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...blood of this man was the Frenchman, the Indian and the Yankee-to be exact: 7/16 French, 1/16 Indian, 8/16 Yankee. Many years ago, when the 19th Century was an infant, a comely daughter came to White Plume, chief of the Kaw tribe of Kansas. She was the great-grandmother of Senator Charles Curtis; she married a swashbuckling young Frenchman named Conville, who had hammered down his stakes near St. Louis. Their daughter married Louis Pappan, a French trader-from which wedlock sprang the mother of the Senator. Captain A.O. Curtis, his father, had come to Kansas from New Hampshire...
Charles' mother died early and he went to live with his grandmother on the Kaw reservation. There he frolicked with young redskins, taught tricks to puppies, rode ponies. At 8, he was a jockey in a state fair; Kansans cheered lustily for " ol' Captain Curtis' boy." There is a story that he was a Paul Revere at the age of 10; he rode 60 miles to Topeka to bring aid to the Kaws when the Cheyennes swooped down on their reservation. When the Kaws were sent to new lands in Oklahoma, he started out to go with them...
...Curtis' great grandmother was the daughter of White Plume, a chief of the Kaws, and granddaughter of a chief of the Osages. She married a French trader, Conville, and their daughter, Julie Conville married another French trader, Pappan. This gentlewoman, Mr. Curtis' grandmother had an Indian allotment on which Mr Curtis was born. Ellen Pappan, his mother married Captain O. A. Curtis. Part of the Senator's boyhood was spent on the Kaw reservation...
...undergraduate activities was begun yesterday morning at the University of Pennsylvania, when delegates from 30 colleges and universities registered. The afternoon and evening were occupied by a conference which met in four bodies, with A. S. Dashiell of Princeton in charge of the discussion on Student Government, E. L. Kaw of Cornell in charge of athletics, G. S. Nesbitt Jr of M. I. T. in charge of publications and E. S. Husted of Yale in charge of musical clubs, dramatics, and debating...
HARVARD CORNELL Lincoln, 3b. 2b., Woodin Gordon, r.f. 3b., Capron Conlon, 1b. 1b., Davies Owen, 1b. r.f., Fox Jenkins, 2b. c.f., Frantz Thayer, l.f. s.s., Cowan Hallock, c.f. l.f., Kaw Murphy, c. c., Tone Russell, p. p., Rollo or Maloney...