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Mich. Datrolt Buffalo Steamboat Co. THE INDIAN MASSACRES IN THE Review of One of the Saddest and Bloodiest Conflicts in American STORY OF REGINA, NEW LIGHT UPON THE EVENTS OF A PERIOD MARKED BY ALMOST UNEQUALLED BARBARITY AND CRUELTY HOW PENNSYLVANIA 'WAS WRESTED FROM THE ORIGINAL OWNERS BRUTAL CONFLICTS PRECIPITATED BY THE BRITISH PAPER PREPARED AND WRITTEN FOR THE HISTORICAL. SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY By REV! J. W.

EARLY. fContinued. The two girls cantured here were Barbara and Heglna Leininger. Accounts of their capture are found in Penna. Archives, Vol.

Ill, p. 633; Vol. VII (3rd Ser.) p. 401 ff; Penna. Maga ne, Vol.

XXIX, p. 407 ff. Kupp also quotes from "Provincial Records N. p. 242 43 and Votes of Assembly.

Vol. IV, 495." INDIANS CROSS THE RIVER, The settlement must have "been quite an extensive one, as not less than twenty five were killed and captured. The rest fled down to Tulpehocken. me Indians, who were "Picks, Otto was, Orandoxj Delawares and a number of the Six Nations," moved down the west bank of the Susquehanna, after they had killed, captured or driven off nearly all the inhabitants along Penn's Creek. October 23.

a comnanV of about forty men, apparently under the command of Adam Terrance, accompanied by John Harris, Thomas Foster and Mr. McKee had a skirmish along the west bank of the river, short distance below Selin's Grove. On the twenty fourth these men. went to Shamokin (Sunbury). The next day they crossed the river again and coming down the west, bank, they were again attacked by the Indians.

On the Zbth Adam Terrance reports that out of the forty attacked, only nine had turned up. According to several letters of Conrad Weiser, one dated Heldelbers Oct. 26, the other Reading, Oct. 27, the Indians seem now to have proceeded down the Susquehanna, apparently in two bodies, one having crossed somewhere about McKee's, the other along the west bank, crossing somewhere near the mouth of the Juniata. They seem to have captured Fort Hunter and advanced into Paxtang during the last week of October.

Possibly the advance of Col. Weiser's regiment to Hanover. Oct. 28. caused them to halt here and pursue the old Shamokin road into Berks.

These letters of Conrad Weiser also inform us that he had sent his sons, Peter and Frederic, to bring down their cousin Jonathan, who occupied a farm, somewhere near the head of Line Mountain. These letters also state, that "the French want to see: Jonathan taken prisoner." All this serves to show that twelve days after1 the massacre at Penn's Creek, although the Indians had cleared both banks of I the Susquehanna, had captured Fort, nuiuer ana ariven me peopie away from Harris Ferry, they had not yet invaded Berks, including Schuylkill, east of the Schuylkill river. SETTLERS CUT OFF. But the movement of" the troops to Hanover twp.) left the old Tulpehocken, also known as the Shamokin road, from Sunbury. via Dornsife, Smith's Tavern, Hoof land, Klingerstown, Sacramento, Rausch Gap, Tremont and Pine Grove to the Tulpehocken region, open to the Indians.

They now crossed this road and cut off the retreat of the settlers from the north, as well as from the west and northwest. "Towards the close of October, the enemy neared the borders of Berks county." Rupp, p. 48. On the 30th of October, Henry Hart man, whose residence was close to the above named old road, was murdered. He was found next morning by some of his neighbors.

Vm. Parsons in a letter of October 31, tails us that he resided on the north side of the mountain. Prof. Brunner in "Indians of Berks County." suggests that this may have been the father of Regina. Unfortunately neither the date nor the circum i stances agree with the narrative of H.

M. Muhlenberg. Prof. Brunner candid ly admits this. The fact is there is no known record of a single massacre in Berks or Stuiylkill, prior to this one.

which occurred two full weeks after Barbara apd Regina were captured. Whilst It is not impossible that any other murders may have occurred In this vicinity at this time, we have never seen any record of any until a month later, U. e. in Schuylkill Co.) the latter part of November. When the massacre of John Hartman's family near Orwigsburg, occurred, it is impossible to say.

