The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-28
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ADvICES from Santa Fc indicate that there is
much cause for alarm as 10 the movements of
the Naval Indians. 4 party of that tribe re-
Gently attacked the mail bus near Blu Water,
ripped open the mail sacks, and threatened to
Kill the driver. The number of trourH in the
territory Is entirely inadequate 10 cope with the
sayaSeS. The Indian agent at Fort Wimgatc is
exceedingly unpopular with the Indians, and
his withdrawal Is pctltioncd Tor by The employees
at the post.
DAKOTA wheat Is 90 per cent. better than at
This time last year, and the wheat acreage along
the line of the Northern Pacific railroad Is
about l0,OO0.UuO against G,0OO, 900 last year.
JUDGE COOPER X. WATSON, of tie court of
common pleas at Sanduslly, O.. died on the
10th, aged 40 wears. He Was member OF con-
Grcss III lSj5-5G.
TUcSoN. Arizona, courier brings news of an
uprising Of Indians on the san Pedro. Nine
prOspectoes are known 10 have been killed and
iIN" more are IvpOI,cI killed. settlers are flee
Ing from the san Pedro country to Iuscon.
WM. ALLEN, of -. Louis, sites thirty resi-
dents Of Clrrmont county, Ohio, for trying to
lynch him year ago. He was unduly intimate
with married woman III that county. and the
indignant citizens hung him from railroad
briSr. but, the rope breaking, he made his
escape.
The state board of equalization Of Kansas
has assessed 1901 miles Of railway within the
limits 4 the state thu, year. as against 2.ii3
mile la year. an increase of jG4 mule. in one
year. The railways of the state are valued for
this location al an aggregate of Sl9.7il ,G5j
tins year, Us against 80, lj3,O!S last year. al
increase Of S3,5SS, SO during the year. AyrI.
age valucpcr mile this year is 5000.
Mn. BoUsEE. of Paris, H.. who went west
twenty wears ago. and had not been heard from
res rod lIaf ,.itN. n1,
the 18Th instant
Bishop WM. SlNrEY, of the VI. T.. church,
died II his home in WcslcryDc, o., Oh the 18th
inst. He was one of the founders of Obcrln
university.
\ DISPATCH was received at Tucson, Arizona,
on the 18th inst. from Capt. Madden. dated
"Nrad ofSan FrancIsco river, May t." Itsays:
II arrived hire tonight, and have Travelled
hard for tmce days and two nights in pursuit
of Nictorla's Indians. hut they are still a day
ahead Of me. They got away with thirty horses
from here last night They have 20 far to my
hn"wicdSe kiIed eleven men, two women and
-four children. Have heard Of twenty-five others
being killed
\ PARTY Of twenty-five men who started on
the 2Oth OF last month 10 recover stock stolen
from John Dciimach. murdered III the myan-
kara mountains, and to avcngc hi. death, came
10 party Of seventeen Indians on the Little
Powder River on the 18th inst. and killed four
Of them and captured sevcuty-scycn horses.
JOS. lihodc-. one of the Iarty was iilIcd.
ON the evening Of the 18th instant, at the
Jewish cemetery, Louisville, Ky, Dr. Gabriel
Kaiser shot hunslf through the heart at the
foot of the grave of his wife. who died about
So wcchsa%o.
Mis-. BRTAS, wife Of a prominent physician of
Lexington, KY, IN a lit Of mental arrangement
Oh the 18th instant, gave her child a fatal dose
Of morphine and then treated herself likewise:
bat her potion was too great and III cons cqucnCc
her life Wa raycd. The unfortunate woman
was taken 10 an asylum.
I'M body Of Max o. Platt, a New York stock
broker, was found III the river on the 18th lust,
under circumstance. that clearly indicated sui
eide. Several years ago he was a trusted en-
plOyc of stock firm IT salary - :GO,OOO per
year, int h. conceived the idea of becoming i'm
iEcnscly wealthy, threw up lis situation and
plunged wildly into speculation. In Il short
time he made SGUu, Geo, hut lost every cent he
Possessed in attempt 10 double the sum.
His tathcIin-law suffered Il like fate and suicid-
cd some time since.
4 DISPATCH from Fort Davis, Texas, says
fifty Indians attacked an cmGrant party gong
west on tIc lith inst, killed one man and one
woman and wounded two men. Two missing
are supposed to be killed. All the stock was
. captured.