The Sunday globe., 1901-08-04
STOPENDOUS STEAL
The Opening of the KiOwa Lands
TO HOmeSteadS.
THE ROCK ISLAND RAILWAY
And The Interior Department Work Hand in
Hand and 10000 People are FIoeCed 10
The Tune Of S2OOO,OOO, when il The Honest
Plan SubnIttedto The Department Adopted
Honeslesders would bs Saved Loss Of Money

OF all the outrageous schemes for
robbipg the public-and not the richer
nortion of it eithsr-the one recently
npt I'm force i'm connection with the
oneping of the Indian lands in OKLA
boma exceeds in magnitude and bare
faced fraud ANYTHING so far coming to
the surface in our mismanageu Uo'
ernment Departments. ....
n is hardly necessary to relteraJe
that tbe Mckinley Administration Will
90 down to history as the most cor
Tnpt and thinly disguised looting com
bination of Official rascaldom which
has ever attained power in any civil
ized government on earth. Corruption
is seeming and stalking without mask
or even pretense of public good IN
every Department of the Government.
The land office, in the Department
of Secretary Hitchcock, and pIeslueu
over bv even as honest a man as Blnger
Herman, has just successfully perpe-
trated one of the most glaring ana pup
lie rohberies, whether Intentionally or
through ignorance the reader VIII
Judge for himself, which has taken
place since Cleveland turned over Ihe
KEYS Of the United States treasury
vaults TO Pierpont Morgan q co.
Mr.. Herman, The Globe Deueyes, Is
free from blame in the matter, thaJ Is,
in being a consenting party TO the
plunder of the 10000 people who were
compelled to pay the Chicago and ROCK
Island Railway corporation over ~
600. 900 for transportation to El Reno
in Oklahoma Territory There the
greater number of this vast eoncourse
of people are at the present hour, ana
there. or strung along the PalIles ana
forests. thousands Of them VIII sJreW
their bones for the coyotes to PICK ana
snarl over, while the ungodly corpora
tion referred to- after paying thelr
hired and corrupt agents, VINO manlp,
ulated this stupendous robbery, VIII
divide the spoils of these, as good as
murdered. thousands of honest home
seekers. That the public may compre-
hend the atrocity in all It's Ylllalnous
details, we are compelled to devote
preliminary paragraph to the orlglna'
tion Of the steal, or rather, the creation
of the opportunity
Lone Wolf, an educated BaptsJ
clergyman and chief of the Kiowa In
dians. part of whose lands the Gov 'rh-
ment decided to throw open to settle
ment Indignantly protested, and ON
cially empowered by his people, visited
Washington two different times to pre-
vail upon the President not to sign
away his peoples land. Run out or
Washington on both occasions by the
agents Of the gang bent on plunder, he
returned to his people and petitioned
the United States court of the Terri
tory to stop the robbery with an in
junction. Tuesday last, this final ef-
fort of the chief failed, as the follow
ing, from the daily press, will show:
"The Department of Justice today
received telegram stating that Judge
Erwin. of the United States court in
Oklahoma, had denied the application
of Lone Wolf and other Indians for an
Injunction restraining the Government
from distributing land in that Terri
tory by drawings"
This Judge said one time, in the pres.
ence of numerous witnesses, that
81 will resign from the bench for a
farm in Oklahoma and make the farm
er a judge in my place
EX-Judge Huston James had this or
fer made him by Erwin. An idea Of
the Judge may be obtained by the state
ment that this proposition was made
at a poker game, and that Commission
er Dale was in the game. AS for this
one of the three Mckinley Commission
ers, 1t may only be said the most of his
time is spent playing penny-ante poker
and swilling beer.
These are the types of the Oklahoma
end of the Rock Island Railway steal
Now we will proceed and unravel this
end of the conspiracy to rob and plum
der 10000 people for the benefit Of
this soulless corporation:
During the month of March a plan
was prepared and submitted to the In
terror Department, with the advice and
approval of the best Informed legal
talent to be found in Washington, d,
c., and Oklahoma Territory.
The matter was referred to one
Judge Willis Van Devanter, Of Wyom-
ing Territory, who, it was said, had
charge and entire control of drawing
said plans. The plans submitted gave
call legal homestead claimants in the
Omitted States the right to register by
"and through the U. S. mails, without
"leaving their homes or fireshes. This
"plan provided that all making appli-
cations should enclose the land office
"fees of S14 cash, to show their good
"faith and protect the Government
against those not having homestead
rights the S14 TO be used by the sue
"cessful applicants on filing their
claims, the unsuccessful ones to have
"their money returned.
"The successful person would also
"be informed before he left his home
"the exact tract Of land he had drawn
"and where It was located"
II was a well-known fact that only
about 10000 claims were subject to
homestead settlement in the whole OF
the county to be opened, and IL such
a plan were adopted there would be no
necessity Of over this number of peO-
pie going upon the ground; besides,
they would know before starting from
home the exact tract Of land on which
they would make their future homes,
and could 90 by any conveyance they
chose and have ample time to prepare
for the Journey from any remote point
in the United States
For some unexplained reason, best
known to the said Judge Willis Van
Devanter, the above plan was not
adopted. or any part Of It. On the
other hand, a plan was prepared by
some one that forced 1877 900 people
from all parts Of the United States to
go upon the ground In person to regis,
ter their names. Thus 154 900 souls to
be informed they drew blanks, and
about 10000 others to remain and go