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Friday, October 30, 1925. THE HARDIN TRIBUNE -HERALD Page Five k s i ir IF 1F W - 1611- taws. 1 10-N7/ • ROCKY BOY INDIANS, ONCE A VAGRANT TRIBE, NOW BEING TAUGHT THRIFT ON THEIR RESERVATION IN THE BEAR PAWS It Ii -ir IL URGES BIG FAIR FOR GREAT FALLS B. C. WHITE BELIEVES IT WOULD SERVH ENTIRE NORTHERN PART OF MONTANA Former State Senator of Buffalo Says Right Kind of Annual Exposi- tion in Electric City Would At- tract People and Products. Possibilities of establishing in Great Falls a northern Montana fair, which would also attract people and products from southern Alberta, are excellent, in the opin- ion of former State Senator B. C. White of Buffalo. Northern Mon- tana la favorably inclined toward such a prolect, Mr. White believes. Senator White's visit to the recent North Central Montana Corn and Livestock show in Great Falls im- pressed him with the feasibility of its expansion into a large district fair. Such a fair would require a considerable investment for build- ings and equipment, he says, but with a large territory rich in pro- ducts and resources, the expenditure should be justified. He points out that Cascade county is the second highest cotinty in the state tax assessment list and could well af- ford a sizeable investment for a fair. Take in Big Territory \You would have to_make it some- thing more than a Cascade cthiritY fair,\ the senator continued. \You would have to get all the northern counties from Lincoln to the Dakota line interested and see that they are represented at the fair with people and exhibits. Then your fair would grow. \The territory of which Great Fails is the heart has wonderful ad- vantages that could be utilized for a fair. Just consider the- large area which Great Falls has to draw from. Within a radius of, say from 50 to 75 miles, there is much blooded stock, the highest quality of wheat and other grain; there is poultry and a variety of other products of the farm and ranges. All these things make a fair. You want a really big fair, where persons with good pro- ducts will feel it worth while to compete. Open New Trade \There is no reason why the peo- ple of southern Alberta would not be interested in a Great Falls fair. These people are getting more and more in the habit of doing business In Great Falls and coming here. This opens the way for an exposition of something like an international scope.\ Mr. White expressed the opinion that the Montana Power company with its large hydro -electric plants in Great Falls should be much inter- ested in a northern Montana fair here, \for the development of the country means that more farmers will be using pumps; and let me tell you, with a pump they can raise more on 40 acres than they now raise on 320 acres, and besides they will make a sure crop of it.\ Great Falls is the center of a net of railroads from the tributary terri- tory, has ample facilities for a large fair and \is a big town.\ Mr. White pointed out. Modern Cowpuncher Doesn't Use Liquor as The Riders of Old Did The hard riding, steer roping wild cowpuncher finds liquor in- terferes with his work, in the be- lief of Chief of Police Marcus Anderson of Great Falls, whose preparations to take care of row- dyism when big hatted men and women from all over the west gathered in that city recently for the rodeo came to naught for the want of any tipsy ones to arrest. \This is in contrast to what usu- ally happens when business men. lodge men and such supposedly peaceable citizens get together here for a big time,\ remarked the chief as he scanned a clean blotter. \Evidently the real top rider finds It doesn't pay to mix the jolts from liquor with those of sun.fishes, crow bops and pin wheel jumps made by an angry broncho.\ Will Test New Structure. What geologists claim will prob- ably be a new producing field in Montana will be tested out by the Shaffer Oil and Refining company, of Lewistown. The test well will be drilled in the Ford Creek structure located 32 miles east of Lewistown irtzur - li — rarros - nCirtlivrert - of Grass Range. The structure is an entirely new one, said Mr. (leach°, and has never been mapped by the government. The structure has been sapped out very thoroughly by Irvin M. Stewart, of Denser, and his report shows that there are possibilities of encountering oil in commercial quan- tities and that the two oil producing sands should be encountered before reaching 1,300 feet. If this holds true the Ford Creek field will be even shallower than the Cat Creek. Urges World Peace. In urging the women to take lead in promoting the movement for world peace, and especially the var- ious women's clubs throughout the state everting their influence in