Show lE fE SALT LAKE LOST CHEROKEES STORY REVIVED What Became of Portion of Tribe e a Mystery Okla Jan 6 The The remo removal I of a number number- of at Indians from from Delaware county to the community community en enterprIse enterprise enterprise en- en that the society of that trIbe Is Is' founding ng- ng In in Cherokee county has served to recall here the story of the tho th Lost Cherok Cherokees s a t story that th t is Included In all of the later day Ind Indian n histories but in varying ac ac- ac counts Old time Cherokees of this section h have havo ve lately brought forth what they declare is the only true account of the Lost Cherokees ever given to the public Three authorities say pay they obtain obtained d their information from their grandparents and insist that the version version ver ver- sion is absolutely correct corr ct It happened back in 1838 their account account account ac ac- ac- ac I count runs when the Cherokees living In what is now called the old South sold a portion of their lands This created ere ere- created cre- cre an extreme bitterness among a D I I I faction that that thata was a opposed to to d disposing of the tribal property Members of this faction forecast the thel I sale as the beginning of ot the white mans man's mans man's encroachment en- en upon the Indians and argued argued argued ar ar- ar- ar gued that if the tho sale was consummated it would only be bo a a. question of time when the Indians would be dispossessed dispossessed of ot all of lh their lr holdings to the benefit of the pale pate faces The Indians who are now recalling I the Lost Loat Cherokees Cherokees' assert their grandparents described to th them m the bitterness with which the dispute raged between those who favored selling sellIng selling sell- sell Ing a part of the tribes tribe's property and those who opposed Finally th the faction opposed to the sale delivered an ultimatum ultimatum ulti ulti- to their opponents to the effect effect ef of- feet that If It the sale was consummated those opposing would migrate west The sale gale went through and the dissatisfied dissatisfied dissatisfied dissat dissat- Cherokees started out for a new home Bitterness In the lit fight was lost and tho faction that favored the sale accompanied accompanied accompanied ac ac- ac- ac companied the immigrants as far tar west as Mississippi river with entreaties that they reconsider and stay But no no amount of persuasion would influence them to change their minds When the river was reached the advocates of the sale turned back to their homes and the other faction crossed the streams and turned their faces to the west That was the last seen of them First New York to Chicago telephone communication atlon opened February 7 7 1892 |