The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-05-09
INDIANS TAKE KELLEY CURE
Ten Usage Braves Undergoing
Treatment in K. c.
They Arc Rich in Cattle and Lands
and Have Infinite Contempt
for the Poor White Man /.
Of the City.

Kansas City. May 5.-Ten Usage
braves are taking the Kelley treatment
in Kansas City, kas. They are full
blood Indians of influence in their coun-
try and accustomed to the freedom of
blanket and breech clout and moccasins.
They r now. however. confined in
suits of blue, and BOOTS that do not look
graceful on their unframed feet. Three
of them are sons of chiefs and are tat
tooed with the badge of their rank. Two
bands OF | tattooing run from their
ears around the edges of their jaws,
other lines of %tattooing run from the
jaw marks down their Threats under
meath their shirt collars and are los to
sight. One of them has q silver band
fastened around the upper rim Of each
ear. by way Of ornament. They are
fond of gay silk handkerchiefs, which
some of them wear knotted loosely
around their necks, cowboy fashion.
Each of them is the possessor of 500
acres OF good Usage country Ian and an
interest in the annuity from the United
States, consequently they are well sup
piled with money. which they know
how to guard.
About two weeks ago, at the time
these Indians came up from the terri
tory, they We're as wild q lot of men as
ever wrestled with the fire water boo
legged into their country. They We're
boisterous and cantarkerous. 1t took
six attendants to keep them even rea-
sonably quiet.
With hardly an exception, they are
enormous fellows physically. and their
upper arms are as large as an ordinary
mans thigh. Their names are E-gron-
k~ah-shin-kahr who is called John for
short; Silas Sanford; Me-to-lah-moie,
called Billie, an enormous young fell
low; Hun-kah-tun-kah, nicknamed
Romeo; Observation-Disclosures, or Shu-
ola, who weighs over 200 pounds; HUI
ah-wah-kon-tah, known as Archie;
Wah-she-hun-kah. Glen in English:
Tom West; Observation-Disclosures,
called Mickey, from the first two syla-
bles of his name, and Theodore Red
Eagle. Every II of them had long hair
done VI in braids. when he arrived in
Kansas City, but they are all short
haired now except two who insisted
upon retaining their hirsuite glory.
An Indian under the influence OF fire
water is an utterly changed man. The
average Usage is a s~toical, Indifferent
mortal in the presence of a strange
white a He Is proud of his birth and
his wealth, and it takes a mighty rich
and imposing white man to make him
blink. He submits Il impertinent In
spection by the white men, who stand
about him and say "how?" II poke
him and call him "a fine fellow and
make jokes about poor Lo," because
he knows he could buy the white man
out body and bones. Consequently he
apparently ignores the white man, but
one experienced in Indian expression
a catch a faint look of contempt on
his face. And when the white man
visits his country he pokes the white
man and handles his belongings and
grunts out criticisms that makes the
squaws smile and booms his reputation
in the tribe as a funny man.
But an Indian drunk is an Indian full
of hilarity or fight, as the quality of the
whisky happens to be. m of the
Osages upon his arrival at the Kelley
office fell into L chair and relapsed into
slumber. Without warning he leaped to
his feet, hoped around like a turkey,
making a circuit of the room, accom-
panying his dance with q "Yow-wow-
ow-ea-e." He was doing a war dance
that threw the attendants almost into a
fit until he fell into a chair and went to
sleep again.
The Indians have quarters in the fifth
story of the building. which is called
tho reservation" This Is fitted up as a
club oom and in it they nus them
selves between shots" or treatments.
| NNhaS. a ,.a kaT,t ontiya1p sapa "a tn frn,,,
the other patients and are treated at diff
ferent hours. They play cards some
times, but their favoritc game is soli-
taire, and when one of them starts to
play all gather about him and help him.
They have d game of their own which
no white maj can fathom. They sit
around in a circle and throw matches
and cards into the center until the game
Is played out. AS not one Of them knows
more English han the greeting How"
1t is not easy for a white man, who does
not speak Usage. to learn the rules of
the game.
The Osages are inveterate ''kidders."
They banter one another constantly In the
best humored way. When they are in line
to take hypodermic treatment and one
| winces under the prick of the needle the
others joke him in the gutterals and
coughs n stranglcs they call their Ian
guaec. They kid" the doctor also. Ill
though he does not understand them ex-
cept by the glances of mirth they throw in
his direction. They, however. have the
greatest respect for him and obey him
implicitly. There is one thing about the
Indians that the doctors do not say of the
average white man. When an Indian pa
tent gives his word that he will not GO into
a whisky joint, or that he win not drink
any more whisky, he may be relied on i'm
plicitly.
The Indian patients are strictly honor.
able in money matters. Each has a SINUS
little sun to his credit with the institute
and demands u strict accounting every few
days. When one of them want 4 cigar he
goes to the office and asks for the price
thereof, and when he appears in the reser-
walton smoking 1t every other Indian files