governor; organization of state committees; Rejuvenaton of Farmers Union "Keeping Eye on the Squirrel" by Wm H Murry;.

File 5a. Letters: 1916 July - Dec continued - constitutional convention & two house legislature; post master appointments in my district; state convention; tracking down Murry relatives; Chickasaw funds to build dormitories at the Murry State School of Agriculture; letter from Bancroft Murry giving relationships;.

File 6. Letters: 1917 - constitutional convention; establishment of oil testing station in Oklahoma; Hon Nilas Lasater presented for Chairman of the Farm Loan Board; Iowa claims bill against the government; running for governor next year; weighing whether to run for Governor; rumors around the capitol that you will become governor in 1918; press sounds like you will be drafted for Governor; preparedness; delivering patriotic addresses around the state;.

File 6a. Letters: 1917 continued - lecturing around the state about the World War; we planned to take 50 loaded automobiles to Tishomingo to hear you but it rained and made the roads too slick and muddy;.

File 7. Letters: 1918 - statewide steal election in favor of Robertson; assure you lasting friends true Democrat; 1916 election left a heavy debt; next election;.

File 8. Letters: 1920 - Murry returns to Okla; rebuilding Democrat party; Republican failures; landslide defeat;.

File 9. Letters: 1921-1924 - Article: Murry donating the original signed signatures of the OK constitutional conventon; buying stocks in JK Hughes Developing Co; critique of the constitutional convention; sending old papers to the OK Historical Society;.

File 10. Letters: 1933 - Funeral for Ex-Governor Lee Cruce; discrepencies in payroll; deliver pressure cooker and all canned goods to Dr Young at the Univ of Langston; Re-employment; County relief; discussing how aid will be administered; need for additional fruit jars; administration reports; Federal Emergency Relief Admin - cotton; work at the lakes; sewing room project; allotment;.

File 11. Letters: 1933 - reforestation; Procedure pending complete investigation by Social Service DePT; Toxoids for Diptheria; immunizing children against diptheria; special survey; request for relief; application for work; report of Federal Relief rolls; report of men working; CCC camp; sewing room for Negro women and sewing room for white women; Civil works admin; state report on survey; survey on Civilian Conservation Corps; lists of names & addresses by city; request for change in allotment; Logan county garden seed; 6 days work in sewing room $9; Dir of Fed Emergency Relief office admin; inventory of property distributed by the dept; Free Seed program;.

File 1. Booklets: Federal Emergency Relief Administraton - Unemployment Relief Census October 1933 Report Number Two; Federal Emergency Relief Administration - Rules and Regulations No. 7 - Governing Medical Care Provided in the Home to Recipients of Unemployment Relief.

File 2. Letters: 1933 - Federal Emergency Relief.

File 3. Ledger: Workers - Chicken Pickers - Fairmont Creamery.

File 4. Report & Cartoon - 1933 Workers - Cooking Program.

File 5. Letters & Reports: 1933 Workers - Cotton Pickers.

File 6. Projects: 1933 - Logan County Road Projects.

File 7. Projects: 1933 Logan County Lake Project - Deeds.

File 8. Report: 1933 Farm Security Administration.

File 9. Receipts: Sept 1933 Logan County - Receipts of goods received.

File 10. Forms: Sept & Oct 1933 - Guthrie Work Applications - Emergency Conservation Work - CCC.

File 11. Payroll: 1933 & 1934 Administration Payroll - Federal Work Relief Fund - Logan County.

File 12. Receipts: 1933 Receipts for Furniture & Equipment used by the Federal Relief Admin.

File 13. List: Administrators - Disbursers - Certifiers by County.

File 14. Letters: 1933 US Army recruiting of CCC men.

File 15. Letters: 1933 Logan County Health Dept.

File 16. Letters: 1933 Aid to Citizens.

File 17. Lists: 1933 Logan County Charitable Lists - Names, addresses, whom reported, what given and amounts.

File 18. Lists: 1933 Working Copies of charitable giving.

File 19. Resolution: 1933 Town of Mulhall unemployed.

File 20. Lists: Township committees - list of names from Logan County townships - Emergency Relief.

File 21. Lists: Logan County - list of unemployed by Township.

File 22. Letters: Jan - Feb 1934 Federal Emergency Relief Program.

File 23. Letters: March & April 1934 State Emergency Relief Program.

