Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1891 — Page 6

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1891

CUT IN PASSENGER BATES

lively War Between the Kailroad3 EunEincjfromTerre Haute to Cincinnati. larje Increase Last Tear in the Gross Earnings of Indiana Lines Growing Belief that the Presidents' Agreement Will Fail. to tlie Indianapolis Journal. Terre Haute, Jan. 21. There is a f-2ry lively rate-war on here between the Vandalia and Big Four on the one tide, and the ETaniTillo & Terre Haute and Ohio & Mississippi on the other. Tee O. &. M. recently eecured the excursion of Owls, from St. Xouia to Cincinnati, next Saturday, -where a nest of the order is to bo instituted. The agent of the O. & M. then came here, and, "with the E. &. T. II. agent, made arrangements to take the Terre Haute delegation lorJ3.C5the round trip, with a free lunch thrown in. The Vandalia and Bijr. Four Teopla claim that this was done outside of an agreement, and that the E. &T. II. could not be considered a Cincinnati route. An effort was made to set the road to withdraw the rate, and for several days the pasturner departments of the O. dc M., an daha and Big Four have been keeping the wires busy without reaching a settlement. The result id that the Vandalia and Uitr Four to-day announced a $ii rate from here, "which it is hardly thought the other folks "will meet, although it. would not be unlike Jlr. Shattac. of the O.' & M.. to start a general cut-rattf war in retaliation. TretldenU' Agreement May Fall. , Interest in the agreement recently en.tere&into by the presidents of the Western roads is clearly on the wane. Thero seems to be considerable doubt among railroad men as to whether it can ever be put into successful operation, and not a few of them are of the opinion that the railroads would eutfer no loss if the who!a thinor were alwed tf drop out of sight. An oflicial of the Iiock Island, who stands close to President Cable, says if that road were now in the position it was prior to the preliminary meetiuir held at J. rierpont Morgan's house it would not become a member of the Western TratUe Association. At that meeting nothing wa3 known of Jay Gould's intention to repudiate the contract by which the Jock Island was to run trains into Omaha over the Union Pacific bridge. President Cable therefore Toted for the adoption of the resolutions and afterward would not "withdraw from the movement lest he be accused by the other roads of acting in bad faith. . It is expected that a meeting of the commissioners of the new association will be held next week to tix territorial divisions and decide upon the percentages of competitive traffic to be allowed each road, as provided for in Article 7 of the agreement. It is conceded that without the provision lor a division of trade the whole scheme would be worthless, and this important detail is yet to be worked out. Nobody believes that all the roads will be satisfied with the proportion of the business allowed them, and it would not be surprising if this should prove to be an insurmountable obstacle to the inauguration of the agreement. . Railroad Earnings of 1890. The reports of railway earnings for 1S0O generally show & handsome increase in gross earnings, especially is tnis true witn iv. ds which may be classed as Indiana ices. JJelow is given the results ox the ear with a number of the roads crossing ludiaua. In the cases of the Big Four and the Pennsylvania lines a number of roads fire included in the statements: yameof Koadt. 1800. 1639. Increase. I. Hrle Ac Westerr.... $3,068,349 $2,835,433 &32.015 1. S. fc Mich. So 20,874,200 W.487.1W 4-. NV. fc Mich 531,099 Ch.caRO Jj lat 111... 3.243,191 2.C79.515 LiY., Evsv. Sc fit L.. l,33'J,0d9 1.151,111 5CT,,0T6 137,973 1SU.918 305.924 lLu?! Am. & Chic. 2,C3,741 2.433,823 'r. i;ai)ni9Jt Intl.... 2.3&7.00O !.. tit. L. & 1..W3.928 1 .083.203 46M.724 533,627 43,097 ' n.ir iuuu.ii.i......ii.Mi.ico J X: , C. C & tt. L. 13.23o.J9 12.675,41-2 Miu& Mississippi 4.141.C31 4,039, Peo.. Dec. i Evans.. 737.0W 741,369 The P., C, C. fc St. L. (Southwestern system) shows an increase in cross earnings for 1S0Q of ?1,417,2C5.37. . Topics of llaggagematters. The tenth annual convention of the National Association of .General Paggage Agents began at New Orleans yesterday. There were about one hundred delegates present The meetings will be held with closed doors. Officers will be elected for the ensuing'year and the following mat ters discussed: v First To secure a uniformity of rates on excess baggage; to provide a method of handling , ana caring ior excess uaeage, ana xue auopuon cf . a unllorm -excess baggage and C. O. D. check. ' Second To provide a uniform method and a baaU of settling claims for delay, damage and pilfering of baggage while en route. Three To adopt a telegraph code for the jmrIoae of abbreviating the