There are intimations of a raid there In November of this year (1756). Although not clearly so stated, the house, barn, outhouses and crops of John the Quaker, apparent ly were destroyed in November, L56, I 1. thirteen months after the breaking out of the war aft or the first massacre seem to say that Fincher and his fain My were slain in September. 1763, the Penna. Archives In a letter of Jonas Seely.

dated Sept. 10. 1763. show con cluslvely that this occurred only about thirteen months before Regina return 1 ed from her nine years captivity. In this letter which we give only in ab breviated Jonas Secly, says: Inst night, tho 8th a party of Indians earner to the house of John Fincher, about three fourths of a mile from a party of Capt.

Kern's men, I commanded by Knsign Shpffer, who mediately went to the place." He tells us they killed Fincher, his wife and two sons. The daughter was missing. The Indians were gone. They were pursued to the house of Nicholas Miller. Four ohlhlron were found tmirrlororl.

Whon otfacVoii thA TnriKina rer n.i int behind two prisoners, two one hanger, one saddle. Keoovercd miller's children. In a P. dated Sept. 11.

J. S. adds: "This morn I nor Intelli gence came that the house of Franz 'brought to light. We will therefore Hubler was attacked on Friday even I prencnt only a few of the most proml lng." killed Hubler, his wife and nnt Incidents from which we may be three children. They carried off three 'able to Judge the rest, other children, whom they scalped AWFUL DEVASTATION.

alive. COLLD NOT HAVE BEEN REGINA. This shows that Fincher was killed on the last raid of the Indians into this section. If therefore It should he Rev. Weller suggests, that the Hartman family, near Orwigsburg.

was attacked at the same time the Flnchers were murdered, it In clearly evident that none of their daughters can pos slbly be referred to In Muhlenberg's story about Regina. This occurred less than sixteen months before Regina came back and was restored to her mother. Now let us try to get our bearings and understand the plan of campaign, or the objective point of the Indians. If that be possible. Their first attack vai made a little beyond Helin's Grove.

They hovered about this point and along the Susquehanna, until near the close of the mont h. Meanwhile they made Incursions into Huntingdon, Mifflin and Juniata, until they had driven nearly all the settlers from theso Here they carried on their bloody work about two weeks before they made anv serious attempt to attack the settlers Inland, east of and away from the ousquehanna. Oct. 26, Conrad Weiser reports that a had heard that the Indians "had crossed tho Buq.uohaun and killed a COUNTY OF BERKS History. THE INDIAN CAPTIVE great many, people from Thomas Mc Kee's down 'to Hunter's Mills." Four days before, Oct.

22, he had written to Governor Morris, stating that many said that they would not cross the river, although he feared they would, So far we have been unable to find a single record of hostilities within the limits of Berks or of Schuylkill, before the murder of Henry Hartman, Oct. 30. Some massacres had occurred before this time near Pax tang, then in Lan caster county. NOT WYOMING INDIANS. It would certainly be interesting to know who the attacking party really were.

John Harris to Richard Peters, Oct. 28, 1755, says: "I shall endeavor to keep you well informed. But it is our river Indians and some scouts from the French army, attacked usNtt Me. Penn's creek" (Penna. Archives II p.

441.) Gov. Morris, Oct. 28, speaking of this same massacre, says: "It was one hundred miles from Philadelphia." (p. 440). Is it not possible that Dr.

Muhlenberg was quoting this? In another letter Gov. Morris says: "Oct. 31, 1500 French and Indians encamped on the Susquehanna, at Geo. Gabriel's, within 30 40 miles north of Clark's Ferry." Up to Nov. 2, 1755, so Messrs.

Seidel and Zels berger, Moravians, declare under oath, the Indians at Wyoming had taken no part Jn the massacres. BLOODY WORK KEPT UP. During the first part of this campaign the Indians apparently confined themselves mainly to the territory included in the "Walking1 Purchase," although in some of their predatory incursions they advanced into the Tulpehocken region. Apparently the body of the invaders remained in this vicinity during the winter. For in February and March, 1756, they pressed further south, into Bethel, Bern, even reaching the vicinity of Sinking Spring, through Albany, Richmond, Windsor and Max a lawny, even into Hereford.