File 1. Receipts: 1933-1934 Truck Drivers - Receipts for Free Seed Logan & Payne Counties.

File 2. Oaths: Oaths of County Superintendent & Truck Drivers - Delivery of Seed to Logan & Payne Counties.

File 3. Oaths: Oaths of County Superintendents & Planters - Distribution of Canned Goods.

File 4. Receipts: Miscellaneous for checks received registered.

File 5. Letter squashing gosip about Murray personally paying for a loan; note of loan paid; program commemorating the birth of Abraham Lincoln.

File 6. Lists: Itemized list of unemployed Logan County Registration list M.

File 7. Lists: Itemized list of unemployed Logan County Registration list N.

File 8. List: Registration List of Logan County individuals #1 through 3203.

File 9. List: Registration List of Logan County City of Guthrie #3 through 2827.

File 10. Lists: Registered list of unemployed Logan County City of Guthrie List A.

File 11. Lists: Registered list of unemployed Logan County City of Guthrie List B.

File 12. Lists: Registered list of unemployed Logan County City of Guthrie List C.

File 13. Lists: Registered list of unemployed Logan County City of Guthrie List D.

File 14. Lists: Registered list of unemployed Logan County City of Guthrie List E.

File 15. Lists: Registered list of unemployed Logan County City of Guthrie List F.

File 16. Lists: Registered list of unemployed Logan County City of Guthrie List G.

File 17. Lists: Registered list of unemployed Logan County City of Guthrie List H.

File 18. Lists: Registered list of unemployed Logan County City of Guthrie List I.

File 19. Lists: Registered list of unemployed Logan County City of Guthrie List J.

File 20. Lists: Registered list of unemployed Logan County City of Guthrie List K.

File 21. Lists: Registered list of unemployed Logan County City of Guthrie List L.

File 22. Lists: Registered list of unemployed Logan County City of Guthrie List M.

File 23. Lists: Registered list of unemployed Logan County City of Guthrie.

File 24. List: Balance Sheet - Logan County Townships - alphabetical order - Names - November Payroll.

File 25. List: Registered List of Women for Work - City of Guthrie & Guthrie Township.

File 26. List: Registered List of Men for Work - City of Guthrie & Guthrie Township.

File 27. List: 1933 County School Superintendents.

File 28. Letters: 1933 School Correspondence Federal Relief - Logan County.

File 29. List of White and Colored Teachers - unemployed - Logan County.

File 30. List of White & Colored Individuals - Logan County - Guthrie.

File 1. List: Oct 1933 Meat Distribution for Women 45 years & older & widows - City of Guthrie & Logan County.

File 2. List: Oct 1933 Meat Distribution for Men 45 years & older & eligible for relief - City of Guthrie & Logan County.

File 3. List: Sept 1933 Meat Distribution for Men 45 years of age on Sept Payroll - City of Guthrie, Guthrie Township & Logan County.

File 4. List: Sept 1933 Registration for Men under 45 years of age no work - Logan County Townships.

File 5. List: Sept 1933 Registrationo for Men under 45 years of age - Workers - City of Guthrie.

File 6. List: Nov 1932-July 1933 Wood Deliveries- Emergency Clients - Logan County.

File 7. Letters: Sept & Oct 1933 - Sam Bounds Auditor - Governor's Office - Guthrie - Logan County.

File 8. Letters: Nov & Dec 1933 - Sam Bounds Auditor - Governor's Office - Guthrie - Logan County.

File 9. Letters: Oct 1933 J E Douglas - investigation for aid - Guthrie Logan County.

File 10. Letters: Oct 1933 William H Loyd - investigation of need - Crescent Logan County.

File 11. Letters: Nov 1933 Paul M Hewitt- investigation of need - Coyle Logan County.

File 12. Deed: 1933 - Construction of Dam & Highway - Mulhall Logan County.

File 13. Statement of Operations - Nov 1932-June 1933 Work Relief - Logan County.

File 14. 1933 Federal Relief - Agriculture Admustment Program - Cotton Farmers - Logan County.

File 15. Emergency Relief Funds - Reconstruction Finance Corporation - Logan County.

File 16. Emergency Relief Funds - Cooperative Extension Work - Agriculture -- Logan County.

File 17. Federal Work Relief - Blank Work Relief Forms.

