Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 18, 1913, Page 2

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There was no excuse for the omission and we apologize to these gentlemen. Both were on the program and both gave exceptionally good, lively talks. The Graham Investigation. The report of the Graham investi- gating committee, of which extracts were printed in this paper. yesterday, has brought to light many facts which the people of Minnesota sus- pected had existed but of which they had no proof. In order that the read- ers of the Pioneer may have more in- formation on the matter, the follow- ing additional paragraphs are print- ed tonight from the report. The report describes the White Earth reservation as a “rich heri- tage.” “It embraces approximately 796,000 acres of land with valuable forests of pine, probably 500,000,000 feet, and an ample quantity and var- iety of hardwood for fuel,” said the report. “A large portion of the land was of great fertility and being prairie was easy to break and culti- vate. “The first inroad upon the .reser- vation was of the acquirement of four townships in the northeast cornmer, and was made by the lumber com- panies. First, a statement was se- cured from those in authority that the Indians did not need all the land in the reservation. Then, under the act of Jan. 14, 1889, these four townships were ceded back by the Indians to the government to be sold for their benefit. The pine on them was to be disposed of at not less than $3 per 1,000 feet and the agricultural lands at not less than $1.25 per acre. Through incompetency or for some reason, the estimator grossly under- estimated the amount of the standing pine timber. It was advertised to be sold at auction to the highest bidder at Crookston, Minn., Nov. 27, 1900. “Your committee ‘finds, from un- disputed testimony that this sale was fraudulent in the details of its accom- plishment. In addition to he false esimates used to fix the minimum price there was gross collusion among the real purchasers. The evidence taken clearly demonstrated this. One witness testified that after partici- patin in the bids for one day he re- ceived the sum of $5,000 for-the pur- chases that he had made, upon his promise to depart and not further interiere in the sale. We believe that by such underestimates and collusion in the interests of big lumbermen the Indians did not receive one half the fair value of the timber on these four sections. No authorized person was present to represent them or watch, their interests. Most of the purchases were made by paid agents of lumber companies, their principals meanwhile standing by mute. “The resultisg scandal was so great that rumors. of it reached Secretary of the Interior H. A. Hitchcock, who took such measures as.he could to in- vestigate. Finally the purchases were required to make sworn state- ments that they were not parties to ‘any collusion before certificates of sale would issue, This was very easy, a8 they were mere dummies, and their principals, the men to whom they afterwards conveyed, were the ‘principals in collusion. The @ecretary was thus hoodwinked, abstracts of title made for the benefit of the com- mittee fully substantiated the charges of this conspiracy, it appearing there- from that many years after the sale deeds were placed on record showing that practically all the timber with- in certain boundaries was secured by one concern, and that within certain other boundaries by another. These two concerns, to-wit: The Nichols- Chisholm Lumber company, and the Wild Rice Lumber company, are the samie concerns that afterwards se- o | Hitchcock, had coupled with them in| . |dent with it came the Steenerson act, R the remaining thirty-two townships.” The report then says that the re- sulting scandal was so great that Secretary Hitchcock refused to make any. more sales on ‘“tree estimates,” Following. this came the passage of the Morris-act in 1902, providing for sales by sealed bids, and on scale measurement. Statute Is Evaded. “But by some process these reform measures, recommended by Secretary congress another provision which en- abled the big lumber companies ' to purchase standing timber without the land,” the committee says. “They were thereby enabled to evade a Min- nesota statute which prohibited the ownership of ‘more than 5,000 acres of land by any corporation, and hav- ing gotten rid of the laws Wwhich stood in their way, they proceeded to acquire and did acquire large quan- ties of timber-on Indian lands.” The report says that all this was but a prologue to the drama of the 'exploitation and spoilation of the In- dians through legislation by congress. “There still remained thirty-two townships,” the report says. “The four townships referred to had mot appeased the timber appetite of the Until 1905 pine lands were not allotted. Legislation was enacted by congress providing that the timber on allotments previously made, or that might subsequently be made, could be sold by the Indians. “This legislation is known -as. the first Clapp amendment, although it was a rider on the Indian appropria- tion bill of April 21, 1904. Coinci- saw mills. originating