The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-01

President to-day appointed John Nc
Lean, of California, to be interpreter of
the United States Consul-GeneraI at
KanagaWa, Japan.
MRS. CLEVELAND
and Mrs. Folsom have gone to Buffalo,
NY, for visit of about ten days.
THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
has under consideration a proposition
to allow certain tribes of Indians of the
west the privilege of utilizing the grass
upon the surplus lands of their reserva-
ton by allowing them to take cattle
from the neignbOring CATTLE men 10
pasture, the Indians to he$d'and care
for the cattle andF receive a fair and
just compensate pm therefor, but 10
white men Will be allowed upon the re-
seryatiOns. 1t is probable that an order
authorizing certain trioes to enter into
contracts with the cattlemen as out
lined above will soon be issued.
An order OF the Secretary of the Navy,
changing
WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
Into an ordnance bureau goes into effect
after to-day. The heads of bureaus
affected by the order have been in
structed to make the best arrangements
possible for the transfer of such bEiId-
lngs, machinery and tools as are needed
by the ordnance bureau, and the re-
moYal of the rest. The order has not
been modified further than that the
yards and docks department will not
be moleSted, and Civil Engineer None
cal, who is in charge of that depart
ment, will retain his residence and con-
tinue on duty. Some nee essary unfin-
ished work in the steam engineering de-
partment will be completed. All en-
pJOyees of other bureaus, numbering
about 200, are to be discharged from this
evening. Doubtless a majority of those
discharged will be re-em ployed as soon
as the ordnance work is well under way.
The Star says: The fact that Gen
eral Miles accepted the conditional sur
render when the positive instructions
of the government were that nothing
but capture or
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
Should determine the Apache cam
paign, raises very grave questions for
the consideration of the President and
Secretary of War. What the result will
be, can only be copjectured. but unless
there are some very extenueting cir
cumstances, not apparent on the out
side, a reprimand is the least that
can be expected. The report shows thet
| the hOstiles never before have been
driven to such a stage of desperation,
and that they could not have stood out
against the troops much longer, but,
neve rtheless, the War Department
would undoubtedly have preferred the
| Indian war to last another year, rather
than that the hostiles should surrender
upon their own terms. Its said that
General Miles campaign did not prac-
! tically differ from that of General
Crock, and that the latter could have
secured the ihostiles upon similar con
ditions to those accepted by
| General Miles last January, when
! Geronimo expressed a willingness to
surrender, but escaped when he found
he could secure no assurances safely
from General Crook, Gen. Miles report
is very long and interesting. He de-
votes a greater portion of it to an ac-
count of the pursuit Of the Indians since
he took command. He shows how MS
campaign differed from that OF Crooks.
The latter used friendly Indians to fig3t
the hostiles, while General Miles pur-
sued them, the United States troops
using only few Indians as trailers.
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