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The Elbert County tribune., 1915-09-03
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DENVER MARKETS.
Cattle.

Cattle.
Beef steers, coenfed, good
to choice ..---.--.. '-o0
Beef steers, cornfed. fair
to good ----.. "'oVo'S'
to choice .......... 7.OO@s.oo
to good -......... 6.75@7oo
Beef steers. grassers, good
to choice ....------.-.. tZoW '-''
Beef steers, grassers, fair
to good -..-...-----.-' o'IoV Leo
Heifers, prime, cornfed -. 1.ooWs.oo
Cows and heifers, cornfed,
good to choice ...--.... LO0Q LoV
fair to good ...... S.5o97oO
good 10 choice '....... 6.25@6.75
Cows and heifers, grassers,
fair to good ........... o.ooUo'zo
Veal calves 5000 1850
Bulls ....-........... 4IoWo.io
Feeders and stockers, good
to choice ..-.-.--.-----. oioWtzo
to good .......!..... 6.25@6.75
Feeders and stockers, COM
mon to fair -..-...-... 5.7oWo'Zo
H&ss.
Good hogs ....--.-----.-...f ..fzo9 "oo
Sheep.
Lambs .-.-.---....... So.Ooepo.oo
Ewes ....... o.Oo1o.oo
Yearlings ............. 5000 $50
Wethers .................5. 6'oo
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Buying Prices.

Buying Prices.
Colo upland. per ton .11.0O9l2OO
Nebr upland, per ton 9.0OQ1OOO
Second bottom, Colo. and
Nebr.. per ton 9.00@1O.00
Timothy, per ton .13.5O@14.50
Alfalfa, per ton .. 7.50@S.50
South Park. choice, ton. .13.00@14.0O
San Luis Valley, per ton. .1000@11.00
Gunnison Valley, per ton. .12.00Q 1900
Straw. per ton .... 5.00@5.50
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Sheep.
HAY AND GRAIN MARKET

f. o. B. Denver. carload price.
Hay.
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Grain.

Wheat. choice milling, 100 lbs,
buying ..--.-.--...-...... -l.ooD
Rye, Colo, bulk, 100 lbs, buying .1.6O
Idaho oats, sacked. buying ..... .1.65
Colo. oats, sacked. buying ...... .1.55
Corn chop, sack, selling ........ .1.55
Corn in sack, selling. g.............1 .1.54
Bran, Colo. per 100 lbs, selling. las
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Flour.

Flour.
Selling Prices.
Standard Colo. net ..............S sos
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Fruit.

Apples, Colo, box .1O0@2.25
Blaekberries, Colo, pit. CRIT. 2.75
Peaches. Colo. box ..... 400 so
Peaches. Colo. bu. basket ..125@1.50
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Live Poultry.
Eggs.

Eggs, graded. No. 1, net, F.
o. B. Denver ... %
Eggs. graded, No. ., net, f.
o. B. Denver ...... Is
Eggs, case count, misc. cases
less commission ...... $500
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Creameries, ex. Colo. lb. ..27 @2S
Creameries. ex. East. Id. . 2S
Creameries, I'd grade. lb. .23 @24
Process M24
Packing stock ..........1S 61e
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-10-29
TfMBER SALE.

! DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, WASHING
TON, d. c., October l9, 1915 --Sealed
proposals to be opened at 200 pm. Gem
tral time, THURSDAY, December .l6, t9l5,
will be received uatiI 1900 noon, that day,
at the La Pointe Indian Agency, Ashland,
Wisconsin. for ths purchase o. all melcaan-,
table timber On nandS "a tho Bad Eyer
Indian Reservation which are subject to al
lot1nent under section twenty-ttree OF the
Ac of August /, 1914 (3S Stat. l.. $50, 63s)
This sale does not include timber on secron
sixteen or SO called swamp lands'' claimed
by the State of Wisconsin. The total
amount of timber is estimated at over 100,
600, 600 feet, of which about 40 per cent is
henlock IS per cent white and Norway
pine, and the remainder Eastwood, birch,
maple and other species The timber must
be paid for according to scale. No bid for
less than the following prices will be ,consid-
cred; white pine, IS. so, Norway pine $8. CO.,
oak $6. 90, Eastwood $500, spruce S. 00,
birch $3.50, elm 81. SO, ash S2 so. hemlock
81. 90, tamarack 2.06, maple 81. 90, balsam
81 90, poplar 81. 90; cedar saw timber 49, 90,
S-ft. ties CTS, 4 it. cord SINGLE timber Is
cts; post, top 7-n. and less, length and
feet, ct; top 10 inches and less, length
lSCi, " N'o1 tcP ~ anu iCSS,
10 feet, crs; top inches and less, length
IL to 16 feet, 3 cts;top inches and less,
length Is and 20 feet, cts; poles, top
inches and less, length Is feet, 10 cts;
length 80 feet, 20 cts; length IS feet, 40
cts; top 10 inches and less, length 40 feet,
IS cts; length As feet, $l.00; length 50
feet, $l.75, length S. feet, $3.50; length
60 feet. "a. 90.
All timber must be cut in accordance
with prescribed regulation, copies of which
NAV be obtained from the Superintendent
of the la Pointe Indian School. All timber
must be removed prior to June /. 1924 A
cash payment of>$40, 600 will be required
within sixty days from the acceptance of
proposal for the timber. This payment will
not be applied on the purchase price of tim
Der until after so, 100000 feet have been
cut and paid for in full A bond in the SUM
of S2S, 900 win be required of the success
full bidder. Each bid must be submitted in
a sealed envelope marked on the outside,
''Bid for Bad River Timber, and be az
compan;ed by certified check for $4,000
on National bank as an evidence Of good
faith. Such check will be credited toward
the $40, 900 if the bid is accepted and re-
turned if the bid is rejected. The right 10
reject any and all bids is reserved.
Cato Sells
OMMISSION
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-10-29
ARE STILL
IN THE DARK
Nothing Further Has Beer
Heard on Tisis Subject
Our Citizens Are Getting Somcwi,a
Anxieus to See Some Action Taken.

Sometime ago we, learned the franchise
covering the rights of installing an electric
light and telephone in our village was grant
ed and that everything was in readiness for
operation but as yet not a representative 5f
this concern has been on the ground. Our
citizens arc beginning to wonder if this con-
cern is alo to fassle out. Of course it is
rather, late in the year to begin active oper-
alton ON the work, but surely the telephone
end of it can be started.
All we haYe to offer in explanation TO
our readers on the delay is that Mr.. Park
in,on the man at the helm, is very busy
with silimar outfit at the southern end of
the county and MS soon as he can arrange
will be among US and perfect some arrange
ment, looking to the end of installing this
plant. 1t is assured the telephone will
surely lie in operation this fall
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-10-29
Hunters Attention
Outside Residents
We Are Requisites To Warn Outside
Residents.

Request has been made to this Office by
a committee of our citizens to warn people
living off the reservation to take heed and
not come on the same to hunt any kind OF
game. The committee put it plain to us
that>peope residing on this reservation are
Ut the ones they wish to stop the practice,
b It people residing off of same are con-
tiauallv hunting on the reservation, and
these are the people that must heed this
warning Pcorle making their home ame ng
us and in fact part of our community do
wish to deprive of the sport of hunting at
home, but on the contary the small amount
of game they kill is of no consequence.
they are our neighbor and aid in maintain
ing our village.
Mir. Outside hunter take heed and keep
out otlierwis, you will pay the penalty.
Committee.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-10-29
SkINNING THE INDIAN
By Edward Russell

