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lepartment Of the interior.

Department of the Interior.
U. S. Land Office at La Grande, Ore
egon, May 18th, 1910.
Notice is hereby given that, as
directed by the Commissioner of the
General Land Office, under provis-
ions of Act of Congress approved
June 27, 1906 GA Stats, 517), we
VIII offer at public sale to the high
est bidder, at 10 o'clock A. NJ, on
the Sth day of July, 1910, at this Of
flee, the followip g-described land:
The SWA SEA & SEA SWA
Sec. 10, T. s., r. AS e. w. NJ. Sc
rial No. 067S0.
Any persons claiming adversely
the above-described land are ad-
vised to file their claims, or objec-
tions, on or before the time desig-
aated for sale 39c5
&c Bramwell, Register.
Colon r. Eberhard, Receiver.
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Professional Directory of UaAowa County
Tales Out of School.

Suitor-I suppose your father is alto
gether taken up with business?
Her Little Brother Yes. dad thinks
of nothing else. That must have been
why ma said to sister last night that If
you meant business it was about time
you talked TO. papa. pa.-Brooklyn Life.
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Department of the Interior.
U. S Land Office at La Grande, Or.
sgon, May 2Sd. 1910.
Notice is hereby given that, as
directed by the Commissioner of the
General Land Office. under provis-
ons of Act of Congress approved
tune 27, 1906 GA Stats, SID, we
wild offer at public sale, to the high.
st bidder. at 10 o'clock A. NJ, on
he l4th day of July, 1910, at this of.
Ice. the following described land:
The SEA SWA Sec. IS, T. s.,
R. As E. w. M. Serial No. 06779,
Any persons claiming adversely the
lboye-described land are advised to
lie their claims, or objections, on
or before the time designated for
sale. 41c5
F. c. Bramwell, Register.
Colon r. Eberhard, Receiver.
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Chapter
II |
~o L'Acadienne. waiting, Raoul


~ Go" he commanded.
She moved slowly away In
detected manner.
Yes, M'sieur Raoul. will CO. she
said PERHAPS some day you will"-
She started. with little cry. She cail-
ed suddenly:
"Crawley Dick Crawley! Come
here! want you!
She turned again to Raoul. who was
still unbending.
there Is one who marched in Can
tain Wolf's company. Ask him if there
was young lady with the lad Gilbert
Steele"
Crawley was beside them now. be-
draggled. with the heavy dust thick
upon face and shoes and clothing.
You called meT' he muttered, and
then; II carry bad news. What is it
you want?''
L'Acadienne said slowly:
-. you and Gilbert Steele both were
with Captain VOLTS company?"
He nodded. Yes" he replied.
"There was young lady with Gil
bert Steele?"
He thought for moment, then he
said:
Yes: remember"
"She was fair" persisted L'Aca
dienne. "of slight igure-very young?"
Yes: think so. | don't quite re-
member 1t was at the
He Stnnnad Thara haJ o1,..-
ears the sound of voices-De valettes
voice and Father O'Mara's. O'Mara.
good man of God and of men, was pro-
testing.
Now. now, sir" he was saying.
"you're in no condition to go out again.
You must rest"
They came through the gateway
from the house.. De Valette answered
sadly:
REST! How can I rest?" His eyes
fell upon the little group Of three, ey-
ing them closely.
'Who is this boyT" he demanded;
then quickly: You have news of my
daughter? She has been found-hurt
perhaps? Why don't you tell me?
Speak,
Raoul de valette said slowly:
II know nothing of your daughter
nothing except He stopped. De
Valette cried, impatient:
Except what?"
Except" went on Raoul evenly,
that she left the house Immediately
after being betrothed to me-"
He paused.
In different tone he continued,
'My cousin, am obliged to decline
the hand of Mile. de Valette"
De valette's brows contracted. His
eyes grew narrow. His voice was
cold.
Are you aware" he demanded.
''that such statement must have an
explanation
Raoul shrugged his shoulders.
Explanation" he repeated. "She
saw me and went away. That is quite
sufficient for me But for yourself"
he added. He did not finish. Instead
he said slowly:
~ said / had no explanation
haven't. But he'-he indicated the
young recruit with little jerk Of his
head--"he has"
De valette turned sharply to Craw-
ley.
