Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-22
A CHAT WITH LEE HALL.
What the Ex-Captaln Of the Rangers
Thinks Of Our COpper.Col.
cred Cousins.
Indians as Agrioulturisss-Ncsd OF Farm.
ing utensls-A Hint to FOR,
Worth Merchants.

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couultlon OF Parker, the Comanche chiei
VINO came so near taking passage alonu
VITA his friend Yellow Bear for tho
undiscovered country, by an unsciepti0c
method OF putting out the gas, he encoun.
tered Capt Lee Hall This geutleman's
name Is a household word In the West
Wlere his long service for the state IN
/ upholdlng law and order and suppress sing
the vicious elements Of society endeared
MIN to the people. Capt. Hall Is as cour
| teous as he Is brave, aud I'm a pleasant
colloquy chatted freely about his present
relations and the status Of the Indians,
Tor whom he was not long ago appointed
agent.
WHO HIS WARDS ARR
"What tribes are under your charge.
captain, " asked thu reporter
"Thc Wichitas, kiowas and Comauches.
in the southwestern part Of the Territory.
The Comanches are the most numerous.
aggregatlng about 1900, the Kiowas
about 100, and there are some 1900
Wichitas and allied tribes"
How large scope of territory do
their reservations embracey"
'Well, in round numbers, say, 5000
square miles, and the sun never shone on
a more beautiful and fertile region"
ihESENI AND FUTURE,
care they making any Roadway in civ.
ilization2"
al think this could be answered In the
ailirmatlvei OF course their progress is
slow, but In the short period Of my resi-
dence among them, have observed some
hopeful indications. Numbers of them
have raised enough corn and other grain
to do them, the Wichilas being
the best farmers. The two
main factors in the advancement
OF the Indians are education and agricul-
ture. As soon as they learn how to use
the hoe and plow Alright better state
of things will exist, The great need
among them now is Il good supply of i'm.
plements with which TO cultivate their
rich soil. ii these were supplied great
many of them wouldn't know how to use
them, and think the government would
do a good thing TO send instructors
among them-practical men who could
teach them to handle tools of every sort,
the uses OF harness, teams and scores of
other things about which their minds are
a bowling wilderness.n
"But the most important thing" the
captain continued, sis the education of
the children. II is 10 the rising genera
ton that we must look to sec all savage
customs and barbarc ways shaken of,
and this can only be effected 10y teaching
them book-lcarning aud TO talk English.
The outlook is hopeful ia this re.
| spect At Anadnrko, my headquarl-
ers, there are two industrial schools In
successful operation, with over 200 boys
and girls In attendance. The boys are
taught farming, and the girls are instruct
ed IN sewing, cooking, washing and do
nestle duties generally"
"Do the indians like TO have their chill
dren attend these schools2n
"They don't object TO sending them 60
the home institutions, but look on the
. distant Eastern schools with disfayor, as
some Of the youth who went there con.
- tTaCted disease"
D SHALL THE PALE FACE COME IMP
z Capt. Hall was somewhat reluctant
TO give his views on the best method OF
= solving the so-called 'Indian prohiem.n
al think that Secretary Lamar was about
Z right" he said, Sin advocating the plan
Q of throwing each Indian on his own in.
t dividualty, so to speak, and the abolition
: OF the tribal system"
"Would the Indians generally be In IA
. yor of having their lands open to settle.
ment, so as TO allow the whites TO come
among them2n
"Those with whom have talked eX'
press II contrary opinion, They seem to
want the government 10 adhere TO the
agreement by which they and their chill,
dren were TO nave inc Iahu as lonE az
= grass grows ana water runs les,
think the sentiment OF eAelusNehesS If
, almost universal, thougn, WIN inc marcn
OF Tune ana sottenlng ui manners, uouDt'
= less change Welcome about
\ GOOD WORD FOR riE CpM4NchEs'
! 'Nmch Is the leading tfloe IN my al
yisionF The Commences, by long odds
{ am aware that great pralu'lce eAlsH