The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-05
BUTTE News.
IS GETTING CIVILIZED
The Noble Red Man Becomes an
Advertiser.
AND USES THE STANDARD
Takes q Step Upward on the Ladder
OF Culture-From Savagery to
Patronage OF the Daily
Press.

The Indian is slowly but surely becom-
ing civilized. He is taking kindly to farm
ing; he is stock raiser and knows how
to cut and put up hay; the whites might
with profit follow his suit in making a
horse trade. The Indian sends his children
to school and some of him is willing that
his children should go to church. He can
build log cabin and live in it with the
air of a chief of a mighty tribe and feel
at home the same as his father felt when
slee ping under the shelter of the wigwam
He smokes cigarettes and enjoys a good
theatrical performance or circus. He
would also enjoy a glass of beer if not
watched. He rides in a wagon and knows
how to milk a COW. but does not like to
do the latter. He is getting to be accus-
toned to canned beef and tomatoes and
relishes those deicacies. Some day his
color will be the only mark of distinc-
ton between him and the white man.
Yesterday he inserted an advertisement
in the Standard
This latter act must be accepted as
proof of the statement that he is becom-
ing civilized And he insisted upon pat
ronizing the Standard.
Yesterday a Flathead buck. accompa-
MED by cousin, came to town from Ar
lee with several head of cayuses. They
PUT them in a corral and started out to
find the grea test advertising medium in
the Northwest They lacked the required
knowledge to direct them to the Standard
office, so they instituted search planned
by the instinct peculiar to thier race; that
is, they asked nearly every person the,
nd
such crude form as not to be understood
clearly.
They went into stores, and finally made
one clerk understand that they wanted
the Standard. A copy of the paper was
handed to the spokesman, who smiled
smile which the clerk interpreted pre-
tense at the horse laugh. Then the In
dams filed out into the street and a few
minutes later entered Justice Nichols
court, where they opened up on Tom Cody.
Tom can talk and understand most ev-
cry language in the catalogue excepting
E'lathead, especially when that language
is mixed with an inferior quality of cay
use English. So Tom threw up his hand
and declined to play any more in that
game.
At this point a reporter for the Stand
arc appeared and Tom turned the Indians
over to him, with the introductory
mark:
Here, this fellow has business with
Standard man."
A copy of the Standard was procured
and the reporter and the laxative In
dian entered into negotiations. The buck $
coGntenance resembled a cyclone rather
than golden sunset, and naturally
enough the reporter supposed that the In
dian had grievance.
you poot it on paper. all over koon-
try him look at it. Day say i'm boy catch
boss. He got i'm
The reporter looked through the news
columns for a line to show that some In
dams had been accused of Stealing
horses Not finding a clue, he inquired
OF the buck If this was the copy of the
paper which contained the source of his
grievance.
He repeated his former effort and then
smiled a sympathetic smile. After several
attempts at an understanding, Tom Cody
broke in with:
He wants an ad, I'll bet"
That's what he wanted and he got it.
After he had ordered his ad, a half
breed Indian appeared. and through him
the reporter learned more about the In
dian and his anxiety to insert an ad in
the Standard.
1t appears that Smoke Eye and his
cousin, Trim Foot, have been herding a
band of colts near Arlee. They occasion
ally sold one. and it occurred to them
that 1t would be the wise thing to come
to Butte and put their horses on the
market. This is what has been done ev-
cry summer by Indians of every tribe, but
others had always displayed their stock
and trusted to luck to dispose of them.
But Smoke Eye and Trim Foot hit upon
the modern and more successful plan, and
advertised their wares.
Cinnamon have advertised for many
years past but II is a new departure for
the noble red man. The Indian is slow
to understand, but once understanding he
pushes it along to a finish.