, 1886-06-20
BUSINESS ID
The Money Making Arapahocs--Beaver
Heart and Baldhead His Son.


boys, whom he was taking to the Indian
school of trades at the Santee agency,
Niobrara, Neb. This is an Indian school
established by the government fer the in
struction of Indian boys in the mysteries
of all the various trades. The pupil must
know how to read and write, and bear a
good character for steadiness and industry
The school is open to all of the tribes, and
the choice of a trade is optional with the
pupil.
The names of the Arapahoe boys who
are en- route for the school under the care
of DR.. Olmstead, are Grover Cleveland,
David Livingstone, Ned Wanstall and
Tom Baldbead. They are bright. intelli
gent lads, and the doctor says, are fair
specimens of the average Arapahoe boy.
David Livingstone especially displayed
the marks of a keen and intelligent mind.
Tom Bal head, six months ago., was run
ming wild over the mountains and prai-
ries of the reservation. Now he reads
without hesitation in the second reader
and is a hattering instance OF the natural
Arapahoe intelligence, and the thorough
and systematic course OF instruction pur
sued in the schools of the Shoshone and
Arapahoo agencies.
The average age of these boys is Is
years, and they have already selected their
trades, One is to be a blacksmith, another
a carpenter, a third a shoemaker, and the
fourth a sa,ldlcr. Dir. Olmstead says
there is a decided tendency among the
growing boys of the Arapahoe tribe to
Adopt the customs, manners and general
mode of life of the white race. The school
at Santee is well filed with Indian pupils.
and the artisans thus educated will be OF
the greatest possible service to the gov
erument. There is always a call for good
workmen at the various agencies, and the
Santee graduates will, without difficulty,
find positions among their own people,
and will be an important link in the chain
Of mutual self support the government is
striving to establish among the tribes.
The march of time, and its accompany
ing contact with the white race, has
wrought a wondrous change in Indian
habits and traditionary characteristics.
The grandsire Of Tom Baldhead, the
pupil now on his way TO learn a white
mans trade, and fit himself for an hon
orable position in the liic OF civilization,
was Bears Heart, one Of the mort active,
datory Arapahoe chieftains of his blood
stained times. Sweeping the frontiers
with the torch in one hand and the scalp
ing knife in the other, his name paled
even the cheek of the hardest ranchman,
and brought an agony of terror
to the heart of the wife and
mother. He roamed from the
Arkansas river to the Rocky mountains,
and dyed alike with blood the waters Of
the one and the SHOWS of the other.
The savage massacre of the Graham
family, on the Arkansas river, in an early
day, one of the many ferocious exploits of
Bears Hear, is still wildly recalled, and
the fate of pretty Minnie Graham, the
sole survivor of the butchery, is still a
mystery in frontier annals. The family,
consisting of the father, the mother and
half a dozen children, was attacked by
the band of Bears Heart. The savage
whirlwind and its bloody work was soon
over. Half of the family fell at the first
onset. The bodies of the slain and the
living Of the family, with the excep-
ton of Minnie, a child of 5 years, were
bound to the wheels of the wagons with
chains, and the wagons set on fire. Soon
all was ashes, and bearing with him the
niue nlnhie' WHOSE sweet plue eyes anu
baby ways had touched even his savage
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