Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1876-05-09
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MISCELLANEOUS.
A Female Pension Agent Gives
Some Curious Testimony.
The Winsbw Case Discussed.
A Letter on Extradition Matters
from the Secretary
Of State.
Which is Addressed to Lord
Derby.
One Hundred Sutdiers Ordered
to the Black Hills.
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Boss Tweed Turns Up in Canada.
Boss Tweed Turns Up in Canada. !.
WASHINGTON
A SWEET MoRs FL.

A SWEET MoKsEa..
WAsillNGfoN, May 9.-Miss Ada
Sweet, pension agent At Chicago,
testified before the committee on civil
service this morning, in relation to =
charge of paying money tor her posi-
ton as pension agent. She testified
she was All applicant for the position,
and reconsideration of receiving the
appointment agreed to pay David
Blakcly, the pension agent " 100, and
was directed by him to pay he money
over to BIB. Campbell, U. S. marshal
for that district. Whcn she had paid
the 2,l0o she notified BlAkely and
CampbelI that she had performed her
part OF the contract, but Campbell
told her that it was not correct; that
he had note against Blakcly for Ave
thousand dollars, aud she was to pay
the whole Of that note. Witness said
that Campbell is General B.bcock' s
father-in-law. Considerable corres-
pondence passed between Ill parties
on the subject. Bl4kely WAS also q
dcianlter Ms pension agent in the sum
OF $4,000, when he turned the ctficr
over TO Miss Sweet. He turned over
to her $37 ,Oo0, and induced her to
give ham receipt for 100000
Ia cover up his d.6cu aud promised
To stlen, il IN few weeks. He
did not d5so, aud when the off ;e
was visited by Hi official from the
pension. office, aud Miss Sweet told
hlm the whole story, the agent told
her he would delay the examination
-ef her Office until he was on lns return
trip so US to allo. some further time
for paying tins de6ci'
One day after the Minnesota cleo
ton, Us. Baker, of Maine, com
missioner of pensions, aud Blakely,
came into her Office and demanded
that the three thousand dollars deficit
be paid that day,
changed it upon her as her own deficit.
She went I'd Campbell and between
them the amount was raised. Camp
bell.gave her note for about eighteen
hundred dollars, which she endorsed
and got discounted, and she raised the
balance on that occasion. Blakely
and the commissioner were great
friends, and Baker knew of the ar,
rangemcnt she had5 made with
Blukely.
When the president found out she
was paying out money for her ap-
pointment, he notified her that con-
tinuance of it would be sufficient
csusc for removal This was after
she had paid the &2, 100.
She had paid out SO much on that
account that SO far she received no
benefit from her appointment as pen
sion agent, but had run into debt,
and was still behind about ~ 900.
Baker is now surveyor geaersl for
Minnesota and Blakely is publishing
paper somewhere in that VICINITY
Adjourned.
". THE WINSTON NATTER.
The letter Of TIE secretary of the
state, in the Winslow extradition case,
which our clsarae d'af;a,rs At London
WAS devoted to present to the aifen-
tion Of Lord Derby, was made public Al
noon. N reviews at great length the
circumstances connected with the ex-
tradition OF Lawrence, on. which case
the correspondence in the Winslow
matter WAS bated concluding portion
of the letter which.is as follows will
: sufhce to show the position taken
by cur government:
: Since the passage OF the act of
1870, Great Britain has obtained from
this government some 13 warrants of
extradltion and has instituted 4 much
larger number OF proceedings to Oh
tain cxtradition. In no instance has
Great Britain thought it necessary to
order any stipulation rs she now asks
from The Initea States, er,e presen,
her requests for extradition in any
way different from that in which they
were presented prior to 1870. The