The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-04-28

ty is a bar to any other proceeding
by the allottee or the heir to recover
possession of the property involved.
The purchasers in good faith OF lana
' from allottees and heirs of allottees
of the Five Civilized Tribes are fur
ther protected against Champertors
intermeddling with their titles ana
the unjustifiable stirring up OF litr
cation by persons Inclined to hunt up
defective titles, by the provisions OF
the Oklahoma statutes making II
misdemeanor for a person to con-
yey lands which are in the possession
of another claiming adversely, and
declaring such conveyances absolute
ly void as against the person in pos
session. The supreme court OF the
state has given this statute liberal
Interpretation for the protection of
the bona fide purchaser in possess
ion. No individual can engage in
hunting up defective titles and the
stirring up of or maintenance of liti-
CATION on account thereof, in hope
of any substantial profit arising
therefrom. Notwithstanding all this
litigation | don't recall a single in
stance where a purchaser of alot-
ted or inherited lands in the Choc-
taw or Chickasaw nation who acquir-
ed the same in good faith believing
that he was securing title thereto
has been divested of his title by
judgment of a court, state or federal
Such may have been the case in
few rare and isolated instances. The
practical result of the litigation
which has been so disturbing to pros
pective investors has been to confirm
and not to destroy titles.
A few people took conveyances
the purpose of clouding title. Some
made mistakes in acquiring titles.
The natural result of this is that con-
veyance will be cancelled from time
to time by judgments of the courts.
Upon the whole, however, land titles
in the Choctaw and Chickasaw ma
tions are as stable and the lands
more desirable as an investment than
in the earlier stages of development
of most of the older states. With
confidence in titles fully restored, in
vestors will flock to the Choctaw and
Chickasaw nations and there will
be an era of prosperity and money
making that will astonish those most
sanguine about the future prospects
of the country.
Before closing desire to say in a
personal way that ! do not believe
there is a more desirable place to
live than the city of Ardmore. While
progressive in the fullest sense of
the word, they have not permitted
their desire to make money to inter
lelc Will lHelT hospitality. i his nos |
pitality extends not only to the pros
pective citizen, but continues after
his location in the city. No city in |
the country has more good people |
in proportion to its population than
has the city of Ardmore. There is
no better place in which to live or
bring up family. When I came to
Ardmore I was a perfect stranger
and without means. I could not have
been more Hospitality received or had
more care and consideration shown
me- if had been a millionaire.
This spirit has always been with
he people of the city of Ardmore.
It is an invaluable asset. While bus
mess conditions have called many
Ardmore residents elsewhere. my uni =.
orm experience has been that they :
III feel substantially as ! do in ref
renee to the matter
S. T. BLEDSOE. g,