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terestingly sAetched in a brief on
this subject which Is in course OF
| preparation for the Indian affairs
committee, the story being told in the
brief substantially as follows:
The lands east of the Mississippi
formerly owned by the ChOctaw ;
were acquired by these Indians long
before the United States came into
control of that part of the country.
A treaty between the United States
and Choctaws in 1885 refers to the
Choctaws while they We're under
the protection OF the king and Great
Britain
In 1920 by treaty OF thai year
the Choctaws exchanged small
part of their land here" (meanins
east of the Mississippi for 4 great
stretch of territory west of that
river. part of which constitutes So
called LEASED district" which is in
vOlyed in the present claim. The
territory was al. that land lying be-
tween the Arkansas AMI Red rivers
10 104 degrees anI 20 minutes west
longitude, which is the source of the
Canadian Fork OF tn. Arkansas
river. This treaty was negotiated
between Andrew Jackson and Chief
Apushimataha This tremendous area
comprises fully 25,oOO.O0O acres.
Now il happened that in 1921 the
United States by treaty with Spain
acknowledged a large part of this
tract wcs. Of the Tooth meridian as
belonging to that country, So it was
found expedient to make a new treaty
wit hthe Choctaws in 1880 to con-
form to the limits OF the Cnlted
States. Accordingly thi, treaty o.
1880, known as the treaty of Dane
ing Rabbit Creek" stipulated that
this western sOu:"e of the Canadian
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Washington. April 29.-An Indian
claim of first magnitude, as far as
size and value OF property is involved
has reached the subcommittee stage
hefore the house committee on In
dian affairs. with Chairman Stephens
REPRESENTATIVE JacOWay OF Arkansas
and former Chairman Burke consul
tuting the subcommittee.
This is the leased district claim
that involves practically all OF OK
1ahoma lying between the 9oth
and the one-hundredth merdlahs ana
the Red and Canadian rivers. L.
COMPRISES all OF Caddo, Comanche'
Kiowa. Washita, Custer, Roger Mills
and Greer counties. and parts of Ca
madam. Dewey and Day counties.
Want Pay for Great Area.
The Choctaws and Chickasaws
want pay for the greater part OF TINS
area. through which now SIX raii
roads. and which have grown up
such cities as Lawton, Anadarko,
Corden. Hobart and the like II
comprises 1,7i3.239 acres OF land
and is worth today, as near as such
things can he computed, $I50,Ooo, 900.
The two tribes say that they are
the victims OF a triple flimflam ON the
rsrt of the government, rs follows:
|. That the Choctaws were given
- great empire in the West in re-
turn for specified small part Of
their lands cas-, of the Mississippi
nut when by subsequent treaty it was
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Ch,ckasaws and through their attor-
neys are pressing their claim LOT
COMPENSATION for the leased district
lands. They are doing this through
the medium of the Carter bill, which
assumes that the findings OF the
court of claims are correct, notwith-
standing the adverse decision OF the
supreme court based on strict III
Interpretation of the word "cede IN
the treaty OF 1866. The bill would
authorize the court OF claims to de-
termine the value of the lands IN
volyed and what amount OF money
shall be paid to the tribes at inter
est for these lands.
This claim, while interesting In It's
history, does not impress Represent
ative John II. Stephens of Texas,
chairman OF the committee on Indian
affairs, as one of merit Judge
Stephens points TO the decision of the
supreme court as settling the ques-
ton. Il don't see anything in this
leased district claim but a big Zee
for somebody he said recently in
discussing the matter.
In the meantime Representatives
Carter and Ferris OF Oklahoma, who
are also ON the committee on Indian
affairs, have introduced bills looking
TO the payment OF affiliated Indian
tribes in their districts in the event
that the leased district claim can be
passed through congress by the Choc-
taws and Chickasaws and their at
torneys.
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Choctaws Before Congress.

