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KIDNAPPING I OR A MILLIO?
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Three years ago, Sam Clark
editor of JIM JAM JEMS pub
| lished the following story of th<
looting of Barnett Jackson’s es
tate. Last November, 1928, th(
United States Senate Committet
on Indian Affairs investigatec
this same case, almost four yean
later and the evidence introduc
ed substantiated the story a*
written by “Jim Jam Jems, Jr.’
Clark is now with Whiz Bans
Bill, running another JIM JAM
JEMS. The question this publi
cation asks is What will he saj
if he reads the Senate investiga
tions and the mass of evidence
introduced to show the crooked
ness of the Indian Bureau from
reservation “mules” to Burke
recently deposed head of that
Bureau.
This is a true tale of how a
sleek adventuress put the “sigh”
in siren and cashed in on it
slicker than an eel in a barrel of
soap suds.
* * *
On the pretext of. arranging
for the purchase of a home for
“Crazy Jack” Barnett and his
astute spouse Harold McGuigan
of Coffeyville, Kansas, attorney
for the slick Anna, hove into the
Washington offing. An then the
plot broadened and thickened
and thickened into a scheme to
distribute practically all of
“Crazy Jack’s” money then
swollen to over $1,100,000. Inci
dentally M. L. Mott, formerly an
attorney for the Creek Nation
drew down a fee of $15,000 for
hazarding an opinion that il
“Crazy Jack” should die, Anna,
claiming to be his wife would be
entitled to one-half of his es
tate. Then fearing that the so
called marriage might be annul
led and then fearing that a
Will of “Crazy Jack’s made in
Anna’s favor might be declared
void search was made for a half
blood Creek Indian baby to be
palmed off on “Crazy Jack” as
his own offspring.
But the complacency of In
dian Commissioner Burke reliev
ed the schemers from carrying
out any of these devices.
By a thumb print letter of
“Crazy Jack’s” and with tile con
sent of Indian officialdom $200,
000 was handed over to the Riggs
National Bank of Washington in
trust for the fair Anna and $350,
000 more was given her. There
was $550,000 in dividends for as
slick a matrimonial lottery as
was ever staged. Some of the
$500,000 further was handed ov
er to the Equitable Trust Com
pany of New York for other pur
poses. But we are concerned
with the fair Anna.
Soon after this division was
made she hotfooted with “Crazy
Jack” out to Sunkist California
wliere grafting—of trees and
other tilings—is good, for there
was still quite a remnant of
“Crazy Jack's” fortune left.
Arrived in California Anna
signed a sworn petition to have
“Crazy Jack” declared incom
petent and to have herself ap
pointed guardian of his person
and a trust company appointed
guardian of his estate! When
she went through a s o-called
marriage ceremony in Kansas,
“Crazy Jack” v/as competent and
when he distributed a million
dollars by thumb print letter in
Washington whereby she an
nexed $550,000 lie was compe
tent, wasn’t he? But having
been stripped of a million, al
most immediately thereafter he
was “incompetent.”
Pursuant to this scheme some
$154,000 of the remnant of
“Crazy Jack’s” fortune was sent
to Washington from Oklahoma
for final slaughter. One $50,00C
voucher the Oklahoma guardian
O’Hornett stopped by an injunc
tion suit. But $550,000 was land
ed in California by the Indian
office at Washington. The In
dian office wouldn”t recognize
an Oklahoma guardianship bul
it would immediately stencil its
approval on a California guard
ianship $55,000 worth.
i In the meantime suits have
oeen brought in Washington
and in New York in addition to
. one one in Oklahoma to test the
> legality of this annexation of
. Crazy Jack’s" fortune,
i Look over now and don’t over
( iook the highlights of this scen
[ ario of despoilment. There lies
; beside us as we write a copy of
the Confidential Report made by
i an Inspector of the United
1 States Government to the Com
; missioner of Indian Affairs on
; this sirenic adventuress. It
traces her movements over a
term of years from city to city
and from state to state. It
shows that she was not only a
courtesan but was a soliciting
courtesan, a typical NYMPH DU
PAVE. It details her movements,
it names some of her para
mours,, it names hotels where
she carried on liaisons, it names
hotels from which she was ex
cluded because of her brazen
conduct. This confidential Re
port shows this woman to have
been a hardy adventuress and
always for the dirty drachmas
to be gained thereby.
And yet in the very face oi
that Confidential Report the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs;
—paid to piuteco Indians from
despoilment—p ermitted this
conscienceless courtesan to get
away with the stupendous sum
of $550,000 from a demented
senile Indian!
f rom a common courtesan
prostituteing for hire, haunting
hotels, making dates through
negiO bell-boys and holding up
her victims, to lolling in Sunkist
California with an ample for
tune is quite a jump, isn’t it?
