The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-06-20
DosT LIKE THE PRESERVATION.

hart finds it very difficult to convince
the Indians that their condition viii be
bettered by going to the Malheur Res
ervation. The few Piutes now in
Nevada, who lived on the reservation
prior to the Bannock outbreak last
Summer, are not particularly fond OF
the place or its surroundings They
received no money for their labor, and,
as they say, had to live on fish caught
by themselves, when they were sup
posed to be getting -four and beef from
the Government It is to them a
foreign country, in which they did not
live or hunt before the reservation was
established, and they prefer their native
sage brush, through which they hunted
jack rabbits and squirrels from the
time they had strength to bend bow,
to its allurements. OF the few Piutes
who were domiciled at the reservation
ut the time of the outbreak, majority
OF them, under Chief Oitz, joined the
hostiles, and, after their surrender,
were exiled to Yakima. in Washington
Territory Those who remained
friendly to the whites came to Camp
McDarmit, and have lived at or near
the Post since that time. The reserva-
ton was actually abandoned by whites
and Indians, Agent Rinehart having
left the place, and, as he says, rendered
his resignation. No Indians have been
at the reservation since early in June
year ago, the surrendered hostiles
having been held as prisoners of war at
Camp Harvey until they were removed
to Yakima under military escort, by
order of the Interior Department. The
settlers in. Grant county, Oregon, IN
which the reservation is situated, shoot
at sight every Indian who makes his
appearance In the country, and about
two weeks ago two peaeeable Indians.
who ventured in there in search OF
horses, were killed. Why then, in the
name of common sense, does the In
terror Department uphold Agent Rine
hart in his attempt to plant an Indian
colony there? Do the Indian Commits
sioners authorize him to come to
Nevada, where the Indians are peace
able and many Of them az work for set
tiers herding cattle, farming and Choir |
ing, and offer premium to Naches for
every Indian, old or young, he can in
duce to 90 to the reservation? Is it not |
probable that the Interior Department |
has been deceived by the Indian Agent |
or other interested parties, as, to the
real condition of affairs at the reserva-
ton? Corrupt as the Indian Bureau is |
represented to be, it would scarcely |
have the bare-faced audacity to send an
Agent here to create Discussions among
the peaceabls Piutes, by offering their
leaders money to coax them to the reg
ervation for the opportunity it would |
afford the Bureau to make money in
cheating the Indians. The fact that |
the Piutes here III Nevada remained |
friendly during the outbreak last Sum-
mer while nearly all, who were at the
reservation joined the hossiles, ought,
in itself, to satisfy the Bureau, as it
does the people, that the Malheur res
ervation is not the place for Them 1t
woald be considered strange proceed
ing, if everything that the Interior De-
partment does in it's management OF
iadian affairs was not SO, for an Indian
Agent to 60 two or tire hundred miles
from the agency, among pcaceablc Ia
dams, and by offers of money, induce
their head men to persuade the Indians
~ 60 with him to a reservation which
was abandoned a year ago by the In
dians joining the hostiles and the Agent
running away and rendering his resig-
nation. But the Interior Department,
undoubtedly upon false representations,
has ordered supplies for the Agency
when there is not an Indian within a
Hundred miles of it, and unless a few
Piutes are induceesby rewards or threats
20 90 there, the fraud cannot be much
longer concealed, and those who believe