The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-05-03
WOE FOR SQUAW MEN.
White Men Married to Indian Girls
Driven from Kiowa Lands.
Good Looking Maidens with Property
Sought by Mercenary Chicago
Men Are Now BemOaning Sep.
aration from Husbands.


One hundred young men from Chi
eago some time ago took the advice of
Horace Greeley and came west to grow
up with the country. AS a result every
one of them has fallen into matri-
monial trap. They have married In
dian maidens for the purpose of get
ting fine farms free, and now comes
the announcement that they will have
to leave their wives and desert the fine
farms they have picked out. Indeed
1t is pretty mess, says Wichita
(kan.) special to the Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The young men left the city by the
lakes some time last winter. Henry
Vanderver, mechanic employed in
railroad yard, which one he will not
tell, was the leader of the party, and
James Wilson, former clerk in big
department store, was second lieuten-
ant. They proceeded west by the side
door Pullman route, arriving on the
borders of the Kiowa and Comanche
reservations month later. The young
men all had money-that is, sufficient
funds to keep them from begging I'M
til they made ten strikes. They were
not long in making the strikes. They
had bonarzas for awhile. They were
sure they had bright futures before
them.
About rs of them married Indian
girls. The Indian girls of the Kiowa
and Comanche tribe are fairly good
looking and they are anxious for pale
face husbands. Therefore when the
young men from Chicago put on their
best clothes and promenaded up and
Down in an Indian town they had no
trouble in winning attention. Many
handsome Indian girls left their tepees
and smiled encouragingly at the pale
faces. Interpreters were engaged and
the young men made haste to offer
their hands and hearts. In three weeks
the rs were married, while the others
remained along the borders waiting
for the opening. They had the prom
Use of their fellows that when the land
was allotted each one of them would
be remembered with farm.
But now the married men have come
face to face with this proposition. The
allotting agents have ordered all Sin
ter-married' white men to GO away
from the reservation until the land is
open. The Indian wives will have to
remain in the reservation if they hope
to win claim. So these young men
10 t.
and hike back to the border, there to
wait for three months or more.
The rs new squaw-men are very in
dignant and will appeal to President
Mckinley about the matter. Their
comrades on the border have been or
peal from the decision of the allotting
agents, else their chances for farms
will be very meager. The Indian brides
are inconsolable. They declare they
will have the scalps of the allotting
agents, but promise that if the white
men have to go away they will remain
true and loyal until the ban is removed.
There is no doubt that the young men
will have to leave the reservation, as it
is an official order and cannot be dis
obeyed.
: The correspondent of the Inter Ocean
went along the border of the Kiowa
and Comanche reservation and inter-
viewed some of the prospective run
ners. All are generally angry over the
proposed scheme of the interior de-
partment to have drawing for the
claims and thereby do away with rae
ing for farms. There are 10000 fine
farms of 160 acres each which will be
given away to white people. The wait
ing settlers along the border; some of
whom have driven hundreds and even
thousands of miles in covered wagons
to make the race, want the old plan of
running for farms to govern this open
ing. They say it is the fairest way.
In the race the man who has the fast
est horse always wins the claim, while
I'm drawing one stands as good share
as another. The drawing would do
away with many accidents, and, per-
haps, many deaths. If the racing
scheme prevails, hundreds of persons
are sure to be hurt, while many will be
killed and others murdered.
Prairie schooners are now anchored
on the borders from as far east as Ohio
and as far west as California 1t is
said that one or two families have
driven from Pennsylvania. Tales of
hardship are numerous, but the Inter
Ocean correspondent, in drive of ten
miles along the border, failed to meet
with any cases of restitution. Every
wagon was filled with a lot of impa-
tient whites who asked all strangers:
when will the land open?"
1t is generally believed that early In
August the reservation will be thrown
open to settlement. There are now
about 10000 people along the border
and more are coming in all the time.
1t is expected that no less than so 900
will make the race. There are many
young women who will race for claims.
Size of Molecules.
Lord Kelvin estimates the diameter
of the mOlecula Of n Oac m l,a 80