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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-01
VISITS WIND CAVE.
George w. kitterman Describes Trip
to National G. A. r. Encampment.

George w. Kitterman of Ottumwa,
who went to San Francisco, Cal, to
attend the national encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic, has
written letter to the Courier describ-
ing his trip across the country and
telling of the meeting of a number OF
former Ottumwans who now reside at
various points in the west. The let
ter, which is written from Santa Fe
Springs, CAL and is dated Thursday,
Aug. 20, is as follows:
81 left Ottumwa Aug. on No. 3 and
arrived in Denver, Col, the next morn
ing. Three of my nieces live there,
with whom | spent three days and
had fine time. They took me to all
the principal places in the city. | saw
A. d. Moss, w. A. McGrew and~Doc
McHugh while there.
Il joined the Iowa special train at
Colorado Springs, Col We spent a
day there and at Manitou. Jack Hall
and l visited the Garden Of the
Gods. We went up Williams canon
to the Cave of the Winds. We went
through the cave three-fourths OF a
mile in the very heart of the noun
tain.
I'VE climbed Williams mountain and
then Cheyenne mountain to Helen
Hunt Jackson's grave. 1t was Helen
Hunt Jackson who made those beau.
tiful places around Colorado Springs
famous.
1--WE went down the other side OF
Cheyenne mountain to the foot of the
Seven Falls. We descended more
than three hundred feet alongside OF
seven rushing cascades. The water
falls into basin of granite into which
the sun shines but just few minutes
at noon. A bubbling, gushing, bah
bling brook carries the water
away.
1--WE came back to our car and
left for Salt Lake City. Utah. There
had pleasant visit with Tim Eagar
and Gus Lyons. Jack Hall. Tim Ia
gan and took car and went out
to Salt Air beach for bath. There
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-01
Special one-way coIonists' Rates.

On the first and third Tuesdays OF
each month to and including Septem.
Der, 1908, the Iowa Central Railway
will sell colonists tickets to points in
Arkansas, Southwest Missouri, Okla.
homa, Kansas. Nebraska, South Dako.
ia. Colorado, Texas, Louisiana
New Mexico, ETC., at extremely low
rates. Cali on local agents or address
A. B. Cults, G. P. & T. A., Minneapolis
Mimi, for rates and further informa-
ton.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-01
Ohio and Indiana Home Visitors Excur-
SionS

On September l, s, Is and October
6. the Iowa Central will run their an
ual s'Home-Visitors" excursions to Ohio
and Indiana. Tickets will be on sale
on above dates with limit for return
thirty days from date of sale For the
rates and details, call on agents or adj
dress A. B. Cults. G. P. & t. A, Iowa
Central Ry., Minneapolis, MINI
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-01
HoM,s This2

for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
f. j. CHENEY Il CO., Toledo. o.
We, the undersigned, have known f. j.
Cheney for the last fifteen years. and be-
lieye him perfectly honorable in all bust
ness transactions and financially able to
carry out any obligations made by their
firm. ESD IL TRUAA,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
wALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent
free Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-01
Reduced Rates for Harvest Laborer

+ educed Rates for Harvest Laborers
On account of prospective enor
nous crop in Minnesota and the Da
kotas and in order to obtain help al
once, Special one-way tickets on sale
daily can BIZ had on application te
Iowa Central Ry. agents at very low
rates. Liberal arrangements for re
turn.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-01
In a Glass IN Alone.

No other pills on earth can equal
Or. Kings Kew Life Pills for Stom
ach, Liver and Kidneys. No cure, nc
pay. Csc. r. B. Clark.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-01

take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. E. w Groves signature
is on each box. Zoe.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-01
UNEQU al TAXES.
COUNTY BOARD OF EoUALlzA.
TloN FIFTY YEARS AGO.
TOWNSHIPS UyEQUALLY ASSESSED

Abstract of Tax List for 1858 Shows
Center Township Land Assessed At
1922 Per Acre-cattIe At $1s.2S Per
Head.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-01
To Cure a Cold In One pay

A womans umbrella has turned
many man into the street.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-01

