and persecutions have been inflicted. Further, that the lives of some of the force make it impossible for them to execute the laws, as the execution would, fellowed to its legitimate source, cause their own arraignment and punishment. It is useless to say that all this could not be stopped and stamped out by capable and earnest officers. There is no institution so depraved that it cannot be made to conform to the decencies of civilization or go out of business. But no city government can compel this whose agents to perform the work are not themselves above accusation. And a city government that is not strong enough and firm enough and just enough to compel its own officers to do what is right, will not long retain the respect of the people. It is a reproach to our city government that there exists even a pretense for calling such a meeting as is referred to at the beginning of this we see no toward the "Mormons" as truthful A pretext was wanted for active concerning their situation and in-service among the military. It was tentions. Here are some extracts found in the "ghost dance," as it from what the Citizen says: was miscalled by the whites. The and formally renounced polygamy, Christ." An effort was made to "Since the Mormons have openly reds knew it as "The dance to leave their present homes, or why stop this religious exercise by force. reason why they should their neighbors should rejoice at the Even that did not accomplish what Outside of prospect of their going. question, the Mormons have not been in view was to provoke the Indians their peculiar views on the marriage was intended. The object evidently an objectionable people; indeed, in to resistance, and then swoop down industry, sobriety and enduring patience they have compared favorably upon them and sweep them out of with the swarms of adventurers and existence. not always law-abiding Gentiles who have been so eager to condemn their The murder of Sitting Bull and vices, without evincing any disposi- the few reds who died with him, tion to imitate their virtues. The Mor- has only whetted the appetite for and the Jordan a desert and they mons found the valley of Salt Lake blood. The surrender of Big Foot transformed it into an Eden, making and his band did not comport with it the halfway house thirty years ago the plan of campaign, which confor the swarms of gold hunters pouring west to California. If ever a people templated fighting and slaying, not The foregoing needs no comment have won the right to a fee simple title a peaceful settlement of the disturbfrom us at present. The results were in the lands they hold it is the Moranticipated as the natural conse-dustry the fertility of Utah is entirely of all due proportions. So the capmons, for to their patience and in-ance which has been magnified out quences of an election stolen by due." tive Indians were provoked into refraud from the people. But be that sistance in the taking away of their as it may, the situation is upon the arms-essentials to their livelihood community, and we are in sympathy -and what with starvation from with any movement having for its insufficient supplies and the prospect object the purification of the moral of further hardships from the loss of atmosphere of Salt Lake City, their only means of obtaining food, which has, during the present year, some of the more fiery savages fell sunk into a condition of corruption into the trap, resisted the soldiers the like of which has never existed and opened the way for their own in this region. destruction. "The soldiers are now down shooting them wherever found," so says the dispatch giving an account of the slaughter. article." NOT MOVING TO MEXICO. THE reported purchase of several million acres of land in Mexico to a noted "Mormon" railroad builder, with the inference that a wholesale immigration of "Mormous" is intended, still occupies the attention of newspaper men, and many silly comments are made on the rumor. For instance, the New York Journal, after narrating the alleged facts, remarks: "There will be no exodus of the Mormons from Utah. They may be "It is not generally known that one it is doubtful if the Mormons could be THE SLAUGHTER OF THE REDS. "The real fact of the matter is, that the Mormons want to get away from civilization. Their choice of land, THE news of the slaughter of three millions of acres in the immedi- Indians of Big Foot's band, conate vicinity of turbulent and warlike firms our opinion that a deep laid Yaqui Indians, is a proof of this. Their peculiar institution cannot afford to scheme has been planned to excome into contact with modern no- terminate, if possible, the unfortutions. But let them be prepared to have Mexico, when she has got all the nate remnants of the ancient owners profit she can out of them, coolly in- of the soil, and in that way settle form them that she cannot allow poly- the perplexing Indian question. gamy to exist within her borders, and proceed to put it down with a We do not believe there was, in strong hand. Then the Mormons will the beginning of the latest Indian wish that they had become converted to the tenets of ordinary American excitement, the slightest cause for citizenship and had remained at hostilities. The Messiah craze, as it was called, involved no assault upon This, of course, is but evidence the whites. On the contrary, it that the writer knows nothing of breathed of peace and inculcated the "Mormons," their history or amity. The dancing of the red men their purposes. The Brooklyn, N. ought to have been left as free as Y., Citizen, however, shows much the revival excesses of the so-called more understanding and a very "Christians," and would have done clear perception of this matter. no harm to anyone but the misIt is disposed, moreover, to be as just guided participants. home." How many squaws and papooses there are among the slain is not stated. In reflecting upon this ten that the band who surrendered, bloody affair, it must not be forgotnumbered but 120 to 150 bucks and 250 women with many children.” Everyone who understands any. thing of Indian ways will perceive from this that the Indians in surrendering had no intention of revolt. When the full particulars are disclosed, it will be seen that the warriors were driven into the error they committed, and that advantage has been taken of it, so as to justify their annihilation. It is one more chapter in the history of the wrongs of the red men, and one more bloody incident in the nation's century of dishonor." DEATH OF ALFRED H. CAINE. IT IS with deep regret we record the death of Alfred H. Caine, son of Hon. John T. Caine the Delegate to Congress. The young man whose demise has plunged his family and numerous friends in sorrow, was endeared to all who knew him by his pleasant, gentlemanly manners, his kindly disposition, his faithful and to his faith and party. earnest zeal and his strong devotion "the operatives of RhodeIsland have food supplied, and their money $61,000,000 in the savings banks, wages were net gain, while obtaining During the political struggles enough to buy the whole State of these common necessaries absorbed which have recently taken place in Florida." This, in answer to the all the wages of the laborers of the Utah he rendered very valuable declaration of Mr. Call, that "the North. Therefore this class are not aid in the cause of moral and operatives of Rhode Island were the owners of the amounts in the just government, the purity of more poorly paid than the negro savings banks, for their small earnelections and the rule of the major-laborers of Florida." ings are insufficient for a bare ity. In business he was honest, Reference to the debate as pub- living. accurate and dilligent. Called to lished in the Congressional Record be Counselor in the Bishopric shows that instead of the Second Ward, he came to "crushed," the front modestly, yet cheerfully, and labored for the good of the people in that capacity. In every place he occupied he manifested those characteristics which win respect and maintain good feeling. We deeply sympathize with his hereaved parents who so recently endured the loss of another son, stricken down by the assassin's hand within call of police he dquarters. Their trials are hard to bear, but we trust they will receive that support which Divine aid alone can give. Dec. 28th Brother Alfred H. Caine expired at his residence in the Second Ward, from typhoid fever. Deceased was born Dec. 19th, 1860, in this city. He was in every sense a most exemplary young man. He acted as a Home Missionary in this Stake for three years, and last spring was ordained a High Priest, and set apart as Second Counselor to Bishop L. G. Hardy. The deceased leaves a wife of Senator Call not only dug deep being into the question of wages, but he Senator Call rose proved that the non-voting populaabove the interruptions of his tion of the North was of greater Rhode Island opponent, and effect-proportions than in the South, and ually pounded the padding out of that therefore the claim that the that gentleman's threatening bag of bill was to meet the necessity of sophistry. Senator Call, alluding protecting the colored voter was a to the pretended sympathy of Rea vain pretence. We have not publicans from the North for the space or inclination to take up this poor colored men of the South, read question as presented by Mr. Call from the report of the Interstate in detail, but simply reply to the Commerce Commission for 1889, untruth that he was crushed either which showed the condition of the in person or in argument by the farming and laboring people of a Rhode Island Sena'or or any others number of the Northern States, of his fierce and rattled assailants. where the land is mortgaged at ruinous rates of interest, and where the laboring people receive starvation wages. One passage of the report states that: The "Liberal organ" winds up its diatribe on the distinguished Senator in this way: "By the way, Senator Call is one of the gentlemen who has always main"The returns of actual wages paid to tained a withering fear that any effort 248,200 employes, including both to make the sovereignty of the United sexes, being 65.43 per cent of all the States supreme in Utah would be persons employed in the manufactur- trenching on religious liberty. He ing and mechanical industries of Mas-lost interest in the sovereignty of that all males' receive less than $5 per Government thirty years ago, and not sachusetts, show that 8.99 per cent of like many who took the same view week; 4.85 per cent $5 but under $6, then, he has been a fraud ever since. and 6.77 per cent $6 but under $7." The report goes on to say that: "Those males, principally minors, who comprise 20.61 per cent, or about and one child to mourn the depart-one-fifth of all males, average less than ure of a loving husband and father. The news of the death of Brother Caine will be received with universal mourning. HOW SENATOR CALL WAS "CRUSHED." AMONG the strongest and most consistent opponents of the Force bill is Senator Call of Florida. His speech in the Senate on the 23rd of December was logical, forcible and full of facts and figures which demonstrated both that the bill is unnecessary, so far as its pretence of protecting the colored people in the South is concerned, and that it is a party scheme, intended to subvert instead of promoting that government of the people which is essential to true republicanism. $1 per day. Of all females employed "On the other hand 11.11 per cent of Mr. Call was interrupted repeat edly by Messrs. Wilson of Iowa, Hoar of Massachusetts, Spooner of Wisconsin, Aldrich of Rhode Island and others, but with his usual courtesy and gentlemanly forbearance, he yielded to their intrusion upon his time and met their queries with such directness and force, that their intended shafts fell harmless and he remained master of the situation. Indeed he was born a fraud." In that paragraph lies the excuse for this "Liberal" attack upon the Senator from Florida. He is a champion of religious liberty and would extend it to the "Mormons" as well as all other worshipers in Christendom. That is sufficient to arouse the animosity of the "Liberal" vipers that would sting to death all who dare to differ with them in religion or in politics. Senator Call's arguments on constitutional freedom which is guaranteed to all people alike, are simply unanswerable. They have never been refuted or even met by his adwill not affect him or his position. versaries. Calling him a "fraud” Coming from such a source it is a compliment to his talents and his courage. To show how he was "crushed" in this debate on the Force bill, we connot do better than to clip from the Record the closing sentences of his able speech: The debate showed that while the actual money wages paid the colored men of Florida appeared to be even less than those of Massachusetts The "Liberal" organ in this city and Rhode Island, yet their circum"Are Senators whose States and peoattempted, yesterday, to make it stances were so different and their ple created chattel slavery with its appear that the able Senator from perquisites so valuable, a8 to commercial Senators features, are Florida was "crushed" in the de- render their from whose States a slavetrader, the condition vastly bate by Mr. Aldrich, of Rhode superior importer of slaves from Africa, as in to that of the poor the State of Rhode Island, was sent Island. This "crushing" catas: underpaid toilers of the North. here to represent the slave-trading introphe was brought about, so the That the negroes had houses organ asserts, by the statement that to live in, a piece of land to till and ished and exiled the colored people terests of the Commonwealth-are Senators from States that have ban THE SUPREME COURT DECISION. struction to meet a special case, and the Court has evidently modified the spirit in which it has treated the Mormon" question in former in stances. The decision is of great importance, not only to the appellant but to the people of Utah generally, and is the end of controversy on this much disputed question. and sold them and put the money in which are practicable, and open, fair their pockets, (and I understand my discussion should be accorded them friend from Delaware [Mr. Higgins], it would seem as if this were a bill who expressed so much indignation thrown in the very teeth of this deagainst the slaveholders and slavery, mand of the people for relief, and deis a member of a slave-holding family signed to perpetuate, as in my judggrown up with the institution)to speak ment it is, the imposition, and the in terms of condemnation of the peo-tribute which great bounty fed mople who were forced by circumstances nopolists have fastened upon them." against their own protest and against their will to receive these slaves, driven from Massachusetts, who were exiled by their law which made it an offense for any negro to go into the State for these Southern people, WE publish today the full text of who under the influence and the decision of the Supreme Court tavorable conditions of soil and of the United States in the Bassett THE MOVEMENT FOR LAW, ORDER climate received these people, and under whose fostering care, as memappeal case. The chief point inAND MORALITY. bers of the same family, they were volved in this important cause was protected in their personal rights and the admissability of a legal wife's First M. E. Church on Monday, THE Citizens' meeting held in the subjected to less of cruelty than today prevails in all of our great Common- testimony against the husband in a Dec. 29 was a significant occasion. wealths in the North, cruelties in the trial for polygamy. domestic relation, murder, heads cut Its object was laudable from every off, wives and husbands poisonedUnder a provision in the Utah standpoint. A large body of repufor these people who in their relations Code of Civil Procedure, an exceptable people assembled to express with these Southern States are in tion is made to the rule of law alarm at the appalling rate at which abundance and comfort, protected in their property interests, with the Gos- against such testimony, to the ef pel preached to them, members of the fect that the husband or wife may have increased in Salt Lake during crime, immorality and corruption church, growing up in relations of testify against the mutual comfort and mutual dependother, "in a the last few months. The citizens ence into a people numbered by mil-criminal action or proceeding for a met to express their detestation of lions-for these people, for whom even crime committed by one against the situation and to formulate a dethe disasters of the war and the Freed- the other." This provision, when mand upon the city government man's Bureau and the intermeddling of politicians seeking their own pro- taken in connection with provisions that its officers shall enforce the motion, seeking their own wealth, in the criminal code and with well laws in order to produce a social seeking their own party advantagefor these people whom even these known rules of the common law, rectification. adverse causes could not divorce from was clearly meant to apply to acts their friendship and their dependence of violence, or crimes against the and their confidence, and on the other hand could not separate from person committed by the husband the affection and the friendship of the or wife upon the other. white people-are these people to be assailed and a bill of this kind proBut the Utah courts, pursuing a posed under the pretence that it is policy of special proceeding against necessary to enable the negroes to vote, when in the State of Oregon, in persons accused of infractions of the the State of Connecticut, in the State anti-polygamy laws, construed the of Massachusetts, in the State provision to signify any unlawful Rhode Island, in all the Republican States there is today by the statistics act of the husband that might be which I will read here and publish, offensive and injurious to the wife which were prepared by my colleague and thus make it apply to polygamy, [Mr. Pasco], and I give him the credit for his careful observation and accu- The Supreme Court of the United. rate study of these statistics, more States sustains the law and the complete than can be found in the practice and the precedents of centuries, and reverses the ruling of the Utah courts. It adopts the arguments and is guided by the authorities which were so strongly presented by Hon. F. S. Richards, counsel for the plaintiff in error, and in doing so complies with his request that the law be construed of previous speeches upon the subject, say, Mr. President, under these circumstances, with this record of the Republican States, 1,888,000 qualified male voters not voting, and in the Democratic States, 1,484,000, including the Southern States-with this census During the presentation of his case, Mr. Richards showed that by the recent action of the "Mormon" record, is this bill to be proposed and telling and spirited and the stateThe speeches, as a rule, were ments in reference to the shortcomings of the officials were refreshingly frank. Some of the remarks were not in unison with the general character of the call for the gathering; neither were the resolutions when first presented, but the pronounced sentiment of the great bulk of the assemblage was unmistakably generous and broad. This was manifested at once by the alacrity with which the resolutions were, by amendment, almost entirely cleared of their originally sectional or contracted aspect. The meeting was mostly composed of citizens belonging to the "Liberal" party. The reason for this was that the committee only sent the call for the meeting to one newspaper (the chief Liberal organ) and it was published only on the morning of the day on which the citizens were invited to meet, and again the same evening in this journal. A special invitation was received at this office from the committee. The people who gathered were a fine audience. The occasion drew together a goodly representation of the respectable and moral element of the community. The turbulent, depraved and vicious could have no inducement to participate in such a movement, or to be present except to obstruct its laudable object. The purpose of that gathering was such that, in furthering its attainment, all good is out of gear. It requires cleaning, men and women, of every class and oiling and setting in shape. It will every shade of opinion, could afford soon be discovered that an expres THE OPENING YEAR. NEW YEAR'S DAY 1891 was usherto be brothers and sisters. The in- sion of popular sentiment will noted in at Salt Lake City with bright tent embodies a common cause-alone suffice to produce a reforma- sunshine and clear, crisp, exhilaratthe suppression of vice and the ele- tion, because the government has ing air. The delicious beauty of the vation of morality. already set that at defiance in refer-day could be fitly described only by One of the speakers, Mr. Gregg, ence to the financial burdens it has the poet and the most gifted writer expressing himself from the stand-imposed on the people. This fact of romance. point of a "Liberal" and not from is on record, and we can res- Viewing the city from the obthat of simply a citizen, asserted that urrect it if required. Judge Wamp-servatory of the Templeton hotel in calling this meeting his party ler was right when he favored defi- was like taking a glimpse into fairy could not possibly have placed in nite action on the part of the people. land. The broad streets, the tall the hands of their political op- Indeed, in order to show the con- buildings, the happy blending of ponents a heavier club. This is, tempt in which a healthy popular trees and towers, all appeared rather doubtless, true, but he is not a mag- sentiment is held by the City Coun- like a scene of ideal architecture nanimous antagonist who would use cil it is only necesssary to point to than a picture real, material and such a weapon indiscriminately. It last night's proceedings of that tangible. One visitor could not help might be properly used for purposes body. The resolutions adopted at saying that, in truth, this was of defense, but only extraordinary Monday night's meeting of citi- "beautiful Zion," the gilded diadem circumstances would justify its appli-zens were presented and read. They of the plains, the marvelous gem of cation for purposes of attack. And make special mention of the appli- the mountains, and that if on earth in any case it would not be used cation of the variety theatre con- there is or can be a vestibule to the against the class who were partici- cern for a liquor liecnse, and celestial realms, Salt Lake, the pants in and in sympathy with the request that, in the interest of latter day Zion, must be that passageproceedings of Monday night's morality, it be not granted. In the way. gathering. But there should be no face of this popular and pointed It is true the serenity of the panoobjection to its use in the demolition expression,the Council were equally rama was marred by the thought of existing corruptions in the city divided on the question of the ap-that vice and wickedness are ramgovernment and against the crimes plication for this license, and it pant at present; but this should reupon society now so prevalent as to would have been granted but mind us that we must be active, cause the most serious alarm to for the Mayor, who cast a deciding vigilant and determined in our opevery good citizen. vote on the other side. Those who position to the evils that are threatWe wish it distinctly understood thus insulted the good citizens of ening the peace and welfare of the that the object of that meeting is Salt Lake were Pembroke, Cohn, community. not one that cau be treated from a Pickard, Noble, Anderson, Karrick That this will be an eventful and sectional or partizan standpoint and Lynn. These officials-three important year appears to be aninterest of them are only alleged officials-ticipated by all reflecting people. It be narrowed down to have probably thus, in the opinion may not prove as startling and revoclass of respectable peo- of thousands of good people, placed lutionary in its developments as ple. It is this narrow sectional themselves on record as the support some people presage. But we hate which some unfortunate peo-ers of loose morals and as insulters have no doubt that its history at the ple permit themselves to be imbued of those who made a respectful re- close will form one of the most imwith which spoils everything and quest in the interest of sound gov-portant pages in the annals of the is one of the causes of encourage-ernment. any more than its can any ment given to the very condition of We hope that the protest of One of the leading points to be considered now is the responsibility for the numerous dens of vice, the lawlessness and non-enforcement of the laws, which now disgrace our beautiful city and expose its good people to danger. Attempts have been made to fasten it upon some world. To the devout believer in Divine Providence, whatever happens is all for good. He who controls the destinies of men and nations, while leaving humanity free in its agency, will overrule all acts and occurrences to accomplish His own purposes and the final triumph of His cause and people. In entering upon the new year it is common to announce resolutions of improvement. It is proper to make them, it is inexpedient to express them. Silent determination to make the coming year a stepping stone to a higher life and more advanced integrity of act and character is appropriate to the season, however much it may be sneered at by the cynic and ridiculed by the depraved. But boasting and impulsive announcements of intended excellence are frequently nought but sound, and add nothing to the sum of human improvement. We hope the sunshine of the opening day of Ninety-one will prove the symbol of the year's brightness and prosperity, and that joy and gladness may come to every dweller in Zion, while the rays of intelligence, streaming from the Eternal Sun, may penetrate to every part of the world and impart light and joy to every living soul that is struggling upward and striving for the right. "While the fight was hottest there of the situation. The nation will mingled with the roar of musketry have to account for its treatment of a dozen little Indian children, who the Indian question before the inthe careless, joyous laughter of half were not more than five or six yards exorable bar of eternal justice. flict, and who paid no more attention from the scene of the savage conto them than if it were so much conversation." CREDITABLE ENTERPRISE. It looks as though the design foreTHE New Year's Salt Lake Tribune shadowed in the opening of this campaign has been largely accomcomprises thirty-two pages of close plished. The Indians have been print and exhibits much journalforced into a conflict and the inten-istic enterprise. It is chiefly valution now is, apparertly, to effect their able for its mining and other destruction. What encouragement statistics. If it were not for the is there for surrender? When the malicious and untruthful state"The Episcopal church is turned news of the slaughter following sub-ments, insinuations and inferences into a hospital and contains thirty-mission by Big