in the house, providing in effect that the pine land in the White Earth reservation should be allocted. This was the act of April 28, 1904, Pursuant to the Steenerson Acy, arrangements for making such allotments began soon after. The agent at White Earth, Simon Mich~ elet, was made allotting officer. By various pretexts this allotment did not begin until April 25, 1905, about one year after the passage of that authorizing act. Meanwhile certain parties employed by large lumber companies were going through the pine timber making estimates, and rarties looking for themselves and for others the desirable timber allot- ments were engaged likewise. Thus there was ample opportunity for the fraudulent partiality that was shown to have occurred when the allotting did take place. R I T ) The report then tells of the at- gured ‘the ‘bulk of the timber ml Clapp amendment of 1904, This was the sale at which Fred Herrick, the Wisconsin lumber man, went into the Minnesota fleld and overbid the Nich- olg-Chisholm company. The report says that at this sale the Niehols- Chisholm company put in a fake bid for'the Lvman-Irwin company. - The committee declares that the Nichols- ©hisholm company, finding - itself outbid, succeeded in having:the suc- cessful bidder's offer set-aside. The Clapp Amendment, The climax' of- the drama was reached in * the enactment of the Clapp amendment of June 21, 1906, giving mixed bloods on the reserva- tion. fee title to their lands. The report describes the climax of the drama as follows: “Your .committee finds that the next steps:taken on behalf of these suffering Indians was that embraced in the second:so-called Clapp amend- ment of June 21, 1906, which took the form of a rider upon another In- dian appropriation’ bill. This pro- vided 2 means whereby not only the timber, but the lands could be ob- tained -from adult mixed. bloods, and from the full ‘bloods when declared competent, and if both of these pro- visions failed title might be obtained by sale of the lands for taxes. As a consequence of this legislation the greatest harm resulted. ~ The land sharks, anticipating its passage, had by means-of $26 mortgages, tied up a large and valuable part of the reservation. “The enactment of this legislation was followed by a period of debauch- ery and shameless orgies. The White and mixed-blood land sharks, the hirelings of the lumber companies, and the alleged bankers in the vil- lages along the Soo line, were .en- gaged in taking deeds and mortgages indiscriminately from mixed and full bloods, :adults and minors. The. most persuasive arguments with the In- dians were contained in bottles and jugs. - The ‘land sharks. bought the Indians’ land with ‘tin money,’ that is, orders payable in certain ‘stores’ in merchandise only. The lumber companies gave due bills for deeds, thus affording their mixed-blood em- ployes ample opportunities for specu- lation, which opportunities were speedily improved. The result was that Indians who received the ‘tin money’ brought back to-the reserva- tion from Detroit, shoddy merchan- dige, broken down pianos, anclent sewing machines and 'large quantities of firewater. Indians who received the due bills were the easy victims of the sharks, who took enormous dis- counts for cashing their paper, and ments or evan did'an honest stroke of work until the results of these sales had vanished, The theory on which the law seems to rutf, namely, that & slight admixture| of white blood would by some maglcal-process bring jor discretion and business:eapacity, was thus demonstrated to be without foundatfon, and proved to-be & cruel .blunder."”’, < The report:says that in-the belief that the manner of securing the pas- sage of this ! more thas passing interest. to con- gress and to the public, attention is called to a letter written to a consti- tuent by Halvor ‘Steenerson, repre-, sentative in.congress.of the district in which the: reservation is-situated. Thé letter was introduced as testi- mony before the committee. The lettor, given in full'in the re- port, says that the house of represen- tatives would not pass a bill taking away from the. secretary of the in- terior autliority to remove restric- tions on landians when he deemed it wise, but that the proposed legisla- tion might be put on the appropria- tion bill in the senate, approved by the house conference and be securéd in this way, “Now I want you to un-: derstand,” read the letter, “that you legislation may be of | PAID ADVERTISEMENT. . For This Series, $10. ; I hereby announce that 1 ai cau- didate for sudge of the Municipal Court of this City, which office is to be filled at th ng ci: &nd I respectfully solicit) th PAID ADVERTISEMENT: For This Series, "$10.00 ‘T hereby announce that I am a| candidate «for ithe office of:judge /of| he; municipal; court of the: efty; o Bemidji, at the coming city electioni| to be held in and for said city on the| 18th day of February,1%18: I respectfully splicit. the support of the people of Bemidji. JOHN L. BROWN, Mrs. A. R. Tabor, of Crider, Mo., had been troubled with sick head- ache for about five years, when she| began: taking Chamberlain’s Tablets.