Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-03
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CALIFORNIA.
The haying season has commenced in the
San joaquin valley. i
Heavy rain.storms have beeu pretty gen.
eral throughout the state the past ten days.
The miners almost all over Plumas coun.
ty are hard At it. having all the water they
can manage.
The San Francisco mint is now turning
out 100000 new dollars per day. This
makes small home demand for bullion.
The top Of st. Helena mountain, Napa
county, was covered with snow Monday fore.
noon Of last week, and at noon of the same
dsy u heavy snow storm occurred there, in
strange contrast with the weather and ap-
pearances in the valley below.
The fishermen of the Carquinez Straits
complain that there are no salmon this
spring, and that fishing is in consequence a
very pro6tless business. They do not blame
the fish canneries as much as the fish COM
missioners for this scarcity of fish. They
say the commissioners having been sending
too many fish eggs away.
The Chinese, determined to keep even
with the Mclean man." have taken new
departure, and in different direction from
that contemplated by the motto of the
workingmen's party, and manifesting, on the
contrary, determination that the Chinese
will stay. A number of the Chinese mer-
chants have retained F. A. Bee ana B. S.
Brooks, of San Francisco, to aid them in OBJ
tanning naturalization papers from the fed
eral courts. Such applica ions will shortly
be made to the United States circuit court,
and the bar will be invited to discuss the
question Of the admissibility of Mongolians
to become citizens. Several Cinnamon have
been granted papers of citizenship by Judge
Hoffman and other United States Judges, but
the question of their eligibility to the right
of citizenship has never been adjudicated iii
the federal courts.
MONTANA.
Lieut. Rhulen, of the 1lth infantry, has
been relieved at his own request, as quarter
master at Fort Custer. and is succeeded by
Lieut.. James N. Allison, I'd cavalry.
The stock raisers Of upper Montana are
pushing their way down the Muscleshell
river, and soon that beautiful valley will be
under the control of the white man, and its
Thousand hills" be spotted over with herds
of cattle, sheep and horses. The outlet for
| this immense region will be via. the Vel
lowstone.
Bismarck Tribune: Sergt. Chas. Welsh,
who was severely wounded in the Nez- Perce
campaign, is improving slowly and now
gets out around among the boys occasional
ly. Sergt. Krager and Mr.. O'Neill, of the
9Th infantry, who wele wounded at the same
battle, are also under treatment at the post
hospital here. O'Neill is getting on finely,
and Krager, who is an elderly man, ls doing
as we'll as can be expected, under the cir
cumstances.
A Buford correspondent of the Bismarck
Tribune learns from Fort Peck that Frank
Beatty was killed there short time since
BY James I. Seeds. Beatty is we'll known
and has been on the upper Missouri for
years. and was ordinarily quiet man. At
the sale of the Fort Peck agency buildings,
alter the agency was removed to Poplar
river, Beatty was the purchaser and received
. bill from the agent for the entire lot of
buildings, thus becoming proprietor of the
establishment he was for long time scout
in the government employ.
It is the opinion of all frontiersmen that
this summer the Sioux will make their des.
perate struggle, hoping to get better terms
while they have arms in their hands, and
are capable of doing mischief They may
be right, but give Miles the men, and don't
bind him hand and foot with red tape, keep
the red tape as far from him as the scene Of
warfare will be from St. Paul, and before
snow flies, Sitting Bull and what is left of
his hostiles, will be meditating on the muta-
bility of human affairs behind prison bars.
Bismarck Tribune's Buford correspou.
dence: Sitting Bird, with IA Gros Ventres
is on visit to the Crows. He says Sitting
Bull is encamped on the northern Porcu-
pine with 1850 lodges, and will there await
the attack Of his white foes that he has
plenty of ammunition but will kill the sol.
diers with war clubs. Sitting Bird appeared
to be in doubt as to which were the more
numerous in the world, white men or Sitting
Bulls followers. After being feasted by the
Soldier Chief" at Sherman, he went on his
way to the camp of his red brothers.
A correspondent at Sherman writes the
Bismarck Tribune as follows: Cali quiet
along the Yellowstone" at this writing, but
we had a visit from spy and horse stealing
party of hostiles on the I'd, and to-day
Lieut.. Huntington with strong scouting
party has gone in the direction of the Mus
cleshell. By the wav, Gen. Buell. was quick
to redeem his promise in afording protec-
ton to the settlers in Pease bottom, BY send
ing down from Fl. Custer Co. D, I'd cav |
airy, commanded by Lieutenant Hunting
ton, who has fixed his camp at Sherman
and, as noted above, Immediately sent out |
party to the Muscleshell river, which is dis
tant about 40 miles, by the wagon road, as
by Capt. Egan.
From Yellowstone letter: "The last
and grandest entertainment of the season
took place yesterday afternoon. 1t was an
in fact three Of 'em, for we felt
three distinct shocks following each other
1t intervals of perhaps half an hour. The
last shock the most severe. The most re-
thing about it was that the ground
opened about 200 feet above the barricade
for distance of 500 yards, revealing coal
vein which crops out from the lower (east
'ide Of the fssure at least FIVE feet thick.
An awful smell of sulphur was emitted
nearly sitting every man in the garrison, at
he same time was horribly suggestive. and