The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-12-14

annual rental on tho leased lends of
these Indians amaunta to about $50.
600 The following hEurts cab oit
the amount of produce "a scd by all
ihc Indians - taii agercy during the
past fiscal year Blth is OF Nhcat
10, zoos oats, loo. corn. 81 2f0i pota
toes. 3.i50, turuips i20. onions, 4foi
beans, 77ti number % m,lone, ~ 300;
pumpkins. 1000. tons ~ hay, 2,2lpi
/ pounds of butter. 500. feet ~ lumu Der,
sawed. ipf sec. cords of wood cut, 7is
"Thc stock possessed by the several
tribes may be enumcrateI as f0llOws'
Horses 1.l2O. mules. 90. cattle, 1915
swine. $40, domestic fowls 8 go.
The poucas cultivate $50 acres OF
I land. and have b. 500 under fen e.. The
/ pawnecs cultivate i.flf acrcs, aud
/ have ii,i2O acres uudcr fence The
/ Ot0Cs cultivate 500 largely by the
\ ass stance Of white lator) having
4 q 500 acres under fence The Tonku-
was work but very little. having 300
acres under fence, forty Of which they
cultivate"
During the year land was cultivated
I ny thc lnd ans of Oklahoma as follows.
I Cheyenne and ArbpnhOe agency. 3p1
acres. AlJwh au1 C1mnuchc agency.
l %. .u0U. Oaagc agency 1880. iDuca,
\ Pawn cc and Ot0c agency, $3.50, sac
\ aud toN agency 5000.
The Indians aye well provided with
| educational facilities The ChillOccl
/ industrial school in Kay county is one
| 90 the most sp,cndIdly equipped in o..
utions of the und 90 hc fou d. Pa.
pills representing twenty. tribes
we're unroiied during the year 10 the
number OF fif. of whom 253 were
males and and iil females la addi-
/ lion TO she Chiilocco school, the gov
eminent maidtains fourteen rescrvA
tion boarding school aud two day
schools. the attendance at which was
as follows. Absentee shawnecs 20.
Arapahoe i30, Cheyenne 200, Fort sill
i25. Kaw 90. Usage 80. Otoe 20, Paw
nee 1875. Ponca 100 Rainy Mountain
So Red Moon 7s Riverside 100, Sac
and Fox ig0, Seger i20, Kiowa day 80.
Whirlwind day 20. total 1873 Nine
school districts In Oklahoma have &C
ceptcd the governments offer 10 pay
Tor schooling lndian children in the
common schoole, the aggregate attend
ance being seventy four Indian pupils
J The government pays the districts
taking Indian scholars $40 per capita
! per quarter on che average aticndanc,
! OF Indian pupils
. The tcscrvatlous sti,l occupied bJ
} Indians exclusively comprise "a total o
! / g, t1s.i39 acres, divided az f0llows
4 Kansas. 100. i17 Kiowas and Conan
! chce, . .y6s 500, Osagcs ,f70O1 Otocl
i2p.li3; ponCa, lG,22s, wichita, etc.
/ 7tN0lo Speaking Of these lands th,
gov, rnor says
b mo Indian reservations have beer
, opened 90 settlement during the year
though it ~As hoped that the rcserva
tion occupied by the Wichitas an,
b affiliated tribes would be thrown open
, This reservation was treated for II
1850. aud Ia the spring OF 1891, whel
the Cheyenne and ArApahoe rcscrvu
P, ton was opened, so certain was th
D secretary Of the Interior that this rea
"a erva sior was % follow within the yea
that he designated IL as county T.
located the county seat, which wa
= named WILDER. and postmaster wa
{ appointed therefor Eut the expected
opening did not materialize aud OWNS
10 some legal technicalities the allot
ment OF lands 20 .he tribes on the res
a. ! trvation has never been cOmdleted
During the year the ChoctAw. Oklaho
ma and Gulf railway company ha
built across the northern end of thi
reservation agd the Rock leland ca
1 tension up the beautiful Washita val
ley runs Just on the southcrn border
& With subt exec lent railway commun
- icatiou, fertile soil, timbcred hills an,
% grass laden valleys, hue steamt an'
d beautiful scenery 1 this reservation
. would soon make one uf the most pop
. uious and prosperous counties a th
. territory aud I sincerely hope that th
- department may see its way clear q
& carry out the treaty am pen the LAM
q Co settlement this c1mi.s yc.,
T. The building of two lines of raIlwa'
z into che * owa aud Camauche conutr
3 turnt many longing eyes toward, q
T. fertile acres. lu tAteut enough Tor
T. smnN empire rrrc are Che ftmou
f. Wich "a mruntAint with their fumnrr,
D mineral wealth. aud che people OF th
F. entire Southwest VIII soon make
:. united demand on ..pgrcss 90 opsl
A. It.s great area t0 ESQ pursuits and art
- 10 civilization
y During tnc year % controversy ha
J arisen over the possession OF ccrtaa
{ school lands along the northern bouu
]. dairy OF the KIowa, Comanche an
d Apache reservations. The proc,ama
r tion Of the president opening the Chey
J. erne and Arapahoe reservation Ina 1897
b iu defining the southern boundary O
h the reservation, did not coincide wit
'r the boundaries given in ,he Indial
d. treaties, aud there has been a narro'
20 strip Of land in controversy sine,
b settlers have been living upon th
'r land, aud. though the department ha