Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1880-12-23
DAKOTA NEWS ITEMS.

Information from the lower Brule agency
is that the Brule chief Medicine Bull was
shot by the accidental discharge of the re-
volver Of Mr.. Beveridge, the agency clerk
A council had been called to discuss the
proposition for the right of way for Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul railway across the
Sioux reservation. The Indians were dis
putting with each other, and the whites
present deemed it prudent to arm them
selves. Beveridge's revolver slipped from
his pocket, and striking the floor at Medi-
cine Bulls feet, was discharged infictinc
serious wound. Medicine Bull called his
Indians together and charged them to mo-
lest no one because of the accident and 10
show his good faith, presented his best
horse to Beveridge. He is an influential
chief, and did much towards keeping the
Brules at the agency during the Sitting Bula
war;
There is a great disturbance in McCook
county over the county seat question. Last
Monday morning two Of the board OF county
commissioners of this county met and or
dered the county safe removed from Cam
eron to Bridgewater. Matters had been
previously arranged for teams to arrive at
the hour the two commissioners would meet
at the county seat and they ordered it re-
moved without any notice whatever and
against the will of the people The county
clerk, it is said, was at Winona, MIMI, at
the time.
Judge Shannon has appointed ". c. Met
calf, OF Mitchell, clerk of the court for Davi-
son county, vice j. W. Walsh. resigned
Deadwood Pioneer:-Two suits were be-
gun in the district court Yesterday, in which
the Dakota gold mining company is defend
ant, and A. j. Rigby and J. S. Wallace
plaintiffs: each action is brought to recover
S62, 500, or total of 1895, 000. for property
sold to defendants, and for services. The
property consists of the Savage tunnel, and
several claims in that locality.
The La Belle House at Watert1Sn was
destroyed by fire on the Sth.
in dakota patents
The Dakota Journal is the name of a
paper just started at Pierre, Hughes county.
by Dyke & Bros.
The dakota fever" is raging in North
ern Iowa, and large immigration from
that section can be confidently looked for
in the spring
Iankton Dakotian The goods belong
ing to E. II. Hudson when he was trader
at Crow creek agency, sieged two and one
half years ago by the government. under
the Hammond Dougherty charges. are still
held by the government and are stored in
| this city, The -four and hides were sold
and the government holds control of the
money, some $4,000. The government
failed in all its efforts to injict Mr. Hudson
or to produce case against him before the
United States commissioner. vet it neglects
to return 20 him the property seized, amount
ing in value to about SS, 600.
The Boston Herald praises Dakota to the
skies and says: It is in some respects, an
inoppertuae time for a young territory to
seek admission TO the Union. There is a
perceptihle restlessness in the old and por.u-
lous states at the equal representation in the
senate of the western boroughs, with barely
population enough for congressional dis
trict. And there is always sus-
picion, which is naturai enough, in view of
the history of some of the latest admissions,
that political intriguing and personal ambi-
ton are at the bottom OF these urgent re-
quests. The 'land of the Dakota" is a no.
BILE domain, and it doubtless has great fa-
ture, but the country viii need to be pretty
thoroughly convinced of the reasonabieness
of the petition for admission to the Union
before congress will be justified in granting
IT,