The Sunday globe., 1901-08-11
THE LAND LOOTERS
With Headquarters Here and Also
in oklahoma.
A CHAPTER Of RASCAlITY
In Which is Detailed The Methods Of The Ring
and Their Proposed RObbing Of The Indian
Settlers The NIeSt Scheme EVerAltemped
10 be Carried Out by UnbIushlng official
Rascaldom-EffOh 10 Remove Hermann,

The Globes expose Of the Chicago
& Rock Island 100000 snap, by the
grace and decision Of the Assistant At
torneyGeneral for the Land Office,
Judge Willis Van De Vanter, struck
CONSERVATION to the hearts Of the
guilty and responsible parties to this
infamous steal, and there was ire
mendous rustling Of the local bandit
end Of the conspiracy all during the
past week. So far The Globe has not
been sued for libel, nor its editor ar
rested, both Of which contingencies we
are not only prepared for but respect
fully invite.
This Sunday morning, The Globe
presents an additional chapter Of Of
fetal rascality in connection with the
robbery of both white men and In.
dians. 1t is both the practice, the pre-
cedent, and the law that when this
honest Government decides to rob the
Indian of his lands, under the alleged
legitimate necessity of opening up the
same for settlement, the aforesaid In
dams are paid the sum agreed upon
and permitted first choice in the al
lOtments Of the quarter sections. The
Indian selects first, and after the tribe
has made its selection, the balance OF
the land is then open to public settlers
by some particular plan of lottery or
rush at a certain time named in the
proclamation of the President.
In the recent rascally game played
in the Oklahoma opening, we have this
anomaly, that whereas Lone Wolf and
over 400 of his tribe refused to select
the land and protested against its
opening up by the Government to white
settlers. another band of Indians,
adopted Indians, and mixed or half
breed Indians, accepted the time-hOnOr-
ed robbery of the Government and Sc
lected their allotment settled down on
the same, and began to exercise their
undoubted proprietary rights, accord
ing to law, precedent and practice.
Now, let the5unprejudiced and honest
reader observe what occurred.
Lone Wolf and his following were
compelled to select their allotmonts
and the law, precedent and practice
of the Land Office Department of the
Government We're cited to establish the
justice of the act; but the other In
dians who had complied in every re-
spect with these hOary, hOnOred and
legal practices and citations were mo-
titled that the allotments they had Sc
lscted in conformity with the law and
practice must be surrendered and given
up, impossible The Globe thinks it
hears the honest citizen eXclaim
Such conduct on the part of our Gov
eminent is inconsistent, intolerable,
and too yiciously dishonest to be a
fact But the honest and unspohisti-
Gated citizen does not know the work
ings of the American Land Office, and
he is utterly unacquainted with Judge
Willis Van De Vanter, late of Wyom-
ing, and at present the Assistant At.
tOrneyGeneral Of the aforesaid Land
Office. Here is the way the old thing
was worked
The assistant to honest Binger Her.
man, Ex-Governor Richards. also Of
Wyoming, it will be observed, where
he was governor years ago over 125, 900
people, all tOld-this gentleman and
land expert was sent out to El Reno
to manipulate, beg pardon, "supera.
tend is the word we wanted, this raf- !
lle or lottery for the rich lands of poor
LO, 1t did not take Ex-Governor Rich. |
ards more than "a hours to ascertain
from the gang-the other commission.
ers, including Penny-ante Dale-that
the Indians had taken their allotments, !
and that those allotments were too val. .
liable for 10 and his white adopted F.
brother Indian. Ex-Governor Richards /.
tried diplomacy, but diplomacy don't
go far on Indians, who have intermar I.
ried with whites, Then the cloyen /.
hoof was shown, and the Indians no |
titled that the allotments they had Sc .
lected could not be allowed as they .
were within the territory or acreage /.
to be thrown open to the 10000 new set |.
tiers. Whereupon the Indian cited the .
commissioners to the law, precedent .
and practice Of the Land Office, the .
sale, bargain, etc, Of their lands, and .
asked why they could not hold their .
allOtments?
The commissioners were not posed, .
not they, by these pertinent questions. .
Did they not have Judge Willis Van .
De Nanter, the Assistant Attorney. .
General Of the Land Office, behind .
them, and, besides, were they not .
morally supported by the great cor.
pOratlon known as the Chicago & Rock .
Island Railway? SO Mr.. Indian and .
his white adopted brother were plainly .
informed in choice Anglo-Saxon that .
the allotments they had taken up were
too near town, too valuable, in fact
for mere Indians or adopted Indians /.
and that they must vaCate
Lone Wolf, on the other side Of the /.
fence, scratched his head and tried to |.
comprehend the mandates of an Office /.
which compelled him and his followers
to select allotments, but which we're
now utilized to prevent the other In
dams who selected allotments and
obeyed the mandate from occupying
them. This was incomprehensible to
Lone Wolf, although he is an educated
gentleman and a Baptist preacher to
boot But Lone Wolf and his people
in the land on which they were order
ed to select allotments, had no town
or growing city and the other Indians
had. Here was a marked difference, |
and the elasticity of the gigantic in |
tellect OF Judge Willis Van De Vanter .
and Ex-Governor Richards Immediately .
guaged a situation the honest Injun' .
couldn't comprehend.
The result is that a peremptory or
der was obtained from Secretary
Hitchcock by Judge Van De Vanter, on a
tip from Ex-Governor Richards, who .