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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-07
WHAT THE INDIANS WANT.

What We want and insist upon ii finally allotted in severalty unineum bered by any lease made by the fed eral government. If our people are tt become citizens of the United States they want the same privileges and rights accorded to other citizens. Tn: government dues not und-rtake t. lease the laAas of the white citizen ana thcra should be no distinction AadG winch Wou q operat, 10 th. q t I-H1Gt ul the lEdIans We are con It tt With proyIS.ou preventing alien i't'on or ttc, fer that will operate u tLa benefit of OUT people, but when i. comes to incumbtr.ng our lands with mlneral leases. against our consent, Ter q per.od of ten or twenty-five years. We are compelled to oppose it.
 If the Creek treaty is finally ratified oy congress in about the shape it passed tie senate. the work of allot- ing lands and opening the country progress with rapidity. Our people "!u take their ai-otment; as p ell y as possible and enter upon the duties of individual citizenship. It w.n be a good thing for us, for 1t will impose obligations upon every member of the trioa of which he has been reheve d or heratofCre. Every man then must shift for himself and tue result will be that thrift and frugaIity will be prac- tlced and the members of the triba started on the read to financial sue cess.
 We are particularly anxious that the work or alloring our lands shall be completed as speedily as possible. We are anxious to rid ourselves of the gov crDmcnt officers who are now imnledi- atelY In charge of the territory. The trouble in tn, Creek na ation has been, as well as all over Indian Territory. that we've been fedora i2ed to death. We could not cut stick of timber on our lands without consulting q gov errment official. nor could we turn our attention to business which would re suit in profit to our people without the cons nt of some federal agent. 1 tel: you it will he n novel but glorious ex pelience when we are at last ushered inc the gr.at highway of indlvidunl manhood. We will feel like people who are born and reared Tn prisons and all at once turned loose in the broad world to go and do as We pleased.
 How long will it be before this can be brought about?'' was asked
 Probably three or four yoaTs,' said Chief Porter, "but whCn the move mant starts we will zee to it that it is kept going without any necessary dclarS. We want he tribal rolls com l:lcted and finally closed. the work of 9 lotng tke lands commenced and prosecuted with vigor. and, in short, the work of the Dawes commission concluded as quickly and speedily as possible. ."-Chief Pleasant Porter in St Louis Democrat.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-07
QUICK WORK BY QUICK PERSON.

Mrs Thomas Quick, who lives at Huntington, this state, is not only quick in name. but also in action. Yes | terday morning she was at her door, l way removing the snow from the steps Of the humble domicile. Engaged ln this invigorating pasume, she was singing slatches of songs from the "Cauet Glrl' and Fra Dlavalo' when suddenly her attention was arrested by the appearance of two men entering the uoor ya4u and coming up the board walk toward her. It d.d not take Mrs Qulck but moment to reanze they were tramps. They pretended to De rag peuuierS but al tue rags they had were oA their Lacks. Ms Quick ID. formed them she had no rags to sell or trade ana Dade them be off. NOW hele IS wueie IneSe trampS made sad. sad mistake.
 Instead of departing as ordered they went around the yard picking up the clean milk cans and looking for other articles. Then in response to Mrs Qulck's repeated orders to move, they became insulting.
 Now here is where the hobos got in to trouble.
 Did Mrs Quick faint? No! Did she call for Tom? Not bit of it! Did she yell for Ffdo? Never! She marched into the sitting room, opened the dra w. CT of the center table, extracted two revolvers therefrom. patted them and said: Come, mdaisies. we have a duty to perforln." Then she retraced her steps to tue front door and called the tramps.
 HOW foolish tramps can be- Didn't ever think Of that?
 The tramps came. Mrs Quick said one word, Dance" Sping went one gun, boom. boom, hurray chimed in the other. 'Dance,' said Mrs Quick. SlZZer went one revolver and tin pan fell to earth mortally wounded, q bull let hole in it's crown. Ooh, said the other gun and a tin pail bit the dust. Then the Messrs Tramps began to dance. Oh, how they danced. They Jumped up and down, they cake walked. they kicked up their heels and they rolled about on their shoulders. Crack, thump, crackety, thunlpety, thump. thnmp. went those guns. Run said Mrs Quick. and those tramps have not stopped running yet. Then the lady returned 10 tho snow sloveling.
 Hurrah for Mrs Quick. It would he better for the world, for all wom?n- kind. if there were more like her She proves that there is something in name.-Bridgerort Union.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-07
COLORED EICGJEECE.
How Pn-Aon Etoolmon ReDroved tn C Brethren ard Sisters for Their
 CHaQualetd Nesanexa