So the Choctaws are now before
congress and asking for permission
10 have the court of claims to deter
mine, not whether title lies with the
Indians or the government. the su-
preme court having decided that, but
TO determine how much the Choctaws
shall receive in payment for their
interest in this tract.
II should be said that the reg ION
received its name. leased district,
from the fact that by a treaty in
in 1896 that the government leased
this country for the purpose Of lc
eating thereon such tribes of Indians
as would be agreeable to the Choc
taws and their allies, the Chicka-
saws
The Ind ans think they ought to
get something like $4,000, 900 out Of
this claim. 1t can be seen that this
case would prove a handsome stroke
VI uuNlHtSo lpl l4it dtltt ntNS " no
attempting to get this claim adiud-
Gated. The active spirit in this con
+. McMuray. The Carter bal
for the adjudication Of the claim does
not leave to the court of claims the
matter of fixing the amount OF at
torneN's fees that the Indians are to
pay. but 10 per cent is usually the
fee for contracts OF this magnitude.
The efforts to get this bin consid-
cred by the committee \on Indian al
fairs had to overcome the prejudice
that exists against these Indian
| claims. When it is taken up by tn"
, committee, however. it will have
these points for and against it:
In its favor, the findings OF the
court of claims which held that the
! title TO the lands never passed from
the Indians to the government; also
/ the noncommtttal statement of the
/ supreme ourt that if insufficient com
! rensation was given to the Indians
for the land. that is matter for
congress to settle.
Against it, the decisions of the su-
! pIeme court that the Indians actu-
/ ally conveyed these lands to the
/ government and that title to them
, has passed from the Indians: also
the prejudice against the large and
numerous Indian claims now in the
/ ot attorneys for the Indians TO
be passed on against the govern
ment.
Rely on Remarkable History.
The Choctaws are relying on the
remarkable history of their land
trades with the government. and es.
pecially their alleged three success.
sive "flimflams." to get the interes,
and the sympathy of the committee
T and COn-resS This history Il in.
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Nervousness interferes with the Sc
cretions OF the organs Of the body
and results in much illness. Drugs
that help nervousness are injurious
Chiropractic is the natural remedy
and there is no trouble that yields
more quickly than nervousness. DR.
Howard S. Cox, Chiropractor, Noble
building, Phone 400.
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My little son mad very severe
cold. was recommended to try
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and be-
fore small bottle was finished he
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Silks. 80 Bowling Street, Sydney, Aus
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all dealers
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Fork "if in the limits or the United
States. or to those limits. THIS
made the Tooth meridian the western
limit Of the Choctaw tract
Commission Put One over.
However, in negotiating this treaty
the commissioners for the United
States put one over" on the Choc-
taws by providing that the tribe shall
receive this western tract, which was
now diminished by all that part west
of the new limits OF the United
States, in return for 'all' of their
lands east of the Mississippi, instead
of for "a small part as was stipu-
lated originally in the treaty of 1920.
Commenting on this transaction, the
court of claims in review of the
whole matter says:
The exchange made in 1920 left
the Choctaws with 1000O,000 acres
of land, which by the treaty of 1880
the United States for nothing We
have the spectacle OF the United
States acquiring 10,OOO,OO0 acres OF
land in Mississippi for nothing and
also eXtinguishing title to several
million acres west of the Mississippi
without the payment of anything
Subsequently, following the Mex
ican war, the United States acquired
much western territory, including
that which was originally granted to
the Choctaws by the treaty of 1920
which lay west of the Tooth meridian
In 1855 the United States government
thought it had better get quit
claim from the ChOctaws for the area
West of the Tooth meridian to the
source of the Canadian Fork. amount
ing to 6,500,0O0 acres. so the treaty
of 1850 was negot lated. in which the
ChoCtaws gave the federal govern
ment a quit claim to this tract west
of the Tooth meridian. In this same
treaty the Choctaws and Chickasaws
leased to the government that part
Df the tracts that lies between the !
'Sth and Tooth meridians and the |
Red and Canadian river for the per
nanent settlement of the Wichitas |
and such other tl.oes, etc, provided, !
however, the territory so leased |
shall remain open to the settlement .
" ChOctaws and Chickasaws as here
OiOre
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+ declared that part OF this western
empire was not a part OF the United
States. but belonged to Spain, the
! Chcctaws had to surrender title to
all of the land west of the one-hnn'
dredLh meridian for which they re-
ceived neither other lands nor com
pensation.
.. That when the new treaty was
made by which the Choctaws had to
give up without compensation part OF
the land given them, but that did not
belong to the United States. the IN
tied States deliberately made this
treaty provide that the Choctaws
should give up all reefr lands east
OF the Mississippi for what was left
of the tract west of that stream after
cutting off the slice west Of the one
hundredth meridian which belonged
to Spain, by which alleged flimrlam
the United States got 10000, 900 more
acres than was originally traded for
and the Indians got 6,5S9.4i0 acres
less in the west than was originally
stipulated.
3. That Immediately after the
civil war the ChOCtaws, who had
since been joined by the ChickasawS,
parted with what remained to them Of
the leased district" for 100000 to
enable the United States government
to settle the question of what to do
with the freed negro slaves owned by
these Indians. The Indians contend
that they thought they We're ceding
this tract only in trust for the United
States as bond or forfeit TO guaran-
tee that they would give each Of
their freedmen forty acres OF land,
and the court of claims so held, but
the supreme court has held that the
wording of the treaty means that it
was ceded, sold, conveyed and every
thing else that constituted IA complete
PARTING in fee simple with the tract
but the court also held that If $780,
900 was too little to pay for this -
7l3,239-acre tract, that Is a matter for
congress to settle.
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Caurt Of Claims Decision.

