Show INDIANS OF IDAHO 31 the mapo majority rity of the annual reports of the indian agents to the commissioners of indian affairs are of an encouraging nature and indicate progress generally along civilized civi lazed lines some of the reports however axe are not so gratifying and make some surprising statements unusual its ds an annual report of E M in charge of the lamal indians in idaho these indians as a tribe are honest and peaceable and kindly disposed but are about as degraded and ungrateful a set as one finds finda they have been humored and like spoiled children want things their own way and kneit condition mode of living and barb barbaric ardc practices would indicate that undue conces concessions have been made on the part of agents white some will avail themselves of ef the opportunity of earning their lining toy by civilized pursuits others ead a lazy vagabond life they ate are addle addicted ted to gambling horse racing and dancing land and the influence of the so ao called medicine man ope operates nates to the dds disadvantage advantage of the tribe their real advancement has hao not been what it should or what it was possible to have been under the circumstances in the agents report for on the leahl reservation I 1 find that 29 indian fam families illes were engaged gag ed in farming 16 15 years afterwards I 1 can report but 41 following agricultural pursuits and increase of 12 not one convert a u year what wonderful progression sion Mom morally lly these indians are practically the same as they were twenty years year sago ago financially they are but little better off aside from a few am small all farms wagons and farming fanning implements held by some of the more moire energetic and industrious they have campara i hively nothing except a great number of worthless ponies which if they did not own on they would not be any worse off no horned stock are owned by them at all it would be abe unjust not to state pat that a few have farms and keep constantly itt at work trying to es for themselves comfortable homes A majority however seem to content themselves mcelvea the with their present condition and continue on in the old dh channel annel leading a life of idleness and dattoin 01 agent auner of the Black teet agency Xon montana tania referring to the open I MS fig jut at the ceded vordon under the W eral elial land lai laia last april says aya aft has haj been practically and predicts the abandonment oc al jalu so balled janeral MOP before tk the ot of november s J R jewell in charge of the 3 york tork agency in his report allce all oge after careful investigation the tv of jt the seneca nation na alon are amneet w ly absorbed abB orbed by the officers of th the blon and that they are in collusion white men for such purposes J jewell says the officers notoriously use the of the nation to purchase the the ignorant and illiterate indianer Indian sr on election day are always anai MM a small sum of money the better of indians are not numerous an enkui correu over overcome comie the awer of these colip wat delans who have the funds of the alon to corrupt the m 17 and perpetrate their corrupt dyn |