this cause, Governor J. E. Erickson sounded the keynote in his address delivered before the annual district convention of the Montana Federa- tion of Women's clubs at Red Lodge. A total of 48 delegates. representing 32 women's clubs in district No. 4, and abont a dosen visitors attended the session*. MRS. M. E. PLASSMANN) II • W HEN the Riel Rebellion was quelled. Indians drifted down from the north, and made their homes after Indian fashion, by pitching their tepees near some town in the northern, or central portion of the state. Here they collected their daily bread, or its equivalent, from garbage cans, and clothed themselves with such cast off raiment as was given them by the charitably dis- posed. Their poverty did not tend to render them picturesque; they looked to be what they were, beg- gars, whose mode of life wee a menace to the health of the com- munity they frequented. We called these Indians Crees. Some of them were, but the greater number were Chippeways, who many years ago wandered, or were driven westward, and had been living with the Crees long enough to be num- bered among the Canadian tribes, which our government was under no obligation to support. - For -- reason—perhaps because they feared punishment for having been impli- cated in the Rebellion, they refused to return to their former home, and having no reservation on this side of the line, were at perfect freedom to inflict themselves on any town they chose. Nothing was done about this state of affairs for a long time, although the Indians were considered a nuis- ance. Not that they broke laws, stole and the like, for I never heard of any such charges being brought against them; but people were tired of seeing this poverty at their door, and justly felt that some provision should be made for the exiles. The citizens of the varions towns who suffered from the influx of these barbarians, at length joined in • petition to the government, asking that they might be given a reserva- tion, and removed to it. This request was granted, part of the Assiniboine Military reservation being set aside for the purpose, and for any Indians in the state who were not otherwise provided for and where they were to be treated in every way like other reservation Indians. The reservation was named for Chief Rocky Boy, whose chosen camping ground was at Great Falls. It is situated thirty or forty miles south of Havre, and together with others, I recently visited it. After a long ride over the wind-swept plain, we began to ascend, but so gradually it was scarcely noticeable, until we were in the Bear Paw mountains, orginally named Bear's Paw mountains, from the fancied re- semblance of one of its heights to a bear's paw. It is a curious range; almost treeless, and for this reason its peculiar formations are more no- ticeable. Although it was a day in August, the dry month, hill suc- ceeded hill clad in soft green, rolling away in every direction like im- mense' billows. Up and up the road wound until the summit was reached, and we be- gan the descent. At length we came to a gate across the road which barred our passage for the time it took to open it. We passed through, and were then on the Rocky Boy reservation. To our left on the moun- tainside was a wheat field of about twenty-five acres. We were later in- formed that it belonged to the most industrious Indian on the reserva- tion. A little farther along we caught glimpses of a stream hidden by trees and underbrush, the box elder, and shortly afterwards the road dropped down to the agency, set in a narrow valley between high mountains. The houses were of logs, and well built. There were not many of them at that tint, and but few tepees. In front o tie agent's office stood a tall flag staff, from which high aloft streamed out Old Glory. At the office we met Agent John D. Keeley, who is held by all to be eminently qualified for his position. Born in South Dakota in the Indian country, he has been in the Indian service for sixteen years. From him we learned something of what he is trying to do for his charges, and regretted that our brief stay at the agency did not permit of our visiting other parts of the reservation. An effort is being made to render the Indians self supporting. Every family has from five to twenty-five acres, and this they are taught to cultivate. This is not easy for the instructor, as the Indians believe that if \Uncle Sim is rich enough to give them all a farm, he is in II D. - I I sufficiently affluent circumstances e our manners, to say nothing of our cultivate it as well, without thetri morals. Controuted with this fact, it assistance. They have to be eie behooves us to approach the Indian couraged to work. Through the co 'question in a spirit of humility. operation of the County Agent E. V! A prominent physician of the state Duncan, they have just held a credit- Once said to me, \I would not heel - able agricultural exhibit, whers, tate to take an Indian baby and rear prizes were given to several con it to manhood, in the full conviction - testauts. Of this exhibit the Havre : that aside from his color, he would Promoter of September 4, reports: differ little, if any, from white \The exhibits were of a very high youths of his age.