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| Cornelius Newton Bliss. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, November 25, 1898.
DOINGS OF INTERIOR.
The Annual Report of Secretary Bliss Submitted.
TERRITORIAL AFFAIRS REVIEWED.
Progress of Pension, Indian, Land, Patent and Educational Subjects—Indians Have Made Considerable Progress. Only One Outbreak During the Year—Alaska Events.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—The annual report of Secretary of the Interior Bliss reviews in detail the progress of pension, Indian, land, patent, educational and territorial affairs. Reviewing the gradual diminution of public land area, Secretary Bliss says of three hundred and odd million acres of desert land requiring irrigation to render them valuable farming lands, the available water supply is sufficient for only 71,500,000 acres, leaving 260,676,000 acres suitable only for grazing purposes. There are 30 forest reservations embracing an estimated area of 40,719,474 acres.
The Indians are said to have made substantial progress and the Chippewa outbreak was the only serious disturbance of the year. Referring to this trouble the report points to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones successful efforts in bringing about the surrender of the Indians.
Reviewing pension matters Secretary Bliss reports 635,000 claims of all classes pending and says a separate division has been organized for the adjudication of the claims growing out of the war with Spain. These soldiers will receive their pensions under the general law for permanent disabilities contracted in the service.
He also concurs in the recommendation for the creation of a commission to revise the pension laws and regulations in the interest of a future reliable intelligent and uniform practice. Early legislative, enactment for the taking of the 12th census is urged in view of the necessary amount of work preparatory to the enumeration of the population.
The advancement along educational lines is outlined by an increase of over a quarter of a million of school pupils in the United States for the fiscal year 1896-7 over the previous one, but yet, the total average of schooling per individual for the whole United States measured by the present standard does not quite equal five years of 200 days each for each inhabitant. The total number of school pupils in the country, in elementary public and private schools, colleges, universities, high schools and academies is put at 16,255,093.
The reindeer and their Lapland drivers in Alaska have largely passed into the service of the postoffice department and are now distributed for carrying the Yukon mail up and down the valley of the Yukon through a thousand miles of scattered mining settlements in the wilderness.
Secretary Bliss, summing up the report of Governor Brady of Alaska, calls attention to the difficulty of preventing the smuggling of liquor into Alaska, it being impossible to enforce present regulations without a fleet of revenue cutters and steam launches to patrol the tortuous channels of Southeast Alaskan waters.
Smuggling prevails and saloons are open in all the towns and mining camps. The governor reports a consensus of opinion in favor of stringent high license law, which would tend to stamp out smuggling liquor and selling to the natives. The application to Alaska of the liquor laws in force in the District of Columbia, with several minor modifications is urged as meeting a majority approval.
The governor believes that Alaska should and can pay revenue into the United States treasury. Under a high license law he estimates that the liquor traffic would yield an annual revenue of not less than $200,000; a tax of a few cents per case of salmon would produce from $35,000 to $50,000; 10 cents per ton on wharfage collected during the past year would have yielded $100,000. He recommends, however, that any system of taxation for the territory be deferred until land laws shall have been provided.
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| Ramon Blanco. |
ECHOES OF THE WAR.
Military Notes and Items About the Recent Conflict.
The cruiser Buffalo is ready to sail again for Manila from the Brooklyn navy yard. Three of the subordinate mechanics have been dismissed from the service, being apparently implicated in the recent breakdown.
No date has been fixed for the next joint session of the peace commissioners, but the authorities in Washington have every reason to believe that it will be satisfactory to the American commissioners.
The Twenty-second regiment, New York volunteers, was mustered out of service at Fort Slocum, New York. There were 49 officers, 1,149 men and seven men in the hospital.
The battleships Oregon and Iowa have left Rio, Brazil, on the long cruise to Honolulu. The next stop will be made at Montevideo, where the vessels will be recoaled.
The steamer Relief of the hospital service sailed from San Juan, Porto Rico, for New York, for home with 250 sick and convalescent soldiers.
General W. C. Oates' brigade has been ordered to Cuba. One regiment will go to Pinar del Rio; one regiment to Mariel, and one to Guanajay.
The United States transport Michigan is collecting soldiers from various ports in Porto Rico, to return them to the United States.
General Blanco's resignation as captain general of Cuba has been accepted by the Spanish government.
OBJECT TO OUR NEGROES.
Cubans Claim the Right to Regulate Immigration into the Island.
SANTIAGO, Cuba, Nov. 25.—El Porvenir prints a two-column article with reference to the intention of a colored preacher of Topeka, Kan., to bring 36 families of negroes and establish a town in the highlands above Santiago which shall be known as Topeka. El Porvenir demands that the people boycott the Yankee negroes asserting that they are frequently guilty of horrible crimes and that the Southern states, anxious to be rid of their colored population, will endeavor to send them to Cuba.
