Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-27
SPRUNG A BIG SENSATION.
Concerning the State Department, But In
teresting Only as Fiction.
ALLIANCE WITH FRANCE AND RUSSIA.
hat the Indian Commission Will
Recommend in Regard to the
Si.ux-Patents Issued-New
Postmasters.
WASHINGTON BUREAU Tue Bee, !
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A sensational article was published here
this morning in relation to questions pending
before the department of state. In brief ii
announced that the administration was con-
sidering seriously an alliance, offensive and
defensive with France and Russia, so as to
make this. an invincible war nation without
an increase of the army or navy expenses
and that the president was about to put an
end to the insurrection in Chill. The article
was written in the cautious style of the
diplomat, but with the continuous intimation
that ne knew more than he would say. And
thus it was plausible on its face
and created for while something
of a sensation. In quarters where
diplomatic secrets are known the statements
were declared to have no foundation what
ever. II is entirely, without the tendencies
OF this administration to undertake any
movement so widely at variance with ira
ditonal policies, in the first place and Sec
ondly, it would be in opposition to the very
principles upon which this republic was
founded and has always been conducted to
ally it with any foreign country for opera
tions on the seas or abroad as 1t would place
the United States in constant complications
with the various powers OF Europe.
THE slOCA COMMISSION.
Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota, row
in this city, has been notified oy Chairman
Dawes that the senate committee appointed
to investigate the cause which led to the re-
cent Sioux Indian outbreak in South Dakota
and Nebraska will meet and organize at Chi
cago on July q, tnen proceed to the scene of
last winters Indian war; where there will be
thorough inquiry. 1t is believed that the
committee will report in favor of disarming
all Indians on the reservation, providing
against seditious utterances before them by
any one, and for giving the savage lands in
severalty.
CATTLE CONTRACTS.
There were awarded today by the Indian
bureau a number of contracts for cattle on
the Sioux reservation. Quite number of
the contracts went TO South Dakota people.
These contracts will make demand for cat
tie Ill that part of the country which is near
enough the reservation to allow the stock to
be driven to the Indians. The bids also show
the prices of stock when furnished IN large
numbers. Pine Ridge = B. Pickard, 325
heifers at 1859 each; John Brazil, 400 heifers
at 1880 each; John Strange 50 bulls
at 1888 each. Rosebud-W. B. Jordan,
500 cows at s!37l each; w. B. Jordan. 200
heifers at sl7.+l each. Standing Rock
Joseph Roach, 80 bulls at S3i. 10 each; Joseph
Roach, 500 cows at $3.50 each; Martin
Olson, 800 heifers at sl4.23 each. Cheyenne
Rivera. NJ. Bowdle, 33 bulls at s65 each !;
William c. Woods, $50 cows at S23. SO each
William S. Woods, $50 heifers at sl4 90 each
Crow Creek-A. NJ. Johnson, l20 heifers at
sl4. IS each; A. N. johnson, 12O cows at s23. 90
each; A. Nj. Bowdle, cows at SIS each; A.
NJ Bowdle, 5 bulls at $50 each. Lower
Brule-A. NJ. Bowdle, 3 bulls at $50 each {;
A. M. Bowdle, l2O cows at S23 each; A Nj.
Bowdle, l2O heifers at sl4 each.
TROOP ks RECEPTION.
This evenings Star devotes two columns
of description and illustration of troop K
ry md ,fG nv as -bn ,rrl
yesterday at Fort Myer, Va, across the Po-
tomac from this city. Portraits and COM
pllmertary sketches appear OF Colonel Guy
Henry, Captain Hughes, Sergeant Gordon
ana others. Colonel Henry has good reason
to be proud OF the reception he and his COM
mand nave been given since their arrival
here.
PATENTS ISSUED"
Patents were issued today as follows
George w Austin, Mitchell, S. D., steamer,
John l.. Buckingham, Hermosa, S. D., wire
tighteDer; Charles DeRoberts, assignor of
one-halt TO F. E. Alexander, Omaha, Neb,
car coupler; Foster Dickey, assiguor of one
half to H. c. Wright, Schuyler, Neb., coupler
for car; Iris Hembaugh, Montrose, Ia. milk
strainer; John ID. Nets, Dubuque, Ia, fiat
one-half to f. j. Miller Marion, Ia, W. j.
Markham, Sioux Falls, S. D., and NJ E.
Robinson. Chicago, Ill, railway rail Joint :;
Thomas ID. Moreys, Seward. Neb., combIna-
tion lock; Jens Nelson, Cedar Falls, Ia. 4,
water or other motor; Lincoln L. Sharp
Douglas, Neb, grain meter.
PosTMAsTERs APPOINTED.
Tie following iourth-class posttnasters
were appointed today: Nebraska-Agnew,
Lancaster county, Thomas States vice L. B
Mcfarland, ir., resigned; Armour, Pawnee
! county, w. j. Carter vice ID. Knouse, re-
signed; Hclstein, Adams county, c. p Harg-
broad vice A. S. Thompson, resigned; Or
chard, Antelope county, II. II. Knapp vice
r. A. Mitchell resigned. Iowa-Preston,
Jackson county, b. Van Stelnburg vice Miss
L. Mnehan, resigned. PERRY S. HEATu,