''Brudden and sistahs.' sternly said the good old Parson Woolmon, after the collection had been taken up upon recent Sabbath morning, "before d. hat was done parsed around exround. ed de request dat de con ngregation con- tribute accawGiu' to Geir means. and sho expectorated dat yo' all would chip in mag2&rimouslH. But now upon eEaminfH' de collection. finds that de concocteG amount contributed by de whole entire posse oby yo' am only the significant and pusillanimous sum Of siSty-free cents. And a dis junction dar sin't 10 'casion for yo'll to look at Brudder Sle evfoot, what done circun
 ambulated de hat around, in go sucb
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-07
FILING UP THE BILLIONS.

The Standard oil Co is pumping eighty mi l ons of dollars q year out of the earth for Is own benefit, and in recomp"Isa to is Stocilhc tders who at some rcmo'c ?. rioI probably in vested g few thoi:$.ind doIars of bor- rowed nOn6y in tna business.
 This eighty ln.liinns has to be in vested somewhere, as the recip entS of IL do not spend much of it for pIeas- rue, or give much of it away. John D. Rockefeller's personal share is over %2o, GOO eco, and nearly all the rest of this great fund goes 10 men who mako their investments in ways that har- moniZe With the plans of Mir Rockefel- Ter.
 The capital stock of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad ia S54 G&5,(iOU and the total funded debt of all the railroads ifi Connecrlcut $ about S39 9OO0OU0. The Standard Oi mGn's profits in 1901 " | be sutiic.ent to buy property eQuival Tt to the whole Consolidated system-ev,ry share of stock and every dollars worth of bonds. If the great monopoly is to cont nue, the profits of 1902 will be enough to cover the New York Centrals investment In the Boston anl Albany. Tn 1903 the oil dividends may ba nearly equal to the value of tho great Boston and Ma ne system Thus practically all the railroads of New Eng and ID ght he pocketed in three years by the Ii tie company of men whose fortunes are bui ding night and day through the ownership of this oil businrs When dull times comc a,rain and the profits in many other inls of bu>ircSs drop out of sigh he Standard Oil pr1its will go r!sht on.
 Suppose they go on for fifty years or q hundred years. Who will own the greater part of tho property on this earth ?-Hartford Times.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-07
WHAT HE INVENTED.

One of those inventors who has more genius than common sense makes a confession.
 :'Of course, I began on perpetual mCtion.' he relates. That is where a high order of inventive power al- ways begins. l got up machine that would run from now to the blowing Z of the trumpet. All you had to do was to keep it oiled. l carelessly ne glected to provide for making the thing stationary. It broke through the side of the house. Ieveled the fence, killed 8 lot of live stock while on its wild career, and smashed itself against a big oak tree out in Oakland county.
 My next was flying machine. The defect in this was that I neglected to provide for getting down when I was once up. On the trial trip I whizzed up to the neighborhood of Hudson's bay in an hour and figured out that would hit the North Pole for supper unless I could stop the blamed thing Finally, had to saw off one wing and took a flop that landed me with a broken leg.
 Upon my recovery I got up a smoke consumer that burned down the first factory that adopted 1t, and followed LuaL W1tu LOy DdliOOu l1ldl CarTleu OH three children before could call in the output of the murderous kidnap- pers. Eighteen months ago produced self-propelling bicycle, but the young man who agreed to try 1t for me was last heard of as making a mile min ute in the Argentine Republic and go- ing south.
 My latest was device that will etop an electric car iE less than its length. though it be going forty miles an hour. tried 1t on 8 local car. The motorman went through the win dow and the head of the conductor through the roof projection in the rear. The least damage to any of the pas sfngers was four-inch scalp wound. The car closed up on itself and the company has a judement against me for damages. I am at present driv- 'rg . delivery wagon. ."-Detroit Free Pr{ss
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-07
WATERBURY FIRE ALARM.