Parties calling for these letters
should mention the fact that they
have been advertised.
A. W. Lee. P. NJ.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-01

one time owned $4,000 acres of Iowa
lands. In 1880 he went to Oakland,
California and there multiplied for
tune already of millions. He probably
left $5,000,000 when he died in 1895
at the age of So.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-01

Coming down to men who became
mere congressman the investigator
may pick UP one or two new Keasau-
quans in this capacity in almost any
casual conversation with an old
timer. Augustus G. Hall divides with
Delazon Smith the honor of Keosau-
qua oratory. He was a great lawyer
and orator, democratic congress
man and for many years chief justice
of Nebraska. His son is now one of
the foremost lawyers of Omaha.
Seth Richards Career.
A man of energy and magnificent
ability was Seth Richards; Connect
cut Yankee by birth and citizen Of
Van Buren, county many years. He al
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-06
THE DEATH OF W.T., STREET.
He Was a Friend Of the Chippewa
Indians,

w. f. Street, the prominent at:
torney, townsite promoter and
newspaper man Of Bemidji, was
accidcntly killed by His brother-in.
law, Leuis Bland, last Thursday.
Young Bland, who is only fifteen
years Of age, was following Mr..
Street through the brush when
his gun Was discharged accidently,
and Che charge entered the latter's
back from the effects Of which he
died several hours later.
BY the death of MIR. Street the
Chippewas have lost true friend,
who has always advocated fair and
honest treatment towards them.
During the outbreak among the
Pillagers in 1898, Mr.. Street warm.
ly espoused their cause, and sewers
ly criticised the treatment they
had received at the hands of the
government and the lumbermen,
he took the position that this treat
ment was responsible for the out
break.
Mr.. Steet was an enterprising
gentleman of the most excellent
qualities and character, and by his
death Bemidji has lost one of its
best citizens.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-06
RIGHTS UNDER
CITIZENSHIP.

It frequently happens that dis
cussions, regarding the extent OF
our rights under our citizenship
acquired by receiving allotments
of land in severalty, have arisen,
and, strange to say, many OF our
most intelligent men take views
adverse to these rights; and they
90 SO far as to take the position
that the rules Of the interior de-
partment are paramount in their
application to us regardless OF
this citizenship. We do not, as a
rule, agree with this view, for the
United States courts have fire.
quently held that there is no
abridgment in the citizenship OF
Indians, and that there are no re-
strictions placed upon them by
the laws except the right to pur-
chase intoxicants. Con gre S
passed the law prohibiting the
sale of intoxicants to any In
dian, mixed or fullblood, who has
received an allotment, but we
have never heard whether the con-
stitutionality of this question has
ever been passed upon by the
Supreme Court of the United
States or not.
Citizenship is not usually given
with a string on it, and there are
many questions that have come
up which have practically de-
prived us of the rights we claim
under our citizenship. 1t is time
that all these Questions should be
settled, for as long as we remain
in ignorance of our correct status
we will continue to resent all the
applications to us of the rules of
the department.
One of the principal questions
with which we have to contend is
whether we are under the exclu-
sive jurisdiction of the United
States, or whether the courts of
the State of Minnesota have juris-
dictien over us.
In order to learn our status de-
fnately we should raise a fund by
subscription or otherwise and
bring test cases into the courts.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-06
AFTER KO-zI-PpS LAND.
Unique Case Involves the Title to
Indian Land AIIotments.

Watertown, S. D., July 3O.-More
than $50 Indian braves with their fam
lilies are camped in tepees at Lake
Kampeska. They came from the Sis.
seton and Wahpetoh agency to attend
the big land contest case now being
held before the register and receiver
of the United States land office. The
case is one to be determine whether
Ko-zi-pi and members of his family
are entitled to certain allotted land in
the Sisseton reservation. The princ1-
pie involves quite a percentage OF al
lottee lands in various portions OF the
state. The case is one of the most
important ever before the United
States land Office in this city.
The contestant is David Wolff, a
merchant of Sisseton. The value OF
the land involved amounts to $4,000,
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-06
BRIGHT PROSPECTS
AHEAD.

