East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-23

to mean The Big Drunkard.'
Under this contempt Coloneh began
to reform. He sobered somewhat and
finally married, according to the tribal
cutom, a full-blooded Cherokee girl,
whom the white traders of the terri
tory had named "Titania. 1t is said
that she was nearly as tall as he was
handsome and attrctive, the highest
tyne Of the Cherokee woman, which
means that she stood for the highest
| type Of the Indian womanhood of
Moth America. She did not become
Mrs. Samuel Houston" when she
married him. He became instead her
| husband Us a member Of her tribe
She was faithful to him, and when he
built her a cabin and made a clearing
opposite Fort Gibson, he began to re-
member what he had been and what
he might still be.
He began to "come back to him
self as squaw man and continued
/ the process until he had beaten Santa
Anna at San Jacinto and had become
first president of the republic Of
Texas. Then 1t is said that he invited
his Indian wife to join him, and that
she refused. He had left the tribe
and she belonged to the tribe first of
all, belonging to him only while he
belonged to it.
Influences of John Jolly.
This part of his history is more or
less involved in nebulous romance, but
there is no historical question that
nothing else affected Houston so deep
ly or did so much to make him the
picturesque character he was. as the
education his foster father, John jolly,
gave him after adopting him as a son
and having hi madopted as a member
OF the Cherokee tribe in full standing
1t decided his future at the greatest
crisis of his life.
The first came when he was still
young man. He had apoted the life
of the regular army as a career mad
had been promoted for his almost in
sane bravery at the Horseshoe bend
of the Tallapoosa, where the Chero-
KEGS had Joined Jackson against the
Creeks. When he charged the Creek
intdenchments expecting his men to
follow him the fire was so deadly that
they left him to advance alone until
he fell alone and was left for dead.
After receiving the thanks of the
governor and a commission in the reg
ular army he found that the Chero-
KEGS were being plundered more out
rageously than usual. He Joined a
protesting Cherokee delegation in
Washington, putting off his uniform
and appearing with them before the
secretary of war as their spokesman.
in full Cherokee dress of blanket and
feathers. The secretary was John C.
Calhoun, a stickler for dignity. He
thought the dignity of the army had
been lowered, and he gave "Coloneh"
rebuke so striking that it was never
forgotten or forgiven by Coloneh, or
Sam Houston. Soloneh put on and
put off the dress of his tribe when it
suited his own convenience without
regard to the ideas of the secretary of
war. He continued as spokesman of
the Cherokees until issues were so
sharp that he resigned from the army
and went back to Tennessee, where he
wore his Cherokee hunting shirt over
his trousers, even when he was run
ming for governor.
Planned Freedom OF Texas.
After the second crisis, when he had
left Tennessee to rejoin his tribe on
the Arkansas, the third came when
he sobered up sufficiently to go to
| Washington once more as its spokes-
man againct the "ring" which was