Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-20

they pay the penalty at the end of a
rope.
Mr.. Carters business was to see that
mistakes were not made, that the Bar U
ranch, for example, did not attempt to
ship and sell cattle belonging to the Dia-
mond s; that the practice of 'hair-pick-
ing brand and converting it into
some other brand was not practced,
and the like. 1t takes a good man to
work for a stock association. He has
to have honesty and nerve and deter
mination. Mr.. Carter made good.
In September 1889, he gave up the
open air life and became salesman in
general store at Ardmore. He was sue
cessively bookkeeper and cotton buyer
for this firm. In 1891 he went into his
fathers law office at Ardmore. 1t was
in 1892 that Mr.. Carter was called upon
to audit the accounts of the Chickasaw
nation. Then came election to the trib-
al council. following that superinten-
dent of Indian schools and finally he was
made mining trustee by appointment Of
President Mckinley: and under his su-
pervision all the coal and asphalt ieas-
es in the present segregated mineral
land belt OF the Choctaw and Chickasaw
nations were made.
After that Mr.. Carter engaged in the
insurance business at Ardmore, but al
ways maintained his stock ranch on
Mill creek. When in 1906 Oklahoma
was admitted to the union Mr.. Carter
was called to the democratic headquar-
first state campaign for the adoption of
the constitution.
While his youth was spent on the from
tier, infested with desperadoes and men
aced by intermittent forays of the war
like Kiowas and Comanches, whose reser-
vations Joined on the west Mr.. Carter
disclaims ever having taken part in any
of the warfare. When asked If he had
ever INDUCED in the sportive Indian pas
time of taking scalps he replied:
''Oh, no. Both my ancestral tribes. the
Cherokees and Chickasaws, had been at
peace with the white man for many gen.
erations before | was born. 1: is claimed
that the Cherokees sometimes took a hand
in the game of scalp taking during the
late unpleasantness between the north
and south. and | expect there is some
substantial truth to the claim for this
tribe was equolly divided between the
Union and Confederate forces. and for
major portion of the civil war had up
the black flag against each other. but
even this was several years before / was
born. If I ever saw freshly taken scalp
in my life it was when was very small
boy.
"A war party of Comanches in one of
their raids passed within a short distance
of my fathers ranch and killed and scalp
ed several Chickasaws. one a very promi-
nent and wealthy young man by the name
of Jesse Cutchentubby. My uncle. Cy
Harris. who was then chief of the Chicka-
saws. sent his militia in quest of the CO.
The Chickasaw party was sue
cessful and drove the Comanches back to
their reservation with severe loss.
ION their return l remember gazing
with admiring eyes upon a handsome
young Chickasaw brave whose name as
remember now was Yakea Chumutti.
Ny attention was specifically drawn to
him, I think, on account of his striking
appearance. He had the typical Indian
face, long black hair and eyes suggestive
Of the darkness of the lower regions. He
was young, tall, 1.-THE, muscular and as
straight as an arrow. l have a vague
that at his belt there dam
gled two objects which were explained to
me by the older people to be scalps OF
Comanches he had slain, but whether 1t
10 true or not I am not prepared to say"
ASHMUN BROWN.