Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-31

More Corruption Exposed p 70 tsser
OrviIle Gets $1,000 fur n Post
leadership.
WASHINGTON, March %.
General George A. Custer appeared
before the Committee on Expendi-
lures in the War Department to-day
and testified that Robert L. Sipe, post
trader at Fort Abraham Lincoln, told
him that his profits were $4,000 annu-
ally, one-third OF which WAS paid to
General Hedrick, of Iowa, and one-
third to General Rice. at Washington.
He die not know but he understood
that a portion of it went to the Secre-
tary Of War.
Raymond. the Indian agent at Fort
Berthold. Sid he paid Orville Grant
81 900 for getting him the place.
Custer testified that extending the
great Sioux military reservation en-
HANGED the value of the trading posts
on the North Missouri river, because
it rendered them a more complete mo-
nopoly. Witness said that Thumb,
post trader at Fort Peck. was abou to
be removed, when he Obtained some
affidavils showing that Orville Grant
and the Layton Brothers were mixed
| up in the Indian frauds. General Cus
Ter said one object of Belknap's visit to
The frontier was to parfect arrange
mentS whereby whisky could he
brought across the border at reduced
rates and increased values given to
post traders. Custer related various
instances in which grain had been
stolen from the Government by post
traders and taken into their stores.
Railroad accident in New Hemp
shire.
CONCORD, Y. f., March 80.
While a wash out on the Concord
railroad was being repaired yesterday
a freight train was waiting To cross,
was run into nv a passenger
injured, two fatally. The engines
and baggage car were wrecked and
six or seven freight cars damaged.
A Dam Gives Way la Worcester,
Mass.
WORCESTER. Mass, March %.
About 4 o'clock an alarm a given
through the valley that the dam of
Lvndbrook reservoir which supplies
the city with water was giving way.
and the work of clearing out dwelling
houses and mills throughout the val
lev was at once begun, and the excite
ment WAS great. The water was pour
ing in torrents through the stone gate
hou e. An entrance was forced TO the
gate honse, but the waste gate could
not he opened. t being cloggad with
stones and gravel. and the iron rods
with which it is worked being bent.
The reservoir overs 40 acres, and
stores 1900, 900 gallons of water.
LATER Il A. M.-The danger is in.
creasing. The gap is widening, and
the dam is not e. expected to hold tegeth
ing = terrible disaster is nov aban-
doned.
still Later.
WORCESTER, March 30-o:50 A. ~.
All the water has stopped running
through the city pipes. and i, is
thought the dam mas given way bodily.
If such is the case, there will be no
communication, except OF foot, with
the city.
The Panic ut Worcester, Mass, Sub
siding.
WORCESTER, March 30.
Later advices from the broken dam
are of more assuring character. Large
tree trunks, bales of hay and loads of
dirt are being thrown in the gap. and
the rush of water is lesseped. Chan
nels to connect the reservoirs with The
stream to the eastward are being dug
with haste. The water in the reservoir
is rapidly lowering, and though the
gap in the dam is widening it is
thought the main structure will stand.
There is less panic.
W.. ID. w. Barnard Explains.
ST. LOUIS, March 80.
w. d. w. Barnard, in a published
card, states that the testimony given d
day or two ago before one of the in
vestigating committees at Washington
by j. f.. Barrow is false i'm various
particulars, especially in that it init
mated that he fBarnard) used his in.
fiuence with Gen. Grant to cur q
Permit for Barrow for a valuable con
sideration. Barnard gives the version
of his connection with Barrow in a
post traders store at Fort Union, and
asks the committee to give him an OPP
portnnity to place his testimony on
record.
More AbOut the Worcester Flood.
WORCESTER, March 80.
Along the expected path of the flood
the best efforts to lessen or avert dan
ger are still in progress throughout the
entire length of the kettlebrook and
Blackstone rivers. There il an inn
msnse crowd at the scene of trouble,
which il growing constantly larger.
TIE police are keeping order in the
crowd and projecting goods on the
hills removed from the houses and
factories.
Break I'm the Cable.
BOSTON, March 20.
A Portsmouth dispatch says another
break has occurred in the direct cable,
this time between forty and sixty
miles off Rye Beach Station.
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