Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-05-25
BUILDING OF The
LONE STAR STATE
norrow-Many Texans Will Be in
Attendance.


morrow-Many Texans Will Be in
Attendance.
st. Louis, May 25-The star shaped
| Texas building at the Worlds Fair will
be opened tomorrow and delegates
from all over Texas are expected il
| the city. Governor Lanham will be
among the speakers of the occasion.
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saw mill which furnishes all the lum
Der necessary for the use of the agen
cy is in operation and outside of one
or two skilled mechanics and sawyers
the labor of running it is furnished by
the Indians.
THE freighting from the railroad
depot at Tularosa to the agency is al
SO done by Indians with teams and
wagons owned by them. They receive
pay from the United States for all such
services
"Rations are no longer issued, ex-
cept to few old, helpless and INDECENT
men and women AS a rule the able
bodied men and women are required to
support themselves and some of them
do it in very good style. Nearly all
the grain and hay needed at the agen-
cy are raised by the Indians and sold
to the government; large amounts of
vegetables are also produced on the
lands cultivated by the Indians. They
are very peaceable and but little trou-
BILE occurs. The police force consists
of but three men. lieutenant and
two privates, which shows we'll when
it is considered that there are about
$50 Indians, men and women, on the
reservation and that the latter is quite
extensive A steam laundry has just
been completed and is being managed
by Indians under the supervision of a
skilled lsundress employed by the In
dian Office There are about 80 en-
ployes at the agency and with their
families they constitute between so
and so persons.
"The old school buildings which
have been used for many years will be
torn down this summer and new ones
will be erected. Superintendent Car
roll hopes to have the greatest por-
tion OF them ready for use by this win
ter. A two story dormitory to be con-
structed of frame will be among them.
Failing Physically.
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good as could be wished They have
for so many years that
their physique has been weakened, and
tuberculosis has appeared among
them. They cannot resist this dis
ease to any extent and succumb to it
rapidly.
81 am glad to say that the material
and intellectual condition of the young
er Indians is constantly improving and
could there be some new blood in
fused, that is could the young Mesca-
lero Indian men intermarry with girls
from other Indian tribes and the Mes.
calero girls with young men from 9TH
er tribes, it would be very well all
around. This. however, is deep prob
lem and has already been brought to
the attention of the Indian Office.
Captain de Bremond of Roswell is
running sheep in the Three Rivers
section, which he has leased and the
Angus V. V. Cattle Company of Lin
coin County has cattle in the Elk
Springs country. The Indians have
the right to hunt and camp on these
sections, but no clashes between the
cowboys, the sheep men and the In
dians have occurred or are likely to
take place. Everything is quite,
peaceful and orderly.
Dr. Mcneil is a native of Tennessee,
a young man and graduate of
Columbia University at Washington,
D. G. He has been on duty at the
agency about ten months. He likes his
work very much. He speaks in the
highest terms of Superintendent Hen
ry c. Carroll. The employees he con-
siders as very efficient and performing
their duties well. Several of them
have been at the agency for many
years, especially Captain Miller who
has been employed there for % years.
There are no squatters upon the reser-
vation and there Is no trouble between
the Indians and the surrounding white
settlers. ]. w. Prude is the Indian
trader at the agency and has quite a
large mercantile establishment. El-
mer E. BLAZER, son of DR.. John H.
Blazer now dead and who was one
OF the original settlers on the South
Fork. before the establishment of the
agency. coming in 1868, has a large
Indian trading store on the South
Fork of the Tularosa River. These
two stores seem to supply we'll the
necessities of the Indians.