The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-12-29
INDIANS AND NEGROES BEING
FLeecED OF THEIR OWN.
STORY FROM KANSAS CITY
Land Shsrks Garry Them TO Kansas
City, Max. Them stupid Win
Drink and Beat Them Out OF
Their Last Forty Acres.

VIII make the country sit up and
take notice"
This was the declaration Of a stock
breeder who was in the federal buil1.
ding yesterday on business. ';e was
referring 10 the improvement of the
Iniians and negroes and the pre-.
ponderance of the negroes in some
OF the counties.
The state will be on the front
page Of the newspapers right often. e"
added the stock man propheticallv
Within the last two months the
government has started making pau.
pers OF the natives. Those natives
halibrecd Indians ami full.blood no.
sroes, are going to rebel against
eviction. They are going to be turned
on the land they were born and
raised on, and, without trade or
an inclination TO learn one. they
VIII not have a place TO 90. Born
and raised on and living off the
land, they will refuse to 20. Then
there will be excitement
AT the time the government di.
Vided the lands of the Indians, Civ.
Ing 100 acres to each, 1t permitted
| them to sell 100 acres. but insisted
that they holi the remaining forty
acres. Two months ago the embar.
90 was raised and the last forties.
the homesteads, were permitted TO
be sold. The Indians and the free.
men, being negroes held by the In.
| dians in slavery before the war. are
being robbed right and left out
OF their homesteads. They are be.
ing made drunk and induced TO make
sales while in that condition. | know
a sale OF that kind Is not legal.
but there are varying stages OF
drunkenness. This Oklahoma.Kansas
City stage is just inside the boun-
daries.
How is Kansas City implicated?"
was asked.
They have been running THE
Indians and neg oes mp here. When
It, was know that the homesteads
would be put on the market. syndi-
Gates were organized to give owners
of the most desirable homesteads
trips to Kansas City They were
brought here a week before the en-
barge was to go off. and kept here
for a couple Of days afterwards. In
the meantime they saw the sights
ana made the sale. Lands worth $40
an acre were sold for S. The native
never had any money in his life be-
fore and 5000 seemed a fortune. Be
ing uneducated, he had no way of
taking care of the paltry sum he
had, and it is all gone or going. and
the day of reckoning is coming. II
will come when the new owners want
the land"
The stockman refused to allow
his name to be published. and al.
though he told OF a former city Of
ficial being indirectly interested In
the colonizing of halfbreeds up here,
he protested that the circumstances
would not let him name the man.
The Oklahoman continued. THE
native negro is fearless cuss. And
the halfbreed is known to be like
wise. Ever since they were born
they have lived whore they are now.
They got ~ and 90 cents year
from the cowmen, and they raised a
few hogs and lived that way. Now
they have sold their lands. They
never We're trained TO work the land
and they are too old. The whites
have stalked them TO poverty. The
white found how To get the Indian
lands, Now he will have TO find a
way TO get rid of the Indian"
When asked If he had any idea
how that could be accomplished, the
stockman said, Nobody has"
1T is bothering a lot of u.s." he
continued Time will help. There
are tens OF thousands of natives 10
be turned out of their homes. for
which they have got next to nothing
and OF which little they have spent
every cent"