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Show ... WmmmBdS) By ELMO SCOTT WATSON V, V T . S-i I -gL.'Ui J.iy Is M,irc.i Hi, lSr.4; .5 V. M - the ,cene is Waon; f A I Mv , T T A rp. D. C. A little gioup of i. 1 t V I ! Indian chiefs, ariajed In ' . attv-itvt- i . g aU their tribal fineiy is gIL fr . 1 holding a council with " A; - "Xr J t,'e frock-coated repre- Si " -jA Ihmsm-mx&miy 12$ sentatlves of the "Great " 'Vtv' v fwT J hlte rather" The V " f it - f , business at hand Is a sv. O ' treaty and a cession of lands owned jlr V s' A K s by the people whom these chiefs rep- X"4 " -f " ' V resent tho Omaha Indians ho live -:37 Jfy ' ' beyond the Missouri river in that ifK " vast emplie known vaguely as the r3WlL i " "Great West." And when the last fflh ,) " J formalities have been completed and jCrlra?' W Ji. Vvn?5 X-- x s the chiefs have made their marks B I1'ITfVV5. f xy under the signatures on the parch- T of ill fesV 4 :i,&' ' " S "JyVT ment, the Omahas hae ceded "all Wjill Wi-'' S thif their lands west of the Missouri and 1Ur Y) V ' 4 V&aAT south of a line running due west from V L 1 M j jXlO the point where the Iowa river leaves "Vi-Zl Ji J "J"' - the bluffs, retaining their lands north ' k dr rwhard tanner of this line for a reservation." And p. - 'JSiri "DIAMOND DICK" that marked one of the steps whereby -I-Z'y -Z the great state of Nebraska came into 5srf? that 0ma,la wns to hold a big eele" being. "-XTflf 7--. bration in observance of Nebraska's Now, 75 years later, the citizens of v seventy-fifth birthday, he immediately . Nebraska are preparing to celebrate VVJ? tJSy sent a check to Mayor Dahlman to 1 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON "TjrgpjnlUC Jay Is Marca 1(5, 1854; iira raSl tlle pcelie ls Washington, ryi D. C. A little group of 1 Indian chiefs, arrayed In w ; 4tug all their tribal finery, Is jl holding a council with ' SjSk "ie frock-coated repre-IzJIyl repre-IzJIyl sentatlves of the "Great i'Pr I White Father." The business at hand is a treaty and a cession of lands owned by the people whom these chiefs represent rep-resent the Omaha Indians who live beyond the Missouri river in that vast empire known vaguely as the "Great est." And when the last formalities have been completed and the chiefs have made their marks under the signatures on the parchment, parch-ment, the Omahas have ceded "all their lands west of the Missouri and south of a line running due west from the point where the Iowa river leaves the bluITs, retaining tfceir lands north of this line for a reservation." And that marked one of the steps wdiereby the great state of Nebraska came into being. Now, 75 years later, the citizens of Nebraska are preparing to celebrate with parade and pageant, with air circus cir-cus and militauy maneuvers and with many another contrast between the old and the new, the "diamond jubilee" of the Cornluisker sti;te. On November Novem-ber 5, 6 and 7 Nebraskans, as well as residents of every state in the Union, will gather In Omaha for the celebration, cele-bration, which Is being held there, because be-cause Omaha was the first territorial capital, and which is sponsored by Omnlin civic interests, who have contributed con-tributed more than $100,000 for Ne-.,. Ne-.,. l.ska's "seventy-fifth birthday" party. It will be held in conjunction wilh the Ak-Sar-Iion Live Stock and Horse , show, November 1 to S, which Is considered con-sidered one of the finest of its kind in the Mid-West and which is attended by stockmen from all parts of the United States. But the treaty with the Omaha Indians, In-dians, that handed over to the white men the land which was to become this fertile commonwealth, is not the only event that makes this seventy-fifth seventy-fifth anniversary celebration a particularly par-ticularly fitting one. Acquired by the United States as a part of the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1S03, what is now Nebraska for half a century was a pan of the great ."Unorganized Territory" which lay between the Missouri river on the east, the Red river on the south, the Rocky mountains on the west and the Canadian boundary on the north, and over which had roamed for centuries the Indian and the buffalo. Then on January 4, 1S54 Senator Stephen A. Douglas introduced a bill for the organization of Nebraska territory. ter-ritory. This bill aroused the bitterest opposition and resulted in the Kansas-Nebraska bill which divided the new territory into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska. Franklin Pierce, who was then President, chose Francis Burt of South Carolina for the first territorial governor of Nebraska. Ne-braska. But on October IS, lSr4, two days after the new governor reached Bellevue he died and Thomas B. Cum-mings Cum-mings of Michigan became governor. Cummings faced the task of bringing bring-ing political order out of chaos and one of the first problems to be settled set-tled was that of selecting a territorial capital. Bellevue, R'attsmouth, Nebraska