Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-08-05
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Speaking OF the reported DISQUALIFICATION
among the Sioux at the Pine Ridge agency
Commissioner Atkins said a iewdays ago:
This Office has ordered no census OF the In
dians at that agency. / applied TO con-
gress for SIS, 600 with which TO make cen
sus believing that it would result eventu-
ally in a saving to the government, but the
house did not see fit to give us the money.
Mai Bell who is in charge at the agency,
made n count OF these Indians and diseoy-
cred that there are some 2, BOO less than
,Sere supposed to DO there under MeGilli.
eddy, who estimated that there were 2,
500 ! believe that Major Bell has made
a mistake. However, this office has or
dered no reduction Of rations and will di-
rect none at present have so telegraph
ed Mai Bell. and | think there will be NO
further difficulty at Pine Ridge agency.
The croiters OF Tire, Scotland, are still
under arms Three hundred OF them guard
the coast all night in order to prevent a
surprise by the landing OF an armed force.
It is officially stated that the English
government has assured Premier De Frey.
cinet that 1t does not intend to interfere in
any way with the Madagascar treaty with
France, and will neither establish nor sup
port an Anglo aalagassy bank in NADIA
gasear.
special meeting OF the municipal coun-
action concerning the portrait OF Gen.
Thomas Francis Mengher, recently present.
ed to the city by Irishmen OF New York.
The mayor presided. The council resolved
to hang the portrait in the council room
and to make way for it by removing the
portraits OF King George l., King George
IL. and King William Ill, which now hang
in the council chamber.
j. w. Harrington, Brimfield ILL.,, has
disappeared, after borrowing fully So, 900.
He is supposed to be in Canada.
Capt. Doherty, lately appointed Indian
trader at Fort Bennett, Cheyenne agency,
has resigned.
j. A. Herald, a leading citizen OF Coal
Harbof, Oak, vas tarred and feathered
and ridden on rail. A woman in the
case.
Mrs. John Prill, of Pittsburgh, misstook
sulphuric acid for holy water, and is dis
figured for life.
At Republican caucus OF the members OF
both houses OF the California legislature it
was resolved to elect United States sena-
tor to fill the unexpired term OF the late
Senator Miller, to whose seat Gov. Stone
man appointed Senator Hearst, the pres
emit incumbent.
w. W. Saunders, who had been convicted
OF p,urder and escaped from jail in Oregon
on July 6, has been captured near 'Alsea
Bay and returned to confinement.
The largest brussels carpet factory in the
United States is at Yonkers, n. Y. 1t
turns out 455, 900 yards month.
The Muskegon, Mich, shingle cut this
year will foot up to 375,0Oo,0 900.
The Georgia state Democratic conven.
ton met Wednesday. Judge Bisham Of
Trorys county was permanent president.
The majority rule was adopted. Gen. John
b. Gordon Received 1922 votes out of 332
for the nomination Of governor. The old
state house officers were tenominated for
their respective positions.
The American Iron and Steel associa-
ton has received from the manufacturers
complete statistics OF the production OF
pig iron in the United States in the first six
months OF the present year. The produc-
ton amounted to 1884, 200 tons. The
country has never before produced as much
pig iron in the same time.
A report came from Saratoga that the
great racing marc Miss Woodford had brok-
en- down, and will race no more.
Capt. II. !. Nowlan, Seventh cavalry, has
been selected by the war department to
witness the Iitaneuvers Of the Twelfth and
Eighteenth corps OF the French army, which
will take place during next September, and
for that purpose he willreport about Sept.
to the United States minister at Paris.
The following nominations were made
Wednesday: A. A. AIDE, District OF Column
bia now third assistant secretary OF state,
vice William Hunter, deceased; j. b. Moore,
Delaware, to be third assistant secretary
OF state; Z. Spencer Pratt, Alabama, to be
minister resident and consul general OF the
United States to Persia. Speculation is
rife regarding the probable action of the
president ON the oleomargarine bill, and
the telief is generally expressed that it will
be vetoed
retiring board, consisting OF Brig Gen.
