Letters, January-July 1907

(ca. 76 items: letters) Letters are addressed to Edward M. Wistar. correspondents include: Charles Anderson; Samuel M. Brosius; Francis H. Brown; Nathan Brown; R.S. Burnett; P.H. Cathey; John W. Clark (National Indian Assoc.); Abner Coppock; Irvin C. and Ethel L. Dickinson; John M. Doan; J.A. Dunbar; T.C. Dunbar; J.H. Furnas; Merrill E. Gates; J.E. and Laura Hartsuck; William P. Haworth; George D. Hilyard; Allen Jay; David P. Johnson; William W. Johnson; Rachel Kirk; Charles F. Larrabee; Francis E. Leupp; John Nicholson; James S. Sloat; Francis A. White; D.A. Williams; Egerton R. Young

Topics discussed include: in general, news of the various missions and the people stationed at them, especially in the letters of John Nicholson and William P. Haworth; obtaining patents in fee for land among the Absentee Shawnee Tribe, Kickapoo Tribe, and Otoe-Missouria Tribe, Oklahoma, occupied for religious purposes by the Assoc. Ex. Com. of Friends on Indian Affairs (see letter from Leupp, 1.9.1907, and others); vacancy at mission to the Modoc Nation to be filled by Mahlon E. and Nellie A. Davis; Bentley and the Kickapoo people; Bentley is launching an investigation (with the help of Senator Teller) to try and show that it is the Indian Office in Washington that is wronging the Kickapoo people and not himself, Brosius wants to line up witnesses (E. Test, Haworths, etc., see S.M.B.'s letters of 2.15.1907, 4.10.1907, 4.15.1907); conditions at Skiatook School, Hillside, Ind. Terr.; serious problems at mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe, R. Stevenson Burnett bought a stock of store goods to sell and put his brother John in charge of it, John allegedly made "improper proposals" to Julia Burnett, R.S. and Julia both claim that John secretly drugged Julia and R.S. allegedly tried to kill his brother (see letter of Haworth, 6.1.1907); also letters of support and nonsupport for R.S. Burnett from residents there also letters addressed to: George N. Hartley, from: Samuel M. Brosius (typed copy) re: Haworth testifying against Bentley William P. Haworth, from: M.E. Davis at mission to the Modoc Nation Francis E. Leupp, from: Samuel M. Brosius (typed copy) re: Native Americans and management of their land "the sisters at Kickapoo mission," from: T.C. Dunbar re: Burnett situation