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Mesa free press., 1895-08-30
Irfi8atiea Congress
PHOENIX, Aug. %. 1895.

PHoENIx, Aug. %. 1895.
TO the Cifisens 81 Arisona:
The Fourth National Irrigation
Congress will meet at Albuquerque
Sept. l6' to 20. In it's session
Ari5onians withoutexception should
feel the keenest interest, and We
ask your cooperation to the end
that from Arizona shall go full
and energetic delegation of IuLlic-
spirited citizens, to place most
clearly before the Congress the
needs and desires of the territory.
La no. other portion of the
Union has irrigation SO broad a
scope as in Arizona. Here now
are being worked out the problems
that before many years will be
solved, that millions of acres Of
fertile, yet arid, land shall be re-
deemed shall be filed with every
evidence OF intelligent husbandry
In irrigation development lies
Arisona's future, and it is essen
tial that in the coming Congress
there he active and intelligent
work.
To the end that unity of acton
be secured and that definite plans
be formulated for the work that
"a before Us at the CIngre S, 1t
has been agreed upon as advisable
that caucus of the qualified Ari-
zona delegates be held at Phoenix
Sept. 2. At this caucus is also
cordially invited the attendance of
all representatives of the press and
of ell irrigation, mining, transpor-
tation. manufacturing of CONNER
cial enterprises, that the common
purpose of Arizona's advancement
may best be served.
1t is therefore asked that all
delegates be at once appointed.
Those yet to be chosen within
Arisons compris: "One delega9e
each f,om all regularly organized
irrigation, agricultural and horti-
cultural societies and frem societi 8
of engineers, irrigasion conpanies,
agricultural colleges and CONNER
cial bodiea"
The territorial delegates at large
would be pleased to receive sug-
sestions and expressions Of opinion
a. to the matters that should be
brought to the attention of the
Congress. and trust that every
section Of the territory may be
represented at the meeting at
Phoenix sept. 2.
A. J. DoRAs.
JAS. A. FLEMING,
JAS. III. MCCLINTocK.
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for . mere song. See to Il that
you buy from reliable manu-
facturers that have gained q
reputation by honest and 50 uare
dealing, you win then get q
Sewing Machine that Is noted
the world over for its dura-
bility. You want the ono that
i easiest to manage and Is
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-15

warehouse in that hustling town. Al though not in any sense headquarters of the Indian department, the Chicago warehouse is the largest supply depot thereof, and its administration includes, of necessity, close attention to an enor. nous amount of routine detail work. Mir. Cregier was having a confab with one of his inspectors when I asked the questions calling out the remark quoted at the beginning of this article, but he dismissed the matter for the time being and explained the workings of the h. dian warehouse system to me in his own crisp fashion.
 "You see," he said, when Uncle Sam took possession of the larger part of the territory belonging to the noble red man it was thought best to leave certain areas untouched, where the said red man-who, by the way, is almost anything but red, as everybody knows -can live and hunt and fish and enjoy life as he likes This was arranged after many powwows with many tribes, the agreements between which and the gov ernment are known as the Indian trea- ties. In making the treaties the head men of the various tribes stipulated that in return for the splendid territories given up by them Uncle Sam should issue every year lot of rations and lot of general supplies. Then there are quantities of supplies needed by the In dian schools. The Indian warehouses, or supply depots, are among the results of these treaties.
 1T came near saying that it would be easier to tell what the government does not furnish to the Indians than to give list of the things that it does, but on second thought I hardly believe that would be correct. In fact, 1 am un- able to give list of either. At this moment l fail to recall anything what ever that is not at one time or another included among the Indian supplies, and to tell you what is would require more time than either you or I have at our disposal But if you will go with MT. Whitney, my right hand man, he will enHghten you, to some extent, by ex hibiting few of the samples now on hand. The variety may not be so ex- tensive as you will expect after what l have said, owing to the fact that the present is the dull season, but you may como across things here, even now, that you had never supposed were supplied to the Indians"
 The ex-mayor was right. It was about 10 o'clock in the morning when Mir Whitney began the exhibition. It was
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vigorously opening box after box, from which he took out overalls and blouses and examined them most critically. The man was 2n inspector, and his suspicious of t!!e qualify of the garments were aroused by the discovery that one pair of overalls was not up to the standard of the sample submitted by the maker be, fore the contract was secured. Nearly every garment examined proved to be defective not only in the color and tex ture of the goods, but also in the mak- ing. In fact, they were inferior in nearly every respect. The seams were i'll sewed, the pockets-formed by sew ing patchlike pieces of cloth on the gar ments-were put on wrong side out. and the stitches, instead of being pro- tected so as to wear we'll, were cextain to give out after very few days ac- tual use.
 It was this lot of made up goods that this inspector and Superintendent Gre gier were discussing when began to ask my questions.
 It must be said of this particular con- tractor that he displayed less shrewdness than the average tricky apple vender, who packs inferior fruit in the middle of the barrels and that of good quality at the ends. If this contractor had put gar ments equal to the samples at tho tops of the cases, the inferior ones would probably have gone undiscovered, as, for economical reasons, the entire con-
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INDIAN WAREHOUSES;
EIGHT LARGE ONES AND SEVERAL OTHERS OF LESS IMPORTANCE.

