The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-10-23
Life ON tne Indian reservation.

other, means for at least daily intercourse
with the rest of the world?
Life on the Indian Reservation.
We are permitted to make the following
extracts from letters rece lived by Mayor
c. H. Richman from his daughter, Mrs.
DR.. G. W. H. Fitch, who has recently
become a resident of Keshena, Wisconsin,
feeling sure that it will interest the gener-
al reader as well as Mrs. Fitch's many
friends here:
Since arriving here we have been very
busy until now furnishing and fixing
things about our cozy little home. We
have nearly everything done now and there
isn't another as nice a home Oh the reser-
walton as ours. 1t is painted nicely in two
colors OF lead and papered throughout the
interior. The DR.. has bis sign on the win
dow and everything looks nice. We are
getting along splendidly and if you cou.d
see US eat you wonld think we enjoyed GU
meals.
Friday we took a lunch and went over
to Keshena Lake a half mile away TO fish.
We had the priests boat and a nice one it
Is. We had to fish near the shore as the
chain to the anchor is too short to anchor
far out. IL a few minutes we had caught
two bass and two sun fish that weighed
a pound apiece. | took the stomach of zone
of them and baited my hook, then threw
1t OIL and laid down the rod while I took
a fish off the Dr.'s hook that he bad just
landed beside me. While doing so some
thing began to go away with my line. |
caught the rod however but my hook was
gone. l put on another hook and threw it
out and in a moment had another bite. |
attempted to pull in the fish and TO my
surprise l thought l had a whale. What
a time l had to get the fish into the boat.
/ became SO excited and SO afraid it would
get away, but | got 1t in at last and it took
four strokes Of the Ratchet to quiet it. 1t
was a large pickerel. The DR.. took it to
the store when we arrived home and had
it weighed and it weighed six pounds and
measured three feet in length. How l
wish you could be here to enjoy the fishing
and hunting. There are lots of quail,
prairie chickens and larger game, four
bears having been killed recently.
Mr.. and Mr.. Hank from the Stockbridge
settlement and the matron of the govern
ment school over there, called on us Fri
day. Mr.. Hank is the Presbyterian pastor
at the Mission Church at Stockbridge.
They are a bride and groom also. Mr..
Halter and Miss Hendrickson called also on
Saturday, SO / have several calls to return.
| returned Mr.. and Mrs. Hanks on Sun
day and very unexpectedly. Sunday
morning an Indian came for DR.. to go to
Stockbridge to attend to a man that had
been butchered in aight the night before. |
went over with him. We took the Indians
team, a big wagon and two little ponies.
We sat on the front seat way up high and
one drove and the other whipped. Ii is
seven miles over there and part Of the
way is over a corduroy road made of logs.
We were all over the seat with hats off
part of the time. The drive over W as sure
ly a picnic. We drove up to the hut and
went in. The wounded man laid on a cot
in the corner. There were a dozen squaws
and rs many DUCKS" as they call them
out here, in the hut. | never saw such a
sight. The man had one eye cut open,
his mouth cut to his ear. his stomach cut
open, and had twelve cuts on his back.
The DR.. took off his coat and went to
work. / threaded needles while the DR..
sewed. The mans flesh was SO swollen
it took the DR.. four hours to dress his
wounds. The man bore it patiently and
never groaned. Mr.. Hank came in and in
sisted on our going over and having some
dinner before going home. So he and |
drove over and the DR.. walked. They
board with an Indian family but everything
was very nice. Mrs. Hank was so glad l
oame over. They are the only whites on
that settlement. The man that did the cut
ting stabbed four others the same night.
He has been the terror of the neighbor-
hood. They are after him. and, if caught,
they will lynch him. We arrived homo
about dusk.
We are going over to Oconto soon for 8
DAYS hunting and fishing. An indian has
given us an invitation and will entertain
us over night. / want to shoot bear so
bad.
The DR.. and | spend about an hour a day
getting in a supply of wood for winter.
He saws and | split it. and we have lots of
fun over it. Then we take a stroll over the
hills. / like this country very much and
have not been homesick yet.