Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1887 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

A Washington dispatch states that Indian Commissioner Atkins has sent a dispatch to Indian Agent Stollsteiner, at the Southern Ute Agency in Southwestern Colorado, directing him to forthwith remove from the reservation all persons found thereon whose presence in any way tends to disturb the peace and quiet of the Indians, and if found necessary to carry out the order to call upon the military for assistance. This action of the Commissioner is based upon information that certain interested parties are trying to incite the Indians to hostilities. A special from Princeton, Mo., says: “At the Mercer County fair on Thursday afternoon Randall Blakeslee, a half-breed Indian, made a balloon ascension, hanging to a trapeze bar. In the ascent the balloon shot up suddenly, giving Blakeslee a severe wrench, and he was unable to pull himself on the bar, but managed to hold himself up by a loop which he had drawn around his wrist After traveling about a mile and a half, reaching an altitude of 2,000 feet, the balloon began to descend, but the poor fellow’s strength gave out. and when within 500 feet of the earth his grip relaxed, and ho fell to the earth, lighting on his ieet in a corn-field, his thighs being broken and driven into the trunk of his body. Death was instantaneous. ” Flagstaff (Arizona) telegram: “A feud of long standing between Tewksbury and Graham was resumed two weeks ago in an encounter at Pleasant Valley, in which three men were killed. Several engagements have occurred since, in which eleven men have been killed. The factions are cattle and sheep men, and the fight is the outgrowth of conflicting interests of the two branches stock-growing on the range.” Columbus (Ohio) special: ‘‘Josiah Terrell, of Meigs County, couvictad of killing Charles Phelps, an old miser who lived near Pomeroy, was executed in the Ohio Penitentiary annex just after midnight Friday by Warden Coffin. Terrell was convicted on purely circumstantial evidence, but stoutly protested his innocence to the last He maintained a firm demeanor on the scaffold and said the blood of an innocent man was upon the officers.”

A Denver dispatch reports that at the conference between Governor Adams and Gen. Crook the latter agreed to ulace two companies of Government troops on the line to protect settlers, and the. Utes are to have their horses back. Warrants for the arrest of Indians are to be given into the hands of United States officials. The war is practically at an end. The “ White-Caps,” a lawless mob in Harrison County, Indiana, took John Hildobrant, a Justice of the Peace, from his bed and beat him unmercifully, because they disapproved his decisions. They have also signified to a widow named Dougherty their disapproval of her choice of a prospective husband. Eau Claire (Wis.) telegram: “The Land Office here has received instructions regarding the opening of the Wisconsin Central and Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha indemnity lands by homestead and pre-emption only. The lands restored are those within the twenty-five milo limit of the Central and Omaha lines not previously selected and approved, and comprise about 325,000 acres, much of which is valuable pino lands. Thirty days’ notice will be necessary before the lands can be entered by settlers. ”