Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1885 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The damage to winter wheat in Ohio from severe freezing will reach 25 per cent. From reports received by Mr. S. W. Tallmadge, of Milwaukee, he estimates that the yield of 1885 throughout the country will fall largely below that of last year. Dispatches from the West state that there are about 500 Oklahoma boomers at Arkansas City. A dozen or more of their leaders waived examination by a United States Commissioner at Wichita, and gave bail. Five companies of cavalry have camped near Arkansas City, and two companies of Infantry are at the Ponca agency. The Denver Chamber of Commerce unanimously adopted resolutions requesting the new Secretary of the Treasury to pay out the silver coin now hoarded in the vaults of the Treasury, in order to stop the contraction of the currency, and thus relieve the business depression of the country. Since Feb. 1 five manufacturing establishments at Detroit have put 2,300 men to work. A Mitchell (Dakota) dispatch reports that interest in the rush for the newlyopened Crow Creek reservation is greatly Increased on account of the report, which has reached that place, that the Indians are sweeping down on the white settlers, driving them off the land, and destroying their improvements. Dispatches have been received from Col. King, of Chamberlain, requesting rifles and ammunition to be forwarded Immediately, and a car-load of munitions of war was sent to the front by special train. The Whole country is preparing to arise en masse, and, if the Indians persist in impeding settlement, trouble of a serious character may be apprehended.

It being expected that the National Encampment, G. A. R., will be held at Sacramento in 1886, the California Legislatui e has appropriated $25,000 to defray the expenses. The dry-goods firm of W. EL Gumersol & Co., of St Louis, which recently failed for SIIO,OOO, has settled in cash and notes at the rite of 50 per cent, and will resume business. The Indiana State Board of Finance has awarded the temporary loan of $600,000 to Walter Stanton, of New York, who bid 101% per cent Henry Linze, a Prussian, living at No. 165 Augusta street Chicago, killed his wife by shooting her, and then killed himself, in a fit of jealousy. They came to the country eight years ago, and had separated seven times, and led a very unhappy life. They leave one child, a girl 7 years of age. Pleuro-pneumonia has developed in a herd of Jersey cattle belonging to the State Lunatic Asylum at Fulton, Mo., and eight cows have died within a month and others are sick. The infection was communicated by a bull purchased last July from S. 8. Trip, of Peoria, 111. The bottom-lands in Clark County, Missouri, bordering on the Des Moines and Mississippi Rivers, are a sea of water and ice, and the country for seven miles west and farther south is flooded to a depth varying from one to five feet. Three miles of the Egyptian Levee on the Des Moines is gone, and the water of the river finds an outlet over the farming lands. St. Francisville and a portion of Alexandria are flooded, and the inhabitants have moved out. The Wanash has three miles of track under water west of Alexandria. T 1 io bulk of the ice from 160 miles Of the Des Moines Is packed in the lower thirty miles of the river. The Governor of Kansas has signed Use new temperance bill, which requires that eittse®# shall appear before the County Attankey and testify under oath as to their

knowledge of the jairebase and sale of liquors, thus doing away with the grand jury investigations on the subject. Three of the convicts who escaped from the Michigan State Prison were tracked through the snow from MosherviUe to Jonesville, jaded and hungry, and sent back to serve out their sentences. The action taken by Congress in its closing hours with regard to the Oklahoma question was briefly this: The Western Representatives defeated the Dawes bill which had passed the Senate, and the Ryan amendment to the Indian bill was adopted, directing the President to enter Into negotiations with the Indians with a view to opening Oklahoma to settlement. The question as to whether these negotiations shall be opened through the agency of a commission or not is left to the President’s discretion. Ryan and other friends of the settlers think that the negotiations will result in the opening of the lands to colonists. A dispatch from the West states that "Capt. Couch and Gen. Hatch have both left Wichita, Kan., for the border of Indian Territory, the former to confer with the colonists assembling there and the latter to station his troops to prevent the contemplated movement toward Oklahoma.”