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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04
Insults Of WANAMAKER EXPEDITION
To INDIAN TRIBES USED FOR UPL|FT
dOPa Says Race of Thinkers and Statesmen Could Have
Been Developed Among the Red Men-Decares That
Destruction of the Indian Great Loss to the
Nation-Their Ambitions Are DESTROYED

New York.-'If the United States
ny4rnment had expended honest eff
INT and money in the conservation
end uDlift of the North American In
Han there would have been produced
INN the race a remarkable line of
thinkers and statesmen who would
have added to the fame of our halls
Of congress with their wisdom and
fle ideals"
That was the declaration of DR..
i JOseuh Kossuth Dixon, in charge OF
hs Rodman Wanamaker expedition
70 the North American Indian, which
returned to New York from a six
months tour of the reservations in
The west
In a book DR.. Dixon gives his esti-
mate Of the American Indian as fol-
lows:
The Indian is man of lofty
ideals; he is heroic in temperament
and inefably tragic in thought. To
DAY the sublime thought in the Indian
mind seems to be that although he is
doomed to determination, yet will he
lie undaunted"
Dr. Dixon's book is dedicated ito
ny brother, the Indian" 1t contains
the stories of surviving scouts of Che
Custer massacre, and also the stories
Of some of the Indian chiefs who
fought Custer The story of White
NanRuns Him, a Custer scout, is as
blows:
The Great White Father at Wash
hgtOn sent representative out to our
country The Indians met them and
held council. The Sioux were
hereditary enemies of the Crows. The
lead man sent by the Great Father
laid to the Crows: We must get to-
gsther and fight and get this land
tom the Sioux We must win it by
conquest
I stood faithfully by the soldiers.
They did not know the country. l did.
hey wanted me for their eye; they
could not see. The soldiers and l
we're fighting in friendship. What
yaey said l did. What I said. they
I'D So I helped my tribe.
We heard that General Custer was
coming, and I and 80 soldiers went
down the river in boats. | was the
aFSt one Of the Crows to shake hands
WIN Custer. He gripped me tight
ana said: You are the one l want
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04

Harry Payne Whitney won $4,000
on the turf.
Ben lineup, the Indian ball player,
is not a dipper but pitcher.
Frank Kramer, the cycling cham
pion, has gone to Europe for series
of matches.
Change the football rules, it is sug-
gested. Better do it before the ex-
perts solve the present set.
Roy K. Thomas resigned as coach
of the Ohio Wesleyan rowing crew
and will return to the University of
Chicago.
It has been announced that Notre
Dame will play Yale next fall on Oct.
Is Dorais Eichenlaub = Rockne =
smith-God help the Blue.
Minnesotas board of control has de-
clined by a majority vote to meet
Carlisle on the gridiron next year. The
Indians asked for the date.
A. G. Ward, center on the 1912 Ohio
State university eleven, has been ap-
pointed athletic coach at Christian
Brothers college for the coming year.
Williams has stuck persistently to
its attitude. 1t has refused to meet
Harvard in addition to- Yale because
the date supplied came too early in
the season.
Manager Jennings announces that
his Tigers will start training at Gulf
port about February s. Jim Mcclure
and Jimmy Burke will be in charge of
the first squad.
George Estabrook, owner of Colo
RADIO E., has determined to race the
holder of the worlds three-year-old
trotting record over the Grand circuit
next season. He had decided to sell
the horse but his price was never
met.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04