telegrauh messages roro point to pomt which are necessary in the business and which have now reached huge proportions. Will Stay Oat or th Association. Chairman F. C. McDonald is not meeting with the greatest success in his efforts to get outside lines into the passenger department of the Central Traffic Association. The Mo n on has absolutely refused to join the association, though it promises to cooperate with it in the carrying out of its 1 -1 - - A. it'iesana regulations so xar as iney uo not discriminate against that road. The Ohio & Mississippi and the Vandalia lines have el so declined to become members of the association. . Personal, Local and General Notes. E. F. Potter to-day succeeds W. P. Scott, resigned, as superintendent of the Chicago, ,Fcrt Madison & Des Moines road. The nassenger department of the Lake Shore road has decided that for the present It will make no change in the character of its mileage-books. On Jan. 5 all round-trip tickets by all lines between Chicago and Peoria go off aale. It is believed this will teed to stop ehading rates between these points. The Dig Four shows an increase In earnings in the second week of January over 'tKe corresponding week of 1890 of &3.&5G, vthe Ohio & Mississippi an increase of fclCO.90. 1 Col. James Burke, who for several years has represented the Cincinnati, Hamilton . Dayton in the outh, with headquarters at Greenville, Miss., has resigned to engage in commercial pursuits. It ie stated that the control of the Louis"vilitj, ew Albany &. Chicago road is in the Lands of four men. Two are Hoston capitalist, one a New York capitalist and the fourth is President Ureyfogle. i Charles Xeilson, who rnns a big road with very little fuss and bluster, spent yesterday in the city looking over matters with Mr. Galloway, the new superintendent of the Indianapolis division: President Mackey. of the Louisville, KvansTille & St. Louis, has accepted the otter of Princeton if shops are located there, and has given instructions that plans be prepared and the aho?s built without further delay. Agents who handle the moneys of one of the Indianapolis roads are being called Upon to increasetheir bond to the company through the guarantee associations, at the ame time reducing their pay. Those affected feel that this is unjust. General Manager Colbran, of the Colorado Midland, has appointed It. K. Waterman, of bt. Louis, to the position of general freight agent of that company. Charles S. Je will continue as general passenger agent of the road, with headquarters in Denver. The Wabash passenger department has notit!ed competitors that it will confiscate all mileage books found in the hands of improper parties, and asks that their competitors do likewise, thus stopping the abuoof the mileage book which has become so common. The Cincinnati. Hamilton it Dayton people are endeavoring 4o stir the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago up to getting more business from Chicago. The C. 11. & D. has ben turning more passengers over to the Monon at Indianapolis than the Monon Jjaa to the C, 11. &. I), the last year. It is understood that John Wells, assistC" t to President JJarnard on the Ohio 6c,

Mississippi rud. will bo appointed general superintendent of the O. &. M. on Mr. Uent's retiring to take service with S. M. Felton, jr., president of the Queen and Crescent and tho East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia lines. Chairman McDonald, of the passecgerdepartmcnt of the Central Traflic Association, na Tuesday organized a branch association at Toledo similar to the one proposed at Indianapolis providing Jamesmrker. general passenger agent of the Louisville. New Albany & Chicago, can be brrught into line. Fully throe hundred men and one hundred teams are at work grading the Fort Wayue. Terre Haute fc Soutnwestern road, the extension building to the Clay county coal mines for the louisville, Now Albany & Chicago road. It is now believed that the extension will be completed and trams running by May 1. The withdrawal of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe from the agreement limiting f asses is a more neTtons matter than might e supposed. There were forty-live roads in the agreement, and its dissolution so early in its infancy is sure to make tronble, as it means a free distribution of passes again to influence business. General Manager 13radbury, of the Lake Erie &. Western, has gone to New York for a conference with the directors regarding the operation of the road the coming year. He desires to largely increase the equipment of the line, and expend nuite a sum of monev in placing the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati & Lonisvillo division in good physical condition. The Chicago & Eastern Illinois road earned in the second week of January C9,4CO, an increase over the corresponding week of 1S10 of $19.