WEALTHY CHIEF.
WIFE OUTWITS STATE.SUIT TO RECOVER £500,000. When the oil boom struck the Middle West of the United States, Indian tribesmen were found to be owners of lands of vast value. By judicous selling, Chief Jackson Barnet, of the Cree Indians, became a multi-millionaire. Too much prosperity carried him off his feet when he started 15 years ago, buying up New York cabarets. In 1918 a watchful Government declared him incompetent, an incorporated America’s richest Indian into a trust company. Government officials managed his affairs so well that the old man, now 90, possesses untold wealth.
A few months ago Barnet ran off and married a stern-visaged white woman aged 60, who immediately found a court ’ process to dissolve the Government’s protectorate over her aged husband. The Court battle opened, with the Government trying to secure the return of £500,000 which Barnet transferred to his wife.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 268, 12 October 1932, Page 8
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147WEALTHY CHIEF. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 268, 12 October 1932, Page 8
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