New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1929, Page 6

to produce a lic miitted that he had not v was that his car sion for a a half and yesterday he to repair it jn a warm no way of ing ¢ and back, drove Common Council Committee = on b e e C LN EXTENSION ~ OFFIRE DISTRICT Building Inspector Asked to Pro- vide Complete Details feet iny av- to feet west avenue, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1929. e INDIANS FORGED T0 BECOME RICH “Worthless” Oklahoma Reserva-| tions Now Vast Mine Land | Oklahomg City. March § (A—The | (isage and Quapaw Indian tribes en- oy untold riches because the wWhite | man put them on land he did not want. When the reservations were mark- | ed off, nobody dreamed that some | ay the hills given to the Osages| d be dotted with oil derricks | 1 the prairie set aside for the Qua yaws yould yield zine and lead as well hay. Today the Osages are the richest | people on earth, the 2,229 “head- | g in the tribe ex- | each in value. Un- Quapaws, the Osages hold th in commeon. The lead and zinc holdings of | the Quapaws bring more than $1,-{ 00 in royalties to €5 restricted mbers of the tribe, but marriage 1 inheritance have served to dis- 1 the money generally among r members. Anna Reaver Bear Hallar d owner of land on which is he Anna Beaver mine, own- Harry Payne Whitney of 1s some of the largest roval- | ments. For several months| 2 from the metals piled up | e rate of $50.000 a month. Four ago, she was almost penniless. e Quapaws were a nomadic tribe when they were placed on their present reservation in 1937, The land was valued at a dime an acre by white men. Under the treaty by which the tribe was given the reservation, the government, “in view of their wretched and impoverished condi- tion,” agreed to move the Quapaws to their new home and to furnish 1 livestock. farm implements rms and other equipment. thing except hay was produced on the tribe's new lands. White men leased it paying the Indians a pit- tance. The town of Quapaw sprang p and became the greatest hay pping point in the world for a| time. The Indians cared nothing for the hay, the land or much of any- thing else. They wanted to fish and hunt and be left alone. In 1865, zinc ore was found whil: water well was being drilled on e land of Felix Dardene, a Qua- | paw Indian. The driller knew the metal in the cuttings from his drill er inc at {Borah Declares Public Sentiment it. He made a fortune. that “have been se unforiunate” as It has meant something to be an |to be found in possession of great Osage Indian with a large family |natural wealth, will sink into terri- born prior to 1907, when the tribal [tories “to be preyed upon by rapaci- allotment of lands was made. Each ous exploiters which will make the Osage was given more than 700 old proconsular days of Rome seem acres that year. A man with a wife uninteresting and tame.” and five children had control of 5,-| He ridiculed the theory of eco- 000 acres of land, and received $21.- | nomic boycott as a means of enforc- (100 quarterly until the eldest child ing peace, became of age. | “The economic boycott for these Distinction of having the largest |great powers,” he said, “which are Osage family was held by Clement now organizing armies and building de Noya. He controlled eleven head- |navies upon a scale such as rights, including his own, his wife’s | world has never before known, is a and those of their nine chldrer alse pretense, a fraud, a lie, and so Ths family has received as much as|far as 1 am concerned, the United $40,000 in one quarterly payment. |States will have nothing to do with it. PEOPLE GIVENSAY BY KELLOGG PACT Wants U. S, Kept Free he United States has agreed to t war and has agreed to seak lement of her controversies gh peaceful means only—but if e of all this there is ever to \ appeal to force then the Unit- led States should be perfectly fre committed in no way, embarrassed in no respect—to determine under all the (ircumstances what it is in Gfln NOW P]‘flem War the interest of our people to do | When that exigency arises let those Iwho must meet it, those who must Washington, March 8 (®—Senator | make t ifices, decide according Borah of ldaho addressing the For- 10 the facts as they then exist and g according to their interests as they cign Press association Washing- 4 £ 58 ociation of Washins-| ..,y sce them, In other wor ton at a dinner last night, said peace, any commitment for peace We can as exemplified in the Kellogg peace ,iorq to undertake, but commit- vart, will be successful “to the extent | poiec ro\ar expressed or im- that the people as distinguished from | [1i.q sanctions of any name or na- the few can be permitted to have a (yro,‘ought never to he considered.” voice in determining peace or war.” “The people do not believe in war. but their leaders sometimes do.” said REAP HIRLAL the chairman of the senate foreign 0 relations committee. “The peacc pact represents the aspirations and the hopes of the masses. If it does not prove successful it will be be- cause of the betrayal of those who have been entrusted with authority.”” “I do not know, and no man can know, whether we have reached th. time In whic' reason and ustire may in international affairs be sub- stituted for brute force, or whether we must go on with the old sys- tem. It depends, in my opinion. ‘o k ; . hat extent in the future a few men| _Growing children need a mild who do no fighting and make no pleasant remedy to cleanse the sacrifices when the war comes, can stomach and bowels and ward manipulate and control matters in off minor illness. the direction of war as against the If your children toss in their wishes and the prayers of those upon . 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