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PROPOSALS FOB
Scotch-Fife SEED WHEAT.
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WHITE EARTH AGENCY
Feb'y 2d, 1889.
Sealed Proposals, endorsed "Propo
sals for field seeds," and addressed to
the undersigned at White Earth Beck
er county. Minn will be received at
this agency until
7 O'clock of March 1st, 1889
for furnishing and delivering at the
White Earth Agency, Minnesota
8900 Bushels of Scotch-Fife Seed
Wheat,
to be well cleaned and free from cock
le or mustaid seed.
CERTIFIED CHECKS:
Earn bid must be accompanied by a
certified check on some TJ. S. Deposit
ory for at least 5 per cent, of the
amount of the proposal, which check
or draft will be forfeited to the U. S.
in case any bidder or bidders receiv
ing an award shall fail to promptly
execute a contract with good and suffi
cient sureties otheiwise to be re
turned to the bidder. For fxuther in
formation apply to the undersigned.
T. SHEEHAN,
11. U. S. Indian Agent.
tray Notice.Came into ray premises
on or about the 1st of Dec 2888, a
RED STEER
about 2 year* o'd The ownei will please call
prove pioperty, pay charges and tuke said
unim.il away i AH BE TUB
Wild Rice Settlement [12]
Detroit City Directory.
A New Lot of Cloaks for
Ladies and Children's wear, Fall
and Winter Millinery, Hosiery,
Yarns and Fancy Goods just re
ceived at Mrs. E. Irvine, Detroit
City. Mail order* will receive
prompt attention.
Detroit City Pharmacy,
M. K. COKBACKBB, PROPRIBTOR,
Washington Ave, Detroit, Minn.
Drugs and Patent^ Medicines kept
Constantly en hand. Also a
Line of Toilet Ai tides.
fins
Physician's Prescription Compounded.
All Mail Ordeis will receive om
Piornpt Attention,
CITY MEAT MARKET,
C. ROBERTS, PROPRIETOR
Detroit City, Minn.
Fresh, Salt Dried and Smoked Meats.
Game and Poultry, Buttei and
Eggs constantly on hand.
Cah paid for Hides, Hogs and
Country Produce.
All Mail or Stage Orders will re
ceive Prompt Attention.
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-X THEC. H. BEAU LIEU.
White Earth, February 16th, 1889.
Published Every Saturday.
Subscription 92,00 per year, In Advance,
Eutered In the Post Office at White Earth as
Second Class Matter.
Local and Personal.
The wife of Wm. Walters pre
sented her husband with a splen
did boy on Wednesday evening.
Duncan McDougall, the Laird
of Richwood, came up from his
domain of braes and lochs Wed
nesday and remained a few hours
afc the agency.
Charley Duran, the efficient
aide-de-camp of our gallant friend
Field-Marshal W. C. Roberts the
well known proprietor of the City
Meat Market at Detroit, was at
the agencj on Thursday.
The "Home Maker" for March
has been received. Its contents
are unusually interesting and have
a special pertinence to the house
hold. The frontispiece of the cur
rent number is a splendid engrav
ing of the celebrated editress of
the Magazine, Marion Harland.
"Friar" Warren who does not
belie his name and who is as apt
with spiritual as he is with tempo
ral affairs was at the agency on
Thursday. As mine host of the
Twin Lake's Inn the "Friar" is
likely to have a considerable run
of custom this spring. Reports
reach us of splendid huntmp and
fishing grounds in his vicinity.
One glance at the plump and rubi
cund face of the landlord is suffi
cient assurance of goodly fare at
his hostelry.
Mcll Lacy, one of Detroit's gild
ed youth, was hovering about the
agency during the beginmg of the
week. His pre-occupied look, si
lent and sly movements gave color
to the suspicion that he was on
some dark mysterious mission.
We are unable to satisfactorily
account for his presence heie but
there is a lingering idea in our
mind that it had something to do
with the rumored advent of rail
roads through the reservation.
This however is only conjecture.
Inasmuch as Mell was as dumb as
a blue-point oyster, it was next to
impossible to extract anything
from him.
On our recent visit to Detroit
we happened in at the City Phar
macy. A large invoice of goods
had just been received and it re
quired the skill of a Mississippi
river pilot to steer one's way thro'
the turns and twists caused by the
collection of boxes, bottles, etc.,
with which the whole store was
crowded. We noticed however
that Miss E. M. Com backer the
proprietress and one of the few,
if not the only pharmacienne in
the Northwest lost none of her
amiability or presence of mind at
the Babylonish confusion around
her but went to work with a
right good will and soon brought
order out of chaos.
The weekly sociable of the W
B. R. C. was held at Mr. J. B.
Louzon's residence on last Wed^
nesday evening. One of the prin
cipal features of the evening's en
tertainment was the excellent
quality of instrumental and vocal
music under whose inspiration "all
went merry as a marriage bell."
One of the draw backs to these
sociables is the great Dispropor
tion of gentlemen to ladies in at
tendance. The work of entertain
ing and enlivening the gathering
then necessarily devolves upon the
gentler sex which is hardly fair.
