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Show T French Take Possession of Hi WM1111 ft, - s. fcss' round. pi I - '- ?1 ?' rc&StA-- ' w V ts At' $r&&K CC The French troops lime taken possession of Uuus Erde, the castle of Hugo StinnoS A group of French officers are shown on the steps of tills residence of the famous Osages Richest People in World Oil Boy Eats Mez Milwaukee lad, arreste Lease Sale Adds $8,000,000 1883, thought they had made a fine bargain with the Osages. to Already Bulging Coffers The Osages were allotted the surof Tribe. face of the lands and the mineral The Indians are the the world. How like to be one of Osage richest people would them? rights were reserved for the benefit of all of the Osage Indians, and they share equally In oil royalties and bonuses. Each enrolled Osage Indian last year you in received from the government approximately $10, (X0. Some families received as high as $80,000, derived largely from oil royalties and bonuses. At a recent sale of Osage leases there were paid In bonuses more than $1 1 ,000,000, and the Osage Indians will h receive, in addition to this amount, and royalties required under the grins of the leases, the royalties depending on the capacity of the There were produced in the wells. Osatce reservation last year 29,000.000 barrels of oil. Of the 2.11S Osage Indians, 1,091 are male and 1,027 female. There are 770 children in the tribe. Of the Indians, 755 are full blood, 50 are more than half-blooand' 1,318 are half or less There are 94 of the than half-bloochildren enrolled in the government school, Mr. Burke said, with an average attendance of 09. The total individual and tribal property of the Osage Indians is $31,312,-00The total Individual property is The value of their lands $24,100,135. is estimated by Mr. Burke to be The Individuals of the tribe have $10,030,442 in banks or In the hands of government superintendents. The homes, furniture, barns, etc., of the Osage Indians are valued at Iawliuska, Okla. In a little motion lease picture house here the twenty-firs- t sale of the Osage Indian nation was held recently, with oil kings or their representatives forming the most important part of the audience, says the New York Herald. Col. Edward Walter, who lias conducted all Osage sales since the first, in 1012, was the auctioneer, and had the chief speaking part. When his gavel fell at the conclusion of the performance he had sold 128 tracts of what is probably the richest undeveloped oil land in the country for $.290,-100- . Four sales netted more than a million dollars each und one man, Waite Phillips, paid $1,325,000 for a lease on 1G0 acres. To heap more abundance into the strong boxes of the Osages, the richest aborigines in the world, 0k, 000 acres were sold, tract by tract, while Secretary Hubert Work of the Interior department and Charles II. Burke, Indian were interested witcommissioner, nesses of tlie auction along with United States Senators Itobert L. Owen and J. W. Harreld. As tlie leases were knocked down to the highest bidders Secretary Work sat like one enchanted, watching the play of bidding and tlie struggle of the greatest oil men of the nation to get the privilege of drilling for the liquid gold under the lands of the one-fift- one-sixt- h d Osuges. Brought Highest Prices. When Waite rhillips, independent oil man of Tulsa, paid his $1,325,000 the government officials got a new insight Into the source of revenue of the Osage tribe. On several other tracts bids of more than a million dollars were made. These were tracts near the great Burbank oil field, which is now producing more than 70,000 barrels of oil daily. h of this oil, which brings $2.50 a barrel, goes to the Osage tribe besides the money paid for the leases. Each member of the tribe is now receiving approximately one thousand dollars a month income as the result of oil development on the tribal lands which are owned In common. On the streets of Iawhuska Secretary Work passed mnny of his Indian wards, wrapped In brightly colored blankets and walking in the majestic Indian. But Style of the the automobiles which waited, with chauffeurs, for these Indians, were and elaborately more expensive than anything Secretary equipped Work has ever seen. From Ills income of a $1,000 a month the average Osage buys