The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-26
An Experiment in PoIygamy.

NJ SNPO'ititSiiS w oiJSoi'y.
IT guess I can Eel the store.ga. writes
the old settler of Hellroaring creek, Okla
homa-as / saw it myself. Tn Tot depart
much frum the everlasting ,roo,a, as il.
hapnd.
This ere mans name wuz Speaking Will
Jams. It wuz Speaking Williams becoz Of
the curkumstanz that Re wuz al unconly
genyal SOUL WIZ Williams. Wen he set
tied doun in the Injun kuatry. they weren't
very happy croud and they didn't hav
mulch youse for won anuther, 70 tell the
trooth- \ gud menny OF EN- didn't spesk
as they pasd beigh. and there wuz mites
when one OF EN- wuld maik The rlistsik OF
CITING out aloan al mite and tha. ended
him. now and forever rIlourgh. Well. along
cum Williams with his genyouali;eigh.
There wuzr't man in tie neyburhud that
he wuzn't pol;sht to He wuz allus a-nod-
ding his ned and a ooughing n scraping
ike a rumtious cough. Then they kalled
him Speaking Williams and 1t stuck
beigh him.
He wuz krskked. No won but me knoed
he wuz krakked. but I fownd * out and
! held the sekret The weigh In which
! townd Il out wuz by q curtans konvur-
sashun which 1 held with him myself.
1t wuz then that Speaking Williams Up
and tole me what ae wuE prezent in ;he
Injun kuntry fur. Now wat DO yough
SUPPOSE This amt no farce tail He wuz
there fur poligamy! That's it. poNgamy.
He told me that. He claimed that poEg-
amy wus the natyoural state; that the Oh
Beighbls stud by II; that the Khoran did
ard the Mormors wuz rite. He sed he
wuz for poligamy fust last and awl the
time. fir which ne had cum there among
Us. I told him 10 puckachee, but re didn't.
wuzn't goin' 10 say nuthin' and
didn't. but I watched Williams gettin' on
better turns with The injuns rite along and
the first thing 1 knoed, ne wuz solid with
the chiefs. I'll out with IL nough. and tell
how he did il. becoz il amt TO easy thing
fur q white man TO get in with those red
devils. He ups and tells those red idjits
that he is a speshal agant sen; frum The
Crate Father in Washington 10 live with
the injuns and find ought hcugh they lived
and II he liked il he wuld go bak 10 the
Crate Father and teli him 70 let the injuns
aloan as they wuz hapy and had the best
systum. He kawshuned them not TO tell
the other agant al the aguncy W he wu!d
spoil his report, he wuZ going 10 make
10 the Crate Father. He ,ole en- that he
O4ctNSI l-dN lHciS bSsl
II he fownd 1t so. the injun wuid never
be disturbd. This pleezed the old chiefs.
becoz their had bin talk OF shuttin off po-
hgamy and COST dances and that sort of
thing and they wuz hand in gluv with
Williams in short ordur
Fur a time 1 didn't see no mourgh OF
Speaking Williams. Then when he did KUN
bak. he wuz all logged out ike an injun
chief.
I went up to him and I sed, wink:n'
won eigh: Hough menny. Williams? Tn
he sed bak: Five un the purtiest in the
tribe. Tn I sed: Better pukachee while
you have a chanz. but he sed: No danger
yet. I'll steigh.
Think of it, Old Williams establishing
a harum. Five wives and 1 suppose
mourgh TO follow. But something wuz a
going 10 hapn and he Eel down wen he
didn't talk my adviz and pukachee when
ne had the chanz.
Afterward 1 fownd ought that he CRU
kind of diskontentud-like all the time; nuth-
ing went to suite him; he wuz afrade he
would have 10 report TO the Crate Father
that the injun weigh of living wuz no guide.
The injuns wuz skeer,. They treeted him
like ne wuz a king and tride to pleeze
and kross and alltho the lodge proveided
him with place fur him and his FIVE
young wives, coz he wuldn't hav old uns.
he wuz all the time kicking coz things
wuzn't rite. 1 kind of thot. maybe. he
WIZ fuling the injuns so that he kood
keep tite rain on 'em, but won deigh re
inveighted me 10 KUN and see him and
then l knoed he RELY was unhappy. He
tole me 10 come IN the afternoon, so
got a-straddle the bay and set ought for
the injun lodge. Finely / fownd Old Will
Jams in his tepee and ne invited me in and
| lit my pipe and luked around 10 see
what kind of leigh-out ne had. There
wuz six young winm!n. all injuns. leigh
ing around the edges of the tepee. ! saw
that Williams wuz sour. Then he began
10 talk 10 ne in sumthing on this strane.
He seq: Poligamy amt wat I eggspected.
II amt up 10 what the picture books say
Il is. Now look at those squaws. There
Amt nothing regal about them. there amt
nuthing volupyOuous about them; there
Amt nothing graceful and kurvey and
lively about the weigh in which they are
sprawled around there. II amt like I've
seen of the Turks harum or any other
harum. Its mourgh Ike pigs, ne said.
The fault amt with poiigamy. it's with
me harum. asst Williams II he didn't have
Inc butes OF the tribe. He sed no. He sed
here wuz the prettiest dotter OF the chief
re hadn't got bu; land ne stud up and
;fuk mis- ksO by the great gods he wud
nave hur. He sed she cud pose, she could
COX volupyouous IN wud be the lite CT
ne harum. And then ne sed she wuz
claimed by yung buck for his wife. a
rung buck who had the awdsss,ty 10 refuse /
% step ought of the weigh fur the aguut |
Il the Crate Father.
II WIZ sum deishs after that before I I
;ay Williams agen. He sed he wuz Ia ppy. !
He luked II. He SD ne had sxeersd ths i
I'D chief into giving up his byoutiful dot /
er. by thre;tn'ing to report 70 tn. Crate \
Father that the injun systun WIZ no 1
good.
That same mite Williams wuz bak a, my 4
ioor / opened It and ne kind OF stsEgured /
T. AMI fell on the fore ard crye9 fur wat
er. which gave him.
1T WIZ Tie yung felsr whose bride yu
ukg' asst l. p
II: wuz." sed he
He Inquired till about morning and then
ie Up and dyed.
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