The following resolutions were sub-clusions of 1876. mitted by Mr. Pembroke:

Whereas, The United States government about two years ago appropriated funds to provide for the selection of reservoir sites in certain sections of this country, and

Whereas, That Utah lake was selected as a site for such reservoir by the government for that purpose, and

The Evening Post says "37 millions
in gold have left the United States in
five months.

Chinaman brought my washing to my
Whilst writing the above, John
bachelor quarters, wrapped in a New
which the specie and bullion exports
York Tribune of 28th January last, in
and imports for the month of December
were given:
Exports
Imports...

Whereas, Such agent did recommend
and secure the withdrawal from purchase
and settlement of all government lands
bordering on said lake and that an appro-
priation should be made by Congress to
purchase contiguous lands for the pur-six months' exports ending Decem-
pose of storing water thereon, and

Whereas, by bringing to this city a greater quantity of Utah Lake water we shall be enabled to increase our supply of water to the extent of many millions of gallons daily, which will be of inestimable value to this city; therefore be it

Resolved, That an agent be appointed to visit Washington and urge such action upon Congress as will cause consumation of the establishment of this govern

No government, especially this government, has a right to legislate on with the market price by means o any marketable product. Interference legislation, either in local or nationa houses, in provincial or metropolitan halls, has been, is, and always will be a dangerous experiment. Somebody suffers, and too often those of us-the working classes-who can least afford to suffer. Take the last legislation on silver. Silver was the most specula 42,533,479 tive article ou the stock list; the fluctuations reached 35 per 50,362,340 in the or four months. In addition to one 이 the members of the Stock Exchange. who bought silver certificates on a fall ing market, and who had recourse to something stronger than water to prevent his taking a single journey ticket downstairs, it has had the effect of not allowing the miners of Utah who are leasing to sell their ores at a profit; the smelters in the uncertain state of silver are perfectly independent of small mines.

The New York Tribune says the above is the government report and is dated 27th January, noon. "Silver has been money all over the world for centuris." Numismatists know that copper

and bronze are our oldest coins.

H. D. J. writes in his last paragraph but one as follows:

"I have never yet been able to see why it is the duty of the United States to look to othergovernments for a policy in regard to the kind of money we use. We are at least old enough, and I hope Wise enough, to know what we require as a circulating medium, and I think we ought not to be dependent upon 45 09 other countries for dictation in the 3500 matter. Let us make such money as

a this country are proofs averse to ach statements. We were told that 100,000 ozs. of silver held in London ere sold in this country at the adanced price. Austria, it was reported, as 200,000,000 florins to dispose. The eight of the florin or guldon is 190.5 ains. When any country tries to ep up the price of a single article for e whole world, it is a costly periment for the nation, as it must ult ir a loss to that country. The hances are that the rest of the world ill be benefited. The policy that has r its object-no matter by whom riginated—the purchase of speculative

him twelve and a half rolls of silver were at stake, but they regarded
dollars; the result is, H. D. J. calls the nothing in the world as too dear
teller's nearest female relative a name to them to be constantly on
she never received at the baptismal the altar of sacrifice.
In order
font, and peremptorily tells him to go to demonstrate their devotion and love
to that place where the British army to the cause they espoused, they vol-
has been going ever since the battle untarily parted with all of their sub-
of Waterloo. In Mexico and in South stance, contributing it to a common
America, packing $400 or $500 is not fund which was set apart to carry on
all fun.
E. S. the work. There was one member who
then had lately come into possession of
a legacy of twenty thousand roubles
which he was supposed to place at the
command of the society, but it was
afterwards learned that he had kept
back five thousand roubles. This afford-

February 7, 1891.

STEPNIAK THE EXILE.

Last evening, in Lincoln Hall, ock, should not only be discounten- a large and intelligent Washing-ed his fellows a great deal of amuseced, but should be ignominously ton audience did honor to Step-ment, and they one and all after that anded. Free coinage advocates may niak, the Russian exile, who oc looked upon him as one of the most y:"Buy up the present stock;" why cupied a couple of hours in the form of cautious members of the society. a few months there would be an- a lecture on Russian nihilism, its inher stock. ception and growth, its character and objects, and the political and local conditions of this country.

