Show 1 A PIN AV AV 4 7 A A CL 0 ELMO SCOTT WATSON TUE UE jay is marca 16 1834 1 the scene Is washington D C A little group of 0 indian chiefs arrayed in till nil their tribal finery Is holding a council with sith the ile frock coated representatives senta tives of the great white father the business at hand bond Is a treaty anda cession of lands owned I 1 by the people whom these chiefs represent the omaha indians who live beyond the missouri river rive r in that vast empire known vaguely as the great west wesl and when the last formalities have been completed and the chiefs have made their marks under the signatures on the parchment the have ceded all their lands west of the missouri find and south bouth of a line running due west from the point where the iowa river leaves the bluffs retaining lands north of this line tor for a reservation and that marked one of the steps whereby the great state of nebraska came into being now 75 years later the citizens ot of nebraska are preparing to celebrate with parade and pageant page pagen int nt with air circus and military maneuvers and with many another contrast between tile the old and the alie new the diamond jubilee of the stile on november 5 C 0 and 7 nebraskans Nebra as well vell as residents of every state in tile union will gather in omaha for the celebration which Is being held there because omaha wits the first territorial capital and which Is sponsored by omaha civic interests who have contributed tri buted more than for ne braskas seven seventy ty fiat fifth birthday party it will be field beld in ili conjunction with ith the ab sar nen ben live stock and horse show november I 1 to 8 which la Is considered one of the alie firest of lis is lind kind in the lie midwest Slid West and n melt is attends attended attend atten dd zd by Stoc stockmen kmen from till all parts of the united states but the treaty with the omaha indians that handed over oer to the white men the land which was to become this fertile alib Is not net tile lie only event that makee this sk seventy fifth anniversary celebration it a particularly ticul arly fitting one acquired hy by the united states stales as a part of the lie louisiana purchase front from france in 1803 what isnow Is now nebraska for or halt half a century was a part of the great territory Teni tory which lay between the missouri river till in the east the red river on the south thi oft rocky mountains on oil tle lie vesi and fill the call canadian dign boundary on in the north nail anil over which hid h id roamed for centuries the indian and the lie huala hu alo then oo on january 4 ISM senator stephen A dug douglas 1 as introduced a fiill for the or ot if territory this lull bill aroused the bill bitterest prest opposition lon anti and resulted in ohp karl kan sas nebraska nebra aka bill bili which divided the 1 new territory ry into two territories kansas and nebraska franklin peerce Il erce who was wag oven president those chose francis curt burt of south carolina for the first territorial governor io vernor of ne bruska braska lint but on october 18 18 4 two days daya after the new governor oer nor reached he be died annl Thi linas n 1 cuni of 0 michigan governor cummings caved th cf f brang i ing political order out of linos dinos anti one of the first arse problems to lip ile settled wits was that hint of sell eting a territorial capital ne me briska city and brownsville Browns ville were all candidates for that lonor I 1 onar hut but lum cuin who was n man of decisive character took the inet nilve anti 9 selected elected omaha then he set about 10 X T I 1 DR RICHARD TANNER in DIAMOND DICK it to have liia ills choice rifled and after a bitter fight in there were many charges and of bribery and omaha was ninde made the capital and a capitol building was erected on the hill where here the central high school now stands it remained the capital capit il until nebraska became a state stale on march 4 when it lost out to lincoln then a hare bare spot on an alkali flat as it was described by at an opponent it is not only these stirring and vital political events but many another thrilling incident of I 1 er history listi li story iry that will be commemorated at the alie diamond jubilee celebration in omaha in november included include in that 1119 history tory are stories of the pony express tile hie over uv er lind land stage singe the battles between tile the sioux find pawnees Paw nees the ilie fights between the indians and ail settlers and the savages and troops stories of massacres or of burning emigrant trains of turbulent life on it ii frontier and ut of almost unbelievable lie vable hardships aej dangers overcome by the brave men and women who built tile the state lile till states of if the western frontier nebraska hur hns lind had her quota of picturesque figures find some of them are still liang and have been asked to take part in tile the jubilee outstanding among it lieu cm nil fill perhaps Is capt luther 11 II north of Colun bas captain north and his brother alaj frank north wore were the organizers of the famous pawnee scouts a group of indian auxiliaries V who if 0 performed such valorous service for government govern mont troops in tile the wars on the plains while tile railroad was being built west captain north has been characterized by authoritative historians as ag the ille greatest of the old time scouts of america then theres diamond rick flick famous as aa an unequalled unequal led rifle shot who settled doun doan to it a quiet life of retirement at norfolk where eliere he has h as been living fur for a number of years several 1 years ngo ago he told the surprised horne home folks that the quiet well ell mannered man they had known for many years ns as or dr richard tanner was the celo cele orated diamond dick and he had the records of his prowess to back up ills his claims diamond dick la Is a personal friend of jim itra dablain Dali iman 0 cowboy mayor who holds the record for successive terms of met when diamond tanner heard and I 1 that omaha was to hold a big celebration in observance of nebi nebraska askas seventy fifth birthday he immediately sent sect a check to II 11 byor dahlman to be added to the jubilee fund another frontiersman who ho will come to omaha for the celebration Is parson bob or phillip K M london landon lie ile was as stationed at old fort kearney la in western nebraska Ke braska near the present city of 0 kearney during several indian uprisings s old chief Yellow smoke the oldest chiff of the omalia indian tribe will cume come to Ont omaha ailia for the celebration as a representative of the I 1 he original inhabitants of nebraska yellow smokes father then chief of the was wag one of the signers of tile the treaty whereby hereby the indians indiana in 1834 relinquished title to the lands now flow within tile borders of nebraska white kagle nn andler oller oniabe indian and descendant seen dant ant of one of the signers of 0 the government treaty will also come to orapha tor 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 Is a young citizens contest in which one boy and one girl from 03 nebraska counties between lie tween the ages of sixteen and twenty one years will be ba brou brought glit to omaha luring during the jubilee with all expenses bild to be entered in the nebraska young citizens contest all state contestants will be ba winners of their respective county contests and will be judged on the basis of health personality and intelligence li Kence gence chancellor K E A burnett ot of the Un university hersity of nebraska to Is chairman of this contest A spectacular pageant said eald to be the most elaborate ever to be b planned in the midwest mid slid west will mil be presented during the jubilee title pageant entitled the making M aling of nebraska 11 lias has been written by hartley bartley burr alexander native who Is now dow a professor at scripps college claremont calif the p a cant will trill be produced under the direction of john T hall fifthe of the john B rogers company of fostoria Fo storla ohio this pageant will inbody the chief historical points in tile growth ot of nebraska front fron the time it bernine a territory until today when it fits ha become one of the I 1 leading coding agricultural states of the nation alexander Is an authority on nebraska history and has written a 8 number dumber of pageants none no aa comprehensive as the work in he ha Is now engaged |