\ An educator, grade and would win honors at the who has worked for many years state fair.\ County Agent Dunce: 'among the Indians. recently ex - said. \The wheat crop on the relies- pressed the same 'opinion. Both of vation is also declared to be excel' these men understand the formative ent and will average many bushels power of environment. A TkPlICAL tAMilat group of 'cora). tioy on their reservation in the Rear Paw mountains. Mb ILA.,t • e today to the acre. The agent last year pur- chased G00 bushels of Marquis wheat which was used by ttee Indians in sowing their crop.\ This is a remarkable showing when we consider that in order to accomplish it, their mode of living had to be revolutionized. Civilization as we know it, is not the growth of one generation, but of many. Our own ancestors when Ceasar invaded Gaul, were as wild as our Indians. Its has taken centuries to improve At the Rocky Boy, and other In- dian agencies, the environment is rapidly being improved through edu- cation along different lines. But the segregation of the Indians, of itself, must act as a bar. It is with them as with our foreign population in the large cities, where they herd to- gether in racial groups, known as little Poland. Hungary, or Italy, and there retain their native language and customs, much longer than those who are more scattered. We say they do not bscome Americantized. But they do in time, and it is the schools which perform this miracle. Close to the agency building at Rocky Fork, is a long log building with many windows, that has 4 .ust been finished, to serve as a school house. I did not vielt it, as our time was limited, and was all too short for interviewing Mr. Keeley. Others of our party who saw the interior, and being teachers were well quali- fied to judge what a school house should be, reported that it was ad- mirable in every respect. Water is brought into it from a spring high on a neighboring mountain. One room in the building is de- voted to cooking. here a cookstove Is installed, and meals ere prepared fpr the children, that are served in a room adjoining. Cooking lessons are given in this department. Two teachers at present are employed, and pupils are conducted through the fifth grade. Last year there should have been siefersfisie enildren in attendafiObu for various reasons this average was not maintained. Mr. Keeley says of- ten it is difficult to convince parents and children that it is for their ad- vantage the school is maintained. and he renders himself unpopular when he constitutes himself truant officer. I do not know whether there is a trained nurse for the school; but there should be one, especially if there are any eases of trachoma among these Indians. Until this dis- ease Is stamped out on - the reserva- tions, it is certain to spread among the white population, as it already has in some localities. Religious training is not neglected. This is undenominational, and is in charge of the Rev. E. D. Burroughs, who was sent to the Rocky Boy reservation by the National Indian Association, and who has an effi- cient aid in his wife. A small church stands on a commanding site, not far from the agency buildings. Across from Mr. Keeley's office is his residence; a log bungalow, that has a homelike appearance by reason of the vines and flowers about it. Here Mrs. Keeley acts as hostess to visitors, and assured us she had no time to be lonesome, although her days are passed so remote from what most consider makes life worth living. The day before our visit, Gen Hugh Scott was a guest of the agency, where he won all 'hearts by urbanity. With such a reservation estab- lished for what might be termed tramp Indians, there is apparently no reason for there being, as I was recently informed by a state official, still poverty-stricken Crees hanging about our cities, and living in in- describable filth. Is there any ex- cuse for such a state of affairs? I think not. In Abyssinia no one is allowed to use the telephone directly. All mes- sages must be written out and given to the operator, who shouts them into the transmitter at the top of his voice, so that every one about can hear. M ontana D.A.R. Dedicates Marker The C o l marker reads rg on e M