The Progress from White Earth, Minnesota • Page 4

l0, h' i I ThS 0U9, Beaulieu, Ttieo, Beaulieu, Published Every Subtorlptlon: 2,00 per year. In Entered In the Post Office at "White Earth, at SECOND-GLASS rates. Local and Personal. Comingthe cold, chilly winds of fall and winter. Dr.

Rea took a flying trip Foss- tonwards, one day this week. Rev. Father Alqysus returned from Leech Lake trip on Saturday of last week. hJ-- Thursday was lowry, in the af- 1 ternoon rain set in and continued during the night. Agent T.

J. Sheehan returned on Friday from a ten days sojourn in and about Paul. Mrs. Grantham, matron of the government boarding school, returned from a short visit among Detroit friends on Tuesday. Mrs.

M. Semplft and baby Gilfillin now preside over the affairs of the manor in the absence of Rev. and Mrs. J. A.

Gilfillin. About forty pounds of g. 0. p. campaign literature arrived in Tuesday's mail, addressed to T.

J. Sheehan. C. H. Whipple, of the Livery firm of Whipple Spicer, Detroit, went to Fosston on Tuesday to size up the prospective Livery business of the 'city on the On Tuesday morning twelve boys started for Philadelphia, where they go to attend the Lincoln Institute.

They were in charge of E. Funk who acconipanied them to Detroit. $3T A New Lot of Cloaks for Ladies and Children's wear, Fall and Winter Millinery, Hosiery, Yarns and Fancy Goods just received at Mrs. E. Irvine, Detroit City.

Mail orders will receive prompt attention. feet of lumber to replace the sod roofs and dug-outs of our people who are striving toward a higher civilization. This business has been shamefully neglected and it is time that it were looked after. Mrs. W.

T. Hollan accompanied by her daughter, Miss Libbie, left for an extended visit to the scenes of the old homestead mid the golden corn clime of Iowa. Meantime "Pa" Hollan chews his "quid" and sighs "what's without ma!" Miss Madaline Warren, we understand, is an applicant for a teachership in the Indian service. MisB Warren has taken a course of studies at Lincoln's Institute, Philadelphia, and has but lately returned from St. Jo, where she has been studying the past term.

She is a grand-daughter of the historian, Witt, Warren and of the famous chieftain day. In appearance, she is of dium height, slight in figure, pretty with a brunette complexion and large lustrous black eyes that are screened by a pair of becoming glasses, in manner she is affable, gracious and 1 1 ThcXadim We understand that several of about ten years of the treaty had the boys who went to the Clontarf expired before any schools or industrial school have run away therefrom. It is stated that they were induced by two of the larger boys, one of whom was the prime mover in the Collegeville stampede three years ago. Pernicious influences should be furnished accommodations in the reform schools and compulsory education extended over reservation schools. Her efforts are certainly deserving of favorable Consideration and we trust her talent may be glvea an opportunity to develop itB til merits.

tha AJjt.Mtm aw owatd thfttt Ahh Publisher. "Manager, WHITE SEPT. 22, 3888. are andtwe a by ttftalienaWe rlghtH hmmetts ANs THt PURSUITthoM( OF KfD TM PtmtttTtT OP S3SS noftd Letter From Our treaty of 1868, by which we ceded large tracts of country, provides "a yoke of oxen and a cow for every family who locates upon land and commences farming, and as soon as certificates of allotment are received each family to receive $100.00 worth of agricultural implements the first year, and $25,00 a year for the three succeeding years." We are now nearly all located upon farms and entitled to this BUT THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOT YET MADE ANY SURVEYS to enable us to take out our certificates of allotment. The same treaty also promises schools and instructors for a period of twenty years, but each person as soon as they come and settle upon the reservation these provisions to continue for a period of thirty The treaty of 1876, by which we ceded the Black Hills country, provides for our subsistence for such length of time as may be re rations agreed upon, it says "such rations, or so much there" of as may be necessary, shall be continued until the Indians are able to support Right and Wrong, for educational truthsto ChiefInhw columns of your noble paper, our KsMtGJ JVnri SIOUX TREATY COMMISSION.

