Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-11-03

controversy over Bob's claim. They
are the Test Oil company and the Del
okee Oil company, both of Bartlesville,
The contest hinges on eighty acres Of
land lying Immediately against Bar
tlesville, and the property is estimat-
ed to be worth over $250.000.
The hearing held for Bob was con-
tinued until midnight, and at that
hour he was released and told to come
back on the next Monday, Represen-
tatives of the Delokee Oil company
met him in the morning, however, and
contrived to get him out Of town.
The hearing on Monday was post
poned, apparently for the reason that
insufficient notice had been given the
Test company in regard to it, Accord
ing to Bob, the only person receiving
notice of the hearing at all, was him
self, and he had been kidnapped.
The contest has come to be noted
in the annals of Indian Territory his
tory, 1t is one of the actions arising
out Of claims advanced by Ella +.
Heady, a Cherokee woman Of Nowata
and Sam Bob and his grandfather,
Wallace Thursday. The most signi6.
cant thing about the kidnapping is
that the action seems to indicate that
someone in the interior department of
the Indian Territory has exceeded his
authority, and has assumed to go be-
yond the jurisdiction of the Indian
Territory, in bringing a man by force
from the states. 1t is stated that the
action was not taken with the approx
al Of the Department of Justice at
Washington.
October 26 was the last day on
which any Cherokee Indian might file
contest papers before the Commission
er of the Five Tribes, this being the
date on which the six months period
for filing such action expired, accord
ing to the act of congress Of April 26,
1906, 1t appears strange to many
that one of a large number Of Indians
who have an interest in this eighty,
should be forcibly brought before the
commission to protect his rights when
two oil companies are using every
means by their skilled lawyers, both in
Washington and Indian Territory, to
see that their respective Indian lessons
are protected in their rights in the
eighty acres of land involved in the
controversy.
Commissioner Bixby has been in
structed by the interior department to
set date for the hearing on certain
matters concerning the contest, which
has dragged through the courts For
over two years. All parties were TO
be notified, including whatever oil
company might at that particular time
have Bob under control. 1t appears
as if other means were employed to
secure Bob's presence before the de-
partment.
The contest over the Bob allotment
was started by Wallace Thursday,
Bob's grandfather, who filed for Sam
Bob on the eighty in May, 1908.
Thursday filed for himself on an eighty
adjoining Bob's on the south. Ella
+. Heady, of Nowata, fled contest
claims on the Bob eighty later, as
serting that she had bought the prop
erty FROM Wallace Thursday. The con-
test was FIRST iecidcd adversely 20 Bob
before the Commissioner of the Five
Civilized Tribes, but on appeal to the
Secretary of the Interior, the decision
was repealed, insofar as related to
Bob's interest in the eighty acres re-
ferred to. This decision was made
eight months ago. In the meantime,
hearing was asked to ascertain just
what Bob's interest in the eighty
comprised, and how much belonged to
his grandmother, Mary Thursday.
The decision on the hearing has not
yet been handed down.
The hearing before Bixby, which is
believed will bring an end to the cele-