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could not remain unpunished. Brought before a jury at Fort Klamath, 

 Kintpuash, Chief Skontchish, Black or Huka Jim, and Boston Charley 

 were condemned to the gallows and hung- at the Fort October 3, 1873, 

 while two accessories to the deed — Bantcho and Slu'lks (now George 

 Denny) — were condemned to incarceration at Fort Alcatraz, San Fran- 

 cisco Ba}'.* 



Thus ended the long-contested struggle of the little Modoc band 

 against the Oregon and California volunteers and the regular troops of the 

 United States Army. Certainly the heroism and ingenuity displayed by 

 the Modocs would have been worthy of a better cause, and would have 

 passed down to posterity in the brightest colors of patriotism had not the 

 murderous "entreacte" and Canb3''s death deprived the struggle of its 

 heroic luster. The unworthy termination of this war is well typified by 

 the fact that the skeleton of the Modoc captain is now dangling as an ana- 

 tomical specimen in the museum of the Surgeon-General's Office, at AVash- 

 ington, District of Columbia. 



STATISTICS. 



From the end of the Modoc war to the present year the condition of 

 affairs has not changed much in the Klamath Highlands. The reports of 

 the United States agent repeat the same story of progress towards civiliza- 

 tion every year; but in view of the difficulty of bringing a hunter tribe 

 into the high road of Christian culture and industrial progress we can not 

 attach much credence to such reports so long as they are couched in gener- 

 alities and do not contain special facts attesting mental improvement by 

 schooling. 



In agriculture success is possible only in the Sprague River Valley, 

 but pasturing will succeed almost on every spot of the Reservation. The 

 report of 1888, compared with that of 1880, shows a considerable improve- 

 ment in this direction. The 2,600 horses and mules counted in 1880 had 

 increased to 4,.532 in 1888 ; the 200 head of cattle to 2,201. In the latter 

 year the niunber of swine figured 208, of domestic fowl, 1,000. Of the 

 20,000 tillable acres of land 1,400 were cultivated by the Indians in 



* Slu'lks was released, aud stays now at the Modoc Reservation, Indian Territory, 

 with Scarface Charley and some other wairinrs of that war. 



