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OLD CITY COUNCIL GOES OUT
At Meeting Friday Night Annual Reports Were Made.
The Mayor Reviewed the Year’'s Work.
The council ¢f 1909 held its last
meeting Friday night, for the pur
pose of winding up the affairs of the
year and hearing the annual reports
of those who had been at the head
of the various departments of the
city government for the past twelve
months.
About all that was done besides
kearing the reports, which are print
ed elsewhere in The News, was to
pay City Attorney Gurr $lOO as ex
tra compensation for his services and
appropriate $5O to pay Mr. H. A.
Petty, whose verdict against the city
fer damage to his automobile was
recently affirmed by the Court of Ap
peals.
Before it adjourned sine die the
following address was read to the
council by Mayor Marlin:
Gentlemen of the City Council: At
the incipiency of my term of office
in my message to you I made certain
promises, which I have tried faith
fully to perform. I promised you
that during my administration that
to the best of my ability I would
perform the duties of mayor to the
best interest of the people of Daw
son at large. I further promised you
that there would be certain reforms
made if in my power, and that they
would be carried out—that is, that
the streets of our city should be kept
eleaner; that we should have an up
to-date charter and a revision of the
City Code, and an economic adminis
tration, having in view at all times
the public welfare. If I have failed
in carrying out these promises I as
sure you that it was an error of the
mind and not the heart.
You will find from the reports of
the various departments of the city
government, comparing the year 1908
with the year 1909 (the present ad
ministration), that there is compar
atively small difference in the ex
pense of carrying on the city gov
ernment during the last two years,
taking into consideration the im
provements made this year.
The report of the fire department
shows a small increase in expense,
due to the fact that there was a
small raise in the salaries of the offi
cers of the department and perma
nent improvements made.
The report of the water and light
department show that this depart
ment has been managed as would
seem in a successful and economical
manner during the year. The plant
and all the machinery connected
therewith is in first-class condition,
and no city of this size can boast
©of a plant in a better physical con
dition. The report shows more dis
bursements than receipts, yet this is
due to the fact that in order not to
carry over any unpaid bills, as was
the case last year, all the December
expenses of 1909 have been included
in said report, and the department
will begin January 1, 1910, free of
all indebtedness. No collections have
been made for the December services,
which will overpay the overdraft
above mentioned,
The police department, coming un
der my own personal administration,
has been carried out to the best of
my ability with the co-operation of
the officers of said department, and
I will leave it to your honorable
body to say whether or not it has
been properly done. :
You will find from the report of
the superintendent of the street and
cemetery department that there is a
small increase in the expenses of that
department during this year, which
arises from the fact of the many per
manent improvements, as well as the
cleanliness, health and general ap
pearance of the streets at large. It
has been the pride of this adminis
tration to see that this department
of our city government should be de
cidedly improved over what it had
been in the past. 1 submit the rec
ord of this department to the people
at large to say whether or not [ have
carried out my expectations. By
reading the report of the superin
tendent of the ctreet department yvou
can draw your own conclusions as
to what has been done.
You will find from the report of
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the finance committee, whiclr is the
clerk’s report, the thorough condi
tion of the city’s finances. You will
note that although there has been
many permanent improvements made
during the years 1908 and 1909 the
taxable property assessed by the city
tax assessors in the year 1908 is
greater than the taxable property as
sessed by the city tax assessors dur
ing 1909.
Although the city is supposed to
grow and the permanent improve
ments increase, yet with the same or
less amount of taxable property the
city government has been managed
with the same amount of finances
during the present year as it was
managed in 1908. "It can’t be ex
pected that a growing city as this is
can pay the expense of the adminis
tration of the government when the
taxable property of the city has de
creased instead of increased without
levying a higher tax rate. If the
same conditions in the taxable prop
erty prevail during *‘he next vear it
will be necessary to increase the tax
rate,.
