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The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-28

Farm work is making good progress
Corn planting and beet seeding are
we'll along
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-28

J. E. Beckley. of this city, made
trip to Denver the first of the week.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-28

Some people can't talk to you with
out waving their front feet in your
face.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-28

A. B. Crabill was in Montrose Sun
day.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-28

The assessors forces are busy sched-
uling the property of the county
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-28

The residence of T. E. Lamb, on
Dodge street, is being handsomely re-
painted.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1916-04-28

Sundays ball game between Delta
and Somerset on Delta grounds, is ex-
pected to be "dinger."
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-05-04

have had ample experience in this
respect even under an agreement
made as late as 1889 when unusual
care was taken by some of the ed
ucated members of the tribe to
protect tribal interests.
As an illustration, we have only
to refer to the Mile Lac case in
which the strong resistance by
attorneys of the Department of
Justice has been overcome in the
courts after liti CATION of nearly
seven years.
M Bishop has very difficult
task before him to try and secure
the ful6llment of treaty stipula-
tons with his tribe Judging from
the experience of other tribes.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-05-04
Members Of The Usage
Nation Attack Oil Leases
Of The Usage Reser-

Some of the members of the
Usage Council who refused to give
their consent to the oil leases
which the Interior Department
has insisted upon having them do,
have commenced proceedings in
the United States court against
the approval of the leases.
G.. A. Towne, formerly MEM
Der of Congress from this state,
has been retained by the Indians
as their leading counsel.
The complaint charges collision
or fraud in connection with the
leases.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-05-04

by approval or by issuing fee
patents for the allotments upon
the applications of the heirs, but
this the Van Metre bill proposes
to take out of his hands, or the
hands of the Secretary of the In
terror.
The Van Metre bill is so radical
that members of this reservation
will protest against it, for it gives
the heirs and aliottees no diScre-
ton with regard to applying for
fee patents.
The delegation now at Washing
ton will either oppose the bill in
it's entirety or try and have it
amended. They intend to also
call the attention of the commit
tees on Indian affairs to the fact
that while Mr.. Van Metre is Of
Indian blood he is not Of Chippe-
wa extraction, and that he does
not represent the Chippewas but
the land buyers of this reserva-
ton.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-05-04
Opposed To The
Van Metre Bill.
~

1t is learned that the Interior
Department is opposed to the bill
recently introduced in Congress
by Congressman Stevenson, which
John T. Van Metre is now urging
at Washington, and which pro-
vides to give probate courts juris-
diction over inherited allotments.
The bill in fact proposes to leg
alize by it's terms the inherited
land sales of this reservation, and
the alleged sales.
Under existing laws the Com
missioner of Indian Affairs has
the authority to legalize the sales
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-05-04
Ba||inger Raises Anothe|
Issue.

The Secretary of the Interior
and others who are the defendants
in the suit brought against them
by John G.. Morrison, Jr., as presi-
dent of the General Council of
Minnesota Chippewas, to prevent
the expenditure of $4,000 of the
tribal funds of the Chippewas of
this state which, it is claimed oy
The plaintiff, is not authorized by
law to expend, have appealed
the recent decision rendered by
the United States Court of APP
peaIs against them.
Webster Ballinger, attorney for
the Chippewas, has made motion
to revoke the order of the court
staying mandate on the grounds
that the appellants have not furn-
ished the proper bond; that there
is no statutory authority for the
staying of the mandate on an ap
peal in such a case as the one
which Mr.. Morrison is prescott
ing without the party prosecuting
the appeal first files satisfactory
bond or undertaking. Mr.. Balm
ger claims in his motion that the
appeal as allowed operates as a
supersedeas and the effect is to de-
prive the appellees of the rights to
which the Court of Appeals of the
District of Columbia by its decis-
ion and decree held them entitled
to.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-05-04
Ford ''0rigina| Ameri-
cans. "

One Of the most interesting
groups among the more than rs,
900 employees of the Ford autcmo-
bile factory at Detroit is the body
Of twenty-five students from the
United States Indian school, at
Carlisle, Penn. They represent
fourteen different tribes coming
from thirteen different states.
Eight are Chippewas, namely;
Joseph Gilman, Edward and Jo-
seph Morrin, Henry and Fred
Broker, Xavier Downwind, OFT"
Thunder, and Leslie James. ALL,
while at Carlisle, worked faithful
ly at their respective trades and
made good and all but the last two
named, have been prominent in
athletics. Edward Morrin and
the two Brokers hold Carlisle 1i-
plomas. Gilman has been one Of
the promising Carlisle representa-
tives. lie holds two records to
date. He broke the Ford record
for assembling and he was the first
Carlisle man to get married.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-05-04
Take Steps For An Early
Payment.