The silver production of 1889 was alued commercially at $46,750,000, ita ining value $64,647,464. The total tput of the world for that year was 61,318,000 coining value. From 1870 1890 the excess of silver exports over Fiver imports ranged from $1,227,980 in 80 to $27,000,000 in 1873, the year hich H. D. J. says silver was deonetized; and yet in spite of such exorts, there were in the treasury on he 1st of November, 1890, over $352, 00,000 of silver. What are we to do ith this amount of silver, and the creasing output, not of our mines hly, but of mines everywhere?

I admit that free coinage will give o many articles an apparent increase f value. Free coinage is an exotic m. Inflation is not prosperity. As efore stated, our merchants receive or their goods silver at a distended alue; they are forced to pay gold coin t the gold standard for these same oods; the result will be bankruptcy to omebody.

Let us take silver from the narrow at from which it has been discussed nd treat it on the broader principle. We will suppose that H. D. J. is a armer, who has 1000 bushels of wheat D sell, the market price of which is 80 ents; he goes to the Secretary of the reasury and says, "I have 1000 bushIs worth 80 cents, and I want you to sue a dollar certificate against every ushel of that wheat." The manager f the shoe factory may with equal race say, "Here are 500 slippers, I an't sell them, the market price is 85 ents; give me 500 one dollar certifiates." The Secretary says, "I can't lo that, as I would have to build ware

houses."

The noted Russian is about fifty years of age, stoutly built and not more than five feet nine inches in height. He has a large rugged heal, massive forehead, abundant dark hair and full beard, broad face and coal black deep set eyes. He speaks like a man full of ardor and passion, but uudoubtedly possesses a strong, wellbalanced mind. He is an intelligent, educated man, has a good command of the English language, but speaks it with difficulty.

They directed their labors among the laboring classes and peasantry, well knowing that to be caught meant fifteen years' hard labor in Siberia-and, he said, it was a common thing now to banish men to Siberia for speaking to people on political matters that were declared on the house-tops in America.

After they had separated to move among the people, some of their number going out to villages to talk with the peasantry, and having been absent from each other for some little time, they agreed to meet at a certain house on a certain night to compare notes. The lecturer described with much feeling the joy experienced by their little He outlined the incipiency of the company, numbering eight, on that nihilistic movement by relating his occasion, and he named and described own experiences, he having been one each individual, five of whom-three of the first of the nihilistic propagand- men and two ladies-had sacrificed ists. After hearing Stepniak explain their lives for the cause. In this way the character and objects of what is they worked, sometimes meeting with called nihilism, your correspondent success, at others reverses; but they was more firmly convinced than ever never entertained a feeling akin to that, in order for a people engaged in that of bloodshed, as generally underan unpopular cause to be correctly un-stood to be associated with the doctrines derstood, they should be accorded the of the nihilists. The speaker referred privilege of representing themselves in to the wholesale banishment of people their own way. to Siberia who had broken no law nor sought to incite others to break it, but simply for talking too freely among the people upon subjects commonly talked about by people enjoying a representative government.

When, he said, he and his fellow
"revolutionists" first communed to-
gether for the purpose of taking steps
looking to the amelioration of their
countrymen, they were imbued with
the conviction-belonging as they did
Since the inception of this move-
to the better class of society-that they ment, Stepniak said, he was pleased to
naturally shared the responsibility for be able to state that conditions had
the unfortunate condition of the Rus- greatly changed both on the part of the
sian peasantry; and they resolved at government officials and the nihilists
first to make a clean sweep of every- themselves. It is generally admitted
thing not absolutely spotless which today that Russia is on the eve of a
tended to produce the results of serfdom great revolution, not a general uprising,
and ignorance. But in the sober sec- of the people against the Czar, but a
ond thought they came to the conclu- revolution that will find its expres-
sion that the state of society was so bad sion in a general demand for a repre-
and their numbers compared with the sentative form of government,
one hundred millions of Russia's pop- local autonomy, freedom
ulation so infinitesimally small, that the press and of speech, the
they changed their minds on that right of public meetings and of
score, and decided on a less radical petition. There is no desire, he said,
policy.
on the part of the nihilists to do away
with the Czar as the head of the na-
tion, but they hold that as the empire
is so immensely large and its popula
tion so overwhelmingly great, it is a
matter of impossibility for him to gov-
ern it in person, and that therefore his
power should be limited by national
representation. The educated classes,
it is said, are generally in sympathy
with this demand.

