Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1895 — UNCLE SAM’S MITTS ON. [ARTICLE]

UNCLE SAM’S MITTS ON.

Prize Fighters Will Not Be Allowed to Meet on Federal Domain. Commissioner Browning of the Indian office has taken prompt and decisive action to prevent the Corbett-Fitzsimmons prize fight taking place in the Indian Territory. He has prepared a letter of instructions Jo Agent Wisdom at Muscogee, I. T., directing him to see that the laws are enforced and to eject forcibly any intruders who may enter the Indian country for the purpose of creating a disturbance or engaging in anything that may be detrimental to the Indians. The .commissioner states that the statutes of the United States are ample to cover the situation and to prevent the fight. The agent will have at his back not only the Indian police but all the United States troops necessary to eject the fighters. The statutes give the United States authority to keep out of the Indian Territory all persons whose presence would be detrimental to the peace and prosperity of the Indians. The commissioner says there is no doubt that the presence of the prize fighters and the gang that would follow them into the Indian Territory would be very detrimental to the Indians and that it is therefore the duty of the Indian office to keep them out. He says that the agent at Muscogee has not as much authority as the agents on reservations, but nevertheless has enough to prevent the fight taking place in tho Territory of the five civilized tribes. The commissioner intends also to notify ail the governors and head men of the five civilized tribes that they must not allow the fight to take place and must'assist the United States authorities in preventing it.