Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
CURTIS ADOPTED
INTO KAW TRIBE
Nominee, in Speech, Denies
Hoover's Share in Fix
ing Wheat Price.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BILLINGS, Mont, September %
Cheered by Indians whose tribes once
chased him with bow and arrow, Sena-
tor Charles Curtis, Republican vice
presidential nominee, waged the Repub-
lican campaign in Montana today IN
speeches at Hardin and here.
For the first time since taking the
stump. the nominee, at Hardin, referred
to declarations that Herbert Hoover
was responsible for fixing the price OF
wheat during the war, ana at Billings
he read a message of President wilson
stating that Mr. Hoover, as 1000 ao-
ministrator during the war, at MS eA-
press wish, has taken no part IN the
deliberations of the committee on
whose recommendation / determine
the Governments fair price, nor has ne
n any way intimated an opinion regard
ing that price"
Adopted by Tribe.
But the high point of busy day
for Senator Curtis was his WISH thlS
morning with the Crows, Blackfeet ana
Cheyenne Indians.
At solemn ceremonies, the Veneraole
Chief Plenty Coos Of the Grow naGion
waved his scalp stick over the heao OF
"A1v dear boy" and formally adopted
Charles Curtis of the Kaws into his
tribe. The ceremony took place at the
Hardin Fair Grounds, and Plenty Coos,
who represented the Indians of Amer
ira at the burial of the Unknown
Soldier. delivered a message to ms
braves through an interpreter. He Is
40 wears old and his voice was only
whiSner but he waved his arms
VIGOROUSLY as he told the Indians, ANY
thing we can do for my boy from the
Kaw country we must do"
He placed the feathered headdreSs
IN Curtis, who responded with
sneech to his new Indian brothers,
thanking them and urging them to re-
card seriously the responsibilities OF
citizenship recently given them. AND
he recalled how. as boy OF ., ne was
attacked while with his Kaw kinsmen,
by the Cheyennes. :,
You scared the life out Of us then"
Curtis told the Cheyennes today.
am glad to shake hands with you III
stead of lodging your arrows.
Old Days Are Gone.
1.-THE old days are gone forever" said
Chief Plenty Coos. (HiS name means
plenty scalps.) THE Buffalo are gone.
We are met with new propositions ana
new times. We have with us today one
Nhom we can safely follow as our
81 andard-bearer Anything we can 40
for YOU. my boy we are going to do IL.
I'VE are now one people. We are
going 10 be one people forever. We i've
Under the same flag. l realize this Is
probably my last message to the Wnlte
people. My days are numbered
The Senator, whose mother was
granddaughter of White Plume, chief
Of the Kaws, grasped the hand of the
venerable chief and his voice was husky
as he spoke words of counsel to the
indians. A little later Chief Plenty
Coos almost fell to the ground and he
vas put into a. car and returned to the
Grow agency near the spot where the
fheyennes and Sioux massacred Gen.
Custer and his band of cavalry more
than half century ago.
After the Indian ceremony a barbe-
cue luncheon was served at the falr
grounds and then Senator Curtis adj
dressed a throng of Montana folk who
Rad assembled in the grandStand. Am
lslitiers carried his voice as he lauded
TIE record OF bIe RepuDllCdu auIlllIIAo-
tration and proposed higher tariff rates
on agriculture as one means Of aiding
the agricultural situation. He was APP
nlauded frequently by the enthusiastic
audience.
Leaving Hardin late in the afternoon,
he was driven here by automobile and
tonight he spoke at Republican rally
at the Babcock Theater Republican
candidates of Montana met with the
Senator and accompanied him through
cut the day and he asked support for
them IN his speeches to the Indians, to
the Hardin people. and here.