Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The special commissioner sent out West by the Chicago Tribune to investigate the gold region of the Cceur d’Alene Mountains, reports that there is no doubt of the existence of gold deposits along the banks of Eagle Cieek. On a forty feet above the water he himself washed out 15 or 20 cents' worth of gold from a handful of dirt, and another Chicagoan secured between 26 and 30 cents’ worth in the same way. But he does not undertake to say from this that there is gold in sufficient amount to pay. Claims are not being worked at the present time, owing to the deep snow, nor are they likely to be worko 1 for six .weeks to come. It is believed there will be trouble in the district on account of epposing claims when the mining season opens. Ail persons are warned against attempting to enter the region for the next six weeks, as during the spring breaking-up travel will be far more difficult than it was during even the severest portion of the winter. A gale of sixty miles an hour struck Denver, unroofing the City Hall and two of the finest blocks. A hurricane at Kansas City unroofed three dwellings and tore up the sidewalk for a distance of two blocks. The first through train from the City of Mexico reached Chicago on the 26th ult. The Legislature of New Mexico has passed a bill fixing the oapital at Santa Fe, and appropriating $200,000 for a building, notwithstanding determined opposition from Las Vegas and Albuquerque. The Illinois State Labor Association, in session at Chicago, adopted a platform demanding the abolition of the contract system tor convicts, the estabiisament of boards of

ai nitration, and the enactment of an eignthour law except for farm bands. Jndd Crouch and Dan Holcomb were held for trial at Jackson, Mich., for the murder of the Crouch family.