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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1909)
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Melon Exhibits Squash Exhibltn Pumpkin Exhibits 31 KOiaiO fcXIllDUB 3V () Alfalfa Exhibits 24 $ Alfalfa Seed Exhibits.... 5 m Bean Exhibits 203 0 Teams of Work Horaes.. 60 ivi Saddle Horses I5 S Pretty Babies . w Native Blankets 60 () 230 w lJJ o--. ui ....... nl-t.i np .T' (.) uciiiiiiniuvvii uiuimcis .. 3 .i) 0 which nrrlvod at (lie offleo of llio ur Teyor ol customs for nwrnHsntwiAr. ( It wns a dnlnty Bllknn thliiR, lnvon Act in cnlnr. which lny on t lit tnblo of Caahlor Tliomai for two houra. Tho Rarnicnt was oont to tho custom house by tho poatmitotcr ut Somersut. Ky., who received it a lew days uro through the mull from Jnpan. He did not Hi'iid In the address of tliu owner. TIiIh wua aRKtnvatlnt; to tho youiiR women cxpertH eulled lu. "1 know ev ery woman In Somerset." one mild, "and I'd Just lllto to know whft la Rev Iiir to wear that " l'or half an hour It puzzled Sur veyor Taylor and two or three of his men aHsistantu to discover just what the Rarment was 'II looks to mo like tho court rowii of tho queen of Zanzibar." said Clay Mlllei. who measures steamboats and superintends the loadliiR of merchan dise at the custom house depot. "Don't you men know anything at all?" exclaimed one of the women clerks, pushing her way through the puzzled group. "Why, It's a kimono." "What in thunder is u kimono?" In quired Deputy Sam Darhcr "They don't have that kind of thing down In Hath county, where 1 came from." Finally, whon the olllcials decided that there was nothing clangorous about the garment, they started In fixing the value It was estimated to be worth all the way from Sl.flO to $150. The kimono was finally carried to a department store, when the silk ! 0 Sl&jTSC- N KVKNT of so much im portance that In tho In line It may be looked bark upon as a mile stoiu marking the be ginning of a new via lu the pnigieHN of the houlhwest was the llnst Navajo fair, which was held at Shlpiock Agency, New Mexico, leeently. At Shlprock the past six yeais has brou a peilod eif piiparatioii. a struggle for a position of advantage from which the Ignoiance and super stition eit a barliaious peojdo might be attacked and the Inlluences which have fetteied them might be olillterate-d. so that, freed Mom its bond age', the Navajo lace might take its place among thu useful and beuelie-lal elements or the nation, contributing its share toward tho industry and enjoying its piopoitlon of the advantages em braced in the eominou stock. How successful this preparation for and be ginning of their civilization has been is soon uppatent to the observer who visits Shlprock, be comes acquainted with the superintendent and Ills assistants and teallzes what they aro achiev ing. How important tho civilisation of the Navajo Is to that section of the country is also apparent when it is considered that there are some 110,000 of them scattered eiver a reservation In Now Mexico, Arizona and Utah, which contains a larger area than all the Now Kngland states and includes thousands of acres of lino agi (cultural, mineral ami timber lands, and is almost com pletely underlaid with coal. Tho IncreahO of tholr productiveness means an increase in the out put of tho southwest. Their education and per manent settlement upon small homesteads will leave a large surplus or laud to bo sold to white settlers. Thus tho work being carried on at Shlprock has many points which commend it' to the people who aro Intel ested in tho development of that section. Tho holding of a fair tills fall was not elecld eul upon until about two weeks before It was hold, and when tho decision was readied it was so late in tho season that it was necessary to arrange for It at once, thus less thtm two weeks' notice was given tho Navajos by means of Indian police and messengers barely time to gather up what they liiul on hand ami bring it in without any preparation or opportunity to gather or make unytlilug especially for exhibition. Under these circumstances the amount and quality of the exhibits displayed was no less than remarkable. The extont to which they responded to tho call to bring In tholr products was a sur prise to Major Shclton, tho Indian agent for this reservation, himself, lie knew that they could and would make a very creditable showing. Two hundred and ninety general exhibits were received and displayed, while several others arrived too lato to ho accepted. These exhibits contained from live to 00 articles each. Agricul tural products formed tho chief part of tho exhi bition, but by no moans all, as tho famous Navajo blanket was there In many styles and sizes, beau tiful stiver Jowelry of various and unique designs, old blankets of great valuo, a few buffalo robes, valuable pieces of bead woik and dozens of other products and curios, ancient nud modern, lie aides these general exhibits there was tho live stock bIiow. In which horses, milch cows, sheep and goats woro Humorous. Tho sports consisted of foot races (the longest one llvo and one-half miles, In which 12 entered and four