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Show IKELL TIK 01 mm m nor of Oklahoma Adds An-ier An-ier Chapter to Famous Political Strife. 3ES PRESIDENT OF' FAVORING OIL TRUST That Owners of Oil Lands ire Robbed of Enough to Pay Big Fine. SAS CITY, Oct. 13. Gov. N. Haskell of Oklahoma, who here this morning among others, i the Associated Press a signed ot addressed to President It, contributing another chapter ontroversy arising over tho loas-CS0,000 loas-CS0,000 acres of Osago Indian mil," says I ho Governor, in the his statement, "insist upon -.cllation oC this lease in the iu- theso citizens o our state, or ingress take action to declare irovident and unjust lease void, iuro for the Osage nation tho 1 reasonable compensation that mors aro receiving.' Text of Letter, ettcr. in full, follows: on. Theodore Roosevelt, Prcsi-Washington, Prcsi-Washington, D. C. I have just received a let-in let-in Prank Pierce, acting as y of the Interior do-t, do-t, dated October 9, stat-it stat-it my letter to you, asking explanation as to tho oil lcaso Osage lands, had been referred apartment, attaches an explanation, which t all satisfactory; it contained llv nothing in conflict with my it. I agree that in 1896 the ttic administration made a I E. B. Foster on the entire ation for ten years at 10 per -alty. At that timo tho nearest ail production was about seven miles from the Osago nation, the Foster lease in 1893 was a ild cat proposition, and the ioueer Toyalty of 10 per cent iwed, But during tho ten years L was developed, and found to nally rich, and ton years at this alty was an ample reward to ho "developed it. 1905 Foster had transferred his tho Indian Territory lllumin.it-lpany, lllumin.it-lpany, a well-known substitute Standard Oil company. Irameuso Oil Fiold. clopment showed that oil cov-30,000 cov-30,000 acres, being the ease tho Osage nation, also extend-th extend-th into Kansas, east into In-;rritory, In-;rritory, and south into Okla-nd Okla-nd the whole area is konwn as " pBio richest oil country iu existence at us date. Tho remainder of tho Osage jit 41 ation was barren. Cgitf T1' Congress gave vou the power to nx Vf 10 consideration that tho Osage people rOi lould receive as their part ot' tho oil gjfeii Uue after tho expiration of tho ten- fi ;ar lease. It was well known to you j,' that timo what the sub-lessees were nt& lying for small tracts in tho Osago ,Sfjl on and adjoining lands in tho 'fc, V" bcrokec nation, as the Cherokee leases ZfM issed through tho Interior depart-L depart-L ient, and their approval and tho "52 ffalties and bonuses received by the Pf& M owners were a matter of record k1, ad approval in the Interior depart-itv depart-itv cnt records. It is scarcely possible, t?J fc thoao records before you, you Sled to notice that $10 per aero cash inus and one-sixth royalty was much it ow t"0 nvcracc compensation to tho 'M & nd owner. Indeed, in many instances, 415: eh bonuses of from $50 to evon $100 sJjtt j acre were received bv tho land own-0. own-0. '. Somo Oases Cited. 1rtf$ f'-A- few cases in the Interior dc- tmenl records are as follows: "".'Sli 5'The Lannou family 700 acres, Terokeo nation, immediately .-joining 0 nation, Interior depart- i Ji" snt lease, mado, in 1903, cash bonus, .00; royaltj, one-eighth. "We havo "'ftgl snt or ten utmilar leases where gon-tST gon-tST public information shows cash ISV1 nuscs substantially as large as tho 1 ' ve, and royalties running at one-a one-a iai ?th, but your suburdiuato officers in rtrfifi arRfl of the Indian ofticc at Muskogee, L,f orders from tho Interior department, t-A'1 '3 morning refused to permit cxami-5 cxami-5 rti 'on &e records to confirm same rjTjjg curately, but thoy aro subiect to your jTto' vestiga'tion, and you will find, no tiVjj nbt, that the Lannon