They kept up their bloody work for years. Rupp gives accounts of incursions into Bethel, Lebanon county and Bethel, Berks county, into Albany and other sections during February, March, June and July, 1756. But there is no reference to any incursion any vhere near Orwigsburg at any of these periods. Then he adds that the Indians again appeared in Hanover township during October (p.f6) in the month of November" they "made great havoc in various parts of Berks." Advices from Fort Lebanon (below Auburn) stated that Nov. 8 (1756) "a tire was seen about seven miles from said Fort, supposed to have been at the house of John Finsher." A party sent to look after the matter "found Fincher's house, barn, outhouses, corn, on fire, but saw no Indians, nor anybody that belonged to the house." During 1757 there are continued accounts of inroads and massacres.

So it was kept up the next five years', until September, 1763. It was during this last raid into Berks, that "eight well armed Indians came to the house of John Fincher. a Quaker, about twenty four milos from Reading," and notwithstanding the kind treatment extended to them, murdered the parents and their two sons. Rupp, Egle and others apparently locate the Fincher homestead, a short distance north of Fort Lebanon, a little below Auburn: The His tory of Schuylkill county, published by W. W.

Munsell 1881, places it at Schuylkill Haven, more than six miles lurtner north. GERMANS WERE GOOD CITIZENS. It may not be amiss to add a brief survey of the blood and treasure ex pennea oy our people, especially our Germans, in this savage and brutal conflict. For, that It was more brutal than almost any previous one, and pos sibly more so than most subsequent ones, except perhaps that of the British upon our ancestors in the Revolution, and possibly that of the British and the Sepoys in the rebellions in India, will hardly be questioned. Scarcely any one need be reminded that the colonies planted here before Penn came, were of Teuton origin, Swedes and Dutch.

Nor will it be ec to reca11 tho facts, that the ij 1 1 i c3 an wtrii us me nrsc newspaper printed in Pennsylvania, wtre German. Although not pertaining specifically to tho subject under consideration. It may be well also to state the very interesting and important fact, that, at the time of the revolution ry war. which commenced but ten to jweive years niter mis one ended, not lMn than one twelfth of the entire pop uliluon ne colonies, ana even a proportion or the Insurgent People, were of German birth. Life of Conrad Weisor pp.

414 and 422. In 1747, pey (the Germans) were already three nrtns of the population of the "taie, wnicn then was said to be 200,000. Jt was the most flourishing of all the colonics pp. Gen. Braddork maue this statement regard to its PeoPfe short, in every instance.

in my coniroci ror rennsyivania wagons. I have been deceived, and met with nothing but lies and villiany." 48 nuoting from Col. Records, Vol. VI, p. 3W.

Should not the English feel 'deeply grateful fop this Compliment from their own General? 1 rt will be impossible to give a full 4 nummary of all the victims of this war. I Some will not be known until the day when all deeds of darkness shall he The nctttlements at Aughwlck and Lewlstown were not only beyond our boundaries, but they consisted mainly Scotch Irish. The first settlement belonging to our people and our 8ctlon to be attacked, that at Selin's Grove. has already been referred to. There twenty five were slain or carried int captivity.

The number murdered nnd captured between that point and Harris" Ferry has never been estimated. It was probably never known. From a. relieving party of forty sent to bury the dead above Selin's Grove. Ywly nine turned up next day.

In the Tulpehoek en district, at the foot of the Blue Mountains. 32 men, 21 Women, 17 children, 70 in all were killed In one week. Twenty one houses were burned, and the cattle destroyed or carried off In the same time. Similar barbarities were committed In Northampton county Rut we have already given the extent of the devastation there. In February, 1756.

the Indians crested similar havoc In Albany; early In March in other parts "of the county. During June, July and August, they committed numerous dcpradatlons and murders. Later, In Sept. 1763, they again devasta ted the whole northern border, especially the settlements beyond the Blue Mountains. In the vicinity; of Auburn, Orwlgaburf aud Schuyl XHB REAPING DAILY TIMES, READING, PA JUNE 19.

1906 kill Haven. And thus It was along; the entire border of 150 to 200 miles, where no one "could go to sleep within 10 or 15 miles of the border, without the fear of having his house burned and himself and family murdered or led into captivity before the next morning." p. 417) With the exception of Rupp and the later histories by Egle these things are passed Vver. It might almost seem as if our fathers had not suffered, and still worse, that they had done nothing for their protection. This is, not me case.

