The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-12-24

gathering evidence must nave let SIP
an inlling of It, and my game escaped
me by a sudden fight beyond the bord-
ers of the United States. have not
wholly given up hope yet of bringing |
him down in the fulIlness Of time.
This narrative would be incomplete, |
perhaps, if 1 did not add to the cases
of deliberate and unblushing fraud a
few cases of another class-those
which the attorneys, I think, honestly
believed that they had groundwork
to stand on. but merely had got hold
of half truths and had never taken the
trouble TO search for the other halves
One of these was the case of a man of
Mexican birth, who had married XII
owa woman and been adopted into her
tribe, was that the child-a boy now
dead-had been allotted twice. This
discovery was rendered still more
plausible by the discovery that he had
separated, several years ago, from his
Indian wife, that he had selected the
land for the two allotments besides
his own, and that one tract was near
his and the other near his former
wifes. What &ore natural. forsooth,
than that he should have selected TWO
tracts for his son, rst one close at
hand and later one at a distance. and
slyly omitted to notify the government
that his family had got more than its
share? This clever bubble | pricked
while the payment was in progress.
and warned the lawyers in the case
that they were on the wrong track.
They insisted that they were not. So
sert for the Mexican administered
the oath and let them examine him
when the facts came out that he was
the legal guardian of an orphan Indian
girl, and that it was her allotment. not
/ his sons. which lay near his own and
E was under his control; the sons allot
4 ment was at a distance away, and
+ near the mothers. The whole trouble
: with the lawyers who proposed bring
= ing this contest was that they haC
/ never made any inquiries in the neigh
l. borhood OF the mans home, where al
0 these facts we're public property ant
d to be had for the asking.
Numerous similar instances are Gil
e ed giving in detail the false report
it that hoated over the reservation Q
.S supposed corruption.
r The act of congress Of June 6. 19O'
a which provides for the allotment {
a their lands among the Comancbe, Ki'
le wa and Apache Indians, provides fc
IL the setting aside "for the use in con
O. mon for said Indian tribes, $4,000
r. acres of grazing lands, either in one {
more tracts as will best subserve tt
ed interests Of said Indians" The lanC
"a so selected were in four tracts. Pa
On ture No. contains 404,041 acres. Thi
to with the exception CT one care
somewhat more than 10000 acres,
In leased to six outside cattlemen f
re- grazing their stock in separate e
10 closures, for which they pay year
an rentals ranging from 25 to 4S cen
ID, per acre. according TO the quality
20 the pasturage. The leases are +
be- three years, and are awarded by col
petition in sealed bids. The annu
ne. income to the affiliated tribal fu
)n- from this source Is Sis, ,407. The {
nd cepted area Is reserved for the cat
led Of individual Indians who pay to L
an, common fund annually 81 per head
no all cattle they turn into It.
ON Pasture No. 2, which is in a part
lck the reservation remote from the Z
og- cepted area already mentioned is al
for the use Of individual Indians,
en- the same rate Of compensation.
EN- contains 3O.O46 acres.
'er- Pasture No. 3. contains 22,50O acr
MI was at first designed, like the othe
lg; for grazing purposes, but SO loud
hat protest arose from the new town
asst Lawton, which adioins II, that Il y
a decided to lease 1t for agriculture, a
Use this was done at 40 cents per acre
'om raw land without improvements.
'ad, leases run for three years; and at
for close Of that period measured by {
'ars er rentals in the neighborhood, there
and good reason ior believing that 81
ant an acre can be obtained for the la
OF meanwhile broken up and improy
In The present annual income from
so tract is Approximately $1,000.
Z Of Pasture No. 4. like No. 1, is ren
yet 10 outside cattlemen. but is too sn
Ting to accommodate more than one h'
The rs acreage is 20,540, and the ann
a., ,,.s f,., 4, a. az rQf