File 18. Federal Emergency Relief - Rules & Regulations for Governing & Handling Governor William H Murray's Work Relief Fund.

File 19. Unemployment Relief Census - Instructions to Enumerators.

File 20. Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) Identification Card & Call for Meeting Bulletin.

File 21. Unemployed Relief Census - Beaver County.

File 22. Unemployed Relief Census - Blaine County.

File 1. July 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Bryan County No 1-397.

File 2. July 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Bryan County No 398-6290.

File 3. August 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Bryan County No 6791-7593.

File 4. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Canadian County.

File 5. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Craig County.

File 6. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Creek County - # 1-2575.

File 7. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Creek County - #2576-5156.

File 8. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Creek County - #5157-7656.

File 1. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - McCurtain County - #1-3030.

File 2. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - McCurtain County - #3031-5498.

File 3. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - McIntosh County - A-L.

File 4. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - McIntosh County - M-Y.

File 5. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Muskogee County - A-Nevelles.

File 6. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Muskogee County - Nevitt-Y & A-C.

File 1. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Muskogee County - C-McGee.

File 2. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Muskogee County -McGill-Y.

File 3. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Noble County.

File 4. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Nowata County.

File 5. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Okfuskee County - A-H.

File 6. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Okfuskee County - H-P.

File 7. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Okfuskee County - P-W.

File 8. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Oklahoma City - A-C.

File 9. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Oklahoma City C-E.

File 1. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Oklahoma City - E-H.

File 2. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Oklahoma City - H-L.

File 3. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Oklahoma City - L-P.

File 4. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Oklahoma City - P-S.

File 5. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Oklahoma City - S-T.

File 6. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Oklahoma City - T-Z.

File 7. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Oklahoma City -Supplementary List # 1 A-Z.

File 8. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Okmulgee County.

File 9. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Ottawa County - A-L.

File 10. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Ottawa County - L-Y.

File 11. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Pawnee County.

File 12. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Pottawatomie County - A-G.

File 1. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Pottawatomie County - G-M.

File 2. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Pottawatomie County - Mc-W.

File 3. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Pottawatomie County - W-Z.

File 4. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Texas County.

File 5. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Tillman County.

File 6. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Tulsa County by Post Office - A-B.

File 7. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Tulsa County by Post Office - B-D.

File 8. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Tulsa County by Post Office - E-J.

File 9. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Tulsa County by Post Office - K-R.

File 10. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Tulsa County by Post Office - R-W.

File 1. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Tulsa City (1).

File 2. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Tulsa City (2).

File 3. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Tulsa City (3).

File 4. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Tulsa City (4).

File 5. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Wagoner County.

File 6. 1933 Unemployed Relief Census - Woodward County.

File 1. Certificates: First Grade Teacher's Certificate - Parker County, Texas June 10, 1889; Navarro County, Texas Oct 25, 1890; Limestone County, Texas Nov 19, 1892.

File 2. Application to practice Law: Chickasaw Nation November 1899.

File 3. Murray's Brands for cattle & horses and mark for hogs and cattle November 1899.

File 4. Certificate: Beneficiary Certificate to Alice Murray - Dec 12, 1900.

File 5. Envelope: 1903.

File 6. Certificate: Appointed Commissioner of Choctaw Nation November 1904.

File 7. Newspaper article: Roosevelt's Real Platform - The New York World - Monthly November 1901.

File 8. Certificate: Certificate of Election as a Delegate to the Constitutional Convention from the Indian Territory November 12, 1906.

File 9. Proclamation: Appointing Sam A Oppliger as official reporter for the constitutional convention November 20, 1906.

File 10. Newspaper articles: Decision from Roosevelt - 1906; Murray may call an election; Democratic Candidate for US Senate.

File 11. Newspaper articles: 1907.

File 12. Newspaper articles: 1908.

File 13. Newspaper articles: Speaker of the House - Oklahoma Legislature 1907.

File 14. Certificate: Certified copy of Expenses, outlined in Resolution No. 80 for Constitutional Convention 1907.

File 15. Original Draft of the Seat - Constitution Convention 1907.

File 16. Certificate: (Copy) to Thomas H Owen for $10 expense of Constitutional Convention 1907.

File 17. Proclamation: Constitutional Convention Adjournment November 16, 1907.

File 18. Account Book: "Contributions to the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention 1907.