The representatives of the Chip
pewas of Minnesota, who are still
at Washington, took steps last
week to secure an immediate class
ilication of the Chippewas Of Min
nesota to ascertain to whom pay
ments of their respective shares Of
the one-fourth Of the tribal fund
could he made Immediately.
In a letter to the Secretary of
the Interior the representatives
set fourth that the payment now
to be made was in fact, as 10 part
OF the fund at lesst, long since due
as interest on the principal of the
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-05-04
To Get Gabriel
SaiCe An Appoint
ment.

Dan w. LAWYER has appealed to
Fred B. Lynch and Congressman
Van Dyke to try and secure for
Gabriel Saice all appointment as
special officer for the suppression
of intoxicating liquor into Indian
country. This is position which
is now filled by Edmund Belland,
whom the Democrats of this res
eryation have been opposed to.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-05-04

funds of the Chippewas of Mime
sofa to their credit in the Treas
ury; that the parents of minors
should receive the shares of these
minors especially if they were not
living upon Indian reservations.
The matter was taken up BY At
torney ID. B. Henderson, who is
aiding the delegates in their efforts
to secure ar early payment.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-05-04
No Exception To The
Rule.

Thomas G.. Bishop, president of
the Northwestern Federation of
American Indians, an organiza-
tion which includes all the Indians
in the State of Washington, and
also Alaska, has written a pamph-
let entitled IAN Appeal to the
Government in which he asks for
the fulfillment of the treaty stipu-
lations made with his tribe, the
S'Kallam Indians of Washington
State.
In his Introductory Mr.. Bishop
says: I'm drawing the attention
of the government of the United
States to the sufferings of some of
it's wards, the Indians, because of
the n-fulfillment of the promises
no ,de to them by the government
80 long since, and which for some
reason do not appear any nearer
being met than they were 81 years
ago, we do not speak in anger, or
even in ridicule. but in truth, in
order to bring to notice an exist
ing condition which, possibly, is
not known or has been overlooked
by the government, and for the
purpose OF righting wrong
which, if allowed to go on, will
cause more hardship and death to
the original native American peo-
pie than it has already accom-
plished.
In the almost compulsory trad
ing of lands owned by the red
men for the governments word to
give them other lands and to see
that they lacked for nothing in
privileges and desires, and the
non fuIfillment of any of these
promises, causing misery and even
death to many signers of the
treaty, is pathetic to say the least.
The contents of this pamphlet
are true in every respect and will
enlighten the officers of the gov
eminent as to the condition of
things pertaining to the most un-
happy redmen.''
Mr.. Bishop then proceeds to
quote treaties and states in what
respect they have been unfulfilled,
and he complains very bitterly be-
cause the Indians who live on
Puget Sound are not permitted by
the State of Washington to kill a
certain species of fish ducks
that are not classed as game birds
and are never eaten by the whites,
but which are the only kind that
the Indians will eat, and says this
is a privilege provided by treaty.
Mr.. Bishops complaint is the
same Old story Of all the different
tribes of American Indians, treat
les that we're made only to be
broken by the United States
whose officers placed a technical
construction on every sentence.
In making treaties with the
United States Indian tribes only
relied upon the statements that
we're made to them by representa-.
ti> es of the government, state
ments that almost invariably were
misconstruec by the officials OF
the Interior Department within a
year after the treaties we're made
| Tue Chippewas Of Minnesota
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-05-04

whether said allotteos are living Or
dead. That no Acts of Congress
giving jurisdiction to the Secre-
tary of the Interior or to the
courts of the United States to
determine the heirs or administer
upon the estate of any deceased
Indian shall apply to, nor be
deemed to have applied to, the de-
termination of the heirs or the ad-
ministration upon the estate of
any deceased Indian of the White
Earth Reservation, in the State of
minnesota, in any case where the
allotment Of any such deceased In
dian was at any time held by any
adult mixed-blood Indian, either
as his own allotment or by inherit
ance; and the courts of probate of
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-05-04
SUBSCRIPTION: $3.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
A STEVENSON BILL.
SEEKS TO GIVE STATE COURTS JUR
ISDjCII0N OVER INHERITED
LANDS.

