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THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. AYERS AYER’S Beene Be) Was |" 1803. The Only Sarsaparilla Admitted at The AYER'S | . id SARJAPARILLA, World's Fair WORLD'S FAIR. CHICAGO, Get 1893. The Best. DERANGEMENT OF THE LIVER, WITH CON- Stipetion, injures the complexion, induce pimples, skin. Remove the cause by using Carter'é tle Liver Pills. One a dose. ‘Try them, THE MODERN MIRACLES OF HEALING WHICH itably performed b; y are yy, Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills Tecelve the closest investiga- tion by sick people and thelr friends. ja27-eosly Grand Excursion Sunday 42 9 AM. AND 4:20 P.M. FROM 6TH STREET DEPOT TO Columbia Park, THE GEM OF SUBURBS. Choice Lots $30 and Up. ‘The Park ts situated on = high plateau on the vania raflroad, and also on a Frake Beach railroad (now baiiding), lying 270 it above Wi on, where. pure 4 cent off for cash. We Fg, SR ve sold two-thirds of our . Houses are now in course of construction. Exearston at office, at 4:36 p.m. Circulars and tickets st. o.w., and from our eS t ttle of Angostura Bitters to favor your Lemonade, and keep your digestive organs daily esr OCEAN CITY NUTES. Interesting Features of Life at ‘This Maryland Resort. Correspondence of The Evening Star. OCEAN CITY, Md., August 9, 1894. Situated on the long, narrow island of Assateague, end washed by the waters of Sinepuxent bay on one side and the waves of the Atlantic on the other, this little place 1s becoming deservedly more and more pop- ular each year with Washingtonians. ‘The names of the cities of New York, Phil- adelphia,Chicago, Baltimore, Richmond, Nor- folk, Frederick and Annapolis are all seen oppesite names on register the At- lantic ‘Hotel, tenths am poor fib Sh = for one restful week. The bathing here has often beeh pronoenced equal to Cape May itself, and although it is, apparently, a = gently cloping and very safe beach, t are numerous life lines, and a life is always on’ the sand during the bathing hour, to plunge in to the Tescue at short no’ Since my last visit here, in 1902, there = been at least thirty stoPes and cottages yuilt. A very interesting feature of Ocean City is the daily putting out to sea of the fleet of fishing boats through the breakers, and their return at noon, generally with a full basket, and cften in addition there would be a big turtie,a sturgeon, a shark or some other odd denizen of the briny deep. To us who watch these hardy, jolly, ragged, sun- burned and barefooted men it seems a dan- gerous expertment every time they breast the waves. Thre are usually three of four to each boat, but one old fellow invariably ventures forth alone on the heaving billows, and by great skill and strength he ma- neuvers his little craft, unaided, success- fully to the fishifig grounds, from two to five miles away. There ts a life saving Station in the line of cottages, and any visitor who will re- quest the favor is politely initiated into the workings .nd the damestic economy of these Beneficent institutions. Each is sup- lied with a geod many..comforts, not the least of which is a small but well-selected library for the use of the men during the lonely winter. Now there are only a few on duty. In former years the famous, tiny, blue- eyed, spotted Chincoteague ponies were a common sight, either being ridden by visit- ors up and down the beach or quietly brows- ing on the scanty herbage behind the hotels and cottages, but I have not come across any of these animals this season. Tradition says that many years ago a vessel congain- ing Shetland ponies was wrecked off Chin- coteague Island, and that these are their posterity. Another local tale ts of a Spanish galleon which went down, about the time of the revolution, some few miles north of Ocean City. There is a strip known as “money beach,” where Spanish coins have been found quite plentifuily. I examined one specimen, said to have been picked up there, and {t was undoubtedly Spanish, and the still legible date proved it to be at least one “Among. Wastinglonians "here" recentt Among is here recently were Interstate Commerce Commissioners J. D. Yeomans and Ciements and their re- spective families, Mr. and Mrs. Wi ‘aggaman Seca na toate eae ted urn, fe Senator Jones, th €. Gwynn and family, Mrs. Elseman family, Mr. and and family, C. R. Newman and ——>__—_ EVICTIONS AT PULLMAN. The Striking Temants Will Be Asked to Leave Their Homes. The Chicago Post says: Pullman's ten- ants will be evicted—Vice President Wickes sald so today. The company claims that it faust find houses for its new employes to live in, and as the strikers have been camp- ing in the Pullman flats without paying a cent of rent for the last three months, they must get out. This move is the very last in the big strike, and {tt will forever dis- comfit the employes. The company’s houses cover about three thousand people. These three thousand conststed of the strikin workmen snd their families.. There about one thousand new men in the shops that have families and that desire to live near their work. The old employes must make way for the new. “Will the company evict the tenants?” Mr. Wickes was asked. “Something of that kind must be done," he replied; “we must find quarters for our new employes.” “Have you taken any active steps in the matter yet?” “No; not yet, but we will soon do so.” “When?” cannot say exactly when, but very soon.” Mr. Wickes spoke in a manner from which ene might gather that the lawyers were already looking about, und would be pre- pared at any minute to go ahead with the work. “Will it pot be a troublesome process?” he was asked. “Oh. I don’t know. I suppose it can be } song easily enovgh. It must be done, any- ow.” This will be a deathblow to the tenants, who are the strikers. They have no money md very little food. When their scant supplies of household furniture are set out in the streets by the constables ft will be impossible for them to move tt away. Even now they cannot afford to buy a pound of coal to cook the raw potatoes they get from the committee. The prospects are gloomy indeed for the poverty-stricken occupants of the company’s ho: Eviction is the very | for. “Sure! thing the people ne woman on Felton hey won't put us out. Where would go If the We have Ro money; not 1gh to buy a bushel of coal. We have es. The American Public would not s y and see a thou- sand families rendered home 5 Any striking te to return to work will be left in his house, but inside ef two days the remaining six hundred | Places will be filled, and the tenants who | cannot go back—even If they wished will be left out In the cold. —+e-— Three distinct shocks of earthquake were felt at Memphis yesterday morning. The| shocks were of ten seconds’ duration. All buildings swayed and