J
TIIE I IjTjTJSTI? ArrED BEE.
on tho BUbJcct Is that $5,000 la an under- rr
estlmnto for tho tribal right ulono, while "WO
ninny of tho girls havo property besides.
Tho Indlnn girl has genorully selected her
vocation before shu Is 20. Shu nmrrles early
and settles down caBlly to tho duties of
domestic life. Or, If she Is going on the
stage, and many of them do, shu has com
pleted arrangements for It whllu still In
her teens. Others enter special fields where
they bulleve that their talent will win them
fame. All aro ambitious, none aru slug
gish. Tho wedding of an Indian girl Is the
crowning glory of her life. Shu makes much
of It and her frlendB for hundreds of miles
around aro sure to attend. Tho ceremony
Is mado as striking as possible, and theru
Is a degreu of formality and stylu not ex
ceeded In the most fashionable of city wed
dings, though, of course, on a smaller scale.
Tho Indian maiden who has tho roputa
Mnrcli 3, 11)01.
Crises in
Life of Roosevelt
(Copyright, 1101. by ICdward Marshall.
Theodoro Hooaevelt'B latest book Is called
"Tho Strenuous Life." Ho Is tho man to
write such a book, for his own life Is fitly
described by tho adjective. It has been my
good luck to have seen hlin during two of
his most strenuous momenta.
When ho was first under llro In warfare.
When ho was Inaugurated governor of
Now York state.
of wounded men were lying under a big
tree. The group constituted the so-called
"field hospital." 1 was one of tho vic
tims, ltooscvclt caino around, and he was
Infinitely tender and kind. The men wor
shiped him. He went among us as we
lay there on blankets In the damp, sweet
Miuelllng grass, anil gave us u llttlo Scotch
whisky which he had In a medicine bottle.
For every man ho had a pleasant word,
and he knew each one's name. Ills sym-
t'i right, 1W1, by V. It. Oration
From tho Intermingling of the white and
tho rrd blond "in thu Indian Territory
there has giown up a race which tor
thu beauty and graco of Its women Is not
surpassed over tho length and breadth of
thu land. It has seemed utmost Impossible
to divorcu thu Indian girl of tho present,
In the mind of thu public, from thu story
book Miuaw on tho ouu hand, and on thu
other from tho besotted Indian women
whom ouu hovs squatting about thu rail
road stations throughout Arizona and Now
.Mexico. Hut thu girls of thu Indian Ter
ritory aru of a dllturenl ilk from either.
They aru no muru thu wild, uutamablu,
dUHky beauties of early Mellon than they
aro thu rum-soaked beasts of burden of
modem fact. They are to ull Intents and
purposes on thu samu piano with whllu
women of education and refinement, uxcopt
that uoiuo strain of thu wild, strong, In
dian blood runs In tliolr veins and gives lu
them a tin go of richer color, a brighter
uyu, n more lissome gracu thun their whllu
Haters possess, and It Is an undoubted act
that whero they cumu Into social competi
tion with thu whlto girls thu lattur go to
tho wall and become wall flowers.
Reckoned In fractions of blood, thesu In
dian beauties aro more Caucasian than ab
original American. All of them, however,
aro Indians, politically and socially; they
hold firmly to their membership hi thu
tribes. Many of them aru uuu-(uartur, oi
onu-uighth, or oven ono-slxteuuth or ono-thlrly-scLond
Indian, but thu red strain Is
thu stronger and shows, if not lu sumo
lingering richness of color or In tho mold
ing of thu face, still lu an all but liidolln
abiu fascination and giaco, tho heritage or
u forest people. Among them ouu may
Had perfect blondes, with thu Indian strain
mill saltern and palpable. And, although
t hoy havo succumbed to thu corset of an
alleged civilization, lu almost nil cases they
have their less trammeled ancestresses to
thank for thu blessing of wollulgh per
fect llgures. And ouu other of woman's
host gifts they possess clear and low
voices, with not a trace of thu guttural in
tonation which Is common to ull original
Indian tongues. Ualsed amidst scenes of
tho bloodless contiuests of their race by
tho whites, they look without concern upon
tho destruction of tribal customs and thu
thinning and dying out of thu old blood.
