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Show TUE ClIEItoKEE NTR1P. It Will be Stalest L'nlesa Protected by Government. Kansas City, Nov. 20. Secretary Secre-tary Blair of tbe Cherokee Strip Live Sunk Association is In the city and tells a startling story of the ruin md desolation now in order in the Strip. lie expressed tho opinion that within thirty days from tbe timo the Strip is vacated by the ranchmen all the improvements made there will be possessed by thieves from Oklahoma and Kansas, unless the government orders out troops to protect the property. Tbe terms of the lease provide that all permanent improvements revert to tho use and ownership when the cattlemen vacate. The value of the entire improvements are placed at 300,000. In tbe suit of the association against J. It. Blotter, one of tbe ten-oanu, ten-oanu, for non payment of rent, the judge instructed the jury to find for plaintiff; declaring the association lease with Um Indians valid, and declared the Indians owners of the Strip. Tbe association will now sue the united States government for damages in a um aggregating $1,000,000. |