(XX). The increase the first half of the month was -.4,997 over last year, or 47 per cent. The iloston parties ntfw interested in the road are sanguine that within sixty days the preferred stock will be up to par, and the common atock up to u W. W. Fmley, chairman of the Western Passenger Association, has . notified the 1'ittshnrir A Western road of the determination of the Chicago and St. Louis lines to order their tickets olf sale unless the P. fc W. tickets in hands of scalpers in the West be immediately withdrawn. The notice is signed by the general passenger agents of the roads interested, as well as by Chairman Finley. - It is now twenty-two days since the advance in wcst.bonnd freight rates went into e fleet, and not a single charge that any road has been cutting rates has been made. All the general freight agents seem to be on their good behavior so far as freight rates are concerned. It is many years since such a state of affairs has existed for so long a time, and it indicates that they are determined to keep the resolutions made on Jan. 1. . The rumor is revived that William M. Green, general manager of the liig Four linen, is to retire as soon as a successor for the position can be selected. Mr. Green's private affairs, and those of ins mother; require more attention than he can now give them. Th common expression among Mihordinato officials, who are located at Indianapolis, is the hope tli9t Mr. Green will not leave the road. His prompt and decisive methods of doing business mako him popular with progressive railroad men. Railroad Commissioner Norton, of Ohio, has prepared a bill which will be presented this week to the Legislature of that State, making it imperative on railroad companies to employ no telegraph operator under twenty-one years of age; and also, that the telegrapher employed must show that he is a competent railroad man and able to handle the business of the company In such a manner that life and property will not be endangered. He will also rscommend that a superintendent of railway telegraphy be appointed. ...... The passenger men on the Vanderbilt line8will meet in Buffalo on the 28th of January for the revision of the division book. This book is compiled by A. F. McMillan, of the Michigan Central, and it is said to be the most complete work of this character published on any railroad system iu tho United States. It is now proposed to add Indianapolis, Cincinnati, St. Louis. Kansas City and other new points now embraced in tho system. As a St. Louis line the Wabash as well as the Big Four is interested. The mileage-books, at 2 cents per mile, are selling in large numbers. The salra m the Pennsylvania oilice, up town, on Tuesday reached fifty-eight, and yesterday the sales were fully as large. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton put them on sale yesterday morning, and before noon they had sold twenty, and by night were obliged to order a new supply The Big Four has for some days been selling tho tickets, good over all divisions except the Chicago, at $20 per 1,000 miles, with the understandingthat they would be good on the Chicago division after Jan. 20. Alexander C. Soper, secretary and treasurer of the Illinois and Georgia Improvement Company, which is constructing the Macon, Dublin & Savannah railroad, denies the truth of the report that the road has been sold to the Georgia Southern company. He says, furthermore, that the road is not for sale. The enterprise is backed by Chicago capitalists, who claim that fiftytwo miles of the roadway have been graded, ten miles of track laid and material purchased and on the grouud to complete the rest without borrowing a dollar. The company expects to have the line completed and trains over it within thirty days. The committees of the conductors and brakemen on tho Wabash road have returned from their conference with their officials and settled down to work, feeling satistied, it is stated, with what they accomplished. Dating from Feb. 1, li&l, on through freight runs conductors will "receive ? cents per mile and brakemen 2 cents, the same as before, but a new regulation that no run shall be counted less than one hundred miles will make the rate really higher on short runs. Another new " regulation that will make the rate higher is in regard to overtime. Whenever ten miles an hour is not made on a run conductors are to be paid SO cents and brakemen CO cents an hour for all extra time they are out. Through passenger conductors will receive Si 00 per month, as heretofore, but they will also receive 2 ceuta per mile for everything over 5,500 miles. Through passenger brakemen are still to receive $50 per month, bnc will also get 1 cent per mile for all over 5,600 miles. ' The same scale of wages will apply to the branch lines. AMUSEMENTS. GRAND OPERA-HOUSE "SPIDER AND FLY." - At the Grand