The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-01-12


either escaped or been pardoned, and that
Joyce had served out one term, and had been
virtually relieved from further punishment
by the action of the court.
FRIENDS of Ex-Governor Edward G. Nc
Cook, of Colorado, are working hard to Sc
cure him the position of consul general at
Paris, and to prevent the appointment OF
ex-senator Hitchcock to that place. NC
Cook is confident of success.
A SPECIAL agent of the postoffice depart
ment arrested Theodore K. Guenter, at
Quincy, ILL.,, on the 22d inst, on charge OF
abstracting four registered letters ftom the
mails at Kansas City, Mo.
THE WEST.
THE Herald's Salt Lake special of the 2Sth
ult., says: "This morning at o'clock the
Mormons began filing into the Endowment
House, and by 10 o'clock the place was SO
crowded that the doors had to be closed.
Up to o'clock sixty-fve polygamus mar
rieges had been solemnized, and as many
more impatient couples sent OFT to await
their turn"
THE Indians in Western Texas are COM
hitting depredations. They captured a
stage coach in Bassey canon, captured the
horses, and killed both the driver and Gabe
Valdez, the division superintendent.
THE second annual meeting of the North
western Travelling Mems association, met at
Chicago, on the 9th. 1t is mutual insur-
ance and benefit association, embracing
!, 100 members, of whom six hundred have
joined the past six months. N. c. Draper
was reelected president, Mason c. Hatch
secretary and treasurer, j. n. Page first vice
president. A grand banquet took place in
the evening.
THE supreme court of Dacotah has de-
cided that the officers elected in counties in
the Black Hills last November were lawfully
elected and are entitled to the Offices
GEN MCDOWELL received the following,
dated Camp Bowie, Ark, the oath: "The
Sixth cavalry struck the party of Indians
that killed the mail-rider some time ago
east OF Stems Peak range, and killed one
Five days later they struck them in Old
Mexico, completely surprising the rancho,
of "a wickups, destroying the camp, captur-
ing 16 horses and 80 saddles. Fifteen dead
dences that more had been killed. The
mail matter was recaptured."
THE standing committee of the Diocese
of Quincy, Ill, has forwarded a request to
Bishop McLaren to call a convention of the
Diocese at Quincy, on the Goth of February,
to elect a bishop for the position declined
by DIR. Harris, of Chicago
THE wife of Senator A. III. Garland died
at Little Rock, Ark, on the night of the oath.
CALIFORNIA has been blessed with copi
Gus rains during the past week, and the crop
prospects are considered very encouraging
RUSSELL III. BICKFORD, lumber dealer,
Chicago, ILL.,, has failed. Unsecured debts,
$61, $3.50; debts on open accounts, $4,000
SOME time since the town of Caliente,
southern California, was raided by
"greasers and a lot of provisions, horses,
ETC., stolen. The same party visited Bake
field on the 22d and committed similar dep
tured and placed in Jail, but ON the night
of the 22d inst, body of men, embracing
the best citizens of Bakersfield, forced their
way into the jail, took all the prisoners into
the Jail yard and lynched them.
IT was decided by the San Francisco
water commissioners, in conference with
the Spring Valley authorities on the ODD
inst, to proceed to condemn the property of
the Spring Valley Company, having failed
to agree upon the price.