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Text Copyright (c) 2003 John Sipe. Dawes Roll (Corrected), May 7,
1892. Roll no. and age:
These notes were attached also----Colonel Horn, educated 5 yrs. at Haskell
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From a trip to the Indian Territory, we gather some interesting news
about a number of our returned students. Benajah Miles and Casper Edson
are government school farmers. Jesse Bent, Cleaver Warden and Grant Left
Hand are clerking in the stores. Robert Brown and Kish Hawkins are clerking
in Agent's Office. Luke Bear Shield is school clerk and interpreter at
Darlington. Julia Bent is teaching at the Cheyenne agency school. John
Williams is Register of Wills of one of the counties with a salary If $1,000
a year. William Fletcher is also a Register of Wills and hay the best cornfield
in that vicinity. Oscar Bull Bear, is Assistant Government Farmer at, Seger,
Okla. Leonard Tyler is Assistant Farmer at Cheyenne School. Jennie Black
Tyler, his wife is assistant laundress at the same school. Mary North Tassie
has a Cheyenne husband, is living on a good farm, is a good housekeeper,
and exerts a good influence. At the Pawnee Agency, Stacy Matlack and William
Morgan are district government farmers. Rose Howell is assistant matron
at Otoe school. Louie Bayhylle is on the police force. Robert Matthews
has resigned his position as school farmer and expects to come east on
his own work. Frank West is married. Paul Boynton is filling some county
office. Henry North has resigned his position as clerk in Agent's Office.
The three last are working on their claims. Maud Chief Killer is married
to Colonel Horn and they are working at the Cheyenne school. All the returned
students are doing well.
. August 11, 1893 INDIAN HELPER |
Seger Indian Agency
Colony, Oklahoma June 13, 1922 Agents Reports File, Cheyenne & Arapaho Agency Curious Horn, age 65, Allotment #668A, full blood Cheyenne, wife and grand-child. (Brother-in-law to Standing Bird) Date of Survey: April 27, 1922. I visited this home on the afternoon of April 27, 1922, in company with the Agency Physician and the District Farmer. His home is located 2 miles northwest of Clinton, Oklahoma, on the Washita River. He has a three room house in good repair, shed barn, wind mill, well, chicken house and a concrete cave. He has a wagon, buggy, hack, 2 sets of harness, cultivator, monitor, and three horses. He has a good garden and has 15 acres planted to corn and kafir corn. No sickness found in the family. Curious Horn is an old man and unable to do but very little labor. Text Copyright (c) John L. Sipe 2004. Sipe/Berthrong Collections. Seger Agency Reports. |