To this last thuy uvuu contribute, for so
rarely Is It that ouo of them marries tin
Indian that such an event Is commented
upon In thu turrltury as a remarkable
thing.
l.utVN AriiIiin) liileriiinrrliiuc
Hetoro tho mlddlu of last century a
Cherokee woman ouo day mot a hunter In
tho foroHt. She became frightened at hU
whlto skin and Hod', thinking him an uvli
spirit. Hut liu was fascinated by her
beauty and pursued her into camp, where
ho learned that shu was tho daughter of a
friendly chief, so this hunter laid slegu
to tho heart of tho dusky belle and finally
gained her consent to marry him accord
lug to tribal customs then lu vogue. This
hunter and his suuaw raised a halfbreed
iaw nation tl..uge $1,000 for a llionsi'.
while the others only ask $10.
I'Vtv 111 ! MiirrlnucM.
Thuro Is good reason for these laws
Many fortune hunters, attracted by the
wealth of tho Indian maidens, have lu tli
past mat rii d Into the tribes and gained
control of large tracts of laud, fostered
outlaws and raised bad families. Thor
were few happy marrlagta, and not until
t hint irnnn In flnhii n llin rnrroMtinntlntit
of a Now York dally and learned that the I"lhetlc syllablis were cut olf as closely
Hough aiders woro to go to tho front the uf luus" characteristic teeth as were the
tlon of being tho hollo of tho territory Is day "her I landed. I also learned through "or" "l Uls nuiruaii car spoccuos miring
... ... 4 ... ..... . . - ... llin riwiitii I on ttt ttn I irti Km t f liu v limn n t ft 1 fit
.miss Tuoknh Turner, whoso Indian iinnm 1,10 uorriiiciiiy prorano remarks or an oiucer " v.... .,......,
Is Pretty Whirling Water. Sho has not thnt Lieutenant Colonel Hoosevelt had no
only beauty, but possesses all tho nccom- saddle, nlthough ho had a horse. I had no
plIshmentB of thu Mulshed product of n fash- horse, but had soveral saddles. It was my
ionnblo school. In another sense she Is the privilege to send a Baddlu to the colon 1
greatest catch In tho Indian matrimonial which I hnvo never seen since. Perhaps
that may havo had Its effect on the fact
that I was permitted to go to the fr nt
with tho regiment and bo present at Its
first light. At any rato I went.
It occurred tho next morning.
There woro only a few men who knew
mnrket, for sho will come lu for n largo
sllco of tho fortune of her father, W, C.
Turner of Muskogee, a mllllonnlro cattle
mnn. Miss Turner Is a Cherokee and Is
said to bo well versed lu thu traditions
and legends of the tribe, wherein sho Is
tho wise men cf the tribes met nnil passed different from the majority of tho Indian Just when wo would bo fired upon. 1 had
an ni t making every whlto man show hln girls. Another Cherokee hello Is Mrs. a shrewd guess of It, and, of course, the
credentials befrre a license was Issued was Knchol IJavls-llrady of the Georgia Chero- colonel did also. Certain signs n dead
there a hetlrrmeut of theno conditions. Tho keo branch. She enmu to the territory only Cuban and boiiio abandoned cnmpllres were
character of each applicant was carefully ten years ago, but she belongs there by salient. Wo found these signs, but for a
examined before ho was admitted. For bov- ancestry, ns shu Is of tho famous Uoss fam- whllu theru was no shooting. Colonel
oral years thereafter respectable and In- lly, tho head of which, Joshua Hobs, was Hoosevelt stood In a breach lu a barbed
dtistrlous whlto men married Into these for forty yenrs chief of the tribe and was wire fence. I was lying in tho grovo on
tribes and their children married whlto.i. ono of tho most Intelligent nnd progressive tho other side of tho trail, resting, as I
It was so on down thu lino until today Indians of his time. The Hobs family Is watched him. The temperature was above
tho eighth, sixteenth nnd thirty-second part snld to bo tho rlehoBt Indian family lu tin 100 degrees. No ono know Just what was
to us.
To soveial men he paid more attention.
Tho hospital corps was overworked and
Housevelt, as well as Colonel Wcod, went
among us, straightening the blanket of
this man and real ranging thu cartridge belt
on which another rested his head. When
ho found an empty canteen he saw to It
that It was filled, and, as the little group
of dead men on the knoll grew, certainly
no face showed more real distress than his.
