The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-20

teachers, and the question of this payment
and the reorg anization of the schools is
one which the young Cherokee orators re
now discussing on the stump The oppo-
sition to Chief Mays reelection, charges
that it is due to his inefficiency and bad
government, that there has not been
enough money to pay the teachers, and the
friends of the chief show quite as plainly
that the deficit rises from other causes In
the meantime the big seminary lies idle
and the University has no sch GLARS.
l went through the seminary this after
noon. 1t has as fine accommodations as
any college in Ohio, and it is run on the
Mount Holyoke plan, the girls keeping
their own rooms in order and doing part of
the homework of the institution.
THE INDIANS AND THE GOVERNMENT.
The government has cot treated the
Cherokees fairly and in the sale of the
Cherokee strip, Uncle Sam ought to give
them what it is worth. Chief Bushyhead
tells me that when he was at the head of
the government he was offered 50 an acre.
or more than SlS,000, 600 for it, but | sup
pose that the government will try and get
1t Tor l.25 an acre. 1t has been so ar
ranged now that the Indians get no revenue
from 1t, and if Uncle Sam holds on long
enough they will probably come to his
terms. 1t will in all Likelihood be the old
take its place among the unpaid claims of
Congress. In 1866 the United States made
treaty with the Chocktaws and Chicka-
saws and thereby got large tract of
land for which they agreed to pay the In
dians 1921 900. The Indians never got the
money and the whites have the land At
the same time there was treaty made
with the Creek Indians which hung fire for
years, and the five civilized tribes, if they
( Of
dollars from the United States treasury.
AS it is, they get a certain amount yearly
The Cherokees have received Sl45 600 a
year. This is divided up per capita, md
the man who has dozen children gets ten
portions more than the man who has two
travelled to Tahlequah with little boy
and his Cherokee mother, and the woman
told me she was going to the capital of the
nation TO get her government money. The
Greeks get about SlS0,000 per aunum, and
they pay $4,000 of this for keeping up
their schools. They are now putting up
three colleges and they have very good
educational system. l had long
talk with the United States gov
| eminent agent of the TERRITORY.
who pays all this money and lives among
the Greeks at Muskogee. He was Just go
ing out to make payment to the Delaware
Indians and he said that he had another
payment of 1925 to make to each of them
during the year. He spoke in high terms
of the condition of the civilized tribes and
he told me that the Seminoles had Just COM
pleted school building which is heated by
steam and lighted by electric lights and
which will cost Sl45, 600. These Indians gel
! 100000 year from the government. The
Osages are the richest of all the Indians
They are just west of the Cherokees ano
they receive $3.50, 900 year from Washing
tan. Each man, woman and child in the
tribe gets somewhere between $3.50 rnd S2O(
year, and these people are comparatively
the richest people in the world The gov
eminent owes them more than 81, 000, OO(
and there are ouly about fifteen hun
dred of them living. Besides this they
have reservation which gives them about
one thousand acres OF land apiece. and if
they worked they might become croesuses
They do not labor, however, and they arr
said TO be fast dying out.
WHITE RUFFIANS VS.. CIVILIZED INDIANS.
BY all odds the worst men in the Indiar
territory are the white men. There ar,
ten drunken cowboys, horse thieves ant
jail-blrds to every one decent man anon.
! them, and this little town of TahleQuah