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NOTES.

Washington, May 24.-In the sen-
ate to day Mr.. Slater reported from the
committee on Indian affairs the original
bill appropJiating $500 for the relief
of Miss Louisa Boldly, of Lake county,
Oregon, the widow of a victim of the
Modoc Indian massacre. The commit.
tee in their report concur in regarding
this as an exception to the usual class
of claims for Indian depredations te-
cause the outbreak was the result of a
succession of offensive movements by
United States troops for the purpose Of
combining the Modocs to their reserva-
ton, and was without notice by the
United States authorities. The bill
went on the calendar.
Brevet Major General Geo. D. Ram
sey, U. S. A, who retired, is dead.
Mackey publishes a statement to-day
claiming he was really elected by 1000
majority, but was %defrauded of his
rights by the democrats.
The president is still considering the
court martial case of Flipper, the only
colored officer in the army, and will
probably modify the finding of the
court martial 80 as not to dismiss
Flipper.
The president goes to New York Fri
day with Secretary Folger, and will
attend decoration day services with
Secretary Lincoln and General Brews-
ter. lie will also go to West Point.
Blaine, who was to have appeared be-
fore the foreign committee to-day, has
sent word to Chairman Williams that
urgent business would call him away
tomorrow. He is going to Cincinnati
to look after his new railway purchase.
The Presbyterian general assembly
yesterday and heard the report of the
standing committee on foreign mis-
sions urging the necessity Of raising
500, 900 for the coming year. Judge
Strong, DR.. Lowry, DR.. John l..
Neryns, Of China, Rev. Reese Thack-
well, India, made addresses. 1t was
urged that the churches increase the
annual income of tho board to 81, OOO,-
0t0 as speedily as possible, and this
would be done In a few years. 1t was
decided to raise $50, 600 to send out
thirty young foreign missionaries.
The republicans accomplished two i'm
p~ortant results in the house to-day.
They secured the attendance of a quor-
um to vote on the Mackey- Dibble con
tested election case, and in the curse of
a spirited debate, lasting an hour and n.
half, made plain to the country the mer,
its of the pending controversy. The
democrats have asserted as a reason fol
hlibustering against the consideration
in the case that Mackey i%nterlined, in.
terpolated, erased and falsifed the de
positions of witnesses examined in hi.
behalf when the contest was begun il
South Carolina q year ago. Dibblt
filed ten afidavits in support of thi!
charge. Mackey WAS called upon t,
answer. lie produced aiidavits Of g
ont Of 81 witnesses examined 10y him
swearing that their testimony aS print
ed was word for word what they hat
o to. lie produced the affidavit
If the stcmographer vino took the tpsti
mony to the effect that the printed ties
timony of 80 witnesses, all he had tim
to examine, was identical with note
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-25

New York, May 24.-Silver, sl14!.
Pacific, 418; Wells, Fargo 81
Co., S1.274; New York Central, / ,26;
Erie, .35s; Panama, 1905; Union Pa
cifc, S1.125; bonds, 81. liz; Central Pa
ciic, S9t; bonds $1.17; D. & II. G. $50;
Native copper, IS; Sutro, / Govern
ments partially lower. Stocks weak;
Western Union, SO. Q. Quicksilver,
ST. Mariposa, J. Money, ,! and 81
per cent.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-25

Philadelphia, May 24.-The indepen-
dent republicans today nominated for
governor, Senator Stewart; for lieu
tenant governor, Levi Bird Duff, of
Allegheny; secretary of internal affairs,
Major Merrick, Of Tioga; for congress-
man at large, Col. VIM. McMichaels;
for judge of the supreme court, Geo.
.JeDkin
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-25

New York, May 24.-Mining stocks
fairly active. Robinson advanced from
205 to 215. Sutro from 80 to 40. Horn
silver declined from 1853 to 93S, and the
South Pacific from Is to II. Sales for
the day are 2T3, 315 shares. Petroleum
dull. Uuited 645. Crude 6t674.
Australian tin 215.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-25

