The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-01-08
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SAYS a st. Louis dispatch of Dec 2Sth {:
The project of bridging the Mississippi
River at Carondelet, six miles south of
the centre of this city, is being revived.
The Missouri Pacific and St. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern Roads now transfer
by ferry some 300 cars daily at that
point, and the revival of the iron manu-
fac'urcs at the immense furnaces and
rail mills located there make the brid &c
an almost absolute necessity to meet the
demands of commerce, and contracts for
the construction Of the bridge to cost be-
tween 100000 and $3,OOO,0O0, will no
doubt soon be let, and the work pushed
to speedy completion.
A DISPATCH from Los Pinos agency.
Dec. Goth, announced that Ouray and
chiefs, selected to go to Washington, ar
rived at the agency on the day previous,
bringing with them only part of the
prisoners demanded. Gen. Hatch refus.
ed to proceed unless all the prisoners
were surrendered. Ouray then asked
for more time, and was given five days
to deliver all the rest of the prisoners at
Cline's rancho, thirty miles from Los
Pinos. 1t was thought Ouray was either
playing double or that he was unable to
accomplish what he pretended he could.
The snow was from five to fifteen feet
deep, and the com mission was obliged to
build sleighs to make the trip. Grave
doubts were expressed as to the success
of the expedition.
AT an election held in Des Moines,
Iowa, Dec. Goth, for the purpose of voting
on the question of tax in aid of the Des
Moines and Milwaukee railroad, the tax
was carried by a large majority, only a
light ballot being polled. The town of
Mitchelville, in the same county also
voted the tax on the same day. The
tax in these two places amounts to about
100000.
The postmaster general issued an
order Dec. 3Oth directing the postmaster
at New York to refuse the payment O.
postal money-orders or the delivery of
registered lettes addressed to the So
called "bankers and brokers" firms of
Lawrence q Co, purporting to do bust
ness on the "stock combination system, "
at 10 Broad street; adams, Brown &
Co.," % Broad street; s.Allen, Jordon &
Co.," 81 Wall street, and "Barnes, Gar
rison & Co.," Nos. IS Exchange place
and II Broad street, and elsewhere in
New York city. The operations of the
persons conducting these concerns have
been enormously pro fitable.
The arsenal at Bangor, Me-, was
opened Dec. 30th, under orders from
Adjutant General Leavitt who called on
Mayor Brown to notify him of the orders
from the governor for the removal of the
arms. The mayor suggested that the re-
moval be made in the quietest manner,
and he believed there would be no in
reference with those acting under prop
er authority. Several teams laden with
arms and ammunition, without any mil.
ltary or other guard, passed through the
streets to the Maine Central depot with
out any molestation, the people standing
on the side walks in large numbers. The
ammunition was sent to Augusta bv ex-
press, on the night train.
DISPATCHES from tie Ute country state
that Gen. Hatch, of the peace commits.
sion, started for Alamosa on the 30th,
having giving up all hope of securing
the Indians whom Ouray agreed to sur.
render for trial for their participation in
the Thornburgh and Meeker murders.
The generals withdrawal is considered
tantamount to declaration Of war.
There are several hundre savages in the
vicinity of Los Pinos, the whites at the
agency numbering Only twenty-five, and
it is feared that the latter will be mas
sacred and Gen. Hatch and his escort as
we'll. It is reported that troops have
been ordered to the rescue of Hatch and
the people at Los Pinos, but as the snow
is chin deep they are not expected to
make much progress.
The statement made in the dispatches
from Los Pinos, Dec. 28th, to the effect
that the secret testimony before the CON-
mission there had proved against certain
of the White River Utes a crime that had
not been limited at before, is taken here
to mean that Mrs. Meeker and the other
women at the agency were outr: ged by
Chief Douglass and some Of his follow;
ers after their capture. The statement
IS freely made, as coming directly from
General Hatch, that such vas the case;
and army officers and others who have
been in communication with the men,
bers Of the commission have no hesi:a-
ton, now that the rumor has general
circulation, in saying that the testimony
against the Indians on the ''star list''
brings out the fact that the women were
brutality outraged. There is disposition
here to treat the matter very seriously.
If the story is true, it adds enormously
to the Nervousness of the Utes' offenses.
and makes further trifiing with them
abominable. Just at the present no
means exist of getting at the exact truth
of the mater, but it may be said that the
statement that the women were ravished
is subs,antiated by the declaration of
high army officers, who received their