| Show f j INDIANS CITIZENSHIP ROLLS i Pro I IL 2 olho of the Work of 01 Improving tae o and L Social Conditions In Indian S ahing iI lug Aug cC cock has r T ed l the report of the taro r lon for tor the year ear Just i Its hal members declare to ken Lea the t e nest most noteworthy of an any HI The bitter anti lJ ws r F the report Fa says a y led to the Influences of ofa r I w f atri i and the five tribes are I t ta a r 1 11 1 of a nl new u d I the fl of legislation g elation linn 1 n Uon of agreements r J I to mall make j d In remedying the oh t In t b b al and social condl i t for tor many litany J t r p hJ n Territory The corn com i n r Its working i and 13 It ad In n 1 lint into Inlo motion new ItC Its nearO farl s nil the branches of that the ro loners tarts hs do not say MY ent to In inn n great accomplish W to tJ original lua a the pa papa on the part pa ft of tn the Choctaw and nations the they do retort commendable progress 3 In iii centralising and 1101 clu classifying this work vork The records have been be n brought Into such condition that lilt when a date Is he finally agreed l upon for tor closing the rolls of citizenship if these tWo tribes little hue will be lot lost In the Haiti roll for tor line tho approval of oC the tho Interior department de department 1 few te names on the tribal rolls roll by these nations still re remain remania mania main for tor forTune Tune right of the Choctaw and Cluck Chick nations to enrolment as 1111 by II is III derived rain one of at three sources Th T Important are the tribal through birth or admission The birthright to tribal enrolment will be b with the clo closing ln of oC the rolls rOlI A second Is admission by the of the five fio tribes tribe while tune the third Is b h by de cite of the United Slates court on ap appeal real peal tram from the nip decision of either of at the tribal or r the commission of tile the five d The right to b Inter intermarriage I Is acquired l under the treaties or laws la s ot of these tribes For 01 13 months the commission main maintained representatives In Mississippi to hear heur applications for OM as Mississippi Choctaws This Thill party heM held sessions dally to In Meridian and all as It developed that hint It h would be tu la secure the appearance of Choctaw Indians there n a Journey Journe wits made to the In the state stale where the IndIans lived Much was ns on account ot of mho tho sus of the Mississippi Choctaws Choctaw The full blood Indian In that state Is distrustful ot of nil transactions with the United government feels that lint he line hils been JIIn downtrodden anti every eer time line he line has had an any anything thing to do with the government and so HO looks for tor only detriment should he enter Into relations with It now For six lix years or more the IndIans have It been cn hy by attorneys to enter Into contracts for n a relinquishment oi of ofa I a of what they might receive In the tho event of their enrolment all as i zone ot of the Choctaw nation and so 90 they are not wholly to III be blamed for this feeling toward th the of the white mans government It was found to nearly every et Instance where nn an application was ns from these thee full tull blonds that II a contract ot of sonic SO II sort ROrt hind had been Jeen made mAdo between wen the Indians and n a white attorney who had con them that It was fas ne l ary to secure his hiM services In order to receive r co coOn On nay benefit II as Mh Choctaws These contracts 11 hUl II provide for II a sum lum to be pall paid to the tho attorney upon the enrolment of 01 the Jut but sometimes that the IJ attorney tt r er shall lot gut ot of nil all there thee Indians ilia many re I I calve under the allotment of the land in Choctaw country III ht the In Indian dian The construction of new lines of railroads rail roads through the Indian Territory has shown marked activity during tho rho last year 2400 of road are either cither In operation or under process ot of construction and when all the lines have been n e the tho terry tor tort will be well nell supplied with trans T Evening Io Poet t |
