The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-11-04
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES

WASHINGTON NOTES.
The treasury department. at Wash
ington has practically completed the
issue of the $500, 900, 600 of three per
cent. bonds authorized at the last ses-
sion of congress. The highest allot-
ment to any one subscriber will be
81. $50. Subscribers for $4,000 will
receive 81, 800 each and possibly few
hundred dollars in addition.
The commissioner of Indian affairs,
who has been for week investigating
a verbal report to Secret ary Bliss at
Washington on his work. He attrib-
uted the recent outbreak to methods
of the whites, who take gross advan-
tages Of the Indians, many of the red
skins being dragged 100 miles from
their agency as witnesses in trivial
cases in order to swell deputies fees
The Indians are then turned adrift,
without any means, to get home as
best they can. They are also wronged
in regard to timber sales on their
lands.
The award of the chief justice of
Canada, to whose arbitration was sub
mitted the claim of Victor H. McCord,
an American citizen, against the gov
eminent of Peru for damages sus-
tanned by reason of imprisonment dur
ing one of the revolutionary outbreaks
there. has been received at the state
department at Washington. McCord
is awarded $40, 900.
ADMIRAL DEWEY cabled the navy de-
partrnent at Washington on the 2Sth
that everything was quiet at Pekin
and that American interests in China
were not in danger.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY issued proc
lamation on the 2Sth setting apart
Thursday, November "a, as a day of ma.
tional thanksgiving for the blessings
received during the past year.
SECRETARY OF STATE HAY stated on
the 2Sth that he believed the peace
commissioners at Paris would get
through their labors by December l.
The report of the Dawes commission
was submitted to the secretary of the
interior on the Goth. 1t presents the
conditions in the Indian territory.
The lack of educational facilities for
white children is shown and congress
is asked to appropriate money for
schools for them.
AN informal cabinet meeting was
held by the president on the 30th at
which the members forthcoming an
nual reports were discussed.
The British am bassador at Washing
ton and Postmaster General Smith
have affixed their signatures to a treaty
for parcel post between the United
States and the British COLONY of Trini.
dad.
UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER PECK
has been told that Americans will
probably be granted permission to
erect q statue to Lafayette in the gar
dens of the Tuileries, in direct line
with the Arc de Triomphe, at Paris.
THE econd assistant postmaster gen.
eral, William S. Shallenberger, has
made his annual report on the trans
portation of the m ais of the United
States
THE majority of the annual reports
of the Indian agents to the commits
sioner of Indian affairs are of an en-
couraging nature and indicate prog
ress GENERALLY along civilized lines.
The agent ofO the Lemhi Indians in
Idaho, however, characterizes those
redskins as about as idle and degraded
= set as one GAN find, and morally they
are as bad as they were 20 years ago
and no better off financially.
GENERAL NEWS
sROsE LAURER, aged %, and j. +.
Cleckner, aged 80. tied themselves to-
gether at Cleveland. O.. and jumped
in ~ tho lola Txy0 20 ;lroo1 1o<ao%;vos