Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
RUSSIAN WOLF HOUNDS.
Two Monster Specimens Presented to the
Smithsonian MISUNDERSTANDING Fos-
ter Talks on the Country's Finances
Chief Two Strikes Pacific Protestations

ter Talks on the Country's Finances
Chief Two Strikes Pacific Protestations
to Captain Pratt.
| lFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT
! WASHINGTON, April a9.-The small zoolog-
| ical collection at the Smithsonian Institution
is about to be enriched by the addition of two
real Russian wolves, the largest and savagest
| of their race, and two monster wolf hounds,
| from pack of the most famous hounds in
Russia, and are worth over 81 900 each. Their
size is tremendous, as they stand 81 inches at
the shoulder. and are therefore inches taller
than the largest wolf hounds of Brittany. They
have also stronger jaws and are more tenacious
| IN their bite than any other hounds.
Roach-backed,, with prodigiously deep cirth
and very long, muscular quarters, they stand
| firm on capital legs and feet. A soft silky
| coat, of which the individual hairs are some
| what far apart, covers them from stem to
| stern, and their mission is to run their four
| legged quarry down In the course OF a mile
| or less and then to seize him under the ear and
| to hold on like grim death. If they relaxed
| their grip for half a second the wolf which Is
] as quick as lightning and bites like steel
trap, would have them by the leg, and one such
bite is more thsn enough to disable any dog.
So tenacious is the hold Of the hound that
cases have been known in which he has al
| lowed himself to be suffocated rather than re-
lax his grip. They are ready TO hgA with
| each other on the slightest pretext I'm the
lodging houses of the kennels there is q room
l
haye watchmen in attendance at all times, as
! these wolf hounds are extremely quarrelsome
and terrible fighters. The animals are the
gift of a Russian gentleman. through Consul
Daniels. at Hull. England, and they have been
| formally accepted by Professor Langley.
Secretary Foster on Finance.
A reporter had talk with Secretary Foster
relating to the statement made by Director of
the Mint Leach that the Government had a sur
plus available cash balance of some $3.50 009,-
600. The Secretary said in substance: Il saw
Mr.. Leach's first statement and said he might
give it out. l did not see the second before it
was printed"
do you agree with himT
II guess he Is about right in the main. /
think 1t is q matter that may well be discussed.
should have stated it little differently had
been writing it myself. should have said that
some of the s250, 600 600 of available cash might
be regarded as trust funds might be. 1t would
be correct to say that about SIC. 000600 is un-
questionably available cash; that is about S2S,-
100000 in the banks. s2l, ,0000 900 of subsidiary
coin, 81 000 900 In trade dollar bullion S12 900 QUO
of current cash and s. 100000 in silver against
which no certificates have been issued"
. DO you regard the silver purchased under
the new act, against which certificates have
been issued, as available cash tbsf may be used
by the Government Ut any timer
mo, don't agree with Mr.. Leach there. The
certificates are issued again. and that 10 in the
nature OF trust. but the profits on the silver
purchases which amount now to some u, 0OO-
goo, may be used. am in a different position
from that of my predecessors, who have had
large surplus. presume that during May and
June there will be an extraordinary expend.
will be probably 81 600 900 larger than last year.
"Now, as to the redemption of 81 per cent
bonds, am thinking Of trying to substitute
per cent for them, as Mr.. Window proposed.
II it can be done there will be two advantages
in it over the redemption. To be able TO float
2 per cent bonds will demonstrate the extraor.
binary soundness of the Government credit
and the money that would be required to re-
deem the 41S's may be used for the purchase Of
as at saving of per cent of the interest that
would be paid on them up to the time OF ma
turity. l talk about these matters freely be-
cause believe it to be good thing to have
them discussed well and we'll understood be-
fore they are tried"
Two Strikes Talks Peace
Captain R. II. Pratt Tenth Cavalry. Super
intendent of the Carlisle Indian School, recently
received and forwarded to Secretary Proctor
an interesting letter from the old chief, Two
Strikes, who figured very prominently in last
winters campaign in South Dakota. The
letter is dated April II, at Rosebud Agency.
and is as follows, having been dictated to an
army officer: .--.- .--
FRIEND CAPTAIN-You wrote me about the
Indians here making more troube. There is
no intention here of having trouble. II we
were going TO make trouble why would we en-
Father as we are doing? We see that this is a
very good chance for our young men to do
something for themselves and make men of
themselves and we let them enlist There was
and asked me the same question as you did
and told him that we have no thought of
making any more trouble; that we have had
one trouble at Wounded Knee; that we our
selves did not have anything to do with 1t, but
that 1t gave us n lesson. We did not want to
fight in the first place. but somebody called for
troops. All we think about now is to farm. l
read letter about the same thing from Lower
Brule Agency and 1 told them that we we're
not going to make any more tronble and that
they must not pay attention TO such talk. This
talk gives me much trouble and did not like
it. do not want to tell my officer friends any
lie, for l know they are here from the Great
Father.
.Two-X-STRIKEs"
mark.
Lieutenant bravo. who wrote the letter from
dicration, adds: 1.-Two Strikes had me write
this letter to you from him. He appears much
worried by these false rqmors going about con
nephew to enlist, and to-day they are both |
soldiers in Troop L, Sixth Cavalry"
Two Model Indian Troops.
General Schofeld was very well pleased with
the progress that has been made in the work of
enlisting Indians in the army. He said: "If we
can get two well drilled and contented troops |
of Indians we shall be doing all that can be ex-
pected at this time. These troops will be the |
cause of many more Indians enlisting and l |
think can see the day ahead when there will |
be no more difficulty in getting good soldiers |
from the Indian reservations than there is to- |
day in enlisting white men. The example of a |
happy Indian soldier upon his feliOw-aborigines |
will be very wholesome, and we are doing to- |
day what is needed to make the experiment a |
success, namely, concentrating our efforts on |
the formation OF two model troops. |
at is my hope that these troops may be |
organized and sufficiently well disciplined in |
time for them to be stationed at Chicago |
during the Exposition"
No oPleuro-PneumoniaT There.
DR.. D. E. Salmon, CHEF of the Bureau of |
Animal Industry, was seen to-day In reference |
to the reiterated assertion of Mr.. Chaplin the |
British Minister of Agriculture. that American |
cattle recently landed at Department Ford |
were found to be suffering from contagious
at will be found" said the doctor, "that the |
two cases referred to by Mr.. Chaplin are moth
ing more than cases of catarrhal pneumonia as
maintained by our inspector. One of them was
shipped from Ohio, in which State there has
not been single case of pleuro-pneumonia for
the past six years. In the case of the other
animal, which was originally shipped from
Frederick county, Md, our reports show that |
there has not been a single case of contagious |
pleuro- pneumonia in that county for years."