Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1900 — CLAIMS AGAINST INDIANS. [ARTICLE]

CLAIMS AGAINST INDIANS.

Acta of Pure “Cusaednesa” Cost Uncle Ham $3,000,000 a Year. It costs Uncle Sam nearly $5,000,000 a year for acts of pure cussedness committed by Indians against tiie white and Mexican settlers of the Southwest. This su.m is paid under the Indian depredation law, passed by Congress in 1892. Few people in the East know of this law and the amount of work it devolves upon the department of justice, as they have never crossed the Indian's trail when he is on one of his periodical tantrums. But in the territories and in the State of Texas are thousands of folk who have lost relatives and property during the Indians* playful periods. To recompense them for their losses Congress passed the depredation law. Some of the claims stretch back fifty years, when the Indian was wild and free and full of natural cussedness. It is all right fqr Do’s friends to say that he is generally driven to acts of violence against the whites, but the fact remains hard and cold that there have been times innumerable when he required a<rextraneous provocation to start him on the warpath. The nervous construction of the re<l man is of sudh a sensitive nature that it impels him to break loose about once in so often, otherwise he would become so lazy and indifferent to his own importance that somebody would -have to feed him of he wouM "starve to degth. »' f ——i ;—L- " ... Tarantulas ate being raised- hr-Aus-tralia for the sake of their webs, the filaments of which are made into thread for balloons. They are lighter than silk, and, when woven, lighter than canvas. Eajch tarantula yields from twenty to forty yards of filament, of which eight, twisted together, form a single thread. k Xfrt\r»iaiyK vt MiWd.lQ McaerYfi .tlm house ; in in which, the first American slats v*as &aae/an'd iu the erpe-' es a ■nibhumefil oVeF the- of pefisy .Roas, the <maker, has beten sue>«arried q-juu-rrhib