East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-06-26

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wbila Iru,anina sub-ob;of 90 tba
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was Au'iie anu Are''ins
and getting short Of money waiting
for three days for Chief No Shirt to
| arrive in wasbington on tbeir raoart
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shirt was lounging amid the COM
forts and luXuries of the palatial Chi
cago home of Charles n. Crewdson,
the we'll known writer of Indian
stories and who visited No Shirt on
the Umatilla reservation last sum-
mer'
During Mr.. Crewdson's visit here
last week he told the East Oregonian
of inviting Chief No Shirt to visit him
in Chicago, as he went to Washing
ton, and so when the chief stopped to
call upon his friend and fingered
wonderingly for three days among the
amazements of the Windy City, UNA
pine, who had preceded his chief to
the national capital, became alarm
ed at his chiefs delay, primarily be-
cause he thought No Shirt was lost
or had become sick along the route,
and secondarily, because No Shirt
carried the tribal sack" and until
he arrived Umapine could eat but
once day on account of a shortness
of funds.
Standing on the tip top of the Au-
ditorium tower, overlooking the great
city of Chicago, Crewdson was point
ing out the various sights of interest
to No Shirt, when the chief looked
down upon the crowded tenements
and narrow alleys and said to Crewd-
son:
white men live in them houses?"
Crewdson answered that many,
many people were crowded in the
tenement district
How do they live? Where are
their farms?" asked No Shirt.
At Crewdsons elegant home the
chief was given full liberty to go
and come and lounge on the sofas
and lie on the grass at will.
His chief delight was in sitting
flat on the floor of the parlor while
looking at the Buster Brown" comic
newspaper pictures with Crewdson's s
6-year-old son-the old Indian and
the young child enjoying with equal
ly keen interest the seven-hued
comic sheet.
One day No Shirt asked where he
could wash some small articles of his
wardrobe and after Crewdson direct
ed him to the laundry in the base
ment, he went about his work( think
ing no more of the old Indian.
On returning home in the evening
he found No Shirts laundry, consist
ing of handkerchiefs. socks and
neckties, hanging on the backs of
chairs on easels, bric-a-brac and pic
ture frames in the front parlor, one
big silk handkerchief being spread
over a large bust of Shakespeare,
placed in the sunlight pouring in
through a west window.
No Shirt and his interpreter, Will
liam Charles. were great attractions
on the streets of Chicago, people al
most blocking the sidewalk at times,
in gazing upon the wondering pair.
Crewdson, being the representative
of large firm of matters, took No
Shirt down to the store and present
ed him with the best Stetson in the
store and taking No Shirts old hat,
Crewdson was about to throw it
away, when the chief grabbed 1t and
carefully took about 10 $40 bills from
under the sweat band.
The Indian had found a new hid
ing place for his money. but he refus-
ed to put the bills under the band of
the new hat because he had been
| forced to reveal his hiding place and
would not use 1t again.
During all of No Shirts leisurely
visit in Chicago, Umapine and his in
| terpreter, Billy Mckay, were wiring
from Washington to Pendleton
friends, twice a day, inquring If the
chief had yet left for Washington.
No Shirt consented to sit for a pho
| tograph on the last day of his stay