Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-01-10


The legisature-Somers Admit, cd-Divorce Bills
~-Apportionment Bils~-Ra ing Bill Mining
Biil-Gold Regions and Pine Lands Of the Uppsr
.........Y ASkroN, Jan. 9Th, 1868.
DEAR REGISTER . This is the laet of
my letters for the present session. The
Legislature will adjourn sine die on Fri.
day, the 9th inst, after which will send
you q letter embracing the closing scenes
and labors Of the two Houses.
Nothing Of interest has occurred since
my last advice, except the report Of the
Committee on Elections, admitting Mr.
Somers of Cole county, to the seat former.
ly occupied by Mr.. Frisby. This is as it
should be; and here let me say thu. no
contestant who has presented his claims
At the bar Of the House during the ses.
sion, has manifested more true manhood,
discretion and selfsacr,6cing devotion to
the common welfare of his District and
the Territory, than the Hon NJ. II. Som.
ers. When he saw the torn aud tattered
Legislature struggling for existance. and
the fate of the Territory hang trembling
over the guilt of disorganization, ready to
be dashed to atoms to glut the damning
lust for power with two great men, Mr.. S
although urged and goaded on to take his
seat BY force, at all hazards, rested bis
claims in the hands Of his friends until
the breach was healed and the .umult
subsidized then he renewed his petition
for his seat and was admitted, and is now
one of the most respected and worthy
members of the assembly.
The House is now holding two sessions
day and is rapidly drawing it's business
to q close Divorce Bills and Appor.on.
ment Bills are occupying much OF the time
Of the great law makers Of the Lower
House. To see the divorce bills presented
it would seem that half the women this
side Of Hades were tired of their husbands
and wished to marry the Dakota Lrgisla
tu-e. One Of these precious creatures
sets forth in her petition that her husband
is given to "habi.ual drunkenness - anoth
er. to 'habtual sleeping and snoring"
while a third one AYERS the want of
natural affinity and the fourth one
states that her husband
--.East learred to ,oye another
And her heart is !onet! now.'
Gen. Cook has not yet returned from
the upper country. The Iowa Company
quartered at this place has been ordered
to Fort Randall. 1t is said that 5000
troops will be sent into the Territory be-
fore May. Maj. Galpin, of the Fur Com
pany, reports tina; unless troops are order.
ed to Fort Randall by APRIL we may look
for an avalanche Of Indian warriors from
the Upper Missouri early i" the Spring.
SMr. Galpin has started on his long and
dangerous journey to For, Benton; but
if, on arriving at For, Pierre, he encoun.
tiers deep SHOWS and large bodies Of ed
skins, it is his intention to return imme.
diately to St. Louis and report the state
OF affairs to the head quarters of the Com
pany, in order that they may delay their
boats in the Spring until the Government
orders troops into the valley of the Upper
Missouri.
A very important bill has been passed
Incorporating the Racine and Armaiu
Mining and Transportation Company"
with Mr.. Galpin at its head. backed BY a
list Of wealthy St. Louis merchants
and bankers. "for the purpose Of building
and chartering steamboats,, packing furs,
digging minerals, &C." and for the gen.
eral transportation Of trade and travel on
the Upper Missouri. The general head
quarters Of the Company will be made in
the Territory, at the Capital for the pres
ent, at which place the Company will open
in the Spring general Forwarding,
Commission and Banking House.
Mr.. Galpin states that within $50
miles Of his present post Fort Labarge)
there are now 1900 men, making from
five to twenty dollars per day by digging
gold on the forks of Wind river. These
men, mostly came over the mountains
from the Pacific shore in California and
Oregon.
At Fort I.aBarge there is lnrge saw
and grist mill, from which the miners
procure their lumber and hominy. An
almost inexhaus,able body OF large pine
timber is situated twenty eight miles be-
low the Fort, near the three forks of the
Missouri The pines however, in this for.
est are Of shorter growth than usual-no
tree cutting more than two saw logs suit
able for lumber. One thousand feet Of
this pine lumber will be sent to Yankton
as q specimen, on the return of the first
boat from the mountains in the Spring.
A banking bill has also been passed,
which, however, is SO stringent in its pro
visions, that it is doubtful whether any
corporation Of men will plan. their stakes