The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-04
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LOOKING FOR AN INDIAN
One of a Party of Flathead Tour
lists Gets Drunk.
WOE IN THE LITTLE CAMP
The Buck Meets a White Man With a
Fourth of July Bottle in His Pocket
and It's All Day With b
Noble Red Man.

Four Indians from the Flathead
! reservation who have been on the Big
Hole for two weeks on a prospecting
trip, camped just east of the city Sat
urday on their return to their reser-
walton. Two of the Indians w their
squaws with them. One of the bucks,
II appears, got drunk and wandered off
Saturday night and has not been in
camp since. and his companions are
much concerned over his disappear
ance.
Yesterday one of the searching party
met a Standard reporter in front of the
city hall. and he took him at once into
his confidence and unfolded his story.
The Indian spoke a very good quality
of English.
II looking for my partner said the
buck to the reporter. He got heap
drunk yesterday and came up town and
has not go yet to camp"
Where did he get the whiskey?" he
was asked.
"Oh, we sometimes meet men. They
say: Fourth of July everywhere.
Have a drink ms they pull big bottle
out of her pocke M say, Drink 'em,
Fourth July She drink IL whiskey
and talk some hello, much he drunk
'em. Get full, come up town. Som
III iiiAidh lit kO III Jan wv IldNi
drunk. / come see IL she in Jail. Man
tell me to go down there see my part
ner: he get in Jail. oh. everybody she
get ii full Fourth July"
rs 1t your wife you are looking
| for?"
mo, my wife and children on the
reservation. My partner i hunt. He
got squaw in camp. She cry and say
he gone up to his brother in Cree camp
up there pointing to the tented village
on he knoll above the big damn n
Cree don't like her. His brother up
Cree camp. He no like my partner"
Where are you all going, and why
are you so far from you reserva-
tion?"
w been to Big Hole. Last fall I
find some quartz there. 1 took him to
man, and man says ii is So cents to n
ton. We go over there two weeks ago
and dig down three fou feet. / see
gold and silver with my eyes. Good
rock. My partner take a ak and break
a piece and come up town to show IL
to man. He drunk, good rock, like
white man feel good. Fourth July.
everybody got bottle" IN the good
natured buck laughed just like any
other man who looks for his inebriated
partner after a lucky find.
He was asked why he didn't jump on
his cayuse n go up to the Cree camp
and ask about his missing partner.
mo. no. l don't go to the
Cree camp. Can't talg Cree. I
talk some Piegan, Blackfoot. French
and English. My children talk much
English. Go to school. write and know
much. ] got ranch on the reservation.
good quaw and children. pigs and
cows; some horses, chickens-lots to
eat"
Maybe your partner has a girl In
the Cree camp and is spending Sunday
with her"
"Ah, not on FOL living. He has too
many girl down in camp. Kiss all
time. All, he got nuff girl, too.
much girl. All time kiss like that"
and he cuddled VI to Dennis Shovlin.
who TODD nearby. and started out to
give a correct imitation of a big buck
about to kiss a lovely, dusky nader
of the reserve. Mr.. Shovlin assured the
buck that his bare word would be taken
on that proposition.
The Indian was inclined to be COM
m~unicative. and he told all about his
prospecting trip and entertained a
number of attentive auditors. Mr.. Show
lin asked him IL he would trade his
cayuse for the reporters bicycle.
ID you think I'm crazy? I don't ave
wheels. That old brown wheel OF mine
(pointing to his horse) will take me
where wheels can't go at all. You bet,
wheels all right for man who she go
no place. Well, my partner gone too
bad. / go, too, good day." and the
Indian started off in no particular d.
rection.