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Show I NOTED Y0UN6 WOMAN IS A GUEST BF CITY I ! . :'; ; Miss Ida Allison, Who .Secured Hi-fi'! 1 Lands for Oklahoma, I- !;';, dians. Hero. I ! ' ! , Miss Ida Allison of Muskogee Okln., i . was u u.l Jit tin' Knutfonl, Snturdny. ; f 5 Miss Allison is tho business iininaser HJ -J of Mrs. Harriot K. I.abndie who will i : ', deliver n recital .in .Suit Laltc on No- ' vcmbor undor tho auspices of the l ! University of Clab. Mrs. Labndie s . 1 subject will bo Ibsen s "A Polls Hjh House." Sin- has a world-wide rrnntn- i Tion. When slio appeared in Washing--' ton, (ho most distinguished men ami . , J women of the land wero her patrons ', ' :uul patronesses. These included Mrs. , Taft. Mrs. Kooscvclr. Mrs John llav I ; ' I, and a lone list of others. Mrs. LabadnV i :! i 1 J- j will mjoii sail from the United Mute R A , or Manila, where she will make three . f- appearances under I he employ men t ot , tho government. Those will bo for the - benefit of tho nflieials and soldiers sin-HU sin-HU ', tioncd in tho Philippines. . U,;i Ju nddition to beinii the business j v. .-, manaper of so noted .1 woman. Miss Al-Hhf Al-Hhf lison is also of some note on her own l' '' account. She is tho distinguished lady ) ; who secured to tho Oherokees and Choc-j.' Choc-j.' taws '100.000 acres of land in Oklahoma. '' li This land was at. first recommended to 1 bo not. allotted bv tho Pawos eommis- I I' sion in 1S9G. Afterwards it was ree-HL ree-HL .' i ommended for allotment, it lin vinr been H't ' found that the first recommendation H'i ,.' l had been made erroneously, but the in- ' . y. terior department, held t lie patents for Hi' t j ; cancellation. H v ) Miss Allison and her brother. Georfco H jV ', ; Allison, in whose veins there is a slipht H,j ' voiu of Cherokee blood, carried the H 1 V J ; matter into the courts. They wero sue- Hi!t ecisful in all of the lower "courts, but ' i'j nil' tlio government annealed to tho su-H su-H r. : if. promc court of the united States. Of so H ;!!)' U'lv.tt importance did the tribunal con- H . . . j sidcr the case that, it was placed on j H: ,:j 'j 1I10 first docket, Four of the most H ',! , t prominent attornevs in Washington H " jj represented Miss Allison and her brotli-H: brotli-H: r ;' j er and the people whom thev lepresenl- ' eil. Attorney General Charles . I. Hona-H- y f jiarte and fiis assistant, Mr. Kowler, H .; , f. Iiaiidled the case for the government. .Tho decision was favorablo to the H .' ; ,i ' tribosnien, and tlio interior department H f .iM was directert, by maudamiis, to resloro U ' ' tho lands to the rightful owners. The l ,1,1 : iiisl.'Mice was tho first in fourteen years H; m jj where the interior department had been Hi f' , ' i-onipclk'd by 11 mandamus from the Hf ".; ' Mi)reme court to dn a certain thing.' HI ".- ' l Tho land secured for the pouplo is H; ' ' treniendously valuable, liven at a inin- H- rj r i nium valuation of $10 an acre, the to- H' tal would bo $.1.1)00.000; but some of HU i ,M3 "'"d is worth easilv $1000 an aero. Hf ;i it will be seen thai tho eftorts of H; Miss Allison brought forth rich fruit. |