The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-28

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Gently established in Southern Dakota was intrusted
| to the Indians themselves. The department fur
| nished wagons and harness and the Indians their
| ponies draft ami mails. A shout OF derision all
along the Upper Missouri greeted the experiment
| disastrous failure was confidently predicted by
those Interested in the freightng business and many
others. But not only did the Sioux succeed IN
keeping their agencies supplied during an un-
desolate plains without roads, distance OF ninety
and 1913 miles respectively from the rlver, o" ~
have proved the most efficient honest and reliable
freighters the Indian service ever had NOT Poun"
OF freight was lost Although the indian ires.
occasionally delayed by accidents OF e sometimes
difficulties their weary way. WERE sum- 49,
| without provisions. not q cracker ooh nor pun
In the course of the year Indian freightlns has
been introduced at large majority OF the asend ares
this side OF the Rocky Mountains which are q. us
lance from railroad depots and steahoo"' i~n"A"S''
| and uniformly with the same success.
| INDIANS AS SKILLED LABoaERs.
| The employment of Indians in the mills ana
workshops on agencies has been tried with equai
in some OF our grst and saw mills ind d
shops and carpenter shops at the agencies lSo young
| Indians are instructed as apprentices. ana their
| number is being constantly increased some OF the
shops are successfully controlled by Indians fore
men, and the employment OF Indians as hoorers In
n variety of other ways has been generally intro
duced. On Indian reservations where suitable clay
is at hand the establishment OF brick yards TO DC
worked by Indians Is coh.espia,ea anu wt Ds oe
Southern Dacoah Indians are engaged in putting up
| telegraph lines
EDUCATION INDIAN CHILDREN.
secretary
been done by the Department during the past in
pursuance the other features Of the policy above
indicated. He says:-
The education of Indian youth has been subject
of soctude and he is happy to report that sub
stantial progress has been made that direction.
although much yet remains to be done. The
number of children of the uncivized tribes now at
tending school is 7.ls3; last year it was e. 229 He
reports that the of the experiment of educat
ing Indian pupils ut the Hampton. Va. schools has
led to extension of the plan. and the Secretary OF
., fnrk NJ
Expresses his grateful acknowledgements, has turned
over TO the Interior Department tho military bar
racks at Carlisle. Pa no longer used by the army.
for tho establishment OF an Indian school on Larger
scale.
LANDS sEvxRALrY.
In regard to the allotment of lands in severalty
the Secretary says the Indians considerable
number of reservations express a desire for it
with great urgency and in order to protect the In
dams from fraudulent practices bearing upon their
ignorance and crcdulity the Secretary recommends
that Congress should provide that the title to lands
allotted to Indians shall be made inalienable for,
say, twenty i've years. when the growing generation
may expected to be sufficiently instructed to take
care Of their properly. de also strongly recon-
mends the of bill, heretofore submitted
to Congress by the Department. to establish "gov-
eminent of law" upon the reservations. providing.
among other things. for the extension of the crimi
nal laws of the States and Territories the
vations within their respective boundaries.
THE UTE OUTBREAK.
The history Of the Ute outbreak is given at con-
siderable length and Secretary Schurz refers with
satisfaction to the course of the government in de-
Ginning to heed the demand urgently made in
quarters for a continuance of military operations
while the captive women and children still in
| the hands Of the hostiles.
The Secretary says the cause of the trouble can
not be found in any just complaint on the part Of
| the Utes. He adds:-
While it is true that two years ago they were for
q short time insufncionty supplied in consequence
Of the delinquency OF the transportation contractor,
| who subsequently has been prosecuted by this de-
partmcnt and tried aud convicted of grave offences.
| the White River Utes since then have been amply
supplied with all they needed. THOR hunting
parties are known have left tire OF the
game killed in large quantities on the ground, taking
merely the skins for trading. Such things are not
| as q man OF unimpeachable integrity. When he
deavored to plough land for agricultural purposes
| which furnished tho immediate occasion for the
first assault him. he did it for the benefit of the
| Indians and not for himself.
and the transactions following thereupon will re.
suit in such arrangements will be calculated to
| white inhabitants and the Indians In that part Of
the country. Every proper effort will be made By
| this department. to this end
| Tux
The report contains the following ernphatic pas
sage regard to the much agitated subject of tho
| Poncas and tho proposed solution Of the Indian
| question by test in the courts:-
! That the Poncas grievously wronged by their
| removal from their location the Missouri River
to the Indian Territory their old reservation having
bya mistake making the Sioux Trcsty. boon trans
| ferred to the Sioux. has been at length
as well as those of the Commissioner Of
Indian affairs ALI that could bo subsequently done
BY this ,Ss in the nc OF new ess
| for their losses has been done with more than
binary solictude: They were permitted to
which they had first been taken, being
| Of country the Arkansas River and the Salt
! Fork northwest of the Pawnee reserve. visited
of their condition. The lands they now occupy are
| among the very best in the Indian Territory in
admirably adapted for agriculture well stock
raising. In this respect their new reservation
| is unquestonaby superior to that which they left
behind them the Missouri River. Seventy houses
built by and for them of far better quality
than the miserable huts they formerly occupied in
| Dakota and tho construction Of larger number Is
| now in progress.
| STANDING BEARS FLIGHT.
| About the LIST of May last Standing Bear. chief Of
| band, with some twenty Indians left the reserva-
ton in the Indian Territory to return to the Mis-
| souri, River. AS has always been done In similar
CAGES they were arrested at the request Of this de-
| partment to be taken back to their reservation.
Application was made by citizens of Ne.
for writ of habeas corpus. which
granted by the Court and Standing Bear and his fol-
in various places raise subscription for the pur
| pose of testing in some way the question whether
| Indians by governmental action be removed
! from lands confirmed to them by treaty and
| whether they be arrested and returned
! TO = reservation which they have not
| by treaty bound themselves to remain.
1t would perhaps be we'll to have the rights Of In
dams defined and fixed by judicial decisions. but
do not think that Ms seems to be believed by many
people, such decisions will "solve the Indian Que-
lion" The solution of the Indian ques-
| Indians and their ability to take care
| of themselves, to which 'the definition of the
Indians rights will probably contribute but very
| little Ii Judicial proceedings should result in
| spreading among tho Indians the impression that
they can have their places of abode and roam about
at pleasure tho effect would only be disastrous to