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Show i. i . . ( ', i . t. ' Till: SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAH si By, Way of. a i 'terEVeryMct Kittyclysm By DUFORD JENNE (id. lilt, WMn Ntwappr viln.) on her TESS,boarders way to the kitchen had the run of Mrs. McCarthy'! bouse almost fell over him. She staggered to her feet, and he did the same, and the kitten, with which he bad been playing, made tracks for the halL "That was almost a cataclysm," he aid, with a quick smile. She had time to note that his eyes were clear, deep brown. Or a kittyclysm, she added. Mrs. McCarthy, busy in her kitchen, looked up with a smile as Tess entered. Hello, Mischief, you look as if you bad something on your mind I" I have. Mother Mac. 1 have Just seen a slim, handsome, young man with the eyes of a poet You better make way with him or I may fall in love with him. I almost fell onto him as it is." Mother Mac chuckled. But don't you go to falling in love with him, dearie. Hes hooked up." Booked up meaning t Stupid, he'a engaged to tho girl who took the alcove room. They are to be married toon." I knew it I It's always that way! Hush, child, what a way to talk I" You wait till the next one cornea along, and see what happens to him, Say, I'd like to see her I Tess did see the lucky girl that evening. Her name was Evelyn Harms, and Tess had to admit she was a worthy mate for the brown-eye- d poet" only it turned out that ho was not a poet, but a musician. Tess also discovered that he and his betrothed had known each other only a month. Attractive as Evelyn was In form and feature, ahe did not appeal in one way to Tess, whose warm, impulheart reacted like a sive, thermometer to the moods of others one reason why she was making a' great success as s registered nurse. There was s little, cold, calculating air about Evelyn that depressed Tess. The Poet became Arkley Chandler by name, and to Tess much mors than a name, tor he discovered that she liked the foolish songs he liked; and the two of them spent cheerful minutes at Mrs. McCarthy's piano. Then, suddenly, quietly, on silent feet trouble cams. Tess bad been sway on a case tar a week. When she returned, ahe found that Arkley was ill in hla room with a cold and that Evelyn was almost 111 herself. And then, to top all, that first evening, the heavy cold developed Into pneumonia. When Tess found that no nurse had been engaged, she went up to the room and offered her services to Evelyn, who accepted them eagerly. There Tess changed from her gay, Impulsive self into the quiet, trained worker, and during those long hours, she had ever the first heart-ach- e known developed. She often watched him ee he lay In the deep trance of the fever, and Dear once she confessed to herself Lad with the merry heart and tbs singing sou!, I hope we can keep you here for her though I wish you were staying tor met The delirium grew and waned as the crisie passed. The doctor said he would live, but it would bo days before he was himself, probably. On one of the days when he lay unconscious and Tess was keeping close watch, Evelyn cams In, her eyes hard and dark. Miss Lane, I dont know what to do. I supposed he was well paid at the store, and had funds to pay all these bills ; but they told me that bis salary was really low; and I hato to tako my money to pay" "Whatr Tess gasped. "I know how it seems to you, but I supposed he had money enough to take care of us both and he hasn't." Why, Evelyn, that is the fine thing about itt Just you two in tho great city I Yon love each other, and that means that one can look out for the other. Think how terrible it Is to be III, and not a soul caring whether you live or die. Your money can help him now; and then, if you are 111, bs can Dont , you see? You help you. wouldn't desert him nowt That simply can't be what you meant Er no of course not," she looking at the white, still handsome face on the pillow. "I am disappointed in finding out the truth about hie financial affairs." Shs went out abruptly, and Tess So that's what stared after her. love means to you. To have nice things, be comfortable, have money to spend; and hs will never know just Pass t four Indian Tribes 5uin$ to Regain Ancestral Lands ty A ELMO SCOTT WATSON NEW chapter Is about to be writ- ten In our Indian history not in terms of armed wsTfare, as It was In the old days, but In terms of court litigation, the results of T"t I which may be more than were those of any Indian war ever fought on this continent For the Poncas, the Iroquois, the Cherokees and the Sioux are going into the white mans courts to seek restitution for having been Illegally deprived of their ancestral lands. Up until recent times Indians could not sue the United States except by permission obtained through a special act of congress. Legislation passed during the last four years, however, has removed this barrier. Now the red man Is to have his day in court the United States Court of Claims. In many respects the case of the Poncas is the most Interesting of them all. It recalls another legal battle in which this tribe figured nearly a half century ago, at a time when the red taian was more accustomed to attempt to right his wrongs with the hatchet and the scalping knife than with writs, appeals and court orders. In 1S77 the government decided, to remove the Poncas from their homes in Nebraska to Indian Territory