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The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-20
lASI OF THE INDIANS.
The Reds Number About 267,oOO, of
Whom 1920 Receive a Daily
Ration.

Hhe annual report of the commits
sioner of Indian affairs, William A.
Jones, shows that the total eXpendi-
ture by the gOvernmo on account
OF the Indian service from March /,
1889, up to and including July 80,
1900, has been $36S,35S,217. The
expenditures for Ine fiscal year end
ed last July amounted to $1O,175,-1O7.
OF this amount at least $3,33O,OOO was
devoted to the cause of Indian edu-
cation.
The report reviews the change in
the system of transporting supplies
by which the supplies are shipped
in open market by common carrier
at tariff or better rates and estimates
that this saves 20 per cent in cost.
under the head of obstacles to self
support of the Indians the report dep
recates the ration system, annuity
payments and the leasing of allot-
ments. The ration system says the
report, is the corolary of the reser-
walton system.
The Indian population of the United
States is about 267,9OO, of whom As
270 receive a daily ration. The ra-
ton issued and its value according
to the tribe. Nearly two-thirds of
the number receiving rations belong
to the great Sioux nation. The ra-
ton has been gradually reduced in
the past few years in accordance
with the policy of the Indian bureau.
If the Indians claim for full rations
as a right is conceded, the commits
sioner predicts that the time when
they will be self-supporting lies in
the very distant future. if comes at
All. A number of the Indians also
are assisted by occasional issues and
at several agencies the old and indi-
gent are provided for. These aggre-
gate about 1850. A-ogether there
are $3.50 Indians receiving subsist-
ence in some degree, exclusive of
Indian children in boarding schools.
The commissioner urges that the in
discriminate issue of rations should
stop at once.
There is now in the treasury to
the credit of indian tribes s3S,317,-
$500, drawing interest at the rate
OF and per cent. the annual in
terest amounting to Sl.646,4S5. Be-
sides this several of the tribes have
large incomes from leasing and other
sources. 1t is a safe prediction that
so long as these funds exist they will
be tue prey of designing people.
The ultimate disposition of the In.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-20
Mr. .Gray's View.
heaps.
Office OF County Attorney.

once OF County Attorney.
Editor of the Bee:
Dear Sir:-In your issue of the 18th
INST. you common. on the action of
this office in the arrest and prosecu-
ton of one James Waldroff, referred
to as James woodruff. It has never
been my practice during my term of
Office to reply to criticism, but in
as much as my time is nearly expired
l feel justified in stating the facts
concerning the case referred to, |
wish also to state that am a be-
lever in reforming more than prose
cutting, but do not allow my convictions
to restrain me from prosecuting one,
when in my opinion, the circumstan-
ces justifies it. In lie case men,
toned, information was laid before
me by T. l.. Widdowson "a reputable
citizen, which no one will deny, that
there had been stolen from him $11
in money, two revolvers and some
other articles: that his two little
boys aged Is and ii years, discovered
the revolvers rolled up in the de-
PENDANTS trousers lying on the floor
of the wardrobe connected with the
room occupied by the defendant. One
of the boys stayed IN the room un-
til the defendant arrived, and saw
Tie defendant get down on his knees
in the door of the WARDROBE and UNI.
roll the trousers and put something
in his pocket. After the defendant
left the room the little boy examined
the trousers and found the revolvers
gone. In the afternoon of the same
day an examination was made in the
stable where the defendant was seen
going after he took the revolvers in
the morning, and found where they
had been secreted. And one of the
reyolvers was kept in the drawer
which contained the missing money.
these facts were all clearly and
concisely proven on the trial. 1t is
needless to state that l was surprised
when the jury rendered verdict OF
not guilty. But, have no criticism
to make, for the jury was far superior
to many juries, being composed en-
tirely of honest business men and re-
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-20

Flathead is to be congratulated up
on the fact that whereas the entire
country east of the Rockies is suffer
ing under temperature ranging
from 10 to 80 degrees below zero, the
lowest temperature recorded here
during the present cold snap is de-
grees below zero, about o'clock this
morning. That range of mountains
on the east is as good as ten thous-
and base burners to Kalispell.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-20