"Can't you build, Mr. Secretary,
warehouses to put manufactured goods,
grain, etc., as easily as you can build
the same for the storage of silver?”
Before closing I would say, I am a
Liner, and know nothing save mining,
though twice, at the solicitation of
The society at first numbered not
by dearest friends. I have tried other more than seven or eight, and it was
ines, with but indifferent success. To necessarily a secret organization Their
how that I am an advocate of silver, I meetings were purely educational in
may remark that my watch, my chain, character, and although essentially a
my sleeve links, my studs, my buttons, political movement, the spirit of the
all the jewelry I have ever bought have movement was more akin to religion
been silver; therefore I maintain I am than politics. Prepared lectures were
doing more for the maintenance of the delivered at each meeting, which, by
price of silver than by writing a thou- the way, were privately conducted,
sand articles on "free coinage." The and each member was supposed to work
West, though the largest producer of
silver, is the section that uses it least.
H. D. J. goes to the Bank on Monday
with a check for $250; the teller gives

quietly and discreetly among his
fellows with the view of increasing
their numbers. These young men
knew well that their lives and liberties

of

The very mention of the word nihilist, as understood by people generally who have been "educated" by that most potent of all so-called educators, "the press,” carries with it everything

In answer to the question why the Russian workmen had not organized themselves into trades unions, he said for the simple reason that it would be a crime to do so. G. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 28, 1891.

DIABOLICAL DYNAMITE PLOT.

are not allowed to live at all, and
where they are permitted to live, out
of the 1600 usurers only 100 are. Jews,
and out of the five millions of Jews in
Russia but one tenth are able to live
off their money, the great majority
being laborers. But it is generally
understood that as usurers the Jews in-
dulge in "cut rates," and this annoys
the "Christian;" and as middle men
in business it is generally conceded
CHICAGO, Feb. 11.-If the stories
that the Jews are better and that they told by an agent of the Treasury De
work cheaper than the "Christian" partment now in the city are true, one
- hence the "Christian" logic, "The of the most diabolical dynamite plots,
Jew must go." As it is impossible to involving a great loss of life and prop-
expel five millions of people, in the ab-erty, has been discovered, and its con-
sence of national legislation, the offi- summation was prevented just on the
cials as before stated, in the exercise of eve of its being put into effect. The
their enormous discretionary powers, Western Distillers and Cattle Herders'
and in order to pander to the Jew Association, better known
craze, in so many ways, render it so "Whisky Trust," is a corporation with
unpleasant for the Hebrews that they a capital stock of $35,000,000, and con-
who can do so leave the country.
trols the price of highwines through-
out the country, as it controls all of the
distilleries, with two or three excep
tions. The most important distillery
outside of the combination is that of H.
H. Shufeldt of this city, and it was
against this concern that the plot was
arranged.