and maintains the finest automobile he cart find. lie may live In a little tent, but his automobile costs more than $10,000 a year. Total receipts for the Osage leases offered were expected to come to more than $10,000,000, but high rediscount rates and tightening of the money market was blamed by tbe operators for the conservative bidding. The Osage Indians are the richest people in the world per capita. The total wealth of the tribe Is estimated at One-eight- While tbe Indian bureau has not received official reports regarding how the Osage Indians spend their money, they have heard from various sources That prosperity has gone to the heads of the Indians." The Indians, it is said, spend more money for beads and paints and other finery dear to their heart than do the society belles of New York city.' Although Pawhuska is the capital of the Osage nation, few of the Indians live there. They have a village of their own outside. It Is a squat, squalid village with the oil rigs backing up to them, surrounded by dust and weeds. There Is a church and a schoolhouse and a couple of thousand dogs. The place gives the Impression of being anything but the homeland of the richest people In the world. A few of the better class of Indians do live In Pawhuska Itself, although GIFT TO WOMANS PARTY d around $31,312,005. The Osage tribe, which consists of 2,118 Indians, was made wealthy by the discovery of oil on their reservation. It Is believed that the Osage tribe owns the richest producing oil field in the United States. Tells of Great Wealth. The richest producing oil field In the United States Is found In the Osage nation In Oklahoma, Mr. Burke, Indian commissioner, said, and belongs to the Osage tribe of Indians. These lands were purchased by the at Osages from the Cherokee Indians a price of $1.25 an acre. The Chero-keeat the time of this sale In June, s, was taken dinner. H kraut, spar potatoes a When he started llckl order was dn lowed two s void was fille5 the great majority farms or the native The city Indians best houses in the do most of their living1 yard or on the front pori Chief Meets Prima Dc Bacon Bind Is the moving s the Osages. lie has been In ington and conferred with the Gr White Father, but he does not caAi1 to meet ordinary passersby except strangers of more than passing consequence, as when a noted prima donna sang at Tulsa. In tbe foyer of a hotel in Tulsa hangs a picture of tills modern chief. Her Interest piqued ty tbe picture, tlie diva sent for Bacon Rind, who arrived, not in his picturesque feathers, but In the best suit of clothes in Oklahoma. From a rear view he looked like a snappy oil promoter. The two walked up and down the local Feacoek Alley and then the famous visitor sang a song Bacon Rind listened refor him. to be swept front bis not spectfully keep It out of tlie hands of designing persons when he dies, according to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Burke. The plan, it was said, assures Barnett an income of about $.0,000 a year during his life and disposes of the bulk of his estate. Through Secretary of the Interior Fall tbe Creek made over $,50,000 to tlie American Baptist Home at Muskogee, bis home town, to be deposited with a New York trust company. To his white wife, Anna Laura Barnett, lie left he deeded a similar sum. Interim the with on 000 $100, deposit Altoona, The smallest Pa. income tax payment received at the local internal revenue office was 5 cents, paid - by a young woman whose income was slighly more than $1,000 last year. The tax was paid in a postal money order, which cost 3 cents. Another income tax of 8 cents was received and a third for 10 cents. tfe I .Tv j Miss Alice Paul, leader of the National Womans party, photographed with Edith Ogden Ileldel's statue, the Thinking Woman, which was recently presented to the Womans party to be the first work of art in an art gallery at the party headquarters In Washington. MI93 Heldel was a pupil of St. Gaudens, 1 bad home. Hyr Tours I want to go the ELIZAf Let us hope our co to you. In that it ' pleted songs to you. song very much. This decision payment by the government of many thousands of dollars which it had collected in income taxes from the Indians. Jackson Barnett, reputed to be the richest of all the Indians, was reimbursed to the sum of $216,000, which he had paid in taxes since 1917, while six others received sums ranging from $3,000 to $100,000. Disposal of the fortune of Barnett has been arranged at his request to Pays Five Cents income Tax. if- , 1 d department. fM'J voine Was ihe messag Dear Miss Brooks: I certainly enjoy read ner every Saturday will paper arrives. I would lit feet. a few questions. (1) Coil she when he tell me where to find sol grunted Pretty good, morous readings. (2) had finished nnd walked away. fourteen years old and Indians these fact that Despite the and skin. What cl hair, are tlie richest in the world they are be suitablelight for me to wear? slowly dying out. The number of pure you In advance and hoping bloods is constantly growing less. At questions answered In the r.l Also you much sued one time the Osages numbered a mil- main wishing as ever your friend, ' lion. Now they nre about 2,000, and SMILES, American Fol I am surely glad to know yol of these only 900 are reading the questions and al Osages. Smiles. (1) I have had a catalog caused been Great joy has recently readings sent to you from whicl not only among the Osage Indians, hut can select those which best suits? (2) You should wear among other tribes who own valuable needs. shades of blue, yellow, Jade gi of tbe decision governtlie lands, by tomato red, coral and salmon pi on taxes collect ment that It will not navy, brown and black nicely If oil lands which are owned by these skin is clear. Thanks for your gd wishes, girlie, and I return them mal wards of the nation. to you. has resulted in the re- fold slxty-year-ol- d hirst w Ill w Oh Dear Miss Brooks: I have read your corner for sornl time and enjoy it very much. Will yol please answer some questions for mel (1) Send me the songs Sweet Night! Ingale and Ben Bolt." (2) Who Id the author of Tarzah of the Apes? TOPSY, Fairview, Wyo. Very glad to answer your question! Ben Bolt" will appear her! Topsy. Just as soon as space will permitf Sweet Nightingale" is elusive, but hopj I may be able to capture It eventually for you. (2) Edgar Rice Burroughs lj the author of Tarzan of fihe Apes. Dear Miss Brooks: We have read your corner and wd have remarked how full of sunBhinel your answers seem. (1) We would like to know the meaning of TwilaJ Goldie and LaRu. (2) Would you pleas publish the address of Betty Compf son and Harold Lloyd? (3) What no j els are the most popular on the mni ket? (4) How old should a girl be hi fore getting married? Thanking yJ in advance, FRECKLES AND THE ANGELl Moroni, Utah Thanks girls. We should scatter the sunshine possible, shouldn't (1) Your names are all too modi to have a special meaning as yet. seems. It is the old, substantial narl such as Mary, Elizabeth, Grace, II" riet, Anna, etc., whose origin and meal ing have been sifted out. (2) Betl Compson may he addressed at thl Lasky Studios, Vine St., Hollywood Calif., and Harold Lloyd at the Iii Roach Studios, Culver City, Calif. (.1) Among the late popular novels are "EnFlamchanted April, Dim Lantern," Peter Whiffle" ana ing Youth," Black Oxen. (4) So much depends upon the girl herself, and also the boy, that It is Impossible for me to glva Dear Miss Brooks: Man to Death. (1) When a lady Is eating supper Unable to endure the with a male companion at a restaufellow his of workmen, practical jokes rant or hotel, should the lady read the diaries S. Johnson killed himself. menu card and decide what she wants, "I wont go back to work. The fel- then tell her escort to order It for her, lows drive me crazy with their or should she order It herself? Should at the same pranks, Johnson told his wife before all the course be ordered to be more time? If there happens he drowned himself. than on couple at the same table, who sfiould order the supper, or should each Women Adopt Monocles. order In turn, ladles first? London. The monocle is being worn Individual la the What proper way to hold and (J) among professional and fashionable nea a fork when carving meat? Your women of London to such an extciit appreciative friend, that It threatens to supersede the lorg BONNIE BEE. nette and (1) A lady should consult ths menu spectacles. Jokes Drive Chicago. horn-rimme- d sar ownt man I he elfl or chi tlona meat, hand, tf! aide of It In pis meat at of meat t meat Is os fork to serve'1 |