The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-17
sam AS A SIOUX CHIEF
DISBURSING AGENT LOWENSTEIN
HAS NOT DONNED ANY WAR
PAINT YET
TRUCE WITH OJIBBEWAYS

Ghost-UaI!Sing Hend of the Seven
decentralization Villages Was
I'm Conference Yesterday With
Oar Hail, the Head of the White
Earth Indians-Van SAINT Will
Rest Few Days I'm Iowa.
Big Chief Samuel Lowenstein. now, by
virtue of his recent appointment, chief
toter of wampum to the Med-day-wah-
kwawn-twawn and War-pay-ku-tay tribes
of the Sioux nation, was caught by a
G o b e reporter yesterday, smoking the
pipe of peace with Oar S. Hail. now big
chief of the Glib ways. Years ago,
before Big Chief Hall abandoned the
palefaCe assembly at Washington to go
among the redskins in the northern part
of the state, he represented at Washing
ton the Third district So luckily for
Sam, who formerly met the O-jib-be-way
chief in some political contests, some Of
the wampum chalmers who VIII come
under the Lewensteinian regime were
formerly constituents of the paleface
congressman, for the War-pay-ku-tay
Sioux. according to the early historians,
were located half a century ago large
ly along the Cannon river.
That was how it came perhaps, that
Chief Hall. of the O-jib- be-ways and
Wampum-spender Lowenstein, of the
Med day-wah-kwaw Sioux,
smoked the pipe of peace yesterdays
clear Havana weed culled from the Of
fetal plantation of the new Med-d&y-wah-
kwawn-twawn agency on Jackson street,
where the old tribes were reunited so to
speak, and Sam got some good hints on
how to deal with the Indians.
1t may be a matter of interest to know
where these tribes of Sioux that Chief
IOWenstein is going TO act as secretary
of the treasury for came from, and half
century ago, the same authority which
credits the Warpakutdys to the Cannon
and Blue Earth river valleys, states that
there We're in 1919, seven villages Of the
Med-day- OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, since com
monty shortened to Medawahkeh ntons.
Two of Minnesota's now thriving river
cities were villages Of this long named
tribe. Winona was. one. although then
known as WapaShaw, and there was an
other village of the same tribe nesting
under the proud brow of Barn bluff, lust
as Tams Bixby's political borough of Red
Wing now nestles, except that the tepees
then had no daily paper and no state cen.
fral committee.
The third village mentioned by the his
tcri9n was at that locality Just below the
present Capital City, known as Pigs Eye
or KaposiG, ''kapoja" being the Sioux
word for light, Or Hght-footed, and the
kaposia Indians being the couriers be-
tween the various settlements in earlier
days, on the south bank of the left bank
OF the Minnesota, short distance above
Fort Smelling, not far from where Is now
Mendota. was Black Dog village. while
further up and on the left bank Of the
stream, was a considerable settlement
which had been removed from the shores
OF Lake Calhoun in what is now Min
neapolis. to a location overlooking the
minnesota valley, Cor military reasons.
The other two villages, including the bulk
Of the Observation-Disclosures population. were
on the Minnesota.
Some Of them, so the D jtb-be-way chief
told the new subtreasurer Of the Sioux
yesterday, still remain In and about Pigs
Eye bar and Mendoza, although the most
considerable settlement of them is in
the vicinity IF Birch coulee and old Fort
hldgeiey, near what is now Morton, in
Renville county
Disbursing Agent Lowenstein stated To
the G 10 e yesterday that he had NOT
been officially notified Of his appoint
ment yet, and would not take any steps
an the matter Of paying the annulties Of
the tribal survivors until later officially
notified.
Sam has been credited With being a
suhtle, alert, and saSacious politician
whether in the camp of his own party. or
tne opposite and when he gets light run
. NAhG plcccasins on, and has acquired a
familiarity with the woodcraft of the
artless savage, any Republican who as
suhe5 10 tinker with political issues in
the Ihird ward will do well to confer
with the willy paymaster of the Medawah
kahntons and the Warpakutays.
But even If Sam does lose his hold in
ramsey county politics because Of race
pre3udIce against the Sioux, he still ought
90 De aoIe 10 make a good living naming
s4eepIhS cars race horses, and new
brands Of cigars after his wards in Ka-
posia and Mendoza.
Editor Wood, Of the Sank Rapids Free
Fress, comes Of an historic family in
minnesota Journalism, and soma of ira
carrier members won wide reknown for
1helr sasaclous grasp of the trend of
pupnc events in early DAYS. but II Ia
doubtful if any of them ever was n,ors
prophetic than the Free Press in its
last issue, when it said: 1T will ba a
sort OF North pole chilly day for Great
Britain If she should have to send an
other rescue party to rescue the Butler
rescue party
Capt. Van SAINT will spend the Christ
mas holidays with his parents at lie
) Claire, 10. After New Years ha. will
< return TO see If he can detect any Evans
Z mines under his fences, controI1ed. hv
wire from Washington. The WTunls
captain does not propose to be caught
in Manila pitfalls
There being so strong a popular sehti-
ment against Sunday sports In Mime
apohs that the patrol wagon crews at
the central police station were for sew
eral years forbidden to play checkers be-
tween midnight of Saturday and 1901 a
m. Of Monday. United States Marshal
Grimshaw has to find other amusements
Tor his Sunday evenings. and tonight he
VIII deliver, at the Masonic temple In
Minneapolis, reply to the arguments of
the single tax folks. The marshal opInes
1t will crush them at once.
believe that Judge Collins fs 10000
votes stronger than any Republican that