Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 16, 1913 Page: 2 of 8
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ON INDIANS OF EVERY TRIBE
Peruvian, U. S. and Alaska
Redskins Suffer Many
Persecutions.
AS the result of reports from
QiiuilwrleHH sources, covering
a period of several years, the
United StatPH government a!
last is giving stern attention to the
relief of persecuted Indians It has
been proved by thorough Investigation
that the red men of Alaska, the Unit
ed States and South America, com
prising all the races of aborigines on
the continent, have been receiving ill
treatment and have been exploited In
one way or another Li an outrageous I
fashion.
To a large extent the sins of the
warlike forefathers of the living In
dians have been atoned for. Now, ac
Photo by American Press Association
"BUCKSKIN CHARLIE" AND 0!(ANDI>AU0H
TElt.
cording" to the movement on foot, the
race shall be given justice. Develop
ments to this effect have been uuiner
ous iu the news of the past few weeks
For instance, an expedition recently
returned from the l'utuina.vo rubber
district of Peru with an official report
to Washington of the atrocities work
ed upon the native Peruvian Indians
by the Kuglish rubber contractors It
Is said the government may invoke tin*
M onroe doctrine iu intervening oil In-
half of the red skinned sufferers The
reports as to the latter are that the.v
have been more hideously outraged
with torture and enslavement than
were the natives of the Kongo rubbei
district of Africa
American Consul Reports.
Stuart Fuller, formerly United States
consul :it (tofelHirg. Sweden, was de
tailed by the government to invest!
gate the atrocities said to be practiced
In Peru lie has returned with a ver\
elal>onite report of actual conditions
OHODP OP (triiRFH TURKS.
which, though its details are held in
secret, is well understood to corrob
orate the cruelty tales This is fur
ther supported by an Knglishinan's re
port Hubert Carr-Gomm, Liberal
member of parliament for Southwark.
notified Sir Edward Grey, the foreign
secretary, to ask a question In the
house of commons whether it was
aware that \22 bodies of murdered
men, women and children were seen
iu one district hist March. The gov-
ernment would be urged, the notice
said, if the reports were true, to com
municate with the Peruvian govern
incut at once.
This matter comes up t^ain through
a batch of dispatches from the Coloiu
bian consul at Manaos to the British
consul at l<|tiitos. copies of which the
Colombian consul in Loudon handed to
the Anti-slav. ry society there The
dispatches contain harrowing revcla
tions of renewed barbarities such as
those mentioned in Sir Roger Case
ment's report last spring
The Putumayo district is a remote
Monroe Doctrine May Be In- 5
voked to Stop the Cruel- j
ties In Peru. $
region at the headquarters of the A ma-
ion river, to the east of the Andes
mountains Iu 181 Ml the rubber possi-
bilities were discovered, and the con
cession for gathering the product was
given by the Peruvian government to
English contractors The district was
inhabited by a peaceful, harmless race
of Indians.
A campaign of the most wasteful
exploitation was begun. The Indians
were reduced to the most abject slav-
ery by the most barbaric methods
Not only the men, but women and chll
dren, were forced to gather their share
of rubber or suffer the most horrible
tort u to.
Iu 1005 thirty six Barbadian negroes
were imported as deputies, and the cru-
cify (ncreased
Indians who couldn't or didn't pro-
duce rubber were suspended with their
arms twisted and bound over their
heads and their feet swinging, while
they were flogged. Two hundred lash
cs a day constituted no unusual flog
glng
Pouring kerosene over the bodies of
men and women and setting them afire
TUBS! VOMN HI OKI. Its with the redacerf tapnm would
——- rtiuni to tne government toe total
IIr. Jekyll mid Mr. Ilyde air Outdone tosl of PurchaBe.
! tn Hi.' Number of I'er uiltles Ity The rat<JS tn,?n could made sim"
il Niij.i. rk<. >ka. a Italian llumer ''> 10 cover tue cosl of t(le service
f wliu i> nun the lUge of Paris—Los. ",il1 me^ages would be carried to
I cs Her own Identity III Interval*. or 1U U0U Points where letters
t From tne New York Sun arH delivered but wnich no teiegrayn
T Napii rkowBku is a beautiful woman, company is ever likely to reacn, be-
XI S.ie is also u strange woman. All (ause it would not pay to organize a
T i I aris is talking about her, and scien-
7 tists and psychologists are making a
study of her remarkable case for
Russian woman is a triple personal-
ity. She is more tiian a JeyKli and
Hyde; she is three persons in one in-
stead of merely two.
