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Troublous D WBSr a f - By JOHN A SPRING I arrived in Tucson March 27 1871 After passing an examination as to my qualifications before Mr Sidney It De- - Long At this present writing President o the Historical Society of Arizona Pi- oneers ¬ I was duly appointed teacher of the public school of that ancient and honorable pueblo The board of trus- tees ¬ consisted of Messrs W F Scott Sam Hughes both living to day and W C Davis Mr Scott conducted me to an oblong adobe building- - situated on the northwest corner of Meyer and McCor mick Streets then the property of one Mariano Molina This building contained the one long room intended for and fur ¬ nished as the contemplated school room There were two long rows of home made desks forming each one piece together with its respective bench Between the rows a space of about sis feet was left unoccupied throughout the whole length in order to allow passageway to and from the seats and the one blaekboaid which being constructed of masonry with a ce ¬ ment finish painted over in dull black oil paint was firmly imbedded in the south wall One of the desks being reversed so as to face the two rows formed by the pupils seats was made to serve as the teachers desk The best feature of these desks which were calculated to scat each three large or four middle sized boys or from five to six toddlers was their ab- solute ¬ solidity However if we take into consideration that the recently established school laws admitted boys from the age of six to 21 years and that boys varying in size anywhere from three to nearly six feet did frequent the school you will readily admit that the uniform size of the combination desks and benches was ra- ther ¬ an inconvenience as well as their manifest propensity for shedding splinters the mare so as many of the boys were poorly clad and quite often put in an ap ¬ pearance with bare ankles and feet Two doors placed about the middle of the east and west walls respectively were the means of ingress and egress Two brooms and a sprinkling pot finished the inven- tory ¬ of the furniture and by these means the floor was kept in proper condition by two boys who were detailed for that pur- pose ¬ every day The floor consisted of that useful material known as mother earth nnd had acqiiircd a good hard solid top finish by previous pounding When I look to day upon the first class appointments of our educational estab ¬ lishments at our modem school buildings their furniture appliances and conve ¬ niences which surround- - us everywhere Arizona not excepted and then look back wards over a space of only 32 years see ing again m my minds eye that uirt floor those two rows of unconth nnpainted and unvarnished desks and the many bare feet cf the youngsters dangling from the benches then am I forcibly remiuded that verily The mighty oaks from the little acorns grow Mr Scott delivered to me a number of school books with the injunction to sell them to the pupils at the original wbole- - ale cost of which he gave me a price list and to supply them free of cost to children of indigent parents OEall these 3 transactions I was required to make n - monthly statement to the Board of Trus- - tees - Being Jims fully equipped we lost no i time iii opening the school and within one wcek of my arrival all parents and guar c dians of boys having been duly notified the school doors were thrown open for their admission This was on the second Mon- day ¬ of April 1871 a TtrcsoN6cnooi in 1871 On the first day nearly 100 boys were enrolled and on the closing of the lists on the third day the names enrolled numbered 138 Of all these boys of whom a few bowed already a forthcoming beard while others could barely manage to climb upon the benches not one could express himself intelligently in the English lan- guage ¬ although many of them possessed quite a variegated vocabulary of bad Eng- - lish words about five or six understood sufficient English to know what to do when asked to perform a common house- - Jiuld duty as for instance to sweep the floor to fetch water etc and could pcr iiaps in a sort of way make themselves understood in that language when speak ¬ ing of the most common things of every ¬ day life About 20 boys ranging in age from 13 to 1C years were in attendance who had been to school in Mexico or had received private lessons in Spanish some of these possessed sufficient knowledge in arithmetic to make a long division Of fractions none knew anything No little difficulty was encountered in trying to ascertain the correct age of these uovs as their names were entered upon the school lisLs for although they almost invariably knew where they were born they had a very limited knowledge as to tho when It soon became evident that tho most familiar landmark if I may use the expression in this connection in their parents memory for the reckoning of time was el tiempo del colera m bonora From that terrible period 1852 when the population of Sonora was reduced about one half by the cholera they seemed to reckon their births and deaths speaking of it as a historian would of the French revolution or any other conspicuous his- torical ¬ event Another period which seemed to form the basis of their later reckonings was the revolution of Pesquecira This was an exceedingly uncertain event to reckon by unless some one could give the infor ¬ mation which of the 23 revolutions was meant that took place during the gover- norship ¬ of Yguacio Pcsguecira which last ¬ ed 18 years I am afraid of occupying too much space and exhausting the patience of those of my readers who are not specially interested in educational matters if I enter into details describing the manner in which I classified and taught this perfect chaos of boys whose minds intellects former training or tor the greater part absence of all training offered about as great a variety of intellectual qualifications as their complexion did of colors To attempt to speak English to them nil at once and English only as proposed nnd urged by a member of the School Trustees and to teach them arithmetic nnd geography in English before they could understand a single word of that language would have been a futile under- taking ¬ involving an absolute loss of much valuable time I therefore explained everything in Spanish the boys mother tongue so that every sentence that was translated or read or spoken in English was immediately conveyed to their intel- lect ¬ in a comprehensible manner The school was taught from 9a m to 12 m nnd from 1 p m to 4 p m the little toddlers being let out at 3p m These liours were found to suit the parents best c many of them required the services of their children for running errands etc liefore the morning and evening meals Upon opening school in the morning an ffour was devoted to penmanship The cider boyi liked tho pretty American icopy books very much and made every ef fort- towards keeping tnem neat and clean The smaller boys would copy tha letters knd figures which I pat In largo size on the blackboard upon their slates and be- - tame proficient in a remarkably short time their greatest incentive being to arrive at A school for girls was established a Xes month laUr under the tuition of Mrs ysin H3kmr3mzona L C Hughes whose husband later un der Mr Cleveland s Administration was appointed Governor of Arizona the k stage and to possess a copy book Governor Safford had kindly presented to the school two dozen of Ollen dorfs Spanish English systems for the use of the boys who could read Spanish fluently and write without difficulty To these boys I would after they had writ- ten ¬ a page in their copy books read and thoroughly explain a lesson in Ollendorf and show them how to translate the Span ¬ ish exercises properly into English This they would immediately- proceed to do while I left them in order to go from desk to desk looking at the writing of the oth ¬ ers and correcting the ill shaped letters after which they all had a lessou in the first reader The Ollendorf class soon be ¬ came very proficient and fairly doted on tilt little stories in Appletons First and Second Readers but I found it absolutely necessary to translate and explain to them everything they read as otherwise they would take no interest in a story The afternoon was generally devoted to figures and twice a week I gave all the boys a drawing lesson which all of them con ¬ sidered a perfect treat MAINTAINING DISCIPLINE My readers will easily understand that having to teach such a large number of bovs the average daily attendance was 9S of all ages the greater part of whom had never learned to siinmit tneir sweet will to any school discipline and to little of it at home and being in one room it was absolutely necessary that the most rigid discipline should be enforced from the beginning To spare the rod under APACHE CHILD those circumstances would not only have snoiled tho child but probably some thing else more nearly connected with the teacher This however offered no diff- iculty ¬ as far as the parents were con- cerned ¬ of whom a great many seemed to measure the teachers capacity by lus anil- ity ¬ to administer severe corporal punish ¬ ment It was an almost everyday occur- rence ¬ to have the father or guardian of a pupil call at the school with a new switch ash preferred which he would recom- mend ¬ highly for the correction of unruly youth sometimes specifying the de linquents misdeeds sometimes urging the frequent application of the switch on gen- eral ¬ principles Many a time I was ur- gently ¬ requested to flog a boy to the blood because he had started from home at 7a m to buy somo coffee for breakfast and had not returned till nightfall and then put in an appearance without coffee and without cash his crime being further aggravated by his having played truant from school At first this playing hookey was much in vogue but as soon as the boys understood that I invariably informed their parents whenever prac- ticable ¬ of their absence from school tho attendance became much more regular At first it was somewhat difficult to make the boys understand that they must arrive punctually at the hours establish- ed ¬ and must put in their appearance washed combed and brushed This last was the hardest struggle but fairly good results were attained after a few weeks when a few unwashed boys had been taken to the well in the school yard and there submitted to rather copious ablutions un- der ¬ my personal supervision nnd with my personal assistance INDIAN FOIICY OF GEN BTONEMAN In the meantime the condition of affairs with regard to Indian atrocities grew worse and worse a committee of our citizens was appointed to meet Gen Stoneman commanding tho Department of Arizona on tho Gila River to explain to him the death and destruction that was being dealt out on every hand and to plead with him for assistance They re ceived no words of sympathy nor any hope of relief The Legislature of 1S70 71 had met and prepared a pamphlet showing the slaugh ¬ ter of men women and children that was going on but no relief came Finally a resolution was drafted and submitted to Governor Safford before introduction alleging inefficiency of Stoneman and asking for his removal Governor Safford advised against its introduction He told the members of the Legislature that every word of the resolution was true but that in a few days they would return to private life and the fight would be alone on his hands and to give Stoneman public notice of what they intended to do would place him in a position to muster all his forces towards preventing his removal and that the small patronage and iuflucnco of a Territorial Governor would not be equal to the influence of a Department com¬ mander assured of office for life The Legislature adjourned Jan 31 1871 The Governor started for Washington and met Stoneman at San Diego The latter at once proceeded to show the Governor the diff- iculties ¬ of the position He pulled from his pockets Eastern papers denouncing