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| ie bs Heme 9. mie Wewright. 00 apr re; USES, ra ifupphenert this yague letter with more ‘datinite int Peg fh. Bit shall *econe available." . eo a et 18, LS20, the followin g letter, woitten on the 8° Bd et te ee pe ps Pe a ae) eS eet WRTCHD, Superintendent of the geage T. Ge 205 rieody; a ‘Pewhasce, Okla ‘ 7 a , , “o . nh f aeatha ations os acial attention is neredy oy tea to the nunber o 23] Rend ere of the Ceage sribe of Indians yegiding in the Gown and’ vieini 25'.0 OF Fairfax o¢ouring during the past two years under conditions end 26) "Pum stances suggesting wilful murder, | : 28 od @-citizens of our Sewn have beeoce alarned by the , explosion effente 297s the “house of i. BE. and Retta Smith in the heart of the rasigence 30] section of our Tom oes night of Harch 9th, in which Retty4Smith: 31}-‘and her servant, NettieéBrockshire yvete killed, end ¥. BE. Smith wae 321 , Seriously injured. mT x" Be F338 2 sit ogeurs cS us that the resources of the De: sartment of the Inter ior Ae Bud of the Derpartoent of Justice ouzht to ue avai latie for the purpoas : “of suppressing thig sontinuous murder-of the Osares, and of ferreting: 4 gut “eee facta of thase atrocious honiedides, 32] 6 “vigorous inves sigation from these Departments of covernnent might SOCSgeal the motive that is prompting these deatructiongs of life and ot “"Serty, and a meas wleresby the future “operations at these dasp ae 427 “sharacters might s@ trvarted.— - a4). We appeal for your sarnest and Vigor eus suptort in our ‘efforts to br tel *““the oriminals to justice, and te forestall further destruction of iife. is a and property in our community." _ ‘et ¥ 7 _ Om Maroh 20, 1923, the following resolu tion Naunber Tw anty~Two ty’? a the Osage tribal Vounoil and sopies Shereot forwarded to the Ronorabie | 3h S345 BY gicre! fary of the Tnterior: by - Reso1 ition No. £E . Y eRRELS several sembers of the Osnge Trike have been ‘murdered ‘dh 4 “She last few mor the and miny other crimes committed against me: ners a aan of tha tribe, and, | An oe epee naa Toh _ EES