Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-06
LOOKER-ON in IOWA !

Steamboat Rock, Aug. 5.-Last week
| the writer was in northern Wisconsin,,
and what little corn was to be seen.
| was only knee high An all night trip
brought him along the next morning TO
| Oewein, a little after sunrise, and the
| first and continuous sight of corn
| fields from the car windows were great
big stalks six to seven feet nigh, taS-
! seled out and silk already showing on
the newly formed ears. 1t gave one
an idea of the corn state that Iowa IS.
Mile after mile. along the Z. e. w.
down to Des Moines, presented the
same pleasant picture.
They can and do raise big grain
crops from the cleared land in Niscon-
sin The hay crop on such land IS
simply immense. Where the gardens
are attended to, all kinds of vegetables
are in abundance. But the lack of hogs
cattle and corn is noticeable. One
would think that it would pay every
farmer to keep cattle for the grass AMI
hay is luxuriant. but in ride of 100
miles one could not count as many
cattle as miles.
AT the Indian reservation in Sawyer
county Wisconsin, some 1900 Chippe-
was own farms individually, and while
these Indians, many of them half
breeds, are superior In every way to our
noble red men near Tama, they evil
IDENTIFY object to farming, equally with
our neighbors on the reservation near
Tama. One thing is very noticeable
among the Chippewa tribe As now con-
stituted and that is the purity of the
English language as spoken by them.
Their pronunciation. including accent
is far ahead of any foreigner living IN
Iowa for a life time. OF course many
have been away to the Indian schools.
Many have attended the Catholic par
ochial schools, but two of our Indian
guides, had not had such privileges
and their pure English would be n
model to many slang using school
marines" in Iowa. They are a curious
mixture. bloodwise. One of our guides
had on his family tree. a pure bloodei
Indian great grand father and mother,
A pure blooded Indian grandfather. and
an Irish grandmother. Then his half
breed father married French woman.
and our guide married a half bree !
Il t
blooded Indian squaw. And his child
rem, solemn as little owls, when talked
to by this scribe, answered in English
much palmer than this scribe's grand
children of the same age, of Yankee de-
scent. A little two-year-old of this
referred to guides family. made us all
remark of the familiar, true and Eng
lish accent, when he called out to his
sister. you can't catch me-" The ho-
tel where we stopped was kept by half
breed Indian, graduate of the Car
Isle school, his wife, the daughter of
our guide. and when we sat down TO
an absolutely clean table cloth, silver
forks, knifes, spoons. ETC., 1t seemed
the most natural thing In the world
for breakfast food with real cream to
come first, the ham and eggs
and fried fish, fried potatoes
griddle cakes and real maple syrup;
this with good coffee and ice water
We'll, 1t occurred to the writer. there's
an opening for some OF these half-breed
Indians to come down to Iowa and run
some of our hotels. The grand mother.
a full blooded squaw. came over one
day and "boosed' the baking OF an
eight pound muskalouge. this for our