File 19. Booklet: "Torrens Land System: Speech of Hon William H Murray - Delivered in the House of Representative of Oklahoma, May 1908.

File 20. Certificate: Chickasaw Squirrel Rifles Brigade Office November 10, 1908.

File 21. Announcement: for Race for Governor - February 1, 1910.

File 22. Booklet: Murray's Altus Speech - Opening His Campaign for Governor April 19, 1910.

File 23. Booklet: The Trinity of Evils - Address of the Hon Wm H Murray of Oklahoma - Before the 15th National convention of the AntiSaloon League at Columbus Ohio November 13, 1913.

File 24. Song: "Cockle-Bur Bill" to the tune of Turkey in the Straw by Andrew Allen Veatch - 1910.

File 25. Laws: Transcript of laws relating to the Franking Privilege of Members of Congress Act of March 3, 1875.

File 26. A Bill: to reimburse state of Oklahoma for loss of taxes on Indian Allotments.

File 27. Privilege Resolution stating that no European government should be able to own more property in the New World.

File 28. Letters: Politics; Achievement of Congress 1913.

File 29. Letter: Open letter to People of the 4th Congressional District to dispute false accusations against Murray 1914.

File 30. Booklet: "The Five Civilized Tribes - Why They Employ Attorneys and "Peacock Boulevards" or Country Roads - Which? - Speeches of Hon William H Murray of Oklahoma in the House of Representatives February 6 & 10, 1914; Cloture Rule on Canal Tolls - President Wilson & Platform Pledges - Question of Personal Privilege - Canal Tolls Vote March 27, 1914.

File 31. Speech: Congressman Murray urges absolute "neutrality of the US" in the war going on overseas.

File 32. Booklet: Mississippi Choctaws and Choctaw-Chickasaw Rolls - Remarks of Hon William H Murray of Oklahoma in the House of Representatives, April 24, 1914.

File 33. Biographical sketch of Murray by M L Garrett; "The Youth and Boyhood of Wm H Murray by Wm H Murray 1920.

File 34. Letter: from Wm Murray re: HR 16, 142 urging to write to Mr Freick urging to pass legislation.

File 35. Will: Last Will & Testament of Wm H Murray 1919.

File 1. Boliva: passport; Murray Colony in Boliva - 1919-1927.

File 2. Certificate: Membership to National Geographic 1920.

File 3. Newspaper articles: When "Alfalfa Bill" wore a boiled shirt! (In Boliva).

File 4. Newspaper articles: regarding Sequoia and Statehood - Okmulgee Times Democrat 1927.

File 5. Booklet: Alfalfa Bill by William Krohn 1931.

File 6. Article: "The Sage of Tishomingo" by George Milburn - American Mercury May 1931.

File 7. Booklet: The Candidate for President by Edward Crossland former Assistant Attorney General 1931 (Discussion between Socrates and King Willie alias Alfalfa Bill).

File 8. Oath of Office: William H Murray, Governor of Oklahoma 1931.

File 9. Newspaper article: "California Guns Salute Murry".

File 10. Speech: Highpoints of the Address of Gov Wm H Murray of Oklahoma on the 122nd Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Birth at Springfield Ill.

File 11. Letter: seeking to help Murry with his campaign for governor 1932.

File 12. Lists: Names of donors and deposit slips - Educational Foundation 1933-1934.

File 13. Letters: Wm H Murray Educational Foundation, Inc 1933-1934; 1943-1944.

File 14. Letters: from Santa Anna giving his signature and rubric.

File 15. Notebooks: Stenographers notes in shorthand 1934.

File 16. Flyer: "The Murray Platform" "What Bill Murray Stands For"; "HH Hung His Hook While Fishing for Suckers".

File 17. Letters: List of Living Members of the Constitutional Convention and their post office addresses 1937.

File 18. Letters: facts about the constitution known only by me (Wm Murray) - 10 pages - 1941.

File 19. Speeches and Poems about "our State Schools".

File 20. Receipts for Money and exempt expenditures 1942.

File 21. Booklet: Essay on Forms of Government from Theocracy to Foolocracy by Wm H Murray (Alfalfa Bill) Ex-Governor of Oklahoma - Also sound Political Principles of 1932, Harmonizing with the Federal Constitution; Certificate of Copyright Registration 1942.

File 1. Petition: State of Oklahoma Leon C Phillips Governor of Oklahoma vs Host of School Textbook companies seeking damages for price fixation 1942.

