The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-10-03
TOPOGRAPHIC ITEMS.

government pleugeS,. ana continued
encroachments on the Reservation, as
primary causes. The Indian officials
were unable to resist the pressure of
the Western Representatives, who have
been endeavoripg to effect the, removal
of the Utes to the Indian Territory;
hence the Executive and Legislative
branches of the Government have re-
sorted to the usual means to force upon
them surrender Of their lands. Last
Winter delegation of Los Pinos Utes
came to Washington to ask for pay
ment for territory cut out of their part
of the Reservation in Southwestern
Colorado, and were impatient at the de-
lay. The Commissioner explained to
them that until the Great Council
made appropriation they could not re-
ceive the sum promised by the Peace
Commissioners sent out last year.
Congress was in session then, but rec
ommepdation for the payment of the
sum specified by she Commissioners
was not needed. To, add to tho aggra-
waiting causes, a number of spectators,
and prospectors WHO had been on the
northern part of the Reservation came,
to persuade. Congress to disregard
treaty obligations and declare the Res
ervation open to settlers. They brought
with them fine specimens of gold and
silver ore, and argued that the sooner
we had an Indian war and exterminated
bhe sayages the better it would be for
the country, and frontiersmen particu-
larly. Seeing that serious consequences
would follow an invasion Of their do
MAN,, Schurz asked Congress for au-
thority to enter into negotiations for
the. cession to the United States of all
the. reservation of the Utes, that it
migh5 be thrown open to settlers and
miners, and this request was also disre-
garded. The scene. of Thoruburgh's
disaster was ON the edge of the Reser-.
walton at Mill Creek. which runs into
Painted Rock Creek. Rhornburgh was
formerly stationed at San Francisco,
and Agent MeeEer is Colorado man
George Daley. foreman of the carpen-
tiers working on the snow-sheds near
Cisco, met with strange and probably
| fatal accident yesterday afternoon. He
had a torpedo IN the watch pocket of
his vest, and while handling some tim
bers the torpedo accidently exploded.
Fragments of it entered his breast, tear
ing a frightful opening between the ribs.
The heart and left lung were,eompletely
exposed. Special engines conveyed.
Docton curless, of Tru.kee,, and. Doctor
Nelson, of Sacramento, to, the wounded
man, but nothing could. be done save to
alleviate. his dreadful sgonies. The
bulk of the torpedo,is believed. to have
ranged upward and lodged in his left !
shoulder, as he complains of acute pain
in that region. He was moved. to, Sac
ramento. Mr.. Daley is from. Kingston,
/ Canada.
| Governor. Manteufel has issued the.
following address: To-day I assume !.
the Office with which the Emperor has
'intrusted me, of Imperial Governor of
Alsace- Lorraine. May God give me
strength to exercise the powarsA con-
ferred upon me to the glory of the Ger
man Empire and to the welfare of
Alsace-L Lorraine"
A bek containing s2S,9eO in bonds,
which were stolen from the National
Bank of Baltimore in September, 1878,
was unearthed few days ago near
Woodbury., Maryland, by some young
men while hunting. Thirty-fye thou
sand dollars were stolen from the bank
at the>sam time which has not yet
been recovered.
At Leipsic Herr Freidberg, Secretary
of State, opened the Imperial Supreme
Court and administered the oaths to d.
Simson, President, and other officers.
The Judiciary reforms deafeed by the
Reischtag throughout the Empire also
came into operation yesterday.
Thos. o. Woodruff of West Orange,