Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 22, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE, PUBLASH Bh RVERY MORNING. — TRRMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. (Morning Rdftion) including Sunday T Nfififléfl. e : e, o8 SR 6 F o A OrFIce, NOs 1AND! ARNAM STREET. Youk OFFIOR, ROOMS 14 AND 1 TRIDUNE Torat, | WAshNarox Ovioe, No. 618 JURTERNTR BTRERT. CORRESPONDENCE. Al communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addeessed to the EDITOR oF THE BER. BUSINESS LETTRRS. Al business lotters and remittances shonld be addressed to TAE DBRE PUBLIENIKG COMPANY, SANA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to o made payable to the order of the company. Tig Bee Pblishing Company. Proprietors . ROSEWATER, Editor. "~ THE DAILY B Bworn Statement of Circulation. te of Nebraska, Bl unty of Dongiass, }s.5. 0. 1), Tzschuck, Secretary of The Bea Pub- Hshing company, doek solernily swear that the actial cireutation of the Datly eo for the week nding March 16, 1668, was as follows: aturday, inday, onaiy, Ma . o {day. Maxch 10° AVETAR. ..iiviiiiniins orn to and subacr]! 100 ey OF SIarchy Ao D 1888, N: B. X ay of Marcl » f Nebrask bt 0" ml; in my_presence this FEIL, Public. . B, o, de- and says that of The Beo hlishing company, that the actual average Qaily circulation of the Daily Bee for the moni ’hmh 1887, 14,400 coples; for April, 4,316 coples; folra ay, R8T, (2 coples; for June, 187, 14,147 coplesi for J ‘copies; for August, ul sl 14161 coples: for Beptember, 18T, (5 :?cr. for October, 1887, 14,538; for November, i o4l 1h, tes: ' for, December, 187, 1, plea” Tor gumkEy. 1688, 15,200 coples; *for coples, ry, 1 15, o e B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn and eubscribed to in mprrc!mre this . P. FELL ‘ebruary, A. D, 1888, RSN Y Notary Public. Tue first presidential rocket was shot into the air by the Jowa republicans in state convention. It exploded with an Allison boom. THERE was nothing mean ‘about State’ He left! Treasurer Tate, of Kentucky. ‘Behind him every penny of the state debt to the peopl Tr the expression of 1eading business men of the city stands for something, it clearly gauges the opinion of the peo- ple on the city hall question. i E———— THe British under the command of General Henry Irving and Colonel Ellen Terry made a raid on West Point military academy and captured every Now that the trade of the Dodge street wehdol is off, the ccunty commissioners and council had better take time to mature the project for locating and ereotifig & police court building and jail {h‘the third ward, ‘ATTORNEYS, who are at the head of businets men clibs, the professed object of which is to foster the commercial in- teredts of the city, have already shown their regard for Omaha by soundly slap- ping ber face before the inter-state com- mission, ] WirAT is the Fair Association doing for the annual Omaha Exposition for 1888? If we are to have anything more than a repetition of 4 cabbage and pumpkin show with a horse race attach- fient, the Assotiation should bestir it~ golf and lay out plans for something that will draw and advertise Omaha. I7is rumored that a petition is being eirculated in New York and Washing- ton, to be presented to the president, urging him to depose General Greely from the weather bureau. He is ac- cused of having established free trade ‘velations with Greenland and to be im- porting an arctic blizzard duty free. e e TU§cLE SAM, decording to Mayor Hewitt, is a free trader in foreign flags, foreign ideas, foreign sympathies, foreign celebrations, and stands on a high tavifl only against foreign manu- factures. The mayor suggests that Uncle Sam return to the good old fashioned idea of American home-rule in'politics, and not act o straight-laced in trade and commerce. Emm———— A FATAL and costly railroad wreck on the Lacleawanna road a few dnys ago was caused by the stinginess of the company in not furnishing safe and sound cars. Tt is not 80 long ago that the parsimony of a western road in not replacing a $40 culvert at Koutts ¢ ‘ation cost the pany nearly a quarter of a million. Railrond managers may know a great denl nbout watering stock, but it is evident that some of them do not know how to run a railroad, E———— , A COLLEGE professor has discovered ‘that ‘‘trusts” flourished in Greece and Rome dnd that corners in the olive oil ‘industry and ‘in the iron market were managed very auch in the same way as they are to-dgy. If the vrofessor had looked up the records of a king named Pharaoh he would have founa the story of a young financier by the name of Joseph who engineered a corner in corn for the benefit of an Egyprianmonopoly. But for all that the trust is got to go. rm—— . ''ms people of Colorado are looking forward to the time when thearid plains of the céntonnial state will blossom as the rose, At arecentstate convention