The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-10-14

| company that never wins IS always weary
/ OF drill
4 Speaking Of drills. General Merriam
says:
There is notion too prevalent in the
| army especially among the older ofl-
GERS. that soldier who has once learned
the details OF the drill regulattOns-the
/ mere mechanism Of tactical and calls
thentiC eXercises-may be excused from
drill without dctriment, forgetting that
| bodies Of men can maintain the power Of
! collective action only by frequent cOllec-
/ tive practice. even in this simplest eXer-
/ cises- \ high degree Of perfection in col
/ leCuVe execution may admit Of shorten
/ ing the drill hour but should never jus
tify its omission. nor should the ordinary
pOSt administration be- permitted TO de-
plete the ranks at drills and exercises
I When. under the discretionary authority
I given In paragraph lsS. Army RegUla-
tions' of 1891. the ranks are depleted to
| less than ~ per cent, il is. / think.
manifest abuse Of discretion And this
{ should be habituaIIy excused from any
/ drill OF exercise"
The following reference to work among
I the Indians Is contained in the report.
/ Under telegraph Instructions from the
! War Department dated January 2. 1901.
l Troop a Eighth Cavalry. under com
l mald Of Lieut.. II. r Dixon. Eighth Cav
[ airy. left Fort Reno on the following day
I TO act in conjunction with the Indian
I agent and United States marshal in
! maintaining law ard order reported TO
! be threatened by several sections each OF
/ about fifty armed Snake Indian outlaws.
/ inUmidating and teTTOriZing the people
/ residing between EufaUla and WetUmka
[ and between Deep Fork and South Ca
I madam River. etc The troop il still IN
I the field on the above. duty. with its main
/ camp al old Fort Gibson. Indian Territory.
/ II is now commanded by Capt T. G Don
| aIdsOn- Jr-. Eighth Cavalry.
/ With the above exception there has
/ been TO call for use Of troops on account
/ ment. Attention is invited TO the report
| Of Capt. Farrand Sayre Eighth Cavalry
/ Appendix Upon the conduct and cOndi-
| ton OF the Apache prisoners Of war unde-
I his charge at Fort Sill.
/ My thanks are due TO an officers OF this
/ department for uniform good conduct and
! for Jealous ana constant attention TO all
duties prescribed OF required II thsm. and
! To each officer Of the department staff
/ / am especially indebted for indefatigabie
/ and efficient labor in the administration
! Of the affairs Of he departments in his
/ charge
Capt Farrand Sayre. in charge Of
| Apache prisoners of war, in his annual
Areport 10 General Merriam, which IS en-
/ bTaCcd IN the latter report. SAYS.
/ 81 have the honor 70 submit the report
| Of the progress and industrial condition
l Of the Apache prisoners Of war under my
/ charge In the summer Of 1900 these In
/ dams had $50 acres Of land under cultiva-
I ton. and as favorable rains fell excel
/ lent crops We're raised About half Of this
/ land was Sowed with miliet and about
| 500 tons Of millet was harvested which
! was fed TO the cattle during the winter
I 7 ne remaining NAN was cultivated 10y the
/ ApaChes for their own use and was de-
! voted chiefly to Indian corn About 1900
/ bushels Of corn was raised. Of which the
/ Apaches sold the greater part ate part
/ themselves. fed some Of IL TO their pO-
| mics. and saved the rest for seed.
They also raised watermelons. canta-
/ loupes, sweet potatoes. Irish potatoes,
! pepper. string beans. lima beans. and
/ peanuts in small patches, and generally
! consumed them themselves. They also
| cut and baIed and sold to the quartermas-
/ grer r|ltT M A. D. Il
] cut and baIed Tor their ponies 100000
/ pounds
! In the autumn the Apaches cut 1000
J fence p0Sts and hauled them TO this post
! from the wood reservation. distance of
! twenty-five miles. They built ten miles of
/ fence on the boundary line Of the militia
! " reservation. thus leaving the eastern
! and southern boundary lines of the reser-
/ walton completely protected by a good
! There were also fenced three new en-
/ closures containing about 100 acres each,
! which are used as d feed lot. a horse
! pasture. and branding pen In the
! spring Of 1901 all the farm fences were
] repaired. This was a labOriOuS and eN-
! tcnSivc task as many Of the Old fence
/ posts had been burned by prairie fires.
| and about oue-third Of the old fence was
| down. FNts nSiNe repairs were also made
| in the old boundary fences
| In the spring Of 1901 al the ground
which had been cultivated IN 1890 WAS
I again seeded with the exception Of about
\
right Of way 90 the Rock Island Rail
road coming through an the farms north
/ of the post
About IS acres of new ground were
broken up. planted. and fenced. making
/ 81 acres now under cultivation. a net
/ a,ir Of IF5 acres over last yta~. Oue-half
/ OF his land is planted with Eaffir corn
/ 10 be reserved for tho use of the cattle
during the coming winter
This KanlT corn is doing wei and bids
/ fIlr Ia make fair crog in spite Of an
| uDfavoT1hle season.
NO clothing was issued To the Apache
prisoners Of war during the fiscal year
I euUod June 80 1901. This is the first year
=iIcc they We're taken into captivity that
clothing has not been issued 10 them
They are now better clothed than pre-
/ viously. and IL is thought that an i'm
Z poTtJnt step has been made I'm this direc-
tiuu of making these people self-supD0rt-
ing Eight houses We're repaired by floor
sIALAHIA MAKES YOU WEAK.
J Groves Tasteiess Chill Tonic makes you strong