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...tied to a lodge in an enemy's camp, etc." Aleek-chea-ahoosh, as any student of Crow would know by his name (Plenty-coups-Many Achievements) counted many a coup. He and his braves served with General Crook against the Sioux (1886); in the fight on the Rosebud, Aleek-chea-ahoosh had two horses shot under him. Farsighted, the Crows sided with the whites against the hostile Indians...
Daughter of pioneer Nebraskans, President Pyrtle is principal of the Bancroft School, Lincoln, Neb. A few years ago she took out a homestead on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in North Dakota, uses the money realized from the sale of corn crops to buy railroad tickets to educational conventions...
...Michailovitch Romanov-surviving cousin and brother-in-law of Tsar Nicholas the Last-from wearing whenever he chooses a red boutonniere. Thus last week His Imperial Highness, who is now lecture-touring U. S. cities, received smart Manhattanites in his suite at the Hotel Ritz with a blood-red rosebud peeping from his buttonhole. The thing was urbanely and genuinely done. "I am of no party," smiled the Grand Duke, and presently charmed his guests by chatting not only of himself and Russia but about the two other Romanov grand dukes who were most in the public eye, last week...
...Rosebud, N. D., Nominee Curtis delivered a brotherly lecture to a gathering of Sioux Indians. He said: ". . . Every man must work. You must overcome any tendency or desire to neglect work for other pursuits. In the early days of your history you were famous dancers and it is claimed that the other tribes took their dances from you. But this does not justify excessive indulgence in modern dancing. Conditions are changed. You now have responsibilities which you should remember...
...made mistakes, but their hearts were brave and strong, their purposes were honest and noble. They have long gone to their Happy Hunting Ground, and we call upon you, as our new High Chief, to take up their leadership ... to protect and help the weak."- To cap the ceremony, Rosebud Robe (soon to appear in vaudeville as "the most beautiful Indian maiden in the world") placed upon White Chief & Protector Coolidge's brow a war bonnet of 200 feathers. Nineteen of the warriors who had helped kill General Custer's men on June 25, 1876, cheered vigorously...