Show I i INDIAN LAD TODAY HIGH IN COMMAND OF SHIP OF ST STATE ATE 4 tl 4 e I lv 4 4 4 I etI 1 r p pI r t I I f t te teI I IJ 11 s TOR SEN CURT By lo KEA CA EA Sen Serb Ice lee T n Kl K Cn June 16 1 On the th back of ot in an n un- un unsaddled un saddled sa pony galloping across the tho moonlit plains plain of ot an In Indian dlan dian into the lit world of white whit men rode rodo the th little lILUe gl of Old ChIef Whit I Plume I That wax was 50 60 years ago Today th keen eyed south ho v ho forsook the sleepy shad shad- shad shad-ous 0 owe a of ot an In Indian Ian camp for the tho white lights of ot civilization ci Is I high In command of or the he h ship ot of state stat He Ic Is I United States Charles Curtis or of Kansas Kanas ad- ad administration ad administration ministration lead leader or In the up- up upper upper up upper per house houle ot or congress Curti Curtis Is ts u n Kaw the Indian Indian of or a soldier frontiersman and a pirt rt mother Ho He spent the first 10 years of o hll hi life liCe on a a reservation as a ward ard of the nation Then on the advice adv Ice of his he ho slipped awa to Join tho the men He H was wasa a- a In Topeka for Ih e ears In the tho winter inter he ha h sold newspapers and peanuts In a railroad st When hen he h quit I lacing acing lie he h drove a e hack to hack to get mone to buy la law bOol books book books ho read a as he h was waa wa s seated high up- up upon upon up upon on hi his hack In the light of o the lamps oil lamps on each side At 21 he h pase passed a law eA- eA ea cx At 24 he h was wal elect elect- elected elect ed ed prosecuting prom attorney In 1893 he ho wont ent to congress In ho he was as elected to the th sea sen sell sell- senate ate He las has served In congress fr 30 years Jon ov he h i Ii one on of the th roost most pow powerful men In the government |