Show I WEALTH OF RED MAN JAN Five Civilized Tribes Have Taxable Taxable Taxable Tax Tax- able Property Property Worth a Billion Bilon Dollars I Washington D. D C C. March ln l-ln- In- In milan lian territory a as a t nu name nc suggests ts vain thing thing-s lo to the he mind of tho the average 1 el el east easl of or the Mississippi The Thc Indian territory I is a n territory with wither er very ery few Indians The Tho live five ve civilized and the thc term cent civilized Is li lo to be taken talen Jel literally I here hele tribes CH ws Creeks Creeks- Chickasaws on and Seminoles comprise per her s sons sOmis ns Only a small are alo full ful blo bloods k t hu lime hI J sl tl being ng d-cel d of the negro and mulatto slaves shaves of Jr time the era before I S 6 5 mixed in breed Indians I ad Inns u of various vailous shades of f dilution up imp to lo persons who cannot be lie from fion whites whiles anti and white 0 men nien 1 antI and women who have lieen Into th tribes And there of If are tre U fragments eight tribes f aggregating about persons in iii 11 1 the Iho H northeast t corner Whiles ith c. c In mt J 1 Indian lulal a Ax As against the these e 88 Indians actual and ac arc si six times as ny ma-ny whites whiles In iii the thc IHl Indian n territory The These e. e of coU course c constant constant- ly h Increase thaou through h Immigration while the Iho Indians restricted it to tu the growth in excess cos of births over O deaths luths re remain remain re- re r main aln practically stationary The h live lve 5 tribes trl es have 11 u schools chool churches ehm cultivated farms towns with electric J lights h ts and It other hel accompaniments pan I-I I ments and appliances of r civilization For FO generations s their thIl local legislatures f executives and courts CoUtts they thoy have hae been governing go themselves Their chiefs Johnson of the tho Pleasant Pheasant nt Porter of ot the thc Creeks Green of oC tIme Iho Ch Ch W. W C. C C Rogers of the thc Cher- Cher CI Cherokees el OIW H an and John Brown of the S Semi Semi- ml- ml fobs are noles ac are men inca of ut education and abil abil- I I ity Out of the he people o of Oklahoma Indian territory 1 U 0 In the he aggregate ate are arc classed a as Indians and anc only about of these arc till full bloo bloods s. s Made There arc about children In iii the time schools of the combined territories teTI- teTI terri tern tories and amul thc they have several have several Institutions ions of or the thc higher learning Thc They have newspapers and anti periodicals In Oklahoma and In In iii In Indian lan territory lerty of oC th il dallies dailies and property properly subject to tax tax- ax- ax aion aton Oklahoma City Ardmore Ardmore Aldmon Ard- Ard Ald- Ald more mon Shawnee Lawton Enid El JI Reno South McAllister Durant Pc Perry I and amid Coal Coal- Coalgate gate ste are modern towns lowns Time The five fl e civilized tribes were ivere made malle citizens of the United SI States Stales tc by flY act acl of congress in mn 1 1901 IOL On March 1 last lat their thel tribal governments wore dissolved dis solved ol e and amid their members merged themselves In the time general generl mass of the tho country's citizenship |