The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-04-29


"Mssic City, OF the West. Let us treat her
leading men kindly ii we can, but we fear
we can not. Most of her "best men," as
they are called by one another, wers mem
bers OF that ribald community as early as
'67, and but few of them have ventured East
since, in fact many of them never 20 near
the railroad depot about train time.
MEN WHO HAVE SERVED THEIR TERM
can run hostlerie. Delaulters can sing in
church choirs and be elected to a magista-
torisl Office. Dog fighters, prizs-fghters
! and ordinary knucks get Ia the ring, and an
aboltionist could hold government oifi.s
until recently. and while some of the mer-
chants are good, fair-dealing men, the ma
jority OF them are off. In the year 1868
cheyenne had population OF 9,OO0-the
building OF the Union Pacific Railroad was
what caused IL. This population was no. q
cosm opolitan one bat to q great degree crossed
and crooked. With the extension and com
pletion OF the railroad the future of Chey-
enne continued on the wane, until at present
| the population does not exceed $500
itants, especially those who exhibited the
greatest suppleness in Jumping town lots
| remain members of the body polite and
are continually hsrping on some scheme by
which they may be ens ble1 to sellout They
! have had their Big Horn and Powder River
excitements, ana have told fabulous stories
about the mythical mountains of iron, but
so FAR they do not seem to have have derived
| any benefit from any of the sources. The
Black Hills deusion is deemed by the most
sagacious of them to be their last chance to
get out on. Such men a. Bill " hitebead,
Jim Converse, Ike French, George S. Cory,
Jim McDaniels, the Whipple brothers ano
| Wolf Foglesong, must have concluded that
| their last resort tor material gain was in the
Black Hills excitement last fall, for early in
| hn ND, II
compact with j. j. Saville, the Indian agent
Of Red Clond agency, to the effect
that they would furnish the necessary means
to defray any expense that might be con-
nected with the establishing of the first
town site In the Black Hills country, pro-
vided he (Ssville) would lend his personal
influence in the premises in quiet way,
| such as having some of the Indians under
his control to drive the whites away from
any other place at which they might en-
| desvor to establish a town site calculated to
affect the interest of the ring as town site
locstors. Saville agreed to lend helping
| hand, and had it not bsen that his time was
so much engrossed with other and bstter
paying schemes during his stay ia Washing
| ton last winter. there is little doubt but
what he would have succeeded in procuring
through fraud, from the Sioux Indians, a re-
linquishment of their rights to those sec
| tions OF their reservations.
EMBRACING THE BLACK HILLS
on the west by northwest. After his failure
in the project indicated, he returned 10
Cheyenne on his way to the agency, and
agreed that so far as he was concerned he
would use all his influence to prevent M
ners, prospectors and other adventurous
whites from entering the hills until 1elin-
quishment was had, so that the CHEYENNE
ring would have sure thing. 1t is not
| really the desire of the Cheyenne crowd
| that any success should attend the efforts of
those who venture into the hills during the
| coming season. What they desire more
than anything else is to attract attention TO
the country, and to successfully represent
CHEYENNE as the cheapest and best
start. The greater number of those
who may go into the country will all leave
/ the different starting points during the
period OF month or six weeks, and as it
will require from three TO four weeks to
make the journey from Cheyenne, ample
time viii be given the Indians to drive
them out of the Hills country and over to
the Powder river and Big Horn country,
| that region would be their only place OF
refuge on account OF their stock, for while
the valley lands are strongly impregnated
with alksli, the mountain slopes would fur
nish good summer grazing. The Black
Hills committee, Of Cheyenne, will shortly
publish a circular paper, accompanied by
map of the Northwestern country. The
distances given are not all correct, but, on
the contrary, the entire thing is fixed for
| Cheyenne in the interests of the conspirstors
| above named and a few others. Sew
eral parties have, independent of the ring,
sent forth circulars to the effect that they
/ would convey people TO Harney's Peak,
Custar's Park, in twelve days from the time
OF leaving Cheyenne for $50 each, and that
specimens of gold from near the base of
I A-c
at the two banks Of the town and at the
store of grocer. These representations on
| their part are false, the government VIII not
| allow them to pass the military posts on
their way TO the Hills. and the only gold
| they had on exhibition was 90 aimed from
| the mint in Denver. Considered with i'm
partislity, and with view o. letting the
! people throughout the prosperous region Of
| the interior West know the truth, there is
| but one conclusion TO come to, which is that
the Black Hills
EXCITEMENT Is UNCALLED FOR
and that it is the result of the scheming of
several hordes OF INSCRIPTIONS and unprin-
cpled men who, lacking the honesty and
ability to make living lin any well regu-
lated community, fled tosthe barren wastes
and unproduchve regions of the Northwest,
and through force Of what they term neces-
sity, endeavor to allure people to country
where the mountains ara never green and
the valleys are untillable. Throughout the
states of Nebraska, Kansas and Western
Iowa, and the territories of New Mexico,
Colorado, Wyoming and Dakota there
II is general stagnation in all
, branches of business. With the excep-
ton of that country directly tributary
| to and lying along the Missouri river, there
: is no territory in any of the States or terri
} tories named surely available tor agricul-
tural purposes. The natural resources OF
, the plains country are OF the pastoral, and
unless a man can support himself inde-
pendently OF disposing OF any of the herd
he may ACQUIRE, for at least three years. be
I had better not make tue venture IN that
, respect. In the mountain region of Colo
pado there have been developed few good
mines, yet it should be remembered that
during period of about three years, ex
landing from the fall OF 1863 to the winter