Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-09-19

york. What ve watt ID for the Great
Father to send Is white men 10 plant
our corn, hoe il, reap IL and put il In
our barns, which they should build for
as. We are warriors and don't work.
SquAvs work"
Mr.. Lsedom says that the committee
has q number Of reforms in Indian gov
eminent TO recommend. The general
tenor OF all Of them will be TO treat the
Indians like children, and govern them
accordingly. Teach them 10 farm and
earn their own living, bst In the mean
time to care for them whenever they
are not able to care for themselves.
A kepensant Poly gamist-
SALT LAKE, Sept. l5.-Todsy, answer
ing 10 an indictment for unlawful Co
habitation, Bishop John sharp, Unisn
Pacific Railroad director. and one OF the
richest and most Influential Mormons.
pleaded guilty. He read statement
that his polyeamous marriages we're
entered into while there was no statute
on the subject, and In obedience 70
what they considered a divine com
msnd, but be considered the laws of toe
country binding on him az interpreted
by the courts, and would obey the Ed
munds law and net counsel others TO
disobey it. Judge Zane said be eonsid-
cred that his example would be of more
effect at large than in prison, and dis
charged him on bis pledges with $50
fine.
a Blow at the Union and Central
Pacifes.
NEW YoRK. Sept. ls.-A special dis
patch from Washington TO the Nal and
EIgTess, says that Secretary Lamar has
directed the Commissioner of RAILWAY o.
General Joseph Z. Johnston, to send q
letter to Charles Francis Adams, Presi
d snt of the Uaiou Pacific Railway, and
20 G. p. Huntington, Of the Central Pa
eihc Railway, stating that the Depart
pent had been informed that their
companies had been for years paying a
subsidy Of nearly 81, 0UO,0O0 per annum
to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
and instructing them to forward to the
Commissioners a copy OF the contract
between their companies aud the Pa
cifie Mail, aud also to cease paying
money 10 the Pacific Mail Company I'M
til the matter could be thoroughly in
vestigated by the Department.
GeneraI Ward says Too mach.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 18.-Last night
General Durbin Ward delivered a politi-
cal speech at Lebanon, Ohio, in which
he said that the offense Of Police
Lieutenant Mullen. recently released
from Jail, where he had been imprison-
ed for violating Federal election laws
last November, was mild compared with
the outraQes committed by United
States Marshal Lot Wright during the
November election in this city. Tonight
Mr.. Ward and Mr.. Wright met on the
train going TO Lebanon, and q lively
discussion took place over Mr.. Wards
remarks last night. The quarrel was
ended by Wright striking his adversary
severe blow over the eye with sufficient
force to draw blood. Other passengers
prevented any further difficulty.
A Disqaieting Rumer.
New York. Sept. Ia The Daily Ne,es
says: 1T Gas reported on Wall street
today that the Interior Department at
Washington had ordered the URion
Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad
Companies to suspend until further
orders the payment OF any subsidies
whatever to the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company. The Department claims that
this Is illegal % long as their debt ~ the
Government is unpaid. Meanwhile the
Pacific Mail line is overrun with bust
ness. The steamer to sail for Panama
on Monday has been already filled with
freight. The stock broke down one per
cent. on the above report. President
Houston of the Pacific Mail Company
said today, The talk of disseminating
the subsidy, as il has been erroneously
termed, is nonsense. The fact Is that
we have no subsidy from any railroad
company. All that exists Is q pooling
arrangement and this is for the best in
terest of all. This Washington bust
ness looks to me is II the authorities are
working against certain corporations
which they would like to ace placed in
hands of receivers
Another Fight.
DALLAS, Tex, Sept. lS.-Articles we're
signed tonight for an eight-round glove
contest on the 10th of October, between
VIM. Ross alias Black, and Lemuel Mo
Gregor, the ST. Joe Kid. The weight Of
the gloves is not TO exceed three ounces.
wall street Quotations.
NEw YORK. Sept. ls.-Pscific SIS l2s,
cific 45is. Canada Southern 31S. Cen
trail Pacific 365s. Burlington l2SAs. Lack
awanna 1915. Denver q Rio Grande
l2R, Erie Is. Kansas q Texas 25ls,
Lake shore 70is, Louisville / Nash
vile 45s. Michigan Central 81,
Northern Pscific 2lal. Northern Pa
cihc preferred AN, Northwestern 97S,
New York Central 97Js, Oregon Rail
way and Navigation so, Oregon
Unconstitutional q y. Oregon Improve
ment 20, Pacific Mail AN, Panama 50,
Rock Island 1lsIS, st. Paul 79ss, Texas
Pacific 1915, Union Pacific 501s, United
States Express 53Ss, Wells Fargo ia,
" asfern Union 7Oh