Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-11-07

have given the matter close consid
GRAFTON, is the policy OF making them
wards of the nation. The system OF
annulties, rations and other govern
mental assistance encourages iudol
ence, makes them shiftless. DESTROYS
ambition and continues conditions
which are generally conceded to he
deplorable.
The pauperized Indian. a constant
charge ON the federal treasury. idle
and disconnected can. II is asserted
he made good citizen self-support.
ing and self-respecting, by breaking
up tribal relations and withdrawing
government support, The president
takes this view, and will express his
opinion in communications to con
gress. 1t remains to be developed.
however. whether the lawmakers
will accept them any more readily
| than they have similar arguments in
the past
No president more competent than
Colonel Roosevelt has handled the
question. There is great influence to
be encountered. however. welded by
contractors and others who have
found profit in the present system
and it will be difficult therefore to
get through congress bill to con.
| tinue and extend the work of the
| Dawes commission for the negotia-
ton of treaties with the Indians to
secure the dissolution of tribal rela-
| tions a d the acceptance OF land In
severalty
NEW YORK, Nov 5.-The schooner
Unique and the brigantine D. A.
Small started today from Providence
| for Cape Verde, distance of $500
miles The vessels will race for a
prize. Both are fast boats.
DENVER. Nov. 5.-Jarvis He'll. a
military school. was burned ast night
cntuiling loss Of about s75 ,O'O with
Si0,no0 insurance. The 75 students
saved much of the furnit aud
half of the famous Canon Rogers H.
Lr2ary
LONDON, Nov. Kitchener In
his supplemental report of the defeat
of Colonel Benson's column in the
Transvaal at the hands of the Beers.
claims that the enemy acted badly.
He says they We're unable to move
the heavy guns captured and only sue
ceeded in doing so under cover of the
British ambulance which was sent
out to bring in the wounded Gen.
Kitchener claims the Boer losses
were very heavy. Commandant
Onermann was killed and Col. Chris
Botha was wounded It Is also as
serted that the Beers misused the
wounded British.
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-The World
today prints a special from Samak-
ov. Bulgaria, to the effect that Miss
Ellen NJ. Stone and Nine. Tsilka have
been seen within the last two days
by emmissaries sent by Diplomatic
Agent Dickenson from Sofia to treat
with the brigands who abducted the
missionaries. Both women are said
to be well. Negotiations for the pay
ment of the ransom are still in pro-
gress.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov Flash
| ion is less capricious in China than
in other arts of the worldp. but there
a sentiment is growing In favor of
allowing womens feet to grow to a
| larger and more nearly normal size
than has hitherto been the practice
In China the small foot has been for
woman the mark of artistic caste.
but it seeems change Is coming,
slowly of course, as all changes come
in China, but perceptibly. This on
the authority of Mmje Wi, wife of
the Chinese minister at Washington
who has just returned from visit
to her Oriental home.
PORTLAND, Me-, Nov. 5.-The big
wholesale grocery establishment of
the Millken-T -Tamlinson Co. was de-
stroyed by fire this morning. Loss.
$3.50 900.
| CHICAGO, Nov. 5.--It is feared that
James NJ. Sheldon, captain of the
| Chicago University football team,
who had his skull fractured in last
Saturdays game, cannot live. The
attending physicians admit that the
case is extremely critical, and the
, relatives of the athlete have been
summoned.
NEW YORK. Nov. 5.-Antonio Liv-
enro. an Italian silk weaver. was ar
raigned in police court this morning
charged with numbering Frank Pan
nizzone, last March. Both men
were anarchists. Livenro thought
Pannizzone's enthusiasm was begin
ing to wane, He started a quarrel
with him and in the fight killed him.
LONDON, Nov. 5.-The French
squadron has arrived at Smyrna and
has seized three ports on the island of
Mitylene. Tie French government
is in deadly earnest in enforcing its
claims upon Turkey and unless the
sultan speedily grants all the de-
mands made upon him the situation
may become serious at any moment.
It is denied by the London foreign of.
fice that Turkey has requested Eng.
land to fulfill the convention of 1878
whereby England was to protect the
Turkish Asiatic territory from foreign
invasion.
CHICAGO, Nov. 1.-The body OF
an Italian, supposed to be that of An
tonic Napali. who with 25 others came
I to Chicago last night was found nj