Weekly Phoenix herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory [Ariz.]) 1882-1896, 1884-05-15

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THE people of the south west have
entertained a Lope that the govern
menb would continue the hitherto
successful plan of renewing oh
-treperous Indians to the Indian
Territory, and thus relieve the coun
try of that whitening blight, the
Apache; but the probability of such
removal grows rapidly less. The
Indians of the Indian Territory
more properly reservation-have re-
ceivad the fondest care and most
lavish expenditure from the govern>
ment. The children Of their public
schools buy nothing; they are fed,
clothed and furnished at public eX-
rensc; their teacher furnishes books
from his salary; they are taught, in
the higher schools, music and paint
ing. which they receive in slips
shod. Indifferent manner; they re-
ccive an immense sum of money,
vastly more than they need, as in>
terest Oh a so-ca.lcd debt of the gov
eminent; their land is productive,
level plain, similar, aud in some re-
spects superior, to Kansas; their
reservation IS extravagantly large,
and the government has held, be-
side, large tract of public land,
generally known as Oklahoma,
which lies along the Canadian river,
and other public lands. Repeated
attempts have been made, chiefly
under Captain Payne, TO make set>
Elements on the public lands, but
the government has opposed the
move with no punishment and in
such a mild way that the intruders
have been strengthened. The papers
of neighboring States have encour-
aged the Oklahoma boomers from a
commercial view; for the Indian
Territory, though very fertile, has
stood like dangerous desert in the
midst of prosperous section. These
efforts have had an effect. The bill
introduced in the Senate last week
by Plumb for opening to homestead
settlement certain portions of the
Indian Territory coded by the Or, elk
tribe of Indians by the treaty OF
1866, and the lands coded by the
Seminole tribe by the treaty of 1866,
except such as have been granted
other Indian tribes by act of Cons |
gress, or by treaty, or been set apart !
for Indian occupancy by executive
order shall be set apart for entry !
under the homes lead laws; and that
so much of the grant of lands made
to the Atlantic ard Pacific Railway
Company by act of July 6, 1868, as
lies within the Indian Territory, OK
cepting the grant for right OF way |
and station purposes, be wholly for
feired and the land restored 10 The
public domain. 1t provides also
that the President shall be empow>
cred TO reduce the limits on any res
ervation establ shed by executive
order in the Indian Territory, where
The amount of lands is in excess of |
the necessities and rights of the In
lians occupying the same, and that
The lands thus taken out of the linn
its of any reservation shall be open
10 settlem Mt under The homestead
law; that he shall be authorized to
remove the Indians of Darling ton
agency, with their free consent, to
he lands mentioned in the tr, atty of
1868, between the government and
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians,
and that he shall be empowered to
open negotiations with such Indian
ribes located in the Indian Terri
.ory as IN his judgment are in pos
session of a greater quantity Of land
han their necessities IT quire fer the
;ession of their surplus lands 10 the
government in trust or otherwise,
sud at such prices as may be equita-
Die, for the purpose of opening SAID
urplus lands for settlement under
he general land laws of the United
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