4--Cor South Main ana Grand sts.
 5--Scovill Misunderstanding Co. UJ.
 G--Cor Bridge and Maglll sls.
 1--ENchange Place.
 12--Hosers x Bro. G1.
 13 Cor East Malu and Niagara sts. 1l--Cor East Main and Wolcott rd
 l1--Cor High and N alnu1 sts.
 1G--Cor East Main and Cherry sts
 lT--Cor East Main and Coit sts. 2l--Cor North Elm and killgsbuI,y stS 23-,Burton Street engine house. 24-Watelbury Manufacturiu" Co. (P) o1--Cor North Main and North sts. 2G--Cor Buckingham and Cooke sts. .:I--C or Grove x Prospect Sts.
 oS--Cor Hillside avenue and Pine st. 20--N. Willow bet. Eldgewood auc
 Hillside avenue.
 S1--Cor Bank and Grand Sts.
 2,--Cor Riverside and Bank sts 34--t,or West Main and Watrrtown r,l a1--Conn. Lighty & Pow. Co, car
 house. UJ.
 3G--NatrIbury Brass Go, p,.
 37-Cor Cedar and Meadow sts. 3S-Cor Grand and Field Sts.
 4o-Cor South Main and Clay sts. a3-\ew England Watch Co. QJ. 45-Benedict X Eurnhum Mfg Co. P) iG-Waterbury Buckle Co. py. 47-Cor S. Main and Washinton sts. 51-Cor Baldwin and River sls. 52-Cor Franklin and Union sts. 53-Wat'b'y Clock Co. case facty (P). 54-Cor Clay and Mill stS.
 5G-Cor Liberty and River sts. 57-No , Hose House.
 5S-Cor Baldwin and Stone sts. G2-Cor Doolittle alley and Dublin st 12-Cor West Main and Willow sts. 74-Cor Johnson and WaterviIle sts. ol2-The Platt Bros & Co. (PJ. Buckle Co., Uc. Clock O. mvt fact'y P). 216-Cor North Main and Grove sts. o5l-Cor Round Hill and Ward Sts oG1-Junction Cooke and x. Main Sts. 212-Grove. bet. Central x Holmes avs. 311-S. \. E. Telephone Co bldg. u',. 31o-Cor Bank and Meadow sts. 3l3-Randolph x Cloves. tp) 31 4-Plume and Atwood P). Ring Go P). Light Station (P). 31S-Holmes. Booth X Haydeus (P). 321-No Hose House. 3r3-Cor WaSh'gn ave and Porter sts 324-Cor Charles and Porter SIS. 3'5-Cor SimonS st and Was,.'g'n ave 371-City Lumber and Coal Co (P). l12-Tracy Bros 0b. 451-Steele tS Johnson Mfg Go (P). Baldwin and Rye sts.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-07
LEAED IT PASsI-G

