Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-01-28

On last Thursday and Friday the second |
semi i-annual grass lease payment of $4,000 |
was MADE TO the klowas and Comanches at |
their Agency forty miles south of here This |
grass lease was made one year ago by Texas |
stockmen for II portion of that reservation at
tour cents per acre, giving the Indians n cash
revenue of $64 600 annually, which is n hand
some thing for those tribes.
One of the most pleasant socials of the kind
of the season was the card party given ON
Thursday evening by Mrs Chas f. Campbell
at her residence on Arapahoe Park Avenue
Only few of her Agency friends were pres
cnt and the evening was spent in social
games of cuchre. Mrs Campbell has natural
pleasing faculties for entertaining, and her
late party adds fresh laurels to the reputation
of this accomplished lady.
Two freighters with their wagons loaded
with flour and oats. broke through the ice in
the river, badly damaging their goods Both
parties had TO plunge into the icy water to
fish nut their goods, their wagons having
turned over, thus throwing out their contents.
This could not have been pleasant matter,
although it is not an unusual sight TO see In.
dian wading the river in mid-winter; not
merely for pass.time, however.
Capt. j. NJ. Lee, of the 9th infantry, Indian
Agent at the Cheyenne q Arapahoe Agency,
has inaugurated a much needed plan TO colo.
nize and give special direction and encour-
agement, agriculturally and otherwise, to the
! youth of that Agency who pass worthllY
! through the schools. Morning star. Carlisle
Correct; Capt. Lee has practical view on
| the subject, and if he receives proper back
| ing he will be the means of reVolutionizing
| the Indian question at this place.
! Prof Noble read before the Ara pahoe school
! at chapel exercises letter which he rece1V-
| ed from Kizer, an Arapahoe boy now at Has.
| kell Institute Both in penmanshipnnd com
position ii was about the best written Indian
| letter that has been brought TO our notice
He has been away only few months, prior
to which he was pupil in Miss Lammonds g
! room. Kizer is above the average Indian
student intellectually. Besides his advance
ment in his studies, he has Il fair knowledge
of music and has committed the GOSpe
| Hymns, which he performs on the organ
This he acquired while pupil of the Arapa
hoe school. Honor u whom honor is due.
Among the industrious Indians OF these
tribes probably the most active is Big DOd
he who is ever on the alert with his weather
eye open for a job of any sort He is avail
able at all times, and earns no less than =.
each day cutting wood and doing other worb
for the different families of the Agency. Gu
eXpen G accOut shows that for wood cutting
and flee rolf $40 have been paid to thi
Indian laborer in the past i've months by tho
hard working Indian and he should be en-
couraged by everyone having little JOBS TO let
III. G. Mann received from Kansas twenty
months old thoroughbred Jersey heiter. She
; is solid squirrel grey color with black point j
/ and to an admiTer Of Jerseys is daisy. Th'
heiter came from the celebrated Jersey hcr'
of Heath Holden, of Charlottesville, Ind, /
a granddaughter Of an imported COW ana wa
purchased for Mr. Mann by Col MurdoCk, @
the Wichita Eagle, who not only knows hov
to run a trst-class daily, but whose judgmen
"a on fine stock of any kind Is to be relied upon
\ Mr. Mann gave the cow to his wife for
! Christmas present, and now the boys are JOb
king him about his "ArSansaW yearling" tina
cost 500.