Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1888 — In Far-Off Idaho. [ARTICLE]

In Far-Off Idaho.

. T. F. Maloney, formerly a well known teacher in Kankakee -tp., now holds the position of ind us trial teacher in the Indian school connected with the Lemhi Indian ikgency, in Idaho. We have been shown an interesting jetter from him to a friend in this'place. He is veiy enthusiastic over some of "tile scchery he “passed in going there. Says that the Indiums at that agency are a mixture of a number of tiibes and are of a low type.. They are opposed to educe lion and the I’2 boys and 12 girls who attend the school have lo be kept there by force. The squaws come every Saturday and each carries away a horse load rations.cn her back, besides, the inevitable papoose. 'Che w«ier temperature in the region -ageiicyr- varieK_.frqm. 32 above zero to (Jo below.