| Show 09 Ban bau banninga ninis ninia bin creating uneasiness among abong orm ma 0 logs doga nna of wae wai its b by sardie y nn un known to jomant nui uri jean B an uina ulna 0 ostracised i by the wives v ea and ath mothers ri s in ina an 4 episode p 1 ad or r the tho prospects s 0 i ghe the texas pacific iH road hilll cupid la in the senaid senate ely cli amber A alit eddied eed dlugol ko vember nud and june jane washington WASHINGTO N reab fob 52 18 7 8 1 editors rd i tots tors deseret news general bannings banninga new army billis blit bill is creating an alarming commotion in militar military ry naval and social cli cil circled cies cles if it la s passed it will cut down the pay of officers very materially and save the people 1 annually the opposition to tho the bill is expressed in various ways sufficient to provo prove that the army awid arid navy as represent represented edby by their officers ig understand the strategy of politics and nd diplomacy as well weli as the he 1 strategy of more heroic 11 fieldi tha the navy is interested and al alarmed aimed because there therb ate ato precisely the sanie same reasons fa nor for r reducing the pay sj of naval navai officers as for reducing the pay of the officers in the army it is believed by vy many here that the speech of isaac bennett bennell ai at the recent soe soc inist laist m meeting i eating 4 n neg kew 0 york in which he hb urged theda thola boll the army as a pec necessary essary step to insure the rights of ia la borers boreri and make them equal with capitalists was instigated in off official iclal lelal army circles and is a part of an elaborate scheme devised to defeat the bill A gigantic gig antio autio army lobby is at work in washington ton and has been at work for a long time while whilo the wives sweethearts sweat hearts daughters and mother mothers s in law of army helping in their nat natural tai rai Tal billyray billy eilly way by giving mrs Ba banning fining the direct social cinc tobe tobo to bo ignore ignored d b by the army a aud and n d navy transcend trans transcendental cen denti dents social 0 cot coterie erio erle in washington is 18 fol foi those who cart care buch such things exclusion from tho the earthly paradise last week the house committee mit tt lo 10 on irl iri military afla atla ales aies ies les hall on ova the witness stand captain rockwell boe Koc kwell kweli department part ment quartermaster at this post ho he lv was s first examined as to his own pay and testified that his salary proper was wag 2000 2000 per year his longevity nilow allow allowance anca anea goo goos allowance for quarters forage p fuel amounting in the aggregate to per annum further questions elicited the facts faeta aarand war and for two years thereafter the he and officers in similar positions were paid s perquisites and all but 1650 per year it ia is the duty of captain noc docte te att a ti ciu cou department quartermaster to con tract for the rent of off meers leers P q ar he does this he stated asking no questions the wives of a number of generals it was intimated in an examination on this head would be found receiving rent from their husbands for the houses that both occupied la in the matter of forage captain B R testified that it was the habit of officers to take the tho forage to to a livery stable which in return furnished his hla wife and family with horses and carriages the tho following questions and answers during the investigation will turow throw some bome lighton light on the means and methods of extravagance in army pay Quest question fin ibn by general banning suppose a colonel stops at the abbet house on oil court martial marmat dut duty y in this city 3 at the end of the month do you pay for five rooms at 18 each or M Z 93 in nil nii and 2 20 00 for fuel making iio ilo to the landlord answer answers yes question the law bays says that thai you must give him nive five rooms at 18 each do you pay on th this Is certificate that he has haq occupied ed these thebe rooms answer gido aldo ido not pay on his certificate I 1 pay on that of the landlord question Is it on a certificate that ho lie has hai occupied five no sir sit I 1 suppose that he has occupied more than nive five mw probably twenty question now how is 13 that answer owell Well hohas he has occupied the dining room the parlor the office his bed room and probably another room C question tand band and is it upon this supposition thal that you find he has occupied five rooms and pay tho the landlord goti 90 answer vt s bir sir there will bo be other rich developments in the investigation of the army and navy A number of have been for weeks preparing speeches ana and at the proper time lime will be on hand with the facts and rhetoric the officers who hv abeen in washington off duty for from flora one ono to three years are of course much tiou troubled bled bied at the prospect of having their pay reduced and bonico Bon bou loe them threaten to resign berone before be form they w turn tura to their notwithstanding iha tha the mal mai anti antl subsidy vote vot by cop cob congress gress there is re a son sou to extending a aidan a to th the tho c southern F na b 1 tio tic rodd will be passed aleis A new etsul has been le which the subsidy a keg sui amed ared ed forto about nind find anaVer an average aoe ave 7 of 1 0 0 under r this bihl bill branches a at t tew new orleans mid ana V vicksburg vicks Vicka burg are proposed sweet society ia is just now sweetly y agitated over oven tb the a foray forai formally ally aily announced engagement of senator donald cameron jL and miss bliss lizzie lizzle sherman bherman the ni nelce neice iee ice and prospective heir of the tho yieh rich secretary of the treasury the Sedre secretary tary tars is childless in his bis hwn hwu own famil family Y the young jady is passably pretty plain I 1 but elegant edher in her fand driving riv attire and just 22 years old senator cameron la Is an interesting young man of 47 with stiff hair inclined to fredn redness e ia or rather blond ness heavy incorrigible mou moustache staches low brow and he wears in the benato e chamber aniber a shore sich sack back cont coat Tuis This union of 0 the houses of cameron and sherman bherman will cement ex political and financial interests broad acres grand grana