The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-09
THE END OF 10!
The Indian Territory Rapidly
Passing Into History.
WHAT WROUGHT THE CHANGE.
The Allotment of Land in Severalty the
Order of the Day Among the Tribes.
The Surrender of Tribal Au-
tonomy Soon Follows
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
PARIS, Tex, April 1.-The beginning of
the end is here and children born to-day
will know the Indian Territory only as a
matter Of history. The initial step was
taken when a conditional land grant of
5000, 600 acres of land was made to the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway to be-
come effective when the Indian title was ex-
tinguished. Slowly but surely have the
agencies worked which have wrought to
this end. Many have wondered at
TEE PERSISTENCE OF EFFORT
and fertility of scheme characteriZing the
onslaught on the holdings of the only Indi-
ans who had made an effort towards civil
cation and who have for years been the
cause of neither worry nor bloodshed to the
whites. But 100000 acres of rich lands
besides other pickings, formed powerful
incentive And it wins. The events of to-
day in the Indian Territory point to the end
so plainly that all may see it. 1t is near,
and like the avalanche comes with increas-
ing speed.
HERE ARE THE SIGNS.
The work of allotment began among the
Sac and Fox Indians March 10. For their
surplus lands they are paid $4,000. The
first payment will be made May 10, and the
second and third payments soon thereafter.
Each payment will be for $4,000.
The attorneys for the Choctaws and
Chickasaws have stated to the congress
sional committees that if certain terms are
granted allotment among those people can
be secured. Treaties for surplus lands and
In some instances for
SURRENDER OF TRIBAL AUTONOMY
and allotment have been made with the
following tribes: Sacs and Foxes 1.23 per
acre; Pottawatomies, 45 cents per acre;
absentee Shawnees, % cents per acre;
1owas, IS cents per acre, and for the Choc-
taw and Chickasaw claim to the leased dis
trict now occupied by Cheyennes, Arapa-
hoes, kiowas and Comanches at 81 per
acre in addition to s1,1000O0 heretofore
paid them. 1t is virtually settled that the
Cherokees will sell the ''outlet" and this
leaves only the occupied lands of the four
civilized tribes under Indian title.
OTHER NOTES.
In the Cherokee Nation affairs are in q
bad shape Chief Mayes, Treasurer Ross,
Hon. D. w. Bushyhead, Councilman Bell,
Jackson, Wolfe, Gray, and in fact nearly
all the political leaders in the Cherokee
Nation. are awake to the fact that a crisis
in the history Of the Cherokee Nation has
come The financial situation is alarming,
the intruderS are becoming more and more
numerous, politics are becoming more and
more corrupted. A feeling OF disquietude,
dissatisfaction, insecurity, pervades the
ranks of the Cherokees from one end of the
Nation to the other The old days of secur-
ltS pIChhS hOLLOoty ALaNS GOhS. We
do not attempt to say who is to blame nor
whence came the cause, but we do see much
truth in eX-Chief Bushyhead's statement,
"the Cherokee Nation is in a deplorable
condition.
For many years the lease of the outlet
has supported the Cherokee government,
and the action of the government in ex-
pelling the cattlemen was part OF the widely
concerted scheme TO gradually force allot-
ment and tribal extinction on the Territory.
Three million acres of land and town lot
pickings are powerful.
Reliable information comes from a sec
ton of the Delaware district that in that
particular locality intruders. pretending to
be claimants to Cherokee citizenship, are
locking in by hundreds. Round and about
the little town of Alton the land Is nearly
all taken up and is being fenced
by these intruders. This onslaught
upon the Delaware lands is made
in anticipation of its opening and as
the district is part of the Cherokee holding
Cherokee citizens living on it will have
preference; hence this rush under color Of
CHEROKEE CITIZENSHIP.
The only glimpse in accord with the past
is this item, and the fact that it is noted as
news item by Choctaw paper is in line
with the opening march: The kickapoo
Indians had big feast at Kickapoo town
one day last week. Among the favorite
dishes served was one of roasted dog, which
was partaken of with great relish.