Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-08-09
miscellaneous.
Civilized Indians.

| The Indian girl who becomes educated
seldom marries an Indian. She prefers
white man. If she marries an Indian she
will become a common sQuaw and his SER
want The half breeds in the Nation are
| looked up to. They control the other In
dians, as the mulatto controls the full
black So the educated Indian girl land
there are hundreds of college graduates
in the Nation) marries a white that her
children may be half-breeds. 1t is really
unpopular to be full-blooded Indian, and
the popularity OF the pure Indian is grad
ually fading out of the race. You would
be astonished to see how white the Greeks
and the Cherokees are getting through
miscegenation. Real full-bloods are hard
to find among the Cherokees.
The question was put by teacher to a
class OF young Indian girls about to grad
uate from a Cherokee seminary:
Whom would you prefer 10 marry p
I'VE prefer to marry white man,
they all answered.
They said this because they knew lndi-
an husbands would drag them back to
semi-barbarism again.
Right oyer there" said Mr. Roberts,
the editor of the Indian Journal, as we
passed Eufaula. in the Indian Nation, lie
the bones OF plucky man-Watt Grayson.
Have you ever heard OF him p
Il don't think have said.
We'll, Watt Grayson was one of the
richest Indians we had in the Nation. He
had seven thousand head of cattle. Some
thieves in Arkansas suspected that he had
money in his house. Ii was in 1874. So
one day four men came to call on him.
| They pretended to be cattle buyers Watt
entertained them, took them through his
rancho and gave them the best beds he
| had The next day they departed, saying
| they would return with the money from
| Fort Smith to pay for one thousand head
OF cattle which they had bargained for
| That night the same four men returned,
| all masked They put pistol to Watt 5
head. drove his wife and children into a
room. and demanded his money. Watt
refused to tell them where it was. Then
they put a rope around his neck and hung
him up a minute or two. Letting him
down. they again demanded his money.
Again Watt refused. Then they hung
him up agan-this time too long, for
when they took him down. he was dead.
They then went and got his wife, showed
her dead husband to her, and demanded
that she should tell where her husbands
money was. This she refused to do.
Then they said, Wen hang you till
you're dead, like your husband, if YOU
don't tell us and they proceeded to put
the rope around her neck. They pulled
her up to the limb Of the tree, once,
twice; but each time she refused to tell,
the last time they said they would kill
her, sure enough, and drew her up with
a jerk.
Don't kill her = said Watt, whom they
thought to be dead. Il love her more
than myself or the money. I'll tell you
where it is
Leading them to the kitchen, Watt
raised a board, and there was 81 600
The thieves took it and were never found
atterward.
Watt Gray sons widow now lives on
the rancho She is well off, and has two
or three thousand head of cattle. She has
put up the costliest monument to her
husband in the Nation, and he deserves it
"a man who wouldn't sell his wife for
S2l 900. Chicago Tribune.