The evening times. [volume], January 18, 1907, Image 6

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I. Sakakmvca was the first
North Dakotan whose name was
enrolled oil the imges of history.
S. It is proper that we mark
the historic spots in our young
and rising commonwealth.
3. Snkakawea was the only
woman to accompany the Lewis
and Clark expedition.
4. She was their guide and
interpreter.
5. She protected tliem when
threatened by hostile Indians.
g, She procured for them
food and horses when destitute
of both.
7. She saved their journals
and valuable papers at the risk
of her own life.
8. She was the only one of
the party who received no
pecuniary compensation for her
services,
0. Wliilc enduring hardships
and suffering, she administered
to the necessities of others.
10. She welcomed with intel
ligent appreciation flic civiliza
tion of the white race, and was
the tirst Indian west of the Mis
souri river known to embrace
Christianity.
II. Site was the first pioneer
mother to cross the Hoeky
Mountains and carry her baby
into the Oregon country.
The North Dakota Federation of
Women's clubs is assisting the his
torical society to erect, a statue of
Sakalcawea the first
Associated Press to The Eveilas Times.
Victoria, B. C., Jan. 18.—Much inter
est is manifested in the nominations
tomorrow of candidates for the eleven
th parliament' of British Columbia.
The elections will take place early
next month, and parliament will as
semble in March. Never has a camp
aign under British representative gov
ernment been so curiously complicated
with confusion of parties and issues,
as is the present one.
The political battle is not, as else
where in Canada, a straight fight be
tween the Liberal and Conservative
forces. Primier Richard McBride ap
peals to the country as leader of a
straight Liberal-Conservative party,
ignoring the Socialistic following
which has kept the present govern
ment In power during the past three
sessions. The,Socialists will put up
candidates of their own in virtually
all constituencies, and in addition the
Second Day of Big Meeting at
Birmingham—List of the
Addresses.
iiMditci Press to The Bvealaa Times.
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 18.—The
Southern Cotton association re as
sembled this morning for the second
day of its deliberations with an at
tendance that had been Increased by
the arrival of a number of belated de
legates. The session opened with a
discussion of practical means of mak
ing lint cotton bring to the farmer a
just price. During the day the chief
addresses were as follows: "Probable
Profits to Stockholders in a Corpora
tion to Buy and Sell Cotton and the
Plan to Operate on," Hon. S. A. With
erspoon, Meridian, Mass., "Immigra
tion from the Standpoint of Southern
Fanners," Hon. B. A. Calvin,' Dallas,
Texas "Best Method of Obtaining Nec
essary and Desirable Immigration for
the South," Governor D. C. Heyward
of South Carolina "What Have We
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Dakotan
whose name was enrolled on the pages
of history. Funds to 'the amount of
$884.72 have already been raised by
them by a committee of which Mrs.
C. F. Amidon of Fargo is chairman
and Mrs. C. J. Lord of Cando secretary.
The statue is to be bronze of heroic
size and placed on the hill near the
capitol at Bismarck. North Dakota.
You can fancy that she is pointing to
tile great falls, to the shining peaks
of the Rockies, or to the Shoshone trail
up the South Fork of the Missouri.
But for her and her knowledge of the
mountains, that expedition might have
failed and the white man have been
kept out of his empire another decade.
Not one of the thousands of visitors
to the Lewis and Clark Exposition but
paused to gaze on the statue of a
young Indian woman.
It has a charm all its own among the
many sculptured figures and groups
that adorn the Fair Grounds. One
feels that there is a story to account
for the lightness and grace and eager
attitude. It is like that of a 'bird, just
ready to spring into the air from a
swaying bush and begin a long flight
to an uaforgotten home. The heavy
fringed deerskin robe and moccasins
do not cumber those lithe movements,
the pappoose on her back is not a
burden. If you were to name her now,
after the Indian fashion of seizing up
on the most salieut trait of character
and applying the descriptive epithet,
what would you call her? "Bird
Woman." Yes, that was her name,
Sakakawea—Bird Woman. Nor will
you be surprised to learn that it was
her little feet that flitted as if winged,
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SAKAKAWEA, THE BIRD WOMAN
Statue Soon to be Erected at Bismark ia Honor of the Squaw Who Acc»m
panied Lewis and Clark.
across the plains of the West and over
the great Divide, showing the explor
ers Lewis and Clark, the way to the
Pacific.
