Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-24
NO BRIGHT LIGHTS FOR
WEALTHY INDIAN GIRL
Another Cusher Pours 81, 900
More a Day In Exile
Fife's Lap.

Muskogee. okla, Aug. 24-"Here's
one little Indian girl who Ia not going
to be singed by the bright lights nor
the Great White Way" said Exile Fife,
nineteen -year-old Creek, when told
yesterday that her allotment In Creek
county had produced It's fourth gusher
and lifted her daily income from
royalties periously near 70 $4,000 n
day.
Exie's production now averages
about 1000 barrels Of crude daily.
How much Exile has become worth
since the first producer was brought
In on her land two months ago she
herself does not know. Only the
officials of the Indian Agency. where
her money is handled. because Exile
Is a restricted" Indian, know and
they are not telling 1t for publication.
Exile received the news OF her
fourth gueher just as the carpenters
were driving in the last nails of her
modest new five-room bungalow that
Uncle Sam decided to build for her
down at Fame In Mcintosh county
when oil royalties began to pour In to
Exie's credit. The house harmonizes
with Exie's simplicity. II is far be-
low the accepted standard of persons
who are candidates for the millionaire
class. as Exile is.
"In the fall / am going to study
music and will possibly go to a finish
ing school," said Exile. II am also go
Ing to send my brother to some big
college. l want him to be somebody
| am going to continue to make Fame
my home, no matter how many mil
lions of dollars / make out of oil.
have lived here since childhood and
riches will never tempt me to move.
am always going to stay country
! girl.
mo, l don't care to travel at leas
not now. Some time later on / prob.
ably will take a trip. but 1 assure you
that It's not going to be a money.
spending orgy.
What do / want to be? I want e
be farmerette, as you city folks say
/ want tsabout five hundred or n thou
sand acres. stocked with sleek, pur,
bred cattle and waving fields of corr
y and grain. Then / want flock o
, putting tractors. with this little gir
, behind the biggest one of them all
ploughing up the ground and kickin,
\ up the dust in general. That's tn
. life for me-"
The land that is piling up Exile
n fortune at the rate Of $4,000 @
o ger to this bronzed little gir
T. She has never seen it. 1t was allotte
to her years ago when the Unite
States Government divided the Ian
in the old Indian Territory anon
R the five civilized tribes. It consist
Of 160 acres. and for years was con
= sidered but the poorest OF farm Ian,
4, Less than six months ago a wild
. cater brought in a fifty-barrel we
: two miles from Exies allotmen
That caused the oil fraternity
lease everything in sight. Exie's Ian
included. The Puritan OH Compan
of Tulsa obtained the lease to Exie
&c land. The first well came in with
natural production Of 1900 barrel
IS but dropped down to 1000, where
II is now stationary. The two subs,
: quent wells were making about II
odAiS. Iouay . BuSutE lb lllllDS Lr
tanks at a rate Of 1900 to 1.5oO bal
rels, but very probably will sett
down to about a thousand after
blows Off"
Seven more wells are drilling ar
-, oil men say the allotment should !
good for about forty wells India
agency officials. even in these da,
of low priced crude, forecast an il
come of $4,000 a day for Exie with
the very near future.
u And Exile is about as remarkab
as her luck. The average Oklahon
Indian. according to Indian official
proceeds to feed the goldfish with h
oil royalties, once they begin. Tn,
~ seem to be under the impression tn
=. it is urgently necessary to get rid
- their fortunes as soon as possib
~ But not so with Exile. Although 81
-i' was a pauper two months ago, h
- good fortune has made little chan
Io in her. She is utterly devoid of e
travagance. True, she wears bett
'.' clothes and has a big red-wheel
GU automobile to carry her from Far
to Muskogee to get her month
- check from the agency. but tha