Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-11-08
Cen. RiNDALL'S REPORT ON ALASKA
Lawiessness at Nome -Qusrtermx.ssr Gea-
erals R-port-Capf. F"tz Compls,as
Of Young Lieut~nsnts - Report b.
the Auditor ~ Tho Post once

900 complaints filed against non-cti-
zens by Indians in the past fiscal year
a large majority were against white
men, who, in the past, had intruded
themselves upon the Indians and had
gained the prospective allotments and,
after having secured possession, re-
fused either to pay rent or to vacate,
thus preventing the Indians from re-
ceiving any rents or profits therefrom.
Many Of the Indians are too poor to
institute suit for possession and
therefore are left helpless. The to-
tai population of the five civilized
tribes is estimated at S4,75O, COM
prising 20,250 Choctaws and freed
men, 1O,5OO Chickasaws and freed
men, 10000 Creeks and freedmen, 49,
900 Cherokees and freedmen and 5000
Seminoles, and their lands comprise
total of 19,776,2s6 acres. The re-
port recommends that congress appro-
pirate out Of the Cherokee funds a
sufficient amount to pay the indebt-
edness of the nation; that law be
passed compelling the five tribes to
adopt uniform system of taxing nom
citizens residing and doing business
in the limits of their nation.
Gen. Rsnds Ia Report on Alaska.
Washington, Nov. BRIG. Gen.
George M. Randall, commanding the
department of Alaska, under date of
September 20, at st. Michael, has SUBJ
mitted his annual report. A great
deal of the report is devoted to con-
ditions at Nome, which he found upon
his arrival at critical stage. 1t was
difficult to obtain convictions by jury
trial in the United States commits
sioner's office, which emboldened the
lawless. Labor organizations pre-
vented men from working for less
than 81 an hour and were the cause
of much restitution and want and de-
struction of property. Fully $4,000
people arrived at Nome in June.
Claim jumping was the order of the
day. Nearly every one seemed to
think he had divine right to take
possession of claim or town lot
which he found.
Gen. Randall devotes considerable
space to the natives of Alaska and
says that the Esquimau has been un-
noticed by those he has befriended
and has been allowed to die for the
lack of care and food. For years he
has extended his hospitality to adj
venturous white men and his hut has
been the shelter for shipwrecked
sailor and frost-bitten miner. From
all points, Cape York, Port Clarence,
Topek, Golofin bay, Yukon river, and
elsewhere, reports have been received
OF sickness, starvation and mortality
so great that it promised to wipe out
almost the entire race.
Quartermsster Generals Report
Washington, Nov. 5.-The report of
Quartermaster General Ludington for
the year ended June 80, 1900, made
public Saturday, shows total ex-
penditure of SS3,O7s,O25, and a bal
ance on hand unexpended from vari-
GUS appropriations of $35,962, 1893. In
the year there were transported to
and from the United States on the
army transports 1O4,4s2 persons, 49,
397 animals, 310,6s3 tons of freight
and 2,523,s36 packages. OF these 49,
$40 persons were sent to the Phil
ippines and 2O,654 persons returned
from the Philippines to the United
States. There were carried to the
Philippines $4,000 tons of freight, but
none returned to this country.
During the past year there were
2,242 interments in the SO national
cemeteries, making total of 342,s42
interments therein up to date. A to-
tai of 1913 bodies were disinterred by
the burial corps in the Philippines, Of
which only Is bodies are reported as
A list of 90 names is given
of those who died Of smallpox or
whose remains are not exhumed.
Many Young LIeutsnants of Little Value.
Washington, Nov. 5.-Capt. F. S.
Foltz, Second cavalry, acting inspect
Or general Of the department Of
Matanzas and Santa Clara, has made
report to the war department con-
tanning severe reflections on certain
young army officers. "The great num-
Der of young men that have recently
been commissioned from civil life as
lieutenants," he says, "and the fact
that many of them are showing no
aptitude for their profession, indi-
Gates that the regular army should
be allowed to avail itself Of the privi-
ege heretofore granted only to vol
lnteers, of calling boards to determine
The fitness of an officer to hold his
Posta, Receipts and Expenditures.
Washington, Nov. 5.-The report Of
The auditor for the post office de-
'artment, covering the fiscal year
,nded June 80, 1900, shows that the
'otal revenues for the department for
hat period were O2,a54,579 and the
expenditures sio7,2as,29s, leaving a de-
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