Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 24, 1910, Page 24

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 24 High School Senior Class Illustrates American History in Its Pageany ¥ ot s ERERTOF THE ClUTE 5 b i} pleture shown above, that of liberty su- filled. As it fs botween $300 and $400 were preme, would do credit to any professional made clear by the pupils stage manager and is certainly a triumph oy this for the girls presenting it edit 1 The business managers of the ey HE “History Pageant'' presented meen able to leave some article to com- ®0 successfully by the senior memorate that class and to help decorate class of the Omaha High school the halls of school building. For the has set a new precedent in the last decade th ways of ralsing money annals of high school enter- haye taken the shape of g senior into which prises. An interesting bit Of the unsuspecting parent and visitor was high school history has also been brought jed, and broke out again? the shorn lamb. to light as a result of the entertainment g given great success the students give » Mrs. Atkinson, the head of the Listory department of the high school, and port that financially the event far exceeded to Chandler Trimble, the president of the thelr expectation Three performances class, Mrs. Atkinson states that the High were glven on Tuesday and the theater school facalty, in view of the fact that tha year some member of ths 1910 class was packed at all of them. If another per- pupils ran this event so well, are seriously evolved the ldea of giving an exposition of 8 formance could have been arranged for it When the senior class of last year gave not only the high school work, but also the 18 thought that it could easily {is senior fair the faculty decreed for va- work. of all the grade schools. However, ihes rious good and sufficient reasons that it this scheme fell through because of lack o e whould be the last fair glven by a senior of time in which to prepare the exhibits, A P honest citizen when he is normal and class at the Omaha High school. And when and so the idea of making Lexington day : ] i Of the many tribes the one best know the class of 1910 asked that It be allowed one which would long be remembered was the American people is the Sioux; it is his to present a fair it was refused. 8o It was brought forward and was received with 2 £ dress and up to the brilllant members of the class. the greatest enthusiasm i : & often to think of something to take its place considering s such entertalnment every have been and anxious to take part in the colonization scheme. They sce in it & future for their children and for the race ¥ are wait- his habits that have been most e e | ng for the clock to strike. and most graphically described in| 'r e € g / etk L ) ? { song and story. He ls—and T am now| Tttle Bison has only the warmest words Gas oL The IR RCTIOA L SIEGRG O DSRS0 & UL 1 ; y kpeaking of the conclusions of students and | °f Praise for the present Indfan commis 0 : trayal of the early history of the first set- : y 3 Ll sfoner, Mr. Valentine, and for the work of fiil the gap was the pageant just given. tlers of America the spectacle presented el - 5 e b e g L h""””“"”‘nm predecessor, Francis Leupp, whose AnSther 14 15 b’ the -erbartatinient 1o wan an’ SHun LA Suooras: (e Bicearbie A 1 i and physical standpoint, and It fs fitting| Ple Predecsssor, Francle Leupp, whos yeudeville which 18 o come oft some scenes shown by. the students were all his- / ¢ : 4 ;:,',': At dom bttt [ s b ke byl e bk b e e ey e ; 1 A rimental colony dia oblem,” he conside clas me I MaY. e the sentorclasses of the [CFICANIY cOTTect and Impressed on the mind » uI wore a ohlet's headdress at the |S!c. but he thinks the authorities, hampered I tormet years for classes of the of the audience a8 nothing else could the THHSR kiR gt tis S B Eotl Hoal o4 w8 they are, have difficult problems to eon high schiool have always had some kind of struggle for this continent and the later - vt M A L e (KA ahhwer, . ‘T ilony A A anertainment At the high school Sula: fght for erty ton, and it is this adorament that in front gnd anawer. ulvlnl.itlb‘dl“:l:h'\" scheme ng. By means of these each group of For an amateur performance the st known as the ‘Indian’ headdress every-|I do not not seo how, acco - studants as it left the school to try Its effects produced