General kitnhe.er finds some d fer ence b@twe the savage chiefs he has been fighting ill India and the clever De Wet who is outgeneraIin. ID ;n south Afr.ca. lie Iaada a .e0utari0n for him "l. by crashing tie sa...sgc; in India. but he Sttnds a 20 i cha .cn oI losing ii iH south Afr,ca. ike SD many oth ' 1r sh geDeras who's, T, pi;tat nH has D2cn bi"s'ei by til Wly 80 rs.-New BTlta,n Inue < Il dent.
 ". J. Bryan applauds. in iis p1p,r. little Mayor Van Wyck for his ri usal to haIf-must the New York City hall flag when Queen Victoria died. He finds Van W+yck's argument-that it wasn't haif-mas;ed when Joubert died -absolutely conclusive ..-There are sone people in this country who are more anxious to pay tribute to mon nrchS than to recognize the merits of free men, says Bryan. The United h-American societies of New York are also with Van Wyck on tho flag question. Day before yesterday they commissioned Patrick J. McNulty, Terrence Donahue. Jeremiah Healy and others to make known their sentl- ments to hiin.-Hartford Courant
 We wonder if the managers Of the ETeSS aSSOC5dtlJN. "ItCn fiilnS D have beaten the Associat q Pres in giving the announcement Of the mo ment of Queen Victoria's death think they are foo.ing anybody in their ef- forts to back up their transparent fake. The queen breathed h r last It 6:30 D. m., and the fact was made known at 6:45 D. m., which was :59 D. m. New York t.me. Precisely te minutes we e occupied hy the trans mission of the III; ssage from tha Isle Cf Wight to the office of the Ass }c;c t d Press n New York. The fake dls- patch of tha rival association was sent out an hour before the death To Y occurred, and an effort is now being made to induce people to believe that the news of the death was withheld from the English public for an hour after the queen stopped breathing. It Is surprising that any newspaper will assist in such deceit.-Hartford Times.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-07

aspicious manner; for. in de tust p,ace RTuGder Slewfoot ain't dat kind ob a man, and, in de second place. I dons watched him like hawke all de time muhseif. No, sixty-free cents was all dat was flung in; and l dess wants say dat, in my humble opinion, instead oh contributin' accawding to yo' means, yo' all contributed accawdin' to yo' meanness. De choir will now favor us t:. l- +fS ~ss i-r rnefoGiOnsness
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-07
---- SHRlNKAGE OF THE SUN.
Au English Scientist Estimates Tha 1t Amounts 10 Six Inches
 R Day.

The usual Christmas course of lec- lures was begun at the Royal institu- ton by Sir Robert Ball. The sun. he pointed out, was the source of all the heat received by this earth, says the London Times. Now, it was a we'll known fact that most things in cooIinr became smaller; poker, for example. was shorter when it was cold than when it was red hot. The sun, too, must obey this Fundamental law. and must therefore be getting smaller. If we could measure its diameter on two successive days we should find it had decreased by nine inches-that was to say, 1t was shrinking It the rate of, roughly, five feet a week, or a mile in every 2o years. In view of this shrink age, some of the younger members of bis audience mi ght feei anxious lest the sun should not last their time. Such anxiety, however, was groundless; he was s6o.oOO niles in diameter. SO if would take 10000 years for hlm to be reduced by 2.0oo mics to S5s. GOO, and the lecturer was sure that if thera were two suns in the sky, one s6o, GOO mics in diameter and the other s5s, GOO. no one would be able to tell by looking at them which of the two was the small CT. But as the sun was shrinking nine inches every day, and had been doing TO for ages, it followed that in the past he was very much greater than he was now. But he always had the same amount of material in him and weighed no heavier than at present; hence the inference was that he was once huge mass of rarefed gas-a great, glowing nebula.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-07
HTS TOO LATE NOW"

There are punishments for crime not enumerated in the penal code. Two cases In point are conspicuous in the news of the day:
 William A. F. Moore a little over two years ago was very short of money. Instead of bearing the pinch of hard times like brave man and putting more grit and vim into his eff forts to earn money ho estly, he weak ly sought escape from his troubles by planning the well remembered bad ger gama" of which Hotelkeepar Mar tin Mahon was the victim. Thereby he disgraced his young wife as well himself and brought up in Sing Sing still has nearly seventeen years longer to run.
 Yesterday Warden Johnson went to his cell and gently broke the news to him that a Cleveland. O.. uncle had died md left h'm $125, GOO. If only 1t had come two years ago." he said; "but it's too late now"
 Over in Paterson at about the same hour George J, Kerr was brought to the bar of the court and pleaded guilty to the charge of assault on Jennie Bosschieter glad to escape with his life though he faces sentence of fifteen years in the state prison. But that is not the bitterest drop in his cup of punishment. At his own home a wife and children are mourning for a lost husband and father. and In anoth- CT home nearby his old father. broken down by the disgrace of his loved and trusted son. is near to death.
 To George ]. Kerr. as well az to William A. F. Moore. the keener retri. button must be in the unavoidable re- fiecfion, ''If only had not done it. but it's too late now."-New York ,World.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-07
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY '. 1901.

