| Show A BOOTLESS ERRAND big head and a quartette of brawny associated from alia cheyenne indian reservation have gone to washington on business with abe president and tha department with reference to alie opening of the sioux reservation intend president never ta take land from them again and to leave them and their families n undisturbed possession of the remains of their real hunting ground it is also learned that several tribes 0 indians are suing to appeal to the government to allow them to delegate one of their beet to bo at congress during eese ana hereafter BO he can explain the condition and nacda of his people in cases where there will ba legislation affecting them big head and hia party are not likely to meet nil h atie success which the eminence of the delegates and abe gravity of their case warrants the policy which has ever prevailed in the treatment of the aborigines will doubtless be continued to the end in for good lands the government generously gives them poor lands when latter become desirable si either or alie minerals which they contain or the grazing facilities they possess on tutored owners are crowded ap into doeer limits or bundled off to como other point they are robbed and wronged on reservations by agents and traders and pursued by troops if they step outside their boundaries they are popularly considered good only alien dead and are accorded the possession of no rights which white men are bound to respect the savages may be troublesome w ards of the republic but the balance of infamy when the account ia examined will not be found on their elde |
