The daily sentinel., 1907-01-26

Gross incompetency in the man
agement of the schools on the Indian
reservations of the entire country,
the deliberate deceiving of President
Roosevelt as to the deplorable moral
and physical conditions existing a
mong the pupils of these schools and
failures to punish Indian school sup
erintendents who are guilty of hor-
rible cruelties on pupils in their care,
are the sensational charges preferred
against Secretary of Interior Hitch
cock in Salt Lake City a few nights
ago by w. ] Mcconnell of Mosciw
Idaho, formerly governor of and a
United States Senator from that state
and for four years United States In
dian Inspector, while in Salt Lake.
In addition to the above charges
Former Governor Mcconnell declares
that in Wyoming alone Secretary
Hitchcock has leased fully three
quarters of a million acres of Indian
reservation grazing lands to influ-
entail sheepmen at from two to three
cents an acre, utterly destroying the
land for use of the Indians.
Wields the Big Stick.
at is the policy of the interior de-
partment as it has been administered
for several years, to impugn the mo-
tiyes and destroy the regulations of
those who are not subservient to its
head said former Governor Nc
Connell last night. 81 met this dis
position on the part of the depart
ment while l was acting as United
States Indian inspector from 1897 to
1901 My sworn reports of terrible
cruelties practiced by Indian school
agents upon the pupils in their
charge were pigen-holed time and
again and the offending agents simp-
F removed to another school or pro-
NOTED to better government posi-
lion.
President Roosevelt does not
Know Of the terrible condition that
prevails in the schools of the Indian
reservations of this country. He is
'oiu what the head of the depart
ment of the interior believes is good
Tor him to hear.
These conditions are known to
ole iull extent of their iniquity by
secretary Hitchcock. They existed
"nen | was Indian inspector and 1
'iu positive they still exist.
Know that Indian girls from 10
" las ola up are forcibly taken from
'ler mothers, under the compulsory
suueauon law of the reservations,
4lu are placed in the reservation
..hools where thsy become the vic.
.u'S OF neglect and incompetent
Management.
While Indian inspector prior to
MI, vi ! secured a sworn affidavit from
I!sicians r. Of an Indian reservation
eraS. -lano and one in Wyoming. to the
mat every girl in the schools
o,, 'le TWO reservations over 10 years
5ai, 1,u mad been degraded. These afh-
,o., a'i'S We're sent to Secretary Hitch
,o-. g.A' but the agents of the schools
tho no. removed and suffered only
'ne most trivial punishment.
Lashed With Tugs.
team. indian boys and girls on prac-
asa ANY every reservation in the west
s,,. s punished with great leather
tpgF rs from which Concord harness
e. Se are made. At the Kalmath res
Melton ,1'lon in Oregon, the agent. a
similar st preacher. had little closets,
and 'al al TO collins stood on end. made
ta tau the pupils he wished to nnn,sh
,bs. .ogked ",s in these. They could nei-
sl', sdSr sit down nor kneel. ! Know Know os DYi
eo,,a paced in one who. when she he
a snoa, ,o historical. was gagged by tyine
1bis s VI unusual size in her month
India soht one day str lck a yonng
with ~ a terrific blow on the head
repa,tas nis list for a trivial offense. 7
nov, ,ea him and he was simn,y
he va. "a 10 another reservation. Later
made Presiding elder of the