Opera-house, last evening, a good audience enjoyed Leavitt's burlesque pantomimic extravaganza of "Spider and Fly," which was put on in excellent shape, and for one night only. The musio was good, the movement rapid and the fan of a pleasing character, the local hits being specially relishable. The production is in three acts, and the pantomimic part contains 'such well-known artists in that line as Alexander and Leo Zanfretta, William and August Seigrist, Miss May Curtis and Miss Lida Clark. Ibe two leading characters in the burlesque part of the performance were Miss Hilda Thomas and Miss Irene Verona, the former as tueen of the Mermaids and the latter as Lord Kazzle Dazzle, an English nobleman. Miss Thomas sang in excellent voice, and was received with much heartiness. She is a former resident of this city, and her friends were not alow to give her recognition. DRAMA OV ENGLISH LIFE. "My Jack," Henry Pettit's celebrated melodrama of English life, will be presented, for the first time in this city, at English's to-night, and during the remainder of the week. It is said to be given a more elaborato production than has been seen here for a long time. . Among the most realistic scenes are those representing the beach at Falmouth, Eugland, the thunder-storm, the life-boat and the African desert, the latter being suggested and designed, it is stated, by Henrv M. Stanley. Mr. Walter Sauford, the leading member of the company, is a talented actor, well-known here, and with him are such capable actors as George Hoey, Mr. Anderson and others. "My Jack" had a long run in London, and has met with much success on this side of the Atlantic. THE PARK THEATER. -No company has played at the Park this season that has given greater satisfaction than the Williams Specialty Company, which is there now and will remain all week.

V Safer Itetneily Can be had for eonirhs and colds, or any trouble of the throat, than "IJrown's llrouchlal Troches." Price -j cents, fcold only in boxes.

CULLIXGS FROM THE COURTS.

A Salt Involving Liability on ;a Long Standing Agreement.. Patrick Mahoney filed a suit in the Circuit Court yesterday against the Cleveland, Cincinnati. Chicago & St Louis Kailway Company, which illustrates the progress of railroad consolidation. Having been injured in 18C1, in the employ of the Indianopolis & Cincinnati road, he was allowed $10 per month and all needed fuel, to continue during his life, in consideration of bringing no suit against the. company. This continued till 18C7. when the company consolidated with the Lafayette & Indianapolis road, under the name of tho Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette. The new com pauj' continued to pay tho allowance and supply tho fuel till 1S60. when the fuel aupply was refused and the payment reduced to i'J per month. This continued till 1890, a year alter the road became a part of the Big Four system. The payments were then refnsed altogether. The demand is for g 10,000 damages. Sentenced by the Criminal Judge. In passing sentence, yesterday, on Allen Davidson, colored, convicted of assaulting an old woman, Judge Cox said that, in consideration of tho defendant being only fourteen years old, and of the fact that he cannot be sent to the State prison, and, further, that he is subject to epileptio fits, he would make the sentence lighter than he otherwise would. He fined him Si and sentenced him to five months in the work house. George Hood. Charles Allen and Logan Beula. indieted jointly for burglary, withdrew their plea of not guilty and received sentences of three years each. These are the men who formed the footpad gang that assaulted women on the streets just before the holidays. There are several indictments against them for crimes ol that character. - Alleged Ilreacb of Contract. The Irvington subscribers to the fnnd to subsidize the Citizens' Street-railroad Company brought suit in the Superior Court yesterday, through James T. Layman and others, for 315,000, alleging a breach of contract and a forfeiture of the $13,000 guarantee due. It is set out in the complaint that the contract to furnish rapjd transit by Aug. 1, 181)0, was never fulfilled, the storage battery cars proving a failure, and rather a hindrance than otherwise to transit. Notes from tho Dockets. Oliver W. Coleman was arrested at Bedford, yesterday, for alleged complicity in a green-goods deal, and was bronght before Commissioner Van llnren in the afternoon. He was released on 200 bond. Anna Hayes bronght suit in the Circuit Court, yesterday, against Alex. Averill for 810,000 damages. It isalleged he committed an assanlt on her in December, 1800, from which she received severe injuries, including loss of hearing. Louis P. Fahrbode, a painter, injured while at work on the Waterman house, on New York street, which was wrecked by an explosion of natural gas, has brought