However Madame Louzon and her
accomplished daughters the Misses
Louise and Mareelhne, were most
successful hostesses, and they
ailed not to make the occasion
one of unmixed pleasure.
jpsTr^s
Hunger's Consequences.
It is given out by very good au-
thority that chief White Cloud
desparing of any interference on
the part of the Government to
save many of his people from star-
vation, has advised those in the
hardest stress to kill their cattle
for food purposes. a
Things have come to a pretty
pass in the affairs of the people
of this reservation when they, sup
posed to be under the special care
of the Republic, are constrained
to sacrifice the very animals who
contribute most to their support.
This condition of affairs becomes
the more odious when it is borne
in mind that the Government has
owed the Chippewas of the Miss
issippi jointly with the Lake Su
perior tribe some $140,000 for the
last 38 years. Congress has twice
passed bills recognizing the in
deptedness of the Government in
thisPrelation but withal, no step
has ever been taken to liquidate it.
There is also a very valid claim
against the Government to the
ami. of $150,000 arising from the
disastrous effects attendant upon
the building of the reservoirs at
the headwaters of the Mississippi.
All this and the fact that the ware
houses of the different Indian
agencies throughout the 'North
west are literally bursting with
their plethora of piovisions, im
plements and goods are apt to in
duce some very curious reflections
and people will be prone to the
conclusion that "there is some
thing rotten in the State of Den-
mark." Devoured by Wolves.
News from a creditible source
reaches us that a few days since
in the sparsely settled country
around Aitken, two white children
returning to their homes late
the afternoon from school were
attacked and completely devoured
by ravening timber wolves. A
few scattered bones and shreds of
clothing alone remaining as hor
rible testimony of the childien's
fate. It was supposed at first that
there were not more than two
wolves at most in the pack, but an
Indian hunter shortly after the
disappearance of the children en
countered a pack of ten of these
fierce brutes near the scene of the
little one's death. He used his
Wir Chester with such effect as to
kill eight of them outright and
getting out of cartridges he went
up a tree to escape from the fangs
of the remaining two. Nothing
frightened by the slaughter of the
rest of the pack, these two man
eaters squatted down at the foot
of the tree, awaiting the moment
that the Indian would become
their prey. When he thought his
fate sealed two cartridges provi
dentially made their appearance
from the depths of his pockets
with these he settled the last two
animals.
It is not often that we are called
upon to chronicle such a revolting
occurrence as the one just narrated.
The wolves in our own and neigh
boring districts have been pretty
nearly exterminated. The red
mouthed animals killed near Ait
ken have undoubtedly been forced
by either man or hunger from
their densely-wooded haunts. The
forests in the Northern part of
Aitken county have for many
years been infested with raging
and voracious animals but this is
the first instance for many years
of their venturing so closely upon
the settlements. V?
Gov. MERRIAM has appointed
Archbishop Ireland chaplain of
his staff with the rank of Colonel.
fi4 fcii
KSTUTE NELSON in the House, on
last Wednesday, succeeded in pass-
ing his bill for the relief of ex-
agent C. A. Ruffee.f|By provision
of the bill a balance of $600 due
him on his salary account as Indi-
an agent at White Earth will be
paid to him
MlUTURE AMERICAN.
$&s
It has1
from the tyranny of capital were
NofflBorn in Tills Country
and this fact has beer* mentioned
as if, in some wa^, it cast a reflec-
tion upon the expediency or wis-
dom of the attempt in question.
Native-born Americans,it is urged,
trained from birth and by inheri-
tance in the traditions of Ameri-
can Independence and in the prin-
ciples of the Constitution of the
United States, would never lend
themselves to such "foreign" and
aggressive measures, as the boy-
cott, the strike and the bomb.
This position however, will be
found upon examination to be
both logically and morally inde-
fensible. In the first place it is
much to be doubted whether one
native-born American in ten could
repeat from memory a single
clause of the Constitution of his
Country and this ignorance bears
practical point in the
Uncomplaining- Subniisftion
with which most native-born
Americans endure insolence, im-
position and robbery that would
stimulate to rebellion the least
warlike-denizens of the effete mon-
archies of Europe. Our foreign
born population on the other hand,
especially those of recent importa-
tion, are still instinct with some-
thing of the same enthusiasm for
liberty and for having their own
way which distinguished the Pil-
grims of 1620 and the patriots of
1776 they have not yet succumbed
to the apathy and timidity which
seem inseparable from a prolonged
residence in the land of the fiee.
It is not the descendants of the
"Mayflower" in short, who are
the representative Americans of
the present day it is those redo-
lent of the dudcen and the sauer-
knut barrel it is to them that
a prudent public sentiment will
intrust the reins of power and the
destinies of the Republic. Nor
should we stop here. There is a
further step to be taken one which
the increasing enlightenment of
this age will be certain, sooner
or later, to force upon us. Ameri-
ca like all other countries of the
world is an idea rather than a
place, a moral rather than a geo-
graphical expression. It is not so
much the land, as the principle of
freedem.
To be an American, therefore,,
it is by no means necessary to be
an inhabitant of the United States.
