“ Muskogee is the seat of Spaulding Institute (M.E. Church, South) and Nazareth Institute (Roman Catholic) , and at Bacone, about 2 m. north-east, is Indian University (Baptist, opened 1884) . Muskogee is the commercial centre of an agricultural and stock-raising region, is surrounded by an oil and natural gas field of considerable extent producing a high grade of petroleum, and has a large oil refinery, railway shops (of the Midland Valley and the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf railways) , cotton gins, cotton compresses, and cotton-seed oil and flour mills. ”