And then 1t was that there came
among them Madeleine. She came
wan little figure. golden hair in which
the sunbeams dwelt. disheveled. white
dress draggled, torn. She came slow
ly and with infinite WEAKNESS, yet
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All phone orders for bus to and
from depot promptly attended 10.
White Front barn. Home phone. 97b
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Heard at the Hub.

"And how old are you, little girl?"
six"
"And how is it you are out walking
without your mamma?"
''Oh. mamma doesn't go in for exer-
else. Really. we have very little in
common Houston Chronicle.
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Mrs. c. H. Zurcher Is visiting with
relatives at the family ranch ON
Whiskey Creek.
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Something new-Kirsh curtain rods
and porter poles for the first time
in Enterprise. Come in and see
them ct F. S. Ashley's,
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Department of the Interior.
U. S. Land Office at La Grande, Or
egon, May 18th, 1910.
Notice is hereby given that, as
directed by the Commissioner of the
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ion Of the white mans ways of govern
ment. Sacred and classic literature tells
us of beaten generals who fell upon their
swords. There have been scores Of war
riors of the plains, brave as Wi'lkelrelI,
but hopeless, who have gone against the
machine guns, knowing what their end
must be- Beaten at last by the upset
ting of their environment, they have
gone to the reservations, still aloof and
still distinct. Here will be their last
stand. We fight tuberculosis for the
white race with one hand, while with
the other we spread it apparently de-
lberately among the red race. The res
ervation cabin is a death trap for the
Indian The old tepees had an air space
all around the bottom, an air space high
as the head between the lodge lining and
the lodge skin. Good air came in from
below and went out with the smoke at
tie lodge top. OF late we are taking up
tent life for consumptive patients; but
very often in this our doctors do not
know as much as the Indians, and have
not learned that the wall tent is tue
worst ventilated dwelling In the world,
although the Indian lodge was the best.
There is IN idea for some physician who
really will stop to think in his science.
have passed some happy winter days
and nights In a tepee in the Blackfoot
country; but out there the cabin is sup
planting the lodge; and as at intervals
| see some of my red friends in that
country, more and more l see the finger
nails of this or that one beginning &c
thicken, the sign of the white plague
with them. The red race cannot adjust
cannot assimilate. 1t Is doing, none the
less, all that is asked or expected of it
1t is dying. Yet it raised men WI no could
ride, walk, shoot, hunt, eat, drink, speak
as we'll as most of US. The red mar
could not adjust; he could only fight:
Canada sometimes with pride point:
out the record of the Hudson's Bay
Company, clear across the continent, two
and a half centuries without tribal war
and in contradistinction mentions ou'
continual battle with the natives entirel!
across America. There is curious ques
ton in this, because the white savages il
either case came from the same ancestr!
of old England But does not certain
document known as the Declaration o
Independence recite the shortcomings .
old England in stirring up against on
borders the "merciless Indian savages'
And was there not one Hamilton of tn
English army who put a red price o.
Our white women's hair? We resente'
the acts of the merciless Indian savages
and fought them, often in kind. Their
vas abundant reprisal on both sides afte
that. We learned to take hair, and t
. devise torture ourselves; although pei
! haps we never could understand tn
: nervous system of the red man, differer
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nently proper crocodile tears over Tx
fate of the Indian; but the Indian. has
never pi,icd himself No record holds
his plea for mercy to his race. The Ne
gro continually expects quarter. The In
dian has not asked quarter. He has
taken his medicine like man. No con-
cert of powers ever guarded his terri
torial rights. We call Leopold to ac-
count in the Congo We district Africa
into spheres of influence, one jealous
nation watching another; but here iii
America we have the work Of extcrmi-
nation all in our own hands. The gladi
ators of Rome did not ask for mercy !;
neither has that stark fighting man, who
il he has not given us a holiday, has at
least given us an occasional bad quarter
OF an hour
Some such things as these one finds
oneself thinking when he contemclates
even the holiday Sioux Of modern life;
even though to-day his moccasins are
beef and not buck, his feathers turkey
ard not war eagle, his display of fnery
an exaggcration of his own ancient work.
