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The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-09-23
Conseouences..

Once on time Prudent Girl met
Frivolous Girl Don't you know,
my dear" she said. that If you con-
tinue wearing a veil that you will
spoil your eyesight?" 81 saw that in
a medical journal, replied the Friv-
olous Girl, land would have followed
it's advice only happened to read in
my Beauty Book that if I didn't wear
a veil l would spoil my complexion"
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-09-23
STATISTICS or NIGHT HERoNs
They Are Sought by tho Smithsonian
institution.


Eight hundred night herUns are wan.
dering free about the United States,
each wearing on one deg an aluminium
band Inscribed Smithsonian Instttu-
ton" and q number. If any person
shoots one Of these birds he should
write to Paul Bartsch, biologist OF the
Smithsonian, telling where 1t was and
how large was the bird. The night
heron is one Of the most beautiful
of the aquatic birds OF America, but
scientists know less about it than they
are satisfied with. Last year MT.
Bartsch discovered several breeding
places Of these birds on the Potomac
in the District of Column fa. Recently
he visited the place with several as
sistants in the night and the 500
aluminium bands were fastened TO the
legs of as many young herons Science
is anxious to know how long the night
heron lives. where 1t spends the win
tiers and how much Of the country It
covers in it's wandertngs. It Is be-
heved that by the time a few OF the
numbered aluminium bands have been
reported some Of these facts will have
been established to the satisfaction of
the ornithologists. - Cleveland (O)
Plain Dealer
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-09-23
North Dakota LEGISLATORS.

There are 40 members of the North
Dakota legislature, and of them fifty
one are farmers and only two are law
yers. Norwegians and their descend
ants are very largely represented IN
the politics Of North Dakota
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-09-23
The LARGEST Opera Houses.

The Academy of Music. at New
York. will hold 400 people. The
next biggest opera house is that at
Parma, in Italy. It is built OF wood,
and will hold $500. -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-25

ID ED CLOUD. IRE famous Indian
II warrior and chief Of the Sioux, lies
dying at his home in Pine Ridge
agency. South Dakota. Physicians have
no hope of saving the old chieftain's
life, and the end is expected at any
time
Although at one time lord of all Kan
sas, Nebraska. Dakota, and parts or
Iowa. Wyoming and Montana, Red
Cloud is now almost destitute The
small piece Of land that was given to
him by the government when the In
dams were placed on the Dakota reser-
vations has gradually been sold until
today only about ten acres remain. a
few months ago. thinking that his death
was near, Red Cloud called his children
around him and divided his property,
including $500 i'm cash. But death dill
not come as soon as he expected. and
now he is almost dependent on charity.
Red Cloud in his time was one Of the
most successful, daring savage chiefs
Of the great Sioux nation. During the
hostiHties waged so brutally on the
plains against the encroachment of the
whites his name was the dreaded one
on every emigrants tongue.
This great chieftain was born IN OBJ
security, but by his force Of will. intelH-
gence and bravery ne became in time
the leader of his people. The story is
told of how he first gained the title Of
chief" 1t seems that wen known
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-25
By Forrest
CriSSey

the town saw that certain things in his line OF
trade ought to be protected by stricter laws He kent
the drug and school book store right next to the
school house
When he asked the local boss for representation
on the ward committee a2d for some other reason
able things that would help him to make strong
fight for his reform legislation, he turned down
He was green in politics, but you didn't have to
tell him thing but Once-and sometimes not at all.
close to the school house, he knew practically
every man, woman and child in the ward. When the
smoke cleared away from the primaries this little
druggist had fourteen of the delegates to the county
convention and the local boss lad That night
the druggist didn't feel sleepy and so he managed TO
see the fellows who were doing things on his side Of
the river. He was just as easy and modest in his
way he'd never thought Of going after a
little reform legislation Somehow the boys who held
e WIlp nIu Looh d sIlllle 70 mn lu ma
ned play square Ihey were so uckIed over the way
had drubbed the boss that they fell riGht "a Mia
his plan for doing things in the convention.
When ne walked INTO lhe room where the Big
Three Slate Makers were figuring out things he was
abruptly asked: How many delegates have you?''
"One hundred thirteen" he answered.
mo. how many delegates do you conTol2 We're
river" was the impatient return.
i control 11S-ai there are on my side of the
and I'm sent up here TO treat with you and md out
just what be dOTe.'
why we simply control that whole convention
without another vote. Now what do you want, young
MANI
He told them precisely what things on the ticket
would have go TO his side of the river and he
men must be nominated nrst- because ne eX-
planned you see this game is all new TO me and 1
Right then one Of the big leaders looked up and
said:
II thought that you were just a reformer-but. by
Mighty you're a Bossl-and real Boss, too!
From that time to this the little druggist has
played a gentlemans game and played il on the
square some folks don't approve Of games at an.
and others don't like that kind Of a game. but all
are agreed that the play it is according to the
rules.
So Ned if you're going to cast your lot with the
word-spankers just try and be decent and square
with your political partners you have been while
just plain politician, playing the game for the fun
it and because YOU like it better than golf poker
ping pong penuchle. If you do this you're likely
to break your chrysalis, 'leave your low
vauted past" and find that YOU have changed from
n professional political spanker to boss whose word
is good the limit the game with all who know
how to play it. Yours as ever.
WILLIAM BRADLEY.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-25

