Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-09
MADR|z IS WARNED NEW GORE EVIDENCE
Seizure of American Property Has kilograms Read Before
Subject of Protest. Investigating Committee.
COMPLAINT FROM CONSUL SHERMAN is NAMED AGAIN
Tells Of Labos Impressed and Scott Regarded Him Acquainted
Supplies Taken. With McMurays Wants
NORWEGIAN SHIPS DESERTED PLAINTIvE INDIANS
Makes It Difficult to Man Than Await
Vessels
Has kilograms Read Before
Investigating Committee.
SHERMAN Is NAMED AGAIN
Scott Regarded Him as Acquainted
With McMurray's Wants.
PLAINTIvE TALE BY INDIANS
Preferred to Divide With McMur-
ray Than to Await Promises
of the Government.

McALESTER, Okla. August a.-Senator
T. p. Gore, at the congressional investi-
CATION of the Indians. today introduced
and had read to the investigating com
mittee kilograms in which the names OF
Vice President Sherman and Senator
Charles Curtis of Kansas were mentioned.
One Of the kilograms read:
With McMuray there to state our
claims. with Mr.. Curtis and Mr. Sherman.
who understand better than anybody else
what We want. and with the assistance
of our President. it begins to look like
We are coming into our own
This telegram was dated at Kinta,
Okla. May last and was sent to Rich
ard {. Adams, an attorney at Washing
ton, by George W. Scott. J. F. McMur-
rays agent among the Indians
Shows Activity of McMurray.
It's relation to Senator Cores charges
of having been offered a twenty -five-thou-
sand-dollar bribe to put through" Con
gress the S30,OOo,O0O McMurray Indian
land deal was explained by the senator:
1T merely shows the activity of the
McMurray interests at Washington" said
Senator Gore.
BY offering this evidence l do not
wish to reflect either on Mr.. Sherman
or Mr. Curtis" said the senator
DO you mean that as an exoneration
from you OF Mr.. Sherman?' asked Den
mis- Flynn, attorney for McMurray
1T is merely to state that IL the names
OF these men were not taken In vain at
one time they may have been at an
other replied Mr.. Gore.
Another telegram from McMurray a.
Washington was read. 1t ordered that
McMurray's agent among the Indians
SEND nifty kilograms urging Congress to
approve the contracts allowing $1,000, 900
attorneys fees
Representative Creager Accused.
-Creager Of the third Oklahoma district
had solicited sums of money from J. NJ
McMurray, holder of the Indian land
contracts. was made by Jake L. Hamon
yesterday. He said the representative
had solicited money from McMurray dur
ing the pendency in Congress OF the bill
which had been drawn up by McMurray
and which Creager introduced This bill
provided for the sale of the surface lands
to private individuals and for the sale OF
the mineral wealth to the government.
Although the McMurray contracts were
not referred to in II, the bill. Hamon said.
was so termed that McMurray might have
been enabled to put in a claim for the
attorneys fees. The measure, however.
was not passed.
Il want Mr. Creager recalled to the
stand to answer these charges" said
Hamon. II want him to explain why
just after he introduced that bill he
went to McMurray. and under the guise
Of loans demanded from McMurray
large sums OF money. l think IL will
throw considerable light on the Indian
1ov s-tt tt<,,~ VI
ger is recalled and asked about his
repeated demands for money from Nc
Murray
On being informed by Representative
CHARLES H. Burke. chairman OF the
committee. that it was doubtful IL
Creager would be recalled, Hamon
asked to be allowed to introduce wit
nesses to testify as to his charges
His request was taken under advise
ment.
Used to 10 Per Cent.
I'VE have become used to the 10 per
cent idea" declared Park Anderson,
a Choctaw. Most OF the Indians in this
state have to pay 10 per cent on all
debts and borrowed money. We have
become SO dependent on attorneys that
they have hand in almost everything
we do"
DO you mean to say that to sell your
land you are willing TO give McMurray
S3.cOOOO, or enough to hire all the
lawyers in Oklahoma asked Represent
ative NJ. B. Miller.
Yes. We have waited so long for the
government to act that We could give
. per cent IL that would cause a quick
sale. We need the money to develop
the land on which We live"
1t was estimated by c. c. Choate, an
other Choctaw, that il his land was
sold through McMurray contracts his
share would be s5OoO. with a reduction
Of 500 in fees. Now" he said, Il
would rather have $500 while I am
acts and get 5000 when / am dead
Indian View Of Atte rneys.
why is it that. while you have at
torneys paid on a regular salary and
approved of by the government, you
employ special attorneys?''
Because our regular attorneys get paid
whether they work or not, while the spe-
cial attorneys, on a contingent fee, work
because they expect to be paid
A singular appearance was presented
by Charles LAHORE, a Choctaw, who as
ca pt ain police. has figured in many
a battle of the plains. He had only one
eye, three of his fingers were shot OF,
and his body was covered with bullet
wounds. Asked about the activity of Nc
Murray's agents. he related that he had
been approached by George ". Scott.
acting for McMurray, and had been in
duced to sign a telegram, the wording Of
which he himself had not dictated. this
being a telegram addressed to Richard C.
Adams OF Washington. an attorney. The
that telegram was that the
Indians approved the contracts and ask
ed Adams to call on President Taft and
urge him to sell the land without delay.
Who did you think Adams was?"
why, l thought he was somebody with
powerful influence who could go to the
President and to Congress and tell them
what he wanted. We were not so anxious
to give up 10 per cent, but we thought il
would be better to sell on that basis
than not to get anything at all. We
were in the dark as 10 how matters
stood in Washington, but we thought
Adams would be able TO fix things all
right"
Creager Answers Charges.
MUSCOGEE. Okla. August 9.-In re-
ply to the charges made by Jake l.. Ha-
mon, at McAlester. that Representative
c. f. Creager had attempted, under the
guise of loans, to obtain money from j.
NJ McMurray, Mr.. Creager last night
gave out the following statement: