Show LATEST TELEGRAMS WASHINGTON Star Routes Chinese Tele crapfccrs An Indian Surprise Sur-prise Party Washington 15Senator Miller and family leave Washington tomorrow to-morrow morning for New York City where they intend to stop a few days then spend a week or two at Saratoga and subsequently visit Indiana and return to San Francisco Fran-cisco during the latter half Of July There is considerable discussion among persons interested in the star route prosecutions about the employment of additional counsel to prosecute the governments govern-ments cases Special Attorney Cook will try the evidence on which an indictment is to be asked before the grand jury and he will undoubtedly perform the brunt of the routine work The employment of some lawyer of national reputation to assist as-sist in the trial is talked of and the names of Mr A Beach of New York and Benjamin Harris Brew ster of Philadelphia have been suggested I sug-gested in this connection There is one great lawyer who is thoroughly familiar with every detail of the cases and who is prominently fitted by reason of his knowledge and ability to direct the trials Attor neyGeneral McVeagh is the man and it is reported that he will conduct con-duct the prosecution in person Nothing of interest has transpired at the postoffice department today The gentlemen engaged in room fiftynine are arranging their facts in a shape to be easily presented to the grand jury The witnesses who will be asked to go before that body will probably be here by the end of next week and it is hoped that the grand jury will be prepared to act finally in the matter before the middle mid-dle of July A rumor is current here today that exSenator Dorsey sailed yesterday yes-terday from New York for Europe Yung Wing assistant Chinese minister recently received orders from China to cause a class of forty of the Chinese youths now at school at Hartford to be educated in telegraphy tele-graphy as the Chinese government intends to build lines all over the empire Yung Wing went to Hartford Hart-ford last week selected forty boys and engaged the services of Manager Hubbell of the Western Union as instructor The board of visitors to the naval academy report men being instructed in-structed in some of the methods long ago abandoned by the rest of the civilized world They suggest that cadets be 15 years or over before be-fore entering and that morals be not excluded from their curriculum and that the standard of admission be raised and tobacco prohibited Indian Commissioner Price had a surprise this morning Three runaway run-away Indians from the Chippeway tribe Wisconsin accompanied by an interpreter all in paint and feathers marched into his office unannounced un-announced and squalled unceremoniously unceremo-niously for powwow They arrived ar-rived last night and went to the Fremont House announcing they had come to see the great father They registered as Ben NewMex interpreter Chas Coulter Mack Coon and Scar Barewrist Commissioner Com-missioner Price was astonished when they appeared before him The interpreter stated that they represented re-presented 175 families who had sent them to Washington in hopes of receiving re-ceiving a new reservation This particular tribe is especially well provided for and have more laud in their present reservation than they have actual use for The commissioner commis-sioner thus addressed his visitors You can get no lands here and I think you had better go back and work your corn and potatoes There is more for Indians to do besides hunting and fishing They should raise produce from the soil and learn to work as I have done many times with their hands and arms and become respectable citizens citi-zens The buffalo are all gone and your own sense should teach you it is time to throw off these feathers and rings and devote yonr time to earning a living in another way This running over the country wont do You are well provided for and can gain nothing by coming to Washington and you must go back and so inform your people Ben NewMex enlightened his companions as to the reception accorded ac-corded and the emphatic language of the commissioner The only response re-sponse was an occasional ugh and a dissatisfied shake of the head They were then sent back to their hotel with a repeated admonition to go home at once Those who know say that nothing in the report of the committee on the treasury custodian reflects on Assistant Secretary Upton or Chief Clerk Power Upton says he is willing to abide the result of any investigation in-vestigation Whittakers friends declare they will not let the case drop as the evidence evi-dence does not justify the verdict of guilty and propose to argue the case before the judge advocate general and then if necessary go to the President and ask him to disapprove the verdict Secretary Windom showed Power and Upton the report and charges against them to allow them to prepare pre-pare a defense The committee is now investigating other branches of the swindles and leaks in the custodians custo-dians office |