The Most Extensive Clerical Force Is Elm
 ployed Tn New York, but as a Supply De-
 pot the Chicago Warehouse Is Much More
 Important.
 Most persons know that the United States government spends a great deal of money upon the Indians every year, but very few know how and for what reason it is laid out. Imust confess that l knew very little about it myself till Uncle Sam gave me this job. Now I am learning something new and interesting about it every day, but hardly expect to become letter perfect before I leave the place.
 The speaker was Hon. Dewitt c. Cregier, ex-mayor of Chicago and at present superintendent of the Indian
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''I been ter MacMinnville ter sec mothers old doctor.''
 There's a shorter road from Mac Minnville than this, Why didn't ye take it?''
 The girl showed slight confusion.
 ''Oh, got a friend at Franklin col lege She uns and I uns allus ben power ful thick.
 After getting the data as to all the party the major called a mounted man and directed him to take it to headquar- ters and ask for instructions.
 Do ye know who to take it top he asked of the man as he was about to ride away.
 Its to the gineral I'm takin it.
 ''The gineral? Man, would you get me court martialed for disregard of the regulations? Take it to the chafe ot staff, ye lunkhead, and from him yell
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WATERBURY EVENING UEsDAY 15 1895

money up" She tossed the bill she had won toward him.
 'tAnd, Rats, don't race again with my one with a rawboned animal with long legs. Bobby Lee is from the blue grass regions of Kentucky. There's something wrong about his breathing apparatus, but even with that disadvan- tage he can trot mile over good road in 2:50."
 Had Miss Bags appeared less be- wltching as she stood there under the protection of half a dozen Confederate troopers, Ratigan would have turned away impatiently. As it was, she seem. ed to hold him by spell
 "One thing more, my bonny cardinal flower. Tell the major that I like the young man from County Cavan' he has recommended to me very much" Her eyes fairly danced. When the war is over, I hope you will look me up. In Tuire for Betsy Baggs at the St. Cloud hotel, Nashville ''
 With this she threw him kiss from the tips of her fingers, which, now that her glove was removed, he noticed were white and round. There was really something sympathetic in the last glance she gave him. In it was regret that it had been necessary for her to deceive so honest and manly fellow. It was the final dart that pierced the Irishman's heart and completed his inthrallment.
 Leaving the corporal and his men gap ing in the road, the party moved away. The last thing Ratigan heard was a hoarse laugh from one of the Confeder- ates, which was rebuked by Miss Baggs and reprimanded by the officer
 The corporal led his party northward in no good humor. At the picket post he left the men he had taken with him and rode OH alone meditatively. In pass.
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SOME OF THE SUPPLIES.

