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AN INDIAN CH[EF
OA0 N" vi OF CHICAGO HAS BEEN SELECTED TO RULE OVER
THE WuNNEBAGo TRIBE.

The atmosphere of romano that T Fen.
more cooper succeeded in casting around
leaunerstockdng and others of his kind is
ulsps!leu forever. Decades ago it was
asserted that civilization in it's onward
Inarch would inevitably result in the en-
1ernlnation of the aboriginal jewellers of
.ne virgin prairies and primeval forests Of
thls great land and it now looks as if this
prediction was certainly about to be full
leieu. Years ago the red men lost much
OF tnelr individuality by consenting to
ADOPT the games of the white man as a
SUBSTITUTE for their own picturesque
sports. They shaped their war CLUBS in
10 golf sticks and baseball bats. they
began to distinguish themselves upon the
oootnall field, and they proved their
or billiards, pool n draw poker. Great
as uhese concessions were, however, they
We're nothing compared TO the last
acmevement of civilization which has
peen to secure for a Chicago Irishtnan the
of the west. = 'i1'e'
The man who expects to attain this
honor is Thomas r. Roddy, who has long
been a resident of Chicago. He is now
ABOUT forty years Of age and is the SON
of an Irish trader who settled among the
various tribes of Wisconsin Indians more
dnan half a century ago. The boy.
iIhomias, was born among the red men
and for years he lived with them, playing
with the youngsters in the streets of the
Indian villages n learning all arts of
Woodcraft known to his associates. He
acquired their habits. clad himself in SINH
lar garments, hunted with them, f1shed
Wiuh them, and, in fact, became an indian
in all but color.
Inc Old Irish trader, however, was quick
at making a bargain and it was not long
before ne had succeeded in laying aside
considerable money. BY this time his
son was quite we'll grown and he was then
taken from his pla INMATES and sent back
TO civilization to be given a liberal edu-
cation. He went through the public
schools. spent a year Or two in college,
and went into business for himself in
Chicago. He also married and everyone
supposed that he had settled down to the
humdIum existence Of city life.
To a certain extent this was true. He
nat decided to take advantage of his OPP
p~Ortunatle to acquire wealth and stand
ing in a civilized community but, in spite
OF all that, his heart was with the people
who had adopted him.. He continued to
speak their language and in order that
ne might have an opportunity to converse
with some person in that strange tongue
ne taught 1t to his wife. From them their
children learned it so that when the fami-
iy goes back among the Indians, as they
expect to do in a few weeks, they will
not feel as 1t they We're among
Occasionally Roddy went out to visit
his old friends. He kept on good terms
with all the prominent men Of the tribe
and was the confident adviser of the old
chief. Black Hawk. who had known him
ever since he was a child. Often he pre-
vented them from being imposed UPON
n his knowledge of the ways of the
white man was Of great usefulness to the
tribe.
In the fall of 1897 the ehieftain. who was
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POWER OF

