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Show INDIANS DEMAND WAMPUM ' OF SECRETARY TREASURY Washington, May 7. "Wampum, wampum; wo want wampum," was tho guttural demand mado upon St'j retary McAdoo today by four stalwart Indians in war paint and feathers. The unarmed secretary of tho treasury, treas-ury, essentially a mtm of peace, was perplexed and sought counsel to leatu bow his predecessors had. repulsed Indian attacks upon tho treasury in the past. Charles Miller, chief of the wanaL't division who has picked' up bits ot tho Indian tongues by drawing government gov-ernment checkB for various tribes, approached tho red men. They con-nued con-nued that they wanted their share of tho $800,000 which belongs to tno Sioux trlbo of the Pino Rtdgo reservation reser-vation In South Dakota. Tho Indians wero armed with documents from tno interior department indicating that part of the money whs due them and they thought tho place to make collection col-lection was directly from the cash drawer of the government. Scc.ietnry McAdoo referred them back to Secretary Lane,' who must make the disbursements. |