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The Tomahawk., 1904-02-25
INDIANS SELF SUP
PORTING.
Superintendent Of Indian Schools Says
Result is Due to Them.

The annual report of the Super
intendent of Indian Schools CON
tanning information obtained from
personal visits to agencies and
schools and from statistics re-
ceived in the Office, has been sub
mitted to the commissioner of In
dian affairs. The results are
given in tabular form, and show
the numbcr of children attending
school; the number speaking Eng
lish; the number self supporting;
the number of girls among the re-
turned students who keep neat
homes. and the number of return
ed students tilling their land,
which has largely increased.
The Indians present condition
is, compared with that of ten
years ago. Tribes that were
practically living in idleness then
are today working at whatever
they can find to do. The good re-
suits obtained from placing child
ren with families during a portion
of the school year is commented
upon, and it is recommended that
this system be extended to all
schauls where conditions are fav-
orable. 1t is urged that more
time be devoted to teaching cook
ing and other domestic arts, and
that the boys receive more instruc-
tion in agriculture. 1t is also
urged that teachers pay more at
tcntion to the study of the Indian s
character; that all attempts at re-
construction of their thoughts
should be guided by this knowl-
edge, and that all efforts in edu-
cation be aimed at teaching self
support in the shortest possible
time.
The report says that through
the influence of the schools the
Indians are slowly but gradually
advancing in civilization. The
illustrations, which were contrib
uted by the Indian school, were
printed by the Indian students
apprentices at Carlisle.
The Tomahawk., 1904-02-25


and was quite prominant among
his people, who sent him to Wash
-ington to look after theirinterests
on several occasions.
Charles Armstrong, is by right
Of inheritance the successor OF the
late Chief Buffalo, he being the
iatters grandson, If Mr.. Arm
strong, who is an intelligent and
educated mixed-blood, should
assert his rights, he would make a
good chief for his people, for he
would, as he has demonstrated, be
true to their interests.
The Tomahawk., 1904-02-25

. A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER de-
voted to the interests OF the
White Earth Reservation and gen.
eral Northwestern News. Publish
ell and managed by members OF
the Reservation.
Subscription rates: $1.50 per
annum. For the convenience OF
those who may feel unable to pay
for the paper yearly or who wish
to take it on trial, subscription
may be sent us for six and three
months at the yearly rates. All
.,,ms sent to us should be forwards
cd by registered letter to insure
safety. Addres, all communica-
tiona to.
THE TOMAHAwK
WHITE EARTH, MINI.
The Tomahawk., 1904-02-25
JOSEPH BUFFALO DEAD.

Joseph Buffalo, nephew ofChief
Buffalo who was the leading chief
in making the treaty between the
Lake Superior and Mississippi
Chippewas and the United States
in 1854. died at Odanah, Wis, on
the Bad River Chippewa Reser-
walton, on the 18th. of this month.
Joseph Buffalo was recognized
as the successor of Chief Buffalo
The Tomahawk., 1904-02-25
INDIAN INSTANTLY
KILLED BY TRAIN.

Ashland, Wis, Feb. Il J"i'
Sky, il half breed Indian rrsidi. ;;
at Odanah was instantly kiIis
last night by being struck by Il
passenger train on the Northwes,
crn road. Sky was in Ashland
last night and about supper time
started to return to GdAnah on
foot. This morning his mangled
body was fountl alongside the rail-
road track Duluth News Tribune.
The Tomahawk., 1904-02-25
INDIANS COMPLAIN.
Logging Companies, They Assert Wont
Give Them Anything to Do.

