OCR Text |
Show OSAGE INDIANS RICHEST RACE. Third Allotment Makes Each Tribesman Tribes-man Worth $40,000. Tulsa, I. T. Tho Osngo Indian tribe hnB been notified by tho department depart-ment ot tho intorlor that cards for tho third selection of lands In the allotting al-lotting ot that trlbo would bo delivered deliv-ered Boon. Surveyors aro In tho flold checking tho land and tho location ot tho third and flnnl selections will bo-gin bo-gin December 1. According to tho tract books of 1871. when tho Osngo tribe entered Indian Territory on land purchased from tho Chcrokoes, their reservation consisted of 1,470,057.78 acres. Rocont survojv or changes In tho chunnol ot the Arkansas Ar-kansas river, which forms part of tho boundnry of tho reservation, havo not nffectod materially tho numbor of acros. Deducting 5,120 acres, Included Includ-ed In government townsltos, tho Indian In-dian reservations nnd railroad rights of way, tho 2.22D allottees on the flnnl rolls will receive 060 acres each. At present land values In Uio Osngo nation, and Including other Interests of mombors ot thnt trlbo, each Osago will become a citizen of tho stato of Oklahoma and worth $40,000. Not only are they the richest race In the now state, hut in all tho world. After duo consideration ot hor application, appli-cation, Mrs. Jano Appleby, of Tulsa, tho whlto widow of a famous OBngo chief, who 'died sovernl years ago, has been donled tho right of allotment by the department of tho intorlor. Sho is, however, permitted to share in the an- nulty payments, which amount to a largo sum annually. |