the work. was coming on in great shape; the petit
tons were signed up on sight and there enough
party enthusiasm aroused by his oratory to drive
saw mill with lah and shingle machines to boot. On
the surface, everything looked all right the gen
eral organizer and he had about concluded that he
had picked a winner when the great night of the
actual organization and election of officers
There doubt about enthusiasm or activity
Every young in the party under so years of
age was there and doing business. When the cere-
mOny of electing officers over. the young
former hypnOtized by the applause that greet
ed his oratory that he actually didn't recognize the
fact that the enemy had come in like a flood and
swept all his work right into the opposition camp
He wasn't high private in the organization that he
had built up-and he didn't realize il until the gen
er1l organizer heard the and explained it him
with diagram.
Some of these little things calculated to give
real politician the feeling that it's about sensible
TO hunt prairie chickens with a hound pup to go
after votes with reformer who wants to make the
party into one large Bible class with himself
teacher and substitute.
notice that lately you have been sending up
quite few fireworks directed the bosses of your
party. What's the matter Ned? You haven't been
trying to get frsly with the old crowd Of fellows and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-25

SON Pelly, the Five Fingers. Windy Arm Caribu
Crossing, Linderman, the Chicoot and Dyea
On the morning after passing Eagle they rose early
Ihls was their last camp and they We're to part
fortunes heart was light There a promise OF
spring IN the land and the days growing longer
The way was passing into Canadian territory. Lib
erty was at hand, the returning and each day
saw him nearer to the Great Outside. The world was
big and he could again part his future in royal
snatches Of light song while Uri put dogs
ness and packed up But when all ready Fortunes
feet itching TO be of. Uri pulled back log
TO the fire and down.
Ever hear Of the Dead Horse traiI2"
He glanced up meditativey and Fortune shook his
head. mwardly chahng at the delay
Sometimes there are meetings under circumstances
which make men remember Uri continued speaking
in a low voice and very slowly, 'and 1 met man
under such circumstances on the Dead Horse trail.
Freightng outfit the White Pass in 81 broke
many mans heart. for there a world of reason
when they gave that trail its The horses died
to Bennett they rotted in heaps They died a the
Rocks, they were poisoned at the summit and they
starved at the Lakes; they fell off the trail what
there Of it, they went through Il; in the river
they drowned under their loads, were smashed to
pieces against the bOulders. they snapped their legs
in the crevCes and broke their backs falling backward
with their packs; in the sOughs they sank from sight
smOthered in the slime. and they were dsem-
bOweled in the bOgs where the corduroy logs turned
death and when they gone went back to the
beach and bought Some did not bother to shoot
them stripping the saddles eff and the shoes and leav
ing them where they fell. Their hearts
those which did break-and they became beasts
the men of Dead Horse trail.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-25

featuring business before he was 80. Then he con
cuded that he would himself with glory by
larrUping the world until a state political righ-
eoUsness. He willing to start in. a small way
and just for practice, his city Of more than
million inhabitants After he had cleaned that up,
he would begin the real job and show the world
what he could do when once he got his hand in
Just then new man was reaching for a fOothold
on the party ladder and doing clever stunt in
the shape of organizing young mems clubs. When
the young WOrld-spanker came to him asking for
work, just to himself from ingrowing patriot
ism. the request granted; the general overseer
said:
You organize dozen clubs in your part Of town.
get them right where you change them from a
sngiefoOt 10 canter at the turn Of your hand and
then youu have political capital do business
with thatU start you real career"
From that time until he a in. this young re-
former was buster than a cock partridge on drum
ming Og-and he strutted around in about the same
style, too. I've never anything quite import
ant Of its age as that young chap. But ne a
hustler and he went at the organization of young
mems clubs in his neck Of the woods in the way
that he had invaded competitors territory and put
in his goods.
According to his reports to the general organizer,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-25

communiys blood lust cannot stand before its gold
lust. The murder of John Randolph had already
passed into the the camp, there il
ed Had the murderer appeared the men of Nome
would certainly have stopped stampedng long enough
Justice done whereas the whereabouts of For
tune lie PcarIe longer insistent problem
There was gold in the creek beds and ruby beaches
and when the sea opened the with healthy sacks
would sail away where the good things Of life
sold absurdly cheap
So night Fortune helped TTri Bran harness the
dogs the sled, and the train took winter
trail south the ice But it all south for
they left the east from St Mchaels crossed the
divide. and struck the Yukon at Anvik many hum
dreds of miles from its mouth. Then on. into the
northeast. past KOyOkuk. Tanana and MinOOk till
they rounded the Great Fort Yukon, crossed
and recrossed the Arctic Circle, and headed south
through the Flats. 1t weary journey and For
tune would have wondered why the went with
him had Uri told him that he owned claims and
had men working Eagle. Eagle lay the edge of
line a miles further the British nag waved
the barracks at Fort Cudahy. Then came Daw-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-25

