The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-06-22
RAYMOND W. PULLMAN.
Times Washia0toa Bureau No, u

Times Washington Bureau. No. 7O4
Metropolitan Bank Building.
WASHINGTON. June 22.-lndians.
white men and black men are being
made into million.
Wireless aires almost over
Torpedo. night in Oklahoma
these days, aud
Uncle Sam is acting as treasurer In
this fascinating game OF getting rich
without doing a stroke OF work7 The
money is pouring in a golden stream
into the hands of people who a few
years ago were as poor as the proven.
! bal small rodent in the sanctuary.
The discovery of oil several years
ago is the cause OF all this. and al
ready a number OF Indians, blacks
/ and whites are in the millionaire
class, with the money still coming In
| in barrels full Uncle Sans part In
this is TO see that the Indians and the
freedmen who own the lands get their
royalty for the oil taken out The
commissioner OF Indian affairs. Cato
Sells. has direct charge OF this get
| rich-quick game, as his office looks
out for the leasing OF the lands be.
longing 10 the Indians and freedmen
The freedmen mentioned were Ne.
Clio slaves held by the Greek Indians
until they were freed by the Civil
war. Later a treaty was made be-
1 tween the United States and the
| Greek Indians whereby slaves belong
ing 10 the Creeks and their descend
ants were given an equal share with
their former owners on the govern,
ment allotment of the old Greek lands
in Indian territory.
This Is how Danny Tucker, a 10
year-old Negro boy, came into posses,
sion of loo acres OF lanf which has
] produced and Is producing as much
oil as any other similar area OF
ground in the United States, if not
in the world The leo acres OF land
were allotted 10 him in 1906 for farm
! purposes IL is rocky and hilly, nc
10 acres slanting the same way, and
is practically unfit for farming. Two
years ago one OF the big oil com
panies obtained lease on the allot
ment. with the result that apparently
worthless land has become one OF
the richest spots in oklahoma
At first Danny received 5000 a
n month in royalties in March last i
had jumped 10 $4,000 a month and
now Il is $6,750 a month and still go
ing up. The production of oil on the
land owned by the little Negro now
amounts 10 2400 barrels daily The
wells completed give promise OF Ions
life. and If they do keep up, il viii
not be long before IL will be utterly
impossible for Danny 70 count his
money Although the colored boy j:
a prospective millionaire, he is payinl
little attention TO anything but the
feeding OF his chickens and pigs or
his fathers farm
Another romance that seems ever
more wonderful than the strange luck
of the Negro boy involves Sarah Rec
tor, an 1l-year-old orphan OF the
freedmen class II is estimated thai
she is already worth more than SO,
100000, and this amount is gettlnl
larger each month Sarah and he
brother Sammy, eight years ago
came in for a quarter section each
In the same way as did Danny Tuck
Ter, through possession OF worthless
farm land Several years ago the OF
lprospector came along and drilled
wells on her land The first months
revenues from her allotment we're ap
lproximately $4,000 There are nov
l1S wells on her land and her incom,
is about $4,000 a month But
short time ago a house was erected
for Sarah on the allotment costing 81.
100 II is said that the little girl Il
now i'll and that she may not live Il
enjoy her wealth.
II is needless to say that the fed