The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-10-03

-Four prisoners confined in the jail AZ
Pleasant Ilill. saline county. Neb.. We're
burned 10 death i'm the building. which
was a small wooden structure. a few days
ago.
Felix X. Brunot, special commissioners.
has concluded a council with the Utes. the
result of which was the ccding by the In
dams OF some 100000 acres, being most
OF the land lying between the 31th and
3Sth degrees Of latitude and 10th and lO9th
degrees OF longitude, except a narrow
strip ON the southern side. on which many
Of the Utes have farms. IL j. proposed
10 gather the Wennihus, Muache and
Capote utes. and a portion Of the Jacarilla
Apaches now M TERRA AcraNilla, and
Cimarron agencies at New Mexico. This
arrangement disposes of the two trouble
some sub-agencies and gathers these wan
dering bands Of the Utes upon their rrser-
Walton. The price for land most mineral
i TO be given for the support of the new
agency and for those Indians for which
there has been heretofore no regular pro-
visions made by the Government. The ar
rangcment with the Utes is not a treaty.
hut only an article of agreement entered
into in accordance with an act of Congress
authorizing negotiations.
a letter from Camp Apache. Arizona.
written by a member OF Lieut.. Wheeler's
expedition. says the party has just re-
turned To camp from an entirely success
full reconnaissance, surveying and opening
up a large. rich. magnificent and prcyi-
ously unexplored section of country. "
ing totally idle. and showing no sign Of
the presence of the savage.
\ 5000 900 fire occurred at Burlington.
Iowa. Sept. 20.
At Gold Hill. New. Sept. 90. a fire oc-
CURED i'm the Yellow Jacket Mine, 1900
feet below the level, causing three explo-
sions of gas. Six miners Were killed.
Governor Woodson of Missouri has Is
sued a proclamation offering a reward of
$1,000 each for the arrest and delivery to
rhe sheriff of Galloway county. of Porter
Gregory. Mote Moore and Robert Kemp.
indicted by the Grand Jury of Galloway
county. for the murder of Peter kessler.
Geo. W. Law and w. w. Dundon. at Full
ton. ON the 18th day of last August. and
for participating in the mob of that date !:
also. a reward of $500 each for the arrest of
persons who can be identified a having
participated in any way in the mob.
A ~prize-fight occurred a few miles above
IT. Louis. Sept. D. the contestants being
Mike McCoole and Tom Allen. The latter
was declared the victor. winning the fight
in seven rounds. McCoole was terribly
beaten.
G.. G.. Lyon. President Of the Adams,
Blackmore and Lyon Publishing Company
of Chicago. who resided at Oak Park. on
the Northwestern Railroad. committed SUI
icide a few days ago by throwing himself
in front of an approaching locomotive. He
was a sufferer az times from severe mental
depression, caused by i'll health.
The Wisconsin Democratic and Liberal
State Convention assembledat Milwaukee.
sept. 2i. and nominated the following
ticket: For Governor. VIM. X. Taylor:
observation-disclosures c. u. Parker; Treas
urer. Ferdinand Kuhn; Secretary OF state.
Peter Doyle: Attorney-General. \. scott
sloan: Superintendent Of schools. Ed
ward Soaring; Commissioner of Immigra-
ton. NJ. Armund. The Reformers' Con-
vention also united with the Democrats
and Liberals.