nun for a very sanguinary proclamation he had issued sometime before Now said he you can see I am be- tween ¬ two fires If I pursue a relentless war against the Apaches as indicated in this my proclamation then the peace party will attack me The Governor replied that his proclama ¬ tion had not placed a soldier In the field nor had it killed an Indian The General replied that the proclamation was in ¬ tended for tho Arizona market What ¬ ever that might imply has never been very clear to the writer nor I think to Gov- ernor ¬ Safford from whose lips I quote tho conversation From that moment the Governor made up his mind that a man who would trifle with the lives and property of the people he was 6ent to de ¬ fend should not hold tho placoif he could prevent it He went to Washington THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON D 0 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3 1905 where he had already once before inter- viewed ¬ Gen Sherman from which inter- view ¬ he was satisfied that if Stoneman was to be removed the President would have to do it He went therefore to President Grant in company with Dele- gate ¬ McCormick from Arizona and Sen- ator ¬ Stewart and asked tha removal of Gen Stoneman and the appointment of Gen Crook in his place PRESIDENT GltANT REMOVES GEN STONE- MAN ¬ The President listened attentively and replied that he believed all tho statements made by Arizonas Governor and also that Sen Crook was the best Indian fighter in the Army but said that it would require tha cutting of a great deal of red tape to send Crook as he was only a Lieutenant Colonel and pretty well down on the list at that The President was told that the frontier expected from him protection and that if it became neces- sary ¬ to cut red tape they believed he would not hesitate to do it After a mo ¬ ments thought he said I believe I can send him on his brevet rank of Major Gcncral He called the Secretary of War and in a moment the Governors proposition was agreed upon and Stoue nians head rolled into the basket Before it was known in Arizona that Gen Stoneman had been removed the peo ¬ ple had lost all hope of relief and had de- termined ¬ that self preservation was the first law of nature To make matters more intolerable the hostilcs or somo of them had come to old Camp Grant and professing peace were put under charge of Lieut Whitman who fed and protect- ed ¬ them It was soon demonstrated be ¬ yond all question of doubt that these In- dians ¬ were carrying on a more destruc- tive ¬ wrrfare than ever before upon the sure plan of protection for their own lives and their stolen property by the troops of the United States People were murdered in cold blood while traveling while pur ¬ suing their agricultural pursuits while herding their cattle the stolen property taken from them was traced to and found upon Whitmans reservation He himself turned a deaf ear to every complaint and defended his own position by claiming to the deluded peare party in the East that he alone was defending the innocent In ¬ dians against the brutal frontiersmen SQUAW AND who would be satisfied with nothin but the extermination of the Indians Under this state of affairs the citi ¬ zens saw no relief except to take the matter in their own hands and the Camp Grant massacre was the result of the Governments neglect and the long and pa ¬ tient suffering of it body of pioneers who tried to bring civilization into a heretofore wild country To give a mere recital of the act of killing a few more or less of bloodthirsty savages without the details of the causes and provocations which drew a and patient people to the adoption of remedial measures so apparently cruel in their results would bo a great wrong and injustice to those of our friends nnd neighbors who in various ways gave sanc ¬ tion and aid to the undertaking and would fall far short of the object and aim of the writer to give fair and impartial history In the year 1870 in accordance with tho peace policy which had been decided upon by tho Government the Pinal and Yavapai bands of Apache Indians were collected together nnd placed upon a reser- vation ¬ around old Camp Grant at the junction of the San Pedro and Yavapai Creeks about fS3 miles from Tucson un- der ¬ the supervision of military stationed at that post One or two agents for them had been taken from civil life but in a short time their management proving un ¬ satisfactory one Royal E Whitman a Lieutenant of the 3d Cav U S A was assigned to duty as their agent Being what is termed a sharp man nnd of a thrifty turn he soon saw there was money in the Apache and lost no time in the practical application of that knowl- edge ¬ to do which successful required outside partners who were soon found In Tucson A sutlers storo was first started followed by a blacksmith and a butcher shop and a number of strikers chosen in various capacities ostensibly for the ben ¬ efit of poor Lo really allidavy and easy conscious witness men for the loss and as a trite saying goes hell was fully inaugurated SETTLERS ORGANIZE TO PROTECT THEM- SELVES ¬ Tho Indians soon commenced plunder- ing ¬ and murdering the citizens of Tucson San Xavier Tubac Sonoitn San Pedro and every otlier settlement within a ra dius of 100 miles of old Camp Grant in tho confidence that if they escaped to their reservation they reached n secure haven During the Winter of 1870 71 these murders and depredations wero so uumcious as to threaten the abandonment of nearly all tho settlements outside of Tucson especially that of San Pedro the most numerous und important of all in the meantime the citizens of Tucson were aroused meetings were held upon the oc- currence ¬ of each new murder and outrage representations wero made to the Lieut Royal Whitman that his Indians were plundering and murdering our people which he denied and stood ready to prove by every striker in tho reservation that his Indians never left the reservation Mean ¬ while tho work of death and destruction was kept up with ever increasing force until the slaughter of Leslie B Woostcr my former partner and his wife on tho Santa Cruz above Tucson so Inflamed the people tnat an indignation meeting was held at Tucson a great amount of rcsolut ing and speechifying indulged in nnd it was determined to raise a military com¬ pany at once for which a paper was drawn up and signers called for to which 82 Americans signed their names I was one of them and all hands were to cat up blood raw every Apache in tho land im- mediately ¬ upon the recurrence of a new outrage To be continued Conservatism Washington Star Wasnt the execution of the man who stoic horses a trifle irregular It was je as regIar as we could make it answered Bronco Bob stoutly Course wo didnt have no judge or jury handy But wo captured tho feller on Wednesday an put off the hangin till Fri day so s to hart it according to custom TtfB PARADE A Most arattfjlnc Demonstration In Spite of the Shortness of tho Column i t - The Pared of the veterans of the 37 th National Encampment at San Francisco was highly Stratifying- - to everybody in spite of thcunxamped shortness of the column whlchf nnmbering less than 7000 showed aitemarkable shrinkage over the number In the parade at Washington the previousEncampment It was rather astonishingihowever to the older attend ¬ ants upon tho Encampment that owing to the distance there were so many About 3500 or BTi per cent of tho total number in line came from east or tne itocxy Mountains leaving 27 12 or 14 per cent from the States wesf of the Rocky Moun tains of which California alone supplied 38 per cent According to the actnal count the veterans in line were as follows California and Nevada 2470 iijinois t o v u Pennsylvania 25 Indiana 228 New York 20l Wisconsin 187 Ivnusas i - Massachusetts 151 tiissoun Michigan 143 Minnesota 141 Is Otl JLttf Washington and Alaska 107 Colorado and Wyoming 7 South Dakota 74 til I III i Vermont Gl Potomac 25 Connecticut 9 Nebraska New Hampshire S New Jersey 8 Kentucky 31 Virginia and North Carolina 20 Ulalt 0 Oklahoma 25 Rhode Island 20 Maryland IS North Dakota 31 Arizona 17 Texas K West Virginia 10 i iiano j Delaware 13 Arkansas 0 New Mexico 0 v loriua i Total G2S0J This included actual veterans only tak- ing ¬ no account of bands or other in line nor does it account for the Commander-in-Chie- f and Staff and many Aids who were mounted and assisted in moving the columns Altogether it may be said that there were fully 7000 men in the column which took two hours almost exactly to pas3 a given point it was an ideal day for marching and the weather was like one of the best of our Fall days in the East The morning dawned cool and foggy but later the sun ramc out bright and clear His rays were tempcied by a fresh cool breeze which prevented the heat becoming uncomforta- ble ¬ at any time The parade was well managed tho diffcrentDepartmcnts moved promptly after they started and there were few stops until the parade was dis ¬ missed The pebpebt San Francisco showed the greatest interest and enthusiasm and were packed along the entire line of march behind awlre ropo on either side of the street The police maintained tho best of order and thepeople wero laviBh in their applause 9f the features of the parade The Pcnnsylvania4llags were enthusiastically cheered Tho cosmopolitan character of tho population of San Francisco was shown bytho- - vigorous cheering which greeted each- - Department is its distin- guishing ¬ rlarf t floated out upon the wind and was recognized by theerowds of sons and daughters of that particular State who had located in California Distin- guished ¬ features of the Departments such as the sunflower of Kansas loaves of bread carriediby the Minneapolis Post the heads of1 wheat by South Dakota the nut- meg ¬ of Connecticut the New Jersey mus keto the ears of corn of Nebraska and similar emblems were enthusiastically cheered Gen Shatter at the head of the California delegation bringing up the rear received a most flattering ovation Gen Miles was everywhere an object of inter est and applause and the whole parade was a most enthusiastic one TJie pavements of many of the streets were very trying for the veterans but the larger part of the march was over asphalt and few veterans showed fatigue when the parade was dismissed COMMITTEES Important Committees to Do the Work of the National Encampment Tho following is the memberships of tho various committees of the 37th Na- tional ¬ Encampment Address of Commander-in-Chie- f A G WeLssert Wisconsin Dwight O Judd Massachnsetts George W Patten Ten ¬ nessee Benjamin Starr Indiana Charles II Freeman New York Report of Senior and Junior Vice Comma- nder-in-Chief -- C W Buckley Ala- bama ¬ William Stahl John W Rutter Virginia Joseph II Browning Kentucky B F Chase Potomac Rules and Regulations Robert B Beath Pennsylvania Guy T Gould Illi- nois ¬ James S Dodge Indiana A W Smith Kansas II E Palmer Nebraska Report of Adjutant General C A Partridge Illinois Charles A Suydam Pennsylvania Philip S Chase Rhode Island Geo A Newton Iowa Frank Battles- New Hampshire Report of ChapIain-in-Chic- f Senecca Taylor Kansas Henry Perry Oklahoma Charles Richtcr Ohio C S Lucas Ne ¬ braska S G Cosgrove Washington and Alaska Report of Inspector General Wade II Richardson Wisconsin James L Merrick Maine Henry McKnight New York Fayette Wykoff Michigan N Burton Rogers Connecticut Report of Custodian Daniel Ross Delaware David Isaacs New York John II Bolton Texas To Visit Womans Relief Corps A C Ycngling Ohio Ortou S Clark Minne ¬ sota C Mason- Kinne California To Visit Ladies of the G A R R H Holgate Pennsylvania Richard Robert son West Virginia II J Itowc North Dakota On Resolutions N P Chipman Cali- fornia ¬ iChairmani C W Buckley Ala bama Edwyird Schwartz Arizona George W Clark Arkansas William P Harbot- - tle Colorado and Wyoming George I llnvtmi rVmnpctirnt Daniel Ross Dela ware JD enrr Mnrcotte Florida William Walnect Georgia John M Bernard Idaho Horace S Clark Illinois George