Show I I I i INDIAN AGENT FINDS HUMOR IN HIS WORK MINNEAPOLIS Minn Humor Humor Humor and ef ef- are combined In the work which the government has lisa assigned to Special Indian Agent W. W E. E Johnson i This m roan man Is im In entire entre charge of ot preventIng preventing prevent prevent- ing tho the Indians of ot this country from getting the tho liquor which is countr charged with their undoing wib Perhaps a little shorter than the average average aver aver- age man stocky of build his hl mariner manner severe as a rule and his eyes ees ever marner open for a a violation of the tha law clad ca In ap apparently ap- ap parenty rough clothes wih with a a sweater I Il l of formidable r heavy i tweed appearance a Mr i Johnson presents a a But Dut he he knows and realizes the humorous humor humor- I ous oils incidents which he encounters encounter When I Sf they tey are all al over ver he laughs like a boy But this Is Js the man who has the tho entire work wOk in hand of closing cosing saloons which entre sell sel to Indians In the west Recently he e issued an order which spells eon con on- on fil elusion nto to more than sixty places paces on 01 n the wi White Earth te and other Minnesota reservations It lt Js is a pretty serious I pret matter mater to take tae away a mans man's business at an hours hour's no no- tice tice-or tice or to bf bra br more exact a minutes minute's notice said eaid Mr Johnson But Dut they have been told not to sell sel to Indians and they must not It I spells their doom However 1 we wo encounter more or less comedy cored In connection with wih our work Every one not entirely familiar with wit the government workings thought I was wasn In n California I was not I was travel travel- In leg ing through the state Just as a a train was leaving Detroit I swung u aboard There were a d dozen or Indians d n r 1 rea dd enu more mor on the train and d an un unscheduled unscheduled un- un scheduled comedy ensued I T picked out an Indian who seemed to be intoxicated A drunken Indian If I he lie had money enough could be depended upon to be taking whisky home honic with wih him L asked him If he had a bottle on his person He lie said saM he had not The moment I asked aked the que on on 1 I. I saw the heads of a lot of ot Indians and white men turning in my direction I am not doIng doIng do- do Ing anything much against the white whiteman whiteman man who has a a. pocket flask but I do proceed against those who are selling to tc to the Indians The second time I asked this Indian lot for fo lota foa a bottle oUe he became alarmed He Ito le swore he lie had none I 1 tore his oat coat open and pulled out a 1 half gallon half half-galon Jug which he had concealed in a great pocket made for fot- that pur pur- pur- pur pose in the tho back part of ot his coat Now ow give me inc the rest reaL I demanded Dut he would not He lie Ie protested that I had taken from him all aU he ho had A dive into the back trousers pocket produced pro pro- pr- pr duce a a pint bottle botte There was another in the other hip pocket It was strange how man nani sanctimonious ous looking persons In that cat car happened to recall recal that thc they had business on the platforms With hh one corner corer of ot their eye ee keeping tho the Indian and me witHin range they gradually made their theli- way to tho the platforms front and rear They were both Indiana and whites The reservation reservation reserva reserva- tion lon treaty applies to both races Then the they thea ambled back hack to their sel seats ts with wih the most moat Innocent expression In the world No 0 one would have liae thought that they had had bottles bottes In their pockets But the rattle ratte of o glassware as it hit the tracks was wa sufficient testimony that betties bottles bet bot ties tes were flying from the car platforms Squaws are more mere difficult to detect but they do like their whisky Our agents work more among the buds bucks The squaws carry whisky and the white men not only sell seU it to them but give It to them The female Indians Indias are seldom searched sEarched They do o not so often ofen carry arry whisky on their persons concealed In lii their dOtu clothes 8 and even e when hen they do It ItIs ItIs I Is not ot a hard ard matter to 50 get it i. i Search Is ts seldom necessary The great cat difficulty is in iu mining which on ons s have hate Ia it i. i It I i is much harder to rest read par the face of ot a squaw w titan than Ilan I that hat of a aulk buck But once one read t I ii h tic the women con cent I tl ma produce a when 11 heit the Pt is put t P to trl them every er drop of liquor they are area a The Ibl bu hit K h l in is stolid t enough cl lh bul lUl th the squaw combines ill l his with wih I the he Innocence of ot womanhood l. l That Isa is isa isa a combination hard hai-d to beat bei They ap- ap are the most guileless of per per- sons Cut But we get them At Detroit I got aboard a train traits and ad watched an alt Indian woman for foi fol some toe time al She did dIe not betray the slightest sign of or nervousness She left lett the ala ti-ala at a nearby station and 1 I could see the Lot bot- ties les bulging from her bet hll p pet as site she walked bulgIn away 1 I took them all awa te J from rom her Ier and amid I left a broken n hearted hearte squaw w |