that is abhorrent. That a better under-
standing might be had it should be
known that there are but two classes in
Russia, nihilists and autocrats; in other
words, those who favor absolutis.n as
against those who want a change from
centralized power. The nihilists are
the people who are struggling for the
common liberties enjoyed in England
and America; but as the right of pe-
tition and of free speech are denied,
the question arises, how is the change
to be effected? The work of the nihilists
or radicals must necessarily be done in
secret, and for that reason Stepniak
could not see how the great change in
governmental affairs which is now so
generally demanded in Russia could
be brought about except by revolution.
The lecturer drew a comparison be-
tween the conditions now existing in
Russia with those of France immedi-
ately before the French revolution.
The humanitarian feeling has gained It must be borne in mind that the
wonderful headway among the educat lower classes especially fear the officials
ed classes whom he regarded as the more than the law; in fact the officials
brain and nerve of the nation, and this are practically the law. For instance,
spirit and feeling had an immense field none are allowed to repair or build a
to operate upon in the miserable con- house without permission of the offi-
dition of the masses, and it was, in his cials of the government. The house of
opinion, only a question of a compara- the Jew needs repairing; he is unable
tively short time for the peasantry and to obtain permission to do so; it becomes
working classes throughout the Empire but a question of time for the Israelite
to become imbued with one common to be houseless-for none are allowed to
feeling, and when this shall be the case rent to a Jew now. The village Jew
a general revolution was inevitable. goes to the city to attend his church;
But he said the nihilists, foreseeing on his return he is met by the police,
this, want to prevent it, and they
would do it in the way of reforms in
the government, and to effect this and
thus prevent a revolution the nibilists
are asking the moral support of all
liberty-loving peoples and nations.

who tell him he must leave the village
as the villagers never leave the village,
to attend church. A "Mormon" can
well imagine how the scoundrelly
police would exercise their almost im-
perial authority over the poor defense-
less Jew. In the first place, it is con-
sidered an evidence of loyalty to the
government to see something un-Rus.
sian in the Jew; espionage is resorted
to and the "Christian" spotter finds
his paradise; if the spotter has not
really heard the Jew complain against
the officials, he imagines he has heard
him bewail his condition, and the poor
fellow, from abject fear, has to bribe
the spotter to be his "friend," and the
result is that hush-money is part of the
Jew's stock in trade, so great is the de-
mand for it.

Stepniak paid a high compliment to George Kennan, whose writings had done so much in England and America to popularize the nihilistic cause; the heaviest blow that had been dealt to autocratic Russia had emanated from the pen of this man. An enlightened public opinion is so great and potent a power, that above all things else the leaders of nihilistic Russia most courted it; and they invite the public generally to inform themselves on the struggle now going on in Russia for liberty, and to give it honorable support. These people are not only persecuted The exiled Russian closed his by the police but by the worst elements interesting lecture by expressing of the people, and none dare take their himself grateful that civiliza-part with impunity. The parson of tion had gained a weapon more St. Michael's and those of other noted potent than arms in the conflict of churches have been dismissed for liftright and wrong, namely that of an ing up their voices in public against enlightened public opinion. the persecution of this unfortunate In answer to a question by a gentle-people. Stepniak regards the Jews of man in the audience as to what had the civilized world remiss in a plain led to the persecution and expulsion of duty and unpatriotic in that they have Jews in Russia, the lecturer said there not united in all honorable means to was no particular reason in politics for make their influence felt in Russia it; that it was chiefly the result of against the persecution of their race. ignorance on the part of the Russian And he related an instance now one people who have been made to believe man-Baron Rothschild-brought the by certain business rivals of the Jews Czar himself to time, peremptorily that they are usurers and therefore requiring him to see that a certain enemies of the workingman; and a Israelite, who had been imposed upon kind of snobbish dislike on the and robbed by governmental authority, part of the society "Christians" to- was indemnified for losses sustained." wards the descendants of Abraham, In answer to another question, why which feeling of dislike is so inter- it was that the nihilists of Chicago preted by the government officials in had proven themselves unworthy of the exercise of their discretionary American citizenship, Stepniak said powers as to render it absolutely impossible or unsafe for the Jews to live in Russia. The cry of "usurer" against the Jews was only for effect. In thirtyseven of the Provinces of Russia Jews

there was no authority to show that
any of those men were Russians, that
the same question had been put to him
before, and that he had taken pains to
enquire but had received no confirma-

tion of that rumor.

as the

THE EXPOSURE OF THE CONSPIRACY

occurred this morning. George J. Gibson of Peoria, Ill., arrived at 6 o'clock and, on complaint of SolicitorGeneral Hart of the Treasury Depart ment, who came from Washington for the purpose, was arrested as he alighted from the carriage at the Grand Pacific Hotel and hurried across the street into the government building, where he was at once locked up.