It alludes to the San Luis episode, claiming that all Yankee negroes are on a par and that they will ruin the country as they are able to live on practically nothing.
The paper maintains that the Cubans have a right to regulate immigration into the island, that they object to the negroes and that they will not have them.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
The Delaware Indians, the most intelligent, peaceful and friendly of all the Indian tribes found by the white men on the North American continent, will soon emigrate in a body to Mexico, according to present probabilities. The name will at once recall Chingachgook and Uncas, those splendid heroes of Cooper, to every romance lover. With this tribe also William Penn made his celebrated treaty. Originally the Delawares and the other sects of the Lenni Lenape nation occupied a large part of the eastern United States, numbering about 200,000 souls. They were faithful to the colonies during the Revolutionary war and to the north during the civil war, not only with their sympathy, but with their rifles. What were left of them were settled under treaty rights in Kansas in 1866, and the land was solemnly guaranteed to them in perpetuity with the faith of the nation behind the title. But it is the old story over again, and the Indian finds he has no rights. The Delawares will dispose of their valuable Kansas lands and probably accept the proposition of Mexico, which has offered them valuable holdings of land in Sonora. And so will pass from the United States a tribal remnant of the red men so interestingly involved with the whole earlier history of the United States.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Proceedings of Cortland County's Lawmakers and Financiers.
Ninth Day, Thursday, Nov. 24.
The board of supervisors held a Thanksgiving day session and hurried along a considerable amount of business.
The clerk presented a bill from Craig Colony for $15.99 for clothing for two patients from Cortland county. Referred to the committee on appropriations.
Former County Clerk E. C. Palmer presented a statement of receipts and disbursements during the year 1897, the last year of his term of service which was read and placed on file.
Messrs. F. J. Collier and H. E. J. Potter, United States loan commissioners, submitted their report which was read and referred to the committee on settling with school and loan commissioners.
The committee on settling with school and loan commissioners submitted its report which was read, adopted and placed on file.
The committee on printing presented its report which was read, adopted and referred to the committee on appropriations.
The committed on settling with county judge and justices presented its report which was read, adopted and referred to the committee on appropriations.
On motion of Mr. Tuttle, the bill of A.A. Watrous for attorney $5, was added to the abstract of the town of Freetown.
On motion of Mr. Crosley, a committee of three was appointed to visit the county almshouse and report at the next session of the board. The following committee was appointed: Messrs. Crosley, DeLong and Coe.
On motion of Mr. Kinyon, the sheriff's compensation for board of prisoners for the ensuing year was fixed at 49 cents per day—three meals and a lodging constituting a day's board.
On motion of Mr. Brown, the bill of G. A. Wavle for $8 for repairing a road scraper was added to the abstract of the town of Harford.
On motion of Mr. Wallace:
Resolved, That the clerk be authorized to add to the abstract of the town of Cortlandville $ 1,545, the same being the amount of a note and interest given by the supervisor of said town to raise the necessary funds to build the Freetown road, said amount being borrowed per resolution of town board May 2, 1898, and approved by the board of supervisors May 18, 1898.
On motion of Mr. Patrick:
WHEREAS, The gold standard seems to be permanently fixed upon the people, therefore greatly increasing the purchasing power of the circulating medium, be it therefore
Resolved, That all salaries, all expenses, town, county and state, should be made to conform to the standard to the end that taxpayers be not further unnecessarily impoverished and be it further
Resolved, That our senator and member of assembly elect be requested to support any and all measures not inconsistent with good government, tending to lessen the taxpayers' burden.
On motion of Mr. Kinyon, the Cortland County Medical society was given permission to use the supervisors' room in its quarterly sessions during the coming year.
At 10:45 the board adjourned to attend service in a body at the First M. E. church to hear the sermon by Rev. O. A. Houghton, D. D. No further session was held on Thanksgiving day.
M. S. HUNTING DEAD.
Passed Away at Son's Home in Chicago—Remains Buried in Cortland.
(From the Lockport Union-Sun, Nov. 12.)
Moses S. Hunting died at the residence of his son, C. Fred Hunting, in the city of Chicago, Ill., yesterday morning, Nov. 11, 1898.
Moses S. Hunting was a son of Edward and Margaret (Kruver) Hunting. and was born in Ulster county, N Y., Oct. 29, 1814. His paternal grandfather, Dr. Edward Hunting, was a native of England, where he practiced medicine for several years, and then came to New York about the opening of the Revolutionary war.
His son, Edward Hunting, was born in Ulster county in 1778, and at about 38 years of age removed to Tompkins county, where he died in 1861, in the 43rd year of his age.
His wife Margaret Kruver was a native of Ulster county of German descent.
Moses S. Hunting grew to manhood on the farm, and attended the public schools of that day.
