Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-25

! people for four years. did not find any
scholars at the school, and did not find
the teacher there. He had been gone for
eight months. I found a church bell
| sitting in the middle of the house in the
middle of the floor of the school that cost
5000, and there was no church. suppose
the idea was to buy bell first and
build church to it, on the
principle of man who found hoop and
concluded it was good thing to keep be-
| cause he could use it towards making a
barrel.
saw another tribe of Indians who are
$4,000 strong. Not one of these Indians
ever lived inside house unless he was
captured and taken inside of fort. They
live in brush, what they call hogaus, on
the ground; they sleep on skins, live on
melons and corn, and raise sheep, and they
are rich tribe OF Indians. At that
Indian reservation there. vas a school
house built, I suppose, with government
money, out of stone and
as large as any of the
first class school house in the city of Wash
lngton. In that school house they had
recitation rooms, they had the finest fur
nlture, all kinds of books and large maps
hung upon the wall; they had domitory
for the sleeping of Indians that would &C
commodate 200, and yet there was not a
scholar in that school, but the books were
piled up all around in the corners of that
school house, 1 saw that. The last tribe
visited went to the Indian agency and
there l found a school house. It was
twelve miles away from the agency, so that
the children either had to go and board
there with the agent or travel twelve miles
to the school. They refused to do either,
and yet the government has paid teachers
and the books show that they taught
seventy-fve scholars. The chief of that
tribe is very intelligent man, though he
could not speak English and had to use
an interpreter, and through him he told
me they never had had five scholars at anv
one time,
The river commission heard Yesterday
from a man who knew what he was
talking about, in refreshing con-
trast to the theoretical ex-
perts who have preceded him. This was
Capt. Cowden,f for whose stores of informa-
ton the commission has been waiting with
interest. The commission sat. but a short
time, so that Capt. Cowden was able to do
little more than sketch out roughly his line
OF argument. He was able to say, how
ever, that the outlet syste m reduced the
flood line of the Mississippi as an open
bung hole would the contents Of a barrel.
while the Eads dams simply suficed
to shoal the river. He said
that the Bonnet Carr, Morgan and
Atchafalaya outlet lowered the flood line
at New Orleans four and q half feet,
and at Vicksburg nine feet. while at
White river above Vicksbura, it was az
high as ever. This is the average for five
years. He said that the Eads works at
theasouthwest pass and pass Loutre had
shoaled the bars from twenty-t two to ten
and from seventeen to six feet respective
ly. They have raised the Hood line at
new orleans four feet. In response to
questions from Mr.. Butterworth he said
that cut offs could give but temporary
relief, and that in his Judgement the best
way IN which to relieve the river was by
cutting an outlet into lake Borgue. Capt.
Cowden will resume January 4, when the
commission again takes testimony.
Indian Commissioner Price in pursu-
ance of recent letter from Secretary Tel
ler' has issued to all Indian agents a new
set of rules, the strict enforcement of
which will produce a radical change in the
government of the Indians and mark a
new e:a IN the Indian policy of the coun-
try. The rules provide for court of In
dian offenses at each agency to consist of
three men selected from the most intelli-
gent, moral and reliable of the tribe.
who shall hold stated sessions
and hear and adjudge offenses,
the agent being empowered to enforce the
decisions and the only appeal being to the
commissioner at Washin gton. Among the
offenses enumerated in the new rules is
participation in the sun dance, war dance,
scalp dance and all the sports assimilating
thereto, the penalty for which is withhold
ing of rations for fifteen days for the first
offense, with imprisonment added in case
OF recurrence. Plural marriages are also
classed as Indian offenses with a penalty
of $50 fine, or imprisonment at hard labor
Rations are also to be withheld from hus-
bands who fail to supply
their wives. Medicine men. too, are
held to be offenses against the civilization
of the agencies, and any attempt on their
part to influence the tribe to continue their
heathenish rites are to be punishable by
ten days solitary confinement on bread
and water. Theft or destruction of any
tribal property is also to be punishable by
imprisonment at the discretion of the
court. Each agent is instructed to pre-
sent the new rules to the several tribes at
once, and to send nominations for the
judges as soon as possible, so that no time
may be lost in the establishment of the
new system.
THE WHISKY TAX EXTENSION.
AT present great deal of interest CEN
tiers in the immediate vicinity of whisky
men, and there is considerable specula-
ton as to whether the Sherman substitute
to the Bayard extension bill can be got
through. The subject has been frequently