wy them . the sourse Lt it e R Ge AT i Bt S O Syl el ey vind fortune In & contest with the world, has the pageant were almost wonderful. The ! LR I L e T we Ojibway Indian a ‘war bone |ation it certainly should arouse est. = net,’ made of undyed eagle plumes, and its| Take the matter of breeding cattle alone. " ; length is determined by the rank of thel Whers, in a few years, are you going toe NS AN INDIAN COLONY v B {roms) B8 | trom Okiahoma, forced to that place from | Ventilated and the air of which' soon be A 5 | Loulsiana. Already prosperous, having |SOmes vitiated and foul, atter a time by y . £ TR ;. | breeding consumption and other diseases, i i 2 i - he ge of livin n ch country, Little Bison Would Lead Sioux to HIS Sira e e » . they are now an immensely wealthy tribe, conveyed from one to another be "“'”"; Central America. happy and progressive because they have | (€Y 4o not know the laws of sanitation 4 In lo es ' r' wa o | been allowed to work out their salvation [CG R RIuRCRURTORAE S NRLLL AT it | teach them those laws of sanitation and WOULD REGAIN VITALITY THERE pinghe R slong the right lines, Mr. Duncan, Who | yeuiiation, and they would learn it In has devoted his life to work among the | o FEL R BN SISV WO RO rence ! ; 1 : ) X Indians, has mow a large and thriving| Lon fpl SRR R L O Pt i & Cattle Raising and Farming Work > o I ik colony of them, I believe in Alaska, self-| oountry where there is one month of rain They're Best Fitted For— R 3 5 ” b 3 - "“'”r‘l""""‘“ sud '("“““‘f;:" “: ““"“"‘“‘I‘I" every year my practical experlence teaches - and as a corporation. They have canning . fitiogivagin . A TSRO ARG Dol factories, they have mining resources, they l\i‘:.(,mm;,eh::uxin;;-‘ hf\h‘,:" SHears N lars to Begin With. | have their own government. They are, 4 thanks to his wise foresight and experi-| tneir cgbins they can get their rations, the NEW YORK, April 23.—One of the most 4 & o 1 ence, a ‘saved’ people. They have proved,| nocessity of work has been to & great ex- interesting speakers at the recent lunch- g ¥ a self-evident fact to the student, that|ient taken from the children of nature. the Indlan can work as well as the white| ppeyv were not slothful in the old days; eon of the League of Polltical Education a v vi ; man, but he must be allowed to work In they would not be in the new conditions F e R (hrL e Chive Rig Mok his own way. He cannot work In confine- | that stimulate their ambition and pride.” of the Sioux Indlans. The second annual ment. He loses his nerve. He must have Yiittle: Bison ' doesn't’ ibelieve the rate function of this kind was given in honor the outdoor life and the trades and pro-| would slip back. “The experience of the Of Mrs. Lionel Marks (Miss Josephine Pea- tessions that are allied with that for the | colonies I have mentioned In Mexiop and body), on her way to Stratford to witness present, perhaps for many generations to| Alaska is quite opposed to &ny such be- f.hb RESNetation. of her yrise pastry play, He cannot competé with the white | ljef. The colony would be under a leader |‘:ha P“‘“!'” 0. AL, the “u‘tu‘ EABIS ke 4 s man. and his assistants, men of education and :u;,::‘:ym..um;“e;:::w\:(:rrNr‘f‘l,}!firm\v‘(‘,"m i % “It fs not so very long ago that here {n | ambition, graduates of schools and colleges Mathison, Winthrop Amos, Robert n:k:iil» g “ 5 ' New York I answered an advertisement | or of the practical life, men who when they BRic M0 aevatal. Gihad notabike i L1 ¢ for an electriclan, The man who offered | undertake a thing carry it through to a In the home of Miss Nathalle Curtis, whe £ 3 the place for the salary of $10 a week [ successful termination. Their sons would has spent some years among the \;m-u: $ Y E coolly told me, when I applied, that no| in time take up the work of progress. The | Indian [tribes, a sofourn resulting in “The . Itdian could work, but as there seemed |last outbreak of the Sioux was in 1881, when Indlan ' Book,” Little Bison admits that 7 none else who had even an inkling of what | Sitting Bull was killed. A generation has the short time allotted his speech hardly e & . o was needed he finally engaged me, 1| passed since then, and in reviving old cus &ave him a chance to introduce the topic e g i stayed a week merely as a mater of pride, | toms the savage rites of the Sun Dance @0 near his heart, much less explain It 1 2 