On the 18th of last month Con-
gresham STEVENSON introduced in
Congress the following bill which
provides that the act shall be re-
troactive with regard to the in
herited lands upon this reserva-
ton:
"A BILL
To amend an Act entitled AN
Act making appropriations for the
current aud contingent expenses
OF the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
for fulfilling treaty stipulations
with various Indian tribes, and for
other purposes, for the fiscal year
ending June th;rtieth, nineteen
hundred and fourteen,'' approved
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
and thirteen.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled, That the seventh
paragraph of section nine of an
Act entitled An Act making APP
preparations for the current and
contingent expenses of the Bureau
of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling
treaty stipulations with various
Indian tribes, and for other pur-
poses, for the fiscal year ending
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
and fourteen" approved June
thirtieth, nineteen hundred and
thirteen, be, and the same is here.
by, amended so as to read as fol-
lows: -..
That the roll herein provided
for shall be made in triplicate and
shall show the allotment number
or numbers, together with the
description of the property allot
ted, and the name, age, sex, and
whether the allottee is of full H.
dian blood or mixed blood. The
roll shall also state whether the
person named is living or dead,
and if dead, the approximate date
of death shall be stated, when 1t
can be ascertained, together with
the age OF such person at death as
uear as practicable. And upon
the approval of such roll by the
court, or any portion thereof, and
upon filing with the Secretary of
$ the Interior copy thereof, the
male allottees over twenty-one
years of age and the female allot-
tees over eighteen years of age,
shown thereon to be mixed blood
Indians, shall be entitled to fec
simple patents for such allotments,
such fee-simple patents to be is:
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-05-04

Now is the time to pay that
subscription.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-05-04
;he State IF Minnesota shall be,

the State IF Minnesota shall be,
and shall he deemed to have been
since June twenty-frst, nineteen
hundred and six. vested with ex-
elusive jurisdiction in such cases,
the restrictions upon alienation
having been removed from such
alIotmenus by the Act of June
twenty. first, nineteen hundred and
six (Thirty~ fourth Statutes at
Large, page three hundred and
fifty three), as amended by the
Act of March first, nineteen hund,
red and seven (Thlrty-fourth Stat
utes at Large, page ten hundred
and thirty-tour)."
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-05-04

Entered at the POstoffice at White
Earth, Minn., as mail matter of the
second class.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-28
Price of Milk Goes Up
After Conference Here

The wholesale price OF milk shot up
Yesterday as a result OF meeting
held at the Murray Hill Hotel by a
committee representing the producers
and the New York dealers. with State
Senator Charles W. Wicks as a neutral
member. i new scale Of prices for
January, February and March was
agreed upon. which, committee mem
bers said. was FIVE cents a 100 pounds
higher than those set by the Dairy
mems League
The producers were represented by
r. ID. Cooper. Of Little Falls. and r.
n. Thompson. Of Holland Patent. J..
A Bomel, or the Sheffield Farms-Slaw-
son-Decker Company. and Theodore q.
Caldwell. OF the r. F. Stevens Com
pany. OF Brooklyn, spoke for the deal
erS.
According 10 the agreement, during
January 1920 100 mounds will be
Maid for milk from what is known as
the first district. while S2.l0 Will be
tho price for Milk produced in the sec
ond district. For February and March
the prices will be s2l6 and S2.lO. re
spectively, for the first and 10 cents
less for the second district.
These prices are for milk with 8
per cent butter fat content. The agree
ment provides for an advance OF three
cents a 100 pounds for each one-tsn'h
per cent increase in butter tat.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-28
Wilson Halted in Plans for Peace;
Will Send No More Notes to Berlin;
Entente to Spurn Conference Plan
GERMAN NOTE SHOWS AIM Is
CONQUEST, ALLIES SAY

