A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER EDITED AND PRINTED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES INDIAN SCHOOL

VOLUMEX.CARLISLE, PA., NOVEMBER 28, 1913. N U M B E R 13

MRS. LAURA KELLOGG INDICTED FOR ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE CONSPIRACY. ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

0 “ T h e wind never blows fair for The authorities of the Carlisle Repudiated by Society of American Indians— that sailor who knows not to what Indian School announce the affiliation Never Had Its Authority, as Claimed. port he is bound.” with the school’s Athletic Association Mrs. Laura Cornelius Kellogg, a of an advisory committee composed of quarter-blood Indian, was indicted in V ~ ~ J the following gentlemen: Oklahoma during the latter part of Mr. Walter Camp, Author, Athletic October by the United States courts further states that she never had its Authority, Advisory Coach to Yale for conspiracy and fraud. The re­ authority as she claimed. University. ports of this woman’s alleged nefari- Those who are strong and clean in Judge Frank Irvine, Dean Cornell • ous practices indicate that she has the Indian race do well to repudiate University College of Law, and for­ been engaged for some years in ven­ and denounce the connivers among mer President of the Cornell Univer­ turesome occupations, at times using their people, who, while violently sity Athletic Council. the sympathy of the American people protesting against the spoliation of Chancellor S. B. McCormick, L. L. for the Indian as a means of personal the red man and denouncing the D., University of Pittsburgh. gain. Federal Government for lack of President E. A. Noble, L. L. D., Mrs. Kellogg has recently identi­ sympathy with its wards, are them­ Dickinson College. fied herself with an oil operator of selves privately fattening and flour­ Mr. Jas. E. Sullivan, Secretary- Oklahoma who is in bad repute with ishing by extortion and swindling Treasurer Amateur Athletic Union the Indian Office and has lost the their people. Too often, however, of the United States, and Secretary confidence of the public. This man such persons have been permitted to to the Olympic Games Committee. has just made an unwarranted and flourish and grow strong by a smooth This committee was formed so as unjust attack on the Commissioner tongue and a bad heart. to obtain in the conduct of athletics of Indian Affairs, which shows how 777? ^ at the school outside counsel and the desperate are those who would de­ MANY OFFERS TO PLAY FOOTBALL IN view point of leading college men, spoil the Indian. THE WEST. besides the immediate supervison It is regrettable and most harm­ here and through the Indian Office. ful to the Indian race when one of A large number of offers of games While there is an Athletic Associa­ its numbers, who has had the bene­ of post-season character for the foot­ tion at the school, regularly formed fits of education, puts it to such an ball team have been received from and incorporated, which has been in ignoble purpose. There are unscrupu­ the West and South. These are from existence a number of years, most of lous persons in all races, and it is prominent institutions of learning the alumni live in the Far West, unfortunate that the wolves dressed and amateur athletic organizations and the student members are boys in sheeps’ clothing are not found out coming from as far west as the and girls of limited education with early in their game. Pacific coast. little knowledge of the ethics of col­ This same Mrs. Kellogg made an While these are very complimen­ lege and school athletics, except what unfounded attack last spring against tary and indicate a high regard for they learn at the school and by their the Carlisle Indian School before the the school, and a favorable opinion contact with athletic teams of other Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. of its athletics, the school authori­ institutions. Her statements were untrue and were ties after careful consideration of It is felt that the advisory com­ immediately refuted before the same the matter have decided against a mittee composed of prominent men committee by the Commissioner of trip of this kind. associated with college athletics will Indian Affairs. It is felt that there are many be of great assistance in the determi­ Recently the Society of American good features about the trip, but it nation of questions of athletic policy. Indians, for which she claimed she would take the students from their was officially acting, has repudiated studies for too long a time. While w ? r her by dropping her as an officer, and there have been favorable offers of Let u s beware of losing our enthu­ The A rrow is informed officially games for years in the past, some siasm. Let us glory in something, by the Society that “ Mrs. Kellogg with the most prominent universities and strive to retain our admiration is not a member in good standing in of the West, no such trips have been for all that would ennoble, and our this Society and is not entitled to made by the Carlisle football team interest in all that would enrich and vote or to hold office.’ ’ The Society during the past three years. beautify our life. —Phillips Brooks. THE CARLISLE ARROW »■»------A WEEKLY LETTER TO OUR PEOPLE

