The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-06-17
New Land Districts in Dakota

The senate has passed Ingalls, bill Pro
viding for the creation OF two additional
land districts in Dakota and defining the
boundaries. of the Deadwood district. It
divides that portion OF the Great Sioux
reservation, which it is proposed to throw
open to settlement, into districts, and all
that section Of territory lying south Of the
forty sixth parallel OF latitude and west OF
the 25th deg OF longitude west from Wash
ington is attached to and made q part Of
the Deadwood district. The only amend
ment made to the bill is to place the loca-
ton vi the two land Offices created into the
hands OF the president instead OF placing
them arbitrarily at Pierre and Chamber
lain, as was at first intended. The bill,
however, contains this proviso:
That such officers shall not be appoint
cd nor the land offices opened in the dis
tricts created by this act until ccssion
shall have been made by treaty duly rati-
fed by Congress OF portion OF the Great
Sioux reservation within the limits OF the
said district.
The son OF Secretary Endicott, who re-
Gently graduated at the Harvard law
school, il going to work in the department
OF justice. simply to acquire knowledge and
experience.
Lieut.. Mannix, OF the marine corps, has
been made d. d. by the emperor OF China.
In China d. D. stands for the degree OF the
Double Dragon.
Frederick D. Mussey. correspondent OF
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. was ar
rested for criminal libel on warrant
sworn out by Robert ID. Price, clerk in
the pension Office. Mupsey is charged with
criticism OF Prices conduct as 81 clerk in
the office. Mussey was released on $500
bail, furnished by Gen. II. V. Boynton.
Price also began civil suit against the Com
mercial Gazette. laying his damages at
100000.
The house committee on territories
agreed to report bill extending the oper-
ations OF the general homestead laws over
Alaska.
w. A. Bors OF Woodstock. ILL.,, the owne
OF twenty butter factories, has failed. Nor.
than 500, 900 in claims have been filed
The banking house OF B. s. Parker has
closed in consequence.
Gen. r. p. auckland of Fremont, Ohio,
intimate with ex-president Hayes, says the
latter is not after the congressional NOM
ination in his district and is out OF poll
tics.
The dearly beloved Orangemen in Ireland,
for whom Salisbury, Lord Randolph
Churchill and Lord Harrington wept rivers
OF tears while lauding them as a holy and
patriotic element, are behaving like lot
OF drunken savages, burning and wrecking
houses in Belfast and rolling around the
treets drunk.
The civil marriage OF Nine. Adelina Patti
and Signor Nicolini took place at Swansea,
Wales. The ceremony was performed at
the French consulate.
Extensive police precautions have been
taken at the east end OF London, where
disorders are feared, the Irish of Rather
hite, Bermondesey, and Mapping having
become greatly excited. 1t is openly stat
ed that Fenian outbreak orplot is hatch
ing, the outcome of the recent political
event A Dispatch from Lurgan, Ireland,
says: Arthur and Andrew Donelly, leading
Catholic merchants, have been arrested on
a charge OF firing from their windows. A
mob wanted to lynch the prisoners. The
magistrates ordered that all taverns be
closed at 6 p. m. Shopkeepers also closed
their shops at the same hour. The mob
which stoned the police was dispersed at
the point of the bayonet. Trops are ar
irving here.
Ell Telegrama, OF Guadalajura, Mex, is
the smallest paper published on this con-
tinent. 1t is FIVE by three inches in size.
Korea has not had good harvest in
seven years. A famine prevails, and 500
persons have starved in Seoul.
The recent session of the dominion par
lament lasted sixty-four days only and
ia bills were passed, Of which fifty -one
emanated from the government.