The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-07
IL Ia Because Nis Only Choice
Is between Fighting for
Food or starving,
since he has Been Pluck ed by
Agents or Robbed by Con-
traCtOrs-PIainT Talk.
The Reform Wave strikes 81
Big Postmasters ana Leaves
the D. Prs High aud Dry.
Washington NEWS.
whatthe Department are Doing and
Hearing.

Nbatthc department arc DONG ana
Hearing.
Washington, July g. The presi.
dent to-day appointed postmasters in
eight cities to fill vacancies recurring
by expiration ofcommlssions and res
ignations. Thirty-niDe cases for re-
mOval were considered. Among
these twenty-five suspensions were
made and in seventeen cases the al
legged cause was not deemed suiii-
Client.
FEEDING THE HUNGRY REDS.
General Schoficld has forwarded to
the war department u despatch from
Colonel Bradley, in which the latter
says: "The Mescallaro Apaches In
this vicinity in southeastern New
Mexico are becoming restless because
their supplies are giving out; at pres
ent they have nothing but beef and
short rations.' In commu-
nicating the above dispatch
to Adjutant-Gcncral Drum,
General Schoiield said there were rs
many Indian difficulties Us the troops
were able to handle and he thought,
il the Indian bureau could not fur
nish supplies to these people that the
army had better feed them out OF
their stores and charge the amount 10
the Indian bureau Secretary Lamar
consented to the proposition ana
General Scoiield was directed to issue
rations from the military stores at
the post where the trouble is threat
cncd.
ave would have had our hands
full" said an officer holding promi-
ncnt position here in commenting to
day upon the contents of the above
dispatch, "if the Apachcs in southeast
ern New Mexico had gone on the war
path. The Utcs in northwestern and
northern Mexico; the Apachcs in Ar
iona, aud the Cheyennes in the Indian
Territory, are all giving us trouble
and they are widely scpar-
ated When one knows the condition
of the Indians, he cannot blame them
for their actions. They must do some
thing or starvr to death, for they
have no food and there is no game for
them TO kill. The government is not
halt feeding them. understand that
appropriations for the Indians are LEST
now than they were several year,
ago, and have ii from no less au'
Q thority than the general OF the army
;, that they are cheated out OF ,
c portion of the food purchased b,
these appropriation to which they arr
entitled asby collision betwt Gu dealer
and agents they get cattle weighing
one half or one fourth what their con
tract calls for. OF course when thi
il done their food gives out bcfor'
the end of the year and they can ge
nothing additional on the reservation
, excerpts snakes and insects, whicl
they actually do eat. Anothe
army officer says that tn
amount of food allowed an In
- dian by the government vii
not equal more than onc-fourth thu
amount which is given to a soldier,
In 1877, dnring II trouble with tn,
Cheyenncs, General Pope sent the fol
lowing heretofore unpublished rcpor
to the war department "As matter
stand the military forces are place
in false aud very unsatisfactory col
dition in relation to these Indians.
is inhuman TO compel the Indian
. to remain AT agencies on the
reservations, slowly starving
> death. If they do what III
man would do under the circun
stances, namely, leave the looaliti'
where they are placed TO procul
food to prevent themselves and the
families from starving, II is considerC
the duty of the army to pursue VI
force them back and compel them
starve pcaceably. In other WORD
the military forces are required
compel these Indians TO starve
death quickly or be killed, If the" a
not wiling to do It, II Ia inpossit
to believe that the government
- the United States intends, knowing
l. to be even tacitly party TO 40 MOI
trous a crime against humanity ant
consider il therefore my duty, both
the government and military force,
acqnaint tho authorities with I
facts, however disagreeable they M
be. IL will be perceived that a lar
sum is necessarily used from the
preparations for these Indian trit
10 transport the suppl
to their aid at remote agcnc
aud IL is improper for
a to again invite attention TO the
u merous recommendations hi
. made in the last 'welve years, {
HI Indians confined TO reservations
~ treaty stipulations be brought in
points where everything 10 cheap |
where the enormous expenditure
transportation of supplies 10 th
will not be necessary.
In September of the same y
General Pope sent another repor
the department and said, "rhe PAL
forwarded contain too much of III
restatement o. what l have so OF