Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-25
THEY MUST GET OFF.
Orders Issued Ousting All In
truders, Non-Citizens,
FROM THE CHICKASAW NATION.
Those who Have Crops in and Improvements
will Loose All that Can be Carried.
The Work of Removal to be Taken Up at
Once, Under instructions from
Washington--Great Alarm Exists
Among the Unfortunates-
FROM THE CHICKASAW NATION.
NoN-CITIzEN WHITES.
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Speclai 10 the Gazette.
ARDMoRE, l. T., April 24-It is rumored
that another attempt on the part of the
Indian government to remove the white
people, whom the Indians are pleased to
call "intruders,' from the Territory will
soon be made, and it is said the United
States authorities will aid the Indian gov
| eminent in this measure.
The Chickasaw government imposes an
annual tax of S. per head upon all white
people living in this Nation, except such as
have married citizens of the Nation and
have become citizens by adoption. Only a
small proportion of the non-citizen element
have paid the tax. Those who have paid it
will be allowed to remain until December
81, when said permit expires. There is
much speculation as to what will become of
the immense interests acquired in this coun-
try by the non-citizens. Some fear that
their improvements placed upon Indian
lands will be contiscated by the Chickasaw
government as being attached to the soil,
the title of which is not vested in any indi-
yidual, but in the Nation, and is regarded
as public domain.
There are only thirty-Six hundred natives
in the Chickasaw Nation and about thirty
thousand white people, and Should an at
tempt be made to remove the whites it
would prove a failure unless the United
States aids them, and then force will have
to be used to accomplish the desired result.
become alarmed and have sold their i'm
proyementS, and some have moved away in
anticipation of what is soon to follow. Only
small number of citizens attach any i'm
portance to the rumor before mentioned,
and say Uncle Sam will not permit the In
dams to run his subjects out and confiscate
their property.
What the result will be cannot be fore
told.
ARMED WITH AUTHORITY.
Special to the Gazette.
DEN!soN, TEX, April 24-Ex- Governor
Burney and Judge Love of the Chckasaw
Nation passed through the city to-day en-
route home from Washington, where they
have been as delegates to protest against
the large number of intruders who have
been permitted to congregate in the Chick
asaw Nation. They succeeded in their pur-
pose, and brought back with them the fol-
lowing instructions from the interior de-
pa rtment:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
WASHINGTON, March "a, 1891.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
DEAR SIR-There are herewith submitted
you papers concerning the removal of per-
sons unlawfully residing in the Chickasaw
Nation, about which You sent me your
views December 10. 1890. 1t must be ad-
mitted that the policy of the government
has been somewhat dilatory and vaccillat-
ing with regard to these people, but there
is much to account for the same-the
great number of individuals affected and
the results to them of such action on the
part of the government as would break up
their present homes. Nevertheless, think,
with you, that the situation now demands
positive action, and inasmuch as large tracts
of land near the ChickaSaw country are
about TO be opened TO settlement, | have to
direct that you proceed to have these in
frl1dnrS m n
such precautions against unnecessary Sc
verify as you may judge best. Yours re-
spectfully JOHN w. NOBLE,
Secretary department of the Interior.
OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,
WASHINGTON, April ID. 1891. (
Leo E. Bennett, Esq, United States Indian
Agent, Union Agency, Muskogee, I. 4.
SIR-Referring to your letters of Novem-
Der IA and II, 1890, transmitting in accord
ance with Instructions a list containing the
names of over 5000 persons alleged TO be in
truders in the Chickasaw Nation, and TO
previous correspondence on the subject of
ChickaSaw intruders, am now in receipt
of letter of March "a, 1891. from the sec
Rotary of the interior replying to my report
of December 10, 1890, in which he directs
me to proceed to have those intruders re-
moved in such manner and with such pre-
cautions against unnecessary severity as
may Judge best. 1nasmuch as the intruders
in the ChickaSaw Nation were warned by
you in accordance with instructions con-
tanned in my letter of July IL, 1890, those
intruders who have remained and planted
crops have done so at their own risk, and
with knowledge of the fact that their re-
moval was contemplated by the govern
ment. a copy of the secretary's letter is
herewith transmitted with the list of in
truders above referred to, and l have to di-
rect that YOU notify intruders in the Chick
asaw Nation of the instructions the secre-
tary has given this Office with reference to
their removal. and that these instructions
will be carried into execution at the earliest
practicable moment.
BY report of even date herewith, have
recommended TO the department that the
secretary of war be requested TO cause
troop of cavalry to be detailed TO assist you
in making the removals required hereby.
Very respectfully, 7. J. MORGAN,
Commissioner.
The work of removing by force of all in
truders will begin ct once and be kept up
until the last family is beyond the harsiars