THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND." SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER U, t -a L vynEk I mm J W spaa- ew- it v-.i ' mil vnwii Y-"PJgS--W . bbbbbbbbbl I N.VAWVlWftHEVWi November, and aim that time forty-seven wells have V A . ff.WJHHM been lunk in the district. Two of these are gas pro- 77ews Urnson &ffaffa9ftbeJds.StHA 'N a "sxvayback" little log cabin, chinked with red clay from nearby hills and set well among trees that line tha banks of the Arkansas river, lives the richest girl in Oklahoma, and perhaps by this time the rich est in the Southwest. When she reaches wom anhood she may be among the wealthiest of the nation. Why, thin, does she live in a log cabin? We), she is just a little negro girl of 12 years and her home was the cabin of her parents before oil, that magician of modem fortunes, was discovered, a short time ago, on land that she owns. From oil wells already sunk on her "sec tion" of land the income of Isabel Lewis, daughter of a former slave, is nearly $200 a day. Other wells being hurried to completion will increase this to $650 a day, more than $236,000 a year, representing an income on about $5,000,000. At present this little negro girl is abso lutely ignorant of the value or power of money. "I never knew there was so much money in the world," she says. By the time she reaches woman's estate her fortune may be colossal. What will she do with it; has she any cdnception of the responsibilities or the possibilities connected with vast wealth? Ir. the meantime the United States De partment of the Interior, which has jurisdic tion over the Creek tribe of Indians, through whom the oil land came to Isabel, is seeing that her income is not being spent without judgment. , ttW SURE don't knew what I'll do with all that I money," ah said, when asked la regard to what X deposition an expected to make of her fortune when it carhe into her control. "My school teacher, aha aaya it will be millions of dollars, I never heard of that much money before, and that'a why I want to bo to school, ao that I oaa know what to do with my money when I gets growed up." Four or flvo months ago she was Just a barefoot pick aninny In a calico drees that reached to her knee. To day aha la as expensively dressed aa almoat any girt In Oklahoma. Isabel's parents have nj more conception than aha of the responsibilities attaching to wealth. They are of the care-free, happy-go-lucky type of the Southern col ored parson. How did this little negrrss .acquire such wealthT Simply through oil that wonderful magician of Aladdin's-lamp possibilities, that has lifted many a poor person Into sudden affluence. HER FATHLR ONCE A SLAVE Back of her audden accession to fortune Ilea a story that roaches tn the heights of sheer romance, and which, perhaps, can only be duplicated In this country and ago of astounding possibilities. Years ago the father of Isabel Lewis was a slave among tha Indians of the Creek Nation. When human bondage was abolished by tha Civil War, the elder Lewis found himself standing upon bis rights as a man. Such rights, however, meant little to him. Never theless, be took up, almost mechanically, such land grants aa were made to his family later in the territory of the Creek Nation, the former slaves of that tribe having been treated aa members of It. For years these grants wars considered as only Idle firairl lands. The elder Lewis did not attempt to till he acres given over to him by the government; ha was content to dwell in his log cabin, to Ash In the adjar oent river and "worry alone" as thousands of other set tlers tn the Indian Territory did. Among the allotments of land accorded his family was a "section" of 160 acres accredited to his daughter Isabel, now 11 years of age. It is this section that hss recently developed such possibilities of wealth. Only a few miles south of the point where the bound ary lines of the Cherokee, Creek and Osage Nationa converge Ilea the famous "Glenn Pool" probably tha richest deposit of oil on the continent. The wells ao far drilled have demonstrated that the pool underlies at least eighty acres of Isabel s allotment. Three wells owned by her are each producing 1000 barrels daflv, and could be made to double that output If pumped to their capacity. It Is announced by the lessees that seven more wells will be sunk at ones. NO CONCEPTION OP WEALTH If they prove to be as good as tha ones already drilledand there la no reason to doubt it her royalty, at one-eighth of the production, would, at the present price of nil, give her a dally Income of MM, or $217,000 a year, representing the annual Income on a capital of nearly 15,000,000. The child has as yet no conception of what her wealth really means. No more have the Ignorant ne groes of the neighborhood, although they have gath ered from the conversation of the oil men who have visited the family that the girl Is the possessor of more than an unusual amount of money, and are beginning to look upon her with a degree of awe. Incomo atom the welU already drilled Is more than sufficient to supply Isabel and her family with what they now consider the luxurle of life, and their menus of spending money will have to be Increased before they will be at le to make a start on the Income which the girl will have when she is of age. .