The explorers saw her first, this
Bird Woman, whose wisdom,
patience and fidelity they were to owe,
so largely, the success of their expedi
tion. in a village of the Mandan In
dians on the spot where Bismarck,
North Dakota stands. They had fin
ished the first steps of their Journey,
starting from St. Louis, in May 1S04,
and arriving at this point. 1,600 miles
up the Missouri In October. Here they
decided to make their winter camp,
where there was plenty of game and
the protection of a friendly tribe.
Five years before Sakakawea had
been captured by a band of Sioux and
carted to the land of the Dakotahs as
a slave, she was a chief's daughter,
and of uncommon grace of mind and
person. M. Charboneau, a French
Canadian voyager had purchased her
for a wife, giving all his store of skins
and ponies for her. He appreciated
his good fortune in getting such a wife
in thai, wild country, and treated her
with a courtesy and affection to which
Indian women were unused. White
men she trusted absolutely, 1'ot
from the one she knew best she had
only chivalry and comradeship. Until
these explorers arrived, she had
embryo labor party given birth at the
late convention of the Canadian Trades
and Labor Congrew is preparing to
take a part in the fight.
The government will make its fight
principally upon the general pros-"
perity of the country, the improved
stability of conditions and provincial
credit since Premier McBride's acces
sion to power, and adherence to a
policy of no subsidies for railway
builders. The Liberals naturally will
contend that provincial prosperity, im
proved credit, and che treasury sur
plus result not from governmental ef
ficinecy but despite government inef
ficiency—as a consequence of fortui
tous fixed conditions and evolutionary
processes. *fhey will also urge the
broader policy of stimulating rather
than discouraging the opening of the
provincial waste places and their
dormant industries by means of- col
onization railroads, assisted if neces
sary to a reasonable extent.
Accomplished?" Hon. Walter Clark,
Clarksdale, Miss. "How Shall We
Finance the Cotton Crop?" Hon. F. H.
Hyatt, Columbia, S. C.
The program arranged for tonight's
session calls for addresses by Hon.
H. M. Jacoway of Dardanelle, Ark.,
Hon. E. D. Smith, of Columbia, S. C.,
and Prof. J. H. Connell, of Dallas. The
last-named is to speak on the subject
of the evils of cotton speculation.
1ST HAVE THE FOAM
Lankln, Ji. D. Woman Writes to Mother
and Wants Her to Sent It
By Mall.
As an illustration of condition at
Lankln, N. D., resulting from the
heavy snow, the following letter sent
by Mrs. Hattie Donavan to her mother
in Bemidji is very good
There is a prospect that we will
get some letters out today so I will
write you a few lines. We have not
starved or frozen to death, yet, but
rations are getting pretty short and
still it snows and blows. 1 never, in
all my life, saw half as much snow.
We havn't had a pound of freight since
December 12, and only a little mail.
There is no sugar, tea, yeast or pota
toes in town, and only a very little
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hope of ever visiting her own people,
but no sooner did she learn that the
party intended pushing across the
mountains to the Pacific in ttye sprfng,
than she had a plan in her small wise
head. She at once began to plan to go
with them as their guide.
