The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-08-15

j NUMBER SO.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER..
RcfornAne Abuses In the Indlian Terri
tory-A Notable Letter-secretavy Whit
ney's Now House-HIilltary Do-nothings
Ordered Of, Dnty-The Season Of Foliage
and Flowers.
.-a WASHINGTON, D. c.. Aug. II. 1885,
EDITOR CHIEF:
The President has commenced we'll in
reforming the abuses in the Indian Terri
tory by ordering the cattle to be removed
from leased lands. There is a still greater
abuse to be corrected. "In the Southern
Ute country of Colorado" says gcntle-
man who has recently come in from that
region, "there are four big English cnttle
companies owned entirely on the other side
of the Atlantic. They have taken up .
million acres of public land without the
slightest pretense of having lease or any
thing else They have thus assumed pos
session of United States property In tho
shape of Government land without any
right and fenced it in. They have driven
out the other persons and hired and armed
the worst element to be found in all that
section and directed those "guards," as
they aenominate them, to shoot at sight
any Indian found trespassing. These peO-
ple came worry nearly provoking an out
break among tho Utes few weeks ago by
shooting and woupding young Indian
who did not know that these aliens had
taken up so much land. These Eng1ishmsp
do notown an acre, but on some ones allyice
they have just taken possession Of tho enor-
NOUS quantity of land mentioned withopt
leave. How long will tho President permit
this to continue?" The facts as above
stated are commended to shc President's
attention. Any further information he may
desire can be had, upon inquiry, from tho
General i'll Chief OF the United States Army.
Tho Presidents departure for New York
on tho o'clock train on Friday wns tho
first occasion that no had Como away from
Washington in accordance with definitely
announced programme. He l,as some lik-
ing for going about without public m:
nounoednent. one reason is that he Wishes
10 escape crowd whenever he cum do, 80.
To-day he will be in Albany, and in q. fas
days ho will go to his forest retreat: The
date OF his return here is definitely nxed -
the 10th of September, exactly one month
from yesterday. 's '
President Cievehnd's letter TO the Pc
titloner who betrayed him IN Recommend
ing IN unfit person Tor oilloo has attracted
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of Colonel Robert N. Scott, who has charge
of the publication of the records of the re-