Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1880 — Burying Children Alive. [ARTICLE]

Burying Children Alive.

Recently we hear that a “clootchman" died in giving birth to twins on the reservation. Shorty after her death a discus sionsrose among the Indians as to who should assume die care of the infants. All refused to care lor them, and there being no other wav to dispose of them the Indians buried the babes alive with their dead mother. If this is true it U the most barbarous and inhuman act we ever heard of, and gives th< lie to all ssaeriipns as to the civilization of the Indians on the Yakima reservation. It calls for an immediate jnyeatigation at the hands of the Indian agent, and should fee fail in this respect the whites ot this seetioa will hold him accessory after the fact. He should ferret ogt and punish the authors of this fiendish outrage.— Yakima (IT. T.) Board. fff | * There being no funds for Federal court expenses, the jurors for the May tom of the United States .coart at New York, criminal branch, were discharged »nd prisoners were liberated on reduced bail.