Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-02

The Apache WarrlorS uunA0~
one thousand.
Seyeral Indians were recently
drowned while attempting to czoss
the Rio Glande.
It Is estimated that there are, at
least 1000 Catholic indians In Wash-
ington Territory.
There are 927 converts to Chris
tianity among the Nez Perces ana
Spokan Indians. ~
The Comanche and Cheyenne
Indians are on the war path down
south.
Many Of the Indians about Win
nemucca, Nevada, are moving their
household goods to the modutalns
to avoid the smallpox. ~
In the Circuit Court of jackson
county, Oregon, the case Of Scar
Faced Charley, o MOdoc brave, was
recently dismissed for want OF cyl
uence to convict. a-aEw
The chief of the Umatillas re-
Gently travelled 2l0 miles to receive
baptism, and to present = petition
for missionary labor among bis peo-
pie. CTS s5 - IN
Antelope Jake, q chief of an In
dian tribe in Utah, who was bap-
tized and proclaimed an Elder OF
the Mormon church last Fall, is
now trying to convert his tribe to
that creed. u,rr
The vote of the Indians at the
Santee Agency last Saturday upon
the question Of abolishing the sys-
tenn of hereditary chiefs, and in ia
vor of the annual election of q chief
for each band, was defeated by three
votes only.
Major E. A. Howard, Indian
agent st Spotted Tails agency, is
endeavoring to secure the removal
of the agency to some new location,
which will be better fitted for sup
porting his 5000 wild Sioux and
their ponies.
The Montana Courier says the
Crow Indians left the Agency about
q week ago for a forty days trip, in
which they will interview any row.
ing bands Of Sioux found around
loose, with a view to adding to their
herd sioux horses aud collecting or
naments for their wigwams, such
as scalps and like legitimate trOph-
les of Indian warfare.
A Prescott, A. r, dispatch of June
9Th says: Yesterday forenoon the
Indian Chief QuatcheakelO surren-
dered at Camp Verde, bringing with
! him his band OF SO persons-30 men,
| q women and % children. These
Indians are believed to be Tontos,
but they claim to be Apache Mo-
haves, and say that they have been
driven fr0.a the Four Peaks, where
q couple of weeks ago they were at
tackled by Lieut.. Schuyler and Sc
verely punished.
Irataba, the well-known Mohave
chief; died May 4th, at his residence
near La Paz, on the Colorado river.
His remains, with his household
effects ETC., were burned to ashes,
according to the Indian custom.
His horses were slaughtered, and
his tribe thrown into a period of
deep grief, during which time they
abstained from food of any kind,
and would not so much as touch
salt. They even carried their dem
Onstrations * far as to burn their
old village.
A company of Pawnee Indians
in their painted costumes, with
their ponies and trappings, passed
through southwestern Nebraska last
week, on their way to visit their
neighbors of the OtOe nation. The
Pawnees from being the most ~eI-
like tribe on the western plains, ade-
cade-since, are now sadly dwindled
down, until they would scarcely be
recognized as the tsnoble red men"
described. by Fennimore Cooper.
They have wOefully degenerated,
and the remnant left are as low in
the scale of civilization as a total
want Of thrift and filthy habits can
make them.
Little Joe was the medicine man
of tribe of Indians, near Big Pine,
California. Sapsey had q fever,
and Little Joe killed him in q clum-
sy effort to cure him. The tribe
were indignant at the malpractice;
ank as q punishment, dosed Little
Joe with the medicine that had
killed Sapsey. But the doctor did
not die of his own physic. Then he
was stoned and stabbed to death.
Four of the tribe have been arrested
for the murder. They confess the
deed, but do not regard it as q
crime, arguing that any doctor
who cannot cure ought to be put to
death. Hi
The first anniversary celebration
ever undertaken by the Chippewas,
occurred at White Earth, on the
18th inst, when the farmer Indians
celebrated the sixth anniversary of
the establishment of the settlement
at White Earth, by religious SER
vices, music, military display, pub
lie dinner and speeches; the religious
services were in the Episcopal Mis-
sion Church, conducted by the Rev.
Johnson, q native priest; music by
young people of mixed and full
blood. The military display was
by a full company well drilled in
Uncle Sans uniform and equip
ments, Differed by men who saw
service in the rebellion.
The speeches were made by White
Cloud, head Chief, the Beaubien
brothers, influential mixed-bloods,
the native priest, his white assistant
and Agent Douglass. 80 u
In the course of White Clouds
grafton, he described the changes
wrought upon the Chippewas by
contact with the whites, and the de-
scription was illustrated by Q tab
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