I desire to extend thanks to each
member of the present council for
their co-operation during the present
yvear, as well as to the officers and
employees of the city of Dawson. 1
wish each and all of you a happy
New Year. R. R. MARLIN,
Mayor City of Dawson.
COMPUTING SCALE A THIEF.
From the Montezuma Record.
The computing scale used by most
grocerymen all over the country is
a bigger thief than the gas meter.
Georgia laws are strict enough, but
they are not enforced. Ordinaries,
fail to do their duty, and when cases
are brought before grand juries noth
ing ever comes of it, especially if a
groceryman is on the jury. In
Brunswick grocerymen, mostly da
goes, sed S 8 and 9 pounds of meal
for a peck, when the law says 12
pounds is a peck.
LAST OF THE GREAT SACHEMS
RED CLOUD, THE FAMOUS SIOUX
CHIEF, SUCCUMBS TO DEATH.
He Belonged to That Class of Aborig
ines Who Fought the White
Man on Principle.
Death has at last taken old Red
Cloud, the famous Sioux Indian
chief, according to reports received
by Superintendent Brennah of the
Pine Ridge Indian Agency, while he
was in Washington attending a meet
ing of those interested in the edunca
tion of the Indian. Red Cloud wasj
the last of the great Indian chief
tains. He belonged to a class of ab
origines which was never civilized.
He fought his battles for principles
which he believed to be righteous and
always maintained that his people
had been greatly wronged. He was
86 years old, and for the last 25
years had lived at the agency.
Chief Red Cloud became known in
Indian affairs in the summer of 1865,
when he became sub-chief of the
Brule Sioux tribe. His tribal terri
tory extended from North Platte river
to Big Horn mountains, west of Black
hills. He caused trouble by his
forays against American military
pests, killing live stock and attack
ing immigrant trains. He was the
compatriot of such chiefs as Spotted
Tail, Standing Elk, American Horse.
Man Afraid of His Horse and Big
Ribs.
f Beginning of His Power.
' Barly in 1866 Red Cloud deposed
Big Ribs, his head chief, on account
‘of age, and extended his own domin
ion over the Ogallala Sioux, and rep
resented practically all divisions of
[the Sioux tribe in the treaty meeting
‘held at FFort Laramie.
| The question at issue at this con
‘vention was the building of the Union
| Pacific railroad through the Sioux
{territory. Red Cloud’s following of
15,000 hostile Indians accompanied
{him to Laramie. It was agreed that
‘the railroad should pass up the Platte
ivulle‘\'., but Red Cloud and his braves
Enmmsed the opening of the “Bozeman
itrail,” extending northwest from Lar
!amie. which was the ideal hunting
jgrounds of the Sioux. While the
|treaty meeting was in session two
{regiments of regulars arrived, and,
{without waiting the result of the
|meeting, occupied the Bozeman trail.
' In defiance of Red Cloud's renson
istrance the expedition marched
lt'ln'ongh the Sioux country. Red
Cloud rose from the convention and,
ldoclaring the white people had be
'tra,\'od him, said: .
: “You may take my country, but I
Iwill mark every mile of vour road
from North Platte to the Yellowstone
with the dead bodies of your sol
diers.”
| A Youthful Firebrand.
! The commissioners were glad to be
!l'id of the youthful firebrand who
{could not be induced to listen to rea
tson, and whose stubbornness had
irhreatmmd to bring their negotiations
'to naught. Free from his influence
{the other chiefs present soon agreed
‘t‘o all conditions proposed. President
lJohnson then issued a proclamation
Ito the effect that the hostile tribes of
Ithe northwest had been completely
pacified, and that the route to Cali
ifornfa by the Oregon trail was open,
! Apparently Red Cloud was consid
ered a mere idle bhoaster whose
’threats could be safely ignored. This
jmistake was soon discovered. Be
;)irving the Oregon trail to he safe
scores of emigrant trairs that hag
COLONEL KILLS TON SEA BAT.
