Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-11
PREPARING THEIR ANSWER
To the Charges Made by Bennett Indian
Agent
They Claim lhaliho Papers Have Not Treated
Them Fairly In tho Matter Their Com
plant Against Locke Is In
Regard 10 Timber.

Paris, Tex. April 10.-(spcciall 1.-The
report made by lndian Agent Bennett
has brought Governor Jones Of tho
Choctaws to a period and the scene Vt
labors has been transferred from tho
milidn camp nc Goodland 70 q law office
In this city, and the governor, Judge
Dukes and Judge Duront have been az
work all day with their lawyers getting
up counter statement TO agent Benz
nett's report
Your correspondent called on their at.
tornoys today and requested for publioar
ton copy Of their statement The doca.
nent was not complete nor could the
attorney say whether they would want
the newspapers 90 see Il or not Later
he said Il would hardly be to their Inter.
cst TO make It public now. IL trans
pied during the interview that The Jones
people had mighty poor opinion OF
newspapers any way. and were accusing
them OF partisanship for Locke. aud
promptly informed him that had never
seen Locke and that my reports had only
contained the facts, and II The facts were
| Locke's partisans. | was not responsible
for Il aud so far l had been fully sua.
tanned by Agent Benefits report and
conclusions
They have been doing deal Of talb
ing today, aud some features of their doe,
umont that IL alarming may be guessed
from this talk. They say chat Locke has
been persistent violntor of their timber
laws, and refusing Co pay the royalty on
timber exported by him. Formerly tho
Choctnw laws only allowed timber OF
lumber exported by citizen and fixed
a percentage or royalty to be paid int
the national treasury on such exports
At q recent session of the council they
amended the timber laws 40 as TO au
thorizc permits 10 any person. Now in
reply TO thuir charges against Locke
his friends say that when he applied foI
q permit, the timber Inspector or royalty
ugant under Instructions FROM Governor
Jones' refused it. Locke being a citizen
had made timber contracts which failure
20 MI meant disastrous loss. lie went
TO the supreme court and obtained
mandamus ordering ihe 4gtnt TO ISSUE
permit Governor Jones told the agent
10 disoboy the supreme court, that Il
was revenue matter, and not 10 iet
Locke have thc permit Locke relied up-
on the decision of the supreme court
went phead and shipped out the timbor
on his contract, and doing this is said "a
be the new charge they are making
against him. They have also charged
that they tried 10 get their version In
The Gazette Of Fort Worth aud News OF
Dallas that though they offered TO pay
for the space, thoy were refused. They
admitted that they had not presented
anything for publication 10 the local
representatives, but claimed they had
written direct to the papers. These
pcrs, and tbs whole story was promptly
aud fully denied by both.
Locke Is following his same course.
ald Is quiet 40 camp, waiting on tho
government, aud following the agents
Instructions, and as soon az troops arrive,
will dishnnd.
II Is said that President Harrison's re-
fusal 10 pay over the leased district
funds ls remotely the cause Of the pres
ent war. The present treasurer Is Green
AcCnrtain, and he would have had tina
of the funds II II had been paid, but
Hnrrison's showing the payment over IA
Cleveland, caused by the kilograms rom
here about the OrriclI contract, has made
it evident that McCurtains term would
expire IN August before the money emma
in. joel Spring had been nominated by
the Jones party as McCurtnln's success
or and there was going 10 be a Gloss
race, ~ the Jackson party really had
minority of votes, but wee counted ont
4 Ia 40 IL
Befoe The Jackson men had their cons
Yention the militia started out on thclI
campaign and several Jackson men,
Locke among them, were warned by per-
sOnal friends in the Jones party that
Choctaw war was on and 20 lot pOlitics
alone this summer, The Jackson men
however, held their convention
aud PM out for treasgrer WIZ
y Wilson, one q , The most
Doubt that on fair race Wilson would
win the treasnrerehip AMI his party would
have some Of the benefits of handling
the S2,0Ol 400 Of leased district money,
and the Jones men would not have all
Of the pie, aud as they say the whole
matter Is one Of stratageins and spoils,
and that II was intended by removal or
political appointment TO secure con-
tinuance Of the treasury with the present
'rbis seems also to be Agent Benefits
conclusion.
a lawyer employed BY the Jones party
win leave here with their documents for
Washington.
What Is 10 Il "a unknOwul but no doubt
II viii display the fertility OF device and
Ingenuity Of plot that has hitherto work.
ed IA secret Ia the laws Of their own
land This IS their first experience with
the light Of the press apk they oont
seem 70 like H.
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