The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1891-01-03
THEY WERE STARVING
Father Crafts Enters an Eloquent Appeal
for Justice for The Indians.
TOO MANY POLITICIANS
Yesterdays News From the Seat OF
the Indian War-A Fierce Battle
Expected-Burlal OF the
Dead Soldiers.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-The New York
Freeman'S Journal will publish tomorrow
letter from Father Crafts, the Catholic
Indian missionary who was probably
fatally stabbed in Mondays battle.
Father Crafts says in the beginning the
Indians hoped for much aid from the
government TO enable them TO become
like whites. They were, however. in
every way abused, Knocked and dis
couraged. Instead Of being the wards
they have felt they were the victims of
INSCRIPTIONS politicians who benefited
by their misery.
Father Crafts adds: II know what
say for | have shared their suffer
ings for many years. In their despair,
General Crook brought them hope, Their
confidence in him led them TO hope he
would be able to realize their hopes. His
death was their death blow. and they felt
1t. The Indians are not fools, but men
of keen intelligence. The reduction in
the rations increased their fears. Even
the Indian agents protested against this
cruelty.
"Mr. Lee, who took the census, made
grave mistakes, counted less than the
real numbers and made false reports
Of prosperity that did not exist. II is not
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