Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-22
MATTERS IN THE WEST.

MATTERS IN THE WEST.
Secretary of the Interior Noble has al
ready begun undoing the work OF his pre-
decessor in Minnesota. On the 18th he
teleeraphed the land officers at Redwood
Falls to suspend the transfer OF their effects
to Marshall One of the last acts OF the
democratic administration was the aboli-
ton of the land offices at Fergus Falls.
Tracy and Redwood Falls. A howl OF In
dignation went up from the people of these
towns. and it is supposed the action by
Noble means that the offices will be re-
stored.
Five French tourists, three men and
two women. are reported TO have been
murdered in Yellowstone park. guide is
authority for the statement that the deed
was committed by Indians. Others think
that the perpetrators were organized ban
dts. The guide told his story explaining
that he was left for dead. but recovered.
As he has since disappeared. suspicious
are aroused that he might not have been as
innocent as he appeared. The murdered
foreigners are given as NJ. LIE Claire and
wife. j. Vincent and wife, and Paul Gerot.
An able bodied liar seems to be the
Cheyenne, Wyoming, representative Of the
Associated Press. He runs largely to
crimes. which he matches. perpetrates and
Furnishes in the confines of his own fertile
Imagination. OF such attenuated tissue
from which lies are coined is said to be the
latest report of the Yellowstone park mas
sacre. 1t is believed to be canard.
A Los Angeles. Cal. special OF the 10th
says: The excitement here over the gold
fields of Lower California has somewhat
subsidized. The reports that the gold dis
coveries were started in the interest of land
companies are freely circulated. A firm
here to-day received telegram from its
foreman, who has just returned from the
mining district and is now in San Diego
which says: Tell everybody to investi-
gate. The mines are to sell.
Gen. Walter C. Newberry. postmaster
dent that his resignation has been received
and placed in the hands of the postmaster
general. Gen. New berry says he sent in
his resignation March TO take effect at the
pleasure of the president.
John Clay. jr.. a prominent stockman.
was in Chicago on the 1lth after
Il six weeks trip in the cattle
raising regions of the west. He said
that in Texas the cattle are IN excel
lent condition and the general agricultural
outlook is good. In the Panhandle. New
Mexico and Colorado the winter has been
favorable. as 1t was also in Wyoming and
Montana. The only complaints came from
western Wyoming. where the grass was
short last fall and the snow continues
heavy. Clay thinks range beef will arrive
on the markets earlier than in any year in
the history of the trade. and during al! the
years he has been connected with the bust
ness he never found the western cattlemen
in better spirits.
White Caps made an attack on
DR.. Wendell Thursday night. March 7th.
Ee lives twelve miles northeast OF Wichita.
Kas. While his house was being fired upon
he opened the door and shot at the intru-
ders with two revolvers and soon drove
them away. Wendell is satisfied he shot
the left arm, three bullets piercing his
clothes.
"A health officer at St. Paul on the 7th
found Maud Surabuski. girl Of 9 years.
with the cattle Of Frank Surabuski. farm
or living five miles south of St. Paul. The
child was found in the barn. sleeping on q
pile Of straw between two COWS. tied by q
rope around her neck to the same post with
the cows. The only garment on the little
thing was piece of gunnysack. fastened
about the shoulders and reaching to the
waist. A pot which had contained cruel,
and the remnants Of black biscuit lay in
the straw beside the child. Surabuski and
his wife are ignorant. superstitious per-
cons. and have regarded their offspring as
an evil spirit. The child has always been
kept in the barn with the cattle, and has
never been permitted to associate with her
brothers and sisters