SLAIN BY THE INDIANS. To go Into detail somewhat more fully: During the month of October the Indians killed and captured not less than about two hundred defenceless persons, mostly women and children, During November, hardly less than fifty women and children fell victims to their tomahawks, while nearly an eq.ua! number were made captives. They burned and otherwise destroyed scores of, houses, barns and other outbuild ings. They did everything in their power to make the country all alonsr the northern border of Berks, as well as of Lancaster, now Dauphin and Lebanon, entirely uninhabitable. During December they seemed to have partly ceased their pestilent activity.

In Feb ruary" and March, as well as during June, July and August, thev resumed their bloody work. During November of the second year they seem to have paid special attention to the country north of the Blue Mountains, now the southern paTrt of Schuylkill. They con tinued these raids at intervals during the next five or six years. Then in 1763, they came almost to the city of Real ng. They also passed down through the eastern section of Berks, almost to the Montgomery county line.

They had so alarmed the inhabitants, that some proposed abandoning; the country districts entirely. ATROCIOUS BUTCHERIES. It will not be necessary to repeat all the details of the many atrocious mur ders committed by the Indians, nor of the equally atrocious butcheries of those who tried to earn rewards for bringing in Indian scalps. Most of these are given by Rupp. A brief sum mary therefore of those belonging to Berks will have to suffice.

Besides the 25 killed and captured Oct. 16, Henry Hartman was killed Oct. 30th, and two days later, two others on this same Shamokin road. On the 16th of November, they seem to have enter ed the county in force. They murdered hirteen, burned houses, destroyed cat tle, grain and fodder.

They laid waste a large extent of country in Tulpehocken. At another place they killed three men, one woman and about hair a doz en children, and destroyed a number of houses. Now they seemed to have turned their attention more to North ampton county for a time and the alarm became less. But in February (1756) they returned to Berks, to the eastern section. In Albany eleven were killed, eight of them burned.

And during March more than a dozen were captured and killed this same township and in Hereford. June they made another raid into Bethel. In November they burned the house, barn, other outbuildings and crops of John Fincher, the Quaker. Here and in the vicinity of Fort North kill, they killed and captured between one and two dozen during this month. They also made another raid into Al bany, as well as in June, 1.57.

Three men and four children, killed by the Indians were buried at one time, (July 5, 175i)m the cemetery of Chris Church. Stouchsburg. Forty five year: ago the spot, near a 'dwarfed and gnarled apple tree, was still pointed out. On the same day in Heidelberg two women and two children were killed and three children were taken prison ers. Thus the account might be con tinued until Sept.

1763, when the specially cruel murder of John Fincher, the Quaker, with his wife and family, occurred in Schuylkill county. EVEN WEISER LOST HEART. How greatly the "people were alarmed by these inroads is shown by the letters of Conrad Weiser, James Read, John Harris, Wm. Parsons and others. So many of the best settlers and their children had been killed or carried into captivity, their houses, barns and cat tle destroyed, that it was impossible to cultivate the soil, or to remain in the disputed territory.

The settlers In Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflln( Cumberland at that time) were either killed or driven back. The Indians slipped by the Forts at Shamokin (Sunbury), Hunger's Mills, (Rockville) and those along the Blue Mountains, and so alarmed the people in these more thickly settled portions that they meditated the abandonment of their farms, with all their improvements. Even Conrad Weiser seemed to have lost heart and suggested that it might become necessary to fall back on Philadelphia. be Continued. PENSION DECISIONS THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GIVES HIS OPINION ON A NUMBER OF CLAIMS.

Special to The Times. Washington, D. Juns 18. The following pension clsfns have been given by the Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior: Line of Duty; Accidental Pistol Wound. Claimant, an infantry soldier, purchased a pistol, and while exhibiting it in camp It was accidentally discharged In the hands of a comrade, the con tents entering claimant's breast.

Held. That such a firearm not being a part of the arms and accoutrements prescribed by the government for an in fantry soldier, he carried It at his own risk, and If he received a wound, it can not be held to have been received lu line of duty. Dependence; Support. Where the father and mother of the soldier are with out property, and the father la unable to support the family, the mother Is de pendent within tho meaning; of the law Milltla; Service. No person other than the President of the United States has authority to call the militia, of any state Into the United States service; and a militia organization called Into service by any other authority "is not thereby in the service of the United States for pensionable purposes under the first subdivision of section 4693, R.