The Weefc’s Events from School Room, Campus, and Quarters

GENERAL SCHOOL NEWS. College and also one of our Bible class “ CHIEF” BENDER VISITS CARLISLE. teachers. Everybody enjoyed the dinner yes­ We all enjoyed the Thanksgiving Charles Bender, Carlisle Class 1902, terday. turkey. otherwise known as “ Chief” Bender, The band is practicing classical the premier pitcher of the Philadel­ At the Standard meeting last Fri­ overtures. phia Athletics, paid Superintendent day, Philip Clairmont gave a good Friedman a visit last Saturday. He Matilda Chew is taking training at oration on ‘ ‘Getting the Right Start” . was accompanied by his wife and the Hospital. The boys in the blacksmith shop some friends on an auto trip through Fred Cardin sends Thanksgiving receive daily instructions in the use the State. He used the fine Hudson greetings to his band mates. and care of tools, also in the value of machine presented to him several seasons ago when he headed the The blacksmiths have just com­ iron goods. pitchers of the American League in pleted another spring wagon. Christopher Young, an Outing stu­ point of record. His many friends The Fort Totten Indian School will dent, was a visitor over Sunday. were glad to see him and his wife open the latter part of this month. He reports that he is attending a very again. good school. v/s “w The Varsity team defeated Syra­ cuse University by the score of 35 to The Sophmore Class now numbers PERSONALS ABOUT OUTING STUDENTS 27. twenty-eight members. The latest Agnes Hatch writes of a pleasant to enter is Rutherford Lay, from Miss Beer chaperoned her assistant Outing home in Folcroft, Pa. Seneca, N. Y. nurses to Cave Hill Sunday after­ Marie Mason, who is attending noon. The annual football game between school in Moorestown, N. J., is now The departmental classes finished the Easterners and the Westerners in the eighth grade. will be played here to-morrow. Both their November examinations this Clara Archambault writes from teams are in fine shape and a close week. Chester, Pa., that she is attending contest is expected. Leon Boutwell was elected leader school regularly. of the newly-organized Invincible Y. W. C. A. cabinet and other as­ Beulah Logan, who is attending Band. sociation members are very busy school under the Outing, writes that The corn husking, which was done making and purchasing Christmas she is substituting in the second by sixty-two boys, was finished last gifts for the missionary box which is grade during the absence of one of week. to be sent to Leupp, Ariz. the regular teachers. w The girls in the Domestic Art De­ Last Sunday afternoon the Rev.G. T r // r partment are doing beautiful work in M. Diffenderfer introduced to us in THE GIRLS’ HOLY NAME SOCIETY. macrame. the Auditorium, the newly elected pastor of the First Lutheran Church, By Bessie Gilland. Many of us feel a deeper interest in the Rev. Dr. Steck, of York, Pa. the foreigners since Miss Dumm’s After tjie opening prayer the fol­ inspiring talk. At the annual game between lowing program was rendered: Hymn, Lebanon Valley College and the Re­ Society; chapter from the ‘ ‘Following The school reception was greatly serves we met Joel Wheelock, who of Christ, ’ ’ Myrtle Chilson; recitation, enjoyed by the students last Sat­ is a student there. We were pleased Margaret Moore; vocal solo, Clara urday evening. to learn that he is getting along well Irving; reading, “ Saint Catherine of Alexandria,” Mamie Giard; piano Tonny Tommie, a Seminole from in his studies. Fort Lauderdale, Florida, enrolled as solo, Corrine Janis; hymn, Society; a student last week. The Reserves had the Lebanon recitation Anna Mills; Spanish song, Valley College football team beaten Rose Little; reading, “ An Egyptian A large number of girls attended until Joel Wheelock, one of our last Legend,” Cecelia Ducharm; violin services at their respective churches year’s men, and now a Lebanon stu­ solo, Julia Grey; hymn, Society; a in town last Sunday. dent, came to the rescue, making two talk on the “ Life of St. Cecelia,” Dora Poodry, Ella Fox, and Anna touchdowns in the last ten minutes of Mother DeChantell. The meeting La Fernier have been chosen to make play. Score 13-10. closed with a prayer. the Freshman banner. ^ .\ w Last Friday evening at the Mercer The Susans are looking forward to Literary Society meeting, Mary Carlisle Ex-Student Engages in Business. their annual reception which is to be Lonechief was chosen captain of the Archie Quamala, a former Carlisle held to-morrow evening. Mercer basketball team. The other student, is now the proprietor of a Pearl Bonser spent the week-end members are Lucy West, Myra general store on the Moqui Reserva­ in Harrisburg as the guest of Miss Lonechief, Matilda Chew, Cecelia tion. The report comes that he is Iva Finton, a Senior at Dickinson Matlock, and Nettie Standing Bear. doing well. THE CARLISLE ARROW — ------>- A WEEKLY LETTER TO OUR PEOPLE