measures were introduced asking for pecuniary aid from congress to build reservoirs in the mountains for irri- @ation purposes, The idea is to store up in large artificial lakes the water which in spring comes from melting snow on the mountain sides. This would enable the ehannels of the rivers to remain filled throughout the summer at the time when .the water would ‘be most necded for irvigating the fields. The schome is believed to be eminently practicable, and the people of Colorado should bestir themselves to reclaim the thousands of acres which are now a waste of sand. . To petition corygress, However, is & questionable’ procedure. Mhe state is certainly rich onough' to provide funds sufficieat 1o carry -out .a ch 1§ sure to pay big dividends 5 40 investwent, ) The South and Tariff Reform, Not the least of the obsthclés to a gerieral wnd fair revision of the tariff is the attitude of a portion of the southern members of congress, who ifepresent manufacturing constituencies, on the subject, and the feeling of a majority of the people of several southern states in which manufacturing enterprises are developing and where the conditions for their growth are favorable. It isnot questionable that Senator Brown, of Georgia, veiced the sentiment of a ma- jority of the people of that state in the speoech he recently made in the senate in favor of repealing all revenue taxés and finterfering with the tariff ns little ns possible. ‘‘No sec- tion of this union,” said he, ‘s as much interested as tho south in sus- taining a liboral and just tariff, which while it raises all the revenue we need affords all the incidental protection pos- sible to the munufacturing industries of this country. We c¢omplain that the northern peopld have grown rich by perseverance in manufacturing under our tariff system. As we have greatly superior natural advantages, instead of making war on them, suppose we imi- tate their example and go forward in the development of our resources and the manufacture of our raw material, the diversity of our labor, of our crops and of our productions, and let us see if we can not in this way grow rich and powerful, as the people of the north have done, by adopting their line of policy, which created their wealth, In- stead of lagging behind and crying out against a policy which has greatly enrviched a sister section of the union, let us go forward as a determ- ined competitor, and with our greatly superior advantages finally bear off the palm of victory in progress, deyelop- ment and wealth.” The Atlanta Consti- tution, the leading paper of the state, quotes approvingly the opinion of a Georgia contemporary that ‘‘the atroe- ious internal revenue laws” should be repealed, leaving all the revenue of the government to be derived from the tariff, and says: ‘‘If the democrats pro- pose to win this year, party harmony is essential. But the free traders, who are now managing party affairs in ‘Washington, do not seem to think that harmony 18 éssential. We believe that the surplus is more danger- ous to the country than the tariff, and for that reason we desire to see the surplus reduced. There can be no reduction of the surplus as long as the internal revenue system is in opera- tion, unless it is the intention of the democrats in charge of legislation to place the business interests of the coun- try on a free trade basis.” The tariff Dill of the majority of the ways and | means committee is characterized by | the Constitution as a ‘‘humbug affair,” and those Who support it are told that they are not in line with the democrafic national platform. A similar feeling prevails in other southern states. Governor Lee, of Vir- ginia, in a late interview, said: ‘“Many of our people think that the northern states have grown rich under a protec- tive tariff, and wow that industries ave just getting under way in Vir- ginia they would like to have the bene- fit of protection a little while, on 'the principle that what is ‘sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.’” A very large majority of the people of Virginia want the internal revenue taxes swept away, and they ave willing if this can be done that the tariff shall stand as it is. Some of the representatives from Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, West Virginia, and other southern states, have avowed their hostility to the tariff changes contemplated by the Mills bill and are counted among those who will vote against that measure. It isnot questionable that a majority of the people of the manulfacturing sections of the south, and perhaps of all of them, prefer the Randall Dbill to the one presented as represent- ing the views of the administration, though the former may not go as far as they wish in the removal of internal taxes. Deprecate this situation as we may, it canuot be omitted from eonsideration in estimating the chances of