W GrulibsIndiana II T Bolcn Indian Territory Charles A Clark Iowa P H Coney VKnpsas Michael Minton Ken- tucky ¬ Paul Bruce Louisiana and Missis ¬ sippi iWalnwright dishing Maine George R Wheeler Maryland Charles II Fryc Massachusetts Louis Kanitz Mich- igan ¬ Perry Starkweather Minnesota Charles G Burton Missouri W H Black Montana S K Spalding Ne- braska ¬ Edward Carr New Hampshire James ihMilliken New Jersey Richard Hudson New Mexico Allan G Bakcwell New York R M Davis North Dakota J L Smith Ohio J P Cummings Okla- homa ¬ L E Caukin Oregon Edwin Walton Pennsylvania John McElroy Po- tomac ¬ Theodore F Dexter Rhode Island Philip Lawrence South Dakota W J Smith Tennessee Edward Ketchum Texas Frank H Clark Utah J H Goulding Vermont George W McAllister Virginia and North Carolina J S Brown Washington and Alaska George B Wood ¬ cock West Virginia J W Ganes Wis- consin ¬ Ailments Puck Doctor Smith Ive no patienco with purely imaginary ailments Doctor Jones Youre lucky Ive half-a-doz- all the time COUNCIL OF ADMINISTRATION Comrades Who Will Exercise the Powers of the Encampment Ad Interim Alabama M D Wickersham Mobile Arizona Gcorgo Atkinson Globe Arkan ¬ sas A A Whisson Little Rock Califor- nia ¬ and Nevada A W Barrett Los An- geles ¬ Colorado and Wyoming U S Hol llster Denver Connecticnt A C Hen- dricks ¬ New Haven Delaware Samuel Worrell Newark Florida Charles Dono- van ¬ Tampa Georgia J A Comerford Marietta Idaho George M Parsons Boise Illinois Thomas W Scott Fairf- ield ¬ Indiana Henry A Root Michigan City Indian Territory David Rcdfield Ardmore Kansas P H Coney Topeka Kentucky Jacob Scibert Louisville Louisiana and Mississippi Charles H Shute Cambridge Mass Maine Louis Selriug Augusta Maryland ltobert u Snnstrom Baltimore Massachnsetts John W Horsey Springfield Michigan E B Fcnton Detroit Minnesota L W Col lins St Cloud Missouri Jero T Dew Kansas City Montana H S nanscll Co lumbia Falls Nebraska Andrew Traynor Milford New Jersey Clayland Tilden Jersey City New Mexico John R McFie Santa Fe New York James Owens 227 East 124th street New York City North Dakota S K McGinnis Ohio A A Taylor Cambridge Oklahoma Wesley Taylor Perry Oregon L w Ingram Oregon City Pennsylvania Thomas G Sample Allegheny Box 87 Potomac B F Entrekin Washington D C Rhode Is land John X lienyon Iroviuencc aoutn Dakota A B Nelson Pierre Tennessee Newton Hacker Jonesboro Texas R M Moore San Antonio Utah W W Bostaph Ogden Termont A C Brown Montpelier Virginia and North Carolina James E Fuller Norfolk Washington and Alaska S W Clark Seattle West Virginia G B Woodcock New Martins- ville ¬ Wisconsin Phil Check Baraboo Philippine Veterans The Annual Reunion of the National Society of the Army of the Philippines began at St Iaul last Tuesday with a large attendance probably over 2000 It has two questions before it one being as to the admission of Contract burgeons and the otlier that of forming a Ladies Auxil iary similar to the R C St Louis is making a vigorous campaign for the next Reunion with Chattanooga Put-in-Ba- y Buffalo Chicago and Cleveland as com- petitors ¬ Ladles of the GAR Officers elected and installed for the coming year National President Mrs Belinda S Bailey of California S V I Mrs Ruth Foote Colorado J V I Mrs Emma Pierce Massachusetts Treas Mrs Julia M Gordon Kansus Chaplain Mrs Jeu nio Varney Minnesota Secretary Mrs Albie L Krebbs California Council of Administration Mrs Hannah M Cham- - berlin New York Miss Ruth Hall Wheel- ing ¬ W Va and Mrs Mary T Hager- Illinois TO CAPTIVITY LED Results of a Daring Enterprise Editor National Tribune Just af ¬ ter Gettysburg July 5 1813 Capt Abram Jones commanding about 100 men of the 1st N Y Cav known as Lincoln Cav- alry ¬ dashed into a strong column of Lees army at Grecncastle Pa aiid cap- tured ¬ 700 prisoners and 200 wagons Be- ing ¬ in the extreme front and failing to exercise proper discretion I rode too far within the Confederate lines and was cap- tured ¬ When I surrendered I was near a battery A Colonel said To charge a battery single handed is certainly a gal- lant ¬ act I wish you belonged to my com- mand ¬ I replied that I thanked God I was not a rebel No other member of my regiment was captured My captors di ¬ vested me of hat boots in fact of about everything except my pants and handker ¬ chief I walked barefooted from Green castlo to Staunton Ya Of course I be¬ came1 tired it being a long and weary way to travel with blsedlng feet I was as- sured ¬ that if I failed to keep up with the procession a bayonet would be run through me I gavo one of my captors a five dollar gold- - piece to get me a loaf of bread He cheerfully accepted the gold but failed to deliver the bread thereupon in sudden heat and passion I seized his gun and assaulted him giving him a pair of very black eyes They condemned me to be shot but when Gen Imboden learned that I had given tho fellow my money for which I had received nothing in return he remitted the sentence saying my of- fense ¬ was a pardonable one Rejoining the column of prisoners the most of whom had been taken at Gettysburg I resumed the march On to Richmond After a brief stay at Libby Prison we wero transferred to Belle Isle where Lieut Boisseur was in charge On the second day there we were relieved of all valuables money and watches especially I had a few dollars in ray pocket book which I threw back over the dead ljne at tho same time calling Lieut Boisseux a thief Infuriated he seized a gun and would have run the bayonet through me had not one of the guards interfered in my behalf However he gavo mo a vio- lent ¬ kick and ordered me to go after the pocket book Instead of going I called to the boj s on the other side to throw it over to me which they did When the Lieu- tenant ¬ found there was little wealth in the pocket book he was evidently disappoint- ed ¬ plainly showing that he was disgusted with me for not having a more plethoric wallet However when ho ordered a thorough investigation of my scant habiliments the money I had sewed up in my pants was revealed to his rapacious gaze and of course he eagerly took it all The prisoners were permitted to bathe in the James River and Lieut Boisseur treating me with distinguished considera- tion ¬ put me in charge of the detachments of bathers my compensation being extra rations He ordered me to not let more than 40 go into the water at one time Again perversely insubordinate I let out from 75 to SO and gradually increased the number to 150 After two weeks duty at the bathing resort Boisseux probably afraid I would take the entire encamp- ment ¬ in n swimming transferred mo to the Commissary Department My duty was to go on the boat to Richmond for bread a ration of which was about enough for a ld child to cat at one meal In addition to the bread a little bean soup was served one or two beans in a cup of liquid that represented a dead horse or mule My sojourn at Belle Isle was in July and August When a detachment of prisoners went out Aug 25 1SG3 Lieut Boisseux told me to accompany them al though my name was not on the list for exchange He sent me along as an ex tra becauso he had insulted me and I had had the courage to defend myself I well remember the red headed Ser- geant ¬ at the gate I think ho was killed when our troops entered Richmond John Clemens Co L 1st N Y Lincoln Cav- alry ¬ Canton O Labor Union oaths Rev Dr P A Baart Rector of St Marys Church of Marshall Mich said in a sermon that no Catholic could con- sistently ¬ take or keep the oath of somo labor unions and ho mentioned particu- larly ¬ tho Typographical Union part of whose oath he quoted as follows I hereby solemnly and sincerely swear that my fidelity to the Typographical Union and my duty to the members there- of ¬ shall in no sense be interfered with by any allegiance that I may now or here- after ¬ owe to any other organization so- cial ¬ political or religious Father Baart said this oath placed the union before the church and before the state nnd distinctly impeaches the loy- alty ¬ and catholicity of those who take such an oath Possibly tho leaders may not have realized the fnll force of the words they used in their oath but whether they did or did not every pa- triotic ¬ citizen and every sincere consist- ent ¬ Catholic should demand that such an oath be modified and that the objection- able ¬ clause bo cut out THE AMERICAN- - SPANISH WAR Continued from first pmg struction in tactical exercises and other duties of the highest importance to the ef- ficiency ¬ nnd health of troops in the field that the importance of this preliminary work was urgent ns also that it should be completed in advance of the troops leaving their States and it wrs further- more ¬ strongly represented that this might be done while the general nnd staff officers were being selected appointed and prop- erly ¬ instructed and the large camiis were being secured and stores collected there- for ¬ It was a matter of very great con ¬ cern to me that unequipped ununiformed men by the thousands should not be col- lected ¬ in great camps away from their States where it would difficult for thtm to be properly supplied with food camp equipage blankets tentage medicinal sup- plies ¬ and transportation facilities for the absence of these appliances could not but cause debilitating results upon the health and strength of the men who were thus gathered together secret service Whilr the railways of the United States were engaged in transporting troops mu- nitions ¬ of war and supplies to Tampa and other points of departure on the Gulf and the South- Atlantic the military au- thorities ¬ at Washington took steps to o1 tain accurate and detailed information within the limits of the prospective seat of war Two young energetic nnd intelli- gent ¬ officers of the Bureau of Military In ¬ formation were assigned the one to Cuba the other to Porto Rico to attempt the daring and difficult duty of ascertaining and reporting conditions as they might be found to exist in the territories respective ¬ ly assigned to them Both in the results of their efforts gave abmidant proof of the wisdom of their selection The cmissarv to Cuba Lieut Rowan having left the United States on April 0 lauded April 21 at Portillo about 70 miles wesfof Santiago de Cuba He pene trated the interior found and conferred with Gen Garcia one of tne most suc ¬ cessful and brilliant leaders of the Cuban army and without undue delay hastened to lay before hii superiors in Washington the valuable data that he had acquired With Jen Garcias concurrence he brought back with him two officers of that chieftains staff Brig Gen Enrique CoIIazo and Lieut Col Carlos Hernandez The course of his return journey lay up to Manati on the North Coast thence by an open boat to Nassan New Providence whence they arrived in the United Stites May 13 It was nearly a month after Lieut Row- ans ¬ departure that Lieut Whitney sailed May 5 from Key West for Porto Rico which after a 10 days voyage he en- tered ¬ and proceeded to explore under dis- guise ¬ giving- - his attention more particu- larly to the southern sections of the is- land ¬ He departed thence on his return Juno 1 and reported the results of his mission in Washington on the th of that month Like the report of Lient Row- an ¬ that of Lieut Whitney was eminently satisfactory at Army Headquarters- - He had gone on the most hazardous duty an officer can be called ujton to perform He was in constant and imminent danger of discovery the penalty for which would have been an ignominious death from which there could have been no appeal SEVERAL RELIEF EXrEDITIOXS carrying arms and supplies for the Cu ¬ bans were organized and dispatched The first of these was equipped at Key West under the direction or Col Hall since pro- moted ¬ to Brigadier General This expe- dition ¬ landed under charge of Capt OCon nell of the United States Army his as- sistant ¬ Lieut Crofton also of the Army being the first officer to land on Cuban soil during the Spanish American War One of the most important of these ex- peditions ¬ was under the command of Lieut Col Dorst of the volunteer army which sailed from Key West by way of Nassau and landed at the harbor of Banes on the north coast of Cuba where lie de- livered ¬ to the Cubans who held nnd con- tinued to hold that port 7500 riflesn mil- lion ¬ cartridges 5000- uniforms and other munitions of war and supplies of which the 10000 veteran Cubans under Gen Garcia stood sadly in need Col Dorst returned early in June reported the en- tire ¬ snecess of his expedition and received the hearty congratulations of his com ¬ manding officers whose trust he had so thoroughly vindicated Meanwhile the forces gathering at Tam- pa ¬ originally destined for an invasionof Cuba on a much larger scale were being organized to a strength of 5000 with a view to a lodgment at Tunas on the south side of Cuba where it was expected to open communication with the General-in-Chi- of the Cuban forces Gen Gomez and support and co operate with him in the healthful mountain region where he was understood to be operating This ex- pedition ¬ was designed to iie under the command of Maj Gcn Shatter the sen- ior ¬ officer then at Tampa and was in- tended ¬ to be strong enough to effect a landimr and maintain its nosition while furnishing all the supplies needed by the force of Gen Gomez I he movement of Admiral Ccrveras fleet from the Cape de Verde Islands rendered necessary the adoption of new plans and this expedi tion like the first one designed was sus ¬ pended and in effect never advanced to tho point of setting sail QES MILES DETERMINES TO TAKE THE FIELD The reports of conditions at Tampa be- came ¬ such that at this time I determined to take the field in person with headquar- ters ¬ temporarily at Tampa I Issued an order to the Armv designed to increase and promote the esprit de corps on the part of officers and men to bring the military forces to the highest state of ef- ficiency ¬ and to call forth the best energies of all the elements composing the Army of whatever character or station in order that they might the more speedily accom- plish ¬ the objects in view through an in- creased ¬ zeal for the cause and an enlarged earnestness of effort Attention was called to the high development which had been reached throughout the civilized world Uy tho experience of the past century and the faithful observance of laws and reg- ulations ¬ which govern military bodies in nil civilized countries and I urged that nil officers of whatever grade should as far as lay in their power guard and preserve the health and welfare of all under their charge that the officers should labor dili- gently ¬ and zealously to perfect themselves and their subordinates in military drill instruction and discipline and above all that they should constantly endeavor by precept and example to maintain the high- est ¬ soldierly standard to foster and stimu late that high soldierly spirit and patriotic devotion to duty which must characterize an effective army Reciting the fact that the order was issued upon the day sacred totho memory of the heroic dead the 30th of May I hoped that the injunctions from all the circumstances would be strongly impressed and result beneficially most especially throughout the volunteer regi ments that were so rapidly forming and lessen the dangers that are always present with large bodies of men gathered on short notice for a great national purpose Definite information having been receiv ¬ ed that Ccrveras licet had been inclosed in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba by our Navy orders were given to Uen Shatter May 30 to embark his troops and proceed to that harbor for the purpose of assisting our naval forces in capturing that fleet and on the same evening 1 left Wash- ington HEACIIING TAMrA on the 1st of June I found that place crowded with an indiscriminate accumu- lation ¬ of supplies and war material The confusion owing partly to the want of terminal railway facilities and nartlv to the want of system in loading and billing material appeared lor a time to be utter- ly ¬ inextricable The sidings from the Dort of Tampa for perhaps 50 miles into the interior were blocked with cars ami the resulting difficulties of the situation pre vented proper embarkation of the troops earlier than June S on which date the flotilla was in the act- of moving to sea This movement however- - was suspended by orders from Washington and the expe dition did not sail until the 14th My i Business and professional men whoM labors are largely mental whose work bj a constant drain upon tho nervous system find It necessary to have a reservo of nervo force to withstand the effect of mental strain When sleep is courted in vain whea tho stomach is frequently out of ordor when the daily stint becomes a burden instead of a pleasure when you rise in tha morning with less energy and am bitjon than when you retired your con ¬ dition is so serious as to demand instant attention and treatment It is not a casa to bo cured by a few weeks rest nor of my stomach slightly upset nor of Ill be all right in a few days It is a ner¬ vous disorder which if neglected will lead to nervous prostration with its at ¬ tendant horrors of fainting spells of men- tal ¬ nnd physical weakness irritability morbid fears and ultimately insanity Un ¬ der certain conditions these symptoms- may lead to chronic headache insomnia oi nervous dyspepsia and if tho sufferer la predisposed to heart trouble the most common cause of sudden death When the system receives that aid from without which will replenish nervo forco and vitality rebuilding and restoring nerve cells and tissue strengthening tha nerve centers of the brain heart stom- ach ¬ lungs or whatever organ is affected the annoying symptoms will disappear Dr Miles Restorative Nervine nour ¬ ishes the nerves It quiets and strength- ens ¬ them rests and recuperates them builds new tissue and restores health It restores the exact clement which weak- ened ¬ exhausted tired and hungry nerves lack Dr Stiles Nervine will preserve tha balance of health and restore it when lost It will counteract natural decay and es- tablish ¬ a reserve of nerve force which will withstand the attacks of overwork and disease AH druggists sell and guarantee Dr Miles Nervine If the first bottle doea not benefit yon you may have your money back Send for free Treatise- on Nervous Diseases Dr Miles Medical Co Elkhart Ind quest for permission to accompany the ex- pedition ¬ had not been granted and on tha day following its departure I received and immediately complied with the following Washington D CJune 15 183S Maj Gen Miles Tampa Fla Important business requires your pres ¬ ence here report at once Answer R A Aloer Secretary of War To be continued picketshots - m - From Alert Comrades Along the Wbolt Line IN BATTLE WITHOUT A FLAO Edward Fisher Co I 130th Pa Mil roy Ind writes My regiment newly en- listed ¬ joined the Army of the Potomac at Rockville Md Sept 5 1862 becoming a part of the Second Brigade Third Divis- ion ¬ Second Corps Gen Sumner command ¬ ing We were under fire nt South Moun ¬ tain and fought near Bloody Lane An tietam without a flag having then been in the servico only one month When on picket for the first time wa heard a terrifying noise in tho darkness beyond Forthwith we fired a few stray picket shots following them with a volley None of the shots were fatal so far as I ever heard On subsequent occasoni wa were not so nervous My Post is in favor of a straight 12 service pension nniLLrANT cavalry charge at farm- - IXGTOy J R Buttolfh Sergeant 2d Iowa Bat- tery ¬ Ogden Iowa writes Somo ac- counts ¬ of the battle of Farmington aro badly mixed especially as to dates May 9 is my date It was there that the 2d Iowa Cav then n full regiment- - and two companies of the 4th Regulars made tha grandest cavalry charge 1 saw during tho war The object of the charge was to check the rebels that the artillery and ordnance wagons might have time to re- treat ¬ across a swamp by way of a singla corduroy road on which a rebel bittery was posted and which swept the road from one end to the otlier It was this battery that the cavalry charged silencing it long enough for our three batteries and the train to pass over in safety We had been held there too long I wonder if tha boys of the 2d Iowa Cav or any of tha old Eagle Brigade have forgotten tha date IS DEXIS TEH AX LIVIXO John S McMahon Dixon Cal writes About the 2oth of April the Constable of this town found a roll of blankets in a box- car and in the roll was a pocket book containing papers among which ara the following Certificate of Discharge dated April 24 1S03 issued by tho Adjut- ant-General U S War Dept to Denis Tehan Battery M 1st US Art on proof of loss of former discharge also n certifi- cate ¬ from the Adjutant General of New Hampshire issued to Denis Tehan who enlisted Sept 12 18Cl in Co- - G 4th N H Inf afterward transferred to Battery M 1st US Art Jan IS 1SW also Pen- sion ¬ Certificate No SC5873 issued to Denis Tehan Co H Sth U S- - Vet Vol Inf May 12 1S07 also Pension Voucher for 30 drawn on U-- S Pension Agency at Topeka Kan May 4 to Aug 4 1902 not filled out by pensioner or notary also papers showing that Denis Tehan was an inmate of the National Military Home Topeka Kans in March 1S98 Tha other papers are of similar importance Tho papers are in my possession subject to the call of DenisTehan or his heirs OLD GLORY Comrade James McGovern Date Creek Station Ariz says he remembers distinct ¬ ly when old Ben Driver of Nashville brought forth his concealed flag upon the entrance of the Union troops and floated it out on the breeze and saluted it as Old Glory Comrade McGovern knew Driver well as his father lived near Dri- ver ¬ and he went to school with the Driver children Driver was an owner of a shoe store on College street Comrade Mc ¬ Govern took the first opportunity to go into the service and enlisted in the Navy serving three years on the U S S St Marys under Capt Bailey FOUND David H Nolf Co C 7Sth Pa 127 Spruce St DtiBois Pa writes I found at Pittsburg Pa a silver shield that be ¬ longed to a comrade of the Ninth Corps Upon it is inscribed Jos Dotter Co C 143 Rcgt P V Inf war of 1SG1 Tha owner or any of his friends can have tha shield by addressing me as above m Work of the Pension Office The report of certificate Issued for the week ended August 2 shows Army Invalids OrlslnaLI Increase 491 reissue 23 restoration 3 renewal 39 supplemental 6 duplicate t accrued 101 Total 609 Army Nurses Original I Army Widows etc Original 40 reissue C renewal 30 accrued Z Total S4 Navy Invalids Increase 2 reissue 2 accrued X Moiai Old Wars Invalids Accrued 1 Army Invalids fwar with Spain Original 72 In crease 9 reissue 7 restoration 2 duplicate L To- - rai ji Army Widows etc war with Spain Original 2S Navjr Invalids warwith Spain Original 1 Anuy Invalids Regular Establishment Original 91 increase 5 reissue 1 accrued 4 Tola 13 Army Widows etc Regular Estatlbhmcnt Origi ¬ nal 12 accrued 1 Total 11 Xavy Invalids Regular Establishment Increase 2 Navy Widows etc Regular Establishment Re newal 1 Army Invalids act of June 27 ISM Original 188 Increase 10S2 additional 204 retvue 10 restoration 45 renewal31 supplemental 4 duplicate 4 accrued 174 Total lflK Armv Widows etc act of June 27 1S90 Original 273 reissue supplemental lduplicate2 accrued 2 Total 291 Navy Invalids act of June 27 1390 Original 12 In¬ crease 90 restoration I renewal 3 accrued- - To- - rai ii j Navy Widows etc f t nrJnne271S90 Original 1L ales lean war survivors ungtual i increase srj issuea suppiemenaL accrueti ioiaii r Mexican War Widows Original 12 Indian Wars dttt ISC Survivors Original 15 ac crued 3 Total a Indian WarsllAC eVIdwt Original 12 Totals Original S93 increase IKW addillonal 204 reissue no restoration 51 renew 104 supplemental it Tfiiiiisrn mvfiti 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Transcript of Troublous D ysin THE H3kmr3mzona - Library of Congress · Troublous D WBSr a f- By JOHN A SPRING I...
