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Show Indians to Fight Filipinos. Washington, Sept. 16. Colonel James H. Tillman of South Carolina, a nephew of Senator Tillman, visited the White Ilouse and asked the president to authorize auth-orize the organization of an independent independ-ent company of Indian scouts for service ser-vice in the Philippines. It is proposed to make Mr. Tillman, who was colonel of the First South Carolina regiment during the Spanish war, captain of the company, and Joseph II. Woodbury, "IIole-in-the.-Day," the chief of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, first lieutenant. Mamy more than a company com-pany of Chippewas are ready to enlist in case they are allowed to go to the Philippines as an independent organization. |