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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-30

proper, which were about eight feet
square. In the center of which was
a trap door four feet square neatly
fitted into the floor SO as to be scarce
.ly discernab1e. At one side OF the
platform a small space was partition
ed off and in this place the warden
stands unseen by anyone when e.pulls
the lever which launches the con-
demned man into eternity I'D.
The trap is held up in place by two
wooden arms which move on trolleys
from the trap to the front of the
platform when the lever is pulled,
there being ball bearings under the
trap to insure smooth working. Thus
when the lever is pulled the two arms
are quickly withdrawn from under
the trap and allows the man to drop
seven feet, the trap being held back
clear of the body by a catch which
engages it as it swings down and
backward. So nicely adjusted was the
trap that small child could pull
the lever. The rope is attached to a
heavy beam elevated above the floor
of the scaffold and is made of the
very best rope to be had.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-30
NO WONDER they
were HOSTILE

NOTORIOUS RESORT AT WILLIS
Y TON LIBELS CHURCHES IN IT'S
B OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT. :
I Williston, N. d., Oct. 26. - The
church people Of this city are just
Is Indignant over the distribution
OF. a circular regarding the alleged
opening of a notorious resort III this
place. The bills, which are supposed
60 have been printed at Minot, are
as follows:
\ Grand Opening. The popular house
at East Lawn will be thrown open
for business tonight and a grand
entertainment has been arranged for
the guests. Program: Address by
the mayor, music by the Glee club;
speech by e. N. Disney; song by
Deacon Jones, after which the ladies
of the Congregational and Methodist
churches will serve refreshments.
James Williams manager.
It is understood that proceedings
are to be instituted against the au.
thor Of the bills for libel, and that
the case will be pushed.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-30
GALLONS REMOVED
GREWsoME MACHINE HAS BEEN
TAKEN DOWN AT THE PEN
-
ITENTiARY. -

Inasmuch as it will probably not be
needed until the execution of the
Peltier brothers next February, Ward
en- Hellstrom has taken down the gal
lows erected for the execution of D.
M. Noah. The affair was not very
inspiring sight at best and it has been
thought best to remove it. It has
been taken down In sections SO that
it can be readily rebuilt when need
ed.
The scaffold was erected on the east
side of one of the brick twine stor-
age houses. just at the left hand Of
the large entrance door. and in the
same spot where John Rooney was
hanged two years ago There is a
little platform at the door with steps
leading down to the floor OF the build.
ing several feet below. This plat
form was extended several feet to the
south and there made a little wider,
SO that on this spot the condemned
man might stand and say what hs
desired before paying the penalty oil
the law.
From this platform three or -four
steps rose to the floor OF the gallowa
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-30

