Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-08-16

uO1e-ln-CQe-Qay was not In particular
good odor with the government or the
whites, as he had been perfectly will
ing to attack the whites during the
troubles Of 1862, and was prevented
from doing so by the Mile Laos In !
dams, who were friendly. Hole-in-the-
day had married white woman, fact
not particularly relished by his tribe,
and it was generally believed that
some Of his own tribes were behind
the plan to make away with him.:
The history Of the Upper Mississippi
Valley, gives the following account of
Hole-in-the-day's death:
"In the afternoon of the 9th of |
June, in company with another In
dian, he left his home in a one-horse |
buggy for the Chippewa Agency, and
from thence to Crow Wing. Some Chip
pewas from Leech Lake, not long after
he left, came to the Agency, and find
ing that Hole-in-the-day had gone to
Crow Wing, they secreted themselves
in copse near the road by which he
was to return.
AS he was riding by, one Of the In
dams secreted, fired both barrels Of a
shotgun, and he fell dead from the
buggy. His body was dragged to the
side Of the road and after taking his
gold watch and some Of his clothing,
the murderer with a companion, jump
ed into the buggy and rode to the
chiefs log house, where they told his
wives that Hole-in- the-day was killed.
The house had half-story above the
main room, and there the infant, boy
by the white wife, was sleeping on
their arrival. AS one Of the Indians
went up the steps the mother feared
that the child would be killed, but the
Indian soon returned, with some art
icles he had taken and departed.
The murderer was said to have been
relative Of Hole-in-the-d day, and was
/ angered because he was not recognized
| as a sub-chief. The chief was buried in
the Catholic church Of Crow Wing,
The white widow with her child after
| wards went to Minneapolis, where she
married respectable white man,
Among others mentioned as in the
| conspiracy, is John George Morrison,
after whom this county was named.
Morrison was man Of high character.
The murder was fully investigated at
the time. If such prominent men as
Beaulieu, Roy, Morrison and Ruffee
were mixed up in it, it would have
been impossible to cover it up, and the
character Of the men concerned was
above participation in such a crime.
The whole story sounds fshy. The
following is the Journal story:
Ashland, Wis, Aug. S.-Searching
the birth and death records of the lit
tie old Catholic church at LaPointe,
Madeline island, fifteen miles from Ash
land near the south shore of Lake Su-
perior, government investigators are
today obtaining information bearing on
the right Of 1000 Of the 5000 men,
women and children on the tribal roll
of the White Earth Indian reserva-
ton in Minnesota to remain on the roll
and participate in the division Of 3d.
600, 900 of tribunal funds. The investi-
cation is development of the recent
congressional committee investigations
at White Earth. !
For ten days agents Of the govern
ment have been in northern Minnesota
Investigating the charge of White
Earth full bloods' that Gus H. Beau
lieu and other "mixed bloods,' who
have been reservation leaders for
years, are in reality usurpers of rights
which do not belong to them. The full
bloods charge that Beaulieu and 1000
other mixed bloods are not Mississippi
Indians at all, entitled to the reserva-
ton rights Of Mississippi Indians, but
Lake Superior Indians and entitled
only to the rights of members of the
Lake Superior band, the. Wisconsin
branch Of the big Chippewa family. If
the full b1oods can prove their charge
the name of Beaulieu and other mixed
bloods, names linked with the entire
history Of the reservation, will be
dropped from the tribal roll and the
curtain will ring down on. a half CEN
tury old drama in which dissension be-
tween ignorant full blood Chippewas
and wiser mixed bloods has been the
predominating theme.
Back of the claim of the mixed
b1oods that the Beaulieus, the Fair
banks and the Belfefeulles- their
various family branches-are usurpers
Of rights which do not belong to them,
is the story Of the death Of Hole-in-the-
day, famous chief Of all the Minnesota
Chippewas. Hole-in-the-day was muir
dered near Crow Wing, MIMI, in Aug
ust, 1868. The full bloods who are
back of the present investigation
charge that the father of one Of the
men whose names they ask to have
stricken from the roll helped plan the
murder Of the Chippewa chief, that it
was Hole-ln-the-day's avowed hostil-
ity to the mixed bloods, his determine.
ton that they should not be permitted
on the White Earth reservation, that
resulted in his death.
Evidence Of immense historical i'm
portance to those interested in the
early history Of Minnesota and her In.
dian reservations has been given to
the government investigators in the
last week. For the first time men who
figured in the tragedy have, under
oath, told the story of the death Of the
chief. One Of the witnesses, an Indian
80 years old, told Of seeing the death
Of Hole-in -the-day. This Indian, All
nor-me-ay-gah-bow, who lives at Leech
Lake, can. no longer see He, like hun
dreds Of other government wards in
Minnesota, is totally blind, a victim
Of tranchoma, disease which is cur:
able if properly treated.
The government investigation has