Ihe editor of the Hartford Times should inform his Elm city political coTTo spondl nt that Watlrbury's senior representative ls George L. LilIey and Ret Mr Little, as tho correspond 1nt writes l.. He is Rot Little, but he is a L.lisy
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-07
ou.i.t weda,pc Cer-uonx

William Wombweli, aged 70, and Cath erine Heley. aged s7, jumped over ! broomstick at Cowle. near Doncaste or, England, recently. and thereupon be- came sccording to RomsDy custom, ennnn and Nifss
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-07
 Ch0lcra and Per1ume.

The cholera repeatedly during the last century visited London and Paris, but st no time was there death from that disease among the operatives of the perfume factories.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-07
Changing sixnlAcance of a Word.

Ch0uRInE S1XHiNCHMCt or n W ora.
 The word preposterous originally meant a process of reversing the nat ural order of things. such as indicated by the common expression putting the sart before the horse" By an easy gradation it has come to be used in it's present significance
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-07
k|h|BALL School of Music

instruction in Piano, Singing, Organ, vloiin, Harmony, Musical Kindergar- ten, Mandolin. Banjo. Guitar, Comet ana Slght Reading. School of Dancing anu anu experiment. Taught by a Fac oliy unsurpassed for its excellence.
 Ensemble playing free.
 Free admission to Recitals, Concerts and Lectures lessons
 Register now for all departments.
 Students received daily.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-07
PEN MANSflIp.

PEOFESSUR HOLLEY Teaches every pupil tu Wfite a fine rapid. Justices nauI, II: course of Id piINate les 'onS and no failures. All kinds of pen work eXecuteu ill tha highest degree of art.
 1G7 BANK STREET.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-02
NOT ONE Man ESCAPED
LOCAL FREIGHT CRASHES INTO
LOCOMOTIVE AND CABoosE
OF the Crew of the Latter Two Are
Dead and the Rest All More
or Less Seriously
Injured.

VALPARAISO. Ind, Nov 1.-Two men
in a collision at O'Clock this evening
between the local freight of the Penn
sylvania road and the work train Of the
Clifford Construction company, of this
city:
The Dead
JOSEPH CLIFFORD, of the Clifford
Construction company. Valparaiso.
CONDUCTOR TOMPK1NS, of the work
train.
Fatally Injured
CHARLES COYER.of the Clifford COM
pany.
BRAKEMAN JOHNSON.
The accident occurred on the grade at
Plymouth, the work train was running
at that station on the time of the reg.
ular train, which was late. At the bot
tom of the steep hill and at a sharp bend
of the track, the local running at high
rate of speed, crashed into the Clifford
train, which consisted only of a loco
motive and caboose, in which was the
crew of fifteen men. Cars and locomo-
tives were crushed and smashed into by
it.
The dead and mangled men were buried
in the mass of wreckage. The wrecking
trains at Plymouth. Chicago and Fort
Wayne were called out and started i'm
mediately for the scene. Trains On this
division of the Pennsylvania road Were
DELAYED for several hours.
Not a. man in the crew escaped unin-
jured, and it is feared several of them al Q
so badly wounded that death is inevita-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-02
BRITISH COLUMN UNDER COL. BEN
SON LOSES HEAVILY IN KILLED
AND WOUNDED
IN THE EASTERN TRANsvAAL
Another Disaster to British
Arms in South Afri-
can War.
BENSON DIES OF WOUNDS

