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CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
fdred and ninety-two, as is inconsistent
Indian Liqour Law. with the provisions of this Act is hereby
II repealed.
An Act To prohibit the sale of iutoxica-1 Approved, January 30, 1897.
ting drinks to Iudians, providing penalties jl In our last edition we published an arti
therefor, and for other purposes. ffic,e frm the Puget Sound Indian Guide
Be it enacted by the Senate and House concerning a decision of Judge Hanford on
of Representatives of the United States of if the selling of liquor to the Indians in
America in Congress assembled, That any ra;Which it said that "Indians o whomland
person who shall sell, give away, dispose of has been allotted are free to purchase li
f xchange, or barter any malt, spirituous, If quor on the same terms as another citi
or vinous liquor, including beer, ale, and m zen of the country,"
wine, or any ardent or other intoxicating m In view of the above law, which we
liquor or any kind whatsoever, or any es-1 publish in full for the benefit of our readers
sence, extract, bitters, preparation, com-Ij we hardly think that Judge Hanbford's
pound, composition, or any article what-1 decision is a tenable one and we only sur
soever, under any name, label, cr brand, mis-e that there must be something alvmt
which produces intoxication, tQ any In- &jj the decision whereof we know not. The
diau to whom allotment of land has been above law is a good and a just one, as is
made while the title to the same shall be M eveiy law w hich will protect us from the
held in trust by the Government, or to any f worst side of our n-nur
Indian a ward of the Government under l "
charge of any Indian superintendent or a-II An Indian Chief's Thought.
gent, or any Indian, including mixed f
bloods, over whom the Government, J ' The snapping of some bands of the great
through its departments, exercises guardi- M Brooklyn Bridge caused all sorts ot mi
anship, and any person who shall intro- 8 ments aud criticisms. -
duce or attempt to introduce any malt, While this topic is under discission the
spirituous, or" vinous liquor, including M story of the Indian chief who came out of
beer, ale, and wine, or auy udet t or in-jt his wtstren 'lit' some year ago to visit the
toxicating liquor of any kind .whatsoever S$ cifips of the East for the fht thne, is apro-'
into the Indian country, what in in shall ft Pos- 4
include auy Indian allotment while the While he was being piloted here and
title to the same shall be held in trust by 11 there, some one askd him what fact of
the Government, or while the same shall Eg Civilization surprised him most,
remain inalienable by allot tee without the He answered. 1
consent of the United States, shall be pun- if "T"e suspension bridges."
ished by imprisonment fr not less thn p "WhatP said his interlocutor, "do you
Mxty dnys, snd by a fine of t ot less than f no' marvel at the huge buildings and mon
oue hundrtd dollars for the first offence ! uments?" '
and not less than two hundred dollars for "No," replied the Indian: "my people
each offence tliereaf er.P.ovided; however, CU1 Pi,e stones on st-mes, but they cannot
That the person convicted shall be com- M" t,1()se wt 08 of iM nih mid-air."
mitted nn'il fine and cost are paid. m The Imiian was right, says Everywhere.
Bu it shall be a sufficient defense -to,!More marvelous than thesteel frame of
any chhigH of introducing or attempting ft huildingy, so high that eyes tire in follow
to i tr .fiice ardent spirits, ale, beer, wine, I inS tneir fliht skyward, are thesuspension
or intoxicating liquors into the Indian bridges-r-those webs of steel spun in mid
country that the acts charged were done ft air across some wide stretch of water,
under authority, in writing, from the war j The yountrman who thinks of hisemplo
department or auy officer duly author ized I yer's infer, s m.d devotes himself thelessly
tliere unto by the war department. jf U it ii. f u' i fulness of his own is, other
Sec 2 Thaf-so much of the Aci of the f things being equal, the surest to succeed
twenty-third day of July, eighteen hun- j in life.