The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-09-09
TT LE r A p Nv C.
EASTERN DISPATCHES
ESPECIAL TO THE SILVER STATED
Dies MONIES, Sept. 8,

In the Supreme Court to-day oPln-
ions were filed in the case OF the State
vs. Brandt, convicted of ENLIGHTENMENT
as Deputy State Treasurer Judges
Miller, Cole and Day concur In revers-
ing the decision of the Court below
Judge Dicks opinion OF the Court
makes fifty pages Of manuscript, and
the clerks are busy transcriblng the
same to place on file in the District
Court, and il is impossible to get 1t SO
as to make q synopsis on one point.
They hold that the Grand Jury which
indicted Brandt was illegally empan-
eled. This decision of the Court is
upon the rulings of Judge Maxwell III
the District Court last October, on mo-
ton to quash the indictment. etc.
Brandt was tried and convicted before
Judge Leonard at the last March term.
The decision of the Supreme Court VIII
doubtless have its effect on all who have
been indicted by the same Grand Jury,
some of whom are now III the peniten-
tiary.
ST. PAUL, Sept. 8.
A telegram from Brainard to the Dis
patch says that q company OF soldiers
from Fort kipley passed there yester-
day morning for Loeb Lake. Agent
Whitehead who went with the troops Is
determined to have the Indian Stur-
geon and his followers arrested and the
troops remain there if necessary
through the payment of annuities TO
accomplish this object. Your CORES
pondent met yesterday two Loeb Lake
Indians, known as good Indians, they
having adopted the habits of white men
to certain extent, and who witnessed
the first of the outbreak. They say
that the movement WAS led by the
young chief named Strong Sky Stur-
geon, being secondary. The IDdians
Say that the movement was approved
of by the head chief and nearly all the
Indians. Strong Sky gathered a small
band of young Indians about him and
commenced depredations. determined
as he said to raise a disturbance that
would bring about an investigation in
which some men at Washington could
be taught to hear their complaints,
but what these were the Indians profess
not to know. They claim that the out
break was reckless affair aud without
the slightest cause, the Indians having
been supplied and their wants promptly
attended to by Agent Whitehead, who
they asserted would be sustained in any
measure taken to bring in the others to
punishment by the greater body of H.
dams of the reservation.
JERSEY Mills, H., Sept. s.
Captain VIM. Pitt of this city, who
has been absent on the Pacific coast for
the last six months has Just returned
home. and brings most discouraging
reports. He says there is much suffer
ing among the many thousands of emf
grants from the States who have focked
there this year. Captain Pitt met many
who left lucrative positions that were
shoveling dirt on the streets at low
wages i'll order to make enough to paw
their way back.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis, Sept. s.
The Union Lumber Co. Of Chippewa
Fails, among the very heaviest opera
tors on the Chippewa river, have been
forced to ask their creditors for an .x
tension. 1t is understood that thew
viii issue 100000 in first mortgage
bonds, covering all of their estate both
real and personal, and payable at the
First National Bank of Milwaukee, and
they have appointed Thos. l.. Hubert
OF Chippewa Falls. and Barnard of New
York, trustees to settle with their credi.
tors. They claim that their assets are
two-and-one-fourth times as large as
their liabilities, and that large part of
the liabilities are due to Stockholders
of the concern. bnt owing to the de-
nraagi0n in tho Inn, hnr Ia l.. IL