The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-10-02
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

pondent may be regarded as authentic,
and as coming from Governor Sprague:
On the Saturday after Conkling was
driven from Canouchet he came to
Providence and sought out gentleman
who went to Sprague to intercede with
him that nothing of the occurrence at
Narragansett Pier should be made pub
lie through the press. The messenger
returned the same day and told Conk-
ling that the Governor sent back word
for word the following message: "Gov-
ernor Sprague will not leave the scan
dial of Washington to be repeated in
his own household" Conkling was
sent back, but went to work with a.
view to set. Chafiee, the trustee of
the Sprague estate, against Sprague
with the anticipation of having him re-
moved from his house, and arrested
and confined as mailman.
The Ute Indians attacked three com
panies of cavalry near Milk River, Col
t.orado, on Monday, and killed Major
Thornburg and ten enlisted men, and
wounded some twenty-five others. The
troops lost nearly all their horses, and
at latest accounts were corraled near
water, waiting for reInforcements, upon
the arrival of which the existence OF
the command depended. 1t is supposed
that the troops were scattered along the
road when attacked by the Indians.
The country is rugged and almost in
accessible and well adapted for Indian
ambushes. The red devils fired the
grass all around tho troops to burn
them out. Some 500 infantry have
been sent to the relief OF the besieged
troops, but the exact distance from the
railroad to Milk River is not known at
headquarters at Omaha.
The following news has been received
from Yakima City, W. T.: The es-
capped Rerkins murderers, who broke Jail
on the Goth of September were found
on the 26th, on Simcoe Reservation.
The Indians refused to surrender, when
fight ensued, in which one of the muir
derers was killed by the Deputy Sheriff,s
party, who have been on the hunt.
The other three Indian are surrounded
in thicket, and will be taken dead or
alive. j. Ii. Conrad is in charge OF the
party, and has Captain Splawn and
some other determined men with him.
The prisoners in the county jail at
Bath, n. Y, threw cayenne pepper in
the eyes of the turnkey when he opened
the door and foar escaped. One was
captured by female servant in the
prison. The Sheriff's wife seized jim
O'Laughiin, a notorious desperate, but
was choked eff. He yas chased across
the riveE a2d shot on the opposite bank.
He then surrendered A third was
capturea.hy a.boy armed with a revolt
yer. The fourth is s5ill at large.
Five of the City OF Glasgow Bank
Directors, sentenced on the Ist of Feb
ruary to eight months imprisonment,
were released yesterday amid the boot
ingso a crowd Two other Directors,
Lewis Potter and Robert Summer Stew
art, convicted of fraud, theft and em-
bez>lement, have still ten months to
serve.
The Acting Secretary OF the Interior
+ Department has decided in the case of
Hugh Lyons against Rachel Stevens, of
Sails Lake, Involving the right to,
section of land, that the polygamaus
wife of Mormon cannot be permitted
to make presumption or homestead
entry on public land.
The administration in eastern Rou.
melia is almost chaotic. Self-consti-
tuted and semi-secset committees have
often more power than the regularly
constituted authorities. Justice is sub
ordinated to race, hatred and consider
atoms OF political strategy.
Chas. f. Brooks, who was convicted
|. OF cruelty beating the seamen of the
ship Anahuac in the United States
tSsspit, in August, 1876, has been