IaSS Ldkc, MlilH., W OiN
comes from Ball Club that the In
,lians living in that vicinity have
been holding squaw dance and
council at which several matters
which they deemed important
we're considered. When acouncil
is held the Indians recite all their
imaginary and real WRONGS, and
one of the results of the dance has
been complaint to the Indian
agent at Onigum, the Indians as
scrting that they have been slight
ed by the lumber companies which
have been cutting the timber dis
posed of at the sales held in Dec
cmber.
Uhtler the rules to regulate the
cutting of the pine, Indian labor
was to be given preference by the
companies, in SO far as practicable.
The Indians at Ball Club-say that
none Of their number has been
!, given employment by the Stand
ard company, which has large
amount of the timber in that vic
Unity.
Mr.. Nugent, superintendent of
logging for the Standard COM
pany, said; ''This compliant of
the Indians is wholly without
foundation, But two Indians
have made application for work
with our company and in both in
stances they we're given jobs. We
esife to live strictly up to the
rules, and we will give employ
ment to Indians, as far as it is
possible to do 50.
1t is understood that similar
complaints have been made by
other Indihhs against other lum-
ber companies. but there is un-
| loubtedly no foundation for
them. Minneapolis Journal.
The arguments Of the prohot-
rrs of the Morris Act, while it
vas pending before congress. was
that it's provisions would furnish
employment for all the Chippewas
in Minnesota who wished to work.
We were positive ut that time
that this was merely for the pur-
pose of getting favorable action
in regard to the bill. for those who
made it knew they were not telling
| what they believed to be the truth.
The lumbermen and the Jour
nal's correspondent deny that there
| is any Foundation for the report
that the Indians are not furnished
with employment under the
| Morris Act. nevertheless it has
become a matter of common motor
iety among the Indians that they
are e-practically being left out en-
tirely from any employment
which the Morris Act furnishes.
We would suggest to our
friends at Ball Club, that it is use
less for. them to complain, for
even if they are offered employ
ment the wages which will accom-
pany this offer would be so low
they would not accept the places.
This at least has been the exper-
ience in the past and the method
will not be changed now.
The Tomahawk., 1904-02-25
The Indian Right And. Wrong,

nS~'sWe 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
p1NBss"- "-Declaration of independence
July 4th, 1776.
The Tomahawk., 1904-02-25
OPPOSITION TO ROSE
BUD BILL.
INDIAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION SAARPEAS
TOMAHAWK.
Agent Brosius Enters the Field With
His Little Ak and Enlsts Aid Of Sen
ators Who May Fight the Measure
On The Floor Of the Senate.

Washington, Feb. 16.-S. M.
Brosius, local agent of the Indian
Rights ASSOCIATION, has sharpened
his hatchet and has started out to
defeat the Burke bill, which pro-
vides for the cession to the gov
ernment of 416, 600 acres of Rose
bud lands in Gregory county,
South Dakota. This measure re-
Gently passed the house. 1t has
been reported favorably by the
senate committee on Indian affairs
and is now on the calendar
The principal objection made to
the Rosebud bill is its failure to
carry out the terms of treaty
with the Indians in 1901. In a
memorial to the senate Mr.. Bros
ius says;
1T is not necessary to dwell
npon the history surrounding the
agreement OF 1901. Congress
proposes to. disregard it in i'm
portant particulars by withdraw
ing it's guaranty of payment OF
the purchase money, and resolv-
ing the Indians to the uncertain
payment by settlers upon the
lands, who, upon becoming de-
Iinquent, usually appeal to Con,
gress for extension of the time OF
payment and, indeed. for the re-
mission of the debt. This plan in
the past has been found to result
sometimes in frittering away the
Indians estate. y
The Burke bill in part embodies
the treaty with the Indians. On
this point Mr.. Brosius says; ITO
set up the agreement of the In
dian tribe, therefore, in the bill,
is useless and cannot be other
wise than misleading"
1t appears that the Indian
Rights association has enlisted
the aid of certain senators, and
there is possibility that the Rost-
bud bill will be fought on the floor
Of the senate.
The attitude Of the Indian
Rights association towards thu
South Dakota bill has given. rise
to the suspicion that it is also
opposing the Red Lake bill. That
measure is now before the presi.
dent, but objection to its approval
has been interposed.
Secretary Hitchcock, it is known
is antagonistic to the disposal OF
the Red Lake lands without the
consent Of the Indians, aud it is
now believed that the Indian
Rights association has taken q
hand in the matter.
The decision of the president
relative to the Red Lake bill will be
watched with interest by the mem,
bers from the Dakotas, as well as
by those from Minnesota. The
members of the latter delegation
will confer with the president ir
this connection on the return o1
Senator Clapp. If the president
vetoes the Red Lake bill, which il
not considered likely, like fate
would in all probability befall the
Devils Lake bill and the Rosebud
bill, or there is possibility that
these latter measures would not II
that event be passed by the sen
ate.
More than one million acres Of
land in Minnesota and the Dako'
tas is involved in this issue.-St
The Tomahawk., 1904-02-25
VIOLATED AGREEMENT.