To those who do not know it may
be weii to explain that Napierkowsiia
Is a Russian dancer who has been sett
Ing Paris wild with her marvelous
grace. She is said to suprass even
I'avlowa in agility and beauty of
movement.
| Slie is of nobh birth. Her tatoei
was exiled for many years in SiU-r.ii
and died in great poverty after all his
property had been confiscated because
of his political beliefs. His little girl
was adopted by an aunt and early sent
to the great school ol' dancing to he
trained, for dancing is an honorable
calling in Russia and is rated with the
other arts of music and painting and
literature.
But Kapierkowska hated Russia be-
cause of her father's persecution and
long years of suffering, and as soon as
she had reached the height of her t>ow
ers as a dancer she set off for : aris
and has been there fortwo or tiiree
years enchanting the French with her
dances. - —
Changes Swiftly to a Chinese.
And now for lier obsessions: She
has three personalities. She is tirst
of all Kapierkowska, the Russian girl.
Then she will suddenly change aud
become Chinese. She talks
herently in a tongue that
Bay is ancient Chinese. She cra\es
eeputaie service for tne small busi-
ness to be done, while it would cost
iwi government practically nothing,
inasmuch as it is already covering all
tuese distant tields.
1 am clearly oi the opinion that the
goteriimtui owes it to tne business
n.teres.s aud tne faintly lite of all tne
Mates to lane posesslou of tne tele-
g.apn companies, by purchase under
the old act of 1 s4 when the tirst line
in the country between Wasuington
and baltiuioie was sold to wnat is
now the Western L'nion.
The use of existing government
buildings, owned or reined would give
spieiiuiu faculties at no Increase ex-
tense. \.i organized service can eas-
ily oe made equal to tue present be-
ii.na-t.a - times telegraph service. Tne
lates unuer tne government could
t>robaul> be eut in ualf aau -o words,
instead ut ten, iciuid oe sent witnout
.my appreciable cost. « i
1 ain luily convinced the govern-
ment will never properly do tue pos-
ut- wont until k uses electricity in
aome lorm. To receive letter and
utuer mail and store thein away for
, oiiiptneut ill bulk more or less slowly
once a day or even every hour, when
a wire ;;nd a telegraph instrument or'
I telephone might connect the major
part of the postoflices, ^eems an an-'
tiquated anomaly.
For Infants and Children.
The mail and telegraph are the life
cur rents oi business, and to a large'
..tree of social life, and the private
monopoly of either system must go
inco- and go soon.
scientists —
I'AMOli VSSEIU'S Ills IIELlKt' IN
IN i KiMl AKKCWJK
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I Mould Med Negress, or Would give
MaimlitcT t Negro, Says Former
llal.hi of Huh City's Congregation—
< nir Mir Results.
Boston, .Mass., Jan. 10.—The whole
was n pastime. Many were burned at Chinese foods and seeks them and
the Btakp. j noiv has various Chinese staples al-
The accompanying pictures show a ways with her as well as Chinese
group of rubber trees and a native al .clothes so that when her Chinese ob.
work making rubber "biscuits." j session takes hold of her she can be
u d uu i o a j I haPPy a"d content with the Chinese
How Rubber I. Produced. things th;U ght, ]oyes anU ^
The rubber produced in the Putn ! such times. She has beautiful embroi- city was stirred tod-iv bv tiie announce
mayo district Is elnHslfled as jebe and dered silk robes from China and lutie nient of Dr. . narles Fleischer, former
caucho. Jebe Is divided into lowland Chinese shoes and stockings and sne rai.bi of Bostons largest ciiurcn con-
fine (smoked), entre fine (smoked) scrap- ; makes tea in the true Chinese fas.iion gregation, that he would not hesitate
py (not smoked) and highland—weak and drinks it with fervor. to marry a ncgress or refuse to give
flue (smoked) and weak scrappy (not | When she is in this Chinese state uis daughter to a negro in marriage
smoked). Jebe is obtained from the s'le shrinks from the world and hides merely for racial reasons.
Hevea hnizlliensls, trees which grow away indoors just as high born Chin- The divine asserted his belief in the
close enough together to enable the.ese women do. ultimate improvement of civilization
worker to handle a group of 100 trees I llle third Personality which she by the assimilation of the black andj
1 or walk, a day, visit- I r<;fresents '<• that of an Egyptian. In white races.
