Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-06
OKLAHOMA.
What Gel. L. c. BOudinOt Has to Say
About the Irrepressible Payne and
His Movements in
The Indian TerIitory-Figures and Facts
That Throw New Light Upon a
Vexing Question.

g Boudinot, the welt-known Indian chlei,
touching the movements OF Payne and his
comrades IN their "On to Oklahoma" march;
"What abou; Oklaboma Payne"
aCapt PAYNE is a man of more sense than
the press generally give him credit for; he is
regarded as reckless, daredevil,
Tho persists Ia intruding upon an Indian
rsserv alton. This is a mistake; ne Is typical
frontiersman, about forty years oil age, and
IS fine a specimen OF physical manhood as
there ia in the country. he mas examined
The status of the lands he has tried to settle,
md has satisfied himself that though they |
sre within that tract of country called the |
tTndian Territory they are the absolute |
nroperty of the United States, and compose
M mari of an Indian reservation. ln ms
view of the matter concur; there Is no
doubt in my mind but he Il right:
"Den't all the lands in the Indian Terri
tory belong TO Indians?
@They do not; q large portion oil the lands
in the Territory are occupied by Indian
tribes whose reservations are distinctly de-
fined by treaty. Previous TO tine treaties OF
1866 ali the lands in the Territory belonged
to the FIVE civilized tribes have before
named, but in these treaties ths Creeks,
Seninoles, Choctaws and CnlckAsaHs sIla
sbout 10000 600 or I2,000,0OO acres 70 me
limited States for stated collaboration nc
Creeks sold TO the United States tile Nm |
guags of the treaty is 'cede aud convey /
3 $50 $50 acres for The sum OF S91b,ioo.
sThe Seminoles were Sootrsh eDoosh 10
cede and convey to tbe oniteo S1ea 200
entire reservation, eonSisti ssos as9 Tbev
S..uosiI soId themselves out OF house and
- IT, <hoctaws and ChlckasaWs sold
nJa <slled the LEASED lands lying west
" aso az west longitude for SSoO,O0O. This
tr.ct contains about 900, goo acres.
aThere is a piece OF sharp pracllee con
4 arft hos
pected with the purchase Oh tnese Janus iiou
| he Creeks and Seminoles, which this gov
e-',o,ent ouobt 10, be ashamed OF. The
Tni,ad States paif the Creeks thirty cents
- ere for Their lands, and paid the Sem
| 5noles but 6fteen cents an acre having
| closed the rade with the Semlnoles, TINS
great goyeynment said TO them: NOV you
/ 6sve 9ot1o home; we will sell you 2OO,UOO
] scr,. Yhich we have just bought from the
1 Creer2, at fifty cents per acre.; and the Y an
| 20 bargain wss actually closed. Lands
/ vflich the United States bought OF the Creeks
I'm July. 1866, for thirty cents per acret they
( sold TO the Seminoles the same month and
year at fifty cents per acre; and even amer
| driving this sharp bargain, they put tne
| Seminoles on the lands OF the Creeks, Whleh
| the government hadn't bong bit st all.
sSince the purchase by the United States
| of these lands in the Territory, about 3,OOO,-
| 900 acres of them have been assigned as res
| CREATIONS for wild Indians. 1t was the orig
, inal intention of the government to use all
| these purchased lands for the purpose OF
settling other Indians and freedmen upon
| them, but members of Congress from the
border States vigorously opposed this policy,
and in 1877 an act of Congress was passed
which prohibited the department from set
| ling any more Indians in the Indian Terri
| tory. But for this act of Congress the In.
dians of New Mexico and Arizona would
have been removed 10 the Indian territory
and settled on these coded lsnds. The lands
which we're bought and paid for by lhe
United States in this Territory, and which are
unoccupied by any Indian tribe, and which
under the law, cannot be used Tor any
Indian reservation, comprise a scope Of
couairy larger than the States OF Conneeti
cut. Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and Il
is these lands alone that Captain Payne Il
trying to form a settlement upon.
