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TIIE OMAHA SUTTOAY BEE: DECEMBER 1, 1007. NAMES FOR 30,000 INDIANS Dr. Charlei A. Eaitman'i Task Nearly . Completed. ENGLISH AND INDIAN WOKDS USED T Thin rail-Blooded Bleax In dia Wi Glvea the Work of FladJaar Now Hames tow the Hoax. AMHETRST, Mass., Not. M. Dr. Charles A. EMtman (Ohlyesa) hits nearly completed Ms tank of renamlrg JO.flCO Sioux Indians. He has recently returned here from Pine Ridge reservation In South Dakota after his fifth season on the name giving job as agent of the United States government. A full blooded Sioux, he la a graduate of Dartmouth .college of the class of 1887 and of Boston University Medical school, s He writes books, and lectures In a drees suit like the most decadent paleface. Renaming; the Indians has been govern- Jnent policy since Harrison's admlnlstra tlnn The agents on the reservations were Supposed to work at It, but as a whole they have not dons so systematically or suc cessfully. They have known too little of the origin and poetry of the old roots, nd their relation with their oharges has been too artificial for the best cooperation or most sympathetic study of the problem. , The past that fitted the old Indian names Is dead. New names are required to suit actual conditions. The allotment of lands makes It particularly necessary that family names be assigned to the Indians, so that deeds can be given and records made. If the Indian Is to become a citizen and ote tha added need for a systematic no menclature Is very obvious. ' Why New Names Ape Needed. . Toung Copper Face, grinding beside scions of Puritan stock Vho spent their Harvard years playing tag with Boston's police or ambushing stage entrances, finds It no easier to demonstrate his theory before giggling freshmen If the professor has to call him up as Mr. Drowsy Coyote. Car lisle's left guard may have a name with advertising value, but If the boss every time he wants the new office boy to polish up the handle of the big front door has to ad dress him as Mr. Afrald-of-a-Bear the sil ent Impersonal machinery of business creaks. The present renaming enterprise assumes It to be highly desirable that the new names retain as much of the distinctive ladlan flavor as Is possible, consistent With practical every day business use. An 1 English form of the original, shortened enough to be practical, yet reminiscent of Its origin, seems In the majority of cases most desirable. Relatives are grouped under one surname so far as possible. Examples of the Changes. English eqlvalents consisting of two words are commonly united In one. Such are these names Just given. Reuben An otherday, Albert Blacktomahawk, Alfred Oruyeagle, James Brownslnew, Eseklel Brownthunder. Many Impossible unwleldly names are got rid of by using the English translation of modification of It. Abraham Tamlla yanka, whose surname moans always here, becomes Abraham Alwayshere. John Wa nowlcaqu, whose tnp-heavy surname means the one who lends the arrows, can now Stand erect as John Arrowlender. Albert Tatankakunyunke, a tongue angler, which means the bull that lies down, lessens friction by becoming Albert Bulldown. John Pretty Bald Eagle will find less temptation to vanity as John Ilaldcagle. John Bluehorse's name did not appeal much to Dr. Eastman, who perhaps could not bear to have his Indiana accused of unfaithfulness to nature. But Mr. Blue horse was attached to the destination he had summered and wintered many years, and having no descendants he was per mitted to keep It. Poetry la Preserved, Old poetic names are retained so far as possible, sometimes as middle names. James Brownslnew's mother has become Nancy Daybreak Brownslnew. Derisive names are put out of sight. John Ground Hog escapes responsibility for February weather by becoming John Badger. Louise Don't Know How escapes by marriage hor name given In derision, and will seem more feminine as Mrs. ' Louise Blrdnecklace. Many Indiana prefer the original un translated tltes, which they may have used for some years In business transactions and cattle branding. If such names are de cently pronounceable they are often pre ferable. Mr. Tapetala, whose name Is euphonious, seems much more dlgnlfled that he would huve appeared under the English equiva lent, Little Back. Mr. Chansu would gain i othlng by taking the English form. Seed of Tree, hardly descriptive of a strapping big fellow. Mr. Matoska has a name as easily hand led as the translation. White Bear. Al fred Bear-Flylng-Over-tho-Water, hard to provide for In the English form. Is better off by keeping the old Indian word minus a lettor or two, and so he goes as Alfred Mlnlaklyan. ' The old nomenclature wai given under half a doxen different methods. It was Da People Turn Away? 