securing any logislation at the present session of congress for reducing the revenue of the government and lightening the bur- den of taxation upon the people. Tt presents an obstacle to tariff reform that is not only immediately formida- ble, but is pretty certain to become more so in the future, With the growth of manufacturing in the south the ‘‘in- fant industries” will become more clamorous for tariff protection and the ‘people of that sec- tion more anxious for the continuance of the policy to which they ascribe the progress and prosperity of the northern states. Pennsylvania and Ohio clasp hands with Alabama and Georgia in de- fense of the tariff, and the grip is likely to grow stronger with time, Mean- while the situation offers little that is reassuring for the farmers of the coun- try and for the great majority of its wage-workers. o ] Trust Legislation, It is one thing to propose legislation, but quite another to secure its enact- ment. The investigation of trusts ve- cently prosecuted by a conmmittee of the New York legislature fell a good deul short of what was expected. It has already been noted that while the smaller and relatively unimportant combinations were pretty thoroughly overhauled and made to show their character and policy as fully as was necessary, the great trusts which are capable of doing almost boundless harm to the public were permiited to get off with enly such information as their wily originators or managevs were pleased to give. The committes dealt leniently with such monarchs of monopoly as Rockafeller and Have- myer, who have tens of millions to show as the reward of their monopoiistic de- vices. 4 The investigation will not have been fraitless, however, if the bill beforg the New York legislature “to prevent mo- nopolies axd combinations intended to restrain trade or increase the market price of commodities known s neces- sities of ‘life” shall becomo a law. The measure is as clear mnd. comprehensive as could be desived, and provides that it shall not be lawful to form or enter into any sort of combination within the state of New York for the purpose of in any way controlling the product or price of certain specified articles; among which are sugar, coal and eoil, or of any commodity known as a necessity - of lite. The penalty for a violation of the provisions of the act on the part of a corporation 15 the forfeiture of its corporate franchises, while every individual or stockholder or director of any corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of the act shall be guilty of misdemennor, and every agreement, contract or combina- tion declared by the act to be unlawful shall be absolutely void. Such a law would effectually prevent the organization of trusts or any similar combinations in the state of New York, if vigidiy enforeed, and since that is the headquarters of the most dangerous of them it would probably be fatal to this form of monopoly. If driven out of the commercial metrop- olis of the country they would hardly attempt to locate elsewhere, and if they should it is not to be doubted that other states would promptly follow the example of New York in legislat- ing against them. The country would thus in time get a general system of state laws that would everywhere shut out these combinations. In view of this possibility, what are the probable chances of the proposed law passing the New York legislature? It is obviously important that such leg- islation should begin there, and it is entirely safe to say that the combina- tions will spare no effort to prevent this being done. They can afford to use money without stint and they are not without political power. They will not hesitate to use both. The result will depend upon the honesty of the legislature and its loyalty to the public intorests, and as legislatures go we are not warranted in building faith on these qualities. There issome gratification to be derived, however, from the fact that the movement for legislation against trusts, whereby they are de- clared an evil to be removed, has been seriously started, for although the con- summation so much to be wished may be delayed, the movement is certain to eventually accomplish its purpose, and the effect meanwhile will be ‘beneficial in keeping public attention directed to the evil and perhaps also in checking the growth of these combinations. A Jewel of Consistency. Hascall is acting like a wolf gnawing at the steel®rods of the menagerie cage. He has gone wild over the city hall in- junction, and only makes himself ridiculous by his néisy harangues in the council. 