The arrest

was made as quietly as possible and the fact was not made public until some hours afterwards. The charge lai at Gibson's door is that he offered General Gauger T. S. Dewar, who is on duty at Shufeldt's distillery, a bribe to blow up the distil lery with dynamite.

Solicitor Hart tells the story of the plot: He said Gibson opened communications with Dewar some time ago, telling him at first that hufeldt's concern was in the way, and they were trying to get it out of the way. Finally he offered Dewar $10,000 and then increased the offer to $25,000 to blow up the concern. Gibson told him that he had a dynamite machine that could be exploded between two large tanks, releasing and

SETTING ON FIRE A SEA OF ALCOHOL. There would be plenty of time for De. war to get away, and he was the only man who could place the machine, because of the fact that as a general employe he had access to all parts of the building.

"Gibson lied," said Hart, "when he told Dewar the machine would not go off until he had time to get out, for it would have exploded at once, killing the man who placed it before he could possibly get away, thus destroying the only evidence against the trust people and at the same time saving to them the $25,000 bribe. In addition to the destruction of Dewar and the buildings, the success of the plot meant unquestionably the death of 150 persons working in the place. As I say, Dewar, under our instructions, went the length of the conspiracy to the point of doing the diabolical deed, and when Gibson was arrested he was waiting uneasily, expecting to hear of the ex

plosion and destruction of all those Gibson's arrest is the result of a conlives and all that property. We have spiracy of the anti-trust distillers. He in our possession all the evidence to has been a resident of this city since substantiate Dewar's story, the dyna- 1879, when he came from Cleveland mite machine, letters and the contract and entered the March distillery as between Dewar and Gibson, in fact, bookkeeper. When the trust was ⚫ everything. The case is practically formed in 1881 he was elected secreover, so far as our department is con-tary and has since held that position. cerned. The case is made." He made money rapidly and is now rated at $150,000.

"Have you any other evidence to show that others besides Gibson were implicated in the conspiracy?" Hart was asked.

“Gibson is secretary of the trust, and while we might reason that

HE WAS NOT ALONE

Mayor Clark, formerly a member of the association, said tonight that Gibson was not such a fool as to deal with a gauger in such a terrible affair, if it were true.

of places of refuge, and as soon as they came in sight a number of soldiers surrounded and butchered them.

Commissioner Morgan said to the interpreter: "I wish you would say to him that these are very serious charges to make against the army. I do not want any statements that are not absolutely true, and I want anyone here that feels the statements are too strong to correct them."

American Horse replied: "Of course it would have been all right if only the men were killed, but the fact of the killing of women and more especially young boys and girls, who are to make ple, we feel very seriously." the future strength of the Indian peo

Commissioner Does American Horse know these things of his own personal knowledge, or has he been told them?

It is rumored here tonight that Unitin this, and that somebody higher up week ago gained entrance to the trust ed States detectives who were here a in the trust was the responsible party, headquarters and searched it carefully. we have not a bit of evidence tending In the basement, it is alleged, they to implicate anyone else. Everything we have points to Gibson, and to no found a dynamite machine and exploother person. The machine, materials sive chemicals sufficient to destroy all the distilleries in the world. It is American Horse-I was not there to make it effective, and inculpating documents were in the satchel which known that the officers were here, but at the time or before the burial of the Gibson carried at the time of his arrest. the story about the searching the head-bodies, but I did go there with some Some unknown person who had knowl-quarters cannot be traced to any reliedge of the conspiracy warned the able source. Several prominent whisky owners of the distillery on Monday of men will go to the aid of Gibson. the danger which beset them, fixing the date of the explosion for yesterday or today, and they were carefully guarding the premises day and night."

