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IHD N fttOTECTtVE Association
200BOJM BuHdlJif
V^shington 0, C,
DafflB. Henderson, Att'y,
Indian daims again* tlie Unit-
ied States,* ^peeialitjr.,
K. S, MURCtU&OK.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
1.ATE LAW CLERK, LAND
OIVJSJOAU INMAN OFFICE,
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affonds^includoiggame and
fteh in season.
A large and comfortable. Feed and
Livery stable in connection
with HoteL
jam Lftcr rrtp.
Selam Fairbanks,
Dealer in
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
HARDWARE
and
Lumbermen Supplies.
Market price paid for Ginsing
Snake Root and Furs.
Orders for pure Maple-Syrup,
and wild rice promptly attended
to.
BEAULIEU MINX.
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A NEW RED
LAKE TREATY,
year, which provide for the open
ing of the diminished Red Lake
and Red Lake Indians relative to the
cession of certain portions of their
reservation. A former treaty, which
provided among other matters the
cession of sections 10 and Hi to the
State of Minnesota for school pur
poses, failed ot ratitleation. The de
tails of the amended pioposition,
which it is undeistood is drawn by
Senator Clapp, are not known, but oi
course a number of concessions are to
be made and the main features re)a
tive to the cession of sections 1(5 and
of first efcss ferm! amended to conform with the
ideas of the Red
Pioneer Press.
lowed a voice in framing the new
proposition, its acceptance by
them Would be assured, otherw iso
we doubt if they would sign any
agreement which only permits
them to say Yes! or No!
The Indian Right and Wrong.
dgg\Ve hold these truths to be soli
evident: that ALL MBN are created
equal: that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable
rights that among these, are LIFE,
LIBERTY, AND TIJS PUltSUIT OF HA1*-
pitftoss"Declaration of Independence
July 4th, 1776.
i WORD FOR THE
COMMON PREY.
General C. C. Andrews, chief lire
warden, who complains that the In
dian.s areWIUI on the high road to- want
waroen Dumpa,.
dta are on the ugh road to an
srf"
qgfT*-
Senator Clapp has evidently
concluded that the Red Lake In
dians are justified in their objeci- an inquiry was mari
rf
reservation, for a Washington down timber on the Chippewa re.
special to the Pioneer Press of servatjons in this state. Mr, Mur
the *27th lt. says that:
"Representative Steenerson
called upon Secretary Hitchcock to
day and laid before him a draft of
new treaty between the United States
Lakers.St. Paul
In justice to the Indians con
cerned the new proposition should
be submitted to them before any
definate action is taken to sub
mit to the government by those
who are framing it, so that if it
contains anything objectionate, or
which is likely to meet with op
position from the Indians, some
change might be made which
should be satisfactory to all con
cerned.
When the Bed Lake amniend
meftts were under consideration
by Congress last winter, we sug
gested to Senator Clapp, and also
to the representative of Thief
River Falls. Mayor Krotka, who
was at Washington lobbying for
the passage of the amniendments
tiUat two or three of the leading
chiefs .should be called to Wash
ington to give their views regard
ing the bill, but this suggestion
was ignored. If our suggestion
had been followed we believe an
agreement could have been mad'
the Indians which would
have been satisfactory to every
one.
If the Ked Lake Indians are ai-
Izrl^iA"*i
taking
lantdth
without and the
tiscation of perocent of pinefcons tim
bu
takinrecompenseIds
and their gieed to aecme tle best
t**i
SWAGE FUND
EXHAUSTED.
the members of
funds whic had been derive*'
from the sale of tho !ead an
chison being absent from Wash,
also ington he rofered the matter to
Mr, J. J. Hemphejl, also an at.
torney at Washington, who called [s
the Indian office for the desiroi
that office to* Mr, Hemphill dated
the 29th, the latter is informed
"that by the Act approved May
27, 19i)2, it Is provided that tilt
money in the Treasury to the
credit of the Chippewa Indians ot
Minnesota derived from stumpy*
on dead and down timber uncW
the Act of June 7. 1W, should
be paid to such Indians as we
entitled thereto. The provision
of this ct have boon compl^d
with and the stumpagc fund is ex*
hausted,"
This information settles the re
port that there would still be an
other payment of the stunipnge
fund made this year.