London, May 23.-The Derby was
won by Shotover; Quicktime second;
Lorillard's Sachem third.
Bruce, the favorite, came in fourth;
the time of Shotover was 2:45 3.5. Bet.
ting against Sachem at the start was
s to |.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-25

st. Louis, May PAL. a. Watkins,
of Denver, is now here searching for
his missing daughter, and offers $1,000
reward for her, dead or alive, and no
questions asked.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-25

Shenandoah, Pa, May PA terri
BILE explosion occurred this afternoon at
r. Heckseher & Co.'S Kohiuoor col
lIery. Six miners have been taken out
dead.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-25

a secret meeting of the distillers Of
the west, was had Tuesday afternoon at
Cincinnati, and was well attended.
Mr.. Miller, of Riverton, Ills, presided,
and the purpose of the meeting was to
discuss plans for forming a new organi-
zation at the mas meeting to be held at
Chicago Thursday next, and to be
modelled after the recent export ~associa-
ton. A general discussion was held
and 1t is thought the Organization can
be effected, including all the distillers
from the A~lleghenies to the Pacific
slope.
A skull of heroic size and singular
formation was just discovered among
the relics of mound builders in the Red
river valley. Tue mound was co feet
in diameter and u feet high. Near
the center were found bones of about a
dozen males and females mixed with
with bones of various animals. The
skull in question was the only perfect
one, and near it were found some
abnormally large body bones. The
nan who bore it was evidently a giant.
Thorough investigation of the mound
and contents will be made by the
Historical society.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-25

Highest temperature yesterday, G3o;
lowest, 39.52; highest velocity Of wind,
16. Rainfall, .0l of an inch. Mean
temperature 4S. 80; meal humidity
&c per cent. Elsewhere at LOG -FoIt
Washable, w. T., temperature, go;
southeast, fair; Deadwood, 81
east, clear; Denver, temperature, 500;
northwest, cloudy; Salt Lake, temper
allure, 1872; southeast, cloudy; North
Platte. temperature $50; east, cloudy;
Rainfall, 10; Cheyenne, temperature,
So, northeast, fair.
z. MCGovERN,
Sergeant.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-25

san Francisco, May PA Tomb
stone dispatch says: The Epitaph to-
morrow will publish an account of the
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-25

Clears out rats, mice, reaches, flies,
ants, bed bugs, skunks, chipmunks,
gophers. 15c. Druggists. Depot, Dare
IL Collins.
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CONGRESSIONAL.


bENATE
Logan reported favorably from the
military committee, and asked the
immediate consideration of the house
joint resolution appropriating ZIG, OOO,-
600 to supply the deficiency current to
the fiscal year.
The senade to-day under order for
Calendar. Senate. yeas "a; nays %,
passed the senate bill for the relief to
officers and crew Of the United States
Monitor, who participated in action
with the rebel iron clad Merrimac in
March 1862. The amount of a%ppropri-
alton is stated at the actual value of
the Merrimac at action, not exceeding
5000, coo.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-25

A large assortment of clocks at
ZEHNER, JACKSON & BUECHNER's
oc19tf
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-25

Washington, May 22.-The request
OF the senate for the return of the five
per cent. land bill was acceded to.
Mr.. Calkins rising to a question of
personal privilege sent to the clerks
desk and had read that portion of a let
ter written by Hewitt to Manning
which charges that the committee on
elections refused to investigate the
charges Of forgery preferred before the
committee.
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q. p. R. R. HOUSE.
Wvomino

g. M. JONES, Proprietor.
N ruins stop here Thirty Minutes for
Hietisi This house Ia new and elegantly nIr-
, Ned, has light and airy rooms. bathrooms
t and Affords all accommodation the tTsv.
sling public desire.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-25

Callen and Shiel. The following was
abstained with Parnell from voting
on the division: O'Kelly, Commins,
Sinnam, Malloy and Marum.
Sir John Holker is dead.
James G.. Hueston, general agent for
the New York associated press, has re-
ceived through the department of state
from the German government, the
''medal for saving from imminent dan
ger" Mr.. Hueston received il for
rescuing Theresa Euke from the death
by drowning while he was s%ojourning at
Ems, Germany. The med.-l has on
n side a wreath surrounding the
words, Eur rettung aris gefahr." On
the reverse side is the head of Emperor
William.
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1868. 1889.
FIRE.!
Fire Insurance Only.
AGENCY OF
H. S. OLIVER.