LONDON, Nov. 2-Lord Kitchener has
reported to the war Office disaster to
the British, near Bethel Eastern Trans
yaal, in which two guns were lost sew
eral officers killed or wounded, and fifty
four men were killed and 160 wounded.
The following is the text of Lord hitch-
ener's dispatch dated Pretoria, Nov. 1:
II have just heard Of severe attack
made on the rear guard of Col. Bensons s
column when about twenty miles north
west of Bethel near Brokenlaagte, dur
ing thick mist.
"The strength of the enemy IS report
ed to have been thousand. They rush
ed two guns with the rear guard but 1t
is uncertain whether they were able to
remove them.
II fear our casualties were heavy Col.
Benson was wounded, but not severely; A
relieving column will reach him this
morning."
Later Lord Kitchener telegraphed IS
follows:
'Col. Barter, who marched from the
constabulary line yesterday, reachea
Benson's column early this morning (FI1-
day. unopposed. He reports that Col.
Benson died Of his wounds.
'"The other casualties are the following:
Killed-Col E. Guinness, Maj. f. d. Muir
raw. Capts. NJ. w. Lindsay and +. 1;
r. q. Shepherd and Second Lieutenant
A. J. Corlett Died of his wounds, Capt
Eyre Loud"
Heavy Loss.
Lord Kitchener then gives the names of
thirteen olner officers who were wound
ed, most of them severely, and announces
that f1fty-four non-commissioned officers
and men were killed and 160 wounded
adding that four of the latter have since
died of their wounds. The dispatch then
says:
ct assume that the two guns have been
recoved and the enemy has Withdrawn,
but I have no further details.
81 deeply regret the loss of Col. Ben
son and the other officers and men who
fell with him. With Benson the service
loses most gallant and most capaple ol,
ficer, who invariably led his column with
marked success and judgment.
1.-THE fighting was at very close quar-
ters and maintained with determination
by both sides. The enemy suffered heav-
ily but I have not yet received rei1a-
BILE estimate.
SThe Beers retired east
Col Benson had been for some time op-
Grating in the vicinity of Bethel, which is
northeast of Landerton. He surprised a
Boer laager Oct. 22 near Trlchardsfon-
tein, taking thirty-seven prisoners: Three
report at the time, after long nI>74lt
march, the commanders under Grobelaar
and Erasmus ''heavily attacked Benson
rear guard and 1anks at Yzirvarkfon-
tein, but were easily driven away:
Whether this was the attack which re-
suited so disastrously, or whether Lne
Beers, who had been repulsed took ad-
vantage of the mist to renew the attack,
is still unexplained. Lord Kitchener does
not give the date OF the Bethel engage
ment.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-02

ado mas Deen appointed portuguese HILL
lister at Washington.
WASHINGTON, Nov 1-Shortly after
the death of President Mckinley, the Wis
count de Santo Thyrso, Portuguese min
ed to Lisbon. According to M Luis Au-
gusto de Maura d'Azendo Taviera, at
present charge d affaires of Portugal in
this city, the viscount was not made
aware of the purpose of his summons
to the Portuguese capital. M. Tafiera
said today that further than this he
knows nothing in regard to the report
that the viscount's call to Portugal had
to do with a premature announcement
of the death of President Mckinley.
When asked if an error of this sort on
the part of a diplomatic agent or for
e,gn minister would be regarded as a
sufficient ground for his recall, M. Ia
viera said it all depended upon the tenn
per of the government in question.
The state department expressed incredu-
lity and surprise when told of the ap-
rointment of a new minister from Portu-
gal, especially at the allegation that the
change was made on account of a pre-
mature annouro ement of President Nc
Kinley's death by Santo Thyrso. This
was the first intiInation that had reach
ed them that such an error had been
made. They were, quite sure that 50
far as the United States government
was concerned it had not been embar-
rassed by the act of the former minis
ter, for the records of coincidence at the
department disclose the fact that Portu-
gal followed closely the rule observed
by other nations of the world.