| She has taken two bottles of them \nd they havejourediber. Sick head-| ache is caused by a disordered stom-| ach for which these tablets are es- -pecially intended.. Try tham, . get| well and stay, well. - Sold by. Barker's Drug .Btore.~~Ady, 5 NO.-CHURGH - CEREMONY. could no-more pass a bill taking this power away from- the secretary in the present house of representatives; ghnn you oculd fly, ' The Indian af- fairs committee is opposed to it and the ‘department fs-naturally. opposed to it and you could not get such a measure on the-calendar. So that the only possible way to get the house to| concur in such a measure would be the way that is now in progress, that is by attaching it in the senate to an appropriation bill and thereby bring- ing it into conference.” Nobady'Loves Him.: : Patience—And. she married that man? % Patrice—Yes, she has. - “But did she.love him?" - “Oh, I think not. I don’t see how anybody‘could love-him. I guess she married him-out-of sympathy. He was 1 baseball umpire, von know.” Lovelorn—You: wish: me. :to elope with:your-daughter! - Why,:sir? Harduppe~—Becaus, 1no. wedding billa_ for me. Kept. Busy. “Whit do yon do when it gets. too cold to play golf, Mr. Niblick?” “Well, as a rule, T keep hoping for an early spring or a chance to go south for a month-or two.” - ‘K fidenge. and usefulness, *-€an be- given secretly. ORRINE -is ; prepared in.two. forma: solutely tasteless and. odorless, given seeretly in food or drink; ORRINE No. 2, in pill form, is for those who desire to If you fail to get results from ORRINE after a trial your money will be r;fundefl. Costs ' only '$1.00 per box. Ask for, free-booklet telling all about OR- '* CITY DRUC STORE, Beltraml Ave tempt to sell timber on Indian lands| in some instances ‘invested’ the small by sealed bids, as provided in the|bala; in great expectations. Co) RELIAELE HOME - TREATMENT The. ORRINE, treatment for, the Drink Habit can be used with absolute con- Tt destroys all desire for whisky, beer or other alcoholic stimulants. Thousands bhave suceessfully used it and have been restored to lives of sobriety No, 1, secret -treatment, a powder, ab- take voluntary treatment. ‘|at any drug store. Thi OPENS UP NOSTRILS, ~ ENDS COLDS Jull * Healache Goes— asty Disoharge Stops. Try “Ely’s Cream Balm.” - Get a small bottle anyway, just:to try it—Apply a:little in the nostrils and instantly your clogged nose and sopped-up air passages of the head Will open; you will breathe freely; dullness-and headache disappear.By morndng!-the: catarrh, cold-in-head or catarrhal gore throat will'be gone. End such- migery now! Get-the small bottle of “Bly’s Cream Balm’ iweet, frag- m&!m Breathe |/ ‘Hesd ; flamed, Swollen membrane - which lines the nose, head and throat: clears the air passages; stops nasty discharges and a feeliig of cleansing, soothing relfef comes immediately, Don’t ‘lay. -awake. tonight - strug- gling for breath, with head stuffed; nostrils cloged, hawking and.blowing. Catarrh or a cold, with its' running nose; foul mueods drop'phx. into the throat, and raw drynessiis distressing but truly needless. Put your faith—just once—in “Ely’s Cream Balm” and your cold or {catarrh. will surely ‘disappear.,—Adv. Point In His Favor. “You ought to be ashamed of your self to roam almlessly about and ney- er do any work,” said Mrs. Naggers, to the ragged spectmen-of humanity who stood at her door. “That's true; mum,” replied the wan- derer. “And yet you muat-give me credit for one thing.” “And what is that?” “Although I have been 'traveling over the world for more than twenty years, I have never yet acquired the souvenir habit.” s Mystery. Bacon—I- see Alaska has its first dining-car made out of an old coach In:the Cordova shops and managed by 4 man and his wife. Egbert—Very interesting. But I thinds: it ‘would be more important to know.-wliat some of the dishes served on the dining-car are made of. DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED. by local .applications, as: they canuot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There: is only-one way to cure deafness, and_ that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed con- dition: of :the. mucous: lining ‘of the Bus- tachian Tube. When this tube is-in- flamed ‘you have a rumbling sound or imperfect. hearing, and where. it is. en- tirely closed. Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be tak- en out and this tube reatored to its nor. mal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an in- flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. ‘We ‘will give One'Hundred Dollars-for a7, sare. of ogs (caused by ca- rrh) ‘that cennot be cured by Hall's Catarrh. Cure.. Send for clroulars, froe. F. J. & CO., Toledo, U.io. ‘Sold by Drugglsts, 76c Take: Hall's, Family Piils for consti- pation, R. F. MURPH FuuERAL CIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Difice 318 Beltrami Ave. ‘here B0W 2 INSURANCE Rentals, Bonds, ‘Reat Estate First Mortgaye Loans on City and Farm- Praperty B .and 8, O'Leary-Bowser:Blag. { Phene 49, Bamidil, Minn, " GARMNTELD B SENIL BREWIG 0. UNDER THE FODD AWD DRUGS, ACTHINE 2871506 Bey/o41 BREWING Co. 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