There was some where
neighborhood of one
and fifty thousand dollars paid
last winter to all the Minnesota
Chippewas in this state from the
dead and down stumpagc fund,
exclusive of the amounts that
were paid to the Indians on thi*
and the Red Lake reservations of
the funds that had accrued from
the sale of the timW on these two
reservations. Those who are best
informed upon the subject state
that the total sum which was de
rived from the sale of the dead
and down timber that was cut on
the Leech Lake, Mississippi and
Winnebegosish reservation
amounted to over four hundred
thousand dollars. If this is true,
what has become of it since only
one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars has been paid to the In
dians,'
Fargo, X. D., June 28.The
suprume court today decided that
the death sentence of John Rooney,
convicted of murder here last
August, must be carried out.
Rooney and two other men at'
tempted to hold up the three
Sweet brothers, of White Earth,
Minnesota, who were camje
near Fargo, enroute to the har
vest fields. Harold Sweet was
killed. His brothers captured
Rooney and the other men es
caped
The pnsner was convicted and
during the trial the legislature
parsed a law, changing the place
of executions from counties in
which crimes occurred to the
It also changed
state penitentiary.
the time that must elapse between
forme
tll 0
and pauperism fails to remember that When notified of
Park in the mids the reservation
liave conduced more
than any other condition which
refers to
his actsinfostenntgof a great Nationa __ .fts
t5 t-rror the
Ji reservation
t.o tnei.r. nar,m
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"Truth before Favor."
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^.u^,,!,.,,.^^ EARTH, BECKER COUNTY, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1903. NO, 14.
At the suction of some of to Northern Mfojowta. there is
WM NM^W i a
thisthough
reservation
latter change and
~IA~A an reier TO .^O pro neeuw um i i.
the Indian is lazj and improvident, law provided an additional penalty
nor is it necessary to offer proof of his to that in practice at the time of
being plundered_.by the white man:
convjcT,M, man
225O0 O acres hi f"
and probable pauperization of the In- ccu the ien
diaRs when the er acts complained formerly been under arrest
of flo* from their own headquarters.
nl. rwrmltv
mustimonths
be confined six
OMAHAWK
""""mmpmmr^mm*
WOODMAN, SPARE
A FEW TREES,,
As a natursl consoqupnpe, where,
,v|nmdunee of various kinds
nrifty
an inquiry was made tlji'oujrh Mr, ake the people see the impor-
tlons to Ms amendments in "the K. S, Murchison, an attorney at tanee preserving of that
Indian appropriation "act of this
Washingtonh
1 regarding tn
timber, it is difficult to
vahuiblf gift of naturany for futur i
ty. It is just like trying to make
a spendthrift wave his money when
he has mow money than he knows
dow to handle in any of the right
ways, To them It looks like a
provisiun for a future generation,
therefore of no concern to those of
today, Unlike the wild game
prft,flJ,Vfttion% whioh
a
information, and in a lettor from young man hero now may live to
in the
"hiiiidreil
A DEATH SENTENCE,
in this section
atter of but the life time of
the living today at best. The
._./* fk luuft. (latin onl tnrtrvkie see tha las deer anrd moos iin
these woods, and therefore he is
Interested to a degree in being
partly responsible for the promul
gation or extinction of the noble
game.
If men could only be made to
see that tlie preservation of forests
would be a result to be appreciat
ed far before the extinction of
the present age, we belieye there
would be a clamor for the cause.
And it is a fact that within forty
years a pine grove in the northern
counties will be a rare thing. The
same condition in northern Michi
gan stands as a proof. Twenty
years ago Monomonee county was
a thick wildness such as Itaska
county was ten years ago. Todaj
they tell us Menomonee county is
a vast barren, grown to weeds or
stirred by the plow. What a dif
ference in so short a time Yet,
take Pine, Aitkin, or Crow Wing
counties in Minnefcotfl and almost
the same result in apparent.