Y.W .C.A. Hear Address on Immigration— General Indian News

TO ESTABLISH AN INDIAN HOSPITAL. cal treatment for those Indians in A PRACTICAL TALK ON ELLIS ISLAND need of it, and provide a comfortable TO Y. W. C . A. Will Be a Boon and Blessing to the Indians home for the aged and indigent of Oklahoma. Indians. Miss Blanche Dumm, of the Car­ Aside from the fact that many The necessity of this hospital may lisle High School faculty, was the title disputes will be settled by the not be as apparent at present as it speaker Sunday evening. Her sub­ sale of remnant lands in the Kiowa, will be after the money and lands of ject, “ What I Saw on Ellis Island,” Comanche, Apache, and Wichita the Indians have finally been con­ was chosen with the object of cor­ Reservations in Oklahoma, which will sumed; then the hospital will stand relating the thought with the Na­ be held at Lawton commencing De­ there as a mark and a blessing to tional Association study work on im­ cember 8th, other beneficial features the Indians for all time to come. migration, from which book upon will redound therefrom. The sale It is the plan of Congressman Ferris, that subject, “ Comrades from Other will be conducted in accordance with to have the hospital enlarged and im­ Lands,” our girls are studying. the provision placed in the last Indian proved upon from time to time by Miss Dumm described, in a charm­ appropriation bill by Congressman Congress, and it is destined to be­ ingly simple manner, the scenes en­ Scott Ferris, who has long been iden­ come an institution of which the acted upon Ellis Island upon the arri­ tified in movements looking to a final whole Southwest might well feel val of every immigrant ship. The winding up of Indian affairs in Okla­ proud. hope and joy of these people when homa and largely through whose ef­ 777 r entering to the “ promised land” were forts in 1908 the restrictions on ap­ FOOTBALL SCHEDULE. given a series of word pictures which proximately 9,000,000 acres of land have left with us a feeling that we Sept. 20, Albright College...... at Carlisle were removed, thereby taking a long Won, 25-0 are indeed our “ brother’s keeper,” step in having the Indian constituted Sept. 24, Lebonan Valley College...at Carlisle and responsible, in a large measure, an independent citizen. It has long Won, 26-0 for his moral and spiritual welfare. Sept. 27, W. Va. Wesleyan College at Carlisle been the cherished hope of Congress­ Won. 25-0 A program consisting of Bible man Ferris to have erected near the Oct. 4, Lehigh University .at South Bethlehem verses, the story of Ruth, a solo, Won, 21-7 Fort Still Indian School an Indian Oct. 11, Cornell University...... at Ithaca “ Beautiful Land on High,” short hospital and, as the proceeds from Won, 7-0 •sketches on immigration, and “ Al- Oct. 18, University of Pittsburg at Pittsburg the sale of these remnant lands, which Lost, 12-6. lulia, ” by the Y. W. Quartet, pre­ it is estimated will amount to approx­ Oct. 25, University of Penn....at Philadelphia ceded Miss Dumm’s talk. imately $400,000, are to go into the Tie 7-7. Ella F o x opened t h e meeting, Nov' 1, Georgetown University. at Washington Kiowa Agency hospital fund to be Won 34-0. Sylvia Moon led, and Della Fox, Lena used for maintenance purposes of the Nov. 8, Johns Hopkins Univ...... at Baltimore Bennett, and Mary Welch each Won 61-0 hospital, for which Congressman Nov. 15, Dartmouth College... at N. Y. offered a prayer. Mrs. Canfield, Ferris has already secured an appro­ Won 35-10 Mrs. LaFleshe, and Miss Knight Nov. 22, Syracuse University.... at Syracuse priation of $40,000, it looks as though Won 35-27 were visitors. ,xxx w his fondest hopes are about to be Nov. 27, Brown University...... at Providence 7 7 / r realized. / Won 13-0. ,y\\\ W THE Y. M. C . A. It is proposed to erect an imposing 7 7 7 r edifice there which will be surrounded Supt. Kelsey Returns From Long Trip East By William Winneshiek. by beautiful grounds and contain Muskogee, Okla., Nov. 7.—Dana The meeting was led by Jesse every modern feature now found in B. Kelsey, Superintendent of the Wofford, who chose for the scripture other hospitals throughout the coun­ United States Indian Agency, re­ reading the first chapter of Luke. try and to equip it with a force of turned from Washington on the Katy Nelson Simon read a selection from well-trained physicians, surgeons, Flyer yesterday. Mr. Kelsey has the “ Life of Christ,” and a quartet matrons, and other attendants who been absent for about three weeks composed of Leon Boutwell, Tony will at all times administer to the on official business at Washington LaJeunesse, Peter Eastman, and wants of the needy Indians. At and visiting other points in the East. James Garvie sang “ We Shall Meet times between the distribution of He attended the Lake Mohonk con­ Him Face to Face.” funds to the Indians, after their ference at Lake Mohonk, N. Y. The volunteer speakers were Alvis share of the money from the lastpay- While in Washington he was in Morrin, Peter Greensky, and Newton menthas been used up, Indian mothers conference with the Secretary of the Thompson. are sometimes forced to give birth Interior and the Commissioner of The meeting closed with a prayer to children without proper medical Indian Affairs. He stated that the by Newton Thompson. treatment and under conditions which Commissioner was eager to obtain should not prevail. Thus will the the fullest possible information con­ establishment of this institution be cerning tribal affairs and promised W hat a man is inwardly chat to a boon and blessing to the Indians; it hearty co-operation with State offi­ him will the world be outwardly: his will be the means of alleviating much cials in the administration of Indian mood affects the very “ quality of the suffering, of insuring proper medi­ probate matters.—Muskogee Phoenix days.” —Bradford Torrey. THE CARLISLE ARROW A WEEKLY LETTER TO OUR PEOPLE

great victories of the Indians and CARLISLE’S DAY WITH A VENGEANCE. CarlMe glrroto Dickinson which were being so ap­ Issued Fridays from the Carlisle Indian Press propriately celebrated.—Carlisle An Indian yell of triumph resound­ About ten months in the year. Sentinel. ed over the Polo Grounds yesterday afternoon, and from old Coogan’s Jfiftp Cents ©earlp Indian Team a Cyclone. Bluff re-echoed football’s tribute to

