| Show BISHOP P WARDS THE bogress mO GRESS toward I 1 atlon UTION I 1 I 1 I 1 1 11 1 I 1 I 1 shop f p D zundell II of the indian an settlement at t washakie washakie fe box nox elder county I 1 was stay staying inga few fet days in sait saif lahe vity city last week atten attending ling to business ness connected with the flourishing little colony over which he presides lie lle was on his way to the train the to return home a representative of the NEWS neiva enticed him into theoffice the office for a few minutes and arld elicited from elih some ome facts regard girding ing the status and pro prospects of the dusky sett settlers ierg lerg the experiment with whom has been and still is watched with uncommon interest the bishop was not dis inclined to talk and wil wll bingly gave required we belong to the box bog elder stake sald said d lit llo gand band and our nearest neatest neighbors are arc at portage two irillis einiks and a half away at the present timeout time our colony umbers numbers ri upwards of two hundred and ant nifty fifty souls of the shoshones Sho sometimes but ginipro improperly erly called snakes the smaller go by the former name which means in their r lang lanu language u walker C r orman air man afoot I 1 a name which chev received through belne beins the last Inilla indians ris lis to ret get po recession 4 session and make use of horses those located at Wash washakie akle have ha c completely abandoned thel their trib al relations relation and have entered their the irown own there bei hei bat gat the present time n aage sa a difficult one to learn lear but bat daany of them are pre a able abie ble bie to tal tai talk taik k and understand the english on the tho fort hall hali reservation which is occupied mainly by snakes and bannock Bian nocks are quite anum a dumber of our people that Is beo begnino nIno to the church a good many of whoa whom y hoa hog I 1 myself baptized at pre present seni however we are not allowed to preach our dac brines trines there this privilege vilese ler ier was at dirst granted me tae on Condition of my not attempting to preach polygamy 1 I who ire are arc the leading lo idin of your colony at Wash washakie akie akle 1 I 1 the llen lyen lire ar alid aud and john bu but t they all ali work W ork in commod and have purchased ina lna machinery chinery on the 60 operative cooperative co system they have a header mowers avers phiys voys drills etc besides wah wag wagons agonsi hox hoy horses nd a a considerable numer ot of herdd three years ears ap ag 0 they apok 1 a herd oi sheep ohi ori ft sti syl ares gs and n naw 9 w hay bay lamo lymo 1 kead head md bf athel ithel r own last week eek eck they herd rd ov 1 W 41 kf f J A ul 1 i to it t AA J t i 1 lam ly tji fl flaw vw 1 IM 1 lff B as ff head also aiso on good terms tarm their farm lug ing insala Is angstl bafit but step steps s are beng being taken to fo get out i water which wui liTi in gate gato acres more land they also aiso 20 ro 70 in a ditch fourteen miles long iong the gre greater ater atey portion cin of which they havo have earned by labor th thein their r rain arain iraln crop this year will reach about flood bil sheli shell h 10 all ali kinds kind I 1 of cereals aie afe are cultis cultivated 1 itei itel ii Is tho the staple stapie worms havo dona great damage dabag ge to tho potato arpp anu ann heir supply of the tuber wll wil scarcely ear but thera is a an interesting te fact jact ill 1 said scald the tie tle bis dis bishop opy 4 about Which you have perhaps heard but little if anything that i Is their cooperative acore this ivas indeed I 1 a surprise ris rik e even to a reporter accustomed by 0 dna and training to io be astonished q at nothing the attempt to conceive ot of a half starved lot of begging egg ng redskins red skins int inep a s t 1 almost too much for the average imagination at and when this th orr worn ora about indian mercantile business bu siness ainess was vas dropped the effect as may be was almost disastrous Howe man of pencil penell and aud paper recovered himself quickly atuk niia with an it to 0 get t the facts into black and white teas feas As th then they bewer were uttered theres here s to tell teli replied the bishop except that they started two years ani and ia a half halt ago with a capita capital stock of and today to day they have about 1200 there have been some rood dividends and what is more important the settlers sattler brenot ard are not robbed and swindled by trad trao ders all ali profit beyond the legitimate intimate expenses expense of the co concern heern 13 11 to the benefit of the colony at large r re pal pai pairing ring where such sreh is necessary etc with which none seem dissatisfied where all vork york work in tin unison lson ison 11 k 1 what progress are they making malino toward civilisation civilization next i inquired the scribe scriba i what kind of in turn queried the yia yla victim tini it 1 ith a 1 twinkle in his bis eye if yon mean in industry honesty cleanliness etc i can catl say thele theira progress is marked we twe lwe never bad a ingle single article stolen I 1 they dress like the white people and fund are getting their personal appearance A few live in houses but the majority still live in tents udder under which circumstances of course nourse it is difficult for them to bo be as scrupulously clean as we would like to see sec th them they are advancing iii id this direction bo however too htoo rapidly most ot the omen bake the their irown bvm bread and aud it Is generally of excellent qu qualley allty what can I 1 tou oll oil sax say of their mental development asked the reporter as a ninal firul question 1 noticing not icim his inform i ci nants nervous ne ss at the thie approach 0 of t train time I 1 that can only bia bih noticed particularly among amons the young the colonist lq h have ave a 3 good framo frame school house well f furnished and altogether the bestone la a the w whole malad valley its dimensions are 25 by 40 feet and anil it serves na As meetings on the sabbath there thera is a school all the year round jhc present teacher being brother J t chandler of willard who has proven himself ai a i patient competent and successful instructor the roll roli of students contains some thirty alveto nye to forty names who are in regular attend i ance varying in ace aue from seven to seventeen years lika everywhere else Inthe in the world wo hid rid we have some who are no not t anxious to learn but great care is 18 taken to insist on oti punctuality the branches taught tare lare reading I 1 writing and arithmetic and the tha langu language ag ge of the school schoolroom ro orn ora Is english which the little folks are learning to talk very well among themselves and at home however their own in spelling these children are really remarkable there being daiv white children who can equal them autlin aud and in writing they surpass any school children I 1 ever saw they even evell beat tiie tile teacher we vc think that in id drawing they will do equally well as also in any branch which calls their wonderful perceptive powers into play they tey keep their copy books clean and und nice and ever every word so far as the formation of tie the letters 14 ia IA 14 concerned is air aim al most written there are three chita fain ill lil e sr living in the colony and their children go to the same school and now that my time is nearly up said the weary man rising irom from his bis chair you must mush excuse me in conclusion you may say that our colony is on the jue lucrease increase rease and that the children born are arc full of vigor and strength and are of improved physique come up and see sec us for lor yourself self seit well make you welcome and be jle was gone C rali general fueling the readers of if the tilte wilk will tind lind L expression in the good tood wishes visiT eq tes tex tended by usi hpward zundell Zu udell ills his counselor matront Mt ward tile tilo aad uil uit the thu others engaged eng apeL apet aget tt tite tiie aln labor ol of love lor the tha MI fan faa und and complete success of 0 tha the interesting experiment nt they are in makas |