5 It is a matter of record that he was one of the councilmen who made the trade with the commissioners and Wm. A. Paxton’s agents for the corner of Fightdenth and Farnam in 1885, Tt 'was then and there mutually agreed that the claim to the old court house grounds, on which Mr. Paxton has erected his magnificent block,was given up by the county with the understand- ing that the city would erect a city hall opposite to the court house within three years. Hascall knew then, as he knows now, ‘that the alley back of those lots would have to be cut down, and Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Douglas streets would have to be graded to conform with the grade of Farnam street. Hascall knew as much about this grade when he be- came a member of the present council as he does now. And yet he not only mever raiged his voice in favor of aban- | doning the location, but was committed publicly to contmue the work on the building, and is on record as late as lagt December in favor of the resolution directing the contractors to proceed with the work. This is s consistent as his conduct generally has been. According to Mr. Hascall, it will cost$150,000 to grade the alleys and streets between SBventeenth and Twentieth, This ison a par with all his reckless and barefaced assertions. There aro just three blocks on Douglas street and three blocks between Farnam and Douglas streets with the alleys back of them to be graded. This grading will not cost as much as has been ex- pended in grading Thirteenth street between the railroad bridges and Has- call’s walled lot. Instead of $150,000 it will “cost less -than $30;000. Last year’s grading of Eleventh street which Hascall engineered for the contractors cost over 850,000 Suppose the city hall were not built on corner Eighteenth and Farnhm, would not the city sooner or later be obliged to grade down the hog-back on Douglas stréet just as it has graded Harney and Leavenworth streets? ‘Would not the Bee building company, which will pay fully $5000a year in taxes after its bujlding is completed, be entitled to proper accommodations and protection from floods at the alley? Sup- pose the city sells the corner of Eigh- teenth and Farnam, would any capital- ist be willing to evect a costly building on that spot uiiless he had assurance that Eighteeuth street and the alley would be leveled down to correspond with Farnam? Hascall’s racket about the cost of grad- ing back of the city hall is on apar with his performance of years ago when he hired a brass band and built a bon- fire in foont of the Academy of Music, und howled and yelled hike a Comanche to break up a public meeting inside of the Academy., He made an utter fail- ure then, just as he has in his recont afforts to drown public sentiment by noise aud misrepresentation. e e—m—— GOVERNOR LER, of Virginia, in a re- cent interview, did not promise his state for Oléveland with that sanguine con- fidencé which might have been ex- pected of him, He expressed the be- lief that Mr. Cleveland would carry Virginia, but he admitted that there was a good deal of dissatisfaction among the democrats of the state with the taviff policy of the administration, and ‘elearly implied that the six thousand majority for Cleveland in 1884 might be overcome. Since the action of Senator- elect Barbour in withdrawing “from the state ‘demogratic committee, on - the ground that he could not support the poticy of the administration, there has un@oubtedly been a cousiderable change ‘i dewmocra sentiment in Virginia toward Mr. Clevelund, and it is "by. no means certain that it will not be in- oreascd bpfore Novembver. The trath is that dislike of the presideht by Vir- ginia democrats is not due wholly to ob- jections to his pelioy, and if he shall re- ceive their full vete it will be from a sense of duty to the party, and not be- cause they desire #o endorse him. There is very groat probability, however, that he will not get the full vote, and if the republicans nominate a man who is ot objectionable in Virginia they will have o good fighting c¢hance in that state. It would seem that the nearer people are to Mr. Clevelafd tho less they think of him. [ _ _____ _ ___J] CONGRESSIONAL inguiry into the lard and pork packing industries of this country has brought to light the fact that foreign countries have a good ex- cuse to keep out our products on the ground of adulteration. We have been in the habit of looking apon foreign leg- islation against the importation of our meats as political and retaliatory meas- ures. There has never been in this country tests and investigations into the wholesomeness of our meat and lard such as every European government has subjected our exports to. The report, therefore, of the Washington experts is, to say the least, startling. Unscrup- ulous manufacturers, it scems, in {he strife of competition, adulterate their lard, substitute cottonseed oil, and use fiithy and unwholesome parts of hogs for pure lard. Similar deceptions are practiced in the meat packing industry. Now that congress is finding out to what cxtent adulteration is carried on in these prime necessaries of food, string- ent measures should