The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1881-07-30
PUrALLUP ITEMS.
roR THE rSTELLIGEHcER. /

PUYALLUP. W. T., Jaly %, 1881.
Some Of the crops need rain pretty
badly. Hsying is In full blast bay /.
being held st % per ton In he fsld-.
bot not much will be sold at that
bgurs. II 10 held thus high in antici.
patton Of railroad building.
The hop crop 10 not going 10 be a.
heavy ~ was st first anticipated. The
dry weather 10 affecting II unfavorsbly
on light soils.
Hop buyers are in the valley Offering
10 cents for the coming crop. Quite .
lot hes been contracted for ss that
price. and X Meeker has bought o, ,er
10000 poonds for parties In San Fran :
cisco st l2A ceDts.
Hop buildings are bring renovated
and new ones bniit for the coming bar
vest. The acreage 10 greatly increased
over lest year. Whsthss more hops
viii - tasnsd Of os pot remains 20 be
seso. Many think u doubtfnl.
A festival was held at the Sumner
school house the other night, for the
benefit Of the Methodist Church, from
which some twenty-five or thirty dol
lars was realized.
Mr. Miller. the Msthodist minister,
has presched his farewell sermon to
the valley people.
Everybody has got over his Fourth
and gone 10 work again. Puyallup
Valley held her own this year, 90 usual
In the oelsbrs,ing business.
II 10 rumosed that the stave factory
will shut down shortly.
Willis Boatmsn has brough, into the
valley thoroughbred Jersey bull and
hsifer OF the same breed, which were
exhibited at the late Oregon State
Fair. and there bought BY him at .
good round price.
Miss Eta Bonney has been engaged
TO teach school at Porter's Prairie. in
King county.
The Indians appear TO be very much
dissatisfied with the way things are
managed on the Puysllup Resersa-
.tioo. They seem to have =. ms sane
timonious, broken down devil Of Q
preacher for doctor. who knows just
enough about medicine to let his pa
tients die. He seems TO have charge of
the school also. and God only knows
bow many more things. The Indians
claim that their children are forcibly
taken and kept under his charge away
from their parents. until they pine
themselves sick. and then will not give
proper attention himself nor allow
their parents to do so. The Indians
claim that twenty OF their children
have thus pined themselves into their
graves in the last year and half. In
most cases the poor things are allowed
to return to their parents just IN time
TO die. seemingly to mislesd public
opinion and to shift the responsibility
TO other shoulders. The Indians say
that after the dying children are re
turned to their hom.s the doctor never
again comes near them, no matter how
much the grief stricken parents may
impertune. don't know whether
these charges ere true or not; only
give the Indians story. and don't pre-
tend to vouch for its truth. But one
thing 10 certain, the Indians think
they are thirdly abused. and certainly
are II half what they tell Of their
treatment In true. At any rate II
would be well for the Superintendent
of Indian Affairs to do little quiet To-
vestigation on his own account. else
somebody IL liable TO sup sorrow and
lose his oflicial head ere loag. II q
remedy for the ills complained Of can
not bs found here. steps will be taken
10 lay the mstter before the suthori'
ties at Washington. And there Gre
white people enough who will aid The
Indians 10 their praiseworthy efforts te
make things pretty hot for somebody,