Ne-braska City and Brownsville were all candidates for that honor but Cum mings, who wns a man of decisive character, took the initiative and selected Omaha. Then he set about that Omaha was to hold a big celebration cele-bration in observance of Nebraska's seventy-fifth birthday, he immediately sent a check to Mayor Dahlman to be added to the jubilee fund. Another frontiersman who wili come to Omaha for the celebration is "Parson Bob," or Phillip R. Landon. He was stationed sta-tioned at Old Fort Kearney in western west-ern Nebraska, near the present city of Kearney, during several Indian uprisings. up-risings. Old Chief Yellowsmoke, the oldest chief of the Omaha Indian tribe, will come to Omaha for the celebration, as a representative of the original inhabitants in-habitants of Nebraska. Yellowsmoke's father, then chief of the Omahas, was one of . the signers of the treaty, whereby the Indians in 1854 relinquished relin-quished title to the lands now within the borders of Nebraska. White Eagle, another Omaha Indian, and descendant de-scendant of one of the signers Qf the government treaty, will also come to Omaha for the diamond jubilee celebration. A number of contests with entrants from every section of Nebraska will be one of the features of the jubilee and -one of the most unique of these is a Young Citizen's contest in which one boy and one girl from 03 Nebraska Nebras-ka counties, between the ages of sixteen six-teen and twenty-one years, will be brought to Omaha, during the jubilee, with nil expenses paid, to be entered in the Nebraska Young Citizens' contest. con-test. All state contestants will be winners of their respective county contests and will be judged on the basis of health, personality and intelligence. intel-ligence. Chancellor E. A. Burnett of the University of Nebraska is chairman chair-man of this contest. A spectacular pageant, said to be the most elaborate ever to be planned in the Mid-West, will be presented pre-sented during the jubilee. This pageant, entitled "The Making of Nebraska," Ne-braska," has been written by Hartley Burr Alexander, native Nebraskan, who is now a professor at Scripps college, col-lege, Clarcmont, Calif. The pageanr will be produced under the direction of John T. Hall, of the John I!. Rogers Rog-ers company of Fostoria, Ohio. This pageant will ( inbody the chief historical points in the growth of Nebraska from the time it became a territory, until today, when it has become one of the leading agrlcul tural states of the nation. Professor Alexander is an authority on Ne- J braska history and has written a number of pageants, none as comprehensive com-prehensive as the work in which he is now engaged. to have his choice ratified and after a bitter fight in which there were many charges and counter-charges of bribery and corruption, Omaha was made the capital and a capitol building build-ing was erected on the hill where the Central high school now stands. It remained the capital until Nebraska became a state on March 4, 1867, when it lost out to Lincoln, then a "bare spot on an alkali flat," as it was described by an opponent. It is not only these stirring and vital political events but many another thrilling incident of her history that will be commemorated at the diamond jubilee celebration in Omaha in November. No-vember. Included in that history are stories of the Pony express, the Overland Over-land stage, the battles between the Sioux and Pawnees, the fights between be-tween the Indians and settlers and between the savages and government troops, stories of massacres, of burning burn-ing emigrant trains, of turbulent life on a frontier, and of almost unbelievable unbe-lievable hardships and dangers overcome over-come by tlie brave men and women who built the state. - Like all states of the Western frontier, Nebraska has had her quota of picturesque figures and some of them are still living and have been asked to take part in the jubilee. Outstanding among tl.em all, perhaps, is Capt. Luther H. North of Columbus. Captain North and his brother, Maj. Frank North, were the organizers of tlie famous Pawnee Scouts, a group of Indian auxiliaries who performed such valorous service for government" troops in the wars on the plains while the railroad was being built west. Captain North has been characterized by authoritative au-thoritative historians as "tlie greatest of the old-time scouts of America. " Then there's "Diamond Dick," famous as an unequalled rifle shot, who settled set-tled down to a quiet life of retirement at Norfolk, where he has been living for a number of years. Several years ago he told tlie surprised home folks that the quiet, well-mannered man they had known for many years as Dr. Richard Tanner was tlie celebrated cele-brated "Diamond Dick." And he had tlie records of his prowess to back up his claims. "Diamond Dick" ls a personal friend of Jim Dahlman, Omaha's cowboy mayor, who holds the record for successive terms of office. And when "Diamond Dick" Tanner heard |