Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 21, 1900, Page 18

6 THE ILLUSTRATED BE Octoher 21, 100 vho make up about one third of the total emigrate to Mexico to find a wildern Chaotic conditions existing in Indian Though comprehending tully that the ™ herein they can rear another edifice o1 Territory at present are without a parallel change would accrue greatly to their in- ‘b4l mismanagement, while the hal in history Nearly 90,000 Indians are dividual advantage the Indians hela UFeeds will remain to become citizens of without a country and 300,000 white citi- tenaclously to the traditions of the tribes, D¢ NeW state that will eventually be mad zens are not allowed to use thelr right of and surrendered them only when they saw CU' of Indian Territory. Wily fellows ar uffrage. But out of this state of affairs (hat the new movement was inevitable these Malibfeeds, who well understand the United State government | busily the value of what is coming to them Far inns, Wenlth for the v ind wide they have roamed, prospecting cngaged in framing a policy for the future y il ed AL, When the division is made those who have for lead uidance of a country that bids fair to zine, coal and oil, and th ir d equnl any part of the unlon :mlk"ll‘u(; h.:'l ‘mv'l 0 loud ,n:.lHl toit will coverie they have kept secret, with a Pers with. 300 nssistants 1s now ¢ngaged THO country which will be parceled out these treasures le. Then when local o1 among them is larger than the state of South castern capital comes with money in both in taking the final roll of the Indians of | Carolina and of great beauty and variety. bLards the halfbreed the different tribe appraising the r land will be in a posi and placing them on their allotments. By ),l,‘;:',h'vlr.1’",'.,,‘\',',:'. = \\”v\,. |‘y.‘.l.:h |-|-Iy'|ln'|w|“ ::'.; MR bR sl B L f the first of January, 1901, this work will g L0 s niles in width runs through Orderly Enrvoll eoor o Redsii the territory and many other valuable wood urists from the cast visit Indian Ter are found there. Rich pasture lands atford Fitory rather expecting that wild Indian fat grazing for thousands of sheep and €1ad in blankets and gorgeous paint wil cattle. Two million dollars worth of coal D¢ found hanging around the towns ana was taken out of Indian Territory last year, Failway stations and avidly eyeing the It I8 estimated that the products of the soil Stalp of the paleface invader. Instead on for the year 1899 amounted to $6,000.000, meets a race of dark-skinned people e \ Besides these thing petroleum in o large highly educated and glad to meet you, quantities s known to lie beneath the soil others a little tubborn, with the deeply #ULL-BLOOD CHEROKEES IN OUR DRESS- SCENES AT "ROLLING STATION and valuable veins of lead and zine are in- imbedded hatred of their race against the " dicated by rich outcroppings which have whites, but all far above the blanket In. Should this scheme of naturalizing these on the paltry sum of $150 @ month, or less | prever been mined A fAne climate and dian of the reservation Indians prove a success it may be re< than $2,000 a year The salary paid to his . ‘ teautiful scenery make this country one of They come quietly and peacefully to th. Peated with other tribes predecessor for upholding the dignity of 1 the garden spots of the nation enrollment places, making of the enrol | . % CHE SMIURH THTONS WS oD & IO S o \ All this goes to about 87.000 Indians, 19.- ment days a sort of picnic. Mest of the n sSome l{"_‘ al Income with this sum he was well satisfled, wWiten 008,086 acres being divided about equally the new king, a year ago, came to draw his among the different tribes. There are In . . Beventy-four men and women divide *first mouth's salary he struck for $150, 2 ot it—afier going to law about it. dlans and freedmen (negroes whose among themselves the governments of the and ancestors were or who are themselves freed world The cachier of the treasury, which s Ly slaves of Indians), who have head rights in In other words, there are seventy-six rul- controlled by the consuls of the United the different nations as follows: Cherokee crg. Of these twenty-two govern as presi- States, Great Britain and Germany, at Freedmen, 4,000 Cherokees, 20,000, Dela dents. fifteen as kings, eleven as dukes and first refused to pay the amount demanded wares having head right in Cherokee nation grand dukes, six as emperors, five as princes The fact that the king is ,"""“”'f" ~<|3‘h 1.000: Creeks, 10,000; Creek Freedmen, 6,000 and five as sultans. There are two Khans, @ large salary is a source of gratification of Baluchistan and of Khiva: two ameers, of 1o his adherents, who expect him to wear Afghanistan and of Bokhara: two queens, @ clean calico shirt every day at least on Queen Victoria and Queen Withelmina: one account ef his pew accumulation of wealth { khedive, of Egypt: one shah, of Persia: one an one Woman's Pocket Money Choctaws, 16,000, Choctaw Freedmen, 5,000 Chickapaws, 7.000; Chickasaw IPreedmen 5,000; Seminoles, 23,0000 The Cherokees have invested or loaned to the United States $2 636.000. The Crecks have $2,000,000 thu bey, of Tunis; one mikado, of J loaned, the Chickasaw $1,308,000, the MR OEENRRRUTERD G ORGITHE, OVIEATE When inat the altar utters the | ' m oa mi e altar ers J ¥ Choctaws $546.000 and the Seminoles $1.500 witk ? > words With all my worldly goods 1 thee 000. 