Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-24

Stories Of CurbStOne and
Corridor

! Corridor !
The head of the family always foots
the bills.
Nice little joke, clean and crisp; and
almost punyn. When did you arrive:
who, me? Why, came in by the
Saturday evening post.
"Punning is the lowest order of wit
the very lowest, according to the &C
cepted authorities, yet it is INDUCED
in by some of our brainiest people
and the pretty stenographer in the de-
partment of agriculture and labor per
mitted her eyes to rest on the placid
features or Dairy Commissioner Flint
That gentleman, in deep conversa
ton with Count Gobleupski, the dairy
prince, paid no heed. ''The silO fed
cattle produce more milk with high
er percentage of butter fat" and here
the conversation was drowned by the
excited voice of Superintendent Gil
breath, who rushed in with an open
letter in his hand to announce another
big donation for the Exposition.
i Photographer Olson, with crepe on
his hat advertising a grief of some
kind, got in from the Berthold reser'
walton with his tripod and impression
box. Olson has won reputation for
his souvenirs and he has pictures of
Indians in all sizes, ages and attitudes.
The gentleman is familiar with In
dian love and tribal customs. He says
the United States government, in or.
der to encourage the Eerthold tribe to
farm furnishes them with all the ne
cessary machinery including horses.
And for every bushel of wheat produc,
ed Uncle Sam pays them a bonus OF
81. A government blacksmith shop
with federal smithy at the forge.
does all repairing at no expense to
the red man, and yet no wheat Is pro-
duced. The Indian prefers to sleep
and play and dance. There are few
exceptions, of course. There is Tom
Smith. Tom is not full blood. how.
ever. This Indian has a big general
store on the reservation and one
thousand head of fine cattle on the
range These cattle are now fat,
sleek and ready for the market. An
Eastern buyer appeared last Monday
and offered Smith $50 head for the
whole heru, but he declined the offer.
He insisted that he must have $50
head. AS a consequence he still
has the herd of cattle and the buyer
has his $4,000. IF an offer of $48
had been made, Tom Smith would
have accepted $780," says Mr.. Olson
1T Is the nature of the Indians to i'm
agine they are being cheated"
And yet the United States govern
ment has been kind to the Indians,
suggested the writer. she has al
lotted 100 acres of their land to each
of the adults and 80 acres to each
minor child. Now see how nice and
generous it would be of Uncle Sam
if he would take possession of Tom
Smiths cattle allot him two or three
head and. give his children each a
calf. -.
| According to Mr.. Olson the Berthold
reservation land is nearly all Of the
finest quality and the ones drawing
lhomesteads will be extremely fortunate
He says little interest seems to be
taken in che land drawing. although
the matter has been we'll advertised.
Plaza and Ryder each have emissaries
employed to meet the incoming trains
from the East and work the pass en-.
gers. But the passengers seem to
have their minds made up as to where
they desire to register, and few are
influenced by the runners. The au'
tomobile lines established for the pur.
pose of showing people over the res
ervation are doing little business. The
pictures of long lines of people
stretched out from the registration
booths, Mr.. Olson says, imagined by
Ryder and Plaza business men did
not materialize, and instead. the pro-
cession is listless and struggling.
The reservation is traversed by a
number of creeks and both the big and
little Missouri rivers. The plains
are undulating and beautiful, while a
heavy growth of timber fringes the
streams. Both the Northern Pacific
and Great Northern railways have
lines surveyed through the reservation
and the Northern Pacific has right
of way granted by the government, the
franchise being held by a two per
cent grade. The 500 road cuts through
a corner of the domain distance of
about fifteen miles. The railroads
will no doubt be built to reach the
the government townsites when they
are established.
There is occasionally a motion pic.
ture film which ELECTS applause" said
Eugene Hickok, the Washington man
here on federal business. at the Grand
Pacific last night. There is one in
particular l have in mind which is so
ingenious as to take the spectators off
their feet. so to speak. 1t represents
the sick widow and her little daughter.
Everything about the place has been
placed in pawn that money could be
borrowed on. The scene is most
touching when the invalid mother
hides her portion of food so that her
child may not starve. Then while
the mother sleeps the little tot takes
her dollie. and visits the pawn shop
of Uncle Isaacs to pledge it for money