Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-03
Handsomest Indian in America
Hobnobbing With White
Chiefs in Washington
HE LOOKS LIKE READY MONEY
Hollow Horn Bear a Good TaIker and
Has His Piture on Silver Certificates
pleads for Sioux Indians of South
Dakota-oreson and Nebraska Pol
tiles Gets Mixed.
Especial Correspondence.

| Washington, Feb 3-An Indian who
to town. His name is Hollow Horn
Bear. and he is chief orator of the
Rosebud Sioux tribe of South Dakota
Hollow Horn Bear is reputed to be
the handsomest and most typical Indian
in the country and that's why he looks
| like ready money. His picture adorns
| the IS silver certificate. 1t was put
there because the connoisseurs in In
dian beauty regarded him as the finest
Indian now extant
Hollow Horn Bear is SO years old
and as straight as an Indian ought to
be. He hasn't q gray hair In his head,
and there is enough hair to make a
mattress. In addition to being beauti-
full, Hollow Horn Bear Is long with the
white mans game" as he calls the
art of conversation. In truth, he has
most white men dashed securely to the
bowsprit and the ship sinking head-on.
when it comes to the art of talk. He
comes every once in awhile to talk Il
hearted bureau Of Indian affairs. That's
what he wants on the present trip. The
bureau has been holding out on his
tribe some 100000 OF money which
the tribe thinks ought to be distributed
to minor children. 1t represents part
payment for the lands of the Rosebud
reservation. the department. maintain
ing that it would be a waste of the
money to turn over their shares to the
minor children. The law however pro-
vides for the distribution and the In
dams want the cash. Hollow Horn Bear
hopes to take home about $4,000 copies
of his picture on the SIS certificates.
Along with Hollow Horn Bear is q
delegation of Sioux, one of whom is
Chief Good Voice, Oddly enough, Good
Voice Is no orator at all; he grunts oc
casionally, but Hollow Horn Bear does
the talking. Reuben Quick Bear, High
Pipe, John Colombo. Eagle Horse and
Stranger Horse are the others of the
delegation.
Colombo is thrifty aborgine. He
owns more land than he can tell about,
The government gave him $40 acres,
his wife 800, and each child $50 acres.
and Colombo has never got far enough in
mathematics to be able to figure all he
holds in the family. He lives on a
twenty-acre piece at the corner of his
estate, and rents the rest to white men.
white man work for me-" he says dis
dainfully as he cranks UP the carbu-
retter Of his auto: r. he owns and
drives a machine.
1t is not generally realized how very
intimately related the opposition to
Senator ELECT Chamberlain, of Oregon,
is to the future of Nebraska politics.
The opposition to Chamberlains
admission to the senate really repre-
sents opposition to the Oregon primary
plan of desigI1a ting senator's; and the
underlying reason for opposition to
that plan is in a considerable part
based on the expectation among the
senatorial leaders that Nebraska will
adopt the Oregon plan, and that Bryan
will run for the senate under it.
Among democrats who have been
pretty closely in touch with Mr.. Bryan
during his campaign of the past year.
there is no such confidence that Mr..
Bryan wants to run for the senate. A
good many of them doubt if he will be
q candidate for the upper chamber.
even tho the Oregon plan may he
adopted in Nebraska. Be that as it
may the belief is entertained common
" among republicans in Washington
that Mr.. Bryan is fairly on his way
@ the senate, If the Oregon PLAN is
permitted to be adopted, and If the
senate, in the case of Chamberlain, ac
,epts it as a proper way of designating |
senator's.
Mr. Bryan isn't wanted in the SEN
ate. There is plenty of evidence IF
hat. Many expressions Of the antagon-
SIN to him have been given in private
OF course public men
10 not for public uses place their on
position to the Oregon plan on any
uch narrow grounds. They urge high