Second-class matter—so entered at the Post- Copper colored skies have been Glenn Warner and his husky band office at Carlisle, September 2, 1904. known to precede cyclones, and so of disciples. Well could the Redskins have copper colored football teams. shoutin theirglee, foritwas Carlisle’s Address all communications to the paper and The Dartmouth team, hitherto un­ day with a vengeance. Before a they will receive prompt attention. beaten, and conquerors of Princeton, gathering of 15,000 enthusiasts the ran into an aboriginal cyclone at the Indian eleven trampled all over the INDIANS CELEBRATE DARTMOUTH Polo Grounds yesterday afternoon and hitherto undefeated team from Dart­ VICTORY. was blown away. The Carlisle In­ mouth, and gave the Hanoverians one dians tossed and riddled the men in of the most severe trouncings the Headed by Their Band, Carlisle Students Green and beat them by the surpris­ Green has experienced in the thirty- Parade in Night Shirts. ingly large score of 35 to 10. one years of its football history. The following interesting com­ The further the game went the The score was 35 to 10. ments on the Dartmouth game of better the Indians played. They Entering the game favorites at 10 November 15 were crowded out of made five touchdowns to Dartmouth’s to 7, the Dartmouth men were looked last week’ s issue, but as we believe one and made four of the five in the upon as almost certain winners, but all friends of the Indian team will second half of the vehement battle. the trend of events further empha­ enjoy readingevery view taken of the Twelve thousand spectators had their sized the utter uselessness of compar­ most decisive game of the season, we eyes opened still further by the ative scores and past performance publish the following: strength of the red men, who with dope in gridiron affairs. For two Both the Indians and Dickinson cel­ their shifty, tricky, always ready and quarters Dartmouth appeared to have ebrated their football victories Sat­ resoluterunningbackfield, bewildered more than an even chance, but when urday night in the old fashioned way. the Green with the repeated use of the fierce attack of the Indians, as The Indians came into town about the criss-cross. cunning and artful as it was power­ 7 o’clock, several hundred of them, This criss-cross was a most effec­ ful, got going in the second half of headed by the band. tive play for the Indians, though the battle the Green was so far over­ The braves wore their night shirts they made splendid use of the run­ shadowed that it loomed up like a and some had hoods tied over their ning game to gain ground in all sorts second-rater against the combination heads. The band headed the proces­ of ways. The four backs, assisted by from the Government school. The sion and in the very front was car­ strategy and sweeping interference, defeat, not so much the size of the ried a Dartmouth “ player” on a went through from center to end and score as the manner in which the Red­ stretcher. went along out beyond the ends. skins battered their way across the He had been scalped, and was “ no When the Indians had the ball their field and tore the Dartmouth defence more.” The band played, for the backs never were still—were a per­ to tatters, dealt the Green’s hopes a most time “ Hail, hail, the gang’s all petual motion quartet o f ground knockout blow. An uninterrupted here,” now and then getting in a gainers. string of victories, with Princeton sprightly march. It was the best baclifield play seen and Pennsy included in the list of The red skins yelled and cheered in the metropolitan section this year, victims, had led the New Hampshire and ran and gave vent to their great and that includes the exhibition giv­ eleven’s followers to believe that joy by making noise in much the same en by the Harvard backfield. As a their team had a perfect right to fashion as the pale faces. cooperative four the Carlisle backs dispute the question of supremacy Dickinson students also arrayed were wonder^. The whole Indian with Harvard. themselves in night shirts and headed team cut loose without restraint and Carlisle adherents who bewailed by the band marched over the princi­ on the green surface of the Polo the loss of Jim Thorpe need wail no pal streets. Some clever demonstra­ Grounds, which looked to be in fine longer, for he has a worthy successor tions of ‘ ‘Tango” or some other freak condition for the sport, disclosed to in a big Chippewa, Guyon by name, dance, were given and it was a gala the spectators the best conducted who is built like the famous Jim, acts night for the red and white. offence they have seen this year. like him and will merit All-Eastern The Indians and pale faces with The Indians made long and short consideration when the season is their bands passed at High and Pitt marches and many of them. Once over. Guyon tore through the Dart­ streets, with the band of the red and they carried the ball seventy-five mouth line like old fury, and there white in front of the Orpheum. Here yards without losing it and another was no stopping him. He carried they cheered each other and exchang­ time sixty yards. Distance was his 182 pounds of muscle into the ed yells and the bands played before nothing to them. They reeled it off Green midst with the speed and taking up the march again. in yards and rods and furlongs. power of a battering ram and was The townspeople and visitors enjoy­ The decisive defeat was a painful a big factor in the scoring of every ed the stunts to the full. The streets surprise to the Dartmouth men, who touchdown. Two of them he carried were crowded, every bod y was talking were throughly out played.—New across the line himself. —New York football, and especially about the York Sun. Press. THE CARLISLE ARROW — > FROM THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL

News and Notes Interesting to The Arrow’s Many Readers

GIRLS’ DORMITORY REMODELED. arrangement of toilet facilities, OFFICIALS CONSIDER INDIAN UPRISING. baths, dressing rooms, small laundry, Extensive improvements, which etc. Work on this will be commenc­ Interior Secretary and Commissioner Confel involved about six months’ work and ed in the spring. This will take the on New Mexico Troubles. the remodeling of the entire Girls’ place of the present old style and Washington, Nov. 9.—Secretary Dormitory, have been completed. insufficient plumbing facilities. of Interior Lane and Commissioner There are about one hundred rooms in of Indian Affairs Cato Sells yesterday this building, and these have been were busy taking steps to control refloored with maple flooring and the INDIAN WELFARE THE TOPIC OF CONFERENCE. the disorder of the Navajo Indians ceilings throughout have been cover­ in New Mexico and to protect the ed with metal ceiling of a simple lives of the whites on the reservation colonial pattern. John F. Murray Gives Account of What the Government Is Doing to Educate Lo. threatened with massacre. The whole building, which is one The Indians have refused to submit of the oldest on the grounds, and San Francisco, Nov. 12.—A con­ ference of those interested in work to the authority of Supt. Shelton which for years had been in a bad and have demanded the release of state of repair, with worn-out floors, among the Indians of this State was held at the Y. M. C. A. Building, in eleven Indians under arrest charged badly cracked and fallen ceilings,and with assault and riot. They have with kalsomine on the walls, had long this city on Thursday evening and during the day of Friday, November said that if these men are not released stood in need of these improvements. they will kill the whites. In a state­ It was impossible to do the work for 6th and 7th. There was a detailed statement of the remarkable work ment issued by Commissioner Sells lack of funds, as these repairs alone it was said that Maj. McLaughlin, ran into many thousand dollars, and which has been done recently in se­ veteran inspector of the Interior other buildings at the school were in curing for nearly all Indians individual Department, who is known as the the same, or worse, condition and ownership in sufficient land to provide “ Indian’s Friend,’ ’ has been dis­ needed attention. them a home. C. E. Kelsey, who patched to the reservation to restore The entire building, from one end has been in charge of this work, gave order, and that Supt. Shelton has to the other, and including all rooms a detailed account of what has been been directed to employ additional and halls, has been repainted, and as acomplished and of present condi­ men pending the arrival of the United this involved putting on three coats tions. States marshal. A force of soldiers of paint, the immensity of the task John F. Murray, special agent of has been detailed by the War De­ can be realized. Many of the plastered the Secretary of the Interior to in­ partment. — Washington Herald. walls were badly cracked and broken, vestigate Indian educational condi­ ^x w and extensive plastering had to be tions, gave an account of what is being done along this line. State Superin­ done. Celebrates Work Among Chippewa Indians. The halls and stairways were re­ tendent Hyatt also discussed Indian Cloquet, Minn. Nov. 6. — Rev paired, and a metal ceiling placed educational matters from the stand­ Father Simon, pastor of the church here as well. Safety metal treads point of the State’s responsibility. of the Holy Family in the Chippewa are to be placed on all the stairs of There was also a presentation and Indian village north of Cloquet to-day the building. It has been found, discussion of religious work among celebrated the twenty-fifth anniver­ these people. through years of experience, that sary of the work in the Indian mission. in public buildings of this kind the The object of the conference was to The church was filled with Indians metal ceilings last longer. take the initial steps for organizing a and whites. There were 21 priests Extensive carpenter work was done representative council of all organiza­ assisting Father Simon in his silver in fixing up an ample and attractive tions working for the uplift of the jubilee. A sermon in French was reception room on the first floor and Indians to the end that the whole given by Father Specht of Garden in brightening up the literary society field may be properly covered without River, Ont., and the celebrant of wasteful duplication of agencies. rooms and the music rooms in this the mass. The church wasfdecorated building. The whole building is now with flowers, ferns, and evergreens. almost as good as new. A very large Citizenship Defined. Philip Gordon, of Superior, a young portion of the work of repairs was The first requisite of a good citizen Chippewa Indian, was master of cere­ done by student apprentices as part is that he shall be able and willing to monies. In a few weeks he will be of their training. pull his own weight; that he shall not ordained a priest. He will be the There remains an important piece be a mere passenger, but shall do his first Chippewa Indian priest. of work yet to be done, however, in share in the work that each genera­ The Indians gave a dinner after providing ample toilet and lavatory tion of us finds ready to hand; and fur­ the serviecs in the social hall of the facilities for the 250 girls in this thermore, that in doing his work he village. Two hundred were present. building. Plans for a three story shall show not only the capacity for —Duluth News Tribune. brick building, to be placed in the sturdy self-help, but also self-re­ Tv?XXv Wr inside court, are now being prepared, specting regard for the rights of As THE day lengthens the cold and include a modern and complete others.—Theodore Roosevelt. strengthens.—Poor Richard's. THE CARLISLE ARROW a*—------>- A NEWSPAPER PRINTED BY INDIANS

