The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-11-24
REDSKINS RESTLESS.
Indians in Tama County, Ia,
Ready to Start on the Warpath.
ALLEGED WRONGS BY THE AGENT.
Married Indian Woman Seized and Taken
Away from Her Husband and Sent to
school-Other mpIalnts-Race
Trouble at Rid Grande city.

Omaha, Neb., Nov GA special to
the Bee from Des Moines, Ia, says:
Four hundred and fifty redskins at the
Sac and Fox Indian reservation in
Tama county are ready TO start on the
warpath with rifle and tomahawk. /.
e. Wilcox, of Montour, was i'm consul
tation with Judge Oliver =. Shiras, of
the federal court. yesterday and said
that it was only because of his personal
intercesson that the Indians had been
prevented from making an assault on
the people of Tama City and Toledo to
avcnge themselves for alleged wrongs
inflicted by the India agent.
Wilcox finally arranged with Judge
Shiras to go to Cedar Rapids and there
| file petition for habeas corpus for the
release of an Indian girl, aged Is, con-
fined in the government Indian train
ing school at Toledo for n month. Will
cox returned to bis home last night,
assuring the officials that he will be
able to control the Indians as long as
the courts have the controversy in
hand. The woman in the case is
Lelah-Puch- Ka-Chee and she is mar
! ried. Her husband is Ta-Ta-Pi-Cha.
They were married when she was II,
according to Indian rites, the Sac and
Fox Indians being permitted to marry
on the reservation according to tribal
customs. When the training school
was established by the government az
Toledo, Indian Agent w. G.. Maliu sent
out an order for all Indian children
under rs TO enroll in the school. The
Indians refused and hid their children.
The girl in question was taken into an
other county and was enrolled in q
school near Belle Plain.
An Indian interpreter was charged
with helping children to escape from
the reservation aud on the trial the
state summoned the woman in this case
as witness. Wilcox induced her
parents and husband to accompany heI
into court at Tama City. The inter
prefer was discharged, but the Indian
| agent and Superintendent q. n. Nellis
of the school, seized the girl, took hel
away from her husband by force and
conveying her to the Indian schoo
building confined her there. She has
been detained in room there sine,
the first of the month. 1t is for her re-
lease that Wilcox now seeks writ OF
habeas corpus. The husband is nomi-
nally the plaintiff and the claim il
made that the government has NJ
right to force the Indians to go tC
school and, in this case, have no righ
to detain married woman.
More than 800 of the Indians have
refused to accept their government pay
for more than "A year on account o
other complaints one of which relate
to the opening of roads through tn,
reservation, it being claimed by then
that the roads have been cut diagon
ally across the land without compensW
ton and not following section lines
RACE TROUBLE AT RIO GRANpE CITY.
Austin, Tex, Nov. %. There are n,
new DEVELOPMENTS anent the race trou
bic at Rio Grande City between the fed
eral negro soldiers and the population
of that town. Early yesterday morn
ing Gov. Savers received Telegram
from the sheriff at Rio Grande Cit,
stating that everything was quiet Their
and he thought they would remain So
Secretary of War Root telegraphe
that he had sent experienced officers 4
the scene of the trouble to make full
and thorough investigation and, pend
ing their report, he trusted the peopl
would remain quiet. The population
of Rio Grande City is largely Mexica
and it is believed bad blood has eXiste
between them and the negroes for som
time Pending full and complete re
port of the state adjutant general an
the war officers nothing further will b
done in the matter by Gov. Sayers.