, 1881-06-24

from the president.
Work on the new Duluth and Winnie
peg railroad will begin at once. Boston
capitalists have subscribed S., 5,0OU,OOO to
build 1t. The country through which 1t
will run is very rich.
Diphtheria is an epidemic at Ludding-
ton, Mich. One hundred and twenty
Children have died out Of a population of
1000. The schools closed and the police
guard houses where cases are known TO be
TO prevent communication.
The Worlds Washington special SAYS:
Stories of Blaine's illness are untrue. He
was never more robust in his life He
had nothing to do with the New York
fight and means to have nothing TO do
with 1T He keeps up his communications
with the department by telephone and
goes there only when he is absolutely
obliged to.
The famous miscegenation case at Chey.
enne wherein a Chinaman and a white
woman were indicted for intermarriage,
the ceremony having been performed in
Colorado, has been decided. The court
held that the marriage being legal in Col
orado it was legal here under the statutes.
The defendants were finally discharged.
A curious outgrowth in the case is that
Cinnamon here have ostracised the bold
groom, Lee Chin, and claim that he dis
graeed his race by marrying a white
woman.
The commissioner of Indian affairs to-
day received telegram from the southern
Ute agency to the effect that one station
of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad has
been established on the reservation and
that the store, saloons and dance house
are being located there. He says that it
Is lnexpedient to use the Indian police to
enforce United States laws, and that mill
tary force will be required. The commits
sioner sent a telegram to Secretary Kirk
wood, with recommendation that the
war department will be requested TO issue
orders that the commanding officers of
troops stationed near the agency to place
himself in communication with agent
Page, and Immediately remove from the
reservation all intruders, together with
their property and effects.
The following circular has been Issued:
1t having been shown that the estab-
iished tariff on grain was not maintained
by railroad lines, Commissioner Fink,
under the agreement of March llth, has
authorized general reduction of grain
rates on the basis of 20 cents per 100
pounds from Chicago TO New York. If
this rate is not strictly maintained fur>
ther reduction will be authorized to meet
the lowest special rate that may DO made
until such roads are willing TO maintain
higher rates and make them alike to all
shippers between the same localities.
This action is taken to prevent unjust dis
elimination between shippers ofthe same
localities. No other classes of freight ex-
cept grain and eighth class are effected by
this reduction. This may be increased
without previous ten days notice.
The schooner Edward Lee, which lost a
boats crew whaling, reports that May
14th, in lat. 17.42, lon. 46, the mate killed
and brought 40 bbls sperm whale 10
the ship at noon. The captain lowered a
boat at 2 p. NJ. to chase school. 1t went
a long distance and could be seen occa-
sionally from the mast head between
swells. At sunset he was seen from aioft
with glass some 10 or Il miles from the
chip. The vessel was run in the direction
where the boat was last seen until IL P.
NJ, and then hove to. At daylight search
was renewed and kept up for four days
without seeing any sign of the boat or
crew, when it was determined to bring
the vessel home. The names of the men
in the missing boat were a. follows; Capt.
G. A. Sparks of fProvincetown, John Baker,
second mate and boat steerer, Charles
Leslie, Manuel GOuia, Peter George and
Mannel Fogo, seamen. The boat was
supplied with a compass and lantern. The
sea was smooth while the schooner re-
manned in the vicinity.
A Cyclone visited Sumner and Sedg-
wick counties, Kansas, Sunday night,
causing destruction of a vast amount of
property, killing a few and wounding
many persons. 1t was first seen near
Ninnisah, on the Arkansas river, three
miles from Mulvane Junction, and tray
ellen rapidly in a northeasterly direction,
striking in a cornfeld near Mulyane. 1t
passed to the north OF Mulvane, and pick
ing up two-story frame house, turned it
over twice and smashed it to smithereens.
A lady and her child were seriously in
jured internally, as well as bruised, and
the chances are that she will die. The
residence of man named Eagan, was
demolished. This was done by one
branch of the cyclone. Another did much
damage at Bell Plain. The two united
near Mulvane, and it was the two COM
bined that did the work During the
storm large hail stones fell in immense
quantities, and a hot wind prevailed,
making it ditficult to breathe, and turning
the leaves of corn black as dirt. After
leaving Mulvane the cyclone wheeled off
in southerly direction and struck Floral,
q small town about four miles from SeeIey.
One person was killed there and two more
or less dangerously wounded. Crops are
much injured.
Nathan P. Langford, s.. bank exam
iner, has just arrived home ron his official
trip through Colorado, New Mexico, Cali
fornia, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Oregon,
Washington Territory and Montana. He
gathered some interesting information
about cattle and ranchmen. He says that
the principal cattle men in Washington
Territory along the Columbia river report
that so per cent. of the cattle died during
the winter. In Montana the loss has been
comparatively light. There was last fall
a good many herds driven over into Mon
tana from Oregon and Washington Ter
ritory, and ofcourse, after making the long
journey they were not as full heshed as
those that had been In Montana. The
winter was severe on those unacclimated
herds. and the loss was about 10 per cent.
The loss in aeclimated herds Chose that
had been in Montana two or three
winters) WAS only about per cent. The
total loss of cattle in Montana has not
been One-third of what cattle men appre-
hehded it would he on the first of last
February. lIr. LangforI talked with a
number OF cattle men, each of whom told
of the number they had lost in specific
herds. and said that the average OF their
losses would be the average loss through
out the Territory. He says the fact that
stock vithstood the region of the hardest
winter that has been known in Montana