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n é » THE LEADER, GUTHRIE, OKLA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY eS —————————————————————————— EE ——— d Off The Osage Back| SSS eine |Lift The Loa Oklahoma is inured more or less to’ Indian | for blocks; the decomposed body of Ann mistreatment. It takes the revelations of ' Brown lying in a ditch near Fairfax, murders such as occurred in the Osage case | bullet hole through her head; the froze to awaken we Oklahomans to real facts as body of Henry Roan Horse sitting erect 1 owe . va, 28 auto with a bullet through his head— they exist in the Osage nation. There ify” All these and many other lives have bec one inescapable ‘fact, murders were tom! sacrificed for greed in the wealthy Osag mitted for greed and gain in the Osage. | nation. tae Ye We may defend this or that person who; . We should give thorough hearing an. is accused of murder; we may declare that | fair trial. We.should make no unfounde the situation is being sensationally played : accusations or presumptions. by the newspapers and we maj insist that We properiy should deplore and criticiz the “ring” is a myth. ~ wild writers who drift off their subject ar: But when we Gklahomans take tia: atti- | depict Oklshoma as an untamed area some .tude we are only kidding ourselves. and | where west of the Mississippi. ‘ giving a defense to those who are pillaging | But again, we should not be too blesr i Osage wealth. : We have a house to clean, murders to solv. MURDER HAS. BEEN“COMMITTED IN The attitude of ridicule for what is bein: THE OSAGE NATION FOR GREED AND | investigated and depreciation of the in GAIN, *+ vestigation, will do more than anythin; | That is sufficient to warrant a thorough’ else to safely fence up the guilty and nro investigation and publicity, hurt who it tect them from justice. may’. . ! Murder has been committed in the Osap: The wreckage of the W. E. Smith home and comt What will, touch whom it may at Fairfax with bits of human bodies strewn the guil:y should be brought to justice. ee _-