Cheyenne, 377 10th Street, Wyoming.
My list of Companies is the largest
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in tho woot.
To all desiring FIRE INSURANCE,
l can offer a line of Companies, CON-
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may be offered, at adequate rates with.
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The best is the cheapest, therefore
call and see me, get figures and be con-
WINGED.
H. S OLIVER,
Agent and Adjuster.
Successor TO E. P. Snow. fl0tf
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storica1 Dept; Cheyenne, Wyo.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-15
THE LATEST.

The Secretary of War has transmitted to
the Senate estimates for the improvement of
the Mississippi River for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1884, aggregating 81, SD, 900.
Also $3.50, 900 for the improvement of the Cal
umet River in Illinois.
Mr.. Beck called up his political assessment
! bill in the Senate on the 9Th, and spoke at
length thereon. Senator Plumb was in his
seat for the first time this session. In the
House a lengthy discussion took place over a
resolution introduced by Mr.. Page, calling on
the Secretary of War for information as to
whether the money appropriated by the last
River and Harbor bill was appropriated for
works or objects not in the interest of COM
merce and navigation, and If so, requesting
that specifications be furnished. The resolu-
ton was adopted.
A decision of the Missouri Supreme Court
in the Broadhead- Mclean Congressional con-
test, Ninth District, is in favor of Broadhead
and gives him majority.
The police have been ordered to expel all
Jews residing within the municipal boundaries
of st. Petersburg without official permission.
The Senate has decided that the Jews are in
capable of holding landed property in Russia.
The other night two masked men went to
the store of ]. E. James, at Sharkey, Miss,
and aroused the clerk, who was sleeping in
the store, saying they wanted medicine. As
the clerk opened the door the men rushed in
and fired four shots, one Of which struck him,
from the effects of which he died in three
hours.
At Everton, Dade County, Mo-, several
young men got into an alteration, when one
Of them, named Harris, drew a revolver and
fired, the ball missing its aim, and killing in
stead DR.. Harris, his own father.
The family of Lewis Brandenburg, we'll
known citizen of Bloomington, H., were poi
soned recently by eating trichine in sausages.
One Of the family had already died, and it was
believed that Mr.. Brandenburg and wife could
not recover.
Frank Josselyn, or 'Deaf Sandy as he is
called, has arrived at Silver City, New Mexico,
from chihuahua, Mexico. Josselyn was with
Mcdonald and Biggs when they were muir
dered by Apaches. The men had been riding
hard all day. They had seen the Apache trail
No Indians arriving at Paso del Chocolah,
Biggs and Mcdonald proposed to camp
Josselyn would not consent, as he thought it
dangerous, and he rode off 100 yards, while
Biggs and Mcdonald unsaddled the horses
Josselyn had about decided to return to his
companions when the Apaches made an ap-
pearance, firing voliey at the two campers,
and they fell. Josselyn put spurs to his horse
and made good his escape. He subsequently
returned to the spot with sixty well armed
men and buried the bodies of the Mexicans,
Biggs and Mcdonald. An Indian scout asserts
m nd
mand of Mana himself. The war chief of the
Apsches was reported killed when last heard
from. The whole State Of Chihuahua is in
arms.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-15
GENERAL.

