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The Ely miner., 1917-05-18

Cruz who make one hope that the red
man is not unadaptable to civilization.
He was of a type rare among his peo-
pie, gentle and spiritual, with face
that might have served as a model
for a red Sir Galahad. Although he
was engaged upon Johnson's work,
little notice was paid to him, as he
had not the forceful aspect of fight
er, and his efforts were not taken
seriously.
About this time he was called home
to his pueblo at San Juan by mes
sage that a son had been born to him
and his girl wife Dolorita. Juan re-
fused to supply whisky to his neigh
bors on the occasion of the christen-
ing, an act which, breaking complete
ly with the custom of immemorial
ages, brought him into prominent no.
tice among his people. After several
months of voluntary service Juan sue
ceeded in cleaning out the bootleggers
from his own village, often at the
cost of assault, and always under per-
secution.
Finally he asked and obtained per-
mission to do the work of a deputy
at the Mexican village of Chamita, a
peculiarly vicious center, filled with
dives, and inhabited only by Indians
and Mexicans. At one of the numer-
GUS Joints in this settlement it was
known that the vilest spirits were sup
piled to the Indians, in violation of
the territorial laws. The bad man"
Of Chamita was desperate known
as Garcia, who was such notorious
character that he had been run out
of his own village. Cruz determined
to arrest Garcia and thereby strike a
blow at the traffic. He consulted no.
body about his intentions in the mat
ter. Had he been more worldly wise,
says Johnson, he would have asked
for help, and would certainly have OBJ
tanned it. Instead of which, he armed
himself with revolver. with whose
use he was hardly acquainted, and
went alone at night to Chamita when
he knew Garcia would be there.
He waited outside the dive until he
saw Garcia emerging, and then, ap-
preaching him, he wrested the whisky
bottles which Garcia was carrying out
of his hand, with the object of taking
them to headquarters and using them
as evidence against him.
Garcia and his companions, three
ntbar Iudians Of .hs lowest type, at
ones set spJn Cruz ard began beat
ing him. His face SsS- rS:t open with
a stone, he IVES STICK snd dubbed re-
peatedly. With the blood streaming
down his clothes Juan shouted to the
attackers to desist, announcing his
intention of shooting unless they did
so. Instead of which they flung them
selves upon him and bore him to the
ground. and drew their knives. intent
upon finishing him.
In the darkness Cruz fired into the
air, to scare his sssailants How Cruz
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grand jury. The grand jury did lit
tie or nothing; the temerity of the
Indians was matter for ridicule, not
for action. However, the Indian su-
perintendent was president of this or
ganization, and the storm of protest
which arose was so great that Assist
ant Commissioner Abbott went down
from Washington to Santa Fe to in
vestigate matters. The superintend-
ent was forced to resign the presi-
dency, but Mr.. Abbott came to the
conclusion that johnson had been
overzealous in his work and ordered
him to discharge two of his depu-
ties, who had been prime movers in
the complaints, one Of them being
Miss Clara True, a stanch friend of
the red man.
AT this time Commissioner Valen-
tine. who was at the head of the de-
partment and Johnson's stanch friend,
was away on sick leave.
The company was reorganized, and
the new president was a man who re-
Gently had been convicted of selling
whisky to Indians. Naturally the es.
tablishment continued to run on the
same lines as before. 1t was in the
midst of the continued agitation that
what is known as the Tragedy of
Chamita occurred.
The zeal of Johnson, aided by the
efforts of a white woman, Miss True,
who has been mentioned, had brought
about reforming spirit among the
Pueblo Indians. So thoroughly was
Miss True identified with the Pueblo
of Santa Clara that she occupied the
position of secretary to the tribal
council. But there came about a
change in the situation, and on Miss
True's return from a visit to Califor-
mia, she found that the politicians
were practically in possession of the
Indians lands, and the bootleggers
had again overrun the reservations.
However, she succeeded in cleaning
up Santa Clara and set to work upon
the neighboring villages.
1t was Indians of the type OF Juan
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managed to hit anybody, bei.g wholly
unused to firearms, is singular; but
the bullet, guided by chance, pierced
Garcia through the heart, and he fell
dead. His cowardly assistants at once
released their hold upon the boy and
ran at the top of their speed.
Then Cruz, badly mauled, but still
clinging to the bottles which he had
