Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
THE POW. WOW WITH Villas.
Indi cations That the Treaty Will Be
Signed Before Long.
Err BARBARA ERIETcHle.
How a Brave Wife Preserved tho
Union Flag From the Hands Of
Old Dominion Bourbons
-Logan's Tomb.
Villas and the Sioux.
WAsHiNGToN BUREAU THE OMAHA BEE,
5l3 FOURTEENTH STREET,
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WAsniSGrON, d. c., Oct 10. J
Although the pow WOW at the interior de.
partment to-day with the Sioux Indians re.
lative to opening thor reservation was short
and little to the point was said, 1t was gen
orally believed by those present that IL will
result in speedy determination on the part
of the braves to sign the treaty. The Indians
seemed to be very much Affected They cvi.
IDENTIFY did not expect TO be urged to act in
such haste or to be met with so much de-
termination on the part of Secretary Villas to
not palavcr. There will be another consul.
tation on Monday and a member of the Sioux
commission informs THE BEE correspondent
to night that the impression made by the au-
thorities here upon the Indians is favorable
to an early termination of the work.
GUARDING LoGANs TOMB.
1t is probable that steps will be taken to
relieve the strong and useless guard which
has for nearly two years been kept over
General John A. Logans tomb in Rock
Creek cemetery, couple of miles north of
this city. People here appear till to-day to
have forgotten that seven men from the
Third artillery at the Washington barracks
have been constantly detailed to watch the
vault in which Logan's remains are deposited
and that two of these men can be found on
duty there day and night. No one appears
to know who is responsible for the assign
mcnt Of these soldiers to guard the tomb and
there is no limit to the time of their detail
No such honor or precautou was ever cX-
tended to the remains of any other man in
this country.
DESPERATE BouRBoSs.
1t appears that the unrcconstructed confcd-
eracy in Virginia has been driven to desper-
ate straits to hold the Old Dominion IN the
democratic line. There can no longer be any
doubt as to the unreconstructed condition of
considerable proportion OF the population
of Virginia, as an incident just brought to
the attention of your correspondent will il
lustrate. II. l.. Amiss of Jefferson, Culpep-
per comfy, Virginia, has written q letter
here under date of the llth inst, in which he
states that on the night before IA most out
rageous attempt was made to capture an
American flag which he keeps floating before
his house. The flag is run up on a halyard
during the day and at night is drawn down
and taken into the house. II acts as u severe
irrtant upon the disoyal population in the
vicinity, and a number of times threats have
been made that If the flag was not taken
down the owner would suffer. On the night
of the 10th inst. party of men called at
the house Of Amiss and induced him
to 60 out upon the road some dis
tance upon the representation that Il
neighbor was found very i'll. When he
had proceeded some distance from the house
he was pounced upon and given to under
the United States flag in his house he would
be massacreod. He said he would die before
he would do 50, and while he was held by IA
part of the mob others Of it went to the house
and demanded Of the old lady that she pro
duce the flag Instead of handing out the
flag she pointed a shotgun well loaded and
full cooked in the face OF the
men and cody informed them that unless
they left the premises she would kill some
body. The party fled and Mr. Amiss, who is
well known in the city, was released. 1t is
stated on goad authority that the men who
attempted this capture of the flag belong to
the f. H. V's.the first families of Virginia
All of this incident occurred within thirty
miles Of Washington.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Hon. John M. Ragan of of Hastings and r.
j. Bur.e and l.. Hogan of Iowa, are in the
city.
Henry f. Johnson Of Iowa has received a
permanent appointment to a position worth
$1,000 year in the surgeon generals office.