In 1895 congress decided to let the
court of claims determine the ques-
ton whether the Choctaws and the
Chlckasaws had perfect title in these
lands, or whether the title by the
treaty OF 1865 really passed into the
hands of the government. The court
of claims found in favor OF the Choc-
taws and Chickasaws and affiliated
bands OF Indians. 1t is contended by
the Indians that the court of claims
held in their favor on every point
of the controversy.
the supreme court, where the find
ings OF the court of claims were re.
Versed, the highest tribuna. ho!d.as
the court o. claims was without
authority to determine the rights
of the parties upon the grounds of
mere fairness and justice. much les )
under the guise OF Interpretation to
depart from the impor, OF the words
of the treaty The supreme court
held that these plain words mean
unconditional cession of the land ;
in question free from any trust The
court then makes plain that if the
Indians We're unfairly dealt with by
the government-upon which point
the court specifically declines to eX-
press its view-then redress, if any
is due. must come from the political
branch (congress) of the govern
ment.
Press Claims for Compensation.
Now come the Choctaws and
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CHICKASAWS AND CHOCTAWS CLAIM
LANDS ARE WORTH Sl5O,OOO,OOO

rue MOST cE INDIAN CASE REACHES TIE HOUSE
" coMM,y1eE-IT is KNOWN As THE LEASED O'S'HC'
=, AIM ,nvo WING ALL OF OKLAHOMA LYING BETWEEN The
snr-v r,cu1u AND the EHUNoRETH MER0iANs ANO
ruE CANADIAN AND RED ERs-THE BRIEF SETS FoH'h
ruAr Tue rRlsssMEN WERE "FtIMFLAMmso" BY THE FED
ERAL GOVERNMENT
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Leased District Tract.

This particular tract, bounded by
the 9Sth and Tooth merid ans and the
Red and Canadian rivers, has ever
since been known as the leased
district" In way that was the be-
ginning OF the LEASED dist let" con-
tentiOn between the Choctaws and
the government, although it does not
in itself constitute the Issue involved
That came later as consequence of
the civil war.
The abolition of slavery left on the
Is of the government the ques-
tiCn what to do with the Indian
freedmen. The ChOctaws aud Chick
asaws beth had negro slaves and the
government undertook TO settle
these Indian freedmen down on forty
acres of land each. According to the
treaty of 1864, which IS the cause of
the LEASED district contention, was
negotated. 1t provided that in re-
tuln TOR S2Oo,oO0 the indians should
cede TO the United States the leased
district until the Indian freedmen
had been settled down on forty each,
as per agreement; but that IL the
freedmen are not so settled then this
100000 was to be used by the fed
eral government for the removal OF
the freedmen to some place where
they might be settled The freedmen
were accordingly permitted to pick
their forty acres an the rich agricui-
tural valleys of what is now Eastern
Oklahoma. There was more than
10000 OF them and they got more
than 40O, 900 acres OF land, worth to-
day, it is claimed, more than $40.
0O0, 900.
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September.

A discount of five cents per thous.
and will be allowed on all bills paid
on or before the 10th of the following
month in which the gas is consumed
This notice applies only to domes-
tic gas. There will be no change in
price for gas used by churches,
schools and hotels.
25-6 CITY GAS co.
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CAS- NOTICE

The regular summer rate OF forty
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viii be charged for gas consumed
during the following months
April.
MAY.
June.
July.
August.
September.
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Rely on Remarkable History

The Choctaws are relying on the
remarkable history of their land
trades with the government. and es.
pecially their alleged three success.
sive "flimflams," to get the interest
and the sympathy of the committee
and congress This history is in
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