The News is not sentimental to
a poetic degree in this matter. It
has always opposed great park
schemes, and it does not believe in
putting too much good land to
purely scenic use but would it
not be better to reiain from the
axe and flame,jut a little,in patches
dotted here and there, of nature'
substantial green verdure for the
future, to show an inkling of what
we once had and what might have
been? Take the presentwhich
would almost any man or woman
rather travel, the route from Lake
Superior to Crookston, or from
Superior towards Minneapolis
through the Hinkley fire swept
district? If he were not blind no
man would take the latter route
other reasons being equal. No
man has .soul so dim but that a
glance at a beautiful landscape
will touch his feelings.
Taken aside from the profitable
ness of a state forestry perpetua
tion, the News is in favor of the
bill now in the state legislature
forth is purpose, and we ask every
resident to consider wisely their
action pro or con in this so far
unpopular move. We do not
want good land wasted by senti
mental legislation, but we do want
some pine and agriculturally use
less land preserved and made use
of.
Speaking of the first appropria
tion asked for the forestry bill,
the St. Paul Pioneer Pree says:
Minnesotahitherto one of the
most progressive of states in the
slowly progressing movement re
ward the adoption of measures for
the preservation of forestcannot
afford to call a halt at this time by
refusing the small annual appro
priation asked by the state for
estr board for the purchase of
^CTry __
sentence and execution to six non-agricultural lands, and to en
months, instead of three. Judge
Pollock, of Fargo, was not in
formed
of the latter change and
hanj,0thl
prisone_
lir
able the board to replant the thou
.sand acres donated by the late
iov. Pillsbury. With this ap
ropriation available a beginning
can made in a wjork of incal
C)
-turneid
.*..,.o September. Hi attorneys ap
wa returned culable importance, the merit of
reginfconctl hanged which will more and more coni-
im,nu*
Xo'nnSf is "eedid tha? pealed on the ground that the new the probable outcome becomes ap-
*\,?J?mIJij
jtself as it and as _..._progresses
1)aTcnt.
insteat
tior i in that the
1" condemned
s, i .W h.*
preliminary
everv nerve in his bod3 iooRs as ir ms ne supn-riM* cuun, ut-uni" hatchery is meeting all the reason-
hands were not entirely clean in the upholds the new law, and Roo-
matter. It is idle for the park pro- execution will IK* the first to the propagation olf food fishes.
moters to crv out against the robber Roonev had
c\lSiTsei\ with
land of the reservations--Cass Lae borers in the fail. ftauK Kapms
Times. ree Press.
holding up farm la
ii _-], Kanids
The amount asked for is
only $20,KK Yet its expenditure
v.... as proposed would accomplinh a
hundred times as much goo for
the state as the additionald
ablp requirements of the state in
propagat
ithe Xothing at all on contrary, is
lxing done to m*et its vastly
greater requirement*! in the matter
of future timber supplies.The
Itaska News, Deer Ri*er, Minn.
fff^^TilWf M?,r t"T,
wm.
THE OJIBWAS,
Their Customs and Traditions.
AS HANDED DOWN FOR OINTUBIES
FROM FATHER TO ION,
WAY-fMH-BQZHO,
His Origin, Birth and life.
After Way-nah'bosdio had climed
to the topmost branches of the
tree, and when only h|s face was
out of water, it stopped raining,
and the water peased to rise. Way
nah-bosdio then palled together all
the bo*t swimming animals that
were around him, and directed
eaph one to dive and try and
get enough earth for ed for
another world,but all of tl em fail
ed and were drowned except the
musk rut this little animal although
it was lifeless when |t returned to
the surface of the water had a very
little earth in the creases of its
little claws. This Way-nah-bo/.ho
took and blowing life into the
muskrat also blew the grains of
earth that it brought np: and im
mediately a small island was
formed. Way-nah-bozho then
called to a fox that was floating
around on some drift wood, and
directed it to take a mouthful of
oujth and let it fall from its mouth
as fast s ft ran around the edge of
the island. The island soon got
so large that it finally touched
another large and strange land.
Here he found his grandmother to
whom he related his o\|ericnce.
-Nokomis also told him of her es
cape* from drowning, and admon
ished him to not seelc any more
adventures as he would not fail to
briug trouble upon himself ii* he
continued to do so,
MINNESOTA
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY.
