Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-16

ways are those who magnify the grounds
OF complaint and make his position as
uncomfortable as possible. If the leading
Territorial offices can be made elective,
there will be much less impatience With
the subordinate positions and no haste to
crowd into the Union before their NUM-
bers warrant.
The past season is the first that has wit
messed any considerable occupation of
land in Dakota west of the James river for
farming purposes. There are now quite
number of prosperous, thriving towns ca
the line of the Northern Pacific, such az
Dawson, Happen and Steele, besides, of
course, the still larger and better known,
Bismarck and Mandan, west Of the Nilsson
II river. There is also quite sprinkiing
of settlers. Some twenty miles from Bis
marck the Marquis de Mores owns sixteen
sections, and has 5000 acres under con-
tract for breaking. The supposition that
the land in that section cannot be proita-
bly, cultivated for lack of rain does not
seem to be warranted by the experiments
so far. The special efforts making to iii
rect emigration to that section next year
Will no doubt be fruitful of large results.
There are energetic and wide awake mes
interested In that region, and if they 90
not make success it will not be from
lack of weIl-direoted effort.
The following are extracts from letter
written by J. j. McCay, one of the Hele-
ma parties who have lately gone to the new
gold mines in the Occur q AIene moan
tatns, which are attracting SO mach atten-
tlon, and published in the Helena In1a-
pendent: "The snow ia from two to four
feet deep all the way, and it is still snow
ing. 1t Is not SO cold here IS in Helena,
but snow for all that's out. Every per
son here says this is the boss camp Of ell.
we have not done any prospecting yet, az
1t Is still showing and raining.
There are three or four guIches here
that prospect from FIVE cents to 81 to The
pan. The excitement here is big. There
has been some fine quartz found here
which has proven very rich. You can $50
the gold all through it. Every thing in the
way Of grub and hardware is scarce and
high. Flour is 20 cents per pound; bacon,
35 cents; onions, 16 cents; axe and handle,
So; pick and handle, $40; pick handle only,
81 .25; shovel. 81; nails, IS cents per
pound; drill steel, SO cents per pound
and all these things are very hard to get
even at these prices. A fellow with G. small
stock OF miners hardware could make a
big killing here this spring, as the coau-
try will be oYegrun with miners. Il costs
fifty cents to send letter from here 10 tho
railroad"
4 great deal has appeared in the pa
pers in reference to the large number of
bones Of men and horses found recently
near Keystone in Diekey county, which
wa skof15 IL II
AS the opinions expressed are so variable.
the following from an account furnished
the Yankbon Press by gentleman Who
has lately visited tbs locality, may be OF
| interest: son arriving at Glendale We
learned that gentleman from west of
Keystone was in town, who had discovered
a quantity Of human bones in thai local.
| ty short time ago. On meeting him aft
er supper end making inquiry concerning
| the report, he produced a human skull,
and stated that while searching ths
| regio.. about fourteen miles west of Kew
stone for buffalo bones, which he sells
! for fertilizing purposes, he came UPON
what proved to be the skeletons of seven
human beings and twenty six horses.
They were found in gulch and years OF
conflicting elements had reduced the
smaller bones to dust and made crumbling
and rotten the more solid ones, but the
poor, grinning skulls remain almost intact
| and dumbly inform the world to-day thas
I'VE are seven.' They are all skulls Ct
male white persons, and indicate that they
| belonged to rather young and middle aged
men. They were all found within a space
of what appeared to be camping ground
and are supposed to be either the remains
of soldiers or prospectors for minerals
The latter superstition is drawn from the
fact that many deep holes had been dug in
the vicinity, while the more probable
theory that they may have been soldiers
is shown by the presence of the remains
OF 30 many horses, wagon and cavalry
boot of fine quality. There was alss
found six chamber revolver of large cal
| ibre. containing three loaded and threa
! discharged shells. In addition hunting
knife and rema1ns Of other camping utea-
| sils we're picked up. II is to be regretted
| that the human bones were not kept sep
arateiy from the fertilizing collection, but
| such was tho decomposed state and the
| careiessness of the bone picker that they
| were unceremoniously dumped into the
wagon and, excepting the skulls, there is
a CHASTITY possibility that they may con-
| tribute to the enrichment of their OWE
garden patches. The skulls bore no per-
ceptiole marks of violence excepting in
two cases, one of which exhibited two bull
let holes and traces of heavy cut over
the left eye. The other contained, deeply
embedded in its top, an Indian arrow head
which explains the mystery of thei,
| deaths"
The Libel Suit.
The libel suit brought by Major Ed
| wrrds, of the Argus, against the Republi-
| can Co. has occupied the district court the
| past two days. half day was spent In