Indian Home And Farm (Newspaper) - April 30, 1910, Muskogee, Oklahoma Cherokee people are soon to receive Business men of Muskogee can help us land a large portion of this by liberal advertising in this VOLUME I. A Paper They Can All Read Indian Home mill I arm Is In the Cherokee In I and to tbo established Uk IN I I; mid APRIL 30, 1910 NUMBER 7. CHEROKEE CHARACTERS SYSTEMATICALLY RANGED WITH THE AR- 1J 0VlfiJk*y ii mwj Oil kit p-b m 7.Hh jm GORE RESOLUTION SHOWS JUST HOW ATTORNEYS HAVE BEEN BLEEDING CHOCTAW INDIANS HUh mm April 2i>.---In Gore passed the senate 011 April upon direction of President has transmitted lo the senate a copy of contract between the Choctaw nation and together with a number of 10 1i10 1 Tho correspondence the fact that of Indian Affairs Valentine strongly urged owy at was leas work for an attorney nou r than In days jtfc The correspondence also was J the fact that there has hoen a con 1 hounds represented by A as a in or short as a io E as a iu or short as. e in met. I as i in or short as 1 la O as o in but as approaching to aw in U as 00 in or short as u in Y as a in is hard approaching to sometimes he fore u and v. its sound is k. 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Impliedly Five Tribes the contracts affecting - erty Involving the saw tribes and J. P. McMurray of money and there has been ' National i of the Choctaw Committeeman Cecil A. Lyon y - Is also referred the letter that out of the confused situation the Choctaws as individuals are doily signing contracts with offering enormous for the purpose of their rights in court lo vast estate and that if special counsel the individual contracts would if Choctaws U US A. i iSMa Drf 215 1910. David Hendricks a prominent Cherokee was In the city this week and came around to see how Indian Home and Farm was getting He tells us that our paper U certainly appreciated among the full it baa supplied a long felt Something they have not had since the Cherokee Advocate suspend ed They now get their news read for they don't have to let some one else read the papers and tell them It. They can news the law In charge of the Choctaw affairs were Unscrupulous He then goes to say that he found that plain agreements with the Choctaws were being violated and that men In homa and surrounding were bringing about legislation resulted in thrusting upon the obligations against which they have never been tr defend much of the legislation being In violation of the original In the latter part of November | 1908. McHarg savs he was approached by Dr. Wright and asked in accent the for the as the Choctaws had nr Washington attorney and The contract was then prepared ir and under the direction of the chief war presented and in ac ' be wc they ' a la and consider of as In the meantime McHarg savs hi and resigned and assistant secretary of commerce and which position he November 1. 1909. McHarg claims he asked his release from the retainer agreed to by he Choctaw nation before secret of commerce an't but that Dr. Wright and Hud ion refused listen to Atmosphere of He then am fully aware the atmosphere of scandal which surrounded Indian affairs In Oklahoma for hut the of the rights of the Indians is of such long that I cannot nee any reason which should deter me from pressing for the rights of mv Your department has charge o - The letter cited a number of cases which were pending and which required Included In the number was the case of et including all the who are marto defendants In the suit pending In the court of Owen a principal claimant being Senator Robert ir will amount to several millions of the estate of F. J. E. these and in the It has been lavish In the expenditure of money In which has been conducted In accordance with the Is worth not 1bp thon to arid vet although are citizens of the United they have thus been deprived of the right of in W. Chester H. Howe W. T. S. Pounds and the of tho claims amounting to several millions of The case of S. W. Peel vs. Choctaw a suit for attorney's alleged services pending in court of 1,000: the claim of the Garland heirs for alleged services of Samuel Garland In the net b. and for which is the n suit or services Peter deceased the amount Involved greater in Garland The case of the involving Jl 10,000 Is also mentioned as is the recovery of the 50,000 fee authorized bv the government and which was paid the law firm of McMurray & Cornish for under the act of 10. 189(5. i An accounting and recovery of moneys expended by the 'n platting and sale of town lots and the recovery of by congress to nav the Pike return of the for testing mineral deposits and a settlement of the boundary line between Texas the Choctaw are among the main requiring the services of an according to Wright and of a fulsome letter from Secretary Nagel to Secretary written at the of and in which McHarg was showered with of was included In the asked for by Senator A from the commissioner to the Five Civilized J. George Wright to Secretary In of the Choctaw tho McHarg tract with the law firm of Mc tan & Hill of years to a salary of a ' legal work for firm is needed has creased In volume and since they were retained in largely through the district representing rotary of the Interior in and who attend to the Indian minors and allottees VIEW OF THE AMOUNT OF WORK AND IN THB M SERVICE OF ' attorney general ia representing the Indians Belt and Out and while lur attorneys are earl for their interests In the believe no occasion will arise for special additions services In the * made August 25. 1909, bv Gov. McCurtain an 25, 199, bv Gov. John the Chickasaw Tribe a Gold mi Is vour office a contract entered the principal chief of the G nation on 1S. 1909. witl ton & of * ing To nay the latter special disapproved bv to vou for final and sua -un 1IB. in from Taft the secretary said McHarg contract was to period of from Oc 1909. and duties are in - I Ho Is to receive i and also Ronal and traveling of the of end engaged in the aer the Choctaw also called attention similar contract and the Governor of the Ohio for Mr. in his the might be in a better vise as to the necessity of. of out that the most h of wan of the coal and nuts whole matter up ' Tbo contract between Met the nation was aon President February
