Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-03-22
NEWS.
YESTERDAYS DISPATCHES.
ESPECIAL TO THE DAILY SENTINEL
TIMBER REGULATIONS IN
MONTANA.
A NEW HOMESTEAD LAW
Gnnnfnr Innna tn tho RnSnnn
NEW HOMESTEAD LAW.
Senator Jones to the Rescue
with Post Routes.
WASHINGTON, March 20.

lON, -Nosti ~
Nolan, Agent Of the Interior De-
partment in Montana, writes Secretary
Schurz thai despite the reports which
have gone out in the interest of timber
~depredators, cordwood is now sold
lower than eve before in the Terri
tory. None but a few rich sawmill
men have suffered by the efforts of the
Government to stop depredations.
Since the stoppage of these specula-
tons by the dollar tax, small dealers
have kept up supplies with wood from
dry and fallen timber which has here
tofore rotted.
The bill introduced by Senator
Mitchell to-day provides that all ven
| numbered sections within any rail.
| road or military road grant shall be
| opened to homestead settlement in
tracts of 100 acres, and that homestead
settlers within such grants, who have
been restricted to so acres, shall each
be allowed an additional 80 acres un-
der such negotiations as the Secretary
of the Interior may prescribe. The
bill provides that a settlers abandon
ment of his homestead fling for any
cause shall not deprive him of the
right to settle upon and obtain the title
W oItftICl Itilll olCho Claiihs
Senator Jones to day introduced a
bill to establish the following new post
routes in Nevada: From Eureka. via
Morey and Hot Creek, to Typo; from
Battle Mountain to Lewis District;
from Battle Mountain to T%uscarora;
from Ward City TO Osceola; and from
Reveille TO Pahute.
Mitchell introduced a bill establish
~. 4, pDot road fr,rn Maitland IN Ifik.
horn, Oregon.
The House Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures agreed to report
gold and silver coin.
The Board of Managers of the Ma
tional Home, for disabled volunteer
soldiers, has been in session the past
two days at the office of the Surgeon
General. There were present Chief
Justice Waite. General Butler. General
Martindale, Governor Fred. Smyth OF
New York, Judge ii. l.. Bond OF
Maryland, Hon. T.. b. Gunckle OF
Ohio, General j. $. Negley of Pennsyl.
vania, and General f. b. Walcott, The
Secretary presented the annual report.
II showed that over 5000 disabled sol
diers were cared for during the year,
bC'ijk oNct l,OOO iiiOIctifhIi uuiI1S lcfos
The total average cost of keeping each
man during the yea was SIPS. being
$40 less than for the year 1876. and a
saving to the Government OF nearly
500 900. There has been a decided
improvement in the conduct and NOR
ais OF the men, aud the number OF dis
honorable discharges is less than ever
before. 1t appeared that more than
5000 Of the men did not, during the
entire year. commit a single offense or
violate a single rnle or regulation of
the Home. The Board authorized i'm
proyements looking to an increase of
the usefulness and efficiency of the
Home, and after making the necessary
appropriations, adjourned.
~Lawlessness I'm the Black Hills.
DEADwooD, March 20.
Sheriff Caldwell and a posse entered
Custer City from Hayward's, last
night, for the purpose of arresting DR..
d. w. Flick for being an accomplish
to the purloining Of the county records