The Vinita Daily Chieftain, 1902-12-26

white bomeseekers would be glad to use. It was manifestly unfair,' they said, to tie up from 160 acres of land for every man, woman and child of Indian blood orcitisen. ship, wbea a whole white family might live on a single share. At tbe same time it was pointed , out that the whites were pouring in'.o the country, willy nilly, and, as lessees or oitisens.using tbe greater part of tbe land. Year after year the commission went t about from;, town- to town among the tribes, arguing and ex4 hortljag. vi But .nothing seemed likely to come of their efforts, through the persistent ourpostr of tfa-government v was revealed. Then a response; to nriag from Washington, the commission stated piakaly.thal.th tribes must oome - to some agreement,' aa the government bad determined to end tJjeJMJrJstence, as Separate and utterly, ajaomalous political or or-gaaiaaUnns,,;:;. - gaaiaaUnns,,;:;. or-gaaiaaUnns,,;:;. n , Followingttbis Ihiormal ukase, the more hot-headed among the native leaders talked somewhat valnglorioaily , of armed .opposi .opposi-tioo, - tioo, .opposi-tioo, hinting at, possible martry martry-dom - dom martry-dom to ancient rights. A certain Cherokee secret society was cre credited - dited credited with the actual beginning of the arming and organising of a re resisting - sisting resisting force. v ' f The magnitude of the work ahead of them may well have caused im impatience - patience impatience among the commission's membeca. In a review of the work recently publiehed, this adjusting commission spoke of the talk in this way: "Instead of an arid Western plain, occupied by the savage of tradition, , as many suppose,. tbe commission found a territory not greatly smaller than the elate of Maine, rich in mineral and agri agricultural - cultural agricultural resources and invaluable timoer; a country , which has been occupied and. cultivated for over bait a cmtury, whose fertile val leys yielded bountiful harvests of southern products, and oti whose prairies grated a quarter or. a mil million - lion million cattle yearly; where citie had spruog up; thmagh which rsiV roads bad beert oontructerf; mwl where five dintiucl modern giv ernmeots existed, indtiptndMiit of the sovereignty of thu United 8ates , .' "For,, diversity,' th i s-cial.and political, condition found h-re were unexampled Thousands of white children without 4h mean est or educational advantages,; yet no one of tbe nations without an iuHtU'i6u of learning tha "would have been a credit ,lo a more, ad advanced - vanced advanced civilisation; men of Indka blood ..whose geooos , would have adorned rtie; halls. vf congress or ohallengd admiration in thebui- nin world biah-mindd. able and politic; and within th tribes, in no small number, tho who, when iu normal condiiioi.e,.. bad scarcely aufSc.ent intelligent to realise or -xpres the ordinary want of man." ' 1 8 it wa through. u' saintly women and G"' fenni , hnufsl meo knocking . el ij : with tb worst crimtiiali in th . whnl world Iiitfi'Sf iiidu-'rinj HC'ivity wart lound horflu ii g nioi utter in d'.lenc- and pnmi'iv aiakt-fhitiK. Fr tn l-t h! f d xn ars Ard more, a n in Chickafaw Naion, ha hepti ku .wn a tne grrtet primary co'loci U''ki in United 8ta'. Tf'ii tn-n hat more cotton i I auled there in wngnri than to ny other town. During thi ame p-rtod nrne of h" wnrt gargi of outlaws that ter ravnged s country have found rfog' in that tiaiion. -Virita. in thp Chert kee Natiort,