There was a long frozen winter to
think it over. To every objection her
husband offered, the Bird Woman had
her answer. She could march, she
could row, she could swim, she could
load a canoe, catch fish, shoot game,
set up a tent, dress a skin, sook, make
moccasins. She knew the course cf
the mountain rivers and passes, the
habits of the mountain animals, where
to find food in a barren land, waterin
alkali deserts. Oh, she would be use
ful. She would make no trouble or
ask privileges. And'the little papoose
would be no cause of anxiety to any
one. He would go all the way on her
back. In the end she prevailed. No
one could resist her eloquence and be
sides in all the plains there was no
other person, man or woman to be
found who had seen the Great Falls of
the Missouri or come across the
snowy passes of the mountains. So
at five o'clock one evening in April
1S05, Bird Woman set her small
moccasined feet in one of the six
canoes that were pushed out on the
turpid water of the Missouri. Two flat
boats followed. Sails were hoisted,
flags unfurled, salutes fired. The In
dians and voyageurs and trappers on
the banks cheered as the little barks
glided on the muddy current. Few be
lieved the brave explorers would ever
come back. But Bird Woman-' eyes
were bright with hope. She looked
eagerly toward the setting sun. She
had set out on her long homeward
flight.
Now, as night came on she rested
in the canoe as a mother bird in a
swinging nest, and crooned to the
chubby brown baby who knew not that
he was to figure in the history of a
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great exploration that was to open up
an empire to the white men.
Within a week the party had passed
the Little Missouri and reached the
Yellowstone River. Already they were
climbing the long slope toward the
mountains. Day by day the river nar
rowed and grew swifter. The men
could no longer row and the boats had
to be towed, the men and horses walk
ing at the base of steep banks. Hunt
ers constantly foraged for game. The
first mountain bears were seen "and
Bird Woman told the plainsmen the
tricks of mountain hunters in getting
bears, antelopes and bighorns.
Around tlic Great Falls.
The industrious and skilled little
woman made and mended moccasins
all day long, for the rocks and cactus
plants wore out foot covering rapidly.
Beatheing became difficult to every one
but this mountain-bred girl whose
feet grew lighter as she ascended.
Late in May, from a cliff to which she
!e:l him, Captain Lewis got his first
glimpse of the Rockies, the snow
peaks dazzling in the sunshine.
Now the water became still swifter,
plunging down in dangerous rapids
between sheer walls of rocks. Then
came a burst, of glory above the plains.
It was tlie Great Falls— a plume of
spray eighty feet high between lofty
cliffs. The boats had to be carried
around these r'a 1.s for a distance of
twenty miles. Bird Woman told how
to make the carriages, with wheels of
cross sections of Cottonwood trees, oil
which the boats were set. Trappers
from Canada had taught the mountain
tribes liow to make them.
Here were buffaloes, bears, antelope,
bighorn sheep. Bird Woman knew
how to open gopher holes and find the
wild artichoke that were as good as
potatoes. She warned them not to
drink the water of alkaline springs.
She found goose eggs in the tree nests,
currants and service berries. She
made ointment for sore feet and for
mosquito bites—made every one com
fortable with lier feminine ingenuitv.
Through the Gates of the West.
And then on the 25th at July she
became guide, as well as counselor
and friend, to the party. They had
entered the gates of the Rockies and
reached the three forks of the Mis
souri. At the meeting of the waters
her eyes Cit up with recognition and
she led the way up the South Fork
over the old Shoshofie trail to the
mountain pass.
Bird Woman now went on ahead
with her husband and Captain Clark
to find horses, since the boats were no
longer of any use. Straight as a bird
flies she made for the old home of the
Snake Indians. One day in the middle
of August she saw several Indians on
ponies. She stopped, gasped a little
with delight, then began a dancing run
forward toward the tepees of a vil
lage hidden by a spur.
When the others came up with her
she was embracing the Indian women
and children. In the Chief Cameah
wait she found her own brother. New
guides were found now who knew the
way to the Great Sea Water, and Bird
Woman and her French husband re
mained for the winter, guests of her
tribe.
The next summer they returned
with Clark and Lewis to the Dakotas.
coffee no wood and no coal. I don't
dare tell anyone that I am not en
tirely out of groceries. We have about
three bushels of hard and soft coal,
together. The towns have asked for
help from the government, so we may
get some things in, soon. Some towns
are much worse off than we are. I
wish you would send me a package
of yeast foam by return mail.