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Stuart's Charcoal Losengea are made from pure willow charcoal, with a slight nilxtuie of honey to render them palatable. They will filter your blood for you, des troy every particle of poison and Impurity, absorb all the gas In your stomach, give you a aweet, clean breath, and relieve you from the awkward feeling you are bound to have whan you detect by the expression of other people that they smell your bad breath. Many who are fond of onions avoid eating them because of the odor they leave. One of Stuart's Charcoal Loxenaes Immediately kills this, however. The same applies to smoking, drinking or chewli.g. We are so convinced that you will find these losenges indlspeuslbl after once using them, that we will send you a sam ple package by mall, free. If you will send your name and address today to P. A. HtwLrt C 3uu .Btuart Bid-. Marshall, made up of Individual names, not family titles translated from father to child. An Indian would often give a certain name to a reservation agent and when rounded up by the next statesman that raptured the plura would turn In one of his other names, saying nothing about the designation previously given. Hence endless confusion. Chlstlon names given by missionaries and schools are very general. Then there Is the nearly obsolete custom of the ten prenatal names, one of which used to be given to each child, according to sex and order of birth. These were for boys: Chaske, Heparins, Heplda, Chatanna and Hakeda; and for girls, Wenonah, Hapanna, Hapstlnna, Wan skelta and Wlhakala. Chaske and Wen onah survive among some branches of Sioux. The most common type of Indian sur name Is that given by a father or village leader In honor of some characteristic or exploit of the father or other ancestor. Simple names of soma admired animal or bird are common, as Gray Eagle. Many names symbolize by some gesture or act of animal br bird an exploit or a characteristic. Bear Looking Around rec ognises the alertness of some ancestor symbolized by a bear that was watchful as to what was going on about him. Dr. Eastman says that the white man Invented the Idea that the Indian looked outdoors when a child was born and named the youngster for the first thing he ssw. Sitting Ball's Names. Sitting Bull, ssys Dr. Eastman, got his name from) the exploit of an ancestor who was wounded In a battle at ths same time that his horse was hurt The Injured animal sat down upon Its haunches and the, old hero. Instead of trying to orawl away, held his place on the stricken ani mal and cheered his braves on to the fight. The name Bitting Bull symbolises this res olute stand. Occasionally a grown up Indian gets a new name In recognition of some exploit or characteristic of his own. Nicknames given derisively are - common and half breeds often have English or French names. Such Is the fantastlo and chaotic nomen clature, a handicap to the ted man's com petition In white civilization In which Dr. Dastman Is trying to ntroduce some order. When he gathers a village together to talk It over there Is commonly a oheerful assent The only objection comes from some of the older men. They regard this merely as a new cars! In the national pas time of fllmflammlng the red brother. But the Indians under 80, educated In good schools, see the good reasons for the change. Changed by Whites. The early settlers msde a mess-of trans lating Indian names. The leader in the Minnesota revolt of '63 bore a name that signified Charging Falcon. The French had let It degenerate to Petit Corbeau (Little Raven) and the Americans com pleted the fall by calling him Little Crow, the Indian equivalent of which vrould be Bad Qrandmother, a chattering, gossiping oreature. The modern Indian Is remote enough from his traditions to accept the word, so that many are the namesakes of the sabla marauder of the cornfields. Indians named for the falcon,; a bird whose noble appear ance and warlike spirit made it the com panion of kings In the old sport of fal conry, were degraded to the level of the hen roost robber when the settlers called them Black Hawk or the like. Indian sense was also jarred by trans lating their word for raven as crow. The former