The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-11
The Savannah Morning News.
Mornin News Savanna Ga

besides a few new frills. The dance
hall is now the music hall, the clap
board gambling shack has been re-
placed by the brick or well-sided frame
place of amusement, and d better class
of men than the old frontier towns
boaSted of are found here; or, more
strictly speaking, there are more of the
better class of citizens here enrolled.
Dodge City and Julesberg won their
spurs for "toughness" because they
were peopled largely by the roughs of
the railway construction gang, with
good sized sprinklings of the bad men
of the plains and the wise boys of the
gambling fraternity.
Lawton and it's newborn contempt
raries are the paradise of the tin horn
gamblers, the chaps with small capital,
little nerve and marked cards. The
real bad men have been cleared out of
the territory by the vigorous work of
the United States Marshals, and the
construction gang has no counterpart
in the cowboys and farmers from Kan
SaS and Missouri who compose most OF
the hangers with a little money.
The gambling house is a conspicuous
feature of every town. 1t does more
business and has a larger number of
patrons than any other enterprise in
any of the mushroom cities. The most
the Indians, and thanks to the generos-
ty of the Washington government they
find it possible to keep the ball rolling
pretty lively. Their regular remit
tances are supplemented by the results
of their self denial. and what money
does not find investmnt in the saloon
businss along the line is dropped at
the gaming table. The constitutional
Discrimination of the red man to labor
has prompted most of the Indians in
this neighborhood to lease the farms
reserved for them by act of Congress,
and those who have had houses pro-
vided for them rent them and go back
to the tepee. The log cabin is the near
est approach to frivolity in the house
line that the red men permit them
selves.
His nerve and recklessness of play
often enables an Indian to make a big
winning. and when this happens the
town has to expand temporarily while
he blows off steam. Despite his gamb-
ling and drinking propensities, how
ever, the Indian is still the money king
of this region, and most of the tribe
are fully cognizant of their import
ance. Next to them in the matter of
financial stability are the negroes. and
many of these ride in fine carriages
and live in style With them as well
as with the Indian. the white man
isn't much above deuce high, and he
must do the humble If he desires infor-
nation or aid of any kind.
Splendid openings, however. await
young men with a little cash capital
and desire TO embrace matrimony. The
apital must amount to at least 81. 900
and the matrimonial desire must be
ardent enough not to back at color
The unprogressive character of the
young Indian is not shared by his dus~
ky sister In fact, his degeneracy. his
thriftlessness and carousing have turn
ed most Indian maiden hearts TO stone
so far as men Of their own race are
concerned, and caused their longings
for matrimony toward the whites. In
the old days many adventurous and
unscrupulous white men In search of
an easy living married Indian women, !
but the "squaw- men" industry receive |
ed a severe setback when the govern
ment levied a $1,000 license fee. This !
has cut out the mercenary and ne'er- |
do wells but IL hasn't ended the mar |
rage Of white and Indian. The hus- !
band Of a squaw shares equally with |
her I'm the land privileges and as each |
OF them has a quarter section In one |
OF the most productive parts OF the |
country the temptation for investment !