South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-01-22
GOD IN WIFI BANG
Is HOPE OF GIRL
Notorious Oklahoma Oil Town
is Due for Change as
Owner Plans Reform.

PONCA CITY. Okla. Jan. II. -
There was no God in whiz Bans.
Okla. % miles from Ponca City. the
widest and most ungodly oil camp
in the southwest
Then came the queen OF the Usage
tribes, the most beautiful and
wealthiest girl OF Indian lineage. 10
year-old Margaret Eileen De Noya
of Ponca City. The goddess oil camp
OF the notorious Whiz Bang was To-
Gated on the land belonging TO Miss
De Noya The De Noya homestead
was even part OF the camp.
Margaret Eileen, this beauty O. the
Osages. will rescue her land from
vice and corruption. she viii be
the gentle spirit that will drive out
the painted-faced women. gamblers
and bootleggers and bring the bet
ter things Of this old world into eX-
istence.
Yesterday so acres Of the Mar
garet De Noya land by government
/ permission were sold at public auc-
ton. TIE land was laid off into 45O
lots Of 140x25 feet. The name OF
Whlz Bang is no more. 1t was
changed to the musical name OF
De Noya.
Now there viii be a God IN the
new oil camp town. There viii be
/ schooIhouses, business buildings
churches, a town hall attractive
hotel. coy little bungalow homes
and everything I'm the way of build
I
American business center.
Trained in Kansas City.
Trained in st. Teresa School for
Girls OF Kansas City. and Mt. Carmel
academy Of Wichita, Kas., Miss De
Noya shows a marked ability for
business.
Suitors7 BY the SCORE. But life
holds too much of interest at present
for Miss De Noya in the building OF
her new city to cause her to give
any attention TO love making.
While Margaret is the first hei
to the Joseph De Noya wealth, and
extremely wealthy in her own name
there are five other children Stella
and Martha, students in St. Teresa
school st Kansas CiS, and the
younger children, kathryn, Mary and
the boy, Marcus, who come in foi
their share of Usage Indian land
/ and wealth.
The De Noya heirs are not
much Of Indian descent as one would
| suppose. only a 32nd but this entities
/ them TO their governmental share OF
/ land and money from the oil pro-
auctions Of Usage county. The chill
dren are one-half Irish on their
/ mothers side, French and one
lthirty-second Osage on the side OF
Joseph De Noy& their father.
Richest Land Holders.
The first oil well was drilled a.
Whiz Bang, now De Noya, over two
years ago. At present there are -
/ producing oil wells. 81 drilling and
about 50 preparing to drill on the
Margaret De Noya land. The field is
producing $4,000 barrels or more a
! day.
! The Usage Indians, numbering owe.
1000 heirs to the land Of the Usage
reservation, according to a govern
ment act, for the next o years. viii
equally receive a one-siXth share O..
: all the productions Of the Usage
lands. Even though the land is sold.
as was the case in the auctiong of
! of the Margaret De Noya lands
owners must give up a one-siXth In
dian share for the next quarter Of q
| century.
Many thousands OF acres are
owned by the De Noyas, the wealth
lest heirs in Usage county. There is
Jake, a brother Of Joseph, and their
| father, Frank De Noya There are
many De Noya children who holG
their share of Indian land which
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