be taken {o prevent fraud and wisrepreseitation. The health of the community should be pro- tocted against imposition. E——— Tie state farmer’s alliance of Minne- sota 15 looking into the affaivs of their agricultural college, which has been left high and dry without* a cent. It appears that congress granted to the state 120,000 acres of land to establish a college for the benefit of agriculture. But the Minnesota state university got hold of the proceedsof the sale of all the agricultural lands and used most of the: funds for purposes not intended by 'the original act of congress. At a recent convention of the farmers, a resolution was passed calling on tho state legisla- ture to look into the affgirs of the state university and make it disgorge some- thing like eight hundred thousand dol- lars, claimed to Be due the agricultural college, which the regents misappro- priated. The agricultural college in Minnesota, as in many other states, ap- pears to be an expensive humbug which taxes the farmer and does him no good. STATE AND, TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. A nest of comtéifeit silver has been found in Neligh. A new town will-be planted on Pump- kin creek this spring. Brownville is ouf of bondage and has taken a new lease of life. The Elkhorn Valley Investment asso- ciation, capital $50,000, has been ofga- nized in Norfolk, " Milford promises to renew her tem- perance plédges this season, but the corkscrew will continue business in the shades of Shogo Tsland. The moneyed men of Crete are said to have loosened their purse strings. Great care will be taken thatnoue of the contents gets away. ., Charley Conrad, who forged a check for #6.85 in Nebraska City, will work it out in the penitentiary at the rato of one and a fourth cents a day. - Everything is running smoothly on the Burlingtoh. Out at Harvard Mon- day one of the imported competents showed his contempt for signals by dashing into some cars at the depot and hurling them into the ditch. The Plattsmouth Herald sheds tears of bitter anguish for ‘‘the poor home- steaders who have settled away out on the frontier on the Burlington line,” and who, it claims, are indirectly robbed by a handful of men striking fo better wages, No word of pity, how ever, goes up for the wrongs and exac- tions visited upon the town in the last ten years. The mailed hand of monopol has & plush lining for the favored few Hon. M. V. Gannoh, of Omaha, is spending a few days in Davenport, In., sroparatory to moving-his family to this ity. He lecturcd in Burlington St. Patrick’s night, and was the cipient of complimentary resolutions, among which was tho following: ‘‘Resolved, That we congratulute the rising young state of Nebraska on the fact that [ American pawiotism is g bing thither as to Its natural center and on the additional fact that her chief city is becoming the Mecca of the expectations of the sea-divided Gael, and we com- mend the Hon, M. V. Gannon to the citizens of Omaha and of Nebraska, ns a patriot, a gentleman, a lawyer and a citizen,” lowa Items, A party of young men of Ackley at- tended a dance Saturday night and dur- ing the evening a quarrel arose and one of the party was seriously stabbed. William Wilkerson, a wealthy farmer near Kelsey, Ta., was worked to the tune of #100 by a couple of confidence men near Atchison, Kan., Thursday night, Th ix girls at the Towa Wesleyan uniyersity have adopted a uniform con- sisting of caps andloose fitting garments —a cross between a blouse and a Mother Hubbard, **Ah, me! 'twas ever thus,” sighs the Sioux City Times. ‘‘One day we laugh- eth at New York,and the nextday we weepeth for oursalves. One day at sun- up we sit on the front porch and eat ice cream, and the mext day at the samo hour we sit on thefront porch and frecze to death. Yea, verily, At a teachers’ examination in Jones county, in answer to the question, *What is hygieue?” a yoang lady ap- plicant for a certificate to teach school answered: *It isthe soft spot on the top of a baby’s head which f:ruduull'\' becomes hardened ‘as the ba by grows older.” Wyoming, Douglas, Lusk, Manville and Glen- rock ave candidates for the county seat: of the new county of Converse. ‘Wool scouring worksare to be erected at Rawlins, A sufficient amount of wool has been pledged to make the enter- prise a success and work on the build- ings will be commenced at once. . The new counties—Converse, Sher- idan and Nabrona—created by the leg- islature, will be among the best tory Converse dount ed. for its full length by westérn railroad, The présent popula- tion is about six thousand. Repovts from all pgrts of Wyoming shiow this to have been the mildest win- ter cxperienced for manay years. Cattle are reported to be in fine condition on the ranges, with 7o more than occur in the summer sensons. The pros- for the Wyoming cattle growers are brightening. i The