The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-15

| pie have no sidewalks at all and no
| roads worthy of the name. After a
| heavy rain business is practically sus-
pended. The buildings are of the finn
siest character. In the farming dis
tricts the Indians will not improve
! their farms because they have no posi-
| tive assurance where they can take up
| their alotments. Few of the full
| bloods send their children to school.
At present the whites, of whom there
are three hundred thousand in the ter
| ritory have practically no rights.
| They cannot own land, and prior to a
recent decision they have not even been
allowed to own houses or stocks of
merchandise, so that any white desir-
ing to do business must do it under the
name of an Indian or of an tntermar-
ried citizen having Indian rights,
Many whites married squaws, thus OBJ
tanning tribal rights, and the half
breed children of these unions are the
most intelligent and progressive men,
bers of the Indian community. Others
paid the monthly tax of fifty cents and
hired out to the indolent Indian farm
owners or etorekeepers, accommodating
money by industry and thrift.
1t is from this class that the dan
ger to the Indians portends. These
whites know the value Of the lands.
They have or can get money. AS soon
as the Indian takes up his allotment
it is his to do with as he pleases. There
is little odubt that in most cases, as
regards the full-bloods, who make up
about one-third of the total Indian pop
ulation, they will sell out to the whites.
Tt Is generally predicted that they will
sell out almost in a body, and emigrate
to Mexico to find a wilderness wherein
they can rear another edifice of tribal
mismanagement While the half-breeds
will remain to become citizens of the
new state that will eventually be made
out of the Indian territory. Willy fell
lows are these half breeds who well
understand the value of what Is coming
to them. Far and wide they have
roamed prospecting for lead, zinc, coal
and oil, and their discoveries they have
kept secret, with a view to getting their
allotments where these treasures lie.
Then when local or eastern capital
comes with money in both hands the
haIf-breed will be in a position to get
about what he asks.
Tourists from the east visit Indian
territory rather expecting that will In
dams clad in blankets and gorgeous
paint will be found hanging around the
towns and railroad stations and avidi-
ously cycling the scalp of the pale-face
invader Instead, one meets race of
dark skinned people, some highly edu
Gated and glad to meet you, others a
little stubborn with the deeply imbed-
ded hatred Of their race against the
whites, but all far above the blanket
Indian of the reservation. /
They come quietly and peacefully to
the enrolment places, making of the
enrolment days sort of picnic. Most
of them, even the full-bloods, wear the
dress of civilization. One of the men
will become a citizen of the United \
States is "Zeke" Proctor, a Cherokee,
and bad Indian. Several years ago
he killed seven men near Westville and
shot the deputy marshal who tried to
arrest him. As rule, the full-bloos
are docils and even kindly, but they
have not the ability or energy of the
alf-breeds, and it is probable that they
will soon become extinct. At present
he five tribes are the plutocrats of the
American Indian race. What they will
De after they have come into their full
is a problem upon the solution
If which may depend the governments
treatment of all its other wards
Should this scheme of naturalizing the
indians prove a success it may be re-
,eated with other tribes-Kansas CITY
star.