The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-08-02
The Siorx Commission.

The Sioux Indian Commission is now read,
for work-all being new at Standing Rock
The commission has two clerks and an in
terpreter. They have two papers for the In
dams to sign, one favoring the relinguish
ment of their lands, and the other against it
Each individual Indian will be called upon
There is great excitement on the reservation
and among the five or six thousand now Ell
camped around the agency there are nom
who favor the treaty. Some, however, say
they are willing to listen to what the whit
chiefs have to say, and it is possible
but not at all probable, that til,
commission may be able to change the sen
timent by explaining the details of the meas
ures. The treaty takes from the Indians
about one-half the lands, or 100000
acres, which will be sold to settlers for fifty
cents an acre. This fund, which it is esti
mated would soon be two or three millionl
is to be placed at interest for the benefit O
the Indians. Besides this 81 600, 900 is to b.
expended for farm machinery, etc., for thu
Indians who are to take land in severalty
and live like white men. This feature is what
Indians dislike. Some say they want to live like
white men, but the majority say they want
hunting ground and they have been driver
far enough by the whites. Some O
the most noted chiefs of the Sioux nation
are ready to confer with the commission
among them Gall, Mad Bear, Big Head, Run
ming Antelope and John Grass. Sitting Bull
is out on hunt, and as he has already ex
pressed his opposition to the treaty it il
likely that his presence will not tend 10
Tighten the task of the commission. The In
dams have selected several orations to talk
and will have their own interpreter also
trust white men, and that all treaties hereto.
fore made have been broken. 1t was expect
ed that the most opposition to the treaty
would come from the Rosebud and White
Earth agencies, and that at Standing Rock
very little opposition would be encountered
The action of the Indians during the past few
days demonstrates the fact that the commits
sion have a hard task before them, and that
the securing of the signatures ofthree-fourths
of the Indians is doubtful.
Minneapolis detectives have corralled a
gang of thieves, arrested five men and recov.
cred several thousand dollars worth of stolen
property.
There is bitter fight in progress over the
whisky questions at Harlan Court House,
KY, which bids fair to end in bloodshed.
County Judge Lewis believes that great
deal of whisky is being sold in town in spite
of the local prohibition law. Several grocery
men were tried few days ago on that
charge, but no proof was produced. Arrest
angercd the accused, and as Judge Lewis
rode out of town at evening he barely es-
capped being shot by John Farley, and then
Lewis rode back into town and assembling
opponents of the traffic proceeded to search
the stores of John Blair. Howard and others,
suspected. They found liquor in several,
rolled the barrels into the streets and emptied
the contents Oh the ground. This was done
under a guard of twenty men with Winchest-
ers. Afterward the whisky men rallied and
the factions encountered in the street. A
hundred shots were fred, but nobody was
killed.
A passenger train on the Cannon Falls line
of the Milwaukee road coming to Red Wing,
struck COW, and q freight car and one pas
senger coach and property car of Stetson g
Uncle Toms Cabin troupe left the track, and
went down the steep twenty-fvefoot en-
bankment. W. A. Clark, canvasman, of
Hurley, Wis, was standing in the door when
the car was overturned, and was caught and
crushed to death. One lady had leg
broken, and another was badly bruised.
Nearly oil had ankles sprained or kindred in
bell rope was tied, go that the engineer could
not be notified. He claimed that the en-
gineer could have seen the COW, as the track
was straight for distance before it was
struck.
The Parnell commission of inquiry bill is
likely, from appearances, to pass the British
parliament in almost it's present .shape, ethe
government probably asserting to verbal al
terations that don't impair the radical pur-
pose of the measure. The probability of this
result has been secured by Mr.. Labouchere,
at Mr.. Parnells special request, having alb
stained from moving the rejection of the bill
or its long postponement, and Mr.. Parnell
himself having refrained from challenging q
division. This insures the adoption, it is be-
lieved, of substantially, the bill as it stands.
The exchequer court Of Dublin, on applica-
ton of Mr.. Timothy Healy, a member ofpar-
lament, mas granted conditional order OF
habeas corpus for the release from prison for
John Dillon, on the ground that, owing to
informalities, the county Judge who sentenced
Mr.. Dillon on appeal had no Jurisdiction to
rohear the case.