windows rattled, but ko damage was done. to-- STREET EXTENSION The Map of the First Section Practi- cally Completed. ~ THE CMYS PLAN IN THE SUBURBS The Proposed Line of the Extended Streets and Avenues. BEAUTIFUL BOULEVARDS There are few matters of greater import- ance to the citizens of Washington than that of the extension of the city streets, For months the District engineer depart- ment has been engaged upon this work, and countless maps have been prepared, show- ing in detail the different schemes of ex- tension. It is a big subject, a herculean task, for there are property interests that must be considered, and steep grades and other details that call for the exercise of the best engineering judgment in the com- pletion, or rather the successful completion, of such an important work. Unlike other cities, Washington was at the beginning laid out on a geometrical and almost ideal plan, and on a scale worthy the capital of a great nation. It is hardly Possible that the most sanguine of its founders ever dreamed that the original limits of the city would be passed within a century. No active effort was made to pro- vide for the enlargement of the city’s plan until some seven or eight years ago, when the people suddenly realized that a per- nicious system, or rather lack of system, in suburban subdivisions was rendering the extension of city streets impossible on their present lines. What had been done in other cities was being reversed here. The greater Washington was growing into a “cow-path elty.” A of subdivisions long Boundary street from Massachusetts avenue to Ist street had been made without the direct extension of a single street or avenue, and with very little regard as to connections with each other; some of them, in fact, shutting off communication with adjacent subdivisions. Streets had been laid out along the old roads or parallel to them, an in widths no greater than city places and alleys. The Evil Checked. Six avenues were thus blocked at Bound- ary street, making them end at the bottom of the hills, and in a street about half their width. Congress was appealed to for aid in the matter, the plan being to extend the city streets by condemnation through these irregular patches, and then make all new additions conform to the city plam. Failing to get the legislation desired, some law was requested te prevent a spread of the evil in Rew subdivisions. This brought forth the act of 1388, regulating all future subdivisions in the District. A number of subdivisions were made in accordance with this law, which were, of course, laid out after the city system, so that when the city streets are exgended and the intermediate tracts are subdivided, the whole will form one harmonious plan. Continued efforts were made to have the first idea carried out, and the resuli was the passage over a year ago of the act for a “permanent system of highways. This act provides for the recording of extension Plans with the surveyor and for condemna- tion proceedings, but no money was ap- propriated for the condemnation, this last item being cut out of the original bill. There has therefore been no necessity for a hurriedly prepared plan of extension, and the Commissioners hope in a short time to present for record a complete and well digested plan of all that suburban section north of Florida avenue and included be- tween North Capitol street extended and Rock creek. Some few hearings have been had on the subject and written sugges- tions and petitions have come from all sites. What the Map Will Show. This first section covers an area of about nine square miles—two square miles in park, one square mile divided after the city sys- tem,four square miles unsubdivided and two square miles being covered by irregular sub- Givisions. These last comprise several thou- sand small lots owned by as many individ- uals. It is these small holdings that have proved such an obstacle fh the way of street extension, as mauy of the lots will be wholly included within the lines of pro- posed streets ard must be purchased. Oth- ers will have but a small area: taken from one end of the lot, and additonal benefits may balance the value of the part taken id no damages allowed. In the agricultural or unsubdivided parts very little condemnation will be necessary as it is expected to get the streets when subdivisions are made. ‘he plan of this first section ccver about thirty good-sized maps showing ll details —necessa: for a complete record. The localities cf ali Proposed avenues are given upon every lot line that is crossed as well the area taken. Most of the streets have been re- tained and widened, the rectification being mainly by the extension of particular ave- nues and streets northerly from the city. Sixteenth street will be extended with its as width and direction to the District ine, a distance of more than miles — op pha nom a ere mile being along ern boundary of Rock Creek Park, where a che view care had jeenth and lth aj ! the mn of some widening, and will be tended north to District Itne. tir- feenth street from Kenesaw avenue north an excellent natural grade and will become a fine drive into the city if kept free from tracks, which is likely, as it runs very near to Brightwood avenue. Deviations From the Line. New Jersey avenue on account of some steep grades ts bent from its city direction and also reduced in width. It follows the line of a smal valley direct from Boundary to 14th street, and along 14th street road to 16th street extended. A better natural grade, it is claimed, could not be selected from Mt. Pleasant to the city, and this ex- tension ts further desired in the interest of harm the sewer department having ad- vocated it a number of years ago. The extension of 17th street has not been on a direct line, as the old Piney Branch road and Central avenue were included for the saké of economy. The breaks, how- evar, are slight, and the proposed lines will allow a fairly continuous highw: Its éx- tension {s mainly desirable as relief to 16th street extended, as the two streets will be the only direct connections with the city for the section between 14th street and Rock creek. Connecticut avenue ts also shifted in its extension, on account of excessive cost and because grades can be established to the east without great damage to present grad- ed streets in Washiugton Heights. Colum- bla road will be retamed and widened into an avenue and extended to 18th street, where it will joim with New Hampshire avenue extended from Petworth. Broad Boulevards. -A project has been worked out quite fully for connecting Rock Creek Park by a boulevard with Soldiers’ Home, which lat- ter will no doubt become a public park as the city grows around it. This boulevard will follow both sides of Piney branch from the park boundary to 16th street