TO return to the agency under a pledge
of amnesty Red Cloud has visited
Washington ten times IN business con-
nected with the SiOuX, processes friend
ship for the whites and a desire to have
his people live like them. Yet he is very
much opposed TO the new idea Of the
government in cutting off the rations
of the younger Indians and in forcing
them to work for their living In an
address he issued to his people a short
time ago he said: should all Indians
refuse to accept work. they viii remain
as Indians. but should they follow in
the paths of the whites, in years to
come there viii be no Indians. but in
stead lot Of slaves"
In his old age Red Cloud has become
childish and returned 10 many of the
habits Of his younger days He has
left the house which the government
built for him. and now lives i'm tent
i'm the corner Of his yard. Although
old and feeble, ne keeps in touch with
the affairs of his tribe through his pri-
Vate secretary. Cut Meat. And through
his secretary Red Cloud issues his or
ders to the subchiefs.
Red Cloud is the last of the great IN
dian chieftains whose names are writ
ten indelibly on every page of the his
tory of the west And with his death
his people will lose a leader who was
recognized not only as a great warrior,
but also as a diplomat of rare ability.
Washington Post
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-25

world for you. Now, wait with till it blows
They'll forget all about you in or less. what
of stampeding 10 York and what not, and hit
the trail under their noses and they won't bother.
I've got my own ideas of justice When ] after
you out of Eel Dorado and along the beach it wasn't
TO catch you or give you Ny ideas my
and that's not enc Of them
He ceased as the murderer drew prayer book from
his pocket With the aurora bOreals glimmering yell
low in the northwest heads barred to the frost and
naked hands graspng the sacred book, Fortune La
Pearle swOre him to the words he had spoken-an
oath which Uri Bran never intended breaking and
never broke
At the door of the shack the gambler hesitated for
instant marvelng at the strangeness Of this man,
who had befrlended him., and doubling. But by the
candle light hefound the cabin comfortable and with
out occupants, and he quickly rolling cigarette
while the other made coffee. His muscles
Taxed in the warmth and he lay back with half-as-
sumed Incidence ntently studying Urls face through
the curling wisDs of smoke. It powerful face.
but its strength of that peculiar stands
girt in and unrelated. The were deep-graven,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-25

ring in rules the boys without giving due
tice, have you? When / hear thac kind of talk from
a man who has been in the political game long
as YOU have and has much horse sense You
usually carry about, 1 can't help suspecIing that
something like this has happened
It's all right to put up a howl against the Boss,
but the Outcry would be whole lot convincing
if it did not from throat that has sung his
choir since it was organized. There has been more
nonsense talked both sides of the question.
than the tariff and free silver combined. I guess
that have said enough to indicate that to my
ton refOrmer isn't to be accepted having di-
vine call simply because he pound the pulpit and
shout loud enough to start the nails in the mOurners
benches look at it about this way:
A boss is often a grown-up refOrmer who has got
onto the rules of the and is willing play
And the professional reformer is sometimes
only appetite for power that mistakes itself for
moral courage.
chance to learn considerable about how a reforner
up into boss and how a boss can get
cOcky and exceed his privileges. This experience
shed a good deal of light the subject for
give il to for what it's worth.
1t the second year after came back to the
city. A young married out in the newer section
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-25
Tattlings Of A Retired Politician.
Political SpankS
and Spankers.

