The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-05-28
CH|CkASAW GIRLS
WANT HUSBANDS
Set About the Value of
Their Property.
A. & M. CADETS FIRST

fTtits iatte lnutau S1aids no seek
for White Mates Who Can Come
10 Indian Territory To I'm
prove the bic Prop
crty That Has Come
TO Them.
There is no joke about the matter.
This can be relied upon as a certainty
as the proof is at hand,
There has been mlrth and testing
about the report that there had been
offers Of marriage made b. two Indian
bellies of the chickasaw Nation to ca
diets Of the 4. and NJ. College but ney-
ertheless it is a solid fact and the
statements published by the girls ara
that they have gocdIy stacks of cas1
and many acres OF land that is worth
while, and in a country that is fertile
and growing rapidly.
As published in The views and OBJ
server some days ago the ndian girls
are named Arrow Litt!eheart and Liz
zie Lightfoot, each young and OF a
good looking ndian type. They arc
educated girls and they want educated
husbands, yOung men who can look
after affairs Of business and improve
the valuable property owned b. the
girls.
The letter received by President
George y. Winston, OF the A. and NJ
College, from Misses Arrow and Liz
zie come from these at sulphur, =
health and pleasure resort of Indian
Territory, the girls enclosing clippings
ard booklets which show this TO be
very much OF q place. They make the
statement that the Chickasaw girls
q banded together to marry none
but white boys Who are educated as
young fellows are educated in the 4
and NJ. College and they asked Presi-
dent Winston to frame the letter and
newspaper pictures Of themselves
which they sent II post these where
all the cadets might see and read.
They say that the Indian boys are
good fellows but are not up to business
as they devote too much time to hunt
ing and fishing. hence their desire for
alert young white men who can scien-
tifically care for their property, as
husbands. Incidentally they say that
the indian boys ought 10 have for
wives White girs with business training.
The girls say that they have valua-
BILE property to develop, this having
been allotted TO them by the United
States Government. They refer Pres
ident Winston to letters of theirs pub
lished on the Children'S page of the
Dallas (TexaS) News and these letters
are of such interest that they are pub
lished that those who may think of
an Indian bride MAY learn Of the girls
who are after A. and M. cadets.
though prospective suitors must hurry
as a spry young fellow of Charlotte
has already written to President Win
stOn for particulars.
The descriptive letters which the
girls wrote to the Dallas News, pub
ished on the children's page, devoted
to The White Rose Band, are as fol-
lows:
Arrow L~ittlchcart's Letter.
Arrow Littleheart, sulphur, /. t
VIII you let another Indian girl join
your band Of White Roses? | am Is. /
am a full-blooGed Chickasaw. l go to
the Indian school in sulphur. l am
spending the holidays with my par
ents, who live on my fathers allot-
ment down near the Burning Noun
tains. The LightfootS are our neigh
bors. Lizzie Lightfoot is my cousin
and chum. Her father is my guar
dian. The courts appoint white guar
dianS for most full-DlOod children.
Each Chicl1asaw gets $1.041.2S worth
of land. Our lands are valued at 25c.
to $3.50 per acre. My guardian let
my sister and | select our own allot-
tIiI L o'h p 'A't 'oi ~ - -
valley n half timbered bottom. Ny
sister took 200 acres OF 50 land. the
rest soc. Hand. She wanted a big
mountain spring. an asphalt bed and
an oil and gas spring. She had t.
take the soc. land to include these
three curiosities in her allotment. We
were proud of our allotments, but |
did not know the big walnut trees in
my forest were more valuable than the
other timber. She didn't know her
mountain spring. her asphalt bed ana
her oil and gas spring, which h re-
garded only as curiosities. would at
tract the attention of q Texas boy, a
graduate of your Agricultural and Ne
chanical College. who would become
her husband My guardian sold an
exporter of waInu logs all the walnut
trees III my forest large enough for ex-
port at $50 per tree. The exporter cut
$50 trees. These logs were shipped to
Galveston. thence by steamer to Ger
many, where they were used in the
manufacture of furniture and veneer
ing furniture. SO my big walnut trees
brought me S2S,000. Lizzie and l
were down in my forest this morning.
rving to count my remaining smaller
walnut trees. There are abOut fifteen
hundred of them. Cousins. can YOU
tell me how long it takes q walnut
sapling to become a large tree-large
enough for export? And don't You
think that I'm lucky, for an indiana
NV sister contends that she is moro
lucky than l.. She is so proud of her
white husband and their little chief.
Her husband put in a water wheel at
the mountain spring, and a dynamo.
Wires run from the dynamo to con-
venient places on the farm, where they
are connected with electric motors.
These motors turn the biggest kinds
of machinery-his t~hrashing machin2.
sawmill. corn shelter. shuck press, al
falfa baler and various smaller ma
chinery about their house and barns.
They have their b~arnyardS and fee
lots paved With asphalt. They keep
their barn walls and the walls of their
chicken houses saturated with oil from
the oil spring. This OF cures and pre-
vents mange and kills lice. mites AMI
feas. They have piped the gas from
the oil spring down to their home AMI
barn. Their home IS lighted and heated
with gas and they cook with it. They
also cook corn and barley for their
hogs. Hogs fatten much faster on the
cooked food. They raise six to eight
cars OF hogs per year. Their alfalfa
raised and corn and barley finished