Two previous attempts, which are attributed to the whisky trust but not proved, were made to destroy Shu feldt's with dynamite. One of them occurred two years ago last fall. Detective Dan Coughlin of the city police force was detailed on the case and it was while at work on it that he made the acquaintance of the little German, John P. Kunze. Both of them were afterwards tried for complicity in the assassination of Dr. Cronin. Coughlin is serving a life sentence for the crime, but Kunze was acquitted.

THE WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-The Indian conference closed today, and the Indians will start home Friday. The feature of today's talk was the story of the fight at Wounded Knee. Turning Hawk said at a given time, when the men had delivered up their guns, they were separated from their families and taken to a certain spot. A crazy man, a young man of very bad influence, fired his gun, killing an officer. The other Indians began drawing knives, although they were exhorted from all sides to desist, and the firing began immediately on the part of the soldiers. All the men who were in the bunch were killed right there, and those who escaped that first fire got into a ravine, and as they went along the ravine for In an interview tonight Gibson de-a long distance they were pursued on nies any knowledge of any

This afternoon Gibson was taken before United States Commissioner Hoyne and released on bond of $20,000. He declined to make any statement in regard to the matter.

INFERNAL MACHINE.

He asserts that he had no dealings with Dewar and intimates a conspiracy against him (Gibson). The government officers here are exceedingly confident, however, and say they have the case well in hand.

all sides by the soldiers and shot down.
The women had no arms to fight with.
They were standing off at a different
place, and when the firing began those
of the men who escaped the first volley
went in one direction up the ravine,
and the women went in a different
direction through an open field, but
met the same fate as the men.

UNDER A FLAG OF TRUCE.

It is learned tonight that the infernal machine was an ingenious de- American Horse said that when the vice. A gun barrel was loaded with firing began the people who were powder, and a steel bullet set into a can standing immediately around the with inflamable liquid under it. De- young man who fired the first shot war was to put the machine under the were killed and then the soldiers vat and pour the chemical into the turned their guns on the women, who vent hole. This would ignite the were in the lodges, standing there unliquid, the powder would explode, the der a flag of truce. Of course, as soon bullet would go through the bottom of as they were fired upon they fled. the vat and the alcohol pour down on There was a woman with an infant in the flaming can. her arms killed as she almost touched the flag of truce. Right near the flag another was shot down. Her child, not knowing that its mother was dead, was still nursing, and that was a very sad sight. Women as they were fleeing with babies on their backs were killed together, and women heavy with child were also killed.

INTENSE SURPRISE.

PEORIA, Feb. 11.--The arrest of Gibson in Chicago today caused intense surprise here. At trust headquarters nobody could be found this afternoon. President Greenart went to Washingten ten days ago and is still there, although his relatives and friends do not know what hotel he is at. His son After most of the Indians had been stated tonight that if his father desired killed the cry was made that all those to say anything on the subject he would not killed or wounded should come make his whereabouts known, other-forth and they would be safe. Little wise not. The whisky men assert that boys who were not wounded came out

Indian police and many people from the agency, and we went through the

battlefield and saw where the bodies were from the track of blood.

Rev. Mr. McCook, a Sioux halfblood, pastor of the Episcopal Church at Pine Ridge, among other things, said: "Much has been said about the good spirit with which the members of the Seventh cavalry went to that actiou. It has been said that a desire to avenge Custer's death was entirely ab. sent from their minds. In coming towards Chicago, in company with General Miles, I talked with one of his own scouts, who was almost killed be. cause he was compelled to fly with the Indians, being fired upon by men whom he tried to save and help. told me

He

that after he recovered from his fight and succeeded in getting amongst the soldiers after they all got in from killing Indians, an officer of high rank, he did not know who, came to him and said:

'Now we have avenged Custer's death,' and the Sioux said to him, 'Yes, but you had every chance to fight for your lives that day.' These poor Indian people didn't have that opportunity to protect and fight for themselves. If this is an indication of the spirit of a number of men in that company, I am sure the Seventh Cavalry did not go there with the kindest of motives, simply to bring these poor people back."