Troublous D
WBSr a f -By JOHN A SPRING
I arrived in Tucson March 27 1871
After passing an examination as to myqualifications before Mr Sidney It De- -
Long At this present writing Presidento the Historical Society of Arizona Pi-
oneers¬
I was duly appointed teacher ofthe public school of that ancient andhonorable pueblo The board of trus-
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consisted of Messrs W F ScottSam Hughes both living to day and WC Davis Mr Scott conducted me toan oblong adobe building- - situated on thenorthwest corner of Meyer and McCormick Streets then the property of oneMariano Molina This building containedthe one long room intended for and fur¬
nished as the contemplated school roomThere were two long rows of home madedesks forming each one piece togetherwith its respective bench Between therows a space of about sis feet was leftunoccupied throughout the whole lengthin order to allow passageway to and fromthe seats and the one blaekboaid whichbeing constructed of masonry with a ce¬
ment finish painted over in dull black oilpaint was firmly imbedded in the southwall One of the desks being reversed soas to face the two rows formed by thepupils seats was made to serve as theteachers desk The best feature of thesedesks which were calculated to scat eachthree large or four middle sized boys orfrom five to six toddlers was their ab-
solute¬
solidity However if we take intoconsideration that the recently establishedschool laws admitted boys from the ageof six to 21 years and that boys varyingin size anywhere from three to nearly sixfeet did frequent the school you willreadily admit that the uniform size of thecombination desks and benches was ra-
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an inconvenience as well as theirmanifest propensity for shedding splintersthe mare so as many of the boys werepoorly clad and quite often put in an ap¬
pearance with bare ankles and feet Twodoors placed about the middle of the eastand west walls respectively were themeans of ingress and egress Two broomsand a sprinkling pot finished the inven-tory
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of the furniture and by these meansthe floor was kept in proper condition bytwo boys who were detailed for that pur-pose
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every day The floor consisted of thatuseful material known as mother earthnnd had acqiiircd a good hard solid topfinish by previous pounding
When I look to day upon the first classappointments of our educational estab¬
lishments at our modem school buildingstheir furniture appliances and conve ¬
niences which surround- - us everywhereArizona not excepted and then look backwards over a space of only 32 years seeing again m my minds eye that uirt floorthose two rows of unconth nnpainted andunvarnished desks and the many bare feetcf the youngsters dangling from thebenches then am I forcibly remiuded thatverily The mighty oaks from the littleacorns grow
Mr Scott delivered to me a number ofschool books with the injunction to sellthem to the pupils at the original wbole- -
ale cost of which he gave me a pricelist and to supply them free of cost tochildren of indigent parents OEall these
3 transactions I was required to make n- monthly statement to the Board of Trus- -
tees -
Being Jims fully equipped we lost noi time iii opening the school and within one
wcek of my arrival all parents and guarc dians of boys having been duly notified
the school doors were thrown open for theiradmission This was on the second Mon-day
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of April 1871
a TtrcsoN6cnooi in 1871
On the first day nearly 100 boys wereenrolled and on the closing of the lists onthe third day the names enrolled numbered138
Of all these boys of whom a fewbowed already a forthcoming beard
while others could barely manage to climbupon the benches not one could expresshimself intelligently in the English lan-guage
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although many of them possessedquite a variegated vocabulary of bad Eng- -lish words about five or six understoodsufficient English to know what to dowhen asked to perform a common house- -Jiuld duty as for instance to sweep thefloor to fetch water etc and could pcriiaps in a sort of way make themselvesunderstood in that language when speak¬
ing of the most common things of every ¬
day life About 20 boys ranging in agefrom 13 to 1C years were in attendancewho had been to school in Mexico or hadreceived private lessons in Spanish someof these possessed sufficient knowledgein arithmetic to make a long division Offractions none knew anything
No little difficulty was encountered intrying to ascertain the correct age of theseuovs as their names were entered uponthe school lisLs for although they almostinvariably knew where they were bornthey had a very limited knowledge as totho when It soon became evident thattho most familiar landmark if I may usethe expression in this connection in theirparents memory for the reckoning of timewas el tiempo del colera m bonoraFrom that terrible period 1852 when thepopulation of Sonora was reduced aboutone half by the cholera they seemed toreckon their births and deaths speakingof it as a historian would of the Frenchrevolution or any other conspicuous his-
torical¬
eventAnother period which seemed to form
the basis of their later reckonings wasthe revolution of Pesquecira This was
an exceedingly uncertain event to reckonby unless some one could give the infor¬
mation which of the 23 revolutions wasmeant that took place during the gover-norship
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of Yguacio Pcsguecira which last ¬
ed 18 yearsI am afraid of occupying too much
space and exhausting the patience ofthose of my readers who are not speciallyinterested in educational matters if I enterinto details describing the manner in whichI classified and taught this perfect chaosof boys whose minds intellects formertraining or tor the greater part absenceof all training offered about as great avariety of intellectual qualifications astheir complexion did of colors
To attempt to speak English to themnil at once and English only as proposednnd urged by a member of the SchoolTrustees and to teach them arithmetic
nnd geography in English before theycould understand a single word of thatlanguage would have been a futile under-taking
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involving an absolute loss of muchvaluable time I therefore explainedeverything in Spanish the boys mothertongue so that every sentence that wastranslated or read or spoken in Englishwas immediately conveyed to their intel-lect
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in a comprehensible manner Theschool was taught from 9 a m to 12 mnnd from 1 p m to 4 p m the littletoddlers being let out at 3 p m Theseliours were found to suit the parents bestc many of them required the services oftheir children for running errands etcliefore the morning and evening meals
Upon opening school in the morning anffour was devoted to penmanship Thecider boyi liked tho pretty Americanicopy books very much and made every effort- towards keeping tnem neat and cleanThe smaller boys would copy tha letters
knd figures which I pat In largo size onthe blackboard upon their slates and be--tame proficient in a remarkably short timetheir greatest incentive being to arrive at
A school for girls was established aXes month laUr under the tuition of Mrs
ysinH3kmr3mzona
L C Hughes whose husband later under Mr Cleveland s Administrationwas appointed Governor of Arizonathe k stage and to possess acopy book Governor Safford had kindlypresented to the school two dozen of Ollendorfs Spanish English systems for theuse of the boys who could read Spanishfluently and write without difficulty Tothese boys I would after they had writ-ten
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a page in their copy books read andthoroughly explain a lesson in Ollendorfand show them how to translate the Span ¬
ish exercises properly into English Thisthey would immediately- proceed to dowhile I left them in order to go from deskto desk looking at the writing of the oth ¬
ers and correcting the ill shaped lettersafter which they all had a lessou in thefirst reader The Ollendorf class soon be¬
came very proficient and fairly doted ontilt little stories in Appletons First andSecond Readers but I found it absolutelynecessary to translate and explain to themeverything they read as otherwise theywould take no interest in a story Theafternoon was generally devoted to figuresand twice a week I gave all the boys adrawing lesson which all of them con ¬
sidered a perfect treat
MAINTAINING DISCIPLINE
My readers will easily understand thathaving to teach such a large number ofbovs the average daily attendance was9S of all ages the greater part of whomhad never learned to siinmit tneir sweetwill to any school discipline and to littleof it at home and being in one room itwas absolutely necessary that the mostrigid discipline should be enforced fromthe beginning To spare the rod under
APACHE CHILD
those circumstances would not only havesnoiled tho child but probably some
thing else more nearly connected with theteacher This however offered no diff-iculty
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as far as the parents were con-
cerned¬
of whom a great many seemed tomeasure the teachers capacity by lus anil-ity
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to administer severe corporal punish ¬
ment It was an almost everyday occur-rence
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to have the father or guardian of apupil call at the school with a new switchash preferred which he would recom-
mend¬
highly for the correction ofunruly youth sometimes specifying the delinquents misdeeds sometimes urging thefrequent application of the switch on gen-
eral¬
principles Many a time I was ur-
gently¬
requested to flog a boy to theblood because he had started from home at7 a m to buy somo coffee for breakfastand had not returned till nightfall andthen put in an appearance without coffeeand without cash his crime being furtheraggravated by his having played truantfrom school At first this playing
hookey was much in vogue but as soonas the boys understood that I invariablyinformed their parents whenever prac-ticable
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of their absence from school thoattendance became much more regular
At first it was somewhat difficult tomake the boys understand that they mustarrive punctually at the hours establish-ed
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and must put in their appearancewashed combed and brushed This lastwas the hardest struggle but fairly goodresults were attained after a few weekswhen a few unwashed boys had been takento the well in the school yard and theresubmitted to rather copious ablutions un-
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my personal supervision nnd with mypersonal assistance
INDIAN FOIICY OF GEN BTONEMAN
In the meantime the condition of affairswith regard to Indian atrocities grewworse and worse a committee of ourcitizens was appointed to meet GenStoneman commanding tho Departmentof Arizona on tho Gila River to explainto him the death and destruction that wasbeing dealt out on every hand and toplead with him for assistance They received no words of sympathy nor anyhope of relief
The Legislature of 1S70 71 had met andprepared a pamphlet showing the slaugh ¬
ter of men women and children that wasgoing on but no relief came Finally aresolution was drafted and submitted toGovernor Safford before introductionalleging inefficiency of Stoneman andasking for his removal Governor Saffordadvised against its introduction He toldthe members of the Legislature that everyword of the resolution was true but thatin a few days they would return to privatelife and the fight would be alone on hishands and to give Stoneman public noticeof what they intended to do would placehim in a position to muster all his forcestowards preventing his removal and thatthe small patronage and iuflucnco of aTerritorial Governor would not be equalto the influence of a Department com¬
mander assured of office for life TheLegislature adjourned Jan 31 1871 TheGovernor started for Washington and metStoneman at San Diego The latter at onceproceeded to show the Governor the diff-iculties
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of the position He pulled from hispockets Eastern papers denouncing nunfor a very sanguinary proclamation he hadissued sometime before
Now said he you can see I am be-
tween¬
two fires If I pursue a relentlesswar against the Apaches as indicated inthis my proclamation then the peaceparty will attack me
