| Show w lyciy ly diw WITH all the regularity of seed time timi and harvest do rumors of indian wars come with each returning spring and despite the labora of indian commissioners sio ners whether quaker or oth otherwise erwis e and the terrible castigations the indians every little while receive from united states troops they will make descents on settlements rob emigrant or other trains crossing the plains and scalp white folks it seems as if all efforts to convert the savages from the error of such wicked ways are utterly vain this thia spring is no exception to the general rule for weeks past the telegrams have contained conalie conflicting ting statements with regard to indian matters now an indian war was imminent enother then i there was little danger of sue suc sueh such an alarming contingency arising and so on ad libi tum but in regard to indian matters as almat every other the wires are anything but reliable A report sent today to day is almost sure to be contradicted tomorrow to morrow and if the only cause to fear an indian war or indian troubles rested on reports received by telegraph there would be little cause enuse for alarm at the present this is not the case but the anticipation of a general indian war is based on information recently furnished by general parker commissioner of indian affairs the general states that there are about indian warriors eix aix thousand of whom are sioux and the remainder lna ina inder chiefly all well armed near fort sully he is satisfied they e are bent ent on war and he believes it will be the most extensive and expensive ever 1 known he thinks the indians can raise twelve thousand warriors well supplied with arms and ponies and very justly says that with such a number of men and their mode of warfare the entire cavalry force of the IT S army would be utterly inadequate to cope if the generals anticipations prove well founded many scenes of blood and butchery will probably take place during montana the summer in the territories of montana colorado wyoming and dacotah to which it is expected their raids will be confined the chief cause of discontent among the indians bithe nithe encroachment of pf the whites in general and in particular the contemplated exploration of the big horn mountains this expedition was interdicted interdict ed some months ago by the authorities at washington but owing to the pledges made by western politicians and others having influence j that tha hithe tithe rights of the indians should noibe notice ei encroached broached upon this interdict or embargo has been removed buttee but the sioux bioux and other tribes have not much faith in their white brethren and despite all their pledges they are evidently determined to resist any explorations pl orations of their mountain ranges and slope slopes and aud the setting out 0 of f the he expedition which it was expected would world take place about the middle of may will probably be the signal for a determined indian war some may think that the indians indiana are unreasonable in wishing to hinder the whites from exploring their country seeing that such explorations do and have done so much to advance civilization in the th eWest west the sympathy of the strongly on the side of civilization and there is not much to wonder at in that civilization or civilized people have never done much for them whenever the former have made their appearance the rights ts of the red man have been invariably disregarded and he has been treated with no more consideration than a wild beast he has been despoiled of his possessions and before the irresistible encroachments encroach ments of the whites he be is compelled eternally to recede none can wonder much then that the savage has so little respect for or sympathy with white folks and their civilization if the white man in his dealings wit with h the aborigines had had as much respect for beum ai as he has had for and had treated them as men and brethren or as human beings the irreconcilable antagonism now existing would never have been known but the white mans policy everywhere he be can exercise it is the policy of offeree force foree of might not right and as long as that is tia pursued in relation to the indian question so long will that question remain unsolved THE swindling fraternity of new now york have recently adopted a new mode of which soldiers discharged from the union army array are the victims there may not be many of that class in this terr tern territory atory or among our readers elsewhere but if it this Pariz paragraph raph meet the eye of one such buch it may prevent him being victimized victimised lenet i inet thit u the ng fraternity of bf the metropolis are sending circulars in in every direction through the country to discharge soldiers informing them that by a recent act of off congress every such person erson orson is entitled to acres of land and ai that at they may ob tain possession by forwarding a power I 0 attorney to the undersigned undersigner under signed with frith a fedj for vor ess ional lonal services it is scarcely necessary to add that the feel fee is all that the scamps scalps are after and that all who answer the circular and enclose green greenbacks backs will be victimised victimized MOST readers of newspapers have read about the great saving savini saving of time effected by the completion of the suez canal in voyages to the east indies from american and european ports few however ever have any real idea of thee the extraordinary atra or ry importance in this respect of the canal connecting the mediterranean with the red bed sea an exchange in illustrating the great superiority of the new route via the mediterranean suez canal and red bed sea to bombay over that of the old route by the atlantic to the same port furnishes the tho following table showing the distances now and formerly and their differences by the dhe A tl antic by bues fues diff constanel Const antl no pie 1800 ism 5 00 haita malta 2662 trieste 2840 2340 3 6 20 marseilles I 1 arse arne liles 2 7 4 3 2 76 1 cad cadis 1 6 00 2224 4 2 2978 97 lisbon 2 2500 loo LOD 2 bordeaux 1 5 2800 2 soo 2850 2 Havre 2824 2 2973 london londona am 6 2850 liverpool amsterdam 1850 1850 at pe 3 i 00 new york hjal 2439 new orleans 1120 it will be seen bytho bythe by the above thit that that thab the diminution of distance is enormous and when the advancing power and influence of the western nations in the east indies are remembered together with the increased commercial intercourse which is resulting from the idea of the importance odthe of the work superintended super intended and conducted to a successful termination by M lesseps the great french engineer may be found the canal is less than a hundred miles milea long and so far as size alone is concerned it is comparatively insignificant but the difficulties encountered in its construction almost