suit in the Superior Court against the ludianapolis Gas Company for $10,000 damages. The trial of Thonms Levi, of Noblesville, is in progress before Judge Woods and a jury. Levi is charged with passing counterfeit money of the Webster head stamp. He is a brother of Missouri Kittenhonse, who has been in the courts now and then on similar charges. The Court Record. SUPERIOR COURT. Room 1 lion. Napoleon D. Taylor, Judge. Sarah F. Shinn et al. vs. Joseph Suemmele et al.; foreclosure. Dismissed and costs paid. Thomas Norse vs. Edmund B. Noel et al.; damages. Trial by court. btate ex rel. Wm. H. Speer vs. John F. McClelland, Trustee, etc. Judgment on demurrer for plaintiff. Itoom a Hon. James W. TTarper. Jutire. Madison A. Tintim vs. Maria Love; suit on mechanic's lieu. Special finding for plaintiff. Harry Mctlenry vs. Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company; suit for damages. Trial by jnry. Room 3 Hon. Lewis O. Walker. Jades. ' Mark S. Davis vs. Mary Middlcton et al.; foreclosure. Judgment for $l.f9.c2. Elv M. Bronson vs. Mary B. Danlev: fore'cloMiire. Finding for plaintiff. Wm. P. Wilson vs. Missouri Dillon et ah; foreclosure. Judgment for S131.U1. Susan M. Benson vs. John Schanb: damages. Dismissed at plaintiff's costs. Henry M. Abrams vs. Ray Meeker; damages. Judgment by agreement for $X). Jacob 15. Julian et al. vr. Patrick Donahue et aj.; damages. Trial by jury. .Yctr Suits Fika. James T. Layman et ah vs. Citizens1 Street-railroad Company; forfeiture of guarantee on non-performance of contract. Demand. $13,000. Albert Dillingham and Frank B. Fowler vs. Theodore M. Eckert et ah; mechanic's lien. Demand, $150. Louis P. Fahrbado vs. Indianapolis Gas Company: damages. Demand, $10,000. Albert Dillingham vs. Herman IL Gaetz; note. Demand, $175. Erastus Brunson vs. William Harebolt; note. Demand. $200. CIRCUIT COURT. Hon. Ed(tr A. Brown. Judge, State ex rel. William A. Shuck vs. Alvin P. Hovey. Governor; mandamus. Writ granted and Governor ordered to issue commission to relator. Appeal to Supreme Court. Jacob Dressier vs. James Collins; ejectment. Trial by court. Xeio Suits Filed. Anna Hayes vs. Alex. Averill; damages. Demand. 81.000. Patrick Mahoney vs. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Kailway Company; damages. Demaud$10,000. Maggie Clark vs. John Clark; divorce. Failure to provide. Howard S. Moffett and C. C. Hinton vs. William H. Kusse et al.; account. Demand, Henry E. Miller vs. William Johnson; to sot aside mortgage. CRIMINAL COURT. Hon. Millard F. Cox. Judge. State vs. Alfred Roper; petit larceny." Sentenced to three months in work-house. State vs. Allen Davidson; assault and battery. Plea of guilty. Fined Si and sentence of five months in work-house. State vs. George Hood. Charles Allen and Logan Beula; burglary. Withdrawal " of plea of not guilty, and sentence of three years each in State prison. Muftic in the Public Schools. To the Editor ot tlie Indianapolis Journal: Now that the State Legislature is in session, I desiro to call attention to the fact that Indiana needs a musio law abreast of the; times if she would be equally attractive with other leading States for permanent residence. Where better than in her public schools can this heavenly science be more cheaply and generally taughtf By the aid ox anj' of the numerous musiccharts for schools, any school-teacher can teach rudimentary music with little or no preparation, and I learn that they are generally in favor of an efficient State musio law. Reason, religion, refinement, culture and State pride all teach the necessity of some such law. Music. Iiia-ai-olis, Jan. 21. How Fitzslmmons Was Trained. New York Sun. ' Probably stories will continue to float about concerning the Dempsey-Fitzsim-mons match for another fortnight at least. The latest one is that Carroll trained the Australian on what is said to be the latest system for the special work of prize-fighting. He cnt out vegetables from his diet, and refused absolutely to put him through the course of hard training which is usually resorted to. Fitzsimmons was not allowed to lift a duruh-bellthat weighed over two pounds, but when he took hold of the dumb-bells he was forced to make them 11 y like lightning until he was exhausted. The theory was that rapid exertion was a hundred times more eilicacious in increasing power than extreme efiort. Carroll held that putting up big weights slowly exhausted muscular strength, while the quick work with light bells built it up. In a similar way he refused to have his man take twenty-mile walks and ten-mile runs. Instead, he laid off a course of but a little over a quarter of a mile, and forced Fitzsimmons to run it at the very limit of his speed three times a day. He ran so hard that he almost gave out from exhaustion at the end of the short trip. Carroll refused to allow his man to get into water.

