Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1894-03-08

tho Sioux who belonged. to the visitors
party was taken to neiehboring phone
aud osatrM rung up Communication
was made and Little Fish invited b put
the queer talking machine to bis ear.
Even Indian skill at suppressins surprise
was Of no avail to conceal his astonish.
meut here. He heard bis own name
called, in familiar accents, from some
distant and mysterious place. He was
perplexed and delighted, and could
scarcely keep the receiver to his ear to
hear the question II he was Te.a-waste
Yes, it was he; but who was the other
one? rs it spirit" he asked, suddenly
growing grave. But finally he grinned
to hear deep-chested Sioux explana
ton that 1t was q buck Indian a few
blocks away, and that both of them we're
'all right" Little Fish looked curiously
into the receiver to see where the sound
came from, and remarked that it would
take a good many interpreters to do bus
mess if every town kept talking thing
like that.
Little Fish further explored the won
ders of big medicine, rs practiced by the
whites, in dropping nickle in a slot
machine. He watched the wheel start
up, looked to see where the money had
gone, and was heap pleased when handed
ter cent cigar as the result Of his
speculation. This he at once wanted to
| drop IN again and see what the cigar
| would get. He would not have been
| surprised at an elephant or jumping jack.
| If big drink OF firewater had followed,
| however, Little Fish's heart would have
been wholly good, for he private y ex
pressed an opinion that true hospitality
consisted in offering a drink of whiskeyy
with cigar-that one should 60 with
the other every time, a view he'd in great
esteem by the pale face himself The
old man smoked several good cigars out
OF his long stemmed pipe during the
evening, and always spat on the coal to
extlnguish it before throwing the stump
| INTO tne cuspluOre.
Tea-waste gave some little lnforma-
ton about the country. He said the
white geese had always stopped on the
prairies and in great numbers, both
spring and fall, and that much more
water formerly existed in the lakes than
at present. He had never seen Mime.
waukan as low as now, and that fish
could always be caught thsre by throw.
ing IN baited hook. Now the fish are
gone. Some winters there was more
snow. some less. Prairie fires burned of
the grass every year, and he illustrated
in rapid and beautifully expressive
manner how Sioux lighted fire by strik
ing flint sparks against punk.and blowing
1t into flame.
An evening with the old Indian, will
or without an interpreter, is an enter
tainment worth having. His kindly dis
position, good humor and bright minG
, make him favorite. His means of com
munication and his actions disclose tb'
fact that his identity and Relationship
are that OF man and brother, in spit
OF barriers Of language, and the differ
ence in natures gifts of birth and race.
There were some ten Indians IN Chic
, Little F,sh's party. all IN charge OF Dep
uty U. s. Marshal Hurst. who is escort
, ing them to Bismarck to testify agains
, five white men whose greed Tor none,
have tempted them to sell the red me-
l whisky out OF black bottles.