ing garb For my part, as saw my
! Sioux the other day, admit that I felt
Tie same tnriii,, ence k: ::;r r r=-r:
you once did-when as a boy l tied my
hair in topknot and painted my face
ard sped the Parthian shaft; or alter
nately pursued others Of my age in the
! capacity of white avenger, preferably
historic Lewis Wetzel, who loaded his
rifle as he ran, and slew a savage each
moment even midway of his stride; or.
with savage whoop of triumph, remove
by a sweep of my deadly scalping- knife
the hair of some malefactor turn1p in
my fathers garden.
Did you ever out of admiration paint
up your face in imitation as Negro. and
run around the woodshed in the enact
ment Of some warlike deed of which
you have read or heard7 Or, as grown
man, perhaps as a school trustee, die
you ever draw the color line as against
red children? Last month, in Repub
lican Iowa. the Highland Park College
of Des Moines formally excluded Negro
children from its doors. They woule
scarcely have excluded Indian childrc.
had our scheme of education left then
as possible pupils. The Negro Baptists
i. Associations of Iowa and Nebraska yer.
promptly passed resolutions condemnin:
Highland Park College, Their act i
. pathetic, but wholly vain. All they ca,
5 do is to wait two thousand years an
l learn the will of nature. As for tn
red man, long before two thousand year
: he will smile up at us from his Sparta
e grave, unbeaten, unsolved, and unen
slaved- No racial Thermopyle SUI
D passes his.
t The fighting chance is the only on
n which the red man has valued. He ha
set up any red republic in imits
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from ours, which without question left
him less susceptible to pain, and hence
more stoical. As he was, when we wlpe1
our scalpins knives on the seams of our
trousers of buck or linsey woosey. OF
cashmere, as the chronological case might
be, we admired the stalwart corpses that
we had very justly made, We never held
ti,at race In contempt. To admit Negro
blood in ones veins is disgrace even
in Boston, To claim red blood has never
been held disgrace and has sometimes
been counted distinction. In one West
crn city, Helena, Mont, as ru1nor has IT,
there were once seven millionaires, each
married to an Indian woman: Sam
Houston married an Indian girl. SIR
George Simpson, head of the HUDSON S
Bav Company the middle OF the last cen
fury, married a half-breed, and made
her a peeress of the realm. At least we
gave this much answer to the puzzle OF
the red man. And never, since one
pauses to think Of it, has the red man
appeared on the front page of our news
papers in the same capacity so OFTEN
Claimed by the black. We have shot
MANY Indians, but have 1ynched few.
First came the novelist, to record
part of our feeling toward the red race
and, naturally, to record in part t a: mis- mis-.
taken viewpoint. As we look at it to-day
Fenimore Cooper was over-sentimenta
with his Indians; although, if it comes
to averaging viewpoints, his might b.
found almost as accurate a. that motor
which conceives Of no Indian but the
modern one, brutalized by our own vices
Neither viewpoint is correct to-day; Ou'
wild men have changed. a. our wild AMI
mails have changed The grizzly bea'
was once a very dangerous animal, bu
it is not such to-day; Its reputation re
mains, just as part Of Cooper: valuation
of the Indian remains. The local colo
of many q modern Western romance 7
anything byt red, although red is tn
one sought. It Is the old Cooper TIMBER
not yet washed out Of our literature
To-day in fiction We do not much chang
! this type, although We now begin +
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Rockies, came of this same Algonquin
family. You suppose the 1roquols were
also Algonquins! On the contrary, they
were a quite distinct family.
If you would be very scientific, you
must not cali the next large family Ath-
abascan, but Athapascan. While the sa-
cred Goldfish once belonged to the Al
gonquins, the newly discovered wheat
country of Canada, as far north as the
mouth of the Mackenzie River, once
belonged to the Athapascans. OF course
YOU will not confuse these with the
Attacapans, because these latter lived In
Louisiana. The Beothuks have a namc
that sounds like Lewis CarrollI but once
there were Beothuks In Newfoundland.
