The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-10-29
TELEGRApmrc ITEMS.

The women and children are safe at
Chief. Ouray's house, nine miles below.
They stood the journey well, and Mrs.
Meeker has. improved in health every
| day since. we started. We left OH. the
morning of the, ed The Indians
seemed unwilling for us to leave until
| they learned what success General
Adams had in stopping the further all
vance of Merritt's command. Meekers
papers were, burned, and what money
Mrs. Meeker hadiwas taken from her
by Douglas. The intention was to kill
the women and children, as the win
dows Of the room in which they first
took refuge were riddlels with bullets
the instantaafter they hail left it for a
MORE secure place in the milk room.
Mrs. Meeker thinks Susan, the squaw
wife. of ChiefS Johnson and sister of
Curay, did more than all others to save
| their lives. She was as kind to them
as mother, and their parting was@very
| touching. Jacks baud fought the
| troops and Douglass men killed the
agent and employees. Agent Meeker
was killed bysAntelope and Waupattily.
Mrs. Meeker was shot at while running
| from the house attempting to hide in
the sagebrush. The bsll passed through
her dress and made slight flesh wound
in her thigh about four inches, long
The arrangements for fight with Mer-
ritt's. command. were most complete.
Two hundred. Arappahaes had ioined
Jack, and many others from. the neigh
boring tribes, and had it. not been for
the timely arrival of Ouray's order to
cease fighting, the name OF Merritt and
and his command. would have passed
into history by the side OF Custer and
with the same epitaph, "Annihilated
fhy Indians" The outbreak may be at
tributed to repeated changes and lessen
ling of the amount of rations issued to
the Indians, and plenty of bad whisky
, furnished by ranchmen. Major Pollock
is here doing all i'll his power. to make
tbe.ladies comfortah and locking after
the interests of the Department in
general.
Two immense political meetings. were
held Monday nighte-one. by the Demo
Gratis at the Academy Of Music, in
Brooklyn, where Speaker Randall was
the speaker; the other at Cooper Union,
where ex-Mintster Houghton, General
Fitzpatrick and Secretary Sherman held
forth. There was nothing particularly
new or noteworthy in the arguments,
but at the latter meeting, after Sher
man had advised all to vote for Cornell,
as. San honest, excellent man." some
one3in. the. audience wanted to know
why the PRESIDENT had removed him
from Office. This was greeted with
storm of cheers. Sherman said he had
often. answered the question before.
There was no charge of dishonesty
against Cornell, and. his record was of
the best; besides. the Republicans
uphold measures, not men"
John McCann,. a San Francisco coa..
Tractor, having 500 or $500 on his
person.. while riding out on the Mission
road, near San Miguel in. company with
a man in his employ, was halted by
man who sprang fromthe roadside. and
presented what seemed to be a. pistol,
saying: "your: money or your life!"
Mccain struck him, on the hand with
the whip, causing. him to drop the,
weapon. Mccain thereupon jumped
from the buggy, seized the robber and
beat him nearly to death, and then
took him to the Seventeenth street po-
lice station, where he was found to be
Robert Blair alias Richard johnson.
His weapon proved on examination to /,
fbe piece of car link. He is an old!
convict. 81
i An Italian named Dominica Tempo,
| aged 80, a farm laborer, started ON
Sunday from,. Stockton, California, to
see his father. on the Mariposa road,
carrying to his father two bottles Of.
liquor, one. under his shirt near his,
body, the other in his hand. While.
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