The influence of the imagination is a
factor with which physicians have to rec
kon very largely, n in the minor all
ments OF life, at any rate, the most sue
cessful practitioner is he who possesses
the faculty Of inspiring confidence in
himself to begin with, and then in the
of the Psychological Review relates an
Interesting experiment made by Mr..
Slosson with the view of demonstrating
how easily this faculty can be called into
play. In the course of a. popular lecture
he presented to his audience a bottle con-
tanning distilled water, which he uncork-
ed with elaborate precautions. and then,
watch in hand. he asked those present to
indicate the exact moment at which the
peculiar OdOr was perceived by them.
Within Is econds those Immediately in
front of him held up their hands, and
within 40 seconds those at the other end
of the room declared that they distinctly
perceived the odor. There was an OBJ
stinate minority, largely composed Of
men, who stoutly declared their inability
to detect any odor, but Mr.. Slosson be-
1ieves that many more would have given
in had he not been compelled to bring the
experiment to a close within a minute Of
the opening of the bottle, several per-
sons in the front rank finding the odor so
powerful hat they hastily quilted the
lecture room. 1t would nave been inter-
esting to know the attitude of the audi
ence on learning the liberty that had been
taken with their imaginations. but on
this point, unfortunately, the report 10
silent.
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that spot, like a s%epulchre. Finally to-
ward IL O'clock, seeing no chance for the
storm to let UP, and wanting his pip he
put on OvershOes. took a snow shovel and
slowly but patiently dug down into the
snow bank until he came to the pipe.
There it was, damp but sweet!
The man who took time by the fore
lock and burnt up all his clay pipes lives
IN Philadelphia. The case is historic as
the facts leaked out to al unsyrnpathetic
world next morning. Several days be-
fore the new year came in he resolved to
stop the practice of smoking. Nicotine
was killing him.. 1t gave him a taste. in
the morning and took away his appetite
for dinner. It blackened his teeth and
made his breath smell bad. 1t was a
deadly poison. So. on this ventful even
ing. as his friends were gathered together
at a pleasant end-of-the-year reunion. he
took his clay pipes and cast them into
the CRATE.
Carefully. one by one, they were plac-
ed upon the glowing Goals. while anthems
mournful were sung, and dirges chanted.
Soon they all lay stacked in the fiery fur
mace, nine in all!
Next morning, after breakfast, when
the first morning desire assailed the man,
he began to wonder if he had not over
looked a pipe. It would do no harm to
take one puff. Anyway New Year was
the time to swear Off. He would take
one puff and be ready to swear off COM
pletely the next day.
But no pipe could be found: all had
been offered up in the fiery furnace.
At last, wanting a pipe and wishing at
least to gaze upon the remains, he stole
into the library. And there, upon the
now white crumbling Goals, lay the pipes.
stacked neatly, and as good as ever. Mine
white pipes. hard, clean, and
Trembling with joy he lifted
them one by one The fire had restored
the clay. 1t was an unexpected New
Years present; and then and there the
man vowed a VOW that the fates were
adverse to swearing off, and that he
smoke until the nine pipes were
used up.
Swearing off poker playing is not I'M
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men to postpone the matter under the
specious plea that the man who had rul-
ed over the tribe for more than the ordi-
nary span OF life should not be permitted
to abdicate that way. -
In September last the old chief died.
with his last breath he besought his as
sociates not to permit the affairs of the
tribe to go into the hands of Green Cloud,
explaining why he believed that the ruin
OF the nation. Immediately after his
death the tribe held a meeting and it was
the unanimous vote of the council that
the wishes of the dead ruler should be
carried out. Roddy was notified that he
had been elected chief of the tribe and
that in the future he should be known as
white Buffalo"
Green Cloud, however, was not Willing
to let matters rest without a determined
night He called his friends together and
although none of them had been promi-
nent in the affairs of the council they
were able to get together 1 900 men. The
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Standard Pullman. First-Class and
tourist Sleeping Cars to Portland. st.
P1ul. Omaha. st. Joseph and st. Louis,
without change.
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ABOUT

Boston proposes a singular experiment
in dealing with the penal aspects or
drunkenness. The cost or arrestlnS
d~runkards and their keep" amounts to
safe. coo. or one-eighth of the total ex-
penditures of the police department. mt
system OF Imprisonment in default OF
paving fines, it is the judgment OF a COM
mittee investigating the subject, results
in Furnishing the innocent more than the
guilty. Mothers, wives n chlldren sur
fer in the absence of the bread winner,
unable to pay the fine, while those amply
able to pay escape practically without
punishment. The others are virtually i'm
prisoned for debt. Moreover, from a
business point of view, as the committee
says, it is absurd to pretend to recoup the
county for the cost Of arresting and try
ing the offender by imposing a fine which
he seldom pays, and then boarding him at
public expense from eight to twenty days.
If the method followed produced any re-
form it would be less open to criticism,
but it is asserted that the short-term i'm
prisonment is without deterrent or ex-
emplary valu AS a remedy it is propos-
ed to place the offender whom 1t seems
desirable to punish by a fine in care OF a
probation officer for a longer or shorter
period, pending the earning and paying
of the fine. Under this plan the poor citi-
zen, though still bound to be punished
more than the rich one under any system
of fires, would not be dragged to prison
because of his poverty. Confirmed in
ebriates will be punished with longer
terms of imprisonment n given plenty
of wholesome hard work-which is the
best remedy ever Observation-Disclosures
American,
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common. To do this you must resolve TO

