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Show Another "Scrap of Paper." Twenty-seven years ago settlers at Olympia, Wash., made a treaty with the Indians allowing them to fish anywhere any-where and at any time, says Commerce and Finance. Now tlie state game laws prohibit them from the sport during dur-ing the closed season. Salnskln, big chief of the Taldmas, with a number of other Indians, after) protesting In vain to the local game wardens, went to the city to protest against the violation of their rights. Imagine a chieftain, 90 years old, straight as an arrow, yet half bllndj and enfeebled, entering a court roora( la a modern city. This man had seen the victory of civilization In Its struggle strug-gle against the wilderness. He hadj seen his race pass control of the land, to the white race. Still believing In the honor of the white man, he came to protest against the infringement of a treaty made a quarter of a century! before. Saluskln was informed by an lnter-j prefer that the district attorney couldj not change the 6tate game laws. "Iloh !" was his only comment. |