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®Itc fUimMicau. Republican IVinting Co. Publishers. OAKES, NORTH DAKOTA. L. K. Quijrs in HislSisinarclc Let ter to the New York Trib une Tells Truths. Ail entertaining' Letter Which Should lie Generally Circu lated Throughout the East. Great. Good to the Dakotas Must Come From His Descrip tive Articles. Mr. L. E. juiijc, the New York Trib une correspondent is doing a wonder ful amount of good to the Dakotas in placing the facts of the two new states before the reading public in such truth ful and graphic laneuage. In liis Bis marck letter he says*. The seventh standard parallel di vides the Dakotas, leaving each of tlieni 400 miles wide by 200 miles long. The Northern Pacific runs across North Dakota in a straight line from Fargo. Its land grant in cludes every other section, that is, every other b'ock one mile square, for fifty miles on either side of its rack. All the country west of the Missouri and below that grant in both Dakotas, except the Black Hills re gion lying within the two forks of the Cheyenne Iiiver, is Indian country, and is now the subject of negation between the Sioux and the Govern ment. Very little of this reservation is in North Dakota, but that larger half of the State west from Jamestown is unsettled. The Manitoba Railroad, with its central office in St. Paul, crosses the Territory from Grand Forks, along a line about 150 miles north from the line of the Northern Pacific. It passes through some of the finest wheat lands in Dakota, still un touched and subject to entry at the I nited States l^and Office in peril's Lake. As the Manitoba road nears the border, it reaches a country which cannot be surpassed for stock raising, as well as for diversified farming. About twenty miles west from James town is the long line of hills and ra vines called the Coteauv du Missouri. These lands are supposed to be un available for farming, though Inoticed as pretty fields of wheat there as else where. The fact is, I fancy, that they have been depreciated simply because the land beyond them is everywhere level and more easily worked. In the valleys between the coteaux there are thousands of little lakes and ponds, and as the coteaux grow thick, lux uriant grass, they furnish the best facilities for stock-farming. West of Bismarck and the river the country is generally level until the MAD LAN PS are reached. They are not bad lands at all, but wonderful lands. They constitute one of the most, marvelous physical appparances to be observed on this continent. They arecome up on suddenly, and without any sugges tion that the prairie level is to be so strangely broken. All at once number less peaks, as sharp in their formation as the fingers on your hand, rise straight from the earth, an army of massive buttes. They are of all conceivable shapes, some are cir cular pyramids, perfect in shape. Others rise like quartz crystals, with sides as smooth as a board, and fre quently from one of these straight and regular buttes the petrified stumps of enormous trees will protrude, sillcified by the action of the same waters that gave figure to the buttes themselves ages and ages ago. The Bad Lands begin about, 100 miles west of Bis lparck and follow the couise, north a»'.3 south, of t/'ne Little Missouri Riv er. North of the railroad their finest scenic effects are on the eastern side of the Little Missouri, and no feat of pen or brush can give any fair concep tion of the extravagant, splendor of these fantastic lands. They assume not only every conceivable appear ance, but all the appearances that might be attributed to the hand and the imagination ot a race of mental freaks. They twist themselves into 10,000 DIFFERENT CONTOKTIOXS. They show you devils, plunging hors es, wolf-heads, old men, cut and mould ed by wind and water in clay and sand and limestone, or in the finer sub stance formed by petrification, shapes that seem oddly harmonious with the natural life that for so long a time made these wild places their habita tion. At every turn your mind is newly startled. You see devices not only in themselves grotesque, but standing forth, shooting out, plunging down in such utterly novel and "un natural situations. Enormous mass es of rock seem in the distance to be hanging by a single silken thread, pois ed over a plain on which a hundred figures dressed in white, blue, black, green, gray and yellow are dancing in gleeful and thoughtless sport, spring ing upwards, turning somersaults and performing all the tricks of a harle quin. The Buttes themselves, with some part clad in the greenest ver dure, elsewhere in the black weaving of a vegetation that has turned to coal, here in the pink trimmings of real terracotta which lignite fires have been slowly baking, there in the creamy faces knitted by the winds through great deposits of alkali left upon the surface of the soil by waters that have lone since been drained away.