Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-02-15
OUR INDIAN WARDS.
They're reported 10 Be Burning Witches IL
tho Southwest.

There are, according to .ithe report Of
the secretary of the interior, a2, lis In
dams I'm the United States. The governs
ment expended on them last year N.Ei,
~. ana the appropriation for the fiscal
year ending June 3, 1899, is &ss2,2 great
er than the appropriation of last year.
eof To- the money expended last year ST.
tribe cost us over $443 Gyv. the Chippewas
ABOUT %V,vV. and the Indians in Arizona
and New Mexico about s2sO. 900.
ing the Tammany tribe) cost the govern
ment $l6 4O2. Some interesting facts con-
cefmng the doings of the nations wards
IN the last year are set forth between the
| lines of the dry statement of the secre.
| tary. -
tDown on the Rio Grande is a tribe Of
n y IN ,b known as a, the Papagoes Some
can side of the river. and some on the
american side. Last May some of the
sonora Indians. who had the year be-
fore come over to the American side to
I'VE. decided that they would go back to
Mexico and get their live stock. which
they had left behind when they migrated.
So they mustered up war party and.
crossing the border. attacked the village
OF III Plomo. combat. in which no.
body was killed. ensued between the
Ned again to the -.merican side of the
river. The Mexican government at once
called upon the government of the Uni
ted States TO stop sending the cold shiv-
ers up and down the backs of the people
OF Sonora in this manner. and the Uni
ted States inspector thereupOn arrested
twenty-five OF the Papagoes. releasing
twenty-one on parole and holding the
others for trial for carrying war into Ii
friendly country.
Quite different was the method pursued
by the Seneca Indians OF New York.
Wnen they desired to gather unto them
selves wealth. They raided no foreign
lands. but chose the United States treas
ury. and. while the crude methods of the
Papagoes resulted in failure. the modern
up-to-date methods of the civilized Sem
ecas brought about success. Away back
in Kansas for the New York Senecas.
The Senecas never went to the reserva-
ton. and after while the government
sold the land and put the money in the
that there had been a Seneca reservation
in Kansas. was forgotten when one fine
bill for s2.3sS,svo for their property. out
West" Congress was astOnfsheds and re-
fused to pay. Thereupon the Indians
took the matter to the court Of claims for
adjudication, reserving a right of appeal
TO the United States supreme court In
1896 the court of claims dismissed the Pc
tition of the Senecas and the case was
raken to the supreme court. The Indians
won their case and have now got judy
ment for nearly 100000. SO
Those picturesque and interesting In
dams, the Zunis, have been In trouble the
last year because they carried out the
teachings of pious old DR.. Cotton Ma
Their and burned a witch. Five OF the
men who tried to revive the pleasing GUS
toms of old Salem were arrested and In
dicted for murder.
The Seminoles in Oklahoma got into
trouble for the same reason. There was
a reputed witch living near the border of
their reservation, and one day she was
found brutally murdered. The white peo-
pie Of the neighborhoOd captured two
crime and burned them alive The boys
burned are believed to have been innO-
cent So far. the perpetrators of neither
outrage have been discovered.