Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-03
THE EVEHyING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

IovERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal
revenue, s3l5,4Cl: customs, $780,
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the four per cent. loan to
day, So, 107,9jO.
THE POTTER COMMITTEE.-A letter received
here today from Hon. Clarkson N. Potter,
chairman of the investigating committee,
states that the committee will resume It's SeS-
siOns in New York city on the 18th instant,
and that the members of the MacVeigh com
mission have been summoned as witnesses.
THE COMMISSION appointed by the Senat.
to take into consideration and report upon
the subject OF the sewerage system of Wash
ingtOn is arranging to hold a session at Rye
Beach, n. H. Why commission assigned TO
such duty want to meet at a place where there
are no sewers, is one OF those things no
feler can find out until after he attainS
seat in Congress"
CONTRACT FOR CARPETS AwARDED.-John
II. Pray, Sons & Co., of Boston, Mass, were
to-day awarded the contract for furnishing
twenty thousand yards, more or less, of five
frame body Brussels carpets Lowell manufac-
tory, for public buildings
AN INDIAN MURDERER LYNCHED.-Indian
Agent j. III. Stout, at the Pima agency, Ari-
ZODa, reports the lynching by mob of an
Indian belonging to that reservation. The
Indian had killed his father, and was confined
taken and hung. The act is universally con-
demned by the better part OF the community.
OWING TO THE GREAT DEMAND for the four
per cent. cOnsolS of 1907, the Secretary of the
Treasury has directed the paper mill at Ches
ter, Pa, which makes the distinctive fiberiZed
paper on which the bonds and notes are
printed, to resume operations, which have
been suspended for some weeks.
YELLOW FEVER Observation-Disclosures
have been received at the Post Office depart
ment, cOrrObOrative of the news that trains
from New Orleans are detained outside of
Mobile, at the county line, - miles distant,
and passengers and freight transferred,
neither beng permitted to pass through the
city.
RED CLOUD AGENCY FLOODED.-Informa-
tiOn has been received at the Indian office
from Red Cloud agency, d. T., that owing to
heavy rains Medicine creek overhowed
week or two ago, surrounding the StorehOuSe,
stable, slaughter house and cattle corral with
water. Communication with the military post
is cut off. The Medicine cannot be crossed.
If there had been eight or ten inches more
have been swept from its foundation. 1t was
feared that the flood and damaged roads
would prevent the Indians from coming in for
rations when due, and that suffering would
enSue.
IT LEAKS OUT that the army commission,
whchMet recently at Greenbrier White Sui
phur Springs TO prepare plan of army re-
organization, did nothing at all except develop
the fact that an agreement upon plan which
would meet the unanimous approval of the
commission is simply impossible, unless some
OF It's members undergo change of heart.
PERsONAL.-Gen. Raum, commissioner of
internal revenue, has gone to Cape May where
Mrs. Raum and family are spending the sum-
mer; The general will return to Washington
and Miss Sallie Anderson, OF savannah, Ga.
are the guests of Rear Admiral and Mrs. Am
men, at atAmmendale, Md. w. B. Reed,
OF this city, sailed from New York to-day for
trip to Europe, and will visit the Paris Expo
SitiOn.
SECRETARY THOMPSON will return to Wash
ingtOn tomorrow morning, and assume com.
mand of the Navy department on Monday, re-
lleylng AttOrneytieneral DeVenS, who will re
sumo the navigation of the Department Of
Justice.
REVENUE APPOINTMENTS. - Thomas G.
Spranger and Samuel C. Scott have been ap.
pointed internal revenue gaugerS for the 7th
collection district OF Indiana
HOsTnEs IN NEvADA.-The Commissions
of Indian Affairs has received dispatch
from Agent GheeD, at ElkO, Nevada, which
says: "a telegram from Silver City, Idaho,
states that the hostile Indians have come back
and killed stage driver yesterday. Northern
Nevada is again in danger" 1t appears from
this that the hOstileS who have been figuring
in eastern Oregon and western Idaho are
making their way southwark towards Nevada.
Agent Gheen asks permission to spend small
sam OF money in going north to look after his
Indians and the approaching hOstiles, and
leave to do so has been granted.
THE TREASURY now holds $3is, ,5OO,7 100 in
I. s. bonds to secure national bank circula-.
ton, and Sl3,SOS, 400 in y. bonds to secure
rNIrh1 1rn 6arNn do
circulation for week ending today sl,264,9)O.
I. 5. bonds held for circulation Withdrawn
during week ending to-day, l,292,900
AWARDS OF CONTRACTS for the construction
of thirteen complete life saving stations on
the coast of North Carolina and Virginia, a
full account of which was given in the STAR
OF Thursday, were made yesterday as follows:
James IL. CalrOn, OF Norfolk, Va, seven life
saving stations on the coast of North Carolina
and Virginia, $3.50 each. Allen A. McCul-
Tough, Norfolk. Va, six life saving stations on
the coast OF North Carolina, at $2,2i0 each.
1heSe stations are to be completed and turned
over to the government by the 18th of Novem-
Der.
A FIVE DOLLAR COUNTERFEIT legal-tender
note, OF the new issue SERIES was presented at
the Treasury this morning and .ncelled. The
note was evidently printed from the original
plate, but on inferior paper
in special car on their way east t. day. The
President and Secretary of State regard the
mission OF the embassy as one of great i'm
pOrtance, and they will be received here with
the hOnOrs due to the Importance of the occa.
sion.
SECRETARY SHERMAN arrived in New York
yesterday. A prominent banker said that the
Secretary intended to have a conference on
Monday with prominent bankers and mer-
chants in regard to the resumption scheme.
INDIAN AGRICULTURIsTs.-Inar report to the
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs Jacob Vore,
agent at the Omaha agency, Nebraska, says
that the Indians have been so much encour-
aged by the results of their last years wheat
sowing that they have increased the acreage
OF wheat sOwn about I5 per cent. or to a total
of ,O5O acres. He estimates the present crop
at LOCO bushels. He also estimates an increase
of 500 to 5000 bushels of corn over the Weld
Of last year, and gives favorable reports of the
other crops. About 450 acres of prairie lands
have been broken this year and 50Ologs hauled
TO the mill to be sawed into lumber for build
ing and fencing purposes. He reports there is
a strong and increasing disposition on the part
of the more Intelligent and thrifty mem befs o.
the tribe Except the chiefs) in favor OF abol-
ishing the chleftainships. The schools ar
tiOuriShing. No ca SeS of intemperance among
the OmahaS are he ard of. The agent says thu
Indians are often disturbed by rumOrs and