Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-02
THE cHERoKEE STRIP.
secretary Noble Gives the Cattle Go
porations Notice to Move.

porations Notice to Move.
II WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.--Secretary Nobl
has addressed long letter te. Gov. Fair
child. the chairman OF the Cherokee com
mission in which he defines certain position,
the department will maintain in neootiat
ing with the Cherokees for the purchase q
tae Indian lands in the Cherokee outlet.
/ The secretary refers to the illeeitimate
influence OF the Cherokee Strip Live Stock
association in attempting to thwart the
beneficient purposes OF the government. The
secretary reaches the conclusion that the
syndicate purpose to outbid the United
States for these lands, and to enter the
arena as citizens contending with the Ma
tional government. The secretary insists
that the cattle syndicate falls within the
law for prohibiting citizens from
making leases with the Indians:
that the leases OF the Cherokee
outlet are unlawful and illegal; that the
president has authority to declare invalid
an agreement or lease forgrazipg purposes
made contrary to the provision OF the law
which provide that the purchase OF the
lease or grant Of Indian lands to be valid
must be made by treaty pursuant to the
constitution and that the president has
authority to remove unauthorized persons
from the reservation whenever their pres.
ence is believed to be detrimental to the |
peace and welfare of the Indians.
The secretary shows that the syndicate |
proposes to lease the land at q rental OF /
$500, 900 a year for the first five years;
$40O, ,OOOfo the next five years and $3.50.
600 for the last five years. The govern.
mpnt proposition shows the Cherokees will
get from the United States at least 81, ,OOO,.
600 after deducting the payments already
made. ..-.
The cattle syndicate, he says, is pre-
su mably one of the ordinary kind OF which
hundreds have heretofore existed and dis
with the loss OF their assets. No
responsibility is attached to theindividuals
composing the corporation, and if it did
they are persons whose fortunes however
great they may be to-day, are liable to the
fluctuations attendant upon such ventures.
The prices offered as rental, are deemed {
by all acquainted with the subject as OK. ]
travagant from first to last. The govern (,
ment OF the United States is seeking land
only for the good OF the people, to furnish
new homes for the vast number OF citizens q
who wish, by their labor, to redeem it from i
q wilderness or plains roamed over by scat.
tered herds. .,s..........I
The secretary, in conclusion, says the r
proposition OF tine United States is not
Inly fair but munifcient, while the title to q
'he use OF the land, even by the Cherokees, :
precarious. That cattle syndicate has
10 authority to make a lease such as is 9
proposed, and by its evident intention to
'ival and defea6 the government on which
t depends for all claims to indulgence and
consideration and can and ought to be ex-
,elled from the outlet. The secretary I
therefore, announces, in order that it may
,e communicated without delay to the
)herokee nation, that in his opinion, thoset
whose purpose it is to make leases to do 80 A
Nth the knowledge that such leases :
re unauthorized and may at any time,
Hithin the discretion of the United States ii
svernment, be set aside; that their inter. h
arence with the negotiations of the United
tates gives occasion for the government :"
o consider the propriety OF laying it's hand 81
pom these citizens acting in defiance OF
he law and against public interest, and to h
estrain them from proceeding further in
his direction. 1t is deemed necessary that 81
uch lessees should be compelled to leave 81
aid outlet with their property on or be- h,
IRE the lst OF June next; it being deemed w
hey may escape without injury or suffer- 's
,g to the cattle and herds. 1t is deemed ST
o be to the best interests OF the Cherokee
eope to receive at the hands
I the government the fund interest on re
hich will give them a steady, reliable and W
burdant amount for Improvement and 81
dvancement ia the place OF future pay q,
len 8 that a transient corpol alton may :.
ay. II the Cherokees do not wish to sell, Id
hey are at liberty to keep their lands un- III
er the broad burdens resting thereon, in HI
svor of the United States, unless the =,
United States sees fit hereafter to assert "
s right by the superior title and the 81
herokees shall receive under any circum- 81
tances the same indulgence and generous
reatment they have heretofore, and so
ing enioyed. '" t