After several others had spoken, the Commissioner declared the conference at an end.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The Secretary of War today made public the report of the investigation of the battle of Wounded Knee, particularly with reference to Colonel Forsythe's conduct on that occasion. The record of the court of inquiry is endorsed by MajorGeneral Miles, under date of Chicago, January 21st. He says, in part:

Colonel Forsythe had received repeated warnings as to the desperate and deceitful character of Big Foot's band of Indians, and repeated orders as to the exercise of constant vigilance to guard against surprise or disaster under all circumstances. These warnings and orders were unheeded and disregarded by Colonel Forsythe. He had been warned that this particular band contained many of the most desperate and deceitful characters in the Sioux nation, and the religious excitement made

them peculiarly dangerous. Under these circumstances it is apparent that the indifference of the officer in command of the troops at Wounded Knee is incomprehensible and inexcusable. Not a single company was so disposed as to deliver its fire upon the warriors without endangering the lives of some of their comrades. It is difficult to conceive how a worse disposition of troops could be made.

The testimony goes to show that most of the troops were forced to withhold their fire, leaving the brunt of the affair to fall upon two companies until such warriors as had not been killed broke through or overpowered the small force directly about them and reached the camp occupied by the women and children. The battery of four Hotchkiss guns had until then been useless, the friction primers having been removed by order of the captain commanding the battery, lest the gunners might, in their excitement, discharge the pieces and destroy their own comrades. These guns were now opened upon the Indian camp, even at that time placing in peril troops C and D, Seventh cavalry, which were obliged to retreat for some distance, owing to the fire from these guns and from the small arms of other portions of the command.

A large number of the 106 warriors

WERE WITHOUT FIREARMS.

when the outbreak occurred. It is shown by the evidence that forty-eight guns had been taken from the tepees and a personal search of twenty or more warriors resultedi n finding them unarmed. This fact, taken in connection with the extremely injudicious disposition of the troops and the large number of casualties among them, constrains the belief that some of the casualties were suffered at the hands of our own men. The fatal disposition of the troops was such at the outset to counteract, in a great measure, the immense disparity of strength, and would have been inexcusable in the face of an armed and desperate foe, even had no especial warning and order been received from higher authority.

I can only partially account for the singular apathy and neglect of Colonel Forsythe upon the theory of his iudifference to and contempt for repeated and urgent warnings and orders received by him from the division commander, or by his incompetence and entire inexperience in the responsibility of exercising command where judgment and discretion are required.

I also forward herewith the report of Captain Baldwin, Fifth Infantry, concerning the finding of bodies of women and children three miles from the scene of the engagement on Wounded Knee Creek. This report indicates the nature of some of the results of that unfortunate affair results which are viewed with the strongest disapproval by the undersigned. (Signed)

bestowed upon it by him in the first enlisted men killed and three of-
telegram after the engagement.
ficers and thirty-two enlisted men
In returning the papers to the Major- wounded.
General commanding, the Secretary The situation at Wounded Knee was
reviews the testimony as to the sur- a very unusual and a very difficult
render and comments on the desperate one, far more difficult than involved in
and sullen character of the band. He an ordinary battle, where the only
says it was manifestly an imperative question is of gaining a victory without
necessity to prevent the escape of these effort to save the lives of the enemy. It
desperates during the process of dis- is easy to make plans when we look
arming. The troops appeared to have backward, but in the light of actual
been well disposed to prevent an out- conditions, as they appeared to the
break, which was not an i could hardly commanding officer, there does not
have been anticipated in dealing with seem to be anything in the arrange-
the Indians. The Secretary says: ment of the troops requiring adverse
Nothing illustrates the madness of criticism on the part of the Depart
the outbreak more forcibly than the ment.
fact that their first fire was so directed
that every shot that did not hit the
soldiers must have gone through their
own village. There is little doubt that
the first killing of women and children
was by this first fire of the Indians
themselves. They then made a rush
to break through and around the flanks
of troop K. commanded by the gallant
Captain Wallace, and reached their
tepees, where many of them had left
their arms with the squaws, and con-
tinued firing from among their own
women and children, and when they
started from their camp their women
and children were mingled with them.
The women and children were never
away from the immediate company of
the men after the latter broke from the
circle. Many of them, men and women,
got on their ponies, and it is impossible
to distinguish a buck from a squaw at a
little distance when mounted."