ommon To do this you must resolve ia
touch not, handle not. see not a card.
A certain young man of a city not SO
far away, has resolved not to get engaged
during the year 1900. His record last year
was poor. The engagements in June
numbered three. all broken through
faults of his own, and through fickleness.
One of his tiances broke her engagement
because he tlirted; another because he
asked to be released; a third because he
told her he was penniless. This course
persisted in would destroy the nervous
system of any man and, so, until the be-
ginning of another New Year all MAN.
mas with manageable daughters spec
tally, are warned to take note. The young
mans manner has become so distract
that you will surely know him by his ac-
ions.
Another has resolved to swear off
quarreling with his mother-in-law. The
signal is sugar bowls. At the word 'sug-
ar bowls" the man is to shut up. no mat
ter what he may be saying-in the very
middle of his speech. 1t is the signal that
the danger mark has been reached. 1t
came about in this wise. The man who is
otherwise a peaceful body sees things
with a different eye. The mother-in-law
has an eye of her own with which she
also sees life. The two. while vowing
friendly feelings, are generally at var
ANAA>e' W." lily uedT, SAID the nuSDanO
not long go, IF I knew when was
quarreling with you mother, 1 would
cease
Very we'll, my dear responded the
dutiful wife, II will keep you informed.
l will utter the words sugar bowl when
| see that is becoming offended"
This has worked like a charm thus far,
though the old lady looks bewildered at
times. not being in the secret. r. vi
A rather strange. bUt misunderstanding
good resolution, is that made by a mar
has resolved to stick to one occu-
patton steadily for a whole year. He
has changed so frequently that he has
een-lik the proverbial rolling stone
destitute of moss. Let us hope that
sticking to a thing, if it be a good thing,
will net him we'll for 1900! -.
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W. II. MERRIMAN. a. A.. Butte,
Mont.
CHAS. 8. FEE. G. p. g. T. A., st. Paul,
Mimi.
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Being so leg the end of the century,
AM being regarded by many as the actual
beginning of the twentieth century, the
crop of good resolutions is unusually
large. A New York man, who has sworn
to swear off swearing has attached a per-
sonal wager to the violation of his self
imposed task. AS long as he remains
free from profanity he is to go about
among his fellow men, as free from mark
or eccentricity as they. But the minute
ne breaks his vow, he is to tie a tiny blue
rlbbon around his little finger and to
wear it one month. The next month he
IS to start off again with a clean record.
but on the violation of his VOW he again
lakes the blue ribbon. This, he has sworn
snail continue through the year 1900. The
reason Tor This radical treatment is THAT
lie is engaged to be married and his
sweetheart Will not carry out her part of
the agreement unless he stops swearing,
a New Jersey man Who is given to that
ulssolute practice, known in the east as
.DioWlnS IN your money ,lnade a resolu-
ITO that, from the New Year on. he
would blow in his money mo more. When
NE was paid off the last month of the old
year ne placed his money in the savings
pank. AS he needed it he will draw orr
enough for his daily wants. As The svse
fem calls for daily trips to the savings
Dank. 1t may work until he gets tired Of
Ine scheme and takes out enough for a
full week.
swearing off drinking, and swearing off
smoking are such common occurrences
1hat few men but have experienced them
At one time or another. A man who
mas sworn off smoking steadily, every
year Ior ten years, has lone the same
this year. Last wear he thror, ou,o, -.
plpe at midnight of the old year. # was
showing hard in his locality and when he
woke New Years morning and realized
that the pipe was Undecided under a hank
- snow ne looked exceedingly serious,
After breakfast the longing to zee the
Ola friend assailed him and he looked ont
VI the window. The lay high in
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degrees ea:t 1ss.s feet: thence north "a
0e9rees ~ minutes west l.lSl feet: thence
south 3 degrees west % fe.S; thence south
= degrees 81 minutes east l.1si feet to
Corner NO. !. the place Of beginning.
which an area Of o.s7 acres in CONFLICT
with u NO. l1os IL excluded and not
sAe acres. which is In conflict with Sur:
Ne. !022. and 0.O4 acres Of which 10 a
conflict with Sur. No. 1890.
Tia location of this mine f. recorded
IN the office of the Recorder OF silver
Bow county. on page 800 IN Book IT. %
lode locations.
The adjoining claims on the north Sur,
NO. 1919. the silver Lick Lode, Lot. No.
a3e. Frank Shovlin ct al. applicants: ON
the south Sur. No. 1919. the Tiger lily
Lode, Lot No. 242. David Burt, a%pplicarf,
ard on the west Sur. No. PATS, the Kerry
Lode. Lot No. $50. Michael Carroll. appli.
cant.
GEORGE d. GREENE.
Register.
United States Claim Agent.
first publication. Nov. II. 1893.
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proceed to do all in his power to improve

