The Spokane press. [volume], July 16, 1909, Page 12, Image 12

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JUSTICE COMES
AFTER 65 YEARS
Big Melon to be Sliced by
Government for tbe
Cherokees.
(By United Press.)
WASHINGTON. July 15—A $5.-
--000.000 melon that has been ripen
ing for nearly 75 years is at last
being sliced by the KOverament for
distribution among the Cherokee
Indians.
It has been a standing claim of
the Indians against t'ncle Sam
since 1835. ttt that year the gov
ernment owed the Cherokees. for
laud purehaf d. the sum of $1,100,-
COO, which lay in the treasury to
their credit v-th interest at 5 per
cent.
Then one fine day an error was
made in the auditing department
of the treasury and it appeared, ac
cording to the books, that the
Cherokees hr.d nothing to their
credit Thea head men took up
the matter, hired lawyers and for
f." lor.g years labored to establish
their claim. They tried the execu
tive o f ficial« and besieged con
gress, but without making an im
piess-ion wo.'li a cent, to say noth
ing of the millions they were after.
They were to d the books showed
t'iey bad nolh'Bg coming and. gov
ernment records being infallible,
there was no ground for argument.
So it was, year after year, as the
Indians made their pilgrimages to
Washington.
About 10 years ago the aspect
of thing* changed somewhat when
Robert L. Owen, an attorney of
Muskogee. I. T.. was given Charge
of the claim. He was a member
of the Cherokee nation through his
mother's side, while his father was
Robert U Owen, a Virginian and
president of the Tennessee rail
road. Attorney Owen was highiv
educated, he had wit and judgment
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The reservoir of the "Soo" is a contact heating reservoir, which we have found
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We have bargains in everything in the home furnishing line, and now is the
time to buy. Come in and let us show you what you can save. "We are out of the high
rent district and will give you the advantage of it in our low prices. A look at our
goods and prices will convince you.
Cash
or
Credit
besides, nnd he proceeded to make
things move. The first thing to
do was to get permission from
congress to proceed against the
government in the court of claims
and prove that the.rusting dollars
of the ancient Cherokee fund real
jly lay in the vaults of the treas-
I ury. He got it and afterwards re
j peated the achievement, two hear
| ings In the court of claims being
I necessary to prove up the claims
of the Indians. In the seven years'
campaign he conducted Mr. Owen
I induced congress to pass three
1 bills and two resolutions necessary
:in his work. Anybody feeling that
■it is not much of a job to get that
i much action out of the greatest
i legislative body in the world has
I never undertaken any little old
i task like moving the Rocky moun
; tains.
I Owen's final contest was to move
i the case into the United States su
preme court, and he succeeded in
; that in 1006 as he had in all that
j went before. The record he sub
mitted to the court consisted of
2.700 printed pages. He argued the
case against the skilled lawyers in
the government service and he won
a Judgment that the original fund,
swelled by the accumulated inter
est to $5,000,000. belonged to the
living Cherokees.
The court awarded him a fee of
$2110.000, which approximates the
record for stipends for legal serv
ices even in the supreme court.
The decision placed upon gov
ernment officials the stupendous
task of ascertaining who was en
titled to the money, of seeing to it
Uiat none having rights were over
looked and that imposters did not
get a place at the counter. A per
son having one sixty-fourth part of
Cherokee blood was a legal mem
ber of the Cherokee nation and the
search through involved family ties
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threatened to be almost endless.
The lis* of those entitled to a
share in the fund has now been
completed, however, and contains
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The HMO who won the big fight
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tl.e I'nlted States senate.
WORK TO PROCEED
ON DESCHUTES LINE
(By United Press.)
MORO, Ore.. July 15.—A special
term of the circuit court is now in
session, with Judge R. R. Butler
presiding. Several right of way
cases for the Deschutes railroad
wr-re up for trial, but Attorney
Spencer for the company has se
cured a stipulation that the rail
road work can go on. The cases
will go to trial next fall at the
regular term to ascertain the as
sessment of damages due property.
The body of E. C. Leonard, resi
dent manager of the Sandow mills,
who was drowned in the Deschutes
river at Cove July 3, has been
found in the channel 12 miles be
low The Dalles.
I Miss Mary Miller, woman attor
ney of Chicago, recently received
$30,000 for legal services in a prom
inent case.
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HOW UNITED STATES LOOKS
THIS SUMIER FROM MARS
The Two Planets Closest for
Many Years by September
24, and Professor Skygack
Writes an Anxious Letter
to His Son Now Visiting
the Earth.
(From Solonmon Skygack. Ph.D.
Professor of Astronomy at the
University of Mars, to his son, Mr.
Skygack, Earth.)
(Meteorite Special)
ELYSIUM. Mars, July 15.—My
Dear Son: Such dire things seem
to be happening 'on the earth,
whither you went to pursue your
studies into the ways of the earth
beings, that methinks you are un
safe there and would do well to
return to Elysium. We astronomers
are now looking at the earth every
day, and our powerful telescopes
show us many wonderful things.
The two planets are approaching
closer than for many years.
You know two small moons, or
Septem 24, earth time, we will be
the closest to the place. Even
now the outlines of its strange,
barbaric lands are visible, but it
is not like the earth that you
have described and drawn.
The United States, where we
fear you are iv danger from the
strange savages that rove over
the' land, seems narrower and
longer than you describe it in your
maps. But we know that when
we get closer to that strange land:
by a few million miles we will
see it plainly.
Even now Professor Jimgack and
Professor Jackgack, who are with
me in my work, seem amazed at)
the size of the country. It seems to
have crooked canals, a fact that
shows the ignorance of tlie people
in not building them straight.
On the fourth of this month,
earth time, we saw a terrific ex
plosion through our big telescope,
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and
which seemed to last day and
night. Even now I am pained for
your safety.
During the day smoke poured
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it seemed as if the whole United
States was being blown up. Then
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A Mighty Crash in Regular Prices of Boys 9 Suits
m
We have taken all broken size ranges and pattern designs from our summer stock of boys' suits and
arranged them in two separate lots and put prices on them that one day's selling should completely
close them out.
$4.50
$7.50
$2.00 for Choice of All
White Oxfords. Values
up to $6.00 a Pair
at night strange fire filled the air,
and shooting stars and comets
seemed to rise up.
I hoped then that you were
wearing the asbestos suit that you
took along for just such a time
and that you are still alive.
We are all well here, and when
you come back, as I hope you will,
you must capture some of the
Strang people there and bring
them with you, for we would like
to observe them. Perhaps, in time.
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