The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-11-25

effort to escape the fate which befell him
To the body of Frodsham was pinned a
placard reading as follows:
"Notice to all lot thieves, foot-pads, thieves
and chronic FOUNDERS for the same and sympa-
thisers of the above class of criminals. This
is our commencement and this shall be your
fate. We mean business. Let this be your
warning. Particularly Cooney Adams, Con-
ners, Collins, Hogan, Ed. Burns, Ed. Cham
pier, A. j. Kelley and a great many others
who are well known to this organization.
We are seven hundred strong.'
WASHINGTON, November 21.-At the Cab
met meeting to-day there was some discussion
as to the character of legislation to be recon-
mended in the Presidents message to Con-
gress for Che protection of our foreign trade
hat is needed, but later it was determined to
defer consideration of the matter until the re-
ceipt of aprinted copy of the recent opinion
of the Supreme court which embodied in its
decision the setting aside of our National
trademark law as unconstitutional.
The Secretary of the Interior will shortly
issue a circular for the information of parties
desiring to register their trade marks, to the
effect that the statute upon the subject, by the
recent decision of the Supreme Court, is de-
clared unconstitutional, and that patent-office
means of protection, but that The department
will, however, continue to register trade
marks to persons desiring them. 1..'-
Nearly 200 members of the Army of the
Cumberland called on General Sherman at
his Office in the War Department to-day.
The House Committee on Rules and Reg
~ulations met to-day and nearly completed the
work of revising the rules.
Secretary Schurz received the following
telegram from Gen. Hatch to-day:
clos PINos AGENCY, Nov. 10.
sTo the Hon. G. Schurz, Secretary of the
Interior:
aDEAE s1R:-In answer to your dispatch of
the 18th, the commission Yesterday was as
sured that all of the White River Utes would
come in and give their full testimony. The
Indians attempt at lodging is we'll under
derstood by the commission, who have de-
manded a different course on the part Of the
Indians. Ouray has ordered all the Indians
in here by the oath; we shall then arrive at
the facts and close the commission with the
demand intimated in your dispatch.
(Signed), "HATcH."
Secretary Schurz' instructions above re-
ferred to were to the effect that in view of the
transparent ~artifice of the White River chiefs
the commission should declare that as it was
we'll understood that agent Meeker and his
employees were murdered and Thornburg's
command attacked near the agency and as no.
body else was there to do thisb but the White
River Utes, it was useless for them to deny
that some of them did it and that if they
would not declare which of the individuals
were responsible they must all be held re.
sponsible, allforfeit their treaty rights and all
be treated as hostiles. The commissioner
were further instructed to obtain testimony
from subordinate members not chiefs of the
White River band, and from that testimony
and the evidence of the captive women make
up their minds as to who the guilty partie:
are and ask Ouray to procure their surrender
under compulsion of the threat above indi
Gated. The Secretary infers from Genera
Hatch's telegram thai this course is alread:
proving etfectual.
Hon. j. A. Bentley, commissioner of pen
sions, has completed his annual report to tn
Secretary of the Interior. It shows that OF
the Both of June, last, there were 242, Isl
persons in the United States receiving pen
sions from the government. The pension lis
is now larger than at any previous time
The present list is composed of 1925, $50 arm
invalid pensioners, 81, liza army widows
children and dependent relatives, 1874 nav.
invalids, 1,772 navy widows, etc, II 1921 SUI
viving soldiers of the War of 1912, and p,
1914 widows of deceased soldiers of that wal
During the year 35,346 new names were ad
ded to the list and 9OS names, which ha
previously been dropped from the rolls, main
~ llOLA Adl1ulC " ! ySGlS ~ iulh oiCL
pensions, were restored and 13,497 were fo
various reasons dropped. The aggregat
amount of one years pensions to all pension
ers on the rolls is $25, 493, 742, but the actua
annual payment exceeds that sum by severa
million dollars. This arises from the fat
that nearly all newly admitted army an
navy cases have several years accrued pen
sions due at the time of admission which
paid at the first payment. During the yea
~ E.at .,,r, 49, t~ ~ VIZ - ,1,; ~ - -, ~, ,,ut,
to S., 1853 1853, of which $4,375, 147 was pal
to army and navy invalids, widows, etc., an
S1,3S6, 81 to the survivors aid widows of til
/ War of 1912.
There will be a deficiency in the pensio
appropriation for the current year as nearl
as can be estimated as follows:
Five million dollars army pensions an
10000 navy pensions which should h
) provided for in order that the pensions for tt
June quarter may be promptly paid.
+ There We're, on the 30th of June, 1866
unsettled claims exclusive of claims for a
+ rears, all increase over last year of 1925;
them are to be added about 10000 old claim
which were revived by the arrears act of Jal
uary 25th, 1879, or called up fiom rejecte
files since that date for further consideration
=. and these, with the new claims filed since IL
close of the year, in excess of the numbt
3 settled, added to the number shown by tt
record, Will aggregate fully 2UO,OOO. Since I'll
passage of the arrears act new invalid's, wit
ows', minor children's and relatives claim
:. have been filed at an unprecedented rate.
is estimated that at the close of the year thel
will not be less than 81 1000 unsettled cast
before the office.
Examination into papers in the cases OF sc
3 pensioners whose names have been droppe
from the rolls within the past three years b.
cause the pensions had been obtained b
fraud shows the following: Two hundred an
twenty-nine invalids established their cast
by producing 1851 attidavlts and certificate
OF which 1888 were false. OF the latter 2e
were made by officers, l79 by comrades, an
1853 by other persons. Two hundred an
seventy-one pensions of widows, minor chi
dren and dependent relatives We're establishe