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. AO cof Biashington, A. C_ 2 ee gb pee Ad te We ot - : November 6, 1932. _ , MURDER ON INDIAN RESERVATION 7 ‘ t _ . - ’ oA ry r . , The Osage Indian country lies in the Osage hills, situated in the. northeastern part of Oklahoma, a beautiful rolling country covered with tall, green limestone erass, and considered the finest cattie grazing coun try in © the world. = the Osage Indian Reservation, which is identical with Ovare County, Oklehona, consists of a million and a half acres of Indian allotted Land, is. the largest county in the State, being larger in arco than the entire State of Delaware. It is bounded on the southwest by the Arkansas River, und - reaches from Tulsa, Cklshama, on the south to Poncs City on the north, a . distance of approximately sixty miles. It is also sixty milcs in width at “its widest point. To give an additionol idca of its immensity, it contains over sixtoen hundred public schools. nee This reservation was acquired by the Cheroksc Treouty fram the Charokec Indians July 9, 1866. The county scat at the time of the cvunts | related was Puwhuska, having a population of cight thousand. Othor toms end villages in the county arc Fuirfax, Grayhorse, Hominy, Tynona, Forshing, Skiatook and Nelagoncy. va The Osuge Indian jgoncy, with headquartors ut Pachuska, supord .$onds the affairs of the Osage Indians, and attonds to the disbursing of amounts due thom. Tho sgoncy is in turn under the Commissioner of Indian © Affairs, handling the affairs of all Indian trib::s under the protection of | the ‘United States Gevornment, this Commission being undur the dircet supor- Vision of the Dopurtmont of tha Intorior. x Ry rn cnactnent of 1907, head rights for 2,229 dcly cnrolicd = mam ors of tho Csuso tribe were creatod. This number of hoad rights reneine” 7a ionary, although the actual number of the tribs may introase or deers and*warious Osuge Indians drav rovemue from or aro nllottad tracts of Land based “upon thoir hund rights. The original allotmert to cxch Orang. I din