The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-21
VERY LATEST NEWS.
\ Record Of Important Events,
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

N1CroR1E, the Apache chieftain, is sait
to be surrounded by Mexican and Ameri
can soldiers in the Pine Mountains.
O'NErL, arrested for the murder of Nc
Mahon, the saloon-keeper at Bridgeport
has sued Detectives Duffy and Mcdonald
for false Imprisonment.
CANNON, polygamist. has been nomi
mated for delegate to congress from Utal
on the platform ''The highest possible lib
erty to man and woman.
GEN. GRANTS old church in Washington
is in the position of a pauper in the con
ference. The church has been grea
financial failure under this administra
ton.
THE Ute Indians Will soon receive tn.
money for their lands, the requisition fol
cash having been signed at Washington OF
the 18th inst.
AN invitation has been received by the
United States government to send a repre-
sentative to the international sanitary con
ference in London, in August, 1851.
The collision near Norfolk about two
years ago, between the tug boat Lumber
man and the schooner Isaac Bell, by which
ten lives were lost, is now attributed to
color blindness or the pilots.
A PRESS dispatch of the Sth inst, from
Denver, indicating danger of another Ute
outbreak, is not credited at the interior
department. A dispatch was received
from Mr.. Meachem which indicates that
the Indians are simply getting in hurry
for their money, and are pretending to be
in a dangerous mood, to hasten up the
paymaster. Mr.. Bell thinks that they
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in about two weeks.
ACTING POSTMASTER GENERAL HAZEN
accompanied by Judge Freeman, assistant
attorney-general for the post office depart
ment, called on Attorney general Devens
for the purpose of consulting him in re-
gard to the status of the lottery cases now
pending before the supreme court of the
United States. As a result of this confer
ence they all agreed that in consequence OF
the resignation of ex-Postmaster-Gener
Key, against whom the proceedings were
originally instituted by the lottery com
panies, the suit will be dismissed by the
court.
Z. RUSSELL, member of the Ute com
mission, has arrived in Washington with
ratification papers signed by ST Ute In
dians. The amount due the Utes is $75,
900. Arrangements have been made for
the payment of this sum in accordance
with the terms of the bill. Russell ex-
pressed an opinion that the work of select
ing new lands, surveying them and making
attachments in severality, the work which
must necessarily be accomplished before
the Indians can be removed, will probably
not be commenced owing to the lateness of
the season until next spring, and for this
reason he thinks the removal of the Ules
cannot be effected until next year.
SECRETARY ScuURz on the 18th inst,
made public the report of Superintendent
Walker, of the census bureau, on alleged
census frauds in South Carolina. The
general gives his reasons for believing the
census of 1870 incorrect, attributing it
mainly to defects Of the law under which
it was taken-that Of 1S7O-and adds:
''The investigation instituted places it be-
yond a doubt, first, that the census of 1870
was grossly defective, and, secondly, that
the cenuss of 1880 was substantially well
taken. In no instance did anything ap-
pear which bore semblance of fraud in
the returns made to this office by the emu
meratOrs of 1880. Gen. Walker, in con-
cluding, saws of the investigations Il
know of no reason why any further charge
should be made against the enumeration
recently brought to conclusion by com
missioned and sworn officers of the govern
ment in South Carolina The presump-
ton which existed against their work has
been completely overthrown, and strong
counter presumption has been created by
verifcation upon the ground of schedules
of inhabitants in the case of eighteen emu
meration districts successively taken for
special investigation, on account of their
exceptionally questionable character.