proceed TO DO all IN his power to improve
the condition of the tribe
AT the present time the Winneba COS
are by no means the most civilized OF the
Indian nations. They are faithful, bright
and Intelligent and maintain q sort OF tri-
"a government sufficient to emphasize
ITS native character, but they have never
had the opportunities to Improve their
condition that has been accorded many
less peaceful nations. even to-day there
are practically no schools on The reserva-
ton and the young men ana women who
desire to obtain an education are. compel
led to travel a distance of fifty miles.
members might easily support themselves
The tribal lands are extensive and the
by farming. Several times during the
past ten years efforts have been made to
persuade them to adopt agriculture but
the men have never taken kindly to the
proposal and they are now left to work
out their own salvation.
AS soon as Mr.. Roddy takes control of
the helm Of state he will make a reter-
mined effort to interest the men in the
| cultivation of their lands. He will in
troduce reform methods into affairs Of the
councils and wi.lput the government up
on a more modern basis. He will also
engage a number Of teachers and will open
schools in the villages. attendance at
which will be compulsory in the case Of
the children and OUNCE men n women.
Even the older people will be permitted
AAoNN wy NAAA AAS AVN &AAhS 40
confident that within a few years those
who visit the Winnebagos will be able !
to distinguish a marked Improvement in
the condition Of the tribe.
In the carrying out Of this work Mr..
Roddy will w an able assistant in his
wife. Although Mrs. Roddy has never
lived among the Indians she has fire.
Quently visited the tribe and her heart
is thoroughly in sympathy with the work
that is to be undertaken. 1t is her in
tention to devote herself chiefly to the
women of the tribe During her visits
to the reservation she found that the
were lazy and careless. that they
had only the vaguest ideas about house,
keeping and cooking and she will do her
to persuade them to adopt cleaner
and more practical methods.
While it is a question whether or not
the Indians themselves will take kindly to
such a broad system of reformation there
can be no doubt that it would be greatly
to their advantage to allow themselves
to be governed by their white chief In all
things. Black Hawk. who was not I'M
of Mr.. Roddy's intentions but VINO
felt that he was too old to undertake to
inauguarte such sweeping reform. rea-
that the civilization and moral m
in his tribe could be obtained
no other way, and he undoubtedly act
ca wisely when he prevailed upon the
tribasmen to see that his last Instructions
were carried out.
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Railway Time b
Butte, Anaconda q Pacific
LOCAL TIME TABLE.

trains leave b.. A. 4 p. depot. Butte.
-, follows: 10 a. m.. 1905 p. M. 4:l5 o. nj.
Irains leave Union passenger station.
Anaconda. a. follows: $40 a. M. 11:5S
=: an;' 8 p. m. 1870 p. IN.
conda: A"
$40 a. m: Great Falls and Helena local.
via Butte. AoS~''
nv p. M. Through train for all points
NohIHERN PACIFIC train leaves
Anaconda: ~
1o:4o a. m. Pacific Express for Portland
n all points west.
'eo - m. Through train for all points
OREGON SHORT LINE train leaves
Anaconda: ~
o:oo p; M. for all points sast, west ana
llckets FOR sale for all points, local and
tnrougn. on the Great Northern railway.
oregon Short Line railroad and North.
lions.
steamship tickets for sale to all points
IN Europe via the above lines.
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A FOREIGNER FROM ARKANsA0.

"When I was on the bench,' relates
Judge ]. ]. DuBose. 1--WE were nce max
ing up a special jury for a murder trial.
The lawyers were examining the venire,
and l wasn't paying much attention to
what was going on, till one of the law
yers attracted my attention by saying:
Your honor. this man is incompetent
for jury service. He Is a foreigner"
~ looked at the man under examine
ton and didn't think he looked like a
foreigner. He looked, anyway. like he
was acciimated. So I asked him:
Have you ever been naturalized?'
"'NO, sir he answered.
land you say you're a foreigner and
not naturalized. What country are you
q native Of? ~
Arkansas
"Weli, everybody in the vi room
laughed. I told he man ne could go.
He wasn't much OF a foreigner. but too
much to sit on a jury in my court"
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Mining Application M Az,

