Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22
AMONG THE INDIANS.
Descendants of the Cliff DWellers as
AgricuIturists.
A TRIBE OF RELIGIOUS Red MEN
Who Would Not Allow Business to Inter.
fsre With Duty.
GOOD WORK OF THE INDIAN SCHOOLS
IcOEzzsrOzDEEcz OF THE DrspArcu.l

CORRESPONDENCE OF TIE DIsPArcHI
RED ROCK, OToE AGENCY, IND. T.. De-
cember 14-General Armstrong, United
States Indian Inspector, has been with as.
He has been an Indian Inspector for five
| years. His term of Office expires in Nav,
He has visited every Government and mis-
sion school in the United States, and his
views concerning the Indians are practical.
He takes a practical view of everything.
He is neither fanatic nor seoffer. He
told the Chilocco superintendent, who is q
Methodist minister, that they had too many
Bibles there and not enough soap.
He has visited the Moquy Indians who
live in Arizona. They are q peculiar tribe.
In form and features they are superior to the
Indians of this Territory. The women are
really handsome, resembling the beautiful
Spanish women of Mexico. The single
women are distinguished from the married
by the way they wear their hair. The
raising Of their crops is q proof of the
homely old maxim of ''Where there is a
will, there is way" The soil is too sandy
to pillow, 50 they take sticks and reach away
down below the sand until they come to the
moist earth, thrust in their grains of corn
and in the harvest time reap a fair crop.
The Moquy Indians are descendants of the
ancient elif dwellers. They, too, build
their houses away up on the rocky cliffs and
pop in and out Of their eyries like the storm
birds we read about.
The General also told of tribe of Indians
he visited who are renowned for their piety,
They are devout Catholics, and have taken
a French name which means "pierced
heart" The Jesuits were the first mission
aries that visited them. To simplify the
suffering and death Of Christ, His sorrow for
the human race, they showed them the pict-
ure of two hearts pierced. When be was
among them to arrange with them to give
the right Of way through their country for a
great railway corporation, in the midst
OF railroad magnates, expert lawyers and
Government officials, and perplexed with
an important interest to settle they did not
forget their religion. The General relates
graphically how they were all seated around
the council fire when the bell at the mission
rang. In the midst of business of vast i'm
Portance to them and their white brothers,
the chief rose modestly, and through the in
terpreter, said that they were accustomed
whenever within sound of that bell to
KNEEL FOR PRAYERS.
They begged to be excused for few min
utes. And right there, before their worldly
audience, they knelt deYoutly and prayed,
The effect was electrical. It has left its i'm
press upon the General, for with a voice
tremulous with emotion and a tear glisten-
ing in his eye, he told his story. It had
practical effect upon the others. "Sueh
people as these can be trusted, !" they said.
The right of way was secured, and the
privilege given to each member of the
tribe to ride free on the road whenever they
wished.
The Genoa Indian school, in Nebraska. il
highly spoken of. There are IT'S Indian
boys and girls there. The majority are
Sioux and Winnebagos. There are some
Arapahoes also. The Indian children make
all their own clothing, the Government fur
nishing the material. The wedding suit Of
one of the employees was made at the school
by an Indian boy. They raise broom corn
and make brooms, small whisk brooms and
large ones. General Armstrong told one
of the broom makers that he was very
dusty, and would like to have a whisk
broom. The boy said they had none made.
The General said: "Well, I'll wait until
you make one" In 20 minutes he was pre-
sented with nice, neat, well-made broom
that costs 25 cents in the stores. They
make them at the school and sell them,
They cost the school about cents each.
They have plueky Indian boys at that
school, and q sharp, practical superinten-
dent. Two large boys ran off to see the
world. After they had seen enough they
wrote to the Superintendent that if he would
send them some money they would come
back. He answered and said: Don't care
whether you come back or not, we haven't
any money for that purpose, and guess we
don't need you" But they were anxious to
get back, hired out to some farmers, earned
enough to pay their fare on the railroad,
and one bright morning walked into the
school, wiser and better boys.
The Genoa school has done well. They
have raised on 222 acres of land 5000 bush
els of corn, LOO bushels of potatoes, 1,275
bushels of oats, 800 bushels of onions, $500
heads of cabbage, 200 OF which was made
into sourkrout, 800 bushels Of tomatoes, 80
tons of hay, 20 acres of broom corn and 10
acres OF sugar cane, which yielded 70 gallons
of molasses.
A JOKE ON THE BRAVES.
At the San Carlos agency in Arizona the
war-like Apaches are being civilized at the
point Of the bayonet. In that dry country
irrigation is necessary, and to bring the
water from the mountain streams they are
digging bitches, and the Apaches are doing
the work, packing" the dirt away in huge
baskets strapped on their backs. One morn
ing theY told the soldiers that the souaUs