Saint Mary's beacon., 1899-04-13
Red Men In Porto Rico.
From the Men York Sun.


and Little Thunder, the Porto Ri
cans OF the preseut day (the Span
iards exterminated the aborigines
long ago) aren't Of much account
Having just returned from Port"
Rico after various adventures ther-.
the two gentlemen above named.
who are OF the Iroquois tribe. con.
slider themselves in position I"
Judge. As Eagle 10 a patrisrchal
Indian of 60 and Little Thunder
clean-cut young buck of 81. they
fairly represent somewh hat different
points of view. Through an in
terpreter, White Moon, Who is
Carlisle School graduate and owns
q head OF hair for which many .
young womsH would trade her Wis
dom teeth, they told the story of
their tripin q series of grunts, gur
giles aid gulps which the interpre-
ter turned ito very good English.
at their lodgings, 500 Broome street.
New York.
A few ds,s before New Y.ar's
the two Indians sailed for Porto
Rico to become part of q variety
show exploiting q certain Indian
remedy, wblch is warranted co be
stomachic powerful enough to cure
the Spanish flag of jaundice. Il
was the business of the two Indians
to do q "tnrn" illustrating their
tribal dances and songs and to sell
as many bottles Of the remedy a.
possible. Upon their arrival tie
Manager Of the show, o man named
Bigelow, told them that heavy sales
were necessary. as he had been
compelled te pay for q theatrical
license, and permission to sell be
medicines, 81 900 to the American
authorities aud $500 TO the Spanish
authorities. During the first dsy
after their arrival in San Juan th.
Iroquois spent most of their tim.
wandering around the streets. to
the undisguised and rather imper-
tinent interest of the natives, who
gathered around them every time
they stopped.
mo good" is Little Thunder's
expression Of his Impression
"Plenty chance for fight. but was
very careful. Too many for fight.
Nobody offered them any yio
lence nor were trey seriously inter.
fered with. They were scarjaIizrd
however, by the fact that the child
rem, both bows and girls. up to the
age of ten years ran about without
the formaii'y Of clothing, q thing
which wouli never be permit red. /.
they declared, on their reservation
In one day, hey had satisfied their
propensity fnr sightseeing and went
to work at getting the show into
shape. The first thing to do was
to put mp canvass Enclosure This
was resented by the Porto Ricsns.
who regarded it as an infringement
Of their right to see everythit z hat
was going on. Therefore, these
simple souled children OF na'ure
produced their knives and jahbed
holes in the'canvas, to which holes
they applied their eyes. Both Ea-
gle and Little Thunder are digni-
fed persons. and this peek q boo
performance filled them with DIS
gust. They discouraged it for q
time by thro ing dust at the holes.
but the Port, Ricsns we're persever-
ing and stuck to their places. Pres
emily a newcomer selected q place
in the canvas and with his knife
ripped gash o foot long. The
next instant, Little Thunder pcked
Q revolver through the hole aud let
ont q war-whoop. The ent. rpris-
ing Porto R,ean dep .rted q, d az.
cended the nearest tree as a toy
monkey goes up Q stick. He left
his knife behind. The Indians
have it nov.
But another Porto Rican vas
meanwhile svenging his fellow
coantrymsn. Eagle had brobgh
With him a valise containing two
suits of American clothes. pair
of moccssins and some bead - rk,
which he lef' in. bis tent. Wnen
he came back. il VS. gone lie
swaue fss eha manaUpr Rhn n ada