The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-02
SENATOR OWEN, 5s TODAY, IS PRINCE OF THE BLOOD ROYAL.

In the United States Congress there are two princes of the blood royal Senator Robert Latham Owen. of
 Oklahoma who is descended from Cherokee kings, and Prince Jonah K. Kalanianaele. delegate from Hawaii, who is a scion of the royal family of the Sandwich islands. If the Chero- kee nation were still in existence, Sem ator Owen would be it's rightfuI ruler. Since it is not. he is quite satisfied with the job of representing Okla honaa in Uncle Sans upper Iegisla- tive house. in which he is an acknowl- edged leader and the chairman Of the powerful committee on banking. Be- sides that, he Is wealthy. with inpor- tant banking. agricultural and cattle interests. Lo. the poor Indian. in deed!
 Senator Owen was born in Lynch burg. Va. fifty eight years ago today, Feb. 2, 1856. His family tree goes back to the time when seven brothers with Long Hair as the chief. founded the Cherokee nation. They were a farming people, and it was from them that Sir Walter Raleigh secured the potatoes and tobacco which he in troduced into Europe. The nation had 3 code Of laws and were much
 more advanced than most Of their neignbors. Gradually they spread over the South, although their prin- |cipal strongholds were in the noun tainous regions of Georgia, A1bama and Carolina
 Toward the close of the seventeenth Hcentury a young EngIiEhman. John Beanor by name. was sent to the Cherokees as a missionary. He fell in love with Caulunna's sister. Guar tris. a. lovely maiden of seventeen, and married her. with the consent Of her brother, then king or chief. The clergyman and his dusky wife had several children. and one of them, Peggy, married 8 Col. Holmes. a pale face. Their daughter. Martha, mar ried Chisholm, and their son. Thon- as Chisholm. last chief of the Cher okees of the West, was the father of Narcissa Chisholm, who became tho wife Of Robert Latham Owen. Sr., father of the present United States Senator from OkIahoma. By royal right the Senator is the chief or king of the seven clans Of Cherokees, and bears the Indian name of Oconostata.
 Born in Virginia and educated at Washington and Lee University. the future senator. soon after his gradua- ton, Joined his people in Indian Ter ritory. For year he was the prin- cipa1 of the CheEokee Orphan Asylum, and later practiced law, served as sec- retary of the Cherokee Board of Ed ucation, edited the Indian Chieftain at Vinita. and was United States In- dian agent for the Five Civilized Tribes. He has always been firm friend of the Indians and as attor- ney for the. Cherokees. Choctaws and Chiokasaws he was instrunental in recovering from the United States government nearly nine million dol lars due to those tribes. but long with. held. He is a Mason of high degree, and an Episcopalian in religion. as have been most of his ancestors since. the lovely Quartris married a Church of England missionary.
 E George Lorlng BroWn, famous Tor his brilliant and poeticaI work as a painter, was born in Boston one hum dred years ago today In his youth he was apprenticed to wood en- graver. Through the Kindness of friends he was sent to Europe to study art, and became one of the foremost American painters of the nineteenth century.
 Havelock Eliis. world-famous au4 thority on subjects of sex, was born in Surrey dfty-five years ago today.
 His father, like his ancestors for sew erai generations. was captain. and the youth Of the scientist was spent in wandering over the Pacific, and as Ia school teacher in New South Wales. He was educated in England for the medical profession. which served as a groundwork for his epochaI studies in f51 a raxyo Kofae-v of saax