A meeting of all the County Judges in the State to make plans for an organized fight against the encroachment of the United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs has been called to meet Tuesday, Sept. 5, in Oklahoma City by Judge Hugh Murphy, of Okmulgee county.
A meeting of all the County Judges in the State to make plans for an organized fight against the encroachment of the United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs has been called to meet Tuesday, Sept. 5, in Oklahoma City by Judge Hugh Murphy, of Okmulgee county.
No meeting of the county judges has been held for at least two years, Judge Murphy says in the letters which he is mailing to the county judges of Oklahoma that the county judges of the state of Oklahoma can render a great service to the people of this state by standing together, taking such action as will resist any encroachment by any power whatsoever, which has for its purpose the assailing of the jurisdiction of the county courts, as has been threatened by the commissioner of Indian Affairs of the United States.
While the encroachment on the probate work of the county court in cases of unrestricted has been particularly obnoxious in Okmulgee County, in the Jackson Barnett and Richmond Bruner cases, as well as in others Judge Murphy said, the same thing is happening in four other counties, particularly Osage, Tulsa and Creek, wherever there are Native Americans with money.
Judge Murphy said that the county judges of Oklahoma have the support and active help of most of the members of the bar in Oklahoma and he believes that after the statewide meeting in Oklahoma City next month the Indian department will be forced to back up on some of its recent rulings. He has been assured of entertainment in the capital, and expects every judge.
