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Show one of the most picturesque regions In rthe I toe k res, was opened to motorists I today. i house la In quarantine and the other! ia not. j The advent of the European corn borer brought a quarantine by the federal fed-eral horticulture board of the I'nlted Ktate department of agriculture, which restricted the trnsfer of corn j from one locality lo another. The pest affected the tassel of the corn, which I the Indian likes to see waving erect. i and caused it to droop. Members of the tribe who cling t. the early tradition tra-dition blame the white man severely and some even attribute their trouble to a training school on the reservation which has brought Innovations to upset up-set the traditions of the Ked Slen. Nevertheless, once the pest Is with them they are determined to do all in their power to eradicate U. Through their leaders they have given full assurance that they will abide by the quarantine and comply with all regulationa and extermination measure. Keneca Indians of western west-ern New Tork maintain a peculiar government, with council house at Veraallle and Bed House. They aa-sert aa-sert that their authority has been handed down from the original Six Nations, and that to a certain extent they are Independent of either state or federal control. EXCHANGE OP CORN UPSETJBYBEETLE5 Government Quarantine to Prevent Annual Indian Rites WASHINGTON, Jan. S. Once more the advance of the' white man has come In conflict with the sacred Institution Insti-tution pf the native, rulers of our oil. There is Indignation on the Cattaraugus Cat-taraugus reservation of the Keneca Indiana, In-diana, lying about thirty miles southwest south-west of Buffalo, N. T, The Kuropean corn borer, a scourge imported from across the great waters where gunpowder, gun-powder, firewater, derby hats and all the devastating Influences originated, has come to infest their sacred maixe. Corn Is among the most revered products prod-ucts among Indiana, and Is concerned with a. number of their annual cere-moniea, cere-moniea, including the green corn dance and the annual exchange of the ears of corn among the various families and reservation.' On of the council |