| Show ward reports asa aa a number of the bishops lu in the salt lake stake of zion have failed thus far to send in their regular statistical reports they will please see that they are forthcoming immediately these reports are required in addition to the special reports which are now low nearly all in when ready they may be left at the presidents s office or sent by mail addressed to J D STIRLING box B salt lake city utah squaws squads and the soldiers in conference with commissioner morgan this morning hollow horn and bear charged that while the military had control over the reservation during the late trouble the soldiers were the cause of great immorality among indian in dian women many soldiers went through gli the ceremony cere mouy of marriage with the squaws squads the latter believing they were doing well by marrying soldiers hollow horn said he did not know whether it was desirable that the officers allow soldiers to go off and leave their wives and children dependent for support upon the indians indiana he does not want soldiers near the reservation the indian service BOSTON feb 12 the cambridge civil service reform association has received from the president a reply to their address of the blot of january in which the president says your reference to the recent outbreak amon among 9 the sioux as affording convincing con convincing vincin 9 evidence of the necessity of a change in the manner of appointing officials jn in the indian bureau leads me to say any that I 1 have not found in a full examination of all the facts evidence of deterioration teri oration in the indian service on the other hand the board of indian commissioners through the chairman have as a result of close observation declared to me under date of january last that upon the whole the indian service is now in a better condition than ever before the object of their communication was to urge an extension of the civil service rules tu to the indian service but they were careful to recognize that argument was not to be found in any special or recent incident but in the broader fact that the work among the indiana to is educational and philanthropic and should therefore be separated from party poll poli tics bics I 1 may add that before any special appeal had been made to me the subject of including luc luding the indian agency clerks and employed emp loyes in the classified classi fidd service had been under consideration isider atlon the russian jews LONDON feb IO 10 the st petersburg correspondent of the telegraph writes at length of the persecution of jews which he says has been if anything more marked since the petition from guildhall london was returned without comment by the czar rus sias reply to the respectful petition consists of secret circulars ordering i the officials to rigorously administer the anti semitic laws and supply legal deficiencies by their own decisions the rhe correspondent says the poles after the rebellion of 1884 were less inhumanly treated than the jews are today the jews through the wretched life i they are forced to live are physically degenerating and becoming the most striking embodiment of human life continuing in spite of the gradual decay of the vital functions general gourko governor of warsaw with knowledge of this issues most stringent regulations as to the examination of young jews for military recruits harassing found physically unable to bear arms by repeating cruel examinations dragging drag gling them several times a year from their homes to the examining stations many miles away they being compelled to go on foot chained with convict gangs A strange anomaly to is the conduct of ce bolgou roff governor of moscow who has been obliged many times to turn to wealthy jews for monetary assistance sista si uce and is indebted to them in his hie district the jews jewis are treated with marked leniency referring to the report that the czar does not know of the enormities perpetrated pet rated in his name the correspondent says the truth is the czar knows enough to convince him that the jews we are more cruelly treated than horses cattle or swine which are cared for as gifts of god A number of eminent russian lite men recently addressed a declaration to the public and journalists asking king them to remember that the jews were human beings the government refused to allow the declaration to be published published A personal friend of the azar czar laid the document before him with a humble bumble request from the authors for its publication the czar read both papers and flung them away |
