Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-13

broken. His car was destroyed.
Drung had just left home and evil
IDENTIFY did not see the train approach
ing. Mrs. Drung and the boy were
the first persons to arrive at the scene.
Besides the widow and son, a daugh-
ter, Violet, Is, survives. The family
had lived in Forsyth several years.
torical standpoint, at least in part, the
Billings Gazette said.
These ~Cheyennes, who number about
600 all told, have been acting ugly of
late, but so far trouble seems to be
only among themselves. No doubt the
one hundred Pine Ridge Indians up
there without leave from their agency
have stirred up matters somewhat, and
hope to live for a while off their poor
relations, the Rosebud Cheyennes.
Stephens, their agent, got scared and
fled to Fort Custer, and now that their
old agent and friend, Major Logan, has
gone to the scene, we may expect to
hear that the trouble has been speedily
adjusted and that the Northern Chey-
ennes have become peaceful Indians
OliCC lllOiC. lid UiilO 10 Vic odlllC
which General Miles, when in COM
mand at Fort Keogh, handled SO sue
oessfully. He gave them small patches
of ground to cultivate and supplied
wagons, tools, plows, etc, and for a
time the Northern Cheyennes were self
supporting, but now since they have
moved to q reservation, the Indians
have become disconnected and unhap-
by, and have frequently quarreled with
cowboys and cattlemen, and have been
doing poorly altogether. The easiest
way to solve the Indian problem is to
gather them up and send them down
TO live among their relatives and
friends in the Indian territory where
they belong"
The troublous question regarding the
Indians drew from the Pioneer Press,
of st. Paul, at the time the suggestion
that some method should be employed
to ease the situation. The war de-
partment could handle the Indians in
better shape than other agencies, was
the opinion expressed.
General Miles has persistently adj
vocated the transfer of the nomadic
Indian tribes to the care of the war
department" said the Pioneer Press,
land the abolition of their large reser-
vations, on which they are supported
by the government. This proposition
has been frequently discussed in con-
greSs, but there is such an abiding
faith in the old method of dealing
with these people, especially on the
part Of traders, contractors and de-
partment officials who reap no incon-
siderable profit from the arrangement,
that no progress has been made to
the proposed change, in favor of which
much car be said. General Miles ar
CUES that the present chronic state of
insecurity and the periodic outbreak of
hostilities will continue if the Indians
are not placed under a government
strong enough to hold them, and Just
enough to command their respect
They would, under war department
control, receive their supplies by a per-
fectly regulated and efficient system,
which would prevent the starvation
and Swindling processes SO long cur
rent under the existing system. They
would soon become disappearing and
be weaned from their nomadic life and
would gradually become an agricul-
tural and stock raising people. Such
a system would, of course, not inter-
fere with missionary work among the
Indians as asserted by many writer's"
The Minneapolis Journal exercised
no patience with the Indian situation.
That newspaper would have gotten rid
OF the savages in a manner that would
prevent their return. Cold lead was
suggested as a remedy.
Congressman Perkins of Kansas"
says the Journal, whose district bor-
ders upon the territory occupied by
the Cheyenne Indians, thinks that the
introduction of cold lead into the sys-
TENS of these greasers is about the
only settlement of the Indian question
that would be worth much. He thinks
that If General Sheridan gives them
taf1y 1t will be returned in blood, and
that they will deliberately break any
promise which they may make under
circumstances of ordinary arbitration.
We are getting TO a point in our deal
ingS with the Indians still left in the
country where it appears to be evident
that Congressman Perkins remedy will
be adopted as to certain of the tribes
II we have any permanent peace on
our frontiers or the sections upon the
borders of civilization are to have any
guarantees Of personal and property
safety. The Apaches and the Chey-
ennes have an Unborn instinct of butch
cry which it seems impossible to eradi-
cate by peaceful and educational meth
DDS, and it is not worth while to waste
the lives of many more civilized people
In the attempt. The record of the be-
havior OF these tribes is a record OF
faithlessness and murder-to say moth
ing OF ro~bbery-from the beginning To
the end. They are crafty enough u
make promises Of any sort N the face