and saw Reno In his engagement with
the Sioux.
Finally they wiped out Reno. and
he retreated to the hills.
Custer and all of us got off our
horses. The enemy were surrounding
us. They were banging away at US.
Custer then came up and said: You
have done your duty. You have led
me to the enemy's camp. And now
the thing for you to do is to obey
orders and get away. You go; am
now going with my boys
Had Custer not ordered me to go,
the people who visit Custer Field to-
day would see my name on the monu-
ment.
Even more realistic is the story of
the Sioux Indians who fought Custer.
Their justification of their conduct is
interesting. Red Cloud, Sioux chief.
says:
"SuddenIy we heard firing, and we
found out that the soldiers were on
MS. The women and children were all
frightened. and started to run across
the hills. and we men mounted our
horses and started toward the enemy.
remember that we pushed Reno
back until he had to cross the river
and 20 up against the bluffs, and then
some of our Sioux rode around the
hill to head him off. and we had him
in pocket.
after we had killed many CT Re-
nos man Custer came along the
ridge. and we were called off to fight
Custer. We kept circling around Gus
fer. and as his men came down the
ridge we shot them down. And then
the rest dismounted and gathered ID
a bunch. kneeling down and shooting
from behind their horses. We circied
round and round, firing into custer .
men until the last man was killed.
81 did not see Custer rail-. for all
the Indians did not know which was
Custer. One reason why we did not
scaln Custer was because the Indians
and the white soldiers were so mixed
nm that it was hard to distinguish
one man from another; and another
reason was because Custer was the
bravast man of all and we did not
want to touch him. as he made the
LAST stand. This is also the opinion
of n-in-the-Face.
Regarding the cause OF the custer
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04

n N THE season of 1866, Gotch
b won the championship in, the
B great international tournament in
Montreal, Quebec and Ottawa.
More than fifty of the best wrestlers
in the world competed. The Ameri-
can champion attacked these noun
tains of beef with vengeance, but in
fiattening the big specimens on their
backs had some of the most thrilling
and yet humorous experiences of his
mat career.
The Greco-Roman style of wrestling
is preferred to the catch-as-catch-can
in the Canadian cities In the matches
of this tournament the Canadians had
a special code they called the French
Greco-Roman rules. The strangle, ham
merlock and all other holds below the
waist were barred.
One popularity of this code was
that whistle was blown at various
stages of match to give the wrest-
lers intervals of rest. Gotch says he
observed that when his French oppo-
nents were getting tired there was a
blast from the tin horn.
The best of them was Emile Maui
pas. 1t was in Montreal on Dec. ~,
1905, that Gotch met and defeated
Maupas after sensational match last
ing nearly an hour and half.
When time was called Gotch rushed
Maupas to the edge of the mat and
the Frenchrnan extricated himself
with difficulty. Coming back to the
center of the mat Gotch again rushed
his bulky opponent and the French
man came near going off the stage in
to the crowd Gotch caught him and
pulled him back.
Gotch rushed in and secured a leg
hold with which he finally worked
Maupas to the mat The Frenchman
fought desperately to avoid being
thrown. Gotch fastened on a half nell
son and waist lock and was turning
his opponent gradually but certainly
to his DOOM The crowd was hushed
with suspense. Was Maupas to go
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04
RETIREMENT OF TOM LYNCH
AS President of National League Hell
Handled Umpires Without Fear
or Favor of Any Club.

The throw-down given Tom Lynch,
who for four years has bossed the Ma
tional league umpires without fear or
should have been expected Lynch did
not seek the position, having BEEN
called to the chair as a result of a.
deadlock over Ward and Brown, which
tied up the 1910 meeting for several
days. Lynch has been faithful and
honest to his trust. His election has
never been for more than one year at
a time and his power has been limited,
SO limited in fact, that regulating the
work of the umpires has been his chief
responsibility, says the New Orleans
Picayune He made one very impor-
tant decision during the season, but
was both called down and overruled.
Lynch overruled the umpire who stop
ped the game on the Phillies grounds
and declared the Giants winners be-
cause spectators occupying the center
field seats waved things, with the evil
dent intent of bothering the New
York batsmen. The score was to s,
in favor of the Phillies, at the time,
and one man had been retired in the
ninth before Brennan stopped the
game. Because the Philadelphia club
management did not drive the crowd
out of the seats on line with the
batsmen the New York team was
awarded the victory-9 to 0. Lynch
promptly reversed this ruling and
gave the game to the Phillies, Sc; but
the league directors decided that the
game should be played to finish on
the New York grounds as prelimi-
nary to a double-header between the
two teams late in the season. This
established precedent for transfer
ring an incompleted game started in
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04
CHINESE AN IDEAL LANGUAGE
sir William Ramsay Says Our Ances
tors Should Have Adopted
1t Years Ago.