extended, the building lines being 220 feet apart. East of 16th street it is 160 feet wide, tak- ing in all of Spring road and forming a new entrance at the Soldiers’ Home. At the Southeast entrance of Soldiers’ Home an- other ayenue is proposed, 160 feet in width, and leading to Mt. Hamilton and the East ern branch, where the reclaiming of the flats will offer another park similar to what is contemplated along the Potomac. South of the Zoological Park will be a driveway on either bank of Rock creek, with a narrow park ing In the creek and Jand between the drives. This will end at Q | street, where some city street will be se- lected and widened to connect with the im- proven.ents on the Potomac. If the mall and East Capitol street are considered as an- other connecting drive the city will then have a link of parks and drives about the city’s center varying greatly in topography and ratural beauty, having excellent grades and aggregating twelve miles in length. A very important matter in conection ith street extensions fs the renaming of he streeis. This question has not been firally determined upon, but the rule that will probably be followed is to begin naming the streets above W after the principal cities of America, running in alphabetical order according to the initial jetters, When the alphabet is thus exhausted, names -of rivers and lakes will be taken. The names likely to be used are as follows Cities—Albany, Baltimore, Cincinnati, De- troit, Emporia, Frankfort, Galveston, Hart- ford, Indianapolis, Joliet, Keokuk, Lowell, Milwaukee, Newayk, Omaha, Philadelphia, Quincy, Richmond, Savannah, Trenton, Utica, Vallejo, Wilmington, Xenia, Yuma, Zanesville. Rivers and lakes—Albemarle, Brandywine, = Des Moires, Erie, Flint, Gene- see, Huron, Itaska, Juniata, Kennebec, Le- high, Mohawk, Niagara, Ontario, Penobscot, Quinebaug, Rappahannock, Susquehanna, Tahoe, Umatilla, Vermillion, Wabash. ‘The avenves will be named, as at present, after the states, and there are a sufficient number of avenues in es to use the rame of every state and territory. The Other Section. After recording the first section, another will be prepared taking the suburban parts of the northeast. - Considerable work has already been done upon this part, and the solution of the problems presented is easy when compared with the first section. In addition to this general plan, special ones have been prepared during the past year for the extension of important ave- nues. These have included Rhode Island averue northeast and Massachusetts avenue Nebraska avenues northwest. The extension of Massachusetts avenue from Rock creek to the District line 1s projected, which, when completed, will of- fer to the city a short and beautiful drive to Cabin John bridge and Glen Echo. It will then b2 about nine miles in length and 160 feet wide. Philadelphia has lately de- elded to give $6,000,000 for a little more than one mile of such avenue. The exten- sion of this avenue will be of little cost to the District, it is said, as the owners along the avenue have donated, or promised, most of the right of way. — AT BERKELEY SPRINGS. Straw Rides and Dinners and Uther Social Events. Correspondence of The Evening Star. BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va., Aug.10,1804. ‘The weather has been delightfully cool, therefore the gayeties have increased. The ball room its filled every evening with dancers, and the long portico for which this place is noted is crowded. Tonight the young daughters of Thos. W. King, vice president of the B. and O. rail- road, will give a straw ride to Lover's Leap. Among those who will go are Misses Alia and Annie King, Claude Miles of Norfolk, Jennie Wise, daughter of Capt. Wise, U. S. N.; Betey Sample of Washington, Eliza- beth Defries of Baltimore, Isabel Pallen Smith of Washington and Margaret Flor- ance; Messrs. Preston Gibson of Washing- ton, Oden Hoestmann of New York, Thos. Fitzgerald of Baltimore, Allen Stokes of Richmond, John Robertson, Fred King and Lucian Breckinridge. Mrs. Lieut. Chas. R. Miles will chaperon the affair. A dainty little supper will be’served to the young people on the top of the mountain. Mrs. Oates, the wife of the newly elected governer of Alabama, is here with her son. The family of Representative Bynum is among the recent arrival: Mr, John McKim of Baltimore will give a play “entitled “Snow Ball” on Friday even- ing for the benefit of the Village Improve- mént Association. The characters will be taken by Mr. John McKim of Baltimore, Miss Morris of the same place, Miss John- son, granddaughter of Reverdy Johnson of Maryland, Mr. Saltonstall of New York and Mr. Breckinridge of Kentucky. Mrs. George of Baltimore will give a large tea this afternoon. Mrs. Rosa Pelham Suit gives a dinner to- night at the Castle. Tuesday night the ladies gave a supper for the benefit of the Episcopal Church of Berkeley. The affair was held in the ordinery of the Berkeley Springs Hotel. The room was dressed with ferns, flowers and palms, and the subducd light of many wax candles and shaded lamps was very effective. Miss May Wise of Washington and Miss Nora Blackwell were pretty wait- resses, Mr. W. A. Magee of the Pittsburg Times is here enjoying himself fishing and hunt- ing. Representative Adams of Pennsyl- vania is visiting Representative Reyburn and family at their cottage. Mr. Adams gave a supper on Saturday evening to sev- eral friends in the private dining rooms of the Berkeley Springs Hotel. The guests were Representative Reyburn and wife, Mr. John McKim of Baltimore, Mr. Wm. Ad- dicks of Philadelphia, Mr. and Mrs, H. A. Orth of Washington and Mrs. J. E. M. Stoughton. Next week will be very gay. Besides th usual hops, a phantom party and a fan dress ball are to be given, with large din- ners at the vartous cottages Miss Callle McCall of Florida is here. Mrs. D. P. McCartney recently returned from Washington. A large hop was given on Monday cvening at the Berkeley Springs Hotel. The dress- ing was elegant. Among the handsome | toilets the following were noticed: Mrs. | Wm. Stokes of Richmond was robed in white silk, lace and diamonds; Mrs, H. A. | Orth of Washington, white tulle over stlk, diamond pendant and tlara; Mrs. Stoughton of Boston, an elegant gown of heliotrope silk and velvet, diamond and amethyst Jewels; Mrs. Nora Blackwell of Baltimore, pink tulle over satin, diamond jewelry; Mrs. Worthington of Baltimore, white silk and mull; Mrs. Hardesty, black silk and jet; Miss Bessie Wilcox of Philadelphia, pink silk mousseline de sole and diamonds; Mrs. Wilcox, black brocaded moire and point lace and diamonds; Miss Nannie Green of Berkeley, red silk and lace, dia- monds and rubies; Miss May Wise of Wi ington, black lace and pale blue satin, tur- juoise and pearl ornaments; Miss Anna rge, Baltimore,black