The Caddoan family 10 more familiar 70
the ear, but did you know, tor IN
stance that the Pawn s were Caddoans,
and that this latter family owned the
whole. works from the Gulf of Mexico
to the head of the Missouri The Ari-
kiras, agriologists of the Missouri val
Hey, were in the last analysis Caddoans'
and so were the Wichitas and others.
1.-The Pawnees were plains people, but
they lived in permanent houses, raised
corn and squashes, and wore soft soles
on their moccasins. Figure it out for
yourselves; none the less the buffalo
Tribes, who had movable tepees, the
Sioux, Cheyennes, etc, always had hard
rawhide soles on their moccasins Pos
Isibly the Pawnees were Aztecs.
All these ancient forerunners of ours
did bit of travel now and then, before
lve had excursion rates. -hev had town
houses and country houses, summer re.
Isorts and winter resorts, and abundant
descriptive literaturel Also, like our:
Iselves, they once went West Severa
tribes which we found in Kansas origi.
nally lived along the Ohio. The Sioux
did not always live in Dakota, but once
dwelt in South Carolina, where theil
remnants were cleaned up by the savage
Iroquois even after the establishment
of the English settlements on the Allan
tic coast. Long before the white mar
came vast body of the Siouans crossed
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will remain to US Fenimore Cooper and
picturesque Buffalo Bill. There remain
to us also, however, the portraitures done
bv Catlin among the Plains tribes OF an
other generation. What life must have
been his-what pleasure there must have
come even to the supercilious Parkman
when he went West in later day..whaat
iov must Schoolcraft have taken in his
work of investigating the life OF the
native tribes! Even in later times |!
have seen the eyes of Major Powell OF
the chronological Department at WASH
inqton glitter with interest as he wei
coined some new band of red men, from
this or that part of the country, to ms
official photograph gallery at the nations
capital. o...;,, sor,,, % the
Indian we'll recorded. We know how he
looked, and for many generations VIII De
able to know. But what did he think
how did he feel-what was he under the
skin? Has any science told us that
What made the savages of the Rose
bud Reservation a few years ago aban-
don their new red wagons and &c
to hold a council with old Bill Hamll-
ton at Billings, Montana This is what
they said, Brother, we know that yor
have ridden these plains with our fathers
and that you have seen the buffalo: NO"
the buffalo have gone away: We heal
that in the far North the buffalo are still
to be found. Brother, you are wise, yor
have travelled much. Take then as man,
Of our ponies as you want, as much Of
this meat as you want, and go on a lo N
journey to the North. II you ma tn'
buffalo, come back and tell us, then w
will take our families and follow you t.
that place" It is story such as Thu
which is not written in bronze or stone
But, if the Indian has not been solved
The certainly has been studied as careful!
as the botanist has studied the lily OF tn
lield, which the red man initiates in Gus
tom. Nearly twenty years ago Majo
Powell officially classified the America!
Indian into fifty-eight varieties or tami
lies. grouping them in accordance witt
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the Allcshanies, came down the valley
CT the New River, where the Chesapeake
End Ohio Railway now runs, and down
he Big Sandy, and the Ohio, and thence
passed north into the forest country Of
Minnesota, following the Mississippi
River from the mouth of the Ohio. And
so tar ,;!--: heing meat-eating folk
iwho gladly n:et all Corners in any kind OF
Ing with tie hard gloves, the truth
about the Sioux is that they originally
w;-c planters and rot hunters; and that
"c:l they got into the forest country
q Minnesota they were very thoroughly
whipped by the incompetent Chippewas,
:1d 50 forced westward into Dakota.
there was considerable change and not
Z little evolution on this continent; and
g" great Sioux migration is only one
CT rlany-one marking an entire chang.
in the customs and character of tribe.
1t is strange, funny little old world,
when We core to study it; and yet We
who live in it take ourselves as seriously
as if it mad, tie slightest difference in
the world. There we're people here be-
fore VIC CAME On my wall hang tw,
things which I will save first if ever
7 hre breaks CIT in my marble halle.
