Evening star., 1909-09-11
and they can get whatever they want or
need without working.
Relapse of Carlisle. Students.

need without working.
Relapse of Carlisle. Students.
Young men and women who have been
educated at Carlisle soon fall back into
the aboriginal habits OF life. Some OF
them make a brave fight against the tra-
ditional influences that surround them:
occasionally some of them insist upon liv-
ing and farming and working as the
white people do. but IL is hopeless strug-
gle and they yield sooner or later because
there is no one TO encourage or sustain
them. The white people In the valley and
the surrounding towns never lend them a
helping hand. The only members OF the
white race who will associate with an
Indian are precisely the people that
he should not know. Although the people
OF the churches pray for his welfare and
contribute money for his education, they
Will not admit him to their homes. and
he is compelled to seek companionship
elsewhere, usually in the saloons and dis
reputable places. Every Indian boy or
girl who goes to a town or to take a
place as a household servant is a social
outcast. and unless there is a circle OF
them large enough to furnish the social
diversions that an Indian. like every other
human being requires, they soon drop
back into the semi-barbarous habits Of
life that are practiced by ordinary MEM
bers OF their tribe. There is just as much
prejudice against an Indian among the
there is against the negro In the south.
The Indians are always children in their
dealings and when they come into con-
tact with the whites they suffer. IL is no
crime to skin an Indian. merchant or
other individual, who would never think
of cheating one of his white neighbors.
and will pray for the conversion OF the
savage race and contribute money to the
missionary board, will swindle an Indian
without the slightest remorse: and his
neiCbharS will think the less of
him. This callousness: this suspension of
the moral law and the Ten Command
ments is very largely due 10 the fact that
IL one tradesman does not get his money
another one will. and money does an In
dian no good anyhow.
Exceptions Among Indians.
Occa sionally there is a shining example
OF business ability, industry and thrift
among the Indians. Three or four OF
those who are under the jurisdiction of
the Umatilla agency are rich. They have
money in the bank, own farming land
and often city property.
The richest and most progressive Indian
living on the Umatilla reservation for
many years was How-lish- wampo. head
chief of the Cayuse tribe. who was re-
puted to be worth more than SJO.NO in
lands, cattle and horses. Lee Moore
house. the photographer at Pendleton.
WHO has DeeIl dfnOHS the lHuldnS Ills
life, says that when Notwithstanding was
buried several! thousand dollars in cash
was put into his coffin by his family,
probably by his instructions. When the
fact became whispered about an enter
priSing white man made an investigation
and is supposed to have got away with the
money. How-lish- -wampo is buried near
the Umatilla agency under a fine marble
monument paid for by his executors and
inscribed with the words He was always
a friend to the whites"
How-lish-wampow was a great friend OF
T. W. Davenport, father of Homer Dav-
export. the cartoonist. who was agent at
Umatilla for many years.
Another famous character at this
agency was Shap-lish. familiarly known
as DIR. Whirlwind. who was born at
Umatilla in 1924. was well acquainted
with DR.. Marcus Whitman and was a
young man of twenty-three at the time
of the massacre in 1S47. AS soon as the
news of Whitman's assassination reached
the Umatilla river a party of friendly In
dians. of which DR.. Whirlwind was
member started for the mission near
Walla Walla. He used to describe the dis,
tressing scene that met their gaze when
they reached DIR. Whitman's residence.
Whirlwind has always insisted that white
people inspired the massacre.
An Attractive Town.
Pendleton is an attractive and enter
prising town of about 1000 people on the
main line of the Oregon Railroad and
Navigation railway. where 1t crosses the
Umatilla river. on the down grade TO
Portland. 900 miles distant. 1t is also the
terminus of the Oregon Railroad and
Navigation lines to Spokane. 251 miles
distant, the commercial center OF the
richest wheat section in the world and
the supply depot for a large territory IN
central Oregon where no railroads have
yet penetrated. II you will look on the
map you will notice a blank place IN the
center of Oregon, where there seems to
be nothing doing. There is great deal
Of complaint among the people here be-
cause the railway companies do not build
into that territory and give the people
chance.
Pendleton is the home Of Representa-
tive w. R. Ellis. who has practiced law
here for many years. The streets are
wide and well shaded; the houses are set
in gardens of foliage and flowers. and the
business streets are well built up with
substantial structures. On the edge Of
the town a new building of concrete and
steel has just been erected by Bishop
Brothers OF Salem, Ore, for a woolen
factory to manufacture fancy blankets
for the Indians On the mountain slopes
back of this twn are 10000 sheep. and
the wool clip was 100000 pounds this
year, which was shipped to Boston, but
most of 1t will be consumed In the
Bishop factory hereafter and give en-
ployment to seventy-five or eighty oper-
ators.
You ought to see the farm machinery
they use out here. The wheat Is cut.
thrashed and sacked by single machine,
drawn through the fields by teams OF
twenty and often a larger number OF
horses. It requires four or five men to do
the business. The driver sits on an ele-
waited perch with the lines in his hand,
and as the horses move slowly across the
field the grain is cut. is carried upon an
D1,1s~ f~x0 cIn. rf~l,
makes short work of 1t. The kernels OF
wheat follow each other down a little
chute, where a sack is suspended, and
the straw is spread neatly upon the
stubble.
News Briefs.
An insane man made his appearance in
the neigh hOrhood of RartholOws Ereder,