Events of Interest Concerning Ex-Students and Graduates

NOTES ABOUT EX-STUDENTS. The A rrow to our home each week. CARLISLE EX-STUDENT WRITES I am always looking forward to the INTERESTINGLY. John Corn is living at Paquate, N. time when it brings me more news Mex. of my old school home. I’ve tried to Sylvester Long Lance, a graduate We hear that Bertha Stephens is live up to the teachings of my school of Carlisle who is now enrolled as a in Eureka, Cal. days since my return home, which student at St. John’s Military Acad­ are at times very hard. I will now emy, Manlius, N. Y., writes to Supt. Cleveland Schuyler writes that he close with best wishes to the school Friedman: is working in West Depere, Wis. and employees.” “ St. John’s is everything one could Delia LaFernia writes that she is desire in a school. The instruction attending Gordon’ s Business College Carlisle Ex-Printer Accepts New Position. both military and academic is of the at Ashland, Wis. The Harbor Springs, (Mich.) Re- highest quality. Both cadets and in­ Frank Vetternack, who went home publican has the following interesting structors are in uniform at all times last year, is employed in a lumber item concerning Wm. Ettawageshik, and the regulation army rules are car­ camp near Mason, Wis. a former student of the Carlisle In­ ried out in detail. The discipline is remarkable for its realness, the small­ Harrison Smith, Carlisle ’13, writes dian School, who obtained his expe­ rience in printing in the school print est matter being carried out in a busi­ that he is disciplinarian at the Indian nesslike manner and with an earnest­ School at Oneida, Wis. shop: ‘‘Wm Ettawageshik, a former at­ ness that makes the whole system We learn that Mary Belgarde is tache of the Republican office has, real. Student government based on assistant cook in the Teachers Club been offered a position with the St. seniority is the rule, and it is seldom at Fort Totten, N. Dak. Ignace Enterprise and leaves to­ that the commandant has to take any matters of discipline into hand. We learn through a letter that morrow to take up his work in the “ We have a good band, including Irene Brown, Carlisle’ 09, is teaching new field. Will is a first-class all- men from Sousa, Prior, Conway, and school at Pine Point, Minn. around printer and can be depended upon to make good. We venture to other noted musical organizations. In a letter to a friend, Finley Pan- say that his employers will find him They are all fellows under twenty- nel states that he is attending High a competent workman, thoroughly two and incidentally they make bet­ School at Greenwood, S. Dak. reliable, and agreeable in his relation ter marks than the non-scholarship Marie Garlow writes that she has with people he will be required to students who pay the regular twelve seen several Carlisle ex-students and meet.” hundred dollar annual tuition. they all seem to be doing well. “ Our school is a nine-mile trolley ride from Syracuse and, as you know, Sad Death of Former Student. A letter received from Lucy Pero, the Onondago reservation is only who is at her home in Wisconsin, Mr. Chas. W. Kennedy, formerly three miles from the city, consequent­ states that she is attending school. disciplinarian and band teacher at ly I often see Carlisle ex-students. A letter has been received from the White Earth School, was burned A few weeks ago I met Levi Hillman J osiah Sarcino stating that he is doing to death in a gasoline explosion at on his way to the Reservation from well at his trade of plumbing in his home at Mahnomen on Monday, his place of employment, which was a Albuquerque, N. Mex. October 6th. tall skyscraper in course of construc­ It appears that Mr. Kennedy at- tion which he pointed out to me a The sad news comes from Mrs. temped to start a fire with what he block away. He is doing the plaster­ William White, of Walworth, Wis., supposed was kerosene oil, but was ing in this building. Fred Skenandore telling of the sudden death of her in reality gasoline. is playing trap drums in a Syracuse husband on the 7th of November. Mr. Kennedy was a graduate of theater. Mrs. Jesse Wakeman, Sisseton S. Carlisle and a young man of consider­ “ I hope Carlisle and all her organ­ Dak., writes: “ I was just thinking able ability. He was a conscientious izations are getting along finely. of Carlisle and am very thankful for employee and respected by all who The A rrow, through which I keep in what I learned while there, for it is knew him. He leaves a widow and touch with Carlisle, is a source of two small children, who will have the a great help to me. I think The many pleasant week-end anticipa­ sympathy of all relatives and friends. A rrow is one of the best little papers tions. I shall close with best wishes I ever read. It seems impossible to do —Flandreau Weekly Review. for Carlisle in her battle with Syra­ without it. How is dear old Carlisle? cuse on Saturday.” I send^best wishes for success to all What Is the Answer? ZV7 ^v. her students.” What kind of sickle does Father Ex-Student Enters Government Service. We have received a letter from Time use in winter? Ice sickle. Lawrence Isham, a former Carlisle Mrs. Susie Baker Ryan, Wolf Point, What is the difference between a student, is now band master and dis­ Mont., in which she says: ‘ ‘I write blacksmith and a safe steed? One is ciplinarian at the Fort Sill Indian purposely to thank you for sending a horseshoer, the other a sure horse. School, Okla. THE CARLISLE ARROW *■—------REPRESENTING OVER FIFTY TRIBES