When there was no rain for some
time during the hot season and the
crops suffered, the people came with,
offerings praying my father to make
rain come. At such occasions the old
men alone were permitted to stay
in the medicine lodge and squat down
ON the ground, while the young men
we're hidden to stay outside. Then.
my father told them to bring plenty
of mint plants. He laid these plants
on the ground, as also the two skulls
of the eagle brothers. Then he
sprinkled much water on the plants,
holding his incantations, beating the
medicine drum, and burning incense.
About noon some men went home to
dinner; others staytd and my father
kept singing to make rain come. Sud-
denly some men came running, say
Ing that black clouds wore gathering.
The rain bird was stretching its wings
farther and farther, all over the sky.
MY father got up and sprinkled more
water on the mint plants, and 1t
started to rain, harder and harder,
and all next forenoon and the ground
was soaked with moisture more than
q foot deep. n
One nigh my father dreamed that he
met the enemy and that he had a
fight and that his right arm was COW
cred with blood, and he thought that
meant his killing. Three days after a
]; large band OF Sioux came. Il myself,
was then old and strong enough to
/ join in the fight We killed one en-
iemy. Neither my father nor was
hurt, but my horse was killed under
me. and that probably was the mean
ing Of my fathers dream.
When was twenty-eight years Of
age killed two Sioux and mutilated
land scalped them. When twenty-nine
years old and white men came to us
Twas converted, and my father put
me on white mans ways. went TO
the day school four years, and now j
do all can to follow white mans
ways, The Great Father knows nae
and writes letters to me. First j
tried TO lead my people ON the path
Of the white people. Some disliked
me for Il. ! am = Christian now and
!, I Try others of my people TO be- The
isame. / am staying with God and j
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And further he gave the chiefs four
promises (Good Bird meant he made
the chiefs promise four things) name
~: /, my Sioux (enemies) come up
on you and show fight and want to
steal your horses, sing that holy war
song, which / have taught you, and
smoke the medicine pipe.
II the weather lbe hot and too dry
for your crops to grow, lay mint
plants on the ground and sprinkle
plenty water on them. That will bring
you all the rain you need for your
crops to grow. h
If the people get hungry. having no
meat and there Is great want OF food,
burn incense, I'LL the pipe, grease It
with the fat OF the buffalo and than
lay it before my skull and plenty Of
buffalo will come"
Then he appointed his successor,
by giving the man his mystery pipe.
and ne told him as the fourth prom
1 Use. to be medicine man OF this, mis-
band, the Awatichay, to keep the
mint plants for medicine. and before
( his death to appoint another medi-
cine man, but no other than OF the
same, the AWatichay band.
He further said to them: When a
person takes sick, he shall rub him
SELF his whole body, with mint water
all over, and he will get we'll, and
further, my skull Lives and I shall
never die. Rub mint on your bod
les, and they win never tire out but
will he strong.
After that he fixed his bed on the
ground floor of the lodge and then
called in all the men to see him die.
He wrapped himself in his buffalo
robe, saying: Now, cover my head
am going to die. and he died. They
followed his orders, cut ais head of
cleaned and dried it and kept 1t to
gether with the skull Of his eagle
brother.
There are the skulls Of the two
eagle brothers. and the old holy inys-
terry pipe in the black bag on the tor
shelf Of the medicine shrine. point
ing towards that old shrine draped
1 in calicoes. standing before us, which
/ took at arst Tor grandfather's chair
when one keeper Of the medicine
vas near his end he always appointed
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-30
SHOULD Be in
BOTH COLUMNS

Under date of October rs, Attorney
General MoCue wrote Secretary of
State Blaisdell, calling his attention
to the fact that some OF the ballots
for the general election do not have
the name Of Hon. Burleigh F. Spald-
ing, candidate for Judge OF the SUI
preme court, printed in both the Re
publican and Democratic columns.
Mr.. McCue recites that Mr.. Spalding
was nominated by both parties and
therefore his name should be under
both party headings.
It is understood that the reason.
Mr.. Spalding's name was not, in both
columns was that under the old law
nominee under such circumstances
must elect the party heading under
which his name is to go, and Mr..
Spalding being a Republican. his name
was placed in that column under the
superstition that It would make no
difference.
It is understood Judge Spalding
does not care anything about the mat
ter beyond the fact that his nomina-
tion Of both parties emphasizes the
fact that the nomination was in the
light Of being nonspartisan and that
II his name Is not in both columns
he will be deprived Of a number OF
thousand votes which would otherwise
be cast for him. which he naturally
would pc pleased to receive in view
| Of the non-partisan character Of the
election Tor supreme judaib.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-30
PERSONAL
fFrom Wednesdays Daily.)

Congressman Tom Marshall was an
arrival from the west on No. Tues
day afternoon.
Mrs. Albert Marcellus and little son
of Wilton, spent Tuesday visiting
friends in the city.
M. N. Johnson passed through the
city Tuesday noon on his way west
of the river to look after his sena-
torial interests.
Ralph Anderson of Wilton, was an
arrival in the city Tuesday night.
DR.. E. j. Jones of Mannhayen, was
an arrival in the city Tuesday even
ing.
c. w. Johnson of Wilton, was an
arrival from the north Tuesday even
ing.
Bishop Cameron Mann of Fargo,
left Tuesday noon after a pleasant
visit with Archdeacon Jones.
George Brittin, Frank Festerliag
and G.. w. Morrison of Brittin, were
in the city Tuesday doing business.
Judge w. s. Lauder was in the city
Tuesday on his way home to Wahpe-
ton from Napoleon, where he was at
tending court. s.
Mrs. John P. French went to Gar
rison Tuesday morning to visit with
her sisters, Mrs. Staley and Mrs.
O'Hare. -.aa .s3
Harvey Smith of Sentinel Butte,
was in the city Tuesday. He is the
Republican candidate for. county COM
missioner in the Second district.
Colonel Frederick P. Wright of
the firm of Wright, Barrett and
Stilwell, of St. Paul, was a distin.
guished arrival last night on the
North Coast Limited, and will be
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. M. II.
Jewell while at the Capital City for
the next few days. The Colonel will
also participate in some duck hunt
ing while here. v-"
/ Mrs. Dwight S. Moore, (nee Miss
Mabel Archibald of old Fort Lin
coln) passed through Bismarck yes
terday en- !. route from Dickinson,
where she had been visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. Frances Stribbling, to her
home at Jamestown, and enjoyed the
opportunity of greeting many of her
numerous friends of this city while
the train stopped here.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-30

