The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-29
INDIANS IN A SOCIAL WAR.

.. Red 400' of South Dakota.
 The Yankton Sioux Indians, at their reservation in Western South Dakota, are in a condition of disastrous social ehoas- because of questions of social standing arising from the experience of those representatives of the tribe who attended heeinauguration of President Roosevelt, says the Minneapolis Tri- bune. ..-.
 Hollow Horn Bear rode in the inaug- uration parade, and therefore claims that he had been officially labeled as the social luminary of the tribe. But David Sypher and a half dozen braves and minor chiefs who accompanied him to the Inauguration, and succeeded in getting received by Indian Commis- sioner Leupp, declare that they have been shown marks of greater favor and are, in fact, entitled to recogni- tion as the -four hundred'' of the res- ervation. ..s.-< '$-.
 Mrs Hollow Horn Bear is reported to have issued. an ultimatum. She pro- poses hereafter to occupy the same re- |lationship to Yankton Sioux society that is accorded by the New York smart set to that Mrs Astor who doesn't have to use any initials on her visiting cards. By way of inaugura- ing herself in the social dictatorship she issued invitations to roast-hog dinner, to which Mrs. Sypher was not invited.
 Mrs Sypher, so the account runs, on learning that invitations were out for Mrs. Hollow Horn Bears function, Icountered by Immediately issuing in vitations for dictatorship inaugural function of her own, to which the so- cial leaders of the tribe were invited, with the exception of those presumpt- uous Hollow Horn Bears, who were omitted from the list.
 Now the campaign is on to determine which of the functions-they are both to be held the same day-is going to be accepted by society as the real thing, with the label blown in the fire water bottle. Naturally, the situation is extremely embarrassing and appar- ently certain to line up tribal society in bitterly opposed factions. The situation is the outgrowth of Hollow Horn Bears faux pas when he went to Washington. He was instruct ed by Indian Commissioner Leupp to attend the inaugural as representative of his tribe and to report at Carlisle, Pa, to join a party of distinguished Indians who would go in a body from there to Washington, under personal conduct of agents of the department, with full authority to keep from get ting full
 But MT, Bear, realizing that his ulti- mate destination was Washington, saw no sufficient reason for making stop over at Carlisle, where, he had heard, l fertilization was so dense as to be icatehing. So he went straight through to Washington. That was the mistake 1 of MT. Bears life. F. s...a -. Commissioner Leupp, learning that Hollow Horn Bear had failed to. obey orders about stopping at Carlisle, re- fused utterly to receive hirn.It was the cut direct. Only by intercession of mutual missionary friends was MT.
 
 l in the inaugural parade. He was de- Inied the sunshine of the countenance Iof the Great Father; even the reflect \ ed glory of the Commissioners satel- litous face was not for him. .. Meanwhile David Sypher, a chief ! who has a strain of white blood in his veins and a considerable faculty for frienzied pony trading, whereby he has lacquired comparative independence of
 the agency ration distribution. organiz-
 ed an unofficial party to attend the in- iauguration. They did not secure per- mission to attend but paid their own expenses. Arrived in Washington, they found that they likewise were 1 doomed to languish outside the effulg. ent circle of official favor; for they \ had come without an invitation.
 But Synher was smoother than Hol- low Horn Bear He prepared a state. ment of his financial rating, got it in- ! dorsed by a commission agency and convinced certain Senatorial interests that he was practically g. calico pony trust. This established him at once | as worthy of the highest marks of
 Senatorial favor, and an avenue of ap- proach to the Commissioner presently | opened itself. Thus it turned out that
 the unofficial party was presented to
 the viceroy of the Great Father, the Commissioner, and received the official glad hand.
 But the Sypher party was not allow. led to ride in the parade. In fact, il
 was a cipher in the big doings. Now
 the question which agitates Yankton ! Indian social circles is whether the un. | official delegation that reached the
 throne room, shall take precedence ot
 the official delegate who received the snub direct, though afterward being graciously permitted to ride in the pro.