Show L' L C- C 1 J- J cI i i jY ft y v I SUNDAY MORNING MAY 15 IS Still Another Indian Tribe I IMay May Be Enriched n by O Oil Kaw Allotments in Oklahoma Expected to Fo- Fo Fol S. S I District j Producing Distrct 1 r TONGA PONCA CITY Okla Olda ray Nay 14 Present H. Present oil oi development in extreme e e east eastern ern ern Kay county r resulting in great part pat from the opening of ot the tho Durba Kaw City district distrct of ot the Western Wester Osage bids fair to put the members o oraf Kaw law Indian tribe on a financial footing with wih the Creeks Chicka ponc Ponca's s and the members ot some other tribes who have achieved both wealth and notoriety as a result of oil being found on on their allotments and reserva reserva- tons S SAmong Among the the rests are held in common for the whole tribe whereas among all al other tribes oil 01 bonus and royalty money goes direct to the al allotment allotment al- al owner owne It I will wi be thus with wih the An Interesting statement was made re recently recently re- re centy by Colonel J. J W. W Clendenning the for the Kaw tribe at Kaw Raw KawI City in announcing that during 1920 he I distributed oil 01 money among the th members of oC that tribe although as yet there is not a drop of oil oi on a Kaw Jaw al- al I This money was paid by men menI menas menas as bonus and lease money in securing leases for tor development purposes on Kaw I lands Indications now are that there willbe will willbe wi be considerable drilling in the Kaw KawI I country countr this year The Gypsy is already drilling drilling- at a point three miles mies east of Kaw City and the Twin States at a point some miles mies north while the Marland- Marland Prairie and other companies are blocking acreage for tests The have been in this section of the state a long time approximately th the same length lenth of time as the who were their next door neighbors on the west for many years prior to the being allotted several years ago The two tribes were also neighbors In Kansas prior to being brought southward into the then Indian Territory In the final shaping shapIng shaping shap shap- ing up of Oklahoma as a state the Kaw country countr was added to Kay county and represents practically all al that porton portion of or orthis this county east of the Arkansas river I STOLE ENTIRE POSTOFFICE I The most illustrious representative of the Kaw Kw tribe at the present time is I Senator Charles Curtis Curts of of Kansas who has been in congress from that state for many years and anti is now the senate whip Senator Curtis Curts and his children hold al allotments allotments allotments al- al in northeastern Kay county are citizens of this county The rhe The who live lve in Oklahoma are among the best Indian farmers in the state and take a pride in showing their products at the Kaw City district fair in with whites to Colonel Clendenning I Following the opening of the Cherol Cherokee ee strip to settlement in 1893 and the later of ot the numerous settlements settlements settle settle- ments and postoffice points sprang sette-I sette up Inand Inand in inand and around the Kaw district and among these was Longwood Longood consisting of a general generl general gen gen- eral erl store postoffice and a few houses several miles mies west of the present site of Kaw City Back in the early two young men strangers in the community appeared at Longwood Longood and presented to the postmaster official looking papers that directed him to turn the office over overto overto overto to the two who were brothers The postmaster had no reason to doubt the authenticity of the papers and yielded yield yield- I ed possession The brothers ran the of office office of- of fice for some time attending to the business business busi bust I ness news and seemed to be bt making it I nicely when an inspector with wih a deputy marshal marshal mar mar- ahal came along and arrested them It I developed they had no right to possession posses posses- sion of the office and nd had in fact stolen it I. I They were jailed at Guthrie and later sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of years MANY TESTS TO START All Al outlying and inland settlements yielded to railroad towns in that portion porton of or the county when the Santa Sant Fe e built bum so southeast from Newkirk its is eastern Oklahoma Oklahoma Ok- Ok lahoma branch in and Guthrie and d later from Skedee through Shaw to Pauls Valley Valey It I was in 1902 when h Santa Fe began work worle in this locality an anthe and an the towns of Un Uncas cs and Kaw City were svere vue laid out out Charles Carey now president of or the First National bank or of and Warren Brown now a Santa Sant Fe Fed Id df rector at Wichita had the he right townsite-right in Kay county along the new line lne but ut the real father of ot Kaw aw City was former forer Governor William M. M Jenkins who h had hd d dat at that time been out of the executive chair at Guthrie about a year Jenkins was a homesteader in this county In the Uncas locality when the Cherokee Strip opened and had lived on his farm h here re prior to being appointed secretary of oC pl lahoma lahoma Territory by President Mc Mci Pt i m m in 1897 and governor in 1901 1901 I Governor Jenkins n came a back c to Ita Kj co county rr for a time and n opened en Kaw a Ja City overseeing the laying out of ot the n first t townsite and being in charge of all al th business there The rhe town is lE the extreme eastern point of a big hors shoe bend in the Arkansas Arkansas- river and I Ihas has long been the dream of the inhabit ants to have a a canal constructed across I the neck of this horseshoe thus furnish furnishing ing water power for a great electrical M l plant Only recently this project has been revived ved mt I The oil oi district in the western Os Osand Osage go and in eastern easter Kay where the two come com comel together east of Kaw aw Cit City is being rapid rapidly rapid rapidly ly y extended with wih IndicatIons that will lt-will extend northwest into the Kaw Kw India Finding a good flow fow of feet by the Gypsy company in I south southeast east 28 27 east has encouraged ot r concerns to get busy and other tests ire re reto to start in the near future |