Insanity: Declaration. Under the act of Juno 27, 1H10, a person non compos mentis, without a committee or guard Ian, may file a valid declaration for pension as next friend, but before any payment a guardian or committee must be appointed, and when qualified to act the pension should be paid to him in ac cordance with the practice under the general law. Bounty Land Act: Prima Facie Case. Congress, in providing that tho grant of a land warrant shall be prima facie evidence of service, meant that such prima facie evidence shall be considered in connection with other evidence In determining the question of service. It shifts upon the government the burden of proof places upon it the duty of disproving.

If necessary, prima facie case. The carpenter's shavings kindle the fire bettor than the barber's. FROU OYER THE BERKS BORDERS SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. Into a gulf that opened in the earth directly in front of him near Robinson a horse and wagon driven by John Miles, a butcher, of Mahanoy City, dis appeared late Saturday night. Miles made a flying' leap to safety as the wa gon went over the brink, of the breach.

His escape from being swallowed up with the horse and wagon was a thrilling one, as his leap just landed him be yond the danger zone. North Mahanoy colliery undermines the highway at that point. The committee In charge of Potts vine's "Old Home Week," which will be observed early in September, has de cided to invite President Roosevelt, Governor Pennypacker, Senator Knox and other national and state dignitaries, Anniversaries which will be observed will be the first settling of this place by the Neiman family, who were masaa cred by the Indians in 1795, and, the lat er founding; of the town by John Pott, who built a furnace there in 1806. For the second time within26 hours deluging rain, accompanied by a heavy fall of hailstones, fell at Mahanoy City on Sunday evening, flooding the streets and Inundating cellars to the level of the pavement along Centre and Water streets in the western quarter of the city. Tons of mountain earth and other debris were swept into the streets, chok Ing the sewers.

Rain fell in torrents for about 40 minutes while outlying dis tricts report very little rain. In the territory between Pottsville and Tremont to the west, and Tuscaro ra to the east, 14 mine openings are planned to be made during the ensuing year. When these new operations are turning out their maximum shipments mining experts say there will be an in. crease of over 1,000,000 tons per years from that territory. rroai, msiue ioreraan at onen? andoah City colliery, it is alleged, nt a slope engineer, Matthew Johnson, the latter asked him to rectify an error in his pay.

Johnson, it is said, coolly stopped and blocked his engine, and he then gave Frost the trouncing of hii lifetime. Johnson has been suspended pending an investigation. DELAWARE COUNTY. John Martain, aged 11 years, one of the brightest lads in the Chester public schools, was drowned late on Sunday afternoon" in the Delaware river, off Roach's shipyard, at one of the most treacherous points between Eddystone and Wilmington. The lad sank in the presence of 30 people, and although his companions attempted to rescue him, efforts proved useless.

"Say, fel lows, I am going to see how far out can wade," he said. He had not gone more than 20 feet when he disappeared om sight. The body has not yet been icovered. MONTGOMERY COUNTY. James Malloy, 44 years old, left home on Saturday night to go to Washington Square with a sum of money in his pos session.

About midnight a trolley car on the Lansdale line ran over the body of Malloy at the German town pike and DeKaib street, Norristown. When pick ed up tho man was dead. His skull was crushed and his body badly mutilated Mrs. Malloy is of the opinion that her husband was murdered and the body placed on the track. When the clothing was searched, all his money was gone.

Coroner King is making an lnvcstiga tion. Impressive services were held at Pottstown on Sunday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of St. Aloysius Roman Catholic church. Archbishop Ryan was present and made a short address. In the afternoon he confirmed a class of about 250 children.

Five clergymen who spent their childhood in Pottstown were present, as follows: The Rev. Joseph M.Woods, of Woodstock College, Maryland: Eugene Murphy, Manayunk; Joseph C. Hannlgan. Sharon Hill; Fran cis J. Welsh, Harrisburg.

and Henry C. Schuyler, Norristown. A new pipe or gan, cost several thousand dollars, was dedicated, being used on Sunday for the first time. LANCASTER COUNTY. Several sections of Lancaster county were visited at intervals on Sunday by the most severe hailstorms In many years.

Portions of the fruit crops were entirely destroyed and the berry bushes were beaten to the ground. The corn and tobacco crops were ruined in East and West Hempfleld townships. In the borough of Mountvllle and vicinity the hail fell to the depth of an inch, the hailstones varying in size from a cherry stone to a hen egg. Many window panes were shattered. YORK COUNTY.

