The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-20

for settlement. Alexander Rap,so,, .o,-
ernor Of the theF territory and Luke
carried to a successful finish the nego-
tetons. This was NIT the first tr .ess
for Indian Commissioner loci r Pom
settle had made the first between tha In
alans ana the government in 1887, but
this second treaty, made at Mendoza
was the most important and the most
far-reaching in its effects
PoVerty-hopeless dependent novertv-
has cast its blight over the tiny com
munity, and it is hardly to he fanciad
that any great effort or strnpala > rains+
1t is made by these people. They are foo
old to learn new sways. 1t is a nearefuI
spot; and despitei the extreme poverty
OF t tiie !nllapitaEtS, It is not a low part
pared to many houses in the slums of
the cities is sweet, and fairly clean IT
Is or the most curious construction he
ing partly dug out in the side Of the
hill, with one side built of old boards,
the top roughly rooted and the whole
plastered several feet deep with claw
A crazy wooden door gives entrance and
strangest of all, before it hangs a bright
red, and very dirty, cloth, put ND in such
a way that ii ii were a fashionable dyei-
ling, or If by the widest stretch of i'm
ag1nation II could be supposed these peo-
pie had ever seen the inside of a fashion
able mansion, it would be called por-
there. But this is unthinkable. and II is
evident that it is merely device bv
which the occupant hopes to cool the in
terror, While be is al the same time
screened from, view
Mendoza itself. and particularly this
part of it, is sort of Sleepy Hollow.
Ihere is no movement. A tall old man.
looking about a quarter-bTeed, sits indo-
lenuy chopping at a piece of half rotted
wood, and even the children play in u
sIbcued way.
Here there is no hurry, no hustle. life
IS not strenuous, and there is probably
not much joy, and certainly no merry
making. Time for them flows on, even
and UNMARRIED, and the Indian Stoicisrn
IS well shown by then indifference to the
future. Money cannot tempt them to
even make an effort to sew and sell a
pair of moccasins or make a piece of
beadwork. All that had been made was
sold some time ago, and that is as far
as the would-be purchasers can get.
Mary Turpln seems to be of a some
what more energetic disposition, at least
vigorously, than her husband for after
her husband had sat and talked in a des-
ultory fashion for about half an hour
she, VINO has hitherto kept herself Sc
cluGed, opens the door a little way and
calls TO him in Sioux sometimes that Is
plainly meant to indicate to him the fact
that he is neglecting to cut the wood.
He, however, pays not the slightest
attention, though he stops talking while
she speaks, but he vouchsafes no reply
nor does he in any way display a desire
to resume his work. and another half
noCr DRIFTS on, with several reminders
from his dusky spouse, with the same
negative results. In reply to questions
he says yes, there are fish in the river.
several sorts and plenty, but he does
not fish much now; he has rheumatism;
yes, they get little game, such as a
few birds, and sometimes a duck or two
No, they never sell their chickens or the
eggs, and they have plenty Of wood for
the winter for there is lots of dead
and fallen wood about here
He, unlike the women, was not here
in the state, but serving his country as
a soldier in 1861. and so, of course, knows
only of the massacre by hearsay, but