Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-20
LOGAN wrLLHAvE THAT RANCH

The Persistency with which He Strives
to Get Certain Land in Zuni for a SON
in-Law.
1t Will be remembered that about a year
ago, says a Washington special to the
New York sam, couple of army officers
one of them Paymaster Tucker, the SON.
in-law of Senator LOgan-lOcated desert
land claims upon land that was supposed
to belong to the Zuni reservation in New
Mexico. but was by a mistake left out of
boundaries in the proclamation of the
Fraudulent President. President Arthur
at once corrected the error, and restored
the disputed track, including the Nutria
and Pescado Springs to the Indians. Gen.
Logan was very indignant. and made
vigorous protest against the TestOra-
tiOp, asserting that the Indians did not
require the land or the water, which pro-
perly belonged to his sOn-in-law. The
President declined to reconsider his
action. and it was thought that the con-
troyersy was ended; but Logan, with his
usual persistency, refuses to consider
himself defeated, and wants an investiga-
ton made to discover whether the lands
and springs are needed by the Indians.
His request will probably be granted, but
the Secretary Of the Interior does not
know whom to send Gen. Charles III.
Howard, the Indian Inspector for that
district, has recently resigned and his
successor has not yet been appointed.
Logan insists that Frank Cushing, the
agent of the Smithsonian Institute, who is
living among the Zunis, is the author of all
Ofhis troubles, and declares that he will not
consent TO the appropriation Of a dollar
for continuing the chronological work of
the institute as long as Gushing is per-
mitted to stay at Zuni. The apprOpria-
ton is made in the sundry civil bill, which
is usually the last of the list to be con-
sidered by Congress, and viii not reach
the Senate until after the Republican Ma
tiOnal Convention, so LOganS opposition
will not interfere with his Presidential
boom.
1t is understood that Gushing viii return
to Washington this fan to work up the
material he has collected about the Ian
guage, the traditions, and customs Of the
remarkable people among whom he has
been living. They are the only remnant
of the Aztec race that has remained I'M
polluted by contact with the whites and
the MeXicans, and the object Of Cushing's
researches is to connect the Pueblo In
dams of to-day with the prehistoric races
that lived in the wonderful ruins in the
cliffs and caves of Arizona and New Mex
leo. That they We're semi-civilIZed and
understood the mechanic arts, were far
advanced in architecture. and had herds
of goats and donkeys, practiced the art of
weaving, and grew corn, wool and cotton,
has been clearly demonstrated by the dis
coveries made in the ruined cities they
left, and the problems Gushing has been
trying to solve are their relationship TO
the AZtecs of Mexico and their origin.
Their pottery is Egyptian, and their
ruins were built Of adobe bricks similar
to those which the sons Of Israel were
compelled to make without straw in the
days of Moses. Their garments, in pat
tern and texture, resemble those now
worn by the wild Arabs of Egypt, and
their laws are in many respects sug-
gestive of the Mosaic era. Their plONS
and OK carts are the same as those de-
Scribed by JOsephus. They have ira
ditiOns closely paralleling the stories of
the Old Testament; they have an Adam
and Eve, a serpent, and a Noah in their
mythology, and their theory OF the crea-
ton of the world is strictly orthodox.
All their customs and manners, their
social habits and their etiquette, resemble
those Of Syria and their mode of saluta-
ton is the same as that practiced to-day
in Oriental lands. Their language is
sort of mixture Of Arabic, Indian and
Welsh, but it is in their religion that the
strongest resemblances to the ancient
Hebrews prevail. They have one God,
who is the sun, and they worship him
with sacrifices; they have a Messiah who
is coming to redeem them, and they ex-
pect him when the morning star rises IN
the east; they believe that the soul is i'm
mortal; that the good enjoy eternal bless
edness, and that the wicked suffer eternal
punishment after death.
All these resemblances 90 to show some
vague relation Of the Tunis of to-day with
the ancient Syrians, and Mr.. Cushing's
labOrs have been directed towards a def
mite association between these, the Oldest
inhabitants of America, with the races
that We're scattered over the earth after
the failure of Babel. He has been in Zuni-
land four years, and Prof. Baird thinks
he had better return to Washington and
prepare the results Of his researches for
publication. 1t is positively denied that
Gen. LOgan's attitude has anything to DO
with Cushing's recall, but Logan uses
emphatic language when he refers to the
young student, and would wipe off the
face Of the earth anything that stands
between his son-in-law and that cattle
ranch.