Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1885 — THE CHEROKEE STRIP. [ARTICLE]

THE CHEROKEE STRIP.

Secretary Lamar Orders that Opposition to the Use of Regular Trails Cease. I Washington dispatch.] The reported obstruction of the cattletrails through the Indian Territory by settlers upon the Cherokee strip is engrossing the attention of the Secretary of the Interior. In answer to complaints made by drovers that they were not permitted to take cattle over the estab ished trails, the Secretary telegraphed that no one had a right to obstruct them. Nevertheless, it appears that officials of Federal courts, whose jurisdiction extends over the Cherokee strip, have disregarded these telegrams and persisted in excluding the Texan cattle, under the act of Mhv 24, 1884, which forbids any person to diive cattle on foot through any State or Territory, knowing them to be infected with a contagious disease. Secretary Lamar has now requested the Attorney General to instruct the court officers to cease their opposition tothose using the established trails, and to refrain from interfering with the cattledrovers while on the trails in the Indian. Territory..