A single headed paragraph in Wash
ington newspaper recently announced that
after conferences between the Tribal Coun-
ell of the Usage Indians and the Bureau of
Indian Affairs decision had been reached
that what as known as the Foster oil lease
should be renewed.
This lease, said the paragraph, covers
6S6. 900 acres of oil lands.
That was ALL
To persons that know something of the
real history of our dealings with our unfor-
tunate red brethern it was enough. Ii
meant that very strange and wonderful
chapter in that history was about to be re-
peatsd, colossalsgouge was once more to
be legalized, and our good old Indian pol
icy of Benevolent Supervision had received
another vindication--of the same old kind.
Hsle is something for all of us at the
juncuture in our affairs if we can be induced
to pay any attention to it.
Forty-ive years ago the government of
the United States belately discarded the
frontiersman's theory that the Indian was
beast to be exterminated or murderous fo-
to be fought and subdued. In the place OF
these principals, which jbed but poorly with
our professions, we now adopted the theory
that the Indian was an idiot child to be at
tended and supervised necessarily and we
set up huge piece of machinery to do the
SUPERVISING.
BY most of us who give 80 much az a
tho ,ght 50 the people we dispossened and
disinhefited the results of this change arc
supposed to have been perfectly grand.
TIE Indian, we say, although still child
and much of An idiot, has been reclaimed
from his savage state, taught the beatiudes
of civilization, instructed in the iowly but
useful arts of plowing and soin shucking,
and what more do you wants
Look at him! He wears s'pants," doesn't
he' That ought to settle it. And then
read the annual report of the. Commissioned
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-10-29
Ltlnsber industry
Now Threatened
Northern Communities in Jecpardy
0r:iIng to Prominent Lus,befH7es
at Convention in Ni.Waaitee.

Manager Frank Clark of the John
Schroeder Lumber Company's interests in
the city is attending the convention of tie
Northern Heealock and Hardwood Maru-
facturers Association now in session at
Milwaukee.
Problems affecting the very life of Wis
cohsin's greatest industries are being dis
cussed today, when half hundred big i:ian-
ufacturers from Wisconsin and Northern
Michigan gathered fof the meeting.
With an output valued at over SIS, ,oO0,-
OO3 year, it was pointed out that not only
the manufacture, but the whole northern
communities, depending on the lumber In
dustry, are Threatened by the conditions :
developing in the hemlock and hardwood
trade. &
That foreign woods have now practically
driven Wisconsin hemlock and hardwood
out of Wisconsin on line as far north as
Rhinelander, right in the heart Of WiscoR-
sin lumber region. was brought out at the
convention in the address Of Secretary
o. T. Swan of Oshkosh.
The fact was brought at Yesterdays ses-
sion that due to an over production of lum-
her in the west and south, forced by the
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hymn book in the other while he takes your
purse for the sake of doing you good.
But all this is now changed.
The same malgn, secret sinister inRu-
ences that sneak their way into so many
other affairs Of government have been at
work here, and what of the Indian belong
ings they have not grabbed in the narne of
benevolence horde of land sharks have
picked from his pockets. Sometimesi it has
bsea merely The System following its
familiar methods, and sometimes it has
been conscious and dclibrate goaging, but
in any way Che result has always been the
same.
Take this Usage lease for an Illustration.
There never was the lea.t justiEcationf fol it.
The Usage reservation contains some of
the richest oil deposits on the continent.
and of course from the moment these de-
posts were discovered the Oil Interests
were determined to dominate them and to
pump up their enormous profits They did
this from the beginning. They have now
done it again. That is all there is to this
lease.
Now there could not be betterse example
OF the whole business of Beneyolence as ap-
lied to the Indians. The excellent gentle
men that presides over the Indian Bureau
is perfectly certain that this lease is grand
good thing. The new terms are better for
the Indians than were the old. Benevolent
&c protrudes from every paragraph. More
money has been or will be secured for these,
our wards. Is not that we'll indeed? Where
last year they got dollar, this year they
will get dollar and half of cent. And
yet all the time, under the very from. of
august Benevolencc, the Iadian has been
skinned once ,mors and the Interests nave
raked of the huge income that prs,ain, to
his skinring
This is worth going into because it shows
the very perfection of the trick BY which
good men are deluded with the mere names
OF things, the little value that lies in ood
intentions so long as we maintain the present
system, and how our wards are sandbagged
while we roll our eyes and sign the
Doxology.
Continued next week.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-10-29
POPLAR YOUNG
COUPLE WEBS
James Rynda and Miss Frances Eiroyeck
Married Last Thursday.
Continued next week.

