The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-07-04
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IL Is Stafe0 tnat the secretary OF
War, under advice OF the Attorney
General has decided to commence snit'
against General 0. O. Howard, for a
certain amount OF money for which he
failed to account, as Commissioner u
the Freedmen's Bureau. s
There were 25 deaths from cholera
at Nashville on the 25th ult.
The following is the official report
OH ne condition of the wheat crop.
Winter wheat Is mostly harvested.
Of 753 counties from which reports
have been received, 2O2 are above av-
erage; Of 300 counties reporting spring
wheat, l0S are above average, 1l5 av-
erage, and IS below average. The
average Of winter wheat Is sOmewhas
increased, though many fields have
been winter killed and plowed up for
spring wheat and other crops. The
average offspring wheat is very largely
increased, and especially IN the North
west it is unusually promising, Indica-
tions of the crop Of 1873 are considered
at least equal to those Of June, 1874
when the department estimated the
prospective crop at 900, 600, 600 bushels.
The subsequent condition Of the growth
raised the first estimate OF the year In
the annual report of 1879. not yet pub.
lished, to be 49,997, ,020 bushels.
With equally favorable conditions the
yield may be safely set down at $780,.
100000 bushels. Insect ravages, how
ever, are reported in spring wheat,
Indicating a serious loss In some local.
tiles.
1t is said that a company of AmeFi-
cans have been organized who propose
to purchase from the Government Of
Mexico two or three of the Mexican
States with view to developing their
mineral resources. chihuahua, SonO-
ra and Tamalipas are the States alleged
to be had in view.
Collector James Mullins, late mem
Der Of Congress from the Fourth Ten
nessee District, died of cholera at Shel.
byville, Tenn, June 26th.
The Secretary of the Interior has
made the following important ruling:
When homestead is Cancelled, and
the homestead claimant has found land
at the date OF such cancellation, with
Others who design taking lands under
the pre-emption laws, the hOmesteades
being legally upon the land his, settle
ment right vests instantly on such
cancellation; while claimants, having
gone on the land while it was covered
by said homeSteadS, were trespassers,
and the homestead claimant Is the pre-
ierred party under the pre-emption
laws.
Hon. J. X. Luttrell, Congressman
elect from the Third California Dis.
trict, has written letter to Commis-
sioner Smith of the Indian Bureau CIV
ing some conclusions,OG hjR relative to
the origin ofthe Mob ara He thinks
the war was caused b. wrongful acts
of Calitornia-whiAe men. During his
recent visittO the scene Of the Modos
war, he was informed on what seemed
to. him reliable authority, that the
Modocs were compelled to slaughter
their horses tor food on the Klamath
reservation, and having exhausted
their means Of subsistence, were then
compelled to seek fishing and hunting
grounds on their old reservation on
Lost river. He expresses the regret
tlil opinion, that corruption and sWind-
ling against the Government, peoph
and Indians, were never more exten
siVely practiced on Indian reserva
tions on the Pacific coast, than now,
In letter 70 Secretary Delano, he cOn-
cludes by regretting that Mr.. MeaCb.
am and Mr.. Steel were not retained -
as they managed a.
fairs to the satisfaction of the people
and Indians, He thinks before the
Modoc chiefs are launched into eternity
their testimony should be taken In re.
alton to corruption practiced by In
dian agents; and offers bis services, u
desired, to assist In the investigation,
During the absence Of his parents as
! funeral, Edward Weston, Of WASH
lngton, aged twelve years, shot himaaN
Iatally on the 2Sth nlt.
A duel was fought In Canada, ~
gently, by two New York men. grow
Ing out OF domestic inAdelity In tha
Iamily of one oftheM. They took ons
IhOt apiece at each other, and aheN
vent home.
AtSprIngheld, Mass, on the 29tA
llt., H. Smith was executed for tn
murder ofC. H. Sackest, last Novern..
leP.
The jury In the Woodruff, Claim
nd Blood case, under Instructions os
Judge BlatchfOFd, Of New Yerk, hAVe
etuFned . verdict of not guilty.
Al Baltimore on Tie aSth ult,, no
olOFed men wsEe sentenced 10 D
Angcd. One was convicted Of muR
eT, tAe osAeF rapa,
Ihase wtsa eight deAtAs from ohOk
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