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All For The Indians

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
May
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Hou. Josep.li T. Jacolis has receivjiotiL-i' oí ;i meeting of the Board of ludían Coanmiseloners, to be held at Chicago, commeineing May 15, in Room 130-32 W. Washington st., for the pui-pose oï opening birls for supplies to be mirshed the nntion's India.n wards. For many years the bids for suppllee have been opi aed and contracts made in New York, except those lurnlshed Indlans on the westera slope, and those in San Francisco, Cal. Hom. D. M. Browning, the present Commlfsioner of Indlan affaire, is froim HJhio'e, und through nis inïluence, coupled probably with the mannier in whicli tliat bae acted in the last president ia 1 campaign, the secretary of the Interior has ordered that the business wha.ll be diviüed, and Chicago be made a meeting place hereaft er, together wlth New York. li any om' desires to band in bids, the blanks can be obtained of Mr. Jacobs. The suppliee inelude almost everything ever heard of in the wny of "wearables, eatables and useables," to be delivered at 147 different agencies aaid schools, in the western territories ajwl stntes. A few of the items are : 9,177,900 lbs. of flour, 28,995,500 lbs of beef gross, 1,781,350 lbs-. of beef net, 502,360 lbs. of bacon, 756 bblfl of mess pork, 119,900 lbs. of ba,rley, 125,300 Ibs. of feed, 2,029,400 lbs. of com, 60,600 lbs. oi corn meal, 65,200 lbs. of hominy, 101,400 ïbm. of liar dbread, 642,200 lbs. of oats, 178,000 lbs of wheat, etc. In hardware., harnese, lamp?, wagons, tin goods, stoves, there is ;ui ininicnse omonnt. There are to be furnished 102 8-day docks, 1,363 doz. brooms, 11 doz. post hole augers, 42 ox yokes, 430 nests of camp kettles, 2 6-12 doz. tin eandles sticks. 41 doz. jelly plates, 329 coal scuttlcs, 353 Duteh ovens, 32,000 square ft. of wire cloth for ecreeiis, 520,000 lbs. galvanized barbed wire, 75 pair of tangí, and so on. It is interesting to look over the specificationy.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier