The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-05-04
INDIAN LASSIES CAPTURE MATES
Outpoint Eastern Maidens in Con-
tests for the Cowboys Love.

Ponca City, Okla, April 2S.-The
yearning Eastern girl who writes to
the Oklahoma newspapers and post
masters for husband, dashing COW
boy preferred, has a strong rival
right here at home in the native In
dian girl. The Indian has a big ad-
vantage to begin with. She is rich.
Uncle Sam has given her a farm
worth anywhere from $1,000 to SoO,-
900; then she may be only an eighth
or one-sixteenth Indian and be we'll
educated, refined and high up in the
domestic sciences. So the house
grown Indian maiden doesn't have to
go acourting, but she can make the
men come courting her. Great ad-
vantage over her Eastern sister,
truly.
Newspaper stories published in
Oklahoma during the last three years
regarding applications from young
women of the North and East, who
declare they are seriously in need OF
husbands of cow-punching proclivi-
ties, show the total number of such
applications to have been fully 800
a year. They have been addressed
largely to newspaper editors and
postmasters, although the governor
and some other State officials have
been called upon to aid in the hus-
band selecting business.
A majority of these letters have
come from Indiana, Ohio, Illinois
and Iowa. New York and Pennsyl-
vania are next in the list. A few of
the older States, such as Kentucky,
Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia are
represented. The letters that con-
tain the most alluring hopes for the
untamed young men of the West come
from Illinois and Ohio, Chicago and
Cleveland furnishing an unusual
number. These cities lead in this
census, very probably for the rea-
son that so many Oklahoma residents
have come from them.
One Chicago Girl in Earnest.
Postmaster E. E. Brown, of Okla
homa City, has received more of such
letters than any other man in Okla
homa. One Chicago woman went so
far in her adventure that some of the
newspapers of that city began to
make inquiry concerning her inten-
tions. She used her correct name and
street address and she was the pos
SCISSOR of a considerable fortune and
was connected with a prominent
family. The publication, locally, Of
her letter to the postmaster resulted
in her receiving many proposals from
Oklahoma. The latter, be it said,
were not ten per cent. cowboys, and
probably not one per cent. were Sc
rious. The degree of seriousness at
the other end of the line in most
cases has been about 80 per cent. as
compared with one per cent. at this
end of the line.
With two or three exceptions
there are no longer any ranches
worth the name in Oklahoma, at
least there are none to compare
with those that existed 20 years ago,
visions Of which misunderstanding
girls of other sections have
in mind when they write silly letters.
Cowboys are scarce. The wild west
aggregations that travel over the
country represent period of early
Oklahoma history, but the East and
North get the impression that it
represents conditions here to-day.
10, but Tired of Single Life.
Kind-hearted Gov. Cruce, whose
sympathies all have the religious fla
vor, has received many peculiar let
ters since his Inauguration January
9, and among them has been a few
from misunderstanding girls. The
latest comes from Miss Hazel Thurs
ton of No. 1866 West Twenty-ffth
street, Cleveland, o. She asks that
the letter be published in a paper at
Bliss, Okla, town few miles from
Ponca City, and near the "101
Ranch"
II want a cowboy husband about
rs years DID," writes this Cleveland
girl. lone who is willing and is
comfortably situated. Tell him I
know what a dollar is worth. I am
tired of single life. am 10 years
old. I am contented wherever he is.
Tell him I am a grand housekeeper,
also a good cook. Tell him to write,
but not call in person. When 1 get
the fellow you shall be rewarded by
a beautiful souvenir postcard"