Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-30
Iowa
RED NAN NOW FAIR CURIO
Remnant Of Sioux Exhibited on Spot
Tribe Formerly Owned.
IOWA FAIR AS E1SCATOR
Municipalities Of state Are Begin
ninE 20 ARitate for = Terminal
Tax Law-OppOse Croft
ford Parole.
lFrom a staff correspondent.l

From a staff Correspondent
DIES MONIES, Aug. p.-(Special)-The
last remnant Of the Sioux Indians Is
camped on the state fair grounds and the
American public must pay an admission
fee to get in to see them. There are about
100 of them and about twenty tepees or
tents. Their is Chief Two Star at the head
Of the tribe, and one of the squaws has
been proven to be l02 years old and no one
knows how much older than that she is.
The tribe belongs up where Minnesota.
South Dakota and North Dakota join. up
about Lake Sisseton. The reservation on
which they lived was opened UP to settle
ment and the struggling remainder OF the
tribe was given allotments OF 100 acres each
and were made citizens OF the United states
with a light to vote. Every full blood
Sioux Indian in America is with the little
band now out at the fair grounds camping
on land which their forefathers once owned
as hunting grounds, exhibited as q curl
osity to the race that has supplanted them.
Because they were native to this part OF
the west and because there are but 100
full-blooded Sioux left, and every indica-
ton that tribe will further dwindle till
none are left, the exhibit is one Of the
most interesting on the state fair grounds
this year. They live in tents and cook and
exist using the same contrivances in every
way that their ancestors did when first
discovered by white men some centuries
ago when the tribe was numbered into the
thousands.
College Exhibit.
What will hereafter be an annual exhibit
and one Of the most valuable and inter-
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augurated this year in the exhibit Of the
State College of Agriculture, which is in
stalled in the building formerly used for
the. women's rest building. 1t is located on
top of the hill just south of the exposition
building.
An army Of students from the college, I'M
der direction of the professors OF the vari-
GUS departments, are handling the exhibit.
Farmers of Iowa can find in the exhibit
answers to practically every problem they
can raise concerning farming One of the
most interesting features is a large map
of Iowa made in dirt, showing exactly the
kind of soil In every locality Of the state,
with many other interesting features. other
maps are ingeniously contrived to show the
products Of each county and locality of the
state.
IneTe are many eAElDllS SlOWluB OApSli
ments thai are being made at the college
In the way Of developing new breeds of
plants that are adapted to Iowa'soil and to
particular localities of the state Every
phase of the work Of the college touching
farm life is illustrated. and in one end of
the building a class room has been ar
ranged where domestic science classes are
taught twice a day and where lectures are
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they are given the classes at the college.
" Oppose CrOffOrd Parole.
Lamont people. who are opposed to the
parole Of DR.. j. w. Crofford of Lamont,
who is serving a twelve-year sentence for
the murder of Maude Stone of Leon by
criminal operation, are to be given a hear
ing before Governor Carroll. They have
already filed affidavits and petitions with
the governor. Governor Carroll has been
absent from the city attending the en-
campment of the Fifty-sixth at Lake
Okoboji and of the Fifty-fourth at lows
City. He will return next week, but will
be busy the entire week entertaining state
fair visitors, and hence the hearing to the
Lamont people will probably not be given
until some time after that.
The grounds of the Board Of Parole in
RECOMMENDING LAG RoAOAN VI OAOAAcAN ~
based on the testimony OF DR.. A. Brown,
a former resident of Leon and now a gov
eminent food inspector residing in Des
Moines, who claims that the operation had
been performed before the girl went to
DR.. Crofford. The fight of the Lamont
people to prevent the parole is directed
at the character of DIR. Brown. They pro-
pose to impeach his testimony. At pres
emit, however, the affidavits In the gov
ernor's hands nave been withheld from the
public. II is expected the facts of the
charge against Brown will not leak out
till the hearing before the governor.
CITY Officials to Fort Dodge.
AT the meeting of the League OF Iowa
Municipalities In Fort Dodge, beginning
September a. the most important problem
to be discussed wiz be the taxation of
terminal railroads in which the chief ad-
dress will be made by Senator G. G.. Saun-
ders Of Council Bluffs. Representative
-Goodykoontz of Boone and C. d. Huston,
commissioner of Cedar Rapids, will follow.
The question is one on which the cities
of the state are powerless till the legisla-
turs takes action. At present the law
provides that the railroads shall be divided
by the mileage Of the roads. This gives
the country counties the advantage, as
part Of the valuable terminal property is
allotted to them though located In other
counties.
Agitation for a change OF the law so
tina all the railroad property located in
q county should be assessed and accredited
to that county was first started in Council
Bluffs, where there are valuable terminals,
but the taxes paid on those terminals does
not all go to Council Bluffs or Pottawat-
tamie county, but Is distributed through
the entire mileage length OF the roads
owning t rminAls, Efforts nave already
been made TO induce the legislature to
change the law but without success thus
far.
The discussion will come the afternoon
Of Wednesday, September "a
Corn May BE Light.
The corn crop OF Iowa has but forty
days before the date OF the average kill
ing frost IN which 10 mature, the average