New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-16

citizens old-fashioned safe, and carried OH
his bags of gold. Moral: Good citizens should
read the newspapers and keep up with the
times as well as burglars
Now the gander is getting a little return
sauce Tire Police Commissioners yesterday
directed that the Mayor be informed that
1895 failures of the Street Cleaning Depart
ment, during the last ten days OF October, to
remove ashes and garbage from places where
it had been placed for removal, had been re-
ported. This is a good round Indictment
quite as good and quite round, rs far a It
goes, rs the Mayors Indictment of the Police
Commissioners and the question naturally
arises, What is Commissioner Coleman going
to do about it
The trial of a singular suit began yesterday
in Brooklyn. Ii is, in brief, the attempt OF a
milk dealer to recover a large sum from the
New York Central Railroad on the ground that
the sum CHARGED for the transportation OF milk
is excessive as compared with the charges on
other classes of freight and that he is en-
titled TO recover the difference between the
present price and a fair price. The dealer
testified Yesterday in his own behalf that com
putations upon the official returns for seven
years showed that three or -four times rs much
per ton was charged for milk rs for other
articles 1t is stated that this Spectator has
bought up the claims Of other dealers, and has
brought no less than ninety suits OF this
character against railroads. The proposal OF
the Judge to dismiss the case without refer
ring it to the jury, though not persisted in,
promises poorly for the success OF this novel
speculation.
The recent outbreak among the Apaches
will direct the attention of Congress to the
necessity OF defining more exactly the legal
status of Indians who commit crimes,
as well as that of Indians who are
maize the victims of them The whole vcX
atious Indian problem VIII indeed present itself,
as it will continue to do so long rs the present
situation, demoa ling and unjust Y the Indian.
and unjust and costly to the Government shall
last, Secretary Kirkwood, as the Washington
dispatches show, will press strongly upon the
considerations Of Congress in his annual report
his plan OF establishing, as an experiment,
upon some reservation favorable to it, form
of government somewhat similar to "a
county government in one of the states the
Indians to eject court officers to enforce sucir
laws as Congress may declare in force on the
reservation. 1t appears that the publication OF
this plan in TIE TRIBUNE some lineage attracted
the attention of Indians ON the reservation
which the Secretary then alluded to -
promising field for the eXperimcnt-that OF
the Onahas Two members Of the trbo
have written him, saying with some
what pathetic Ignorance, that they do
not know what county Is, but do "want to
become like white people, and have laws
and government like they have" They
add. about half Of us want to become
like the white people, but the
other half keeps us back They do not
seem to care about anything This earnest
desire on the part of the most intelligent In
diaus for real civilization could be made Of
great effect in teaching the tribes the response
bili,ies as well rs the rights OF citizenship.