was oonsldered much the nohler bird. Henry W. Longfellow sensed the In dian conception In "Hiawatha." When Minnehaha, robed only In darkness as a garment, had drawn her magic circle of footsteps about the grave of Mondamln, the corn spirit, the body snatching rabble of Jays, blackbirds and other sable and croaking marauders was headed by no plebeian crow, but by a cavalier and patri cian, Kah-gah-gee, king of ravens. Im agine a crow tapping at Edgar Allan Poe's door and sitting on a bust of Pallas I A few old-timers like White Bull, a patri arch of '87, give trouble to the renamer. Dr. Eastman's Task. "The Great Father,' Dr. Eastman would say, "wishes that you should say which of your wives shall take your name. He wishes the other to take a name as a sin gle woman." "What!" Dr. Eastman said his little speech over again. "What!" Finally the old fellow grasped it. And Dr. Fastman, Impassive Indian that he la, who will answer your charges of barbarity against his beloved people In his metronome voice without accelerando or cresendo, ha to become dramatic of gesture when he tries to portray the old man's emotion. "Tell the Great Father that I have lived with these two women for sixty years. We have lived In peace. Their children have lived In peace. I cannot put one of them aside. "I have seen the soldiers of the white man. I have seen the towns of the white man. I know the way of the white man. "If a man has two wives let him keep both In sight. V In such cases the government does not Insist and the two Mrs. Whltebulls will bear the name and Inherit equally the prop erty. The common conception of the Indian woman as a mere slave Is combated by Dr. Eastman. lad Ian Woman's Plaee. "She was dlgnlfled as In ths case of her brother by names given to recognise noble living," he says. She ruled the home. She was held in closest reserve that she might he modest and a true mother. Light talk with any man was forbidden, except perhaps her grandfather or brothers-in-law, but not excepting her brothers. "The Indian cruelT Oh, no, you are thinking of Philip, not Massaaoit. Philip drank the white man's whisky for sixty years, and It made him an anarchist "The Indian In his natural stats was no clvllist r, no builder of cities or creator of business. But he was great as a philosopher and moralist. He did not measure ths dis tance to the stars. But be made the stars serve him as far as he needed them, to direct his path by night" The Sioux, with some exceptions, seem to be rather unsuccessful far.tKrs aa Dr. East man represents them. But. they are doing something at stock raising, with an aver age of perhaps fifty head of stock, some of them with herds of several hundred. They are getting worldly wisdom, with education In eastern schools rather com mon and tue visits of some across the big sea water with Buffalo Bill. They seem to be too good spenders to win at business. In the few reservations where they vote they are singularly apt at pick ing up the worst political tricks of the white man. Dr. Eastman spends bis winters at his home here, completing his reoords of nsir.es for tthe government He has fin ished with all but one or two of the dozen Sioux reservations. Dr. Eastman looks very well tamed, not merely for an Indian but for a man, with his Impeccable store clothes, his library Jammed with books, an outdoor entourage of college buildings, approximating to the collage professor type In mental habit and the slightly reserved courtesy of the best New England type. Ha Is the husband of Elaine Qoodale, poet and former teacher and supervisor of lnJUn schools. UNCLE SAM BOWS TO OMAHA Becopnixei Grain Market by Install in? Glass Weather Map. BIG HELP TO THE GRAIN MEN Dally Coloael Welsh Will Have Por trayed at the Eiekssst Map Rhewla the Weather at All Folate. In recognition of the Importance of the Omaha grain market, the chief of the Weather bureau, United States Depart ment of Agriculture, has notified the Grain exchange that one of the large "glass weather maps," and boards for the com plete climate, weather and crop bulletins, will be Installed In the main room of the exchange about January L The map has been secured through the showing, which L. A. Welsh, chief of the local weather bureau, has been able to make and Omaha will be one of the few more important cltlea of the country which will secure the best weather map service which the United States government can give. On a large glass plate some eight feet long all the Important cities