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Show STOLE INDIANS BLIND SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY ON WHITE MAN'S METHOD OF GETTING GET-TING AWAY WITH RED MAN'S LAND. Statement is Flatly Made That the Courts Know and Connive at Fraud. Sulphur, Okla. Details of a scheme 6y which "landgrabbers" orgamized systematically to enrich themselves at the expense of minor Indians were related at the congressional investigation investiga-tion into Indians affairs .Monday. In one instance it was asserted that the cost of disposing of the properly of one 8-year-old Indian was $2,075 more than the property brought, and the conditon which permitted this and similar deals was declared to be a 'disgrace to Oklahoma." Hearing that i'.:e scheme prevailed generally, Representative Philip P. Campbell of Kansas, a member of the investigating committee, had put ou the stand James Yarborough, a Chickasaw Chick-asaw Indian by intermarriage. "Do you call this sort of thing grafting or just plahi stealing?" asked Mr. Campbell, after the witness had related the circumstances. "Well, the people down our way think it is a scandal that the law permits per-mits such a thing, and we think it is time that congress takes notice of it. The probate court at Ditrant allowed the guardian to sell for $2,S00 a trad of 140 acres of what is known as allotted al-lotted land owned by an 11-year-old child." "Do you mean to say that such things are countenanced by the probate pro-bate courts?" "Yes, they go on with the full knowledge of the judges. Thousands of acres of property are thus taken from the Indians and thrown into the hands cf. ''hite people. The Indians are getting poorer and the land grab bers richer." |