Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-07-31
AGREAr SIOUX WAR.

A CHEAT SlOtA WAN.
Adyices from Washington of July
o5th state that the commissioner Of
Indian affairs has received information
,,h;ch comes from q trustworthy
half breed. who has just returned from
a yisi. to the Sisseton agency, Da-
Lota Territory, says while there
ha met and cOnversed with some Sioux
Indians from Standing Rock agency.
They were couriers sent with
tobacco from the Sioux of the
nlains to invite the Sissetons to
loin them in hostilities against the
whites; that already eight different
hands of Sioux had joined the confed-
Grafton and that Sitting Bull himself
,ad made visit this summer to Stand
no Rock agency where he spent three
or four days in disguise. Also that the
government had threatened to take the
nonies from some of the Sioux and
Indians on the Missouri, which
would be resisted by all of those tribes,
and that general Sioux war was immi-
nent and would soon be announced.
Whether there is any truth in the state
ment made by Indians from Standing
Rock agency or not, l can't tell, but
they certainly made such statement.
THE SILVER DOLLARS COMING.
A Washington dispatch of the Oath
saws: Last Thursday the United States
Treasurer addressed circular to the
banks throughout the country, inform
ing them that they would be supplied
with as many silver dollars as they
might want, in exchange for greenbacks
or treasury warrants, the cost of trans
portation to be borne by the Treasury.
There are about eight millions of these
dollars in the Treasury. The second
day after the circular went out twenty
banks in the smaller and neighboring
cities responded, their aggregate requi-
sitions amounting to $500, 900. To-day
many new responses were received,
from the west particularly, and tonight
the acquisitions will aggregate 81 ,OOO,-
coo. One bank in Memphis ordered
100000 Treasurer Gilfillan expects
That as soon as the other
banks at remote distances shall
have received the letters, orders
for silver in large amounts will be
crowded upon the department. On &C
count of the heavy expense of trans
porting silver dollars by the Adams
Express, an arrangement has been
made with the postoflice department
whereby all of this new silver is to be
sent in pound bags as mail matter.
These expenses, which are to be borne
by the government by way of an in
ducement to the banks, will be only
one-fifteenth of what the cost of ex-
pressage would be. While Secretary
Sherman gives an equivocal denial to
the statement that the greenbacks so
received are to be usud for resum ption
purposes, Treasurer Giifillan says they
are to be so used.
PACIFIC RAILW ~ LANDS DECLARED OPEN
TO PRE-EMPTION BY THE SECRETARY OF
THE INTERIOR.
In the Dudymotte case Secretary
schuz decided that the Pacific Railroad
lands may be pre-empted. The decis-
ion says that nearly all of the grants
made by the United States to aid in the
construction of railroads or other works
Of internal Improvement, have
annexed to them conditions, some
of which are conditions precedent, and
other conditions subsequent. Such con-
dltions are found in this grant to the
Kansas Pacific. 1t cannot be denied
that congress had the right to make
the grant to said company absolute and
unconditional, but, in order to
secure the objects for which the
grant was made, conditions we're
annexed. The company had the right
10 accept or reject the grant, with the
conditions therein made, but, having
accepted it, it is now estopped to deny
their force and effect. One of those
conditions, and the one under which
the applicant now claims the right to
enter portion of the land granted to
the company is, that" all such lands, SO
granted by the section, which shall not
De sold or disposed Of by said com any
lhree Years after the entire road shall
nave been completed, shall be subject
10 settlement and pre-emption like
other lands, at a price not exceeding
sl.2o per acre. to be paid to such
company" While it is true that
neither of the decisions of the
supreme court clearly and distinctly
define the right of the government in
the disposal Of said lands, still they
clearly indicate the opinion of the
court that such right exists; and
whether it be considered that the es-
tate granted is a conditional estate, or
an estate with conditional Limitation
IN either case am of opinion that it
must be held that the condition runs
WIN the grant, and is in effect a reser-
Vation of a power of sale in the gov
eminent, OF the lands granted to the
company which remained unsold by it
al the expiration of three years after