am glad that you people come here
and that you (pointing TO Rev. Will
son have told us more about Christ
Here Wolf Chief ended. He told
us that he knew James Kipp, when
he, (Wolf Chief was a hoy. and he
says Kipp was good man.
AS the mice were playing havoc
with the medicine bag or its con-
tents, Wolf Chief ransacked the bag
to chase the mice out. For this lucky
Interference we were witnesses to
the unpacking OF the venerable bag
Of buckskin, hanging at the medicine
post, which was standing to the left
Of the medicine shrine.
There was piece of black bear
skin supposed to be 1870 year old, his
grandfather's medicine; eight small
Indian turnips lahi) tied to a piece
Of black bear skin, for the bear to
eat, and a black feather tied to it
also; piece Of rawhide with a scalp
attached, taken 3S years ago; a small
bunch Of owl feathers; necklace of
brass beads with five wolf claws; a
strip OF white wolfskin from the head
along the back, including the tail, his
fathers medicine; a bunch Of eagle
feathers to he worn in scalplock; a
bear CLAW stripped of its skin, wrap
ped in owl feathers and Irvine, re-
sembling human hand dried up; a
bear tooth and two eagle claws tied
to it, with small lock of his father s
hair; two small flint arrow heads and
two large ones; a piece Of a coyote
4 skin for. medicine, (maybe Wolf
Chiefs) and peculiar shaped, act
ual size 2 3-Sx1 1-s inches.
Wolf Chief sent us over the Mis-
souri, river on a fiat boat, his two
step sons, Eddie and Johnnie Rush
helping, and at parting Wolf CHIEF
and I@shook hands, he saying to me:
Good bye, my father"
That venerable medicine shrine ha.
been allowed to go out OF our state
where it ought to have been kept al
|part of ttour own" Why and how Il
went? That question is at presen
out Of order. We could have had i
and it would have been the crown
of all our relics at the capitol. II
adorns now private museum in eNey
York. and is incased in a mahogan,
glass case. .@.-.r
/ Let one from North Dakota, any
way, tell the story of that shrine
and Of the origin of the medicin,
first of all, as that story belongs t,
North Dakota, as well as-never men
ton. . z
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his successor Of the same Awatichay

his successor Of the same Awatichay
band. fi;.S,, q
Wolf Chief continued: when !
was twelve years old once entered
the medicine lodge and saw very
old man with gray hair. He was olr
medicine man and his name was Mis-
souri, River At his death my father.
Small Ankle was appointed keeper Of
the medicine and he was our medicine
man, the last one. Ny father grow
Is years old and died with dropsy.
MY mother was sleeping at the time.
She died five year ago (1901j. re-
member well when ! was II years
old, my people came to my father
and wanted him to be thar leader.
They asked him to take them to. a
good suitable location for winter
village, and they brought lots Of blan-
kets as offerings to him. My father
took them eight miles west from here
(Independence) near the Missouri,
where there was plenty Of timber and
they passed the winter well. When
buffalo were scarce, they begged my
father to make buffafflo come to our
neighborhood. After all the people
had left my father alone, he took the
calicoes, former offerings Of appli-
cants from the medicine shrine,
spread them on the ground and plac-
ed the two skulls of the eagle broth
ers and the mystery pipe on them,
sang the sacred song, beat the medi-
cine drum and did what he had prom.
ised to do, namely, he rubbed the
pipe with buffalo fat and sat there
all night singing. Holding his in
carnations he squatted down before
the medicine post, wrapped in a bur
falo robe covering his head. On the
next morning he called in all thu
men and told them that If they gave
plenty offerings, he would make plen.
ty for them, and they brought many
offerings, pieces Of gay colored cali
leo and many other thYngs, which
were precious to them. And 10! II
a few days buffafflo would come ii
large herds, the people had a big
hunt and many buffalo were killed.
When the Sioux came to steal oul
horses. he chased them away by roll
] ing the mystery pipe towards then
on the ground, and they fed In terror.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-30