silk skirt,with even- ing waist of organ plaited chiffon; Mit Beckey Gaither, whité mull and pink ri! bons; Mrs. Branch, wife of Representative Ww. Branch of Alabama, was dressed in silk, lace and jet, diamond orna- * . Co}. Biddle of Baltimore, ma- enta silk, point lace and diamonds; Mre. eut. Miles of Old Potnt Comfort, mourn- ing toilet of silk; Mrs. Admiral Almy, black silk and lace; Miss Almy, white silk and pearls; Miss Wrenn of Washington, pink silk and chiffon; Miss Bohrer, white tulle over si Miss Helene Jones of St. Louls, whi ik and mull; Miss Persis Jones, pale blue organdie and lace; Mrs. Harry Wells of Washington, pink silk trim- med with rare old duchesse lace, diamond pendant; Mrs. C. P. Jack of Berkeley,black silk, lace and pale pink, diamond orna- ments; Miss Wrenn, primrose silk covered with tulle, diamond ornaments; Miss Dan- {els of Washington, white lace over pale yellow silk, pearl necklace. Mrs. Dr. Pennington of Washington gave a dinner on Tuesday evening. The guests were Misses Lee and George, Messrs. Cooper and McKim. Mrs. Pennington was dressed in pink silk, with diamond orna- ments; Miss George wore mousseline de soie over pink silk; Miss Lee was attired in blue silk. A supper will be given on Friday night immediately after the theatricals for the benefit of the Catholic Church. Mrs. D. P. McCartney, United States navy; Mrs. Lieut. Irwin, United States navy; Mrs. Col. Baugh- man of Baltimore and Mrs. Nat. Pendleton are superintending the affair. It will be held at the Berkeley Springs Hotel. Governor Brown and staff and the officials of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad have | been invited to lend their presence to the gayeties of this week and have accepted. Thirty gentlemen are expected on Frid: Tonight Miss McIlvain of Baltimore gives a large dinner at Mrs. Reed's beautiful cot- tage. THEY eves SS FELL WITH A SCAFFULD, Eight Men Seriously Injured in the City Hall at Jersey City. A scaffold upon which eight men were working Thursday afternoon broke down one of the interior walls of the new city hall at Jersey City. The men fell to the cellar. They broke through the first floor, which is fire-proof. A fire alarm was rung and the men were quickly extricated and sent to the elty hospital. ‘The list of the’killed and inju Thomas Dwyer, fatally bruise teen minutes after the accident. Keighan two years ago, and was defeated. | eeeien of AN APACHE’S PLEA Remarkable Story of an Indian Who Was Once a Hostile. MISFORTUNE OF A BAD REPUTATION He Was Always Under Suspicion and Now is in Prison. HIS RELEASE PROPOSED ee ee Es-kim-in-zin, an Apache chief, held as. priscner of war at Mount Vernon barracks, Alabema, is the subject of correspondence between the Interior and the War Depart- nents. The case is an interesting one. The War Departmént alleges that Es-kim- in-zin is a treacherous, cruel and bad In- dian, while the partisans of Es-kim-in-zin aesert that these charges are false, and that the Indian has been sentenced and ex- iled without trial and without the filing of specific charges. An application for the re- lease of Es-kim-in-zin was made to the In- terior Department four years ago, and by the Indian bureau was referred to the War Department, which reported adversely to the Indian. Recently the case was brought to the attention of Mr. Sims, first assistant secretery of the interior, by Mr. John P. Clum, at present a post office inspector, but forr.erly agent at the San Carlos reserva- tion, Arizona. The case has been referred by Mr. Sims to Dariel M. Browning, commissioner of Indian affairs, and in turn referred by him to the War Department. There the case resis, but an investigation is promised. Gen. Howard, U. 9, A., is a friend of the exiled Apache, and believes that he should be released. It is claimed by those inter- ested in the exile that.the order expelling him from Arizona was, at best, a military Precaution, and certainly could never have been regarded as a military necessity. Capt. Wotherspoon, commandant at Mount Vefnon barracks, is also sympathizer with the imprisoned chief. Vincent Colyer states to the authorities that Es-kim-in-zin was the first Indian pogr ge Seg ing the military post at ol ‘amp a Arizona, in the spring of 1871, and asked to be allowed to live in peace. It is asserted that while there under the protection of the American flag, and assured by the army of- fiecrs that he and his people could sleep in their camp in as perfect security as the sol- ters could in theirs, they were, in the early iawn, set by a band of assassins, un- der the le; ip of Americans, and 128 of his tribe, his family, relatives and friends, old men, women and children, were brutal- ly murdered and their bodies mutilated. Aguin Assaulted. Es-kim-in-zin saved only one member of his family from the slaughter, and this was a little girl, two and a half years old, whom he caught in his arms as he fled. Es-kim-in-zin, the day after the massacre, returned to Camp Grant, where the com- manding officer assured him that no soldier had any part in or sympathy with this brutal butchery. With this assurance he returned with the survivors of his band, and once more placed themselves under the protection of the troops. Within six weeks his camp was charged by a troop of white soldiers, his people assaulted and driven into the mountains. It was stated in ex- tenuation® by the authorities that this was a very unfortunate blunder. It appeared to Es-kim-in-zin like trickery and he became erraged. He was stirred to revenge, and later, either he, or one of his friends, killed a white man. His friends maintain that it was wonder- ful that he stopped at the death of only one of a race with which he had formerly main- | tained relations of perpetual war and who since a truce was declared had exercised, as he believed and had reason to believe, so much treachery and cruelty toward him and his people. The enemies of Es-kim-in-zin emphasize his crime by gayi: killed had befrien that these people His friends say ppear to lose sight of the fact that all this cruelty and murder ioward the was enacted fter the most solemn assurances of friend- ship and protection had been made to the Indians by the commisStoned officers of the American government. Injustice nted Ont. It is said that one of the papers filed in the case in behalf of Es-kim-in-zin con- tains the following paragraph: “Is it not Strange that we can pass lightly over the | 128 treacherous and cowarly murders in- Stigated by white men, while we carefully treasure the memory of a single killing by an Indian, and after the lapse of twenty- three years point to him and say: “This man murdered his friend,’ without even giving him the benefit of the circumstances which instigated the crime.” Within the two years which followed the massacre at old Camp Grant, Special Com- missioner Colyer and Gen. 0. 