The sun., 1901-09-29
WON'T WE'D In HER own RACE
THE INDIAN MAIDEN JOINS THE
MARCH or PROGkESS.
Out IN Okiahema's Boom Regions where
yeung Red Men Are Given 10 hiot"s
Is,tng His sisters SHOW The'r sense
by Taking STEADY white Vusbanos'

b, Taxing STEADY white Husbantis.
n. Ryso. Oklahoma. Sept. 7s.-This h
the land OF the over-boomei. Many thou
sand- of fortune seekers who came mere
after Riowa farms do not seem To have
yet secured either what they wan'ed IN the
shane OF lands or tho necessary money
from home To ge, away. - they are stay
ing on. The new towns are full ol them
They are making business lively. but the
mushroom character Of 50 many o' these
n.,, MACS u clearly apparent from the
.hif,ins and shiftle-s population. Ihs
automobile dealer and the pas-er-out of
silk arr-s patterns need not hurry tins
vav The busin.--- peg that he viii some
day dlI herr Is a. pr,'sent occupied by the
f,r, dealer and the manipulatpr ~ tho
roulette heel
The sudden shifting - the frontier hack
10 Oklahoma has brought with ~ all IN"
old fronti.f town habiltrn"uis. b"Sides
few now frills The dancr hall u now ~"
music hall, the clapboard gambling shack
ha. bcen replac,.d 10y the brick or we'll
,idad frnmr plac" ~ amus"rnrnt. and n
hotter class 81 incn than the old frontier
towns boastod 81 are found here. or, NOR"
etriCtlv speaking, th"r" are nur ui me
better cia~- of cifi,"n~ here enrolled Dodge
Citv and JulcrpsrR Won thor 'IGfN i'f
.tntiVhn..sss l.c,,Is.. they were I"oyled
largely by N. roughs ~ 10" railway con
struction gang. With gpOd--i2,St sprinkling'
of the bad men 81 tho plains and the " i-c
boys Of the gambling fraternity
fawton aul it, neV-b"rn contemporaries
are the paradiss 4 the tm-horn gamblers,
tho chars with small capital, li'tl" nerve
and marked caris The rial bad men have
been cleared out 81 the Territory hN ia"
vigorous work IT the I ni'Ni states War
shals. and tho construction gang has no
countcrpaTt IN the Cowhpys ami farmers
from kan,a- and Missouri who compose
most of III" hanForS-ou with ltil" mon'N
The gambling hous' ~ conspicuous
feature of every town i docs mnr' hii-l-
ness and has a larger nunl"r oi patrons
than any other en'erpr~r Ia any oi Tie
mushroom cities The most reckless gam.
hlers In the Territory ar" 10" Indians ana
thanks to tho generosity oi the Washington
Government they nnd It pos lb'c to Keep
the tall rolling pretty lively iheir regular
renittancas are supplemented by 'h" retul'~
of their sclf-d''.inl. AMI whd' money does
not ind invest mrut Ia tho saloon business
along the line - drupi-d a. ih" gaming
table In. constitutional disi' clinAiiuh 81
the red man to labor hl- prompted most
Of the Indians m this uc,ghhorhood in lease
III. farms reserved for th"fn bv act oi
Congrrs4 and those Who hav" hai houses
provided for them rent ihein and ~ back
Ia tho t.Iae Ia" log cabin - ia" n"ar"s'
Hllft nfl I1 IflN RIAIN l.N Wv NA'''~' h' ''t'''
the rcd m"u permit Themselves
His nerve aud rrckl-s-nrS- 81 play often
enables au Indian 10 make hig winning,
and when this happens the town mas -
expand temporarily Nhi" "" blo~r ON
steam D,..iits hi- gambling and drink
ing propensiti,-. however. the %lndian -
eth the mouoy king ut thls region ahi
most ~ the tril'o arc fuzzy cognilant ~
their Importance Neat 1" them ~ the
matter II financial stability are ID" ne
4 ..ffNs - 10 n ssaf
riar,s AMI live ia styl. With them, ~
well A. with the Indian. ia" white man
isn't much above deuce high. and ho must
do the humble Il he desires Information
OF id ~ any kind
Splendid openings. however. await young
men with little cash capital and desire
g. cmhrnc,. matrimonv The capital must
amount to a. least 3 .CnD and the matriino-
NAL desire must be ardent enough not To
balk N color The unpru grt-Ssive chnrac-
tor nf The voung Indian u not shared 10y
his dusky sisior In fact his degep"'acy,
h. thriftlcssI.s-, and carousng have .ncd
most Indian maiden hearts 10 stone Tar
A. men 81 their ov race ar" conc~rn'Si. ana
cauzad their Ion gin - for mntrimony toward
the -htes- In the old davS many adv"n-
tutous and INSCRIPTIONS white men IN
search Of an easy living married Indian
women but the -Sguaw men industry re
crirsSl a severe setback when the Govern
mem levi,d a 81 40 licen-" fec This has
bu' .afnt ended the marriage OF white
an ''an The husband Of a squaw
rhar -gually with her In the land privi-
leg,, and A. each of them has a quarter
section In ore of the most productive parts
81 the country the temptation for invest
nlent IL not frequently powerful enough
to induce the planking down ~ the necessary
thousand IN some c.-ss II - suspected
the Indian girls Furnished the money or a
goodlv part ~ II In Others II has bs.an a
Etlatpes.s fTnIDGtfinn Df tho Bf tho
male entirely
Tho Indian msidcn % to-day l. not The
Indian maiden ~ romance nor vet the squAw
Of the old day.. While the club and the
O'Clock tea are ye, untssted ioys for red
womanhood, she has made distinct progress.
The Schc Us and th. newspapers and con-
tact with the whites have pushed the
Indian woman fairly well along the path
Of prosr-ss. she Is evolving Sh" has
acquired taste for les bizarre and more
beconing clothing Many of the young
woman are not uncoinely, and their
freedom from the thraldom Of bravr's
tepee has made II possible for them to re-
tain their looks longer than their mother
A. - their forms still retain graceful out
lines and some oven older have not vet
reached that point - universally favored
by their maternal ancestors where their
figures have tina sam" general design
of a meslsack
Not an inconsiderahle portion Of this
physical prOgressiveness can be traced
IT, the fact that many ~ them are Of half
and quarter blood II IL not an unusual
sight In Oklahoma towns To SO Indian
girls ia shirt waists and dangling parasols
riding in ribber-tirrd vchicl,.s. from which
II NAV be inferred that they arr no, a. re-
pulsiye hooking as the untutor-d Eastern
Imagination might picture
Ia. great nchn">S of this region. tho
fortunes possible IN grain. cattle and fruit
60 men Of pluck and energy. have given
TO inauguration an alurcment tha, is 80
powerful that. with the Indian girls marry
Ing white mon and tho Indian boys gam
bhng and drinking themselves Ia poverty
and death, perhaps the solution of IN. In
dian question - not such difficult one
o. cthnologi-ts have DECLARED