Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-14

Its courts. We have district. circuit and
supreme courts. Indians have always been
on the bench. If any question comes up
that pertains to the interest of all the ma
esat1ons from each tribe meet for consul
tation. They compose what might be called
a ways and means committee.
"A great many think our nations occu-
Ply the same relation toward the United
States as the northwest Indian reserva-
TONS This is not so. We have a patent
fee simple. The land belongs to US; it is
ours. Many think we live on a great res
should take charge Of it. They think the
Indians grow up in ignorance We have
as good school facilities as the United
States. We spend more per capita for
schools than any state in the Union.
Another great hobby made use of
through the press, and good many Of our
enemies say the same. is that we have in
vited 300,OW people into the nations. We
for the purpose of lettering their condition.
Our land can't be sold to outsiders. Any
one can make improvements in the domain.
and can use the land. Improvements can
be sold. People from the outside can rent
land. but they have no votes there, no po-
litical rights.
We have not as much crime as In ad-
joining states. We punish murderers by
death. I see that Mr.. Dawes, in a lecture
before the Pittsfield, Mass, school, a few
weeks ago, said that 40 Indians had been
hanged for crime in four years at Fort
Smith. Mr.. Dawes told an untruth. There
nave not been that many persons hanged
at Fort Smith since its establishment, just
after the war. Mr.. Dawes further said
that last summer twelve persons were
killed within mile of his camp in one
day. am citizen of the Indian territory,
but never heard Of it. 1t must have been
kept pretty quiet. I had to come to Wash
ington to find 1t OUT
J. g. Trunlev of cenava 0hio vbo "a
attorney for Walter L. Mains circus. was
at the Riggs a few days ago. While here,
he called on President Mckinley and was
also admitted to practice in the United
States Supreme Court. two events that
will enable him to remember his first visit
to the capital.
Few persons have any conception of
the amount of money expended each year
by big circus to protect itself from inter-
ruption." said he to a Star reporter. when
the Main show started out last season, on
the second day a young fellow engaged to
do riding act fell from a horse and was
dragged around the ring. his head COM
ing in contact with several of the stakes
with considerable force. He was laid ND
Tor a few weeks and his parents began
suit for several thousand dollars
nave Just been over to Harrisburg.
where the young fellow lived, to try and
erect a settlement. You see Mains circus
wants to come through Pennsylvania the
coming summer. but with this case unset
tied. there is possibility of the show
being attached. The delay of single day
means everything to a big show, particu-
larry where the management prides itself
ON never having missed a date except by
accident, as was the case at Tyrone, Pa.
several years ago. when the circus train
was IN wreck, and a number Of persons
were killed"
Former Attorney General Garland Is one
of the most patient of men. He Is still
confined for the greater portion of the time
to his ROOM in the Colonial. as the result of
a broken leg, sustained while on a visit to
Arkansas several months ago. But he is
by no means idle. His room Is rendez-
vous for cOngenial friends, and he counts
them by the score.
General Garland is a stanch advocate of
a university building for the District of
Columbia and he never fails to put in a
kind word for the project when an oppor-
tuntty presents itself. A few evenings ago
there was conference of friends of the
Project in General Garland's room at the
Colonial. Among those present were Chief
Justice Melville w. Fuller, Prof Newcome,
Mr.. Strauss of New York and former Gov
Hoyt of Wyoming.
The conference was for considering the
bill introduced by Senator Wellington,
which contemplates an appropriation by
Congress for university building and to
arrange for the work of bringing the mat
ter into tangible form.
familiar figure about the uptown hotels
every forenoon is Justin S. Kirreh, L. H. D..
who claims to have the assurance of the
present administration that he shall be
the next consul to Ezerm, Armenia Kir-
reh is q native of Palestine. He was for
two years pastor of Jewish church in
New York. being compelled to resign be-
cause Of ill-health. During the campaign
of 1896 he was general agent for an eastern
life insurance company, with headquarters
at Cincinnati He claims to have done
yeoman service in behalf of the republican
ticket, and this Is attested by the fact that
both Senators Hanna and Foraker have
interceded for his appointment Inasmuch
as there Is no other aspirant for that Ar
menian post, it is not without the range
Of possibilities that DIR. Kirreh may have
his cherished wish gratified.
nave not seen my parents since l was
seven years old, and that it the reason l
choose Armenia he said to a Star reporter
st the Normandie. They will be easy of
access when l get there. And then, 1 am
familiar with the language spoken there"
"A friend of mine who deals in old books
dE
John l. Vanderveer of Brooklyn, at the Ma
tonal 1t Is the inkstand used by Jeffer-
son Davis in the Senate of the United
States. At the beginning of the war the
l4th New York Regiment was chartered
for few days in the Senate chamber. One
OF the boys asceltained where the future
president of the confederacy sat- and stole
the lhkstand as trophy. He sent it back
TO Brooklyn, and after the war was over
gave 1t to my friend. 1t now occupies a
prominent place on one Of the shelves in
tins old book store The same ink, only
dried, is in the stand"
Eugene Coffin, the popular clerk at Will
lard's. is musician of years experience.
He was member of the band that accom-
panied the 23d Ohio regiment to the front
when President Lincoln made his first call
for volunteers in 1851. After the war he
was connected with a number of we'll
known musical organizations in the
country.
Colin has wide reputation among
travelling men because OF the musical in
scriptions with which he heads the register