| Show OF THE EED RED HEV MEL worthy a while politician Pol ilidan world to same the th F SerViCe 1 S D sept 5 consider able interest ia is manifested manifee teJ liera here con enn coming the final outcome of the in vesti gation as to the missing 2000 indians at the kosebud fluency agency darine the tile progress of 0 the indian commis aion siou last cummer summer in securing the ascent assent of the abree dourthe ol 01 the indiana indians to the proposition to open the tile RT great eat sioux reservation it was often otte n hinted by those in position to know 0 W that it the real number of indiana indians at t I 1 1 k tho the different agencies wa known the lh labors would be he comparatively ively easy for or the reason that them were thousands of names enrolled when ita fact act tho the indiana indians had bad long bince based to the happy hunting ground gro if ii they haegy had r ever had bad an existence esig tence in t the b e wo world dad a at t all the investigation may find the missing indians Irn Jiana at llos ebud bat but there is and has been an idea prevailing among thoe near the reservation that the number of indians claimed to exist and whose names at ale a enrolled have bare long inco since escaped probably pro bibly going to indin indian territory but there is no denying the fact that the indian population in south dakota is to fast ast I 1 dying off those who visit the cheyenne afancy frea frequently bring back the in information or I 1 mation that consumption lung and throat troubles aro are thinning them out and that among them a are r 8 few who have not contracted disease of some kind even children born to full are not bealtho and robust there can be no doubt abent the demoralized zed condition of these people in every way notwithstanding the fostering care bestowed on them by the government and it will be but a few years before the indians as a race will have disappeared from south dakota the reveres evere w intorf inters and the efforts to have the indians change their mode of living are responsible tor for this the government may give an indian a go good buit suit of clothes and he lie will wear them to town on a cold day and the chalcea are that be he will trade them off for half halt value returning to the reservation with only a breech clout the next beard of this indian he has the consumption |
