Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-11
BIG CROWDS COMING.
wHITE-COvERED WAGONS Mo,sINc
no COMhNCnE.
The Fort SIN Country WIN soon n,
In Glover MS Well na wheat
and other Things.


80, COMANCE, /. n, Aug. o. 1884,
~, Whlle covered wagons come roll
lng ~ They all report an awful crowd
coming To the Chlcknsaw Nation I'M
ran and winter Those comins nnn,
are prospeetors, who VIII return home
10 gather and market their crops
DOCS thls country suit themY AL,
lHeli, on their return. Ask them OF the
country ana crops around Comnnche.
Parties coming by railroad shouid mia
our Union route and they viii have no
trouble, towlt. Get ticket TO Fort
worth, stop at Western hotel near
Union depot, get ticket on the Rock
lsiuhu runway 10 Comanche, The West
YIN notel ~ our Union hotel at Fort
worm, ana the rates, 81 per day. suits
the home seekers. The landlori viii
see that you meet the trains Corroci
our wagon route IS the Henrietta ana
tort SIN road. crossing Red river and
three miles further taking the first
right hand road FOR Comunche.
II Is said the indians tChlckasawsl
are toking down the fences OF the ma
tlNea VINO have wired In the puhiIn
domain ana appropriated II to their
own lhulNldual use, as u land monouo-
There Is much talk OF collIn,. - go,
TIERS convention to consider the uucs-
tiOn OF whether IL IN legal or rieht
To pay rents TO individual land KINGS
when 1t really belongs to the tribe
N common From present appearances
the settlers VIII settle this years rent
aceotdlhg 10 THIS years contracts hut
refuse to make any more, except 10 n
proper agent that represents the
TRIBE The quick way TO give this
lana back 10 the real Indians ia for
the settlers TO refuse TO recognize any
authority over the land but tho ''trihaS
through It's officers and treaty rights
or course the land Kings Will kick
hut who cares2 Certainly not thn
settlcra or homeless Indians. They
Kicked over our position OF the permit
question year ago, and denounced
"Buckskin Joe ana his methods I" but
Just the same. the settlers settled II
legally and properly by refusing 10
pay Illegal taxes on their heads. WA
won hecausc,we had the law and right
on our side, Just the same as we
VIII now take the land away from
the monopollsts ana give Il back 10
the Indiana In common by refusing to
pay rents. except TO the tribe In COM
mon. saver IN order TO snve time
and trouble for the monopoiists and
10 keep them properly posted ON Inc
law, | summit a part or the demands Of
the ChcroEees, who want allotments,
They got hot rubbed little law and
few plain facts under the nose Of
the council with notice that they would
stand II no more,
This is what they say.
we, the undersigned citizens beg
leave TO call your attention the deplord-
bic and unsatisfactory condition OF ou,
public domain, with which You are
familiar and ask that you enact suoh
law or laws as VIII correct this condi-
tlon. a portion Of our citizens. through
the connivanee and financial assist
anee OF non-ciuzens. have managed to
monopollxe our entire public domain.
under various pretenses OF law. Thous-
ands OF our citizens are today without
homes. and there is no land loft upon
which they can make homes,
our entire country is wired in. and
any one deslfing 10 travel acroAs The
country few miles is necessarily
forced 20 go. In many instances. 10.