The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-07

runs in a southwestern direction unit
/ it strikes the state line again south
of Pennington. Al its greatest Width
/ it is twenty-eight miles wide The
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul Rail
road is building lis line through the
reservation from tee ST. Joe River, or
; its southeast boundary. through tc
f, Tekoa. The Oregon Railroad and Navi-
cation COmpany's line from Tekoa to
! Wallace, Idaho, crosses the reserve
| from west to east. The st. Joe River
! and Occur d'Alene lake furnish water
transportation through it's greatest
| length from north to south.
Peter Mocktilma is head chief and
Peter Jarper is second chief. There
! are two government policemen, Louie
Michel and Ichan. Chief Mocktilma
/, is the reigning power; but he is sub
ject to the rules and regulations of
the government as interpreted by the
Indian agent. Chief Mocktilma is an
impartial judge and deals out justice
without regard to personality. His
son, Bartholomew Mocktilma, aged
twenty-five years, is a frequent visitor
at Tekoa, and has little or no diff
ficulty in obtaining sufficient liquor to
produce intoxication bordering on help
to the mission where he is ordered inn
prisoned by his father. When he falls
from grace the chiefs son receives the
same treatment as other Indians who
get drunk.
Most of the Indians speak English
and the younger generation are as
rule, fairly well educated. They re-
ceive their education in the Catholic
school at Desmet Mission, twelve miles
southeast of Tekoa This school is
conducted by the Catholic fathers and
the sisters of charity, the former
teaching the boys and the latter the
girls. Many of the Indian girls have
been taught music and there are
dozens of pianos owned by Indians
Most of the Indians are Industrious
and hard workers. Some of them have
become wealthy from cultivating large
tracts of land and reaping enormous
crops of grain. Oats is one of the
favorite crops on the reservation and
yields a large profit.
Louie Antelope is one of the richest
Indian farmers. He cultivates 1000
acres and has a we'll kept home. He
has large sums of money loaned at in
tereSt and has fine teams and machin-
cry. Indian Daniel has 900 acres in
cultivation on Rock Creek, in the
northern part of the reservation. In
dian Campbell cultivates eco acres, and
Spotted Louie has $500 house on his
farm. Louie Michita has 600 acres
under cultivation and has one of the |
best homes on the reservation. He
employs white help and has a house |
near his residence in which the labor |
ars live, much on the same plan as |
the negroes do in the southern states !
The land farmed by the Indians is |
not owned by them individually The |
entire reservation is the joint property |
Of all of them, none of it being allotted |
in severalty. Several of the head men |
IN the tribe, including Chief Mocktilma |
and sub-Chief Jarper, are opposed to /
the opening of the reservation, and in |
sist that the land be retained as .
tribal reservation instead of being al |
otted in severalty. Most of the In |
iians, however. are anxious for the .
7'viSion of the land Probably not |
more than a score of them are
opposing the allotment and, as they |
nave no authority to stop or hinder
-he work, their opposition amounts to |
little.
Those members of the tribe who have
farms will probably select the
ands they have under cultivation as
heir permanent allotment. or as much
# ii as they are allowed If a married
indian has a family of several chill
lren he will thus be enabled to secure