The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-23

I seminoIes, Choctaws and Chickasaws. Then 1t was decided by the Government to divide their holding into allotments belonging to individuals who could prove membership in the tribes This work is now being brought to a conclusion by the Dawes Commis- sion. and early in 1908 the last vestige of the tribal forms of government will disappear.
 Each Indiap received far more land than he could possibly use, and finally is was decided to allow them to sell such portions of 1t as they chose, ex- cepting a homestead. Red tape of in- tricacy unrivaIed anywhere surrounds the purchase of Indian land, but about per cent has passed into white mems hands so far and deals are on for practically everything the Indian may sell.
 Speculative syndicates are making | contracts for everything they can and are coining money hand over fist by | paying the Indian a cent and taking | a dollar from the unlocking settlers. It was to prevent this that the red tape was devised. but the restrictions | are not as powerful in fact as in the | ory.
 Statehood will put an end to situ- ation which is unrivaled in civilized ! regions the world over, namely the | fact that the children of over, 300 900 | settlers in the territory are without | school facilities. Not negro children | or Indian children, but the offspring | of people from every State in the Mid | dle West, attracted to the territory by l the phenomenal advantages and un- | deterred by the lack of scholastic fa- cilities and lack of government. l Outside of the towns in which semi l public schools are maintained by pri- vate subscription, and barring the Ip- dian log schools there are no places of | instruction for young America.
 That the poor Indian schools are ap- preciated is shown by the fact that S6 per cent of the attendance Is of the | children of white settlers who are al- | lowed to imbibe elementary instruction by the courtesy of the Indian tribes. l The Secretary of the Interior did the
 best he could with a $100,000 appro- | priation to further educational pro- | jects, but the results were insigni- 1 ficant One hundred thousand dollars 1 for all the children in the Territory outside the towns is what Congress provided, while the neighboring Terri | tory of Oklahoma has a revenue of l over $1 1000 every twenty-four hours l for the schools. and uses it for that | purpose too.
 But what man does not do for In-
 dian Territory God has done with law | ish hand.
 A region of broad, fertile, rolling | pfairies, marked by abundant streams
 and creeks, dotted with forests of fin- | est wood. underlaid with coal, gas, oil. asphalt and gypsum, the Territory pro- | duces what the Liverpool experts pro- | nounce the finest cotton grown any l where; it raises immense crops of po- tatoes. wheat, corn, fruit and has bare ly started on its career. Only ope- tenth of the entire tillable acreage is 1 under cultivation and little of that is properly farmed, And yet the Terri tory this year marketed 900 bales
 of cotton. 3s,00o.00O bushels of corn
 and has farm animals worth $35,0oo.- 900.
 New states are Empires. If the State of Arizona is formed by
 Congress at this session, as proposed
 the United States will gain new State larger than any now within the Union l excepting Texas, Arizona and New | Mexico together embrace a land area of 235.3S0 square miles. The new State
 of Arizona would be as large as the
 combined area of the five populous
 States of New York, Pennsylvania, H.
 linois, Ohio and Missouri.
 If the State of Oklahoma Is formed
 from Oklahoma and Indian Territory q
 new State will be created as large as
 Indiana and Ohio together. Each Of
 the territories is about as large as
 each of these States. With T0,230
 square miles of land, the star in the flag representing Oklahoma will stand ] for as much as do the emblems of the
 combined States of Connecticut, Della
 ware, Maine. Maryland, Massachusetts.
 New Hampshire. New Jersey, Vermont l and Rhode Island. Two or three of
 some of these States mentioned will be
 smaller than some of the proposed counties in the new Oklahoma.
 The new State of Arizona is design
 ed to be larger in area than either the
 empire of Germany, the republic of
 France, the dual empire' of Austria
 Hungary. or than England. Ireland.
 Scotland and Italy together.