Evening star., 1925-08-30

In The Star of August %. 1875. is
a notice of a new play about to be
Almighty produced produce W which td, became
Dollar" seasons held the boards
Of the American stage.
greatly to the interest of the people
OF this city, which was the scene of
the action. The paragraph follows:
AT last. according to the theatrical |
papers of New York. the country Is
to have that ons-looked-for and
often-promised essential to our ma
tional happiness. first-class Amer.
lean drama. II is written by Mr.
Wooif, and is to be brought out by
Florence. the Irish comedian. in New
York next week. II is entitled The
Almighty Dollar and the scenes we
are informed, are laid in and around
Washington, while the plot and in
terest OF the play turn on the char.
acters and financial and social in
the National Capital. We learn
further that it's author is a Boston
Journalist who gaSe up his profession
TO become leader of an orchestra !;
that he has never before written a
play. and that so far as any one here
knows he has never been in Wash
ington for any length of time. il at
all, and Is therefore impartially un.
acquainted with the city, its peculiar
people and its striking characters.
tics. In view of these facts we do
not see why the new drama should
not be a great success"
A Federal commission was engaged
30 years ago in an examina ton OF
YI condition in the
Ah4ohJ Ah'o sioux Indian
Sioux Conditions. region. region to de. de-
of the dissa tisfaction of the tribes
which later, despite the inquiry.
caused war and much bloodshed. In
The Star of August %, 1875. is an
of the investigations:
The speeches OF the Indians before
the Sioux investigating commission
are very similar to those they deliv.
cred when in Washington, overflow
ing with verbosity and not embracing
any complaints Of really serious
nature. Red Cloud. for instance.
talks more like a child than an In
dian warrior and statesman. He says
he is jealous because he has been
down to the Spotted Tail agency and
finds lumber there and several build
ings for the chiefs. AS to Agent
Saville. Red Cloud is reported as say
ing that he has no complaint against
him except that Saville raised an
American flag at the agency last year
against the wishes of his. Red Clouds,
people.
The speech of Sitting Bull, to
whom the President gave a hand
some rife in recognition of his eff
forts in behalf Of peace, was of a
similar trihing character. He want
ed the agent to distribute rations
every 10 days instead of every Z
days. because he thought they would
last longer, and closed by saying that
he did not like the yellow sugar he
received from the agent; he wanted
white sugar and the commission
must look to II that they send white
sugar hereafter. Great frauds may
have been perpetrated at the Red
Cloud agency, but 1t is plain to see
that the members of the commission
must invoke the aid of somebody
else besides the Indians II they wish
to unearth them"
In later issue. August 27. 1875,
Is paragraph casting light upon
Sioux shrewdness:
Spotted Tail initiates the pale face
In the matter of giving dinners. A
late letter from the Sioux country
states that at the time II was written
he was preparing to give the investi
eating commission a banquet and that
his bill of fare would embrace but
one article. viz. dog Indian etiquette
requires that guests shall eat all that
is placed before them, or else hire
some one to do 1t for them, by Civ
ing them a blanket, shirt, or some
thing of the kind. II is quite likely
that the members Of the committee
ate by proxy on the occasion in aues-
tion.'
Spotted Tail" says The Star Of
August 2s, 1878. is getting quite a
reputation as financier. The cor
respondent of the ST. Louis Demo
crat with the Sioux investigating
committee tells good joke on a
Herald correspondent who wanted to
interview Old Spot The chief told
him that he could not talk for the
mere sake Of talk, but must be paid
for 1t. and agreed 10 talk for SO and
IS to his interpreter. The reporter
agreed to the terms and handed over
the SIS. He then put about half a
dozen preliminary questions, which
we're answered, and thereupon Old