—the buttes themselves, multi plied 10,000 times and chiseiled into castles, domes, spires, towers and monuments present each its separate I picture of weird, but magnificent dis order. Those wise fellows who know everything say that there was once a great lake here which was L'radually drained away through the two Mis souris, and that the waters, as they swept toward the sea, cut and model led the Bad Lands. Their name is an Indian leeacy. The white man, when he came soon found a use to which the Bad Lands could profitably be put and they are now supporting immense herds of sheep and cattle. The grass grown upon the buttes arid on tne level plains between them is the est tiiKin-: is on kauth. In winter the cattle have plenty of protection, and they take care of themselves. There is a sufficiency ot water. After turning the iierds loose, nothing remains for men to do but to bring them together again twice a year, that the young may be properly branded and the fat steers shipped to market. Some hay is put up so that there may he no scarcity of food in case of a heavy fall of snow. But heavy snows are unusuai in the Bad Lands, and unless the urass on the around is actually beyond reach the cattle much prefer it to hay. Many noted ranches are in the Bad Lands, and a few years ago—less than five— the cowboys oi this region were "bad men from Bitter Creek." Their favor ite amusement was to stop a rail road train and make the conductor dance lor them. Occasionally they would go through the cars and gather a few purses. 1 low surely and quickly all that sort of thing Hies before a tide ot immigration. The cowboys keep far away from towns and depots now, and as you ride through the Bad Lands to-day you can see tennis courts chalked out onthelawnsof the houses around depot sites and spruce young men and pretty gills loving away with rackets and bright eyes in the most advanced Bar Harbor fashion. Four years ago, if a man with a silk hat had left the train at Medora the chances are even that neither he nor that would ever have been heard from again. Now, the English tourist wanders around and ogles through his eye-glass and wobbles his t's" and drawls his "dawncherknaws" ail unmolested. The avenger is gone. You must look elsewhere to find the old-time frontier. In some parts of Dakota the fuel question is a serious one. Within an area marked by a radius of 200 miles not a stick of natural timber rises above the plains. Not asuggestion of coal appears undei them. All fuel, of whatever nature, must be fetched in by the railroads, and the railroads don't give their services for nothing. With such long winter seasons, the cost of living is heavily increased by the freight charges on fuel. In the course of a few years this situation will be materially alleviated. North and west of Bismarck, on both sides of the river, are coal fields of such im merse proportions as to be practical ly inexhaustible. They extend in all directions, running north almost to the international line, and west into the Bad Lands. They run deep into the earth. Several veins have been followed to a depth of 5,000 feet with out any indication that they intend ed to give out. In Bismarck, and all along the line of the Northern Pacific this coal is used almost exclusively, it is a lignite formation and appears to lie the substructure of the country. Every farmer in that part of Dakota which is north and west of the capital possesses his own supply. When a lad is told by his mother to fetch her some coal he goes into his mine, digs it out with one or two blows of his pick, and brings it back in a solid lump on his shoulder. Several mines have been opened for rOMMEHCIAL PURPOSES, and they are succeeding fairly well as business entesprises—none too well, of course, though that is no fault of the coal's. But wnere everybody can do his own mining there is not as large a demand as there might be for the results ot' corporate labor. The mines will have their lien opportuni ty as soon as Bismarck secures a rail road into South Dakota. There is where the coal is needed, and needed seriously. A road is now graded and lacking only the rails as far south as Aberdeen. It will be put in operation within another year, and then the mines can be worked