Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-04
THE RICH AMERICAN cooNs.
There Are Seven Thousand in lndiar
Terri$orv

more Are seven nouSaHo III tuu'a'
Territory.
The richest community of negroes in
the United States lives in Indian terri
tory. There are 1000 of them, and they
are worth on an average of $4,000 each.
The wealth of the more Industrious
foots up ever higher, certain individu-
ais being the owners of from $4,000 to
$4,000 worth of land.
The negroes are descendants of slaves
of the Creek tribe of Indians and are
known as Creek negroes. They are en-
titled to share in the division of Creek
Indian lands, also part of the trust
funds. Together the 1000 negroes own
100000 acres of land. And yet their
social environments are crude IN the
extreme and progress goes slowly amid
their huts and fields.
Unlike other Indians of the rich Five
Civilized Tribes, the Greeks insisted up
on freeing their slaves in 1864, in order
to give them an equal share in their
lands and money. AT that time there
We're but few slaves, but the number
grew thru descendants until 1000 nave
laid successful claim to headlight
on the Creek rolls of citizenship. They
have their own representatives In the
legislature, their own schools and their
own churches.
The Creek negroes have never prog
ressed above their fathers who were
slaves, except that they are well enough
educated to care for their lands and
money, without being cheated out of a
goodly portion of it. They have social
set all their own. to which not even the
Indians are invited Their Characters
tics are in a great measure vastly diff
ferent from the negro of the south or
the negro of the north. 1t is mixture
of both, with additional peculiarities.
Like the Indian, these negroes have
their dances in the open, which have
come to be sort of religion with them.
And following in the footsteps of the
southern negro they have their barbe-
cues, possun hunts, and the like. AS a
northern type of the negro they are
more Industrious and Independent of
the whites. know how to work hard and
save their money. and like the type
from the city they are we'll dressed
that is, gaudily, but at the same time
wearing expensive clothes.
Notwithstanding that many of these
Greek negroes are industrious, there
are those among them who rent out
their estates and lounge in idleness
about the railway stations. 1t is a COM
mon sight to see a 500-acre tract of
rich land in the Canadian bottoms be-
ing titled by white man. while the ma
gro owner was shooting craps or enjoy
ing himself eating turkey and 'possum
in a neighboring village.
Each Creek negro will come into I'M
disputed possession of 500 acres of land
when the Dawes commission has allot-
ted their lands pro rata to them some
time during the coming summer. Upon
dissolution of the Creek government,
the negroes will likewise share equally
with the Indians in the distribution of
several million dollars of trust funds.
Cleveland the Man Who Stopped
Things.
In McClure's Magazine William Allen
White sums up his estimate of ex-
President Cleveland thus:
cleveland. as a statesman, will be
as the man who stopped
things. He checked abuses; he pre-
vented bad men from accomplishing
their schemes; he warded off impending
he reduced revenues and
saved taxes; he stayed the ebbing tide
of public credit; he throttled anarchy;
he stopped foreign ACKNOWLEDGMENT on
the American continent. Always he was
the safety valve. He brought no new
doctrine to the people; he had no theory
of overnment-merely an ideal of duty
for the hour He founded no institutions;
in the political life of his time he con-
structed nothing. He will be remem-
day did what he thought was
exactly right, and who never attempted
to guide the current of the public BUSH
ness. but always to see that the bust
ness was wisely and honestly done. He
was modest, Industrious public serv-
ant, who lived so closely the motto, "A
public Office is a public trust that peo-
pie came to believe that he invented it
he did not. His name was new
er linked with any policy, and no law on
the statute books of his country is
known as Cleveland's law. He tried to
efface his personality, but 1t was so
strong and distinctive and pungent with
that it dominated every
thing he did in spite of his aversion to
public politics. Yet he will never be
hero, because he did not live dramatic
life. He must remain to posterty as a
spirit, an ideal of honesty
bearing mans name--the symbol of a
national inspiration toward public vir-
tue"
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My wife could not get her breath and
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Geo. p. Powers.
Chronic Diarrhoea.
Mr.. c. b. Wingfield, of Fair Play
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Remedy did him more good than any
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