The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-13
pAYNE,s PROJECT.
The Leader of the Oklahoma Boom In
ferviewed at Emporia and His Ideas
Regarding the Invasion of the Indian
Territory ELECTED.

The Leader of the Oklahoma Boom In
terviewed at Emporia. and His Ideas
Regarding the Invasion of the 1nfifsfn
Territory ELECTED.
As we stated in THE NEWS of Tues
day, Captain Dave Payne, the leader of
the notorious Oklahoma raid, arrived in
Emporia on Monday evening, on his
way to Ft Smith, where he will be turn
ed over the civil authorities for trial.
He spent the night at the NJ K, &
T. junction, and in .protracted interview
with Mr. J. d. King, gave Il reason for
the faith that is within him rs follows:
Payne says that IN 1866 the govern
ment treated with the Greek, Seminolcs,
Choctaws and Chichasaws for IA. 000,0G0
acres of land in the geographical center
of the Indian Territory, which is heavi-
" timiered and watered by the Cana
dian river and its tributaries, for which
they were paid $1,275,16S. OF these
ceded lands the United States has since
appropriated for the use Of the Sac and
Foxes, 479,667 acres. and for
the Pcttawatomies 515,S77 acres,
making a total of 1865, 554 acres.
rnese Indians occupy these lands by
virtue of treaties and acts OF congress.
DIV III ulIdtlllCu tAiS W AtAltl
Indians are now occupying 143, GIG acres
OF the coded lands. After the presidents
proclamation last year warning Carpen-
ter and others off the Indian reservation,
he, the president, in a message to con
gress, asked for legislation on the sub
iect, stating that he doubted his power
under the law as it then stood 10 prevent
an Organized movement into the Terri
tory and upon this hint Captain Payne
acted, having first examined all the
records at Washington with reference to
existing treaties on this subject. a
colony was organized with all the APP
purtenances of a we'll regulated cOmmu-
nifty, school houses already framed and
ready 10 put up, teachers employed
mills for cutting lumber anu grinding
grain - everything paid for and the
colony re;idy to- mOVe-when again
came The presidents proclamation
against the move, and the colony van
ished into thin air; but not so Captain
-. l.. Payne and few associates, who,
after many dangers by flood and field,
finally established themselves IN the
| land OF promise, where the | green
grass waves and the restless pionccr 50
longs To be. The Captain is willing 10
admit all that is charged against him,
| and more for that matter, as
| lac believes no charge can
be sustained to his prejudice, and he eX-
poets inside OF fifteen days to be again
on his claim near the Canadian river
where he can work under his OWN vine
and fig tree with no one to modest or
make afraid The Captain asserts in
self justification, that notwithstanding
these lands were segregated tor the ben
| eft of Indians and freedmen, that under
! protest from the people of Kansas
through their representatives, against
having so many wild Indians located SO
near, the matter has been held III
| allegiance until further action from con
| gress. This, with final disposition OF
The controversy, he believes will follow
| this arrest.
The men, Mr.. King adds,al seemed TO
be in good spirits and confident of sue
| cess, and report their prospects for crops
| good, although planted ON sod.