James Rynda of this village and Miss
Frances Hroveck, of Wakefield, Mich,
were married in that village at the tride's
home last Thursday. Miss Troyeck has
been for some time past employee in this
village while MIR. Rynda is grader in the
lumber yard at this place. The young
people have large circle of friends here
who extend congratulations. They will
make their home in this village.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-10-29

of Indian AffairsI Isn't that finer More
plows and more pants every year.
If that isn't cultivation, where do you
find it.
Yet the fact that the policy of "benevol-
ent supervision" has been (for the Indian)
sad and ghastly failure. While we have
been supervising our national ward, organiz-
ed Greed has been .kinning him. While
with pious sjaculatons and blandly philan-
thropic mien we have roped and held him.
the Corporation, the Interests, the Advent
urer and the Land Graber have robbed him
of almost everything he ever had.
After which we have issued another re-
port, extolling our bcnevolences.
All this time there is not a particle of
doubt that the people Of this country are
firmly, or you might say hercsly, determin-
Su " OC AIIQ W bllC 1u'ildu
They have good sense and strong moral
perceptions. They know that our forefat
ers gave the Indian rotten deal and they
want TO see the score evened--so far as we
are now able to even it.
The purpose of the nation is that the In
dian shall be humanely treated. For the
most great part, proht-mongering Interests
have defeated that purpose and made the
last chapter of our Indian history worst than
tAe first.
In the old days we made no pretenses
and had no compunctions as We went out
TO rob the red man. This, al least, was
plain dealing. A pirate under the black
flag is always more respectable figure than
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money to do SO with, and roads will be had.
for from the present outlook we should be
successful in our aim to get a good sub
stantial appropriation for the purpose.
In conversation with Edgar B. Merritt
first Asst. Commissioner some time ago
he informed US that in qis opinion the sal.
yatioa of the Indian was in farming We
certainly agree with him. 1t really is the
salvation of the Indian not alone in the
western reservations but right here at home,
and the quicker we come to realize the fact
the quicker the dormant lands will come
under the plow.
Our Agent ?. 5. Everest is also of the
same opinion and is doing everything in his
power to convey that idea to the Indian and
we must acknowledge with good success
from the many nice comfortable farm build
ings and cultivated fields that meets the eyes,
wherever roads are available for the pur-
pose. He has repeatedly used his good
persuasive powers in getting the Indian ITO
farm their lands until today we find the
Indian eager and willing to assume the roll
of full flcdged farmers.
In the opinion of the writer we can as
sure our citizens that i'll in their cndeavor
to secure road appropriation they certainly
will have champion for their cause in
Edgar B. Merritt first Asst Com'r Of Ind
ian affairs as ne certain y: has on numerous
occasions proved to the satisfaction of all
that he is or5the-bsst interests Of all In
dians, not only our Indians kar all Indians.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-10-29

Is per cent white and norway pine and the
remainder bssswoed, birch, maple and 9TH
er species, which is not near what was
thought to 'reinain on this reservation of
course this estimate does not include the
so-callsd swamp and state.l land. over which
there is CONTROVERSY as TO the ownership,
whether the Indian or the state, with the
vtst amount of timber on these lands the
remaining number OF feet would be boosted
considerable and the white pine perN cent
would average to near 40 per cent or equal
to the heinlock.
1t is good news to our people that this
timber is at last to Be sold as it is almost
certainty that the present company viii hn<
sh the cut which means that numbering OPP
erations in their many camps will open up
in full blast about January l., 1915 and
double shift will again be added to the mill
and operated steadily until the cut is fnish-
ed which will be in the neighborhood of
from to 4 years and perhaps lo,gen
which means much in the way of labor to
our people and the surrounding country
as we'll
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-10-29
TIMBER is NOW
FOR SALE
E0O,000,OOO Feet of All Specs Up For
Bids
Bids TO BE Opened Dacensber Is. 1915 At 23s
O'clock o.

AT last the much talked of tribal timber
on this reservation is to be sold and tt us the
disposed of to the highest bidder. Bids on
this timber will be opened at p. m. con-
tr1l time, Thursday, December 16, 1915
and received up to 1900 noon, of that day
at the LaPointc Indian Agency, Ashland,
Wisconsin. All timber must be cut in ac-
cordance with prescribed regulations, copi, 5
of which can be obtained from the Office of
the Superintendent at Ashland. Each bid
must be accompanied by certified check
of S., 900. A ysh payment of $40, 900
will be required within sixty days from tie
acceptance of proposal of the timber.
For years past continual fight has been
waged over the timber and it is safe to say
that the Bad River Indian has been the loser
by this fight to the amount of approximate
ly 81, 900, 900 in the loss of timber and now
that the time il here when the whole
amount is to be disposed of, they should
feel relieved over the fact.
100. 900, 600 feet,of all species. of timber
remains as follows: 40 per cent hemlocks
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-10-29
INDIAN MONEY TO
Be DISTRIBUTED
We are Informed The Indian Money On
New List
Will Be Distributed To Those Entitled Within
80 Days.