-' ' J If a visitor mentions yachts, automobiles and other such extravagances of the ultra rich, only a blank look Is brought to the face of this Oklahoma pickaninny. Isabel Lewis is fortunate In that her affairs are reg ulated by the United States Government. The fact that the Interior Department exercises direct control over them Insures that the money will not be spent frivo lously as fsst as it comes In, anU cannot but make her a very wealthy woman, even If the oil production should not continue as good as at tha present Usee s4e Lewis, wfa m ncome a Two ftnot VoyjM -r avy Isabel Lewis, however, is not the only negro girl in Oklahoma with brilliant prospects. .One. of the others la Josephine Morrison. ' . --' So far there is only one producing well on Jose phine Morrison's allotment, but its flow Is very nearlv as good aa those on the Lewis place, and twenty wells will be drilled as fast as the product can be taken care of by the Standard on Company. PROTECTED PROM WEALTH The Morrison girl does not take her good fortune aa philosophically aa does Isabel Lewis, but makes ex travagant statements as to what she will do with the money that la to be hers. As In the cases of all minors among the Indian tribes, her money Is also safeguarded by the officials of the Indian Department, and will be carefully husbanded for her. ATI of the land around the now famous "Glenn OH Pool" of the Indian Territory la owned by Creek In dians and their former slaves, who are not able to lease or m any way dispose of It without the consent of the Secretary of the Interior. The most fortunate of them all are Mrs. R. J. Glenn and her daughters, Grace and Maud, each of whom has 160 acres in the very heart of. the district, and from whom the pool received Ha nn.ne. Mrs. Glenn is possessed of one-eighth Indian blood, bnt undr the law received as great a share In the divi sion of the tribal lands as any full-blooded Creak. She has a third daughter, fc'lma. whose allotment la Just outside the oil Held. fourth child la a baby, only a tea weeks old. - Mrs. Glenn is a woman of refinement and culture, and of remarkable beauty as well. The first well to tap the "Glenn Pcol" was drilled on her allotment, and a large number of them are now In active operation there, producing sufficient oil to give her at present prices an Income of $SM a day, or over $160,000 yearly. . The greater part of the Indian Territory oil field lies In the Cherokee Nation, to the norfS of the "Glenn Pool," and. while no wells In that locality have ben producing such fabulous quantities of oil, there are many Cherokee Indian maidens whose allotments are now yielding a big production. One very attractive voung woman of Cherokee blood living near Colllns vllle has had offers of marriage by the score, but has refused them all. . , , The first well In the "Glenn Pool ' was drilled In last ducers, three are dry and forty-two are producing from M0 to 1500 barrels of high-grade oil per day. . This la In the face of the faot that the wells have been drilled only to the top of the principal oil sand, which the first drilling showed to be about 100 feet thick. Of the forty-two wells producing, over thirty have been drilled tn the last three or four weeks. Many amusing letters are received by ofliclsls of the Dawes Commission and the Union Indian Agency from Eatterners who have heard of the wealth yosseasea by some of the Indian girls and are anxious to marry one of them It doesn't matter much which one, so long aa she hss money. Of course, all such communications go at once to the waste basket. WIPE SEEKERS NUMEROUS Occasionally also a man comes to the Territory to prosecute his search for an Indian wife in person. A ease of that kind occurred at South McAlester only a few weeks ago. The jaan was probably M years of age. While standing on a street corner In the evening, he got Into conversation with a dusky-skinned maiden, who admitted that she had land and money to burn and that a matrimonial alliance would not be displeasing to her. The old man at once deckled that his search was ended right there. Before the hour set for the cere mony, however, he found that his promised bride was nlt'.pether too dusky; that It was African and not In dian blood that waa responsible, and that her stories of wealth were all romances. After that he gave up hla search and went home. Many and devious are the meana which are h nil anMitililnra and others to Set DOSSSI allotments that are supposed to contain oil dapea One notable case of the sort la that of 1 nomas aw son. alias Samuel Ford, who la aervlng a ttfa seats In the penitentiary for murder, while a das in eel as. ators are trying to get hla allotment upon a to Moreover, half a doxen other freedmen are trying to Ford'a allotment canceled, so that they can file oa and the courts are trying to determine WTVStaejr prisoner really la Samuel Ford, and. If not. whs Sag Ford Is. Thomas Johnson, or Ford. Is a "state negro. admits that he was reared In Kentucky, but says I Kla mnltiav ra a a CVnek Woman. Hi lS On the 1 under the name of Samuel Ford. There waa undouMedM a Samuel Ford legitimately on ine rous. uu tion now is. whether Thomas Johnson is really the fide Samuel. Pi Soma von mwn when tha Indian roll WSS ........ -.4 . Abm,iiM. ik. .1 . m a of Samuel Ford rax.ha.4 Tk. TnHlana In rhlria at tne roll asked WOOl Samuel Ford was, and a man from Ford's town staled! that he was on the ground. He brought Johnson In. Identifying hlra as Si r.. 1 w. mm Mn,4ln.lv nla.rl nn Ik. nsw I Shortly after being enrolled Johnson killed Js Bills. For that crime ne was arrestee, in is to the Federal prison at iavenworm. j ii a rn chutf nf nounsel for the Dawes recently made a trip to Leavenworth to take thb I mony or jonnson ana aiso mat 01 uron i jm prisoners who Knew mm wnen ne uvea m us tory. His case la still held under advisement $ and i WONDROUS FISH YARNS FROM FAR AND WIDE The their 7houf&st to i3?n& WHEN the fishermen of the country pot sway their reek and rods for the sea son and father about oracklinp fires for the usual aftermath of reminiscences they will find some entirely new and unique tales of the water over which to ponder. Of course, no one ever denounces a fish yarn as untrue. This samples of this season's crop given here are submitted without comment. 