Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-07-04
APACHES IN PRISON.
CAPTAIN JACK AND HIS MUIR
DERoUs BAND IN OHIO.
Too Noble to Work and Associate
With Common Criminals Curious
Incidents in the Life of the Saw
ages in the Columbus Penitentiary.

The Columbus (Ohio) Penitentiar,
contains many phases of humanity
making it an attractive place to visit
Last year the revenues from this sourc,
Appropriated 1875, 900. During the G.
A. r. encampment thousands of people
went there and paid twenty-five cent.
to inspect this city embraced within
walls surrounding twenty-one acres o.
land. 1t is wonderful place to study
human nature, as it embraces all classe:
who are paying the penalty for having
offended the majesty of the law of the
land. Those attracting the most atten,
ton, however, were the Indians.
Since August last the cane shop has
been the centre of attraction for visitors
to the o. P, for there worked the ten
Indians who were sent there from the
United States Courts of Arizona. The
visitor who had read Cooper's "Leath-
erstocking Tales or Mayne Reds
novels probably expected to see repre-
sentatives Of tall, graceful, fine-look-
ing race of people. If SO, he was
doomed to disappointment. The Apaches
are neither tall nor graceful. They are
low of stature, with short, squat bodies;
their bones are small, limbs slender
and not very well formed, the hands
and feet small enough to drive
any woman wild with envy. Their
compressed behind from being strap
ped to board on the mothers back
during infancy. Their hair is long,
straight, stiff and blue black. They
take most excellent care of it and feel
the utmost pride in its glossy surface.
Their eyes are deep set under shaggy
eyebrows, and are as black and spark
hing as one can imagine. In action and
carriage they are very slouchy and I'M
graceful, not even quick on the feet.
When the correspondent visited them
(the day of their departure from the
PRISON. he found them in the company
of the white prisoner who had been their
teacher during their imprisonment, and
bly, interest the readers of the Enquirer.
Their teacher said that, although he
had had experience in teaching the
Apaches at the reservation, he had never
seen any one take SO readily to the ways
of school-boy as did those who came
to this prison with Captain jack
especially so in the cases of Seth Kah
and Tzay-gin filth, the two boys sent
for manslaughter. When they entered
the prison they were unable to tell the
name of single letter, and knew but
few English words. Three months later
they could recognize Mt sight over 600
words, and could add, subtract and
multiply any figures or numbers under
fifty. In their school-room occurred
many laughable incidents. In no other
place about the prison was the uncer-
tain yet amusing side of the Indian
character SO we'll displayed. About six
weeks after the opening of the class
Captain Jack decided that it was best
for him to refuse to go to school, adj
vancing as his reason the fact that he
was an Indian Chief and should be on
an equality with the Warden. He said:
Gin guard house San Carlos, all time
school, no workum; all time workum,
no school, Corumbus Columbus no
work, good school, work, no school: me
big Chief. Hesoon learned that Indian
Chieftainship offered no reason or cause
Il
to be failure he applied to the Warden
claiming the teacher ''talked fight" and
wanted the Indian pupils to do too much
talking. He also advanced as a reason
for not going to school the fact that the
teacher was not in prison for murder,
and was too bad man to be allowed to
associate with the cattle-stealing, wom-
an-ravishing Apaches. When he discov-
cred that all these pleas were unavailing
he found another-the Friday dinner,
fish. s'Indian, no likee fish, said his
Royal Highness. ''No gittim meat, no
school,. He continued to 60 to school,
and ate fish, though without any appre-
ciable increase of brain power.
They had not been long in school be-
fore it was learned that they could sing,
and their singing proved great attrac-
ton 10 those who were fortunate enough
to be given the privilege cf visiting the
Indian school. Their favolite sotg was
called by them '"The CcTn en- Barley
Song" This song seemed to Hoog-
a-nau. Hoog-a .nau-bo' g -nitz, TIN
bangeeit hi -ha, and 50 o., az hhitum,
and droned out in a tiresome monotone
that was worrying TO the ear. The In
dams considered it good music, and if
the white visitors laughed were apt to
become angered, and TO exclaim,
"White man no likee good song"
Occasionally they sang to their Great
Spirit, AUX, and their motionings and
were almost graceful, but
certainly pleasing. On such occasions
it was their custom to stand before
some of the many pictures in the Cath
Ollie chapel aud remain in respectful
silence while Captain Jack muttered his
and then at his signal
would burst out in q shrill cry of xxi
yah, " and then continue their crossing
for nealry half an hour. At times Cap
tain Jack could be persuaded to dance,
but not often. Their dances were the
most ludicrous things imaginable, since
they consisted merely in hopping first
on one foot then on another, like a sand
hill crane. Jack was very fond of the
ladies' and very Dolife. He was ALWAYS