insurmountable from the nature of the country through which it passes the wonderfully increased facilities for exchange the great civilizing agent of the age between the nations of the east and west and the great augmentation to the wealth of the world which will result from its completion placa the suez canal ahead head of any similar work wark ever attempted save it be the pacific railroad rall Bail road and viewed in this light it is no wonder that it 18 is pronounced noun nonn ced unive universally rs to be one of if the greatest triumphs ever achieved by engineering skill x suspicious characters we learn from captain sr W woolley anni anaI and ana brother brothen B J knowlton who recently bame came came in in fr fram in grantsville Grants ville that chril three ek suspicious character passed through grantsville Grants ville last saturday whom they now have reason to 0 believe wera were riding stolen horses and that the owners if lf the suspicion be correct of their thein being stolen may not hunt for them in vain we publish what they bated upon the subject some young menla menia men ia in the employ of bro woolley Vo olley fell in with these men mon the other side of the point of the mountain and ap a they were all going to grantsville Grants ville they rode together they had been leen hunting stray stock stocky they said in the tha neighborhood of bingham kanyon but burthey they had heard it was in skull valley an and they were going there to try and find it they had run out of they asked the young men it if they knew where they could get supper they replied that bro woolley never let any person go away hungry from his place and they thought they could get food there when they reached his house they told him they were hungry and had bad no money he gave them supper and breakfast and as it rained in the night lodgings in one of his houses he suspected them theland the mand mana and interrogated them closely their story did not agree with what they had told the boys one of them had said he lived at sugar house ward ho he now said he belonged to the ward their story was lame in several other points they begged two or three days provisions from captain woolley T twenty nty nive five miles from his place they came to heber P kimballs Kim balls camp he was absent and his young men were away from camp but they saw the men ride up and stop and then ride off again they rode off in such a hurry and so much like men who had been stealing that the boys suspected mischief and they returned to camp and found they had taken a valuable shot gun belonging to col kimball and a revolver belonging to the manin man in charge and some few other things they started immediately for bro B P F knowl tons camp and reached there before these strangers passed collecting what arms they could they succeeded in stopping them when the thieves found they could not escape they proffered to return the articles they had stolen if the others would let them go free this the boys foolishly promised to do they had hal had cached the gun in the brush at some point ol 01 t between capt woollens Wool leys and col min rin kimballs Kim balls bails they had also secreted two of their saddles for two of 0 them rode bareback when they passed col kimballs Kim balls the man who passed as the owner of the stock they were hunt hunting inglis la a redheaded red headed tall man the theother other two are medium sized dark men they are all rough looking scoundrels one of them villainously so they hadu S army coats blankets blan bian keta and canteens though their other clothes were civilian the redheaded red headed man at least bad a revolver the horses they rode were good halo half breeds two of them were matched dappled grey the other was a claybank with a brand which was taken to be WH on the right thigh when released they rode on do down wn the valley hohr HOME agals AGAIN bro A 0 alro brower of richmond cache co arrived in th this IS city t ay iy on thursday from irom his mission in chec the eastern a states he called in yesterday ay afternoon looking and feeling better than we ever remember to have seen him during his absence he has traveled in nebraska illinois iowa minnesota and wisconsin and ani has labored publicly in the three latter states he has had an excellent time duri ing his absence he has baptized several left others bel bei believing leving and has been well treated everywhere but like all the other elders who have been on missions he is glad that he be can say home again once morell morel THOROUGH bro jesse murphy has been with others engaged for seme some time in killing grasshoppers to preserve his crops and he no has been successful he thinks the prospects good to save twelve acres of wheat besides other crops which look very nine fine while his neighbors whose land is near his have lost everything to give an idea of the thorough measures he has taken to fight these pest pests wo we need only state the quantity destroyed yesterday by hims himself elfand and eight men and boys whom he had to help him they killed forty bushels not including the quantity they burned SANDWICH clr Cir brother george of the sandwich islands reached ogden yesterday morning at 6 and came on to this city by the morning train it will be remembered by many that bro was on a visit to this city last summer and that he left here for his field of labor on the islands in the eary early eany part of october last since then they have manufactured on their plantation eighty tons of ugar sugar and two hundred barrels of molasses all of which has been marketed except a little which he has brought home besold he sold boid twenty tons of sugar in san francisco the prospects are good on the islands the native saints are neeling fueling well they expect to commence grinding their sugar cane again in august brother and his family also brother day DaV daldon don deot deft left the tho islands at the tho same time as bro cluff and bind family the former farmei have come on ort a visit to ito their friends a at home they left on the nit uit and started for thi this eity elty city from sab san san francisco last wednesday morning BAD hon HOH franklin D richards just in from ogden this morn morning ing informs us that there therea is considerable sickness at present in that city among the children in the form of measie sand chicken pox in in addition to the grasshoppers of which they have a plentiful supply in that region caterpillars are aro ab numerous gun guu the plain west of ogden that the sage cage brush brusil looks black with them POLICE folice the following persons had audience d before judge clinton yesterday and handed over their fines that butcher mentioned yesterday was found guilty and fined 5 richard penrod arrested for fast riding on request of the judge donated aames james weston arrested for drunkenness and disturbing the peace was assessed 10 |