Brokenstraw Ranch 1903
Z DEAR NED:-After you've shot your rocket
M don't play with the stick. Take something new.
A'A Even the Importunate Widow of the parab had
the good grace to let up after shed landed what
was after. And it's mighty risky for politicians to
rush in where widows fear to tread
Your little reform game all very well and
came out lot better than most schemes to spank
the world "by statute made and provided" OF course
We have got to have corrective legislation three
feet Of hold-back strap, taken on emergency from
the nearest thl the family buggy and applied at
the nerve center Of youthful conscience, did more
10 make me good citizen than an the statutes in all
Modes and Persians.
And now that you open the way. Ia like to offer
few remarks the subject of political spanks and
spankers. Your notion that You have a divine call
10 Keep eVeidslngy at the reform work puts you on
with most other spankers. Mighty few Of them
know when TO begin and not a thousand has
SENSE enough 20 qulI AT JUST tne rlgnI point RMS
spanking business is good deal like temperng steel
cooling of. When my father used start in with
the buggy strap L was powerful proud and cocky. L
tinued 10 warm my feelings always reached a
point os complete humility. licked and I knew
licked. conceded everything the opposition" and
willing to come back into the party fold without
asking for any representation the steering COM
have had me i'm a state of total and ,,T0pa16a6 e,,r
the reform business just you seem bent on doing.
Gradually on these painful occasions INV FEELINGS
underwent another change until didn't care whether
] right or wrong. All I did care for was get
even with the Power-Behnd the strap And generally
about that time I'd let out 1sll loud enough be
heard by of the nesgnbors. They usually did
hear. too and then the would circulate that I'd
been "shamefully whipped" That kind of sympathy
made swell up like martyr and feel that I
the victim of the oppressor! Now, Ned. the time
let up spanking the community is at the humble
point. When you keep until the victim gets the
secret sympathy of the neghbors and is able pose
Tho 0oject Of persecution you're OVERRIDING the job
jus little It's all right be thorough. but stop
9. point where you keep the moral support OF
neighbOrs.
A good many reformers are like pointer pups
1hey don't get enough TO work with until they're
beyond the age at hic bird dog of ny other breed
ought have become fun Of burrs and honors. I
reformer start i'm. fun Of his first of
political sap. without thinking of Pug Hanson.
They called him that because ne looked If part of
his face had been left and kind Of squared up
the rough with meat like pug dogs He had
buliy-ragged a fair SEED fortune out OF the manu-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-25
T amous Indian Dying

warrior of his tribe was jealous of Red
Cloud. and with six of his followers
Wayiaid the young brave Two
were armed with rifles and the
others carried bows and arrows.
Red Cloud was armed with a
Winchester and though wounded
al the first fire, he succeeded in kill
ing all of his assailants. Soon follow
ers gathered around him. and as wars
broke out with the whites these fol-
lowers increased in number. He be-
came a member OF the various secret
societies and went through the fearful
agony and torture of the sun dance.
After the Fetterman massacre qS66)
he refused TO meet the special peace
commission or to sign any treaty In
stead he declared war against the
whites and called to his aid the dissat-
ished Indians of the various tribes.
Then came the Fort Phil Kearney mas
sacre, ia which the Indians were led
by Red Cloud. who showed the greatest
bravery and daring. the battle result
ing In the humiliation of the soldiers.
After this victory Red Cloud was pro-
claimed chief of all the Sioux tribes.
and has held this position for nearly
forty years.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-25

overlaid with moss At the foot the rough ends of
these tmbers projected in uneven From the
side the wall Uri ripped back the and
moved three of the logs The jagged ends he sawed
off and replaced so that the projecting remained
uubroken Fortune carried in sacks of -four from the
cache and piled them on the floor beneath the aper-
ture. on these Ur laid pair of long sea bags and
all spread several thcknesses OF moss and ban-
kets. Upon this Fortune could lie with the sleeping
furs stretching him from side of the bunk
TO the other. and all melt could look upon it and de-
clare it empty.
In the weeks which followed several domiciary
visits paid not shack tent in Nome escap-
ing but Fortune lay in his Granny undisturbed. In
fact, little attention given to Ur Bram's cabin,
for il the last place under the to expect TO
find the murderer of John Randolph. Except during
such interruptions Fortune lOled about the cabin,
playing long Of solitaire and smoking endless
cigarettes. Though bis volatile nature loved genial
ity and play of words and laughter. he quickly
mOdated himself 10 Urls taciturnity Beyond the
actions and plans OF his pursuers the state of the
trails and the price OF dogs they talked; and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-25

In the outbreak which led to the Gus
ter massacre and the flight OF Sitting
Bull TO Canada Q976), Red Cloud de-
clined to aid Sitting Bull, notwithstand-
ing which General Crook deposed him
from his command and sent him to the
Pine Ridge agency, South Dakota, and
the government confiscated his ponies
and other property In 1859. when
government commissioners were at
tempting 70 induce the Sioux to sell
their reservation in South Dakota that
it might be opened to settlement Red
Cloud refused to sign or to let his In
dams sign the treaty. When the gov
eminent agreed TO pay him $4,000 for
the ponies and property conhscated in
1876, he signed the treaty and induced
the chiefs still holding out to do so also.
1t may be said to the credit of Red
Cloud that since he signed the first
peace paper" he has never once fought
against the whites. He refused an APP
peal OF Sitting Bull to order an upris-
ing of his tribe at Pine Ridge agency
on the strength OF the Messiah craze
GS90-D. and after his bucks had Joined
Sitting Bulls ghost dancers in the Bad
Lands he was the first influential In
dian to accept General Miles invitation