The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-27
RED CLOUD AGENCY.
Rafferty's Remarks Regarding the Noble
ANSA Red Man.i0 ~ ~
Arrival Of Gen. crook-Aosements OF Troops
Departure Of cheyennes, Etc. $ =

Departure Of chsyennss, Etc. =
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lFrose O1r Special Correspopdsatl .l
RED CLOUD AGENCY, May %.
To the Editor of The Leader:
Lo, the poor Indian whose untntored mind.
Clothes all before and leaves nothing be-
Is the commonest and yet the leading
feature of this sequestrated and roman
tic region. He looms up, as it were,
in every direction and at all points,
both by night and by day. Go where
you will you cannot savoid meeting
these plains Arabs. In the forests you
find squaws gathering fuel for the lodge
fires of their liege lords, and as a rule
they tie it up in huge bundles, which
they raise upon their muscular shoul-
ders and trudge off to the villages. with.
If you ascend the high bfuffsand Duties
surrounding the Agency you will find
Indians herding ponies. If you shoul-
der a fish pole and wander along the
emerald banks of White river, you will
meet Indians of all ages and sizes fish,
ing, playing, or sitting silent and lone,
their faces covered with the blanket,
making the visitor curious to know
whether they are meditating upon the
steady and sure extinction of their
race, connecting plans for attaining
power and greatness, or merely sleep
ing to "kill time" There is no other
race of people who can endure the life
of absolute idleness which these lousy
loafers live. True, the squaws work,
but it is only so much as they are OBJ
liged to, and they therefore have ample
time to %''rest, - all of which is improved.
The younger ones do nothing but dress
themselves until after they are married,
when they begin cooking and drudging
for their masters, and after that the
life they lead is that of a mental of the
lowest class. What wonder, then, that
buxom Sioux lasses lead a life of shame
with young bucks and degraded white
men, rather than take up the burden
of married life?
1t may be that the ancestors of these
Indians were industrious, but the Gov
eminent has done away with all neces-
sity for labor by providing them with
all they desire-food and clothing-and
they are sharp enough to avoid working
while such provision is made. 1t is not
necessary to charge them to filing
away ambition,o for they are not
troubled with it further than to strive
for proficiency in lying and stealing.
They are adept beggars, but this is
something that comes to them natural
ly. Their idleness certainly is an in
centive to evil thoughts, for they are
ignorant, and crime is mor prevalent
among the ignorant than among the
intelligent-that is, crime of the lower
order. The ignorant villain will stab
you in the back, set your house on fire,
steal your stock or pick your pocket,
while the educated villain will forge
your name, entrap you in q confidence
game, run off with your wife; or catch
gudgeons by wholesale in a glittering
lottery net. For the latter we build
costly penitentiaries, organize expensive
for legal land sharks. For the former
cur great and beneficent Government
provides by appointing thieving agents
\WhO oN tiCil PAOUCBCo 0ilu SllClC
Sam with equal proficiency, who en-
courage the red ignoramuses in their
idle dependence, and foster crime
among them by protecting them from
punishment when they have robbed
and murdered the frontier settlements.
OF course the recent action of the au-
thorities in turning over the agencies
in this and adjoining departments to
fha military has hoon hanaAoio1 in avarv
way, but the peace policy plunderers
linton, and the yultures who write the
title of "U. s.. Indian Agent"
after their names, are being REIN
stated.
Brass Kettle Howard, whose dis
graceful doings at Spotted Tail Agency
are known throughout the land, is
monarch of all he surveys at the Ponca
Agency, and other appointments equal
ly as bad have been made. Red Cloud
is to have a Christian gentleman, DR..
James irwin, late of the Shoshone
Agency, and this is the place above all
others for him. Word comes to-day
that the new agent will arrive oon
He would have been here ere this but
for a trifling omission or inaccuracy in
his official bond, which necessitated
its return to DIR. Irwin for correction.
1t has been again forwarded and there
will be no further delay in making the
change.
RED CLOUD AGENCY, May %, III.
Gen. Crook arrived here this morn
from Fort Laramie. He was accompa-
MED by Lieut.. Schuyler, of his staff,
and MI. j. W. Ford, correspondent of
the Chicago Times. Upon arriving the
General at once closeted himself with
Gen. Mackenzie. Lieut.. johnson, act
ing Indian Agent, was sent for, and an
interpreter was sent to the camp Of the
Cheyennes to bring in Standing Elk,
Little Wolf and Dull Knife, the .princi-
pal chiefs, as the Cheyennes r to
leave here on Friday next, the 25th,
and the General was anxious to see
them at once, and learn their views on
the coming removal and matters in
general. After. a long absence the in
terpreter returned with the informa-
ton that he had found Standing Elk
and communicated to him the Generals
rennest- Init thai the cO~pper-cOlored