The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14
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WASHINGTON, Aug. H. General Frank
Armstrong, of the Indian Bureau, has re-
ceived orders to visit the Apache agency
and take complete enrolment of the In
dians there, and to generally look into the
management of the reservation. 1t was
General Armstrong who did the work at the
Cheyenne and AIapahoe agency which
led to the proclamation expelling cattle
men from that reservation. 1t can be
stated upon the very best authority that
the President and Secretary Lamar do not
believe it possible for the cattle-owners to
remove their stock from the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe reserves within the forty days
prescribed in the Presidents proclamation.
1t is the fixed purpose of the President and
Secretary to give the cattlemen additional
time if the latter manifest an honest desiTe
to move within the prescribed time.
The President and Secretary Lamar have
both disclaimed any idea of injuring the
lesseeS and cattle-owners. They say that
the occupation of the reservation by the
leseeeS was the cause of trouble with the
indians; that the Cheyennes and Arapahoes
are still closely welded to their n0madic
with a limited quantity of land. The Pres
ident was satisfied that the only way to
prevent trouble with the Indians was to
get the cattlemen off their lands, and he
felt that that ought to be ACCOMPLISHED as
early as possible. The application of the
cattle-owners for the extension of time was
refused because it was feared that if one eX-
tension were allowed the cattlemen would
fiatter themselves that they could procure
another and the President deemed it best
to show them that he was in earnest.
Under the circumstances named, however,
they will be given more time, but if at the
expiration of the forty days they have not
made preparations to move cavalry will be
Instantly ordered in to clear them out
Orders have been issued to increase the
permanent garrison at Fort Reno to four
companies of cavalry and three OF infantry.
and cavalry will be placed at othei points
ready for use in expelling cattlemen
if it becomes necessary. 1t is not
impossible that the lease of the Chero-
kee strip may be permitted to stand,
as the Secretary holds that these indians
are intelligent and competent to determine
for themselves what is for their interest 1t
is held at the Interior Department howev-
er, that all these leases are illegal
The following proclamation by the PreSi-
dent was issued yesterday:
by the President of the United States Of
Amef1cd-A Proclamation: WHEREAS, Public
policy demands that public domain shall be
reserved for the occupancy of actual settlers
IN good falth and that our people who seek
homes upon such domain shall in nowise be
prevented by any wrongful interference from
the safe and free entry thereon to which they
may be entitled;
'AND WHEREAS To secure and maintain tbic
benetcent policy a statute was passed by the
Congress of the United States on the 25th
clared to be unlawful all Enclosures of any
public lands In any State or Territory, to any
OF which land included within said Enclosure
the person, party, association or corporation
making or controlling such Enclosure had no
claim or color of title, made or acquired
in good faith, or an asserted right thereto
by or under claim made in good faith
with a view to entry thereof at the
proper land Office, and which statute also pro-
hibited any person, by force threats, intimi-
datlon, or by any fencing, Enclosure, or other
unlawful means, from preventing or obstruct-
ing any person from peaceably entering upon,
or establishing settlement or residence on.
any tract of public land subject to settlement
or entry under the public land laws of the
United States, and from preventing or OBJ
structing free passage and transit over or
through the public lands;
''AND WHEREAS, 1t is by the fifth section of
said act provided as follows:
""lhat the President is hereby authorized
to take such means as shall be necessary to
remove and destroy any unlawful Enclosure
of any of said lands, and to employ civic or
military force. as may be necessary for that
purpose.
AND WHEREAS, It has been brought to my
knowledge that unlawful Enclosures and such
as are prohibited by the terms of the afore-
said statute exist upon the public domain,
and that actual settlement thereon is prevent
ed and INSTRUCTED by such Enclosures, and by
force, threats and intimidatiOn;
Now therefore |, Grover Cleveland, preSi
dent OF the United States, do hereby order
and direct that any and every unlawful in
closure of the public lands, maintained by
any person, association or corporation, be
Immediately removed; and do hereby for
bid any person, association or corporation
from preventing or ObStructing by means Of
such Enclosures, or by force, threats or in
timidatlon, any person entitled thereto from
peaceably entering upon and establishing q
settlement or residence on any part of such
public land as is subject to entry and settle
ment under the laws of the United States,
and command and require each and every
officer of the United States upon whom the
duty is legally devOlved to cause this order to
be obeyed and all the provisions OF the act Of
Congress herein mentioned to be faithfully
enforced.
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the city OF Washington this, 7th
day of August 1885, and of the independence
of the United States of America the l07th
GROVER CLEVELAND.
By the President: 7. F. Bayard, Secretary
of State"
CHICAGO, Aug. 11.-Hon. II. NJ. Teller,
Senator from Colorado, and ex-Secretary of
the Interior, arrived at the Grand Pacific
yesterday. Referring to the recent order of
President Cleveland requiring the cat
tlemen holding leases in the Indian
Territory from the Cheyenne and Arapa-
hoe tribes to remove their herds
within forty days, be said that the
President was best able to judge of the sit
uation and the means of preserving peace
among the Indians. He denied that the
leases, as first granted by those tribes in
1888. had ever been sanctioned or recog-
nized by him as Secretary of the
interior. He remarked that he
specifically stated at the time, and incor-
porated the statement in his reports
of 1884, that the Government re-
served the right to interfere with the cattle
men and remove them whenever it became
necessary, either of its own motion or from
the complaints of the Indians. In this con-
nection he announced to the cattlemen that
if such occupation proved agreeable to the
Indians the Government would not inter-
fere with the possessions.
Senator Teller said that for two years
the cattlemen occupied the land without
friction or complaint The present re-
ported trouble among the Cheyennes and
Arapahoes he attributed to the interfer-
ence of the men who formerly occupied
the land without paying for the privilege,
and who were disgruntled because others
had secured their old grazing ground, and
to men who, desiring the land, were will
ing to pay more than the present tenants.
Murdered in BIS Own House.
NEW YORK, Aug. 11.-Albert r.. Her
rick, wealthy restaurant keeper in this
city, was murdered at his Brooklyn home
yesterday afternoon under mysterious cir
cumstances. Mr.. Herrick's family is in
the country, and at Ais o'clock yesterday
afternoon he went to the house to see
that everything was all right. Ten
minutes after he disappeared through
the basement door he staggered back into
the area-way crying Murder, police" Be
fore help could reach him he had fallen
down several stone steps and was found
dead at the bottom, with a bullet-hole
near his heart and blood rushing from his
mouth. 1t is supposed that he entered the
house just in time to catch burglar at
work and so met his death.
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