quite noon and apparently he had only begun when I told him I had seen enough to convince me of the state lnent's correctness.
 There were stoves of many sizes and burning wood. There were needles and crOwbars and schoolbooks. There were fcllies for wagon wheels and bar iron tn be forged into tires. There were sur Sical instruments and lanterns and par Tor lamps with ornamental shades Therc were pumps and shoes and stockings and gloves. There were no moving machines in the warehouse, but they are among tho articles furnished. and MT. Whitney showed an interesting variety of blows and hoes and other implements where with the soil is cultivated. Tin cups and pans and cans and buckets were visible in great profusion. There was an abundance also of blankets and shawls and other products of the loom.
 These things" explained Mir. Whit ney, "are delivered to the 30 or 60 agencies and schools as ordered. and there is m enormous amount of red tape connected with every acquisition. For instance" and he held up a package about the size of two fingers from the hand of 0 full grown man. ''here is a package worth about | cents. It contains two or three lamp wicks and was order ed some time ago for one of the Indian schools Besides the correspondence re lating 70 the order invoices in duplicate. triplicate and multiplicate have been necessary. After delivery there will be receipts without end. The clerical work alone rendered necessary in order to supply the school with theso wicks has been many times as costly as the wicks themselves, and it would be money in Uncle Sam's pocket if some one had gone out from the school and recklesslv bought the wicks for cash. However, it is no doubt true. as claimed, that it will not do to begin buying supplies in that way, no matter how small the order. uS i' would make a precedent that migi'' !c.,d to no end of jobbery. As it is nov xiI the goods bought for the Indial . .n ,st bs passed upon by inspectors |
 fore delivery. and in this way some sc : of cheek is kept upon contractors lt would be a pleasant thing to say that al! contractors for goods wanted by tho h. dan bureau arc honest, but unfortU nately the facts are otherwise. "
 As Mir. Whitney talked we appr2Ach- cd a Dlan who with coat removed, waa
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Sumo Questions the Little Girl Put to Her
 Mother.

Sumo Questions the Little Girl Put to Her
 Mother.
 The little miss and her mother were on their way to Washington It was night, and the moon shonc brightly. The little tot had her nose flattened against the car window, as children of years delight to do. Our good natured friend, the fat man, was chuckling in a sub dued way over some stale jokes in a comic weekly, and the grumpy man, he of dyspepsia and disappointment, had been subdued by sleep. Tho train had stopped, and what might be described as a "deathlike" stiffness prevailed. Suddenly the little girl turned to her mother and said:
 Mamma, is the moon the biggest window in Gods housef'
 This amused the fat man so much that his laugh awoke the dyspeptic gentle man from his slumbers, whercupon he said something about children being a nuisance. But the mother was surely puzzled. So she said:
 "What makes you ask?'
 "Why, you told me, mamma, that the stars were windows in heaven, and that is God B house, so I just thought that the moon must bo the bay window. :"
 Then our fat frieud laughed loudeI than ever, and our dyspeptio frient grunted. Then the mother said, some what thoughtfully:
 "No, my dear, God put the moon up in heaven so we could see at night. '
 That satisfied the child for @ moment She turned away and again flattened her chubby little nose against the window pane. But it was only for a moment Then the child turned, and with an az gressiveness quito humorous in one of her tender years said:
 "Who puts it out?"
 That was n poser. The mother in sheer desperation said:
 My child. whatever in the worlt makes you ask such a question:"
 "Well. mamma, I Isupposed, of course. Gods wife put it out when he camc home late, as you do for papa.
 Then there was howl, in which evel. our dyspeptic friend joined. When il had subsided, the mother said:
 "Why, God has no wife. my dear. and she stroked the child's head and called her attention to the rapidly nov ing moonlit panorama outside. Tn" mother had had all she wanted of thC argument, but not so the child. After |, little thought she returned to the con fiict, and it was evident from her man, ner that she felt she had an unanswer- able argument at last.
 "You say God has no wife. mammal she queried.
 "Of course not, my dear"
 Well, how is it, <" and the little one slipped down and stamped her tiny foot. "how is it," she repeated, with great emphasis, "that you told me that we were all God s schildren?''-Washington Post.
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tents would hardly have been examined, there being but five inspectors attached to the Chicago warehouse and they greatly overworked.
 Not all the goods sent to the agencies pass through the warehouses at all Sugar, for instance, and flour and cured meats, blows, stoves. wagons and all sorts of bulky and heavy things are in- spected either ct the agencies or at the place of manufacture. This saves both time and heavy transportation bills. Fresh meats for the agencies and schools are bought alive, as a rule, and some times these cattle are shot by soldiers for the Indians. who then skin and dress the carcasses themselves. Nails, of which the Indian department uses many tons yearly, are like the other heavy goods with regard to inspection.
 The acquisitions for this years SUD- plies are now being prepared by the agents. After completion these are pass ed upon by the Indian commissioner and confirmed by the secretary of the interior, after which bids are advertised for and the awards made to the lowest bidders. These advertisements will be issued some time in April, and by the opening of warm weather the hard work of the inspectors will begin. During the summer time they are fairly driven with work, and some of them have to travel thousands of miles every season. By the beginning of winter most of their work is finished for the year, except as to hams and shoulders, bacon, pork, corned beef and the like. A large proportion of the cured meats is bought in Chicago ev- cry year, and therefore the Chicago in. spectors are obliged to spend good deal of their time at the stockyard packing houses
 The term lowest bidder used above, does not always mean simply the one who offers his wares for the small est price. Every bidder must furnish samples, and the quality of these sam pies is always considered. together with the cost. A full line of samples is fur nished to the warehouses by each bid der securing a contract, and it is by means of comparison with these samples that the inspectors are able to pass upon the goods as furnished.
 Although the New York warehouse is not so large as the one at Chicago in point of capacity, yet in the busy season it hhs more employees, the number being between 80 and 30 as against perhaps a dozen at Chicago. This is because of the excess of clerical work done at the east ern city. H. D. Graves is superintend- ent in New York and Henry NJ. Gaines chiof clerk.
 In addition to the warehouses in the two largest cities. there are others at St. Louis. St. Paul. Kansas City, Sioux City, Omaha and San Francisco. besides smaller ones in other places.
 M DEXTER
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sue tHTtU nun q KISS. ing a part of the road where there was no one'to hear he refined in his horse and exclaimed aloud:
 "D-n itl I believe the Witch is cat- rytng important information.
 The thought filled him with horror. Who was she? What was she? What was the box she called a galvanic bat tery? For more than an hour he had at tended rude country girl, who, when under the protection of Confederate of ficers, bloomed into handsome wom- an. He was as much chagrined at his own stupidity as he was bewildered by the cunning of Miss Baggs.
 Entering the camp, he slunk away to his tent and did not report the outcome of his mission to Major Burke till just before taps" Then he only said, Their pickets are three miles down the road beyond ours '
 Are ye shure?''
 'Oi am. Oi left the young lady-Oi mean the counthry gurrel-among em. And the vixen blew me kiss at partin."
 "Ah, Rats, ye'ro sly dog Oi'm shure yo did your work we'll D
 Major, "rephed the corporal, don t ye believe it. All the diviIs in hell if they be men are no match for a wom- an."
 "And if they bo women, Rats?"
 "Then God save 'em both.
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back to the party with Bible. follow.