palaces blocks of ti tenement houses and i immense patr patronage onajo when whop pid simon pa pase ss sos 3 the sceptre seep tre tro the prince of fa will kuil at least not ya bd left without the sinews 11 U CAS A S 1 I 1 KEMAK mable KABLE LIFE AND DEATH 1 A tho leper governor th the a honolulu exchanges announce in brief the death of wm P ragsdale Ba gadale governor of the leper settlement on the island islam of molo kai sandwich islands the decease decema of eo so noted and remarkable a man in the prime of life it a more extended obituary bill ll 11 AS ho he was popularly known was a hawaiian by birth his havin having been a native dative and his father ali alf an american by profession he was a lawyer speaking ak english aa as fluently as cawall hawai an and the moab moat noted orator of the tho hawaiian kingdom whites and natives included and among the latter there are many conspicuous orators the manner in which ragsdale discovered that he had the leprosy as told by hi himself in myself self sell f is most interesting nud aud especially from a yi ot w tuo tho deceased resided for a number naw waw of years on 04 the island of hawaii a 11 and had llad an office at hilo hijo the capital of the island ono one night ho he was studying up a law case in which he was deeply interested when the chimney lamp fell on the table although the chimney was hot as fire ball allys in hs big excitement picked it up and set seh it in its place without experienc ing the least inconvenience such as would naturally result to a really sound person handling a lr red d hot lamp chimney ho he reflected for a moment looked at his big hand ban but could not discover the lea iea least t sign that it had bad been burned he then took off and put rut afi the chimney repeatedly and with the same fame result this experience convinced him that he was among the thet afflicted and he lost no time in communicating ni with the authorities an examination was made and medical authority declared that he was afflicted with leprosy dr trousseau seau four years yean a physician at honolulu but now a resident of the island of hawaii made the principal pai pat examination up to this time no person on the Is lands ever dreamed that bill ragsdale had the leprosy and andelmo boino doubted even after the examina examination iche if he was sd afflicted bill however was personally convinced that he was BO so afflicted the police did not arrest him however owing to his exalted position n as was common with those suspected of heing being lepers apers so ho he voluntarily delivered himself up as a vic victim timot of tho the terrible disease he hd was then sent to T molokai toi iol Tol okal and installed as governor of the thi leper settlement which position he held for a number of years up to thu the time of his death last month soon after his isolation from the world and his friends tile the disease made itself more apparent and there wore none so incredulous as to believe belleve that he was not forever afflicted with the leprosy during his administration of f airs he was wag as successful as ho he was popular there were and ahre are about lepers on the settlement but by his tact tae t and kindheartedness ness nesa ila sla sia gadale to made the most extraordinary and saddest community on the face of the earth as cheerful ahad abd happy happ y as could be B by y his advice the government made many reforms brid and the lepers recognized him aa as a f father a one of the most peculiar and startling phases connected with this 1 9 episode is the tact that mr ta rag ragsdale Kag 9 sdale who was waa a married man with a family took up with a yo young ung woman on the settlement ui uj olo kai hat who fell in loe love ioe with him she was remarkably handsome of splendid physique and had already buried two husbands or lovers for both are substantially the bame same with the hawaiians Hawaii ans free from missionary influence not both h her husbands as we will call them bied died of leprosy yet the wife aa as she mus must t be termed was neven never afflicted with ith it she fell in love with ragsdale arid and they continued to live iivo in the most perfect harmony the wife not having the least fear rear of being subject to the frightful affliction of her husband ashes thestil Sh estil lil survives him and pud ia is iu in gerfe perfect ef health beaith lie lle alth aith or at least wasso not ago it may bo ba hore hare remarked that thai there are some bome 75 individuals Individual 9 on the leper settlement who are not afflicted with leprosy these have voi voluntarily unta rily exiled themselves on account of the deep love and affection they have fo for r their friends who are lepers they mingle freely among amone the sorrow stricken eating out of the same and drinking from the same cup chatting and talking together on the same mat and even sleeping together still some ot of the tho very healthy persons indeed the majority m ajor I 1 t y of them never catch the leprosy in n a word they have no fear of I 1 it at it all I 1 who tho the successor of tho the decease 0 n leper governor will bo e is not known n it was wits bell teli believed eved at one tn mathat t at peter kao a acou cousin jor por uncle nele to queen emma would be governor but by influence this ae piou c hief chief has been allowed to tealo teale eave the settlement and is now a resident ent of honolulu had bad s nice hico cottage at molokai Mo lobai al and aa as be COMIL his bis rauk rank had servants ts to jeval ou on him during hib hla sojourn enero thero kabei 0 he enjoyed ure lifes as well as 66 je expiated and had the good will of the lepers at large now that he lie ia Is free and ragsdale dead it will be difficult to find tind the proper nan man to fulfill fulfil so delicate a duty the hawaiian authorities haye have many faults and shortcomings but tha g V abyo s abw ui the lepers lepera in providing and caring nor for them la is greatly to their credit the tiie settlement setie ment Is under the tho taboo that is no human being id Is permit ed to enter tile tiie dreadful dread ful lul ideality locality without a special permit from the fhe board of health of honolulu it itis is very difficult to get this permit ermit BO so that not one foreigner in a and ever can visit the leper world of molokai |