taken from the dead man, mounted
his pony and rode Ia miles to the res
ervation to tell Miss True what had
happened. He was put to bed and
his wounds dressed, and early the fol-
lowing morning he was arrested and
taken to Santa Fe to await trial for
murder. Miss True at once commu-
nicated with Johnson, who, character
istically loyal to his men, at once
dropped all his other business and
wired an account to Commissioner Alb
bot, with a view to hurrying to the
scene.
But the politicians at Santa Fe also
go. busy. Cruz had been one of the
Indians who had identified themselves
most prominently in the appeal
against the illicits shebeen at Santa
Fe. There had also been a good deal
of friction between the Indian super
intendent and Johnson's deputies.
There was some doubt as to the exact
status of Juan, and, as result, Com
missioner Abbott sent the following
telegram to Johnson:
Your telegram seventh, Cruz shoot
ing. Since Cruz not authorized gov
ernment employe your service, take
no steps regarding his defense. Con-
suit Crandall and give him all informa-
ton in your possession"
1t is only fair to the commissioner
to state that it was not intended to
leave Cruz to his fate, but merely to
leave his defense in the hands of the
Indian superintendent, as he was not
a regularly authorized government en-
ploye. However, Johnson believed
that the boy was being railroaded to
the gallows. Inasmuch as the sole
witnesses to the killing of Garcia were
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and flung him into the middle of the
saloon to his assistant, while, collaring
the proprietor, he walked off with him
through the terrified crowd of loafers
When Johnson took a hand in the
New Mexico situation the lot of the
Indians there was pitiable one For
years they had been suffering at the
hands of the crooked politicians who
ran the state. AS an instance of this:
about hundred and fifty years previ-
ously the Pueblos of Santa Clara had
purchased from the Spanish govern
ment tract consisting of some ninety
thousand acres of land, for which they
paid thousand dollars and a horse.
The land was transferred to them in
fee simple and used by them until a
few years previously, when some land
sharks took the question of ownership
into the courts, with the result that
the Santa Clara purchase dwindled in
size from ninety thousand acres to a
narrow strip of less than nine hundred
acres along the Santa Clara river,
known as the Shoestring Grant.
This particular affair came to the
attention of Mr.. F. E. Leupp when he
was commissioner of Indian affairs,
and he interested himself in the mat
ter to the extent of giving the Indians
about thirty thousand more acres as
an executive order" Indian reserva-
ton, in lieu of what they had lost
through the manipulations in the
courts. Subsequently an attempt was
made to manipulate this new grant
by bestowing it upon other tribes,
doubtless with no disinterested pur-
pose in view. At the same time cat
tie were driven upon the Indians
lands and pastured there, without any
shade of legality.
But the worst evil with which the
Pueblo Indians had to contend was
the liquor traffic, though it's effects,
being more insidious, were less ap-
parent. The crooked politicians at
Santa Fe were in close alliance with
the illicit dispensation of whisky
among the red men.
Johnson had plenty of deputies at
his call when, in 1910, he resolved to
clean up conditions among the Pu-
eblos. Johnson knows man when
he sees one, even if he is less blus-
tering but no less courageous than
the redoubtable Bill Pablo. Such
man was young Juan Cruz of Pablo
San Juan, whom Johnson saved from
legal murder at the cost of his posi-
tion.
Juan Cruz was a deeply religious
young Indian, devoted to his church,
his young wife Dolorita, and their
baby Jess. He had lived all his life
upon his reservation, and had wit
messed the evils which the introduc-
tion Of whisky brought in it's train.
He had seen two of his companions
shot down in cold blood because after
being piled with drink they refused to
part with their possessions at the
bidding of the liquor peddlers. Cruz
proved to be one of Johnson's best
deputies, and particularly reliable.
When Johnson undertook his clean
ing up campaign he put his first as.
sistant, Harold F. Coggeshall, in
charge of the initial work. This was
accomplished chiefly through the In
dian deputies themselves, who went
at it with true Indian ardor, about in
the same spirit as that with which
they would have gone on bear hunt.
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HOW "PUSSYFoOT" JOHNSON MADE
GOOD CITIZENS OF INDIAN CHARGES
Story Deed That Will Render Johnson Immortal in the Hearts
of the Pueblo Indans-Fights for Boy Deputy Against
Forces of Bad Government Which Ultimately
Cost Him His Official Position
ANOTHER OF j0HNSON'S GREAT EXPLOITS

