Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-25


fore and the Indians were having. what
everyone wanted 20 ser, the adoption
dances. In the big medicine tent
Incident shows Indians Honesty.
The Indians Apaches Cheyennes, Sioux
Crows. Pegans, Piutes-every tribe, are
working at the irrigation bitches and doing
good work too They are educated; among
the Utes are forty Carlisle graduates, aud
nearly every one of them speaks the purest
English. but they prefer the sign language
and will not speak English nor live In
house nor abandon any OF their old Gus
toms. their paint nor dances nor religion.
At the same time they are honest and no
one who knows them Is the least afraid OF
the present day Indian, az was seen BY the
trust two Ursuline nuns. placed in their
Indians during the time the scare was
at It's height
The two good sisters are stationed at tho
St Xavier mission and came to the fair
with about sixty OF their boys and girls,
camping in the church. which Is across the
railroad tracks from any house and much
isolated. They rode home forty miles, In
the carriage Of one OF the Grow farmers
out into a district where there Is not a
white man or woman, where their convent
school is entirely unprotected and quite by
! itself about a quarter OF a mile distant
! from the school for the boys. over which
4 preside two Jesuit priests. who are absent
most OF the time. One OF the teachers
! from Bodgegress came with her seventy
boys and girls and camped among the In
dams the terrible Cheyennes" on one
side and I,odgegrass Crows on the other.
When she was ready TO return land they
went quite unprotected. riding ponies and
camping at nighD, sixty miles back from
the railroad OF any white settler. the par
ents Of the children wanted them to stay
for another day.
! Miss Hicks, not thinking the matter OF
SUFFICIENT Importance TO so much as notify
the agent called the parents to q pow
WOW in her tent. The tent was crowded.
not less than sixty bucks and squaws.
and they were eager to keep the children.
/ too. but Miss Hicks wanted to get home
before the storm that threatened. She
talked with the Indians through an in
| terpreter and explained why she must go
sooner than intended, and the Indians
agreed and helped her pack the ponies and
brought her food and saw 70 II that every
pony was Mt These Crows were the hun
bred warriors who slipped away from the
reservation and wanted to visit the Utes,
but returned without so much as a hunt
although every train brings scores Of white
men to hunt on the land that has been
their fathers.
UteS May he Scattered.
The Utes will probably be divided. their
tribe broken and the remnants allotted
to the different agencies, following the
old-time white mans custom OF promising
tho red man all things in order TO get his
land or his furs or anything he has that
the white man wants. When the white
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ing that the Indians are about to massacre
everyone
The Utes we're given permission to sci
their land and were made citizens, with
the promise that they would have thC
same rights as the white man. The first
time they attempted to take the simplest
of the promised rights, to leave the reserva.
ton, where they are too mixed UP with
the white settlers TO please them, to &c
to district where they think they car
find land that will support them, they ar,
met with a Gordon Of soldiers that number
two to one of themselves.
The Crow lands are being allotted now
This winter they may sell all Of the IN
herited landS In return they are promisef
the rights of citizenship. II is the sam,
old story with them again, so unbroker
that Il has become monotonous For. year,
cent an acre. with competition ths
leases went up to cents an acre. Tier
came the demand that the land he opened
&c settlers and a portion of II was, tn,
Lincoln Land company buying every acr,
they could get at an average of 30 cent
an acre. and when they sell It they ex
pect/to make plenty OF money They vii
buy as much OF the land sold this winte
as they can get. When the land is frs
opened all that is not under a title will b
held at 81 an acre. to be paid to the In
dams but the remaining price at IN
regular patent rate. with $50 for water
which is to be put onto the land under tn
reclamation service Huntley project. Wha
Is not taken up at once will not bring IN
! Indians anything whatever. although II ha
been their land and they have good lega
title.
4 Massacre Talk IL BOsh.
Charles Long. deputy sheriff and stoc
inspector Of Sheridan county. returned I
his home from his expedition with N
, soldiers, to whom he acted as guide o
the morning OF November O.
Il received a telegram" he said Gro,
= Major Noyes. military secretary at oman,
: worded about this way, on the morning {
: october 20: Meet Captain Johnston an
Captain Paxton at Gillette and condus
! them to the Indian camp on the Lift
Powder river, to nnd out the exact cond
ton as to the intruding Indians. I wer
: as directed, to the Ute camp with Ii
Tenth cavalry from Fort Robinson. TN
/ old Sioux Indiars from Pine Ridge, Amer
can Horse and woman's Dress, went alon
, TO talk to the Indians and find out VIII,
, they wanted and what they intended TO d
and with them were two official intel
=, prefers from Pine Ridge l don't kno
: their names, except Frank and Pete, hal
; breed Sioux.
: Now, let me say right here. this tai
: / OF massacring and OF burning and OF an
> one being afraid OF those Indians is q
II cooked up. No, l don't want to say IN,
4 it is to keep Fort Mackenzie, but yc
4 know that is what everyone in sherida
believes. and anyway. we ought to ha,
the fort and cavalry. II they wanted
round up the Utes they could have dor
\ Il last summer when they were campIr
J near Casper. FOR the soldiers. oh, ! shou
say 1900, and the state militia we
maneuvering near Casper and Dougla