The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-11-29

TIE Indian department has issued orders to the Cheyennes and Arapa. hoes that they must go upon their sev. eral allotments and reside on them hereafter. This will be very distaste. ful to the Indians, and will likely have sn effect of retarding the sale and al. lotment of lauds in other reservations
 MRs GALoBIE, of Sacred Heart, near Guthrie, Ok, placed her 14-months-old baby on blanket near where she was washing. She heard a scream and was mortified to find the child in the mouth of a hog. The mother after long chase rescued the child, but it died soon after from the injuries received.
 PosT office inspectors were reported as working on wholesale frauds being perpetrated on members of the Knights of Pythias all over the country by men who profess to be members of the or der and who possess all the signs and grips. The plan was to present bogus orders for sick benefits from lodges in cities far distant from those where the game is worked.
 IN Pawnee county's (Ok,) district court the votes of the Pawnee Indians have been contested on the ground that they were not legal because an interpreter was allowed to stamp their ballots instead of the election inspect. or, as provided by law in cases where voters could not read and also that In. dians are not citizens of the United States and have no right to vote.
 |, TIE subcommittee of the house com. mittee on pensions has decided to re- port bill appropriating $14o,0oo,0 ,0Oc for pensions, $sOO,0 ,0OO for surgeons fees. $50, 900 for clerk hire at pension agen. cies and Sl31,57O for miscellaneous items; total, $141, 3s1, ,570.
 A NUMBER of useless military reser- vations have been turned over by the war department to the interior depart ment to be opened for settlement. There are four on Puget sound; Fort Sully, in South Dakota; Fort Bowie, Arizona; Fort Mckinney, Wyoming; Fort Sidney, Nebraska, and Fort Sup ply, Oklahoma, the latter containing 40, 32O acres.
 CAPT. LEVI F. BURNETT, acting Indian agent at Mescalero, N. M., in report to Commissioner Browning says that a cause of much trouble on that reserva- tion was the frequent marriages among the Indians. It often happened that a man would get tired of his wife and then leave her. This might occur sew eral times with the same persons, so that man might have three or four wives and the women as many bus. bands, all living. Polygamy was prac- ticed to some extent and he did not see how it could be prevented, as it was an old custom.
 EVERY bell in Tiffin, O., on the night of the 22d rang out knell notifying all that Gen. William H. Gibson, the statesman, soldier and Christian, had passed away.
 Ar recent church festival at Harris chapel, T. miles from Augusta, Ark, a negro named Weldon jostled against another negro named Bratton and a quarrel ensued. Bratton's six brothers, who were engaged in a game of craps just outside the chapel, were called to his assistance and Weldon hastily sum. moned his friends. Twenty-one shots were fired and knives and razors were used. Four negroes were fatally wounded.
 THE inquest over the body of Cor. nelius Riordan, the prize fighter, who became unconscious while sparring with Bob Fitzsimmons and died few hours later, was held at Syracuse N. Y., on the 22d The jury, which was composed of some of the representa- tive business men of the town, brought in verdict exonerating Fitzsimmons. District Attorney Shove says that de- spite the verdict he will present the case to the grand jury of Onondags county.