Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-07
Especial Telegram to the Globe. !


Pierre, on the Chicago q Northwestern
railway, and Sidney, on the Union Pacific.
year ago congress passed an act creating
two more routes to DeadWood, one from
Chamberlain, on the Milwaukee & st. Paul
road and the Missouri river, and another
from the NiObrara, on the Sioux City &
Pacific road. In the winter the postoffice
department advertised for proposals for
carrying the mails over these
routes. Thereupon Senator Van
Wyck got a resolution of
inquiry adopted, and in connection with
it he showed the absurdity of these routes.
He wished to get the act creating the
routes. repealed, but was told by the post
Office committee that it, was unnecessary;
after the exposure he had made the Post
master General would not think OF letting
contracts for the routes. The matter
dropped there and the senator supposed
it had dropped for good. In the mean
time there had been a change in the
Postmaster Generalship, but none in the
contract Office. Two days ago VanWyck
learned that contract for conveying the
mail on the route from Niabrara to Dead
wood had been let at $4,000 year to
Miner, one of defendants in present star
route trial, and he promptly had warm
interview with chief clerk Lyman of the
contract Office and very satisfactory in
terview with Postmaster General Gresham
who, the senator believes, will suspend
the contract. Both the routes from Mo
brora and Chamberlain, which are over
2O0miles long, run almost entirely through
an Indian reservation, where no white
person.is allowed to reside. The Niobrara
route runs through the Black Hills country,
where the government has no right to run
road. Under the treaty of 1874 the
| government had right to designate three
roads through the Black Hills, but the
route is not on any one of them. AS
stated above the Deadwood peo-
pie have daily mails from two
points already. The aggregate postal
revenues arriving, within fifty miles of
Niobrara do not amount to 5000 a year,
and there are no settlements between. and
for most of the way there cannot be till
the Indian title is extinguished. Senator
Henderson and Representative Valentine
asked that the service be put on. Man
derson has no particular interest in the
matter, but Valentine represents the Sioux
| City district. The railroad Is believed to
have helped him in his election, and the
whole or most of whole values of the pro-
posed postal route is to give the railroad
stage connection with Deadwood.
COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED.
WASHINGTON, June 6.-The president has
appointed Benjamin Butterworth, of Ohio
VIM. A. Patton, of New York, and Charles
L. Perkins, of New York, commissioners
to examine seventy-fve miles of the North
ern Pacific railroad in Montana territory.
fifty miles of the same road extending
westward on the Yellowstone division and
twenty-five miles extending eastward on
the Missoula division.
WANTS THE INDIANS PUNISHED.
Indian Agent Wilcox has telegraphed
from San Carlos to the commissioner of
Indian affairs an account of the recent sur
render to the military of the Indians be-
longing to Locos' band. He says they were
the Mexican troops. They heard the coun-
try was full of soldiers and fed to San
Carlos for refuge. He declined to receive
them. and they are now being fed by the
military. Agent Wilcox also says the
prisoners should be taken from the reser-
walton and punished. They came here
frcn necessity and will breed discord and
encourage al5entees to return, that they
may tattc and grow strong for another
RAID. Tie prevent the murder of the whites
IN fat-ra, ana assure the people of the
: reservation lat it is not to be made a safe
retreat for murderers, prompt action
should be taken with all that have re-
turned.
CLAIM GOIER COUNTY.
White Wolf, Big Bow and Sun Bear, rep
resenting the Kiowa and Comanche tribes
in the Indian Territory, had a conference
with the secretary of the interior to-day,
respecting the boundaries of their reserva-
| ton. The Indians commended in 1867,
when they signed the treaty with the gov
eminent, they were given to understand
that all the land lying west of the Wachita
and Red river belonged exclusively to
! them, but now the land is held by the
state of Texas and known as Goier county
The secretary told the Indians he was
governed by laws and could not make any
alterations in the boundary lines.
RECEIVES HIS BROTHERS. EFFECTS.
DR.. Collins, of Minneapolis, Mimi, Wis
tied the navy department to-day in the
capacity of administrator of the estate of
has brother, the late Jerome G. Collins, the
naturalist of the Jeanette Arctic search
| expedition. He received from the navy
department officials few personal effects
and papers, etc., of his brothers., which
were found upon his body, ana which have
since remained in the custody of the de-
partment.
| VARIOUS MATTERS.
| Attorney General Brewster was in court
to-day. Secretary Folger has returned to the
city. The postmaster general has selected
metallic red color for the new two cent
postage stamp.
CLOSING NAVY YARDS.
Secretary Chandler said to-day he was
expecting a report from the navy yard
board very shortly, and the result will be
that some of the navy yards will be closed
before the first of July. He would not say
which ones they would be, but it is gener-