Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-01-04
FOR IIAD|AA RELICS
Memorial Building Is Planned
for Washington.
CURTIS AND CARTER AIDING
Two Young Women at National Cap
sAl Are Made chIppewas by Adop-
tlon-charles Crisp, New
ParIiamentarlan Of
the House.
BY GEORGE

patches recently 1t was SAID tnaL sen
ator Curtis, who has a considerable
share of Indian blood in his veins,
had the honor as acting presiding Of
fcer of the senate to sign a resolution
granting permission for the erection
of a memorial statue to the American
Indian on a site overlooking New YORK
harber. Now Senator Curtis and Rep
res~entative Carter of Oklahoma. who
like the senator has Indian blood In
his veins, have promised to aid ! n a
movement started by the Improved Or
der of Red Men of the United States
for the erection in Washington OF a
memorial building to the American In
dian to cost $500, 600. The tribute. IT
is proposed, shall take the form OF q
structure in which are to be kept sucn
relics of Indian husbandry, art Il
literature as may be contributed by as
sociations and individuals.
In speaking of the proposal for the
Indian memorial, Mr.. 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
SO preserved would be a Just and faith
sal 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. n the secre-
tary of Representative A. o. Stanley.
chairman Of the steel investigating
committee, and the other n OF the
committees st~enographers. have been
taken into the great Chippewa tribe or
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 Hiss Kath-
crime Green, both of whom are Of Hen
derson. KY, and who now have en-
ployment In a congressional commit
tee. are now, through the formality
Of adoption. known as Wabun and
Wabunanung, the translations Of which
are supposed to be '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 a lei
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 OF the instant. There
was a careful study of the teld, and
finally the choice for parliameptarian
fell on Charles Crisp of Georgia, Tho is
a 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
Ffty-third congresses.
TIlimsn "Comes Back"
Senator Benjamin r. Tillman OF
South Carolina is not only back
In Washington, but is back in
the field for reelection to the upper
house. The senator was a very Ill
man last winter. but his health seems
to have improved wonderfully. At the
time that the South Carolina senator
was 80 Ill there was something pa
thetic in what he said to a 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
need Of rest and when he was asked
If he were going home he said, yes,
am going down to the old state and
to my garden to look at the roses
and to hear the mocking birds sing"
Edmund Heller, who accompanied
Colonel Roosevelt on the Smithsonian
expedition into Africa, Is Vow in the
northern part Of the Dark Continent
again, with Paul ]. Rainey Of New
York. Mr.. Rainey is collecting on be-
half of the Smithsonian institution
and MIR. Heller is preparing the speci-
mems. The Smithsonian institutions
reports show that up to last month
the members Of its new African expe-
dition had collected for 1t 700 large
mammals, 5000 small mammals and
ESQ birds. It is the intention Of the
Smithsonian institution shortly to
erect a monument to Samuel P. Lang
ley, the father OF aviation"
Champ cIaSk's New Cane.
1t 10 q Quickening holiday spirit
which hovers over Capitol hill. The
house employees are remembered and
members Of congress give back and
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o'Brlen With New York Giants.