File 2. Correspondence requesting info on George Henry Murray from Nova Scotia from 1896-1923; request for lists of governors of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations provided by Ms Wright; plea for World Peace and no unconditional surrender; questions and comments on constitutional convention; negro question quoting from "The Science of Life" ; letters on Arabs and Jews; toll roads 1943-1947.

File 3. Book: Memoirs of Governor Murray and True History of Oklahoma Vol 1 by William H Murray.

File 4. Booklet: Annual Anouncement "The Murray State School of Agriculture - Tishomingo Oklahoma 1945-46.

File 5. Booklet: Palestine - Shall Arabs or Jews Control It or America Admit 100,000 Communist Jews from Behind the Iron Curtain? by Wm H Murray.

File 6. Correspondence 1948.

File 7. Booklet: "Alice" to the memory of Mary Alice Harrell Murray "Crossing the Bar" Symbol and Standard of Womanhood and Home; of Wife and Mother - 1938.

File 8. Correspondence: Taft-Hartley Act; Speech at Murray College by Tom D McKeown giving a bio of Gov Murray May 14, 1949; letters about Murray's books and articles; Squirrel Rifle Brigade; gratitude gift to former Gov Murray; Murray's 80th birthday - Nov 21, 1949; repayment of $4,000 Murray paid out of his picket to secure the adoption of the Oklahoma Constitution;.

File 9. Newspaper articles: 1949 - repaying Wm Murray and his 80th birthday.

File 1. List: Index to Names SRB - List of Names taken from letter & cards on 80th Birthday of Gov Murray.

File 2. Book: Copy of Book "Christian Mothers" by Wm H Murrray - Governor of Oklahoma 1931-1935 - book is in the library.

File 3. Newspaper articles: 1950.

File 4. Correspondence 1950: Squirrel Rifle Brigade; attend program on Sequoyah Convention;.

File 5. Governor Murray's Official Record by Juanita Johnston Smith.

File 6. Broadcast editorials by Walter Trohan on crimes, frauds, etc in 1951.

File 7. Correspondence 1951: books on "Adam and Cain" and "The Negro's Place in Call of Race"; banquet honoring Alfalfa Bill Murray;.

File 8. Correspondence 1952-1953: - some history; discussing Murray's books.

File 9. Certificate: Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College certifies that William H Murray - Maker and Writer of History is hereby granted the title of Honorary Professor of History - Nov 20, 1952.

File 10. Correspondence 1952: Planning Oklahoma's fiftieth anniversary of statehood in 1957; comments on works by Gordon Hines; Hines biography of Murray.

File 11. Booklet: "The Governor Thinks it Out"; Contract by Meador Publishing Company to publish Murray's book "Rights of Americans".

File 12. Article: "Alfalfa Bill's Colonial Fiasco by Jack Immell (a very interesting bio of Murray's career).

File 13. Letter: from Tom Steed requesting help in his bid for re-election to Congress.

File 14. Newspaper article: Giving tribute to Murray at the Gridiron Club 1935.

File 15. Newspaper articles: 'Alfalfa' Bill Murray of Oklahoma Dies" Oct 16, 1956.

File 16. Letters: to Johnston Murray and about Johnston Murray - Wm H Murray's son 1949-1956.

File 17. Letter: Wm H Murray open letter endorsing his son Johnston Murray to run for governor; Suggestions for Campaign Managers and County Headquarters.

File 18. Speech: by Governor Johnston Murray before the US Independent Telephone Assoc October 16, 1951 in Chicago Ill.

File 19. Letter: from Wm H Murray to Messena Murray; newspaper articles and tributes to Wm H Murray.

File 20. Booklets and writings by Wm H Murray and about him.

File 1-4. Persons registered for Federal Relief in Wagoner, County, State of Oklahoma June 29, 1933.

File 5. List of unemployed in Sequoyah County July 28, 1933.

File 6. List of unemployed of Nowata County July 1, 1933.

File 7. List: Supplemental list of unemployed in Oklahoma County August 31, 1933.

File 8. List: Possibly Logan County for March, April, May & June.

File 9. List: Loads of Wood Delivered.

File 1. List: Registered of unemployed in Cotton County July 15, 1933.

File 2. List: Registered unemployed in Payne County.

File 3. List: Registered unemployed in Caddo County July 15, 1933.

