The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-06-07

our uhmts 10 luhJ lTthlN, huu 4
have told all the secretaries and
commissions that if anything was
done to open up our country for
settlement, the government should
see to it that more land per capita
be given to us because our country
is not a good farming country and
we would have TO get our supplies
from raising cattle.
"Ah-pe-ah tone, chief of the Kio
was, said ne refused TO sign the
Jerome treaty and stuck to it, aud
that on this account his people
elected him their chief; said that
now he wanted to sign a paper
asking congress not to ratify the
Jerome treaty and thought it his
right to have his name first on the
paper.
Eshiti said he went with tha
people after he had tried to have
them not sign the jerome treaty;
said when he was in Washington
last spring the secretary told him
the Indians could sign a petition
and send it to congress telling that
they did not want the Jerome
treaty ratified
Apache john said he was not
chief when the treaty was signed
He signed it because White Man,
then chief, had signed it. He
agreed with Big Tree that they
were all deceived and that all that
Big Tree had said was true.
The agent then stated to the To-.
dians that when be was called to
Washington to get his instructions
as their agent he got the impress
sion that he was 10 have a hard job
reconciling the factions among the
bands belonging to the agency,
but he had been agreeably disap
pointed aud had found that there
was no real trouble among the In
dians; that he had discovered i'm
! diately after his arrival at Ana.
darko that there was one thing in
which they were united to a mar,
and that was in opposition to the
ratification of the Jerome treaty;
that very soon after he arrived a
petition was brought to his Office
for approval and with the request
that he would let the indians sign
it at his Office; that he told them
that he would listen to all that the
headmen of the tribe had to say on
this subject, and when the big
council should meet at Mount
Scott, he would find out the will OF
all the people and then take action
on their request; that he had from
time to time listened to their state
ments in this matter, aud, upor
the request of the chiefs, had put
their ideas into a petition exactly
as they had asked him to do thai
the words of the petition were hi:
own after the Interpreter had ex
plained their request, and thai
he believed everything they haC
asked to be embodied in the peti
ton was there. The agent sale
further that copies of the petition
had been in the hands of the chief,
and interpreters since the gather
ing of the council and he wonld
ask if it was understood by al
what was meant by the petition, L
which there was an unanimous re
ply of yes. The Indians were theI
told that they could sign the papel
and signing was Immediately com
menced, Ah-pe-ah-tone in the lead
Council was given a recess t,
meet at 3 O'Clock p. M, the sam
day, the signing to continue dur
ing the recess. "
Attached to the records of thu
meeting is the protest Of the In
diaus signed by all the male mem
/ bers of the tribe,
When action is finally instituted
in the courts, which will be within
the next few days, it is the genera
opinion that the department viii
suspend the opening of the coun
; Try until the case is finally decide,
t by the supreme court, which vii