Body Twelve Feet Long, Eyes Five
Feet Apart.
Col. C. G, Conn of Elkhart, Ind.,
former congressman and candidate
for the nomination for governor of
Indiana in the last democratic con
vention, recently killed a bat weigh
ing 2,652 pounds. /
It was a big sea bat, or giant ray,
captured by Colonel Conn in the Gulf
of California, off Guaymas, Mexico
The bat was landed after a fight
lasting three hours and a half. It
measured 20 feet between the tips of
its pectoral fins, the length of its
body was 12 feet, and the length of
its tail 6 feet 4 inches. The width
between its eyes was 5 feet and the
breadth of its mouth 2 feet 9 inches.
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been waiting to learn the result of
the conference left Missouri for the
golden wilds of California. None ex
cept the strongest, best equipped and
most vigilant of them ever reached
the south pass of the Rockies.
Little by little reports began to
filter back to civilization of trains
that had been plundered and burned,
of men and children scalped, and of
women carried into captivity. These
stories found few Dbelievers, for re
liance was placed upon the presi
dent's proclamation and the war de
partment’s air of calm unconcern.
But the retterman massacre De
cember 22, 1866, near Fort Phil
Kearney, aroused the nation to a re
alization of the fact that there was
real war in the Sioux country. Red
Cloud was carrying out his threats.
With a Vengeance.
Fort Phil Kearny was on a branch
of Powder river in the foot-hills of
Big Horn mountains. Red Cloud's
band began to make trouble there
‘that fall, but the commanding officer
tried to avoid a general fight. On
the fatal day, December 22nd, Lieut.
Fetterman, with two other officers
and 83 men, was ordered out to the
relief of some wood-cutters who had
been attacked near the fort. By a
’crafty ruse these were enticed to pur
sue a handful of warriors into a nar
row canon. There they were caught
x]ike rats in a trap; overwhelmed by
\more than 1,500 yelling warriors.
' Not a white man was left alive,
I It was the greatest victory the In
dians of the plains had ever won over
i.»\m(:x‘ican troops. Red Cloud, who
;hud planned the decoy and ambush,
{was at once recognized as head chief
lof all the Sioux, estimated at the time
!to number more than 75,000 souls.
{Others coming under his sway
! brought the tojal forces at his com
'mand to 100,000. Never before or
Isince has any other American war
| chief wielded so great power, or been
{absolute in authority over a territory
!of such vast extent. .
Elated by success Red Cloud next
started to carry out the ambitious
project of capturing the entire chain
of forts along the Oregon trail, kill
ing their defenders and driving the
hated whites back across the Missouri
forever.
The government took hasty action
in forming a new treaty. This sur
rendered to the Sioux ‘“forever' all
of the Dakotas, northern Nebraska,
northern Wyoming and northern and
eastern Montana—some 240,000
square miles in extent. One-half of
this was designated Indian hunting
territory, and whites were forbidden
to enter it without express permis
sion from the Indians. Forts Reno.
Phil Kearny and Smith were aban
doned, being burned at once by the
jubilant Indians: emigrants over the
Oregon Trail were given over to the
tender mercies of the Sioux:; and the
lands that the Shoshones, Bannocks
and Crows—who had always kept
peace with the whites—had always
occupied were given over to their
traditional foes, who harried and per
secuted them without mercy.
Red Cloud was the first chief to
sign this treaty, which was done at
Fort Laramie in 1868. Whatever
may be said against Red Cloud, it
must be conceded that he was faith
ful in keeping his treaty obligations,
which cannot be claimed for the
whites. He never really went on the
war-path again, but it is claimed that
he secretly aided the hostiles under
Sitting Bull during the campaign of
1850. lln his prime Red Cloud was
described as a magnificent specimen
of aboriginal manhood, fully six feet
tall, splendidly proportioned and as
strong as a trained athlete.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
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