The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-24
Internal Revenue Officers
Arrested.
The Annual Reaper Muir
ders Commenced.
The iowa City Disaster.
Fights, Fires. Suicides,
Murders, Etc.

tary of state that county clerks in this state
refuse to send for the statutes of the state
aud keep them on sale. The clerks, when
called upon for an explanation, say that
they are required to pay the express
charges on the books. and that the coun-
ties refuse to refund these charges, and
they are therefore losers to these amounts
Colonel Harlow, secretary of state, under
the circumstances, applied to the attorney
general for an opinion as to his duty and
| that OF the county clerks. The attorney
general sums up his opinion as follows:
IF the county clerks refuse to receive and
sell the statues, as they may be required
to do in their respective counties, they vio-
late their official duty. The law has clear
| ly imposed this duty upon these officers,
and its faithful discharge is due to the
people of their respective counties. The
object of the legislature was to place the
statute laws of the state within the reach
of all the people, at a cost which would
| simply cover the expense of their publica-
ton, This is accomplished by keeping the
respective county clerks supplied with the
statutes for sale at the price fixed in the
law. After the distribution to the county
clerks of the first 5000 copies, in proper
ton to the population, [ think you are
authorized to distribute the rest of the edi-
ton, as. they may be required, in the re-
spcctive counties"
The secretary of state has begun the
work of removal to the new state house,
and thinks it will take two months to get
completely fitted up in his new quarters
The rooms at the new state house will not
be ready for the officers to occupy them be-
fore the 1St of Septemhar
/ DECATUR, ILL.,, July pa party of old
miners yesterday visited the recently dis
covered gold fields near this city, and after
prospecting in different places along the
stream, pan of dirt was taken out of
Dutch gulch, washed, and found to contain
from twenty to thirty cents worth of the
shining yellow metal Some of the party
not feeling satisfied, and fearing that a
trick of some sort had been perpetrated,
procured another pan of Dirt this time tax
ing it off the top, which was washed and
found to contain from three to four cents
worth. This last pan was pronounced by
Captain Mason and Mr.. Grow, who have
followed mining in California, as being
rich enough in gold to pay we'll for mining,
either on large or small scale.
The latest report to-day is that gold has
been found on the land belonging to DIR.
, L. n Bills, adjoining that of Mr.. Kepler
A specimen found here was brought to the
city to-day, and we learn that it stood the
test applied to it. Further developments
will be awaited with great interest. Mr..
: Kepler has refused 1900 per acre for his
eighty acres of land.
= Department of Agriculture for July l.
Il Al - g
, wheat together at about 80 per cent of ar
h average. Winter wheat, including Cali
i fornia, averages "a, and spring wheat &c.
+ Spring wheat in the northeast:and north
v west is generally IN high condition Oi
It the winter wheat area the south Atlantic
= and Gulf states are generally above The
r average, but in the middle states the con
l. diton is very low, New York ranging dowr
l. to As West of the Alleghenies the pros
IS pect is better, the state averages beins
II between II in Ohio and 80 in Iowa. Cal
l. ifornia reports winter wheat at 76, apC
d spring wheat at IS.
y y WINTHROP, Me-, July 23.-The robber,
q of the Winthrop National Bank occurred
y about o o'clock this morning The banl
r. lis on the second floor of brick building OF
Main street, near the Winthrop House
: The safes were blown open by nitro gly
cerine. There were three distinct explo
sions, all of which were heard by severa
persons. The robbers left within ten min
utes of the last explosion, which blew ou
D all the windows in the front part of tn
bank, and caused general smash-up in
, side. The contents Of the main safe wer,
so badly mutilated, and so many frag
ments were left behind, that it is though
!. the amount secured by the robbers coul,
TT not have been large. The capital of tn
bank is 100000, and the amount of de
posts in the savings bank were about 800,
: 900. The safes of both institutions wer
y rifed of their entire contents. The stand
ing of the bank, the directors say, will NO
be impaired. Four men haYe been arrest
ed on suspicion of being the robbers.
MILWAUKEE, July 23.-J. NJ. Bear
/. Collector Of Internal Revenue, and the De
u putty Collector, were arrested to-day on a
7 order issued by the commissioner OF stat
} court on complaint Of one Ferdinand W
! Hartman. The collector had seized di
, tillery and contents to inforce the paymer
: of an assessment. Among the content
. were fourteen barrels of high wines,
J which Hartman claimes to be the owner
The defendents were held to bail in tt
10 sum of $4,000.
b, ST. LOUIS, July 23-The Globe Dem
re- crat has brief account of a desperate a
is fray between the political factions of Il
as Cherokee Indian nation at Skin Bayo
twelve miles from Fort Smith, Ark, {
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