Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-12-15

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VOLUME 4.
Over one hundred postmasters were
nominated Tuesday.
Chief Naval Constructor John w
Elseby has been placed on the retired
list
tits learned from u reliable source that
in their annual report the Mississippi
river commission viii take u more nd.
yanced position than hcre.cr,:e in favor
oflevees as an adjunct to 4! cir plan for
improving tue navigation ef tho river.
Warden Crocker has received q num-
Der Of anonymous letters, advising him
to remove the prisoners from the wing
of the Jail in which Guiteau is confined,
o that in case Of dynamite explosion
no life except that OF Guiteau will be Gu
dangered.
The president has nominated Pay Di-
rector Jas. g. Watrough to be chief of
the bureau of provisions and clothing
and paymaster general; Paymaster John
H.Stephenson, Inspector, and VIM. Pos.
tlewaithe, chaplain and professor OF his.
tory at West Point.
The secretary OF the interior decides
that the mere filing OF a declaratory state.
ment by the pre-emptor cannot be con.
silered sufficient to defeat an entry prior
to the settler who has tailed to offer his
final proof within the statuary period
but who has otherwise fulfilled the re.
uulrements of the law.
The Masonic fraternity of the District
of Columbia intend to establish an
asylum and indus tlial school for the Or
phan children of master Masons Of the
United States, to be known as the GAR
field Masonic Memorial institute. They
have sent out circulars to the lodges OF
the country describing the plan and ask
ing each Mason to give 81. The treas.
urer Of the fund is Hon. George B. Lor-
ing, commissioner of agriculture.
Among the bills introduced in the sen
ate Monday Was one presented by Sena-
tor ingalls,, of Kansas, providing that
the laws of states or territories, giving
the punishment for the crimes of mur-
der, manslaughter, arson, rape burglary,
larceny, and robbery, shall be extended
over Indian reservations lying within
state or territorial limits, al such Of
fenses charged to be tried in the state or
territorial courts. This bill was present
ed by Mr.. Ingalls, in the last congress,
but failed OF action.
The London Times, i'll an article on
the relations OF the United States with
Chill and Peru, says: We cannot doubt
it was President Arthnr's objec. to quail.
ify the inferences which seemed totbe
suggested by the tone OF Secretary
Blaine's form;r dispatches, which he may
have foreseen would attract much atten-
tion in Europe. The censure passed up.
on Hurlbut and Gen. Fitzpatrick must in
volye Secretary Blaine to u certain ex-
tent in discredit. Whatever may be
Hurlbut's or Kilpatrick's other merits, it
cannot be shown that they have shown
any striking fitness for diplomatic care
1t will be remembered that at con
ference held in Washington during the
past summer, Red Cloud, the Sioux CHIEF
agreed to find homes and entertainment
for the band of northern Cheyennes un.
der Little Chief, who was sent to Indian
Territory some years ago and who earn
estly desired to return north. Red Cloud
promised them hearty welcome, saying
that when his friends come to see him he
could "always kill dog or somethlng.'
Accordingly the Cheyennes were per
mltted to go to Pine Ridge agency ii
Dakota. They were more numerous
than was anticipated, taking with then
at least.on hundred persons in excess
Of the number estimated, and in conse
qnence the supplies threaten to rul
short. The Indian bureau is putting it
wits to gethcr to ascertain how it cal
make the supplies allowed by law las
through the winter at BED Clouds hos
pitable home. Meanwhile Red Cloud
eqnanimity remains unimpaitd. He j
not worrying himself at ali.
A Washington telegram says the sue
cess of the Malone movement in Vii
gina has been wonderfully suggestiv
all through the south, where, it woul
appear, a similar attempt will be mad
IN nearly every state. General w.
Fitzgerald, of Mississippi, late tie cal
didate off the Independents for attorne
general of that state, is in Washingto
for the purpose of consulting with Pres
dent Arthur as to the support that I'll
national administration would be vii
ing to give to such movement IN Mi
slssippi. He says that "witll one-fourt
the support given Malone in Virgini
the independents would have been su
cessful in Mississippi at the recent ele
ton, despite tho ballot-box stullin
Bulldozing," ho declares, "is thing
tae past, and that it is one of the b