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Perfect As They Can Corral,
MINING LEASES A SPECIALTY.
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Kansas City, Oct. ft.—A apodal from
Muskogee, I. T„ to the Journal aay>:
Tliia fact regarding conditions in
Indian Territory woe tvell Illustrated
by a rum beard before Indian Apront
Blair Shorn felt.    About the time
of the oil excitement iu the Bartlesville
district there waa a great demand for
leasee on oil land in that vicinity, and
these oil leases were sought both hy
experienced uicn and teuderfeet. 1'he
M— referred to wan that of an Indian
who bad entered iuto aix different
leaaca for Site oil right* on Ilia allot*
meat, each one of whom paid him
money ntui thought himaolf secure in
tho pons—shm of a fortune. But one
day the six lessees happened to meet
bad discovered from enoli other thet
Alter bed been buncoed by Alie “poor
Indian." end It wee to be a contest to
—e »*lio would be (1m winner end who
the loeer. Eeeh made application to
Colonel Shorn felt to have hie lease
approved, ami when they were all in e
hearing was ordered, end each su<>-
mltted the evidence obtainable to prove
that hie was the only reliable end
valid lease ia existence oo that piece
of lend, The attorneys tor, tlw Stand-
ard Oil company held oue of the leases
and put up a stiff fight to sustain their
fair reputation with their olivets.
Others just as astute, however, also
held leases, and when the evidenoe
Edltff Allotments To As M&ny Twi* I,,M submitted about tlie only point
j * - *    —.    -    -    that had been clearly established was
the fact that Poor Lo had entered into
si* leases where lie should have made
but owe, and had gotton a nice piece
of money from the “boys" who are
among the smartest and smoothest In
the Mouth west. No decision has been
rendered.
There are many casea similar to this
one, aud it is pretty generally admit-
ted among those who have had ex*
pcrieuce that thu man who gels the
best of an Indian or Creek negro must
bo a paatmaater in the art of grafting
if he doesn't get the worst of a deal
pretty often. There are many would
be grafters who hare conic to grief,
and have iu vested in experience uiany
thousands of dollars. One well known
banker of Kansas who has a weakness
for t.peculation on the side is said to be
In £3Q,oyo, and would bo glad to cash
out at CO oents on the dollar, lie made
a specialty of agricultural leases One
company here, in which Governor
Porter is eald to be largely iuterented,
U reported to be “ia the hole" about
880,060 on minor leases alone, if Judge
Raymond's decision le finally affirmed.
It is no scarel that practically every
uien hero who dabbled in agricultural
leasee on Indian lauds did so with the
expectation of grafting ou tba Indiana
and making ea*y riohes, but experienr.-i
has shown that it is a wise one, indi-eci,
who hae not paid for a lot of expert
*®M- The same tiling le true of Hi#
so-called “t^pt" companies thet are
ao numerous. It Is probably true that
some of them were inosrporated to
transact a legitimate business, but so
many were started oniy to pursue a
grafting policy that the very name has
becomes byword and almost a synonym
for graft end disrepute.
*• V- Smith ef Ms4srs
New York, Sept. 30.—VV. C. Smith,
pert owner and business manager of
Modern Mexico, a monthly magazine
published in this city in the interest of
trade between the United State# and
Mexico, is dead at Ids home here.
Maas— H«t«l Retard
New York, Oct I.—Fire has destroy-
ed the Prospect house at Buy Shore, L.
I. The lorn ws* S', 5,000. Fortunately
the hotel, which wo* largely patronized
during the summer, had just closed for
the season sad no person was injured.
“THERE’S NO KING LIKE DODO."
[Herd Timet Bring* Or Foreclos-
ure*, Receivership, Etc.
PROSPERITY CUTS OFF FEES.
Topslca, Oct “Only aix persona In
Kansas lines applied for admiaaion to
tha bur sines the now law took effect
in June, and the pro— is curious to
know why the number ia as small,'*
said a judge of the supreme court. “Of
course, I have nn opinion on the mat-
ter. I do not know whether it la cor-
rect, bnt it looks plausible to me. I
believe it is due in a great measure to
the general decline of legitimate law
business."
Why?"
‘That's another question. A lawyer,
you know, is busiest when other people
arc in trouble. Hard times brings on
litigation. There ure foreclosures, re-
ceivership <Mbies, bankruptcy coses, and
all that kind of stuff. Prosperity, of
course, brings on a certain amount of
commercial law business. Titers are
contracts to draw up, till— to investi-
gate, records to look up and ao on.