8 5 | tor I felt my earning capacity was greater | and the Ghost Dance, to which solemn rites as he would like to have done. He has X A £ 4 than that, but I could not go away and | no white men have ever been admitted, already spoken of it and received the ap. \ Yleave In his mind that impression regard- 'would not form a part of our recurrent proval of several Indian well wishers, | 1 ol i 3 R . ing my people. At the end of the time I|celebrations. The last time these dances | among them F. S. Dellenbaugh, librarian " announced my departure and he said:| were given was in 1819, preceding an up- | of the American Geographical society; Mr. | L Why you mustn’t go, man; I can't get on | rising. They are never given except when “Knowing that by merely walking out of Stédman, whose Work along. this line 1s D 7 : without you. I sald eimply, ‘Then you|the war spirit is abroad. There would be well known, and Miss Curtls, who Is an enthusiastic supporter of the dream. He has lectured before the public educa- tion boards and at the synagogue of b Stephen Wise. In his post-luncheon speech Little Bison spoke pathetically of the fact that the government only gave the Indians ra- think an Indian can work? and when he answered my question in a more flatter- ing manner than I had expected, I felt that I had accomplished my purpose. But I still say that the man was right to a certain extent. I, with my good heaith, my education and my experience, cannot work—in confinement. 1 would have gone no necessity for them in the life I plan, | for we want to live in a state of peace. | I do not even believe that the co-operation | of different tribes In the colony will be | truitful of evil, for the old spirit of rivalry | and hate seems to have dled out as the cause has been removed. In the schools | and colleges there is no evidence of racial I also wore THE SON OF LIfTLE em- (get what you need in this direction? All tlons and reservations.” Tyanslated into to pleces in a short time there, feeling; ~young men of tribes that in the |broidered quill work, which | the western country is being bullt up. The the vernacular it would seem that for any- “Used to the buckskins, the Indigns can- | past were always on the warpath now |antedated the use of beads. We have no | cattle and sheep are passing as the buffal body to give anybody else board and lodg- | AN INDIAN WITH A DREAM, 1 not all at once adapt themselves to the|chum together. | totem poles Iike many of the tribes, our|Las passed, as the Indian is passing. | ing Is considerable of a gift. But Little while man's dress. They put it on and| “There Is a side of the Indian's charac-|crests and symbols are written on our There are more citizen Indians toddy Bison does not think so and his argument take it off at the wrong times; they are|(er which 18 quite removed from that de-|tepees and shields' and our myths and|than you have any idea of and a citizen 18 based on good common sense and prac- not toughened by thefr attire, they areipicted In novels and melodramatic plays. |legends are mesor\rd.‘ it [;rr"(lm\‘t-r:“‘n ;l“‘dmi not have to have government permis- tical experience. What he believes the In weakened by it. The open tepee with per-| While it {s true that in war time an In-|except in the memories of the older In-|sion to-go where he wishes, but such heip dlan wants is to live the life he was in fect ventllation is replaced Ly the cabinidian will steal ponles, he is a particularly |habitants, in the picture writing on skins. |48 individuals of the government could tended by Nature to live so far as is stones and any seemingly imperishable | #ive would be very welcome indeed. T think Boshible With ' tha advance of Im“/‘-m”“ the mere hunting and fishing life; he |and Arabia substance, all these Individuals need is to have their and to reach the standards demanded by | | o t: !0 Make fafmers of them. and he| “Qne day In Arabla narrates the Every year or two,” continues Little |interests awakened and to learn some of that civilization by slow and painstaking || 0% enlYy found an ideal location, but | speaker, "I mounted a bareback Arablan ST 2 Bison, “I go back to the tribe and renew | the true facts of the Indian's character, his TRt th%he farorn tite b T has had & large tract of land offered to stallion and rode him far out in the desert d | competition with a people who are gen