Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 98, 14 February 1909 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRA3I, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1909

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GOV. HASKELL AND THE MUSKOGEE FRAUDS.

At last an unsuspecting Innocent

man has been unwittingly dragged in

to the mills which grind exceeding slow. The grand jury has indicted

the governor along with other prom

inent citizens in an attempt to recov

er Borne of the lands which have been

pilfered from the Creek Indians. And this is what the Governor says

T have just heard of the indictment for conspiracy, coupled with seven or

eight of the oldest and highest char

actered citizens of Muskogee, men

who developed and built up that coun

try by their unselfish effort. From

now on the proceedings will ''be open

to both sides. Hearst's crooked man ipulatlons will be at a discount.

"I am satisfied that the Interior Department has been misled by false statements. I am confident that there

has not been a dishonest act done by

any of the indicted parties, and that

good citizens in general regardless of

politics feel the same way."

The public may discount what Mr.

Hearst has to say about the matter in deed. It needs only the evidence ac

cumulated by the department of the

Interior to show that Gov. Haskell and

the glorious company of Muskogeans are grafters of the first water. Indeed it proves nothing at all that the men

can be said to be the highest charac tered men in Muskogee. This is the state of things in Okla honia.

The Creek nation held all the land

and still holds it as a tribe. No mem

ber of the tribe can give the land away nor sell it. The Creek citizen has no title, for the title is held not

by individuals but by the whole tribe.

When the land in the Creek reserva

tion was found to be good and the deposits of minerals and the oil wells were discovered "squatters and

squawmen" came into the country.

White girls endeavored to marry a

Creek brave. For citizenship in the

Creek nation means a matter of sev

eral thousand dollars and the girl who

marries a Creek marries a wealthy citizen. And so the land was populated with men who had no right to the land at all. Some actually settled on the land and In due course of time the town of Muskogee was founded.

In 1S93 the policy of the government led to the Dawes commission which bad for its cause of being the object

the allotment of lands among the Individuals and the extinguishment of

the tribal title in the towns. This

went on until it was determined that the towns and villages which were springing up should be laid out and

sold under the provisions of the Cur

tis Act in 1898.

Whether by accident, carelessness

r design the Curtis act was full of

treachery to the Creeks and the Dawes commission was instrumental

in the debauchery of the lands of the Indians. It Is a significant fact that

the Dawes commission had at least one man on it who advanced himself from comparatively little means to a

millionaire. The chief of the Creek nation himself was in complicity with

the grafters it afterward developed by his own confession to Secretary Gar

field and he alone restored what he

had defrauded from his fellow Creeks

although it made him a bankrupt man

What this Curtis act was it is impos

sible to mention in detail except that it I was provided that certain towns be laid out and the lots scheduled and sold. The squatters were treated with liberality so that the so-called, owners was enabled to buy his lot at half the appraised value otherwise his lot

was to be sold and he was to get the

whole " value of his improvements.

The theory of " these provisions was

that although settlers had no title

yet inasmuch as their settlement and

their improvements added to the

value of the . real estate, they should

be allowed one-half the value of any

lot they wished to buy. ,

This was not : all; it is .enough to

say that by the loose terms of the act any one who stuck even a piece of tin pipe in the ground was entitled to buy

the lot at half its appraised value.

And this is actually what" happened

in Muskogee on one of the lots now

- worth thousands of dollars which the

improver' bought for a small figure

on account of his improvement to the

land. The act also was so loose in its

terms that any squatter might do even this piece of rascality after the

act was a law. The law spoke of

'legal occupancy" and "titles" but did

not describe what a "legal right" was. Moreover the occupant might pay for

it in installments but no penalty was

fixed to forfeit the right of the man to his land If he did not pay the installments.

The law was bad enough. But worse

things were to come.

On the slightest claim the Creeks

were defrauded of their land. Land-

sharks made up dummy lists of own

ers, some were actual citizens who

had never seen the land, others were minors, still others held claims for lands without being aware of the fact and others were purely ficticuous

names. The deeds (many of them

forged) were shown by the agent to

the Dawes commission and no other

proof of citizenship was required. In

the evidence it was brought out that

the agents actually stole by forgery

what they had given to men for their

own purposes.

Mr. William Dudley Foulke was

sent out as special commissioner in

this matter, he found that the town

site commissioners themselves admit

ted that they had no knowledge or in

formation whether the quitclaim deeds which the agents showed them had ever been delivered and said that they had no knowledge of whom the deeds

were made to. One commissioner

said, "I do not know that I gave that

much consideration. I thought that

the nation was doing well to get some

pay for them." There were thirty

towns thus stolen from the Creek na

tion.

It is generally known in Oklahoma

that Haskell had some of these lots

and it seems probable that if a grand

jury has found sufficient evidence to indict the governor there is some

thing In it. One of the inspectors

stated that in his opinion there were

very few men who had a legal title to

the land.

M. L. Mott who Is the attorney for

the Creek nation says:

"In the controversy last fall be

tween Haskell and me I wrote two open letters charging him with the very

frauds for which the grand jury has now indicted him. He denied those

charges then. I stated then that I

had in my possession the sworn state ments of the 200 'dummies that Has

kell had used in carrying out his land

frauds."

If all the other "high charactered

citizens", of Muskogee are in the same degree innocent it may be true that these are the pick of the state of Okla-

Sm

homa.

It may easily be that the grand jury

being also composed of these same

citizens will follow the legislature of

that state in declaring Haskell guilt

less but the Creeks it is to be hoped

will be able to recover in the civil

suits which are tried before the Unit

ed States court.

The state of Oklahoma may well be

proud of its governor.

WANDERLUST.