London. = Sir William Ramsay.
speaking at st. Bride institute recently
on spelling reform, said it was pity
that we had not from the beginning
adopted the Chinese system of writ
ing instead of our own. The Chinese
did not spell; they used symbols
which conveyed ideas The Chinese
language had the great advantage that
1t could be read much quicker than
any spelled language. 1t went straight
from the symbol to the brain as an
idea.
Although he would not support the
adoption of new alphabet on the
lines of the Chinese system, he felt
that it was a pity that 5000 or 1000
years ago our ancestors did not adopt
the Chinese system.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04
FOOTBALL AND THE PUBLIC
Doubtful If College Game VIII Ever
Become Anywhere as Near as
Baseball to Sportdom.

While football ranks next to base
ball in the appeal that it makes to the
general public, it is doubtful whether
it will ever come anywhere near the
popularity that has been obtained by
the national game. 1t is extremely
gratifying to note, however, that the
new style of play inaugurated sew
eral years ago and perfected moro re-
Gently has cut down the number of &C
cidents.
Coincident with the change to the
more open style Of play, the smaller
colleges have been developing elevens
that have made tho big four, con
sisting of Yale, Harvard, Princeton
and Pennsylvania, look to their lau-
rels. says the Washington Post. Col
gate, small college, which had never
figured before in big company, pro-
vided the football sensation of the
year by beating Yale to the tune OF
16 to 6.
It is far better for football that the
smaller colleges shall come to the
front. If the purpose of college ath-
letics is to improve the students phys
ically, the more who engage in the
game the better. The trouble with
both baseball and football as national
games is that the physical benefit is
limited to the relatively few men who
can play each season Forty men
turn out at the beginning of the sea-
son, but not more than 20 remain at
the finish. The great majority of stu
dents are not benefited at ALL
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04

ngnt, | must say we were pursued by
the soldiers. we were on the warpath
ana we We're on the warpath with the
crows and other tribes.
We were driven out of the Black
Hills by the men seeking gold, and
our game was driven off, and we start
ed on our journey in search of game.
Our children were starving and we
had to have something to eat. There
was buffalo In that region and we
were moving, simply camping hers
and there and fighting our Indian
enemies as we advanced, in order to
get, the game that was in this coun,
try. We fought this battle from day.
light until three o'clock in. the aft
ernoon, and all of the white men were
killed. think that Custer was a
very brave man to fight all these In
dams with his few men from daylight
until the sun was almost going down"
The poetical nature of the Indian
was exemplified in the words of Chief
Plenty Coos, chief of all the Crow
nation, in summoning other chiefs to
The Last Great Council" organized
in the valley of the Little Big Horn.
Montana, by the Rodman Wanamaker
expedition. The Indian chieftain said
in part:
L see as in a vision the dying
spark Of our council fires. the ashes
cold and white. | see no more the
curling smoke rising from our lodge
poles. hear no longer the songs OF
the women as they prepare the meal.
The antelope have gone; the buffalo
wallows are empty Only the vail of
the coyote is heard
"The white mans medicine is
stronger than ours; his iron horse
rushes over the buffalo trail He
talks to US through his whispering
spirit (The Indians name for the
telegraph and telephone.) We ars
like birds with a broken wing. NY
heart is cold within me- My eyes are
growing DIM am old
Before our red brothers pass on
to the happy hunting ground, let us
bury the tomahawk Let us break
our arrows. Let US wash off our war
paint in the river. And | will instruct
our medicine men to tell the women
to prepare a great council lodge. |
will send our hunters into the hills
and pines for deer.
Il will send my runners to tho
lodges of the Blackfeet, where in that
far north flowers border the snow on
the hills. l will send them across
the fiery desert to the lodges of the
Apaches in the south l will send
them east to the lodges of the Sioux.
warriors who have met us in many 4
hard battle. | will send them to the
west. where among the mountains
dwell the Cayuse and the UmatiIlas.
81 will have the outriders build
smoke signals on all the high hills.
calling the chiefs of all the tribes to-
gether, that we may meet here as
brothers and friends in one great last
council, that we may eat our bread
and meat together, and smoke the
council pipe, and say farewell as
brothers, never to meet again"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04
Davis HeanfuI TO Athletics