In a higher and truer sense, an
American is a man of European
birth, who~renders himself obnox-
ious to the land or the social pro-
prieties of his birthplace. And
since, as has been shown, the gen-
uine American spirit deteriorates
direct ratio with the length of
the individual's residence in
America, it follows that the most
genuine Ameiicanism must be that
which has been free from this en
ervating influence altogether. If
this reasoning be valid,* an amend-
ment to the Constitution should
be introduced without delay, pro-
viding that no person of American
birth or descent should be allowed
to hold any political or public off-
ice in the United States that the
most recent immigrants should be
intrusted with the most controll-
ing offices of the Government and
that no man shall be eligible for
the Presidency unless he can prove
that he is an outlaw in his own
country, and that he ha| neve^set
footmthia! .~vi4&-
s "\t^i
A&
b^en observed that the
bulk of American citizens now en-
gaged in the attempt to free labor
About the Commission fMl
SSNtf
A special telegram from Wash
ington under date of Feb'y 11th
intimates that Col. Wm. Crooks
of St. Paul is likely to be named
by the President as the Minnesota
member of the Chippewa commiss
ion. E. P. Wheeler of Beloit,
Wisconsin is also mentioned ss a
probable commissioner. Colonel
Crooks is a pioneer resident of this
State and in the course of his di
versified career as a soldier, public
man and engineer has had much
to do with the Indian tribes of the
Northwest. His eminent fitness
for the position is beyond ques
tion. Of Mr. Wheeler we know
nothing save that he is a promi
nent Democrat of his State. From
all accounts Congressman Knute
Nelson would not be averse to sit
ting on the Commission and it is
stated that Secretary Vilas looks
upon his appointment with great
favor. There are less than 30
days remaining in which the Pres
ident may appoint the members of
the commission under the terms of
the act. The newspapers and en
thusiastic friends of the Hon. K.
Nelson who are sounding his
praises from the housetops and are
so anxious that he be appointed on
the commission are evidently un
aware of the fact that he is
Constitutionally Inolliuible
to the position, unless he straight
way resign his membership in Con
gress. (Art. I. Sec. 6.U. S.
Constitution.)
With all due appreciation of the
ability of Mr. Nelson and his ex
cellent record in Congress, we ven
ture the assertion that his connec
tion in any way with the Chippe
wa Commission would inevitably
result in a prompt condemnation
of the objects of the commission
and in a refusal to agree with the
commission on the part of all the
Chippewa Indians. In the inter
est of harmony the President
should appoint members likely to
inspire the Indians with confi
dence. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
R. R. Right of Way.
On Wednesday the 13th inst., in
the Seriate the House bill grant
ing the St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba R. R. the right of way
through the White Earth reserva
tion was reported and on motion
of Senator Sabin who asked unan
imous eonsent for the immediate
consideration of the bill, it was
read and passed in five minutes.
The bill now awaits the approval
of the President to become a law.
There is hardly any room for
doubt as to the President's action
the matter. He has unreserved
ly committed himself to laws of
this character by signing every
bill of a similar nature which has
been presented to him this session.
"That Disputed Source."
It seems to be almost as hope
less a task to prevent Captain
Willard Glazier from periodically
parading before the public his
claims and pretensions as the "dis
coverer" of the source of the Miss
issippi as it was to lay Banquo's
ghost. Do what you may, he will
not down. And if wholesale ad
vertising and the inflated bombast
of personal communication to the
daily press will avail anything the
doughty captain may eventually
obtain some sort of public recog
nition. The Progress has given
very considerable study and in
vestigation to the vexed question
of the true source of the Mississ
ippi and its discoverers, the results
of which it proposes to elaborate
in print before long. Access to
manuscripts of the earliest known
traders and voyageurs in this part
of the Northwest has been given
us and we have improved the oc
casion to extract certain data
which will seriously disturb the
irrepressible Captain Glazier's ti
tle. W hope to be able to settle
these claims and counterclaims of
discovery to the satisfaction of an
intelligent and impartial public.
marty**) to Traditional Custom.
The death lately, of the two
small children of Say-ge-tonze,
in this neighborhood, affords a ,53
striking illustration of the tenaci
ty with which the Indian adheres ^&j|jBI
to the customs of his forefathers I^^Q
and of the deep and abiding faith I* 'i^M
he has, despite all efforts to shake ^?*jil
it, in the potency and efficacy of
his own medicines and peculiar,
treatment of sick persons. All
overtures of the agency physician* ^^1
and of the missionaries looking to
the proper nursing of the children
were met with repulsion and the
parents persisted in caring for the
little ones in such a manner as
really to bring about their death.
And all the time they were sincere
in their belief that they were pur
suing the best course to restore
the babes to health. And when
death set its leaden seal upon the
brows of the little ones the father
and mother accepted the fatal re-^
suit with a strange mixture of fa-**
talism and repressed grief that
would have done credit to those
ancient philosophers who boasted
of their stoicism and utter callous
ness to all human emotion.
WHITE EARTH AND DETROIT
Stage and
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Carries U. S. Mail. Passengers
booked for all points along the
Line and at reasonable rates.
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