I this obsession she is utterly different "I can see no reason for preju-i
from her Chinese character or her dice against negroes, ' Fleischer as-i
own self, and does strange wierd sorted. 1 would marry a negress if |
things such as ancient Egyptian wo- slie appealed to me deeply, and 1 see |
men did. She dances and sings strang 110 cause why my daughter should not'
ely and talks iu an unknown tongue be g|vel1 i" marriage to a negro if the
which has been Interpreted an ancient two loved each other."
Egyptian. As an outcome of the doctor's as-
She loves splendid Egyptian cloth- sertiolls' church, club, social and civil
es and fastens a golden serpent about Eot'ieties in the iluh City are in ex-
her waist as she mixes strange per-
fumes, the receipts lor which she has
entirely forgotten as soon as her Egy-
ptian personality disappears. She can
read ancient hieroglyphics on stone
and parchment and s.,e has ^ mania
for cats—sometimes bowing down to
them as if she regarded them as sac-
red, and strange to oaj. cats run to
her with every sho ving of affection
and seem delighted at her attentions
although when she is herself she de-
tests cats and they run from her.
As for her Chinese personality, she
provides herself with all sorts of Eg-
yptian things, so that when sue slips
into her Egyptian personality she may
he surrounded with the things she Mural Palsy >lay lie Hidden, Doctor
craves then. | Crotli Says.
This strange state has only come From the New York American.
about in the last two years. At tirst The steady drinker is never fully
she only occasionally drifted into sane. There are thousands of steady
ALCOHOL .1 PLK CENT.
AVegclnbli- Pirpnralion for As
similaiing ilic Food and Rrtjula
ling (lie Stomachs aiulBowclsol'
Promolcs Diges!ioi\.Checrful-
ness and Itcsi.Contatas nciUitr
0 pitmt .Morphine nor Miuual.
Not Narcotic.
Recipe otOld
PlmfJan Sccdm
jUx.Srmm *
JktMleSJls-
j4iuse Seed *
ftprertninf -
lit Carbont Coda*
Werm Setd-
Ctmficd Sugar •
Vsu-ierymt ttc\rr.
Anerfi'tt Remedy forConslipa
lion, Sour Slomach.Diarrhoca
Worms,Convjlsions.Feverish-
pess aiulLoss OF SLEEP.
Fac Simile Stature of
new'york.
The Kind You Have
Always Bought
Bears the
Signature
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Use
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Thirty Years
uaranteed under the Fo
Exact Copy of Wrapper.
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cltement. No such daring stand
the doctor's has been taken on the
question before by a man of Fleisch-
er's prominence in the last generation
and hundreds here today, discussing
the matter, maintain that the north i
placed in a false light by a preacher
of New England announcing such a
belief.
CMldran Cry
TOR rLETCHER'S
CAS 7* O R ! A
STKAI1V DKIMiKK IS >OT SANE
**ij : these different personalities, perhaps drinkers who
•:'i | once or twice a year, but now they al- day who will
| ternate more and more frequently and sense and they are quite as bright and
'she changes swiftly into them . intelligent as the man who is not a
work among us every
declare this is all non-
1ND1AN UJKI.NU UUUbKH BISCUITS.'
ing mid tapping them One man can
manage two estradas on alternate days
The rubber worker builds bis hut
within easy reach of the river and
visits the trees early ill the morning,
returning about 2 o'clock in the after
noon with a pail full of milk to smoke
They have no effect upon her life steady drinker.
J because they do not last very long, Dr. D. T. t'rothers, superintendent
a day at a time perhaps or at times of tne Walnut Lodge Hospital, Hart-
only a few hours. When it come time (ford, Conn., with other authorities
for her to dance as Napierkowska she on alcoholic poisonin declares that an
always comes b.ick to herself. It is as alconolic is never absolutely sane.
t if her personality were standing by By an alcoholic he means a man who
and watching and was permitting the is a steady drinker a man who drinks
■ other personalities to play in her constantly every day, who never, or
body for - " . ...
time but did not allow
and work into hulls The quality of | them to interfere with her own busi-
tbe ielie varies according to soil and
method of preparation
It Is dei'laied that right iu tile con
lines of the lulled States |>ersecutions
ha 'e been worked on nearly all the
Indian tribes, in that their lands have
been fraudulently taken ffoui tllem it in i
ill ethel rtTTCs ihey have been robbed
by fake Indian agents Notably It was
charged that the Apache prisoners of
war. held captives for h generation,
were being fori ed to agree In settle oi:
land In the Mescalero reservation, in
New' Mcxieo, when tbe> were to be set
free, without having the choice of re
maluiug tn Oklahoma, whleh was Ihe
only territory they hail known for
twenty live years The original Injus
tlce of holding these human beings
captive ai Kort Sill for twenty-live
years Is now removed with their email
clpatlon
Government Censored.
