Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-12-17


cocretary Blaine gives n reception ia
/. ), successor, Secretary Frelinghuysen
~ ~ Monday evening.
United States Commissioner Nelson at
,,mbipa, reports that the Indians in the
n.n,hina mountains are starving, owing
- smallpox quarantine regulations,
" s,;cr prevents their securing supplies
,.om s the settlement. The war depart
M ',ont has been advised o. .:cir condi-
ton. "
Two or three hundred squatters on the
otoe reservation have been forced by the
government troops to leave. The action
q the government in this matter will
.a,,sc much suffering. The squatters
have no means and nowhere to 90. The
reservation will be open to settlement
ne.t spring ut which time the land will
he appraised and legally placed on the
market.
Governor Cullom has appointed Carter
n, Harrison, j. V. Farwell, NJ. w. Full
lpr Professor David Swing, Murray Mel
sop and A. A. Sprague, all very promi-
nept citizens of Chicago, as u committee
10 receive subscriptions to tho Garfield
monument fund in Chicago. 1t is pro-
nosed to raise $4,000 in Illinois. A num-
her of Chicago gentlemen have headed n
list with subscriptions Of 500.
IT is generally believed that the ver-
dict of the Cadet Whitaker court mar
taI was unfavorable to him and recon-
mepded his dismissal from the academy,
but that the review of the proceedings
BY the judge-advocate-genelal and his
report thereon to the secretary of war
will result in the president setting aside
the findings of the court and ordering
the reinstatement Of Whitaker.
The representative OF some three thou.
sand settlers il. New Mexico is in Wash
ington for the purpose OF securing Il hear
ing in the courts of the United States on
DcliAll VI 1uGoo ecttlcIs III JeGstIQ W Tue
the validity OF the noted Beaubien or
Maxwell grant in that telitory. 1t is
said that if the papers in the caso even
approach accuracy the history of this
grant presents as remarkable story of
successive frauds upon the government
and its citizens as can be found in the
history of any of the old Spanish grants.
The title at one time was sold to Eng
lish capitalists for large sum OF money,
and they, after working portion of the
mineral lands upon the grant, i'll turn
sold it to citizens Of Holland for large
sum. The boundaries of the grant, which
are alleged to be totally fraudulent, in
clude the farms and mining property of
between two and three thousand settlers
and wrlts of ejec.ment have been issued
against them. They now seek to obtain
ahearing in the courts of the United
States.
When the question. OF woman suffrage
came up in the senate Thursday, Vest, ol
Missouri took decided grounds against
the measure. He maintained that with
women is lodged the conservatism OF the
country, and that to confer the ballot
upon them would have tho etfect
to Clover them to the level O.
the ward politician, the constable anG
the justice of the peace" and the gooe
influence they now exert upon the poll
teal MS we'll as the social systems of til.
land would thereby be destroyed. II.
availed gladly of the occasion to record
his unalterable opposition to the whole
scheme of woman suffrage. Mr.. Hoa
replied with considerable warmth an,
zeal, urging that for the protection o
herself and children, that she might hay
the proper weight and influence upol
temperance and other questions in whic
her happiness and well being are con
cerned. women of right ought to b
clothed with the ballot and made in e,
cry respect the equal Of man.
]. Bancroft Davis, the new assistan
secretary of state, began his career in d
plomacy very early in life as secretary {
legation in London, where he served frol
lS49 to 1852. He became assistant Sc,
retary of state in 1869, when Mr.. Fis
took control of the state department
MIR. Davis had a large share in the neet
tlatlons preliminary to the settlement {
the Alabama claims, being secretary ,
well as member Of the high commissio
which concluded the treaty of Washing
ton in 1871. In the same year he becan
the agent of the United States before IL
tribunal Of arbitration at Geneva, whe
again his services were OF great valu
on his return he resumed the place
assistant secretary of state, and in l8
was appointed minister to Rcrlin. He
at present Judge of the court of CLAIM,
Mr. Davis has had. it will be seen, 10,
ana honorable diplomatic career, and
familiar with almost every question lils
ito arise between ourselves and 9th
countries.
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