The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-01-11
THE SWEENEYS CHRISTMAS
 GUEST.

Filled to the Drlm With DaQ Dad Hfs
 water and overcome with the hilarlty
 of the occasion, Rose Francis, an Indi-
 an maid, started in to literally break
 up housekeeping in the home of Dennis
 Sweeney of Auburn in the early hours
 of Christmas morning. She threw wa
 ter pitchers and all sorts of crockery
 ware down stairs and only left the roof
 of the building intact because she could
 not wrench it from it's meetingss. In
 consequence of these things Rose was
 made to appear in the Auburn munich
 pal court this Wednesday morning.
 She pleaded guilty and was fined five
 dollars and costs of court. Tn default of paying the sum she was committed
 to jail.
 1t seems that Rose, who is we'll
 known in Lewiston and Auburn as the
 only resident in these cities who Is of
 straight Indian extraction, was the in
 vited guest at the home of MT Sweeney
 on Christmas eve. It was an occasion
 of jollity. Christmas comes but once a
 year and 1t Is fitting and right that peo- 1 pie should throw dull care to the dogs
 and enjoy themselves, Rose thought so
 as well as the Sweeneys. but her meth
 cd differed somewhat from the modes
 of enjoyment that the family had been
 accustomed to.
 Everything progressed smoothly un- til the early hours of Christmas morn ing, when Rose took it into her head to celebrate in earnest. With a wild
 whoop and a yell that would have done credit to her dusky- skinned ancestors, she went on the warpath. She grabbed water pitchers and flung them against the walls of the room as though water pitchers were of no particular value in
 this world. She seized plates and saul cers and hurled them at the cook stove, to the great destruction of the plates
 That the cook stove survived the i'm pact was no fault of Rose, who avowed that she was out on tear and did not intend to leave enough of the Sweeney residence to shelter a dog. Up stairs and down stairs she tore like cyclone in petticoats, the Sweeneys endeavoring inasmuch as they could to head her off. Finding that the roof was in imminent danger of coming down about their heads Dennis started out after the po- lice He found Officer Byron, who went up to the Sweeney residence and induced Rose to accompany him to residence less destructible.
 Whatever the male article may be, an Indian maiden when under the mellow ing influences of fire water Is not silent
 especially when she has done good job in the way of house smashing. All the way to the station she recounted to Officer Byron the deeds she had done. l,oI ,,lJ h,,f tln ,f business, she said. If he had only let her return she would not leave one stick upon another in the whole house. She had nothing against the Sweeneys in particular, nor their house; she was actuated solely by desire to break things.
 "Ugh" said Rose, me strong. Me pick up cook stove and walu off with him. Me trow bureau down stairs triw him up stairs If want to. Lug bar'l flour up tree flight stair. Yankee | no strong and dam fool to boot"
 In conversation with the police Rose stated that she is lineal descendant of King Philip. She has therefore roy al blood In her veins and she Is proud l of the fact. People have tried to trace her ancestry back to the famous Poca- hontas, but Rose is of the opinion that this is whiting her genealogical stick put to pretty fine point She is per- fectly willing to let her case rest on King Philip stock She Is inclined to hink that old Powhatan, Pocahontas' ather, was no better than he ought to 1e and that 1t Is no particular credit to 'pring from such an ancestor. Rose an talk four languages. English Trench, Algonquin and a mixture of all hree. The latter is her favorite tongue vhen she is excited as she was at MT. sweeney's Christmas, and when she alks thus it takes an expert linguist to understand her.
 Officer Byron was at loss to know where his bird had flown when he cached the Sweeney house in search of . Rose The circumstances connected with her capture revealed another of his versatile young woman's accom- ilishments, which is that of climbing. Jpon looking all through the house for CT and failing to find her, he stepped ut of doors and discovered her upon he roof peering down at him. When ersued she ran about over the roof as imbly as a cat She was not over with clothes and leaped bout from the house roof proper to nat of the shed with a dexterity and ureness of foot that would have put to name a Rocky Mountain goat. She nallY succumbed to Officer Byron's l oneyed words and consented to be led = y him into the pale faces prison. 1 - 1