Sixty workmen were recently arrested in
connection with the Socialist conspiracy at
Here's, Spain.
The British ship Fiona from San Francisco
to Queenstown was wrecked on the Lincoln.
shire coast and all on board persisted.
The Royal Alhambra Theater in London and
many other buildings were totally destroyed
by fire on the 18th. 1t was the largest fire in
London for many years. 1t required the whole
fire department of the city to subdue the
flames.
The late snow storm was very severe il
England, railroad traffic in many districts be-
ing wholly suspended.
At Cairo, Egypt, Mohamed Sami, Aballah
Pasha, Ali Fechmy and Taulba Pasha pleaded
guilty TO the charge of Rebellion. They were
sentenced to death, but the sentence com,
muted to exile for life by the Khedive.
The American observing party at yelling
ton, New Zealand, took 236 photographs OF
the transit of Venus.
The business failures of the country the past
week were one hundred and ninety, sixty-twe
being in the Western States.
The late confiagration in London destroyed
SIS, 0O0, coo worth of property.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-15

A BRIDE and bridegroom having been shown
politely over the White House the other day
by one Of the private secretaries or other men
in waiting. the groom, in taking leave of him,
handed him a dollar BILL and cried out:
Take that, Mr.. Arthur: II I'd have come
and seen you before election, iarned II l
wouldn't have voted for you," and the secre-
tsry kept the dollar and the compliment with
out a word. You see he hated TO undeceive
the happy fellow and deprive him of his sup
posed pleasure in having seen President AR.
thur.-Exchange.
The cheerful pictures painted for ignorant
and easily led candidates for Mormonism by
the emissaries of the Utah Saints, appear on
close inspection to be far from true to
nature The Salt Lake Tribune says:
Several of the last cargo of Nor
mons were around the city yester-
day in search of employment. Instead
Of plenty of grub and golden paved streets.
they find winter and starvation staring them
in the face. These poor men have been
terribly deceived by the Mormon tramps
sent out by the church to fabricate colossal
lies"
THE value Of the eggs consumed IN New
York city alone js EI2 On 90 a wear
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-15
THE SOUTH.


The Governor of Louisiana, after having
exhausted the examination of law and facts
in the Kellogg case, has given certificate to
Kellogg in accordance with the returns of the
Third District.
The boiler of the propeller Morning Star,
plying between New Orleans and Magnolia
Plantation, exploded recently at Bellair Plan
tation. OF twenty-one persons on board,
three were killed, eight we're drowned, and six
badly, if not fatally, scalded. Jack johnson,
white, fireman, and seven colored roustabouts
were drowned. The killed were Henry Kaiser,
Sandy Gardener, colored, and q child named
Joseph Simederin.
Owing to the boldness of train robbers and
a number of bad or suspicious characters in
Testing the towns and country in Northern
Texas, the Railroad companies are taking I'M
usual precautions to protect their trains.
Hereafter all passenger and freight trains on
the Texas Pacific Railroad will carry strong
force of State rangers as a guard between
Fort Worth and Ell Paso, and other roads will
probably pursue the same course.
OF twenty one persons who were on board
the steamer Morning Star, that recently ex-
ploded her boilers between New Orleans and
Magnolia, Miss, only five are alive. The
Morning Star was racing with the Sunbeam at
the time of the explosion.
A fire at Covington, Tenn, destroyed $50,
0O0 worth of property.
Gen. Joe Wheeler has been nominated in the
Eighth Alabama district for Congress to sue
coed Lowe. deceased.
A collision occurred between freight train
going West and an express passenger train
going East at the west entrance of Stretchers
Neck tunnel twenty-five miles west of Hin
ton, W. Va, lately. Three persons were in
stantly killed, five others injured, and two
engines, two passenger cars, one baggage car
and i've freight cars were wrecked.
The Grand Jury of the Hastings Court at
Richmond, Va, recently indicted S. Brown
Allen, Auditor of Public Accounts of Virginia
on three counts in the matter of the appoint
ment of John ID. Snellings as special del.n.
quent tax collector for Richmond, which ap.
pointment is alleged to have been Illegal, and
the execution of Snelling's bond fraudulent
and illegal. Auditor Allen, who was in court
as witness, was ordered under arrest by
Judge Christian. He gave bail. Also in the
United States Circuit Court the Grand Jury
found indictments against Robert B. Mum.
ford and others for conspiracy. Mumford is
Commissioner of Revenue. The indictment
is for completely in alleged forgeries in the
case of supplemental assessments lists, by
which it is claimed a large number of illegal
votes were procured at the last election.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-15
Illiteracy In the United states.

