Show YANKEE SECURED k VALUABLE CLAIMS CLAIM Charges of Irregularity Made in House When Indian Bill Was Reported 1 Washington Dee Dec f of oC irregularity Ir regularity In connection with the al t or of certain Indian I lands In Oklahoma were made maile In tIM the Hoote of today In with U the discussion and aRd page or of the Indian appropriation bill The charges which wale welo made II by Chairman Burke of the tho Indian affairs were that Lion to the committee at the last t see HS sloe b by certain members of oC Ute the Hou HouI House had I led to the of oC an act for forthe the enrollment In Ute the Kiowa tribe or of indiAna and the allotment of 1 acres of lams Ind to Jam F nowell when he hewa was wa not entitled to It Howell a white man from Connecticut cut who land had married an Indian woman It developed had been n land near Okla which h a Unit United Slates declared worth woMb f 71 ot tu to The committee had been Informed Mr lr Burke Burk meld Hid that the land eh Rowell vas to receive war 8 no more mor valuable than that usually given to members or of Ue the trIbe In he hept sought pt enrollment Morgan of Oklahoma declared that he hd had matlon to the e committee at al the time and that he thought It e correct rr t Lat Last summer he learned h he said that t the theland land was Wall more mere valuable than It he had It was M finally decided to lt let the que floss or of In th the In data tribe go o to the courts hut but the bill withdrew for th the time lime being tnt Row low lowells Rowell ell ells right to an allotment nt The bill All as finally carried appropriations or of wb which h WAS more than recommended by the committee I 1 |