Show INDIAN hon hoeka is one of the four federal judges ID the indian terri tory lately appointed by president me kinley he haa just returned to denver after holding his arit term of court and gives a brie account of hafl experience on the bench in the territory he ignorance and lawlessness are everywhere found and no pretensions toward an established form of government can be observed during three mont behe sentenced two carloads of criminals to the penitentiary and still has before him cases on the doc liete there are no schools no churches and no signs of judge townsend Towne end ays that in his brief experience in the territory be met the greatest surprise ur prise of hie life the res ion occupied by the remnants of the chickasaw nation said the judge ib one of the finest pieces of land out of doors it ia one of the most fertile spots on the continent in the town of ardmore where the court is held thirty ol 01 land are cow coy ered with bales of cotton the coro ie the heaviest I 1 have ever seen and the wheat fields are unsurpassed in amount of yield there are in the boun durks i nat on white people and about one as many indiana In diane the while men anre nn n and they lie vote of the tribe and eland in solid phalanx any innovations tte land ia owned by the tribe and not by private individual white annn is allowed to in the nation he must leace land irom the indian tribe then he marries into the tribe and according to the treaty has a voice in deciding ltd aft aira the man a with the existing conditions and anre responsible for the failure 0 the dadee commission in bringing about changes to individual allotment of lands and a new form of control some of the squaw men live like princea they have great farms of to herds of and calale live in houses linsted barbs and electricity carriages traps dogs and all the improvements possessed in the country residences of the east at the same time these men are opposed to local government and to allotment in severally it would deprive them of privileges which they now enjoy they would then be obliged to pay a tax at present no man pays any tax whatever unless it is a voluntary tax edich as in to build a school house or a church in the towns schools are maintained aa private institutions but nowhere in the country districts are there any school houses one of the commissioners whom I 1 ap t told me that ninety out of of ahe men in his district were e to write their indian territory is the most illiterate in alie united slates in my experience in ahe I 1 have never met but two full blooded indians the nation is passing away and the whites are rearing in ignorance everybody wears a pitol the dawes commission was appointed to negotiate with the five civilized tribes of the territory for the purpose of dividing the lands in severalty the tribal relations have afforded little or no check to the lawless spirit of the territory and the division of the lands was expected to bring about new conditions and the establishment of a form of government similar tj that of other territories of the united states the tribes are any disturbance of their present relations that the much agitated proposition to have congress establish a better form of government in the territory hae CAUS them to open negotiations with die mexican government fur the acquire and colonization of an tract of land in that republic to which they declare they will emigrate the year |