Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-10-13
|TelGgTaDhlc News 0ttle Week

Fable feeling is openly displayed hel
Hover the appointment of a negro to th
important position of Collector of Inter
s tnal Revenue The feeling is not confine
+ Ito any particular class. The populatio
TOT Jacksonville is made up largely @
-knorthern and western people, having in
/. tfiuential connections all over the coun
try; large per cent. of the property i
; IoWned by them; therefore the sentiment
cannot be attributed to Il distinctl,
southern prejudice regarding negro ap
pointments to Federal Offices. The com
munity was especially loyal to the ad
ministratiOn during the war, the loca
i press defending It against yellow jour.
nalism.
q Surprise is expressed by men in al
svaikS of life that a negro should be
placed in such an important office when
there are hundreds of white men, loyal
Republicans, who are quite competent
to conduct so important an Office with
credit to the administration. The Presi
dent is not harshly criticised because
no one attributes to him other than
honest motives, but the feeling is that
dishonest means we're employed to in
fluence him, and that he has been mis-
led in the matter by those solely enlisted
in a factional war between the Republi-
cans, and willing to sacrifice the feelings
of the community or anything else to
gain their point. Men here influential
in affairs and staunch Republicans think
that so far as the general effect in the
South is concerned, this is very inop-
perfume time to raise the question
again.
st. Paul, Mimi, Oct. GA Brainerd
dispatch received this morning says
that courier arrived at Walkers con-
firming the report that all the men not
in uniform there were killed by the In
dians. The massacre of General Bacon
and his band is not mentioned and is
believed to be untrue. The result of
last nights Indian council is un-
known, but it is confidently believed
that the older indians have succeeded
in convincing the younger braves who
are thirsting for a fight that conflict !
with the troops means their annhilation
Nothing has been heard of the missing. |
The casualties known are: Killed, six |
Indians, one half breed, one timber in |
spector, and Privates Sortey and CohI. |
Missing, Beaton, Knappen and Brill. |
Wounded, Marshall Harris, of Walker, |
and George Marks, an agency employee !
Special Agent Tinker believes that the |,
Indians csc lped to the mainland and |
are moving to the northeast along the !
Little and Big Fork rivers. A massa- |:
ere of the whites at Cass and Itassca i
may follow. A special train with thir-
ty armed men and a hundred rifles and |
aboard have gone to
" alker
Washington Cc. cc::--A War Depart
ment bulletin says that reinforcements
have already been sent to Gen. Bacon
at Leech Lake, and if the gallant off
Ger and his men are not already wiped
out by the Indians with whom he was
fighting yesterday he will have a force
sufficient to drive the Redskins from
their strongholds. The report of the
is still unconfirmed, but a dis.
patch boat which cruised about the
scene of the battle late in the afternoon
could find no trace of the soldiers
There is general excitement at Walker,
Mimi, which is the nearest railroad
and telegraph point to the scene of hos
tilities.
Minneapolis, Mimi. Oct. 6.-Arthur
Pegler, correspondent of the Journal
5elegraphs from Walker this morning
that eighty men under Gen. Bacon had
been annihilated by the Pillagers at Bear
Island. His steamer had signalled all
night, but no soldiers were seen or an
swer received.
st. Paul. Mimi, Oct. Ga correspOn-
lent of the Globe teegraphs today that
the attack of the Indians which am
bushed, trapped and annihiiated the
of Gen. Bacon was more cow
ardly than at first reported. The In
1ians pretended to be friendly with the
and the soldiers unloaded and
we're preparing to leave when the In
1ians fired. The last seen of the sol
1iers they were encroached behind
Oank defending themselves. The pilot
Of the boat was injured as they left.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Oct. 6.-Corres-
pondent Pegler, of the Journal, who
went out with the relief expedition
says that there was the grossest mis-
by the regulars. The
soldiers deserted in the battle with the
indians, and were without even coffee
,r beans. There was heavy frost. I,
Walker, Mimi, Oct. THE Indian
situation is graver than ever today.
Signs of disturbance is visible among :,
he agency Indians here, owing to the !,
lilling OF an Indian policeman by our
roops. Confirmation is coming in
lourly of concentration of the Indians
rom other reservations with pillagers,
threatening General Bacon's command.
The General fought the Indians all i
light last night. Desultory firing was 9
heard among the Indians and it is be- +
ieved they have gone further inland. Y
AS HEARD IN WASHINGTON. I
Washington, Oct. THE War de- q
'artment received advices today stating @
hat General Bacon is safe and unin- I
ured. The Governor of Minnesota is +
lsking for additional troops, but no r
lction has yet been taken. The author G
ties believe the alarm unwarranted. 9
Ite Minnesota volunteers now on fur 9
ough have been given the perm ssion S
o fight the Indians. 7
Paris Oct 7-StartliDp deyelOpments l