Earl Shetter and Harry Zeigler, nei ther 16 years old, were arrested on Sat urday by Detective White on charges of burglary. A few nights ago the house of Kate Rosenberg was broken into and $40 stolen. White found a barn in which Shetter and Zeigler "hang out, and there he found thtf cash stolen from the Rosenberg home, a number of revolvers, dark lantern, masks and a lot of cheap novels. When arrested, the boys confessed to Mayor McCall. To save the life of the two year old child of Mr.

and Mrs. Bennlah Menchey, of York street. Dr. G. Emanuel Spots, of Hampton, was compelled to cut open the little one's larynx to remove a bean which had lodged there.

It is believed that the young patient will recover. LEHIGH COUNTY. tate, valued at $8,00. Lena ran away from home In saxonmetnlgen, Germany, with a sister, three years ago, having made a lucky strike In a lottery, and came to America, of which she ssTd heard so much during her employment as a clerk in the postofflce of her native town. She received notice on Sunday that, as she had become of age, the es tate was to be settled up and divided between herself and a sister and broth er, each share of which will be over She will return to this country as soon as she has received her patri mony.

CHESTER C6UNTY. Before a large congregation in the State Normal School chapel on Sunday afternoon. Dr. Fremantle, of the Frank ford Presbyterian church, preached the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class of 1906. The class numbered 166.

The graduating and class day exercises wil Itako place Juno 21 Work of tho Rovonuo Cutter HOW THE DUTIES EMBRACE THE PROTECTION OF THE CUSTOMS REVENUES, THE GOVERNMENT OB" MARINE LAWS. AND BEN DERIN ASSISTANCE TO VESSELS IN DISTRESS PATROLLING THE SEABOARD; ALSO THE FUR SEAL FISHERIES MISSION SCHOOLS IN THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA." (Special to The Times. Washington, D. June IS. Captain Worth a.

Ross, Chief of the Division of Revenue Cutter Service of the Treasury Department, has the distinction of be ing In that service for 30 consecutive years. The service has 41 vessels In Its charge, stationed along the coast of the United States from Eastport, Maine, to Alaska, on both sides and also on the Great Lakes. The service has 221 offl oters and cadets on the active list and 58 officers on the retired list, and between 1,300 and 1,400 petty officers. The revenue! cutter service has vessels running as far west as Attu, te westernmost island of the Aleutian group, and also has vessels at San Juan, Porto Rico, and Honolulu. The service has also had vessels on the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea protecting the fur seals.

Captain Ross was recently before one of the committees of Congress and was questioned at some length concerning the work of the revenue cutter service. He was asked if In recent years the revenue cutters had come In contact with Japanese pelagic sealers outside the three mile zone. He replied that it had not, but that it had done some work for the purpose of preventing pelagic sealing. "We ran across the Jap anese last summer at the Island of At tu," he said, "and found four of their vesels Ashing for salmon. One of our cutters warned them off, and they left and their shacks on the shore were destroyed by Are.

We have found no Japanese who have been doing any pe leglc sealing recently." The duties of the revenue cutter ser vice embrace the protection of the cs toms revenue, the enforcement of marine laws and rendering assistance to vessels in distress. Under the law the President designates a certain number of public vessels which are named revenue gutters for the purpose of patrolling the seaboard to assist vessels and mariners in distress. This work includes giving them provisions when in. need, towing dismasted and helpless vessels into rescuing crews and doing whatever Is possible in the inter ests of commerce; reporting the dis placement of buoys, blowing up or oth erwise removing derelicts and wrecks in the paths of commerce, and work of that nature. Another duty of the service is the enforcement of the laws pertaining to marine quarantine.

Last year during the yellow fever epidemic, a number of revenue cutters patrolled the region from the mouth of the Mississippi river to tne eastward as far as Pensacola. Florida, for the purpose of preventing the spread of the infection to any of the seaport towns or places by the water routes. This work was considered to be the most effective marine quarantine patrol ever done by the United States. Another duty Is the enforcement of the neutrality laws. Matters pertain ing to the navigation and other laws) governing merchant vessels are under the Department of Commerce and Labor, but the revenue cutter service la called upon at times to enforce all these laws.

