OKLAHOMA HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE

Supply, Oklahoma.

The territorial legislature in 1905 accepted an offer made by Congress to grant to the territory the use of Fort Supply Military Reservation and the buildings thereon for the purpose of an insane asylum. The site of the institution is one of considerable interest from an historical viewpoint. It is located in Woodward County.

Many of the expeditions of the United States regular army against the marauding bands of the socalled wild plains Indians used Fort Supply as their base of supply. General Custer, the noted Indian fighter, who later met death at the battle of the Little Big Horn, at one time was stationed for a short period on the reservation. The house used by him as his home is now the residence of Dr. E. G. Newell, superintendent of the institution.

The management and control of the hospital is vested in the Board of Trustees, composed of the governor, who shall be ex-officio chairman, and two other persons of different political affiliations, appointed by the governor.