0. Howard visited Arizona. Post Office Inspector Clum told The Star reporter that these officers did not find Es-kim-in-zin “treacherous, cruel and bad,” but that, on the contrary, they had great confidence in him, and that Gen. Howard believes in the old chief to this day. Mr. Clum states that when he went to Arizona in 1874 as the Indian agent at San Carlos he found Es-kim-in-zin a prisoner of war at new Camp Grant in irons, engaged in making ado! for the soldiers, and that then, as now, there were no specific charges against him. Mr. said that the offi cid. him } | | | like him, and dian, He Was Suspected. In 1874 Agent Clum made an official re- quest for the release of Es-kim-in-zin, which was complied with without opposition on the part of the military. From the time of his release to the time that Agent Clum left San Carlos no man was more faithful to the interests of the reservation than this Indian. Agent Clum has stated to the au- thorities that in the trying times at San Carlos In 1874 to 1877 this chief was never found wanting in action or advice. The agent frequently depended upon nis support when he felt his life in danger, and the old chief never failed to do his duty well. When Mr. Clum left San Carlos, Es-kim-in-zin ex- pressed a fear that there might again be trouble at the reservation, and he sald that he would go down on the San Pedro and take up some land and live like a white man, that the authoritics might not blame him for what should afterward happen at the rese:vation. Es-kim-in-zin took up a ranch on the San Pedro in 1877, improved it with irrigation ditches and stocked it. When Victorio and his outfit left the reser- vation it was at once rumored that Es- kim-in-zin was in sympathy with the rene- gades. At every fresh rumor of trouble with the Indians at San Carlos fresh charges Were made against the ex-chief of the San Pedro, accompanied by frequent demands that he should be imprisoned or killed. The Arizona Citizen ‘as about the only paper in all that region which said a good wor’ the old Indian. ag iat ' He Tell«-His Story. The subsequent story of Es-kim-in-zin is best told by himself ira statement made to Capt. Wetherspeon, under date of March, 1892, and which is now on file the War | a large attendance. Department. Substantially it is as follows:| Mr. Chas, Raymond Brodix arrived at the “Seventeen years ago I to Oakland on Saturday last, to join his wife on the San Pedro, Cleabed the tras eect | and: children, who have been spending the took out water in a ditch which I made. | month of July y Mr. 1 ploughed the land. and made a fence | Brodlx took his family to a + neral Spring around it like the Mexicans. When Ijin the near neighborhood of Charlestown, started I had three horses and twenty-five | Va. é head of cattle. I was on the San Pedro ten | Mre. G. M. : r. Ca- } Then I had seventeen horses, thirty- | ph O'Connor, a1 in the week : rge yellow wagon, for | for an extended sta ch T patd $150; four, sets of harness, for | Consider Interest is felt over the Frank Fields, bricklayer; hurt internally, gWwhich I paid 3 » and another Patrick Kennedy of Hoboken, bricklayer; on, which cost me $9, but which T had hurt about the head; unconsciou given to some relatives. I had many | Peter Sullivan of New York, b tools. For t three years I drew rations bruised internally. from the agent. After that I did not draw John Jerson; cut about the head. any more til! | was sent to the agency by Martin Fleming; injured about the head | Lieut. Watson. © bought all my y and chest. | clothing and supplies with the money ¥ Henry Detmarrin, bricklayer; crushed by | made. In_ 188s iss eat gon came to, my | : {ranch and guve me a_ paper ‘ap am ea ae i | Pearce, the agent,,and told me that I had | To Oppose Congressman MeKeighan, better © Carlos reservation, as | ‘ i citizens I did not; that | The republican congressional convention | (tZens oa pou Soe of the fifth Nebraska disirict yesterday | petals. <b day cates 7a | nominated Prof. W. BE. Andrews of Hast- | jeft m shot at my women, | ings. He ran against Congressman M their skirts, and They tock five hundred and | boundaries must either leave or suffer tne | | One fifteen sacks of corn, wheat and barley, de- stroyed five hundred and twenty-three pump- kins and took away thirty-two head of cattle. After that I went to Washington, and when I returned they asked me if I did not want to go back to my ranch on the San Pedro, I said no. I would not be safe there, and would feel like a man sitting on a chair with some one scratching the sand out from under the legs. Then Capt. Pearce said that I could select a farm on the reserva- tion, so I went with Lieut. Watson and se- jected a piece of land on the Gila just above the subagency. Lieut. Watson surveyed it for me. I made a ditch for irrigating, and had water flowing in it, and had nearly finished fencing the farm when I was ar- rested. Since I have been away my wife and some of iny children have looked after the farm for m Again in Trouble. Such is a part of the story of Es-kim-in- zin, but the drama does not end here. In 1871 his people were attacked and massa- cred by citizens and in 1874 he was a prisoner of war in trons, disliked by some in authority and regarded by them as a bad Indian. In 1888 he was again com- pelled to flee from a company of armed citizens who were coming to take his life; his family was assaulted, driven away and his ranch looted. Although compelled to abandon the lands which he had improved and occupied for ten years on the San Pedro, he was still undismayed and once more set himself to work to meke a new home on iand within the limits of the res- ervation which had been set apart by the government for the sole use and benefit of the Indians. He had just completed some important improvements when his relatives committed a crime, and it was deemed judicious cnce more to make Es- kim-in-zin a prisoner of w and a little later, it 1s asserted by his friends, without trial and without giving the accused the benefit of a single witness, the old Indian was taken away from the reservation guard house at nidnight, and sent into exile, it is said, as a military precaution. His friends claim that he is disliked by some people in authority, and that they al- lege t he is a bad Indian, lable to aid and abet the renegades, but that the proof of these allegations does not appear to have been filed with the papers in the case. Es- kim-in-zin is still at Mount Vernon bar- racks, Alabama, a prisoner of war. The documents filed at the War Department by the friends of the Indian charge that he has been accused falsely; that he has been per- secuted, humiliated, imprisoned, froned, and finally exiled, not only without a