The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-29
FIRST INDIAN BU1|Nl !
SPEEDY AUT0nO8 FL
FAILS Into Fortune Througpls,rs
lotment Of Quarter-Secti1' Clos
Of Oil Land.
GETS TWENTY -TH0USANnBIl 4
DOLLARS FOR A II
Oil Men Have a Race to S&luaA
Red Mans Signature / ~
Drive Wells.

The frst red man to SO far y. ..
from the ways of his own peoplsl y =
own and drive an automobile ~
ing with 1t as keen a joy in sps'
used to stir the pulses of his -,
ancestors when they dashed ovss,
pralnes upon the back of a halss.
mustang is claimed by Coffeyvillei >
Fortune bringing him in bis z.
years more OF the white mans
than the average Indian ever even :.
he felt the impulse to 20 out and ~.
things of civilization ON q Isroa
like his white brother. The s
bile is the result.
The oil craze in Oklahoma .r<
act Of a paternal povernmert CIV
iarge factors In this turning awav =
type; The government did its "a = =
alLoting to the young Indian y, =
ter section, l60 acres, night in tSs \. =
or the region where flowing nil
have made Oklahoma rich n
The recipient of the grant was ~
on the government books as r.
Tanner; his Indian name had al :
been laid aside. It was six nonf
more ago when he stepped ont ,
SscLrlty and caught the quick ste
the march Of progress. q
On Indians Track. y
Ever on the watch for opportm
the oil men were quick to learn g.
INDIAN prospects. Eighteen Z,
away, at Independence, one gros
them prepared to descend upon r..
at the earliest possible moment a.. AZ
cure from him an oil lease that q
let them go ahead and develop the
One evening they stepped upon a.,
for Coffeyville with plans all MAJ
carrying out the lease project 81
daylight. ~
The plan might have worked w
a hitch had 1T not been for th{r
that Just as the train started ar;
OIL man learned of it. He was II,
f. Sinclair of Independence, and h
out hesitation he jumped at a On,
to head of his rivals. Il wass
about as far to the goal at Cote /.
as Sheridan dashed in his famouiv
down the Shenandoah valley, buLi,
clair outclassed Sheridan, for he or
a motor car into service and rad
Codeyville at speed that would v
made Sheridan and bis foaming ct,r
on the way from Winchester seenrii
a fixed point in the landscape.
Into Coffeyville he dashed, an.
train. bearing his competitors, u;
somewhat behind. Straight Is
hotel where young Tanner was
to be staying he headed, and hfg
lucky enough to catch the Indiat
Redman Disappears. q
It was matter only Of mi 4
afterward when the rival contin
appeared, eager and confident. BIZ
Indian was nowhere to be found d,p
had suddenly disappeared, and |,
him had vanished the man in thek
mobile who had Just broken inttl
game. Suspicion arose and grew,Et
oil men hunted and they kept u.d
hunt after midnight and until ther;
OF dawn was near, but they hum
vain. ID
Who're Sinclair took the India,
one discovered. even later, but b
they reappeared it was found thai:
tween midnight and davbreak II
had come into possession OF a cheeI
$4,000 and had given an oil iea |
Sinclair, retaining for himself ~
eighth of the flow from an weilssl
on the land. ,s
He looked about and what y
best to him upon the streets o
town was the motor cars. A rev
turies ago the men Of his race t's
have coveted bright colored beadf =
not so the Indian Of today, de ~
10 master the automobile ana "
A technicality tied up his none !
a time, but as soon as he was iEss'
this restriction he conferred W.
representative of the H. 3. frar'
Manufacturing company and p9nlI =
twenty.eight horsepower Frankllg
chine. 1t was early this month So ~
him from the factory at syIacusa.s M
Y. and well in advance o; ils.aS 4;
he had been given instruction = !
other Franklin so that he was q ,ou
guide it skillfully about the lo"n. y,
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