The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-28

70 Red Cloud agency or Spotted Tail
agency. the Indians would hug me and
give me such an enthusiasts welcome that
"a cost me from SIS 20 so TO set up the
grub. / speak the sign language that is
common among all the tribes The Chey-
enues. ArapahOcs. and Sioux are unable
10 converse with each other hv the tongue
hut they talk freely by signs. You viii
see them engaged together In palavers.
each one taking his turn 10 tell how many
norses ne has stolen. how many scalps
ne mas taken. cnd what n big Indian
he Is IN other respects II is hardly nee
essary 10 say that lying may be done In
lsh.
Indians are funny people. one day
was riding through Bells canyon, in
arizona, when the road suddenly took a
sharp turn and we saw fifteen or twenty
Indians just ahead. They took 10 the
chapnaral without a moments delay IL
is not unlikely that they would have
made an attack. but / had about twenty
men IN my own party. When We got op--
poSte them. one tail Indian rose out OF
the bush and addressed US IN spanish
with every uncOmplimentary epithet he
could think of. We took no notice. and
he was satisfied with giving MS a piece
Of his mind. Another time l was COINS
fom Spotted Tail 10 Rcd Cloud. when
an Indian suddenly appeared, as II he
had sprung out OF the ground and thrust
his hand into my ambulance, saying.
'HOWdy do2 Come in" That was evil
IDENTIFY all the English he knew. He knew
who l was. for he addressed me as Muz-
ishaetoncha. meaning Big Money Chief
gave him a CIGAR and he went away.
Il landed ON night at the stage station
In South Pass. Wyo.. at the foot OF the
Windy River Mountains. Around the IRE
place were seated a number of very tough
looking citizens, splitting tobacco juice
and drinking whisky. They were good
fellows and honest enough, but rather
crude. perhaps. one OF them said 10 an
other as ! Joined the group:
DO you remember old Jim snyder
" 'Certingly.' replied the individual ad-
dressed Why shouldn't ~
They say he's gettin' rich in Oma-
~" so I've heard
q" What keerds he used to hold at po-
kerrr. -, ~. 49,. 49,. .,.-.s
Z" He was cold broke when he left here.
d" He was that. Didnt have nothin left
-i!eoastaways, nothin. but ia halter. n.,,
er. But p'raps you know what he did
with that haltcr?'
" NO, / don't
" why. before he went away he drawed
TO that halter and got five bosses. That's
the way he got start
There amt nothin' like enterprise in
this world said the other. projecting a
stream into the spit-box."
Things have changed greatly during
| the last few years. Paymasters OF the
army are no longer exposed to perils
such as formerly hcset them. The Indians
have become pacitied and NEST of the
forts which used to stand as outposts
Only in some very remote portions of
the country are paymasters now Obliged
to make trips by wagon or to carry money
long distances. They make monty re-
quisitiOns on the war department for
the cash they require. which is placed
to their credit at the nearest United
states depository. The money is for
warded to the post by express Naturally,
the paymaster is a popular man, II he Is
at all agreeable. Wherever he goes he
is sure of a welcome. lie has a clerk
to help him. and his work Is by no means
hard. President Harrison could find
nothing more pleasant TO give 10 his pri-
yate secretary, Mr.. Halford in discharg-
ing him from his own service. than an
appointment as paymaster in the army
A paymastership Is the only possible ap-
pointment from civil life to the STAFF of the
army, except that Of surgeon. II Is pos
sible to become a paymaster only by the
appointment of the President, with the
consent of the Senate. The new appointee
Jumps at once into the rank Of major.
with a salary of 81 500 Every five years
for the first twenty years of service the
salary increases 10 per cent. There Is
in the pay corps receives 5000 a year, a
colonel s.. 500 and a brigadler-general s..
500. At "a years of age paymaster retires,
with three-quarters pay for life.
The present paymaster- general is Cen.
| Thaddeus II. Stanton, newly appointed.
| Under him are two assistant paymaster-
/ generals. who rank as colonels three
/ deputy paymaster-generals who rank as
! observation-disclosures, and twenty-three pay
| and observation-disclosures are L ally In
/ charge of the pay business Of the various
| departments OF the army, which are eight
/ in number.