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| Creek Chief Pleasant Porter. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, January 23, 1901.
SERIOUS INDIAN RISING.
Creek Tribe Threaten to Kill Whites and Burn Towns.
FEDERAL TROOPS ASKED FOR.
Chief of the Snake Tribe Sends Letter of Defiance to President McKinley. Deputies and Indian Police Fired Upon, and One Captured.
MUSKOGEE, I. T., Jan. 23.—Washington authorities have been requested to send federal troops into the Creek country to quell the uprising of fullbloods known as the Snake bands, who are creating depredations west of Eufala and threatening the lives of both the whites and the neutral Indians. The Indians threaten to enter the towns and burn and kill, and Chief Mekko has sent a message of defiance to President McKinley. The whites are arming and serious bloodshed is feared.
United States Marshal Bennett sent 20 deputies and 10 Indian police to the scene, but they were met by so fierce a fusillade that they were compelled to retire. One of the posse named McNac was captured by the Indians and it is feared that they will take his life. Marshal Bennett and Indian Agent Schoenfeldt sent a message to the Washington officials requesting that federal troops to the number of 500 be sent them. They stated that it would be sure death for the deputies and police to attempt to interfere again.
As soon as word is received from Washington Marshal Bennett and Agent Schoenfieldt will join the troops, invade the Indian camps and endeavor to put the leaders under arrest.
The Creeks threaten that after they have cleaned out all the whites in the Indian Territory, [they] will visit the various towns in the Creek nation, destroy them by fire and kill the inhabitants. They have threatened to kill Chief Pleasant Porter and any of the members of the Dawes commission that attempts to interfere with them. Great fear is felt for some of the commission who are surveying and allotting lands in that section.
Chief Porter is now in Washington and has been wired the condition of affairs.
Laptah Mekko, the insurrectionary chief of the Snake bands, has submitted the following ultimatum to President McKinley:
"Hickory Town, Creek Capitol.
"To President McKinley, Washington:
"Sir—I have already informed you of the matter concerning the execution of the Creek laws. I am now executing my laws as I told you I would. LAPTAH MEKKO."
The Creek jurisdiction has been transferred to the United States courts for several years and the Snake chief's notification to the president that he will execute the old Creek laws is considered as merely a message of defiance.
The chief of the warring Indians is a half-breed. He has just returned from Washington and claims to carry with him the authority of the president and congress to run the Dawes commission and all white people of the territory. He uses this argument to gain followers, who apparently place faith in him. So wrought up are the whites that an order has been issued allowing all citizens to protect themselves and hundreds of people are arming.
Indian Appropriation.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—The senate committee on Indian affairs has made its report on the Indian bill. The committee recommends the increase of the total appropriation to the extent of $875,000, making a total of $9,870,526. One of the items of increase is for $243,600 for the Eastern Shawnees and Six Nations of New York, $243,000.
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| Queen Victoria. |
FLAG AT HALF MAST
As a Tribute of Respect for Great Britain's Deceased Queen.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—The American flag on all public buildings in Washington is to-day floating at half staff in silent tribute to the memory of Queen Victoria. At the European embassies and legations a period of official mourning will be observed and all social functions are cancelled. At St. John's P. E. church funeral services will be held at the same hour as that to be decided upon in England. The white house receptions, postponed on account of the illness of the president will now, owing to the mourning of the diplomatic corps, be entirely abandoned and what promised to be an exceptionally gay ante lent season in the capital, will prove one of the quietest in the social history of the city.
It Will be Edward VII.
LONDON, Jan. 23.—It is officially announced that Albert Edward succeeds to the throne with the title of Edward VII.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Victoria's Husband and Children.
Queen Victoria was married in St. James palace on Feb. 10, 1840, to her cousin, Prince Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel, duke of Saxe, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who was born on Aug. 26, 1819. He was naturalized in England a few days before the wedding, and was ordered in 1857 to be known as the Prince Consort. He is best known in history as Prince Albert. The marriage was a love match, and when the Prince Consort died on Dec. 14, 1861, the queen was plunged into profound grief. Nine children were born of the union, as follows: Victoria, empress dowager of Germany, Albert Edward, prince of Wales, who succeeds to the throne; Princess Alice of Hesse-Darmstadt, who died in 1878; Prince Alfred, duke of Edinburgh, who died last year; Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein; Princess Louise, marchioness of Lorne; Prince Arthur, duke of Connaught; Prince Leopold, duke of Albany, who died in 1884; and Princess Beatrice, the wife of the ill-fated Prince Henry of Battenburg, who was killed in the Ashantee expedition, Besides these nine children of the queen there have been born forty grandchildren and thirty-six great grandchildren.
ELECTRICAL NOTES.
News and Discoveries of Interest About the Magic Current.
George Anderson, a Scotchman, has recently patented in this country a method of setting diamonds or other precious stones by electricity.
A German savant insists that, barring accidents, the exact duration of any person's life can be determined by means of the X rays.
To an already long list of names of electrical units, many of them not in use except by the hypertechnical, two more have been added by the Paris electrical congress—the "gauss" for these unit of magnetic field intensity and the "maxwell" for the unit of magnetic flux.
A Russian medical man has decided that the electric light is least injurious to the eyes. He says that the oftener the lids are closed the greater the fatigue and consequent injury. By experiments he finds that the lids would close with different illuminations per minute: Candle light, 6.8; gas, 2.8; sun, 2.2; electric light, 1.8.
A new kind of steam generator called an electric calorifactor in which the necessary heat for vaporizing water is produced by an electric arc which advantageously replaces fuel was exhibited at the Paris exposition and is remarkable on account of its simplicity and the many applications to which it can be adapted.
Automobilism and the increasing necessity for some form of traction for goods and passengers better suited to cities than that furnished by the horse has given another impetus to the search for a storage battery that combines lightness with high output and enough mechanical and electrical strength to insure long life. Nothing is more urgently needed, and nothing seems further from attainment. For many years inventors have worked at this fascinating problem, but little has been done to improve the accumulator since its invention more than 20 years ago.
A new electricity meter has been patented in London in which the conventional balance spring is substituted by an electromagnetic device to bring the escapement wheel to the central position. This wheel has a number of wires diametrically attached to it and is surrounded by a coil through which passes the current to be measured. The rapidity of the oscillation of the balance wheel to a certain extent is proportional to the current. Should an extra powerful current happen to traverse the coil or should the current be suddenly increased in voltage, auxiliary devices are provided to prevent the balance wheel when near the central position remaining stationary at that point. These secondary appurtenances also serve to set the balance wheel in motion with a small current. In other respects the appliance resembles the ordinary type of meter.—Scientific American.
The Great Hypnotist.
Santanelli, the king of hypnotists, was at the Opera House last night and was greeted by an excellent house. That all were delighted with his feats is certain, and many who attended the performance have decided to attend again to-night. He is a master of the art and carries the performance on in a clean and amusing way. There is an absence of all rough and uncouth talk as well as of disgusting farce. Mr. Santanelli is a good talker, and goes briefly into the explanation of the art before the beginning of each performance, which is closely listened to by his hearers.
COMPLIMENTARY BANQUET
Given by Knights of Columbus in Honor of Mr. J. T. Davern.
About a hundred of the members of the Knights of Columbus tendered a complimentary banquet at their rooms last night to Mr. John T. Davern, who is about to move to Binghamton. Mr. Davern was a charter member of the organization here, and was an enthusiastic and energetic worker in it. During the past year he was the very efficient grand knight, the supreme officer of the order, and he has ably held other offices during his membership in the organization.
Several speeches were made by members after the spread. Mr. T. H. Dowd, in a well worded and spirited speech in behalf of the order, presented the guest of honor with a silver tea set. Rev. J. J. McLoghlin of this city and Rev. Thomas Conway of Truxton who were present also spoke fittingly of Mr. Davern's work in connection with the order and of the order itself.
A musical program consisting of solos by Messrs. John F. Burns, Wm. Walsh, and T. H. Dowd, and Misses May Beaudry and Bessie O'Connell, was entertainly [sic] given, and the whole meeting was characterized by the fraternal, and brotherly feeling that was extended, and the good will shown by the organization to Mr. Davern.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
MR. W. R. RANDALL is seriously ill at his home. The cause is an aggravation of the difficulty from which he has suffered more or less for two or three years. His physician, Dr. Dana, is not able to take a very hopeful view of the case, though he is resting a little easier to-day. Mr. Randall is 84 years old and the doctor fears a general breaking down of the system.
ADVICE NOT HEEDED.
Was Told to Start Homeward but Preferred to Booze.
Cornelius O'Connor of Groton City, who was arrested Monday on the charge of public intoxication was given a suspended sentence by City Judge Davis yesterday morning, after a severe rebuke by the magistrate, who stated that he could not very well fine him, as it would be taking from his family the support that he understood they were in need of. O'Connor asked the privilege of staying in Cortland till his wife drove over after him, but was told by the judge to start out to meet her, and thereby save himself from getting into more trouble. This advice Cornelius failed to profit by, for in the afternoon he was found again guzzling, and once more he was taken to police headquarters where he was sentenced to thirty days in the county jail.
BREVITIES.
—The Pastime club will give a dancing party at Red Men's hall Friday evening, Jan. 25, from 8 to 12 o'clock. Music by Kane's orchestra.
—New display advertisements to-day are—F. Daehler, Gloves and mittens, page 6; E. M. Mansur, Groceries, page 2; J. W. Cudworth, Optical talks, page 5.
—All the young people of the Presbyterian church are urged to be present at the chapel of the church to-night at 7:30 o'clock at a meeting called by the pastor who has an important matter to present at this time.
—The funeral of Mr. Hubert R. Maine will be held at his late home, 80 North Church-st., on Friday at 12 o'clock noon. The remains will be taken on a special train which will leave the Lehigh Valley station at 1 o'clock to DeRuyter, where services will be held at the Congregational church at 2:30 o'clock. The burial service will be in charge of the Masonic fraternity. Burial in DeRuyter.
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