The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-24
OVER 100000 DOLLARS
STILL OUTSTANDING
Many Fraudulent Warrants
In the Hands Of
Spectators

Ardmore. April 25---lf Representa-.
tive Carter's latest bill becomes law
It will probably result in the pay
lnent OF large number of outstand.
ing Chicl,asaw warrants To do this
! Mr.. Garter would amend ths act of
! April 26, 1906 providing for the final
disposition of the affairs Of the five
| lciyilized tribes and direct the secretary
OF the Interior to pay out of any money
/ on deposit in the treasury belonging
to the Nhickasaw Nation alB war
rants issued by the Chicasaw Nation
I iaiter July /, 1902 and prior to March
! T. 1895 with six per cent interest. AS
a safeguard by first investigating the
validity OF the sansc and in other ways
satisfy himself Of their genuine char
acter.
Thecourt of claims is also given lur-
isdiction in all Suits against the
thickasaw Nation to recover the
amounts OF All fraudulently issues of
Chickasaw warrants. All claimants
however must first establish the pur-
1 lNAih1N VI ottiu NdlldIio III EOOu .dIIU
land Tor valuable consideration.
According 10 the Secretary of the
Interior there are now outstanding and
unpaid, Cnickasaw warrants amount
ing 70 $113,70S.43. or this sum ST.
6S5iO represent warrants apparently
valid. This leaves $1OG073.33 in war
rants that We're irregularly and un-
lawfully issued Warrants still in the
hands of the original payees repre-
sent $7,072.30 leaving S99,0O133 in
irregular warrants now in the hands
of spectators, and endorsers.
There are so many unpaid and
fraudulent warrants that the Interior
| Department has found it necessary to
classify them in order to avoid con
fusion In the first division are in
cluded warrants once properly issued
but ftaudulently re-circulated amount
ling altogether to $2S,6i505. All of
these warrants are now in the hands
| of third parties as follows: Bank OF
Muskogee, Sl,4S4; FIRST National
Bank OF Joplin, $l4,O914S; Head. Dill
lard, Head, Sherman, Texas, 744.43;
Joplin National Bank S60S.S5; Nc
Anay Alden Kansas City Kansas, ST.
S4S.S5; Floyd Shock, ST. Louis, S5.-
OO0,S6; NJ Shoenberg, St Louis, sS,-
l44l.0O; d. Dennison, Texas Trust
Company, $S95.68.
1t appears that ii was the custom
of the treasurer Of the Chickasaw Ma,
ton when these warrants were pre-.
Isented for payment, to allow them to
accumulate until the lapse OF three
months, when he would check them
lup comparing their accounts At
such times the paid warrants were
lcanceled. In the meantime, the paid
bnt uncancelled warrants were care
lessly kept in the bank OF the Chick
asaw Nation, whose president is now
la fugitive from justice; for It Is
claimed, he was the person respon-
lsible for placing the paid, although
luncancelled warrants again into cir
lculation. Third parties purchased
OF received them. they being endorsed
in blank OF under practice there OBJ
tanning, in what was regarded as a
negotiable form, At least one in
stance in the case OF Flood Shock oi
St Louis both the auditor and the
treasurer, prior to purchase by shock
lsigned officially a certificate to the ef
feet that these warrants were un
paid and just claims against the Ma
tion and that they would be paid
lwhen the treasurer was in funds
Thus It will be seen tnat a good many
warrants have found themselves IN
the hands Of innocent purchasers.
Another item offs 1920 representa-
warrants In payment Of accounts fol
the contraction OF which there Is NJ
lauthority ia law The City Nationa
3 Bank OF Muskogee holds $500 worth o
such warrants; First National Banl
of Joplin, 5000; City Loan a Tris
Company of Gainesville, Texas, $3.50
National Bank Of Commerce, 81
Louis, $40; Floyd Shock, St Louis
lS1 200 and the Watkins National BAN
Lawrence Kas. 5000.
The high handed methods OF the trl
bal authorities IN payine salaries am
issuing warrants therefor when NJ
services had really been rendered
lilustratet by another batch of wal
lrants 10 the amount OF 1892 divide
as follows: American National Ban
lof TishomineO $372; First NatiOna
Bank of Chickasha 500; First Na
tional Bank OF Jopiln S438 State IA
tiOda ] Bank Of DenniaOn, Texas
lSl.476 and Watkins National Bank q
Lawrence, Kansas. Sl.566. These wal
rants were the oufgrowth Of the cit
zenship commission The cOmmissiO
was abolished hy an act Of the Chick
saw legislature. October Is. l503-a
act not approved bs The president al
III February n. 1904 Now a Is
well known fect tie members OF th
the act Of the legisiatlH1 yet the tribi
auihorities proceeding upon the thaof
that lhe eousmiseion did not cease {