back to the party with Bible, follow. ed by Ratigan.
 The farmer and his family were first sworn, anG then the major offered to sweGr Miss Baggs.
 II hain't goin ter do no swearin, she said defiantly. "Oi'm glad to hear that" remarked Corporal Ratigan.
 What fo', fire top?" she asked, sur prised.
 ''Oi'd be breakin me heart at partin with ye."
 You hain't got no heart nohow, ol you wouldn't be in the Yankee army. :"
 Don't ye believe it," exclaimed the major; "his hearts as warrum as the color of his hair. Come, young teddy, take the oath. Oi'd be sorry to be partin ye from yer mother and she sufferin. "
 "I won't.''
 "Won't ye take it for moi sake?" que. ried Ratigan, with mock appeal.
 ''You'll hev ter git some un uglier D you uns ter move me. l banker after ugly men, but you uns ain't quite ugly enough fo' me"
 aTow yc'ro talkin with a seductive  will permit, Dive Q mind to see ye through the lines meself without the oath. ''
 The corporal looked slyly at the major, and the luajor returned the corporal's sly glance.
 ''Vcry well.' said Burke. ''Ye go with her. and moind that she isn't keep in her ois open to see things for Gineral Bragg's benefit. Miss Bags, if yell just keep lookin roit into the corporal's s blue arbs, yell get through all right, and if ye're tempted to look aside just fix 'em on his head, and yell be blind ed.
 The corporal went for his horse, buckled on his revolver. and coming back started out to play diplomat-in other words, to acquire knowledge by strategy.
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 ''' I'' W.R. BABCoCK.
 Gen Pass Agent. Boston.
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N.H.aH. Railroad Time Tabl:
W. R. BABCOCk. Gen Pass Agent. Boston.
Ine i;. isa4. SACGATUCK DIVISION.
Trains leave Waterbury as follows:

