Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-26
THE NEW INDIAN WAR
Latest News Indicates That Hostili-
ties Are Inevitable.
CAVALRY TROOPS IN THE FIELD.
The Moquis Are o Strange Band, Unused
To Contact With Whites.
INDIANS DON'T WANT OUR EDUCATION

WASHINGTON June 25-Commissioner Nor
gan, of the Indian Bureau has received o
telegram from Superintendent Collins, of the
Moqui Pueblo Indian School at Keanrs Canon,
in Arizona, in which he states that the In
dians threatened to kill the whites and
forcibly take their children from the school,
and asks that military reinforcements be
sent to the school The Commissioner re-
ferred the telegram to the War Department,
with a recommendation that reinforcements
be forwarded and the ringleaders in the
present trouble be arrested and held pend
ing the settlement of the difficulty.
1t is said that there are 1o4 pupils in the
school, which is under the supervision Of
one of the most efficient teachers in the
service. Commissioner Morgan and General
McCook visited the Moquis last fall and di-
rected the superintendent to gather into the
schools all the Indian children he could find
of school age. The present difficulties, it is
said, have grown out of the fact that the
indlans are opposed to sending their chill
dren to school.
Tribe of Savage Hermits.
Mr.. Morgan, in speaking further of the
and rocky ridges running parallel with each
other and at right angles with the Atlantic
and Pacific Railroad, about 75 miles north of
49,
Canon. They are always in great fear of the
Navajos who, it is said, often despoil them
of their small crops and in other ways make
life burden to them.
From fear of the Navajos they built their
small adobe and dirt cabins among the bar
rem rocks, and there they have lived prob
ably for ages. The squaws carry their wood
and water from the valleys far below their
villages, and their small crops are, in many
cases, grown far from their cabins. They
rarely see white man and know absolutely
nothing of the outside world never having
left their own rocky hills. They are strongly
prejudiced against schools and the white
mans ways, and no doubt will stoutly resist
any further attempt to bring their children
within enl1ghtening influences.
Three Troops of Cavalry Out.
A dispatch from Las Vegas, N. NJ, says:
Further advices received from Ft. Wingate,
800 miles west, today are to the effect that
the trouble on the Navajo reservation seems
to be increasing. Lieutenant L. NJ. Brett,
who was sent with detachment of troops
to Kean's Canon, near Fort Defiance, to sup
press the depreciation of hostiles,
dispatched courier to the com.
mander of I'D" troop, on the Zuni
reservation for him to come to his aid as
speedily as possible. A courier has also ar
rived at FIT. Wingate with a special request
for another troop of cavalry, or all the
cavalry available, as the hostiles are threat
eniDg war.
H Troop, Second Cavalry, under command
of Captain Robinson, has left for Ft. Wingate
and will make the march. This makes three
troops of cavalry now in the field, and the
infantry companies are now holding them
selves in readiness to be called out. The
trouble among the Indians may mean another
Navajo war.