Show trl irl EDITOR TO ai I 1 A LS alti CROOKS expedition AFTER 1 THE SIOUX luca I 1 I 1 JQ from a participant a t tte ite recent military expedition arnst the bioux sioux indians under 14 i neni nemi crook la Is published in the 7 weirton hutton button star calip oani ING CHEYENNE april 9 1876 wo vo arrived here a few days ago aa a A youcan bet we were mighty glad of it too since we left luft here wy vu have traveled nearly miles grad a ad had cold weather all the time I 1 first fi rbt ta time timo that we knew of any I 1 fian iian lian leing ab about out was at camp Cl llie rire rine river where they se at rush sh on our oun beef herd and i c t ono one baio hider herder and ran off the v Y the next time they IV v ke us up was wag on powder river at r here hero they were on I 1 I 1 in kh sides of us about 9 ia lathe evening pv ening they co ca 8 and cfall if ali ail all the bullets that t haboc ya hoc boc had conie conle come into camp they would have done a good deal of chief but they shat too high I 1 they succeeded in hitting one r T ti ll a 11 Inthe luthe jaw they might nave bave sh al altale thil thit tall at I 1 n night I 1 g ai t as far as t the thu h e packers N v W concerned re aa as we made a are re proof shelter out of the c ruo argo and stowed ourselves our oui selves away h bulae mb of ug us shivered a good deal lit bit L it st was on account of the coid cold cold coid lea wea ves not iong long after we laid over one day ard aad packed up at highland traveled till morning and made matle 45 miles therk then went to tongue river and down it until the stouts smuts found a mule then we wen went t into camp for that was glory one day next day we for powder river traveled all ofay when the pack trains camped and abd six companies and thirty scouts went on they rode all highfi highland and ana next morning struck a village of eighty lodges dashed in captured seven hundred ponies and mules shot an old squaw in the thigh burned lodges and contents went into camp glory enough for an another other day indians came into damp limp elmp after night and drove every d d hoof onn off except about 30 head scrawl f noss loss three men killed killel dap 0 d and one man rilan scalped scalded in sight 1 of the command then eed ced the grand retreat to which was four tour or five days Inai inal cli ell the trail is pretty well lined with played out mules and 4 the last dayd days march into jumo 1146 we lost 22 head when one out it was scot and so c nedd the fint first expedition against tha th laux sioux leux I 1 but crook is fitting up a now nov OU tait nud and thinks he wilt win lext next time HISTORIES AS ag stated I 1 in a dispatch in yesterdays ai E ws the governor of the state of illinois in accordance with a suggestion in a joint resolution recently passed by congress on the subject has issued a proclamation urging th the people of that state t to 0 assemble on the coming bourth fourth of jl 1 j t in their vadious various gowns owns and county seats and there hear a historical sketch of their respective town or county sald said sketch to be mong among the local state ad aud federal are arc archives hives bives in order to perpetuate and render more acau written history of the lid lla sid a fous foug localities of the country thia this is a good idea and worthy of general dd adoption option such historical sketches however should be y eltten itten very carefully and with h ia lil lii igent Ill ll gent candid impartial de hoi litt nation ration and discrimination not ly any means as Ps they are very ii heiy liely hely ely to be ill in many cases with irly parly party or sectional prejudice the i 03 i high coloring of this kind they E c given givert the better and the ahe more an at curate they will be the more more hore trustworthy and the more instructive dind wind and useful to posterity IS IA examining and canvassing own on history individually and people can hearp learn much their wisdom and their A ay their successes and their la ares iree their joys and their thein their noble deeds and their i i mets i are there before them t L c of odthe tho the excitement and pas el bla ala of the moment and can be cal cai villy killy reviewed and Iiii impartially hed bed bedin hedin in the light and soberness of unimpassioned judgment and from the verdict which may be then passed upon them much in st ruction and wisdom may be obtained I 1 the latter day saints or nor mormon people are intimately connected 11 with the tho earlier history of portions of illinois and if an impartial and accurate history of its various towns and counties is de sired it would be well to obtain from the people named many important particulars which it may way be difficult if not impossible to obtain from any other persons they were the founders of nauvoo as a place of impo importance artance and had much mu eb to do with early and anji important events in hancock county and some other counties and c consequently they would be able to furnish much valuable An information formation essential to a correct and ano p complete history of those localities A CANCER SCARE IN OMAHA tiley THEY have a cancer scare in omaha A leading lady of that city recently suffered red greatly and died from that disease or tile the severe treatment of it and now the cf cancer eancer doctor tells the people th that atthe the air is full of cancer that it is contagious etc and the feminine port portion on of the community are quite excited about it after stating that the vast variety of non cancerous tumors and ulcers are often misnamed cancers the omaha herard herald says that genuine cancer as intelligent physicians know and honest physicians declare is incurable and therefore they never subject patients afflicted with it to a slow siow process of torture the kerald sordid concludes thus desay to I 1 the women of omaha dismiss your fears J just pst as we said to the mad dog maniacs manini es years ago we recall only three cases of genuine cancer among the tens of thousands of women who have lived in omaha in the past awen twenty ty oe one years this proves that the disease is as rare as it is terrible and there I 1 is no ground whatever for which w aich our friend ha has s called pu pur ratten attention ai A koble NOBLE NOBLE pun run PURPOSE posE PATRICK donohoe ot oi ibe abe the boston pilot lately became bankrupt in addition to carrying on the news newspaper he did a private tanking ranking business in which be he received on deposit about from hardworking men and women 1 in sums suma of 25 and upwards the thet conal dence deuce these poor people Te posed reposed in his integrity was ill alabed patrick deceived them and put their savings to his own uses which re suited in a large amount of sorrow and suffering to the defran defrauded ded depositors po the pitiful stories of these poor wronged people were detailed id in the ears of archbishop williams and the priests of Bosto boston nand and he determined to apply himself to their relief he bought the pilot put ut into the busi busl business nees ness and designed to ralso raise more moro money in its behalf though in no way responsible for the debts of the former owner the archbishop proposes to pay every dollar due to the poor p people who deposited moue moul money y with donohoe this is a most noble purpose on the part of archbishop williams and stamps him as one ono of the few really noble men of the ago age we live in |