Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-03


Interesting Report by the Commissioned
of Indian Affairs.
WASHINGTON, Dec. .
Gov Julick of Arizona, has addressed the
following communication to the secretary of
the interior, under date of Prescott, Nov. 23
Il deem it my duty, through you, to call
the attention of the treasury department to
the evil of smuggling which is carried on be-
tween Arizona and the State of Sonora in
Mexico. The counties OF Puma and Cochese
have border of several hundred miles along
the Mexican frontier, over which the snug
glers cross upon unfrequented trails, bringing
into this territory the products of Mexico
without let or hindrsnce from the United
States custom authorities. There is within
Arizona 10000 inhabitants of Mexican origin,
the national drink of whom is "Mescal," a
liquor distilled from the cachou plant, thou
sands of gallons of which is annually con-
sumed by them, all of it being manufactured
within the borders of our sister republic
Hardly gallon of this liquor pays duty.
Hundreds of thousands of Mexican cigars
and quantities of tobacco, to say moth
ing of beet cattle, horses and mules,
which are also smuggled in" In this
extract from the report of the last grand Jury
in support of his assertions and concludes as
follows: SIN order to enforce the customs
laws of the United States, | would commend
that four mounted inspectors be appointed by
the department to be assigned to duty along
the borders of the Cochese and Puma coun-
ties that they be selected on account of their
familiarity with the country, their knowledge
of trails and by the paths leading into Mex
leo; that they speak the Spanish language
and are frontiersmens"
The President has appointed Albert A.
Wilson of Washington to be U. S. Marshal
of the District of Columbia. Wilson is
president of the Firemen's Insurance Co.,
vice president of the Metropolitan Railroad
Co. of Washington, and director of the Ma
tional Bank of the Republic. The President
being convinced that the people of the Dis
trict are entitled to the entire time and atten-
ton of this officer in the performance of the
legitimate duties pertaining to the Marshall
ship, has determined to relieve the office of
the unofficial and social functions that have
of late years attended it, and Wilson will not
be called upon to perform such service
On the day following the Inauguration of
President Cleveland, CLAYTON McMichael,
marshal of the District of Columbia, present.
ed his written resignation of that office. Since
that time McMichael has made repeated re-
quests to be relieved at the earliest conve-
nience of the executive. Today the President
addressed to the marshal the following auto
graph letter, with permission to make it pub
lie:
Col. Clayton McMichael,
Dear Sir: l have this day determined to
appoint as your successor in the office of
marshal of the District of Columbia. Albert
A. Wilson of this city. | have every assur-
ance that he will continue in the legitimate
and official functions of Office the same clean
methods and admirable system which you
have maintained. | bespeak for him consid-
Grafton and kindness, which you have ex-
pressed yourself as willing and anxious to
extend to your successor. 1t is satisfaction
to assure you that your discharge of the
official duty has been all that should be de-
sired, and your thoughtfulness in suggesting
and ability in executing measures for my per-
sonal comfort and pleasure are fully appre-
ciated and will be pleasantly remembered. |
thank you, too, for your willingness to con-
tinue in the discharge of your duties beyond
the time when you desired to retire at my
solicitation, and for my ease aud convenience.
In permitting you, at your own request now
to be relieved of the duties of your official
place, desire to express the hope that sue
cess and prosperity may attend all your un-
dertakings, and that comfort may wait upon
all your future way of life.
Yours very sincerely,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Commissioner OF Indian Affairs Atkins, in
his annual report, says: ''It requires no seer
to foretell or foresee the civilization of the
Indian race as result naturally deducible
1vnx lodi md thnir
part of the art of agriculture. The increased
interest in agriculture manifested since the
opening of last spring, and the preparations
in several reservations for still larger in
crease of acreage in farming area are among
the hopeful signs of Indian progress and de-
velopment. practical policy which be-
lieve should be adopted in the management
of the Indians is this 1t should industriouslv
and gravely be impressed on them that they
must abandon their tribal relations and take
lands in severalty as the corner stone of their
complete success in agriculture, which means
self support, personal independence and ma
terial thrift. The government should, how
ever, in order to protect them, retain the
right to their lands in trust for 25 years or
longer, but issue trusts patents at once to
such Indians as have taken individual hold
ings. When the Indians have taken their
lands in severalty in sufficient quantities, then,
having done in regard to the immediate and
early future needs of the Indians, the re-
manning lands of their reservations should be
purchased by the government and opened to
homestead entry at so or 75 cents per acre.
The money paid by the government for their
land should be held in trust in per cent
bonds to be invested, as Congress may pro
vide. for the education, civilization and ma
terial development and advance of the red
race, reserving for each tribe its own money.
When the farm and school have become
familiar institutions among the Indians, and
a reasonable time has interviewed for the tran
sition from barbarism, or sem-civiliZed
state, to one OF civilization, then will the
Indian be prepared to take upon himself
higher and more responsible duties and privi-
leges vhich appertain to American citizen.
ship. There are in the United States, exclu-
sive of Alaska, about 260, 900 Indians, and
fully half of them, as get, have declined to
commit themselves to the life of farmer.
Exclusive of the lands cultivated by the five
civilized tribes, the number of acres in cultiva
ton By the Indians during the year is PAS, ,24l
an increase of l8,413 acres over last year
Referring to the Indian outbreaks in the
southwest the commissioner says: On the
llth of last May a portion of Chiricahuas
numbering forty-two men and ninety-twc
women and children, succeeded in escaping
| from military control, while the remaining
portion remained peaceably at Camp Apache
| Of those who escaped eight men we're killed
by Apache scouts and thirty women ant