We were ainforred the long waited for
pro ra.a division OF Indian moneys to those
found entitled will take place within 80
days. Some may think the work of dis
tribu,ing $500, 900 to s45 people easy,
bu, those people do not teke in consideration
the enormous task lis. The Office under
Indian Agent P. S. Everest is by 40 means
sleeping on the job, but on the contsry
they are not losing moment in the work
of transferring this big bank roll snd paying
it to each individuals credit, land hope to
complete the enormous task within the next
thirty days. Superintendent Everest and
hi. assistants are rs anxious as anyone that
the lob be completed at as early q date a.
possible.
Everything is progressing nicely in the
complete settlement of the alottmentquestion
and from present indications will be through
lob, both in the money and land end With
the ending of this last piece of work it ends
the last distribution of a similar character
on this reservation and with the timber
being contracted for will be the end OF lun'-
berins also. We sincerely hope. before the
entirely ending of logging on this reservation
tc see the country opened up with flns farm
buildings and nicely cultivated lands fol
this means the salvation OF our citizens, and
the Land now occupied by giant pines bud
forth in as fine farm lands as can be found
in. Northern Wisconsin, and why not? lhe
soil is of the best, the, land will be prac-
tically cleared and each individual has the
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-10-29

rapid increases of taxes in these districtrs,
the timber owners are sacrificing the pro-.
ducts Of fneit mill in Wisconsin markets,
frequently at figures below the cost of pro-
daction, q situation which if it Continues
will drive Wisconsin lumber from great
part of It's natural home territories Ash
iald Press.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-10-29

AS you are no DOUBT aware ScVeral cases
of scarlet fever have made their appearance
in our village and it was deemed necessary
to close, for time, the public schools in
order to prevent possible epidemic. In
order to further safe guard the public health
Will be necessary for each parent or guar
dian TO assist the locsI health officer IS
much as possible and we therefore wish to
impress upon you the necessity of keeping
your children at home for aisw days. We
ask that you refuse to allow them to enter
tain other children in your; home or yard,
keep them from ri,ingling with others on
the street or any public place and should
any SYMPTOMS of sickness occur, promptly.
notify physician.
u BY observing the above faithfully, should
other cases develop, the smallest number
will become exposed to the disease and as
- i ~.
it is of highly contagious nature too much
caution along these lines caanot be exercis-
ed Should the disease gain much head
way in the town the State Board of Health
would no doubt send an officer here to take
charge of the situation which of course
would cause more expense and inconveni-
sHce to the public and especially ior those
in whose ho,ncs the cases were.
We trust that you appreciate the situa-
tion and will act<prolnptly upon the sug-
ges,ions above set forth.
Very truly yours,
School Board,
Sanborn township.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-10-29
NOTICE.

The schools have closed on account OF
scarlet fever and parents are requested to
keep their children on their own premises
and not allow them to mingle with other
children at home or on the streets or in
public places. Your earnest Cooperation
il rruuested
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-10-29

We formerly regarded the Indians
a. boasts to be exteriminated. we
now treat them as idiot children
whose property must be given to
soms rich white man Who wants
more money.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-10-29
SCARLET FEVER
BREAKS OUT
Public Schools Closed Thurs
Gay For E=un1isation
Ssycral Families QuaTantined With
Scarlet Fever Cases,

1t seems a mild outbreak of scarlet fever
has broken out among the school children
in the public school and as a result several
families are qusrantined. The school Was
closed Yesterday, Thursday, and will re-
main ciosed until Monday and during that
time will be thoroughly fnmigatcd. DR.. H.
A. sincock is doing everything necessary to
prevent spread OF ,his Jiaesse. The fol-
lowing notice has been posted for the bene-
Gt.of parents to aid III the prevention of the
st.ns.