finished), horse races, games and amuse ments. Kach ovening tho Navajos provided their own nmusemont by participating In several of their ancient sacred dances, which woro both interesting nnd entertaining to tho visitors. As nn example of how n list of prize winners at an Indian fair would read, the following ex tracts nro given: General exhibit or lnrm nnd garden products First prize, doublo harness, Hnrber-blt-cll-ly (tho latter is tho winner's name); bccotid, disk har row, Hnppy Jack; third, cultivator, De-kln-e-be-gay; fourth, shovel, Do-be-blt-seo. Natlvo blanket, all wool First, cook stove, Kln-leclie-ne; second, 100 pounds (lour, Lennn Oliver; third, &0 pounds Hour, Do-ka-da-nn-boga; fourth, 25 pounds Hour, Pol-o-can-e-es-klii-o. Cleanest Navajo baby First, f0 pounds Hour, Lonnu Oliver; second, 25 pouuds (lour, Hoston-at-bo-so Tho Navajo blanket collection, like all other exhibits, wns a fine one. It contained n few of the old-time bayetas, for which tho Navajos first became famous. These were originally made from tho yarn obtained by unraveling woolon 3- ZL's'llSi-iiZ? tJZ&rfU.-?' rsxiysrsi?s. "fc&7. cloth and it-weaving It Into a very line, close, tight blanket Theie were also many line chiefs blankets, the taiuous blanket with the black-and-white cross stripes which were used by those Navajos who could affoid them long befoie a white man over saw them Hut best and greatest of all was the line col lection of soft gray and black rugs made from tho natural col- Isolds o ANDOTHEKsi Cities V JJ y Sri i Taft's Visit Stirs Up Bowery Tramps JP y NV.W YORK Since President Taft visited the Uowery and addressed J00 of "the ho.vs," more energy has been shown by the hoboes who haunt the resorts of the notorious thorough fare's than ever before lu his history. I'here Is not a man, woman, or child llong the thoroughfare who will ad mit he or she wan not at the presl Jenfs side. Nearly 2,000 white collars H'nt by a Urooklyn laundry the next Jay aided the men of the llowery to ihovv they appreciated the visit. After the free distribution of laun Jry nt the mission the men gazed at one another and waited for the next miracle. "The men are Just dazed, and that Is the only term that expresses It," said .1. T. Hunt, who has ehnrgo of tho labor bureau of the mission. "They cannot realize tho president of this countty really came down here to talk with them." As he wns speaking a mild man nered six foot two of humanity, with a two days' stubble beard, came up to the desk and made an attempt at a bow "What Is It, Jake?" askenl Mr. Hunt "Say, boss, it's this way," replied lake "I'm just going out to get n Job If I have to take it off somebody. If the president comes down hero to talk to us bums and tells us wo got a chance, why. we're going to make good. He ought to know, hadn't he? (iiiesH his word goes with me. If wo are good enough for him to talk to I'm going to gel busy!" "That'h the way It has been going alt day," said Mr. Hunt. "I never saw men so deeply stirred. The visit of the president has put more ambition Into them than they have ever before disputed, .lust wait and I will show you." Stepping before 50 or GO men, all resplendent In new white collars, Mr. Hunt said to a man whoso collar plainly was too tight and who was proud of his ellstiess: "Come here, Frank. Tell us Just what you think and what the men nro saying about the president's visit" "Wo don't know what to say," said tho man. "It's just knocked us clean out. The boys are clean crazy over it. Why, we never thought that the liken of the president cared nothing nbout us here. "We're all Democrats, but hero Mis tor Taft comes around and calls us boys and tells us we Is as good as any body. Say, the boys are going to go Fome now. Wish 1 could get one day's work and I'd get a necktie " Telephone Girl Scores Her Own Sex --J CKSKA-VSCVi. ! SY3- VvrjTVW-rVVVl ZTZTJUZX. ors of wool without any dye whatever and tho beautiful outline blankets, In which the Navajo has reached tho highest perfection of the art. These blankets were Judged by Frank Staplln. u Navajo blanket expert or Farmlngton, N. M.. .1. L. Parsons of Durnngo and Miss Kminu I.oomis, of the agency, and the first prizo was awarded to a beautiful black, white and grey blanket or artistic design and remarkably even and close weave, shown In the center picture. The Navajo silver Jewelry is haud-hnmmcred from Mexican dollars, which tho traders procure for the Navajos, and many of tho pieces aie very beautiful in design and odd nnd exquisite as an ornament. The jewelry consists of rings, brace lets, neck chains, charms nnd ninny other articles. It should be remembered that none or tho prod ucts raised at Shlprock under the supervision of tho superintendent nnd employes were permitted to participate Tor pil.os. but every prizo went to reservation Navajos tor pioducts purely their own. The vegetables and other agricultural prod ucts of the agency are, however, worthy of spe cial mention, as they formed a fine exhibit in themselves and included, besides the ordinary products of tho section, many of the now vege tables brought from foreign Innds by representa tives of tho depaitment of