as nnder the system on which be worked baths are believed to be weakening. He rubbed his charge down every afternoon, after his exercise was done, with water which had the chill taken off.

LIFE BEHIND THE PRISON BARS. An Ex-Conrlet Says Inhntnan Tortures Are Inflicted by tho Inside Guards. Chicago Tribune. "It is a wonder to me that more of the penitentiary convicts do not go insane," said an ex-convict, recently returned to Chicago after serving an eight years' sentence for burglary in the northern Indiana State peritentiar3. "The Legislature, I see, is asking from Warden Murdock an accounting for some thousands of dollars said to have been em.bezzled by him. In the cause of humanity and justice they might better look into the outrages of tho prison discipline. I have not been out many months, and during the time 1 was at the Michigan City prison two committees of investigation passed through the prison like other visitors, and were afterwards wined and dined by the warden. No prisoner was permitted to speak to the committee unless a guard stood by. Letters froin convicts to persons outside containing any remote mention of the severity of the prison system were destroyed immediately. Prisoners in many instances were brought' to the verge of death and insanity. The cat-o'-nine-tails has been abolished in the last few years, but the punishment substituted was far more inhuman. The horrors of an empty cell, with two ounces of bread and one-half pint of water each day, are more awful, than tiction ever dared to depict. Yet men were thrown into these cages for the smallest oilenses, such as talking, laughing or looking up at visitors entering the room. I remember in 1SS5 Charles Daniels was put into one of the solitaries, and. three days after, banged himself in the cell. Others would if means were within reach. Passing through the yard one day. I saw John Snarl, a life convict, talking to tho guard. He passed, and, when be was a few yards distant, turned and looked at the guard. The guard. Jack Moran was his name, picked up a heavy cane and, following Snarl, broke his jaw. This was not even commented on by the officials. Under tho old cat-o'-nine tails regime I remember once a convict crossing the yard stopped to take his shoe off. Ho had just been whipped and the shoe was filled with blood that had trickled down from the wounds on his body. In the Michigan City pen there are five ranges and forty-two cells in each range. They are all fetid in summer, and the winter finds them damp and cold, and reeking with tilth and vermin. .Each convict has just two pairs of socks each year. He is allowed a half sheet of writing paper, with tho privilege of tilling one sido of it. This meager allowance is made once in two weeks. Tainted pork and rotten potatoes for dinner, with musty mush and molassas form tho prison 'table d'hote. Oleomargarine is sold to the convicts as an extra at 15 cents a pound. When a convict enters his clothes are taken away and sold. He has this money for extras. When he goes out he gots 815 for railroad fare and clothes, which ho buys of the officials. My clothes cot me 12 and my hat $3. All were battered and torn and pneon8mclling. They were the clothes of other firisoners entering. If a committee would ook into this matter they would find some queer phases of prison life not known. It is the worst place in tho United States. Ali my friends agree on that point. That is, all with mind left enongh'to think. I hope the Legislature will look into this along with the matter of embezzlement." . MOVING THE SEAT OF "WAIL Hostile Indian Chiefs to Go to Washington to Be Argued About. Washington Letter In New York Tribune. Secretary vProctor'a consent has been given to General Miles to bring all of the rebellious and contentious Indian chiefs who have been amusing themselves on the war-path in the Northwest to the capital. This will transfer the suat oi the Indian war to Washington, where there will bo an engagement between the military authorities and the missionaries who swarm about the capital. These missionaries and philanthropists have many theories concerning the Indians. They are not agreed among themselves as to what 13 jnst the best thing to be done. They nearly all'-agree that tho Indians have been