Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-08-29
WALTERS CASE.
The Efforts In Behalf Of the ex-
Consul Successful
Mr.. EUS1IS PERMITTED TO SEE Hin.
Indians Want the Settlers 1t Jackson's
Hole Punished for Killing Some Of
Their Number-Kansas eus.
ar works Sold.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2a-Aoting Sec.
rotary Of State Mr.. Adee authorizes
the statement that information has
been received from Ambassador
Eustis in response to urgent instruc-
tions cabled him some three weeks
ago that the record Of proceedings
and evidence in the court-martial OF
Mr. Waller at Tamatave is expected to
reach Paris toward the end Of this
month. Mr.. Eustis also reports that
access to Mr.. Waller has been accorded
to him after repeated and urgent re-
quests made on the reiterated orders
OF the department Of state.
The department not having been ad-
vised whether Mr.. Eustis has taken
advantage Of this permission to dele
gate competent deputy to visit the
prison near Clairvaux, where Mr. Wal
Ter is now confined, and confer with
him, Mr.. Adee has instructed him by
telegraph that he should do SO at once,
II not already DONE Mr. Adee adds that
this result, reached after repeated tele-
graphic instructions, shows the con.
slant activity Of the department in Mr..
Walters case, and 1t Is hoped that the
production Of the evidence before the
court martial will enable the depart
ment to form Judgment touching the
conviction Of Mr.. Waller
The department has no later infor-
nation OF the movements OF Mrs.
Waller and her four children since the
dispatch Of Consul Campbell, OF Port
Louis, Mauritius, announcing that
under the departments cabled instruc-
tions to provide them with passage
home they were to sail from that place
to France on the Goth of this month
on their way to the United States
Mr. Eustis has been instructed to take
care of Mrs. Waller and the children
on their arriving in France, and to
furnish them with passage to the
United States by steamer.
The following is given in official cir
cles as fair statement OF the Wal
Ter case; There is no doubt that
while in a country occupied by the
French Mr. Waller wrote letters to
the people the French were oppos-
Ing. These letters were traced to him
and were made the pretext for his ar
rest. Ills trial was not fair and dur
ing his imprisonment, both before and
after conviction, he was treated with
great harshness lie was brought to
France chained to the deck of
steamer and, though i'll and suffering,
he was imprisoned without proper
care.
The French government has not ex.
planned in any satisfactory manner
the irregular arrest and trial. 1t has
been attempted to excuse 1t by saying
that in time Of war military courts are
different from civil proceedings in time
Of peace, but this explanation, in the
opinion Of the United States,
does not meet the case, and in the
opinion Of the state department
there is still strong probability that
Waller's treatment was due to the con-
,essions he claimed in Madagascar.
In view Of what has come to light as a
result Of later inquiries, It is said that
the United States has good grounds
for demanding Walters release and in
for his wrongs.
INDIANS AGAIN UNRuLY.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23-Gen. Coppin-
ger has informed the war department
that he has ordered two companies Of
the Eighth infantry to go into
camp at Fort Hall Indian reser-
vation. The action is taken in
response to representations by the
interior department that the Indians
have been very FESTIVE since their re.
turn to the reservation after the Jack.
sons Hole affair, and have been repre-.
'ented as disposed TO make trouble un-
ess steps were Immediately taken to
punish the white men who killed some
If their number.
KANSAS SUGAR WORKS SOLD.
WASHINGTON, Aug. %. -Yesterday
Secretary Morton sold the entire gov.
,rnment sugar plant at Medicine
Lodge, Kan, and the experimental ap.
,aratus at Sterling, Kan, to Louisiana
PARTIES, who will, 1t Is said, remove the
to that state. The condi.
ions OF the sale or the price paid are
lot known. This will doubtless be o
,reat disappointment to Kansans, as
many Of them were very hopeful Of
he sugar industry in the state.