Connie Mack believes the success OF
his worlds champions is due in no lit
tie degree to the wonderful tact Of his
field general Harry Davis. Davis
formerly played first for the Athletics
and later was manager for the Clevei
land Americans. The year Davis was
away the Athletics finished in third.
But Connie saw a chance to again
sign his former lieutenant this year.
and the Quakerites finished in posi-
ton one.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04
JESS WILLARD AFTER SMITH
Efforts Being Made to Arrange Match
With Gunboat Figher to Settle
Heavyweight Title.

1t is a hard matter to dig UP white
hope who is worth while. Jess Willard
and Gunboat Smith are the two lead
ing candidates for the championship in
high in the estimation of the fight
fans. Willard has recently beaten
Carl Morris and One Round Davis, but
did not show anything startling. His
bout with Morris was very tame
affair. A match between Willard and
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04

one city to the grounds of a rival club
in another city. Lynch's plan was the
best way out of the difficulty, for,
while the game ended with no further
scoring and went as a victory for the
Phillies complications might have
arisen that would have given the
league a great deal of trouble. The
American league directors would not
have thought of attempting to over
rule Johnson under like circumstances,
and if the National men expect to
profit by Tener's election they must
learn early to abide by his decisions
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04

make the battle. Custer sent mevto a
high knoll. Go and look for me- he
said, and see where l can make a
success. He left it to me- When l
was up there I looked around, and
the troops were very close upon me.
l motioned to them to come on, and
we passed up the ridge.
The Indian scouts stood in front
of Custer and led his men. The Sioux
fired at us. We looked over the river
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04
BEAcHEY SETS NEW RECORD
Loops the Loop Five Consecutive
Times and Outdoes Originator
of Thrilling Feat.

San Francisco.--Lincoln Beachey, avi.
ator. celebrated Christmas by breaking
a worlds record, looping the loop"
five consecutive times from height
of 750 feet and landing in narrow
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04

tJndertaker's Correspondence School
Paterson, n. joel E. Crandall will
open correspondence school to teach
undertakers how to Te-assemble man
gled bodies.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04

Smith will be pulled off, in all prob
ability, before long and this may set
tie the question of supremacy. They
met once before, but the battle was a
very unsatisfactory one. Willard
towers up into the air for something
like six feet and half and if size and
strength count for anything should be
able to take down the championship
without any trouble.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04

~ see and 1 am glad that you are
-, sC l directed Custer up to No
. -, We always Travelled at
--snH climbing the mountains and
suns the rivers. During the day
MADE a concealed camp.
", When We reached the top of the
WI, @O'l mountains we saw the enemy's
~ p near where the Custer Field is
= me present time. Custer was re-
'-''sd and anxious to go ahead and
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04

harness Racing in New England.
New Zealand is taking to harness
loTse racing.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-02-04
Frisco Sends SWIMMING Team.

frisco Sends Swimming Team.
San Fransico will send a team OF
five swimmers to participate in the
events that will be neld at Honolulu
from February 18 to %.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-05
c. F. Lewis Resigns

C. F. Lewis, science instructor and
coach in the Lamar high school, has
resigned to accept the chair of science
in the New Mexico Normal university.
The board of education has decided to
accept Mr.. Lewis resignation and to
appoint a new instructor and coach.
AS the employment of new instruc-
tor gives opportunity for making any
desired change in the coaching sys-
TEN, the board is asking the patrons
of the high school by postal vote to
state their wishes in regard to rein
shutting the game of rugby football
in the Lamar schools and the board
and superintendent agree to abide by
whatever decision may be rendered by
this vote. The school authorities pre-
fer not to reinstitute the game, but
believe that the school patrons should
have the last word in determining the
athletic policy of the school, and have
accordingly put the matter to vote.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-05
Woodmen at Hasty