The case of Juan Cruz, which ere
ated a sensation in the West and was
instrumental in rending the Indian
department asunder, was also the
cause of Johnson's resignation. He
could not have maintained his posi-
ton at the cost of letting the boy
hang; he preferred to stand by him
and unite the powerful influence of
New Mexico's politicians against him.
After the Incorporation of the terri.
tory into Oklahoma Johnson's activi-
ties lay largely among the Indians of
New Mexico and California. AS chief
special officer, he had the charge of
protecting the Indian reservations
against the inroads Of the bootleggers
and other vicious characters. If John
son had succeeded in obtaining the
answering devotion of his white asso-
ciates, he was still more blindly
trusted by his Indians. On every res
ervation today Johnson is remembered
with touching faith and child-like af-
fection. 1t is no exaggeration to say
that he has done more to put the red
man on his feet and make him self
respecting than anyone else who has
labored for the Indian in the United
States since the days of the first mis-
sionaries. More than that, Johnson so
established the Indians reputation
that his testimony became as valuable
before jury as that of white man.
One Of his most jealous followers
was certain Bill Pablo, a man of un-
bounded charity and courage, who
maintains a dozen Indian orphans on
his farm at his own expense and is
working with all his might to improve
the morals of his people. Yet, when
Johnson met him, he was an outlaw,
with four murders to his name. He
was a terror to the whites. Johnson's
his notorious character.
"One day." said Johnson, 81 purpose
ly met him where we could talk alone,
and there We had it out together.
Why is it that you are always
fighting the whites?' asked.
because they are all liars, thieves,
and whisky peddlers,' he retorted.
Are they all liars, thieves, and
whisky peddlers?' ventured.
so near there amt no difference
said Pablo.
Am liar and thief and whisky
peddler?' / questioned.
81 believe you are on the square,
he answered, looking me straight in
the eye.
Then you and l are on the same
job l told him. You come with me
and We will make sausage of these
white liars and thieves and whisky
peddlers. I'll give you two dollars
day and expenses, and give you the
time of your life BESIDES
bill jammed his boot-heel into the
sand couple of times, and then grab
bed my hand. And that Indian went
out after the whisky peddlers with
the same zeal that he had displayed
in different directions. In the three
years that followed he had more to do
with the cleaning up of southern Cali
fornia than almost any other man.
'Bill's arrival in any hamlet within
a hundred miles of his home was the
signal for the whisky peddlers to take
to the brush. But taking to the brush
did not help them much, for every In
dian was Bills friend, and would put
him on the trail"
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A Puzzle Contest.