Ouu Illustration of that composure which
cumu to him at thu first firing attracted my
attention during thu light. He was tired
nud leaned ngalnst a small palm tree. Three
times, while ho stood there, this tree was
hit and onco his eyes were lllled with dust
driven out by the Impact of tho bullet. Hut
ho did not change his position.
And that was tho man under llro!
VllllllK' ItlMINI' VI'H'm I'iii-I.
When ho was Inaugurated governor of
Now York stato the episode was less Inter
esting because It lacked tho element of
chanco Thu ceremony was arranged be
forehand and ho expected everything that
happened except one thing. Several days
before the formal Inauguration he had taken
the oath of office. The function In tho big
room there In New York state's elephantine
oupltol was purely formal, but up over the
baud in the gallery and half behind a pillar
there was a small boy wlrj was not. Th
background of the ladles' gowns nnd th"
otllcers' uniforms In that great chamber in
Albany was nioro varied, but less Impres
sive than had been the somber green of th
Cuban Jungle. Hoosevelt's black frock coat
stood out as vlvidlly as his brown uniform
hnd on the other (.ccaslon. I was too badly
crippled to get through the crowd and close
to lilm. Hut It would have been dllllcult no
to notice Hint youngsti r up In the gallery.
The small boy was utmost a reproduction of
tho man who was being Inaugurated go
ernor of tho richest state In the union. He
had tho samu big eyes covered with enor
mous glasses like those tho new olllclal
woro and nlwnys will his teeth wore like
thoso of the distinguished man below, ami
when ho cried out "three cheers" and gavo
them, ho bit tho words off, exactly as his
father does, with snnps. It was Theodore
Hoosovelt, Jr. His father waved his hand
nt him and grinned. Ho wns thinking more
of tho small boy Just then than ho was of
being governor, theru Is no doubt of that.
Appropriate
Hlniur (finishing the rending of his poem)
There! Now what would you suggest for
a tltlo?
Kandor Call It "Tho Uoomerang."
Himor Whnt!
Kandor Sure. No matter where you fire
It, it'll como hack to you.
SOUTH TOVyERQK- ELECTRICAL BUILDING;
iam-amfrii:an fxposition
TAKE.N f HUM THE. HOOF OF M AC.HlNE.nT DUILDIINie, P B A MWORK .PFC L fceTRIO TOVVE.R .
391 fLCT
Indian predominates. Of pure bloods there country, and thu aggregate of their wealth coming, but wo were all waiting for some
will bo none within a fow years. mounts well up Into tho millions. Another thing to break loose.
Still this open-door marriage policy, while of tho Hoss family who Is uotablo for beauty I hnvo never seen n man more apparently
It admitted no bad characters, was fraught Is Mrs. Dr. Thompson. norvo-racked than Hoosevelt was. It
with many evils. Any well-appearing man, Nnicil Crook lli-iiutloM. showed on his fnco and In every motion of
with n gift of lovo-nuiklng, could go there of tho Creek benutles, the young grand- "Is body. Ho twitched. His khakl-clad llg-
1 ...I.. 1 n ... .... .. t,..i l.n.l l.n l,nnl...Hn 1 I.
fiiii.i wiiinii u'.m it i.r..ni fiiriouitv in Mm " 1,1 m" ' " """,1B""1U daughter or Pleasant porter, tno present " " iwMiiim.im ui mraumi
... .1... at tho Biunu time, provided Ills record was ..ni.-f is xeellent oxnmnle. Sho Is nlso of m almost Impenetrable Cuban Jungle.
hunters Mnva lo.l t J ,1 I w o L H renBonubly good. Tho women there woro nI llo,rosa l0 t.OI1H,Cnib1o wealth besides Tho trail was narrow. Evidently It had
Tribes of thr not 1,8 hlKl,,y culttiretl as they aro now. wlmt her tribal right and land Inheritance ecn used for years merely as a brldlo path.