work of removing the water from the old Sunrise cnpq[g‘:- mine was com- meénced last weok. o old smelter 18 to be worked to its utmost capacity, thirty tons a day. Tho arrival of the 120-ton smelter at the mine six weeks hence will increase the output fo good proportions. The mine has been leased ¢/ a wealthy English banking firm wbmch will take advantage of the pro ent high prices of copper to work the mine to its full capacity. Blizzard Centres, Chicago Tribune. Tt is not to be wondered at that the people of Dakota, who have been so long taunted with having the monopoly of blizzards and who have naturally grown tired of the deprecating comments which have been made upon their great territory and the profuse warnings which have been given toemigrants contemplating a settlement there, should just now expréss their satisfac- tion though not without corresponding sympathy and tenders of assistance, that the area of the blizzard has been extended, and that the rich and popu- lous gast, from New England even to \Vn.shYngwn, with New York as the storm centre, has been found to be as much its hote as the wild west. The metropolitan city of New York has been as deeply buried in snow as the ham- lets of Dakota. The wind has blown with the same velocity. Thecold blasts have frozen their victims on Broadway and Central Park as relentlessly as th sought them outin Dakota, The ch dren who slept in the Dakota school houses have their counterparts in the women and children sleeping by hun- dreds.in the New York and ficw Jersey mills and factories. The famine which threatened the Dakotians has scared the New Yorkers. The Dakota farmer who lost his way within a few rods of his house is matched by Roscoe Conk- ling losing his way in the drifts of Union Square within a few rods of a refuge. In fact the details of the two pictures are one and the same—frozen victims, people suffering for the neces- sities ol?ic[o, stalled trains, starvation prices of provisions, interruption of mail; freight, and passenger transporta- tion, suffering of stock, telegraph wires broken and tangled, business paralyzed | and for two days the great city, likethe wila west town, buried under mountains of snow cnm\iing o ‘moneyed loss far exceeding that in the western territory. Under such circumstances as’ these it is not remarkable'that the people of Da- kota should have a fellow-feeling for their storm-stricken and blizzard be- numbed brethren in New York and should at once bestir themselves to send relief, for they know how it is them- selves, and realize that mid promptly given is twice given. It is pleasant to e able to return compliments and kind- nesses, and the Dakota people have come forward nobly, not alone in their large towns, but éven in the small vil- lages and sent their offers of clothing, provisions and financial help, if neces- | sary, by wire to the authorities of the l’mrnlyzed and storm-riaden ¢ity. A fel- ow feeling makes us wondrous kind. All the more graceful and grateful this kindness appears when we read that spring has come to Dakota with all its balmy.influences; that the robins are piping in the trees, and the Tarmers are ettin raady for ‘their work, while New ‘ork lies in its snowy sepulchre. - Judge Dundy's Decision. Chicago Herald. The formal decision ot Judge Dundy, of the United States district court at Omaha, follows the preliminary man- date of last week to the Union Pacific road, ordering it to haul the carsten- dered by the Btirlington system. The decision is 'the first given qut of its kind, and will be hotly debated all over America. The bench applies the United States statutes of 1862 to the case, and by a coincidence thosec stat- utest exactly fit. It thus comes about that while the Burlington lets iits own engineers strike it is able to bring a successful soit, whereby the same action is to be denied to the Unfon Paci- fie, whom the Burlington may per- haps suspect of being willing to make the most of the reputed disinclination engineers to haul Burlington The decision, in its terms, is not . It speaks slightingly of the Cullom law, and it deals with a great number of suppositions—in fact, “I sup- J)l)su” is a phrase strikingly frequent. The court declares that no power can prevent a man from stopping work, yet in the same sentence it warns the rhood to avoid, by all means, the n of the offense against the United States that would be adjudged should the engineers cripple the facili- ties'of the connecting roud by spriking. Thus they can strike, and they cannot, asin a state where marriage licenses are required the wedding is valid, but the bridegroom goes to jail. R e The Right Idea. Denver News. At a recent meeting of the Omaha bourd of trade the following was passed: Resolved, That this board of trade en dorses and approves the effort of the Omahan development bureau to advertise the city of Omaha, and