Evening journal., 1897-07-12
AMONG REAL INDIANS.
Redskins of To-day Bleeding
the Government
DELAwAREAN INsPEoTs CAMP

FACTS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN, I
OBTAINS A CONsERVAT1VEOP OPIN-
ION OF THE SOLUTION OF THE
INDIAN QUESTION.
Seattle. Wash, July 5,-"Where will I
the great Northern express stop to- {
morrow asked an Evening Journal
representative travelling across the con- ,
tinent and traversing Northern Mon
tana, Friday night
"On the Sioux reservation. was the
prompt reply.
Among real chattering lndians?'
''Wait and see You'll grab your re-
volver AT the first glance at them
Next morning, sure enough, the ex-
press pulled into Kalispel, where the
Delaware pilgrim got his first face-to-
face look at real wild Indians. 1t is lots
of sport to guy them when a corporals
guard of them visit Front and Union
streets with a show. but when you stand
on their land. not able to understand a
word much less the look on their
frightful faces, it is no joke.
HELD UP" BY THE ENEMY.
The reporter thought his time had
come when one big buck dragged up
to him and pushed out an ugly up
turned hand that certainly meant:
Deliver up, get em up and gag your
SELF or I'll peal off your scalp in war
whoop."
Enough top hair went straight up on
end to have formed a fine hand-hOld for
a the Indian in his scalping process, and
a the reporters heart beat like the Amer
i ican Volunteers bass drum. In mo-
/ ment the Montana man, who keeps the
water tank at which the train had ssop-
d ped, came up. but hardly TOO soon to
y save a collapse.
p "He only wants a cigarette, sir" the
II tank man said. "They think every
young fellow from the East is loaded
down with them. II you haven't any
shake your head
le The reporter shook his cOcOanut hard
l. enough to knock out two sets Of false
n teeth and the buck dragged away
"a AN INCORRECT IMPRESSION
n 1t has always been represented to me
~ that the Indians, first, were dying of
A and fast becoming extinct; second, that
n they were being crowded of The earth
s. third, that they were generally badly
av treated. This is a most incorrect i'm
ev preston, and if anybody believes it fol
an a moment. they had better consult SOM
ne influential men of the Western frontier
k These are the hard facts: There ar
ch more Indians to-day than ever; the.
have more land than they will ever b
able to walk aver; they cost the Unite
States government more than $4,000
nc year apiece for the entire 100000 bucks
on squaws and pappooses.
Of RECEIVER BURTON'S SOLUTION.
icy hunted up Receiver of Publ
/ - of
an eleven years of experience in Helen
10 taught him something about these hu
ns man beings.
g. "Mr. Burton" l asked. what is tn
ma United States government to do abot
I9 the Indian question? Are these heathe
polygamists not multiplying rapidly
80 this state?"
AN In my opinion it is a most serioI
io5 question. And yet il can be solved ei
tirely in twenty-five years. | submit
., ted TO the Interior Department what,
10 nv opinion, is the only solution, and
is easy.
Like other heather, the Indians ca
tne nothing for their young squaws INT
mic think the world Of the young bucks, b
lnu will sell any squaw IN their wigwam
Va the dir.iest white man FOR com, I
Isle bacco or whisky If the Indian gin
illy, in this way. they are horribly neglect
. and must eat dog meat while the
'uu- brothers feast on Montana beef. MS
me. riage is simply taking the girl to u
gree with YOU. or running the gauntlet !
as many of them as the young bu
\, wants.
BUY THE YOUNG SQUAWS.
rket Now my plan as submitted to Was
2.30 ington was this: Let the government
Washington send out regular agents
- buy up all the young squaws as tast
the old sauaws will sell them for q
- of tobacco Then let one Sunday sch
July in the East or West take charge OF
'eek. eirl draw her rations from the g
1lles n5ssS, ernment IL necessary, educate her
ct to possible and bring her up IN
straight and narrow way
Then you have your indian quest
settled.
y;ex- because the young bucks, who are
w ier than pigs. could get no whlte
- colored wives. They would begin
,ro,.e wie look around. push the dirt out OF II
filing ears efear sthefr horses and houses
dasy{I, as{ learn something.
"Until we do that, the lndRns
---- remain as they are-hlthy, lmmo
lazy and ferOciOuS, cOhsOdht oAPe
ON our government and absolutely
good"
NOT DANGEROUS TO SETTLEF
SSaa, NsI Upon investigation the reporter le.
ed that the settlers are not afraid
the Indians, and the latter will
raise their hands against the settl
Regular soldiers. however, are nj
things to the Indians and they
sneak around in ambush to this
ID S1 when United States troops appro
The reason for this is that they dis
the troops and are not afraid OF u
lot TOT because the soldiers always shoot
pect their heads. That seems to be ST.
ing rule of the army-never to XII
, SIN Indian If it can take him prisoner
YOU On the contrary. the settler when
1u're saulted or alarmed by a redskin, sir
make up gun and shoots him, and that b
there is to it, All the white settler
xtrotfld then sian