The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 30, 1926, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT OSAGES ARE RICH, BUT A THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [MANY D DISCORD: ISCORDANT NOTESCOME x. be borne jointly by the govern: |likely that there was a finsle radio ment and the railway company. vet on a North Dakota farm in 1920. | Efforts are now ‘being made lo-| that in 1925 there were 75,969 farms lal, to have the state highway de:/in the state, while in 1920 there were rtment take up the matter of re-| 77,690. In 1925 15,852 farms report- down the Heh of way for half-a mile before the train stopped. The réar of the car was .slightly. dam- aged and two people in the back seat were injured, but Stovner and an- other in the front seat were unhurt. TRAIN PUSHES HIM hale age ‘NJ D.—Radolph Stovner Lore mpared with 15,-| saved his life and his automobile by 503 in 1920, and in 1923 Gopher state | swerving onto the tracks in front of farms reported 11,770 radio outfits. | a locomotive and guiding his machine More Work Ur; , The figures for North Dakota show ‘DOOMED TRIBE. Indians = Possess Fabulous Wealth, But Old Romance and Freedom Gone EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the tof a series of articles deal- with the picturesque old West that still lives in the land | of the mysterious Osage mur- ders, BY BRUCE CATTON the 1915 t of statuary on the out toward the gold End of the weary, exhaust- . hausted | horse. The horse could hardly stand; the Indian could just keep his : The point of his long lance touched | the ground. | it. fied the plight « America—driven wes from his old ranges, until there nothing’ left and death. And you get something of the same feeling, here in Pawhuska, studying the rapidly-dwindling Osage nation, | richest people on earth. Only, in this cuse, the sense of ro- mance ‘and dignity ‘that the famous} statue gave is lacking. The Osages | coming to the end of the trail! without honor. The glamour of the gay old west still lingers here, but the Indians do not shar®-in it. ‘The end is disappointing, undramatic. | The Open Spaces is something inspiring and | great reaches | by year, it the last} but sunset | There heartening about the of the Osage hills. league. they stretch aw zon, tossed in careless. w: here and there a striking flat-t rped | butte to serve as a landmark. are no trees. Only a coarse grass | grows. It is desolate und forsaken and yet strangely attractive. There is something open and untamed about these hills. They seem a fit home for the unfettered Indian of tradition. | Once the Osages lived here with-| out the presence of the white man to} complicate matters. There were buf-| the rolling the muscular, rene As youny inen'tove in. wild pur- suit on half-tamed ponies with shag- gy manes, Unenlightened and ig- norant, no doubt—-but free, strong and self-reliant. Then the white men chime. The story of the Osages was the same as the stories of other Indian tribes. One by one the traces of their old| freedom fell away, not without blood- | shed, for the Osages areja branch of the dreaded Sioux, and they — used i wk and bow bravely in the T combat. But it wasn’t long. Worthless Land reservation chiefly nd was thought the most wo in all Oklahoma Then oil was discovered, became w And that end, ih e everything received under the e white men, it has prov-! and they as the beginning of the + J bungalows. one are the riders of | erday-—the “bucks” 3 and Marmons now. The tribe still has a chief-—but the white man’s government has him under rigid re- strictions, There are still wild, law- less men in the Osage hills—but not one is an Indi Fifteen yea full-blooded Jess than 500, “ardly be one. A Dying Nation { The Osages ure dying—dying amid | untold wealth that they do not know how to use—dying half a century after the romance ‘and color of their race flickered out. TRe end of the! trail finds only a fat, stolid burgher, | well-fed, but dull. And still, on a dark winter night, you drive to the top of a hill, out- side the town and fisten as the night | wind sweeps in from the treeless | prairie; and it seems that you can| hear, distantly, the far thud of hoots ‘on turf and the wild yells of an un- seen hunting party as the last of the! old-time redskins whirl over the rise ~-not bothered with the useless wealth of the modern Indian, but gloriously, magnificently free. Then you turn back. The cement roadway is lighted by the glare of auto headlights. A huge sedan whirls past, with ia fat, stupid Indian | lolling in the back seat. ago there were 222! sages. Now there are In 20 years there will | Quarter of Century Wi. Santhg ot rem Sees Auto Replacing | ;::. Horses For Travel | seine {he river f In one short quarter of a century the automobile has practically obse- leted the horse as a mode of personal transportation. A reproduction of an Oldsmobile advertisement of 1901 de- picts the early fight between these two manners of travel. Its contrast with 1926 conditions shows: at a glance the wonderful progress of au- tomotive industry in a short span of years. What was said of the Oldsmobile in 1901 is being said in other words of the present day luxurious, com- fortable and easily operated automo- biles. Measured by the standards of their days tractive to the person bent on pur- emering individual ‘and flexible trans- portatio! The old advertisement |called at- tater to the Oldsmobile exhibit at Neéw’York Automobile Show. This aaon Oldsmobiles are being exhib- at hundreds of shows, but a far pnt car. Six instead ‘of ‘one , seats for five instead of for weather, proef enclosures in of buggy tops, and all at a small 3 o in Price. . Pletured phe e Red ares ve. industry tf eg bye commend reg sly pad te |be senator or oblivion, jutorship and are e|tor, and George Shafer for go |hand against jism and both were equally at-{ he Faithful Are Becoming Oppressed by Fargo Domination | and Dictation—Nestos Refuses to Be Eliminated Senatorship—Lemke Not a Delegate i | hohe steadier standard bearer in} ¢ faithful in ail th Seldom has he been ent ranks. the only gravy Sat Twichell cohorts | Forks ‘county ever got’ was the Mill was not so! it was finally | beginning te oppr the so-called Indepe The day when the d wave the isin and get North