St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-10-17
The Wrongs of the Indian.

sorrow to our community.
The Wrongs of the Indian.
Gen. Crook. who is doubtless the
most experinced officer in the army Ill
Indian affairs, makes fOrcible state
ment i'm a recent letter of the wrongs to
which the Indians are subjected De-
cause they have no legal status. Last
winter and spring two bands OF sioux
we're robbed of thousand ponies. The
agents, although Jealous men, were
powerless to check the outrage. The
Democratic Congress had, by the posse
comnaitatus act, made it crime for the
military to interfere to stop the depre-
dations, so the plundering of these In
dams by bands of white thieves went
on. AS to the matter of redress, Gen.
Crook says:
''For all this there is no redress what
ever. AS l understand the law we can
not even seize Indian property when
found in the hands of well-knOwn
thieves. The Indian owner has the
privilege of suing for recovery in the
state courts, but this would prove to be
in most cases very shadowy cOnsOla
ton.
1t seems to me to be an odd feature
of our judicial system that the only
people in this country who have no
rights under the law are the original
owners of the soil. An Irishman, Ger
man, Chinaman, Turk or Tarter will be
protected in life and property, but the
Indian commands respect for his rights
only so long as he inspires terror for his
rifle"
Gen. Crook believes that this policy
of injustice should be stopped, and adj
vocates the following line of action:
"The true, the only policy to pursue
with the Indian is to treat him just as
one should white man if he makes
war upon our frontier settlements, pun
ish him but after he has been reduced
to submission protect him in life and
property. Keep white thieves from
plundering him let him see that peace
means progress that he has market
for every pound of beef and every hide
and every sack of grain, and my word
for it he will make rapid advances.
Self-interest will impel him to initiate
US, to send his children to school, to
adopt clothing, perhaps our language,
and to devote his attention to raising
cattle and horses, and eventually to
qualify himself for citizenship"
The Profile and FraucOnia Notch rail-
road have declared per cent. divi
dend. and elected Richard Taft presi-
dent. Those who have paid fare over
this road do not wonder that a divi-
dend can be declared, as the rates are
about fifteen or twenty cents mile.
John Dinner OF Boston, who sued the
Old Colony road for $4,000 for inju-
ries resulting from the Wollaston dis
aster, gets 1854.
Fanny Smith of Boston gets $4,000
damages from the city for injuries sus-
tanned by defective highway.
A Miss Written, now at Damariscot-
ia, Me-, has probably the longest hair
of any woman in the world. 1t is eight
feet long, and when dressed in a French
twist it passes six times around her
head. The growth is perfectly Natural.
She has been offered large sum for
her hair.
The people of Washington territory
have held Il convention and adopted a
constitution, and will soon be knocking
at the doors of Congress for admission
to the sisterhood of states.
The religious theatrical company
which was to give sort of Sunday
'UncIe Toms Cabin" has broken up in
| Chicago for lack of support, th~ --Pr~"'
TO the churches proving complete fail
ure.
Race prejudice has just broken up
Mark Horizons happy home at Birmfng-
ham, Ala. Horton was educated at
Princeton college, and, after gradual
ton, he married Jessie Reynolds, his
boyhOOd's playmate. But soon after
their first child was born, quadroon
in the Reynolds household confessed on
her death bed that Jessie was her
daughter. Horton at once drove his
wife and child from the house, got a
divorce and. left for California. The
young mother is wild with grief and
the shock is likely to kill her.
There is peace in the Mormon Zion
again. Emeline A. Young and the other
heirs of the late Brigham who sued
John Taylor, the present head of the
church, and his co-executors in the
management of Brigham Youug's es-
tate, have settled the suit for SIS, 900.
The charge was fraud or breach of
trust, and this compromise looks as if
it was not as easy to set up good de-
Tense as to buy off the. cemplainants.
The hall of the House of Representa-
tives at Washington has been supplied
with an air duct to improve its abomi-
nable ventilation, and large and airy
retiring-room has been provided for
the members by throwing the Speakers,
sergeant-at-arms's and reporters rooms
at the south of the hall into one. The
basement has been remodeled to give
room for folders and documents.
Pittsburg, Pa, the smoky city that it
is, hopes that it has found a way to dis
pei its CRIME. The commissioners of
the city exposition have made success
fIll trials Of n sn,hLa consun,or ;nvonto1