Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-01-23
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YANKTON DAKOTA.
Wednesday Evening, January %, 1879
CAPITAL NOTES.
THE REVENUE TROUBLES.

II REVENUE TROUBLES.
Warrington, Jan. 2l.-Col. Wagner writes
the commissioner of internal revenue from
rifles sent by the commissioner of internal
revenue for use by revenue officers in their
raids on illicit distillers have been of great
assistance. In a recent raid made by his Of.
fcers, in which they captured an eighty-gal
Ion still and arrested the owners, they were
assailed by nine moonshiners with shot-guns
and rifles. They responded with their breech-
leaders and charged up a hill upon their as.
sailants and drove them back, chasing them
until they were dispersed.
Col. Wagner states in . subsequent letter
to the commissioner of internal revenue that
Gov. Hampton had called for and received
information concerning the recent affair be-
tween the revenue officers and militia. He
waited on the governor In company with a
United States marshall and revenue collector
and was shown written accounts of the affair,
which we're chiefly false, whereupon he fur
nished the governor with the facts, but
came away Impressed with the conviction
that Hampton would avail himself of any
pretext to avoid any mode Of punishment.
Some days ago, in reference to sustaining the
officers in the execution Of their duty, Gov.
Hampton complained that the officers who
had trouble with the militia were low people
and expressed the surmise that they might
have first provoked the difficulty with the
militia. He said that he had a letter to the
president about the matter. Mr.. Wagner
now proposes to write the commissioner giy-
ing some account of the character Of the men
aspersed.
introduced In the house to-day by General
Banks to facilitate commerce with Mexico,
provides for q subsidy of $4,000 per mile
for the proposed 600 miles extension of the
Galvesto IN, Harrisburg and San Antonio
railroad from San Antonio TO Ell Paso, there
to connect with a proposed extension of the
Southern Pacific railroad of California.
The bill requires the completion of 100
miles of the Texas extension within two
years, 100 more in four years, and the whole
within six years. In case, however, one of
the companies fails to reach Ell Paso at the
end Of six years the other is to have the
right to build onward to the point of iunc-
ton with the same privileges granted for
the uncompleted portion. The subsidy of
$4,000 per mile is to be paid in cash from
the United States treasury upon the compile.
ton and equipment of each section of ten
miles. The bill also provides that the gov.
eminent shall make no pa, ment for the
transportation of its troops or property
over the proposed railroad extension until
the amounts thus earned by the railroad
shall equal the total amount of the SUBSIDY
advanced.
SUPREME COURT DECISION.
In the case Of the Home life insurance
company against Brame, from the Louis.
lana circuit, the supreme court decides that
the company cannot recover of Brame. fol
the killing of one McLemorc, the assured
by which the company was damaged 10 the
extent Of the amount Of the policy, holding
than on principle and authority the action
cannot be sustained in such case. Justice
Hunt delivered the opinion.