and a skeleton map of ths United Stales appears, Dally an expert from the looal weather office will go to the Grain esxhange and paint the map, showing the condition of the weather In various parts of the coun try, the pressure, rain or snow fall and other information shown on a high class weather map. ' The bulletin boards which the govern ment proposes to Install, make the entire map and boards twenty-four feet In length. On these the local weather office will keep the complete bulletin service posted, and special attention given to In formation of Interest and necessity to grain dealers. In every state the government now has stations which report regularly on the climate. On the boards In the Grain exchange a report from each state will be posted. Something of Ita Officers. Something of the efficiency of the service may be gained from ths fact that it will cost almost 11.000 annually to maintain the map in tho exchange, while the device Itself costs something like 1400. Inspector of the Weather Bureaus Conger happened .to stop In Omaha a short time ago, and visited the exchange with L. A Walsh and Secretary E. J. McVann. He recommended to the department at once that the service be supplied to the Omaha exchange. When Inspector Conger made a trip over the local weather bureau. It was the first time the Omaha office had been In spected for seven years, and the second time In twelve years, which Is a tribute to the local management of the United States weather , makers. ONE THOUSAND-DOLLAR CAT Faust, Smoke Persian of Morning-aide, Will Be at the Big Shew. Arlstooratio cats are accepting the invi tatlon of the Trl-Clty Poultry association to be present at the poultry, dog and cat carnival to be held In the Auditorium tn January. Big doings are scheduled for the feline world and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cat of Omaha will entertain their poor ooun try cousins, as well as their aristocratic and wealthy relatives from neighboring cities. Among those who have promised to be guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. Cat for the week is the great "Faust," a smoke Persian cat from Mornlngslde, la. "Faust" is a great traveler and a favorite among the show cats. He Is owned by Mrs. W. N. Baldwin of Mornlngslde and carried away the rib bons at the big Detroit oat show last win ter. "Faust" Is said to be worth $1,000 and always acta that way when at a cat carni val. Mrs. Baldwin has a cat controversy and has been Instrumental In establishing numerous comfortable homes all over Iowa and Nebraska for puss-oats. To care for all the aristocrats the Trl- Clty association will employ vocal Instruc tors and manicurists, that the cats may be heard at their best and show the assets In their feet to the beet possible advan tage. Some Omaha cats have declined to attend and declare they prefer to remain on the fence, as the show will keep them out late and make their hours irregular. From outside cats the committee on feline entertainment has received both letters and telegrams, either accepting invitations or sending regrets. But a large number will attend and one side of the Auditorium will look like a field of fur. Looal cats which do not have season tickets win not be allowed to mount the roof tops nor telegraph poles and witness the parade by looking Into the windows. A special policeman, who will be known as the "cat catcher," will enforce the or der. Inside the Auditorium a peace com mittee, consisting of dogs and cats which ars on friendly terms, will impress on the aggregation the necessity of keeping backs down and suppress the barking. Dogs and cats which have "cut" each other's so ciety will not be compelled to meet each other In the arena. WADSW0RTH HAS GOOD TRIP President of Bellevme Meets with 8 access In the Eastern States. Dr. Guy W. Wad-worth, president of Bellevue college, has returned from the east, where he spent several weeks In tho Interest of the college, as well as a dele gate to the Presbyterian Brotherhood con vention in Cincinnati and the international convention of the Young Men's Christian association at Washington. "I had a very successful trip." s&ld Dr. Wadsworth, "though of course I found the effect of the money flurry apparent wherever I went." A Pleasant Surprise follows the first dose of Dr. King's New Life Pills; the painless regulators that strengthen you. Guaranteed. "5c. Sold by Beaton Drug Co. 66 ,7 99 HI! ScYenty-scTen for Grip and 00 LPS Guaranteed by the Manufacturer under the Food and Drugs Act. June 30, 1(06. There Is hardly a Cough 8yrup or a Cold Cure made that Is not loaded with opiates or quieting drugs. Humphreys' Sevecty-eeven for Colds and Orlp differs from these; It Is msde of remedies In Homeopathic potencies, Is harmless, only does good, and does It quick and sure. Seventy-seven breaks up Colds that hang on. All druggists. 