The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-04-03

ence in the management Of the case.
| gave them good dinner to begi
my acquaintance with them-thei
stomachs and heads are very near to
gether; then without resistance the
submit to being washed, having thei
hair cut, and being cleanly dressed il
such clothes as / could procure a
once. If the suit was too large o
too small it still was a neater ft ant
made much better appearance thai
their Indian costume; and il it is pos
| sible for a child to feel half ASHAMED
and half pleased with their attire,
think that was the feeling of some o
those white children when they walk
ed into the Office before the Indians
wearing citizen clothes.
But l am leaving the Mexican.
with the Indians. How are they tc
be disposed Of in the absence Of any
instructions from the Department?
Before and since coming here, ar.
dent have been my desires to be fur.
nished with wisdom to rightly meet
emergencies, and believe it has been
granted in the procuring Of captives
AS well as in MANY other cases, and
thankful am | to Him who is the
"Givel Of every good ard perfect
gift
! told the Indians that all the Mex
leans who wished to must have the
privilege Of leaving. This they read
lily assented d to, assuring me that there
were none among them who wished
to leave. This, however, was dis
proved on the 9th of the 18th Mo.
last, by Martha Day, q young Mexi-
can woman, who had been captured
in the summer Of 1872.
The Indians had come the day pre-
vious to the Agency and camped near
by. In the evening she told tho In
dians that she could not sleep, and
had rs soon herd the ponies, to which
they assented, thinking that she had
sufficiently imbibed the idea that they
had tried to instil into their minds
that if any Mexican ran away from
them to the white people, the latter
would kill them. In the night she
LET, the ponies. came to the Agency,
portico waiting to hear some stir in
the house-not vcnturing to make
any noise. In the morning she got
into the house without being discov-
cred by the Indians, and soon told
her sad story. My wife procured the
assistance of some other women, and,
before night, had respectable suit
prepared for her. During the day
she had been kept out Of sight Of the
Indians, with the exception of one or
two, whom ] wished to see her. Sew
eral times We observed young men
with bows strung going around the
building trying to loo& into the win
dows, apparently intending to kill
her if possible. She told of three
Mexican boys who wished to leave
one Of them captured At the time she
was. l took their names, rs we'll as
the names Of the Indians who held
them. In the evening, after all the
Indians had left the Office, the stage
came, and she was started for her
home, near San Antonio, Texas, in
,are Of II. NJ. Smith, gentleman who
was going to the same place. 1t
seemed providential that SO good an
should SO quickly offer,
10 send her out of the reach of her
;oes. The following morning several
If the Indians came into the Office to
nave "talk.' They said that they
lad lost Mexican woman, and wish !
ID to know if l could tell them any
hing about her, to which they re-
'eived the reply that two nights be-
ore there had one come to my house,
md told me that she had been cap
ured by the Indians, and was tired
# living with them; that she had
been dressed up, put on the stage the
evening before. and started home;
he is now long way from here, and
t was useless for them to look for
Ter. They replied that they did not
are much for her, but would like to
rave few blankets to repair their
oss. They were told that was glad
hat she had left them, but was not
,uying women; that they could have
10 blankets or other reward for her,
,r any other captive; that she had re-
ported Of others who wished 10 leave,
md they must bring them in if they
'ver expected to see their own wom-
n and children returned.
On urging the case over and over
gain, three Mexican captives were
delivered about one month after. In
he meantime l had learned Of two
'thers, one of whom was delivered
ew days subsequently. These four
we're placed in tine Indian School,
vhere they remained about one month.
The Indians repeatedly told me that
he other boy that l wanted was
to leave them. l told them
hat he must come to the office and
ell me with his own tongue whether
le wished to remain with them or
lot. On the 3rd of 2nd Mo. he was
to the Office, in company
With large number of young men
md chiefs, attired with q good coat,
me Of the best fur caps of Indian
also chair pipe breast
'late,' which, by the young men, is
he most coveted article Of their cos
ume, costing from thirty TO seventy
i've dollars. He appeared to be
bout seventeen years of age. On
eeing him my interpreter remarked:
There is one who is thorough In
liam. and you will not get him. It
occurred to me that there was "selr'
n the case, and l sent in haste for =
Mexican interpreter, about one and .
,alf miles distant. II was near night
md tho Indians were in agreat hurry
o have me ask the test question,
which made me act with the more
'aution. 1t was probably the first
ime that the boy had ever been in q
council, and nod to be Get out in |
lie center Of the Office, surrounded by |
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