urges upon individyal menibers of this board and citizens generally to sub- seribe liberally to a fund for the use of said bureau to the extent of $10,000 or §15,000, said development bureau to report its expendi- tures to this board. This makes the third bureau to be placed in operation under the auspices of the board of trade, the other two being the manufacturers and the freight bu- reau, Itis doubtful, however, if the latest experiment will prove a sucéess, even with the expenditure of 10,000 to 15,000 per year. The best advertise- ment for a live cityis not a dead column in dn eastern paper at high rates, but gpecimen copies of the represéntative newspapers supported by that cit, which are a true chronicle of its evi dny life, showing the crimes and acci- dents to which it s incident, its real tate activity,its church and school work, the nature of its entertainments,and the thousand other things which the paid for ‘‘pufl” never mentious, because the “puffer,” as a general rule, knowslittle or nothing of the art of reaching the ublic. A column article sent from enver recently to a ton paper was returned to this city a day or two ago with this Yankee comment in blue lines *Guess this was writ- ten to puff real estate.” Of course the Yankee was vight, It was written to “puff” real estate, and the work of this istic *‘puffer” was plainly visible paragraph, : > e One wonders whether all the Rip Van Winkles live in Pennsylvania. Not long ago o magazine contributor spoke of a - letter which had been recently sent to Nathaniel Hawthorne from a Pennsylvanian, and now President Car- ter, of Williams college, has received a 1 iladelphia directed -to Fiteh, President of Williams college.’. Dr. Fitch’s prosi- dency of William's ended in 1815, A RECKLESS ~STAUGHTER, A Tale of Oruelty to a Band of Indians. SURPRISED AT DAYBREAK. A Tarrible Story of the Killing of a Band of Cheyennes at Sand Creck, Under a Flag of Truce. Globe-Democrat: A good story comes from Heber M. Creel, of Devil's Lake, D. T., who graduated at West Point in in 1877, and was appointed as second licutenant of the Seventh regiment, United States cavalry, stationed at Fort Lincoln, just across the river from Bismarck, D. T\ He has had much ox- perience in Indian fighting, having served under Major Thornburgh in 1878, in the campaign against Dull Knife, the noted Indian chief, and his recalcitrant band. He was also a mem- ber of the engineer corps for some time. Lieutenant Crecl was a guest at the Laclede hotel last night, having just arrived from Coles county, Ill,, where he made arrangements for a large delegation of people to visit Dakota in the early spring. He is a young man who is in the middle of the thirties, perhaps, and is below the modium build, rather slender, but carvies himself with a well-trained military bearing. He made a hand- some stake in a real estate deal in Da- kota a few years ago, after which he re- signed his position in the army, and has since been engaged in journalism, poli- tics and the real estate business. He is an cxccedingly interesting couversa- tionalist, having a rich fund of anec- dotes and actual experiences of his life, but which, from modesty, he rarely ex- patiates upon. To a Globe-Democrat reporter last evening he told a story of cruelty toa band of Indians, which he consented (ouly to relate because it was o matter that has nover been sot right in the pages of history. Indeed, it seems that gross misrepresentations have been indulged in by somebody, either willfully or unwill ;:l?'. “The side of the story which I will ive you has never appeared in print be- ore,” began Lieutenat Creel, in answer toa guery by the ro{)ormn *'Some time last July I read in the columns of the Globe-Democrot an interview with Col- onel Chivington, telling a flowery stor, of the brave service he rendere the Fgovernment in the fight with the Cheyenne Indians at ‘Sand Creek, better known as the Sand Creck massacre. It will be remembered that somewhere in the 60’s, justafter the war, the Cheyenne Indians went on the warpath in western Kansas and comitt- ted several depredations. The country was then wild and unsettled, the fow cabins of the ranchmen here and there at long distances across the prairies being the only evidence of human hab- atation. These Indians went across the sparsely settled country and committed everal atrocities. A regiment of vol- unteers in the more thickly settled por- tion of the country farther ecast was raised under the leadctship of Colonel Chivington, who himself was a_volun- teer to suppress the savages. The In- dians were surrounded in the southwest corner of the state and the band almost exterminated. And for this fight Cole- nel Chivington has been lauded to the skies by Several newspaper writers,” A RECKLESS SLAUGHTER. ‘“‘But,” continued Lieutenant Creel, “I have heard stories{frtom what I con- sider