The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-08-03
WASHINGTON.
Appointments BY tho Prssident.
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Appointments BY tho Prestdent.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-The President
has made the following appointments
S. s. Slater to be Register in Land Office
of Idaho territory. Lucius Wick, Reg
lister in Land Office of Sacramento
Barclay White, to be Superintendent o.
Indian Affairs of the Northern District
and w. Lincoln, Appraiser Of Merchan
disc at Boston, Mass. Jos. S. Reinolds
and B. Donaldson, Of Idaho, to be Com
missioners for the Territory at the cele.
bration of the hundredth anniversary
Of the Declaration Of Independence a,
Philadelphia.
McGarahan and New Idria Claims
By a decision rendered to-day by the
Secretary Of the Interior, both the
McGarahan and the New Idria claims
were thrown out. This is in accord
ance with General Buffers theory that
neither party has right'to the proper
ty, but that it belongs to the United
States.
Indian Affairs.
A letter from an Indian agent, dated
July 22d, from the Kiowa agency, In
dian Territory, says: have been in
formed by the Judge Of Jackson county
that Santanta and Big Tree have beer
sentenced to be hung on the lst day o.
September. He writes me that he
would write to the Government and re
quest to have the sentence commutet
to imprisonment for lie, which he hoped
would be done. The Kiowa Indianl
have not come in yet or made any dep
relations that he had heard OF. They
are camped on the North Fork Of Red
river. near the mouth Of McClellans
creek, in Texas.
A telegram dated Fort Laramie, July
80, addressed to the officers Of the In
dian Bureau at that post, states thai
the Sioux are now friendly. Both
whites and Indians are well satisfied
with the acts OF the Government. AL
statements to the contrary are per
fectly groundless and utterly false.
(Signed,) j. WALL,
Special Indian Agent.
Z. w. CRIrTENDEN,
9Th Cavalry.
Position OF Judge Reynolds.
Judge Reynolds is very much grieved
at the manner in which he has been
reported by a correspondent of the
Journal of Commerce. lie says il the
correspondent had reported all he said
he would not complain, and it would
show himself right before the public
He addresses letter to Hon. A. II
Stephens, in which he says: IL now
sav to you that l freely endorse your
views, and am at loss to conceive
how any Southern man can sustain his
political integrity and consistently ad
vocate the New Departure doctrine.
The Ku. .KIux Committee in Session
The Ku-Klux Sub Committee is still
engaged in the examination OF wit
nesses. Nothing OF special interest ha:
been ELECTED. One class of witnessed
testify to peace and order and the alb
sence OF the Ku.Klux organizations il
certain Southern localities, while an
other class testify in an opposite direc'
ton. 1t is stated that the Sub-Com'
mittee will be sent in October to inves
tigate the facts connected with alleged
Ku-Klux, three hundred of whom were
indicted at recent term Of the United
States Circuit Court at Oxford, Mlssis
sippi.
After careful consideration the Secre
tary of the Treasury is OF opinion tha
the act of July 9th, 1861, does not au
thorize him to pay the war claims Of tn.
State OF Kentucky for services rendered
by the State of Kentucky by her mill
tary during the late rebellion. He is o.
opinion, however, that the equity Of the
case demands recognition, and refers
General Hewitt to Congress with tha
endor sement.