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CHIEF JOSEPH
In the CheffidwA- American of
February 16th there was a very
clever and interesting write up on
Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perce In
dians of Idaho and Montana, at
times, of Washington.
Josept was regarded by General
Nelson A. Miles, by General Crook,
by General O. O. Howard and by
other eminent officers of the '70's
as the shrewdest, most capable and
efficient Indian commander of all
time. Of military tactics he was ignor
ant. Strategy in warfare he knew
but -little about. Drill formation,
mass movements, retreats, advance
ments and general field work were
outside his knowledge, but he took
a handful of warriors, burdened his
camp with nearly 400 helpless
women and cbdldren and fought
fonr different detachments of the U.
8. cavalry over 1000 miles of moun
tain and prairie country and finally
surrendered to General Miles when
within 60 miles of the Canadian
border where he was headed for.
At the time of surrender it is said
that he had but 22 fighting men left.
He had gone through 11 engage
ments with the U. S. troops in his
masterly retreat and gave up when
it was humanly impossible to go
farther. Right there he was named
the "Napoleon of American Indian
Warriors." From the time of the
discovery of America to the day of
the very last conflict with the first
Americans, no Indian fighter has
approached him in ability on the
field of war.
We have forgotten Just the date,
but is was in the early ’80's that we
met aud talked with Joseph and
aome 20 of his followers on the
banks of a clear running mountain
stream close to the line separating
Washington and Idaho. There were
perhaps a half dozen lodges in an
acre or so of clearing flanked by
smallish trees. It was an ideal lo
cation and very pretty at the time
of our visit. The foliage of the
brush and the soft wood trees were
turning scarlet as the first frosts of
the fall came down. Off to one
side of the lodges there was an out
side fire burning and around this
grouped Joseph and his close
friends. An army officer—a lieu
tenant or sergeant—made the la
treductions,. There were no signs
in drees or regalia to Bet Joseph off
beyond a rather loose neck-piece of
yellow cougar claws. All of the In
dians were in red blankets and
brown moccoeins. All of the men
were tall, gaunt and hard visagod
from past battles and hard conflict,
it wsJs about the time that the gov
ernment moved the Nez Perce In
dians to Oklahoma, I. T., reserva
tion.
Joseph spoke briefly of his plana.
None of hli companions said any
thing. “i go to fight no more/’ he
said. “I did all that i could for my
people who followed me. There were
moro Midlers than 1 had warriors,
and the$r finally shot down nearly
all of us. To keep on meant starv
ation for the women and children.
I couldn't stand that. 1 gave Gen
eral Miles my rifie.” He looked off
over the winding creek bottom and
then went on:
“'the Great Father says that he
will take care of us in Oklahoma
and that we won’t be molested by
game killers and bad prospectors.
Most of the miners and settlers are
good people, bat one bad man spoils
the effect of 100 good ones. He lies
and steels end shoots. That is very
l»&”
Alnomg Joseph’s friends were the
very fienerafs and anrif officers of lbs
Serrafck wtto battled with him. Gen
SfM O. O. Howard Was % particular
ly done
On the Colville, Washington, re
servation Joseph died In 1904. The
Washington Historical Society erect
ed a monument over his grave. They
say that the world adores a food
fighter and lover. We don't know
anything about Chief Joseph's love
affairs, but we know of his ability
as a first rate scrapper, and if there
Is love for such men then the whhle
world will drop a tear of true affeC'
tion on the grave Qt Joseph.
WHAT WILL WE DO ABOUT IT?
Ihe fishing business is and has
been the life of Southeast Alaska.
We hare been so greatly interested
in what there may be in the water
around us that we bare paid Uttle
attenion to what lies under the
moss ashore.
There is a small amount of pros
pecting being done. There seems
to be a lack of interest in the
ground. If there is a find at all, it
is mostly the result of accident. And
thero is no richer country in the
world, taken in a general way, than
is tho one you and 1 walk around on
today. Alaska is more or less min
eralised everywhere. Why is U
that one seldom sees a prospector In
or around Southeast Alaska. Why
is it that the pick, the shovel and
the gold pan are rusting?
Well, the big reason there is Ut
tle interest taken. Is that the pros*
pector gets no help. He hunts, digs,
pans tne stream sands, climbs moun
ts'-s, undergoes hardships and Ha
ul ly makes a “find." No one la in
terested, even tho his samples show
good? Why? Most of ths answer
comes from insidious propaganda
in the i tates. Men of wealth and
those v ho wore able to finance the
prospector have been so many times
sucked down in the maelstrom, of
dirty stock selling, mine swindles
and wildcat propositions from fakers
who, likely as not lived in the same
business block with them that they
won't bite any more no matter how
alluring and promising the bait is.
The prospector of Alaska suffers.
There is a big plenty of gilt edged
mining stock In the States for sale.
