Show I I GREAT fREA T PROGRESS MADE BY DY INDIANS I Red Men Are Now En Engaged aged in Nearly All Al the Leading Occupations A taken b by a tourist sonic some months n no o showed an Indian plowing He Hc was wa standing as far buick back front from the handles as possible mere merely tickling tho the earth with the tho plowshare and an un ol old walked beside him holding holinG an umbrella over his head Tho The picture Is not typical of f t all al Indian In In- In dust The past summer GOO COO Indians worked In the tho the beet and anil anc cantaloupe fields of or the West cst Indian Inspect Inspectors rs and mechanics are frequent along tho ho j I Santa Sant 10 Fe railway and the thc Salton Salon sea Ct about which so 10 much mich has lately boen written would never nevel havo been controlled con con- trolled without Indian labor sa says the thuc Youths Youth's Companion Over O was paid them In lit n wages for that work alone A lemarl remarkable Indian community of some souls exists on tho the seashore 10 miles mies north of ot Seattle Wash ash The Tho Thos I members s am arc Ish t. i Ing Ini- Ini whoso whose ilos along ua huts used tho lie i to beach si sigg straggle gg Having c cli conveniently con li hearth heard o of city ways however the thc they craved a n village o in lii regular streets raising 80 b by tho they hired a surveyor who planted a village This being approved b by th the Indian commissioner a moving ma machine was Improvised and ant tho Ito little houses houtH were moved mo up tip tp from tho the beach and set Bet In lne lutes lines facing tho lie streets Yards graded nn and raised b by as ms man many sU subscriptions to drain the lie site Then a village government o was itus organized with wih a president council council- counci- counci men mon streets anti and water commissioners cemetery and dog g troU trotter r. r The duties duteR of at this official ar arti arn to collect 1 tax for fOI ci one do log dog In each cach family and und Ii to tf kill all the rest rest The rite entire entro system Is a u ono one to havo o been evolved vol cd and antI to bo ho successfully maintained main main- b by hI full blooded blooded ful-blooded Indians Another Instance of or tho Ito spirit of the lie times among progressive Indians Is that that of ot the Cherol Cherokees ees of ot North orth Caro Caro- I hun lina who sonic some time ago aJo took steps to be Incorporated ThC They provided pro I themselves cl with u a council counci of or sixteen I members and nn an ca executive o committee Tho The council counci which Is elected for Cor two j I I I years lears the Ito business of 0 th tho I I community husbands the mono money of tho ho members In iii the form of or dividends II oC I and designs assigns I them thea homes and I These Eastern Cherokees Cherokee Che aro are entirely supporting self and employer I of or tho the region p prefer r tN them to white laborers I Under the tho business training this cor- cor corI I l affords Individuals of or t the th p tribe are rapidly growing In ability and manliness Tn o two tribes otter offer a striking contrast to the lie Utes who recently r rl refused re- re fused rus d to accede to the Indian commissioner commis nl Is- Is offer to lo bu hu buy their put nut 1 their children Into nearby schools and anti find them work near homo honio a at 2 I lIu day The Sioux 0 may work Ir If thov thoy u a choose wa was their comment but ut v w ne ato government EO Indians and don T dont don't I peed need to Since SInco then however 0 nave have a yielded 10 they |