Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-11-27
Some "Gath" Gossip.

IL "A j IL IL " n ~ NONoI hO1lOR
BLAINE GETTING READY Eos
lS84-HON. b. ELKINS ON HIS
TERRITORY AND ITS INDIANS
NEW YoRY, November 2l.-
Senator Davis, of West Virginia,
is about TO construct railroad up
the North Branch of the Potomac
river. / asked him yesterday II
Cincinnati would have any close
trade relations with West Virgin
ia. He said he thought Baltimore
would be the emporium Of that
State, as the steel and coal prOduc-
ed there had TO come East for
market, while west OF the noun
tains in Ohio they had coal and
mineral enough'for their own use.
The proposed Worlds Fair in
this city will probably come to
nothing, as the couIni'tee is en-
gagged. They quarrrI about the
site of it, everybody attacking the
proposition to hold Il in Central
PARK, the most natural pIuce for it.
Blaine is getting ready for the
battle in 1884, and his stalwarts-
Chaffee, Elkins, Bosler and the
rest-will be called on to stand up
for him, though / hear at least one
of these has written letter saying
that Blaine is gone up for good.
But Conkling will easily capture
the delegation from New York in
1884, unless the Presidents influ-
ence in the State should beat him
He has considerable of the court
ier's tact, and may incline to lap
in with Garfield; but still his head
will be full of that Presidential
scheme. His reputation was un-
doubleday increased by his stump
ing tour in the West this summer.
and he may be regarded as the
master of the Senate. That may
have its influence in Garfield's
mind about making the new Sen
ator from Ohio, because he will
want to have a man on that hOor
to represent him and keep him in
formed of the cabals, etc. John
Sherman would probably be bet
ter spokesman than Charley Eos
ter"
as there any probability OF
Washburne going into Garheld's
Cabinet ?'
"That is said to have been the
mission of Joseph Medill to Men
tor last week, who is about the
only Washburue man that know
of. | do not think that Wash
burne will add anything to Gar
fields influence in the Cabinet,
though the Germans might like
it. The Grant men, with reason.
accused Washburne of playing a
double part at the Chicago Con-
vention, Conkling despises him,
as he is the intimate friend of
Fenton. Washburne, how ever,
has some honest indications. par
ticularly against wealth and cor
porations; but he is a bitter, Sc
we're, acrimonious man, sensitive,
hard and resentful.
/ was talking yesterday to MIR.
Elkins, of New Mexico, formerly
q Delegate from that Territory,
about its probable admission to the
Union. The population, he said,
was about one hundred and fifty
thousand, but the last census was
Numerically taken ,on account of the
depredations ofVictoria, head of the
Apache Indians, who Mr.. ElKlns
regards as the ablest Indian for
military purposes ever produced
ON the continent. Victoria be-
longs to a renowned race, two
members of which were Cochise
and Msgnus Colorado. Both oil
these men were killed; Magnus
Colorado being shot down by the
soidery, who were afraid of him,
though he was their prisoner. All
VictOria's battles are fought on
regular military tactics, his In
dams marching with military pre-
cision in line and step, and he + as
several times beaten the regular
troops by superior tactics. lie
picks the ground, retires TO il
when attacked, and, although he
has only from sixty to two hun
bred men, has been a terror to
both nations, Mexicans as well as
Americans. He is not cruel, and
kills in the battle, but does not
torture.
Mr.. Elkins thinks the Apaches
will ultimately be eXterminated
and says most of them have be-
come vicious and degraded. The
bravest Indians are the Navajoes,
who are now all herding sheep
and are as keen traders as can be
found. The Government gave
them q reservation which they
preferred, and since that time
they have been peaceful, but il
does not pay any intruders to &C
among them for rapacity. The
Pueblo Indians, who are the ole