| Show history of booming in balda borna homa payne was the pioneer in in the in v einert to take talce so sion sion of these occupied nu i d lands there is no reason remon to believe that be had any ally real intentions to live jivoin in oklahoma but in the agitation of the matter there was glory odthe of the kind the adventurer loves and what was better a steady income lor for all colonists were contributors probably in his mind payne very much rejoiced oscr the tile 0 opposition he lie encountered A presidential proclamation was worth thousands to him he ile began his booming bOOM illg ba business iness ill in 1879 and some time before he be died he told gen hatch that it had been worth to him president heyes issued a procla motion in 1879 declaring invasion iuva aion of oklahoma lawless and ordering everybody out kayu 1 e as the leader was arrested and taken to fort smith where judge Parke the federal court fined him 1000 f for or violation of the united states statutes tes the judge delivered a dee decision ision declaring that these lands were not subject to settlement and it was an infringement of the section forbidding white men to settle in tho territory except under epi certain conditions condition it will surprise those who have not followed the history of the boomers closely to learn that this his was the only settlement Payne ever made in oklahoma he was always on the tile way to that promised land for five years after that first experienc cand and levied on his would be colonists with greut breut regularity but never went last summer payne moved over the border but did not go to oklahoma he ile stopped in the cherokee strip establishing a col colony ony at rock falls the treaty with the cherokees is more explicit and doc dov not permit of any construction u un n der which white settlers could pretend to have any rights the govern menti provided provide should have the right to locate friendly indians anthe cherokee cheroke land west af of 96 tho tile tt of euch buell ettler nent were tl that I 1 at the amount of land taken should be sufficient to give give each indian acres to bo be held in seye severally ralty or in tribal tract trae t the price odthe of the land was to be fixed by ahn cherokees and the tribe moving in and in the event of a disagreement in thefil the figure the government was to arbi it is of course understood that the government has all along done a banking business for the indians alien tribes gave up reservations ions of valuable land in the states and went into the territory they received t the b public u alic entry price lor for that left behind and paid only the stipulated cost in the new reservation this always left them with a handsome balance in the hands of the government this unoccupied land in the strip belonga to the the government ov Fril ment has no title in it although in cari carrying ing out the arrangement to tor for other tribes there lias has been paid the cherokees cs ei nebout on a strip land which ha has never been turned over it was ad an act of hardihood hardill on paynes part to stop in the strip he ile had bad no rights there and he be knew it the military run ran him off there ho lie was indicted for conspiring to go into oklahoma but was continually talking about it and collecting hia his colonists in in camp on the kausas border this action brought payne and those associated in the alleged conspiracy before J judge d F foster oster of t the h e federal court at ge peka he ile decided at first ver bally baliv that the indictments woula not hold planning to go into oklahoma was not a crime or an of tense although the act of going called fl for or a penalty this holding of tho the court gave rise to a very general impression throughout shout the southwest that ahe federal court had ad declared that oklahoma was open to settlement payne died while the cases were pending and couch cauch taking his place went ion on with tho colony and founded still water only to bo expelled a few weeks eelis eeli s ago by caral hatch hatchs 18 troops such is the bijory hi tory of tho the oklahoma booming washington corr st couil globe democrat |