......V.. ... . Hut they possessed n desire to marry whlto ...m iv ,lnr MiHH r,.i nrnl.ireo nhltto I,nck ' ' for " long distance It wns filled
iiuu uuiui inn ii-tiHiiiiu'ii uciiiiucH. uiim-
marriago lu thu Cherokee, Crock, Choctaw,
Chickasaw and Seminole tribes has flour
ished to such an extent within the last
(luarlor-contury that tho full-blond ele
ment Is now on thu verge of extinction.
Thu old moil of thu tribes aru becoming
alarmed nnd hnvo pasBcd laws against In
tcrmnrrlnge, some of which aru very bi
vcro, almost prohibitive In fact. Tho
young Indian women object to theso laws
liecnuso they do not want, ns a rulo, to
marry tho men of their own tribes.
Tho ChlckasawB aro tho strictest regard
ing lutormnrrlago. A law rocently plaeed
on their statute hooks roqulros any white
man applying for a license to marry n
Chickasaw girl, first, to produce ovldenco
that ho has resided In tho Chickasaw na
tion two yenrs, next to furnish credentials
ns to his good character, and, third, to pay
$1,000 for tho marrlngo license This must
bo dono If tho ceremony Is performed no
men, henco It wns ensy Bailing for fortune jjUo In tho Indian nomenclature of her w,tn 1,10 soldiers from tho west, most of
hunters. This clnss of men fenced In large trn)0i i8 another pretty Indian girl. Though ",em ''lng down as I was, becauso of the
iracts or mo puniic iiomain, or lanu ooioug- 8no ls tribally a Chickasaw, bIio has Creek """" "u"1- ",m 1,10 euecis
minerals into cash. Many men beenmo mil
lionaires nt tho oxponso of tho tribes. They
woro known ns "galvanized Indians" or
"suuaw men."
Five years ago tho ovll was partly reme
died by the tribal councils disfranchising
of tho hard
lug to tho redskins in common, used the ,j()0,i nel. veins, being a granddaughter mnrc,1 Thoy did not know. I hnd been
land for eattlo ranchcB, nnd converted the ()f iBi,arhechor cnlled thu (Jrand Old Man to1''' mit scarcely bolloved It. Hoosovelt
I.. t l.i . . I . ........ l ...I, I ' 1 ,1 (i . 1 n n .1 enlnnA
of tho Creeks, who hns for years been chief
of tho Creek council and la still ouo of thu
most Influential members of tho tribe. All
of this family havo been noted for prowess
In wnr, wisdom In council and beauty of
person, Miss Crabtreo Is highly cultivated.
all "squaw men" who thereafter married sho shows less trace of her aborlglnnl blood
Into tho tribes, This checked tho Influx of than almost any of her compeers. Other
inoiioy-seekers for a time and then It be- nt,Ml benutles of thu tribes nro Mrs. O. A.
camo as had ns over. Knrly tills year the cox, Miss Hello Meagher and Miss Susnnno
Chlcknsaws took another hitch .In tho In- iinrnott of tho Creek, Miss Oertrudo nog-
terinarrlago situation by rnlslng tho ors nnj jtlsa Mnry Pearl Davis of tho Cher-
IIcousob to $1,000 ench. They now expect i00 trtbo, Miss Lucy Shannon nnd Mrs.
only truo lovo marriages to occur. i. k. Morton of tho Chootnw tribe nnd Miss
AvoniKo ilrl Well lliien toil. Anna Knufmnii of tho Chickasaw tribe.
Tho nvorago Indian girl of today Is pos- Nearly all of theso girls aro nioro or less
Besscd of nn excellent educntlon. All the closely rolntcd.
cording to tho Chickasaw Inw and tho girl shrewdness of tho Indian, combined with a Thu Indian girl of this typo when shu Is being rnpldly given a Btrnngo metnmor mo.vcl to tho second floor, which Is being
Is wedded according to tho custom of hor at for knowledgo belonging to tho visiting In tho enst, whero everyone ls of pnosa 0CCUrred In tho expression of linno ninV'i tLrlif"r.nlsl,od' n.'1 wllon cn-
people. Of course, tho girl hns and Bomo- whites, has filled these girls with a do- ,no 0plnIon that there nro no Indians but volt's face Ho las uc longer ne vou,' U ro?.!Hno mnha"1 ftl"lolnte1 clonk
times takes tho prlvllego of eloping, nt slro to ndvnnco. Tho fedornl governinont thoso who wear blnnkots nnd llvo In tepees, Ho heenmo as calm ns any mnn ever was ."''''"Izhelnior will "occupy a part of our
tno cost or losing nor rignt in mo iriuai -i-"""" ""'"j ) " is sonauivo nuoui nor uioou. a cuuureu n combat with tho first song of tho first biock or millinery.
