Indian Chieftain

LIST OF THE INTRUDERS
Which the Secretary of the Interior Orders Removed.

A Washington dispatch of the 10th says: Following is the complete list of intruders, heads of families, who are to be removed from the Cherokee nation on the demand of the authorities of that tribe, together with their postoffice addresses and Indian districts in which they are located:

John C. Ward, Baptist, I. T.; Lumma Humphreys, Cincinnati, Ark.; Elizabeth Ward, Siloam Springs, Ark. (All located in Goingsnake district of the territory.)

Belle Lipe, Fort Gibson, I. T.; Hardin Blansette, Melvin, I. T.; John P. Hall, Sallisaw, (Illinois district.)

John E. Blaylock, Susan M. Smith and Thomas G. Parker and wife, all of Muldrow, I. T.

Geo. W. Walton, Cottonwood, I. T.; Joseph Sherman, Muldrow, I. T. (All of the Sequoyah district.)

William Crockett, John W. and H. T. Chastain, James W. Crockett, S. L. Crockett, post offices not known. (All of Delaware district.)

William Henry Moore, Tallulah, I. T.; S. M. Stubbs, Bluejacket, I. T.; Julius O. Hall, post office unknown; William L. Snyder, Bluejacket; Richard Peuffer, Henry M. Peuffer, William Smith, Cornelius or Alonzo Roberts, post offices unknown; Leo H. Singleton, Coffeyville, Kan.; Henry Myers, post office unknown. (All of Cooweescoowee district.)

Henry and Annie Smith, post office unknown. (Delaware district.)

Samuel Replogle, Texanna, I. T. (Canadian district.)

David B. Bryant, post office unknown. (Sequoyah district.)

This list is embodied in formal instructions today sent to Indian Agent Wisdom, of the Indian agency at Muskogee, I. T.

On June 30 the department granted authority for the employment, for not more than two months, of such number of Indian policemen, not exceeding sixty, as may be required in dispossessing twenty-eight intruders and their families in the Cherokee nation, who have been paid for their improvements. The agent is now directed to nominate these policemen for appointment, suggesting great care in selection.

The agent is directed to personally supervise the evictions and to turn over to the designated officer of the Cherokee nation the improvements from which intruders are ejected, calling on the Cherokee authorities to appoint representatives to assist him. A troop of cavalry will be detailed to support the government in the work.

In the removals the government authorities will be governed by the instructions that if intruders are merely dispossessed of the lands and all improvements illegally held by them it will be carrying out the spirit of the treaties and agreement of 1891, and will be a sufficient discharge of the obligations of the government thereunder and will be satisfactory to the Cherokee authorities. The agent is further directed to fix the date for beginning the actual removal and to give the intruders about thirty days' notice to permit possible voluntary relinquishments, at the same time letting them understand that otherwise they will be forcibly dismissed.

Of the twenty-eight included in the list of removals the following have taken appeal from the Dawes commission report:

John T. Baylock, Susan M. Brown, Joe Sherman, Geo. Walton, Sam Replogle, W. J. and H. T. Chastain.

The masters in chancery having given the appellants a favorable report, they will not be included in the removal order.