Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-21
EASTERN 0ISPkTC HE'S.
Ely Overland Telegraph.


Proposition from the Sioux to che
Blackfeet TO Join ia the War.
fare Against the Whites--The
Proposition Declined.
CHICAGO. Sept. 10.
A letter from S. e. Denny, of the
Canadian mounted police, was re-
celved here to-day at military head
quarters and is official information
sent to this Government OF the pro-
posed alliance between the Sioux and
Blackfeet tor a warfare on tle Amer
lean whites and on the Crow Indians.
Denny was sen to investigate and di-
plomatize the savages, which he APP
pears TO have done successfully. He
visited the Blackfeet nation, was or
daily received and learned from them
that the Sioux had made advances to
them for the purpose of getting them
to join them in fighting the Crows and
other Indians and also the Americans.
The Sioux promised them a portion of
the spoils and also a number of white
women whom they had captured.
They promised after the American
whites were extermillated to go across
and massacre the Canadian whites.
The Blackfeet having refused these
propositions, the Sioux threatened to
come across and punish them. Denny
promised to aid the Blackfeet in case
they were attacked under these cir
cumstances, which pleased them so
well that they made profuse demon
STATIONS and assertions of eternal
friendship for the whites and threw
themselves on the kindness and pro.
lection of the Canadians, saying that
they realized that in time they would
be deprived of forage and provisions
by the encroachments of the whites.
The letter is dated July Is, and is
directed to Lieutenant Colonel A. G..
Northwestern mounted police.
The Pursuit of the N%orthiieid Bank
Robbers Abandoned Subserfp-
tiOn for the widow of Hey wood.
ST. PAUL, Sept. 10.
The pursuit of the Mortified rob
bers has been given up. Two of them
were followed into Dakota, bet ween
Sioux City and Yankton, but it is not
what direction. The other
escaped, and they are undoubt-
edly out of reach.
The bankers of the city to-day sub
scribed a fund of $500 for the widow of
liCt Wooh, ~ a u Illfl tI I'll
by the robber, and have printed a cir
cular which it is proposed to send TO
the banks in all parts of the country.
asking offerings on the part of each, as
recognition of Heywood's rare fidelity
to duty.
The Congregational Gold ana silver
Committee.
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.
The Joint Committee of Congress,
appointed to investigate the subject of
the relative value of silver and gold,
and the expediency of fixing a sepa-
rate legal standard of value for the
two metals, met at the st. James Hotel
yesterday. There were present the en-
tire committee except Senator Bout
we'll. The committee sat in secret ses-
sion for a couple OF hours, and selected
three ex perts to aid them in in vestiga-
tons. As oon as the OK perts signify
their acceptance and the committee
get together, public sessions will be
held.
Paid Custom Duties Under Protest.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.
A number of sugar importers of this
city who obtained their supplies from
Mexico, etc., not including the
Hawaiian Islands, have paid custom
duties under protest during the past
week, claiming the same products
mentioned in the new reciprocity
treaty with the Sand wich Islands, are
under treaty stipulations with Mexico,
Spain and other countries, entitled to
free entry at this and all other ports.
Yellow Fever in Baltimore.
New YORK. Sept. 20.
The World has persisted for several
that yellow fever prevails in Bal
This having been systemat-
ically denied, officially, on the con-
trary the World to-day prints the fol
from Baltimore, signed by a
81 have visited twelve vel
low fever patients to-day. The au-
thorities are still trying to keep the
of the disease a secret. The
patients are in the most squalid and
dirty parts of the city. Four new
cases broke out to-day. Officials con
vey those infected to the Marine Hos
pital. Until this time there has been a
want of sanitary precaution, patients
having been allowed to remain at
home and not be isolated. All patients
hat have died have shown the char
acteriStic symptoms of yellow fever
except the black vomit, which occur
red in only two cases. So far no au-
topsy has been made, most of the pa
TENTS being Bohemians and their
friends Directing to examination. DR..
Stewart, president Of the Board of
Health, complains that he has not
power to isolate patients, but tonight
four new cases having broke out, in
structions have been given to convey
sick people to the hospital. / saw
Mayor Latrobe, who says it would
hurt the city if the truth became
known"
Arrest of AZ Indian Chief.
CHICAGO, sept. 20.
News was received at the mil itary
headquarters here to-day that on the
10th instant Gross, the head chief of
the Blackfest band OF Sioux, was ar
rested by the military authorities for
exerting his influence to prevent hos
tile Indians from coming in to sur
render and for other offenses. He will
be kept in custody until the charges
against him are investigated. The In
dams since this arrest have become
very respectful and friendly.