Chapter of Good, Sound Common Sense and STANDING ROOK AGENCY, reaS Chief of the Blackfeet Band of disposing of any surplus lands we Sioux Indians. may have (f a fair and reasonable proposition is made to us. 3U We have full faith in the good HIS REASONS FOR OPPOSING THE intentions of the great father and his desire to do justice to the Indians, also in his law-makers when we know the facts in the case, and trust to the fair-minded consideration of all good white people in advocating justice and right towards us. The rumors that the Sioux are liable to resort to arms to oppose the act Is Totality Without Foundation. We recognize the poirer of the government and now consider ourselves a part of it.

We are not so ignorant as we were ten years ago and in our present stand simply refuse to have an ACT FORCED tJPON us, and appeal to all good white people to aid us. We are now trying to live like the white people and art making con. siderable progress in civilization. Your sincere friend and red brother. JOHN GKABS, Sioux chief, Blackfeet band.

FOBT YATES, Sept. IT, 1888. Gus H. Beaulieu, Publisher of the Progress, Dear Sir.Your letter of the 10th inst. is received and I am pleased to hear from you and to know that there is one of our own (of Indian blood) who has the English education, intelligence and courage to advocate through the columns of his paper The Riffhte of the Indiana.

My reasons for refusing to support the Sioux bill are aB follows: The new act offers 50 cts per acre for all the land to be relinquished by its ratification, and this 50 cts per acre is made contingent upon the land being taken by homesteaders, which from the character of the land (being chiefly adapted for grazing) it is doubtful if ever more than ONB-THIBB of it could be taken under the homestead laws, and as there is NO provision in the act for land not thus taken, the few homesteaders would have the benefit of the large grazing ranges without cost and the Indians would thus receive NOTH- ING for such unhomesteaded portions! Furthermore, 50 cts per acre is inadequate compensation and $1.00 per acre, clear of all expenses to the Indians would be but a nominal price. teachers were given It promises $10.00 per year in such articles as may be deemed most necessary for each person while they roam, and $20.00 a year for cause the allotment HMMHI purposeso(already- the other half be divi that thoy ded oro rata amonir those mm are that thoy ded pro rata among those interest-. 1 A by their Creator wit certain sDthaE among ar be about $1.00 a year for eact man, onsfor rejecting the act re. cently pressnted to us, and to say that we are not at all opposed to 7W0 ASPECTS. Ssnvss rs injustice with which the Indians have been too often treated In the past is still bearing abundant fruit, not we are glad to', say, by another Indian war, but in the difficulties that are being experienced by the commissioners appointed to arrange a treaty by which part of the great Sioux reservation can be opened for occupancy from without.

As yet, however, all attempts on the part of the commissioners have failed, and the Indians very sensibly ask wh will see to the future fulfillment of the new treaty, and are entirely indisposed to affix their signatures to it. They have awakened to a sense of the unfairness with which they have been treated, and now when what is represented to be a wise and proper proposition is made to suspicions will not permit them to discriminate. It may be very provoking to the commissioners, but in view of what has been, the determination of the Indians is not to be wondered at. The Episcopal Becorder, Philadelphia. We reprint herewith, two extracts as exhibiting opposite views in relation to the disposition of the great Sioux reservation.

The secular journal publishes extracts from what is known as the Dawes bill, and comments on the section which authorizes the secretary of the Interior, "in case of failure to select lands" on the part of the Indians within four years after the Presdent shall have ordered such to be made. The Globe says, from the provision th ac abo atieB quired, as after specifying certain linquithment of their title to a certain portion of their reservation fail in their efforts, the President of the United States may issue a proclamation and open the fore, by the treaties of 1B6876 reservation in spite of the obsti our ox teams, cows, Wagons, agri- nacy of the cultural implements, schools, This maybe true, and shonld nuity goods, and subsistence are the government act, it may be all provided for, and the new act, (the Sioux reservation bill) which contemplates the cession of some 11,000,000 acres of our present reservation, simply offers what is ALREADY DUE tte, AND OUR RIGHT UJTDER SREATI1S, With the exception of a loan of 000 which it proposes to plaee in the U. S. Treasury at 8 per cent per annum ($60,000 annually), one be expended there ref mthe to, it will be seen thaty shoulde commission, now so faithfully and Coring to secure the consent of the Indians to the re- that it will act in accordance with the authority here givon. At this time the Sidux esinmiasioii i gaged in acts strictly in accordance with a special bill, and which provides for the obtaining of the "consent of three-fourths of the interested in the great Sioux reservation, They fnilei act strictly and honorably in accord' failure to obtain consent woman and child.