There IS every Indication that
the prevailing dullness on this re-
servation will soon disappear, and
that we will have more than good!
times here in sthe near future,
This will be fbroughtsahout by the
building of railroads through this
reservation, the consequent acts
witty in the sale of inherited In
dian lands and the employment Of
all those who wish to work in the
saw mill that will manufacture the
lumber for the use of the Mile Lac
Indians that are going to remove
here, and also in the building of
houses for the use Of these In
dians.
1t will take at least one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars to re-
.moge all the Mile Lac and ether
Indians that will remove here, and
almost all of this amount would
be required to properly provides
for them after they arrive here,
and more than half could be used
in the payment of labor. If the
removals are employed in the saw
NALL that will manufacture the
lumber for their honses and build
ing the Same, they will easily be
come reconciled to their changes
Of residence from Mile Lac to
this reservation.
Agent Michelet has expressed a
proper view of the manner in
which he is going to secure the
removal of the Mile Lac lndians,
and of his intention to keep them
employed after they arrive here
and we sincerely hope he will be
allowed by the government to
carry put these views, not only
for tie interests Of the. Indians
concerned but also for the busi-
ness prosperity of this reserva-
ton.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-06
Advertised Letters.

The following letters uncalled for,
remain at the postoffice at White
Earth, MINI. July 31st 1902:
Mrs. Mary Belland, Robert Howard,
Miss Madaline Belland, Oscar Hag-
gland, Mrs. Angelina Blay, Moses
LIE Gard, Mrs. Jane Beaulieu, J. A.
McGlynn, Peter Douglas, Miss Rosa
Rock, William Dudley, Mrs. John
Shaver.
Persons asking for any one Of these
letters will please state the date Of
advertisement.
All letters remaining unclaimed
after 30 days, will be returned to the
Dead Letter Office.
JAMES VANWERT, P. NJ.
White Earth, Mimi.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-06
CHARGED WITH MURDER
Gow-we-tau-way-wesdung,

bau-Way-WesauHy, q
Y DUNG i MD ia n 'of the Otter
Tail band Of Pillager &Ghippewas
on this reservation, who,is charged
with the murder Of H.en-dub, an!
other member of That band, near!
Park Rapidsla week,was brought
to the Agency Notwithstanding
from Pine Point by Indian police
man, John Coleman, and placed in
the Agency jail pending an 'invesi
tigation Of the Charge against
him.
Although the coroner's jury
that heard the evidence in the
case decided the deceased had
come to his death BY accident, the,
agency authorities decided that al
thorough investigation of the mat
ter 'wdthd be made before it is
dropped entirely.
The facts as near as could be,
ascertained !fremsNIe Coleman, who
has had charge of the investiga-ll
ton Of the matter are as foEtows:I
Several. young Indians were drink
ing at ah Indian camp near Park
Rapids, s4h6itg which was the de-,
ceased, and the latter upon the
invitation of another Indian was
havinga lunch when the accused
came along and reached into the.
tent and entwining his hh1fes in al
handkerchief that was tied around
I-en-cle,b's neck pulled him out OF
there. No blows were struck, and
when the latter was released an,
examination showed that Ire was
dead.
Gow-we-taaa- way wedding, theI
accused says he was too drunk tot
have any recollection of what
took place. He says that he and
the deceased were the most init
mate friends and inseperable COM
panions: that they never had any
trouble, and were around together
the day on which his death oc-
Cured; that he, John Martin,
Num-aince and the deceased were
in boat together, and that after
they got out he remembers moth
ing that occurred until after Fen
dab was dead.
Under the circumstances the ac-
cuscd also says that he is entirely
in the hands of those who were
present and saw him pull the de-
ceased out of the tent, and that he
will be unable to put in any de-
fense.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-06
RESERVATION LANDS
70 LEASE

100000 acres OF first class farm
lands on White Earth Reservation, in
TRACTS Of 80 acres and more, by
,ALLOTTEES.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-06
AN ABOMfNKbLE
PRACTICE.
Steps Should Be Tai: J Stop II.

