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Show Yilijr, A::,r--t lf CHAPTER XII 1C21 v--- - Continued 19 Sabra was revolted, alarmed, and stressed, all at once. She gained assurance by telling herself that 'a was Just one of Donna's queer :et part of the streak In her t Sabra had never understood J that corresponded to the prac-a- l joker la Yancey. That, too, d id always bewildered her. In the workings of the grow-g- . thriving newspaper the conversion faded to a slim and almost important memory. Sabra was sufficiently - shrewd tid level headed to take Sol Levys and advice. "Yon settle down to inning your paper, Sabra, and yon ont need any oil wells. Yon can g xvs the paper and the ost powerful in the Southwest gger than Houston or Dallas or in Antonio. Because Osage la go-to be bigger and richer than y of them. Yon mark what I say. ardy any oil In the town of Osage, it millions of barrels of oil all ound It This town won't be torn i pieces, then. Itll grow and grow, vs years from now Itll look like Ab-rbe- best-payin- !ca go. Oh, Sol, how can that be?" Youll see. There where the mbling tent stood with a mud le in front of it a few years ago nil see In another five years a -scraper like those In New York." Jhe laughed at that Just as she had known that Yan--r had again left her on that ;ht of the Mescal ceremony, so w she sensed that he would come y ek In the midst of this new that had seised all Okla-mAnd come back he did, from J knows where, on the very crest the oil wave, and bringing with n news that overshadowed his urn. He entered as he bad left, h no word of explanation, so arre as to cause everything else fade into tbs background. - - -le came riding, as always, but It s a sorry enough nag that he this time; and his white nbrero was grimed and battered, a Prince Albert cottt was spotted, s linen frayed, the whole figure vered with the heavy red dust of s trampled road. He mnst have Jden like an avenging angel, for s long black locks were damp, his ;ea red rimmed. And when she iw this Don Quixote so sullied, 0 shabby, her blood turned to ater within her veins for pity. She thought. It will always be ke this as long as he lives, and ich time he will be a little more roken, older, less and less tbs jure of splendor 1 married, until 1 last She only said, "Yancey, quietly. He was roaring, he was reeling 1th Jovian laughter as he strode .to the Wigwam office where she tt at her neat orderly desk Just i she bad sat on that day years afore. For a dreadful moment she nought that he waa drunk or mad. e flung his soiled sombrero to the 8k top, be swept her Into' his ms, he set her down. "Sabra f - Heres news Tor you. ge 1 Heh, Jesse I Where's that son of a printers devil? sse 1 Come in here I O d, Tvs -en laughing so that I almost lied off my horse. He was strld-up and down as of old, bis abby coat tails spreading with s vigor of hla movements, the auttrut hands gesticulating, - the a now stlH eyes bloodshot shlng with the fire that would m until It consumed him. Oll'iny children I Mors oil than body ever thought there waa in And T one spot in the world. are I Where! On the Osage In-- a reservation. It came in an r ago, like the ocean. It makes -y other field look Ilka the 8a-There never was such a !1 It's cosmic Its terrible, r the gods must be roaring, ghter unquenchable among the ised godal laucey dear,. we're Used to oil here. Its an old story. Come r, . Come home and have a hot h and clean clothes." In ' her ids eye she saw those fine white n shirts of his all neatly stacked the drawer as he had left them. For answer he reached out with s great arm and swept a pile of paper, jhanges, copy galley oofs, and dippings off the desk, tide with the other hand he seised a typewriter by Its steel bac and umped t to the floor with a force at wrung protesting whine and He ng from Its startled in side id always scorned to use a type-rlteThe black swathes of his rouleau pencil bit deeper Into .e papers surface than any type-riter- s metal teeth. s Hot bath! Hot h 1, honey 1 Do ou realize what this means! Do ou understand that two thousand sage Indians, squatting in their ags in front of their miserable ihantles, are now the richest nation in the world? In the world, 1 ell you." They were given that and the barest, meanest desert and In the whole of the Oklahoma country. And the government of then United States said. There, you red dogs, take that and live on it. And If yon cant live on It, .hen die on It Ood Amtghty, I could die myself with laughing Millions and millions of dollar Theyre spattering, I tell yon, all over the Osage reservation. Theres no etopplng that flow. Every back nd equaw on tbs Osage reservation la a millionaire. They own that land, and, by G d. Im going to see that no one takes It .away from them I Ob. Yancey, e carefuL ns was driving hts pencil across the paper. Send this out A, I. tn-ilt- a. be-od- e -- g a. r. ' J IIACXATZ'ZZ, UAC'JA. Many of them were tolerantly. rich now, counting their riches not in thousands but in million They had owned k piece of Oklahoma dirt or a piece of a