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Show GIVEN Mllffi BILLS HOW CANADIAN INDIANS RE CEIVE THEIR ALLOWANCES Agent Distributes $200,000 Among Trlbeemen Eaeh Year but Carries Only 30,O0O How He Does It. Seattle. Wain Heteral )ears ago the Canadian gov eminent took from tho tribes of Indians about Athahascn lake and rtter a large tract of laud and In i)inent for the same It Bites arh )ear live dollars lo each Indian and 2& to the chiefs In one dollar bills Tho reason for this Is that the In dlans dwelling In the district ito not know the alu of money. panel" dollar looks to him about the snme as a blank pl of paper to n bnby, Should the Hi)meiil be made In ell er. the simple minded thlld of the wilderness would punch n hole tn It nml wear It about his netk and thus 1 great deal of tnone) would bfl taken from tlrciilBilim Should pnjinent bo made In one dollar bill tho Indian Is liable to lose It Once eaeh year a representattto of the Canadian got eminent make n trip through ike country and pays tho Indians On ihls trip he take 110.000 In one dollar hills nnd will probably pay out more than 1200 000. Tho natural question from cltlllsallon Is, Itow does he do It? As the Indian knows nothing about thn talue of money his method of llnanclnl trade Is on the aluo of skins. Kterylhlng he bii) Is reckoned b) aklm. and when one talks dollars to him, his faco has the expression of n blank cartridge Fortunately for tho gotirnment, the Hudson Hay company com-pany has seemed tho entlro confi denco of the Indians during tho century cen-tury ot dealing with them, nnd tho money paid lo the Indians finds Its way Into the trading posts of the company com-pany Here Is how the government pa) master does his phenomenal stunt nf rating $200,000 or more with only 130.000 In his iocket lie goes direct to n district Inhabited by perhaps I,-000 I,-000 or 3.000 Indians; hero ho will nay from $10,000 to $20,000 In "treaty tnone) ' Kach ludlun nnd his family Is glten the lite one dollar bills In pa) men t fur his surrender of tho land, and each chief his $2S. After milking this pameut tho pay master takes a rest for a short tlmo at tho Hudson Hay post nearest the pay station Within u few days the In dlans hate inado a line to the pott and there purchased whatever looks good to them. They whack tho money down on to tho trading post counter, order something worth perhaps SO cents and leave Tho company agent chnrges the red man with what ho hat purchased ant credits him with the balanco of tho (he dollars, so that In the future ho can trado out tho reminder re-minder of tho amount. Within a week from the, dale ot paying tho treat) money otcry dollar ot tho amount has been paid Into Iho trading post Tho paymaster Kites the poit agent a check for tho amount and starts for thn next Indian settlement |