ngrlculture. Somo or the Indian exhibits were brought no less than 70 miles lu wagons and on horseback, by the Interested owners, and one lot of 50 gon oral exhibits, which deserves special montlon, enmo from Sn-Noos-Teo. the vicinity or F. M. Noel's trading post. This lot contained tho prize-winning assortment ot silver work and other prize winners. The success or the first Navajo fair, which the unappreclatlvo neighboring public had sup posed would consist of n fow pony races and chicken fights, but which turned out to bo an exhibit of agricultural products which probably equaled any other ever made in the county, for qunlity, and contained nt lenst five times tho quantity, la due entirely to tho work of Major W. T. Shelton, the superintendent nt Shlprock. It Is true tho Nnvnjos woro producing most of these articles long befoie they ever huvv or hoard of Shelton, but they were not producing ns much, as well, nor as lino a qunlity as they have been slnco coming into contact with tho Influence of tho Institution which ho has founded. Neither could they have been Induced to have brought together their most valuable and cherished per sonal effects for public Inspection but for the con fidence which this agency has awakened within them. We have therefore seen the first beneficial effects ot education nud proper example upon this neglected people. The chnnges which linvo been wrought upon those coming in contnet with this Institution have been so rapid and sweeping that It challenges credulity Tho difference betvveon them nnd tho Navajos on somo other pnrts of tho reservation Is so marked that they would not bo taken for tho same people, and It Is these differ ences that commend tho policies and practices initiated by Mr. Shelton at this institution and places it In favorable contrast with othor govern ment nnd prlvnto Indian schools. buyer said It was worth $11 Later the kimono was bundled Into a box and started back to tho Somerset postmnster, with In-i-mictions to charge the owner $S.20 duty. Louis ville Times. CHAINED TO WHEELBARROW NKW YORK. "Ves, I know they say that women havo more patience than men, but that's just nnothcr of thoso 'they says,' " remarked a tele phone girl on day duty at one or the uptown exchanges In an expansive half hour, "it women are more pa tient than men they certalntly don't show it when they use the telephone. 'When somo women give tho num ber they want they expect to get their party Instanter. or quicker, and ir they don't they immediately become catty about It. ! "'What Is the matter, aiivhow?' a woman aslcd me over her wire just nbout eight seconds after she'd given me the number she wanted. 'Why don't you give me my party?' "t was doing tho best I could to get her tho number she asked for, but tho party didn't reply. I told her so. " 'I don't bellevo anything of the sort!' sh shouted into her phone. 'Olve me the manager this Instant I'll see If 1 am going to be treated this way.' "Of course I gave her the manager, and she told him a long story about how sin was being Imposed upon by the exchange girls. Fortunately, though, she is em tho list or terrors we call them terrors when wo want to he real polite and terriers when we don't have to be polite and so the manager after asking me about the case let it go. "The most nonsensical accusation that women are forever making against exchange girls is that tho girls are eavesdropping on their phone conversations. Such a thing of course is perfectly impossible, for the very simple reason that a girl working at a board hasn't one Instant or time to do anything like that. "'(live me the manager,' a woman said to m' over the phone a while ago, before she had asked for the number. "'Do you wish to make a com plaint?" I asked her. "i wish.' she replied lu a severe tone, 'to have a very prlvnto con versation with my lawyer, and I want to talk with tlie manager first to as certain if he will assure me thnt my conversation will not be listened to.' In writing of the Schlusselburg prison in Mc Clure's, David Sosklce tells of a prisoner who wat chained to a wheelbarrow: "Schcdrln had been condemned to hard labor In the convict mines of Siberia and for nn atmmept to escape from thore had been sentenced to bo chnincd to a heavy wheelbnrrow. When tho order came for his transfer' from Siberia to St. Peters burg, no conveyance could bo found largo enough to contain him, tho whcclbarraw and tho convoy or gendarmes. Y'et, as tho wheelbnrrow had be come a part of tho prisoner, tho gondarmcB wcro atrald to leavo It behind. It was thcreforo de cided to place Schedrln with his convoy in one cart and the wheelbarrow behind in nnothor. For sev eral mouths, day and night, Schcdriu nnd the gen darmes galloped through Siberia on a troika (a three-horded enrt or sledge), whllo another sped behind them, upon which tho wheelbnrrow reposed causing the elccpost amazement among tho peas ants in tho villages through which they passed. Upon tho arrival of the prisoner in SS. Peter nnd Paul he was once again chained to tho barrow, and only after ho had been six weeks in tho Schluesselhurg wnB ho finally detached from it and given freedom of movement within