Hrri(h,H
Way-nah-bo/.ho feeling the need
of rest laid down on mats of rushes
and furs, while Xokomis prepared
a feast for him of wild rice and
duck of which he partook veiy
heartily. On the following day
Way-nnh-bozho accused Xokomis
with ha\ ing deceiving hiin regard
ing his parents, and I insisted
that she must tell him everything
she knew about them, a'.d partic
ularly regarding the caet-e of his
mother's death. Xokomis tried to
dissuade him from his puniose of
learning more of his past and par
entage, for she feared he would
get into further trouble if she told
him the truth. But he was de
termined to know everything and
no argument could turn him from
this purjmsc. Finally Xokomis
spoke to him thus: "My grand
child, you know not what you ask.
You should not let the acts of the
All-wise arouse in you a spirit of
opposition, for lie is wise and
powerful, and knows best what is
for our good, and it is not right
that we should seek to know what
he desires to keep from us were
we permitted to foresee the hidden
patlVsof life's journey, our hearts
would ever be in fmin and our eyes
would flow with tears. You should,
therefore, be satisfied that you
have been spared and are well in
body and have a strong life,, and
that you will some day see your
mother."
But Way-nah-bozho was obdu
rate and insisted upon knowing
the truth respecting his niotJier's
death, and the old woman seeing
further d*ssuation useless said:
"My grandchild, it was you who
killed your mother she gave her
life that yours might he spared,
but your father, Mah-che-ke-wis,
was indirectly the cause of her
death. But let line warn you I Canada, Cusba and the P&ndi|wa.
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against your futhpr, for he is verj
wicked spirit, and destroys eyery^
thing that has life with which he
coipes in contact, He lives in. the|
fouth folds of the skies,"'
After hearing this Way-n&h
bo/ho wftP convinced tliat Nokpmfp
had finally told him the truth, andl
for a number of days following
this statement he was finally/en?
gaged in preparing himself for a
long journey. He painted him*
self with piany different colored
war-paints w])\p)i Nokpmjg pro
cured for him from the ropta of'
plants and from rocks, and he also
wore leggings and and a shirt
worked with colored porcupine
ffuillx, and bis war-bonnet was
mdo frpm the tail of a deer with
two eagle feathers adjusted in the
centre of jt, This head dress was
the first of its kind ever made and
Way-nah-lxwho said to Xokomis
t)iat if he was destined not to re
turn from the trip which he in
tended to take, to tell his puople,
the Unish-in-nh-bajg, that they
slwilld adopt hi/4 head-dress and
with it they wji| reach the end,
of the big ^voods,
After Wa. -nah-boplio had com*
pleted all his preparations he made
a pair of snow shoes and started,
for the land of Mud-cluvkewis,
ere long and he trav=
oled as fast as thought. lie soon
readied the realms of Mud-ehe*
kewis who was exacting him,
When the Ult-U'V saw his sp com
ing he was filled with funv for he
knew that Wy-nah*lipsho was in
vincible. Notwithstanding
of his son however, Mud-oherkewis
was very proud of him when h
obsened how handsome he was
and how proudl.N and boldly he
stepped forward to meet the niostg
powerful spirit in existence,
Mud.che-kewls wu* In- first to
speak, and he said to hi** *n i
have waited for your coming
for many moons, and now
welcome you to my icalips.''
Way-nah-bo/.ho, who ln'd fully
decided to destroy his father com
eluded he could only do this byJ
strategy, and replied in a very
politic manner, and said he was
proud to be the son oi a spirit
which nothing could withstand,
Mud-che-kewis was vey much
flattered at this complin ept and
naid: Yes it is only oi thing
that I cannot conquer for it is so
hard that I cannot make jmpresr'
sion on it, that is the flint hjch
my neighbor."
After some furl her talk with
Mud-che-kewis and after having
learned his vulnerable points,
nahlstfho accused him of having
caused the death of the former's
mother, and informed him of his
intentions of destroying i m,
Mud-che-kewis became very angry
and gave a strong blast of win4
from his mouth which chilled
Way-nah-boxho, and then the fight
commenced. It lasted three days
and *t the -end of that time MuuV
che'kewis became exhausted and
made a proposition of jjeace and
offered Way-nah-talw control
tlie Karth and all tltat was jn it,
He said, "I innwortal and
cannot destroy nv% and I have not
fought with you seriousjy bu &
w,as only Jto try you.1''
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