The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-12
ANACONDA news.
INDIANS SHED TEARS
There Is Mourning in the Flat
head Camp Near Town.
ONE OF THEIR TRIBE DEAD
Baptists Felix. an E~ight-Year Old Boy
succumbs After an Illness of Two
Monthe-wm Be Buried at st.
Ignatius Mission.

1t in something new to see an Indian
In tears. Many people who have read
az the stoical red man written OF oy
Fenimore Cooper would hesitate to be-
lieve IL possible that a native. natural
born American could. in the
of the immortal william, be moved to
"play the woman Horace. or some
fellow of his caliber who knew II all
in the old days, and has taught a few
fhings to some of the people of TINS
age. said THE times are changed and
We are changed by them or words to
that effect. The white race is not the
only one thai has been included in al
terations which years bring forth. hut
nor 10 has also been affected and his
bronze skin has of late years been COW
erins a mind that has been growing
more white as the years have passed
by.
Many people never supposed an In
nian could cry. Not that they thought
ne was impervious To pain, but simply
that the little glands in the corner OF
his Eyes had been left out of his COM
position when he was made. IL is a
sad sight TO see a white man moved
to tears. when he is sober. but sad as
that is. II is nothing to seeing an In
dian giving vent to his grief. 1t is hard
enough to see one Indian playing the
&roman. but when two Indians are ar
fected similarly the sight is one calcu-
lated to move anyone.
This scene was witnessed yesterday
IN Ehret's store. Two F1athead Indians
walked in there n one of them, VINO
could speak very passable Engllsh,
asked TO see some collins. The spokes-
man said they wanted a small one for
h1r~ IL took EnmR time
for them to pick out the casket that
they wanted. and as they examined the
collins and carried on conversation be-
tween themselves in their own Ian
guage, the tears coursed down theli
cheeks in little rivulets. After buying
the casket they left II while they went
to a dry goods store to purchase some
material for a shroud. They loaded tbs
coffin into an old spring wagon ano
started for their camp near the race
track. When they reached the corner
of Park avenue, near the Montana no
tel. the wagon was stopned while
humber of squaws and children whC
had been sitting on the sidewalk neal
the little church around the corner
came up and Joined in the conversation
This little band was evidently com
posed of sorrowing relatives and clos
friends of the family. The entire crow
was made up of very superior looking
Indians.
The old man in the wagon said IL wa
his son who had died after an Hines
of two months. He said, in his broke
way. explaining much by signs, tina
the boy was S years old. He said fur
Their that they were all Catholics an
were going to take the boy back b,
wagon to the st. Ignatius mission. o,
the Flathead reservation, where III
funeral would take place. The boy
name vas Baptiste, and the father
Anton Felix. The parent nay haV
been a half-breed. but he looked Xix
.the straight article.
Mr.. Ehret said last night he had bee
in the undertaking business an
handled supplies Of that nature 10
many years in Anaconda. but II wa
the first time that he had ever sold
coffin TO an dia