Comments on the Indian Found in Newspapers Far and Near

“ HIAWATHA” PRESENTED BY REAL fifty per cent are of unmixed Indian THE IROQUOIS SYSTEM. INDIANS. descent. There has been a great transfor­ We are hesitating about placing A company of Indians have been mation in the Indian population dur­ the ballot in the hands of our women, traveling about for a few years rend­ ing the last few years. The fighting and about placing the recall in the ering “ Hiawatha” in the summer Indian of recent decades has given hands of our voters. It may help us months. They choose a spot of unoc­ place to the Indian farmer, banker, to see that neither of these reforms cupied land near a large city and en- business man, and tradesman. There is so novel or so dangerous as we sup­ act their play in the open air. During is little to distinguish thousands of pose, when we learn, from a scholar­ this summer they have camped in them from their Caucasian neighbors ly article in The Red Man on The New York City. They have had a except their complexion and features. Indian’s History, that the Iroquois plateau on a wooded hill, a tiny lake, In bringing about this change the and other highly organized Indian the night birds winging through the Carlisle Indian School has had a very tribes knew and used the recall, and trees, and guttural frogs for the great part, and it must be accorded put that valuable instrument in the chorus to the troupe. They have the distinction of being one of the hands of their women, and their shown war dance and wooing, hunt­ most useful educational institutions women alone, the mothers of the clan. ing and wedding march, funeral pro­ in the United States . —Editorial, For the mothers were more im­ cession and holy fire—a stately cere­ Schenectady (N. Y.) Gazette. portant socially and politically than monial, carrying the tones of shouts TV/ r the fathers in these tribes; the chil­ and chanting and the gesture and Indians Retaliate On White Campers. dren belonged to the mother, and it color of action several hundred yards There will be no camping parties was the mothers, assembled in coun­ to ear and eye. It was the true magic. of white men on the Yakima Indian cil, who chose the chiefs from among No pasteboard scenery cabined those Reservation this year. Since the their sons. Because they chose the six-foot braves and tawny maidens. Indians have been going to Washing­ chief, they could also recall him. The swift surge of birch-bark ca­ ton, D. C., the last year or two on “ If a chief failed honestly and noes through the silent pool was love­ lobbying expeditions, they have faithfully to perform his duties and lier motion than that of the mechanic­ learned the principles of the white obligations, he was duly warned by al swans in an operatic “ Lohengrin. ” man’s politics. One of the results is the women of his clan, whose right If a tepee was the scene, it was a the retaliation in closing to the sports­ it was so to do. If he failed to reform real tepee which later that very night man other than the redskin, 1,000,000 after this warning, the women—his would shelter a family. When the acres of what is the best stocked mothers, so to speak—went to the lines of the drama send Hiawatha game district in this section of the warriors of the clan, telling them out into the woods to hunt, it is to country. Some of the stocking is that they had warned the chief of veritable woods he hastens. And, natural and a good bit represents his failings, and that the chief had finally, it is easy to believe that Hia­ many hundred dollars’ investment by not heeded their warning. Then the watha has gone into a far country, th e county officials in Hungarian mothers and their sons went to the as far as “ The Passing of Arthur” partridge, quail, and fish. The chief and gave him a second warning. carried the King, when the night of marshes of the reservation provide If, after this second warning, the darkness, that wraps the audience the best sort of duck shooting in chief failed to do his duty and to do round, receives the Indian chieftian season, and the wild geese are to be that which was just and right, the and ends the play. Our summer found in the wheat fields at the warriors and the mothers of his clan nights are full of beauty, and our lower end. cited him before the council of the Indian folklore is rich in story. It All this good hunting the Indian tribes, saying, ‘We have now twice ought to be possible to lead out and has decided to keep for himself and warned our chief of hjs delinquen­ unfold under the sky an ever length­ as a result of the redmen’s petition cies, and he has disregarded our ening mythology till we immigrants to this effect, Indian Agent Don Carr warnings. We desire you to ask him learn to value the poetry of these has issued notice that permits will now whether he will reform, or not. our predecessors. — Collier’s Weekly. be issued to no white campers this We await his reply to you.’ “ If the delinquent chief did not T777 ^ year. The Indians say that they are obliged to comply with the white give the assurance that he would Education Transforming the Indian. man’s law, when off the reservation; thereafter follow the path of recti­ The total Indian population of the that they have been driven off the tude the clan mother arose in the United States and Alaska, including dam at Prosser, where they were council and said, ‘I withdraw the title those entirely and partly of that race, of chief from him who now carries it accustomed to spear the salmon, be­ and he shall be hereafter only a war­ is a trifle less than 300,000, according cause the game law does not permit rior, ’ and the recall was completed.” to reports recently made public by it, and that their hunting in the Think how it would brace up our the Census Bureau. This shows that territory which was once all theirs political leaders to-day if we had the the number is not only not decreasing, Iroquois system, and the mothers’ has been otherwise circumscribed. clubs could use the recall on some of but that it is increasing, and it is They are therefore asserting their our powerful bosses!—New Orleans interesting to note that more than treaty rights. — Tacoma Ledger. Item. THE CARLISLE ARROW * ------A NEWSPAPER PRINTED BY INDIANS