That seems like a little thing, but
when there are none within one hun
dred miles it is a pretty big thing.
A man died here yesterday and they
have got to bury him right beside the
door, for they can't get anywhere else
with him."
CAUSED MUCH SPECULATION
Announcement that Judge Cowan May
llesign—Subject of Conversation
in Grand Forks.
In Ipgal circles, the announcement
that Judge Cowan may resign his
position and enter the Burke & Mid
daugh firm has been the subject of
considerable discussion and specula
tion. Mr. Cowan, is, admittedly one
of the best trial lawyers in the state,
and his return to the ranks of the
attorneys would be welcome. In case
he resigns, his probable successor
will be the matter of some more dis
cussion among attorneys.
PRAYER MEETING ON THAINS.
Associated Press Cable to The Emlu
Times.
London, Jan. 18.—Two enterprising
and up-to-date evangelists have hit
upon the idea of a train prayer meet
ing. Suburban travellers are the ones
approached by these two self-appoint
ed missionaries, whose first "attack"
has been made upon the North London
railway trains, morning and evening.
One plays hymns on a concertina, and
joins in singing and praying. These
services on wheels, though occasion
ally resented, are not generally disap
proved. Indeed, many business men
who crowd the cars at the times these
services are held, seem to enjoy them.
So enthusiastic are the originators
over their success that—provided suf
ficient funds are forthcoming—they
purpose extending their sphere of act
ivity 'to other railway lines. They
have received the consent of several
railway companies already, who fav
orably view the new departure.
Wag Distributed.
Walhalla, N. D., Jan. 18.—A car of
coal was received here by Agent Wag
ner of the Great Northern. The coal
was dealt out to those who needed it,
each one getting some of the fuel.
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THE EVENING TIMES. GRAND FORKS. N. D.
RELIEVING COAL FAMINE.
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On Jan. 15 there were loaded
at the head of the lakes 865 cars
of coal and 843 cars of coal are
in transit between Dulutli and
Jamestown, of which 185 are
moving to Fargo and west, and
60 at Jamestown for points
north. On account, however, of
snow and temperature, the
movement is and must be slow
until weather moderates.
Antler, N. D., Jan. 18.—There is al
most no coal in town and the cold
weather of past few days has caused
considerable hardships. If weather
lets up matters will look better, but
food is not too plentiful and trains
have been altogether too far apart.
Farmers Freezing.
Renville, N. D.—The seven cars of
coal that arrived a week ago were dol
ed out in short order. The coal ques
tion has been a serious matter. Many
farmers in this neighborhood are al
most freezing and the suffering in the
rural district is intense.
Soo Blockaded.
Imperial, N. D.—From Flaxton to
Ambrose the Soo is blocked. No trains
have plowed through since the 1st of
LOOK FOR A BUSY YEAR
Automobile Spirit is Already Peep
ing Forth and Automoblllsts
Predict Good Year.
TWO HISTORIC CHURCHES IN HAVANA.
Whether from the old world or the new, tourists in Havana seldom fail to
visit the famous old cathedra! in which for many years reposed the remains
of Christopher Columbus. The bones of Columbus in a leaden coffin were
brought to Havana from Santo Domingo on the 15th of January, 1796, and
with much pomp and ceremony were placed in the wall at the right of the
grand altar. Many years later the remains were removed to Spain. Aside
from this historical association, the old cathedral is highly interesting as a
specimen of ecclesiastical architecture in Cuba under Spanish rule. Another
old edifice, quite different architecturally, is the Church of the Angels, one of
Havana's famous places of worship.
H1IOWARI) ELLIOTT,
President Northern Pacific ltoad.
The above message was sent in re
sponse to a telegram urging that coal
be sent to Fort Totten, X. f.
.The fuel shortage throughout the
state as a whole shows a slight let. up.
and with the coal now being rushed
a'long the line there should net be as
much suffering as has been predicted.
