The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-08-01
THE OSAGE LayDS-HOW Is IT!


the Usage lAXDS-HOw Is II!
NJ. J. PARROT, in his " Liberal speech
delivered in Saliua on the evening of
July 9th, dwelt with particular and ex-
tended pathos upon the statement that
Secretary Delano had reversed former
decision of Secretary Cox, by which the
Galveston Railroad Company had been
awarded the Usage coded Indian lands,
situated in Labettc and other counties,
dispossessing the settlers of their homes.
lie stated the acres to be eighty thou
sand, while he aggregated the real num-
Der as one is multiplied by ten-eisht
thousand acres, if we recollect Alright, is
the number. His purpose in reviewing
the alleged late decision was to crimi-
nate the Administration and to arouse
the people against the Philadelphia NOM
inces. He charged that in this, as he did
in other cases, President Grant was d.
rcetIy responsible for the imputed great
wrong done poor and struggling peo-
pie.
That Mr.. Parrot has been wrongly
informed or has desired to belle facts is
apparent from the following, which We
copy from the Emporia Ne'os:
Some weeks ago correspondence
was published to the effect that the
proper officer at Washington had made
a decision which threw thousands of set.
tiers off their lands in NeOshO and other
counties in this State, and gave them to
the railroad. This created considerable
excitement throughout the State, and
aroused the sympathies Of all for the
settlers.
Within the last few days a paragraph
has made its appearance stating tina,
Secretary DelanO had written to Col.
Carpenter, of New Chicago, telling him
there had been no late land decision to
cause alarm among the settlers and now
comes the Oswe,o Register and puts the
following damper upon the sensational
story about the odd quarter sections on
the Usage ccjed tract.
In addition to this information we
learn from S. W. Collins, Esq, an old
and well known citizen of this county,
that he has Just returned from the land
office, where he had just been for his
patent and the patents Of his acighbors,
and he reports the following: He says
that he represented eleven parties
eight of whom are residents of odd quar-.
tiers, and went to the land office to re.
ceive their patents. Upon his arrival
there he was little timid, in conse
auencc of the rumors he had heard, and
at first only inquired for his own. Meet
ing with success in this he became EN-.
boldencd and inquired tor all the parties
he represented, receiving without hesita
ton every patent inquired for-findins
none cancelled or set aside.
After getting his patents securely
pockcted, he propounded some question.
and received from the officers of the
land office this information That the
rumors of the ordered cancellation o.
the patents to these odd sections wer,
false; that the only patents cancelled o,
ordered cancelled were patents obtained
fraudulently or upon false testimony
these entries being set aside upon testi
mony that had been awarded TO the Sec
Rotary of the Interior.
So falls another political bugbcar upoi
investigation, and the anything to bea
Grant" men will find i, necessary I,
conjure up other fabricated stories, Il
supply the place Of the exploded ones
What will we hear next?