At Toxic, toward the end of May
an. the beginning of June, one sees
suspended under the verandas of
houses beautiful little cages of bam-
200 from which break upon the ear
strange little metallic whistlings of
light thrills, which fill the air with
delicate muse. The musical sounds
are emitted by certain insects. Lis.
tening 10 these minute singers has
been for many centuries favorite
pastime of the Japanese The most
priced OF these singing insects is the
suzumushi. 1t name means insect
bell,' and the sound which it's emits
resembles that of tiny silver bell.
1t is a tiny black Deetle, of a fiat
body and very vulgar appearance.
The kutsuwamushi is so named be-
cause its cry resembles the sound
made by horse in champing his
bit. There are two species of it, the
one light yellow and the other a
pale green. This insect is none other
than a kind of winged grasshopper,
common in many countries.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-20

calmness: To the press and people
outside of the state Marcus Daily was
known principally as successful
mining man, with a love for good
horses, and turn for politics. In
Montana where his business and po-
litical operations brought him into
personal contact with the people the
references to his death have been in
every instance a generous recogni-
ton of his great services to the state,
or warm expression of personal
gratitude or affection.
For one whose part in the life of
this state was SO prominent, active
and strenuous, the sentiments that
his death has inspired among those
with whom he was associated, as
we'll as among those whom he op-
posed, are the highest testimonial to
Mr.. Days personal qualities. In life
he was bitterly assailed because he
was greatly feared. In death those
who feared him in life, join with those
who loved him in bearing testimony
that Marcus Daily was able, honor
able, generous, Kindhearted and sin
cere and Montanas best friend.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-20

There is promise of second Drey-
fus excitement in France. This time
somebody has been selling the secret
of the new French neld gun to the
United States. Perhaps selling" is
not just the right worn, Tut, anyway,
it is understood that this country
has the secre. and the French press
are asking who is .le Dreyfus 2"
1t is conceded that France excels in
her field artillery ana the secret of
the mechanism of the new gun has
been guarded with lue utmost jeal.
ousy. 1t is likely, though, that if
this country really has the gun Sc
cret, the French will not consider It
nearly so serious a matter as if
their hereditary enemies, the Ger
mans, had it. The progress of the
United States toward achieving a
place as "a world power" is likely to
be marked from time to time by this
stealing of war secrets business. It
is part of the game.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-20
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

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The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-20
MONTANA'S BEST FRIEND.

There has been nothing perfume
tory about the tributes which have
been paid to the memory of Marcus
DAILY in Montana. They have in
every case been spontaneous and evil
IDENTIFY sincere. Some have found
one thing to praise and some an
other. For one who occupied such
commanding position in the polit
cal field of Montana, such a con-
dltion Is little short of remarkable. It
cannot be attributed to an observ
ance of the proprieties which gov
ern references to the dead, for out
side of Montana the comment has
generally been marked by a judicial
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-20
FOR NEWS, TAKE THE BEE.
Gratitude.

| hasn' got no turkey an l hasn' got
no cash,
An de grocery wouldn' trust me even
even if got so rash
AS to try an run in debt. An yet
yoh uncle ism blue,
He's smilin' jes' as usual. an a mean
in of it, too.
l orter feel little gratitude it seems
to me,
Case matters ain no worse. Dey's
bout as bad as dey kin be.
is lookin' to de future, whah my
hopes dey shine an fit.
Is feelin' mighty thankful fob the
things rs gwinter get.
Perhaps it will be turkey an perhaps
it will be duck.
An mebbe twill be 'possum if l has
special luck,
It's wonderful excitin' to be guessin'
dis-a-way
Bout how you's gwineter celebrate
on mex Thanksgivin' day.
1t might be jes' plain chicken, or a
polk chop fryin' slow,
An it might be muffin tall fur all Is
able fob to know;
But | doesn't let dat skeer me, case
it hasn't happened yit,
An Is feelin' mighty thankful fob de
things rs gwinter git.
WASHINGTON Star.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-20

dian trust funds is subject for the
most serious consideration. In some
cases they are small and in others
very large. With respect to the
former they can, as a rule, be paid
out to the Indians with little, if any,
evil consequences. With respect to
the latter their proper disposition is
more difficult. 1t is admitted that
great wealth is source of weakness
to any Indian tribe, and productive
of much evil.
Two remedies have been suggest
ed: First, the gradual extinction of
these funds, setting aside a sufficient
sum to maintain the reservation
schools a definite period of years,
say twenty-one, ana then dividing
thebalance per capita and paying
each member of the tribe at certain
ages their share. Second, as a CO.
rollary to this, division of the land
belonging to the tribe per capita. The
remedy proposed woul almost invar-
iably Immediately relegaue the In
dlans to poverty, though the remote
result might he for them to work to
save themselves from actual want.
me general leasing Of their allot-
ments by the Indians to white men
is denounced
There were 80 Indian schools Of
ali kinds conducted by the govern
ment and an increase OF lap pupils
in enrolment and LAP in average
attendance shown over the previous
year. About 5000 of the $4,000 elig-
lble school children are unprovided
for. Compulsory education of the
indian children is strongly indorsed.
and Congress is urged to authorize
the commissioner to place every one
or school age IN some school, the Sc
lection of the school, to be left large
~ to educated Indian parents.
The report controverts the COM
monty accepted theory that by con
slant contact with the whites the ex-
tinction of the Indian is only a mat
ter of time. IL says it can be stated
with great degree of confidence
that the Indian population of the
United States has been very little di-
minished from the days of Columbus,
Coronado, Raleigh, Capt. JOIN Smith
and other early explorers The first
reliable Indian census was in 1870,
and certainly since then the Indian
population has been nearly station
airy, whatever decrease there is be-
ing attributed to Indians becoming
citizens.
Reviewing Indian territory affairs,
the report says there are $4,000 chill
dren of white parents there who
should have schools, and that thous-
ands of these children thus deprived
OF education are growing up in vice
and ignorance, already feeding the
United States jails at Muscogee and
other points with youthful criminals.
The cost of education will not be ex-
cessive compared with results. School
benefits should be extended to the A.
$50 ChoctOw freedmen. Government
control of the schools IN the Chicka-
saw nation is advocated.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-20
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1900.
Who is Caldwell Edwards, anyway?