I am glad to be able give to the American people through the anoe with the stipulations of that bi ftad it will not be untila total ua ww sui uum lytA tha. the government can ever think of applying this Wide and General We are not admitting, nor denying the operation of this section to the case in hand, but are simply asking the United States to "make haste slowly.V thai. rtftw AVAI ti 4- It has but just acted hastily in considering the Chinese immigration question, and before obtaining from authoritative sources any knowledge concerning the fate of the treaty which awaits the action of the Chinese Of course we are not assuming that the Government will decide with the Globe, but should it so decide, it will appear at once, that the procedure must ever appear in the history of the country, as an act of Physical Might Over Weaknem. By the passage of the Sioux bill, and under itB provisions, the try recognized the ethnical aspect admitted the moral necessity of obtaining the consent of the owners of the desired territory. This was a bill passed after the "general allotment bill," and this subsequent action seems to "indicate a desire to recognise the great laws of men and time." At this time, all we would say in this connection, is addressed to the sanguine special correspondent of the Globe.

We would not advise him to enter into any speculative theories, basing them on the certainty of any near vacation of the coveted reservation. His castles will have just as secure foundation for quite as long a period where they arein the airas on ground lots ideally laid out upon some portion of the reservation. The Indians may be "fast realizing the fact that the great father can compel them to loosen their grip if he so chooses," but they have nowhere, as yet, urged that as a reason for wishing to sign the treaty affirmatively. This thought has as yet found birth nowhere but in the brain of the Globe's correspondent, end has not yet appeared to anyone as of great We are "onlookers in Venice," and have nothing to say for or consent. Nor are we desirous of commending or censuring those who are giving consent.

We know nothing of the average value of th terrifcor i Mf fche pc may or may not be ample. Alrli we contend for, or have contended te the recognition of the broad rule of RISPIOT for the OPIN- IONS OF THOSE INTBRBR1STED, and for abstinence on the part of the commissioners from Savoring of Coercion. WeKdesire this rule of action, for the day is not far distant when the Chippewas of Minnesota will have the same experience to go through as is now that of our Sioux brethren. We ask respectful treatment for them, as we ask it anticipatory for We have already passed through one experience, that of the attempted negotiation of the Notthwestem commission, and it then transpired that to oppose wee to sin previouslyPiif Should the Nelson bill become a law, and presented to tis for ratification, there will undoubtedly be assent and opposition. All we ask its to be let alone, not to be coerced by officious alien whether on or off of the commissions It would tra wise, in the event of a commission being appointed to visit not to include any of the present commissioners not so much on aocount of unfortunate prestige as from the necessity of appointing men who are known to the Chippewas, and known as men interested in their welfare for their? sakes alone.

vr Xl. I conclusion we would allude to the opinion of the religious journal which we have quoted. FAITH WITH THI INDIAN HAS NOT IN THL PAST B1EN TH1 ROUND OF DIALING. The record is of isi8 OP FUNDS WITH-HELD OR SHAMILRSSLT MISSTJSBD BY SUBORDINATB OFFI- CIALS 1 The question will surely be asked by our people "what of the ARR1ARAGBS NOW DUB, and of which we askr'and implore for in vain f'v 4 You have acknowledged the justice of our claim, and yet you do not move to act justly and honorably what assurance have we therefore that new promises will not be. violated We ask the Government to con1 sider this situation and io ct the removal of one cause of grievance before attempt is made to negotiate further with us.

I will facilitate matters and be an assurance that the great father intends from this time on to act honorably, and to secure the confidence of his red Attend the Fair, The Bemooratie Senatorial District Convention for the 44th District will be held at Detroit, Becker Co. on the 29th day of gept. at 10 o'clock A. to put in nomination 1 Senator and 1 for said District. Becker Co.

Is entitled to 0 delegates. By order of the 44th district senatorial committee. To Lumber Contractors. Notice is hereby given that the Indians of the White Earth reservation are making arrangements preparatory to logging the coming winter on the Clearwater river it is estimated that some six or seven million feet of logs, more or less, will he banked during the season, All parties desiring to contract for lop banked on the above stream are hereby respectfully invited to send in their bids to the U. 8.

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