Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-10-03
WICHITAS PROTEST.
INDIANS ARE KICKING AGAINST
AGENT BALDWIN.
Grand Jury Mt Comnnche Has Been
busy Investigating Accounts OF
United states omcIaIs.

Comanche, l. T.. Sept q, ls95.-since
our last letter the grand jury has been
busy and have concluded their work.
Reports states that one United states
commissioner and deputy marshals
galore have skipped the country while
bills are piled up to over forty.
grand juryman told me that Commits
sIoner Reagan went through the fiery
ordeal and came out without a blemish
All honor to any man that is weighed
in the scales and found not wanting.
God grant that the day Of the hood
ling official Is over here. We submit
II the present exodus to escape punish
ment themselves does not justify every
enort | have made to show up their
crooked work In days gone by. We
are all right now IN the Chickasaw
Nation.
In my last letter noted the Indian
agents order In the Fort SIN country
aud expressed my doubts whether II
was not done for the cattle interests.
enclose clipping out OF the state Herald
with the hope that the Wlchtas Will
secure the Investigation. There has
been more open defiant corruption In
the Indian agency at Anadarko dur
ing the past ten years than at any
point In the Indian Territory, and that
IL all that is necessary to mention. Let
the good work go on. An honest !nves-
tigatlon will see another gang skipping
and the law abiding people cheering
and planting more wheat. more oats.
corn and cotton.
As ] write two gins at Comanche
are putting away. the bales OF cotton
are on the market and the price is good
and better times are in sight Why
should we not be glade Good times In
the Chickasuw Nation. and the Indian
agent In the Fort Sill country pitching
a racket on the former Indians and set
tiers that will result probably in the
opening up OF that country.
Read this clipping:
Anadarko, l. T., Sept l0.-The
Wichita Indians in council have asked
the commissioner OF Indian Affairs to
send an Inspector here to investigate
Agent Baldwin The council was In
secret session for two days and the
! official acts OF the agent were dis
cussed. with the result that an lnvestl-
CATION was asked for.
/ Among the reasons for asking that an
D Inspector be sent here. II Is claimed
/ by the indians that much less money
[ is being received for grazing rentals OF
/ the reservation than have reached the
I Indian fund In years past This IL the
/ main cause OF complaint. a number
| OF Instances leading To this conclusion
are set t0rth, II ~ SAID one Colonel
| Strum. who for many years had a per-
! nit for certain tract Of land for
| which he paid a rental OF $500 per
/ year, was notified by Agent Baldwin
! that he could have It no longer for
that price, Mr., Strum decided that
( he could pay no more and gave up the
l grazing permit which he had had so
long. AS soon ms he vacated the lease
1 under order OF the agent. IL II set forth
that BALDWIN rented the same tract
10 Colonel silversteln for $500, and the
! Indians want to know why they are
compelled to take $1,000 q year less for
that tract than they have heen secure
Ing FOR many years. Other similar
I Instances are mentioned and. as they
believe the agent Is not handling their
Interests for their advantage they
want an inquiry Instituted by the ON.
clals.
Let the good work 50 on. and we
want II understood that we are In SYM
patty with the Indians,
There are few places whore the farmer
= doing better than IN the Chickasaw
Nation. Few places where business
men are doing more business than al
the thriving town OF Comanche The
Z busy season Is on, our business h not
Overdune, we need q good furniture
store, and we need a bank There ar,
| plenty Of good openings for good busl
ness men and thrifty farmers now, an(
In the not distant future the last. tn,
greatest and the best OF all III,
Oklahoma lands win be open for home
steaders within two miles OF Comanch,
on the west, viz; the Far Famed For
SIN country, j. $. WORKS.