1t is estimated by Tams Bixhy, chait Of these august potentates, Queen Vie- .o b what does he mean? Certain It | man of the commission to the five tribes toria and her grandson, William 11 of Ger- * 10O Sl el el rioi i 3 is that few husbands live up to their pledge. The majority look upon the small sums they give their wives betimes as s0 much money thrown away. One of the that each Cherokee citizen will get 120 acres many, are the only ones who sport two of land of average value as his allotment the Creeks will get between 160 and 200 titles —the one queen and empress, the other cmperor and King The most venerable of these rulers is Sidl All Pasha, bey of Tunis, born in 1817, most charming of women and faithful of wives endured the parsimeny of her “lord acres, the Seminoles about 160, the Chicka saws and Choctaws about 500 acres each The youngest head of a uation is Wil- r helmina of Holland, born in 1880, the young And master” as long as she could and then set to work and secretly made cakes and » Besides this land they will get equal shares of the invested funds, which are to be paid to them just as soon as they have all selected th allotments, king of Spain not yet being seated on his ancestral throne. In the spring and sum- Preserves which she dispesed of at an mer seasons one-third of the birthdays of ©N¢ hange, and so earncd a pittance waich these potentates occur, April, May and Au she could dispose of-oh, joy!—"and no gust being the particularly favored months, Questions asked.” When it comes to civil lists the emperor The man found this cut afier a while of Russia, who is said to be the richest man and then there was a scene. He stormed in the world, can show the largest bank dreadfully and declared that the wife of account, $12,000,000 being his yearly income, his bosom had laid him open to the con- This is no more, however, than some good tumely of his neighbors, that those per- citizens of our republic have as their in- sSons would now think he had stinted her, come! whereas she well knew he had always Result of tofl . What will become of these Indians, thus suddenly enriched? In the opinion of those who know them best the outlook for them i not hopeful. Conditions al present ar 4 not seem s Enr in a chaotic state and it do likely that living conditions will improve when the Indians own the territory. Towns WARRIOR NOw With @ population of 5,000 6,000 people have uo sidewalks at all and no roads worthy of the name After a heavy rain have been finished and the Indians will be puginess is practically suspended. The ready to take out their naturalization puildings are of the flimsiest chy piepers as citizens of the United the farming districts the Indians will not To bring this to a conclusion wiil have jmprove their farms because they have no involved many yei TYPE OF OLD CR NEARLY EXTIN( Seven other sovereigns have incomes given her plenty of food and such clothes reaching the million figure—the sultan of as he thought she neede a Turkey, who has $10,000,000; the emperor of The little woman had no reply for this racter In Austria, who has $4.875.000; Emperor Wil- argument, which seemed unanswerable, liam of Germany, $3.852,770: king of Italy, and so she gave up making cakes, but the $2,808,000; the queen of England, $1,925 king of Bavaria, $1,412,000 and the king of dues of her literary club or to buy a new W, next time she wanted money to pay the rs of labor and an ex- positive assurance where they can take up penditure of $1,000,000 their allotments. Few of the full-bloods Spain, $1,400,000. The king of Spain, how- mugazine or some trifling bit of bric-a- Indt Tarsitory for the Indians, send their children to school At presen : AR CRSON B, ever, has an additional income of $600,000 brac for her bare mantel shelf or a rib- & “80 long as grass grows and water the whites, of whom, there are 400,000 In H‘\‘\'\ GO fesly Ba OB Rt .“.I"“‘”' for his family and the king of Italy must bon for her old bonnet she just pawned rups,”” by the terms of this nation’s prom the territory, have practically no rights ENIEAN '\l‘\l""\“ AN. MEMBER IN goquet from his millions $180,000 for his her watch to get it jse made In 1832, the Cherokees, Creeks, They cannot own land and prior to a recent DIAN COUNCIL family Her case is not unique. There are few Scminoles, Chickasaws and Choctaws were decision they have not even been allowed I'he one who obtains the bulk of his promises so often broken as that one to own houses or stocks of merchandise, so even the full-bloods, wear the dress of jpcome in the most original manner is the made at the altar about a man's worldly sultan of Sulu, who raises it by fines He geods. The families where the purse is to have for their own this tract of land krewn as Indian Territory So the Five must do it under th Tribes set up their