2 Sc. Humphreys' Homeo. alsdlt-lna Co.. Cor. William and John, blreela. New Tork. Our Letter Box Contributions on timely toplon Invited. Write legibly on one side of the raper only, with name and address appended, tin renueet names will not be printed. Unused contributions will not be re turned. Letters exceeding 300 words will be subject to being cut down at the discretion of the editor. Publication of views of correspondents does not commit The Bee to their endorsement neronnesti Greeley's Plan. GENEVA, Neb. Nov. Zl.-to the Editor of The Bee: Don't you think It about time to have a little more practice and not so much theory on the financial question. I think It time to apply the late Horace Greeley's advice. When the country was in the throes of ways and methods of how to resume specie payment after the civil war and a majority of the financial states men had offered suggestions, Mr. Greeley settled the question by one common senss suggestion, and that was: "The way to resume Is to resume," and the same will apply now. COMMON SENSE! From an Unreconstructed Democrat. VERONA, Neb., Nov. M.-T0 the Editor of The Eee: Tou deserve the thanks of the rank and file of democrats for pub lishing the communication of Dr. George L, Miller. Samuel J. Tllden's, Grover Cleveland's, the late J. Sterling Morton's and Dr. George I Miner's writings of any date are good, sound reading. Now, time has proven their wisdom as against Bryan's wild predictions if we did not get free silver; his claims about the quantatlve theory ot money when his sli ver theory failed; his unwise oounsel to the party In speeches all over the country for the last eleven years, would. If printed In parallel columns (In the light of the present panic), make one of the largest crazy quilts of modern times. But the curious thing that we as democrats have to con tend with Is that leaders like Hitchcock, Dahlman et al., while privately confessing that Bryan Is a failure, publicly proclaim him as a great leader. Congressman Hitch cock told the writer at a democratic state convention that Bryan had made more mis takes than any living democrat, and how ha kept afloat was a mystery, but, he added, he does. Mayor Dnhlman told the writer at the St Louis convention that Grover Cleve land would not be nominated for a third term, but If he would be he would poll more votes than any man they oould nom inate. But If ' they would proclaim such truths publicly, Bryan and his fierce friends would denounce them in every hall In Omaha, ths same aa he did Judge Parker before the St. Louis convention, the same as he did Sullivan of Illinois, Grover Cleveland and a host of other dem ocrats, who were right when he was wrong. But his latest wanderings as a financial prophet la to have the government guaran tee bank depositors, so that Instead of the huge majority, for Instance of Omaha de positors carrying the bulk of their money to the Omaha National, the Nebraska Na tional and other safe and sound and time- tried Institutions that never fall, they oould drop it in the nearest bank and swell the deposits of the unsafe bank and dishonest banker, and pull them all down to one low level. Drop your money In the nearest hank, same as you would a letter In the nearest mall box the government would guarantee it all. What a haven It would be for bank officers to favor their friends and speculate. No depositor worrying about who the banker loaned to or how much they speculated, the government would guarantee the dishonest banker the same aa the honest one. JOHN MURTET. Contraction of Currency Vol a me. OMAHA. Nov. 29. To the Editor of Tha Bee: Ths New Tork Herald in a leading editorial says that the country Is about to be confronted with an entirely new problem namely, not how to expand the volume of the currency, but how to contract It as follows: Long before congress can see Its wav through the maze of conflicting schemes for creating an Ideal currency the country will be confronted with an entirely new problem namely, not how to expand the volume of currency but how to contract it. The Herald is tight It confirms my own view