to real advan tage. With such an immense supply available, the price can never be forced to an extravagant figure. It now ranges from one to two "dollars a ton. The coal is soft and slowly slacks when exposed to the air, so that larger quantities are needed than of harder and firmer coal. It is not mineral. It is lighter than the Iowa coal, has more water, more volatile matter, less carbon and less sulphur. As household fuel it serves its best purpose and is entirely satisfactory. In an open grate it furnishes tne pret tiest Bort of ilame, producing a pink ish ash. Looking irom the "windows of a Northern Pacific train, the pas sengers may see hundreds oi dart ex cavations made by the farmers into mounds and bluffs where good, thick surface seams have been "discovered. With this industry waiting to be turn ed to profit, and with the great Mis souri flowing at her feet, Bismarck lias no need to worry about her future. The Missouri at Bismarck is better behaved, on the whole, than elsewhere along its course. It rises 1,500 MILKS FUliTIIEi NORTH AND WEST, and occasionally in the early spring when the Chinook winds, sweeping across Northern Montana, melt the ice and start a rapid flow of water, gorges are formed at and around Bis marck, where the ice remains solid, and a flood is brought on. But the city, securely protected behind enor mous bluffs, regards this misdemeanor as venial. The headquraters of the Missouri River Transportation Com pany are here, and it has various es tablishments, shops, shipyards and freight-houses, down upon the "first bench," as the lowest, slope of land nearest the river is called. The com pany's freight-house is structure, a -io singular feet wide and 600 feet long. To some people figures never convey much of an idea, and therefore I will add that a building 45 feet bv 600 is about as big a building as is worth while making in all this' world of human endeavor. Two winters ago, the river, apparently dissatisfied with the situation of the buildin" quietly got up one night and laid Ft on a bluff some 200 feet above its original site and about -100 feet near er the town. Then, having stowed some thousands of tons of ice against the freight-house to keep it in place, the river lowered its back and swept amiably on as before. There is a per sonality about the Missouri and a mischievous motive about its rascally performances that are highly amusing. The huge, unsightly steamboats that ply between St. Louis and Bismarck, and then for another thousand miles onward to Fort Benton, carrying from SIXTY TO TWO HUNDRED TONS of freight, draw only from two to four feet o: water! This is hard to believe, but it is a fact. And even then, they will often get into trouble. They will be going placidly along when suddenly the river will toss a sandbar in their way, and they will be buried in mud and misery. But the ingenuity of man has not failed to provide for this emer gency. Each steamer is equipped with two big poles. These are let down in to the mud and water, and by means of ropes ami pulleys the boat is hoist ed upon the poles out of the stream. Then, when the current, to its un doubted regret and annoyance, has washed away the sand, the steamboat jauntily proceeds. Nothing is funnier than to see a great big boat pullinj it self on top of a couple of crutches to cheat the sandbar. It is an interest ing fact that since the Northern Pacific bridge was constructed across the Missouri it has shifted twenty-two inches. Its huge supports are buried below the river bottom upon bed-rock, but they have moved, and tons, I had almost said acres, of earth have been deposited around them to assist in breaking the force of the ice gorges. In closing, as I do herewith, the sto ry that has been too fleetly told of the material condition and the wonderful achievements of the two Dakotas, it may be desirable to collect a few of the mor? eloquent facts in a single forceful group. The population of these sister States has come up in eighteen years from 100,000 to 000, 000. In twelve years the acreage ac quired by actual settlement has been 43,000,000. The first railroad track was laid in 1ST2. To-day you can ride 5.000 miles over steel mils with in the boundary lines of NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA. You can start for your newly taken homestead on a Monday a.'id can reach your final destination in three days without ever leaving your car. Y'ou will find your household goods on :i sidetrack waiting tor you, and by the next Monday you can be break ing sod for your first crop. Condi tions are not as they were