There is a fellow down in Georgia
who has probably been cured of the
election bet habit. He bet on Bryan
of ice while the Mckinley man shaves
him with corn knife.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-20

putable citizens. And l believe that
in this case, as in many others, their
better judgment was warped through
sympathy for the accused, and they
were to a certain extent justified, for
the defendant is a bright looking
young man, about ~ years old and
has not the appearance of a hardened
criminal, which fact restrained me
from filing an information against
In for burglary.
The greatest harm that can result
from verdict of this kind is that the
defendant may think, that if he has
committed crime all that is neces-
sary, is to deny it before a jury. And
IL the little boys were telling the
truth, they must certainly think
there is reward for lying. We hope,
however. if the defendant was guilty,
he may realize that it may not al
ways b SO easy, and that hereafter
he will take only what rightfully be-
longs to him. And that the little
boys will remember that lying does
not always precede reward.
am informed that the criticism re-
ferred to was made by your reporter,
who was not present at the trail, but
gained his information from outside
sources. l would suggest that when
commenting upon the actions of an
far to state the facts and deduce the
conclusion from the facts as stated
for perhaps the public may not al
ways arrive at the same conclusion.
v ry respectfully,
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-20
f. l.. GRAY,
County Attorney.

The Bees statement was based up
on information derived from the just
ice Of the peace who presided and
jurors who tried the case, and rem
dered a verdict of not guilty. Mr..
Gray will, presumably, not question
the accuracy of their information. If
the facts as set forth in Mr.. Grays
communication were brought out in evil
dence, the Bee must confess to shar-
ing Mr.. Gray's surprise at the verdict
of acquittal But in that case Mr.
Gray's quarrel is with the Jury and
not with the Bee. 1t Is not always
possible for a reporter to attend
petty trial in person, and in such
cases it is usual to seek information
as in this instance, from sources
usually trustworthy.
The conclusions as published were
not intended to represent the judg-
ment of the reporter, but of the Judge
and jury who tried the case and pos
sibly the Bee did Mr. Gray an injus-
tice in not SO stating. If so, the B re
regrets it and will endeavor not to
offend again.-Editor.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-20

Entered at the Postofice at kalispell, Mon
tana as second class mail matter
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-20

NOTE-Give old and new address when order
ing paper changed to new address.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-07-20
A Candid Publisher

In the recent death Of j. SchabelitZ,
the well-known Zurich publisher and
author, Switzerland has lost one of its
extraordinary characters. He was a
shrewd business man, an excellent
linguist, a skillful writer, and one of
the most savage publishers who ever
lived When he accepted the famous
memoirs Of Count Won Arnim he wrote
on the postal card with his acceptance
the prOviso: 81 reserve the right to
correct your Internally bad grammar"
To an aspiring poet who had sub
mitted manuscript he answered by pos
tai card: 81 refuse to be dlsgraced by
printing your doggerel. dent return
the copy because you don't incose
enough postage. If you will send 1t,
with the price of this card, will re-
turn to you, but don't think the stuff
is worth the expense on your part"
One Of his postal cards to a novelist
read about as follows: For heavens
sake, come and tase away the un-
namable mass OF paper you left here
for me to look att
An ambitious historian was crushed
by the following, written, likr all of his
correspondence, upon postal card:
you are making the mistake of your
life. You don't want to study history.
You want to learn how to write"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-07-20
THE RIVERS GOSSIP.