'Voted N OT many persons have the lurk of a flaherman oa the Arrow Lake, British Columbia, laat summer. At the same' time he captured a M0- oouna eeer ana s ten-nouna trout. The fisherman was trolling for trout deer swam past his boat The man managed to catch hold of an old buck as he was going by, and, having no gun, attempted to kill the animal with a clasp knife. Struggling violently, the deer got away, and as it swam off It carried the fisherman's line upon its horns. Picking up his oar a. the man started in pursuit, but waa unable to bring the deer to bay and kill It until after about two hours of pursuit and fighting. Mofit amactng. however, was the fact that then de veloped. The flahllne was Still fastened snout the-deer's horns, and hanging on the bosk waa a fine ten-pound trout, that had sensed the halt as the deer dragged It through the ' water. The fisherman bore borne In tri umph both Ssh and animal. The story of a big fish that went a-flshlng came Cfrorn Wttshurr One afternoon a crowd of boys were MSnlng In the river, when a gigantic sturgeon hed In among them. Yelling lustily, the beys started fur the shore, while the flah, It Is declared, attempted to head them off. All climbed safely oa a seat float, however, sxcapt William Wllderaeim, aged IS years. Before he could get out of water the flah seised him by the right leg and was dragging hlra under water- all the witnesses agree upon that statement when Jo nah Miller, watchman on the float, attracted by the boy's cries, ran to the spot and pulled him aboard. The flah. however, clung on to the boy's leg until It waa dragged half way out of water. Miller picked up a baseball tat and kUled the sturgeon by beating it over the heaJ. Only after death could Its teeth be loosened from the savage hold on the boy's leg. Almost six feet long, the fleti weighed eighty-nine pounds. It has not been fully determined whether the at at (1 Sahara sheet Pittsburg develops man-eating ten dencies in the flah that swim the Ohio river. When Frank Roronaugh. of Plttiton Pa., waa ar rested: bar Game Warden E. W. Campbell on a charge af catching trout that were below the legal length of x inches he made the successful defense that the sua. was the real lawbreaker. Several Cf the flah were measured tlon of au tnah short of the legal length. declared that when he caught them, they Inches or more, each, but that they had shrunk t exposure to tad sun. A number of expert anglers testified that flah when exposed to the sun, and upon such tloe Ehret discharged the accused. Over a year ago Tweed Isenberg. a angler of Granville, Pa., made a similar defense. charged with the same violation of law, and its attracted widespread attention from fislsnntSSl Captain J. T. Me Praia id. of New Orleans, broke) world's basa-catching record laat summer by lassssgj Pass Christian, with red 2nd line, a black bass, fesfl V4 Inches long, which we., aed Set pounds. To that time the record had been held by M Llewellyn, of Chicago, who caught a S5-pound has Catallna Island, California, A few years ago. Almost as game as the tarpon, the black sea affords regal sport Captain McDonald waa nearby hours landing his record catch. Even more startling and decidedly gruesome VS catch made by Samuel Young, of New York, while ' lng from a etringpleoe of a North rtver pier. His line grew suddenly tight and Young hla feet, crying to his companion that he had a big one. When, a few moments later, the heavy oaten res) the surface. Young found that his hook had fastened the clothing of a drowned man. CONFRONTED BY DEAD FRIEND As the frightened flaherman peered down the swt lng tide turned the dead face upward, and Young si fared back with a cry of horror. He saw below I the white face at his life-long friend, Ouatav Jonas Young waa unaware that his friend had fllsapssa from home a few days before, and was completely nerved by the shock when his hook brought the h to the surface. Herbert Ingham, an Englishman who Uvea ta Sa Manchester, Conn., concluded that he would eg spending hla day off on a flaking expedition. For halt he secured what he supposed was a eel of wasps' nests, expecting that the eggs would gS attractive to the Ash and lure them to capture. The nests were placed In a bureau drawer. Wi Ingham opened the drawer to take out the eggs, sen days later, out same a swarm of yellow eatnsta, wl stung him severely cat hla face and hands. He spent the remainder of hla day off killing Insects and reducing the Inflammation caused aF'-j stings. ,M Entirely unexpected sport and large catches were enjoyed recently by farmers along the Benson's creek, near Frankfort. Ky. A few hours before, the flake stand at the distillery brake, emptying more than la, DM whlrky into the stream. It seemed that all Rsfison'k creek became Intoxicated. Thousands of the ush were resent pa The hand by uanuse along the beaks. surface la flrevee. etgaagged way and sported around In the most They sismsa to be thoroughly and to have lost all fear of tbelr saa filrt a rich harvest Nearly every man and soy la i