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1 lyviuw "i"1 VOLUME 3. AOEXCY JTinW. Harry C. Moore, Agency Farmer, return ed the iater part of last month from a nip to dully, Trail, Oklee, Lambert, and Be midji where he purchased teams for Joe Way be nais, Kan ke gay be nais, Bazil Max well, Bodger Green, and Jim Nedeau, also one mare for Solomon Desjarlait, which were sold to the Indians named by the gov ernment under reimbursable regulations. The boys all got fine horses and without ex ception are highly pleased with them. Andrew Carl is a full fledged farmer, hav ing purchased a team of young horses, a new set of harness and wagon together with some tanning implements. A. C. Goddard celebrated a birthday on April 28th. Mr. and Mrs. Blakeslee and family were entertained at his home on that occasion. Mis. Omar (Jravelle and sons returned from New Mexico recently where she spent the winter. Her many friends here at Red Lake are pleased to note that her health has been greatly improved during her absence. Mrs. (Jravelle also visited her sister 3Iiss Alice Marmon, former teacher at Red Lake and AVIIO is now employed in the Indian school at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ephiiam Budrow and wife and Mrs. George ('base attended United States court nt Fergus Falls during the fore part of the month. Mr. William Donner, Supt. of Construc tion in the Indian Service, who arrived at Red Lake on April 20th departed for Fort Hall, Idaho, on May oth. Miss Josephine Rrun, Assistant Matron at Red Lake school, has a wolf cub at the school to which the Indian children are be coming quite attached. Andiew Johnson of the Meadows Farm near Rerner, delivered beef for the schools on May 0th. .Messrs. Louis Lauritson and son of Be niidji passed thiough Red Lake on the 13th en route to Rouemah, where they will be em ployed for sometime on the physician's cot tage and dairy barn at the Cross Lake school. Mr. George Ruckland of Medina, New York, arrived at Red Lake on May Sth. hav ing recently been appointed to the position of Principal teacher at this school. The Agency steamboat, Chippewa, was launched on May 11th after being in dry doek through the winter and having under gone extensive rep'ihs to her hull. A Ticeu*" t" many wr r.r d Eddie Oliver a:d Jennie Taylor :i M:iy James J. Sloan and fimily departed for Neali .y, Washington, on May 12th, where Mr. Sloan has been 'appointed to the position of Farmer in the Government service. Mr. Sloan has been employed as bookkeeper for the Chippewa Trading Company for the past year. Mr. Louis Sharette is receiving congratu lations by his many friends in Red Lake up on the birth of a soil May 12th, the good news having reached him from Canada where Mrs. Sharette has been visiting with her mother. Alex Gillespie should be entitled to a Carnegie hero medal, having on May 12th rescued the young son of Salem Hart from a rain water barrel adjacent to their house lltn i__'r"n m- i jjVfp""Wtl U'^'*t RE LAK E NEW S 27*e City of Happiness is in the State of Mind. and into which the child had fallen while playing in the water. Mr. J. O. Shulind, president of the Nation al Contracting company of Alexandria, Min nesota, visited in Red Lake last Wednesday in connection with the construction work on the new hospital, for the erection of which his firm has the contract. (Continued on Page Four.") The Indians were to have a big pow wow and dance last week and several visited Thief River Falls to get some "bug juice" to assist in their celebration but got too much and had to give up the dance. During the past week the women and children have been heard crying and carousing and shooting has been* kept up nights by the Indians. Those living near the reservation believe "Pussy Foot'' Johnson might find out where they got their "bug juice'' if he would visit our county seat oftener and hunt up the rat holes.Neptune correspondence in the Goodridge, Minn., "Eleven Towns." We heard what you said, and while "Pus sy Foot" Johnson is no longer connected with the Government Service, there are "others." We shall see what we shall see. Thanks for the information. CItOtiti LAKE ITEMS. -*Srrpt: Dkkens^Piv Richards, Bye Special ists, Messrs. Blakeslee, Doehl, Morrison and Fairbanks were at Ponemah the 15th to ISth of April in connection with the