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Show legiHlature some years nto w-ont so 1 mar ns to pa.-tB an enabling act per-mlttlm: per-mlttlm: the few remaining Montauks to reorganize and elect a "chief whom they called "klni;" so they could sue as a tribe and secure the redmen all his rights. The suit was brought by the new chief. Wyandank Pharaoh, or "King I'haroali." a he is called in the legnl papers, lie recites re-cites that his ancestors has possessed the land In question for more than 20 yearg The prosperity of the tribe wad gradually wrecked by internal dissensions until only three families were left. With these three families Mr. Benson opem-d negotiations In isTO and flnallv prevailed upon them to give up the land In return for cash payments of from $10 to eacli and an annuity of $210 for the support of the entire tribe on new hunting grounds far Inland. i The Indians charged fraud, asserting assert-ing that their ri:ht to the land was a tribal one and could not bo conveyed con-veyed except by act of legislature. The court rules that the purchase was valid, inasmuch as the tribe had "disintegrated and been absorbed into in-to the mnss of citizens." j INDIANS LOSE A SUIT FOR VALUABLE LAND New York. Oct. 12. The war be.; tween the Montauk ludinns and the, NarnganseiiH jn IGM figures in a decision de-cision Just handed down i-i the supreme su-preme court of Suffolk county. 1jng Island, confirming the pm chase of; Indian field at Meninuk Point, by Arthur W. Ilennon from the Indians; In 1S79 aud settling a dispute between the Indians and the P.c:iilb which j Iws lasted for thirty yp-ir. , The ca.se had a r-tcullir Interest be-, cajsc of the unusual questions In- j volvcd and because the p. Ht)o.-l stand-: Ing of what the court referred to as j a dyln' remnant of ore of the his- j lorlc ttihes er a'-orlrlnefl 'n tho .tite wan it s.i;e The court Piles that the Indians, of whom ccly fixte.-n brave? are left, cannot claim agiln the land In ques-tfc:i, ques-tfc:i, which Include a million-dollar tract of valuable nuburlun land, 120't acres In extent. To make the su l possible, the state |