lease wa3 only i average lease. "And numerous other leasen ad.ioin-fP' ad.ioin-fP' K.tho Osago nation givo you tho op-WBrtunity op-WBrtunity to kmiw that a baro one-! one-! vfti royalty, without any cash bonus ii,T' the Osage's, was a gross outrage on fiiJ natioa' k Hearing "Was Denlod. "''Congress no sooner gave you tho ty "pority to fix the amount of compen- M&jsiP ,on "an uc 0EaCes 'e a written jjj Wuest Tvith you for an o-ortunity to heard and produce ovidence, which y could easily havo produced, show-3.v show-3.v ? you that a cash bonus of seven mil-iPiftir mil-iPiftir a. dollars and one-sixth roaltv would 1 . I' deed a moderate compensation to 'You neglected to givo tho Osages y opportunity whatever to be heard. SItw L ct e,x hundred and eighty wueand acres of rich oil land was 6 fitako that tho Standard Oil com- H&ri y waB pla3-ing for, and tho land rneTs denied tho right to bo heard, tXilfji t.??mcthing that will require a more WvS lia lanation than Mr. Picrco has trri a y Practical business man is rA t0A rccognizo that six hundred and K"jy. tnonsand acres of land in one 22 'A o Iar Cheater proportionate ;S Li t1han 8II,;I1 tracts of a few 'PS? E, a acros oac,, ani1 therefore tho roi 6urnsc that you should have W a W-alty (without any cash r5t i ' much lov-'or tnan Ho individual fan. j f ,' jiW. il Continued on Page Two. M - . t HASKELL TURNS ON TEDDY ONCE MORE Continued from Page One. land owners were securing on small trncts. Thcro woro no such improvident leases being made in that whole .combined .com-bined Held. "Mr. Pierce suggests in his letter to me that as a matter of fact it was uot known at tho timo that tho Standard Oil company was tho real party in interest. in-terest. I submit to you that tho very fact of Messrs. Guffey, Barnsdalo and Senator Depow, well-known Standard Oil representatives, with others of the same odor, making a personal appeal to 3ou for this low royalty to tho land owners, should havo been ample ovi-den.ee ovi-den.ee that the Standard Oil company was- tho real beneficiary. Under Dopow's Influence. "It was tho samo Senator Depew who induced 3'ou to grant the Prairie Oil & Gas company a franchise over the protest of Secretary Hitchcock less than ono year beforo that time, and in ("his ono " transaction you g'avo tho Standard Oil company a donation from the propeHy of tho Osage Indians - of -more than enough to pa3r the famous $29,000,000 line. "T shall insist, tipon the cancellation of this lease in tho interest of these i citizons of our state, or that congress tako action to declare this improvident -and unjust lenso void, and demand compensation com-pensation that other owners aro receiving. receiv-ing. '' Marvelous as it 111.13' seem-- the difference dif-ference between tho ro3ralt3' you 'fixed for this new lease and tho amount received re-ceived in the balance of the oil field, by land owners controlling their own property, is full3' eouialent to a not loss of ton thousand dollars to each and every member of the psago nation, and whether this gross injustice to our people peo-ple was accomplished -ly your lack of considrration, or in any other wnj tho authorities ot tho stato of "Oklahoma will not rest until this le.asc has been cancelled and justice donp to our people. peo-ple. Respectfully. "C. N. HASKELL, Governor." Governor Haskell said this afternoon" after a lengthy conferenco with his attorneys, at-torneys, that no had given his counsel authorit3' to bring suit against Mr.-Hearst Mr.-Hearst as soon as thoj' could ' get service ser-vice on tho New York'editor. This, he said, ho believed would bo possible at fiomo point, between Kansas Cit' and St. Paul, when Mr. Hearst makes his return trip to tho liasL Mr. Hearst-is now on the Pacific coast and is booked to speak at Seattle tonight. |
