The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-24
A CARLYLE GRAD
A LUMbERJACK
Henry Bottineau at Hibbing
Hunting a Brother, George
Bottineau
WHO WON $500 AT ROULETTE
WHO WON $500 AT ROULETTE
Special to The Evening Times.

Special TO The Evening Times.
Hibbing, Aug. 24.-Henry Bottineau,
lumberjack, and graduate of CARLYLE,
was in Hibbing looking for his
brother George who. he claimed won
5000 on the wheel" at Kelliher,
Beltrami county numbering camp,
Monday night.
II want to help George have a time
with that money!" he declared, "and
If l get him before he blows it he
will give me half of whatever he has
left" Bottineau had traced his BROTH
er from Kelliher to Bemidji and
thence to Hibbing without success
and has now gone to Grand Rapids on
a fresh scent. His story, while unusu-
al, is not at all improbable as such
strikes are often made at roulette, a
game played throughout the lumber
ing country.
The two Bottineau boys are we'll
known characters throughout the log
ging district of Minnesota. They are
of the Red Lake tribe, with enough of
French in them to let them work only
part of the time. Both are expert log
gers. Their mother was French
woman of force and refinement. Their
father was the famous Chief Bottin-
eau who figured so prominently in the
early history of Minnesota. 1t was
the guide Bottineau who walked from
Winnipeg to st. Paul with James J.
Hill; it was the scout Bottineau who
headed Jay Cookies first Northern Pa
cific survey across the continent, it
was the chief Bottineau who gave his
name to Bottineau county. North Da-
kota, and 1t was the gambler Bottin-
eau who with three queens in his
hand staked Nicollet Island and lost.
The old chief was a man of parts
and his abilities were granted by the
white men of early Minnesota equal
to their own. His wealth at one time
was estimated at more than half
million.
Henry Bottineau. the chiefs son is
a brilliant conversationalist. Seated
in. the railway station, dressed in the
untidy garb of the shiftless lumber
jack, he recounted the scenes of his
life, the deeds of his father, the tradi-
tions of the Indians with perfect
command of English and with start
ling flashes of wit. while his auditors
gaped with wonder. For more than
an hour he held his listeners SPELL
bound. He had ideas upon every sub
ject-war. rebellion. philosophy, poll
tics-and he fortified his position by
readiness in quotation of authors
both living and dead which could come
only of wide and constant reading. He
punctured the claims of the socialists
and demanded to know how socialism
could prevail SO long as men differ in
energy and ambition. Holding aloft
flask Of whisky he denounced it as
the curse of the white and the red
man alike-then drained half Of it at
the climax, he advanced highly on
orthodox theories as to marriage as
an institution and delivered a genuine
philippe in favor of the government
regulation of marriage. Asked why
he would not save half of his broth
ar's winnings he shrugged his should
ers and replied:
whats the use My brother will
lose his half and then he will come to
me. and what can I do? What one of
us has. the other has. We might as
well enjoy 1t together. The sooner
1t is spent the sooner we will be
sober.'
Bottineau is much in demand as an
expert loader. 1t is said that no man
in the whole north country can equal
him for expedition or sureness in pill
ing upon sleds the great loads of pine
logs that are drawn to the skidway.
1t is the only thing of which he is
proud. OF his learning, of his elo-
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whether expressing himself on Eng
lish. French or Chippewa), he cares
nothing.
He is known as Happy Henry" for
his good humor is perpetual. The pit
tance necessary to take him to Grand
Rapids he had to borrow from more
provident brother of the woods but he
was as full of the Joy of living as
though he had already received his
half of the 5000 from his brother.