Matters of Importance and Interest to the Indian and His Friends

THE ADMINISTRATION OF INDIAN a class of professional guardians who FREE THE INDIANS. AFFAIRS. sought appointment by the courts as administrators of the estates of How long must the civilized red Secretary Lane and Commissioner Sells minor Indian children, there being Indians remain wards of the Govern­ Carry out a Large Business Proposition. thousands of such cases requiring ment? Secretary of the Interior attention. As a result of the oper­ If the United States contained a Lane, in a statement appearing in ation of this gang of professional single class of white people for whom The Herald suggests a reorganization looters, the average cost of the the Government held in trust one of the Indian Service, which looks administration of such estates, as thousand million dollars, and the to the gradual elimination of the In­ disclosed by an examination of the administration of that trust was es­ dian Bureau. The Indians are, man records of the probate courts in ten tablished in the hands of a single in­ for man, more prosperous than the counties, ranged between twenty dividual there would be little doubt whites in this country; indeed, their and fifty per cent of the total value but that particular individual would wealth per capita is greater than that of the estate. In the same counties be a marked, a very much marked, of any other race on earth. There is the average cost of the administration man. His handling of this vast sum no prejudice because of race or color of the estates of minor white children would attract a good deal of atten­ against the educated Indian; they was between two and three per cent. tion and the reading public would be intermarry freely with their white The fraud was laid bare in a report supplied with hundreds of columns brethren, producing offspring that made to the Secretary of Interior. of more or less interesting informa­ are approved by the anthropologists. And what did the official guardian tion concerning him and the manner Many aristocratic American fami­ of the Indians do? He promptly in which he administered an estate lies boast an intermixture of red called to Washington the attorneys four or five times as large as Rocke­ Indian blood, and their members are fellers. and chiefs of the five tribes directly tall, clean-limbed, and vigorous. The And yet this is precisely the work interested, verified the findings of Indians on the reservations are rapid­ and the proportion of the responsibil­ the Indian Commission, and straight­ ly equipping themselves with the ity borne by Secretary of the Inte­ away setin motion the wheels of just­ white man’s tools, purchasing cattle rior Lane. Secretary Lane, in addi­ ice in an effort to bring to book every and horses, farming implements, and offender, simultaneously serving per­ tion to the management of the na­ stock. This class needs less the tion’s public domain, itself a task of emptory notice on the big class of paternalism of the Government than mammoth proportion, acts as the crooks who infest every country encouragement to strike out for where Indians are numerous, that guardian and administrator of the themselves as independent landhold­ estate of the Indians of the United every criminal who could be appre­ ers and active participants in citizen­ States, the value of which is conserva­ hended, and whose guilt could be prov­ ship. The army of looters and tively estimated at one thousand ed, would be sent to the penitentiary. grafters which has preyed upon the million dollars. In private life the As a consequence, one of the princi­ Indians’ timber lands and leases is pal industries of eastern Oklahoma, administration of so huge a sum would dwindling as the intelligence of their justify a salary of not less than $100,- that of living on the Indians, promises intended victims h a s steadily in­ to go into a decline. 000 per annum. Such a sum has been creased. It is time to set free the paid for far less arduous work. Sec­ There is nothing more hopeful, Indians from Government tutelage as retary Lane draws an annual stipend nothing more encouraging, to the fast as their bettered conditions war­ o f $12,000. forces of good government, honesty, rant.—New York Times. But we didn’ t start out to draw com­ and decency in the present admin­ parisons between the compensations istration than the manner in which of private, versus public, life. That Secretary Lane, ably supported by Change of Address. is interesting, but it is far more in­ Indian Commissioner Cato Sells, both On October 1st, 1913, the Colville teresting to observe how this man, of them the personal selections of Indian Agency headquarters, now who earns $100,000 a year, and who President Wilson, are discharging located at Old Fort Spokane, Miles is paid but $12,000, discharges his their duties as the best friend of the Post Office, Wash., will be removed duties. Here’ s an illustration. The much-defrauded red man.—Manches­ to its new quarters at Nespelem, on Board of Indian Commissioners, an ter (N. H.) Union. the Colville Reservation, 39 miles advisory commission designed to aid north of Almira and 37 miles north­ 777/r the Secretary of the Interior and the west of Wilbur, Wash. The agency Indian Bureau with disinterested ad­ What Is the Answer? will be reached by stage daily except vice, through one of its members, Why is a cat’s tail like the ends Sunday, leaving Almira at 7 a. m. made a personal investigation of af­ of the earth? Because it’s fur to and arriving at Nespelem at 5 p. m. fairs in eastern Oklahoma. the end. But if the cat has no tail? Telegraphic address will be Almira, Among other things it was dis­ Then it would not be so fur (far). Wash., whence massages will be covered that a huge fraud was being What is the best way to find a telephoned to the agency. The new perpetrated upon the Indians through person out? Call when she is not at post office address will be Nespelem, the operations of what had become home. Wash.