The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-12-30
rnE WRONGS. or TIRE RED MEN.
What the Piutes say About the Mai.
heur Agency.


Yesterday j. Nj, Haworth, Special
Agent of the Interior Department, met
a number of leading Piutes here, for
the purpose of asoertaining what their
grievances, if any they have, are, and
why they object to going to Malheur
Reservation. Among the Piutes pres
ent were old Winnemucca, Naches, the
Princess Sarah-his sister, Jerry Long
and Charley Thacker-formerly iasef.
prefers at Mulheur, Captain joan Of
Big Meadows, Captain Jim OF Union
vile, Capt Breckenridge of Saltwater,
George and Charley of Paradise, AID a
host of their henchmen and retainers.
SPECIAL AGENT HAwoRTH
Said he had long heard of the Putes,
aud now saw them face to face. He
did not come TO talk to them, bat to
have them talk to him. His bust
ness is travelling around among the in.
dams Eight days ago, while at Fo,t
Hall, he received a telegram from the
Great Father in Washington to come
here, and he came on the next tan.
Washington wanted to find out what
the matter is. He had heard that their
hearts We're troubled; that the Indian
Agents were pulling one way and tae
military the other. Now, he wanted
to know the whole truth, 50 that he
could tell Father Washington what
allied them. He wanted to know
whether it was the country or the
Agent at Malheur they dsIiked. He
did not come to scold or make bad talk.
That was all he wanted to say now.
1t was agreed that the Princess
Sarah, who arrived on the train with
Naches and other sub-chiefs from the
western part of the State, should act
as interpreter The Indians held a
consultation among themselves, and
Sarah announced that Winnemucca had
appointed
NACHes TO SPEAK FIRST.
He spoke in his mother tongue, and
said: Friend from Washington, who
visits us and wants to know of our well
fare, we are glad to meet you. As you
want us to tell you the truth, We Will
tell you the facts. There is one objec-
ton we have to Malheur, and that is
Rinehart, who is the cause of our
grievances. He came here and said,
we want you, one and all, to go to
Malheur and there you will have
plenty to eat and plenty of money.
He offered me money to take my people
there. The soldiers have nothing to do
or say to us. The officers tell us to be-
have, and not kill or trouble the white
people, aud no soldiers would force us
to 90. The reason we do not want to
I 80 to Malheur Is, that the man who is
there now forced our people, by ill
treatment, to go on the war path. Late
in the Fall rumor came from Wash
inoton that we were going to have a
home near. McDermit, ant all our peo-
pie were glad. Since then we have
been told that we would be forced to go
! to Malheur; if not peaceably, we would
| be forced to co-driven there like wild
| animals, If these Indians my people,
could only get small piece of land in
our own country we would be happy.
| We have been told by Agents that we
would get money and clothing. but we
can say with truth that we get neither.
| Since the whites came among US we
live in hope; we work among our white
brothers, and buy clothes and live IN
dependent of the Government. II yon
think we speak falsely, ask those white
men who have been here nearly twenty
years, if we ever had anything from
! the Government. Agents come here
and talk fairly, but when they go away
| they forget. | stand here, and when
| there is trouble | am first to stand be.
tween my white brothers and danger.
So long as deal fairly with white men,
| am not afraid of being kicked or
driven out of the country. This is the
country we were born III, and | think
the whites will not inlnre us. II there
was an outbreak to-day, | would leave
nv hungry children and save life, as
have always done. When you go back
to the Father at Washington, tell HIM
that we, each and all, want piece OF
| land to live on If we are supplied
with land and implements, all these
Indians viii work, providing there IS
anything in it. Let Government never
/ put two tribes, who do not speak the
same language, together, as it makes
| trouble. We have no homes, and II
| the Government does not feel disposed
| to give us homes, leave us as We are,
and not make promises to be fulfilled
alter we are dead We do not say the
Great Father does not want - give us
supplies, but we know we never get
| oay Cixtaan Aoants have been at the