sling questions iecaain to ,' be set tied. work of great magoitaJs that is not yet finished, ie the mak ing. b. of the tribal rolls.! Hers have been met fraud; - ijorance and hindrances. Citizenship has coma to have a tac;ible ' Commer Commercial - cial Commercial ralue, where a eitiiea ii likely to come into poaesaion of from 100 to 500 acres of land, and those wbitae bo have long bf en settled in the Territory are reluctant to depart. 8ome of them have bras enly claimed citisensbip and have attempted to prove it. Tbe freed slave of Indians were given citi citisensbip - sensbip citisensbip in tbe tribes alter the civil war. aod now some hundreds of negroes are trying hard to prove that their pareots were freedmen under the citizenship provision. Besides this, there are grave matters connected with the estab estab-liebment - liebment estab-liebment of a territorial govern ment to be t-etablished, Wbst shall be done with the valuable coal and aephslt deposits now held and leased by the tribes acting as commercial organisations? What embargo shall be laid, on tbe sale of the lands when tbey are trans, ferred to the iniivtdual owners f How are the echool and taxation pyetfme to be rearranged to serve both Indiana and whites to beet advantage f Suppncng the Indian Territory and OaUhoma to be 4n eluded in one Territory,- how are th peculiar t4 t tnose ' Who nil live la the . full bid styie to h met? And:wti-r is the seat' of territorial g.vriHiiafii be eS lahlmhud? Will imp -si ti. in of a'.' -territorial nov-'omeoi at. the present - time result ... to , forcing infsa tribes ,toward Uoited .State, i citisensbip tooiast; and. result, as the President has. wisely warned, in preventing their going' forward at all? .;.. : " " : Th leaven of . education is Apreadfrtg among tbe tribes.'- Grad utea of the great government school,, and mixed blooda .who have pnfratid to Uie uiuveraities ars taking tbtir places as Jeaders In the movement toward amalg. mfc'iiv'j Barn to the Indian prej. udice against white influence- and ways; then, trained to seethe point of view of the' wLites In their col-legeV-and universities, . these men r standing by eager to help for ward any movement that tend to advanc their people toward eco eco-iiom - iiom eco-iiom C indpitjde.nce. To them the president looks f r material aid and practical euggesti-mn The mijqm i-j' when th-i Crlil graduit.it is permitted "to g i btck to hi p- -pie and discard hi s-ick eui' . d rtv hat and patent leathrs f..r 'he h!oke, feathers and inoc casif.e. Favoritai Family Remedy. FrequeutlV accident -occur In the houseliold, which caue hum, cut, cprami and bruWes; f r u-e in auch cases, Ballard's Sim Liniment has for ruanf year be,n thec iiitiol favorite faml! v remelf. 25c, 50c and fl at Peop'e- druu tore. dw

rt":v.rs r has long been one of the country's leading cattle shipping towns, and its neighbor, Claremore, forty miles west, called a statehood con. vention for Dec. 3 this year. In that same Cherokee country,, hid den ia tbe rough; flinty hills that border Arkansas, live full bloods who cannot talk English and wbo still gain a precarious livelihood by bunting., . lr t t From 1893 to 1902 tbe commis sion baa labored. Its members have seen tbe Indian population in the Territory rise to a total of more than 80,000, while more than 350,000 whites have settled within its boundaries. In 1898 the Choc Choc-taws - taws Choc-taws and Cbickasaws concluded a treaty, with tbe commission, a-ysar after" the? emalU Seminole Nation bad treated, i In August, 1902.' the Cberokees and Creeks finally agreed to give up tribal 'existence as eoon as the details of allotment and rearrangement cool I be com pieted. ;- The eomrolssioa'a. work, howev sr4sbynomeaneompietedt Pas.

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TREStDENT ROOSEVELT'S Ik worJ about the Indians in bis message to Congress is an exceed, icjly intelligent? one. i In tbe necessarily limited space at com- N mand for a discoesion of their af. filrs he 5 bints s at an I unusual familiarity with Indian needs and a wise sympathy for their short short-comings. - comings. short-comings. Ue bas an intimate first hand knowledge of them; as a ycung man be was made a special commissioner to visit and report upon a, number Indian, schools iathe MUdte 7estr MDCM ! he lived In ceigbbsrly. proiicitj tot some of tbe reservations; as a l sol"i ketewuited aoo8ldert;We

'Q treat with the Five Tribes, the roDortion of white residents to Uizenseven including those by option and of the thinest dilu dilu-sa - sa dilu-sa of Indian blood, was greater , in two to one These aliens, Z viog no standing under tribal 1 isdicttoo, had begun to complain ' .J ; Any inaffifiisnfl llf