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Hats, Caps, Gloves, Trunks, and Valises, LADIES & CHILDREN'S UNDERWEAR. Mail Orders will Receive Prompt Attention. 3, Next Door to Barber Shop. [18m6] DETROIT, MRS. S. J. OFFORD. Minn. Millinery and Ladies & Gent's FURNISHING GOODS. Every Article "Warranted Fresh and First-Class, and at Cost Prices. II you cannot come yourself, write to us and we will try and suit you. [19t4] DETROIT, Minn. MRS. E. IRVINE, it,.* LATEST STYLES MILLENARY, FANCY GOODS. LADIES FURNISHING. Mail Orders promptly.attended to. DETROIT Minn. jfejar^SJ^gySFSSSlSP"^ ^"^s^ THE PROGRESS WHITE EARTH, FEBRUARY 25, 1888. Published Every Saturday. Subscription 2,00 per year, In Advance, Entered in the Post Office at White Earth, at SECOND-CLASS rates. Local and General. Do You Want Something to Read We have the pleasure to announce to our readeis with this issue, that we have made arrangements with the publishers of the DAILY Evening- Publishe a- Minneapolis, where by we are enabled to furnish the same with the PROGRESS at the astonish ingly low price of FOUR DOLLARS A YEAR FOR THE TWO The News is is an eight column folio, contains 32 columns of reading matter daily it is wide-awake, fresh, and newsy and all together one of the best sources of in formation for the money that one can secure. Its News are condensed and reliable. Try it, and you TI ill not be disappointed. S@_ Remember you you get a first-class DAILY Newspaper worth alone the price of your money, and the Progress, the two for $4.00 a year. BgL, We have also secured the priv ilege of club rates -with the St. Paul Weekly "Farmer," The Best Faimer's paper published in the Noithwest. The -Farmer' is ably conducted, and its columns aie filled with beasonaMe and valuable reading for the Faun, Family and the Kitchen. We will furnish the St. Paul FARMER and the PROGESS foi one year to any addiess for $3.00. mortuary Report. John Ciitt, in the 21st year of his age, died Feb'y 18, A. D. 1888. The deceased, was a son of chief Jo seph Critt--Wan-gee-mah-dub. He was a bright, piomising young man and highly esteemed by a large chcle of fiiends and relatives. Our sympa thies are with the bereaved family. Archange Villebrun, aged 86 years and 7 months died Feb'y 20. A. D. 1888. The deceased was the wife of An toine Villebrun, of the Pembina set tlement, and among the oldest resi dent pioneers of this poition of the country. She leaves a large family, all grown up to manhood, and a laige chcle of fiiends and relatives to mourn her demise. Requiescat in pace. What They Say of Vs. Of the many complimentary favors, of which the PROGRESS is the lecipi ent we herewith respectfully give publicity to the following: ST. PALL, Minn. Feb'y 8, 1888. Messrs. Beaulieu, Gentlemen:Please find enclosed $2.00, for my subscription to the Prog ress. I am pleased to know that the poor Indians have an 'organ' by way of which they car/ make their voices heard and their wiongs known. As a faithful inteipretor of the views and wishes of the Indians your paper will render a service veiy desnable to those in authority, and to the people at large who have the good of the In dians at heart. Wishing you all suc cess in your laudable undertaking, I am, respectfully and Sincerely Yours, THOMAS L. GRACE, Bishop of Minnesota. 'GENTLEMEN.Inclosed herewith please find $2.00 for my subscription. You aie doing a great and good woik for the Indians and civilization. Long life and all success to the Progress. Veiy tiuly yoms. ALLEXIUS EDELLBROEK. Abbot, St. John's Abbey, O. S. B. St. Cloud, Minnesota. A Worthy Cause. Mrs. Thwing, the energetic wife chief Thwing, (Mish-e-ke-ge-shig, Hole-in-the-sky) of Rice Ri\er, ar rived here the fore part of this week. Mrs. Thwing, as usual, is busy labor ing in a worthy cause they have a school at Rice River, which i3 some what straightened in circumstances as also are several very poor families at the same place. With this object in view the women, headed by Mrs Thwing. have organized an 'Industrial Society.' The object being to manu facture mats, patch woik, and all t-*^^\-""* ^-^(J^^^ of v-*l MUM W CJ kinds of bead, silk and ribbon fancy production) of our names work, etc., such as means will allow, enterprise being pointed sale th 5 sam andtodispos proceeds to be employed for the bene fit of the school, the poor and the soci ety. Mrs. Thwing waited on the ladies of our village for donations of calico remnants, put away garments, thread *n and needles, yarn etc., and we are pleased to note, was reasonably sue- pearance of the specimen cessful. Here is an eifort worthy of production before us, we are encouragement and liberal patronage, and ceitainly a worthy field for the generous donations of chaiity and philantrophy and we would respect fully suggest, that per adventure, some kindly disposed party or parties desirous of doing good the charita ble cause of humanity, here is a space deserving and woithy. And Ladies, ere you stow away 'cast off' garments, calico remnants, yam, thread, ate, to the garret or consign.Cr~"-yVi" them to the W "v"~T- Insane, and a Murderer. 