The Governor replied that his proclama ¬
tion had not placed a soldier In the fieldnor had it killed an Indian The Generalreplied that the proclamation was in ¬
tended for tho Arizona market What ¬
ever that might imply has never been veryclear to the writer nor I think to Gov-ernor
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Safford from whose lips I quotetho conversation From that momentthe Governor made up his mind that aman who would trifle with the lives andproperty of the people he was 6ent to de¬
fend should not hold tho placoif he couldprevent it He went to Washington
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON D 0 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3 1905
where he had already once before inter-viewed
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Gen Sherman from which inter-view
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he was satisfied that if Stonemanwas to be removed the President wouldhave to do it He went therefore toPresident Grant in company with Dele-gate
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McCormick from Arizona and Sen-ator
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Stewart and asked tha removal ofGen Stoneman and the appointment ofGen Crook in his place
PRESIDENT GltANT REMOVES GEN STONE-
MAN
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The President listened attentively andreplied that he believed all tho statementsmade by Arizonas Governor and alsothat Sen Crook was the best Indianfighter in the Army but said that it wouldrequire tha cutting of a great deal of redtape to send Crook as he was only aLieutenant Colonel and pretty well downon the list at that The President wastold that the frontier expected from himprotection and that if it became neces-sary
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to cut red tape they believed hewould not hesitate to do it After a mo ¬
ments thought he said I believe I cansend him on his brevet rank of MajorGcncral He called the Secretary ofWar and in a moment the Governorsproposition was agreed upon and Stouenians head rolled into the basket
Before it was known in Arizona thatGen Stoneman had been removed the peo ¬
ple had lost all hope of relief and had de-
termined¬
that self preservation was thefirst law of nature To make mattersmore intolerable the hostilcs or somo ofthem had come to old Camp Grant andprofessing peace were put under chargeof Lieut Whitman who fed and protect-ed
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them It was soon demonstrated be¬
yond all question of doubt that these In-
dians¬
were carrying on a more destruc-tive
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wrrfare than ever before upon thesure plan of protection for their own livesand their stolen property by the troops ofthe United States People were murderedin cold blood while traveling while pur ¬
suing their agricultural pursuits whileherding their cattle the stolen propertytaken from them was traced to and foundupon Whitmans reservation He himselfturned a deaf ear to every complaint anddefended his own position by claiming tothe deluded peare party in the East thathe alone was defending the innocent In¬
dians against the brutal frontiersmen
SQUAW AND
who would be satisfied with nothin butthe extermination of the Indians
Under this state of affairs the citi ¬
zens saw no relief except to take thematter in their own hands and the CampGrant massacre was the result of theGovernments neglect and the long and pa ¬
tient suffering of it body of pioneers whotried to bring civilization into a heretoforewild country
To give a mere recital of the act ofkilling a few more or less of bloodthirstysavages without the details of the causesand provocations which drew a
and patient people to the adoptionof remedial measures so apparently cruelin their results would bo a great wrongand injustice to those of our friends nndneighbors who in various ways gave sanc ¬
tion and aid to the undertaking and wouldfall far short of the object and aim of thewriter to give fair and impartial history
In the year 1870 in accordance withtho peace policy which had been decidedupon by tho Government the Pinal andYavapai bands of Apache Indians werecollected together nnd placed upon a reser-vation
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around old Camp Grant at thejunction of the San Pedro and YavapaiCreeks about fS3 miles from Tucson un-
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the supervision of military stationedat that post One or two agents for themhad been taken from civil life but in ashort time their management proving un ¬
satisfactory one Royal E Whitman aLieutenant of the 3d Cav U S A wasassigned to duty as their agent Beingwhat is termed a sharp man nnd of athrifty turn he soon saw there wasmoney in the Apache and lost no time inthe practical application of that knowl-edge
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to do which successful requiredoutside partners who were soon found InTucson A sutlers storo was first startedfollowed by a blacksmith and a butchershop and a number of strikers chosen invarious capacities ostensibly for the ben ¬
efit of poor Lo really allidavy and easyconscious witness men for the lossand as a trite saying goes hell was fullyinauguratedSETTLERS ORGANIZE TO PROTECT THEM-
SELVES¬
Tho Indians soon commenced plunder-ing
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and murdering the citizens of TucsonSan Xavier Tubac Sonoitn San Pedroand every otlier settlement within a radius of 100 miles of old Camp Grant intho confidence that if they escaped totheir reservation they reached n securehaven During the Winter of 1870 71these murders and depredations wero souumcious as to threaten the abandonmentof nearly all tho settlements outside ofTucson especially that of San Pedro themost numerous und important of all inthe meantime the citizens of Tucson werearoused meetings were held upon the oc-
currence¬
of each new murder and outragerepresentations wero made to the LieutRoyal Whitman that his Indians wereplundering and murdering our peoplewhich he denied and stood ready to proveby every striker in tho reservation that hisIndians never left the reservation Mean ¬
while tho work of death and destructionwas kept up with ever increasing forceuntil the slaughter of Leslie B Woostcrmy former partner and his wife on thoSanta Cruz above Tucson so Inflamed thepeople tnat an indignation meeting washeld at Tucson a great amount of rcsoluting and speechifying indulged in nnd itwas determined to raise a military com ¬
pany at once for which a paper wasdrawn up and signers called for to which82 Americans signed their names I wasone of them and all hands were to cat upblood raw every Apache in tho land im-mediately
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upon the recurrence of a newoutrage
To be continued
ConservatismWashington Star
Wasnt the execution of the man whostoic horses a trifle irregular
It was je as regIar as we could makeit answered Bronco Bob stoutly
Course wo didnt have no judge or juryhandy But wo captured tho feller onWednesday an put off the hangin till Friday so s to hart it according to custom
TtfB PARADE
A Most arattfjlnc Demonstration In Spiteof the Shortness of tho Column
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The Pared of the veterans of the 37 thNational Encampment at San Franciscowas highly Stratifying- - to everybody inspite of thcunxamped shortness of thecolumn whlchf nnmbering less than7000 showed aitemarkable shrinkage overthe number In the parade at Washingtonthe previousEncampment It was ratherastonishingihowever to the older attend ¬
ants upon tho Encampment that owingto the distance there were so many About3500 or BTi per cent of tho total numberin line came from east or tne itocxyMountains leaving 27 12 or 14 per centfrom the States wesf of the Rocky Mountains of which California alone supplied38 per cent According to the actnal countthe veterans in line were as followsCalifornia and Nevada 2470
iijinoist o v uPennsylvania 25Indiana 228New York 20lWisconsin 187Ivnusas i -
Massachusetts 151tiissounMichigan 143Minnesota 141Is Otl JLttfWashington and Alaska 107Colorado and Wyoming 7South Dakota 74
til I III i
Vermont GlPotomac 25Connecticut 9NebraskaNew Hampshire SNew Jersey 8Kentucky 31Virginia and North Carolina 20Ulalt 0Oklahoma 25Rhode Island 20Maryland ISNorth Dakota 31Arizona 17Texas KWest Virginia 10i iiano jDelaware 13Arkansas 0New Mexico 0v loriua i
Total G2S0J
This included actual veterans only tak-ing
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no account of bands or otherin line nor does it account for the
Commander-in-Chie- f and Staff and manyAids who were mounted and assisted inmoving the columns Altogether it may besaid that there were fully 7000 men inthe column which took two hours almostexactly to pas3 a given point
it was an ideal day for marching andthe weather was like one of the best ofour Fall days in the East The morningdawned cool and foggy but later the sunramc out bright and clear His rays weretempcied by a fresh cool breeze whichprevented the heat becoming uncomforta-ble
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at any time The parade was wellmanaged tho diffcrentDepartmcnts movedpromptly after they started and therewere few stops until the parade was dis ¬
missedThe pebpebt San Francisco showed
the greatest interest and enthusiasm andwere packed along the entire line of marchbehind awlre ropo on either side of thestreet The police maintained tho best oforder and thepeople wero laviBh in theirapplause 9f the features of the parade ThePcnnsylvania4llags were enthusiasticallycheered Tho cosmopolitan character oftho population of San Francisco wasshown bytho- - vigorous cheering whichgreeted each- - Department is its distin-guishing
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rlarf t floated out upon the windand was recognized by theerowds of sonsand daughters of that particular Statewho had located in California Distin-guished
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features of the Departments suchas the sunflower of Kansas loaves ofbread carriediby the Minneapolis Post theheads of1 wheat by South Dakota the nut-meg
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of Connecticut the New Jersey musketo the ears of corn of Nebraska andsimilar emblems were enthusiasticallycheered Gen Shatter at the head of theCalifornia delegation bringing up the rearreceived a most flattering ovation GenMiles was everywhere an object of interest and applause and the whole paradewas a most enthusiastic one
TJie pavements of many of the streetswere very trying for the veterans but thelarger part of the march was over asphaltand few veterans showed fatigue when theparade was dismissed
COMMITTEES
Important Committees to Do the Work of theNational Encampment
Tho following is the memberships oftho various committees of the 37th Na-
tional
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EncampmentAddress of Commander-in-Chie-f A G
WeLssert Wisconsin Dwight O JuddMassachnsetts George W Patten Ten¬
nessee Benjamin Starr Indiana CharlesII Freeman New York
Report of Senior and Junior Vice Comma-
nder-in-Chief -- C W Buckley Ala-bama
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William Stahl John W RutterVirginia Joseph II Browning KentuckyB F Chase Potomac
Rules and Regulations Robert BBeath Pennsylvania Guy T Gould Illi-
nois¬
James S Dodge Indiana A WSmith Kansas II E Palmer Nebraska
Report of Adjutant General C APartridge Illinois Charles A SuydamPennsylvania Philip S Chase RhodeIsland Geo A Newton Iowa FrankBattles- New Hampshire
Report of ChapIain-in-Chic- f SeneccaTaylor Kansas Henry Perry OklahomaCharles Richtcr Ohio C S Lucas Ne¬
braska S G Cosgrove Washington andAlaska
Report of Inspector General WadeII Richardson Wisconsin James LMerrick Maine Henry McKnight NewYork Fayette Wykoff Michigan NBurton Rogers Connecticut
Report of Custodian Daniel RossDelaware David Isaacs New York JohnII Bolton Texas
To Visit Womans Relief Corps A CYcngling Ohio Ortou S Clark Minne ¬
sota C Mason- Kinne CaliforniaTo Visit Ladies of the G A R R H
Holgate Pennsylvania Richard Robertson West Virginia II J Itowc NorthDakota
On Resolutions N P Chipman Cali-fornia
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iChairmani C W Buckley Alabama Edwyird Schwartz Arizona GeorgeW Clark Arkansas William P Harbot- -tle Colorado and Wyoming George Illnvtmi rVmnpctirnt Daniel Ross Delaware JD enrr Mnrcotte Florida WilliamWalnect Georgia John M BernardIdaho Horace S Clark Illinois GeorgeW GrulibsIndiana II T Bolcn IndianTerritory Charles A Clark Iowa P HConey VKnpsas Michael Minton Ken-tucky
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Paul Bruce Louisiana and Missis ¬
