Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1883 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

A recent dispatch from Helena, Montana, states that, while the Deer Lodge coach was crossing the main range of the Rockies, eighteen miles west of Helena, two men, with handkerchiefs tied across the lower part of their faces, stepped out in front of the team from the brush at the side of the road and ordered the driver to halt John McCormick, a post-trader at Fort Missoula, was on the box with the driver, and, as soon as the robbers commanded them to halt, he opened fire on them with a six-shooter. One of the highwaymen was badly hurt and crawled away into the brush. The other returned McCormick’s fire, seriously wounding one of the wheel horses. The team took fright, ran, and was soon out of the robbers’ range. The Garfield Monument Committee have selected a site in Lake View cemetery, Cleveland, overlooking the country for miles. The fund in hand is $130,000. Saloon-keepers at Topeka, Kan., are arrested each month and fined SIOO, giving security for that amount and regularly forfeiting it Leading prohibitionists have induced the County Attorney to petition the Supreme Court to forbid the city from really licensing a traffic which is forbidden by law. The Ohio Supreme Court has affirmed the constitutionality of the Scott law, passed by the Legislature of that State, for taxing .the liquor traffic. Another cargo of opium, on which the duties were $172,000, was landed at San Francisco last week. Gen. Crook reports to the Adjutant General of the Army that the captured Chiricahuas have not been forced upon the San Carlos reservation, but are to t>e kept with the scouts until further arrangements can be made. The Sheriff of Morton county, Dakota, has taken to Mandan two men named O’Donnell and Wannegan, who attempted to drive the Marquis Demores from land wjiich he had purchased. The difficulty occurred at Little Missouri, and the desperadoes killed a man named Luppin. The Supreme Court of Ohio, in sustaining the Scott law, holds that legislative power is ample to make laws absolutely prohibiting all traffic in intoxicating liquors Saloon-keepers all over the State are paying the tax under protest. The City Council at Columbus find that the receipts will support the police and poor departments A secret convention was held in Indianapolis, last week, to organize a company and issue $-00,000,020 of stock to build double-track narrow-gauge roads from New York tft San Francisco and from Chicago to New Orleans. Gen. Sherman, accompanied by Chief Justice Waite, was received with full military honors at Fort Snelling. The mills at Minneapolis were visited, and an informal reception was held at Gen Perry’s quarters after which the party left for For j Ellis.