Foot's band reaches concerning the majority of the peoeight wounded hostiles, most of them the other "hostiles" will it not be a ple of Utah which it contains, it squaws, and a majority will die." notice to them that their only chance Would be a very creditable publicafor life is to fly or fight? THE INDIAN WAR. That is part of a dispatch from Pine Ridge, dated Dec. 31st, 1890. It partly tells the tale we expected to hear. The words we have put in italics disclose a fact the full partic-informed on the subject: ulars of which will most likely be covered up so that they will not reach the public eye. When Big Foot's band surrendered, bringing with them twice as many squaws as warriors and also a large number of papooses, it was clear to every reader who knows anything of Indian customs that the submission was genuine. Indians do not expose their women and children to danger from baitle. Depend upon it there is something behind that reported story of the attack of the reds upon the soldiers who were disarming them, more than has been given to the papers. The following from the Omaha World-Herald of Dec. 31st expresses the views of a host of people who are The slaughter of these squaws is an indication of foul play. We have not yet learned how many papooses also fell victims to the soldiers' prowess in "shooting down the Indians wherever found." But from the New Year's day dispatches it appears that their "bravery" in that direction was also shown on the field. For instance, one item says, concerning wounded hostiles found on the scene of Monday's "battle:" The now pass an unqualified encomium upon our energetic contemporary. tion. As it is, doubt is measurably cast upon the whole production. Much labor and considerable skill have been expended upon the issue, and it will no doubt have a wide "As the details of the recent gratuit- circulation. It may be that before ous sacrifice of life at Wounded Knee many years expire the Tribune will become known, the elements of un-be so far improved as to advance, at fairness in it grow apparent. World-Herald is anxious to write with least for the first day of a new year, jtct. There can be no doubt, however, the greatest temperance on this sub- above the petty plane of contracted that the Indians firmly believed they vision, party spite and small intolerwere to be murdered. They saw ance. We are always glad to recogHotchkiss guns; surrounded by troops and would be pleased if we could themselves faced on every side by nize merit, even in an adversary, and forcibly despoiled of their arms. They remembered other occasions on Their wives and children were near. which the guns of United States soldiery had been turned indiscriminatingly upon men, women and chilThey did not know that the present commander of the United States troops, General Brook, is a humane man. They thought they were doomed. So they fought-not with any idea of victory. The Indians are too experienced as fighters to mistake might die as fighters should. They fought that they mained for them to do. They were "As for the troops, they did what not responsible for the false positionthat is, the unfair demonstration against a foe greater or inferior in intent. A man knows that no quarter numbers--as they fought with deadly can be shown on such a battlefied. He The Indians broke and ran, dying as fights to kill. There is no alternative. they went; huge guns were turned on them; they were mowed down! dren. a situation. 66 MORMONS" IN MEXICO. AMONG the papers which are now making foolish remarks on the latest false rumor about the "Mormons" moving into Mexico is the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, an able Republican "off" on the "Mormon" question. re-journal, but nearly always entirely That paper says: "It is to be hoped that the story of a large mons is true, and that they will proceed to purchase of lands in Mexico by the Mortransfer themselves and their religion to problem will ever be thoroughly and perthat country without delay. That is probably the only way in which the Mormon manently solved." as apparent in the foregoing as its The ignorance of the G. D. is quite malice towards the majority of Utah's citizens. But we need say been starved, deceived, all but impris"But it does not matter. They have oned, and none have blushed to know it so. Now they are happily dead. The Five of those found were bucks and old fire has blazed up again for a five squaws. The scouts brought moment from the ashes of their long no more on this matter; the followthem in and they are now in the hos patience-blazed up to consume, not ing will be sufficient; it is a re pital. In addition to the adults, two only their foes, but themselves.” tiny Indian babes, one of them over three months old, were found alive, The situation now seems to be joinder to the above paragraph by each beside the dead body of its such that an Indian war is inevitthe Deming, N. M., Headlight, of mother. They were well wrapped up, able. The troops cannot retire. The Dec. 27th, 1890: but that they ever survived the weather of the last fourth-eight hours seems a miracle. Of the thirty-five wounded Indians brought in after the battle, nearly all of whom were squaws and children, not one has yet died, though many are badly mangled with bullets. Whoever heard of Indians choosing a battle ground where their squaws and papooses were gathered? Yet another dispatch says: savages must be suppressed. Once of the American people have abso- |