Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-02-16
ALARGE TRIBE IS ORGANIZED.
Charter Membership Is Large and Grand
Pow WOW Is Had at the Institut-
ing of Little Falls Red Men.

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Pow WOW Is Had at the Institut-
ing of Little Falls Red Men.
Little Falls now haa a tribe of Red
Men, and Il large one, too. The
ceremonies Of instituting the tribe
were conducted Monday evening in
Maurin's hall, and with the large
list of charter members and the
visitors from other tribes that spa
clous hall con tanned all that it cou Id
comfortably accC immediate.
Promptly at 1880 the instituting
ceremonies began. They were con-
Quoted by f. Meyer, Of Austin, Chief
Sachem of the state, assisted by Or
ganizer Chas. H. Brown, and the Off,
GERS Of the st. Cloud tribe. Owing to
the large number OF candidates, there
being ninety charter members, Of
which there were eighty-one present
for initiation, it was impossible to
give each one the full work of the
three degrees, but a class OF several
was selected, and given the work.
This occupied several hours. and
when finished was followed by the
election of the first set OF officers
The following were chosen:
Past Sachem-H. A. Rider.
Senior Sagamore-W. H. Hall.
Junior Sagamore-Alfonse Dugas.
Keeper of RecOrds-John Greible r.
Keeper of Wampum-F. H. Hoff-
man.
Collector of Wampum-Chas.
Sylvester.
First Sanu-P. j. Vasaly.
Second Sanu-D. E. Hanegan.
Warriors-.John kerich, Jr, Clint
Foster, Jos. Moeglein and Robt.
BOak.
Braves-Wm. Raymond, Chas.
Wagner, Chas. Gravel, Jr. and John
Lauerman.
Keeper OF the Wigwam-E. NJ.
Snow.
Keeper OF the FOrest-GeOrge
Schroeder.
Trustees-D, E. Hanegan, John
Denis and John Bailey.
The officers being duly installed,
the work Of instituting the Little
Falls tribe of Red Men was finished,
and the tribe and it's visitors
then proceeded to the consideration
of refreshments furnished by the COM
mittee on arrangements, composed
of Chas. Gravel. Jr., Geo. Kiewel, F..
E. Hall and John Greibler.
The committee announced that
through a lack OF material and
space it was unable to include in the
bill OF fare the Redman's favorite
dish, canine soup. This announce
ment was received with much dis
satisfaction. and scalpinE party
with e. w. Mcmillan. Of Motley. as
leader, went after the committee.
BY timely announcing further that
the committee had secured bologna
sandwich - as a substitute, the en-
tire tribe became at ease and pro-
ceeded to satisfy the wants OF the
inner man, which were many after a
hard evenings work.
Among those present from other
tribes were Chief Sachem, E. Meyer,
of Austin, Org, nicer Chas. II.
Brown, of Minneapolis; Ed Briton,
Staples: Chas. W. Mcmillan, Motley;
j. E. Wallace, Of Bratnerd. ST.
Clouds was the largest delegation
of visitors and included:
r. H. Schilly, J. P. Berwick, F. l..
Lolo, Thos. c. Scholar, Chas. A.
Bernick, Lewis LOngley, Andrew J.
Schumuche, Bert Ha1nlin, Jos
Stemper. J. E. Hedlund, j. A. Am.
brositsch. JOS Bechlold, A. NJ
drummer. Emil Henneman, JOS
Tschumpt'rlin Al! J. lindenbergh
Jr. NJ j. How lbs. F. Volz, F. W.
Greibler, Will Fritz
The program was concl uded
about O'Clock Tuesday morning,
and all but ri fl " Of visi tors took the
early nOrning trains back to their
own reservations.