Show INDIAN HAS NO BUSINESS CAPACITY PAWHUSKA Okla OkIa Au AUK Aug 26 The Tho The way a some come of or the Osage Indians do business was as told hero to the committee appointed 1 by the house of or representatives to Investigate Investigate gate Indian land affairs For acres of or land Steward a part breed Osage received In actual cash he ho testified before the com corn On March 2 last said who Is 23 years cars old I I received a certificate I of at competency allowing me to manage manago m my own affairs as RS regards my part port of tribal lands I Five ho days later Inter S. S Sands Sand got SOL me to sign a deed to acres for tor which he was to gIve me 1000 1000 He k kept hopt pt the 1000 to pa pay him for ume furniture and a buggy I 1 bought from tram him Ten days later h he called calle 1 mo me up and said 1 he I wanted to bu buy acres more moreIn moreIn moreIn In the meantime I had borrowed a small sum of or mone money from rom him so ho he gave gave- me mo for the acres and canceled canceled can can- the tho debt That was all the cash I ever evor got for the acres I never asked how much the property was worth but left lert that all to Sands Mrs Revard a part arced Osage mother of testified she nho had protested protested pro pro- tested to Washington against the Issuance Issuance Issuance ance of or a n. certificate of or competency to her son but the certificate was Issued and the land sold without her knowl knowl- ed edge e. e Representative B. B S S. S McGuIre of Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa appeared before the tho committee to deny that Richard C. C Adams of Washington Wash Wash- ington had ever said he McGuIre was Interested In the McMurray l contracts He lie read rend a telegram te from Adams ms who also denied ever making the tho statements Representative Charles Carter previously had testified that Adams had said McGuIre McGuire Mc Mc- GuIre had favored ore 1 the tho contracts |