Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-22
TELEGRAPHIC.
INDIAN PAYMENT.
How wild Grass is Paid For.

INDIAN PAYMENT.
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How wild Grass is Paid For.
Special Dispatch to the Daily Eagle
CHEYENNE AGENCY, May 20.-The fourth
semi-annual grass lease payment of $S2, 600
to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians is
now taking place at this agency. The le-
sees, who are prominent cattlemen, have al
ways mace their lease payments and other
dealings with these Indians on strictly BUSH
ness principles, and the Indians are well
pleased with their bargain in obtaining such
handsome yearly revenue from the gaaz-
ing privileges they have granted. When it
is generally understood that this payment
amounts to S625 per capits for each Indian
man, woman and child, and that this amount
is given twice year, one can see that the
heads OF families are thus provided with
quite neat sum of money to add to their
subsistence The distribution of the money
is made on the agency family ration tickets,
upon which the Indian women weekly draw
their beef, -four, etc, and in the same NAH
ner they draw their grass lease money. At
ter drawing their money, exciting times are
had by the Indians, changing and dividing
their cash among themselves, after which
they literally patronize their traders in OBJ
tanning supplies and merchandise of every
description. The payment is being made in
currency, bills of small denominations, in
order that the Indians may more readily
make the divisions among themselves. Z.
Fenlon, of Leavenworth, presides in the
cage Of wealth as paymaster, In behalf Of
the lessees, of which he is member.
Murdered His Paramour.
NEw YORK, May 20.--At o'clock this
morning Frenchman, who proved to be
Louis Francis, of 1907 Tenth avenue, was
arrested while on his way to North river
bearing on his back bag containing the
mutlated corpse of woman who had been
murdered. The police was attracted by
Francis mysterious manner. He moved
along weighed down by his burden. He
was stopped and asked what the bag con-
tanned. The Frenchman refused to give
any explanation and attempted to move on
but the officer insisted upon being informed
as to the contents of the sack and took
Francis into custody. The policeman then
seized Francis by the arm, when he dropped
the bag and contents upon the sidewalk. 1t
fell with smashing sound to the flags
and the officer upon opening the end of the
sack found to his surprise and horror it con-
tanned the mutilated body OF woman. The
body was doubled up and in almost a nude
condition. The policeman, upon making a
closer examination, found unmistakable evil
dence that the woman had been murdered.
There were CHASTITY wounds about the head
and also on the trunk, from which blood
had flown freely and had coagulated on the
corpse. Francis was asked for an explana-
ton of the affair, and after recovering from
his confusion declared that the corpse was
that of his wife, and that she
had died natural death, being
without the means necessary to defray the
expenses of a funeral he had conceived
the idea of carrying the corpse TO the river
and throwing it in. The officer refused to
accept the explanation. Francis again
shouldered the bag and bore the remains to
to the police station. He was placed under
arrest and steps taken to investigate tho sup
posed crime. Francis is about 81 years of
age. He made no attempt 10 explain the af-
fair when closely questioned, other than to
repeat the story that his wife died at their
home on Tenth avenue and that he was SIM
ply depositing the corpse in the river on
account of his inability to give it a Christian
burial.
Louis Francis tells the following story:
Yesterday found a valuable dog, which my
wife afterwards lost. Ireproached M wife
for losing him and she swore at me. AT I:3O
o'clock last night she sent me out for
beer. When came back l found a man
named VIM. Welsh with her. Welsh works
in the same shop with me. She sat on my
lap and kissed me and then she threw a glass
at me and then they went out. She
walked about half block and then she
left him. l went out and when
/ came back she was lying
on the floor dead. / waited an hour think
ing she would revive but she did not. Don't
know what was the cause of her death. She
told me before she died that she died because
she did not care for me but she liked the
man who put up the wine for her. He is
Leopold Saconville and he lives with Mrs.
Lynch, on Broadway. After l found my
wife dead / took sixteen cents and went DOT
and got drink. In half an hour l came
back and put her in the bag TO throw her
into the river.
The body in the bag was woman but
was not Francis wife. She was Seine Fe-
hot, 3S years old, with son Is years ofage,
who lives in Boston. Francis, who Is one
year younger than his paramour, has
worked for some time in a French polishing
marble yard. Three months ago the couple
moved into the apartments where the
crime was committed. Francis lived on the
ground floor in the rear of the structure.
His three rooms were comfortably furnished
and neatly kept. Both were persons in APP
pearance above the average in the neighbor
hood, but both drank freely OF beer, the man
often to excess. They. quarrelled frequently.
Two weeks ago while in one of his convivial
moods he beat and kicked her while she was
on the floor. He, upon picking her up, was
heard by tenent in the house to say, Il
guess / have finished her this time" As the
body of Sslina Fehot lay in the police sta
ton this morning. 1t had the appearance
of once having been that of pretty woman,
even the traces of dissipation could not de-
stroy this impression. She was of delicate
complexion, large expressive, blue eyes,
thick, wavy, light-bfown hair and petite in
figure, probably weighing about 100 pounds.
On the corpse were scrupuloHsly clean un-
derwear, a black skirt and embroidered
night dress. About the neck was twisted
silk handkerchief About the throat lines
of discoloration and marks of finger nails.
1t was evident the woman had been stran-
gled 10 death by twisting handkerchief
about her throat.