One of the Argentine newspapers
has taken upon itself to .acquaint it's
constituents with the Bible and has
been printing portions of the Scripture
without comment and without giving
the source of the quotation. The la
mentable ignorance of the Bible among
the people generally has been evil
denced by a large number of letters
which the editor has been receiving
from men who have read these quota
tions and admired them, but to whom
they were utterly unfamiliar. The edi-
tor told of one man. who, judging from
his letter, was a city dweller and a
man of education, who asked from
what book these quotations were taken
and where it would be possible to OBJ
tain copy.
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Their chief enemies were the Mexi-
cans, who were invariably opposed to
their efforts. But other enemies wzte
harder to overcome.
A company of politicians in Santa
Fs had incorporated liquor selling
cG~cern, which traded with the whites,
according to law, and with the In
eians in defiance of it. 1t did busi-
ness amounting to 100000 year, and
was political factor which gave it
immunity from prosecution.
The Indians gathered evidence to
show that this company was violating
the law, and went with 1t before the
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On one occasion Pablo was detailed
to assist in the raiding of a saloon
near Sasakwa. Bill was no Pussyfoot
in action. Rushing through the door.
he ordered the proprietor to throw up
his hands. He failed to notice, how
ever, that a bartender was bending
down behind the bar. His presence
was suddenly brought home to, Pablo
when a revolver barked and a bullet
nearly carried away one of Bills ears.
With roar like bull Pablo immedi-
ately replied with shot which broke
the bartender's wrist. Then, jumping
over the bar, he picked the man up
The Washington herald., 1917-09-09
SUFFS PLAN BANQUET
FOR JAILED PICKETS
Watch On White House Is Tempo
rarily Abandoned.

Giving as a reason that all the mil
itants at Cameron House are busy
planning the special celebration for the
liberated sentinels who will return to
Washington next Tuesday, pickets
yesterday failed to make another at
tempt to display banners in front OF
the White House, as 1t was announced
earlier in the week they would.
Obtaining a six-days' reprieve on
their sentences for good behavior at
the Occoquan workhouse, the first six
pickets sent down" by Judge Pugh
will be greeted at the end of their
Imprisonment with a special Jubilee
banquet" Personal narratives will be
the order of the evening. A banquet
will be spread in the drawing room
of the little white house"
Charges that the prisoners are show
ing the effects of solitary confinement
were brought back by Mrs. Lawrence
Lewis, OF Philadelphia, who attempted
relief measures on trip to the work.
house last week. Mrs. Lewis is the
recently appointed counsel to assist
Mrs. ellison Gardner in her efforts for
the suffs.
Today another delegation will make
the TIP to the workhouse in a fresh
endeavor to alleviate conditions,
which, the militants say. have i'm
proved recently, but are still far from
being what they should.
Through a misunderstanding in yes
terday's paper, the name of Miss Mar
garet Mcintyre FOtheringham ap-
peared as Miss Lucy Fotheringham
She is a teacher in the public schools
of Buffalo, n. Y. and it is predicted
that her place will be declared vacant,
due to her participation in picketing,
for which she will be released from
custody Tuesday.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-09
DAUGHTERS GIVE BED
FOR RED CROSS WORK

A hospital bed was presented to the
Red Cross by seventeen councils of
the Daughters Of America at a meet
ing In the Congress Hall Hotel. The
bed is for use in France
Mrs. Mamie Howell. Mrs. Naomi
Swami. Oscar Nauck. the Hon. Simon
Fess. Of Ohio aud the Hon. John l.
Burnett. OF Alabama, were the speak.
ers or the evening.
The various councils were repre-
sented by Miss Alice Courtney Mrs.
Grace Lowry. Mrs. Naomi Swami,
Mrs Mamie Howell. Mrs. Ella Her
bert. q. II. Miller. Mrs Bertha Rad
TIiif Mrs. Louise Grubbs, w. l.
kllnehause. Mrs. JaCqueIine Cooper,
Ms. Emma Sensey. Mrs. Louise Cody.
Mrs. Clara Rock. Mrs. Roberta Nails.
Mrs. Emily Halliday and n. J.
Thomas.
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Federal employees
TO HOLD CONVENTION
Plan Three-Day Session-To Adopt
Constitution.