nate samaritanism in this country I'M
less he Is ready to take on heavy
burden.
AS one looks on these people he
can scarcely realize that they belong
to the human family. They are as
low as any grade of human beings
can get without becoming brutes. In
fact their actions and their customs
tend to convince one that the Cki-
nese race as whole, is but little re-
moved from the brute creation They
have tortures for their enemies that
would put an Apache Il dian to
shame. They submit to suffering and
torture with evidence of lack of feel
ing that is incomprehensible. and
they look upon the suffering of hui
man beings and of animals with an
Indifference that is astonishing. I
have never believed that the human
mind could possibly reach such a
state as would permit of the things
q have seen in China. There is an
utter disregard for life, and the won
der is that these millions OF suffer
ing Chinese do not commit wholesale
suicide to escape their Ills That they
do not is but another evidence Of
their absence of feeling. i shall tell
Of some Of the scenes OF the prison
in my next and then I shah go to
more pleasant countries.
CLARENCE q. EDWoRDs.
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IMEDICIN Shrine
(Continued from page 50

Continued from page 81
took him captive and brought him
before their own medicine man. It
was the Shihwahuma eagle brother.
Then the Hidatsa man filled his
mystery pipe with fine tobacco and
gave it to ahis brother to smoke. AS
soon as he began smoking he became
shaky and shaker, till he finally fell
dead to the ground on his face.
Now the Hidatsa started to cut off
his brothers head He cut and cut
and could not cut the neck bone, be-
cause it was no bone, 1t was hard
cherry tree and had to be broken.
Next he cleaned the skull, taking all
the flesh OF. Then he dried it in the
sun and after it was dry he hung it
up in his lodge for medicine, for a
long time. Now he was happy, be
cause he had his brother near him
and his brother lived with him under
the same roof The body he wrapped
in a buffalo robe and buried on top
OF near hill.
During the fierce battle there had
heen great clamor, war whoops on
both sides, yelling and shouting, min
gled with the cries OF agony Of the
wounded and scalped. 1t was on the
Big Knife river, where our village
stood, and we call that river ever
since, Minni-chsbuah (water make
much noise all around Isl
In course of time the Hidatsa man
grew very old, but he did not wish
to die yet. So he soaked some mint
plants in water and burnt some in.
cense. Then he drank of that water
and with the rest he washed himself
] and all parts of his body. Thus he
regained his strength and changed tt
a young man again, and he helped his
people again for another lifetime.
After he had grown old secont
time, he was weary OF life and ht
said: Nov am tired Of life and
wish to die. After my death take m!
skull. clean It, dry it and keep it to
gether with my brothers skull
! wrapped In a bufcaIo robe"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-30
MAJOR THOMAS CHECKED OUT

Major A. w. Thomas has been
checked out as agent at the Fort Ber-
thold Agency and his successor in
stalled. The major was in the city
last night on his way to Hankinson
for visit. He win then go to Ore
gon to spend the winter.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-30
ANOTHER RESIDENCE.

The ground was broken and exca-
walton begun yesterday for the foun-
dalton of a new residence on the
Whalen property on Avenue B, be-
tween Third and Fourth streets. One
new house on this property is about
completed. It is reported that three
will be built on tn one 50-foot lot
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-30
REGISTRATION
TOTAL OF 1,of2 VOTERS ON THE
ROLLS FOR NEXT ELEc-
TON DAY.

The registration boards met as di-
rected by law, at the various polling
hces Tuesday and copied the lists
q voters and added others who came
TO register themselves as voters. The
number Of voters registered in the
different wards is as follows: N
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-19
YocKEY TAKEN IN CUSTODY
AND HELD AT RANDS5URG