badly treated and that the War Department's method of settling Indian grievances is altogether too rude and unchristianliko to be tolerated. The war of theories, however, will not iutoriere with a peaceful settlement of the question. Tho chiefs who will be brought on hero will have numerous presents and be made much of. But it is probable that the best ending of their visit will be accomplished by an agreement with them to enlist in the service of tho army the young and warlike Indians who are to-day the sol cause of tho outbreak. A lady missionary who was at tho White Houso yesterday said that it was discouraging for the people who are working to civilize the Indians to seethe bad Indians selected for good treatment. She say that it is almost a tradition among the Indians that if they wish to accomplish anything in the way of obtaining favors from the government they must first begin by fomenting rebellion. All the bad Indians, as fast as they come into the reservation, receive extra rations and blankets, while the good Indian, who has never been on tho war-path, is calmly ignored, or else is simply patted on the back and told that he is a most worthy fellow. She says that this difficulty i9 always in the way of their best teaching.. She saysthatthe Indians should be greatly pitied. They are obliged to live upon their reservation. The Indians of one reservation cannot visit the Indians of another. Their lives are so restricted that discontent is almost certain to result. This lady does not approve of the system of issuing rations by the government. This system is only an encouragement of laziness, and stands in tho way of bringing the Indian up to a self-supporting condition. She would favor the giving of a substitute in the shape of money in satisfaction of the laim for rations. The money could be invested in lands and cattle, and would afford in time a means of income for the Indian free from government aid or interference. GHOST-DANCER'S SHIRT. An Eastern Boetor Receives One, of the Sacred Garments from O in ah a. Philadelphia Press. Dr. Alexander R. Shaw, of 002 Susquehanna avenue, received a small express package a few days ago, and on opening it found a small bundle of what seemed to he a roll of solid, unbleached cotton. Pinned to tho bundle, however, was this legend: Ghost Shiri. Made by the Bioux medicinemen during the Messiah craze In Nebraska and South Dakota during tho winter of 1890-01. Believed to have been blessed by the White Buffalo, and to be ltn penetrable to pale-face bnllets. The property of one of No Man's Children. This inscrintion sent a thrill of interest to Dr. Shaw's heart, for Dr. Shaw is an enthusiastic collector of all sorts of curios, and this was one of the most valuable additions to his cabinet that he has received for forty years. It is probably the first genuine "ghost shirt" that' has found its way to the East since the fanatical outburst that led to the late Indian war. It was tent to Dr. Shaw by his niece, Mrs. Lippinoott, of Omaha, who secured it through friends on one of the1 Indian reservations in Nebraska. Tho ghost shirt is a curious-looking garment. It is made of the coarsest unbleached cotton and the process of manufacture is very simple. Two wide pieces of cotton are cut in the shape of a conventional shirt, with sleeves about four inches long. The two pieces are then sewed together with ordinary white twine, leaving a margin of about one inch ali around the garment. This margin is then cut at intervals of about three-fourths of an inch, makiug a rough fringe. This fringe is then daubed with red paint. The front of the shirt is slit down about eight inches from the neck, so that it may be laced up with twine after the garment is donned. In the ceuter of the shirt in front is a rude painting of a bird presumably an eagle. It is simply a rough outline, daubed on with reddish-brown paint. This is surrounded with small crosses. Nearly a foot below the bird is the painted outline of a tomahawk. The shirt has the appearance of having seen some service, although it is still in a perfect state of preservation. It now occupies the place of honor in Dr. Shaw's cabinet of curios. . The Only Bulwark. Philadelphia Press. 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