The provisions of the Red Lake
bill recently passed by congress-.
the full text of which ~. published
in the last issue ofthe ToMAHAwK,
is violative of the agreement made
in 1889, under the Nelson Act,
between the Red Lake Chippcwas
and the Rice Commission. Under
the provisions of this act, those
Indians were TO receive allotments
of land within their dimished res
ervation, and with this in view
many of them made improvements
within that portion of the reser-
vation which the Steenersoh Act
opens to settlement.
The Steenerson Act amends the
agreement between the Red Lake
band Of Chippewas and Indian in
spector Nc. Laughlin made in
1902, and these amendments pract-
ically change the whole agree
ment, so that the Indians would
not know it if it were read to
them. In fact this amendment is
a very poor excuse to overcome
what congress evidently recos
nized as an act of injustice, and
it's promoters simply called it an
amendment to the agreement to
ease their consciences, or to over
come technical objections.
Even if the so-called agreement
should be recognized by the In
dians, which, from our infor-
nation, is extremely doubtful,
there still remains the Question OF
the bands right to cedc or relin-
quish the rights and personal
property Of All individual Indian.
The Indians living on that portion
of the Red Lake Reservation
which the Stcenerson Act opens
to settlement, and who made inn:
provements on land which con-
gress guaranteed would be allotted
to them, have vested rights to the
same which an act of congress
cannot take away from them. But
these rights cannot be upheld in
the courts without funds to defraS
the expenses of an expensive liti-
gatiuh, and this not one of the In
dians, who hold the improvements
referred to, has, and, for this reas-
on, they will all, undoubtedly, be
compelled to accept the provisions
of the act without resistance.
The opening of eleven towf,-
ships of the Red Lake Reserva-
ton to settlement, will not leave
sufficient arabic land for the Red
Lake Indians to each receive 16O
acres as allotments, and this
portion of the act is simply to
mislead them. But then our Red
Lake brethern are themselves par
TALLY to blame for this for signing
the Nc. Iaughlih agreement with
out making necessary provisions
for land enough for these allot-
ments.
To sum the whole thing up
briefly, the Indians have again
got the worst Of the bargain.
The Tomahawk., 1904-02-25
Hotel
Headquarters

Louis BrlsbOjs Proc.
Thoroughly renovated. Nice,
clean rooms and guod board.
The tables are always provided !.
with Fish. Game and Vegetables
in their season,
Good Barn in Connection
Board by the Day or Week.
White Earth Minn,
The Tomahawk., 1904-02-25
RESERVATION LANDS
TO LEASE

100, 900 acres Of first class farm
lands on White Earth Reservation, in
tracts of 80 acres and naure, by
ALLOTTE1lS.
The Tomahawk., 1904-02-25
The ToMAHANk.
Gus. II. BEAULIEU So Publisher
White Earth Agency, Mlnn.

Entered at the POstOtfice at White
Earth, Minn., as mail matter OF the
second class.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-07-02
OLD SURVEY MAKES
BIG hISCALCULATION
Excess of III Feet Frontage Permitted
to Corner Lot on Seven
teenth Street.

1t has been discovered by District
Surveyor LOCKER that. owing to a mis-
! take IN surveying, more than twenty
years ago, the corner lot on the west
side Of Seventeenth Street, adjoining
Street northwest, has an excess front
age Of La feet.
me discovery was made when a build
or applied 10 remodel and rebuild the
house Of Dr.. Joseph H Bryan.
The Corporation Counsel was then ask
ed whether the Surveyor should attempt
TO readjust the error in the frontage
lines OF the lots on the square between
n ana l Streets arising from the excess
frontage in the corner lot.
Corporation Counsel Duvau today SUBJ
mitted to the Engineer Commissioner an
opinion holding that the error should be
corrected No trouble will be occasion
ed by the matter. however. as Mr.. Du-
vail thinks ii can be arranged by a mu-
tuaI redistribution Of the frontage of the
lots by the present property owners on
the block
II IS said by District officials that such
little errors are often found when lots
are resurVeyed in the District for re-
building purposes. They are generally
TeCtihed without trouble, 10 the ad1oin-
Ing property owners.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-07-02
A NOVEL NUISANCE.

Birthday parties said a young
Washington matron, ARE coming TO be
a nuisance here. l wish 1 knew VINO
started the fashion of making them oc-
casious for giving presents. When
allowed my little girl TO invite several
children TO birthday party not long
ago | supposed the children would come
and play games. eat supper ana have
Il good time without any furmality.
but instead of that, every blessed child
of them bought present 10 bring TO
the party
Isn't that something new
.Or course It is. And what is more,
all those children have been giving par
ties as their birthdays came around.
and invited Edith. and, Of course, l had
to see that she had a present To take
every time. I'm thankful To say we've
pretty nearly reached The END OF the
list. but l suppose next year IL VIII
begin all over again.
The worst Of IL is that some of the
children actually speculate on what
they viii get when they give a party,
instead of thinking only Of the good
time and their duty to their guests, as
they ought 10. TO give u birthday
party is taEtamOunt TO asking for
birthday presents. The next thing will
he that the guests will have 10 carry
iavors to every childreu's party, and
when that happens, Edith VIII have 10
give up society unless Jim gets his
salary raised
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-07-02
A NEW FRECKLE REMOVER.