piece of dirt and suddenly, through bo set of their It was worth Its weight to diamond Pat Leary, the pugnacious little Irish lawyer who bad ones been a section hand In the early days of tho building of the Santa Fs road, waa bow so. rich through his vast oil holdings that hla Indian wife. Crook Nos waa They tried to keep It dark when the considered a quaint and picturesque flow came, but Til show them. sots by tbs wives of eastern operSabra, kill your editorial lead, ators ho cams down on oil bust-neswhatever It waa. Ill write 1C Make this your news lead, too. Lis- After tbs first Shrill excitement ten. The gaudiest of it Sabra Cravat relinquished cosmic joke that ever was played tbs hope of making sudden millions on a double-dealingovernment as other inckler ones bad dou Her burst Into fireworks today when, land had yielded bo oil ; aha owned with n roar that could be beard no oil lease was a curious fact for miles around, thonaanda of bar- that Sabra atlllIt queened it In Osage rels of oil shot Into tbs air on the and bad actually become a power miserable desert land known ns the in tho mate. The paper waa read, Osage Indian reservation and occu- respected, and feared throughout pied by those duped and wretch- tbe Southwest. It was said with ed pride by Osage's civic minded that cant use that, I tell yon. no oil was rich enough to main the . notr "Why pages of the Oklahoma Wigwam. Cimarron. "This Isnt the Its Though few realized it and though the stats of Oklahoma. Thats Sabra beraelf never admitted it It treason thats anarchy" Yancey who mads this tru Its the truth. Its history. I waa neglected It for years together, can prove 1C' Theyll be down on Hs but always turned np la a those Osages like a pack of wolves. crisi hswhether political economical them know let At least Ill theyre or social to hurt edirun HI the etory, by torials at tbs hdkdshlaof barbed expected. offendthe G d, ns I want It run, apd they er to sting with tbs poison of his can shoot me tor 1C" ridicule. Ho championed tbs IndiYon "And I say yon wont . cant an hs denounced tha oil king he come In here like that I'm editor laughed at the money grabber he bf thin paper." He was exposed the land thieve He turned quietly end looked at afraid of nothing Hs would abher, the great bead jutting out the sent himself for six month The Wbo is? eyea like steel Wigwam would run along smoothly, I am." placidly. Ha would return, torch Without n word be grasped her In hand, and again set fire to tbs wrist and led her out across the paper until the town, the country, old porch, down the steps and Into the state were ablaz The Osages the street There, on Pawhnska ave- cams to him with their legal probnue, in the foil gtare of noonday, lem and he advised them soundly he pointed to the weather-worand took a minimum fee He seemed sign that he himself, aided by Jesse always to sense an Important hapRickey, bad hung there almost pening from afar and to emerge, twenty years before. She had bad growling ilka an old lion, from bla It painted end repainted. She bad hidden jungle lair, broken, mangy, bad it repaired. She had sever re- but fighting tbs fins eyes still placed It with another. alight the magnificent head mill as THE OKLAHOMA WIGWAM menacing as that of buffalo chargYancey Crqvat, Prop, and Editor. ing Hs bad, on one occasion, corns back Just In time to team of Dixie When you take that-doSabra, hooey, and paint your own Lees death. Dixie had atruck oil and had rename up tn my place, youll be the editor of this newspaper. Until you tired, a rich woman. She had closed ' her house and gone to Oklahoma do that I am." , As they stood there,' she In her City, and there she bought a house neat blue serge, he In his crumpled In decent neighborhood and adoptend shabby attire, she knew that ed n baby girl She bad gone to Kansas City for It and though she the never would do it had engaged n capable and somee e what bewildered nurse on that trip, Young Om came home from Col- Dixie herself carried the child orado for the summer vacation, was home tn her arm Its head doss caught up in the oil flood, and nevtbs expensive satin bosom. er went back. With hla geological against No one knew what she had need knowledge, slight as It was, and his to pull the wool over the eyes of familiarity with the region, bo was the Kansas City antborltie She shuttled back and forth from one never could have done It in Oklaend of the stats to the other. Curi- homa. She bad bad the child alously enough Clm, like his father, most n year when the women of was more an onlooker than a parOsage got wind of It They say she ticipant In this fantastic spectacle took It ont herself tn Its perambuThe quality of business acumen lator dally, and perhaps soma one seemed to be lacking in both these recognized her on the street though men ; or perhaps a certain mad fasshe looked like any plump and retidiousness In them kept them from spectable matron now, in her rich, taking part In the feverish fight A qnlet dress and her pines net, a bint of oil In this corner, u trace of little gray showing In the black