I therefore approve of the endorsement of the major-general commanding, that the interests of the military service do not demand any further proceeding in the case. By direction of the President, Colonel Forsythe will resume command of his regiment. (Signed) REDFIELD PROCTOR, Secretary of War.

FATHER JENKINS RELEASED.

On Thursday last three of our Sisters wended their way to the penitentiary to

speak comforting words to the brethren there. They were informed that Father Jenkins, from Goshen, was in a dying condition. They visited him in the hospital room and found him very low. His relatives were at once notified, not having been apprised

of his condition before.

The men fired from among the wo- On the arrival of his son immediate men and children in their retreat. steps were taken to secure his release.. Cautions were repeatedly given by both The doctor's certificate and statement the commissioned and non-commis- of facts were telegrapbed to Delegate sioned officers not to shoot the squaws Caine on Monday last, and it must or children, and the men were cau- have received prompt attention, inastioned individually that such and such much as today an order for his release Indians were squaws. The firing by was received, and your correspondent the troops was entirely directed on the accompanied his son and others to men in the circle and in a direction op- assist in bringing him to the city. We posite from the tepees, until the In- found him still very feeble, lying on a dians after their break mingled with couch and receiving all the attention their women and children, thus expos- possible under the circumstances. He ing them to the fire of the troops, and was carefully conveyed to a carriage as a consequence some were unavoid-in waiting and taken to a friend's ably killed and wounded, a fact uni- house, where loving hands and faithversally regretted by the officers and ful brethren were waiting to minister men of the Seventh Cavalry.

This unfortunate phase of the affair grew out of circumstances for which the Indians themselves were

ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE.

Major Whiteside emphatically declares
that at least fifty shots were fired by
the Indians before the troops returned
the fire. Several special instances of
humanity in the saving of women and
children were noted.

to his necessities.

His son, John L. Jenkins, will endeavor to remove him to his home in Goshen, Utah County, at once, and desires to express his thanks to all for their kindly assistance.

The earnest work of Brother James

Jack is worthy of especial mention, as he labored assiduously to secure Father Jenkins' release.

As stated in a recent issue of the

NEWS, Father Jenkins was feeble and sick when sentenced to two years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. Only a few months have elapsed and he now seems to be in the "valley of the sha dow of death."

No doubt the position of the troops made it necessary for some of them to withhold their fire for a time in order not to endanger the lives of their comrades, but both Major Kent and Captain Baldwin concur in finding that the evidence fails to establish that a Much of the suffering and anxiety single man of Colonel Forsythe's com- caused by this cruel crusade might have mand was killed or wounded by his fel-been avoided if a little mercy had been NELSON A. MILES, lows. This fact, and indeed the conduct mingled with that sort of justice which Major-General Commanding. of both officers and men through the has been dealt out in the courts. General Schofied submittted the whole affair, demonstrates an exceedPHOENIX. case to the Secretary of War, with the ingly unsatisfactory state of discipline SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 12, 1891. endorsement that the interests of the in the Seventh Cavalry. Their beservice do not demand a longer con-havior was characterized by skill, tinuance of Colonel Forsythe's sus- coolness, discretion and forbearance, pension. In his judgment,

THE CONDUCT OF THE REGIMENT

was well worthy of the commendation

The heirs of the late Captain John and reflects the highest possible credit Ericsson have donated all his models upon the regiment, which sustained to the Metropolitan Museum of New the loss of one officer and twenty-five York City.