New-York tribune., 1909-02-05
HASKELL Is BITTER
SEES Il POLITICAL PLOT.
attorney for indians Disputes TINS
-UM GiUe Bail To-day.
[Rr relegraph to Ths TrIbune: ]

C,,+bi 011a Feb 4-Covernor Haskell left
Guthrie tonight for Muskogeo TO give bono 10 an
sxer the indictment returned yesterday IN e i0tlN
fraud cases He is bitter and still charges the IN
dtc+rne1t IN to conspiracy between PTesloell
Roosevelt and w R. Hearst to discredt him. II ~
is maintained by Haskells friends 'la' "e
hiring suit against President Roosevelt
A resolution was passed by the lower lou7
the Legislature to-day cOndemniag the ihuiC'l'e''
returned against Haskell. and .deprecaths tio
sptrt OF vindicttveness which is apparent III '''e
pending prosecution of the Governor. go.
A similar resolution was offered N the oe
axDressinc the belief that the PRETENDED inVeS.i'
CATION was Instituted for the sole purpose OF Oia
mailing our chief executive" but Il went oNei -
Tomorrow The general opinion is that some ~ s
resolution will be whipped through the LeSlsi@'u
A dtsnstch from A. Y. English, one OF the men
indicted who is at Los Angeles and is sio"lS i1
covering from operation, states taa' -, H - -,
clans have decided that II Will be lnp9s''o'o ~
him TO come to Muskogee before April D. , huiI
har -of loading citizens Of Muskogee have Sisneu
his hond and It will be sent to him tof fiS s
nature. an orrsv
Governor Haskell will be represented Dy an AZ - %
81 attorneys when placed trial. when proo ~
-, -. - rIaea until MAY or June next blank
sheets Of paper were attached 10 Haskeii 0ono -
Muskogee to-day. aud hundreds OF c'''S7i' s'S
them ,,o, .o-d,, that
a,,Ia -ag;gr "a a result of his Indictment.
scores Of teIegrams expressing loyalty have Deeh
-,cet,-ed by the Governor from friends IN various
rarts of Oklahoma and throughout the Coui''''
Tho indicted men are among the most proihhehI
I'm oklahoma Clarence w. Turner is ntty-hVe years
old ard was born in Cleveland. He Is the propFie-
tor OF the Turner Hardware Company, and FORMER
" was a member of the Muskogee city Couneli
Walter P Eaton is secretary Of the lndlahola
Contracting Company. OF Muskogee- He Is
brother-in-law of Walter J. Ritchey. jr' OF Lima
Ohio.
William r. Hutchins is a lawyer and was born
uaS for Judge OF me
Oklahoma Supreme Court, but declined TO be
candidate for that ofiice.
Albert T. English was born in New Jersey. He
is manager OF the Muskogee Title and Trust COM
pany and the Muskogee National Telephone Com
pany Mr.. English is now In Los Angeles for his
health.
Frederick B. Sewers. who is seventy-four years
old, WIS born In Arkansas and when a young
man came TO what then the indian Territory
lie taught in the Indian schools. married hai-
breed Indian woman. became a Creek citizen hy
adoption, engaged in the mercantile business IN
8Iuskogee and Okmulgee. Okla. extensively
interested in stock raising, and formerly was
member of the Muskogee City Council Mr. Sewers
is the father-n-iaw Of a Z. English
St. Louis. Feb I'll L. Mott. attorney for the
Creek Nation asserted here to-day that there was
no truth in the statement that William r. Hearst
inspired the suits that resulted In the Oklahoma
land fraud indictments 81 the man who in
spired the prosecutions, and from the first nave
been the most active in forwarding them" said
MIR. Mott
In open letter 10 Governor Haskell last fall
I charged him with the very frauds for which he
is indicted. He denied my charges. and l
wrote to President Roosevelt that I had based my
assertions upon the sworn statement Of two hun
d-ed persons whom Haskell had used as dummies
IL his transactions These statements gath
cred thirty-two civil suits which had instituted
on behalf of the Creek Indians lands
from which they had been defrauded. Twenty-six
OF these suits started before statehood was
contaminated and before Haskell candidate
for Governor As they were based upon the same
allegations OF fraud the criminal proceedings
cannot see how Haskell correctly allege that
they Inspired by Hearst that there is any
politics in them"