'ral STAR-NEWS, ^ZtSXltT^mZ r^'* *st, Frank Stevens, who killed Chas. Warn, in the insane asylum, is a married man from Becker County, and was considered harmless. Stevens thought Warn was seek ing to kill his family. The officers of the asylum are nowise blame able, as the instutition is very crowed. This man Stevens run a thrash ing machine on our reservation for two seasons. The last season he run his machine here the engine boiler was in a defective condi tion, and it seems he was in con stant dread of it exploding, so much so, that he would at times jump up in his sleep, cry out, etc., this, with a natural tendency to wards insanity, probaly aggrava ted the disease. Stevens was out hunting with one of his neighbors the day before the officers came to take him to the asylum. GRUNTS OF A RANTING BRAT. We beg the indulgence of our readers this week, in our conde sension to allow space for the in solent vaporings extorted from the lewd mental recesses of the jour nalistic abortion who edits the Red Lake Falls Gazette. List* to the demented squaks of the suck ling: "We understand that under the manipulation of the Beaulieus of the White Earth agency, a delegation of Indians is being gathered and cram med for the puipose of sending them to Washington to protest against the treaty ratification. These Beaulieus are sharp fellows half-breedsand our Washington rep resentatives should know that it is an easy matter for them to create dissat isfaction among the Indians and pack a piotesting delegation in their indi vidual mdeiests. It is to benefit then selfish ends that they desire the res ervations to remain as they aiethey are consuming leeches who are and for years have been making a fat thing under past and present conditions. They always have fought any change and especially the allotment of lands, and they always will, for with the independence and civilization of the Indians, their occupation vanishes, and they will always be able to create dissension among the Indians as long as they aie allowed to lemain resi dents of the leservations." Once upon a time a lion reposed in the quiet shade of the forest, a mouse, becoming offended at some assumption against the king of beasts, presumed to reprove and chastise him after vainly trying to aggravate him by biting and scratching him, the lion raised himself, yawned and shook him self, and looking about to see whether a flea had bit him, he ob served the enraged mouse who had tantalized him the lion spake not, but stood for a moment glaring with a look of mingled pity, scorn and derision, then turning away from the mouse he elevated his tail perpendicularly, and with a sardonic smile, walked majestically away indifference of the lion in this stance but for the fact that have several times been iniormed by parties (we do not exchange would not desecrate our valuable exchange table with his nauseous I mwm defacing of dead wallsf and outhouses, and by the filthy of with us, and who are acquainted with the circumstances attending "our venture and our position re- forget the "heathen's nearer home." will exhonorate us from all such dastardly assumptions as is infer red in the Gazette. In conclusion we will state, that jailsin this StatIe where their previousness and defects could be treated with more salutary results. Already we have heard that it is inferred that instead of disapprov ing of John V. Wright's scheme regarding the arrearages we fa vored the same, that we were in league with certain other parties who were trying to defraud the Indians, that we and 'our pals' were to receive several thousands of the Indians money for our work, etc., etc. These notorious assump tions are base exaggerations of perfidious truth. And if any man assert these statements against us, he states WHAT IS FALSEA LIE We started out with the set purpose of working in the interest of the Indian's welfare, the cause of justice, humanity and fair-play, in this, we feel that we have ac quitted ourselves beyond the shad ow of reproach as the numerous testimonials (of which we have printed a few) will bear witness to this fact. And when we enjoined our peo ple in last week's issue to ignore what we believed, and still believe, to be a scheme detrimental to them pecuniarily, we MEANT WHAT WE SAID, EVERY WORD OF IT And perchance it be forgot, we here wit TO 1 Congress, the Executive departments. We lam would ape the sardonic or the Comts. the Claims ot the Chip- J:_? ii.i_ i'._ ii pewas of Lake Superior for their in terest in the sum of $84,438.95, agg'e gate of unexpended balance of appro priations, fiom 1843 to 1878 inclusive, made under treaty stipulations and now in the treasury ot the United States, and also the claim