Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-09-06
TELEGEAPHIC &c.
Inter FROM THE ATLANTIC STATES.
Nevada.

'The New York sun on Railway Exiortion In
Nevada.
New YoEK, Aug. 30.-To-day's S"n
says the people of Nevada are as bitter
i'll their complaints against the extor-
lions practiccd by the Central Pacific
Railroad Company as are those of CAL
itornia, and with good cause, as the
/ Company discri,ninates severely against
them i'll freight rates and passenger
! fares. People going to the Atlantic
States from Nevada, usually send to
Sacramento or San Francisco for tick
cts, as prices from California are much
less than for shorter distance. Peo-
pie of Elko arc compelled to pay much
! higher freight rates from Chicago to
Elko than the Company charges from
New York to Japan. Moreover, it is
aaid that the Central Pacific ring has
purchased most OF the productive coal
mines in Wyoming, which are the
source of the coal supply for Nevada,
and that it intends to monopOlize the
fuel trade by crushing all rivalry
through eXtravagant charges for trans
pOltation.
Recall Of Japanese Students.
New YORK, Aug. 31.-Heno Moto
writes to the London Times that all
the young men sent out by the Japanese
Government to Europe and America,
with view of applying themselves to
study different branches, have since been
ordered to return home. Students at
present number over six hundred The
reason given for the recall is that upon
the return of students from Europe and
America they We're unable to bear sat
isfactory examination III the studies
they were pursuing. This failure is
attributed to the want of Il knowledge
of the language of the country III which
they studied. The japanese Govern
mcnt, acting upon this, have resolved
to send no more students abroad until
such time as they have undergone
some three or four years tuition in u
home college and can submit to Il
rigid examination in English, French
and German.
Over the Fails.
READING, Pa, Aug. 81. This morn
ing boat containing two men and II
woman, was swept over the falls at
Schuylli river, in this city. One OF
the men and the woman were drowned.
Their names are Charles Harmony and
Mary Herbert. The other, youn.
man named Hoffman, escaped by swim
ming. He made statement to the
officials to the effect that Harmony
rowed the boat over the falls intention
ally, thereby carrying out threat he
had made that the people would not
see him much longer. He had adilli
Guilty with woman last night i'll a beer
garden, which is supposed to have led
him to the deed. The woman's body
has been recovered.
CINCINNATI, August 3O.-Adyices from
Lancaster, Kentucy, show the total
deaths to be 81 from cholera since the
disease began. Sixty white families,
beside large number of single persons
have left town.
MlLLERsBuHGH, Ky, Sept. 1.-The
cholera is fearful here. There were
fifteen deaths in town this morning,
and several others will be dead pres
emily. 1t was never so violent hero be-
fore. The most of the cases thus far
are negroes. There have been thirty
deaths here since Thursday last.
Important Department Ruling.
WASHINGTON, July 29.-The Secretary
of the Treasury has issued circular to
Collectors of Customs throughout the
country, directing that agents and at
torneys shall not be permitted to enter
imported goods unless upon filing an
affidavit with the Collector that the prin-
cipal is too sick to be present at the
Custom House, or is absent from the
country.
The Treasury Department decided,
to-day, that British Columbia is not en-
titled to the benefits of the Treaty of
Washington so far as the free importa-
ton of fish and fish oil is concerned, it
not having been part of the Domin-
ion of Canada at the time of signing
the treaty, and that the part of said
Dominion embraced in the treaty, is
that portion on the Atlantic side.
BosroN, Sept. IA well attended public
meeting was held to-day under the auspices
of the Boston Grange. The meeting was
called to order by John b. Bartlett, Master of
the Boston Grange, who stated that the prin-
cipal object was to effect cheap transportation
Of products from the West to the East and
reform in railroad management. which was
Abbott, General Deputy of the National
Grange, spoke of the great revolution now go
ing on the country, and urged the impor
lance of putting down railway monopoles.
He gave statistics OF the earnings of differ
ent railroads, necessarily reducing the profit
of the producer to almost nothing. He con-
tended that the cost of transportionan travel
could be reduced to oue-quartcr of the pres
ent rates, and considered the present manage
ment of our railway system downright rob
berry. He claimed that Order of the Patrons
of Husbandry was the only organization that
has, with any degree of success, met this
monopoly.
The Public Debt and the Railway.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-The public debt state
ment for the past month shows the total debt
to be S2239, 7Oi2O9 total interest, 1872, 49, SOB.