The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-05-16
& WASHINGTON.
LAND CONCESSION TO BE ASKED OF THE
SIOUX,

LAND CONCESSION TO BE ASKED OF THE
4 r' SIOUX.
4 WARRINGTON, May 15.-A commission
has been appointed TO meet the Sioux In
diAns and obtain q reVerSion TO the gov
ernment OF certain portions Of their Feser.
vRtion In Nebraska, In order that the
lands may be made accessible 10 the
homestead and presumption settlement.
THE SUIT AGAINST THE U. p. RAILRoAnO
The bill in equity prepared by the coun.
sci Of tho United States against the Union
Pacific Railroad Company and Credit
Mobilier, TO be filed In the U. s. Court at
Hartford, proceeds on the ground that the
original subscriptions TO the company
were never actually and really paid, and
that the receipt for payment was the re-
suit Of fraud and fiction. Tho suit Is
therefore TO compel those who subscribed
10 pay the amounts seVerally credited to
them, and TO account for bonds, stocks,
money and other property which they re-
cefVed as profits 10 which they were mot
entitled. The Credit Mobilier Is mott par.
ty to the suit as q corporation, but as Iu-
dlvlduAls, the management OF the Union
Pacific Railroad and Credit Mobilier be-
ing essentially in the hands ot the same
parties who divided the . proceeds
on the occasion oftheir Joint scheme. The
Government seeks to restore the affairs Of
the company 70 tho condition contem-
plated by the laws Of Congress author
izing and assisting in the construction OF
roads, so that not only innocent stock
holders may beprOtected and secured, but
that the company may be strengthened, In
order that 1t may discharge It's duties to
the Government by the payment into the
Treasury Of five per cont Of the net re-
ceipts OF the road as a fund which, In
connection with the amounts withheld by
the Government Tor transportation 70 re-
pay the interest advanced by the United
States, and ultimately the principal Of the
bonds. Isl
Legal tenders outstanding $3.50, $50 ,479.
Third Assistant Postmaster General
to-day sent a regulation on manufacturers
for {, 8,245, 900 postal cars. The postofilce
today issued advertisements soliciting
proposals for, one years supply Of post
office and registered package envelopes.
The estimated quantity Of the former Is
5000, 900; Of the latter 100000.
SCIENTIFIC RAID ON JAY COOKIES PARA.
Disc.
The Secretary Of War has appointed
tho following scientific gentlemen to &C.
company the survey on the Northern Pa
ciic Railroad under the command OF Col.
Stanley, which is 10 start anew from Ft.
Rice on the 18th Of June: Professor
Liedy, PaleoDlologist of the Pennsylva.
mia University; Professor Leo Lesqueraux,
geologist, Columbus, Ohio; Professor Lilo.
mel X. Nstler, minerRlOlogist, New York;
Professor James A. Allen, geologlst,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; William r.
Pywell. photographer, Washington; Ed
yard K. Wapicy, artist, Cambridge, Mas |
sacusetts; Professor Thomas G. Porter,
Professor Henry G. Caplan, volunteer as.
sistant paleontOloglst, and O. w. Bennett,
general assistant TO members Of the Sci
entifc Corps
INDIAN NRws.
The Indian Bureau has received q letter
from the agent Of Cheyennes, at the north |
fork Of the Canadian river, Indian Terri
tory, reporting that ithas been definitely
ascertained that the murder Of four sur
veyors Of the DarliDgs party, was perpe-
traied by a small party o! young Chey-
Gunes, belonging to the Bull Bear faction,
who are regarded as outlaws even by their |
own tribe The three young men who
fired the shots, one Of whom Is son.in.
law Of Bull Bear, has been identified, and |
the Commissioner Of Indian Affairs has
to-day taken proper steps to secure their
arrest and bring them to punishment.
TIE CoNTRAcTs FOR INDIAN SUPPLIES.
The published statement that COM
plant to the recent awards for Indian
supplies in New York City had assumed
such gravity as to be brought by 6ecre-
tary Delano 10 the attention Of tic Presi.
dent and that the President had ordered
the execution Of the contracts to be BUS
pended pending an investigation, Is denied
on the Official authority Of Secretary De.
lano, who says the facts are that sono.ot
the bidders having claimed that the
awards should be made 10 them
he referred these complaints 10
the Commissioner Of Indian Affairs for
report, which have not yet been prepared,
bnt will, when made, be carefully exam
ined by the Secretary. It is now known,
however, that the published statement as
to the amount Of difference between the
bids accepted and those Of the complain
ing parties are exaggerated, and the re-
port that Secretary Delano has brought
the matter 10 the notice Of the President
and that the President has given any Or
der in tho nremiseS Ia fiction,