He entered Hamilton college, from which he was graduated in the year 1838. After graduation, be read law with Horatio Ballard of Cortland, and George C. Beers of Ithaca, N. Y., and was admitted to the bar in May 1842. In that year he opened an office at Farmerville in Seneca county, where he practiced successfully for seven years.
He then came to Niagara county, where he purchased a farm and was engaged for fifteen years in farming and practicing his profession. At the end of that time, in 1864, he came to Lockport where he continued in active practice until a few years ago when he retired.
In political belief, Mr. Hunting was a straight Democrat, and believed in the tenets of that party.
He never was a candidate for office but once, and that was for the position of school commissioner, to which office he was elected by a good majority.
He was married June 5, 1845, to Josephine G. Goodwin, who died in 1884. To them were born four children, two sons and two daughters, Matilda (deceased), Ben Johnson (now dead) who was a graduate of Cornell university and after entering upon the practice of the law, served one year as district attorney of Niagara county, C. Fred, a real estate owner in the city of Chicago, Ill., and Cornie M. (deceased).
Mr. Hunting was a man of great reading, fine memory, and will long be remembered by those who knew him for the many pleasant attributes possessed by him.
Funeral will be held at Grace church, Monday morning, Nov. 14, 1898, at 11 o'clock. Friends are invited to attend.
PATIENT IS IMPROVING.
Suffered No Harm from His Long Tramp in Scanty Attire.
Thomas Foley, the man who escaped from his sickroom Monday night at 11:40 P. M., clad only in his nightshirt, and who wandered about in the cold till 5 o'clock in the morning, is steadily gaining in health and bids fair to get well. His exposure to the cold that night was something pretty bad, and it was not believed that a well man could have gone through it and lived. It is thought, however, that it was the very height of his fever which protected him. Dr. Sornberger says that from the time that he fairly got thawed out after his tramp his fever has steadily gone down and yesterday his temperature was normal and the pneumonia had left him. A STANDARD man asked the doctor if in the light of these results he would not hereafter prescribe a five mile tramp in scanty attire and a five hour exposure to the cold for all his typhoid-pneumonia patients, but the doctor was inclined to think that he would not.
Dr. Sornberger said he had inquired of Mr. Foley if he remembered anything about his walk that night, and he says he remembers following the Lehigh Valley tracks down past the D., L. & W. junction. Then he remembers pitching over a bank 15 or 20 feet down by the trout park on the E. & C. N. Y. tracks. That seemed to bring him to a realization of where he was and what he was doing and he started back to find his boarding place, but he could not find it, and the next he remembers was that he was near the Lehigh Valley roundhouse on Owego-st. Then all is a blank till he roused up down at the courthouse. Including his tramp back and forth along the Lehigh Valley tracks and finally out to Mr. Curtis' on the Groton road he must have walked all of five miles. His feet are in bad condition, being cut and bruised by the frozen ground, the cinders along the track and by other things he came in contact with. But he seems likely to get well and be out again before long.
CARMODY-HAYES.
A Quiet Thanksgiving Wedding at St. Mary's.
Mr. P. T. Carmody of Elmira and Miss Anna Hayes of Cortland were married at 6:30 o'clock yesterday morning at St. Mary's church by Rev. J. J. McLoghlin. The wedding was a very quiet affair, only the immediate relatives being present. Mr. James Dougherty officiated as best man and Miss Agnes Grady was bridesmaid. The bride wore a handsome and very becoming traveling suit. After the ceremony an elaborate wedding breakfast was served at the home of the bride, 12 Arthur-ave. The bride received numerous costly and appropriate wedding gifts. Mr. and Mrs. Carmody left on the 9:34 Lehigh Valley train for New York for a short wedding trip. They expect to return to Cortland on Monday next and will be at home to their friends at 12 Arthur-ave.
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| Rev. Annis Ford Eastman. |
BREVITIES.
—Rev. Annis Ford Eastman of Elmira will deliver her lecture on ''Women's Rights" in the First Methodist church this evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—We learn that In 1897 Andrew Baker of Dryden made a record of 436 pounds of butter per head from his ten thorough-bred Jersey cows.—Groton Journal.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Baker & Angell, Jenness Miller shoes, page 4; Derr Frits, The modern healer, page 4; Burgess, Fall and winter trade, page 8.
—Word comes from New York that Gen. William Glenny who has for a number of weeks been ill is now lying at the point of death—Ithaca Journal, Tuesday.
—A bicycle without an owner was found in Randolph Beard's barn on Church-st. Thursday morning. An extra tire was attached to the frame, evidently for use in an emergency. The wheel looked as though it had seen hard usage and there was no clue to the owner. It was turned over to Chief Linderman.
—Dr. H. T. Dana has removed his office from the Schermerhorn building to a fine suite of rooms connected with his handsome new residence at 38 North Main-st., which he has fitted up with every convenience for his purpose. His office hours are from 2 to 4 and from 7 to 8 o'clock P. M.
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