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pie, the flneKt In Kansas. The principal business street of the city borders It on one side.Business men who wanted the plot prevailed upon Congressman J. D. Bowersock to get a bill through congress for the sale. The |50,000 to be paid for It Is to be divided among the surviving Wyandotte Indians, the bones of the dead Indians are to be removed and the place converted Into a site for a business block.The Conley sisters immediately took up the fight. They tried every resource of the law unsuccessfully. Miss Lyda appealed in person before the Supreme court of the United States, the first woman to be accorded that right, but was unsuccessful, although the court, in sympathy, told her It was driven” to decide against her.Then it waH that the three built their watch tower and began a shotgun patrol of the cemetery. The matter was finally decided In the courts, when Judge Pollock issued the mandate setting the time lor vacation.Turn and turn about they took In the watch tower they had built In the center of the tract, the sentinel always having a loaded shotgun near her. Each one swore no United States marshal Bbould enforce the federal court’s decree, finally dispossessing them of the land.The basis of the Conley sisters’ claim was that their grandfather, who once owned the whole state of Ohio,” a chief of the Wyandottes, signed the treaty with the government In 1855 In which this cemetery was given to the Indians.From a legal standopint we are entitled to this small tract of ground,” Miss Lyda Conley said, at least you would think so when the bones of our people already lie buried there. This turn the thing has taken simply means that the United States government la once more breaking its faith with the Indians.”
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Benton Scott County Democrat
Benton, Missouri, US
Thu, Nov 23, 1911
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