The Coconino sun., 1903-11-21
BURTON INVESTIGATION.
Report Of inspector Jenkins on Manage. ment of Moeui Reservstlon-Th
 Secuoya League censured.
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was forceibly cut. There are many Moqui without their hair cut, and had the means described been employed all would certainly have been shorn. Only three or four instances were noted where force was used in cutting hair, and while one Indian was told by MT. Burton that ''may be the gov ernment would send troops to enforce this order if they disObeyed him" it was not used as a threat, although I consider it a foolish remark. There was no such statement as that attri- buted to Mir. Burton that ''the soldiers would take their children away from them forever" if they consistently disobeyed the haircut order. In this connection I would say that 800 Navajoes had their hair cut, and that as rule the Navajos are obedient to Mir. Burton's authority as to other Navajo agents.
 One or two instances only of cutting hair for punishment were noted. Still it must be admitted that there has to be law and order even on an Indian reserva vation.
 The charge that the employees, mis- sionaries, and traders on the reser- vation ''live under the standing threat of losing their positions" if not friendly to Superintendent Burton was not borne out by the testimony. Ger tain employees were dismissed, viz, Laura Dandridge, Adaliza DeVee and Flora Watkins, because of their unfit ness for the positions they held, in which action l heartily concur. All em- ployees and missionaries testified to Superintendent Burton's unfailing courtesy to them and kindly treatment of the Indians.
 The charge that the Moqui schools have been filled by MT. Burton lat the point of a six-shooter," is found to be another use of spectacular language wholly unwarranted. The evidence discloses the display of fire- arms on two or three different occas- ions during the past year, and then only at Oraibi. On all these Occas- ions not more than dozen pupils were secured, including the so-called ''raid" of last February, where pistols were displayed when employees were being threatened at the edge of the mesa, and not to secure pupils. The comparative record of attendance at the different schools will show how we'll Mir. Burton has succeeded in filling the schools and an honest, in- telligent investigator will have to admit that there has been no "reign of terror" and no "bullying methods" employed to make this commendable showing.
 There were no protest on the ground of parents or children as to MT. Bur toms methods of filling the schools, no evidence was submitted showing that MT. Burton has been anything but kind and patient in securing this attendance, and it was shown that the few acts of cruelty or bullying on the part of employees were without his knowledge or approval, practically all of them taking place several years ago and at the mesas twenty to thirty miles distant from the agency.
 REVIEW OF TESTIMONY ON WHICH THE
 CHARGES WERE BASED.
 The charges were based on the affi- davits or statements of the following named persons:
 Adaliza De Wee, a "Dowieite," and an employee who was removed because of disOhadinnCo to dan If m ont a