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Show EDITOR'S NOTE: The Old Timer has agreed to furnish us with a weekly column packed with good news from the reservation. . . . Follow the Old Timer each week as he makes his rounds, and reports his findings find-ings lo the Standard. This is a new thing to me. I ain't much of a hand with writing writ-ing and I get my words sometimes some-times pretty badly mixed up, but I was talking the other day to the Editor of this paper and said we should have some more infor-1 mation of our good neighbors, the Indians, cause there are a lot of people who have lived here all their lives and still don t know them. Well, he agreed with me and said he needed someone to write the same, and since I d been here a long time and probably prob-ably knew a lot about them, would I write such a column. I've never let a bet get by me without trying to call it, so I said I would, and here goes This won't be anything high-brow and it won't have any particular ideals or high-sounding purpose, but I just want to get you to know my friends, the Indians, a lilI1wast up to Billy Chapoose's place the other day and saw some mighty fine cattle. He has about Sity head of Whitefaccs that would make any man proud to own, and Billy was mighty proud to show me aroun.d. He had them on ian if"-they if"-they was mighty sleek looking cattle. He had some mighty fat haystacks to feed them through the winter and I bet they come through in good shape. He got caught short two winters ago when we all took the beating, but he got some pellets from the Indian Service and pulled through Now he isn't taking any chances and figures on a ton per nead every winter from now on. Billy is one of the leaders of the tribe and he sure shines his beaded bead-ed costume at Indian dances You all saw him at Indian Day last Another mighty fine old timer up on Indian Bench is Sussie Arrats. She has about thirty head of cows and she docs the wrang- ling and the feeding just like any other good cowboy. I saw her and her granddaughter shagging a bunch of cows last week. Now, that granddaughter, Helen Arrats, Ar-rats, is just about as pert a young one as I've seen in many a year. She was riding bareback and hazed haz-ed them cows as good as lots of cowboys have done. I hear ' now she has a new saddle and I bet she's a proud youngster. - Mavbcso we should stop here and tell you something general. Mr Forrest Stone, the superintendent superin-tendent over there, was telling me last month they've got about 1500 Indians on this reservation, which is made up of 395,953 acres, ac-res, with 01,590 acres under irrigation. ir-rigation. The Indians own 5,200 head of beef cattle running on their ranges, which is run by Indians In-dians mostly. They don't allow anv cull bulls either, but have 112 purebred Whitefaccd bulls which they own themselves, having hav-ing bought them from assessments assess-ments they each pay into their Indian associations. I'll tell you more about them associations later. I think we could learn a lot from them. I hear tell that Conner ChaDOOse and Connie Shavan-autrh Shavan-autrh are doing right pert with their tracto.r and equipment they bought with money lent them by the Tribe, too. They was held up a long time getting what they wanted, but they sure made that tractor hum last summer. They work out of Randlctt and I remember re-member seeing them up on Chalmers Chal-mers Wash's place last summer making that tractor get down and null solid on the plow. They are hard working boys and they rot someplace to go. I bet you thev eet there, too. Well, I ain't as youne as I use to be and all this writing gives me the cramns something awful. ?o I guess thiss will be all for this time, until I know if the Editor is going to take it. If he likes it and wants more, I'll keep it ur. I'll be a-sceing you I hope. |