We have always favored mon
reservation schools for Indian
children, for it removes the slattel
from the home influences of their
uncivilized parents, andthey thus,
by constant and exclusive contact
with civilizing influences, become
imbued with civilized customs.
But there is:one very great objcc-
ton to these schools, and this IS
the practice of placing Indian
children in jail for the slightest
infraction of school ru e 3.
Several instances of this kind
have GENE to our notioe recently,
and we think it is time that some
steps should be taken 10 put a
stop to the practice.
Even Indian children cannot be
imprisoned without due process
of law, and every superintendent
of an Indian school that ignores
this lays himself liable to punish
ment.
By impisoning Indian boys in
the jails of ncn-reserNatien lndistll
schools for any ofense against
school discipline, they become in
different, reckless and accustomed
to this kind of punishment, and
when they return to their homes,
they have lost all, or nearly all,
sense Of the disgrace attached to
a person who is punished for an
oAfense by being imprisoned, and
they therefore regard this punish
ment as of no consequence, be-
come Indifferent to law and order,
and instead of being good citizens
they become agabonds.
Whenever Indian children are
placed under the care of the super
intendents of Indian schools, the
parents of these children expect
these superintendent to take their
places in the faithful care and
protection of the interests and
welfare of the children, and do
not expect to have them treated
as common criminals for the
slightest infraction of school
rules.
White parents would not for a
moment tolerate the imprison-
ment Of their children by the
school superintendent of public
schools, and the practice by In
dian school superintendent is re-
garded as abominable by Indian
parents. a
It should be stopped at all haz-
yards; if not by invoking the aid
of the courts by appealing to
Congress.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-06
The 1OMAHANk.
GUS. II. BEAULlEU - Publisher.
White Earth Agency, MINI.

;;3B "A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER de-
voted to the interests of the
White Earth Reservation and gen
,erM Northwestern News. Publish
eed aud managed BY members Of
tthe Reservation.
Subscription rates: $1.50 per
rannum. For the convenience Of
,tllose who may feel unable to pay
for the paper yearly or who wish
ITO take it on trial, subscription
may be sent ,ns for six and three
months at the yearly rates. All
sums sent to us should he forward
ed By registered letter to insure
safety, Address all cenmunica-
tions to.
:EHE ToAdAHAMK
WHITE EARTH, MINN.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-06
N0tiCel
White Earth Agency, MINI.
July 81, 1908.

In accordance with instructions
from the Honorable Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, to prevent the
killing of prairie chickens on the
White Earth Indian Reservation
until said chickens have grown to
proper size, and to enforce such
penalty for the violation of De-
partmental orders as may be ne
cessary, i hereby notify all persons
not to shoot prairie chickens on
the White Earth Reservation be-
fore the 10th, day of August 1903.
Any person, or persons, found
guilty of shooting any OF said
chickens before the 18th, day of
Agust, will have their guns and
dogs confiscated.
SIMON MICHELET,
United States Indian Agent.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-06
FOR THE INDIANS llR
FOR luMBERN|EN?