in the days, still vividly clear in living men's mem ories, when the prairies were only to be crossed in wooden-wheeled carts, drawn by a yoke of oxen and furnish ed with a barrel of Hour in one end and a barrel ot water in the other! To day there are in Dakota 250, 000 horses, 250,000 milch cows, S00, 000 cattle, 230,000 sheep, 000,000 hogs. They are worth $50,000,000, and to this grand fortune a 10 per cent accretion must be added every year. At this moment a harvest is growing, with every promise of happy realization, of 35,000.000 bushels of corn, 70,000,000 of wheat, 5,000,000 of tlax, 10,000,000 of barley, 50,000 000 of oats and 5,000,000 of potatoes! And or the imperial domain stretch ing from a central point 200 miles north, east, south and west of the 90,000,000 acres that constitute these States, barleey 7,000,000—less than one-thirteenth—have felt the harrow's touch! Everywhere, in social life, in religious life, in political life, a perfect and liberal organization exists. Where ever there is a settlement the spires of half a dozen churches rise and the bells of half a dozen schools sound out. Crime is scarcely heard of in Dakota. It has nothing that even faintly re sembles a crimnal class. There are but two prisons in the two States that really look like prisons, and the inmates of these are only luckless creatures who couldn't make things go and did a little pilfering to keep the woli oil. I suppose you think this sounds like a fairy tale? Well, I think so myself, but it. is all the truth. L. E. O. A Conflict of Races. 1 here are con dieting reports about the cause oF the blood}- shooting affray which occurred near Austin, Texas, a lew days ai'o, in which four white men aud five ne groes wore killed and many others wound ed. from one version it appears that in the neighborhood where the trouble occur red a colored justice oi ihe peace, Orange \V lckes and a colored constable, Isaac Wil son, were recently elected. The iustice had is sued a warrant for one A. D. Litten (white) and it was put into the hands of Wilson, boon after the latter runt Litten and in formed him he had a warrant for his ar rest and proceeded to read it. Litten re marked that it was no use to read the war rant ior he would not be arrested by a "V n,ifK«r-" (iu»te a crowd had'gather ed and ,Wil6on a friends advised that he place the warrant in the hands of a white constable. This he did and Litten was arrested, but declared he would not be tried before a colored justice. Notwith standing his protest, he was carried before Justice Wickes, whose court was in session. Ihe room was crowded with blacks and whites. In the court room Litten was very abusive, &Dd finally words grew to blows, then to the use of Bix-shooterB and Winchesters. Justice Wickes and Litten were riddled with bullets and died im mediately. The colored constable was al so killed, as was a negro named Bell. A spectator was filled with lead and died soon after. Houston Moore, a colored boy, was also killed by a stray bullet. Alexander Nolan and George Scholif, white men, were shot down and instantly killed, as was another white whose name could not be learned. The affair created intense excitement in the neighborhood, and it is said toat at least 10U armed men gathered on the ground ready to renew the fight, but all has been quiet up to this writing. A Mother Conceals Her Child. A sensational scene was enacted on the 15th inst. in Judge Outcalt'B court at Cin cinnati, Ohio. The court has had in hear ing and under consideration for several months an unusual habeas corpus case, where two women claim to be mother of the child for whom the writ was issued. Miss Kate Schaller averred that she gave birth to an illegitimate child and placed it. in the hands ot Mrs. Humbser, the mid-wife to dispose of, and that Mrs. Humbser placed it in the family of W. S. White to be adopted. Sub sequently Miss Schaller wished to re cover possession of her child and applied to Mrs. White, when that lady informed her that the baby she had was not an adopted child, but was her own. The testimony before the court was most conflicting, but Mr. and Mrs. SVhitebrought many witnesses to show that the disputed baby was theirs. They have had it in charge during the trial. On the 15th the judge was to render the decision, but Mrs. White appeared in court without the child. lien asked by the court where it was, Mrs. White in a determined manner answer ed: "Judge Outcalt, I was submitted to a severe examination the other dav, and I understood yon were going to" decide against me, aud I have protected my child. I know