About thirty Lamar Woodmen in
GLIDING the degree team went over to
Hasty on Monday evening to institute
the new lodge of the order there and
they had big time. About forty
candidates were put through the de-
grees and the new lodge starts out
with a fine membership. A large
number of visitors from other points
were present and nearly two hundred
altogether took part in the proceed
ings. The Hasty people were equal
to the emergency and made it an oc-
casion which will be remembered al
ways by all present. The work of the
Lamar team was a special feature of
the evening.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-05

The republican assemblies for the
senatorial and representative districts
were held at the commercial club
rooms on Monday of this week and
were attended by full delegations
from Prowers and Baca counties, and
some from the other counties. Allyn
Cole acted as chairman of both as
sentblies. The senatorial assembly
designated DIR. j. S. Hasty, present
representative of the Prowers-Baca
legislative district, as the republican
choice for senator and the represen-
tative assembly designated Ray Nc
Grath as it's choice for representative.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-05
Lamar Wins

The Booster Day game of baseball
at Las Animas was won by the Lamar
team with a score of IL to 3. Litter
pitched his usual high class game,
while the Lamar heavy hitters did
awful things to Keller. Bud Littler
was the worst offender, getting five
safe whacks at the ball in six times
up, one of them a three Dagger. Caulk
also got back into his batting stride
making three hits, one for three bases.
This ties Lamar with Rocky Ford for
first place. This was the postponed
game from July Fourth, and Sunday
the teams meet again on the field at
Association Park in Lamar.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-05

of the finest ensilage that can be
grown. The tract east of his dairy
barn will average about twelve feet
in height and looks most like for
est. 1t would make a heavy yield of
corn if kept for the grain as every
stalk has filled out well with large
ears of corn. Several visitors got
lost in the field the first of the week
and searching party had to be sent
for them it is said, and anyone seeing
it will believe the story. Mr.. Gregg
is an up-to-date dairyman and this
big improvement will enable him to
still further increase the efficiency of
his dairy.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-05

promptly announced that he was with
him, provided nothing in the agree
ment should prevent getting together
on a democratic state senator. Jones
asked if he and Representative Simp-
son of Bent had arranged the senator
ial deal. Crazy replied that was cas-
lily arranged between friends-in fact
almost as easy as government land
division. ones announced 1--WE are
all agreed then for see no prospect
to get an office myself and as l am the
man who made the progressive party
here, if | can't have an office no other
progressive can" So they adjourned
to await the action of the democrats.
Watch the plot unfold.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-05
LET THE PEOPLE RULE
Fee, Jones and Crary Decide for the
People-TOoley Street TailOrs in
Session

w. E. Fee, E. X. Jones and S. A.
Crary, the people, met in secret con-
clave in Judge Fees Office on Wednes-
day evening to decide how, when and
under what conditions the people were
to rule. Judge Fee called the meet
ing to order and stated that while at
one time he had hoped the republicans
might get together and present SOL
id front to the enemy he had since
seen a great light, and there was
prospect he might be in the counsel
for the strikers defence if the cases
came to Prowers county. Therefore
it would be necessary that Mr.. COST
gan have an organization back of him
here even if he had to constitute that
organization himself. This would be
impossible if republicans got together
on law and order platform. Crazy
The Lamar register., 1914-08-05
Judge Burke Accepts

Judge H. P. Burke. of Sterling, pre-
siding Judge Of the Thirteenth Judi
cial District, has accepted the job Of
presiding over the trials of the cases
of the people VS.. the nine La Veta
strikers charged with murder. So
many of the states district judges
were candidates for the supreme
bench that they were afraid to get
mixed up in this trial, but Judge
Burke is noted for his independence
and fairness. No better selection
could have been made. The Judge
will soon decide the place where the
trials are to be held and set the date.
1t is believed that Lamar is the most
likely place, all things taken into con-
sideration.