The Washington critic., 1888-07-20
A MoDEnN RoNIANCE.


the Choctaw claim.
The New York World relates the fol-
lowing romance in connection with the
celebrated Choctaw claim, history of
which was printed in THE Carrie on
Wednesday;
Among the young people who thronged
Connecticut avenue on the afternoon
riomcnadcs during the bright winter
days there wereoften noticed handsome,
graceful brunette walking with n tall,
well.made young man, whose swarthy
complexion indicated that he was GER
tainly not Caucasian. His costume at
once proclaimed his race. Though wear
ing a full sult of glistening broadcloth
his calves were encased I'm embroidered
leggings, elaborately fringed, and on his
head he wore wide sombrero. His face,
however, was extremely intelligent, and
the handsome couple elected many ad-
miring comments.
The young. lady is the daughter of
prominent Washingtonian and the In
dian youth full-b!ooded Cbootaw. Two
years ago the girl and her father, who is
a very eccentric gentleman and has Jour
neyed half the world over with no other
companion thnnhis daughter, Travelled
through the Indian Territory. While in
settlement of the Choctaw nation the
father was stricken with fever and lay
lOi .MtthN DtInttllf lllV HIlu utHtns ne
and his daughter had taken up their tenn
porary abode with an old squaw, the
widow of a once powerful chief a con-
temporary of Colonel PitChlynn.
Tins old squaw had an only son, who
inherited aconsiderable estate from bis
father and who possessed greht influence
in the Uhotta'w Nation. Theyoung mans
share of the famous, claim Is said to be
about Sh0,OOpi He had enjoyed unusual
educational advantages and is said to
| have spenta year or soin~ the Indian
school at Hampton. ..s...,....
The romanticIfancy OF The girl fastened
upon this young Indian chienain and
with no eye but that Of the old sqrlaw
upon them, their opportunities for quiet
tete-a-tetes were numerous. Finally, af-
| ter weeks ofpatient nursing and ANXIOUS
watching, the old man became conval-
esccnt and left for the East taking with
| him his daughter who parted from her
| Indian lover with many tears. Her
father, who had discovered his daugh-
ters penchant for the young Indian,
| sternly forbade any correspondence be-
tween the pair, and for two years the girl
never heard anything from her lover, ex-
cept indirectly.
| In January last, however, the dtIsky
brave came to Washington to attend to
| certain details in the prosecution of the
| Choctaw claim before Congress. Upon
| arriving he sought out his ark-eyed lady
love, and secured several interviews with
her before her father suspected his pres
! ence in the city. II is said that, touched
| by his daughters constancy to her dusky
| lover, he gave q reluctant consent to their
| engagement, with the understanding that
they sheuld not be married until the final
! adjustment of the Choetaw claim,
A few weeks since, the old gentleman
left for Europe, taking his daughter with
him. The news of the payment of the
| Choctaw clam was promptly cabled to
him, and received with great surprise and
| possiblywith no little eConsternation. IA
q gentleman of his word, however, he
will probably interpose no further objec
tlon to the marriage of his daughter with
her swarthy but wealthy lover,