Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-01-23
The Oklahoma Boomers Surrounded
and Being Gradually But
Surely Starved Out.
Sphinx County Comes to the Front and
Protests Against Division
! of Its BailiWick.
Destitute Condition of Piute Indians
They Are Starving By
Hundreds.
The Weather.

OI. L IAUL, MINN', cdu, AAs-AA0
weather has been moderating for
the past two days, it has been very severe
on account of wind. The trains on all
railroads have been delayed from two to
ten hours. The fast mail this afternoon
was delayed seven hours by the wreck of
freight train near Oakdale Wis.
CHICAGO, Jan. 22.-The temperature
in the city gradually became warmer
during the evening and shortly before
midnight the thermometer marked eight
above. The continued cold, however, has
inflicted mkch hardship upon the poorer
class in the city. The effects in the sur
rounding country. are even more marked.
Specials tonight from points in Illinois,
Iowa and Wisconsin speak of the damage
to stock, which in some sections has been
quite serious.
Fruit trees in many places are thought
to be killed and have suffered severely
throughout the territory named. Winter
wheat, owing to the heavy covering of
snow, is believed to be safe. Numerous
instances of persons badly frozen have
been developed.
Near Decatur, ILL.,, this morning, when
the mercury was 90 below, William
Hallett, one of a sleighing party on his
way home from rural ball, froze to-
death.
Casualties and Crimes.
BE11Ev1L1E, Ont, Jan. pa man
named Barton, living at Lime Lake,
while drunk, struck his sick daughter
with a chair, killing her. The girls
mother ran to the nearest neighbor's
house. The night was bitterly cold and
the mother died from exposure and ex-
citement.
IrH1cA, N. Y, Jan. 22.-A portable en-
gine used in saving lumber at the farm
of Simon Benedict, exploded to-day. The
engineer, Edwin Phelps, and Edward
Benedict we're instantly killed. Simon
Benedict had his leg blown off and skall
crushed. He cannot live. His son By
ron also had his leg blown off. It is sup
posed he is fatally injured.
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 22.-Matilda Chase,
aged 63, ineal descendant of Samuel
Chase, one of the signers of the declara-
tion of independence, was badly burned
last night from light dress accidentally
taking fire. She died this forenoon.
Starving Indians.
SAN Francisco, Jan. 22.-The Piute
indians are said to be starving on their
barren reservation in Nevada. Not
cent of the congressional appropriation
of 81 900 secured by Senator Dawes, of
Massachusetts,, has reached them. The
winter in Nevada has been very severe
one. The reservation is SO barren that
nothing could be grown on the land to
provide against it. The Indians number
seven thousand. Almost their sole means
of subsistence has been pine nuts, fish
from the pyramid lake, and rabbits, the
latter being the only game on the reser-
vation. Sarah Winnemucca, a member
of the tribe who lectured in the east on
the condition of the Piutes' and who is
now spending few days in this city,
says. "My people are utterly destitute,
and numbers of them are famishing in
the snow.' She attributes their miseey
to the negligence of the reservation of
fcials.
The Illinois Legislative TangIe.
CHICAGO, Jan. o. The Journals
Ill, special says: Cronkrite
occupied the chair at the opening of the
legislature this morning, and after some