The following census bulletin shows in de
tail the number of persons over ten years of
age in the United States and Territories who
cad or
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-15

A WONDERFUL cave has been found near
which was explored is said to contain the
image of q man made Of what had the ap-
pearance of silver. At the head was a he'll
met OF a peculiar pattern, in which were three
imitation feathers, made of gold or copper.
From the mouth of the strange image pre-.
ceeded fIme. A theory is that the prehis-
toric race that erected it had discovered a
gas-jet. and that there Is communication
down through the body to the solid rock,
from which the gus proceeds perpetually.
On the walls were hieroglyphics, which Of
course he could not read. In one corner was
very large human skeleton, at least nine
feet high, and by it stone tomahawk and q
large cross-bow, which, although it had the
appearance Of being perfectly sound, fell into
a thousand pieces when he attempted to lift
it. A stone mortar containing sOmeyer rich
gold specimens was found, and also rome
large pieces Of ruby silver.
In a case regarding the payment Of rent
which recently came up In County Waterford
Ireland, laborer in describing the smallness
of his hove, said to the Magistrate: II can
stand at the fire and. jump into bed" This
was graphic, but not SO graphic as remark
which was recently made In Brooklyn by one
Milesian to another whom he was cha fling
upon the smallness of his house. 'Troth,"
said he, '.yez can put your arrum down ths
chimney and unlock the front door"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-15

The Springfield Republicans tells how gen.
tlemen took from his Pocket after dinner .
pair of solitaires and passed them 20 his wife.
"Humph," she said, "prize package, sup
posean and passed them on to her son. y,
"Dollar store, ehP' commented the youth.
Papa smiled and silently replaced the card In
his pocket A few days later mamma saids
Where did you get those earrings you
showed usa' swell, man submitted them
to me at the store. They were only $3.50, bus
you are such a poor judge of gems that I
thought it wasn't worth while to give them
to you"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-15

to 81 degrees below zero at Winnepeg, Mani
toba, 81 at Bismarck, SO at Grand Forks and
% at Fargo, all in Dakota; 80 at Lake City, %
at Winona and % at Minneapolis, Minnesota.
VIM E. Thompson, of Minneapolis, Mimi,
has been arrested, charged with defaulting
s300, 200 while bookkeeper of the lumber firm
of Farnham & Loveioy. It is likely the amount
is even larger.
VIM. Toole, who killed Horace B. Donnelly
at St. Joseph some months since, because the
latter did not define the word invoice" acss
cording to his idea, has been acquitted by q
jury.
The wife and child of Russian Jew, named
Gelenger, froze to death on their claim near
Grand Forks, Dakota, recently.
Judge McHenry, in the District Court at
Des Moines, Iowa, issued an injunction on the
State Canvassing Board, forbidding them to
count the vote of the Taylor precinct of Mar
shall county. If they obey the writ 1t will
seat Fredericks, Democrat, in the next Con-
gress.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-15

II San Luis Potosi, recently key of pow
der standing in store blew up, killed two
boys and wounded their mother While she
was attending their funeral on the following
day, stone fell on her head from the roof Of
an old house, killing her instantly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-15

AN aged citizen of Walpole, N. H., of feeble
wit, Warren Fairbanks. just gone to the poor
house, has bethought himself of S450which he
hid forty-five years ago under rock on his
farm. The money has been found and the old
man now has a bank account.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-15

AKENrucKr farmer lost four daughtors
IN one day-by marriage.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-15

TIE value Of the eggs consumed In New
York city alone is slS0010oO . year.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-15

DUcLERcE. the French Premier, began life
as type-setter, and at one time was proof.
reader on an obscure newspaper.-N y Yescs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-15

PROPERTY in Massachusetts has increased
tS5. 00Q 900 in value the past year.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-15

sum IONS to the Secretary Of State requiring
him to show cause why he should not pay over
to certain claimants money in his possession,
under what is known as the Ben We'll Mexican
claim. The claim amounts to over s40O,OOO.
The claimants fear their rights may be inn
paired by the treaty with Mexico now pending.