The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19
The TERRITORY.
What Little Now Remains OF a
Vast Domain.
Formerly Set Aside For Use OF
Indian Tribes.
PEOPLE AND PROPERTY
Progress and AccumulatiOns of
a Country
Of Half a Million and No Govern
ment.
PEOPLE AND PROPERTY

Some informal ton about the Indian
territory, comprising what is known as
the five civilized tribes of the Cherokee,
Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creeks and Semi
mole Indians, officially claSsed as the
Union agency and the Quapaw agency.
the latter located in the northeast cor
ner of the territory east of Neosho river.
The Indian territory is now all that re-
mains of that vast expanse OF land re
served by act of congress June 80, 1884,
for occupation by the Indians, which set
apart all that portion of the United
States west of the Mississippi river ana
not within the states of Missouri and
Louisiana or the territory of Arkansas
as Indian lands. AT that time the
and Sabine rivers formed the western
boundary of this vast domain Texas
was not annexed until 1S45, and the title
to what is now Washington, Idaho and
part of Wyoming was not Acknowledged
by England until 1886. In 1868 we ac-
quired New Mexico and California by
conquest. White men were prohibited
and excluded from this Indian domain
and not allowed to trade with the In
dams except on a permit from the IN
terror department
What has become of this vast en-
pire?
1t has merged into territories and
states until all that now remains is
Oklahoma and the Indian territory
There is a mistaken idea with many
that Oklahoma and the Indian territory
are the same. At this time they are
Independent of each other and have an
attractive individuality of their own,
nothing in common with each other only
along commercial lines. The Indian
territory proper, including the five civil
lied tribes and the several tribes of In
dams located at the Quapaw agency,
owns about 2,000,0 900 acres of land of
which there are about 14,000,000 acres
OF the finest agricultural land on earth,
Well watered with the most favorable
seasons and the unmatchable produce
tlV6noSS of soil Under a yr1or IN
nag. as we'll as the best grazing and
fruit raising section of the country,
loaded with vast acreage of coal, min
eral, gas and oil, and no area of land
is blessed as is. the Indian territorF
with water. both surface and under
flows The great Neosho. Spring
Grand, illinois, Arkansas. verdigris.
Deep Fork, Poteau, Canadian, Red
Little Cimeron, Washita and Kimanchi
rivers and countless creeks, springs ana
natural lakes and artesian wells with
in every township.
In the Quapaw Indian agency there are
eight different reservations, embracing
Z110,O3O acres All the lands have been
allotted to the several Indian citizens;
the Miami. and Peoria allottees can sell
100 acres of their allotment, and in
herited lands can be sold by the heirs
or any TRIBE where allotments have
been made The population of this
agency at the last census, 1900, was
Indians. 1892; whites, 5.273; total. $685.
The whites are in business, have pur-
erased or are renters of lands. Miami
Is the capital of the Quapaw agency
ana mas now $500 people Lands arc
selling there for from SIS to $35 per acre
line Union agency, consisting of the five
civilized tribes, in number Cherokee In
dians is $4,000 There are 4,42O,o76 acres
to be divided. There are 2575 1876 acres
Cd agricultural lands and 1,S4464O of
rocky prairie and mountain lands i'll
the limits of the Cherokee nation. There
are 305,321 white people, non-citizens
Cherokee 9erad in h11Si
ness, profession and farming and stock
raising.
In the Chickasaw nation the Indian
population is '115.0OO and 1913 76O whites.
now citizens. Theref,are 4,7O3, 1O6 acres
of land to be divided among the In
dian citizens, about $50 acres to the.
mead. There are in this nation 4.253, 961
acres of farming land and 9,O45 of
rocky prairie and mountain land.
in the Choctaw nation, the Indian
population is 20,250: whites non-citizens.
7s,4S1 There are 6,949.9S2 acres to be di-
Nlded among thelegal citizens, of which
there are 3,755,606 acres of agricultural
land, rocky prairie, 1,690.132 acres;
mountain land, 1.504,194 acres.
In the Creek nation there are 5000
Indians, 24.674 whites, nom citizens.
There are 3,072,S15 acres to be divided
and most of which has been allotted
There are ,1b7.613 acres of agricultural
land; 215.680 rocky prairie; 61S, 240 acres
of billy and rocky land. and 81, 28O acres
of mountain land.
The Indians in the Seminole nation
are 2,757; whites, 1929, non-citizens.
There are 365,854 acres in that nation.
of which 24055 acres are agricultural
land. first class, second class, 24S 1913
acres, third class 80, 961 acres
There are S6.039 Indian citizens in the
combined nations who share in the
rights of the lands when allotted The
white population in 1900 was 305, 921 and
is now about 100000. making a total
population of about 100000 During the