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1f1OKLAHOMA CREEKS HESENTED UNCLE SAM’S ALLOTMENT OF “WORTHLESS” PROPERTY.tVALUABLE OIL LANDS FORCED ON INDIANSquarter of a million dollars as oilproperly. 'When the Glenn pool wanopened an oil company In Tuisa wanted a. lease on Wolfe’s allotment. A member of the company sought and found the old Eueliee at Ills cabin about twenty-five miles south of Muskogee. He wouldn't talk business of any kind and at last, angered, the oil man had the old Indian overpowered, tied hand and foot and placed in a farm wagon. Thus “hog tied” he was brought to the Indian agency at Muskogee. There the oil man learned Wolfe had refused to take a deed to his land, whereupon the government accepted an ocer from the oil mail for the land In fee, the pur* chase price being turned over to Wolfe. He returned to his home inthe mountains and soon squandered Hie money tor firewater and ammunition.Tulsa, Okla., Hec. '2\.—The wonderful fortunes that liav« come to many mem born of the Euehee or Snake clan of the Creelt Indiana as the feBult ot the discovery of oil on their lauds in the Cushing and other oil fields ofthe Creek nation stand out the more prominent from the fact the government had to force allotments upon these Indians and many of the owners of the richest oil properties in the Cushing pool have never visited their lands and probably do not know whore they are. Little Polly Derjsaw, owner of a 100-acre farm in the Cushing field, lias the largest income oT any girl in the state. She lives near Eulauta, sixty miles cubI of her farm. It is said she lias never seen her land, which yields her an oil royalty of $100,000 a year. Her father, a fullblood follower of Crazy Snake, the wily Snake chieftain, who lias caused the federal government and state authorities no end of truble, ifke Crazy Snake does not favor tlie idea • of Indians holding their lands in sev-l erality, but to return to the day when the tribal domain was everybody's possession to be roamed over ot will. However, his little daughter, Polly, has learned to enjoy the good things money will bring and it is said she is living like a princess now*.' Itow-ley Wolfe, an old Euehee, was scheduled an allotment in what Is now the north extension of the Clean pool and which is worth prospective!}- a♦ ♦♦ MRS. GRUNDY SAYS ♦4♦ + ▼▼WWWVWVW VWW WWW WWWW fflflfVThat confidence is really the stepfather of success.That the democratic dove of peace has its steel spurs oil.That generally the less a man known the more advice he is willing to give.That sooner or later every man’s illusions develop into experience.That the man whose specialty is making excuses, never makes good at anything else.That it is better to marry a strong minded woman than a wrong minded one.
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Muncie Indiana State Journal
Muncie, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 01, 1914
Page 2
Full Page
Clipped by
Stephen M.
NA, 23 Apr 2019
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