the consequences and am here to abi.ie by them, and if I have to stay in prison ten years 1 am satisfied, so, if at the end of that time, have my darling." This re ply, of course, made a sensation. Her at torney promptly disclaimed having advis ed this course of action, and asked that his client have time to reflect. The court said that if Mrs. White did not produce the child she must suffer the consequences of contempt of court, and he allowed her till noon to consider. The resolute moth er for two hours was urged by her attor ney and friends to produce the child, but at the end of the time she remained firm and went bravely to jail under sentence of the court for contempt. A Religious War In Canada. Never in the history oT Canada have re ligious prejudices been so thoroughly aroused between the Itomaii Catholics and Protestants as at the present moment, the direct outcome of Sir John Macdonald re fusing to disallow the (Quebec cat incorpo rating tl.e order of Jesuits and altoting to them $-100,000 in lieu of their lands which were confiscated to the crown at the time they were declared illegal by l'ope Clement. The Canadian house of commons is com posed of 215 members, 7.'i of whom are Catholics, although when the vote on the Jesuit bill was taken last Beason, out of the 142 Protestants only 13 voted against, allowing the Jesuits incorporation bill. It. is different in the country, however, and at every point meetings of indigna tion are being held by tho Orange men aud Protestants generally demanding the disallowance of the bill, in the Jesuit college, as in other colleges in Canada, the minister of militia allows the use of a cer tain number of government rilles for the purposo of drilling the students. The Or angemen are now demanding that these government rilles be withdrawn from the Jesuit college. Eighty-five per cent, of the population oi the province of (,'uebec are Koinap Catholics, while in tho province oi Ontario about the same percentage are I rotestants, In the cabinet live out of the thirteen are Catholic, while Sir John Mac Doniikl anil Minister of Customs Bowell represent the Orange element, which has become a powerful lever in Canadian poli tics. The outside world has little idea oi the religious warfare which is going on within the liominion to-day, and any at tempt at reconciliation only appears to intensify the bitter feeling which exists One thing is certain, that the completion of the present parliament will be greatly altered at. the next general election. A Sensational Sequel. A sensational sequel to the iroposed at tempted suicide of J. A. Newcome, in the Clearwater, ICansas, bank, May 2if, prom ises to be forthcoming in the near future. Ever since the shooting Newcome has been more or less unconscious, until a few days ago when he made rapid strides toward re covery, and his brain became quite clear. Sending for his attorneys, he imparted to them the startiing information that he did not attempt suicide, but that some one who wns in the bank at the time had shot him. He said he had transferred to Til lingluist by trust deed some §30,000 worth of property, and that, though he bad fre quently asked for restitution, it had never been made. Finally, he alleges, Tillinghast induced him to meet him at his office in Clearwater, ar.d there he was shot. At the time of the shootiug iillinghastannonnced that Newcome was in dire financial straits and had been very despondent. An inves tigation has shown that this was not the case, BO the statement made bv the wound ed man has all the color of truth. New come located in Wichita, Kansas, with considerable means, from Painesville, Ohio, and was at once prominent in railroad cir cles. The Knights Templar have taken the case in hand and some startling develop ments are expected. Seventy Killed. A special telegram from Dublin, Ireland dated the 12th inst., says a train carrying an excursion party from Armagh has been wrecked near that place. The train con tained 1,200 persons, composed of Metho dist Sunday school scholars, teachers and relatives. They were going on an excursion to Warren Point. The latest report says that 50 children were killed by the acci dent. Further dispatches from Armagh show that the accident was far more serious than at first reported. Seventy bodieB have been taken from the wreck, and there are others buried under tbe debris. The place where the party was bound is a watering place at the mouth oi the New ry river, in the county Down. Over 100 passengers were injured. A South Dakota Elopement. George Warren and Mrs. Charles Booth, of White