"A small sheet Of emery paper said
the young girl
The clerk handed her the emery pa
per and after she was gone he said:
Every now and then she buys sheet
Of emery paper. She removes freckles
with it."
.'Freckles. eh?" said the proprietor
How does she do that?''
''Rubs them of. replied the clerk.
She described TIE process 10 me the
last time she was in. She said she never
freckled anywhere but on the end OF
her nose. Whenever she is out in y high
wind or in a glaring sun there appears
on her nose a single big brown freclIie.
This she hates; she considers II a dis
ficurement. And 10 get ria Of IL she
rubs il or with a piece Of emery.
Doesn't it hurt: Doesn't l. bleed
said the proprietor.
1t hardly hurts or bleeds at all 1t
merely abrades the skin little. The
cad C her nose burns and Sm1rJS for
about a day. Then II is as wei as ever,
and the freclle is gone, leaving no
scar"
well. well" said the proprietor.
Strange creatures girls are. Imagine
you or ne scrapiug our noses with
emery paper 10 get rid Of q frecklS- -
New York Evening Telegram.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-07-02
LAYING CORNERSTONE
OF A NEW SEMINARY
Informal Ceremonies Mark the Occasion
on Grounds of St. AIMS Church,
TenleytOwn.

Informal ceremonies marked the lay
ing Of the cornerstone Of Our Lady 5
Seminary at Tenleytown this morning.
The Rev. Joseph Mallon. pastor Of st.
AIMS Church. on the grounds Of which
the new school Is TO be situated. blessed
the stone and placed the accustomed pa
pers, pictures. and coins inside
II had been the purpose Of Father Nal
Ion and the Sisters under whose direc-
ton the school Will be conducted to have
elaborate ceremonies marking the lay
ing Of the cornerstone, but delay in be-
ginning work on the building necessi-
tated the pOstpOnement Of the original
date FOR the ceremonies, and as the ar
raugements could not be carried out in
summer they were abandoned alto
gether.
Dedication services viii be held next
October, when the new school will be
formally opened. Work on the building
is progressing rapidly, and II is expected
that everything viii be in readiness by
talL The building is Of granite CORE
spending exactly with the new St
AIMS Church, and the two buildings
viii form an imposing and attractive ad-
dltiOn 10 the surrounding country.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-07-02
WELDON GLAD TO Be
A FREE MAN AGAIN
Was Never Fearful or Anxious About
Outcome-Calls on His
Attorneys.

Haggard looking, stOop- and
gay. Andrew J. Weldon, who was ac-
quilted Of the charge Of killing Mrs. Ra-
chel Ann Beall at her home, 1874 II
Street northeast, on December Il last,
was seen today I'm the office Of one Of
his attorneys, Edward Mitchell.
There was a forced smile on his face,
and the mingled expression Of sorrow
and joy on his countenance clearly
showed that he was a man recently re-
lie, Cd of a terrible strain.
- a reporter for The Times Weldon
said: Thank God. I am free again to-
day, as / should have been on the 18th
day Of December and ever since then
1 ana innocent Of shedding the blood Of
Mrs. Rachel Ann BealI OF any other hui
man being. and I have no words to ex-
press my joy at being relieved Of having
that charge hanging over my head.
never was fearful or anxious about the
outcome. as I had absolute confidence in
my attorneys and knew full we'll that
was innocent.
THE only thing that I feared was
jobs put up by the people who sought
to hang me, and l thought perhaps there
might be circumstances which my attOr-
neys and I would have difficulty in
strengthening out 70 the satisfaction OF
the jury. / knew I was innocent, my
friends knew it, but l would never have
been satisfied until l had been indicated
by twelve men sworn 10 return YER
dict according 70 the evidence"
Mr.. Mitchell and Attorney LipscOmb
said they We're glad 10 be relieved or
the strain and tension. and to know
that they had saved an innocent man
from being hanged on ciTcumstantial
evidence
There were times when things looked
black for US" said Mr.. Mitchell. but
our only fear was that perhaps the jury
might be able 10 see its way clear TO
believe our story. We have eXtricaJed
Weldon from the tolls. and proven be-
yOnd peradventure that he Is not the
guilty party. Who is. We are not paid
to find out"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-07-02
MRTON'S SECRETARY
HERE FROM NEBRASKA
Ore Held a Position in the Agricultu-
raj DepartmenU-Was
Under Wilson.