Mining Application No. A.ls7.
unlted states Land Once. Helena.
Montana. November 10. 1893.
Notice is hereby given that Conrad
kohrs. whose pcstoflice address is Deer
Looge. Montana. has this day died an
application Tor patent: notice o. which
was posted thereon on the 18th day Of
october 1899. for 1.1s1 linear feet, the
same being for 22S feet westerly and AKA
Feet In casterly direction from the point
q discovery on the Illinois No. 2 Lode
Winning Claim. situated in Summit Val
ley lunorgo Mining District, Silver Eow
County. Montana. the position, course.
ana extent Of tue said mining claim, des.
iEnated by IN official survey thereof. an
sur. No. tS9S. T. 3 N. r.. s W., being
more particularly set forth as foilows.
to.wtt: Beginning at the southeast cor.
ner, a M ssono c2x10xe 'nches, set
10 inches deep, marked 1868 fer Corner
No. l. with mound OF earth alongside.
from Watch the II section corner on .he
south boundary OF Section l.; +. 3 n.
X. : ": bears south 81 degrees "a minutes
east 1858 feet and running thence nortk
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Winnebagos but also the tongues of the
neighboring Chippewas and Pottawa-
tonnes.
There was at once a general agreement
that the succession should go to the white
man and Roddy would have been inau-
gurated at once if it had not been for the
efforts of an Indian named Green Cloud.
a man who felt that he was in direct line
10 the mantle or the aged Black Hawk.
AS he was an enemy of the old chief
however. the latter would not consent to
abdicate In his favor but the opposition
finally succeeded in p%ersuading the tribes
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EAST

EAST Arrive I Depart
No l2-AnaconLa to St
Paul....... ........ 300 p m o 10 am
N o list Paul to Ana
conda, daily. ....... IL 40 q m|l1:5 p m
No. 34-Mixed, TO White
ball, daily, except Snn-I
cay; TO Twin BridgesI
Tuesday, Thursday andI
Saturday to Pony and|
Norris, Monday, We'd
nesdny and Friday 49,. 6:15 y mi SEQ a m
WEST.
No 1910 Portland and
all coast points daily. -- 10 80 m
No, 14-E'rom Portland
and all coast points
daily. $50. 49,. ....l 9:45 p m ---
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leader OF this faction then took an appeal
to Washington. urging the disadvantage
or permitting a white man to assume the
rulership OF a tribe of Indians and while
he was waiting to hear from the depart
ment of the interior he inauguared an ac-
tive campaign on his own account.
A majority of the members of the tribe.
however. still stand true to Roddy and
he expects to be ~inaugurated at an early
date. He has already made arrange
ments to leave Chicago and will build a
house for his family in the very heart of
the Winnebago country. Then he will
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then nearly ninety years Of age called
the great men of the nation together. He
told them that his end was approaching.
that he was growing weaker and was not
able longer to conduct the affairs of the
tribe. He suggested, therefore, that he
be permitted to retire and that Roddy
should be named as his successor. While
he was not by blood an Indian he had
learned their ways n knew their char
acteristlcs. He could also speak their
language, not only the language Of the
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-07-11
PendletOn Items.

The Presbyterian Church is now be-
ing supplied by DR.. Finn, Of Charles
ton, every Sunday morning. The con
eregation is fortunate in securing DR..
Finn.
Professor McWllortcr, of the Presby-
terian College. Clinton, S. c., is visit
ing his father, DR.. McWhorter, now of
i'"nJicton.
Major Benz. Sloan and sister, Miss
Julia Sloan, Of Columbia, have arrived
to spend the summer with relatives.
Since our last writing Col. j. B. +.
Sloan and family and Mrs. w. =. Hall
and family, Of Charleston, have come
to spend the summer mt their summer
homes.
MI Scabrook and family, OF Savan-
nah, Ga, are spending the summer
with Mir. M. NJ. Hunter.
Miss Nellie Cunningham is visiting
Miss Annie Simpson.
Miss Norma Garrett is visiting her
aunt, Mrs. w. NJ. Gibson.
Miss Lucy McBrydc's many friends
are glad to see her, she having come
home to spend the summer.
Misses Mary and Iettie Grice and
Miss Pearl Norris have been attending
the Teachers Normal in Anderson for
the last four weeks.
Your correspondent has been con-
tending with the grass for some time
so that he has not had the chance to
get up the PcndletOn news.
We have not had any rain for the
last ten days, and would be very
thankful for n season just now, as crops
are looking fine up this way.
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