Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1897 — Poor Lo Behind the I'low. [ARTICLE]

Poor Lo Behind the I'low.

William Bhakspeare, an Arapahoe Indian on the lower Shoshone agency, reports to' he Indian guide of Fort Washakie that the Indians on the subagency are working on their farms more Industriously this year than ever before. They are breaking up a large amount of new land, and where last year the sage brush was thick there are now good farms. He says: ‘“rhe old Indians always used to talk of going to war, and now they talk different; they tell us about farm lug, and bow to farm, and they tell us young men to work hard at farming. I have in about twelve acres of wheat, five of oats, one of potatoes, and a big garden of watermelons, squash and other vegetables. I have twenty-two acres this year Instead of ten last, and all the other Inu.ans are the same way, plowing much more land this ytmr than last.”—Lander, Wyo., letter to Denver Republican.