Years ago the Government held in
ti list certain money for the Cherokee
Indians. It spent the money, but,
acting honestly toward the Indians,
conveyed them an extensive tract of
land in wbat has since become the
State *f Kansas. The land lying Bn
occupied was taken up by settlers
in good faith, and, of course, in igno
rance that it was not an open part of
the public domain. Now that the
land is nearly all improved, and far*
mors suppose they’ own it, up comes
the Indian claim. This claim could
be paid if farmer* would buy their
own land at little more than a dollar
an acre, while much of the land is
worth liity dollars per acre, itnme*
] diately a big job i* concocted, and
! the land is sold to some favorite of
\ the politicians in power for enough
| to discharge the Indian claim, and
i this gigantic jobber is at liberty to
make what heartless bargain he may
<>r can with the settlers. Jobbing
has invadi d nearly every sphere of
our public life, has corrupted popular
taith in all directions, and now it aims
at the very basis of the vitality of the j
West and undermines the faith ot the ;
emigrant and settler in tin- title to!
his lands
T. is. 1 axes i\ the Third District
l’he Riehiaud County Sentinel savs
the annual list.* made* by the l\ S.
