Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-11-30
REDSKINS RESTLESS.
Indians IN Tama County, ID,
Ready to Start on the warpath.
ALLEGED WRONGS BY The AGENT.
A Married Indian Woman Seized and Taken
Away from Her Husband and Sent to
school Other Complsints-Race
Trouble ut Rio Grande City.


school Other Complaints-Rsc
Trouble ut Rio Grande City.
Omaha, Neb., Nov. pa special 10
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 rife and tomahawk. l..
E. Wilcox, Of Montour, was in consul
tation with Judge Oliver P. Shiras, OF
the federal court, yesterday and said
that 1t was only because Of his personal
intercession that the Indians had been
prevented from making an assault on
the people Of Tama City and Toledo to
avenge themselves for alleged wrongs
inflicted by the Indian agent.
Wilcox finally arranged with Judge
Shiras to 90 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 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- ptch-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 at
Toledo, Indian Agent W. G. Malin sent
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 an
other county and was enrolled in
school near Belle Plain.
An Indian interpreter was charged
with helping children to escape from
the reservation and on the trial the
state summoned the woman In this case
Us a witness. Wilcox induced her
parents and husband to accompany her
into court at Tama City. The inter
prefer was discharged, but the Indian
agent and Superintendent G. N. Nellis,
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 re-
lease that Wilcox now seeks a writ of
habeas corpus. The husband is nomi-
naly the plaintiff and the claim Is
made that the government has no
right to force the Indians to go to
school and, in this case, have no right
TO detain a married woman.
More than 800 of the Indians have
refused to accept their government pay
for more than a year on account OF
other complaints, one Of which relates
to tho opening of roads through the
reservation, 1t being claimed by them
that the roads have been cut diagon-
ally across the land without compensa-
ton and not following section lines.
RACE TROUBLE AT RIO GRANDE CITY.
Austin, Tex, Nov. 90. There are no
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. Sayers received telegram
from the sheriff at Rio Grande City
stating that everything was quiet there
and he thought they would remain so.
Secretary Of War Root telegraphed
that he had sent experienced officers to
the scene of the trouble to make full
and thorough investigation and, pend
ing their report, he trusted the people
would remain quiet. The population
Of Rio Grande City is largely Mexican
and it is believed bad blood has existed
between them and the negroes for some
time. Pending a full and complete re-
port of the state adjutant general and
the war officers nothing further will be
done in the matter by Gov. Sayers.