Trains l.s,.v,, Waterbury as follows: 5,r NEW YCRK-5.nS, ,l2 lO5O 8 III: i.-f. s25, 440I n. Sunday. AIS p m. 2et"rn 5.0O.6.eo O0, Is 0S m ;l'Oo' A-ua."e' n. Sunday. 6 % n. ., o, Y SET HAVEN. via Derey JuNcIC". o!N sl2 . 5l q fh : l 2s. S.2S. bb5 ? in. - S4-urp v1a Derby J4nction. tV' -" a Ill l:"0, .e7 5.3l ;.j5 n. m Sunday. 10 ln IF $EW HAVEN. NEW LONDON. etc Vlf Eaug Cuck Junction 40 ? m: Sm- BR!iG GEPORT-ju5 Sl2 lYoo III Is, S.z5. 4.4o 5.S3 ? m. Sunday t.1" n. ps-uEu al 5,rS s.l- 4.il III: -OJ. 2lSS -1'. '+ pm sundays IS q n1.
 S,r ANSOSIA-6.U5. S.l2. lO.SO iA '.LH Jl54ins s.sS .0O mixeil 2 m. sun0ay HE i..,s1iru 8: 7.43, s54. lU21. IT: l2,Sl 'ol o'io iS :, m. sunday S.46 Il III.
 -WATEHrOWS-6-40 S-5S. n.l1 ;I 9-HN sI2, 7Ol [, Fl. Saturiay 9.lb ' IL, Ket,l-rI at 6. tD. .lU O2d d III 2hO +'o' o'S' p.n Sa:u.iay 7-I5 r III.
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 c. I. HAMPSTEAD. Gen Pass Agent.
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A CUP DEFENDER.
Fund to Build . Yacht That wnI B,

Fund to Build Yacht That wm Bea,
 the Valkyris.
 NEW YORK, Jan. IS.-The New Yorl Yacht club held a special meeting to rs ceive the report of the Americas cup com mittee concerning the negotiations be tween the New York Yacht club and LorG Dunraven and the Royal Yacht squadron for an international yacht race in 1895. The report of the committee was unani Inously accepted. and the resolution wal adopted.
 The chair then made the following state ment: "The chair states for the informa tion of the club that efforts. with promise of success. are being made to secure req uisits funds for new boat for the de fenss of the Americas cup. the result oi which will be announced shortly"
 The meeting then adjourned It wal expected that after the meeting thers would be an informal discussion of meas ures to be taken in the way of securing funds for a new cup defender, and the fact that there was no such discussion was a source of much regret to many of the members prrsept.
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NOT TCE.

The B,erl n: Hi w'II be in sessiC n at City u,Il ,.ru,ry h II. II 17, Is. 2t. 2l and D fr.,m tr , and : to 9 p. ID J4uu.ry 36 :roul 9 10 T. q. m. and te , and to , r. In.
 IMRI 4. SPENCER.
 NATHAN w. GREENMAN,
 JOHN E. MAYER. R,.-j If R-I,-f
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Geld Wave Ia Rsxas

Geld Wave Ia KexaA. GALVESTON. Jan. 1b.-Ths cold wave struck Galveston about e'clook a- m. By 6 o'clock A- m. the temperature fell to ai. the lowest of the day
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To rt. Wage, of Tin work.r

PTTTsBURG. Jan. I6.-A conference oi tin plate mnnufaoturers and a committea from the Amalgamated association Is ir session here to attempt 8 compromise OF che wage question
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JIlt.d Lover commI,s sulc,d,.

KINGSTON. \. V. Jan. i5.-williAm r. Stsiger, a young resident of SauEerties shot himself in his fathers barn in that villags. He had been disappointed in love
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Ice Yacht Racing.

NEwBURo, N. Y, Jan. I5-Ths open ing races of the Orange Like Toe Yacht club were held here Three races wers sailed. all of which were won by Vice Commodore WIllett Kidd's Snowdrift. 6 Nswburg yacht