The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-30
INDIAN SOCIAL CIRCLES
HAVE A TERRIBLE FUSS

tatorship Mrs. Hollow II. Bear has issued
invitations to roast dog dinner to which
Mrs. Sypher is not invited
Mrs. Sypher, so the account proceeds
on learning that invitations were extan.
for Mrs. Hollow Horn Beers function
eountered by Immediately issuing invita-
tions for a dictatorship inaugural soiree
of her own, to which the social leaders
of the reservation were invited with the
exception of those presumptuous Hollow
Horn Bears, who were omitted from the
list. Now the campaign is afoot to de-
termine which function-they will both
be held the same day--is going to be ac-
copied by society as the real thing with
the label blown in the fire water bottle
Naturally, the situation is highly embar
RAISING and regarded as certain to line
up tribal society in bitterly opposed fac
tions.
The present painful relations are the
outgrowth of Hollow Horn Bears faux
pas when he went to Washington He
was instructed by Commissioner Leupp
to attend the inaugural as representative
of bis tribe and to report first at Car
Isle, Pa, to join a party of distinguished
aborigines who would go in a body from
| there to Washington under personal con-
duct of agents of the department with
full authority to keep them from getting
full But Mr.. Bear, realizing that his
ultimate destination was Washington,
saw no sufficient reason for taking the
stopover at Carlisle, where he had hearo
that civilization was so dense as to be
catching. So he went straight through
to Washington That was the mistake
of Mr.. Bears life
Commissioner Leupp. learning that Mr.
Bear had failed to obey orders about
stopping at Carlisle, refused utterly &c
receive him. 1t was the cut direct ONLY
by intercession of mutual friends was MIR.
Bear able to secure permission to rid..
in the inaugural parade. He was denied
the sunshine of the Great Fathers coun-
tenance; even the reflected glory of the
commissioners satellitious face was not
for him.
Meanwhile David Sypher, a chief VINO
has a streak of white blood in his veins
and considerable facility in frenzied pony
trading, whereby he has acquired com
parative independence of the agency ra
ton distribution. organized an unofficial
party to attend the Inauguration. They
| did not secure permission to attend, but
| paid their own expenses Arrived in
| washington tney IOunu LndL tney, like
wise were doomed to langush outside
the effulgent circles of official favor; they
| had come without an invitation
| But Sypher was smoother than Hollow
| Horn Bear. He prepared statement Of
his financial rating, got it Endorsed by a
commercial agency, and convinced certain
senatorial interests that he was p.acti.
cally a calico pony trust This estab-
lished him at once as worthy Of the high
est marks of senatorial favor. and an
avenue of approach to the commissioner
presently opened itself Thus it came
| about that the unofficial party was III :
scented to the viceroy of the Great Fathe-,
the commissioner, and received the official
glad hand.
But the Sypher party was not permitted
to ride in the parade; in fact. 1t was a
cipher in the big doings. Now the cues
ton agitating Indian social circles is
whether the official delegation that
reached the throne room but didn't ride
in the parade, shall take precedence Of
the official delegate who received the
snub direct, though afterward being gra-
ciously permitted to ride at tho chariot
wheel of the conqueror.
The latest suggestion is to refer the
whole matter to Harry Lehr for datern;I
nation. according to the rules OF New
port society 1t is maintained by the ad-
vocates of arbitration that the originator
OF the monkey dinner should be able
readily to modify his rules to meet the
requirements OF roast dog collation..