Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-15
INDIANS SEE AND ARE SEEN
Cody's Natives Are Objects Of Much
Interest in Europa
sAvANTs STUDY AND ARTISTS PAINT
Mcn ntime Red Men Gain Much kuOwl-
edge of European ways aud
Return to Tell children of
white Mans MarveIs.

tFrUm staff Core spondentD
WASHINGTON. Oct. 1A-Cspeclal.)-Msj
John NJ. Burke. the picturesque representa-
tive vi Buffalo BiHs" Wild West shows,
has been in Washington for the past week
on matters connected with the Indian Of
flee. Mr.. Burke came to Washington TO re-
port the return of the Sioux Indians from
Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations, South
Dakota To their homes. Every Indian
was accounted for and during all the time
they were with Colonel Cody through Con-
tinental Europe. not one Indian was fined
and not one Indian was sent home, which
! is regarded by the Indians as the worst
| humiliation that could come to them. Under
the chieftanship of Iron Tail, the seventy
/ hve Ogalla Sioux, who have been with the
! Wild West show for the past eight months,
| returned to their homes in South Dakota,
/ having seen more of the world than Is
/ vouchsafed 75 per cent of the white mon.
/ They were shown through the lace tac-
tories of Brussels. They saw the sewers
of Paris and they saw the Eiffel Tower.
| The catacombs Of Rome were to them
marvel and Vesuvius belching forth Its fire
and smoke gave them a practical idea of
what their Inferno meant For four years
q buildiO Dill mas peen ltldhllS ttaNhtAS
out OF the Sioux warriors and he has
utilized this disappearing race to tell to
their children and 10 teach their associates
/ the marvels which the white man has
accomplished in the old world and made
him unconsciously a preacher Of peace
throughout the length and breadth of our
! great northwest. the Iniadn's habitat.
While Buffalo Bill has been in Europe
he has had from sixty TO seventy-tive
! Indians with him. all from the reservations
in South Dakota.
Indians visit Seventeen Countries.
Some of these Indians have been with
him during the entire time the Wild West
show, which really had its beginning IN
Omaha, in Europe. They were the
main features of his exhibition, and they
were taken everywhere and given the best
/ opportunity of seeing the seventeen coun-
tries visited by Colonel Cody during his
absence from these shores. These Indians
we're taken to John o Groats, where they
were photograph phed looking toward the sur
rising over the northern ocean, and to
Lands End looking toward the sunset and
their home. These Indians were the sub
jects of the artists of Europe, the photos-
raphers and the cinematograph Their cos
umes, their customs and their manners
have furnished the savants of Europe with
first-hand informatio and now, should
this people be wholly eliminated, there
would be scientific information obtainable,
not only in the great libraries of Europe,
but i'm the scientific branches of European
countries telling the story. not only of the
origin of the Indian. but of his tribal reia
tionsbips- So completely has he been stu
died that the ,ethnologist need not go to
find reliable material In the books OF Euro
pean countries regarding the red man. IA
for the Indian, stole that he is, he comes
back with a knowledge of the different
people, nations, costumes, languages and
customs that go to make up the great
white people. And the definite impressions
which he has received i'm his world trsve
that carried him to the borders of Russia
along the Danube, through the Vaderland
Rhineland. Belgium, Brussels, Antwerp and
historic Client, where the final farewell
forever OF the old scout was spoken, made
deep and lasting impression on the rep
resentatives OF this primitive people, who's,
reservations are still intact in South Da
, kota.
p Major Burke. who has been with Colone
= Cody for nearly forty years, and has seer
the west change from a wilderness to state:
and cities and towns, has been having tn,
time OF his life" he says, in renewing
; 'old associa tion," from the president down
and as he says he comes back a better
y American than ever"
we are done with Europe forever" saiC
Major Burke, speaking OF Colonel Cody
, I'VE have shown Europeans how we d,
things in the United States, and in mucl
; modesty l believe that our methods left ,
! very favorable impression upon the people
Throughout the four years in Europe W,
handled three railroad trains, we trans
J ported 500 head of horses and 800 men ant
we never missed a date. Every king O
every country I'm Europe has been gu
, guest, and we quit Europe satisfied tina
. we have been in every sense educator
/ along the lines OF American honor an,
e American uprightness"
Better Pay for Soldiers
+, The retiring paymaster general of tn
army, Francis S. Dodge, whose record a.
soldier and a paymaster general is o
the very frst-class, sounds clarion not
, for better pay for both officers and mel
. ! of the army, and he puts IL into hls an
: ! nual report that every member OF con
/ gress may see the reasons for this i'm
q crease. The present pay table of officer
has not been changed since 1870, Thirty -si,
years ago, and according to Genera
: I Dodge there is not a community In tn
} country in which the cost of living Ina
not in shat period increased considerabl,
inadequate for the proper support OF of