Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-01-28
Yankton making arrangement. for hi. goods

Yankton making arrangements for his goods
and building.
The agency physician is DR.. j. G. Mills.
an afable gentleman and . learned physi-
cish. From DIR. NJ. We learned thatthe pre-
vailinE diseases among the Indians are
s%crofula, colds, pneumonia and consumption.
He states that during the three years he has
been among the Indians fully thfrty-seven
per cent Of the fatality among them has been
caused by consumption.
The agency school is under the charge of
Prot. Garfield and wife, Rev. Henry St.
George Young and Miss Sophia Pendleton.
The number of pupils enrolled is "a, and
the daily attendance in the n%eighborhood of
90.
Some idea can be formed Of the vast
amount of provisions issued by the govern
ment to these Indians from the fact that the
beef issued amounts to from twenty to thirty
steers daily. The beef for the Indians re-
siding in the immediate vicinity Of the
agency is slaughtered and delivered to them
in %rations, but that for the main band is is
sued on foot every ten days. The Indians
drive the cattle to their camps and do their
own %butchering. The Indians economic
every part Of a beef. The e~ntrails and other
parts Of the animal considered by civilized
people as %unclean are by them priced as es-
pecial delicacies. The hides of the cattle
are the property Of the Indians and they are
bought from them by the trader, the price
paid being IS apiece.
About a mile back from the river, and on
a high plateau of ground overlooking all the
agency buildings, are the military quarters
occupied by companies H and NJ of the
third cavalry. The officers are Capt. Hem
~ w. Vessels, jr., c~ommandant; and Lieu
tenants George w. Baxter and F. H. Har-
die, Of company H; and Lieutenant
Frederick Schwatks, commanding COM
pany NJ. L.. Hardie is A. A. Q. NJ. and A,
G. S. and is a son of the
late Inspector General Hsrdie,
who is we'll and fsvorably remembered by
the Oldest citizens Of Yankton in connec-
ton with the settlement Of the Indian war
claims of 1SG2.Up to the first inst. there
were seventy Indfanscouts in the service, on
which date they were paid off and muster,
ed out. Capt. Vessels hes recommended
that twenty-five scouts be mustered in
which will be done as soou as the ncces
sary papers arrive from Washington.
The trader at the military post is thai
prince of good fellows. H. C. Dear, and it is
q pleasure to MS hosts of friends to know
that he is doi1g n large and lucrative
trade. We are under especial obligations
to Mr.. D. for favo1s and courtesies extend
ed to US during oar stay at the post, and
feel that q public acknowledgement is de
manded. His Byron-:c attentions wert
always timely aud to the point. Long
may he live and prosper"
The Improvements at the agency aut
military post are not such as 10 indicat,
that they are intended to be permanen,
The new buildings are cheaply constructed
and seem TO have been nut up with a view
to merely temporary occupation. The
abandonment. of this agency in the spring
seems to be looked upon as a ~foregone con,
J, ~clusion.
ITEMS PERSON Al. AND OTHERWISE.
George II. Jewett and Johr
Cunningham, late trader, will soon leave here
Mr.. Jewett will go to Sidney, and John vii
$ spend the winter in visiting friends in Yank
1 ton and further east, (by the way John ha
a Sos reminder of Farmers bank
Young Cougar, who keeps a saloon oppsit
the agency in Bon Homme county, is a SO
e Of Maj. Cougar, formerly agent of the Yani
ton Indians.
The mess-house IN the agency is kept b
Mrs. Love, formerly Of Springfield. TIL
large number Of boarders she entertains al
testthat her neatly, wsll kept house and vel
4 supplied table are properly appreciated.
: Will Finley, we'll known all along tn
4 Missouri river, is the boss carpenter at Spo,
: ted Tail agency.
james Bordeau, who has. resided in tn
upper Missouri country since 1910, has tn
contract for supplying the agency and militia
~ posts with wood.
N. v. Lee is the boss farmer at this ager
cy, and has general superintendency of al
work about the agency. He is the right ma
$ in the right place.
A man by the name CT White, charge
: with grand larceny committed here was tax
en- to Yankton yesterday by Deputy Ma,
!. ahal Edmunds to have a hearing before com
missioner Congleton. z.
: INDIANS NEAR RAPID.