Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Much opposition is reported from the Cherokees of Indian Territory to the bills introduced in Congress to allot the land in severalty to the Indians and open up the country to settlement... .Omaha spent $3 in building last year, the banks did a business of $115,000,000, the product of the factories amounted to $25,000,000, and the wholesale trade to $29,680,000.... Fire at Detroit destroyed !). M. Ferry & Co.’s mammoth seed house, 'White’s Grand Theater, and the Wesson Block, and badly soorched other structures, creating a total loss of about $1,500,000. One fireman was instantly killed by falling walls, and Another was seriously injured. Ferry & Co, carried insurance amounting to $460 ,000.... A gentleman recently from California, in discussing the race to the Pacific coast between the Burlington, Northwestern, and Santa Fe Boads, states that the former has secured an option on the California and Nevada Boad, with a terminus on the Bay of San Francisco and rights of way through the interior counties. It is not improbable that the Northwestern will lease the Central Pacific, with which it expects to connect at Ogden within six months, as it is pushing westward at the rate of a mile per day. The Southern Pacific Company is said to have offered the Santa Fe managers an opporterms. St. Paul (Minn.) dispatch: “The weather is so mild that overcoats have been cast aside, and lawn tennis is being played in the open air. One citizen exhibited a bunch of pansies that blossomed in his front yard, and another appeared in the street clad in a linen duster and straw hat. and carrying a fan.” The Toledo, Cincinnati and St, Louis Boad was last week sold under foreclosure. The St. Louis division went at $901,000, and the Toledo section at $600,000, the Seney syndicate being the purchasers. The entire system is to be reorganized as a standard-gauge road... .The Ohio Central Boad, which was recently sold under foret, closure, has taken the title of the Kanawha and Ohio. All the offices of the road have been removed to Charleston, W. Va. ... .Brigham Hampton, the Mormon conspirator, who had planned to entrap “Gentiles” into the commission of unchaste acts, was sentenced at Salt Lake City to one year in the county jail... .The District Attorney at Omaha has been instructed by tile Attorney General to comfnence civil and criminal proceedings against ten persons who have inclosed 80,000 acres of public lands, having first given due notice to the offenders.

Thebe is some apprehension in New Mexico of an outbreak of Navajo Indians. ... .Woodside beat toe best American bicycle record at Minneapolis, having made 266 mils s in twenty-six hours.... There were sixtyvonviclious for unlawful cohabitation under the Edmunds law in Utah last year .... attempt is being made by a number of leading Cherokees to set aside toe lease of a tract of land known as toe Cherokee Outlet to a syndicate of cattlemen..’.. A Lafayette, Ind., physician took possession of an illegitimate child, at whose birth he had officiated, because the unfortunate-mother had not the means to pay his bin.... The recent murder of four members bf the Knoch family, in a suburb of Detroit, was followed by the butchery of the aged mother, whose skull was found to have been fractured. .. .Incorporation papers have been filed at Topeka for toe Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Kailway, with a capital stock of $15,000 ,000, which proposes to build a line and six brimehes aggregating 700 miles in length. The incorporators are closely identified with toe Bock Island Boad. The main track is to ran from Larkin, Kan., through nine counties, including Beno. : ■ ■ - ■ • t