as ar f k o e ll r ows, u n - In Honor of Lewis and Clark on the LobTrail West of Missoula ONTANA Daughters of thei Danes. Ore., vice president general; American Revolution closed Mrs. Verne D. Caldwell of Billings, their two-day state conference state regent; Mrs. Laura Tolman Scott of Armstead, pioneer, and Pres- ident C. H. Clapp of the State Uni- versity, related the history of the Lewis and Clark expedition, told of the appropriateness of the setting of the marker and extolled the courage of the intrepie men and the loyal Sacajawea in their journey into the Oregon territory in 1805. The tablet was presented to Mis- soula county. by Mrs. J. M. Keith, regent of Bitter Root chapter of The ceremonies at the dedication Missoula, and accepted with heartily of the tablet to the honor of. Cap- expressed thanks on behalf of the tains Lewis and Clark, the brave county by R. R. Wilbur, chairman men who made up the expedition, of the board of county commission - and Sacajawea, the Indian guide, era. Veterans of the Civil war in were stately and impressive. The faded blue, and World war veterans weather was !deal, the sun shining in khaki added a colorful note to down on the huge granite boulder the ceremonies. Mrs. J. A. Griswold bearing the hronee tablet, and a of Missoula, state treasurer, pre - western breeze fluttering the Amen- sided. The unveiling was by little can flag where it floated over the Miss Berbera Nelson and Master marker as if protecting it. Brief John M. Griswold. both children of talks by Miss Anne M Lang of The D. A. R. members. at Missoula with the dedication at Traveler's Rest. lob, 10 miles south of Missoula, of a bronze marker to the Lewis and Clark - ll'ans-Milars- sippi expedition. A crowd of people, including members of the D. A. R., Civil war veterans World war ex -service men and members of the patriotic societies of Missoula and of the Society of Montana Pio- neers witnessed the impressive cere- monies. A scene on the Rocky Boy Indian reeervation which Is located in the foothills of the Bear Paw mountains, not tar from Havre. It is a pretty country that attracts many tourists during the summer months. der the heading \Traveler's Rest\: \Bitter Root chapter of the Daugh- ters of the Americap Revolution, Missoula, *ontana, dedicate this marker to Captains Lewis and Clark, Sacajawea, their inspiration and guide, and the brave men of the Trans -Mississippi expedition, who en- camped on Lobo creek, September 10, 1805.\ The list of men, Sacajawea, Chaboneau, her husband, their baby, Baptiste, and York, the. slave, occu- pies the right hand of the slab, and in the left appears the insigne of the D. A. R. society. The marker is the second to be placed by the Montana D. A. R. through the kindness of the A. C. M. company, which has promised to fur- nish a number of markers for his- toric spots in the state. The first tablet was erected at Bannack earlier this year to commemorate the site of the first capital in the state. The first tablet of any prominence to be erect- ed by the D. A. R. in Montana, how- ever, was a marker placed on the original block house at Fort Logan. Meagher county, near White Sulphur Springs, by the Orofino chapter of Helena, in August, 1924. Salute to the Flag The salute to the flag officially opened the ceremon s at the dedi- cation site. Chaplain . C. Merrill of Fort Missoula gave Ithe invocation and Miss Lang was tie first of the afternoon's speakers. \The marker, so fittingly placed to honor the intrepid men of the 1805-06 expedition into the Oregon territory, carries the whispers of that berme - MIMI\ sett Lang.7\rhey say, we have passed by here: Forget us not.' And let us not forget them, hut through them remember our duty to our republic, the republic which their achievements made pos- sible.\ Mrs. Caldwell spoke of the grow- ing consciousness of America for her early history, of the growth in the movement to preserve and mark spots of historic importance, and of the importance of such markers. \As state regent of the Montana Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, I am proud to add to the list of splendid tablets in Montana this marker to the honor of the Lewis and Clark expedition\ As she spoke the bnntings were pulled aside, revealing the bronze tablet, gleaming and shinning in the rays of the western sun. Clapp Gives History President -Clapp then spoke of the inspiration of such a marker and of the acquisition of the northwest through the peaceful method of ex- ploration and occupation, the method made possible by the daring Sr the Virginian captains and their band. ENEMY OF N. P. AGAIN IN JAIL PETER PERRY OF MISSOULA WANTS TOLL GATE ON THE RIGHT-OF-WAY Veteran of Cisil War Contends His