T. IL. Ruger, Asst. Surgeon Gen. G. Perrin,
Lieut.. Col. T. NJ. Vincent, A. A. G.; Lieut.,
Col. ]. j. Van Horn, Twenty fifth infantry.
and Surgeon G. II. Alden, has been ordered
to convene at department headquarters,
Fort Smelling, MINI.
DR.. Barth, Berlin editor, has been fined
500 marks for llbellng the attorney gener-
al. The case arises out OF the imprison-
ment OF Heine, the socialist deputy.
Troops have gone to Toulon, France to
the Porglerolles penitentiary, to quell
second m 'tiny OF the inmates. The juyen-
lie prisone.s complain of the food and the
treatment they receive.
The Michigan state prohibition eonyen-
ton met and nominated the following tick
ct: Governor, Samuel Diekie; lieutenant
state, John Evans; treasurer, A. c. Fisher;
auditor, s. d. Williams; attorney general,
J. r. Laing; commissioner Of the land Of
fee Myron II. Walker; euperiI .tendent OF
public instruction, David Bemis; member
OF the state board Of education, o. E.
Downing.
Jacob OF Kentucky, Urited States Minis
ter to Columbia, who hammered his secre-
tary OF legation, has sent in his resignation,
and it was promptly accepted.
The Connecticut prohibitionists in con-
vention nominated a full Estate ticket, head
ed by Rev. Samuel Baker for governor.
William Harshy, vice +. A. Briggs re-
signed, was appointed postmaster at
Kignston, MINI.
Postoffices Established Wisconsin Est
ema, Chippewa county.
Postoffice Site Changed-Dakota: David
son, Potter county. Wisconsin: Footville,
Rock county; Gilman, Pierce county; Nell
son, Buffalo county.
Postmasters Commissioned Minnesota;
Minneapolis, John G. Ankeny. Wisconsin
Darlington, Oscar +. Blakely. Iowa: An:
gus, Benjamin +. White; Emerson, Thomas
J. Snodgrass; Ramsay, Charles III. Peel;
Reinbeck, William L. Fallas; Webster City
Frederick b. Edwards.
The war department has decided to
abandon Fort Abraham Lincoln as mil.
itary post and remove the garrison to
other points. The fort lies west of the
Missouri river, two miles from Bismarck.
The country around Bismarck has become
well settled, and there are few Indians, so
that the necessity for the post has dis
appeared. Captain Forbes, OF Company
+, Fifth infantry, will be retained there to
look after the public property and stores
until removed. The remaining troops are
being already removed. The post was es-
tablished in 1871, and was at one time
under command OF Custer.
A dispatch at st. Johns, from White Bay
says large number of Arctic bears, driven
south by starvation, have crossed from
Penny Lana and are devastating the
country. The bears number over LOCO,
and have appeared near Cape Mugford.
The Indians in that locality are eating
their dead companions. Those who died
among the white settlers ere buried secret
ly to keep the Esquimaux from getting
their bodies. The graves are all disguised.
Rev. Prof. E. R. Thwing, NJ. D., now
preaching in London, will return to Brook
Ign in the fall, whether TO practice theol-
ogy or medicine is uncertain.
Rev. George r. Barnes, the mountain
evangelist, who has been absent from the
country for four years, has arrived in Cal.
norma. he preached MS way from hen-
tucky to New York, and after crossing the
sea and conducting services in various
parts OF England, went on a Outstanding
journey to India.
The war department win abandon Fort
Abraham Lincoln.
The Detroit Tribune has again changed
owners, James II, Stone, of Detroit, buy
ing it from C. A. Nimoeks, who has been in
possession since the LIST OF last November.
The agricultural implement warehouse OF
Gleason Il McCaryille, at Dodgeville was
consumed by fire with contents. Loss,
ST. 900; insurance unknown. Forest fires
are raging in Shawano county along the
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