File 4. Newspaper: The Oklahoma News January 24, 1931 "Governor Murray Orders Probe of 150 Holloway Paroles.

File 5. Murray' Platform for Governor.

File 6. Certificate: State Election Board of State of Oklahoma - Wm H Murray is legally nominated for the Democratic party - Representative in Congress from the 4th Congressional District of Oklahoma August 15, 1914.

File 7. Certificate: State of Texas , Wm H Murray of Navarro County appoint him without expense to the state a delegate to the Pan-American Commercial Congress to meet in St Louis Oct 3, 1893.

File 8. Certificate: Mineral Wells College, Mineral Wells, Texas earning his BS degree - May 19, 1893.

File 9. Scrapbook cover for the Squirrel Rifle Brigade.

File 1. Bill: Authorizing extension of taxes and declaring an emergency March 1933.

File 2. Resolution commending Frank Phillips for painting a war memorial on the south panels of the 4th floor in the state capitol January 1929.

File 3. Joint Resolution authorizing EW Marland to bring suit against the State to recover certain income and other taxes alleged to have been illegally collected from him by the state April 1933.

File 4. Resoluton expressing profound sorrow in the death of R A Sneed April 1937.

File 5. Joint Resolution creating the office of delinquent Personal Tax Collector in Haskell County March 1933.

File 6. Resolution authorizing and empowering the Board of County Commissioners of McCurtain County to pay Ben Miller $419.97 for coal to heat the court house April 1933.

File 7. An Act authorizing and empowering County Treasurers, Treasurers of Cities, Towns, Townships, and Boards of Education to enforce obligations evidenced by Bonds, Warrants or other Evidence of Indebtedness held by said Treasurer and declaring an emergency April 1933.

File 8. An Act Authorizing and empowering the School Boards and County Excise Boards to make a transfer of Certain School Funds in Independent School Districts of this state and declaring an emergency April 1933.

File 9. A Resolution authorizing the Governor to appoint and commission Charles F Barrett, The Adjutant General as Lieutenant General without additional pay or emoluents and declaring an emergency March 1933.

File 10. An act Providing for Transportation of Pupils in the Stae of Oklahoma and Declaring an Emergency April 1933.

File 11. An Act Amending sections relating tothe Oklahoma Union Soldiers Home prescribing eligibility for admission, etc April 1933.

File 12. The Cooperative Marketing Act April 1933.

File 13. Printing of enactments of Legislative Resolutions and Laws March 1933.

File 14. An Act to enable and authorize Counties, Cities, Town & Townships, Boards of Education, School Districts, etc. to refu;nd their out standing bonded indebtedness and declaring an emergency March 1933.

File 15. Explore and direct oil and gas on school lands April 1933.

File 16. State Highway Commission out of their funds to buy the Bridge Property know as the Meridian Bridge located 2 miles west of Ryan OK April 1933.

File 17. Liquidation of Insurance Companies April 1933.

File 18. Military Reservations to be attached to Independent School Districts for Disposition of Taxes and Declaring an Emergency March 1933.

File 19. Liability of Officers for unauthorized unlawful or fraudulent payment of money or transfer of property April 1933.

File 20. Relating to licenses for hunting and fishing and declaring an emergency April 1933.

File 21. Special salaries in Nowata County only April 1933.

File 22. Requiring names of business to be given when doing business with the state April 1933.

File 23. Authorizing Leo D Harman, Sr, formerly a Captain in the Oklahoma National Guard to bring suit to the state of Oklahoma for injuries incurred as a soldier April 1933.

File 24. Licensing and regulations of Horse Racing in Oklahoma March 1933.

File 25. Regulation of Cigars and Cigarettes in Oklahoma April 1933.

File 26. Estate of Gordon Stringer to bring suit to the state of Oklahoma for his death April 1933.

File 27. Nomination and election of City Marshals and Street commissioners and Declaring an emergency April 1933.

File 28. Allows for annexation of property adjacent to city property April 1933.

File 29. Authorizing the County Commissioner of Carter County to pay The Hardy Sanitarium of Ardmore April 1933.

File 30. Town of Texoma, Texas County to repay paving taxes April 1933.

File 31. Town of Hooker, Texas County to repay paving taxes April 1933.

File 32. Transfer Appropriations to the School for the Deaf in Sulphur, Oklahoma April 1933.