foi the sum of $32,298.77, the aggregate of the difference in value between the pay ments currency in 1863 and 18G4 and in coin at the several dates in we republish the article in full 3T DON'T YOU SIGN THIS RESOLVED, ._ jmnnjmjui HI.,, by.the Chippewas Lake Supeiior of the La Pointe agency that be, and is hereby, constituted and appointed the agent delegate and attorney foi the Chippe was ot Lake Supeiior, La Point agen cy, to contract and agiee with Fiee man & Money, attorneys at law, Wash ington D. C, and to execute for the Chippewas of Lake Supeiior, LaPomt igency, a power of attorney to said Freeman & Money to piosecute befoie m, idiotic assumptions of the scrub of payments with inteiest thereon whn pdite fiu_ fi.o-^__ fiomdate. And the said agent, dele- who edits the Gazette a gnome whose only practical mental train ing seems to have been derived midstethe dan atmosphere and ap- his of the opinion that it would even de file the interior of the latter and aptly fitted for the lowest degree of indulgence. Out of regards for the feelings Money. of our readers we forbear further comment, as we believe that those _ who have known us and have been [-the latter, in reference to this con tract and to "secure the signature of the chiefs" to the same. Mr. Sheehan takes the same position we do regard ing the same, and will not countenance an act which will insure the payment we have no time to dilly-dally or justed, and all that remains to be done mete out suggestions or instruc tions to such insignificant churls, there are reformatories, asylums that, whenever the appropriation for _!. 11 rl I linn. Mean what We Say, and Say. just what We Mean I There seems to be a certain class of individuals who take it as an implied duty on themselves to en deavor to misconstrue our mean ing and controvert public opinion against any suggestions or meas ures we might put forward looking to the well-being of the reserve and the Indians. This is unrea sonable, and we would respectfully suggest, that those who do not understand what they may read in the columns of the Progress should forbear criticism or comment un til amply assured whereof they speakin other words, to cease talking about matters until they know what they are talking about. __________________ ________________ b.*ZW *&/** gate and attorney, is hereby author ized, and empowered to contract with said Frreeman & Money to pay in compensation for their services a sum not to exceed ten per cent, of the amount recovered." The above contract has reference to the "back money" which we refer to in another column. John V. Wright, Chairman of the treaty commission, has evidently taken a deep interest in the matter, and as usual, is working for the interest of the In diansand the firm of Freeman & Mr. Wiight has written a letter to agent Sheehan, as we are informed by of 10,000 or S12,000 to any party or paities who have never done anything towards prosecuting this claim. The account has long since been ad is for Congress to appropriate the amount. It must be borne in mind The heart has ears. In a still pool swarm devils. Honor is better than wealth. God waits long, but hits hard. Pray to God, but row to shore. Modesty is a maiden's necklace. An old crow croaks not for noth ing. Poverty is not sinbut twice as bad. A bad peace is better than a good quarrel. An untimely guest is worse than a Tarter. Calumny is like a coal if it does not burn it will soil. NOTICE. Strayed from the premises of E. L. Warren during the month of December last, a Dark-bay Mare Colt, ten months old. A liberal reward for any information lead ing to its recovery will be paid. Direct information to this office. R. D. RYERSON. Photo. Artist. Dealer in Stationary, Blank Books, Confectionery, Tobacco and Cigars. Musical Instruments in Variety. 5, 10, and 15 Cent Counters. Picture Frames. Pianoes and Organs. The Leading Literature of the Day kept constantly on hand. 1_L. Mail Orders will receive prompt attention. 8w2 DETROIT CITY, Minn. R. FAIRBANKS. Dealer in QROCERIES PROVISION. and Lumbermen's Supplies. FLOUR and FEED kept on"hand. o Ginseng, Snake Root and Furs Bought, Sold and Exchanged. HOTEL HINDQUARTERS. Ed. Oliver, Proprietor* Everything in first-class keeping with the times. The tables are always provided with Fish, Game and Vegetables in their season. Good stabling, ample accommodation for both, man and beast. SV! CO i_ th _ the arrearage fund made, Miss. issippi Indians have a third interest it, and any action which may be made by the Lake Superior Indians looking to a disposition of that fund should not effect the Mississippi In dians share of it. The action of Mr. Wright in this matter does not tend to increase our confidence in him, as past experience with him and his "treaty commission" teaches us that we must watch him with a jealous eye. Russian Proverbs. fa 5? N_^ 8 PQ 6 It 6 *Kn* EH W E-t *S 3 a O a 2 OS CO \mt i tic