Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-02-08
THE MESCALERO APACHES
Progress Among the Apaches-Newsy
Notes from the Mescalero
Reservation.
Adopts In MANUFACTURE OF BLANKETS
Hardworking Indians Who Are Be-
coming Self-Sustaining-Lieut.
Stortlers Excellent Work.

coming Selt-SuStalnlng-Ll
Stortler's Excellent Work.
Special Correspondence of the New Mexican
Mescalero, N. NJ, Feb. 5.-A gooo
many Of the male Indians are busy filling
a contract for wood for agency use fol
which they receive $3.50 per cord. The
contract is for 100 cords and thus is the
Mescalero learning to work for self sup
port.
About three months ago Lieut.. Stot
Ter, the rustling and efficient agent, Sc
cured twenty-five Navajos, among
them some skilled blanket weavers, TO,
the purpose of teaching the Mescalerot
the art of weaving the celebrated Navajo
blankets. The industry is now in full
blast and the Mescalero women are TAX
ing to blanket weaving naturally, and are
making much progress with the assist
ance of these skilled teachers. With the
wool they had saved and other wool.they
had purchased they have already made
quite number of pretty blankets. They
are learning carding, spinning and weav-
ing very rapidly and once good blanket
makers and with the sheep now being is-
sued to them by the government, they
should have hereafter plenty of mutton
wool and blankets to sell. Eleven hun
dred sheep were distributed among
them on January 20 and Lieut.. Stottler
believes that the experiment in sheep
| oipcr t1rp ONT nn11
Mr.. Frank I. Otis, chief clerk at the
agency, and family have gone on visit
TO San Diego for thirty days, and JIM
Rowland, industrial teacher, has gone to
Kansas on leave for the same perioo.
Mrs. Mary H. White, matron, has been
transferred to the Indian school at the
Omaha and Winnebago agency, Nebraska,
the transfer to take effect February 20.
Miss Charlotte Brehant, assistant ma
tron at the Albuquerque Indian school,
has been promoted and transferred to the
Mescalero Indian school as matron, vice
Mrs. White.
| The attendance at the school out of a
total number of children OF school age
of 1O4, is SO. The children are doing
well, there is no sickness among them
and they are learning very rapidly.
IveIy cniiu how az sohooi unaels'ahoS
tne Engi'sn language
Inc Ahree niVer luoians are very ousy'
nauling renee wire ana lenclng Ia
more ianc. Iney nave pun IN an increased
area of winter wheat this season.
Work is progressing rapidly and salts
factorily on the new Indian cabins in
course @ erecelon ana .ho puzA ol .he
saw, tue merry ting or she axe ana .,ie
piow oi ehe hain,her ale hearo ~ .no
iano' enese utensils pe'hR usea oy MICS
caiero Apacnes' =,
Inc Mescaieros are aoahuonihs 'ie o'u
| custom OF COOKING owe! open nres anu are W
using tne cooK sooVes issuHa W .liena ny
tne onieea o1a'es. lney o.. wans 1.o'es -
anu new inyoice ~ e.peo'eu uaiy a'
sne agency, anu !nelr WISHES ~ili oe sa.ls. aus
neo. oaPeain Miiler, oiliei =, poi;oe' WIN
o,aln owneo oy AnulanS anu oilsvn oy
lnaians' Is no. On rou'e rl rlom Las oruces
WIN loS OF 'reignO. Ine inaians u.'9 ais
Palo oy tne gosernmen' r rol haun9s anu ~
10 ~ sa'islac'o.iiy. hhey ie1eise 20
Genus PEI nunarea pouhos lron, LAS oru'
ces 10 Mescaiero' oiseanoe VI ~ niiee'
Dr. Luttreii, agency Pnysio'an' has oeen
apPolnted postmaster az inc agency Vioe
JUS res1gneo.
MISS uioson' VINO nas oeen AZ ouaiK1 VI
the cookinR department az .ne son9oi, nus
resigned ana gone 10 her nouns III hansas'
Two lndian girls, one Iima ana she
otner a Mescalero, are ~ onaree Oh 1he
Kltchen' are giving ssolsiac'loa as cooh'
ana are teachlng 0ne inolan glels Aner'-
/
Large amounts OF veGetaoies were Iais- Ia
90 iaso season oy .he Inu.ans !ul ;a5 anu ,ney ~
nave Pien1y 10 ea' 'nis winVei, ino.1o %
much so, that the oia squaws Will m nov
work at tfinket ana DasKe' maklng lnls
tney usually ana 70 ge1 some eAera money "
70 ouy exefs iouu Wi'n' ouu .uis yeai 'n:y
nave pienty OF 'helr own raising anu WIZ
nov work muuri ~, on ...nno.. ", "na =, =.
ne saw mn on Ihe aeen0J H run aO
the ra'e OF eighD hours . uay saM,ng ."sa !;
lumoer anu .imoer iof ene ,, now .a.a ,o.'uu ~
mouse. An sne men enpioy1u' oAooP. 0ie
sawyer are Mescalelo Apao"es anu ohes
are proving 'nemseiyes so9u mothos' mo. 10,
Inc mos' imPoiOah' 'hins 'n"o n"o
happened 10 'he lnoians .l ior many !oa,s
tnough ana mstoer' s'a. ., iu 'ho opln.on
OF those PEST INFORMED wili Prove u slea'
gooa 70 'ne", maAins Vnon, woaA lot - I"
hVlnR' Is She laoe onaV feoon..y a. o.uei
was issuea s'oPp,ns an 'ssae' s.a. " M aa..ons
70 them ai'er yuiy she nlsv. no H1li
missioner = OF lnaiah analis - aH'ns y
Sne order, says as iolioWs W nieuS. ... '. ~.
o1ottier' tne aeen' u! onarg0' avins
commence however, III youl Juugelneh'
and knowledge OF sne cono'cion ana capa-
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1897, the Issue OF rations except peer,