Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-08-20

valleys in unindisturbad freedom and |
when the country was filed with |
countless numbers of buffalos. elk. |
deer and antelope from which they OBJ |
tanned their principal food supply.
One cannot but feel sympathy for
these Indians as he listens to their
pieturing in glowing colors the glory,
TO them at least, of those bright days.
They recognize, however, that these
days are gone TO return no more and
are endeavoring TO adjust themselves
70 the new and ehaged conditions
which are gradually gathering abont
them.
After inspecting this issue station
and resting day or two, we started
back to the agency. On the second
day and about 8 a. M. rain storm
which had been threatening all morn
ing. struck us and we hastily unhItched
our horses and adjusted our canvass
so as to protect Us, and under this We
sat for three hours while the rain
poured down upon US.
It was a pretty dreary waiting, but
we bore it bravely. The sky
cleared about noon, and after
a cup of coffee and some
hard bread, we were again on the way,
the horses in the start shiverlng with
cold. Ii became so chilly IN the after
noon that had to wear my overcoat;
had a horse blanket for a lap-r and
a wooden blanket wrapped around me,
and this the lst day of August. In the
evening we went into camp on Hole
creek, and pitched our tent by large
| Horses were unhitched ard picketed
out fire was made, and Lewey dressed
a couple of prairie chickens which had
been killed during the afternoon.
| After Lewey had dressed them IN
| sisted on the privilege of frying them,
| for believed | could do better job
than he, and | think | sueeeeded.
which | believe was the judgment OF
the company.
| Enough of fish were caught to make
J a good mess for breakfast, and here
again demonstrated my culinary abli-
lity. We reached the agency about 8
o. IN Tuesday, glad that the journey
was over, having been gone eight
days.
While visiting Cut Meat and Black
Pipe issue stations | took peep into
the Bad Lands, and camped one night
on Cedar Butte, the highest point IN
this region of these famous lands. The
view from the butte was impressive
and in some respects Is inspiring !
will not describe it; 1t will be an IN
lteresting sight to any one who may
visit them.
/ As | have passed over the reserva-
jtion have found that while the I'M
provement among the Indians has not
been striking in the past SIX years
since | was last among them, never
Itheless it has been substantial, and III
some respects marked. They are more
\ inclined to settle down and have los'
much of their restless disposition
They are becoming more and more III
terested in the stock industry, the only
method by winch they can ever make s
living, and this to the man who desires
to see them progress is encouraging
There are now some twenty-slx day
or camp schools on our reservation
which think are giving to the chill
dren that line of education which VII
be the most helpful to them In the III
ture. There is also a large boardlr s
school Just completed with a capacity
for two hundred pOEs anu RiIis- LII
lplant cost a hundred thousand dollars
Enouuh,- howsyax,- On tkals -1sa6a~-~---~-
fpeace again spreads her benignan
wings over the land, and | trust tina
it will be century before she viii
fold them again. Now let the govern
ment turn the Philippine Islands ovel
to the people to establish whatever
form of government they deem proper
withdraw her army and navy and lei
the islands alone. In my Judgment
we want nothing to do with them. We
should never had anything to do with
them. The orders to Dewey shnulC
have been to destroy the Spanish flee,
wherever he found it and then bring
his fleet into the Cuban waters and
help TO drive the Spaniards there
from. We have no use for nor should
We be fooling with the Philippine
Islands.
Well, this is my say aud am done.
If the spirit of writing moves me you
will probably hear from me again
i L. B. REYNOLDS.