The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-11

A dispatch from Laramie, w. T., character
ICES the recent attack on camp Of Ute In
dams near Rawlins bya party of white set
lers as "a cold-blooded inhuman outrage for
which they should be promptly punished, aud
the Indians satisfactorily compensated by the
Government and authorities" The attack
was made without any cause or provocAtion,
the Indians having committed no depreda-
tions, and had been perfectly peacesble. Six
or seven were killed, and rs many more
| wounded
The Apaches who murdered Lieut., Almy, at
Camp Verde, Arizona, were pursued into the
mountains by Lieut.. Babcock. Fourteen OF
them were killed. and six captured.
The Military Commission for the trial Of
Capt Jack has been organized. 1t is COM
posed Of Lieut.. Col. Elliot, First Cavalry I;
Capt John Mendenhsll, Battery g. Fourth
Artillery; Capt. II. G. Hasbrouck, Light
Battery, Fourth Artillery Capt. r. Pollock,
Company ID, Twenty-frst Infantry, and Sec
ond Lieut.. Geo. Kingsbury, commanding Com
pany L, Twelfth Infantry
destructive storm passed over Southwest
ern Kansas and Southern Missouri on the I'd
| inst. Many buildings were blown down, and
several lives lost. The crops were badly in
| jured in many sections by the excessive rain
fall.
They are having lively times at Wichita, Kan
sas. A dispatch from that point (July y says
"Wichits is red-hot and getting hotter. Texas
rangers booted and spurred, and 500 demi-
mondes are making things lively here with all
kinds of games and entertainments at all hours.
One hundred thousand Texas cattle are now
herded in this vicinity, awaiting Eastern buy
ers. Prices range as follows 4-yesr-olds,
SlS to $40 per head 3-year-olds, S12 to S14
2-year-olds, So to $40; yearlngs, "a to $3.50"
Prof. Lsfontaine was instantly killed At
Ionia Mich, on the 4th, by falling from bal
loon. He had ascended 500 to 500 feet when
the balloon collapsed. The ropes passed from
under the basket, and the Professor came
down 100 feet from where he assembled, to the
horror of ten or twelve thousand spectators.
A two-story house fell in Mt. Carroll ILL.,,
the other day, and three persons were injured,
it is feared, fatally.
Capt. Randall, of the Twenty-third Infantry,
and command, with so Apache scouts, recent
ly surrounded a camp Of Apache Indians in
Arizona, and captured twenty-five warriors,
with squaws and children. The next day.
Delchay's camp was surrounded, and he, with
the remainder of the once formidable band,
to the number of 131, surrounded. Del
ebay says it is impossible for the Apsches to
evade their own traitors. They follow night
and day.
S.oI-,.o -
oners at Fort Klamath. Close confinement is
commencing to tell on Capt Jack and Curly
Headed Doctor. The former is weak, gaunt
and complaining.
At Green Lake, Wis, on the morning of
the Fourth, picnic party went out on the
lake in the sailing yacht II. b. Hsrshard on .
fishing excursion, and had proceeded but .
short distance when squsll struck the boat,
capsizing it, The following persons were
thrown into the water and drowned: Mrs. A.
p. Carmsn, Mrs. Geo. Harding, Miss Jennie
Ola, Mrs. NJ. G. Russell and child, VIM. Box-
ham, wife and child Mrs. John Baird and a
child Of the Rev. Mr.. Allen.
The number Of Modoc csptives has been in
creased by the surrender of three more braves
with their women and children.
vast amount of property was destroyed by
the recent storms in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri,
Ohio and Indiana. Houses, fences and bridges
were demolished, and in some sections serious
loss Of life is reported. The grain fields have
suffered serious injury the damage in Ohio
alone being estimated at upward of -, 000 600.
A company with 100000 capital has been
organized in Cincinnati for the establishment
of a geological garden in that city.
At Phoebe, Nevada, the other day. a desper
ado named Harrington shot and killed four
men because one of them killed his dog.
w. II. HaZleton. prominent indianapolis
lawyer. has squandered the fun Dis in his hands
belonging to various trusts and sloped for
parts unknown, leaving his friends and bonds
men in the lurch.
A lively contest is going on for the Pacific
terminus of the Northern Pacific railroad
Seattle offers by way of donation, land and
money estimated at 81 600, 600, and is still add
ing. Taco offers the entire control of the
waterfront of the city, and a large amount of
land in case Seattle does not get the terminus.
Gen. Stanley, in charge of the military ex-
petition escorting the engineers of the North
ern Pacific railway reports that the survey of
the road has been made to a point seventy
miles west of Bismarck Dakota. The route
trayerses a fnely-watered and fertile country,
and cuts through ample coal deposits twenty
seven miles west of the Missouri river.
The South.
A large band of Kickapoo Indians and