Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-19

and have not seen biz Of disorder or any
drunkenness during my stay here. IL 10 against
the law to sell liquor In tho territory. and that
which Is brought here "a smugsled in by the
Smith the other DAY aud the railroads going
through the territory gave excursion rates. The
cowboys along the lire attended AMI !happensd
to DO travelling In ono of the trains by which they
returned. l haye never seen a more drunken.
disreputable and disordcFly crowd. The men
were wild with liquor, and rsi-t faced cowboys
with big hats on their heads jumped up and
down. yelling and GROWING like roostsrs and
swearing they could whip any blarked man in
tho car.
There are many negroes stiil in Tire Indian
territory and You And many Of the Creeks who
have intermarried with tho negroea The
Choctaws have also many people Of mixed In
dian and negro blood, and the Chickasaws had
big cotton plantations before the var and bad
many slaves
THE ARisrocRATs.
These Cherokees here are the proudest Of all
these Indian tribes. They are the arissocrats
of the Five Nations. They seldom intsrmarry
with the negroes, and they have separate schools
for them. There are stores here run by the
Indians quite as good as those Of the white men
in the towns along the railroad, and / am sur
prised to see what big stocks Of goods they
carry and what variety OF articles they use. The
dry goods stores contain al kinds Of ladies'
fine themselves by any means to calico. Such
Is have seen wear as good clothes rs you will
ind worn by the women ofany town of this size
in the United States and they dress In exactly the
same way. Most OF the families of TahleQuah
have sewing machines, and nearly every house
has piano or organ. They use cooking stoves
and have exactly the same kind OF Eoushoid
furniture that you will hnd in an American
village. The men dress In the same way and
OF the Cherokecs only tho fewest cling to their
old habits. and there are none. think, but who
Indians, and these are generally full-blooded
ones, live in log cabins, and these do nothing
but fish and cultivate little ground for their
own corn. These. understand, are chiefly in
the eastern part OF the nation, where there is
some mountainous country.
TO BE swALrowED UP By wHIrHs
The Indians themselves know that they must
be eventually swallowed Up by the whites, and
though they will not confess this they say that
II it does come the government must pay the
Indians for their lands ami allow each ono fee
simple title to q farm. The Indian territory
has now only about 5000 Indians. Still the
country Is much bigger than New York and
Massachusetts, and it is nearly the same size as
Kansas. 1t would support population OF i've
or six millions and it contains the best lands in
the United States. Thousands of settlers are
Watching 1t aud white men have settled here
and there in it. evading the law in some way or
other that keeps them out, 10 BIO ready to take
advantage of the situation when the territory
Is opened to settlement. There are thousands
OF men who are watching the Cherokee strip,
and when 1t is purchased it will be settled ~
quickly as was Oklahoma u few years ago.
FRANK Il. CARPEHrER.