Volume 16 , Issue 26

1914 August 12 Believes Choctaws Will Win

The Daily Ardmorite, dated Wednesday, 12 August 1914, out of Ardmore, Oklahoma, had the following front page headline: Believes Choctaws Will Win. Governor Johnston thought treaty with the tribe would be adhered to . . . pleased with appointments.

Governor Johnston of the Chickasaw nation was in Ardmore, Oklahoma, on 12 August 1914, from his home at Emet. He was en route to Duncan, where he goes on a business trip. Governor Johnston was greatly pleased with the appointment of attorneys to look after the rights of the individual agents in the nation. The Chickasaw attorneys who would look after the probate matters of this tribe were J. B. Moore of Ardmore, Judge Woods of Prucell and Reford Bond of Chickasha. Governor Johnston said that three better men could not have been given these places. He was especially loud in his praise of J. B. Moore, for the manner in which he attended to tribal affairs and for the exhaustive reports which he made to the Interior department.

Mr. Bond had spent much of his time in Washington for the Indians, and the greater portion of the probate matters had been left in the hands of Judge Woods and Mr. Moore, and the governor was well pleased with the work of both of these men. He was of the opinion that Mr. Bond would be able to be of great service to the Indians in Washington. When Mr. Bond was given an opportunity to appear before the Indian committee of congress, the governor believed that he would be able to convince the committee of the injustice of the John Sharp Williams proposition, to open the rolls to the Choctaws still residing in Mississippi. The rolls were closed in 1907 and they could be reopened and payments to the Indians could be delayed only by the breaking of solemn treaty right provisions, and the governor believed the Choctaws would win out in their fight.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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