The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-05-07
WEST VIRGINIA RED MEN.
The Great Council Oft the State I'm SeSGion
At clnrklbHrE for Two Days.

The Great Council Of tho State I'm SeSGi0n
at cIHrknbHrG for Two Days.
Special Dispatch to the IntelIlEencer.
CLARKsBURG. W. Va. May 6.-The
great council OF the Improved Order Of
Red Men convened In annual conven-
tlou yesterday morning at 8 o'clock, or,
in their language. the Noble Red Men,
at the 9th Sun 9th Sun, flower moon,
G. s. o.. i05 rising sun, the great coun.
ell fire was klndled in the wigwRm OF
ChlckRsaw tribe No. s6, whose hunting
grounds are in the Junior Order hall
All OF the great council officers were
present Us follows:
DR.. A. W. Sterling, Of No. lB. great
SAchem. PAlatine; c. @. Haynes, of 20,
I great senior sycamore, Sewell: n. Q.
Showalter. OF No. II, great junior saga
more, Ritchle c. H; John H. CarWiCh-
en-. Of No. Is, great prophet, Charles.
ton: Harry c. Ulrich, Of No. 5, G. c. OF
R., Lazearville; John Schneider. Of No.
/, great K of W.. Wheeling; A. NJ
BarnhouSe. OF No. 8, G. R. to G. c. .. s.,
Grafton; ]. H. Carwichen, Of No. Is, g.
R. TO G. c. U. S., Charleston; j, Slidell
Brown, OF No Is, great lRnnap, King
wood; Dr.. T. D. Sutter, Of No. IS, g.
Mlshinnewa, Ansted: B. F. McCurdy, Of
No. %, G. @. OF W. Huntingdon; Thomas
Gent, OF No. II, G. G. OF F.. Bramwell.
Every tribe in the state but one 10
represented and the reports Of the off
fcers show the order to be In four
Ishing condition. There are nearly fifty
tribes In the state, No. ~ having been
recently Instituted at Weston.
The report Of the great chief Of re-
cords shows about 1000 members In
West Virginia.
In the afternoon the proceedings
were enlivened by the discussion OF Q
proposition to make the age limit under
twenty-one years and to debar saloon
keepers from membership In the order.
Both were voted down and the repre-
Sentatives to the great council Of the
United States instructed to vote against
these amendments.
Another matter that created consider
Rble discussion was request from Dell
aware tribe No. IS, and HlawathG tribe
No. -. Of Grafton, TO be allowed to
consolidate. The petition was hnallly
granted.
To-day business went through with
rush and grand parade took place in
the afternoon. Hlawatha tribe tfom
Grafton came up headed by band and
Setting Sun tribe from Palatine SWELL
ed the crowd 30 that the parade was q
very creditRble one and was headed by
the band here. After this public
meeting was held in the opera house
and great addresses delivered by Col.
Romeo Freer. OF HarriSville, ], H. Car
michael, OF Charleston. and Hon. John
H. Holt, OF Grafton.
Professor c. c. Showalter, eX-Superin-
tendent OF the reform school, was chair
man Of the meeting.
The following are the new officers for
the coming year:
c. c.. Haynes, SewelI, great sach-
EN-: ]. Slldell Brown. Kingwood, great
senior sycamore; w. r, Harmon, Char
lesion, great junior sagamore; A. W.
Sterling. PAlatlnG. great prophet; ], r.
HirEt, Grafton, great chief Of records:
o. a. Moon, Arbatus, great keeper OF
wampum; c. c. showaltcr, Prunty-
tOwn,great mlshinneWa Representative
TO the great council Of the United States,
which convpneS at Minneapolis in Sep-
teinber ]. H. Carwlchen, OF Charles
ton. and DR.. A. W. Sterling, OF Pala-
tine.
Wheeling, Montgomery and Palatine
were in the contest for next place ot
meeting. Pnlatine was chosen and the
great council adjourned to meet In that
place on the frst Tuesday in May, 1891