Show I FRAUDS ON INDIANS I One Thousand Negroes Claim Honey For Cherokee Strip St Louis Mo Dec 2As a result of a meeting held in this city today by I members of a committee of the Cherokee Chero-kee councils proceedings for impeachment impeach-ment will at once be brought against Chief Mayes of that nation and his council P C Adams attorney for the Dela wares came to St Louis in advance of the committee and will remain several sev-eral days He acted as spokesman for the committee He said When the Cherokee strip was sold we were entitled to our share ol the purchase money We contended all along that the negro freedmen had no right to any share as they had paid nothing for the commual interest When the money from the sale a distributed 5100000 was set aside for the freedmen We contend that this I action deprives us of a portion of our share of the We have money what we regard as conclusive evidence that 1000 negroes were brought into the strip to act as claimants and received a portion of the money I is claimed that the meeting which resulted in the voting of an additional f 5400000 to the freedmen after they had been awarded 903254 by the courts was held in the office of Chief Mayes with the knowledge of the council This charge will be tie most important impor-tant of those to be preferred against the chief and his council |