Lake, South Dakota, eloped from that place on the 0th inst. They traveled on horse back to Yankton, a distance oi 1C0 miles, on a pair of horses which they stole from a neighbor. Two hours alter they arrived at Yankton they were arrest ed and lodged in the county jail. C. H. Morrill, of the_ White Lake Times, who is an intimate friend of Booth, was instru mental in elfecting their capture. The run away couple were taken back and Warren will have to answer to the charge of horse stealing. TlieSioniResemtion Proceedings of the Commission Cjiven in Detail as Gleaned l-'roni Telegraphic Intona tion. Population of the Sioux Iies er vat ion. The Coin mission Through at Kosebiul. At the Pine Iiidye Agency. The Prospect Good for Secur ing the Names. Population of the Sioux Reservation. Following is the number of Indians at each of the agencies OP the great Sioux reservation, and the number of signatures that it takes at each to effect the contem plated purchase of their lands by govern ment: Rosebud agency has 7,200 Indians counting men, women and children. Num ber of male Indians over eighteen years of age, 1,509: necessary three-fourths, 1,132. Pine Ridge Agency—Whole number of Indians, 5,200 number of males over eighteen years of age, 3,201 necessary three-fourths. !)4C. Standing Rock Agency—Total number of mule Indians over eighteen years o! age, 1,01111 necessary three- lourths, 825. Cheyenne Agency—Total number of male Indians over eighteen years of age, 750 necessary three-fourths, 503. Lower Brule Agency—Total number of male fndians over eighteen yenrs of age, 30|i necessary three-fourths, 2.'K.i. Crow Creek Agency—Total number of male Indians over eighteen years of age, 2S2 necessnay thre ojrths, 212. This makes the total nuraij .of male Indians over eighteen years j'age at all the agen cies, 5,207 necessary three-fourths to be secured before ttie reservation can be op ened, 3000. Commission Through at Rosebud. A special telegram from Rosebud agency under date oi the 12th inst., says that the Sioux commission has completed its la bors at that agency, and has gone to the Pine Ridge ageuc\\ They secured nearly 1,150 signatures at the Rosebud agency They have been exceedingly successful con sidering that agency is bv Tar the largest on the reservation. Upwards of 8,000 In dians draw rations there, and they are a turbulant people, hard to manage, "and do not always dwell together like brothers. This is cine of the most serious of the many difficulties that the commission has met. There was much clashing between the full bloods, too. Theyoung men decided to take the reins in their teeth and the old fellows of fered bitter objection. "Down with the rule of the chiefs" was the cry of the young bloods, and so the quarrel went on. The success of the commission at Rosebud is pretty sure to make their task much easier at the remaining agencies. At the Pine Ridge Agency. The commission have gone to the Pine Ridge agency where they will meet the fa mous old Indian warrior, Chief Red Cloud. This agency is situated in the unorganized county of Shannon, South Dakota, near the Black Hills, and adjoining the Nebraska state line. 11 is the agency ior the Oglala Indian reservation, who are probably the most reckless of the Sioux nation. Red C'loud, witn the excepiion of Sitting Bull is probably the most famous living Indian He has kept his lips pretty close together since the commission went to the reserva tion. Previous to their arrival he made vigorous declarations in opposition to the Dawes bill. His principal objection was the claim that he had been al'lowed only SliN.Ouo by the congressional act. for tho alleged theft of ponies from his tribe sever al years ago, and he declared ho should have had at least $30,000. The Indian Defense Association cranks put this no tion into the wily old red skin's brain during his recent trip to Washington. Red Cloud sealed his litis during his re cent vi*it to the Rosebud agency. He talk ed to no one but Gen. Crook, and, up to date, no one has any information as'to what passed between them. The general is the only man on the reservation who has any idea as to what is in store for tiie commission at Pine Ridge. He is certain to keep that information to himself. I'U.M.MlSO.N HAS AIEItlVEI) The Sioux commissioners arrived at Pine Ridge agency on the afternoon of the 13th inst. At that time the agency Indi ans were gathering in considerable numbers from distant camps on the reservation. It was then expected that a council might be held on the 15th inst. The Indians went into council by themselves in order to