The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-07-17

member of the Cherokee nation
through his mothers side while bis
father was Robert l.. Owen, Virginian
and president Of the Tennessee rail-
road. Attorney Owen was highly ed
ucated, he had wit and Judgment be-
sides, and be proceeded to make things
move. The first thing 10 do was TO get
permission from Congress 70 proceed
against the government in the court Of
claims and prove that the rusting dol
lars Of the ancient Cherokee fund real
bv lay IN the vaults Of tha treasury
He cot 1t and afterwards repeated the
achievement, two hearings in the court
Of claims being necessary TO prove up
the claims 81 the Indians. In the seven
years campaign be conducted Mr.. Owen
induced Congress TO pass three bills and
two resolutions necessary in his work.
Anybody feeling that it Is not much
Of a job to get that much action out
Of the greatest legislative body in tho
world has never undertaken any little
old task Hike moving the Rocky noun
tains
Overs final CONTEXT was to move The
case into the United States supreme
court and he succeeded IN that ii 1906
as he had in all that went before. The
record he submitted 10 the court con.
sisted Of 9.T0O printed pages He ar
gued the case aQainst the skilled law.
yers in the government service and he
won a judgment that the original fund,
swelled by the accumulated interest To
$1,000, 900, belonged to the living Chero.
lkees.
The court awarded him fee 81
5000 900 which approximstes the record
for stipends for legal services even ID
the supreme court
The decision placed upon government
officials the stupendoas task Of aseer
tanning who was entitled 70 the money.
81 seeing TO il that none having rights
did not get a place at the counter 4
person having one sixty fourth part Of
Cherokee hood was q legal member Of
the Cherokee nation and the search
through involvd family ties threatened
TO be almost endless The list Of those
entfsIed to a share ii the fund has now
been completed, however. and contains
$4,000 names. It was made up from an
army Of $4,000 applications
The man who won the brig fight and
was rewarded with the princely fee now
represents Oklahoma in the United
states Senate
There are more kinds Of bugs at
Fort Myer these balmy days during che
Wright aereplane trials than have ever
before been assembled Ii one collec- 1
tion. The insects aren't of the com
mon. garden variety--they are of the
genus crank, and the most buzzing.
persistent, and foolish aggregation yet
Wilbur anfd 0ryille 40 not belong to I
this classification Far from 1t. They
shut themselves up III the aeroplane /
tent behind dozen husky soldier sen
tries simply to get away from the
bugs Every day there are couple Of I
dozen Of these cfanks on hand, sitting
as near the scene as the soldier boys 1
win permit, and handing out free ad /
vice to anybody who viii listen. Each I
Of them knows how TO correct the minor /
defects in the Wright aeroplane-~ali Of
them tell YOU, confidentially, that their
idea Of flying Il vastly superior to the /
clumsy, hit and miss Efforts Of the
Dayton boys Vastly different.
One Of che bugs shows up at the press
tent on the Fort Myer parade grounds I
daily, and illustrates BY means Of a
small piece Of twisted iron rod and
tin, propeller shaped missile the prin
ciple of the helicopter Apparently, he
has helicopters on the brain he talks
walks heiieopter, and thinks
helieopter His little portable illus
tration Of the helicopter was child's
plaything III bygone days, but, as the
bug win explain, flying has been in
vogue among birds since the creation.
Then there "A another-this one says
bets from Kansas who followed the
Wrights from Dayton here To Washing
ton. He has some radical improve.
ments to suggest in their machine.
'sThe curvature Of the planes isn't
right" he declares "They ought to be
this way. and he pulls out small
volume OF assorted curve drawings, Or,
Il you don't edge out Of sight quick, he
win offer to draw you new diagram.
During one Of the very best fights,
when the Wright machine was curget-
ting along in the air and everybody epie
was engrossed in watching its behavior,