This (a what ia aalled office practice.
But for aome reason It do—n't keep tits
lawyers busy. Perhaps there era loo
many lawyers Prosperous limes make
business liglil in tlte courts People
will adjust and compromise their dif-
ferences and devote their time to mak-
ing more money, rather than to fight
over a small auin in diapute. When
linrd times come and they haven’t any
chance to make more money then they
will haggle over the email amount of
money ia dispute. Aoother thing that
tends to hurt Ilia law business Is the
wholesale consolidation of business en-
terprise* W lie n four or five firms,
each of which lisa a lawyer on an an-
nual salary, consolidate usually all the
lawyers but otic lose their jobs. One
lawyer will attend to the buaineas of
the consolidated concern where it took
five to do it before. It Is surprising
how many lawyers have lost good
clients in this way.
‘I fiud lawyers everywhere com-
plaining of poor business," said Con-
gressman Murdock, of Wichita. “One
of them showed mo the docket of the
McPherson district court Ilia other
day. It shows that only ono new case
lias been docketed there in three
months. Several lawyers have told me
that they wanted to go into the news-
paper businers. It is etrange, but
•rue, that the newspaper business
seems to have iucrcased iu proportion
to the decrease of the law business.
Lawyers realize it. In some of the
districts of Western Kansas a district
judge doesn't spend more than sixty
days a year now trying cases. In ono
district which has niuo counties, it
took the judge juat one day in each
county to clean up the docket on tho
laat round. He makes three rounds a
year. The only places where the
courts aro busy are in couutiea con-
taining big towns. The oourts la Wy-
andotte, Shawnee end Sedgwick are
kept grinding constantly. Hut these
districts ore exceptions to the rule.
Iu the rural districts there is scarcely
any litigation. Tho lawyora ere try-
ing to make botli ends meet by specula-
ting iu land or oil or gas.
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HINES IN WICHITA MOUNTAINS
A Wsalagt—
A heavy rain has checked the forest
fires In the northeastern portion of
Maine.
Newspaper dispatch: "It Is rumored In 1 onden that Kiu« Edward bat
fcti rnibed nol only to reign, but rule,”
The conveyor of the Southern Pacific
elevator at Galveston is destroyed by
fire. low*, fw.ooo.
President La throp of tho Pennsyl-
vania Coul A Colt* company, says tliat
wiiut littlo difficulty there is between
tho minors aud the operators is purely
local.
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•MSI# T*# QvsstA—.
Guthrie, Okie., Oct. A—If. p. lutn of
Washington, a geologist of the United
HUt— geological survey, has been de-
tailed to make a close Investigation |«
U»e Wichita meuntains ir* Oklahoma to
ae—rtaia If there are minerals there.
This investigation ia for tha purpose of
knowing what rights mineral claim-
ants have on lends now classed ee
agricultural, end the report of the
geologist will have mnuh weight in
disposing of filings made on such land
for mineral purposes.
Mr. Bain was lo arrive in the Wich-
ita mountains this week. Many filings
ha v* been made on land now held by
persons using the same for farming
purposes, end in a number of cases
serious trouble l sttvceu farmers and
miners has been narrowly averted.
Heretofore the interior department has
denied the rights of miners to mahe
entry op these lands, and it ift op ae-
J count of the strong pressure brought
.o bear in behalf of the miners that
the inveetigatiou was ordered. If the
report hi favorable holding that there
are minerals in the mountain; worth
mining, the miners will have won a
Tiotorjr. On the other hand, if tlia
report is adverse, no filing on land for
mineral purposes will I* allowed.
Brsalvs Vlada Nsw Graft.
Ardmore, I T., Sept. 3a—S. M. B.o-
•iiu, agent for the Indian Right*. Asso-
ciation, has discovered a new graft in
the Choctaw nation. A dozen mar-
riage brokers are mukltig a good thing
out of finding white husbunde for
Choctaw maidens and Choctaw maidens
for the white fortune hunters. Every
girl in the nation will receive 330 acres
of lend when the allotment i* made,
and in addition is entitled to about
82,MX) cash as one share in the tribal
funds on deposit ia the United .Mutes
treasury. The brohers oontraot to find
white husbands for a fee of from *35
to 1100.    1 he brokers then advertise
In eastern papers and collect from 82ft
to *250 from cuclt white man for whom
-bey find on Indian bride.
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