Washington Dec 27.-Germany is believed mere 10
lay herself wide open to Allied attack by stipulang III
her note to President Wilson that the great WORK OF
preventing future be begun only after the emu
of the present struggle Of the nations
This is regarded in Entente and government quar-
er here as bald confession that selfprotectlon IS not
the aim of Germanys warare-in other words that she
looks on peace league means of preventing her
victims in this from attempting at any future time
to regain the conquests she may make.
The German government has repeatedly protested
that it was fighting only for the that Ger
many would never again be attacked by coalition She
now proposes make peace without receiving this as
surance.
On the other hand the Allies declare they will make
guarantees for the 1dture peace of Europe their first
condition for peace now In this stand they say they
prove the sincerity of their claim that they fighting
the war against war"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-28
Consumers to Introduce
SO Food Bills at Albany

Consumers who hold themselves re-
sponsible for cutting down high food
prices yesterday msrshalled their
forces for a final test Of strength on
the opening of the Legislature next
week. Fifty-three bills contemplating
the reduction Of the powers of food eX-
changes and eliminating the middle
man through public markets Will be
introduced within a few hours after
TIE law-making body is called to or
der.
Arother test will come when the
newly organized lobbies representing
consumers and the food exchanges
mec, for the FIRST time during the com
wittee hearings or these bills. IL -
cstimated that AT least 100000 con
sinners viii be represented By lobby
bsaded BY Joseph Hartigan. Commis,
sion,r Of Weights and Measures. ana
Iobn J. Dillon. Commissioner OF FOODS
snJ Markets. Mr.. Hsrtigsn will repre-
sent the city consumer. while Mr.: pil-
Ion has been authorized TO speak Tor
the farmer.
The Butter and Egg Exchange mem
Ceotinued on page j. column
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-28
$780, 900 CHRISTMAS
BLESSES FAMILY
FED BY CHARITY
Albany Folk Eating Free Dinner
When Word of Fortune
Arrives

Albany. Dec. 27.-Destitute. William
Skinner. his wife and two children we're
eating a charity Christmas dinner on
Christmas when the postman left let
ter postmsrked "England." II con-
tanned a copy Of the will Of Skinners
father a prominent English barrister.
bequesthing 10 him a life interest in
Sl5O,OOO, the money to 60 10 his chill
dren az his death.
In his JOY Skinner rushed TO the
home OF the Rev. Creighton p. Storey,
rector OF Trinity Episcopal Church, Of
this city. 70 whom he had appealed FOR
aid. and showed him the will Mr.
Storey made known the incident to-day
Dr. Storey said that from what Skin
ner had told he was the black sheep In
his family. He has two brothers, one
8 lieutenant in the English army. They
share the fathers estate with the Al
bany man.
When young man Skinner came 70
this country 10 travel. but his father
always kept track Of him and regularly
sent him remittances until about three
years ago The father then came % the
United states and purchased a two
family house for him at Niddleburg.
Schoharie County. with the understand
ing that thereafter that was 20 provide
his income.
Dr.. Storey said skinner told him
drink was the cause of his trouble. the
result being that six weeks ago the
family came TO Albany penniless. I'm
able 10 get work. he appealed 10 the
clergyman for help. and three Of his
six children had to be cared for by tho
humane society. Another was taken by
a family near the SINNERS home. on
Myrtle Avenue. Skinner has promised
Dr. Storey that he never viii touch a
drnp of Intoxicating liouor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-28
81 STILL LIVE"
MUNSTERBERG'S
Esprit" MESSAGE
BroOkline Woman Says Pro.
fessor Spoke to Her Through
Medium

