Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-10-01
BISMARCK DAY
At SLOPE FAIR
HUNDREDS EXPECTED TO
GO FROM HERE ON sPE-
C1AL TRAIN.
BIGGEST DAY Of FAIR
Opening Yesterday Attended by
Large Crowds Indians At
tract Much Attention.

Parade in the morning, six hundred
in line.
Concerts BY the Indian and Man
dan bands.
Various heats Of the 2:15 trot or
pace, :.
Various hears CT the 2;3o trot or
pace.
Five eighth-mile running race.
Indian races.
Relay race.
Stage coach hold-up.
Ball game at 10 o'clock a. NJ
Mandan vs.. Indians.
Dance at night.
Pow-Wow at the fair grounds.
Band concert al, night.
Today is Bismarck day at the Mis-
souri, Slope fair, and it is the big day
Of the fair. Special trains will carry
the visitors from this city, and it
is expected that many will attend.
The train will leave here at 10 a. m.
Bismarck time, returning ait 10 lp. m.
Mandan time.
The fair opened yesterday with q
bang. The M6ndan band, and thu
Standing Rock Indian band, came te
Bismarck on a special and rendered
several selections on the streets, re
turning in time for the parade.
The exhibits at the fair grounds are
Of a high order. and there is lively
competition for the fat prizes in all
the departments. The %ccncensus OF
opinion of those who have seen the
fair is that it surpassss those of pre-
vious years by a large margin.
The streets of Mandan are gaily
decorated for the occasion, and Main
street is especially bright, being
strung with rows CT electric lights
hung across the street at intervals,
lAlL Che usual appurtenances Of fairs
are on hand, the stands, the bankers,
the Oriental wonders, the everIpres'
ent pink Lemonade and shot dog
There is something for everybody.
And the Indians are Eot the least OF
the ATTRACTIONS.
The great camp of the Indians al
the fair grounds is a fascinating
sight, and hundreds of visitors rang.
ed through the grounds all day yes.
terday, peaping into the open tents,
watching the cooking operations, the
horsemen riding about, and all the
many CHER sights which go with an
Indian camp, and with which the
average white person is unfamiliar.
The number of Indians in camp is
estimated at about one thousand, and
there are about $50 tents on the
grounds.
Though the younger generation OF
Indians is thoroughly A~mericanized,
the elder generation clings to the
ways of the old days-the days of
the chase, the open camp, the rough
and ready outdoor life. Pemmican
hung from forked poles outside many
tents, raw meat drying in the sun
and wind. SquaWs, whose age could
only be conjectured, sat squatted by
camp-fres, their faces scanned and
wrinkled, some Of them with long
ornamental pipes in their mouths.
Dogs ran everywhere, every tent hav-
ing from one to several. Papoosss
peeped from their high perch on the
mothers back.
Near tine center of the encamp-
ment are three tepees Of large size,
and Of the same type as used by the
primitive Indian, only larger. On
the walls of these tents gay figures
are painted. In them the big chiefs
are camped. In one Of them lives
Blue Thunder, one of the biggest
chiefs of them all. He is a small
man, bent and wtzened, and his age
is beyond the memory OF the Oldest
i~nhabitanlb being conservatively es-
,timated at 1903 years. Blue Thunder
and Chasing Fly, another chief,
posed for their pictures, at the door
of the tent. Perhaps Blue Thunder
will be presiding at councils in the
happy hunting grounds when anoth-
er encampment rolls around. But he
doesn't look particularly feeble, and
the probabilities are that when the
Indians como again to sojourn for
a few days with the white brothers
of the Slope country, old Chief Blue
Thunder will again sit squat-legged
before his royal tspee, meditatively
tamping the Goals in his long pipe,