The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-01
IN THE HOTEL CORRIDORS.

Attorney General Sheets. of Ohio. is
registered at the Arlington from Column
bus. He is in the city to appear before
the Secretary of the Interior to contest
! the claim of ]. D. Longnecker, of Delta
Ohio. to 1000 acres of the land now occu-
pied by the ST.: Mary's reservoir. In
speaking of the case last night Mr.. Sheets
stated that Mr., Longnecker's claim was
a very peculiar one.
1T is based on the ownership Of nine
assignments of soldiers, homestead war
rants which he had purchased" said he.
| These cover an aggregate of an amount
sufficient to take in all of the land occu-
pied by the reservoir to which Ohio has
not title. The reservoir covers about
1900 acres and the State has a title to
15,oOo acres. If MIR. Longnecker can es-
tablish his claim it will be necessary for
the State to buy him off. The case is pc
culiar because the reservoir is covered
with twenty feet of water and to restore
Mr.. Longnecker his land we would have
to drain it off. We cannot drain off 1000
acres without draining the whole reser-
| voir. The reservoir was begun in 1888
and completed in 1871 at great expense
| to the State.
| Paymaster Charles w. Penrose. U. S. ~,
is al the Ebbitt OH leave He has been sta
| toned at Cavite, p. l.. for over year, and
is delighted to get back to the United
States. He is accompanied by Thomas ~
Penrose. medical director. U. s. N, who is
on leave from Philadelphia.
j. W. Brown. OF Brooklyn. N. Y, and
Frederick Gottlieb, of Baltimore, two
prominent members of the United States
Brewers Association, are at the Raleigh,
to urge the abolition of the additional tax
on beer imposed by the War Revenue act
,fhey VIII appear before the Ways and
Means Committee and present figures
showing the hardship imposed upon them.
They hope to be successful In their Grand
and represent nearly every large brewery
in the United States.
l.. B. Prince, formerly Governor of New
Mexico. is at the Arlington from Sante
Fe. He is in the city in the interest of
the irrigation congress which met at
Chicago last week and is trying to have
an appropriation made for storage reser-
voirs.
I'VE are attempting to inaugurate the
work of irrgating the arid lands of the
West" said he last night. I'VE have a
| great future for the Southwest in view
| present decert Tho President veil, -ec
| omme,,d favorable Ieoi,Iat;on in bic forth
! Coming ranor, ond q sn,aiI annronr;otion
will DO wondarfr, ,nn,,nt ~ ed >,
|
1.-The Yaqui war is still engrossing the
~.
| said Juap Gonzales of Nexico at tho Ra-
,o;.t !, 81 n;nh, ..and .,o,nh ,ho ultimate
| 'A'
| fcsuie cahnol ne olher tnau d coihpiete
victory for my Government, | am conf
dent that there will he MANY mora bloody
| conflicts before the Indians are subdued.
| During the past few weeks more than two
| hundred Yaqui prisoners have been taken.
| under an escort of Mexican troops. to
| Yucatan. They will be made to work on
the plantations near Progreso.
THE methods pursued by the Mexican
| army and Government may seem harsh,
but the only means practicable have been
adopted. The Mexican Government is en-
| gagged in waat is really war of extermi-
| nation- Inc troops give no quarter, ana.
| OF course, they ask none at the hands OF
| the Ihoians. DtG
| Inc 1aquls recently captured came
rom near nm me state OIL sonora; IL
-. 49, a'u .u.;.' , ING on.s Nay III whien
| ,hro,,nh ,,a 49,, - .Li.,.
nrS;rr,,, a, t,.'iu
nr;snners ,.a sant - ,ho 1870, 500
NJ Werico Families arc broken nm and
mothers and their children senarated Tho
vomen are forced tn work a G bouse cor
wants in the homes of wealthy Mexicsns
while the children above a certain age
the indentured servants of the old days in
Virginia. The young Indian children I'M
der seven years of age are taken care of
by the Government.
1t has been found that without these
"Tbe yanui Indians are amony tho uost
warlike of the North American aborigines.
They are nearly as pure as they were
when cortez CONQUERED the Aztecs. and
IL ID their spirit WHICH mas given 'he MEX
i'a ...r, uose. ., 50 NUN ttouDie
ihefe h"s eAisteu ior years aiiohs tne
,iiprs d reshu tuat one uas ,hes "ouiu
De deiiVeted from thelr oppressors ana
given the ianu WINCH riShtiuhy pelonBed
to them. The appearance among them
of the white woman from the United
States claiming to be their deiiverer. was
the signal for the outbreak which Mexico
has not yet been able to put down. The
woman is now in the United States. the
plot of the Mexican Government to cap
ture her having failed Whether she was
a fraud or not is not known 1t is known,
however. that she ACCOMPLISHED some re-
tah,o and ,,o,darf,,I curae a,nono ,bo
Indians Her inauence over the yaouis
was tremendous Eyervwbere her ,nnear.
ance caused tho Greatest evcitemant ,ybicb
en,I,v hro,so n,,, 49, oron 1890 Me-