Those who want to do a legitimate
business In mine financing don’t
have to turn toward Alaska, and the
press of the States sees to it mine
development in Alaska Is held back.
It is much the same thing with the
puip and paper industry. The pulp
timber in here—million* of board
foot of It—but the dirty press work
of the States holds back develop
ment in the Territory, if it does
come to pass that Alaska timber
must be considered by the paper in
terests, the press is busy at once
to work it around so that all of the
manufacturing process in paper
making is in the 8tates. Alaska must
not have anything. It Is all right ta
knock down fend drag out the fiuii*
todon of raw material, but to leave
anything in Alaska for Alaskans is
absolutely unthinkable. It aa? 6e->
mentioned that much of the prese of
Alaska looks at things through the
eyes of the money bags of the State# i
and in the looting of the Territory
it is guilty as hell.
There is ho incentive to buy a
bit of grab and trek for the rough
places in quest of minerals. Ton
know before hand that if you locate
anything the chances are 99. to 100
that you’ll get no one iateaeated un
til you thoroughly develop gear flaa.
And the average prospector isn’t
financially able to do this, .-Sq the
mine, or what might have been a
rich proposition, is abandoned and
the gold hunter turns to cord-wood
cutting or buys a hand trolling out
fit or takes up gill netting in the
summer and trapping in the winter.
Mining is getting to be a lost ait
albeit there la nothing with so much
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allure and profit to the finder if
there were anythin* else than black
despair beneath every rock the pros
pector turned over.
True enough, there Is an element
of' chance In all mining ventures.
So there 1b in fishing. So there is
in almost any line of endeavor. The
prospector stakes his life in the
game, but we can't—these days—
r » * * ■
locate any one who will stake a few
t . . .
dollars against the wear and tear of
ihe human soul in the hills.
* Those who have money, and look
Alaska way at all, are buzzards.
Quickly they will pounce down upon
bnd drag out to the States any car*
pass of immediate promise that may
knocked down by some poor dev*
il of Alaska; The hair and hoofs are
left behind a* payment for what has
been-taken*
j We can better these condition*.
We can turn the sear and yellow to
glowing mauve and pinks. How?
<We shall hare to do It through po
litical channels under organized ef
fort in the establishment of home
government. So long as we are
governed by a bureaucracy in the
States, so long will we be robbed
by the leeches who, like flies around
a syrup jug, hover around the Capi
tol at Washington.
ALASKA PANHANDLE AND
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Polities has now gotten behind
the meek and mild suggestion that
the United States give the Dominion
of Canada the port of Skagway, and
now it ia claimed that Canada
should have the panhandle of Alas*
ka because are got St on a fluke from
Russia. Thin is ait very nice, Isn’t
it? The first thing Urn wild propo
gandlsts know this issue will get
So big they won’t he able to control
it. In truth ft is getting near to
that stage right now. It just does
beat four-of-akind how much
trouble a handful of attnklngly lit
tle politicians can stir up whop
•ter they run across a slant agree
able to work on. Wo are going to
remark that this panhandle propo
ganda stuff had better be dropped
right now. There is a feeling of
friction and some heat already. Sides
are being taken. There is a- deal of
wordy war. The press is doing its
dirty share to make bother. Be
fore we realize it there'll be strain
ed relations between th United Staes
and Canada. Behind the big smoke
that is now lifting from the small
fire kindled, about a dozen politi
cians, two or three bankers and a
score or so of financial plungers sea
a road to immense wealth should
the transfer he made. Until the
note on a port (Canadian) at Skag
way came out the Idea of forcing a
transfer of the panhandle never en
tered their noodles. Should feel
ing become tense and It can easily
become so now, you won't see"any
of the propogandiete-up where they
may get their wrists slapped. They’l’
sit back to gather In the spoils, If
any there are when the governments
settle what they have started.
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is the -Human
S^itckboard
controlling
tiealth, and
^^Vigor
When there la only one way to cor
reet a condition, that way must be
taken or conditions remain unchang
ed. In times past many afflictions
were accepted with resignation be
cause nothing could be done, but that
was before Chiropractic.
Now it la known that many of these
conditions are due to spinal pres
sure upon nerves and that removal
of this pressure by adjusting the
spine removes the effect. When
nerve pressure is the- cause, there is
only one way of relief—Chiropractic.
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Once Helpless Child Now Walks.—
“Our little girl was brought back to
healths when unable to walk, by
Chiropractic. She had previously
been taken to a doctor and. to a baby
specialist who felled to help her.
Her unci* suggested we try- Chiro
practic. The chiropractor found three
vertebrae In; her spine out of place.
On the fourth day of adjusting she
wo* able to get up from a sitting
position on the floor. Now, she walks
and plays like other children."_
Mrs. F. S. Thompson, Chiropractic
Research Bureau. Statement No
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