“The Osage Indians are becoming so rich that something will have to be done about it.”
So says Washington, and, acting accordingly, plans are being discussed even now for heading off a torrent of gold which is flowing to the Osage Indian reservation in the state of Oklahoma.
No Osage medicine man, with his incantations and prophecies, nor any Osage kettle woman, with her village jokes and her jesting songs, could ever have imagined the thing that has happened to this tribe of Indians. Even Uncle Sam himself, wiser than Indian village wise men, could not foresee it, which…