Arizona republican., 1913-07-20
BIG PEACE TOUR
 VISITS PHOENIX
Rodman Wanamaker Expe- dition Makes Short Stop Here En Route to San Carlos and Fort Apache Reservations

The peace expedition from the cit izenship of the United States to every Indian tribe within the borders of the country, known as the R0dman Wanamaber expedition arrived in Phoenix yesterday morning. visited the United States Indian school here delivered peace message and beau tifuI United States flag and then left for the San Carlos agency, and Fort Apache on a similar crrand They arrived in the private car "Signet." detailed especially for the use of the expedition. They will leave the car at Winkleman and make the portion of the trip by wagon trail, returning to Phoenix on Tuesday visits will be made at the Pima Indian reservation, when the message will be delivered to the Pimas, Maricopas and Papa goes.
 The party is headed by pr Joseph Kossuth Dixon, and is made up of Rolin Lester Dixon. II Trevor Booth. NJ Harris Cole. Major James Me Laughlin. a famous Indian fighter who is the inspector of the party. and Montgomery McConcy, the steno- graphcr of the party. The tour was arranged by the Pennsylvania rail- road, and started from the Broad street station in Philadelphia on June :. going directly to Oklahoma where the tribes there were visited first Since then hardly q day has passed without a visit to some Indian tribe and up to last night 4642 miles had been traverscd by rail
 The object of the trip is to get all the Indians to swear allegiance to the government of the United States something that has not heretofore heen done except in the case of those Indians in Arizona who served as soldiers in the union army and took the oath when they enlisted. To some of these men the party will come in tho course of the next few days, and the old veterans. many of them over loo years old will welcome the stars and stripes as heartily an Amcri- can white would welcome the sight of the beautiful flag.
 The party visited the Indian school yesterday and presented q flag to the Indian school. Dr. Dixon made the speech of presentation. Several of the educated Indians came up to the di- rector after the close of the cere- monies and personally thanked him for his kindly words.
 A number of funny experiences
  party in their travels. For instance. i Indians living on the old Spanish land grants in New Mexico objected to swearing allegiance to the United 1 States but said they had no objection 1 to doing So for Spain. Their tribal 1 history taught them that the land l they occupied was deeded to them by 1 the Spanish empire and even after | all these years they remembered
 The Indians of northern Arizona. l which were visited early last week | were the cause of much astonishment 1 and surprise to the party, especially 1 those kings of the desert the Nava- jos They impressed Director Dixon 1 by their physic no less than by their | mentality.
 The expedition was founded by | Rodman Wanamaker and has for it's object the selection of delegates from every Indian tribe in the United | States to be present at Fort Wads- worth in New York, whereAthe In lian memorial is situated. By this means the voice of the Great White Father the secretary of the interior, and the acting commissioner of Indian af- fairs will reach every tribe It is needless therefore to say in view of l this that the expedition is endorsed by the president and all the author tics in the United States.