The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-15
yo Time 10 flecover HenIth,
Trouble in Olxiahs.aa.

Kansas City Journal
 There are times ahead in Oklaho-
 ma that will make the country sit up and take notice"
 This was the declaration of a stock breeder who was in the Federal Build ing yesterday on business. He was referring to the improvement of the Indians and negroes and the preponder- ance of the negroes in some of the counties.
 This state will be on the front page
 of the newspapers right often," added
 the stockman prophetically. within
 the last two months the government
 has started making paupers of the na- | tives. Those natives. halfbreed In-
 dians and the fullblood negroes. are going to rebel against eviction. They
 are going to be turned of the land
 they were born and raised on. and,
 without trade CT an inclination to learn one. they will not have q place to go. Born and raised on and living off the land, they win refuse to go. Then there will be excitement. At the time the government divid- ed the lands of the Indians, giving 160 acres to each 1t permitted them to sell 120 acres. but insisted that theS hold the remaining forty acres. Two months ago the embargo was raised and the last forties. the homesteads. aCAC tO UO soI0s Ane AA~ dians and the freemen, being negroes held by the Indians in slavery before the war. are being robbed right and left out of their homesteads. They are being 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 drunk enness. This Oklahoma-Kansas City stage Is jugt inside the bounnries." f0 Gffx, m {ra "a 1ss was asked.
 They have been running the Indians
 and negroes up here. When 1t was known that the hemestesds would be put on the market syndicates were organized to give owners of the most desirable homesteads trips to Kansas City. They were brought here week
 before the day the embargo was to so of, and kept here for couple of days
 afterward. in the meantime they saw the sights and made the sale. Lands worth $40 an acre were sold for S5 The native never had any money in his life before and s300 seemed a fortune. Being 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. It will come when the new owners want the land"
 The stockman refused to allow his name to be published. and although he told of a former city official 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: Ever
 since they were born they have lived where they are now. They got 15 and 20 cents a year an acre from cowmen
 and raised a few hogs and lived that way. Now they have sold their lands.
 They never were trained to work the
 land and they are too old. The whites
 have staiked 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 stock
 man said. Nobody has"
 Tt is bothering lot of us." he con-
 tinued. Time will help. There are
 tens of thousands of natives to be
 turned out of their homes. for which
 they have got next to nothing. and of
 which little they will have spent every
 cent"