The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-04-29
THE NEWS.

From the National Capital.
The Attorney-General has replied, and
commissioned the law firm of Emmett, Bur-
net Il Hammond, of New York, to represent
the Government in the suits for damages
brought by the five Democratic members
OF louisiana who were displaced by Col.
DE Trobriand at the time of the organiza-
ton OF the Legislature. The suits are
against Gen. Sheridan and Col. De Tro-
BRAND, and damages are laid at 800, 900 i'm
the case OF each unseated member The
Government undertakes the defense of the
two officers.
Western Items.
A dispatch from Fort Laramie says Capt
Mix's company, who were sent after the
mining party at Harney's Peak, has secured
men, one woman and boy...... Heavy SHOWS
are reported in the Black Hills, and high
waters everywhere......A war party of Sioux
and Arrapahoes are reported to have left for
the Shoshone country.......The high waters
have intercepted travel on the Union Pacific
Railroad between Laramie City, Wyoming
Territory, and Ogden, Utah.
Official reports from the scene of the flood
on the Union Pacific Railroad, state that
Superintendent Earle walked through from
West to Green River Station. Sixteen
bridges are gone west of there, and the road
is washed badly...... Three miners, Patterson
Martin, Christopher johnson, and Patrick
Morgan, were dug out of snow.slide in
Cherokee gulch, four miles from George
town, Colorado, recently. They had been
dead several days, and were found in their
beds, indicating that the slide took place in
the night.
A st. Louis Globe special from Kansas
says it is understood that the Indians who
escaped from the Cheyenne Agency, OH the
9th inst, are on the Cimarron river, about
100 miles south OF Fort Dodge, in the neigh
borhood where they rendezvoused at the
beginning of the war last summer. 1t is
supposed they have formed junction with
one or more of the bands that remained out
during the winter, and the whole force is
probably about 500. They are evidently
intent upon fighting. All the available
troops at Fort Dodge and Fort Hays have
been ordered out after them, with instruc-
tons to gather them in if it takes all sum-
mer. Troops are also moving up from the
south to engage them, and the military au-
thorities are confident they cannot escape a
collision with one or the other of the forces
marching against them.
and Sacramento to organize the business of
information and labor exchanges for the
benefit of the present great immigration.
Committees were appointed to collect funds,
print addresses to immigrants and cOmmu-
nicate with oranges and editors in the in.
terror, with view of establishing a reliable
bureau OF information concerning lands,
their prices, and demand for labor . The
commanding officer at Fort Fred. Steele,
wyoming, reports that seventeen Indians
run Off all the stock at Ferris mines on the
Goth. The news is reliable. These mines
are forty miles from Rawlins, Wyoming ......
Private dispatches from Denver, Colorado,
state that the injunction obtained upon the
Dives mine by owners of the Pelican mine
has just been dissolved by Chief Justice
HalIett. This mine was, during the trial,
estimated by experts to be worth S., 900 900.
The interests involved are so widespread,
and the trial so protracted, that the decision
will be received with Understandable
patches from Salt Lake, dated April %,
say that the Union Pacific Railroad is
still blocked east. "NO mail has arrived
here from the East since April Is. A train
was expected here this evening, but owing
to another wash-out in Weber Canon il is
doubtful If it arrives tonight. This train
contains passengers and mails transferred
by wagons for several miles on Bitter Creek,
and has been five days on the way from
Green river, having been delayed by numer-
Gus washouts. The streams are all high and
rising, and the weather continues warm
The report from Green river this morning
says the track east and west is in bad con.
dition, and that the railroad company have
about 400 men at work repairing the track
east OF there, and about twenty teams for
making the transfer Of seven miles, and
think they will get the track repaired in
about twenty days. Still another washout
is reported this evening near Church Buttes,
and an engine and two cars are in ditch.
This washout trouble extends from Ogden,
Utah, to Rock Springs, Wyoming distance
of 200 miles,"
Southern Items.
The Louisiana House, April II, completed
organization, by electing Trezevant, Clerk,
and other Conservative officers. The terms
of the award were carried out in the Senate,
by unseating Elan, Democrat, and by seat.
ing +. s. Goode, Democrat, i'm the place OF
Grocer, colored Republican. The Joint reso-
luton recognized the Kellogg government
and was adopted with but two dissenting
votes. During the day large number OF
reform bills were introduced. At meet.
ing OF ex.Confederate soldiers, at Memphis
to arrange fer decorating the graves of Con.
federates, on the 22d Of May, a resolution
was unanimously adopted asking ex- Federal
soldiers to participate in the ceremonies
Among those present at the meeting were
ex-President Jefferson Davis, Ex-Governor
Isbam T.. Harris, Gen. s. Cotton Green and
Gen. Gordon.
The telegraph continues to report raids Of
Mexicans into the Texas border. Telegraph
communication with Brownsville was re
Gently cut off by the marauders, and tn,
people rang the alarm bells, and armed
themselves to meet the raiders.
The news comes in of continual depreda
tions on the Texan border by Mexican
marauders. George Hit was killed by
band of eight raiders. He was hunting
horses, and, after dusk, went to q water hole
where they were camped with a drove OF
stolen cattle. Troops were watching for then
below the Rucias Ranch. The raiders crossed
into Mexico below them. The house of DIR
ID. ID. Lowell, at Carrie, was surrounded
by party OF eleven men, and he muir
dered. He was an old citizen oil
Texas, and a most estimabie gentleman. One
more victim added to the list.
a letter to the Valley Times, Neuces Co.
Texas, says: Julian Rita and son were muir
dered one mile from the Calaveras, on the
road leading to Pass Chicho. The family OF
the deceased was about half mile oft at the
time, and saw the parties riding away who
committed the deed. The Laredo rider
named Manuel Paredo, was robbed on the
road this side of Cosa Marado. Lively
times may be expected in this county; ranch.
eros are moving into town, travelling is
almost stopped, and business very much de.
pressed. From reliable information almost
every ranch not burned is crowded by armed
Mexicans, fifty to sixty at some, for what
purpose is not known, and how many more
doubtful characters are concealed in the
thick chapparal, which affords safe re.
treat, it's hard to say. The crisis is close at
hand.
Crimes.
Mrs. f. L. Irwin, highly respectable
young widow lady, of Hannibal, No., tied a
clothes line around herself and little girl,
six years old, fastened the other end to a
stake in the ground, and then took the child
in her arms and deliberately walked into
Bear Creek. Both were drowned. Finan-
cial embarrassment and disappointment in