The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14
THE WEST.

AT meeting held at st. Louis ON the otn lnst.'
the trunk railroads agreed upon the 1ohowing
rates on grain and -four to eastern points: bostoh
40 and 80 cents; New York, IS and ~ cents;
Philadelphia, 80 and so cents; Baltimore, 81 ana o.
cents.
THE Braidwood, Illinois, coal miners nave
struck for dollar and Ave cents per ton and
against the proposed reduction from tne present
rate of 95 cents to 70 and SO cents which the COM
pany propose to make. at least 1900 hands are
we'll fixed for a strike.
THE President has appointed Lloyd b. stephens
postmaster at Ogden City, vice Neal Sharp sns-
pended under tenure of office act
THE steamboat Carroll is detained 80 miles above
Jackson, D. T., with 1875 passengers for the Black
Hills, by ice in the Missouri river.
TIE war department with the approval of the
secretary of war has issued a circular announcing
for the information of all concerned, the following
routes connecting the Missouri river with the Black
Hills in accordance with the late treaty with the
Sioux Indians:
Route N. 1-Beginning at Bismarck, D. T., the
present western terminus of the Northern Pacific
railroad, it will the 103d meridian of longitude,
the western boundary of the Sioux reservation on
the shortest and most practicable route to Dead
wood City.
Route No. 2-Beginning at point on the right
bank of the Missouri river, known Fort Pierre,
or at some point not over 1S miles north of that
place. 1t will cross the 103d meridian on the
shortest and most practicable route to Deadwood
City.
Route 3-Beginning at the Yankton crossing of
the Missouri river, thence the tn bank of the
Niobrara to its crossing opposite the mouth of the
Keyapaha river, thence up the latter stream to or
nea- the sources of the Porcupine Creeks, whence
it will cross the 103d meaIdian on the shortest and
most practicable route to Custer City.
All people who establish themselves at stations
along these lines notified that such establishing
will not carry with it proprietary right to the
may be imposed by the secretary of war.
The western boundary of the Sioux reservation
as fixed by the recent treaty is as follows:
Commencing at the intersection of the J03d me
ridian longitude with northern boundary of Ne
braska, thence to its intersection with the south
stream to its junction with the north fork of the
Belefourche, thence up that fork to the 103d me.
ridian to the south branch of Cannon Greek or
Cedar Greek.
EDWIN A. HOWARD of Michigan, has been ap-
pointed agent for the Ponca Indians in Dakota
The celebrated Lick contested will case at San
Francisco, CAL, has been compromised.
JOHN DoFFIN, Familiarity known as Father Doffin,
died suddenly at Lafayette. Ind, on the I'd inst,
from an overdose of morphine
A DISPATCH from Carbondale, ILL.,, says the fruit
crop has not been materially injured in southern
Illinois. On lowlands, where the buds had devel
oped more than on highlands, the crop is reduced
about half. There will be, unless another cold
snap comes on, an abundant supply of peaches.
pears and other fruits. Strawberries are looking
finely.
ADvIcEs just received by Gen. Rosser, division
engineer of the Northern Pacific railroad from
President Wright, state that the road will be ex-
tended to the coal fields 80 miles west of the Mis-
souri,, this season. This extension has been de-
c1ded upon without reference the action of con-
gress en- the land grants.