The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-11-19
TOINYOKE CONGRESS
Members Of the Five Tribes VIII
Ask for Special Legislation.
10 INVADE The WICHITA COUNTRY.
Pan 70 Get Twenty Thousand sBOOmers"
to Locate IN the TerritOry-A Mormon
says POlygamy Is Not Dead-Na-
tIonaI Grange Omeers.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-Representa-
tiEes Of the Chickasaw and ChOctayy
tribes are here to ask congress for
special legislation exempting them
from the operations Of the law which
goes into effect January L This law
takes away tribal Jurisdiction over the
courts OF the Indian territory and places
It IN the hands Of the federal judiciary.
1t also requires the president to ap-
prove al legislation enacted by the as
semblies Of the five tribes before it nav
become effective and binding. The
intent of this law, which was passed
by congress June 10, was to abolish
5Tibal law and to demonstrate TO the
Indians that holding aloOf from the
Dawes commission would not help
them The representatives of the
-Choctaws and Chickasaws will argue
before the Indian committee of the
house that inasmuch as these two
tribes promptly agreed with the Dawes
commission to the allotment of their
lands and have in every way tried to
Z aid the commission, they should be ex-
empted from the operations of the
obnoxious statute and be permitted
% retain their courts until the
Dawes commission had completed its
work They viii present as part of
their plea for exemption the fact that
after congress ratifies the treaties with
the Choctaws and Chickasaws they
must then be ratified again by the In
dams. To arbitrarily insist that they
shall be subject to the harsh law,
along with the recalcitrants, who have
refused to treat with the Dawes com
mission and are making the govern
ment all the trouble possible, they
argue would be to show bad faith.
and would undoubtedly tend to pro-
yoke opposition emOng the Chiekasaws
and ChOctaws. mp to this time the most
tractable Of the i've tribes Anylegis-
lation to be effective must be passed
BY both houses before January /.
10 EvADE THE WICHITA COUNTRY.
YICHFTA, Kan, Nov. 17.-George NJ
Hughes, of Anadarko, L T.. arrived in
Wichita yesterday on a trip to secure
20, eco col0nists for the Wichita coun-
Try, who are to settle IN and about the
Wichita mountains before the first Of
january and by sheer persistency
and force of numbers compel
congress to open the country to
settlement Hughes is one of 20 men
who are now making a systematic can
vass in Oklahoma. Kansas and Arkan-
sas for boomers to locate in the new
country. The plan is to inaugurate a
prOmiscuOus immigration into the In
dian country at once and begin to hunt
for gold, demanding of congress, at
the same time the opening of the
Wichita reservation. The movement
promises to surpass the famous colony
expedition into Oklahoma by Capt
Payne.
SAYS POLYeASIY Is NOT DEAD.
Boston, Noy. 1T.-Rev. Mr.. Charles
r Bliss, financial agent Of Salt Lake
college, Utah, spoke last evening n
Franklin Street Congregational !
church, SOmerville, on the Present
Attitude Of MormOnism." He said: 1
The American people miscOnceive the |
nature and underrate the power of
NormOnism- The position taken by
many that polygamy is dead is not !
true. 1t Is still practiced by many
prominent people in the church, and |
is generally accepted BY the Mormon
people as true IN doctrine
NATIONAL GRANGE OFFICERS
HARRISBURG, Pa, Nov. 1.-THE |
Grange sessions yesterday afternoon |
and evening were taken up by the cleo /
tion Of officers for 1898. officers were
elected as follows: Worthy master,
Aaron Jones, Indiana; overseer, O. H. /
Hale, New York; lecturer. Alpha !
Nesser, Vermont; steward. John 7. /
Cox, New Jersey; assistant steward, J. |
a. NeweOmbe, Colorado; chaplain, o. !
5. Bowen, Connecticut; treasurer, Mrs /
Eva Mcdowell, Ohio; secretary, John |
Trimble, Washington.