Boston. Dee. 27.-"Spirit return is a
truth" This is the gist Of message
from Hugo Mlnsterberg, professor OF
psychology at Harvard, who died ten
days ago. The message was received
by Brookline woman. who says that
she did not know Professor Munster
berg and never heard him speak before
She ls Miss Caroline I. Pillsbury. VINO
saws that while she IS psychic and an
explorer in the field Of spirit return,
she is not a medium. She is the editor
OF Boston Ideas" weekly publication
here, and was formerl y assistant editor
OF "The Boston Times"
The message, she says, was conveyed
70 her Unexpectedly by a medium, in
whom she has complete confidence, the
spirit saying in part:
when ! was an inhsbltant OF the
earth | always endeavored TO be hon
est with myself and honest with the
public. and | did not then find any
proofs that excsrnate beings communi-
Gated with their earth friends.
lam still living. and / still endeayor
10 be honest with myself and with the
world. therefore bring this mes
sage:
although I have been in the spirit
world but brief time. have received
absolute proof that excarnste beings
can and do communicate with their
earth friends.
However valuable the messages
may bring in future time, this one to-
dag is important: Spirit return is a
truth. am Hugo Munsterberg
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-28
Papers Say War Must
Go On-WilSOn a
Dupe, Is Belief
By FRED b. PITNEl
LIZ obi, 10 The Tr.buneI

Paris, Dec. 27.-The German reply TO
President Wilson, published here this
afternoon, is rejected by all as offer
ing no opportunity for peace. The
Temps" expresses the general opinion
when il says: an .the presence of the
edifce of fslsehoods erected by the
Boches the Allies must announce
their intention TO continue the war
until they have won decisive victory"
"The, German reply to Wilson, the
Temps" continues, confines itself to
the proposition presented TO the Allies,
10 get together in a peace conference
that il, conference in some neutral
capital but it makes no revelation OF
what Germany will demand when the
plenipotentiare have gathered around
the table. The shortness Of the reply
shows how difficult the Germans found
it to find what 10 say. II tells nothing
of the German ends in the war nor Of
their ideas on reorganization.
For his offer Wilson gets nothing
from Germany. which declines, diplo-
Ol IOulots " uoN ohs 'hNN'
mediary. Evidently Germany wants
peace. but she wants German peace,
which. as she cannot win it by force,
she now seeks to seize through a ruse.
The reply to Wilson only gives new
proof OF this fact"
LA Liberte" remarks that Germany
received the American note on Deem
Der % and that her reply had already
Loft Rariin tho oGfh
Never in the exchange OF communi-
cations with the government at Wash
ington." says LA Liberte,' has VIII
heimstrasse shown such celerity. In
the period of the torpedoing OF the
Lusitania Germany allowed entire
months to pass without communicating
TO Mr.. Wilson explanations embarrass-
ing aud belated
"The German note is silent on the
essential point--it evades that entire
ly. Our enemy refuses to unmask her
batteries. The trap is more evident
than ever. but the Allies will not be
caught"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-28
BURGLAR SCARE NOW
STIRS CLEWS HOME
Fake Fire Alarms Followed by Mistake
of Police


of Police
Members OF the household OF Henry
Clews. at p West Fifty-hrst Street
hov. bscome used to excitement during
the last week.
door Of the Clews home, seeking 70 en-,
ter and put out a fire, only 10 ma
sparks shooting from the CHIMNEY re-
sponsible for the alarm
Last night three policemen burst into
the house. intent on capturing Dur,
who. il was later proved, eXisteo
no more than the hres.
John Pettigrew, butler for ]. j. OAK.
Low Rhinelander, whose home, 81 80
West Fiftv-second Street, is opposite
the Clews house, was Responsible 10Y
last nights alarm.
From, his window on the top floor
Petticrew saw man proving about
or tho roof of the Clcws house, short
lv before midnight. lie notified MI
Rbinelander. who telephoncd the po-
Pairolnan Cunningham was sent
from the East Fifty-frst Street station
10 investigate. With two other police.
men. he aroused the Clews family and
the officers crept 10 the roof.
Cunningham pounced on man ano
dragged him down into the hall. me
man poured out expostulations as ne
struggled. but the police refused TO
listen until they met Mrs. Clews IN the
corridor.
Good gracious" she exclaimed
That's no burglar. That's our butler
Max Lorch."
Max explained that he bad gone 10
the roof 10 take a quiet smoke before
retiring.