Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-01-12
FOR | INDIAN RELICS
Memorial Building Is Planned
for Washington.
CURTIS AND CARTER AIDING
Two Young Women at National Cap
Itai Are Made chIppewas by Adop-
tion--charles Crisp, New
PariIamentarlan of
the House. jTWMlW
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

BY GEORGE CLINTON.
| Washington.-In one of these dis
patches recently 1t was said that Sen
ltor Curtis, who has a considerable
share of Indian blood in his veins.
had the honor as acting presiding Of
6cer of the senate to sign a resolution
| granting permission for the erection
Of Il memorial statue to the American
indian on site overlooking New York
harbor. Now Senator Curtis and Rep
resentative Carter of Oklahoma, who
like the senator has Indian blood in
| his veins, have promised to aid In
movement started by the Improved Or
der of Red Men of the United States
for the erection in Washington OF
memorial building to the American In
dian to cost 100000. The tribute. Il
Is proposed. shall take the form OF
structure in which are to be kept such
relics of Indian husbandry. art and
literature as may be contributed by as
sociations and individuals
In speaking of the proposal for the
indian memorial. MIR. Carter says:
This entire country has been carved
out of the domain of the red men.
who, insofar as tribal relations are
concerned. are rapidly passing away
and soon will be merged into general
cosmopolitan citizenship of the coun-
try. 1t seems to me some such me-
mortal as suggested where the relics
Of the handiwork of the Indian may
be preserved would be just and faith
fuf tribute to the American aborig-
Ines"
Two Girls Become Chippewas.
In connection with this Indian mat
ter It might be said that two young
women of Washington, one the secre-
tary of Representative A. o. Stanley.
chairman of the steel investigating
committee, and the other one OF the
committees stenographers. have been
taken into the great Chippewa tribe Of
Indians by adoption.
When Leonidas Merritt was giving
his testimony before the Stanley com
mittee in connection with the matter
Of the Messabba iron ore deposits. he
suggested half loosely that adoption
into the tribe of the Chippewas await
ed the two young ladies' II they would
but say the word. 1t seems that Mr..
Merit was taken into the tribe some
years ago as a hereditary chieftain OF
a band Of which the full-blooded mem
bers are now extinct. This honor
gave Mr.. Merritt the right to adopt
others into the tribe.
Miss Minnie Mailer and Miss Kath-
crime Green. both of whom are Of Hen
derson. KY, and who now have en-
tee. are now. through the formality
OF adoption. known as Wabun and
Wabunanung. the translations of which
are supposed to be 1.-The first faint
flush of incense breathing morn and
eastern morning star
New House ParlIamentarIan.
Asher Kinds. who was the parlia-
mentarian Of the house when Mr.. Can
non was speaker. is now a member Of
the house from the Portland (Me.) dis
trict The house needs a parliament
arian, who is not so known. however,
but is called clerk at the speakers
desk When Mr.. Kinds stepped from
the desk down to the floor as q mem
Der, 1t was thought that the Demo
cratic speaker would be put to 1t to
find a successor who would be able
as Mr. Kinds was to quote precedent
or decide a point on the instant. There
was a careful study of the field. and
finally the choice for parliamentarian
fell on Charles Crisp OF Georgia. Tho is
son of Charles Frederick Crisp. also
Of Georgia. and who was a member
Of six congresses in succession and
who was also the Democratic speaker
of the house In the Fifty-second and
Fffty-third congresses.
TiIIman "comes 6aek."
Senator BENJAMIN r. Tillman of
In Washington, but is back in
the field for reelection to the upper
house. The senator was q very Ill
man last winter. but his health seems
to have improved wonderfully. At the
time that the South Carolina senator
was SO III there was something pa
thetic In what he said to q friend
when he was about to leave Washing
ton. He has a good deal of poetry
in him, despite what some people con-
slider his rough exterior. He was In
pffoSof. FIFE total amount 81 work 1i'Eef
complished in any case is always t
force exerted i'm pounds multiplied
the distance in feet through viii
the force acts. III q man raises
weight of so pounds to height of fl
feet he has done $50 pounds of woi
nj Or in going nm a etairwav -hatwe
again. with Paul J. Rainey of New