government, cach hold. . h - \ e p A E 3 ing to Its own tribal forms. There was of an intermarried citizen having Indian Zeke Proctor, a Cherokee, and a bad In subjects who are making money, and ns pathetically infrequent rights. Many whites married squaws, thus dian Several years ago he killed seven goon as a man gets something ahead he i Father is usually an almoner, more or obtaining tribal rights, and the halfbreed men near Westville and shot the deputy children of the is a fine. If a man has amassed $500, for sicner, who comes seeking alms. For her telligent and progressive members of the rule the full-bloods are dociie and even cxample, be is accused of some crime, and work as housekecper, nurse, seamstress Indian community. Others paid the monthly Kindly, but they have not the ability or (o save himself from prison or death must and often cook and house girl, she receives tax of 50 cents and hired out to the indolent energy of the halfbreeds, and it is prob- pay a fine of $1,000. The crown prince is her food and clothes and \\]Ilil:\l . he x'u.u Indian farm owners or storekeepers, ac- able that they will soon become extinet. often sent out to collect the fine From crib from the funds with which i cumulating money by industry and thrift At present the Five Tribes are that any white desiring to do business civilization One of the mea who will name of an Indian or become a citizen of the United States 8 hus men whose business it is to wateh his common to mother and father alike are not even an Indian commissioner sent (o keep his more or less paternal guardian ship over them But the whites came in irtermarried with the squaws, cheated the sy-going and indolent full-bloods, and gradually gained control of the govern- ment. Then the United tes government charged with some crime, and the result less gracious, and mother his humble pen se unicns are the most in- marshal who tried to arrest him \s the pluto. the rent of lands he receives $5,000 vear stepped in to limit the power of the whites h ANQH a year. allowed to supply the larder v V It is from this class that the danger crats of the American Indian race. What and the United States adds $2.000 in silver Wi HE et . 5 and preserve the rights of the Indians. _ m 1y she should not receive half the to the Indians portends hese whites they will be after they have come into to the royal treasury yearly f 1 Despite disabilities imposed upon them the . m sk profits of the business does not appear krow the value of the lands 'hey have the full heritage is a problem upon the The monarch who stands last on the ) .} 5 ' whites kept pouring in, and, as their ! ’ . 1 though, indeed, she wouldn’t ask that, | or can get money As soon as the Indian solution of which may depend the govern- list as regards his income is King Malicton jng modest in number inc ised, they so vehemently de [} wed recognition that the government decided on a readjustment in the inter ests of all concerned. The advances of the commission, first appointed to visit the Five Tribes in 1883, were slow and halt ing, though well planned. For three years they could do nothing but ride ov the territory and meet the “big"” Indians, who promised to do much, but who never did anything Then they sent out the report that the Indians were harboring cutlaws who committed erimes in other states that the full-bloods were being decelved as to the real intentions of the United States toward their government and the wily ‘ balf-bloods, who at that time had control of the affairs of the Indian government her demands. What she takes up nig allotment it s his to do with ment's treatment of all its other wards. Tanu of Samoa He ekes out an existence would ik i L cortain sum, small or N e 8 ortg L] O i n large, which is hers to do with as she pleases, with which she may buy pea- nuts if she likes without rebuke or giv to the blind 1 i at the corner HERTFORD & CO. TEL. 1461, Cor. 16th and Leavenworth Sts. FINEST CABINET ‘ AND INLAID WOOD WORK A BPECIALTY Picture Framin Antigue Farniture Re- tinished, 1'p) ering aod Mattress Mak ing were using every means to thwart the purposes of the commissioners, all of which was true Congress replied to this i YOUR LIFEAN OPEN ROOK ! / appeal by delving into the treaties with the Indians and there finding a clause wheret it could deprive the Indian courts of their jurisdiction whenever it saw fit Certainly now was the opportune time pire " on LHL COmE Loy 0L pndship il chart business 1 should muke ; how to take hand make those you demonstrate my e iy Torwerst. Your ' future, tend and J ) HEET W Ll O I te of birth and stamp g and the act was forthwith passed. The ! RN i1 atp 54 RiTh and stamp Lo Krel Indians squirmed and the full-bloods threatened to rise. Some of the old full blood judges refused to quit their benches, but finally they learned it was of no use to kick; the act would be carried out The U. S Govt. Naval Hospitals use Oreen Hiver Exclusively M. Wollistein & Co., Distributors Other drastic measures were suggested by the commission and the Indians began to make overtures Little by little they