Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-07-20

Dy postmaster COyne nuU Dcen uSeu
for their exclusive benefit. This meant
n raise of 800 per year for each of the
men selected for reward.
Senators CullOm and Mason will he
appealed to by residents Of the South
Side to prevent dumping Of dredgngs
I'm the lake of 22d to 2Gth streets. Al
a meeting of the South Side Business
Mems Association IL was decided to
make an appeal to the Illinois Senators.
In case nothing can be accomplished 1t
II proposed to apply to the courts for
relief. The residents want the eight
mile limit for dumping to be enforced.
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The South Park Commissioners. have
passed the annual tax levy ordinance.
The ordinance provides for the raising
Of SG42,4O2. The only new item In the
estimates Is levy Of $4,000 to pay the
interest on the recent $5OO.OOO bond
issue. The other items are 100000 for
the Improvement Of the South Park sys.
TEN. $25S. G52 for park maintenance and
$3S, $50 to meet the interest on the
Worlds Fair bonds issued by the Park
Board ten years ago.
p. McHugh, Donald l.. Morrill, and
Daniel J. McAiahon are mentioned for
judicial honors.
In the last six months fewer jutlg.
ments were entered up against the city
In cases which came under the direct
Jurisdiction OF the Corporation Counsel
than In any other period Of the same
length Of time In recent years. accord
Ing to the report made by Mr.. Walker
to Comptroller McGann.
In the six months the Council ordered
the Corporation Counsel to confess
Judgment to total Of S3,O2I. The
Council ordered Mr.. Walker to waive
the appeal ana writ of error ID cases
amounting to $3,OO6. In cases which
were fought In court by the Corpora.
ton Counsel total OF judgments of
%2,tii6 was entered against the city. In
addition there was u Judgment for So.
54S for damages inflicted on the
Thompson Towing Company by the fire
tug Yosemite In 1893.
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Though this " u hOpelessly of year In
politics Mark Hanna really ought to
do something for the corn crop.
| South Park Commissioners are dis.
GUESSING, with II. N. Higinbotham and
Others representing Marshall Field and
the Field Museum, the question Of u
permanent site for that institution In
the Lake Front Park. The discussion
has reached the point where Mr.. Field
has been told practically that he can
have any site he chooses between Mon
roe street ana the southern end OF the
park.
No definite action has been taken. but
Ii Is more than probable the question
will he settled during the summer ana
u permanent downtown home arranged
for the big museum now In Jackson
Park.
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The end Of the redskin. so far as he
Is officially concerned with the United
States Government, Ia In sight. Within
two years the Indians Of the Five Civil.
lied Tribes In the Indian Territory will
be stripped of their identity as a peO-
pie. and they will either have to be.
come citizens of the United States or
leave II. We have been SO busy think.
Ing about the Filipino, the Porto Rican
and the Cuban that we have lost sight
of what has been termed "the greatest
human tragedy of the end Of the CEN
tury." Years ago, when no one ever
dreamed that the West was to be pOpu.
lated ana become the richest portion OF
our domain, a treaty was made with
the CherOkees, Creeks, ChOctaws.
Chickasaws aud SeminOles by which
twenty million acres Of land known as
Indian Territory We're set apart for
their reservation, to be theirs so long
as an Indian lived. 10 save the In
dams ana their invested funds the
Government has determined to break
this treaty, to abolish their tribal gov
eminent and councils and divide their
lands into small tracts. That the re-
construction Of the Indian Territory
Is absolutely necessary to save the In
dian lands from the rapacity of the
whites and half-breeds Is the belief of
w. II. Draper. who writes OF this
greatest Of human tragedies" In the
Outlook. A few years ago Congress
found by extended investigation that
the Territory was the harborlng place
! Of outlaws; that white men who had