The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-03-19
Chickasaws against the united States,

Chickasaws against the United States,
$2.91l $4,000, March 3rd, 1891.
He was also attorney for the West
ern Cherokees who recovered $S24,-
O00OO in 1894. He conducted the case
of the Eastern Cherokees through q
contest of six years before the Legisla-
tive. Executive and judicial depart
ments, winning a Judgment in the si-
preme court of the United States of
five million dollars In May 1906
Chief Justice Charles c. Mott. forty
years a justice of the court OF claims.
stated that in his opinion Mr. Owens
argument in the Eastern Cherokee
case was the finest he had ever heard
in that court, and Senator Moses e
Clapp, Of Minnesota. stated on the
floor of the United states Senate that
> justice of the supreme court Of the
United states had pronounced Mr.
Owens argument before that court
one of the ablest heard there for
wears.
The act of congress Of March 3rd
1901, giving citizenship of the United
States to every Indian in Indian Ter
ritory was drawn by alr. Owen, and
its passage was due in a large meas
ure to him. Secretary Cortelyop gave
Mr.. Owen the pen with which the aet
10 SIGNED by President Mckinley
This act gave full citizenship TO over
seventy thousand Indians. gave them
political independence, and relieved
them of the personal disability of be-
ing wards.
Mr.. Owen has had great experience
in various lines of business. has
handled many thousands of cattle
has directed farming operations on
large scale. There is probably no
man more familiar with thu conditions
in Indian Territory than he is. He
has hsd active continuous business
with the government at Washington
for over twenty years, and has spent
the last sixteen winters in succession
in Washington, where mis- great sue
cess has given him a national repr
tation.
As a Democrat he has always been
very -ctive; as q Democratic organic
er; has served in various Democratic
national conventions; as member of
the Democratic congressional cam
paign committee: as a member of the
Democratic national committee from
1896 to 1900. and was the vice chair
man of the recent campaign for the
ele ton OF delegates to the constitu
ti0nal convention
He Is an Episcopalian, life mem
Der of the Elks. a thirty-second de
gree Mason, a member of the Shrine
Mr. Owen has made his residence in
Mgskogee since 1856 nearly twenty
two years sst
One of MrsOwens fayorite notices
is an old Virginian social maxim
Neither Tux scandal nor listen e
Il. There are few men more consid |
crate in Judgment than he iss more |
affable than he, or more desirOus OF
being absolutely just to other men. |
He has been notable in his advocacy l
of the removal of restrictions on the |
sale and lease of lands In Indian Ter
ritogy, and was ,ader in the
SEQ. oyah movement for Independent.
statehood
No man stands higher as a business
man in the city of Muskogee. The
people who know him best In the city
OF Mrskos nave the greatest con
idence in his integrity and In hi,
ability There probably is no man n |
the Indian Territory who is so largely
acquainted with senzeors, congress
men and public men at Washington.
and no man in the indian Territory
stands higher in Washington than he |
Mr. Owen has travelled abroad, and is
acquainted with Europe. He has been
~ student of statecraft and is regarded
as one OF the strongest public speak !
ers of the state i