tho .narrow confines of his coll. "When they unchained me,' said Schedrln sub sequently, i could not got enough movement. I wanted to run nnd run, nnd It seemed to mo that 1 could never stop. How strange it Is that men who can enjoy perfect freedom of movement novor realize tho wonderful happiness thnt Is theirs!'" Affinity Trust at Missouri College , .zzggg '' o OT. O a A SLAP AT OUR SENATE One of the friends of Representative Martin of South Dakota was tanking a stronuous complaint to Mr. Martin nbout tho manner in which commit tee assignments were given In tho senate "A new senator, however nblo ho may bo, has no chance," snld Mr. Martin's friend, "but If he's a thousand years old ho can get tho best commit tee job." "That reminds me," said the South Dakota member, "of whnt Seth Dullock remarked to mo when 1 took him over to tho senate ono timo. After looking them over, Soth snld: 'Geo, Martin! That looks like a soldiers' homo lu there.' " Rochoster Herald. LOUIS. If you visit Columbia and sen a man wearing a hunted look, dodging at the mere sight of a girl, don't put him down ns a misan thrope, or a football hero trying to escape flattery, or a bashful professor He may be only side-stopping his self appointed affinity. For the University of Missouri, lender in football nud things intel lectual, has uu nihility club In good working order It Is composed of half a dozen young women who room nt ono of the popular boarding houses near the campus. Of course," the af finity Idea Itself is old and can't begin to compare with Uncle Joo Cannon ns a space-getter in the newspapers, lint the young vvoinou or tho Alllnlty club havo added several brand-new wrin kles to tho Idea. Kach member of tho club, us it requisite of membership, has selected an nlllnlty and has told his name to the other girls. The rules of the or ganization reciulrcs that sho shall have had only the most distant speak ing acquaintance with the Fortunate One or the Victim, depending on the point or view. The choice Is final; the rules prohibit changing affinities. Hav ing mado her choice, the young wom an strives to obtain somo mnrked recognition from her affinity. Tho penalty for failure is a "tubbing." Tho open season for tho affinities closed at Christians. If beforo that time any member or the club did not succeed in having her affinity pay her some "special attention," she wns to take a "tubbing" In tho presence of the members who have "mado good." And the water wasn't to bo wnrm, either. "Marked attention," ns defined by the club, menus nn invitation to dance or to go to the theater or a request to call. A stroll on tho campus wouldn't do. One young woman appealed to the sister or tho young man sho had chosen. Tho sister told tho affinity what a fine girl "So-nnd-So" wns, and urged lilin to enll on her. Tho broth er remained obdurate. "Oh, You Kid!" Ditty Breaks Up Church CHINESE GIRL IN AMERICA CUSTOMS MEN PUZZLED It took five men and thrco women at tho cub torn house and the silk buyer or a Loutuvlllo de partment store to fix the vatuue ot u kimono A snnp-shot ot Miss Wu Ting Fang, tnlion whllo she was nutolng recently, shows the young lady dressed quite in the stylo of tho American girl, nnd apparently tho same acute interest in tho pleasant sport that her girl frlcndB in Washington might feel. Aftor all, It will bo the women who will finally break down all barriers and muko the whole world more nearly akin, . rlJjh ra J?: rRe v i v - v-Ss53yn- MEETINC.J ,t rv -..-;.- Lnra' n -yj CHICAGO. "Oh, you kid!" tho stale ditty ot tho fivo-cont theaters nnd tho vaudeville houses, was hnshed Into a sacred anthem In Oenovn several nightB ago with disastrous results to a prayer meeting at one or the churches. Sluco then the pastor and tho dea cons havo been searching tor tho lr roverent member or the choir who an nexed tho phrase to tho hymn with a lend pencil. With much Indignation they assorted that ho is a fit subject for conversion or a muscular kind. Tho quotation mado Its fatal en trance Into the prnyer meeting during a solo that was rendered by a so prano during tho hush which followed a solomu exhortation by the preacher. ThH services had been fervent. Tlw pastor had preached a stirring little sermon and 10 to 12 or tho laymen had given their testimony. From the sober looks ot several young men nnd women on tho back benches it looked ns If converts were soon to bo gath ered In, when the spell nnd spirit eff the meeting were broken by tho words of the frlvoloim song. Tho pastor had closed his exordium nnd had announced tho solo. Tho young woman lifted her voice In song. Sho put so much fervor Into tho music Itself thnt sho followed tho words blindly nnd snug tho anthom exactly as it had been jevised with pencil by n prnctlcnl joker. "I love my God." sang tho soprano in swelling note. "I lovo my Cod," tho singer ropont ed, putting on tho crescendo for a climax, "I lovo my (!od, but, oh, you kid!" The choir and congregation wont into hysterics, the prospective con verts gasped nnd then guffawed, and beforo order could bo restored try shocked and scandalized paator dis mlssod the meeting without waitiis for the benediction. M