Grant of Land from Government Supercedes Railway's Rights, and He Still Insists Rails be Moved. Once more Peter Perry, of Mis- soula, has run afoul the Northern Pacific railway company, anti once more the law for which he fought in '61, has incamerated him in the county jail. This incident was brought to a conclusion recently when Justice of the Peace J. A. Hutton pronounced sentence upon him, remanding him tot sot a a ehatge of interfering with railway property. At the trial in the ease, Perry, who was charged with having built a fence on either side of the railroad tracks, and proposed to put a toll gate across the tracks, admitted be had done it and that he would keep on trying it. Justice Ilutton, in pronouncing the sentence, said he considered the dan- ger to which Perry'e activities sub- jected the passengers on the trains and believed that whatever differ- ences the company and Perry may have, the public should be protected. Lives on Land Grant Perry lives 12 miles from Missou- la, on the crest of the divide near the town of Evaro, on a land grant he receivesi from the government as a result of his service in the Civil war. The patent reads \one hundred and sixty acres\ and contains no mention of the railroad. In 188() the Northern Pacific rail- road was constructed, and on Perry's grant was built one of the steepest and mast valuable pieces of track on the system. Working on the right of \eminent domain\ the engineers traversed the one and only pass over the north branch of the Bitter Roots, in the long trail to the Pacific. Near the crest of the grade they marked the path across the land of Peter Perry. It was not until long after the original rails had been worn out that Perry learned of the alleged trespass, and no* he is determined they will move the road, even if it will cause an expenditure of five million dollars to do it. Would Build Toll Gate The old man—Perry, an old sailor, now is 79 years old—has spent four years in harassing the company. He has skidded logs onto the track; he has whipped the 'sec- tion boss. He has moved the em- bankment—that is such part of it as he considered his, into his yard. His last move then was to build a fence with the idea of establishing the gate. An injunction by the com- pany prevented the construction of the gate. Later he was arrested and jailed for refusing to abide by the court order. Then he surrendered, and was released. Only four months later, however, he was haled into court again, for refusing to obey the court order. This was in April, 1923. He had re- sumed his tactics of letting logs roll onto the tracks again. He was given a suspended 30 -day sentence. Things went peacefully for while, and then, a few weeks ago, the old man was arraigned again. The fence idea had been put into , material form once more. And upon bang sentenced, the old man renewed his declarations of con- tinuing upon \his own land.\ He expressed the hope that the mon- ument would be inspiring to the youth of Montana in their spirit of devotion and social obligation to their country and in striving for the Individual development ,or which the country stands. Mrs. Scott's story of the heroine of the expedition, Sacajawea, the little daughter of the Shoshone, known as the \Bird -Woman,\ was most inter- esting and in characterizing the In- dian woman as the greatest heroine of American red women, Mrs. Scott took decasion to remind the gather- ing that in every project, good or had, one usually found a woman. A. ('. M. Company Thanked Mrs. A. J. Gibson, chairman of the marker committee, told of the Mis- soula chapter's work in erecting the tablet. The boulder is a six-ton granite rock, brought up from the Skalkaho pass, 100 miles from Mis- soula. It is a beautiful stone and worth the tatik :Wag, it_ Lei., . Mrs. ribson - extended the thanks of the chapter to the A. C. M. conepany for the marker, to the county com- missioners for the plot of gtound on which it rests, and all of the many persons who helped to bring, about the success of the dedications.; Then followed the presentation to Missoula county by ,Mrs. Keith and Mr. Wilbur's acceptance of the gift. The ceremonies were closed with the assembly singing of \Americet . and \Montana.\ :•• The old building now standing on part of the ground' set aside ler the monument is to be torn down and the stone moved back from The road. A lawn and trees are to be placed and the spot made into hn, invitltig place. A Lady of Distinction. • is recognized by the delicate fascinfit- 'ng intIttenee of the perfume she uses, k bath with Cuticura Soap and h‘t water to thoroughly cleanse the pores,. followed by a dusting with Cuticnra Talcum Powder usually means a clear, sweet, healthy skin.—Adv.