because the reservation confirmed to them by treaty had been Included in land granted to the Sioux. Despite the protests of Standing Bear, a leading chief, he and nine others were taken south to select a reservation and when they . declined to do this, their request to be returned to Nebraska was refused. So with only a blanket apiece and a few dollars in their possession they started back on foot It took them 40 days to cover the 500 miles and when they arrived they found that officials of the Indian department had called upon the military for aid in removing their tribesmen. So the Poncas, losing hope, abandoned their homes and went to Indian Territory. The change of climate brought great suffering ; within a year a third of the tribe had died among them a son of Chief Standing Bear and the survivors were 111 or disabled. Stnndlng Bear decided that bis son must be buried in the land of his fathers. In defiance of orders from the government, he, accompanied by a few followers, set out for Nebraska In January, 1879, bearing the bones of his son for burial in the North In March, the party, dressed in rags and almost starving, arrived at the Omaha Indian reservation, where they asked the Omahas for the loan of seed and land. But when they were about to put In a crop, soldiers appeared with orders to return them to Indian Territory. hnted resAguin they were started back to the ervation In the South. While camped near Omaha, the chief was interviewed by T. II. Tibbies, a correspondent for an Omaha newspaper. Ills story ct the wrongs of the Poncas resulted in two Omaha and lawyers offering their services to the Indians behalf. in their habeas of corpus a out writ suing The government denied the right of the prisoners to such a writ but in April Judge Dundy ruled that an Indlun is a person within the meaning of tbs law," and ordered the Poncas "released. The next winter Standing Beur, accompanied by Tibbies and Susette La Flesche, an educated woman of the Omaha tribe, as Interpreters, went on a tour of the East to tell the story of his people. He attracted national attention and sympathy. The President and other government officials were flooded with protests and in 1880 the senate apcase. As pointed a committee to investigate the a result the Poncas, who chose to remain In Indian thot-who had Territory, were given better lands, lost property were paid for It and Standing Bear was granted a home near the village site of his ancestors, where he remained until the day of his death in 1908. Now the Oklahoma Toneas are suing the government for approximately $11,000,000, the value of ahlch the land in Nebraska and 8outh Dakota at from them fon-Ultaken was maintain they . They Indlun to removal Terrltorj the time of their affirm further that there was no agreemem with .them when late in the 80s President Beniamin Harrison declared their title to that laud extinsome guished. The territory In question includes Ne18 townships, covering five or six counties in Hills. braska, and extending as far as the Illack Uncle from more even The Sioux are asking, Sam. They are bringing action for an aggregate brings of $219,000,000, which, with Interest accrued, s the total up to the staggering sum of of a billion of dollars, making it probably the suit ever filed largest Amount ever asked in any r Wl e three-quarter- fun-lovin- g daseah The biggest item in the bill is tor $130,000,000 In payment for the Black Hills and surrounding territory taken from them by armed force, they assert in 1874 and 1875. They are demanding payment at the rate of only g lands of the $100 an acre for the region, although Included in It is the famous Home-stak- e mine which has produced hundreds of millions of dollars In gold. They also set a price of $50 an acre on the timbered areas, now Included In the federal forest reserve They say, and historians bear them out, that the government shamelessly violated the treaties of 1856 and 1868 and when their power was broken In the War of 1876-7they were deprived of their horses and other property for which they have never been repaid. The Iroquois are preparing to come Into court with an older claim and one which may become even greater than that of the Sioux and Poncas combined. The first suit which they will file will be for a small amount But if this test case la successful, they will follow It up with others involving lands comprising almost half of the state of New York and valued at $3,000,000,0001 They assert that 8,000,000,000 acres of land In the Empire state rightfully belongs to them and although they have not yet decided who the defendant in the suits is to be, it probably will be the commonwealth of New York, rather than the United States, since it was that state, according to their claims, that tricked them out of their lands. The case of the Iroquois goes back nearly 150 years to the time when Sir William Johnson, an Irishman who settled in the Mohawk valley, was superintendent of Indian, affairs in North America for his majesty, the king of England. Johnson is the greatest figure In early colonial history, not even excepting George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. He was the one man whom all the India; a respected and trusted for he never broke his word to them. This was especially true of the great New York Iroquois confederacy or the League of the Six Nations Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, Seneca