De river talk on ever ham
He gossip fur en- free;
lie know de secrets er de lam,
En- tell 'um ter de sea.
he run long whar de gyarden grow
Wen Springtime melt de snow;
He tell de Sea Win, EFF you blow
Dat way you'll fin rose.'
De Lily in de gyarden spot
Say, Rock me, please, ter resp
He take de fines er de lot,
En- wear 'um on he breas'.
He know des whar de Sunshine keep
En- kiss de rose ter red;
He see de Moonlight go ter sleep
'Pon top de vi'let-bed.
He tell de news er ever place,
En- wen yo' Sweetheart pass
He give her back her purity face
Des lax lookin' glass
He pass de big house en- de hut,
En- spread de gossip free
y Mister River, tell me whut
My Sweetheart think er me!
-Woman's Home Companion.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-07-20
Record in Submarine Diving

Edward Hooper, n professional diver,
has made record In his line of busi-
ness. on the coast Of South Africa he
descended to the wreck of the ship
Cape Horn and there remained, at one
submerslon, for forty-two minutZs at
a depth Of over 200 feet. At this point
the pressure is eighty-three and one
half pounds to the square inch and no
other person, 1t is asserted, has been
able to remain below this depth.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-07-20
Crime Prevalent In Berlin.

Crimes of violence, whose perpetra-
tors have remained undiscovered, have
become so common in Berlin and its
nelghborhood that the Prussian min
lister Of the interior has given notice
that all violent deaths shall be report
ed at once to a special bureau. which
shall decide whether the local or Ber-
lin police shall take up the case, and
in certain instances shall set it's own
detectives to work. IN. Y. Sun.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-07-20
QUEER FISHING IN JAMAICA.

You Pound on the Boat with a Club
and They Jump Aboard.
A gentleman who has returned from
Kingston, Jamaica, tells how they
catch red snappers." All you need in
the way of tackle is a club, with which
you beat tattoo on the side of your
boat. This seems to charm the fish so
| that they leave their native element
and jump aboard in schools, almost
swamping the boat sometimes. Here
is his account:
Il have just returned from Kings
ton, jamaica" said he, where l saw
many interesting things, chief among
them-to an ardent fisherman like my
self-being the method of taking the
red snapper, large fish common to the
waters around that island. Soon after
my arrival | heard how the natives
caught these fish with clubs, which
seemed either to attract or alarm the
fish so much that they jumped out of
the water in all directions and many
fell into the boat.
I'm order to prove the truth or false
ness of the account to my own salts
I faction | made arrangements with one
of the native fishermen TO take me with
him on one of his midnight excursions,
all the fishing there being done at night
on account of the heat
The moon was high when we start
ed for the fishing grounds, couple Of
miles outside Kingston harbor AS
soon as we got there my boatman
ceased rowing and peered round for
signs of the fish. Suddeny he whis-
pered and pointed to a spot where the
otherwise calm surface was rutf1ed, as
If by a sudden squall.
"Squal or fish, it was gradually ap-
preaching, and presently the ripples
were all round the boat. Now, massa
Buckra, start de racket cried my boat
man, at the same tipe commencing a
loud tattoo on the side of the boat with
his club. | followed suit and in an in
stant the air seemed to be full Of fish,
coming from all points of the compass.
Zone big fellow struck me in the chest
and knocked me fiat on my back in the
bottom of the boat, where | lay fioun-
dering among the fish that had fallen
| aboard.
1T was some moments before
could scramble to my feet. When did
so, the school had passed on and the
flight was over. At least score of the
snappers had fallen on board. They
were large fish, resembling a sea bass,
except in color, which, instead of being
black, was red.
During the night we ran into sew
eral more schools, and the same per-
formance was repeated, excepting that
kept my seat and did not again min
gle with the fish in the bottom of the
boat.
"On the way back to Kingston |
asked the darky fisherman how they
first discovered this method of taking
the red snapper. He could tell me moth
ing about 1t; all he could say being:
Him take dat way long time massa.'
81 heard later that Chinaman was
the first to discover that red snap
per could be persuaded to leave its
native element at the sound of a club
applied to boats side, but how he
found it out nobody seemed to know"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-07-20
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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-07-20
Try Aliens Foot Ease.

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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-07-20

Miss Susan Wymar, teacher in the
Richmond school, Chicago, H., writes
the following letter to DIR. Hartman
regarding Pe-ru-na. She says: 'Only
those who have suffered as have, can
know what blessing it is to be able to
find relief in Pe-ru-na. This has been
my experience. A friend in need is a
friend indeed. and every bottle of Pc.
ru-na ever bought proved good
friend to me. Susan Wymar.
Mrs. Margaretha Dauben, 1914
North Superior street, Racine City,
Wis, writes: 81 feel so we'll and good
and happy now that pen cannot de-
scribe it. Pe-ru-na is everything to
me. 1 have taken several bottles of
Pe-ru-na foi female complaint. l am
in the change OF life and it does me
good" Pe-ru.na has no equal in all
OF the irregularities and emergencies
peculiar TO women caused by pelvic
oatarrh.
Address DR.. Hartman, Columb bus,
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