"O wisdom in the Winter, But folly in the Springtime, Remembering the ragged days When the full heart overflowed Wisdom in the Winter, But now for empty pockets, Hunger, dust and sunburn

The road! The road! The road!" There must be an inborn longing deep down in every man's heart to shake the dust off his feet' in the

spring and go out to places where there are new scenes and strange cit

ies. Perhaps it comes to many peo

pie directly as an Inheritance from

our maruding Saxon ancestors.

Many of our tramps and those brave

spirits who have run away from home are classed as degenerates. It would

be a fairer classification if many of

them were put in the category of those

who had never risen to what it called regeneration. What joy to walk the road alone with pack on back and dog at heel. Where would be the romance in the world; who would make the things happen if in their 'various station of life there were not certain individuals who would not be bound by conventions. The little black lambs who have strayed away from home; call them soldiers of fortune or adventurers, tramps , gypsies, Bohemians, pirates, hoboes, Vikings or discoverers. They are all the same Gentlemen of the road. No, the foot that itches for the road is far better than the hand that itches for money. , Beginning with Ulysses and the Prodigal Son and ending no man knows when, they have all been a good set, hail-fellow-well-met and ready for any fate. That is a thing which cannot always be said if those who live rooted to their household goods.

It is surprising what a number of people have recently discovered that they'-are related to Lincoln and the number of persons who were at Ford's theater in Washington on the night of his assassination is in truth enough

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to make the box office of any theater jealous. From the number of people who hove just discovered these things it would seem that the insurance tables are all wrong in regard to the length of human life, and beside this that there is use in reading Louis Conaro's Art of Long Living.

The Iowa legislature has under consideration a bill which will make a fly in restaurant soup a jail offense. Remember the Maine.

The only thing that Is amusing about the billionth Lincoln story is that it is ascribed to a man with a reputed sense of hunor.

There is a fine chance for the everready punster to make remarks about the House and Mr. Knox.

The Lincoln story season has closed. Editors not in the cub list will be spared.

There will be no celebration of Easter day until the hens begin to lay.

The Mayflower and the Ark are back numbers.

Need of Plant Food in Soil Corn Expert Tells How Much Depends Upon Condition Ground to Raise First Class Corn.

The More Wives the Less Work. According to the Geographical Journal of London, the marital relations among the peoples of Nigeria vary somewhat according to their state of civilization: "Polygamy is the rule, the reason given being that it is impossible for one woman to do all the work of the house, look after the children, prepare and cook the food, fetch the daily supply of water (often an arduous job),, cultivate the plantation and go to market. The African is an exceedingly hungry person. It is the custom to eat several times a day when at home, and the men spend most of their day sitting in the palaver house or market place, while the women bring the food all day long. One wife could not possibly do this. Besides, the African lady encourages it.' for she says. The more wives the less work."

You can't tail with Gold aiedal Tocr.

T. A. Coleman. It has been said that he who would produce a prize winning steer must commence with its grand dam, so he who would produce a high yield of corn must begin years before to put the soil into a hig'a state of fertility. The most vital , problems confronting agriculturalists today, is the maintenance of soil fertility and at the same time produce maximum yields. No matter how carefully we may test or grade the seed, no matter with how much painstaking care the planter may be manipulated, it all comes to naught if the seed falls into a barren soil. The process of plant growth, the taking of -the "good elements from the soli and the storing them up In the plant, can but deplete the soil supply unless adequate return be made. For a time, it was thought that the application of commercial fertilizer would solve the problem, but tlie hope was futile, as the cost was too great and the results not satisfactory. Something more than the mere chemical food elements in an available form was necessary for the proper development' of plant life. . The mechanical condition of the soil needed improvement by the addition of humus, decayed vegetable matter, which is found in such abundance in virgin 6oils, soils which will produce 6uch vigorous growth of vegetation with so little effort on the part of the husbandman. The feeding of the grain to the livestock and a careful return of the manure to the land was a long step in the right direction, but even this was inadequate. By the introduction of a leguminous crop, such as clover, alfalfa, soy bean or cow peas, into the rotation, nitrogen is gathered from the air and stored up In the soil for the use of subsequent crops. As" nitrogen is the most expensive of all the food elements, the getting of a supply of this manure materially lessens the cost of he commercial fextiliaertUhe numeral elements, phos

phorus and potash, being comparatively cheap. So then the maintenance of an available supply of plant food with the soil in a high mechanical condition, resolves Itself Into the practice of feeding all -the grains produced, with a possible exception of wheat, to livestock with the return of the manure to the soil; the introduction of a legume into the rotation; and a judicious use of a fertilizer containing the needed amounts of phosphorie acid and potash. Perhaps at no. time in the history of Eastern Indiana has there been so much breaking done for the spring planting at this time of the year. The practice of fall or winter plowing has much to commend it, on land that is comparatively level or is not of too stiff a clay. A great many injurious insects, by being routed out of their winter quarters and exposed to the freezing, may be destroyed. Also, when a heavy stubble or coating of straw or manure is turned under, the action of the elements hasten the decay and restore the connection be-

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I In rS of mHnir nlnwinr esrtwtnl-

ly where the land has been pastured and likely to break up cloddy or where a coat of subble. straw or manure is being plowed under, the disc harrow should be used, cross disc if necessary, before the plow. This serves to break the surface, thus preventing an undue evaporation of moisture which may be sorely needed later in the season. This discing also mixes the stubble, straw etc., with soil.

i hastening its decay, and serves to restore the capillary connection : permitting the soil moisture o come

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for the rapid capillary movement of the soil moisture. After the plowing the soil should be reduced to a very fine state of tilth, for by this process we liberate the stored up plant food so that the young plant may avail itself of it readily, which condition will also permit the warmth from the sun and the air to penetrate the upper surface, and this together with the moisture from below make perfect conditions

for the generation of our carefully

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