Dakota polities, pie count pehind the red flag dem- | ome recoy the state” has} 8 been running a fa did ap. ' . A. newspaper for | if aking his fi his Nonpartisan | rmers and shout- ds” until patience a virtue, now trots out John Lee Coulter, president of the Agricultural kdministration. College, for United States senator. are many discordant ele-| In naming John ulter’s quali- ments. | fications, “Jerry” has included many a Nestos docs not|of his own, “Jerry” would just as eu b ated for L. B. Han- | soon strike out the name Coulter in| Fine number of letters long ago ported that he sent out , that editorial and insert in liew there- iny | of, Bacon, to close friends that he would not rur jow that’s that. Jerry evidently for governor if eliminated ut Devils |is not very keen for cith¢r Hanna, Lake and that they should not abate | Nestos, or Christianson. His hole | their efforts in his behalf. Now he| card is John Lee Coulter, who has a comes out squarely and says it must | very remote chance of being nor or elected. Not So Many Jobs orlie’s election diminished the number of jobs open for fusion- ists. Take away johs and vou s tragt a lot of enthusiasm from fu- sionists. When there ix not enough pork to give out to deserving Repub- ans, where are the Democrats to Re of| flation the real minittce and its | league complement, the LV. A. ring, com- posed of three three Re- eal sand thre 8, has not) pleased the opposition to the Sortie | Can See Only One Office Second: There is a feeling that the Hanna organization is seeking to subordinate everything for the sen- arching out trod- ing ground in every bailiwik of the state to make votes for Hanna, One leading Independent was quite in-|1 dignant the other day and declared | draw nourishment to carry on? right out in open meeting that he| L. L. Twichell and his man Keily did not give a “dash hang” who went | have been charting the state patron- to the United States senate, but he | as well as doing a cross ally interested in state affairs. | word puzzle in political elimination. Th Many Republicans _ are | They find job pledging and elimina- clamoring for a new alignment. They | tion rather hard. ichell’s job is want both Hanna and Nestos elimin-| to keep Nestos put end the road open ated and declare that victory could | anna limited. There must | had in a combination of Justice | b Christianson for United States sena- ror) \. orpe successor to Shafer| These are a as attorney general. Many politicians | places to be made smooth. It is just declare that this would be a pat) possible that the Devils Lake con- the opposition. vention will be a love feast, but if Hanna Chief Issue orth Dakota politics will enter Fargo politicians shaping the des- | epoch. tinies of Hanna, ho ed both Shafer and leigh Spalding who, chell, steers Cass county leaders, can. not work up any enthusiasm for Christianson for the United States senate. He cannot forget how hand- | hristianson trimmed him for the | Shafer or with John T few of the rough Cass County will not have “Bill” Lemke fighting in the next Nonpar- isan League convention at Bismarck. League convention oe Lemke will seem different, anyway. F ‘A survey of league county conven- supreme bench several years ago in|tions indicate that Gov. A. G. Soilie ace of his insurgent support. The| will be endorsed as* the standard g of the Republican party | bearer, There may be some differ- trick when Hanna ran ences of opinion on the United States Or. | senatorship. Some leaders don’t want as Oliver Twist Nye. but the fact that he made the Then there is Jerr, battic for a seat and won will give who has several co!lar so him the ede on the endorsement. the dual yoke of the 1. V. A. | ures Republican organizations, has become politically calloused inj county, attor battling against socialism, Townley- vestigution before the last legi y other kind of an “ism.” | 's being mentioned as He has been at every convention and | probable contender for Thomas Hall's cross roads conference. , There has | sent, Bacon Graham of Dickey Judge Fred J. in the Wighway rancisco, In the same at San i Oldsmobile boasted that it goes “up and down stair about 60 miles north of Rismarck,) and 1,500 feet of revetment above Manan ceht Northorn Pacific "sbiiigs.” at advertising tells of a Harmon, ‘The revetments are made F e at most every important | hy cutting: brush and w it on the highways of the colin: |. huge mat whieh is meta breach: tel the hank and Lied let ere ake |for a considerable distance. then weighted down he rock amd boulders, aft lice is cut away and the w mat sinks to the spread which the izhter end horse has been hottoin of plodding oceup tomotive indu Taree nanae Capt. Maulding plans to put @ large w of men at work on the projects | !as they must all he completed within | ja month, before the ice becomes un- | safe to work on. at quantities of |brush and rock will he used. | The projects were recommended to the war department iby Major Gee Maulding had made his report and the quick action which resulted is very pleasing to those interested in the work. The expense of the work Three Projects A Are vel) by War Department — Work to Start at Once America, The war department has approved three revetment projects along the Missouri river in this vicin cording to a message received today by Capt. I. P. Baker from Congre: man Thomas Hall at Washington, and the work will be commenced at once. Request for the work was made } the U. § eering department at Kansas City y a few weeks ago, after an inspection trip along Quick Relief for Old and Young a the first, ‘st “the | DISTURBANCE IN A LOCAL THEATRE superintending the work of} show Hycked fi | very mbce dish ver from Cannon Ball Eee Se ts calls for peat has been here sine snagging the r One of the proj feet of revetment work a#! cast bank of the river just north tne aa ae, yt nt the Northern Pacific railway bridge. An He and Tar jes mi and some repair work to. the old | a sca coughs with ore revetment. A few years ago the river was cutting in badly on the west side of the river above the rail bridge und that shore was. reveted This caused the river to shift it course until now it is cutting in on She oupaie teek making te tadel ditional work necessary. 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