Show INDIANS SIGNED CONTRACTS Names or of Papooses Were Affixed To McMurray McMurry Documents by Parents or Guardians THOUGHT THEM GOOD THINGS JI I ii eI I Igi t Developed I tu Pt ci Choc Ci tutu S mid Ni Arc Ame 10 filch Illch Ici And ti 11 iii Him JI I In i I u iti l Okla Okia Aug 11 II U WM urea brought out In this the tl lanes Ib of or the Iho Gore Onro bribery charges to 10 today toIa day di Ia that Ihal baby HH mum I well troll iu us adult ones mat had signed Int the t eon con contracts n tracts providing for this Ihl salt gala tl of oC Q worth orth of ot land hind on a 1 10 W II per cent at nl attorneys fe ts fee a basis rho The Heroes namoM H of oC time tile little 1 were signed by tho parents witnesses It I wu Incidentally that race rues suicide Is II far tur from rota threatening among the Indians a its 18 fam tin tiles of ut six lx to h it nine children are lre com common lOl mon muon lun J M I Perkin u ii testified that he ho h hal hail children all ni of ot whom hail had hll signed the tho contract Wo We u were WelO led I d to lu believe that thai the eon con were inure a u good gud timing thing mild Ui Per lr klim kitus Wu Wo u considered that knew better than thal our and senator how to 10 KO go I 0 about selling Belling the theland land Wo So believed that hal by h b signing lh tIme contracts we wo would realize on our claim against 1 tin th government Thais why WI I 1 und anti the children 11 signed UI up Ur tic r J 11 ii 1 Miller a Choctaw by tu 1 inter testified that thol he lie arid and 1111 lute lux children Nn had hud the contracts 01 OK INDIANS The hl present great IreI wealth of oC the Ibe OkU hoina holU was WS nut alit IUt In tosti testimony mony loony Although thin the Choctaw Choca anti and M trills tribes of oC Indians are uro lighting for tor their individual or of the thu land hamad now held for or them by b the government they thoy are aru ar at itt II present accounted n among thu tho richest people 1011 I Pl In the world It 1 was waR said Id their per i r capita interests Interest In iii thu th claim against the Die K eminent Is 18 besides hell e which thc they arc already rich In lit Inlands litIs lands Is rids Indian witnesses took the stand eland lurid and nd told lold of measuring their land by b the tho thousand tholand acres One On Indian testified his hI family ramly owned canned 1300 1 1 of lt which 1000 10 acres I IS were under cultivation with wih cotton oton corn cam cm and ud potatoes The fhe tend lund IH is 11 rented rent out ho he sold said giving him him on U of at the tM teat oil oilton ton crop ero arid and Ild of oC the tho th corn without r to him Ormsby tot ail attorney norney for tor forthe the tho th tribe testIfied that thaI elaine oin hut hail been cast cas I on nit him he wn inA as UI the tho Indians counsel In Washington where u a us he lived In New N v York Ho 10 said lid ho received a of ot 2000 a n year yar Acting under tinder the secretary of ot the Interior Int McHarg said ho he had In iii Investigated t tin I Indian sitUatIon In Oklahoma I 7 found the situation as 11 confusing as ns Ingenious naomi men 11 could make mako It I testified the I Ins Ill wile ns ll Instructed by hay b the department of the Interior to blaze blaz away Iwa anti and Ind clear up UI the confusion I nm am nl now engaged In formulating ul a I plan iIan What hits his plan plait was did ld not notI say cay I He lie Il declared his hi contract 1 special ly Iy I provided for Cor his hta h In New NewYork ew York If 1 tire tho contracts were re ap nl Mr air said he lie would resign f I nt at once HM mis he Ito l would wo hl regard It Itan Ital an mill al a Q 13 nf or service He lie 1 saIl said the time Choctaw tribe already al paid luCId pall out mit a I year ear for tor attorneys I NIE IdO CA Dr Ir Ir K fi I N X Wright n it I delegate fur for forthe the Choctaws at Washington took the stand rind and denied charges made iad against him In the th testimony of at C D 1 Carter Carter testified that thai thaI C CAdams t 1 Adams of ot Washington had hod said hl Wright right was a Interested In the tho McMurray contracts contract Wright declared clar ho he had alWays op opposed opposed posed the contracts pOlee Wright said he never ner had lied received any an assIstance from McMurray Mc except lost last winter In tn Washington Wa Mc McMurray McMurray c Murray furray haul half endorsed his hil note nole for tor 1800 |