him in Central Amerlca, far from the When I returned, triumphant to have ac X | erations ahead of him in evers patn ;| POUUICE! Delt of uie sea coast, in the in- complished sometiing 1 had been told was | n be named, Eaa & at an altitude of some 6,000 feet, impossible for a youth like me to do, the et it N e where all the vegetables can be easily pro- old Arah sheik to whom the beautiful ani y# Little Bison, “is that the Inaian sneq | 21000 Including coffee, cocon; where there \mal belonged came and kissed me on both step from his blanket and moccasing into | ", JUA10UCS of rubber for export: where |cheeks. It was from his people I learned ‘Kll’«'ll\fl" refers particularly to his own)man, who was in 1l health With him tribe, with ten families from which, or an |Little Bison visited not only the usual aggregate of fifty people, he would prefer [ European countries, but went also to to start, adding others as time goes on.|unusual places, little frequented parts of He does not want this colony to revert to|Africa and Asia, Japan ahd Indla, Egypt my relations with them, I find them ready | needs and his possibilitie Lawyer Ruffles Court’'s Feathers be at home In that garb. It is impossiul £y - \e $5.000 which Little Bison mentions horses and cattle, and kne day We cannot o it, and for that reason after l The $5,000 which Little Bison mentions | horses and cattle, and know that today 1 | modestly as a sum sufficlent to start this| could take a degres us horse doctor if it ‘ he young men leave school or college and the young h v college and | wlony would be spent for transportation|Were necessar During this period 1 i wurposes and the initial expenses. “‘Phere |learned many other industrial trades, car- Py j the tallial expen Thin 4 ’ i $ jeorge Ade's slang In preference to the fs no colonization scheme that can show |pentry, for Instapce, and even sewing 3 3 | | | | The supreme court of California has|[“Do not comport very well with dignity cited Attorney Ralph Schoonover of Santa |and caution and evenness of mind popu- larly believed to be personified in one who wears the judicial ermine and presumed |to know the law and to administer it language of Blackstone in a brief recently | Tnere was a general judicial gasp en are thrown on their own resources follow ing the protection of a segrega: life, they frequently find themselves unable to compete in the fight where many white | Barbara for contempt because he used 1its in one year states Little Bison,,! determined to leave no weak point that but I can do it in five I am sure.” 1 had cognizance of, so that if the future men go under, and, in spite of education | That Litt Bison 15 well fitted by ap- miled on my scheme I should feel myself and etfort, revert to the ‘blanket I | pearance, personality and education to be|fully equipped in every practical way. 1 About a year ago,” says Little Bison, | the leader of such a “cause’ {s & fact that|have the complete industrial equipmient a luncheon was given at Sherry's in New | iy proved by a short talk with him, as well | ecessary for such work, York City to discuss the gift offered by|as from the testimonials of his many| "It was on our return from this journey y Mr. Rodman Wanamaker of half a million | friends. He Is a man of 4 years, \\hu‘\\\nu'n took several years, that 1 realized " v ) | dollars to be used in the purchase and |looks ten years younger. He is stalwart{l had found either in South or Central erection of the statue of an Indian, this|and firmly submitted to the learned judges | bane. When the court met en banc to review | ‘‘The decision is a peach, continued the the papers In the appealed case of Wil- |reader. liams against Lane one of the justices took | “What!" exclaimed & learned judge, up the brief of Attorney Schoonover and {“What e began (o read it aloud | “In the vernacular,” explained Justice Then the state court buits Into the |Melvin, “the word ‘peach' signifies any- . | gume,”” he read in an amazed tone thing rare, pretty—I gather that It s used built, broad shouldered and | America the land of my desire. 1 thought 1 1 E Beg pardon, 1 didn't follow inter- | here in an fronical:sense.' ulptured form (o be the work of Mr.