lhn Nordhouse, private secretary to
sretary Morton Of the Ma Depart
mt. arrived in Washington last night
finn Nebraska City. Neb., and began
vrk al the Navy Department this
nrning.
II. Nordhouse IS familiar with de-
Drtmeut work in Washington, having
srved in the Department OF Agricul-
tire for a number Of years He entered
T. Department Of Agriculture through
L. civil service in Secretary kusk s.
me and later became private secretary
rthe late Secretary J. Sterling Morton.
trough whom ne became acquaInted
VIII Mr.. Morton son, Paul Morton, the
resent Secretary Of the Navy
Tor Il short time Mr.. NOrdhOuse was
the Department Of Agriculture under
scretary Wilson. Then ne went 70 Ne
1aska City TO assist the MOrIonS IN
bkiug after their extensive property
ferests IN that town.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-07-02
Hunt for Wild Cattle
Upon Colin Mountain
Exciting Chase After Unnamed BOVneS Which
Commit DepredatiOns on Farms Near
Belfast, Ireland.

BELFAST July Mounted and arm
ed. farmers and villagers are securing
Colin Mountain, which overlooks the
placid waters of Belfast Tough, in pur-
suit Of a herd of wild cattle which
has carried terror into the farristeads
The exciting hunt began several days
ago. but the herd has not yet been
externinated. The countryside is de
termhed 10 ayenge the damage that has
been done
Some years ago Stafford Mclean, a
farm.r. put some pOlled cattle on the
HILL and a young bull reverted to say
agery, and induced some members OF
the herd to follow his lead.
In the course of time they multiplied,
and the younger members were wilder
thar the old. They broke hedges and
fences, and foraged anywhere and
everywhere.
Mr.. Mclean was held responsible for
their depredations. Claim followed
claim for fences broken and hayricks
demolished. until the farmer in despair,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-07-02

Invited every one to join in a grand
hunt and put stop once and for all to
their work.
As every head of cattle killed or
caught was To be the prize of its slayer
or Captor, the response to the invita-
ton for a grand hunt was general Men
climbed the hill armed with every class
of weapon TO be found in the GlstTlcl,
pistols. old blunderbusses. towing
pieces. sticks. and knives, and Il
surinkling Of modern rifles. They WdII.E
staIzed their prey, but the animals
were quick. leaping hedges and dltchSS
in a manner which no hunter could
equal r
After much stalking, a shopkeep%r
named Davidson brought down a COUPE
Of the herd which We're conveyed down
the mountain side on ''skids.' una car
ried i'm triumph TO Glengormley village,
The attack was resumed, and a thlru
powerful beast fell TO the same gun
while another was wounded but ESCAPED:
Two others were accounted Tor Jhat
night one being driven into YARD ana
the other joining some tame cattle on
an adjacent farm. and being also cap
rured.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-07-02
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
BENEATH GRAPE ARBOR
Ohio Man Is Seriously Injured by Stray
Bolt Of Electricity During
Thunderstorm.

JACKSONVILLE. Ohio. July Dur
ing n terrific hailstorm here Friday
afternoon Hugh Muhgan was struck by
lightning and narrowly escaped death
He was standing beneath a grape-arbOr
at his home when the bolt struck a
post Of the arbOr splinteriug 81 and then
glanced on, striking Milligan in the back
OF the head burning the hair off. knock
ing his teeth out, badly burning his face.
left arm. and legs. and tearing his hat
clothes, and shoes 10 pieces. His clothes
took fire, but the flames were extin-
guished by neighb0rs who hurried 10 the
rescue.
Medical aid was summoned. and after
hard work MilllgaH was TesuscItated
The doctor su-s be viii live
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-07-02
HENRY M. H0YT WILL
SUCCEED Mr.. GRIGSBY

Henry NJ. Hoyt. Of San Francisco. Cal
was appointed yesterday by the Presl-
dent United States attorney al Nome.
Alaska, 20 succeed Melvin Grigsby. re-
signed
Mr.. Hoyt IS originally from Pennsyl-
vanIa. He graduated from Yale College
in the class Of 1883. and practIced law
for several years al Spokane. Wash
Mr.. Grigsby's resignation followed
upon the complaints made with regard
10 the Alaskan judiciary by residents OF
the Territory. To make d thorough in
VestigatlOn OF these charges Judge VIII
liam A. Day, Of the department Of JUS
tice. has gone 10 Alaska 10 make re-
port 10 the President