Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-17
AN INDIAN AGENCY.
A Lnzy Indian cbief---Novri Mode Of
Bariai---IndtRB Policemen.

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voyage down the Missouri, the former
in his rubber suit and the latter in
canoe, arrived at Fort Bennett in an ex-
hausted condition. Boyton was cor
voyed TO the house Of Major Love, tho
Indian agent, in an army ambulance,
after having padded incessantly for
twenty-eight hours.
After breakfast the next day, says
the correspondent, We made trip
through the agency buildings and
learned something about the Indian
question. There are over two thousand
Indians connected with the Cheyenne
agency. The principal chief is Little
o.Heart, and among the other chiefs are
Rafting Rib, White Swan, The Charger
and Four Bears. These mcE are peace
ably disposed and belong TO tribes who
farm and raise stock on the reservation.
But few days ago, through some loose
management, 100 of Sitting Balls war.
riors were permitted 10 leave the camp
OF the hostiles at Standing Rock and
enter the Cheyenne agency. They were
headed by two of the hostile chiefs
Spotted Eagle and Two Eagles. The
agent says that up 10 the time of their
arrival he felt great confidence in the
Indians in his charge; but at present he
feels rather uneasy. When the steamer
Sherman, containing Sitting Bull and
his followers, passed Fort Bennett the
Cheyenne agency Indians assembled on
the banks and the most violent demon
slrations OF grief occurred. Major Love
is appreheLsive that Sitting Bulls in
huence may be extended throughout
the Cheyenne agency through the me.
dium OF the influence OF the newly
arrived hostiles.
One OF the most unique exhibitions
of audacity on the part Of the "noble
red man" tina. I have yet witnessed oc-
Cured in tho agency Office. It is a good
ILLUSTRATION OF the manner in which the
impudent humors Of the Indians are
pampered b. the very officials whose
duty il Is to impress the savage with q
proper appreciation of his status in the
body polite. While va we're holding a
conversa;ion with Agent Love Two
Eagles. lazy.looking chief, who eyi-
IDENTIFY needed a bath. lounged into the
room aad took a chair near TO tho fire,
where he sat comfortably warming his
feet. A meAnly.c.ai "buck" handed
his pipe to the chief bu. was unable TO
furnish a light whereupon Two Elgles
turned in the coolest possible manner
aud motioned the agent to get him some
matches. While Major Love waited
upon him the chief lolIed back in the
chair with an injured air aud sccwled
because the matches came too slowly to
suit him.
eff l had my way" said Captain
Boyton Indignantly, 81 would take that
fellow by tho car and turn him out to
work for his living. This lionizing OF
men who spend one part OF their time
in numbering whites and the other part
in drawing rations from the government
ought n stop, aud the sooner the bet
tor. These savages are not half 20 valu
able TO tho community rs the negroes,
and yet they are waited upon like
princes"
Accompanied by the agent in the az
ternoon We drove ont Of the fort shout
two miles 10 a tree in which number Of
Indians, according to the custom Of their
tribe, had been buried. II was we'll
grown clm, which grew straight out Of
che ground to a height of Ave or six
feet, ct which point the trunk forked
into q dozen gnarled and twisted
branches, The peculiar black bark Of
these limbs giving them an unnatural
look. Everywhere among the yellow
leaves were perched heaps Of decaying
garments and bones. In some places
storms had torn away the gaudy funeral
paraphernalia aud whole skeletons were
exposed. All the implements which the
dead are supposed to need in the happy
hunting grounds we're placed at the side
OF The corpse, and in one branch saw
trunk which belonged 10 q skeleton
Just underneath IL So many Indians
have been placed upon the branches of
ff,tu auafafst ciYn ehaA sf Ia said n ha~a
had more vigorous growth than any
tree IN thc neighborhood in conse-
quence Of The fertilization. The ma.
iority of the bcdies deposited in the
aerial cemetery are Reese Indians, but
the Grow tribe laid three OF their braves
there, upon learning which Bjyton ir-
reverently remarked, Three crows sat
on tree" Since the establishment Of