The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-28
VERY LATEST NEWS.
A Record ct Important Events,
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

$799,4S6. For the corresponding week,
previous year, 1891 ,496.
GEN. DEvENs has decided on the 2lst
inst. that Agent Berry, of the interior de-
partment must be delivered up to the civil
authorities of Colorado. Gen. Drum tele-
graphcd to Gen. Sheridan this afternoon
to that effect The result of this decision
is to transfer the entire responsibility to
Colorado, as the authorities of that state
have full control. The people of the war
department hope they are we'll out of this
difficulty, as all through they have been
placed in very embarrassing position.
The committee from St. Louis were
shown the thinness Of it's claims. It has
now gone back, and if new census is Or
dered it will be solely because Secretary
Schurz is resident of St. Louis, and anx-
ious to maintain his popularity at home
One thing is certain, however: Nothing
will be gained by new count No frauds
will be possible, and without fraud St.
Louis will not be able to recover the $4,000
mythical children created at two cents i
head by the vigorous and INSCRIPTIONS
deputy marshals of 1870.
The United States revenue cutter
Thomas Corwin has returned from her
Arctic Cruise, on 18th inst. She brings
no Intelligence in addition to that already
received. AT st. Lawrence island, out of
700 inhabitants 500 were found dead of
starvation. Traders have introduced
liquor among them causing them to neg
lect laying up the usual supply of pro-
visions, The officers of the Corwin express
the opinion that the Jeanette wintere1
on the Siberian shore, and is now there
west Of North Cape. The Corwin could
ut for f,x l>o
lief, on account of ice.
Col. w. B. THOMPSON, superintendent
of the railway mail service. in his annual
report, says: In view of the increasing
wants of postal car service, and of the fact
that there are a great number of very
competent and faithful men who deserve
promotion, but who cannot be promoted
unless the postoffice department has mon
the amount now appropriated for railway
postotfice clerks, from 81 $50 900 to 81 $780,
600. He also requests an increase of $780,
600 in appropriations for route agents,
and an increase of $75, 900 for mail route
messengers. Col. Thompson earnestly re-
news the recommendation of his report of
| last year for congr essional authority to re-
classify employees of the railway mail SER
vice, so that they should be divided into
| five classes of clerks, with salaries ranging
from $500 to 81 400 per annum.
SECRETARY SCHURz has received the fol-
lowing dispatches from commissioner
Meacham and Agent Berry concerning
| the new phase of the Colorado Ute diff
Guilty:
Los PINos, Col, Oct. H. 1880.
| 70 the Secretary Of the Interior, tVaszinton:
The commissioner and Berry have gone to the
Indians camp to quiet the Indians. The con-
stable has called for a posse. Both constable and
the military are waiting to know about julisdic-
ton. If Berry leaves the agency the employees
| will leave. l have been summoned as Il witness
for the state. The military expect instructions
this evening. A conflict between the state and
! government seems probable. The Utes will doubt
less be involved think it impossible at this time
for surveys to be attempted l expect Major to-
day. EMEAcHAM.
(The surveys referred to are those required to
| be made preliminary to opening the Ute reserva-
| ton for sett!ement.)
| c'Major' is the name of the surveyor)
Los P1Sos, Oct. IL.
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs, Uash;,gton
am compelled to leave for Gunnison City il
charge OF the sheriff, to answer for the killing O.
Jackson by the Indians. The agency is in charg,
| OF Miller. Matters are in a perilous condition
| owing to my absence. Can the attorney genera
issue orders to suspend action in tho unit
safety is assured. BERRY, Agent
Secretary Schurz sent the following tel
egram to Gov. Pitkin, of Colorado:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
Washington, Oct IA, 1880.
To Gov. PHk;n, Denrer Colorado:
| consider 1t my duty to communicate to yol
the information received at the department, tina
the excitement growing out of the killing of al
INDIAN and the subsequent killing of Il white mar
guilty of that act the Ute reservation threatens
serious difficulties liable to disturb all the results
| of our efforts, now on the point of contamination
to settle the Indian problem in Colorado in ius
and peaceable manner. Mr.. Berry, agent of tn,
Uncompahgre Utes, telcgraphs that he has beer
| arrested and is to be taken to Gunnison on a war
rant issued by justice Of the peace there, charg
ing him with the murder of the white man VIII,
killed the Indian, Mr. Meacham, one of the Ut,
commissioners, temporarily at Los Pinos. report
that he has been summoned under subpoena as
witness. Thus the two officers, who probabl,
more than any others possess the confidence o.
the Indians, and can be best depended upon t,
exercise upon them wholesome influence, are re
moved from them at this critical moment. A
the same time, it is rumored that lawless person
are intending to seize upon and kill the officers
the government soon rs they out of tn
reservation. While all the information here i
to the effect that these officers did all they coult
to save the life Of the white man reported killet
instead Of putting it in peril Mob violence uset
against these men in al probability will be fol
lowed by other lawless acts disturbing the peac,
between the Indians and whites, and there ap
pears to be reason to fear that in this way a,
Indian war may be brought en- sure to result il
the loss Of hundreds Of lives and many millions i,
money, and great disaster to industries of Colora
do. The military as well as the civil officers OF
the reservation have been instructed to use ever,
possible effort to restrain the excitement of tn,
Indians, and to prevent collision. Everything
IS being done on our part to avert from Colorad,
the calamities of an Indian war; Permit me t,
express the hope that the state authorities O
Colorado will join their earnest efforts to ours
by depressing whatever lawless spirit that, &C
cordins to current rumor in the newspapers, ma,
be existing among the population on the border
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