Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-23
INDIANS ARE EXCITED
Sac and Fox Redskins in Iowa Are Ready
for the Warpath,
SPECIAL AGENT IS SENT TO QUIET THEM
Aborigipes Want to Avenge Themselves for
Wrongs Inflicted by an Agent,
lNTeRCESSl0N BARELY AvsRTS TROUBLE
Agent seiSes an Indian Girl and Forcbly
INTfRCESsloN BARELY AvsRTs TROUBLE
Agent SeiSes an Indian Girl and Foroibly
Keeps Her Prisoner,
FEDERAL COURT CALLED INTO THE CASE
Judge shirns VIII lie Asked for Writ
of Habcas Corpus to Release
the Girl-Indians in
Ugly Mood.

DES MONIES, Nov. 22.-(Special Tele-
gram -Four hundred and fifty redskins at
the Sac and Fox Indian reservation in Tama
county are ready to start on the warpath
with rife and tomahawk.
l. Il. /. Wilcox of Montour was in consuta-
tlon with Judge Oliver p. Shiras OF the
federal court here today and said that 1t
was only because of his personal interces-
sion that the Indians had been prevented
from making an assault on the people of
Tama City and Toledo to avenge themselves
for wrongs inflicted by the Indian agent.
Wilcox finally arranged with Judge Shras
to go to Cedar Rapids and there file a petit
tion for habeas corpus for the release of an
Indian girl, aged 49, confined in the govern
ment Indian training school at Toledo for
month. Wilcox returned to his home to-
night assuring the officials that he will be
able to control the Indians as long as the
courts have the controversy in hand.
Woman in the Cnsc.
The woman in the case is Lelah- Puch Ka-
Chez, and she is married Her husband Is
Ia Ia 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 es-
tablished by the government at Toledo, In
dian Agent W. G. Malin cent out an order
for all Indian children under IS to enroll
in the school. The Indians refused and hid
their children. The girl in question was
taken into another county and was enrolled
in school near Belle Plane
An Indian Interpreter was charged with
hoping children to escape from the reserva-
tion and on the trial the state summoned
the woman in this case as witness. Will
cox ilduced her parents and husband TO ae-
company her into court at Tama City The
interpreter was discharged, but the Indian
agent and Superintendent G. n. NeIlis of
the school seized the girl took her away
from her husband by force and conveying
her to the Indian school building confined
her there. She has been detained in a room
there since the first of the month. 1t is for
her release that Wilcox now seeks a writ
of habeas corpus. The husband is nomi-
nally the plaintiff, and the claim is made
that the government has no right to force
the Indians to go ito school, and in this case
has no right to detain a married woman.
Indians Refuse Pay.
More than 300 of the Indians have refused
to accept their government pay for more
than a year on account of this controversy
with the government and on account of
other complaints, one Of which relates to the
opening OF roads through the reservation, it
being claimed by them that the roads have
been cut diagonally across the land with
out compensation and not following section
lines.