inniis ami money nnu ot disgracing nor- iu niwo. mo memuer oi mo uneroKeo irino uoi long ago oullot. Ho led his men Into that lunclo nnd
solf In tho oyos of hor rolatlvos. Hor Cherokees nnd Creeks havo tho host schools, expressed horsolf In this wny: ho led them well It wns a strnncn oV
"hend-rlght" Is Bomothlng worth conBldor- wl" tho ChleknBnws spend tho most money -i nm not ashamed of my blood, but when nmplo of tho nervousness that will como
Ing. A "right" In tho Chlcknsaw nation with least results. I nm surrounded by thoso who I know do wth oxpectntlon nnd tho tremendous self
Is vnlucd nt from $!i,000 to $10,000, nnd In It Is dlflloult nt this tlmo, when tho not undorstnnd that I nm on Indlnn I novor control which may belonc fo Mm atm.,c
ii.. m..i .,.! nt..i... ..ii.. .1.. T...ii.. .i n i . i.. . . i... . 1 "lu niiuiih
iiiu v-iiriimuu, vjiuriv ituu iiiruiv (uiiiinin uuiiuo mi khv tiuiiaiin ui iiirnu inui'B iiru 111 iiisciuso my riicu il uuix iuuuh iu uuiuuuiy man Wltll tno Coming of realization
from $,r,000 to $8,000, Tho Intermarriage bucIi nn unsottled condition, to mnko n cor- and half of tho peoplo I meet would not bo- Another l'liime of riinructor.
know nnd realized.
As I hnvo Bald, ho wns extremely ner-
vous. Ho was not frightened, but every '
fiber In his body wns tonso with excite
ment. Ho wns waiting for tho crack of
Mauser rltles. If anything olso had come
It ls hard to figure out whnt ho would have
done. I earnestly bollevn If nmn nm. lm.i
got behind him nnd snld "Hoo!" ho would ! iY" .nr,r,0now, r.en,ly for early buyers of
havo jumped nnd might have run. That tlWtiW WyWs
"IH'I Iltl.lJ UUfll 11I1UAIL'UIUI1 U1K1 I HP Slir-
prlso would hnvo disconcerted him. Hut
no ono did. Wlmt ho hnd expected hap
pencil. Some men had been sent In ad- 1 Wo aro also prepared to tako orders for
yiiiiku nun iiiuj- - goi u. xnat nrst volley "i " 0,'1" mucio 10 measure, and havo
sounded like tho crackle
flro greatly mngnlflod.
wcro Jumping to their feet and orders were NOTICE Our cloak department has been
Spring Suits
0. K. Scofield Cloak & Suit Co.
thnt hnvo so rnr mado their apiioaranco
mil , 'I10 Hl,rl'1K season-mado up lu tho oif-
Imp- ' o7 shad'e"l.,l,lnr fa,"'ICS ,n a lart5 vnrloty
ntl" c3,)h2 nro ,niIs. I'lred to tako orders for
,ii . suits or skirts nml in tnoo,,r . ...i .
Hit. iiidi tulles i . , u I1U IllLVU
WhlV,n,8,,Mr1 P cSn,yo.tSfereo ltp
Whllo tho soldiers will sell hy tho ynrd.
... i vriTliM.' n .i.i. ,i .
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SCOFIELD
CLOAK&SUITCO.
laws of nil tho four nntlons nnmod nro rect estlmnto of tho wealth of each of these llevo that I wns of Indian extraction
about tho samo, excepting that tho Chlckn- girls, but tho opinion of government officials were to toll thom bo."
If I Later during thnt day nnother nhnnn nf
Itoosovelt's character showed. A number
Kxcluslvo Denlers In Ladles' Furs nnd
Heady-to-Wear Outer Gnrments
inio iXMtii. v.s stui:i:t, om viia.