Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1916 — Chief Tahan, Tonight! [ARTICLE]

Chief Tahan, Tonight!

The third number of the lyceum course will be held at the Presbyterian church next Friday night. In the dress of an Indian chief which he wears as a trophy of war, Tahan presents to lyceum audiences in his lecture on “Things I Saw and Did While a Savage,” one of the best if not altogether the most thrilling and intensely interesting, and at the same time instructive, life stories ever told by a human being. And not only has it an educational value but it carries a moral and religious message as well. He was only two years old when a band of Kiowa Indians raided the frontier settlement and massacred all but the babe. He was taken by the chief and given to Tsilta, his wife. Having been captured in Texas, Tsilta named him Tahan, that is, Texas man. He was educated by his foster mother in all the ways of the Indians. When he was ten years old he was captured by Custer, who compelled the chief to reveal his identity, which resulted in his being returned to an uncle in Texas. He later returned to the Indians and he was persuaded to become a government scout. He deserted and fled to the Cheyennes, was later captured, courtmartialed, sentenced to death, and imprisoned at Fort Reno. He cut a hole through the prison roof and escaped in the night. He wandered for three years and was finally converted in London, Ontario. He studied for the ministry and finally his case was presented to Grover Cleveland, who pardoned him. The above is just a brief outline of his thrilling life story which he tells in a modest but most interesting manner, throwing a light on the character and traditions of the Indians from the standpoint of personal knowledge apd sympathetic appreciation.

Miss Nellie Hatfield, of Winamac, came this morning to visit Mrs. Julia Day for a few days. 0. Arthur Tuteur will arrive home from Indianapolis this evening to remain over Sunday. Dr. H. L. Brown, George Long and Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Harmon are spending today in Chicago. The Pythian Sisters will hold their installation this evening .and it will be followed by a supper. ■ A large turn-out is expected. Sylvester Gray returned last evening from Colorado, to which state he accompanied Mrs. Gray for her health and where she will remain for some time longer. ______——— ’ Prosecutor W. Ray Collins has filed 24 affidavits for assault during the riot growing out of the election wet and dry troubles at Linton. More wilDfoilow. Nineteen men have been arrested. J. H. Robinson, of Huntington, assisted” by Abe Hardy, bought a car load of horses in Jasper count/ this week. They were shipped to Huntington and there will be consigned with several other carloads to the eastern market. A hearing of the C. D. Shook petition in bankruptcy by the referee, Harry Sheridan, in Hammond today, .took several interested parties there, including G- H- McLain, F. B. Ham, A. S. Laßue, W. I. Hoover and Attorneys Parkinson and Halleck, The house committee on interstate and foreign commerce yesterday made a favorable report on a bill introduced by Representative Wood, of Indiana, authorizing the Gary Land company to construct a bridge across the Grand Calumet river at Gary. Independence for the Philippine Islands within four years after the pending bill for enlarging self-gov-ernment there becomes effective would be authorized byjm amendment to the measure submitted by Senator Hitchcoak and generally understood to bear the approval of President Wilson. -

The machinery of the state department has been successfully invoked to obtain German dyes needed for printing United States paper currency and stamps. . __2 Boston Star—No lecturer on the assembly platform gave better satisfaction. Tahan, Friday evening. Henry Ford intends to treble his plant’s capacity, it was learned yesterday. His plans call for the expenditure of $10,000,000 and the employment of 100,000 men. Phone 7 and call for our B. B. range coal. —Harrington Bros. Co. Felix Erwin, of Fair Oaks, who recently bid in the west end of the Boyle ditch, has purchased a new dredge from Saginaw, Mich., and will soon have it working. Talk to us about your coal; we haye something to tell you about our coal.—Harrington Bros. Co. Rav and George Herr and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Herr arrived this morning from Marion, Ohio, and will live in Hanging Grove township the coming year. Fenton O. Churchill went to Chicago yesterday and before going left at The Republican office samples of wheat and oats raised by the Maines boys in Montana, for whom Fenton worked the past year or two. They may be seen at this office; B. B. or Puritan Egg for the range. Ky. B. or Carbon splint for the heating stove. —Harrington Bros. Co. Secretary Lane yesterday designated 365,000 acres of land in South Dakota, some already patented, as open to settlement.’ That subject to acquisition will be opened to entry March 10. Mrs. James Lister, of Chicago, came this afternoon to Visit her mother, Mrs, Eliza Reed, who is poorly, probably having an attack of the [grip. Mrs. Reed was 82. years of age joyed remarkably good health.