pretty reliable sources from both sides engaged in that fight, and it leads me to believe that that fight was oue of the most crucl and uncalled for occur- rences in Indian warfare. While in the service I was detailed by General Phil Sheridan to go among the Cheyenne Indians then living in peace on their regervation, and translate their langu- age into English and make & grammar and dictionary. Ittook me two years to do this, after much hard and perplex- ing study. Now I shall tell the story of the Sand Creek massacre and what I think is the true history. At the time the Cheyenne Indians went on the war- path, there was one company of regular soldiers garrisoned at Fort Lyons,which was near the Colorado line in the south- west corner of Kansas. One day the I dians appeared at the military post and signified their intention of leaving the war-path and sa1d they wanted to make poace. Tt was evident from their actions that they were honest in their declarations, and the captain in com- of the post told them he have to send word to r officers in another part of the state before he could make peace wi As there was no telegraph ies there at that time, it required 1l days to send the word. Pending the time for an answer to arrive, the captain assured them of his own friend- liness and loaned them w United Stutes 10 hoist above their camps as an vidence that they would not be mo- lested until the answer came. Before the answer from the higher officers came, Colonel Chivington and his reg ment of 600 or 800 volunte: m up to the fort one night and ask; captain to join him in an attack upon the Indian The captain protested strongly ngaingt making any attack, and explained the peaceful relations then Isting, showing how unjust an at- tack would be at that time, Colonel Chivington, it is alleged, would not listen to his view of the matter, and he was determined that his own men should make an attack upon the unsus- oting Tndians that very night. In this fort was Bob Bent, employed as an out. Colonel Chivington wanted him to go with the men and direct them to the Indian camp. Bob refused to do this, but he told me that Chivington threatened to shoot him on the spot if he ‘did notgo. Asthe Colonel had a whole regiment of men at his back, the company in the fort conld do nothing, and Bob was compelled to £0. RISED AT DAYDBREAK. he Indians,” continued Lieu- tenent Creel, “*were encamped in the second bottom of Sand C £, a few milesfrom Fort Dyons. - They had huge lodges erected, in which they were hold- ing dances around the fire in the cen- ter, and were enjoying themselves beat- ing the tom-tom and singing songs. T'eo stars and stripes waved above them and under its folds they were confident of secuaity from all molestation until the answer for a treaty arrived, There were over two thousand of them, count- ing all the warriors, women and ¢hil- dren. Among them were Geory and brothers of Bob Bent, to lead the whites against them. The Bent boys re of Cheyenne bload. - About 4 o’clock in the morning the force of Colonel Chivington entered the ravine where the Iudians were encamped. The Indiau ponies, to the number of 1,500 were herded near by. . Bob Bent now direbted the whites to theé place, and . immediately tl whites began pouring volley after vc ley of musketry into. the camp, - doing deéadly work among the “Tndians, who were unaware of any enemy being — at Lauod. The Lndians rag for their ponics, but were mowed down by the dead volleys of the vohnvmn.’ "%ob ?&erlnyt fold me,"” said Licutenant Cteel, “that when the firei ng bsruu he left for tha roar during the oxcitement, It was just at the break of day, and the bfill(’an% sunlight was pouring into the ravine lighting up the scene of earnage. There he st watching his. own people as they were shot down NO QUARTER ORANTED, “‘Colonel Chivingston had given or« ders that no merey should be shown. Indian men,women and children sought shelter bohind the cottonwood logs that had driffed into tho bottom, Little girls and their mothers, knowing that white was the color that asked for peace, would tear off strips of any art of their - clothing that was of that color, and placing them on sticks, would hold them in the air as a sigual to not kill them. Bat the volunteers never showed quatter, and eyen the small children crouching be- hind the logs and crying and begging for their lives wore ruthlessly killed in cold blood. In this manner over 1000 Indians were slain. Several succeeded in gotting on their ‘wmi«-a and escaping. Charley Bent was killed in the massa- cre; George Bent escaped uninjured. The Indians were bewildered mu{ sur- prised and nover offered resistance. The dead and wounded were left on the field by the whites,but the Indians came back afterward under the assurantve of peace and cared for their kindred. Col. 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