The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-22

then decided to leave the reservation. and so
lost 1t He went where no one lived and built
and cleared land, and got good start, and a
white man came and saw how nice he had made
1t and entered the land. Indians cannot
enter land. He wanted land of his
own, and for q wonder. he cot it
Senator Stanford gave him 160 acres
Where cattle range, land must be fenced. Lum-
Der Is very high. as tt comes from distance.
MISS Peabody sent him 5000 to fence it. Water
comes next Nevada is a desert without irriga-
ton. BY agreeing to pay them out of his crop,
Natchy furnished thirteen men, Indians and
himself, one month to work on the dam and
bitches TO pay for his water, but gets no paper to
show how long Eastern people help him to
wagon plow, spade, hoe and ak. lie already has
horses, and he gets in sixty-eight acres OF nice
wheat AS the wheat grows and tempts the cat
tie, the water-power people tell him he must
leave the gate open so they can get to their
bitches, some of which they put on his land with
out permission. The white men on each side OF
him have gates, and keep them shut, although
their land is used only for grazing. 60
anything about it, and the gate
is put mp, and the old uncle who has camped by
1t to keep out the cows and save the wheat can
do something else. The wheat gets ripe; he can
hire machine to cut it at 81 rs per acre, cash.
tie has no cash; he must hire Indian women at
SO per acre, and pay in wheat
The next time go to town am told that the
water company have decided not to let Natchy
lazy they don't want them around" and for IL
lustraton, point to that old man who sat all day
by the hole in Natchy's fence tried to ex-
plain; but it is not permitted to explain things
here. AT all the railway stations along the road
one sees Indians sitting on the shady side of the
house or walking along the track, sometimes
begging. / think they lazy and not good
element iE our national life
/ talked with one of them of the loafng
and card paying that is so common.
She admitted and regretted it, and add
ed, Let me disguise you as an Indian
and go the reservation where all these Indians
have been trained. Stay few weeks as an In
dian, and learn to enjoy work as we have to do
it, and see if you think our young men can see
any good in it or have any motive for doing It'll"
"You know children-see what you think the
same training would do for white child"
II CO. you shall have the benefit of my ex-
perence. @
They tell me here that Indians are very fond
of whisky. / think Indians do drink when they
can get 1t, most Of them, and behave badly when
drunk. They tell me, also, that there Is not
white man In town who does not drink-not one.
There is not store or place of business that
does not keepit. Even the postoffice has its
shelves of bottles. and when I went into a store
for some ool-books the woman behind the
counter offered me drink over the bargain.
Aside from two dwelling houses, there Is not
house in town that does not
keep liquor for sale. stopped at what is called
the best hotel over Sunday. and they had in this
mousse Sucn q drunken caTOuSal al Gay OuuuHy
and Sunday night, as gave me full particulars of
the next world In my room, with my door
locked and window curtains down, could have
directed my letter from Lovelocks from the
place bearing the worst reputation The differ
ence seemed to be that there people seemed to
have no remorse or shame, that which makes
the other place belong to God. Ibid not see any
Indians drunk though there were good many on
the streets watching the white people. There is
law here against selling or, / think, giving
liquor to Indians How rigidly it is enforced l
do not know. Probably 1t makes drink cost an
Indian three times rs much as white man. l
have seen no Indians drinking and but one
drunk. have seen white men and women In
all stages. And ! think children brought
up here will be able to give satan a
good many points when they get to
him. Among the Indians though l had left my
things around with my usual carelessness, moth
ing was taken; bat at the hotel my pocket-book
wss stolen from my room when went down for
the mail. | have heard much of the ad
vantage to Indians of intercourse with white
people to lift them out Of savagery that wish
to remember all the advantages they possess in
living around Lovelocks.
have found the Indians-Piute tribe-quiet,
gentle, inoffensive people. very tiniid, expecting
trouble-runping away from it-not understand
ing English very well, easily cheated, sometimes
thinking themselves cheated when they are not
Their skins and hair seem clean--conspicuously
so. Their clothes are often soiled, but some
times they look very fine Their huts are made
by placing willows in the ground close together
and binding in. Now they have no tops, but IN
winter they must put blankets over, suppose,
Sometimes they rest a roof of tulu, kind of
reed. on four posts six or seven feet high. They
weave baskets, and baby baskets to carry on
their backs. They seem to greatly enjoy com
ing to school; like the music, marching, singing,
writing and drawing best but work as hard as ]
ever saw children to learn to read and spell. and
something of arithmetic; initiate exactly form
ally everything but don't talk readily-are slow
"a i1ga wor de hay + hin do ic
now, they would do better as mechanics than
farmers especially as it is the rule to pay an In
dian half what the same labor would be for a
white man.
The people of Nevada say they wish there was
not an Indian in the county; but they employ
them and are glad to get their help as laborers
call them good workers-and pay them half
price. l wish could afford to take some of the
Indian children and educate them in my own
way and see-but not in Lovelocks.
A Trip to Cottonwood Cobalt and It's Mans
ufacture-Glories of the AIkali Plains.
I've assisted at weddings. and now I've "as-
sisted" at birth. Towns in the Mississippi val
ley used to be born on paper down East. In
Nevada a man stakes out claim a mountain
side, digs into it somewhat one. or two. or three
holes; has specimens and assayers' reports or
hand, and is all ready to SELL Other people
glance that way once in a while. After month,
or twenty years, the claim is sold at least we
will suppose it is. A company is formed, more
holes dug, some ore shipped. All who own it
talk about it good DEAL other people look over
there occasionally. It is said that considerable
money is made there. Cinnamon are employed
shaft is sunk. Cinnamon build them
huts. A saloon is opened. Work languishes
stops. Cinnamon disappear. Saloon man
says he goes for new supply and don't come back
The company bought it to sell and are waiting
for bite Finally there comes a rustic in the
air A company in England talk of buying the
mine to work; not for speculation The agent
comes; the assayer comes; the surveyor comes;
the bargain is made. Virginia City il dying. A
man goes there and buys a house cheap it is
taken down, carried 200 miles by rail- fifty in
wagons and set up at the mines with s'Hotel'