Show SECRETARY LANE LAN E MEETS INDIANS IN THEIR HUTS sages Much Gratified and Many Knots Are Untied By Special News Service TULSA Okla Okia Oct 13 Franklin Franklin I K tine secretary of the tho Interior visited the in their wigwams near noor Pawhuska The Osage council the Ie legislative body of or the tribe has been r r the last three years In favor of opening all of or the portion of or the reservation to oil development but tIle tIie department has opposed this view arid and has s been leasing lensing the acreage In small tracts HOLD CONFERENCE IN HUTS It talt has always been the contention u i the he department the Indians were bet g Influenced by outsiders rs and a majority of them didn't know what w was s best for them This suspicion Was was so strong that on two of the visits Q Oi the tho council In Washington the mom mcm- bW were carefully guarded Yet two thousand miles from Washington in U their primitive huts in the tho Osage hills far tar away from any scheming the council met the secretary and i t talked with him for an hour According to the report of the con I ference received here the Indians told i the the secretary secretary the they desired all of or their I lands lids leased and they thought they ought to be paid the being I beld ld in the treasury on the bonus ac account ac- ac cou count cott t for lor oil all and gas leases which Is I luO duthe the minor children of or the tribe INDIANS GRATIFIED The The department has declined declined to pay on the ground the parent guardians are not nott conserving the estate The con- con itce between the secretary and the them m bers of the tribe was conducted ih in tho native nathe tongue so far as the I numbers members of or the tribe were concerned th tb secretary speaking through an int in- in t reter The he tar secre-tar secretary at the conclusion of the te conference Informed the members ot p Uie Jie e council and the visiting mem- mem i of the tribe he lie would give ghe their the most careful attention nn t at t the earlest opportunity would to them his decision Indians were much gratified at te gle tb visit of or the secretary and It nc- nc much toward harmonizing many perplexing situations which lie f risen In connection with the administration ad ad- lQ ministration of the affairs of ot the yel |