Show A Hemnuut Only During a recent visit to Koosharem we were greatly delighted with the im provement being made among the few Indians still remaining of the once powerful tribe of Grass Valley Indians There were eighteen lodges ol these Indians during the ely settlement Koosharem but now only fie lodges are left Through the eflorts of George A Hatch and others a great deal is being done towards the improvement of the levy who remain though deaths are far more frequent than birtus The young est of the tribe is a papoose of live years but one oman ot the tribe having yes hav-ing I given birth to a child for severa 1 Much lias been done to improve their financial condition too President A K Ihurber persuaded them to settle clown and procured land for them and a right to half ol Box Creek if they would do so As farmers they have clone quite well I They have four fields and several pastures fenced One field contains thirty acres ot land being used for gram farming hale others ollewer acresre used for lucern farms lot 01 their lucern Is cut and fed green so the Indians aufl hay on shares for their win tar supply This year the tribe wanted Ihe thresher to come up and thresh their grain agreelD to clean the rocks out of the road and get dinner If the men auld agree to come The road well well cleaned and the dinner was satls lictory to the dantlest machine man The chiefs wife Mary Arapein prepared pre-pared it She had warm bIscuIts lice Fudding tea and other things nettled r fJ et tie bundance When the threshing was over Jim Arapeiu the chief had ninety eight bushels and the tut having a hundred bushels of wheat their winters bread In the t Kooshareii Sunday school a cl1 ni3dtr ofia class has been organized for these Indians In-dians It did have seventeen members but two hate died lately They have been lallght to read and to be more cleanly as well at to know something about religion Recently a visitor saw a cellar with washtubs keltlespans and other things in It Asking the chief what it was for the visitor was told by motions that their teacher had told them all to wash and then go to Sunday school When they first joined the Sunday school they were very dirty I but now they are quite clean as a result of f the cheese mills leaching In the Sunday school the worl being done U i jndoubteclyaccomplishing much good On Nukle bnndi y11 they all brought heir nlckles while gimbhng and imok ng the have abandoned fit Atiin to Wt titrthe cheese man smokes be fare they do again Hoer since he came to Gras alley George A IInlch I has worked at dIng d-ing and so tile Indians call him the Chtese Man At an entertainment he wanted them to show how they = gambled but they were quite reluctant about doing it He I laid tlown some money In two piles M they began Witll g small i click resembling er guinea pet In one hand one betan 1 Irst he IH began1 mittinho would begin a mumbling noise and iwlnghu arms slap his hands lo ether strike Ibem lo ether nt hi back and alter a certain time hold out both hands for the other side to guess which hand it was Inl Ihey played but a little while when Peterson the but gambler on all the money and pocketed It with a chuckle Cheese Man got no money now Peterson 1 used to be a great garnbler and would often after a nights playing bay a pack load ol blankets and buckskins he had won at the stickguetMng game Later he was lucky at cards but they Ira e quit it all flow Among the younger Indians of the tribe Jack Apooch is the most prom I sent Jack has Just married and settled t stdJ j st down to live with his strp mother Years ago licks fattier had two squaws but Munch had none Muncti was a fatherly old fellow so Apooch gave jacks niotherllo Die old man In a levy years Munch died and Apooch took the squaw back and lived ith her again Od Apooch Is dead now and Jack care for both 01 the squaws as a dutiful mail should dal Lately the Indians are learning to dance They are pretty t good dancers too At first they would let their feet remain stationary and sling their bodies to the call of balance all but they soon learned to move their feet and bodies in a proper manner and since they attend the dances In town they have quit having their ailment powwows pow-wows Their women now II ell hats and dresses Indeed the chiefs wile has her dresses made by a dressmaker and uses curling Iron on her bangs while her house Is i quite neatly kept Richfield Censor |