oil In that and tbs thousands wort abundant hair. upon It pushing, scrambling, nose - Sabra Cravat heard of It Mr to the ground, down on Mr Doe Nisbett like pigs In a trough. A hundred Wyatt Mr times Yancey, could have bought an Pack. oil lease share for a song Head - They took the child away from her by law. Six months later Dixie lolling on bis breast lids towered Lee died; tbe sentimental said of over the lightning eyes, be shrugged a broken heart ft was Yancey Craindifferent shoulders. vat who wrote her obituary : " "I dont want tha filthy mock." "Dixie Le for years one of tbs Inhe said. Let the It atink diana have It Its their And the most prominent citizens of Osage and a pioneer In the early days of Big Boys from the East let them sweat and scheme for It They Oklahoma, having made the Ron in know where Oklahoma Is now, ail IS, one of the few women who had tbe courage to enter that historic right and terrible race. Is dead, His comlngs and goings had "Sbe was murdered the good ceased to cause Sabra the keen women of Osage. . . ."by ' She knew of earlier daya agony wonThe story was a nine-day- s now that their existence, so long der, even in that melodramatic state. Sabra read It white-faceTbe circulation of tbe Wigwam took another bonnd upward. Some day, said Ong over Its afternoon paper, "somebody Is going to come along and shoot old Cimarron." I should think his wife would save them the troubi some one suggested.. If Yanceys sporadic contributions Increased tbe papers circulation It was Sabras steady drive that maintained It ft was a gigantic task to keep np with tbs changes that were sweeping over Osage. and all of Oklahoma. Yet tbs columns of tbe Wigwam recorded tbess changes In Its news column la Its editorial page In Its personal and local Items and Its advertisement as faithfully as on the day of Its first Issue when Yancey had told them who killed Peg-lePerhaps It was because Sabra. even during Yanceys many absence felt that tbe paper mnat be prepared any day to meet his scathing ey "Whan You Taka That Down, flab-- r Strange Items began to appear Honey, Youll Be the Editor dally In the papers columns of This Newspaper. strange to tbs eye not Interested tn as Yancey lived, would always be oil; but there was no such eye la Oklahoma, nor, for that matter, in made up of Just such unexplslned tbe whole Southwest Cryptic absences and melodramatic homethese Items might ba t though made her had She coming up In other parts of tbs Unit dwellers mind to accept the Inevitable. ed State they .were of more abEbe did not mind that Yancey sorbing Interest to Oklahomans spent much time on the oil Jeld than front-pag- e stories of war, roHe knew the men he called the mance, Intrigue, royalty, crime. the from and East Big Boys" "Indian Territory IUnmlnatlng they often sought him out for bis Oil company swabbed 42 barrels in company, which they fonnd amus- its No. 3 Lizzie In tbs northwest ing and for a certain regional wis- corner of the sonthweat of the dom that they considered valuable. northwest of after having Hs despised them and spent most plugged back to 4GS feet and of his time with tbs pumpers and booting with S2 quart. 3 roustabouts, drillers and tool dress"The wildcat test of McComb two ers and shooters a miles nortb of Klwoka which is crew. In No. 1 Sutton tn tbe southwest cor bla whits sombrero and his outdatner of the southeast of the northed Prince Albert and bla east of 9 was. given a shot of boots be was known as a pictur- 105 quarts In the sand from 1,88? esque character.' Years of heavy feet and hole bridged. As It drinking were taking their toll of stands It Is estimated good for 450 tbs magnificent body and mind- Tbs battels dally." long locks showed streaks of gray. lie papers ads reflected tbe Local townsmen who ones bad change. The old livery stable, with feared and admired him began to It buggies and phaeton Its plugs patronize him or to laugh at him, to be hired. Its tobacco-chewins, star-spangl- g ITTXU lounger Its odor of straw, manor and axis gross was swept away, and to Its place was Fink's Gangs and Anto Livery. Repatrs of All Kind Buy a Stimson Salient Si Tbe smell of gasoltn tbs hiss of tho bos lean young lads with grease-grimefinger engine wta Corns to the Chamber of Commerce Dinner. The Oklahoma City College Glee club will sing. Osage began to travel to tea the world. Their wanderings were no two years longer local. Wher ago, you read that Dr. end Mr Horace McGill ere up from Concho to do their Christmas buying, you now saw that Mr. and MrW, Fletcher Busby have left for a trip to Europ Egypt, and the Holy land. You knew that old Wick Busby had made hla pile in oil and that Nettle Busby was ont to tee tbe world. Moat astounding of all were the Indian item for now the Oklahoma Wigwam and every other paper d e TW 1 It om of the strange types of craft entered in tbe recent motor boat race from Moscow to the Andrev Leahava, carrying many passengers and driven by a powerful motored air propeller. Astra-kha- ia i Scenes n. and Persons in the Current News n wn, all-fou- d. r. 11-8- -6 - hard-drinki- hard-talkin- g' bard-fightin- g blgb-beele- d 35-2-- - Millions of Barrels of Oil In the country regularly ran news about thoseftncredibls people who in one short year had leaped from the Neolithic age to Broadway. The Osage Indian a little more than two thousand in number, who bnt yesterday were a ragged, half-fe-d and listless band, squatting wretchedly on tbs reservation allotted them, waiting until ttm icknes and misery should biot them forever from tbs laud, were now, by a miracle of natur tbs richest nation In tbs world. Tbs barren ground on which they had lived now yielded the most lavish oil flow In tbe stat Yancey Cravats news story and editorial bad been copied and read all over tbe A stunned government country. tried to bring order ont of chaos of riche The two thousand Osagea wen swept off tbs reservation to make way for the flood of oil that was transmuted Into a flood of gold. They were transported to a new section called Wazhazb which Is tbe ancient Indian word for Osage. Agents appointed. Offices established. Millions of barrels of oil. Millions of dollars. Millions of dollars yearly to be divided somehow among two thousand Osage Indian to whom a blanket a bowl of sofflea, a mangy pony, a Mt of tobacco, a disk of peyote had meant riche . And now every full blood, half blood, or quarter blood Osaga was put on the Indian roll and every name on the Indian roll was entitled to a head right Every head right meant a definite share la Five Id a family-f- ive tbe million Ten In a family head right The Indian ten bead right agent office was full of typewriter file pad ledger neat young clerks all occupied with papers and document that read like toms fantastic nightmare. The white mans eytr traveling down the tidy list Indian names with its story-boo- k and Its bard, cold, matter-of-fafigure rejected wbat It read as be- -' lng too absnrd for tbs mind ts grasp. Clint Tall Meat 1523.000.' Benny Warrior, $192000. Ho ki ah s $285,887. Long Foot Magpie, $387,942. The government bought them farms with their own oil money, and bnilt big red brick houses near tbe roadside and' furnished them in plnah and planoa and llnolenra and You gas ranges and phonograph saw their powerful motor ear dual covered, whirling np and down tbe fed clay Oklahoma - roads those u roads still rutted, un paved, for Oklahoma bad bad no time to attend to snob jhatter Fifty years before, whole bands of Osages on their wiry little ponlea had traVeled south Ur the winter and north In the summer to visit their Indian cousin Later, Middled miserably on their reservation, they had Issued forth on foot or in wretched wagons to pay their seasonal visits and to try to recap-to- r by talk and song and dam and ritual some pale ghost of their A shabby departed happiness enough procession, guarded, furtive, smoldering. Bnt now yon saw each Osage bock In his d car, hla inexpert bands grasping tbe wheel, hi enormous aombrero larger even than tbe white mans ping in tbs breeze that he made by hie speed. In tbe back you saw tbe brilliance of feathers and blanchilkets worn by tbe beady-eyedren and tbe great placid squaw crouched In tbs bottom of the car. The white man driving the same road gave throe Indian cars s wide berth, for be knew they stopped for no on over bridge orews and ditches Ilka mad thing ' has-ardo- President Hoover receiving a birthday gift, a caued at the White Hons 2 Missionarys home bergh were nests for three days on their aerial who was Indicted for alleged violation of the law Gets First Patent Granted on Plant V t d Mary M. Bell of Port ' Dalhonsi Ont, who swam across the Niagara river Just below tbs fall In the record tlms of only ten minute Dared by the crew of the boat Maid of the Mist she made the attempt tad startled onlookers by her Intrepid accomplishment OHIO CANDIDATE tin star Trt " who returned from a party at midnight and dlsc'-vere-d her $10,000 peans were stolen bad to wait nntil the at ore opened the next morning before she could get ajy more. Kansas City Eiae ! 1 tl-g-P- .O q MUIM .U .Q-TO .U7 O nr " The first patent to be granted' by tbe United States office on a plant has been issued to Henry F. Bosenberg of New patent Brunswick, N. J, who is shown with soma of tbe bloom' The patent the feature of a climbing rose, and was under a new law passed by congress In 1930. ever-bloomin- Oklahoma Troops Rule Oil Fields Scene at one of the oil wells In Oklahoma aa troops were taking control The wells were shut down by order of Governor Murray who Insisted the price must be put np to $1 a barrel d A movie " 3 t 4 Fourteen-year-ol- hat-flap- (TO BB CONTINUED.! fishing tackle bag, from a delegation f Boy Scouts who fit Point Barrow, Alaska, where Colonel and Mr Lindtrip to Japan. 8 Mayor T. 8. Walmsley of New Orleans regulating the Investment of city fund Johnft. Hollister, s Cincinnati lawyer, is the Republican candidate to succeed the late Nicholas Longworih. Hs conferred with President Hoover tbe -- other day and, though a pronounced wet la said to have obtained the indorsement of the Chief Executive. rss |