Several members Of Congressman
some of the newspapers, continue
to agitate the subject of giving
more thine to the probable pur-
chasers Of thelpine timber of the
Chippewa reservations in this
state to cut and remove it than
is authorized by the existihg'rules
of the interior department..
Noplauslble argument in favor
of the Indian interests kave yet
been advanced why the 'reserva-
ton timber that'may be sold this
year should not be cut and re-
moved from the reservations im-
mediately.
4wo.Sears ago, when she Nor.
ris bib WAS under consideration
by Congress, the strongest kind
of arguments were made by some
of the influences that now adv0-
cate a postpondment of the CUT
ting Of the timber, 'thHt che Indians
were losing 'thditsands of dollars
annually'by tie destructien'of their
timber by forest fkres, and to
postpond it's sale and Cutting any
longer would fncur: d great loss to
them. What has changed Che COM
ditions asi1r.e then! Are timber
fires less likely to rim, or ARE the
purchasers OF tile timber going to
reimburse tire InIians for any
timber that lbay be destroyed BY
these fires during tfe time that its
removal is being 'elelayed9
How does Congressman Buck
man or any one else know how
many different purchasers there
will be, aid What means they may
have Of removing the timber. II
only two or three firms were go
ing to purchase the timber there
might he some excuse for desif
ing to delay sts removal III tie
grounds that it could not be pro:
perly handled, Or if a. limited;
amount of it was going to be sold
this year. But we see no benefit
to the Indians by a postpond
Notwithstanding but loss to them.
1t is our opinion that the prosi-
ton to pestpend the cutting Of the
timber " fc4 the benefit of the
purchasers and not betAuse the 1n'
dams would be benefited thereby.
1t is possible that a secretary OF
the Interior less honest than the
present secretary may succeed him
before the ekpifatteh Ut Mfeo
years, and the Indians May have
to undergo their former expert.
ences regarding their timber mat
ters if postpondment is granted.
lA--l-az-aIlxzA-Na-ia.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-06
The Indian; Right and Wrong.

hg~"We hold these truths to be self
evident: that ALL MEN are created
equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable
rights: that among these, are LIFE,
LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAP
p1NEss"- Declaration Of Independence
July 4th, 1776.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-06


asoseSepal more. cases against the chill
dren of Ko-zi-pi depend upon the out4
come of this one. The Indians have
secured United States Senator Kit!
tredge as counsel.
1t is alleged that Ko-zi-pifis. not a
SissetOn Sioux, but a,member of the
Crow. Creek!band of Sisseton Sioux
and disqualified from holding the
tracts which are now in his name on
the Sisseton and Wahpeton reservaI
tions. 1t is expected that Xa-ke-was1.
te-ste, another Indian, vii appear I'M
the case as a Sisseton and the originals
allotee of the land in question.
The affidavit states, however, that
Xa-ke-was-te-stei is one Of the hostile
band of Indians who fought against
the government in 1862 in the Newt
Ulm Indian massacre, being takeni
prisoner and brought toCrow Greek, !
where he was held Until he escaped to-
Canada. Later he appeared at the,
Sisseton agency, but subsequent to;
the;Rllotmentsii The landi
in dispute lis, fsgreat value, .most>of It'll
being in village settlements. st. Paul,
Pioneer Press.
1t would seem from the fore.
goirrgithat the Indians will never be,
free from contests as long as they;
have foot of land that white:
man wants, even though it may
have ,been allotted to t h m.
Whenever tract of band is of
any value whatever there is bound
to be a contest arise aEaiHsa the
Indian holder of it, and most fire.
quently upon the slightest tech
nicalities.
Whenever any of these contests
arise the interior department isl
always too prone to take advan-''
tage of any technicality that is
presented and for which it is fire.
quently responsible, and to string
the matter along until the Indian,
out of sheer disgust sha the lack
of means, gives up the fight.
The Lydick case is fair exam
pie of what we may expect in the
future.
There was no more grounds for
a contest against Mrs. Iydick
than there Woald be to contest the
right of any other White Oak
Point Chippewa to an allotment
where he now is. Yet this was
done, and Mr. Lydick has pro-
baby expended nearly as much
money to maintain his wife's
rights as the land is worth.
We haye always insisted that
the interior department. has
caused the allotmcnts of the Pill
lager and White Oak Point Chip
pewas to be made contrary to the
act of 1889, under which they are
receiving these allotments, in a
majority of instances. | n d i a n
agents have been instructed to
make the allotments regardless of
the provisions of the act which
directs that they shall be made
under the supervision of the Chip
pcwa Commission.
Secretary Hitchcock abolished
the Chippewa Commission ind
has thus ignored the plain provi-
sions of the law in relation there
to, Notwithstanding that Congress
continues to make provisions for
the pay and expenses of the com
missioner.
We venture to predict that the
Chippewa will be made to suffer,
| sometime in the future, for the
manner in which the act of 1889,
is being set aside with regard to
the manner in which their allot-
mente should be made.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-06
SIMON MICHELET,
United States Indian Agent.

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