and Tuscarora. Part of his Influence was due to the fact that he married Molly Brant, the sister of Joseph Brant, the great war chief of the Mohawks, who was Johnson's assistant in the conduct of Indian affairs. From the beginning of white occupation on this continent, the Iroquois Confederacy was recognized as an independent nation and treated on terms of equality by every European power that had any dealings with It. It was so regarded in 1708 when Sir Wllllum Johnson and four other representatives of Great Britain and six representatives of the Iroquois made treaty at Fort Stanwix (on the present site of Rome, N. Y.) and signed a deed establishing the eastern boundary of the Iroquois territory. This boundary, known as Sir William Johnsons Line" or the Line of Property," confirmed the Iroquois in their possession of the western half of New York and restricted the colonists . , i to the eastern half. Sir William, who had foreseen the inevitable coufllct between the colonies and the mother country and who had labored to hold the Six Nations neutral wticn war came, died in 1774. When the war broke out the Oneldas and about half of the Tuscarorus took the purt of the Americans. The other nations went to the British. The Iroquois confederacy was broken up. In 1784 the federal government signed a peace treaty with the Six Nations at Fort Stanwix establishing a western boundary to their lands. They gave up their claims to territory In Ohio but retained the country froiq Lake Ontario south to Pennsylvania and their rights within these boun In this country. gold-bearin- 7, . -- daries were confirmed, with specific mention being Soon made of the Oneldas and the Tuscaroras. afterwards Governor Clinton of New York opened negotiations with the Cayugas and within five years had secured a cession. In the meantime the Onondagas had disposed of some of their lands to Individual purchasers. They were told that this was Illegal and that the remedy was for them to cede all their lands to the state. This they did, retaining only a small tract for a reservation. The same practice was carried out with the Oneldas and the others until virtually all of the lands of the Six Nations were In possession of the state of New York. In 1790 n delegation, headed by Corn Planter, the great orator of the Senecas, went to Philadelphia to see President Washington about these dealings. Corn Planter made an eloquent appeal for redress of their wrongs and Washington promised the Indians that Justice should be done to them. These promises were never made good by Washington's successors and the Iroquois are now seeking restitution. They are baglng their claims on Sir William Johnsons treaty of 1768, which they say was reaffirmed by the federal government treating with the Iroquois as an independent nation at the Fort Stanwix treaty In 1784. The cessions to New York were illegal, they contend, because Governor Clinton negotiated with the Onondagas, the Oneldas and the Cayugas as Individual nations and not with the Iroquois confederacy as a whole. More than that, these cessions were not sanctioned by the federal government of the United States ant they quote Washingtons words to Corn Planter I Here, then. Is the security for the remainder of your lands ; no state nor person can purchase your lands except at a general treaty held under the authority of the United States." The caser of the Cherokees is another In which a state rather than the United States probably will be the defendant They are claiming some 5,000,-00acres of land in eastern Tennessee, including the important city of Chattanooga and the rich farming lands which surround it Tennessee was once a part of North Carolina' and the Indians claim Is based primarily upon a section of the North Carolina code of 1783 which laid down very definite boundaries for a certain tract of land and stated that the lands contained in the aforesaid bounds shall be reserved to the said Cherokee Indians and their nation forever, anything hereinbefore to the contrary notwithstanding." In 1828 the state of Tennessee made a treaty with the Cherokees, known as the Ocoee Purchase, by which the Indians surrendered their lands and agreed to go to Indian Territory. A part of the tribe refused to move, however, and fled to the fastnesses of the Great Smoky mountains, where their descendants still live. It is this part of the tribe that Is about to bring suit for compensation for the 5,000,009-acrtract mentioned, another tract of 640 acres in the Moccaidn Bend, which they assert was set aside as a reservation for them under a treaty made with Andrew Jackson in 1817, and interest amounting to approximately , e $100,-000.000- . So a new era In Indian affairs is dawning In the United States. The old era ended when the last Indian war ended, as had all others, in defesi for the red man and triumph for the white man. That marked the end of But the recent legislation hns created a new Indian. He Is and it looks now as though he were going to be as troublesome foi his white brother as was bis painted and ancestors of sn earOer day. d f Cbsts little-kel- , mack " g) ps IV'cll ' Looking Forward Believing that the early bird gets the worm a man Inserted the following advertisement In the Cincinnati Enquirer: Electrical Men Will yon need as engineer In a tew years? 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