The daily sentinel., 1910-03-16

VIII be greatly interested in an
article appearing in the March
number OF the Pacific Monthly,
entitled "Somc Bellies of Savage
Ancestry" In this article are
embraced stories concerning
some of the most talented and
beautiful young women who
have descended from the AM
erican Indians, and among these
Indian maidens referred to are
two who are exceedingly well
known in Grand junction and
who We're pupils at the Teller
Indian school in this city for IA
number of years.
There appears magnificent photo
graph of Miss Emma Rainey, a Ban
mock Indian girl, who while student
in the school here, attracted much
attention in local circles by her ex-
traordinary musical ability and her
charming personality, and who after
leaving this city went first to the
Carlisle school. Her talent attracted
the attention of the management of
the great Orpheum vaudeville circuit
and as result she is now appearing
in a beautiful one act play entitled
manding very large salary. The
play has made tremendous hit. The
picture in the magazine shows an ex-
tremely handsome girl and the pic
ture would be quickly recognized by
the many Grand Junction acquaint-
ances of the young lady. Concerning
Miss Rainey the article says in part:
( Emma Rainey and Princess Wah-
ta-Waso are two Indian young wo-
men who claim kinship to none other
than the tribes from which they
sprang. Both have been successful
IN their chosen profession before the
footlights and their stage careers
have taken them into nearly every
city of Importance west of the Missis-
sippi.
Emma Rainey is full-blooded
Bannock. The climb from tepee
on the Pocatello reservation to her
present position with a dramatic
company, was fraught with almost
insurmountable obstacles. But she
succeeded by perseverance and stub
born determination, qualities which
are hers by '-sht of Inheritance. Miss
Rainey's father was one of the first
chiefs to become friendly with the
whites when the West was yet nearly
all frontier. AS a guide and scout
he went with many parties, guarding
them from the hostility of the re-
skins. Once, while acting in this ca
pacity, he performed marvellous feat
of endurance. Some way, or other,
the company he was guiding on its
way to California aroused the ami
mostly of a band of Blackfoot Ind
ians. When the party reached a
point near Portneuf Canon, the emf
grants We're surrounded and the en-
tire company taken prisoners, except
ing the Indian guide. who was a con-
siderable distance ahead of the party
at the time of the ambuseade.
Knowing how hostile and revenge
full these Indians were, and that to
save the lives of the whites assistance
must be procured as rapidly as possi-
BILE, Miss Rainey's father set about to
effect their deliverance. The near
est point whence he could obtain aid
was in the neighborhood of the pres
ent site of Pocatello. Between the
Indians and this place there was a
stretch of open country three miles
long, covered with sand and sage
brush and patroled by Indian scouts.
To traverse II and be observed meant
capture, death and Illustration OF the
rescue he had planned. Lying down
On his stomach, the chief crawled the
three miles, inch by inch, without
food or water fearful at every mo-