The convention of the Federal En-
poyes' Union will be held here. begin
ming Monday morning. September Il,
at 10 O'Clock. and lasting three days.
Severa! matters OF business will come
up at this convention. Among them
will he the urafting of a constitution.
Plans are being made for a luncheon
at the Library OF Congress. Besides
this, the delegates will be taken on
sightseeing trip about the city and
to nearby places of interest. in auto
mobiles. The convention will close
with a dinner at one of the hotels
here.
The official headquarters of the con-
vention Will be in the executive
council chamber OF the A. F. OF l..
Building at Ninth and Massachusetts
avenue.
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D. {. TROOPS GET.
ROYAL WELCOME
Residents of Southern Pines,
N. c., Greet Guardsmen
with Open Arms.
- h Ii. M,shinrton Herald.

CpeCAlA 70 AA1 "aaAAA-eNeN -@N@---
Editor The Washington Herald.
On board the d. c. n. G. troop
train, leaving Southern Pines, n. c.
This dispatch is from a member
OF Troop A Cavalry, D. c. N. c..
en- route to Admission, Alabama, with
the rest Of the District boys. We
want to tell you and our folks in
Washington about the splendid open
hearted way that the people Of the
south, and especially the people of
Southern Pines, y. c., a little town
with a big heart, that We have just
left. are treating US.
We've just left Southern Pines.
and I'm telling you now that rO
one. not even the people back in
Washington. could have given US a
more splendid reception than did the
people OF Southern Pines.
When our train reached Southern
Pines we found the station packed
with people of the town. All seemed
bent on giving US a rousing good
time. There were lots of pretty
girls, too, and they set aside for
maltes and proved themselves real
'Eool fellows" in their efforts to make
US happy.
Everybody gave US cigarettes. to-
bacco, lemonade, fruit and so fortE'
and the magazines tney gave Us each
had a girls mama and address in II.
And YOU can bet that we won't for
get to write TO them either.
Even the stOrekeepers refused pay
ment for the small articles some OF
the boys attempted to purchase. In
short we we're practically handed
the town for twenty-five minutes.
We are writing you this to show
our appreciation of the way in which
the people of the South are treating
us and in order that our people
back home" may know how well
We are being received as We near
our new home. And We want to take
this means Of thanking the people
Of Southern Pines. through the
columns Of The Herald for their hos
pitality.
''W. r. OYSTER.
"Saddler. Troop A,
First Squadron, D. c. Cavalry"
The Washington herald., 1917-09-09
BY W. G. M'ADOO,


One Of the darkest pages in the his
tory of the innumerable wars which
have afflicted the earth for centuries,
is the recorded failure, on the part OF
every nation to make any sort of ade-
quate provision for those who have
had to sacrifice and suffer most.
namely. the soldiers who were sent to
the front and their wives, children
and other dependents who were left
at the rear Until the European war
broke out this question OF fundamen-
tai Justice and humanity to the fight
ing men and their dependents seems
never 10 nave received proper con-
sideration.
There is no more paramount duty
than for each nation which is sending
its men to war to tell them in ad-
vance, as a part of the just considera-
ton of the priceless service they are
called upon to perform. what will be
done for them in the way of actual
COmpensations for the injuries and
disabilities they incur, what will be
done for the support of their wives,
children, and other dependents while
they are away from home. and what
Will be done for these same depend
cnts Il death oveTtakes them.
Some Countries Have Provided.
Some of the belligerents have pro-
vided for certain allowances to de
pendent families while the men are
alive. for certain Compensations to the
dependents in case Of death, and for
certain indemnities and compensa-
tiOns in case the men are totally or
partially disabled in the service. But
these steps. advanced as they are.
are not enough. 1t remains for the
American people, the richest and most
prosperous on earth. the most able to
do Justice to its fighting men and
their dependents, and the most hu-
name and progressive in their ideas
and ideals, to set an example to the
world of just, generous and apprecia-
tive treatment of their heroes
The war insurance bill now pending
in the Congress is the most advanced
and humane step ever taken by any
nation to protect and justly cOmpen-
safe its fighting men and their depend
ents. 1t ought to be passed and
quickly passed. The selfish interests
The Washington herald., 1917-09-09

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