trial, but without specific charges. He is sharing the same fate with Geronimo, who was always @ renegade while in Arizona. Es-kim-in-zin, though broken-hearted over his many mis- fortunes, is said by the authorities at Mount Vernon barracks to be orderly and indus- trious, and to be giving the community the benefit of his labor and Intelligence, while Sanne is making bows and arrows to sell for his own benefit to the travelers he meets at the railway station, The Indian's Plea. Es-kim-in-zin, in concluding his final plea, says: “Since I put down a stone with Gen. Howard many years ago, and prom- ised that I would never do anything wrong, I have rot broken my promise. I ask to be sent back to my family at San Carlos and given the land surveyed by Lieut. Watson: that it be given me forever, and I wili never ask for rations or anything else for myself or my family from the government. I want to work like a white man and sup- port my family. I can do it, and I will al- ways be a good man.” The Secretary of War has referred the consideration of matters pertaining to the Apache prisoners of war to Capt. Davis, and it is understood that the War Depart- ment is anxious to transfer the custody of Es-kim-in-zin and the other prisoners to the Irdian office or to any responsible parties who may have in view a plan look- ing to the improvement of the conditions and the permanent settlement of such In- dians. es LEAVING THE CHEROKEE s1TrKir. Thousands Go Away From a Barren and Parched Country. Special Correspondence of The Evening Stag. TOPEKA, Kan., August 8, 1894. ‘The reports from the Cherokee strip coun- try are exceedingly discouraging and pre- sent a picture of want and desolation that will elicit the sympathy of people every- wehre. The strip of country comprising | the Cherokee outlet is fifty miles wide and 150 miles long. With the exception of a little bottom land skirting the Arkansas and Canadian rivers, it ts clmost as barren as the sandy deserts of Utah. Hot winds which have swept over that country-for the past three weeks, together with the long protracted drouth, have withered and dried up every vestige of green, and the 50,000 people, who lve within the Cherokee strip pangs of hunger. This is the situation there today. There is no other alterative for those who are still there. On the 16th of Septeraber of last year the Cherokee strip was opened to settlement. hundred thousand people made the | grand rush for homes. On that day bilster- ing hot winds from the staked plains of | Texas greeted their incoming. Today the fame destroyer greets the long trains of covered wagons cs they take up their line of,march for other states where bread can be secured. It is estimated that of the 100,- 000 who went into the strip nearly one not more than 50,000 are there others having already gone to Arkansas, Mississipy Louisiana, Missouri and other states. ‘Thos? who have gone have abandoned their claims to the prairie dogs and coyotes, the natural inhabitants of that region. Traveling from Arkansas City across the strip to the south::est, one will meet scores of emigrant wagons filled with men, women ani children leaving the country. Ask them where they are going and they can- not tell — They are fleeing from the desert. lany are going to southern Mis- sour! and northern Arkansas, while others are drifting back to eastern Kansas, where they have relatives and friends. ° Apeneations by the hundred are being le to the land office officials for an ad- ditional leave of absence from their home- steads. Under the law the homesteader cannot be absent from his claim more than six months at a time. Hundreds are re- questing an additional three months, so they car leave and spend the winter else- where. Then, they say, they will go back in the spring and try it over again. They still hope that there is an outcome to the Cherokee strip country, and with a courage equal to that of the people of western Kan- sas, who have for years fought against fate, many will return next spring to make an- other effort. ———.—_— DEER PARK HAPPENINGS. Some of the People Who Are Enjoy- ing Life at This Resort. Correspondence of The Evening Stax. DEER PARK, Mé., August 8, 1894. With the opering of the present month the flood tide of gayeties reached its height. Mr. Beriah Wilkins, with his wife and family, arrived on Saturday for a prolonged stay, bringing with them thelr borses and carriages. Mr. Wilkins returned to the city cn Monday, but will come back later. Mrs, Chapin fs again in possession of her pretty cottage in the grounds, having ar- rived early in the season from southern California, where she has been spending the past winter. Mr. and Mrs, Chapin intend returning to their Massachusetts, avenue residence in tae autumn. During her ab- sence in the west Mrs. Chapin’s health has greatly improved. A few evenings since the guests of the hotel were treated to a minstrel perform- ance by the colored waiters, The entertain- ment took place in the dining hall and drew iment, who mp upon the ng of the fourth Virginia re pected shortly to go in c nds just a: the track, opposite the As the officers and ‘their families | at the hotel there is every n unusual amount of gay- com « ar gro Oakland. en. Gibbon, who has been the guest of nd Mrs. Hosmer at their cottage, left sday for Washingtor Estes G. Rathbone has as her guests for the present month Miss Weiler and Miss Van DeVeer of Hamilton, Ohio. Among the recent arrivals from Washing- | ton are Commissioner C uesdell, Lieut. | Alger and wife, Mrs. W. B. Dubl, Mr. | and Mrs. G. Wolf, R. J. Fisher and J. C. Drake. DEAD LETTERS Over Half a Million Came From Foreign Lands Last Year. pS Se, EFFORTS 1) FIND THEIR DESTINATION Memory an Important Element in the Work. CURIOUS INCIDENTS During the last fiscal year ended June 20, 1894, 590,662 letters from foreign” lands drifted into the dead letter office at Wash- ington. The individuals addressed being not discovered, 1.early ail of these missives had to be sent back to the countries whence they came. Yet the United States Post office is vastly more clever at finding people than are the authorities abroad. Orly a few days ago a letter dispatched from New York with the superscription, “Levi P. Morton, Paris, France,” was re- turned marked “Inconnu”—1. e, “un- known.” Nevertheless, the ex-Vice Presi- dent was tn the French capital at the time at one of the great hotels. k The foreign authorities scem to be stupid about such things. Letters from the Unit- ed States addressed to Walter Besant or Algernon Swinburne, “England,” are sent back marked “Insufficient address.” One might suppose that English people would know «bout their own famous literary men. It used to be the same way with Charles Reade and Robert Browning. An Ameri- can child’s letzer to “Santa