RANDSBURG, Aug. 1s.-Constablo
Thomson arrived at noon today, hav-
ing in custody Fred f. Yockey, who
was taken before Justice Coleman of
Mojave, charged with willfully and
feloniously conspirins about June 27 to
blow up the pipe line of the Yellow
Aster company.
He was then told of his rights and
placed under $1,000 bond to appear for
examination Tuesday, August 25. The
bond was furnished by S. K. Dickinson
and Patrick Byrne. He named as wit
nesses outside of Randsburg Mrs. c. H.
Clark; her mother, Mrs. Lindley; her
brother and sister, Arthur Lindley and
Mrs. James G. Gray, all of Los An
geleS.
There was no excitement, the prin-
cipal feeling seeming to be against Nell
son. A warrant for the latters arrest
was issued by Justice Coleman this
afternoon.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-19
STEAM ROLLER
OF REPUBLICAN
PARTY AT WORK
MACHINE STEADILY PL0WS ITS
WAY ALONG
LINcoLN.RoosEvELT LEAGuERs
STRUGGLE VAINLY
Majority Report on Platform Contains
Pledge Binding Candidates to ABB
stain from Making lnde-
pendent Fight

After an all day and all night session
the Republican county convention in
the Shriners' auditorium succeeded in
nominating the senators and assembly,
men. The nominations will come be-
fore the convention this morning for
ratification.
The body of 1888 delegates had split
itself into district conventions for NOM
mating purposes, and it was nearly
midnight before the last of the dele
gates had dwindled away, to report
again at 10 o'clock today.
In the Thirty-fifth district the SEN
atorial contest narrowed down to H.
M. Hurd, Marshall Stimson, the Lin
Roosevelt league candidate hav-
ing retired and pledged his support to
the regular nominee.
N. W. Thompson defeated Senator
Alvan Currier of Spadra in the Thirty
seventh district by a vote of 103 to 7S,
after an exciting contest.
The fight in the Thirty-fifth was set
tied in the district convention.
The struggle began over the tempo
rary craftsmanship, in which A. Moore
Ghe Thompson, or machine, mani had
f09 votes against r. F. Graham's ".
At 10 o'clock the county convention
ratified these nominations.
The Thirty-fifth senatorial meeting
also adopted this resolution:
We, the Republican candidates of
the Thirty-fifth senatorial district,
in convention assembled, do hereby
instruct our nominee to enter and
participate in the Republican eau
cuss at Sacramento and to use
every honorable and fair means to
return to the United States senate
the present incumbents, Hon. Geo.
c. Perkins and Hon. Frank P.
TT1iY1f
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-19
SHERMAN GETS
FINE SFNDOFF
VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE
ACCEPTS HONOR
UTICA SPEECH BRIEF AND VERY
FLOWERY
Declares Question of Whether People
Shall Rule Is Not an Issue.
Says Public Always
Has Ruled
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
UTICA. N. Y. Aug. 1S.-In one of the
briefest speeches ever delivered by a
Schoolcraft Sherman at noon accepted
the nomination of the Republican party
for the vice presidency.
He spoke from a flag-decked stand In
front of his home in Genese street and
was surrounded by party leaders from
different parts of the country and by g
crowd of partisan friends and towns
men.
The nomination was rendered by 8
committee appointed at the Chicago
convention, Senator j. c. Burrows o.
Michigan being the chairman anf
spokesman. There were brief addresses
also by Secretary of State Root, Presi
dent M. w. Stryker of Hamilton col
lege from which Mr.. Sherman wa;
grduated; Mayor Thomas Wheeler o.
Utica, and Charles S. Symonds, chair
man of the local reception committee.
Mr.. Sherman in his address of accept.
ance followed the example of Mr.. Taft
in pledging the allegiance of any ad-
ministration with which he may have
to do to the policies of President Roose-
welt. He declared there was no issue
as to whether or not "the people shall
rule"
Shall, Have and Do
"Surely the people shall rule" said
Mr.. Sherman; surely the people have
ruled; surely the people do rule"
Casting thus aside the campaign
slogan raised by Mr.. Bryan, the Re-
publican vice presidential nominee as
serted that the overshadowing issue Of
the campaign really is: Shall the ad.
ministration of President Roosevelt be
approved?"
The ceremonies at the Sherman home
were preceded by band concerts in the
downtown squares; a parade of the city
fire department, a vice presidential sa'
lutte Of nineteen guns and a parade Of
the gayly uniformed Conkling condi
tional escort of the members of the
notification committee.
Genese street from the railroad tracks
to the Sherman home and beyond wa:
lined with thousands of people.
As many as could get within seeing
or hearing distance later in the day
thronged about the Sherman home, al
most completely blocking all street
traffic.
Aside from the formal exercises OF
notification the committee in charge
endeavored to make the celebration
non-partisan. Mr.. Sherman appeared
to be in the best of health.