|sinewy. His high cheek bones show only | of the sterlle, stony country, where on the 1 Frederic Remington, since deccased. The [In profile and his features are clean cut|government reservation wmong the Black mewapapers which gave the account of the | and aristocratic in outline. He has married | hills the Sioux now have their home. 1 banquet and the laudatory speeches of |@ wife of Scotch-American parentage and|remembered how in that desolate the guests did not contain allusion or | has seven children tract, as minerals had been discovered the suggestion that the same amount or u| He te In answer to a blographi \dian had been pushed further and fur- bundredth part of that amount might be | Guestion, how he has been educated and|(ner back. 1 stayed In this part of the expended for the benefit of the live Indian, | Where and \ ys that from the time when|worid a long time and came in contact rather than In the perpetuation in marble | ie Was the age of his oldest boy he has|wih many intaresting people, some of of the Indian who is actually passing away | 1ad but one dream, one project, to colonlze | whom became exceedingly Interested and continued It is a finding not only frivolous, but on account of their neglect. 1 do not criti- | Hi® people helpful, and it was through the Influence Then & state court butls into the game, |false as well, and was intended simply, as clse the fine, broad-minded ideas of My | Following the battle of the Big Horn|oe these kind friends that the tract of L { and when it ha® gotten Its butter going |a cloak to er more villainy Wanamaker at all, but I do vay that for|¥here his futher and most of his relatives| .. o aiready mentioned was offered to me " P it 40 ARABIA 18 8D, It Saniinum with S 1 Ehete WARS pI/sNP. (hRS never before something ltke 36,00 I could start with |WO'® Killd, Little Bison was taken by @ |goioooion i inose countries s much de- | / the judicial solemnity of an owl. Its ac- |had found their way into the pure lexicon hope and enthusiasm on the colonization :j'":l“‘“‘h ary to Texas, and lived on @ ranch| . 4 ang several of the. chiefs of Indian | tions would doubtless pass muster in @ |of the supreme court. “The decision was g s g el oy “l"“v.n Mm“u.”‘ Atter that he traveled for | FEEC 870 FECN 0 anclent Astecs and £s o) \wnu» or a moving plcture studio, hul‘lv\vltrm " proper conditions of ciimate and physical (5, wh'® 4nd ““l“"“"““- Kansas and|, . .' .usured me that they would be | certainly do not comport very well with| There was sarcasm, too. Atiorney environment, they could develop into a |p i WOHen “‘rn’t_::‘:“:"““ '"(;"”""‘_’:‘; only too giad to work. in co-operation | £ the dignity and caution— Bchoonover sald: “The judgment was the fine, Surdy, Sclf-aupporting and self-re- himesic in ‘the preliminaries of sisotric | With us. Like the best of our people, the | DIFHUT And oautiony 4asu. ho ANE-ING | FeRsIRNER 8F B Mplant, ofit, of messive specting race instead of Aying by hundreds | worc, mstallation. ste. During this peried | thinking, educ cass, they wish to lee,” muttered & learned fudge. “But |brains, & masterplece of ‘... b s of consumption and kindred diseases, the |no aroused the interest wf 4 rich. can |Preserve the legends and myths of thelr " &0 oni we must et this nightmare over.| And all this the supre urt ot Cal Tosult of improper feeding. Of IMPODCT |farnian AN (ne samecavanc | o \ni| faces, Cast dying out; they wish (o propa- | [And they talk of abolishing capital pun-|fornia declared to e anda [ {sequaintance was the offer to become o|&ate their kind now disappearing | l meut. graceful, insulting and constitutcs & coms clothing and improper dwelling houses.’ Lditle Blson e3plaius hat the lefm ‘Y |secretary abd Uaveling companion of thig] “Mexico bas given the Cherokee ludians | LITTLE BISON IN WAR BONNET OF THE SIOUX. The reading of the brief was continued: |tempt of courty - ipted one of the learned assoclate ju Said rotten decision,” continued the | tices reade was the rottenest decision that | “Then the state court butts in— ever disgraced the records of any court, My graciou exclaimed a justice, dia | f it wiped out the entire story of his Blackstone ever use such language perfidy. It is a raw decision.” “If my memory serves me,’ suggested That, I fancy, is another colloquialism, Justice Melvin, “it sounds llke a newer asserted Justice Henshaw | master, George Ade, I belleve his name is The sald judgment,” the brief read, | 'Fhe justice who was reading the brief |“is oue of the wonders of the legal world.” | | |