The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-05
TELEGRAPHIC.
Specials to The AstOrian.

PORTLAND. Oct. 4.-To-day Geo. II.
Durham, John j. Meston and Nate S.
Dygert filed articles in the county clerks g
office Incorporating the Meston and
Dygert book manufacturing company,
with a capital of $4,000.
At police headquarters TODAY a tele-
gram was received from detective Harry
Griffin, announcing that he has Geo.
Anderson, the forger in custody, and ar
rived here late IN the afternoon.
This morning II. Y. Thompson, consul
for Sandy Olds presented an engrossed
bill of exceptions to Judge Stearns for
his signature. The bill is a voluminous
document and the three clases under
which exceptions are made are these:
Manner of obtaining the Jury" Sin
structions of the court to the jury'' and
rulings of the court in introduction of
the testimony" The supreme court will
no doubt take immediate action in sus-
tanning or revising the judgment of the
lower court.
This morning was the time fixed for
the hearing of the petition of Miss
Rosetta Jones and +. L. Dick, alleged
heirs of the estate of the late Jas. b.
Stephens, for the removal of G. A. Cove
as administrator. They filed a reply
denying ali allegations made in the
atidavits of the administrator, w. Scott
Beebe and Mrs. Elizabeth McColla,
| daughter of the deceased, but the petit
tioners were not prepared to proceed
with the hearing of the case, and asked
| time till Monday next to file an amended
pleading which was granted by Judge
Catlin.
THE IOWA TRIBE.
GUTHRIE, l. T., Oct. Two hundred
thousand acres of some of the best land
in Indian territory is certain to be
thrown open to settlement within a very
short time. This land lies eight mites
east of Guthrie, and is contiguous with
Oklahoma along its border. 1t is now
occupied by the Iowa Indians, of whom
| there are now only thirty-three heads of
families. Their chief, To-Hee, inter
prefer of the tribe, after a long confer
ence with Mr.. William p. Thompson,
editor of the Guthrie Daily NelOS, yester-
day signified their willingness to take
their lands in severalty, each adult
to receive 160 acres and the
minors forty acres each, and to
sell the balance, over 180, 600 acres, to the
government at $1.25 an acre. Mr..
Thompson, who has great influence with
the Indians, is made their agent. The
Indian commission will reassemble in
Guthrie about the middle of October, and
the preliminary hearing has been ar
ranged. The land will doubtless be
opened by November. This land is equal
to one-fifth of Oklahoma, and a great
rush is anticipated.
The Iowa tribe has been camped close
to Guthrie for several days, and the
members have been industriously spend
ing the $15, 900 which the government paid
them this week. A great number of the
Otoes and Missouris who are much dis
satisfied with a poor reservation set
apart for them in the Cherokee Strip
have left it and are also about Guthrie.
They say that the best lands in their res
ervation have been taken away from
them and given up to the cattle barons,
and now they intend to join the Iowa
tribe. With the town full of Indians
and boomers coming to settle on claims
together with smuggled whiskey, the
| nights are hideous here now.
THE CHINESE.
GUAYAoUIL, Ecuador, Oct. Ain the
forthcoming message to congress the
president will recommend the immedi-
ate enactment of a law forbidding fur
ther Chinese immigration. The entire
press has been urging the measure.