Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-08
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 ARE SAD DEPARTMENT
Wealthiest Tribe VIII Not Work and Continue 10
 Wear Blankets

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 CHICAGO. Nov. 7:-Bishop T. r. Thurston, chosen a year ago to be the head of the newly created dio- cese of East Oklahoma, told of the Indians in his territory. and of the negro problem. at the quarterly meet ing of the Episcopal Womans Auxil- ary at the Episcopal church of the Ascension. yesterday morning. He spoke of the Osages Indians as the richest folk in the world.
 The Osages are still blanket In- dians." Bishop Thurston said. They are worth s20.000 apiece, person by person. The youngest Of them Is worth as much as the oldest. They own a certain sum in the United states treasury, and receive their quarterly stipend Each of them owns 1s0 acres Of land, and in that land they are finding coal and oil and valuable metals. They will not work Why should we work?' they say. If they want anything done, they hire a white man to do it for them.
 Gambling Is common among them | was told Of a 13-year-old Osage boy who in the morning had received S20 from the government, and in the mid dle of the afternoon had lost it by gambling It looks to me as if the United States government was in a fair way of being the victim of its own sense of justice People who are not rroducers or workers have no place in the world. These Osages ! have plenty to live on. Their re- quirements are meagre. and their sense of cleanliness is not very 1 keen"
 The five civilized tribes in eastern ! Oklahou.a-CheT0lse sChickashes, l Choctaws. Seminoles and Creeks-aL so come under the bishops care. ! He asked the sympathy of his hear | CTS for tzose Cureconstructed gn- diaus. few ia number, but desperate Iin purpose. who hide away in the hills. refusing ever to be affiliated with the white mans government, re- fusinE money for their lands or in come from the government, and al- ways claiming that some day they sill drive out the white people and the Indian will again rule He pre-, i sented also the new hospital with
 Bishop Brooks established in Me Aiester, and the need of four men to
 add 10 the east Oklahoma force oi clergy.
 Unfortunately the Greeks have iutermarried with the negroes wher they intermarried, said the speak
 CT That seems to have lowered them in their own estimation and | in the estimation of the other tribes The Indian who has intermarrieC |, with the whte people seems 10 have
 constantly risen in all his views ana purposes of life, but the Indian wh' has intermarried with the negrt seems to have sunk. You will SCI } Indians who are as white as any on'
 and you would never dream of then being Indians. but if the ancestor il very remote, if they only have one thirty-secoud part of the Indian in ? heritance, they still call themseiTe Indians, and are proud of ii"
 Touches on Neqfo Problem Touching the troubles between ne
 gro and white people in eastern Oh [ lahoma, the bishop described a rio
 which occurred two weeks ago no far from MuskOgec, starting with th ! rudeness Of the negro toward whit woman. and resulting in another nc gro killing several disintereste
 white persons.
 , "f am told, he said. that tha thing Is liable to happen al an moment. anywhere in east Oklahom' believe the simple Gospel of Jesu { Christ is the only thing that ca
 bring both of us to our senses. w
 of the white race are not the ma z ters we are the older brothers (
 these colored folks. Don't think to
 minute I would suggest anythin n ike social equality. That is entirel P out of my mind. But they are oni D children. and the youngest kind , children"
 D The members Of the Woman's Aul $ Hilary responded with generous gifl Q 10 Bishop Thurstons appeal. BefoT ? he left s3l3 vas pledged to his worl ' Other pledges made by the parishel were SI33 for generals missions, s2l for the insurance Of missiOnar which is annually paid by this au
 Hilary. and S70 towards the Harri'
 M Futile scholarship at St. Mary
 on the Mountains. at Sewanee. Tt
 gifts were larger than usual. s Dean C. M Davis or Christ churC .d cathedral gaHe an address at th .g afternoon session on the workings D. the church board Of missions, an .x the new apportionment plan. Tt
 dean is member of the board, an
 has just returned from board mee
 ing
 Bishop Futile. who offciated a' q g, openiag serEicesl offered a speci !. pravert on belrslfs of the missionsri' of the Episcopal church who may " a.. ,1,roor ir China