which appeared in Tha Bse several days before the declaration above was printed in the Herald. But for Its en vironment and extreme conservatism, It would probably say much more, but It could not say more In the same space if It should try to do It The Herald says contraction of tha cur rency Instead of Its expansion presents an entirely new problem." Not un less tha expansion of the volume of the currency to the danger-point of redundancy and consequent Inflation la a "new problem." This Is as matter of fact and of history a very old problem. Perhaps It may appear Indelicate for me to say that I should not continue to test the courtesy of The Bee so freely if thought ful citizens In Omaha In numbers did not make known to me their Interest In what I have been saying In It about the existing disturbance of business in our country. The discussion going on all over It reminds me of ths battle fought and won for sound money by such masters of finance as Samuel J. TUden, greatest over all Americans since Hamilton. In my cwn estimation, Salmon P. Chase, John Sher man and their Illustrious contemporaries. It Is In a very high sense educational. GBOItUE L. MILLER. Islii RIVER DELEGATES PLAN TRIP I21eet Senator Saaaders Chairman of the Craeade- Going to Washington. Delegates of the Commercial club, Real Estate exchange, and Omaha an Missouri River Transportation company, who will attend the National Rivers and Harbors congress in Washington next week, met at the Commercial club Saturday noon to discuss the work to be done and elected Senator Charles L. Saunders chairman of the dolegatlon. Those who will represent the various organizations are Charles L. Saunders, John A. Soott, J. L. Baker, H. E. Palmer, H. T. Clarke, C. F. Waller, Rev. F. L Loveland. F. D. Wead, Victor Rosewater, R. B. Snyder, Charles Morrell and Major F. E. Wolcott of the Union Stock Yards company. With ths delegation from Kansas City, consisting of eighteen members; Sioux City, six; Council Bluffs, three, and St. Joseph, 10, the representation from the upper Missouri river will be over fifty and will make the best showing ever msde by the Missouri river cities at a rivers and harbors congress. Tne umana aeiegates nave Oeen instructed to co-operate with all other Missouri river cities, and not to intimate wanting any im provement for particular stretches of the river. The delegates will work for the foO.GOO.Ono annual appropriation to be de voted to, the Improvement of deserving waterways, and will urge that the Missouri liver Is one of them. Well supplied with yellow badges, and ths Ak-Sar-Bn colored buttons, the Omaha delegation will leave Monday. H. T. Clarke and Mr. Palmer have already gons. From the number of letters which Commissioner Guild of the Commercial club has received from members, who regret that they will not be able to go, a new Interest la shown In the Missouri river. anufacturers'llfholesalG Corner 16th and Howard Street Outlet The CuUeoVs acid LUy Pi era PI it Aflffl Illy n M II II 11 r r H II fr""kl kI u w u iwnnf?"nn m Mi 9 4 Use Bee want ads to boost your business. Formally Open Tomorrow ....MONDAY.... -.7hat this ClQeans to- She people of rraaha is said in a few words better clothing for much Bess money. The Ladies' and ELQen's Out fitting, Furnishing and Holi day cods department has done a wonderful business because of the great bargains it offers. 11 111 e cloak are the talk of the town, like these and similar at Garments Our principle to soil high class garments cheaper than ever sold before has been suc- j ccssfully demonstrated. . ii.. u. ,tm . iiiiiii.in CONDUCTOR RUNS OWN CAR Can Balse or Lower Window Cartaln aa He Sees Fit, Says Court. In overruling a, motion for a new trial In the D. Blumenthal cane. Judge Troup of the criminal court has decided tha law gives a street car conductor absolute right to raise or lower tha side curtains on his street cars or to run his car as he pleases, lilumenthal was convicted In police court of creating a disturbance on a car because the conductor would not allow a passenger to have the curtain down. He appealed to dlKtiict court and was again convicted by a Jury. Ills attorney sought a new trial because of alleged error In the Instruction relating to the right of the passenger to regulate the curtain, but the motion was overruled. Judge Troup assessed a One of 15 and costs against Blumen; hal. The costs will amount to several times this amount. 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