The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-29

upon such occasions % should BE- deemed
proper and useful. Power should also BE-
investigate tho causes Of iii disnutes A.
they occur, whether submitted Tor arbitra-
ton or not, 10 that Information NAV Al
ways be at hand to aid legislation on tho
subject when necessary and desirable.
Executive Mansion, April e. 1855.
xoRrHwssrEax .sw,
Pierre, D. T. Is greatly excited over the
following order:
Cheyenne River Agency, April 10, 1885,
Hentlemen: In accordance with instruc-
Indian affairs, dated April s, 1885, you are
directed to at once cease your trading es.
Adjustments on tho reservation. Anal 1pon
date OF this receipt you are allowed thirty
days to leave the said reservation. Respect.
1ully yours, CHARLES E. HCCHEsNEY,
United State Indian Agent.
Fort Pierre numbers population Of over
eight hundred people who have resided on
this tract of land for the past ton yefxs
substantial business houses and residences
have oeea erected, and to enforce this order
dollars. Merchants in this village carry
stocks Of goods averaging from ten to
twenty thousand dollars, while their places
Of business equal any in South Dakota.
The mile square on which tho settlers have
sqaetted vas sold to ths Chicago & North
ratified by congress. This contract was
made between the head chiefs of the Sioux
tribes by authority from the interior de-
partment. Ex-Agent Swan had about the
same order from Commissioner Price, but
wrote the situation fully and it VAS modi-
longed to the Chicago & Northwestern
Railroad company, and that he a agent
had no authority over the residents of Fort
Pierre. He was sustained.
Winona was the scene on the 10th, of
vio!e"t riotous conduct on the part of
everal hundred poles, who sought to
prevent the Milwaukee & St. Paul r. R.,
from laying switching track in the fourth
ward. The women joined in the fray and
bit and scratched furiOusly. Under the
protection of police the track laying
proceeded and the track was guarded by
police to prevent it being torn up.
Gov. Hubbard has committed the death
sentence of John Hutchinson convicted in
Polk county, of the murder of Locke Nc
Lean, to imprisonment for life. The Judge
and nine Of the jury before whom tho case
was tried, members of the grand jury and
attorneys petitioned the Governor to take
this action: Hutchinson was to have been
hung April 80.
The Manitoba prisoner known az "Bull
Dog Kelly" who has been in Jail for six
months at St. Paul while the Canadian
authorities were endeavoring to secure
him for murder, was released on the 10th.
The President refused to grant his ex.
tradition.
AtJanesville, Mimi, on the 2lst, light
ming struck the new box-stall barn of c. A.
De Graf, burning that and two other barns
The valuable trotter Esparanza, was in
stantiy killed. All the other stock was
saved unframed
At Folga, D. T. on the 21st, the house of
Andrew Nelson took fire from flax straw
used for fuel, and burned with two children
aged four and one and half years. Two
older children escaped. The parents were
away from home.
W. E. Wright, lawyer, was severely
beaten at.Bismarck: on the 21st, by Chas
Bently, for having insulted the young lady
With whom Bently is keeping company.
Both were arrested.
The.Montana stock growers convention.
before adjournment on the Goth, appointed
a large committee to visit St. Paul May
Bird, with view to establish great cattle
market at that point.
Senator Mcmillan of the Senate COM
MERGE committee, has reported favorably
the House bill for bridges at Pierre aud
Cham berlain, OAK, and the Red Wing
pontoon bridge.
The stables of C. W. Churchill and r. T..
Blackman, at Hancock, we're set on fire on
the 2lst by small boys smoking. Two
horses and two COWS as we'll as the house
were burned.
Rock river, Wis.,, is at the highest DC int
known since 1881, and some damage has
been done at Beloit by flooding, and the
city. '''~
A prairie fire ran within two blocks of
Huron, OAK, on the 22nd and for a little
time grave fears were entertained. In
fighting the fire two men were injured.
Rev. Clemes Staub, for many years one
of the leading members of the Catholic
clergy in st. Paul, died at st. Johns Col
lege, st. Joseph, MIMI, on the 23d.
The Montana Stockgrowers Association
held its annual meeting at Miles City on
10Th and Goth. The meeting took the mi
tial steps for making st. Paul live stock
market and appointed q committee of
thirteen to visit st. Paul and see what ar
raDgements can be made.
James E. Gridley, GO years of age, a wild
over and jeweler by occupation, commit
ted suicide in his room at st. Paul on the
10th by the use of chlOrOfOrm.
The Milwaukee and st. Paul and Omaha
roads put on fast trains from st. Paul and
Minneapolis to Chicago, making the time
II hours and 20 minutes.
X. B. Stone, president of the r. B. Stone,
Lumber Company of Chicago, died sudden
~ OF heart disease ut his residence in Mad
ison, Wis, on the oath.
The railroad trouble at Winona was
transferred to the peaceful arena of the
courts on the 21st, so the excitement has
subsidized.
The Senate committee ha. reported
favorably upon the appointment of W. M.
Campbell of Minnesota for U. s. Marshal
in that State.
On the 2lst Gov. Hubbard acknowledged
the receipt Of ASS, IS, cash, for cyclone
sufferers from various Minnesota towns.
The river and harbor bill will report $780,.
600 for Duluth harbor.
THE MARKETS.
ST. PAUL.
.WHEAT-No. l hard, sc bid; May, SIC
bid, No. Northern, 7Sc bid; No. z
Northern, 75c bid.
$4.5o@4:5 asked; bakers, a. so asked
r.s, $3.25@3.50.
Corn No: 2, A1<c asked. May, "a bid.
Oats No. 2 mixed, 31c. bid, 81]<c
asked No. 2 white 32<c. bid.
Barley No. 2, SIC. bid.
Rye No. 2, 49c. bid.
Flax Seed 90. bid.
Baled hay, 81. so asked; timothy &9.0o
Dressed beef, choice steers 4c@5c;
veal, @9c.
Butter, extra 21@23c bid.