Upon investigation it is found that
during the first fifteen days of Jan.,
1907, there were received in Grand
Forks 150 more tons of coal than dur
ing the same period of last year. In
the past month and a half, 427 tons of
hard coal have been shipped through
this city for points In the state.
The automobile spirit is already
making itself manifest notwithstand
ing the fact that the season is aome
months away. Grand Forks is a
regular hotbed for automoblllsts and
plans for new machines, repairs to
old machines, and new styles and
prices are daily threshed over in the
sporting stores of the City. There are
at present nearly sixty machines of
different makes and designs in this
city and if the sales now partially
consummated go through, the number,
will be Increased by about one half
that figure the coming spring.
Grand Forks and Fargo, this city es
pecially, are the headquarters of a
small army of automobile salesmen
who will invade the surrounding ter
ritory as soon as spring opens and the
regular trade resumes its natural bent.
Speaking of the conditions and the in
dications for the coming year the Min
neapolis Tribune has the following:
"If the present Indications are borne
out the entire automobile supply of
the country will be exhausted early
In Die season. All of the factories
are taxed to their capacity, and have
notified their agents that further on
ders will be delayed. The entire out
put now is in the hands of the agents
and is beipg disposed of rapidly.
"The outlook in Minneapolis Is for
a tremendous business in 1907. One
local dealer predicts that the demand
will exceed the supply by 40 per cent,
and another asserts that there will be
a shortage of autoptobiles In 60 days.
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REPORT ON
FUEL AND FOOD CONDITIONS
January. $now is three feet deep on
the level and five feet in cuts. The
company is working hard to keep the
track open but the task seems hope
less. Farmers generally are suffering.
Lignite mines are godsends to this
section.
Burning Straw.
Mohall, N. D.,—Over a week ago six
carloads of coal arrived and the coal
was distributed in 100 pound lots to
the residents of this city. This coal
is used up and fuel is again rather
scarce. Many farmers are strictly up
against it and are burning straw and
other refuse. The cold weather of
past few days has added to the misery.
Kenmare Lucky.
Kenmare, N. D.—The thermometers
have been away down for several days
but there are signs of a let up. Plenty
of coal hero on account of the numer
ous lignite mines about the city. The
country roads are blockaded and far
mers north of the city have hard times
getting in. Business is almost par
alyzed.
Business Paralyzed.
McCanna, N. D.—Business is ruin
ed. Two freights have passed up the
branch since the first of the year but
both whizzed through this place with
out even as much as a whistle. No
freight at all moving from this city.
Fuel situation is causing alarm.
Carplo Well Stocked.
Carpio, N. D.—The blocade has not
affected us much as stores are well
stocked. Carplo is much better off
than most towns owing to lignite
mines in the vicitnity. No freight
trains since Dec. 22. Passengers run
ning. No suffering in this immediate
vicinity.
Cold at McHenry.
McHenry, N. D.—No suffering at this
point. Weather conditions are better
than first of week. Fuel situation
somewhat relieved. Was 33 below on
Tuesday. Snow drifting badly.
"All of the local houses are prepar
ing for the opening of the season,
which will follow shortly after the
Chicago and Minneapolis shows. Prac
tically all of the dealers here will at
tend the Chicago show as well as a
great many prospective buyers."
CREWS FAIL_TU MEET
Irregularly Running Trains Causes
Much Hardship and Additional
Work for the Trainmen.
Railroading Is not the soft Bnap that
it might be according to Grand Forks
trainmen. The. inability of the crews
to move trains has proven to be a
hard thing for all trainmen, and an
instance of where they suffer was re
lated by one of them today. The
trains on the Minot and Montana di
vision have ibeen running with little
regularity. On several occasions, the
train crews running out of Grand
Forks have tjeen obliged to' run clear
through to Havre, Mont, as the crews
from that division have failed to ar
rive in Minot to take the trains wfest.
A continuous run to Havre under the
present conditions is now being rel
ished-
Times Want-Ads get results.
Times Want Ads get results.
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