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KIDNAPPING FOR A MILLION
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Three years ago, Sam Clark,
editor of JIM JAM JEMS pub
lished the following story of the
looting of Barnett Jackson’s es
tate. Last November, 1928, the
United States Senate Committee
on Indian Affairs investigated
this same case, almost four years
later and the evidence introduc
ed substantiated the story as
written by “Jim Jam Jems, Jr.”
Clark is now with Whiz Bang
Bill, running another JIM JAM
JEMS. The question this publi
cation asks is What will he say
| 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.
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The siren was Anna Laura
Howe, made in Missouri, and
she cashed in on Jackson Bar
net a seventy-year-old dement
ed, millionaire Oklahoma Indian.
In our issue of January 1925
under the title of The “Pill” in
Pillage we casually mentioned
the Jackson Barnett case. It
fascinated us. We made further
investigations and here are the
results of as slick a schme as
was ever pulled in slick oildom.
Jackson Barnett is an old il
literate, demented full-blood
Creek Indian originally parked a
few miles out of Henryetta in
Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. He
can neither read nor write and1
his signature he affixes by thumb
print. When your Uncle Sam
was allotting land to his copper
hued nephews he handed Jack
son Barnett a rough bit of val
ueless looking real estate in what
is now Creek County, Oklahoma.
But fate ripped off the last syl
lable from valueless and the
Barnett bit of roughage proved
to overlay a lake of liquid gold.
Geysers of oil spouted from an
oil company”s’ drilled holes and
Barnett’s royalties alone landed
him in millionairedom with a
rush. “Crazy Jack” Barnett,
as he was commonly known, was
so notoriously demented, imbe
cile and incompetent that the
oil company didn’t dare take a
chance on his lease and on the
petition of his half brother he
was judicially declared incompe
tent and Carl J. O’Hornett of
Henryetta, Oklahoma, was ap
pointed his guardian.
“Crazy” Jack and his fabulous
wealth and his huge holdings of
Liberty Bonds became “front
page stuff” in the daily press.
His accentricities were explol t
ed and he was dubbed the ‘Indi
an Rockeffer.” Anybody could
and many smooth gentry did,
obtain checks, notes and other
obligations galore from “Crazy”
Jack”—all of course repudiated
by his guardian.
Then undulated into the scen
ario as slick a bit of femininity
as ever sharpened manicured
claws of predacity for mazuma
hooking. What she lacked in
pulchritude she made up by per
sistency and what she lacked in
beauty she made up by brass. We
refer to Anna Laura Howe a
double grass widow. Her first
wedded mate was a man named
Sturgis. A divorce resulted and
she married an aged man—
whom she thought wealthy—
named Lowe, who divorced her.
Twice this huntress had missed
the golden target and the third
time she determined to bulls
eye it.
Anna Laura Lowe had never
seen “Crazy Jack” Barnett but
she had heard of his wealth and,
like any yegg-man intent to
crack a safe, she packed up her
T. N. T. charms and lures and
hotfooted to Henryetta. Arrived
there she at once embarked in a
taxi and rolled out to “Crazy
Jack’ Barnett’s wickiup where
he dwelt in the charge of some
caretakers. Anna was a fast
worker. “Crazy Jack” in his de
mented senility was tickled pink
with the lures of the tempting
Anna. ’Twas all one with “Crazy
Jack" whether she wanted mon
ey or would listen to reason” and
this liaisonic kidnapping start
ed on high gear! “Crazy Jack’
at this very first meeting with
an utter stranger, embraced the
enticing Anna and the oppor
tunity to foregather with a
white siren. Immediately they
embarked in the taxi for Oke
mah, the county seat of an ad
joining county, where the fast
working Anna sought a marri
age license in order to marry
this demented bit of male senil
ity whom she had never before
seen. But “Crazy Jack” was too
well known at Okemah and the
authorities would not fall for
Anna’s license to annex him.
Anna then proceeded with her
prize to Holdenville, Oklahoma,
where again the officials would
not give her license to wed the
doddering old imbecile.
In the meantime—and the
darned meantime it was for the
[designing Anna—O’Hornett, the
guardian of “Crazy Jack” had
learned of the sirenic Anna’s do
ings and compelled her to return
his ward to his wickiup and his
caretakers. Also O’Hornett per
sonally interviewed her in detail
ing Anna, notified her in detail
as to his ward’s condition, that
he was incompetent and under
the guardianship and warned
her to cease her enticements.
Ostensibly Anna acquiesced
but really her determination to
clip the golden fleece from
“Crazy Jack” only hardened. In
about three weeks she again
surged into the scenario at night
in a high-powered automobile
from Tulsa, Oklahoma, driven
by Alvin L. Morehead of Tulsa,
accompanied by his wife. Again
“Crazy Jack” fell for her entice
ments, entered the automobile
and was swiftly driven through
the night about 150 miles to
Coffeyville, Kansas—beyond the
Oklahoma state line where
guardian O’Hornett and Okla
homa courts had no jurisdiction.
