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

or complaint aud make his position as
uncomfortable as possible. IF the leading
Territorial offices can be made elective.
there Will be much less Impotence 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 a
number of prosperous, thriving towns on
the line of the Northern Paciti,, such as
Dawson, Happen and Steele, besides, of
course, the still larger and better known,
Bismarck and Mandan, west Of the Nilsson
Fl river. There is also quite sprinklinq
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 superstition that
the land IN that section cannot be profita-
bly, cultivated for lack of rain does not
seem to be warranted by the experiments
so Iar. Inc special efforts making to d.
reet emigration to that section next year
will no doubt be fruitful of large results.
There are energetic and wide awake men
interested in that region, and if they do
not make success it will not be from
lack of weIl-directed effort.
The following are extracts from a letter
written by j. J. McCay, one of the Hele-
IA parties who have lately gone to the nav
gold mines in the Occur d. Alene noun
tains, which ere attracting so mach atten-
ton, and published in the Helena Inde-
pendent: The snow is from two to four
| feet deep all the way, and it ia 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 all.
we have not done any prospecting yet, as
it is still showing and raining.
There are three or four guiches here
that prospect from five cents to 81 to tie
| pan. The excitement here is big. There
has been some fine quartz found here
which has proven very rich. You can see
the gold all through it Everything in the
way Of grub and hardware is scarce and
high. Flour is 90 cents per pound; bacon,
35 cents; onions, IS cents; axe and handle.
So; pick AID handle, so; pick handle only,
| 81 %; shovel, 81; naus, So cents per
pound; drill steel, so cents per pound;-
and all these things are very hard TO get
even at these prices. 4 fellow With 2 small
stock Of miners hardware could make a
big Killing here this spring, as the co9n-
| try viii be overrun with miners II costs
| fifty cents to send letter from here to the
railroad"
a great deal has appeared in the pa
pers in reference 10 tho large uunoer of
| bones of men and horses found recerjly
near Keystone in Dickey county, which
| was reported ia this column at tae time.
As the opinions expressed are 50 variable,
| the following from an account furnished
! the Yankton Press by gentleman who
has lately visited he locality, may be OF
Interest: Son arriving at Glendale we
learned that gentleman fron west Of
Keystone was in town, who rad discovered
a quantity Of human bones in thai local.
ty a short time ago. On meeting him aft
or supper and making inquiry concerning
the report, he produced q ham4u skull,
and stated that while searching the
| region about fourteen miles west of Key
| stone for buffalo bones, which he sells
for fertllizsng 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 III ade crumbling
and rotten the more solid ones, but the
poor, grinn,ng skulls remain almost intact
| and dumbly inform the world to-day that
Eve are seven" They are all skulls of
| male white persons, and indicate that they
belonged to rather young and middle aged
| men. They were all found within q space
of whas appeared to be a camping ground
and are supposed to be either the remains
of soldiers OF 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 so many horses, a wagon and cavalry
boot of fine quality. There YVES also
| found six chamber revolver of large cal
'bre. containing three loaded and three
discharged shells. Ia addition Il hunting
knife and romans of other camping uten-
sils were picked up. Il is 10 be regretted
that the human bones we're not kept sep
arately from the fertiljzing olieoaion, out
such was the decomposed state aud tbs
careiessness of the Oone picker that they
were unceremOniously dumped into the
wagon and, excepting h skulls, there is
a CHASTITY possibility that they may con-
| tribute to the enrichment of their own
garden patches. Th5 skutl5 bore 10 per-
ceptible marks of violence exceotiuc in
two cases, one of which exhibited 20 bull
! let holes and traces Of a hsavy cut over
the left eye. The other contained, deepIy
embedded il it's top, an Indian arrow head
| which explains the mystery of their
deaths"