The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-01-04
Memorial Building Is Planned
for Washington.
CURTIS AND CARTER AIDING
Two Young Women at National Cap
Itsl Are Made chlppewas by Adop-
tion-Charles Crisp, New
PariiamentarIan Of
the House.
by GEORGE CLINTON.

|
had the honor as acting presiding Of
| Hcer OF the senate to sign resolution
! granting permission for the erecuon
Of a memorial statue to the American
indian on site overlooking New YORK
harbor. Now Senator Curtis and Rep-
resentative Carter OF okle.hcma, who
ike 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 tho erection In Washington OF q
memorial building 20 the American In
dian to cost 100000. The tribute. II
is proposed. shall take the form oil a
structure in which are to be kept such
relics OF Indian husbandry, art ana
| literature as may be contributed py AZ
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
| be preserved would be Just and faith
/ full tribute to the American aborig'
ines"
Two GIrls Become Chippewas.
] IN q
ter II 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 b. adoption.
When Leonldas Merritt was giving
| his testimony before the Stanley COM
mlttee 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. II seems that Mr..
MERIT was taken into the tribe some
| years ago as 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 q congressional commit
tee. are now. through the Formally
OF adoption, known as Wabun and
Wabunanung, the TRANSACTIONS 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 tMe.) dis.
trict. The house needs a parliament.
arian, who ia not so known. howe-'a=
but Is called clerk ut the speakers
desk. When Mr.. Kinds stepped from
the desk down to the floor as a mem
Der, II was thought that the Demo
cratic speaker would be put to It to
find a successor who would be able
rs Mr.. Kinds was to quote precedent
or decide a poin. on the instant. There
was careful study OF the held. and
finally the choice for parliameptarian
fell on Charles Crisp of Georgia, Tho is
o son OF Charles Frederick Crisp, also
OF Georgia, and who was member
of six congresses in succession and
who was also the Democratic speaker
of the house in the Fffty-second and
F!fty-thffd congresses.
TiIlman Comes Back"
Senator Bertamin X. 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 very Ill
man last winter. but his health seems
to have improved wonderfully. At the
lime that the South Carolina senator
was 80 Ill there was something pa
thetic in what he said to friend
~hsn he was about to leave Washing.
ton. He has a good deal Of poetry
IN him. despite what some people con-
sleer his rough exterior. He was in
need Of rest and when he was asked
II he were going home he said, yes,
! arr going down TO the old state and
10 my garden TO look at the roses
AID tn tSar the hooking birds sing"
gsmund Heller. who accompanied
Colonel Roosevelt on the Smithsonian
expedition into Africa. is now In the
northern part of the Dark Continent
again, with Paul ]. Rainey OF New
fcTf. Mr.. Rainey Is collecting on be-
hak of the Smithsonian institution
and DIR, Heller ia preparing the spcci-
mems. The Smithsonian institutions
reports show that up to last month
the members OF its new African expe-
dition had collected for It 700 large
mammals. 5000 small mammals and
ESQ birds. 1t is the intention Of the
Smithsonian institution shortly to
erect monument to Samuel p. Lang
ley. the father OF aviation"
Champ clark's New Cane.
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