sippi iWalnwright dishing MaineGeorge R Wheeler Maryland Charles IIFryc Massachusetts Louis Kanitz Mich-igan
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Perry Starkweather MinnesotaCharles G Burton Missouri W HBlack Montana S K Spalding Ne-
braska¬
Edward Carr New HampshireJames ihMilliken New Jersey RichardHudson New Mexico Allan G BakcwellNew York R M Davis North DakotaJ L Smith Ohio J P Cummings Okla-homa
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L E Caukin Oregon EdwinWalton Pennsylvania John McElroy Po-tomac
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Theodore F Dexter Rhode IslandPhilip Lawrence South Dakota W JSmith Tennessee Edward KetchumTexas Frank H Clark Utah J HGoulding Vermont George W McAllisterVirginia and North Carolina J S BrownWashington and Alaska George B Wood ¬
cock West Virginia J W Ganes Wis-consin
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AilmentsPuck
Doctor Smith Ive no patienco withpurely imaginary ailments
Doctor Jones Youre lucky Ive half-a-doz-
all the time
COUNCIL OF ADMINISTRATION
Comrades Who Will Exercise the Powers ofthe Encampment Ad Interim
Alabama M D Wickersham MobileArizona Gcorgo Atkinson Globe Arkan ¬
sas A A Whisson Little Rock Califor-nia
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and Nevada A W Barrett Los An-geles
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Colorado and Wyoming U S Holllster Denver Connecticnt A C Hen-dricks
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New Haven Delaware SamuelWorrell Newark Florida Charles Dono-van
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Tampa Georgia J A ComerfordMarietta Idaho George M ParsonsBoise Illinois Thomas W Scott Fairf-ield
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Indiana Henry A Root MichiganCity Indian Territory David RcdfieldArdmore Kansas P H Coney TopekaKentucky Jacob Scibert LouisvilleLouisiana and Mississippi Charles HShute Cambridge Mass Maine LouisSelriug Augusta Maryland ltobert uSnnstrom Baltimore Massachnsetts JohnW Horsey Springfield Michigan E BFcnton Detroit Minnesota L W Collins St Cloud Missouri Jero T DewKansas City Montana H S nanscll Columbia Falls Nebraska Andrew TraynorMilford New Jersey Clayland TildenJersey City New Mexico John R McFieSanta Fe New York James Owens 227East 124th street New York City NorthDakota S K McGinnis Ohio A ATaylor Cambridge Oklahoma WesleyTaylor Perry Oregon L w IngramOregon City Pennsylvania Thomas GSample Allegheny Box 87 Potomac BF Entrekin Washington D C Rhode Island John X lienyon Iroviuencc aoutnDakota A B Nelson Pierre TennesseeNewton Hacker Jonesboro Texas R MMoore San Antonio Utah W WBostaph Ogden Termont A C BrownMontpelier Virginia and North CarolinaJames E Fuller Norfolk Washingtonand Alaska S W Clark Seattle WestVirginia G B Woodcock New Martins-ville
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Wisconsin Phil Check Baraboo
Philippine VeteransThe Annual Reunion of the National
Society of the Army of the Philippinesbegan at St Iaul last Tuesday with alarge attendance probably over 2000 Ithas two questions before it one being as tothe admission of Contract burgeons andthe otlier that of forming a Ladies Auxiliary similar to the R C St Louis ismaking a vigorous campaign for the nextReunion with Chattanooga Put-in-Ba- y
Buffalo Chicago and Cleveland as com-petitors
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Ladles of the GAROfficers elected and installed for the
coming yearNational President Mrs Belinda S
Bailey of California S V I Mrs RuthFoote Colorado J V I Mrs EmmaPierce Massachusetts Treas Mrs JuliaM Gordon Kansus Chaplain Mrs Jeunio Varney Minnesota Secretary MrsAlbie L Krebbs California Council ofAdministration Mrs Hannah M Cham- -
berlin New York Miss Ruth Hall Wheel-ing
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W Va and Mrs Mary T Hager-Illinois
TO CAPTIVITY LED
Results of a Daring EnterpriseEditor National Tribune Just af¬
ter Gettysburg July 5 1813 Capt AbramJones commanding about 100 men of the1st N Y Cav known as Lincoln Cav-alry
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dashed into a strong column ofLees army at Grecncastle Pa aiid cap-
tured¬
700 prisoners and 200 wagons Be-ing
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in the extreme front and failing toexercise proper discretion I rode too farwithin the Confederate lines and was cap-tured
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When I surrendered I was near abattery A Colonel said To charge abattery single handed is certainly a gal-
lant¬
act I wish you belonged to my com-mand
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I replied that I thanked God Iwas not a rebel No other member of myregiment was captured My captors di¬
vested me of hat boots in fact of abouteverything except my pants and handker¬
chief I walked barefooted from Greencastlo to Staunton Ya Of course I be¬
came1 tired it being a long and weary wayto travel with blsedlng feet I was as-
sured¬
that if I failed to keep up with theprocession a bayonet would be runthrough me I gavo one of my captors afive dollar gold- - piece to get me a loaf ofbread He cheerfully accepted the goldbut failed to deliver the bread thereuponin sudden heat and passion I seized hisgun and assaulted him giving him a pairof very black eyes They condemned meto be shot but when Gen Imboden learnedthat I had given tho fellow my money forwhich I had received nothing in returnhe remitted the sentence saying my of-
fense¬
was a pardonable one Rejoiningthe column of prisoners the most of whomhad been taken at Gettysburg I resumedthe march On to Richmond
After a brief stay at Libby Prison wewero transferred to Belle Isle whereLieut Boisseur was in charge On thesecond day there we were relieved of allvaluables money and watches especiallyI had a few dollars in ray pocket bookwhich I threw back over the dead ljneat tho same time calling Lieut Boisseux athief Infuriated he seized a gun andwould have run the bayonet through mehad not one of the guards interfered inmy behalf However he gavo mo a vio-
lent¬
kick and ordered me to go after thepocket book Instead of going I called tothe boj s on the other side to throw it overto me which they did When the Lieu-tenant
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found there was little wealth in thepocket book he was evidently disappoint-ed
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plainly showing that he was disgustedwith me for not having a more plethoricwallet
However when ho ordered a thoroughinvestigation of my scant habiliments themoney I had sewed up in my pants wasrevealed to his rapacious gaze and ofcourse he eagerly took it all
The prisoners were permitted to bathein the James River and Lieut Boisseurtreating me with distinguished considera-tion
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put me in charge of the detachmentsof bathers my compensation being extrarations He ordered me to not let morethan 40 go into the water at one timeAgain perversely insubordinate I let outfrom 75 to SO and gradually increased thenumber to 150 After two weeks duty atthe bathing resort Boisseux probablyafraid I would take the entire encamp-ment
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in n swimming transferred mo tothe Commissary Department My dutywas to go on the boat to Richmond forbread a ration of which was aboutenough for a ld child to cat atone meal In addition to the bread alittle bean soup was served one or twobeans in a cup of liquid that representeda dead horse or mule
My sojourn at Belle Isle was in Julyand August When a detachment ofprisoners went out Aug 25 1SG3 LieutBoisseux told me to accompany them although my name was not on the list forexchange He sent me along as an extra becauso he had insulted me and Ihad had the courage to defend myself
I well remember the red headed Ser-geant
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at the gate I think ho was killedwhen our troops entered Richmond JohnClemens Co L 1st N Y Lincoln Cav-alry
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Canton O
Labor Union oathsRev Dr P A Baart Rector of St
Marys Church of Marshall Mich saidin a sermon that no Catholic could con-sistently
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take or keep the oath of somolabor unions and ho mentioned particu-larly
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tho Typographical Union part ofwhose oath he quoted as follows
I hereby solemnly and sincerely swearthat my fidelity to the TypographicalUnion and my duty to the members there-of
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shall in no sense be interfered with byany allegiance that I may now or here-after
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owe to any other organization so-cial
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political or religiousFather Baart said this oath placed the
union before the church and before thestate nnd distinctly impeaches the loy-alty
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and catholicity of those who takesuch an oath Possibly tho leaders maynot have realized the fnll force of thewords they used in their oath butwhether they did or did not every pa-triotic
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citizen and every sincere consist-ent
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Catholic should demand that such anoath be modified and that the objection-able
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clause bo cut out
THE AMERICAN- -
SPANISH WARContinued from first pmg
struction in tactical exercises and otherduties of the highest importance to the ef-
ficiency¬
nnd health of troops in the fieldthat the importance of this preliminarywork was urgent ns also that it shouldbe completed in advance of the troopsleaving their States and it wrs further-more
¬
strongly represented that this mightbe done while the general nnd staff officerswere being selected appointed and prop-erly
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instructed and the large camiis werebeing secured and stores collected there-for
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It was a matter of very great con ¬
cern to me that unequipped ununiformedmen by the thousands should not be col-
lected¬
in great camps away from theirStates where it would difficult for thtmto be properly supplied with food campequipage blankets tentage medicinal sup-plies
¬
and transportation facilities for theabsence of these appliances could not butcause debilitating results upon the healthand strength of the men who were thusgathered together
secret serviceWhilr the railways of the United States
were engaged in transporting troops mu-
nitions¬
of war and supplies to Tampa andother points of departure on the Gulfand the South- Atlantic the military au-
thorities¬
at Washington took steps to o1
tain accurate and detailed informationwithin the limits of the prospective seatof war Two young energetic nnd intelli-gent
¬
officers of the Bureau of Military In ¬
formation were assigned the one to Cubathe other to Porto Rico to attempt thedaring and difficult duty of ascertainingand reporting conditions as they might befound to exist in the territories respective ¬
ly assigned to them Both in the resultsof their efforts gave abmidant proof ofthe wisdom of their selection
The cmissarv to Cuba Lieut Rowanhaving left the United States on April0 lauded April 21 at Portillo about 70miles wesfof Santiago de Cuba He penetrated the interior found and conferredwith Gen Garcia one of tne most suc ¬
cessful and brilliant leaders of the Cubanarmy and without undue delay hastenedto lay before hii superiors in Washingtonthe valuable data that he had acquiredWith Jen Garcias concurrence hebrought back with him two officers ofthat chieftains staff Brig Gen EnriqueCoIIazo and Lieut Col Carlos HernandezThe course of his return journey lay upto Manati on the North Coast thence byan open boat to Nassan New Providencewhence they arrived in the United StitesMay 13
It was nearly a month after Lieut Row-ans
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departure that Lieut Whitney sailedMay 5 from Key West for Porto Ricowhich after a 10 days voyage he en-
tered¬
and proceeded to explore under dis-
guise¬
giving- - his attention more particu-larly to the southern sections of the is-
land¬
He departed thence on his returnJuno 1 and reported the results of hismission in Washington on the th of thatmonth Like the report of Lient Row-an
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that of Lieut Whitney was eminentlysatisfactory at Army Headquarters- - Hehad gone on the most hazardous duty anofficer can be called ujton to perform Hewas in constant and imminent danger ofdiscovery the penalty for which wouldhave been an ignominious death fromwhich there could have been no appeal
SEVERAL RELIEF EXrEDITIOXS
carrying arms and supplies for the Cu ¬
bans were organized and dispatched Thefirst of these was equipped at Key Westunder the direction or Col Hall since pro-moted
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to Brigadier General This expe-dition
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landed under charge of Capt OConnell of the United States Army his as-
sistant¬
Lieut Crofton also of the Armybeing the first officer to land on Cuban soilduring the Spanish American War
One of the most important of these ex-
peditions¬
was under the command ofLieut Col Dorst of the volunteer armywhich sailed from Key West by way ofNassau and landed at the harbor of Baneson the north coast of Cuba where lie de-
livered¬
to the Cubans who held nnd con-tinued to hold that port 7500 riflesn mil-
lion¬
cartridges 5000- uniforms and othermunitions of war and supplies of whichthe 10000 veteran Cubans under GenGarcia stood sadly in need Col Dorstreturned early in June reported the en-
tire¬
snecess of his expedition and receivedthe hearty congratulations of his com ¬
manding officers whose trust he had sothoroughly vindicated
Meanwhile the forces gathering at Tam-pa
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originally destined for an invasionofCuba on a much larger scale were beingorganized to a strength of 5000 with aview to a lodgment at Tunas on the southside of Cuba where it was expected toopen communication with the General-in-Chi-
of the Cuban forces Gen Gomezand support and co operate with him inthe healthful mountain region where hewas understood to be operating This ex-
pedition¬
was designed to iie under thecommand of Maj Gcn Shatter the sen-
ior¬
officer then at Tampa and was in-
tended¬
to be strong enough to effect alandimr and maintain its nosition whilefurnishing all the supplies needed by theforce of Gen Gomez I he movementof Admiral Ccrveras fleet from the Capede Verde Islands rendered necessary theadoption of new plans and this expedition like the first one designed was sus¬
pended and in effect never advanced totho point of setting sailQES MILES DETERMINES TO TAKE THE
FIELDThe reports of conditions at Tampa be-
came¬
such that at this time I determinedto take the field in person with headquar-ters
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temporarily at Tampa I Issued anorder to the Armv designed to increaseand promote the esprit de corps on thepart of officers and men to bring themilitary forces to the highest state of ef-ficiency
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and to call forth the best energiesof all the elements composing the Armyof whatever character or station in orderthat they might the more speedily accom-plish
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the objects in view through an in-
creased¬
zeal for the cause and an enlargedearnestness of effort Attention was calledto the high development which had beenreached throughout the civilized world Uytho experience of the past century andthe faithful observance of laws and reg-ulations
¬
which govern military bodies innil civilized countries and I urged that nilofficers of whatever grade should as faras lay in their power guard and preservethe health and welfare of all under theircharge that the officers should labor dili-gently
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and zealously to perfect themselvesand their subordinates in military drillinstruction and discipline and above allthat they should constantly endeavor byprecept and example to maintain the high-est
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soldierly standard to foster and stimulate that high soldierly spirit and patrioticdevotion to duty which must characterizean effective army Reciting the fact thatthe order was issued upon the day sacredtotho memory of the heroic dead the 30thof May I hoped that the injunctions fromall the circumstances would be stronglyimpressed and result beneficially mostespecially throughout the volunteer regiments that were so rapidly forming andlessen the dangers that are always presentwith large bodies of men gathered on shortnotice for a great national purpose
Definite information having been receiv ¬
ed that Ccrveras licet had been inclosed inthe harbor of Santiago de Cuba by ourNavy orders were given to Uen ShatterMay 30 to embark his troops and proceedto that harbor for the purpose of assistingour naval forces in capturing that fleetand on the same evening 1 left Wash-ington
HEACIIING TAMrA
on the 1st of June I found that placecrowded with an indiscriminate accumu-lation
¬
of supplies and war material Theconfusion owing partly to the want ofterminal railway facilities and nartlv tothe want of system in loading and billingmaterial appeared lor a time to be utter-ly
¬
inextricable The sidings from the Dortof Tampa for perhaps 50 miles into theinterior were blocked with cars ami theresulting difficulties of the situation prevented proper embarkation of the troopsearlier than June S on which date theflotilla was in the act- of moving to seaThis movement however- - was suspendedby orders from Washington and the expedition did not sail until the 14th My i
Business and professional men whoMlabors are largely mental whose work bja constant drain upon tho nervous systemfind It necessary to have a reservo of nervoforce to withstand the effect of mentalstrain
When sleep is courted in vain wheatho stomach is frequently out of ordorwhen the daily stint becomes a burdeninstead of a pleasure when you rise intha morning with less energy and ambitjon than when you retired your con¬
dition is so serious as to demand instantattention and treatment It is not a casato bo cured by a few weeks rest nor of
my stomach slightly upset nor of Illbe all right in a few days It is a ner¬
vous disorder which if neglected willlead to nervous prostration with its at¬
tendant horrors of fainting spells of men-tal
¬
nnd physical weakness irritabilitymorbid fears and ultimately insanity Un¬
der certain conditions these symptoms- maylead to chronic headache insomnia oinervous dyspepsia and if tho sufferer lapredisposed to heart trouble the mostcommon cause of sudden death
When the system receives that aid fromwithout which will replenish nervo forcoand vitality rebuilding and restoringnerve cells and tissue strengthening thanerve centers of the brain heart stom-ach
¬lungs or whatever organ is affected
the annoying symptoms will disappearDr Miles Restorative Nervine nour¬
ishes the nerves It quiets and strength-ens
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them rests and recuperates thembuilds new tissue and restores health Itrestores the exact clement which weak-ened
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exhausted tired and hungry nerveslack
Dr Stiles Nervine will preserve thabalance of health and restore it when lostIt will counteract natural decay and es-
tablish¬
a reserve of nerve force which willwithstand the attacks of overwork anddisease
AH druggists sell and guarantee DrMiles Nervine If the first bottle doeanot benefit yon you may have yourmoney back Send for free Treatise- onNervous Diseases
Dr Miles Medical Co Elkhart Ind
quest for permission to accompany the ex-pedition
¬
had not been granted and on thaday following its departure I received andimmediately complied with the following
Washington D CJune 15 183SMaj Gen Miles
Tampa FlaImportant business requires your pres ¬
ence here report at once AnswerR A AloerSecretary of War
To be continued
picketshots- m -
From Alert Comrades Along the WboltLine
IN BATTLE WITHOUT A FLAOEdward Fisher Co I 130th Pa Mil
roy Ind writes My regiment newly en-listed
¬
joined the Army of the Potomac atRockville Md Sept 5 1862 becoming apart of the Second Brigade Third Divis-ion
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Second Corps Gen Sumner command ¬
ing We were under fire nt South Moun ¬
tain and fought near Bloody Lane Antietam without a flag having then beenin the servico only one month
When on picket for the first time waheard a terrifying noise in tho darknessbeyond Forthwith we fired a few straypicket shots following them with a volleyNone of the shots were fatal so far as Iever heard On subsequent occasoni wawere not so nervous My Post is in favorof a straight 12 service pensionnniLLrANT cavalry charge at farm--
IXGTOy
J R Buttolfh Sergeant 2d Iowa Bat-tery
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Ogden Iowa writes Somo ac-counts
¬
of the battle of Farmington arobadly mixed especially as to dates May9 is my date It was there that the 2dIowa Cav then n full regiment- - and twocompanies of the 4th Regulars made thagrandest cavalry charge 1 saw during thowar The object of the charge was tocheck the rebels that the artillery andordnance wagons might have time to re-
treat¬
across a swamp by way of a singlacorduroy road on which a rebel bitterywas posted and which swept the roadfrom one end to the otlier It was thisbattery that the cavalry charged silencingit long enough for our three batteries andthe train to pass over in safety We hadbeen held there too long I wonder if thaboys of the 2d Iowa Cav or any of thaold Eagle Brigade have forgotten thadate
IS DEXIS TEH AX LIVIXOJohn S McMahon Dixon Cal writes
About the 2oth of April the Constableof this town found a roll of blankets in abox- car and in the roll was a pocketbook containing papers among which arathe following Certificate of Dischargedated April 24 1S03 issued by tho Adjut-
ant-General U S War Dept to DenisTehan Battery M 1st U S Art on proofof loss of former discharge also n certifi-cate
¬
from the Adjutant General of NewHampshire issued to Denis Tehan whoenlisted Sept 12 18Cl in Co- - G 4th NH Inf afterward transferred to BatteryM 1st U S Art Jan IS 1SW also Pen-sion
¬
Certificate No SC5873 issued toDenis Tehan Co H Sth U S- - Vet VolInf May 12 1S07 also Pension Voucherfor 30 drawn on U-- S Pension Agency atTopeka Kan May 4 to Aug 4 1902not filled out by pensioner or notary alsopapers showing that Denis Tehan was aninmate of the National Military HomeTopeka Kans in March 1S98 Thaother papers are of similar importanceTho papers are in my possession subjectto the call of DenisTehan or his heirs
OLD GLORY
Comrade James McGovern Date CreekStation Ariz says he remembers distinct¬
ly when old Ben Driver of Nashvillebrought forth his concealed flag upon theentrance of the Union troops and floatedit out on the breeze and saluted it as
Old Glory Comrade McGovern knewDriver well as his father lived near Dri-ver
¬
and he went to school with the Driverchildren Driver was an owner of a shoestore on College street Comrade Mc¬
Govern took the first opportunity to gointo the service and enlisted in the Navyserving three years on the U S S StMarys under Capt Bailey
FOUNDDavid H Nolf Co C 7Sth Pa 127
Spruce St DtiBois Pa writes I foundat Pittsburg Pa a silver shield that be¬
longed to a comrade of the Ninth CorpsUpon it is inscribed Jos Dotter Co C143 Rcgt P V Inf war of 1SG1 Thaowner or any of his friends can have thashield by addressing me as above
m
Work of the Pension OfficeThe report of certificate Issued for the week ended
August 2 showsArmy Invalids OrlslnaLI Increase 491 reissue 23
restoration 3 renewal 39 supplemental 6 duplicatet accrued 101 Total 609
Army Nurses Original IArmy Widows etc Original 40 reissue C renewal
30 accrued Z Total S4Navy Invalids Increase 2 reissue 2 accrued X
MoiaiOld Wars Invalids Accrued 1
Army Invalids fwar with Spain Original 72 Increase 9 reissue 7 restoration 2 duplicate L To--rai ji
Army Widows etc war with Spain Original 2SNavjr Invalids warwith Spain Original 1
Anuy Invalids Regular Establishment Original 91increase 5 reissue 1 accrued 4 Tola 13
Army Widows etc Regular Estatlbhmcnt Origi ¬
nal 12 accrued 1 Total 11Xavy Invalids Regular Establishment Increase 2Navy Widows etc Regular Establishment Re
newal 1
Army Invalids act of June 27 ISM Original 188Increase 10S2 additional 204 retvue 10 restoration45 renewal31 supplemental 4 duplicate 4 accrued174 Total lflK
Armv Widows etc act of June 27 1S90 Original273 reissue supplemental lduplicate2 accrued 2Total 291
Navy Invalids act of June 27 1390 Original 12 In¬
crease 90 restoration I renewal 3 accrued- - To--rai ii jNavy Widows etc f t nrJnne271S90 Original 1L
ales lean war survivors ungtual i increase srjissuea suppiemenaL accrueti ioiaii r
Mexican War Widows Original 12Indian Wars dttt ISC Survivors Original 15 ac
crued 3 Total aIndian WarsllAC eVIdwt Original 12Totals Original S93 increase IKW addillonal 204
reissue no restoration 51 renew 104 supplementalit Tfiiiiisrn mvfiti in ivrni n m m
