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'•IOWA INDIAN NEWSFifty-five miles west of Marion on the Milwaukee railroad is an Indian reservation. It seems there is a newspaper there—the Mesquaki Booster. The Des Moines Regis-rter has a half column of items for which it.gives credit to the M. B. paper. We copy, iriying the D. M. R. due credit for the translation or scissoring, whichever it may be:“George Black Cloud reports a new boy in his family and Ke-sha* sah the birth of a daughter.• “Mrs. Percy Bear has been called to Nebraska ts sec her father,Iwho is reported very sick.“A bunch of our boys have been engaged in cutting wood on the farm of Dr. Carpenter, which adjoins the reservation.Na-wa-kc-ke and Harry Davenport have bought new harnesses to be used in the spring work. Na-wa-ke-ke is planning to manage her farm this year and is spending her money to a good advantage.“The high water from the Iowa river is flooding a considerable part of our lowlands, necessitating several of our families moving to higher ground. It has already driven most of the sugar makers from their camps-“Wah-so-sah, She-she-no-qua and Ke-wa-to are buying chickens. If the Mesquakies would lose their taste for chickens long enough to give the industry a good start, every family on the reservation wouldsoon have a nice bunch of hens.%“Ahquewit, who has lived for many years on the hillside back of the Mesquakie day school, has moved to the home of her son, Ka-kaquemo. This old lady is a familiar figure to all interested in the above school, and her absence from the vicinity will be felt.‘Oohn Wiltonosee has been working hard clearing up his land for the spring plowing, John is one of the older men and deserves great credit for the interest he has recently taken in farming and home building, and it would be well if our younger men would take John as an example.“At the Reed sale last fall Joe Tesson bought a suckling Jersey calf, took it home and kept it growing and in thrifty condition all winter without having milk of any kind \o feed it. If you don’t think Joe has accomplished a feat, tackle a proposition of this kind under thesame conditions.%“All of our Indians who were away trapping have returned. On account of the exceedingly cold winter furs haye remained prime and have brought fair prices. Taken as a whole, trapping operations this winter haye been satisfactory and the income from this source has helped these Indiana through what otherwise might have been a rather difficult winter.“Charles Keosautuk, John Bear and,Tom Mitchell, trapping on the Skunk river about eight miles south of Grinnell, caught sixty-three skunks, eight minks, sixty muskrat, three civit cats and two coons, which they sold at an average price of $1.50 for skunks, $3.50 for mink, $2.50 for coons and 35 cents each for rats and civit cats. They report fine trip and many kindnesses extended by the white people upon whose farms they trapped.”
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Marion Register
Marion, Iowa, US
Tue, Apr 17, 1917
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Johnathan B.
IA, USA 20 Nov 2017
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