The service also enforces the anchorage laws at the ports of New York, Chicago, the St. Mary's river, the Kennebec river and other ports, protects merchant vessels from piratical attacks, and suppresses piracy, should any suclx break out. i The revenue cutter service is also charged with the protection of the fur seal fisheries around the Seal Islanda and on the hunting of Alaska. Vessels are sent there each year to patrol in the vicinity pf the Pribilof Islands and to aid In various ways the seal industry, at a cost of $20,000 a month for four vessels. This service is also performed during the seal catching season, the cutters generally starting from the south in May, working their way to Bering Sea, staying there until tha middle of September.

The Interior Department has a number of mission schools in Alaska and the revenue cutter service aids in carrying supplies and taking agents and inspectors of the department to and returning from Alaska. The revenue cutters also cruise north In order to have supervision oyer the whaling Industry. Another duty Is to protect wrecked property on the waters. It also has the protection of the timber reserves of the United States against depredations, usually on the coast of Florida: the suppression of illegal traffic In liquor, firearms and ammunition in Alaska, thei suppression of the slave trade, the suppression of mutinies on board merchant vesels and the enforcement of the anchorage laws of the country. Occasionally the revenue cutter service Is called upon for men to command th boats under the Fish Commission and! compliance Is made therewith.

The revenue service also holds Itself In readiness to co operate with the navy. During the Spanish War all vesels on the Eastern shores of the country became a part of the North Atlantic Squadron, eight of which were around Cuba. One of the cutters was at the battle of Manila Bay. Other vessels were assigned by the War Department for the purpose of looking after the alleged mines laid by Spaniards In various harbors In this country. The service is also empow Four Years on Ice MAROONED, IN THE ARCTIC REGION, 1,500 MILES FROM THE NEAR.

EST SETTLEMENT. Marooned In the Arctic region, with only the Esquimaus fpr company for four long years, George B. Cleveland, who Is visiting here, tells an interesting story of his experiences. He is the superintendent of the whaling and ading station established at Fox town Bay, north of the Arctic Circle, on Hudson Bay. by the Robert Kennis Company, of Dundee, Scotland, and has under his charge 300 natives trapping the wolverine, polar bear, silver fox and other fur bearing animals.

"With mod ern boats and appliances he is making a great success of the post. It was when Cleveland went North In 899 ta locate a trading nost for a New Bedford syndicate that his vorst experiences took place. After the first year he was deserted 1,500 miles from the nearest white settlement and left to make his way back as best he could. He was compelled to join the Esquimaus and for four years remained with them, dressing in skins, living In the ice huts and eating raw meats and fish. Dur ng this time he acquired the native anguage.

Constantly traveling from place to place and treated as a member the tribe, he lost much of his civ ilized lifcj and when one day a Scotch whaler was sighted and Cleveland went aboard and met white man he could scarcely speak his native tongue and was nauseated by the cooked food set i ered to enforce the regulations govern ing rowing, sailing and motor boat re gattas to Insure the safety of partici pants and spectators. In fact, the service Is a general utility service of ther sea, always under the military disci pline. It assists the Postofflce Department in carrying the mails. It aids th Smithsonian Institution In obtaining anthropological specimens In Alaska and Is always ready to perform servic. the government.

William Wolff Smtlb. before him. It took him a month regain his habitual ease as a civilize man. From this meeting with the Scotch men came his employment later as sua perintendent of their station, which hC has brought to a success since then. But it is his abandonment of whiclC Mr.

Cleveland speaks with much feel ing. "I came back to see my people and to secure redress for the manned in which I was deserted in those sno wastes," says Mr. Cleveland. "If there is a law in God's country I am going have justice. When I went away it wa( under a written corftract with the NeiOj Bedford people to serve five years, Witt1 the provision that they should send ship and provide me with food and am munition once a ear.

A company ofl New Bedford men fitted up the steam whaling ship Francis Allen, and I lo cated a whaling station on Hudson Bay and I was left there. The ship was toi return in a year, but owing to the unprofitableness of the venture It neve a returned, and after my provisions were) exhausted I distributed my rifles among the Esquimaus and joined them. Mr. Cleveland says his case is now in tho hands of a New Bedford lawyer, who is going to sue for redress. Mr.

Cleveland is now on a six months, furlough, and Is to start back to his trad ing station soon. Brockton (Maso. correspondence Chicago Inter Ocean. 2 Preserving' Time At the request of housekeepers, the "Times" prints seasonable labels for the preserving and canning season. Pineapples 1906 Pineapples 1966 Pineapples 1906 Cherries 1906 Cherries 1906 1 l.i .111 .1 I I 1 I.

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