adopt a line of policy, and choose their speakers. Pine Ridge agency is the second in size on the great Sioux reservation. It contains 5,000 Indians, mainly Ogalalla Sioux, the balance being northern Cheyennes, abobt 500 in nu.nber. On the agency list are 1,283 names of men qualified to vote on the question oi assenting to the act of con gress. A largo number of these are absent with Buffalo Bill's company or other simi lar traveling combinations,and itisdoubt ful whether the requisite three-fourths needed are now present on the reservation. The Indians are nearly all opposed to dis posing of any portion of their reservation and view with suspicion any offer on the part of the government. TltlC rillST COUNCILS Under the date of the lGhh inst. it is learned from the Pine Ridge agency that a wind storm almost destroyed the great roofed space which had been intended for the council of the Indians and nothing up to that date had been done to repair the damage. The Indians had not all arrived though couriers had been sent to the dif ferent camps to summon them. On the south side oi the agency lies the wide spreading encampment of Chief Iled CIoud, while on all sideti are many oth er camps. Louis Richard, an old-time chief of scouts under General Crook, has been among these Indians explaining thb bill and working in its interest. He is close-mouthed and says nothing as to what the result of the meetings will be. The commissiou will possibly remain at Pine Ridge for two weeks, and even longer. The visiting of agencies will not bo con cluded before Aug. 15 at tho present rate of progress. Three councils were held in the camp on tho 15th at which Gov. Fos ter put in an appearance and gave them a little informal talk, setting forth the pur pose for which the commission had come among them, alluding incidently to the success of negotiations at Rosebud agency. Speeches were made by several of the prominent older Indians, which dis close a strong srimx OF OPPOSITION to the treaty. Among others may be men tioned Red Cloud, Big Road and White Antelope as the most earnest in their op position to the treaty. Red Cloud has at last openly declared himself aa against any sale of land, expressing himself to the effect that his people needed all the land •which they had now, and that to properly induct them into the mysteries of the white 1 man's civilization all this ln,nil would be required, without the relinquishment of an acre. Taken as a whole the situation seems similar to that at Ronebud when the commission came there. The mixed bloods and white men intermarried into the tribe are ia favor oi the bill, knowing this to fie the most advantageous offer ever made, or ever likely to be made. The acknowledged leader of the younger and more progressive Indians is' Young-Man- Afraid-of-His-Horse, and he leads the ad vocates tho treaty. He is credited with the expression: "When my friend, Gen. Crook, comes and tells me be has a good heart toward tbe Indians." With him are Fast Thunder, No Flesh and Six Feather. There are at this agency about 5,000 Indi ans, with 1,330 adults, not including the white men who will be allowed a voice in the matter. Through their connection with the tribe by marriage, these people are ar rayed for or against the bill with a large number on the fence ready to climb down on the side where there is the most numer ous crowd or the juiciest beef roasts are to be bad. Sitting Bull Will Never Sign. A report comes from Standing Rock agtncy that Sitting Bull is recovering from his recent severe sickness, and is daily be coming stronger and more communicative. In an interview with regard to the propos ed opening of the reservation for settle ment, he Baid he never Bigned a treaty and never would. He is as bitterly opposed to the opening of the reservation now as he was a year ago. When told of the number of Indians at the 1 wer agencieB who are sign ing, lie would not believoit. He said he had Indians at the lower conference who report ed to him, and he knew that no such number as reported have signed. He is cunning and suspicious aud thinks thecommission ers are giving out the reports to influence the Indians at the upper agencies. There is every reason to believe that the commis sioners will succeed in opening the reser vation, but they must do it without tho aid or consent of Sitting Bull and his I'riondB. When asked if he thought he would die, Sitting Bull said at first he felt sure that he must go, as the trouble was with his heart which felt aB though it had been shot. He now has some hope of re covery. The Indians at Standing