Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-19
THE CHER0KEES.
The Council PASSES a Bni AIIowlne
Timber TO be Taken on the Re.
seryaiicn by Payment Of Royalty.
a Telephone that Learned 10 TALK ohero.
Ree In snort urder Astoniahpa
the FUN Moods.
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special TO the Gazette
TAuIKQuAn. l. t, Dec. Is, 'rahleqnah
Is now connected with tho rest OF the
world in haylnaa line OF telephone TO Mua.
kogeo connecting II with the wire. This
enterprise 10 owned and operated by tho
Cherokecs, and tho people are delighted
with It. Senator Larry Sanders, who
speaks only tho Cherokee language,
went 10 the box few daya
ago TO see II the thing could talk Chero-
koc, and TO his surprise II did and be con-
vcraed with friend at the other end
When done he turned around aud re.
marked that II Learned TO talk Cherokee
awful quick, II Is quite novtl 10 our
full blood friends aud they talk about iis
mystcriouaness great deal
The Cherokee councl bas changed the
time OF allowing stock 10 he driven In
the country, extending Il one month from
April 90 May l. This will be OF inter.
est to stockmon throughout the country.
The council also allowed persons TO ship
lumber and timber out OF tho
nation provided they pay roy.
atty on the same, TO be Fixed
by law The saw mill mon OF the nation
and others are highly elapd over this, as
Nhhl AhfN NiNl llANNNHAAAl NNlN HlfHittitt
for the last I've or six years end some Of
,hem have great piles OF lumber, walnut
and other kinds, that they eau now got
rid OF.
Tho agony Ia over and Col. O. j. CARTS
aud II 4, Landrum are the delegates 70
Washington 20 represent tho Cherokee
nation during the present congfnAH,
They are instructed At length on
Cherokee effalre Among other
things, TO urge upon congress fr8
passage OF a bill giving the nation III 10
TO tax the railroads running through tii
country the same an they - ~ tke siafa
and 10 compel the roads te cease o.
elimination In freight and paseenef
rates against the cltznns Of lilo
Indian Territory, AZ they are now doInl
The delegation was ALEC instructed 10 act
an act Of congress II possible 70 test bo-f
fore the proper courts whether or not the
eminent domain act can be applied 70
the lands Of the Indian Territory, or, in
other words, whether indiana lands OF
this territory eau no taken by congress and
given 10 private corporations. Tho dele
gait on IL a good one, and win have their
hands full In opposing railfoada and
other measures Affecting the interests OF
this people.
A correspondent writing from Saso,
kRwa, Seminole nation, Of recent date,
gives the following notice Of very aged
individual who died At that place recently
at the age Of l2G years, There
died at this place on the 9th inst.
Mrs. Lneanna Warren at the great age Of
1870 years She was born In tho old town
~ 81. Augustine, Fla, 10 the year A. u.
1850, fifteen years before the Americans
ever conceived the Idea Of national
Independence. She was born slave
and was the property Of Spapiah masters
until the year A. ID. 1878, when
Bhe with other Spanish slaves fed from
tho town OF Pensacola, when II was taken
by Gen. jackson In the month o. May Of
that year. The Spanish masters
had taught their slaves 10
regard the Americans with far greater
fear than that Of wild beasts, and when
the news OF Jackson's invasion reached
Pensacola the colored people ned TO tho
awamp, believing that they were escap
ing from man.caterg. She lived n
tho Seminole country from then nulIl
tho second treaty Of peace with the Heint
nolea, where fhe was regarded a. thsdfl
common properly, and was removed withl
them 70 this country. She leaves oue}
daughter living, who resides 70 AustiH
Tex, and 10 Ia her ninety-Bcvnnth.
year. She leaves many afsp6
children here, sons Of them nearly seven
ty years Of age
liamRn Bolln, aged one hundred and
one years, died Ia Siquayah district. this
nation, few days ago.