Claus, Hartz Mountains, Germany,” was returned with “Unknown,” “Not found” and “Insuffi- cient address” stamped all over it by sev- enteen_postmasters. At Christmas time every year children write letters to Santa Clats and mail them, usually unstamped. If a foreign address is given, the missive is dispatched in the mails, the rules of the international postal union not requiring prepayment. Eventu- ally it finds its way back to the foreign division of the Post Office Department. If it contains @ petition from some poor child for a small gift the employes cf the office will occasionally play Santa Clavs, making up @ purse to buy the article requested. Comparatively few of the foreign letters which reach the dead letter office here can be delivered to the ns addressed, be- cause it is not allowable to open them. If one of them ts open when received it is sealed with a special stamp, which looks somewhat like an ordinary postage stamp, bearing the words, “Post Office ent —oficially sealed.” The first stamp of this kind that was issued had the words “post obitum” on it, meaning “after death.” A specimen is worth today $10. The sealing stamps are hard to get and are in demand by collectors. The letters from abroad which have fatled of delivery on account of badly written ad- dresses are handled by ex ss, who ex- hibit worderful skill in deciphering them. Miss Clara Richter, in charge of the for- eign division, is a famous hand at such work. The spelling on some of the envel- opes is amazing. For example, “Susan- meri” is intended for Sault St. Marie. That ig a comparatively easy one. “Schinescham, Toulocontus is Chinese Camp, Tuolumne County. rym Pantewnia” is meant for Green Point avenue. Memory an Important Element. Memory is an important element in “blind reading,” as this work is called. Miss Rich- ter got hold of a letter the other day with a peculiar name, and nothing else on it except “America.” She remembered that twenty years or more ago a person of the same rame had been found at Grand Rapids, Mich. The letter was forwarded to that | point and reached the intended recipient. On one occasion the local post office of Washington did not know how to deliver a letter addressed to “Teserero General de Nacion.” It was advertise’ as for “Gen. ‘Teverero.” Miss Richter perceived at once that {t was for the treasurer of the United States. It was registered and contained a considerable sum of money. All undeliverable foreign letters are done up in bags or other parcels and sent back once a week to the principal European ccuntries and to Canada. These “returns,” as they are calied, comprise all mail matier received at the dead letter office here dur- ing the previous week. But to the other na- tions in the postal union the dead stuff ts returned only once a month. The United States government exchanges unclaimed matter with eighty-seven countries and colonies. Nearly 1,000,000 foreign pleces of mail come to our dead letter office annually. A great many of these are printed publica- ticns, most of which are thrown away and rot returned. All printed matter received at the dead | letter office from Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, South American countries and Australasia is destroyed, in accordance with a special agreement. Most of this stuff consists of newspapers and trade circulars. The countries mentioned do the same with similar matter that reaches them from the United States. But France, Italy, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Nor- way, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium want every bit of their printed matter back, and it is returned to them. During the last fiscal year 59,835 parcels and printed publi- cations and circulars were returned. Take Russia, for instance. All unclaimed matter from that country is sent back to ape Russian post office ee at St. ersburg every week, ing printed stuff. The material done in bags. If there is reason to believe that a single — or letter holds anything of value, the ag containing it is registered. Many of the letters returned to Russia come to Washington from the post office at Boston, in which city there is a large Russian colony. “Returns” for Newfoundland and small dependencies in various parts of the world are made in big envelopes, the bulk of matter sent being small. Dead Matter Returned. In the same w we get our dead matter back from foreign countries—weekly from some, menthly from others. The “returns” sent to us amounted last year to 241,779 pleces—only a little more than one-third as many as we forwarded to governments abroad. One reason for this great differ- ence is found in the fact that addresses in Europe are more certain and permanent. Immigrants coming to the United States give their first addresses to relatives and friends on the other side of the water. Pretty soon they move, and track of them is lost. Native Americans are mostly edu- cated and address letters to foreign parts with accuracy; foreigners here when they write home are sure of the addresses. The number of letters returned to Italy is very great, most of them for non-pay- ment of postage. As has been said, under the regulations of the postal union letters | may be sent unstamped and will be de- livered, but the recipient must pay double— 1. e., 10 cents on an ordinary letter. Such unpaid letter ig marked with a big T, which stands for the word “taxee,” mea: ing “taxed” or extra rate. The Italians are very thrifty people, and it often hap- pens that the sender in that country pre- fers to leave the payment to the addressee and thus save 5 cents. The addressee in America 1s usually of the same nationality. On delivery of the letter he refuses to re- geive It and pay the 10 cents demanded. There may be nothing important in ft, and he is not willing to squander that amount of money on an uncertainty. His friend or relative having written, it ts safe to clude that the writer is weil. Hundreds of letters, though actually 4 livered to the intended ,recipients, are rm turned to Italy every Year. At least per cent of the mail matter sem from t country to the United § aut es is not paid in advance. What has been said on this point applies in a somewhat less degree to the Swedes, who a likewise a thrifty people. It is observed tha immigrants from abroad retain their thrifty habits on this side of the water. In the next generatic how- |,ever, they lose them entirely. Their sons and daugh have all the wants and re- quirements of Americans. The continental peasant is content to live on bread and potatoes, but his American-born children must have meat three times a day. The nuisance described has become so great that the postal union at Its last convention decided that every one to whom an unpaid letter was returned should be compelled to pay the postage