Rock have chosen the orators to represent them at the coming conference, but Sitting Bull is not one of the chosen. Thoseelected are Gall, John Grass, Mad Bear, Big Head and Eagle-That-Scares. Another Day at Pine Ridge Agency, On the 10th inst. tho commissioners were informed that the Cheyennes desired to have a dialect conference, as they did not understand the language used the day before. An inquiry developed the fact that when the Cheyennes were leaving their camps for this caucus tho Sioux soldiers interfered and told them they must not talk to the commissioners. This action indicated the policy of Red Cloud and his followern, and is in line with their recent conduct. The Cheyennes were given a sep arate audience and the bill carefully ex plained in their own language. They ex pressed satisfaction frequently. It seems now that tho mixed bloods are in favor of ratiiying the bill, and that the opposition to it is mainly confined to Red Cloud's followers. The Sioux Indians had a council with each other while the com missioners were talking with the Cheyennes. At this council there was considerable ex citement. About fifteen chiefs spoke in opposition to signing tho bill, giving as reasons that the government had not ful filled the promises of tho treaty of 1S0S. Other objections were made, mainly such as were urged ut Kosebiul. They endeavor ed to pledge their bands to act together, or in other_ words, to enforce the caucus system. No Flesh said that he was in lavor of signing: that he was thinking about the future that he wanted his children to be further advanced than he was. That when they attended school and learned what the white man learned they wanted to act as the white man acted that he believed the only way to bring about this was to take up land and yet papers for it that he should sign no matter who objected, and if anyone tried to prevent *»e would make them cry. American Horee tookthesameBide, though less emphatic than No Flesh. OJd-Man Afraid-of-His-Horses, the former great chief, said that he was too old to try and control his young men. Here he warned them to think for themselves and then to do as they thought best. Red Cloud'3 in fluence for the time seems to prevail with apparent unanimity. Fatal Fight in Missouri. John 0. Manion, a young farmer with a wife and three children, lived four miles from I'ayette, Mo. On an adjoining farm resided Richard M. Fowler, a bachelor cousin of Manion. Fowler spent a good deal of his leisure time at Manion's [house, and his attentions to Maniou's wife be came so marked that trouble ensued and Manion and his wife separated and very bad blood was stirred up between the two men. On the 15th 'fcinbt. Fowler and Man ion met in Tayett, and when only three feet apart began to shoot at each other, tlanion was shot through the stomach and chest and died during the afternoon, and I'owler was wounded in the neck and bot'h armB. After emptying their revolvers, bom men stood up and pounded each other with their pistols until friends separated them. Mrs. Manion is prostrated over tne bloody affray and threatens to kill herself. All the parties are highly connect ed, and tne affair has created a great sen sation. ilied by a Tough. A story a telegraphed from Dry wood, Wis., a settlement near Chippewa Falls* that leads one to believe the fools are not all dead yet. It appears that during progress of a dance, John Medley, a known resident, was shot and killed William Nolan. The shooting originated in a drunken quarrel, ir. which Nolan boast ed of his ability to whip the whole Medley family. When his ability was subjected to a test, he reBorted to a revolvor with the above result. Nolan immediately took to the woods after firing the cowardlv shot, and had not been captured at fast, ac counts. He is a Kentuckian of the- Jesse tion63 8 Pl antl the well by bears a hard reputa- The Samoan Commission. A dispatch from Berlin says tho Ameri can commissioners to the Samoan confer ence have received instructions from Mr. Blaine, the American secretary of state, in relation to the protocol drawn up by the conference.^ Mr. Blaine disagrees with sev eral provisions of the protocol and also is of the opinion that England and Germany have not gone far enough in respect to the rights conceded to the United States. The conference had a sittiDg on the 13th inst. to receive Mr. Blaine's reply. The English ana uerman commissioners will afterwards consider Mr. Blaine's objections and de cide upon what policy they shall pursue and upon the attitude which they adopt depends the continuance of the conference.