Van Buren Argus Crawford County, Arkansas September 16, 1908 MANY CHEROKEES WERE IN CITY YESTERDAY >From Sunday’s Daily Visitors to Van Buren were surprised yesterday morning to see small groups of Indians on the streets and about the court house lawn, quite a number of them being well known to our merchants as they have in the past bought their supplies here as well as sold their cotton on our markets. There were fully fifty of them, men, women and children, a few of them being full-blooded. The most of them could talk English, especially the men. Mr. Andy Rogers, one of the best known Cherokees in Eastern Oklahoma, acted as spokesman for the party, and when interviewed by the Argus reporter on the court house lawn explained that their presence here was due to the fat that they had been instructed to report here yesterday morning by the government and establish their claims to certain moneys to be disbursed among the Eastern Cherokees. Several years ago in the Court of Claims what is known as the Eastern Cherokees, were allowed a claim amounting to $4,500,000 or about $300 per head, and the proofs required now is that relating to the minors who have the right to participate in the distribution of this amount. Just when the money will be distributed among the claimants is not known, but Mr. Rogers was satisfied it would be within a short time. Fran Alverson Warren e-mail: alverson@valuelinx.net 479-369-2703 http://www.crawfordcountyarkansas.net/