, But Anna made it, thanks to In
Idian Affairs officialdom, paid
to prevent just such friskings.
We leave it to you if it does
n’t make a tax-payer, taxed to
pay such bureaucratic boobs, hot
under the collar, hot enough to
bake his Adam’s Apple?”
Editorial Note:—Last Novem
ber Senate Committee Investi
gations of this case substan
tiates every word of this article
written four years ago. It goes
even farther. Evidence was pre
sented by the Department of
Justice showing that it was foil
ed and circumvented in its effort
to protect “Crazy Jack” by the
machinations of Charles H.
Burke, Commissioner of Indian
Affairs; tliat he used Barnett’s
money for attorney fees to legal
ize the acts of this adventurous.
And, when after three years of
investigation, Department of
Justice was ready to present to
an Oklahoma grand jury evi
dence of conspiracy to defraud
this Indian by Burke and others,
he appealed to Dr. Work, then
Secretary of the Indian Interior
as follows:
“** Iearnestly hope that at an
early date you will bring this to
the personal attention of the
Attorney General and express
the hope tliat he will detail some
unprejudiced official who will
make an honest, thorough, and
fair invstigation, with a view
to having the legal questions
speedil settled by final decision
of the courts and to determine
whether there is even probable
justification for a grand-jury in
vestigation.”
Dr. Work’s reply to this was a
telegram to Attorney General
Sargent as follows: “Indictment
of Commissioner Burke in Okla
homa threatened. Please have
it stayed. Mrs. Burke is critical
ly ill.” And evidently Mrs. Burke
never recovered for tJie case has
“stayed,” and Mr. Burke was al
lowed to resign (before charges
were filed) and he has again
been honored with an honorable
position. What’s wrong with
robbing an imbecile, senile, in
competent Indian?
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MAKING A WORLD OF
HYPOCRITES
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Volstead prohibition is mak
ing a large number of its advo
1 cates narrow and intolerant
and is making a world of hypo
crites.’ It is also making pro
hibition officers “Cossacks.”
Observe how President Hoov
er’s plea for “reverence for law'
is observed by these Cossacks
Note how they “Choose which
law they shall obey and which
they violate.
In Abingdon, Va., a 16-yeai
old college student is driving
lawfully about his business
Three dry officers “suspect” he
has liquor in his car. So they
shoc-t him dead, in cold blood
violating every law of the coun
try and of humanity. Afterward,
it is found that there is no li
quor in the car, and the dry
agents, with a shrug of their
shoulders, admit it is just too
bad. And will the government
seek to punish these Cossacks
for violating the law? It will
not! It will protect them. State
attorneys will defend them—if
they are brought to trial. That
is the law—and you are suppos
ed to reverence it. How can a
, citizen reverence the law when
'those who enforce it wilfully
and callously violate it—and are
defended against punishment by
the government. — JAMES R.
LITTLE.
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A BUM JOKE
“The Gateway’s attitude to
ward bureaus should certainly
be well known by this time; to
us they don’t mean anything.”
Aside from inconsistent “bu
reacratic litany” when they are
not stepping on the federal bri
gade’s pet corns they probably
tell the truth.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
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“The legislature ended last
night in a blaze of oratory and
disagreement,” reported the
News-Miner, “and our Agricul
tural College and School of
Mines is left for the next two
years without enough money to
pay the caretaker to see that it
is not burned to the ground, or
to pay insurance on the build
ing. According to the news
from Juneau some one blunder
ed. Who it was is not known
to us, but the facts will ‘out’ in
time. The legislature was evi
dently willing to vote money but
not the limit demanded by
some of our boys and rather
than take less than the limit
whoever it was forfeited every
thing. Aside from that the
death of the legislature is not
regrettable.” News-Miner.
Of the million or two that has
gone into an institution which
has an enrollment less than a
lot of mediocre colleges in the
states and graduates less, what
good comes of that famous in
stitution aside of t^e benefit to
the federal demo machine?
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A QUERY OF INTEREST
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Upon purchase of the power
of the power and light company,
certain interests in Ketchikan
rejoiced about the new capital
that was coming into Alaska.
There is food for thought.
Did Foshay’s bring new capit
al into Ketchikan and Alaska or
was not the capital already
there?
Then should Ketchikan be
grateful for NEW money?
! RAISE NATURALIZATION FEES
i Beginning July 1 a different
schedule of fees will be charged
persons making declarations of
citizenship.
The fee for filing declaration
of intention will be raised to $5
from $1.00; $10.00 will be charg
ed for filing the petition instead
of $4.00 and if legal entry la
must be verified a charge of $5
will be made. There is no charge
for the latter service. Each ap
plicant must furnish two pho
tographs of himself.
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