One of these is long !arreled SQUIRE!
rifle which ny grandfather gave to my
father before Wall Street was invente
The other is al oblong object of once
padded ard still beaded buckskin. the
ornamentatioil done in beads which you
cannot buy anywhere to-day This was
once a native saddle, and it was once
stuffed with deer hair, although that
long since has gone to dust My father
got this from a traveller who went up
the Platte valley earlier than 1910. He
himself did not ascend the Platte until
1860, but then killed buffalo with this
| old squirrel rifle, sometimes among the
Pawnees, who then were hurting in that
region There are some shreds of red
flannel on this rare Did relic, but the
Mission influence. which later changed
moccasin patterns in so many of our
tribes, is not visible in the decoration. I
often look at it and wonder who made
it; what woman decorated it; what man
used it. l often restore the pictures of
that day, comparing that America with
this, the chase of the buffalo with the
chase of the dollar. Yes, it is a strange.
sad, little old world.
We might 60 on, getting ourselves
confused with word roots and language
stocks, but out of it all there comes the
one rather desperately unavoidable
thought-that after all red and white
are much alike in the human spectrum.
Support we picture to ourselves the old
savage ways of life. If tribe was
wiped up in war, its remnants were en-
bodied in the ranks of some neighboring
tribe When one tribe went to war, it
usually killed its male prisoners, but
rarely killed the Sabine women; who
later became members of the conquer
ing tribe, and very likely lived happily
ever after if the buffalo were abundant
or the berry crop not too much injured
by the early market reports. Also there
prevailed that honorable custom under
which Englishmen or other Europeans
marry American or other savage ladies
for the benefit of their private fortune,
What more natural than that the son Of
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dams intently, absorbed; when we fol-
low the min trelS on the street, we smile
AT black face show we attend with the
foregonc smile Of indulgence on our
faces. We know the white man makes
a better Negro than the Negro himself
and for the latter We have amused toll
Grafton. But never i'll any performance
have you seen a white man able to imi-
tate an Indian If we smile at the In
dian of the stage, our laughter is for the
imitator, not for the one initiated. After
some centuries Of association with the
, Indian, we are to-day precisely where
we started witt, him, although he has
helped write much history for us. The
Negro does not stand so large figure
on our page. If you look about you in
art or industry, you find the page of the
Negro pretty much left blank, after all.
How is it with tie Indian? Museum and
art institute alike speak Of him. Scien-
fists collect exhibitions Of his arts and
crafts, Ii; costumes, his weapons. There
is 10 su:~::n'r resort in the country which
shall NJ: offer You Indian curios, in
r!or:nplr distinct imitation made by
white hands for the most part. In one
pr. q n2":::cr OF ear country are
I:-,.n:c c,:t;:cs Of the rcd man. How
"!2:y '!,-,S statues can the Negro
Sow Lastly. come to the test Of COM
,,v~cc. the YET more iniallibe test OF
advertising. In the advertising pages
lie Nc>-, 1,cs not typiiy and is not
:";;:itd TIE Indian is not intrequent:
rearm>, canoes, tents, tobacco, all
:,!incs I II" open, many things of mans
tie. et:!. reach out to him for their COM
:::crcial SYMBOLISM In oyr language we
1--we In>l:;>n corn, Indiai. meal, the In
dian summer. T, Aacto, turkey, potato
via: would life I've without these Indian
;:,vcn,i":s: In tie records Of our army
We have regulations Of men such as Gus
ter, Creek. scores Of other generals,
made in fighting Indians There are
mary artists OF brush and camera who
h:sc their regulations upon nothing more
:h2N Indian portraits.
We arc accustomed TO shed few emf |
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their language stocks. To-day we call il
fifty-nine families; and we admit eight
hundred different tribes as native to this
continent. Perhaps now and again SCI
cree puts a separate brand on some fam
lily which was once identical with an
other.
Tracing tribal movements through the
permanency of words, or word roots,
science follows out for us many little
detached families of which few have
heard and in which fewer are interested
Some of the larger families are more
comprehensive and more interesting.
Thus the Algonquin family left their
mark on pretty much all the Atlantic
coast from Carolina to north of New
foundland. They travelled west bit,
Also 1t is not widely known, yet true,
that the fierce Blackfeet, the Cheyennes,
the Arapahoes, even tribes west of the