The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-07
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WALKERS STORE
USED A GUN.
A Plueky Nevada Sehoolmarn Bests
the Politicians.
(New York Press.)

(New York Press.)
Way off on a Nevada Indian resarva-
ton a few months ago a young woman
teacher armed with her pistol, made
a stand-up fight with politics and poll
ticians, and showed her pluck and grit
to a degree amazing, even to those
who know the rough conditions of life
in the reservation schools, and how
much of native self-reliance the girl
must have who goes out into the IN
dian country to face those conditions.
| The story is told for the first time in
detail in the report of the Indian Rights
association. Not all of the appoint
ments made in the Indian service
please the association, and John S.
MayhUgh's success in getting the posi-
ton Of the Duck Valley reservation Of
the western ShOshones. in Nevada,
pleased the Indian Rights people not
| at all. His appointment is said by
them to have been a reward for polit-
zeal service. Trouble between him and
the other employees, most of whom
We're protected by the civil serYics
rules, arose as soon as he took control
Of affairs at the agency The repOr,
saws:
1T seems that Mayhugh is not {.
| disciple of civil service reform, as ap-
piled to the Indian work; but believ-
ing that to the victor belong the
spOils,' he had no sooner been placed
in control at the agency than he pro-
| ceeded to get rid Of the employees in
the school and agency who were ap-
pointed through the merit system, and
installed, among others, members of
his own household in the positions thus
I III no nh q
the superintendent of the school, the
clerk, etc, were called before his tribu-
nal of justice and their transfer or dis
missal demanded. This was during his
first year at the agency. The Indian
Office, however, proceeded to annoy the
| agent by directing other persons certi-
fed by the civil service commission
to proceed to Duck valley to fill the
positions vacated. In the meantime
Mayhugh had managed to place in the
positions all the available persons
/ bearing his name at the agency, and
upon the arrival of Miss Egan to act
as superintendent Of the school, mat
/ ters came to q climax. He no longer
wished a superintendent; thought the
school could be much better conducted
with only a principal teacher in
charge. Miss Egan's bump Of stick
tO-it-iveness' proved to be we'll devel-
! Oped, and she resolved to fight it out
If it took all summer Dramatic in
cidents occurred with Kaleidoscope
rapidity, until Agent Mayhugh, ac-
( companied by his Indian police force
/ and German farmer, appeared in front
! of the school building, armed cap-a-
/ pie, and demanded that a young Indian
/ girl at the school be delivered to them,
claiming she was an unfit person to
/ remain IN the school with the other
| children. If no brighter jewel is added
/ to a crown for Miss Egan, let it be
! said that she defended a helpless girl,
whom she believed to be innocent,
/ against the heinOUs demands of one
! who no doubt sought to discredit her
! reputation because she had not aided
/ him in denOuncing the management OF
/ the school,
According to her account she was
] subjected to such indignities and in
I suits that she went armed TO protect
/ herself. and finally affairs eliminated
in a shooting fray. DR.. MerriweatheT
/ the physician at the agency, took Miss
f. Egan's part, and fired with her re-
volver twice at one Meyer, the farmer
! Of the agency and a friend of Agent
/ Mayhugh, who thereupon had Miss
Egan and DR.. Merriweather arrested
under the state law on a charge of as
/ sault with attempt to kill. They were
! taken to Mountain City, eighteen miles
! distant, and remained there several
/ days, but were finally dismissed fOI
want of jurisdiction. Mayhugh then
caused warrants to be issued for them
by a United States commissioner. and
they were taken TO Winnemucca, a dis
! lance of 100 miles by stage in addition
TO $50 miles by rail; but after trial they
/ were again dismissed, the commission
er finding them innocent Of the charges
They were obliged to travel some 90
miles by stage and $50 miles by rail- or
account Of this accusation"
An investigation followed by direc-
ton of the Indian department. DR.
| Merriweather and Miss Egan have
been promoted; the agency at Ducl
valley has been abolished, thus reliev-
ing Agent Mayhugh, the Indians be
/ ing placed under the care of the super.
/ intendent of the school. No less thar
| three attempts were made by children
( to destroy the school building by fire
they beings instigated 10 commit tn,
crime by opponents OF the school,