The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-06
THE MODOCS
Says Curtis, Are "GoOd Work
ers, Careful and Economical.
Not Necessarily Our ''MOdOcs,"
But the Real Thing.
JENKINS STOVE PIPE.
New POstmasters, Rural Routes
and Their Location.
Many Items of Special Interest
to kansanS Generally.


a century Captain Jacks band of
Modoc Indians are about to be per-
mitted to return to their old homes
in the lava beds" of California and
Oregon.
Following their disastrous war
fare on the white settlers of oregon
in 1874, in which General Candy was
treacherously killed, these Indians
were exiled in Indian territory. where
they were placed upon the Quapaw
reservation. At that time there were
217 of them, but before a year had
elapsed, the number was reduced to
1872 BY 1887 there were not more
there are only forty-nine.
In a report recently made to the
senate by Senator Charles Curtis of
Kansas, chairman of the committee
on Indian depredations. he says:
''This rapid decrease seems to be the
result of mental anxiety caused by
their enforced separation from family
and friends
Senator Curtis's report recommends
the passage of a bill which already
has received the approval of the
house and which authorizes the re-
turn of these aborigineS to their for
mer homes in the klamath reserva-
ton, in oregon, where an allotment
of land is now going on, and in which
they would be enabled to participate
if there.
senator curtis says IN MS report
that the ModocS, Notwithstanding
their record of IA, are extraordinarily
good workers. He also says there are
no drunkards among them, and that
they are careful and economical"
1t is quite probable that the bill will
pass the senate.
An up to date stereopticon show
was given the other day in the room
of Congressman w. A Reeder of
L ii 81 n
mittee on irrigation. officers of the
reclamation service gave it for the
benefit of the committee and other
members of the house Interested
The object was to afford the law
makers demonstration through the
means of beautifully colored pictures
of just what has been accomplished
through the medium of the reclama-
ton act in reclaiming large tracts of
arid lands in the boundless west.
The show" was an artistic success.
Whether it will be as successful in
inducing the committee to report ia
vorably on more irrigation legisla-
ton remains to be seen.
Congressman Charles F. Scott passed
a bill in the house authorizing the
Edgewater Connecting Railway COM
pany to construct. maintain and op
crate a railroad bridge across the Kan
sas river at or near Kansas City, Kan.
Senator Curtis secured the passage of
the measure IN the senate.
piOned an item in the army appropria-
ton bill providing for an appropriation
of $4,000 for the purchase of 320 acres
adjacent to Fort. Leavenworth to be
used as a target range for the regular
army. 1t was only after a hot fight that the
Kansas member secured the adoption of
the item. The success in this instance
goes far to show that Mr.. Anthony
Nf I,A
members of the Kansas delegation in
congress.
If the Jenkins anti-swear stove
pipe makes officials of the patent Of
fee swear trying to figure it out can
it be said to be an entire success? This
is a problem confronting the commits
sioner of patents.
The Rev. Mr.. Jenkins lives in Kan
sas. He has written to Assistant Com
missioner of Indian Affairs Valentine
to thus aid in perfecting his patent. He
says that the mechanic who put the
model together for him forgot to put
in the hole through which the lubricant
that gives the stove pipe it's anti-swear
word value was meant to be injected.
The letter asks the official to assist in
Strengthening out the tangle. Why the
Kansan wrote the Indian office, no one
can surmtSe.
Incidentally. the Rev. Mr. Jenkins
mentions a new idea that he is short
1y to give to the world in the form of
an artificial leg with clock work in
stalled in the knee joint The inventor
guarantees that this can be so regula-
ted that the artificial member will keep
time with it's human mate. Also in
he asks that he be appointed
Indian commissioner. He does not care
for the salary. but would be willing to-
work for nothing.
The military prison at Fort Leaven-
TOT-fh 1C n d.,
the person of John Donoghue a pri-
vate of the Forty-fourth company,
coast artillery, who has been sentenced
to three years at hard labor by a gen
eraI court martial sitting at Fort
Washington. Md. Donoghue assaulted
a fellow soldier of his company.
bill has passed the senate grant
Irena Brown, widow of the late James
Brown, who served in companies F.
and D, Second Kansas regiment of
volunteer cavalry.
The following rural mail routes
have been ordered established in Kan
sas to become effective in service on
April /:
Route No. / out of Edison. Sherman
county; length, thirty-five miles; will
serve SS families.
Route No. / out of Kanarado, Sher-
man county; length, thirty-six miles;
service to 50 families.
Route No. 2 out of Kanarado, Sher-
man county; length, thirty-four miles;
service to IA families.
Route 2 out of Medicine Lodge,
Barber county; length. twenty-five
miles; service to IS families
Route No. 2 out of PaIco, Rocks
county; length, thirty-one miles; ser
vice to 100 families.
Route No. out of Stockton, Rocks
county: length, thirty-two and one
half miles; service 70 100 families
Rural letter carriers apnointed for