The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-21

affairs. They're built right alongside the
puriing Pacific, and some OF them aren't
10 very much above the level Of the sea.
at that.
They are penetrated by scarcely any
! light at ali, and the prisoner who Is doing
u turn In one u them has got 10 Keep one
ey" and one ear open pretty much all the
tine for the rats unless he wants TO be
gnawed up lot Army regulations per
nit military prisoners 10 be- cOL6ned In
these Dungeons Tor ten days al stretch
ou the bread aud water diet. aud Instances
have been known where fellow have come
out Of The Alcatraz dungeons In more or
i"ss Of a bughouse condition
i did see some successful bucking once
on Alcatraz Island. but they weren't white
men who got away with 1t They were
Indians Moquis. They had declined to
send their yong ONES TO school, or some
thing like ths', down on their Arizona
reservation, and 30 big bunch OF them
were co'ralieJ and dragged up to Alcatraa
20 see II confinement on the rock "oCid
caus. them to change their minds any.
Il guess there must have been about
tTon,y of them The commanding officer
Of AlCatra2 good, easy Unn,-6etidcd
that he would make those Moqlis work
Tot their Government rations The PRO-
'ost sergeant Of TIA" prison Y as inst ructed
20 Irt them AZ Goa ,hovclling and wood
putting and gravel digging and harness
c.caning aud all that sort of thing.
So. at fatigue call on the morning. after
the Moquis' arrival on the rock they we're
herded up by the -eutrie- and conducted
to the Place where their first Joh vas wait
ing ior them. The provost sergeant sho" eo
them by signs what they we're TO Go. There
upon they all squatted simultaneously ana
wrapped their blankets around their heads
The sertIies prodded them With their
bayonets, but Moquis are of marvellous
physical obtustn,ss They remained
aqtiatted with their blankets wrapped
around their heads.
'1he .entries prodded them for an hour.
Then the Indians we're marched back to
the prison and cast into the dungeons
They were kept in the dungeons for three
days and then marched to the coal shed for
labor.
AS soon as they arrived at the coal
shed they all sat down. Again they were
and again they were thrown into the dun
geona.
This programme was repeated half q
dozen times. But nary lick Of work was
ever got out Of those Mouuis. After a
while the military authorities saw what
they were up against. and the Indians were
turned loose from Alcatraz and sent back
70 their reservation.
Il understand that they haven't started
TO send their kids TO the Indian schools
vet. either There's a whole lot charac-
ter about q Moqui. That was the only
l ever saw. and. Of course. white men
couldn't have got away with it In that
fashion.
Men who have received pretty hard
doses while serving Ia our army or navy
rarely store up such memories with bitter
ness. About year ago l visited Fort
McHenry. Baltimore. in company with
an eN-soldier Of the Regular army who Is
now a high official in the War Department
at Washin gton. He pointed out to me a
long oyster shell road that runs through
the post
DYE ace that road?' said he to me
Well. ! made that road-everv blamed
square yard OF it-vears ago. when was
doing a Elk months trick in the clink here
for some Internal boy deviltry. Fheu!
what a fool boy I was!' and he laughed.
That's the wav sure-enough man
remembers such things and the way he
ought to remember them"