annui ty payment. Mr. E. R. King who has been at Cross Lake in charge of the work on the new build ings was called to Red Lake the latter part of April. E. Rudrow and wife were called to Fer mi Falls in connection with the Government Tand cases on the 3rd inst. They were gone ten days. The new buildings at Cross Lake are rapidlv nearing completion. We have two acres of oats up and doing nicely. This Aveek we intend to finish our planting. J. Jeiome was a Cross Lake visitor dur ing payment. Mr. John A. Carlson, Merchant, of Foy, Minn., paid the school a visit on Saturday and Sunday, May 2nd and 3rd, looking over our stock and improvements at the school. The "Mud Hen'" was at the Ponemah Dock on May 12 on its initial trip of the season on the lake. The concrete silo at Cross Lake is about finished, due to the skill of Win. Dudley. Louis Lanritzen and son of Bemidji are here plastering the physician's residence. The roads are the worst we have ever seen at Pom mail, due to the excessively wet weather. Mr. Frank Dupris is busily employed in ettimr the Indians interested in farming. Re-oonce, Peter Martin and BarneV Per kins have done considerable road work at Mequom Bay. Paul Bealieu, who was connected with the Ponemah Store of the Chippewa Trading company, left soon after "payment." All of the Cross Lake loggers except Way oon-ding, have received settlement for their \u: i"' i' *v^waSN*^^#1#KPSI RED LAKE, MINNESOTA, MAY 15, 1915. NUMBER 17 WARNING. The introduction of intoxicating liquors into this reservation or its sale to non citi7en Indians is forbidden by law under a penalty of imprisonment for not less than sixty days. See Act of January 30, 1897 (29 State L, 506.) logs. Immediately they went and settled all labor and supply bills, thus doing better than one or two parties did last year, who jumped a part of their logging account. Peter Martin has done .considerable plow ing for Indians at Maquom Bay. Frank Pogue is still the champion fisher man. During the absence of a boat he has thus kept the mess in meat. He brought in forty the other evening and would have brought in the rest he caught if he could have carried them, but being unable, he returned them to the lake. Maine Every wind Douglas died at her father's home the 14th inst., of tuberculosis. A son was born to Mrs. Louis Fisherman, a cousin of Mr. Frank Dupris', about two weeks ago. Miss Caughlin and the girls put the pro per shine on the lawn by the use of rakes, in accordance with the instructions of "clean-up" day. It is reported that several of the Indians, particularly Geo. Blakeley, have cleared more land and put it under the plow. Me-quom is going to seed considerable land to oats. Grow some oats, all of you Cross Lakers. Purchase a grain cradle for three or four dollars and feed your oats in the sheaf, thus tending to the elimination of paying $2.10 for a sack of feed. O-quah-nance and wife are fighting on old claims for land. The claim being thirty or forty years old, and during all this time no ground has been cleared or no crop rais ed on said land. No-din, Si\, reported to the office a week ago that Nay-tah-wah-be-tung, Sr., had trespassed on his sugar bush land to con struct a house. Upon investigation, Nay tali wah be tung, Sr., is found to be on a separate forty from the sugar bush forty. An exchange gives the following as the "Knocker's Creed :v I--5SSJ *,w I believe that nothing is right. I believe that everything is wrong. I believe that I alone have the right idea. The town is wrong, the teachers are wrong, the things they are doing are wrong and they are doin them in the wrong way any way*. I believe I could fix things if they would let me. If they don't I will get a lot of other fellows like myself and we will have a law passed to make others do things the way W E want them done. I do not be lieve that the town ought to grow. It is too big now. I believe in fighting every pub lic improvment and in spoiling everybody's pleasure. I am always to the front in op posing things and never yet have I ad vanced an idea or supported a movement that would make people happier or add to the pleasure of man, woman or child. I am opposed to fun and am happiest at a funeral. I believe in starting reforms that will take all the joy out of life. It's a sad world and I am glad of it. AMEN. ^A A* & sy*