From there she went to Inde
pendence, Kansas. There she
wheedled the authorities out of
a license, to wed the demnted
Indian and returned to Coffey
ville where a pretended marri
age ceremony was performd. She
had her talons fastened to her
prey.
To be Continued
WHAT IS THE BIOLOGICAL
SURVEY FOR?
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Last summer an old time Al
askan was out at Port Alexand
er. Wandering around the bays
in that district he noticed fresh
deer hides floating about the
bays. Examining a number of
them he found them to be all
doe. Taking another man with
him he went scouting one day
and saw several boats up on
the beach with no owners pres
ent. L ater after the boats were
gone he found seven doe hides
floating about the bay. (The
men who were hunting were
alien fishermen from Oregon
and Washington.) He reported,
the matter to a fish warden with
the request that It be forward
ed to the Biological Survey. This
was done but no action came of
it. Later both men protested in
the office of Mr. Terhune at
Juneau the lack of action on the
part of that office and depart
ment. The reply was “We did
not have anyone we could send
down there.’ One of the men re
plied “You could at least have
sent one of these women down
there. I am sure she would have
done much better than any oi
your men.” Still with all of the
evidence, photographs and wit
nesses, the Bioligical Survey has
done nothing.
But wait—until some Alaskar
does these things and they wil
threw the book at him. It seems
that the bureaucrats want tc
drive all permanent residents
away from Alaska.
DO YOU SELL FISH
TO JUNEAU??
Mr. Troller, do you sell your
king salmon to the Juneau Cold
Storage? If you do, the next
time you sell there, ask Mr.
Wallis and Mr. George what
their representative Mr. Bert
Faulkner was doing before the
legislature when the tax on
alien fishermen was before that
body? Mr. Faulkner opposed the
tax on alien fishermen at the
instance of the Juneau Cold
Storage. He was so darned ig
norant of the question he was
trying to present that the legis
lators before he got through
with his presentation, refused to
give him any further serious
consideration. He wanted the
competition of alien fishermen
in order that they might lower
the prices on salmon to a point
where fishermen cannot make a
living.
LEGISLATIVE MAJORITIES
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The plunderbund press of Ju
neau is making much fuss over
the House majority of the re
cent legislature on the presump
tion that this majority is right.
We quote the following by Ar
thur Brisbane in the Hearst
press: “A legislative majority is
not always right. The size of
jthe majority adds nothing to
the evidence on that score. Le
islatures reverse themselves on
many occasions, yielding to rea
sons and counsel conveyed in a
veto message. Disappointing re
sults do not call for a change
in a system that has been found
generally satisfying and just.”
The House majority took its
orders from Joe Murray who
took his orders from representa
tives of the mining and canning
interests. In spite of campaign
pledges they opposed every pro
gressive move with the end that
the people should rule their
own affairs in the territory.
Rather they preferred the pres
ent federal bureaucratic ma
chine to elective officials and
fought for its perpetuation un
til forced by the Senate to
change front or lose some pet
legislation.
FREE TIMBER TO BE ALLOWD
TO SETTLERS
same for logging and clearing
operations. The ruling with re
spect to reserving timbered areas
for the settler was securd by Mr.
Ohlson while in Washington.
While as pointed out, the best
farming land contains birch,
there are large areas so situated
that they would not be required
by the settler, at least for a
number of years. It is from
these areas that timber and pulp
wood organizations may secure
raw material by purchase, from
the government, while at the
same time purchasing additional
timber from settlers.
This very plan has been advo
cated in the immediate past by
this paper in articles by E. S.
Hungerford. That Mr. Ohlson
sees fit to try such a program in
Western Alaska will be pleasing
to all Alaskans. Better yet, the
same plan should be carried on
throughout the entire Alaska
and settlers be given immediate
benefit of the same plan. That
the plan is worth while and
feasible along the railroad no
one can deny; that the First Di
vision would benefit through the
same plan is not open to ques
tion. The Anchorgae division
and the railroad belt are not en
titled to any more consideration
than other divisions. If the plan
of allowing settlers to sell or
hold timber holdings on home
steads is permissible in one di
vision, it certainly is proper that
other divisions should be grant
ed the same relief from the au
tocracy of the forestry service,
go far toward defraying the ex
pense of developing the farm .
A lot of railroad equipment
will be loaned to settlers, obvi
ating necessity of purchasing
have a valuable crop already
standing which may be “harves
ed” while he is clearing his land,
and the returns from which will
JUST A LITTLE DIVIDEND
The Kennecott Copper Com
pany earned $10.03 a share in
1928 on 4,552,036 shares of old
stock before th two for one split
up. Earnings of this company
in 1927 were $6.23 a share.
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