due. The new rule has already diminished the abuse to some ex- tent. All United States letters returned from abroad to the dead letter office at Wash- ington are opened, save only such of them as beaf the addresses of the senders on envelopes. These returned letters con’ more valuable inclosures than are found Deserwnnn vee ee at the Post it, an @ them may be“intendea as a gift, relatives in the old country to come the water, or for investment abroad. Few Italians or French people invest money in thé United States. Their is to accumulat back to their native land, be able to live without work on the in of thelr savings. The thrifty Breach dreams of the time to come w' be the great man of his elegant Jeigure on 4,000 = annum. The banana peddier entertains like ambition, too often helping himself eI ward it by disposing of counterfeit change, manufactured in his bed room with such primitive appliances as a pot and ladle, e metal composttion, plaster-of-paris molds. | shoe, or one glove, the customs regulations forbidding the sending of pairs of things. Pieces of Jace and. valuable broidery sre discovered up newspapers which are devoted to tion when not delivered. These posed of at the annual auction sale, the Post Office Department. Kosaries and crucifixes are sent in a similar fashion in the other hand, people in the United State send to Europe snakes, toads, iarantulas, centipedes and gigantic beetles, presu to illustrate the peculiarities of this country. A relic caref: by Miss Richter is a large square picce of yellow silk that came wrapped in a news- Paper all the way from the land of Egypt. When it is exposed to the light Spots of blue begin to appear upon ft and ‘ter a few moments become very vivid in | hue. ing fiends bothe- the foreign Stamp-collecti: division of the Post Office Department dreadfully. The a person with that mania winke that it ts the piace where he can get all he wants. In a recent letter, one such individual writes: not assist me in getting a collection stemps? You inust have thousands of letters which will never which no harm wovid itamps.”” i | 4 z i 72 te ee He persistent sist upon going At the time of the cholera Richter got rid of them to some telling them that all the letters cholera-infected better wait till frost. People often write to office to ask about letters months, or even broad and They it ia a old, which were writ course, all such pieces of almost immediately to the origin. If it is doubtful whether they yet gone, searches for them are this is very difficult work. However, iple in the postal business that no be spared in trying to deliver a letter. Sometimes the straying of a single worth- and misdirected missive will involve a rrespondence | Princ’ shall jong and elaborate co! the department and The central office of the international pos- tal union ts at Berne, Switzerland. There all the accounts are kept and all payments set- ued. The government of the United States receives compensation for carrying mail matter across this continent by rail. Pay- | ment is made in like manner to Great Brit- ain for postal transportation in he: terri tory. All the allowances made to the vari- ous nations concerned, including balances due on international money orders, are paid up at stated intervals. The official language | country, a letter of foreign origin that does eninge PEOPLE AT CAPE MAY, Some of the Washingtonians who | Are Enjoying the Salt Breezes.” Correspondence of The Kveuing Star. | CAPE MAY, N. J., August Among Representatives who hb here lately are Allen C. Durburow, jr., Chicago, R. A. Childs of Illinois, Myron Wright of Susquehanna, Pa., John Williams Causey of Delaware, William McAleer of Philadelphia, who stands a good chance of again going back to Washington, and Henry C. Loudenslager of this (first New | Jersey) district, who will be unanimously | Fenominated next Thursday two weeks. Miss Jenrie Reilly is stopping here. A recent imgue of a local paper called her “a vicious and sweet woman,” but on the day following explained the use of the word vicious as due to a proofreader’s mistake, and now Miss Reilly is “vivacious an¢ John Halpin last Saturday was the means of saving cight persons, three of them Washingtonians. here. They have with them their two daughters. absence mother, Mrs. John W. Forney, widow of the late secretary of the Senate, at the Stock- ton. E. D. Carusi is sojourning here. Miss Kate Hampton, is located at Cape Charles i cramp, the Philadelphia shig Charles H. C . butlder, is passing a week here with his son. Judge J. D. Worrell ts at the head of a party at the Shoreham, which includes Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Wiplock, Miss Emma J. Campbell and Mrs. J. P. Montgomery. ee Porter is at the Mount Vernon Hotel. gs Frank Brown Wilson is at Congress Mall. A. MacDorald is among Washington guests at the Stockton. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Hills and J. S. Good- mn are Windsor guests. Mr. and Mrs. John Cammack, John E. Cammack aad Samuel Benson, jr., are at the Lafayette. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Upton came on from Washington Saturday and registered at the Chalfonte for a couple of weeks. Assistant Attorney General James H. Nixon is a Devon guest. The Brextcn has among its Washington contingent James H. King, Miss Jaffa B. Haslup, Mics Isabella Haslup and Miss | Alice Haslup. T. Ryan Devereaux is at Congress Hall for a fortr ight. Mrs. S. A. Magruder is staying at Con- gress Hall Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Green, Mr. and Mrs, c. Brown and Mr. and Mrs. J. Esien are at the Hotel Columbia. J. A. Lamon has joined others from Washington at the Elbercn. 5 The Ebbitt had among its Washington errivais of Saturday T. A. Connolly, J. B. Connolly, Misses Nettie, Annie, Viola and Mary Connolly. Charles E. Galt is passing a week at the Lafayette. At Congress Hall the following Washing- ton residents are located: Mrs. M. T, | Dooley, Mrs. Bernard V. Davis, Miss Katharine Coombs, Miss Gladys Holcomb. T. W. Howard and Miss Florence Howard | of Washington are Brown Villa guests. A. S. Abell, owner of the Baltimore Sun and wife are located at the Lafayette. ee ED TO Ortmen. tan | Altoona © The Second National Bank of Altoona failed to open tts doors Thursday morning, A notice on the door, signed by Nationel Bank Examiner Miller, says “This bank will not open for the transac- tioa of business until further notice.” Harry A. Gardner, cashier of the Second National Bank of Altoona, left Monday | night in company with a Mrs. Gordon, whe is sald to huve lived in Philatelphia. A di- rector of the bank 1s authority for the | Statement that Gardner has also taken with him a large sum of money belonging to the | bank,

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