Again, the government is takeu to
task ou lis treatment of the Indians In
Alaska l>r 10ii111 Krullsh, in the edii
rational service ill Alaska, Veportcd
that the redskins were neglected ao
that the government was virtually Im-
posing a cruelty ou them. It is de
dared they sutler ravages of fell dls
>ases without any means of combating
them
The difficulty In obtaining potatoes
in that region Is the cause of terrible
suffering from scurvy. Tills disease
has been the greatest enemy of the re
glon.
A big congress of Indians is to be
held at Denver's great pageant In 191 Ti
At least twenty-live reservations will
be represented Among the notable
redskins expected to take part will be
Chief Rtickskiu Charlie, ii ITte, and
his little granddaughter, who are
show n in tiie picture.
ness of life.
She says she enjoys the other per- ^ any man
least seldom, is intoxicated, aud
who makes his boast that it does not
hurt him, and that he can do as good
sonalities:
derful and
tin? sensations are won-
■njoyable and it makes her
The continued alcoholic or steady
drinker, according to Doctor Croth-
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life very varied and interesting and els aia>r seem to have average capa-
as it does not seem to affect her in city> -vot in some things he has
any unfavorable way she is quite weakness bordering almost on iui-
willing to be a triple person. j bepility. A steady drinker may be
her performing professional work that
The scientists are watching
closely to see if still a fourth
aonallty may join the others.
per-
\>li .
seems ol a high grade, but there is
connected with it the moral palsy ot
one plainly demented, lit is known,
however, only by his professional
work and therefore the actual hor-
rors of ulconolism are kept covered
up. \
.Many of the extreme characters in
history were alcoholics. Anarchists,
people tin postofilce and the revolutionists and such people, and
te!ei;rap.i reunited and the telephone their extraordinary reasonings, are
brougut iu to enhance the value of the held by the medical experts as proof
combination. I t|)at alcoholism is a form of insanity.
The electric current It longs to the j Just as certain diseases destroy the
people by right, and is bound to be- eels, so alcohol poisoning produces a
come their servant—not of a class nor condition which calls for a return of
• ■ . OM K1U, ii I.£■<; KA I'll,
ASit.s .Mill > rt ANAJKAhKK.
i.} Jonii W iinamaKer.
Former t'oslmaster General of the
United States.
1 want to see the two great servants!
of
of one-sixty-fourth part of the popu-
lation as at present.
The first telegraph was operated by
the postoltlce department aud It war
an evil hour for t'.e peopleH
against the pro.eat of the then post-
master general it was surrendered.
1 was charged when I was post-
master general that 1 wanted to con-
fiscate the teleg-aph properties. That
was not true. It was my idea that
under the old act of congress under
which the telegraph line belonging to
the government was sold—it provided
that the government could take it
back under certain conditions—we
could begin taking up the telegraph
business and that the properties
might be obtained by proper valua-
tions and fair negotiations.
I have always believed that If the
government would take over the ser-
vice and hold the rates up to their
present standard in the course of
three years—four at the most, the life
•f a aingle administration—the pro- treatment.
the same poison, and this is where the
victim ceases to be normal.
Heredity is a powerful factor. Just
us insane patients while not handling
when, uctual insanity down to their child-
ren, bequeath to them a body that is
unprepared to resist insane tenden-
cies so alcoholic parents leave to their
children a weakened body that craves
stimulants and such children easily
become alcoholics if they are allowed
to use intoxicants.
With proper care aud treatment and
proper assistance ou the part of the
victims themselves, Doctor Crothers
hkntls that fully half of the steady
drinkers might be cured, the ability
to cure only GO per cent is evidence of
the grave nature of alcohol poisoning
and of the peculiar form of insanity
it brings on. He estimates that there
are more than a quarter of a million
alcoholics in what is known as the
chronic class that receive little or no
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