1.-THE charge that he has Intruded on In
dian lands is utterly without foundation.
"The supposition that Capt. Payne is .h'
sgeut of jay Gould or in the employ OF Thu
ST. Louis and San Francisco railroad ID alb
sard. The Tribune of this city, is all at sea
concerning this matter. Speaking OF thu
Frisco road, the Tribune said, few day
esgo: Its present terminus Is at Tulsa, OF
the Arkansas river, in the Indian Territory
Here the reservations of the various Indian
tribes commence, and thus lar 1t has beel
unable TO obtain the rig hit 10 extend lis lln
, through these reservations further west. In
5 matter of granting the company the right
way through those reservations, as Well
through the western portion OF the Territory
sgainst which Capt Payne directs his al
= tscks, and which he wants to be SET apart as
| separate territory, 10 be Known as 'okls
/ | homs' has been repeatedly before Congress
5 but has always been defeated for some reaso
or other" II would be difficult to group a
| many misstatements aga IN in so short spac
o as are contained in this extract from th
! | Tribune article. Instead of the Indian resel
: | vations commencing at Tulsa, the preser
western terminus of the Frisco road, ihos
| reservations almost end there. To reac
I | Tulsa the road had TO be built 100 mile
i through Indian reservations, and sixty mile
| | further will carry the road through all th
L Indian reservations on its route. The rIgf
d of way has long ago been granted 10 III
Atlantic and Pacific, which is the sam
V road, go far IS the building through the lie
It ritory is concerned, as the st. Louis and Sa
. Francisco.
:, "The matter of granting the company Ii
i RICH; of way.D etc "has never been befoI
Congress in any shape whstever, and, COZ
y sequently, has never been defeated. III
d St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Con
y pany will continue TO build their ros
e through the Indian Territory without let {
# bindrance.
Capt. Payne has only attempted to anti
ipate the inevitable settlement of these cede
!, lands by few years. The st. Louis an
"a San Francisco road will run about 300 mil
Il through the lands have mentioned as hs
II lug been 'ceded and conveyed TO the Unite
4 States, and which have not, and cannot wit
"a out violating an sct of Congress, be used Il
the settlement of any Indians. Under q
terms of the charter granted the Atlant
, | and Pacific road in 1866 a grant Of TWEEN
H. oh ID
: the road in the Indian Territory was m ad
to take effect on the construction of the ros
; when the Indian title WAS extiDguIshe
= Now the Indian title has been ex'inguIsht
: to these lands, and when the road is bui
into them, which will no doubt be in u
course of year from this time. the ro'
D, will be entitled to patent from the Unit
'e States to the alternate sections OF Ian
70 which have already been surveyed. Wh'
Is those patents are issued how are you goil
l. to keep the lands from being settled?
le far from Payne being an agent of the RAJ
J. road, he is acting rather in antagonlsm 10
ID for the railroad company, it seems to n
would not relish the premature settlement
N lands so soon TO belong TO them"
Mr.. BIB BRUCE, of Cleveland, o., write
"Ifelt generally unwell- Not desiring TO get In
the clutches OF some rnpaeious ao o stepp
say that would cure anything and ey " r
10 Iron Bitters- said, Is it good for dyspepsIi
1t he replied, There's nothing like it sad:
l. urine isn't Just the right color, guess nv kidnf
= are out of order Just the thing said he, q
'n kidney disorders; yeu VIII find Il strengthens
parts Of the body, and very refreshing to the rnt
= tai faculties Just the thug want, thought
y aed it suited my complaint precisely. never
Is fore believed In 'eure-alls.' and now ma
n Browns Iron Bitters the exception, for rea
= believe il VIII relieve any disease that hum
u flesh is heir to-"
More About the Morey Letter.
ID BosToN, October 5.-Regarding the Nor
ne letter, the old lady Morey, living at w
I'd LINN, was waited upon, and new facts
gsrding the matter ELECTED. 1t is intimat
- .t..o.r found wiIlin1 m rive him