Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-10
DOMESTIC NEWS.

Instructions 10 Registers and Receivers.
WASHINGTON, July 9th. = Commissioner
Williamson of the General Land Office, has
to-day issued series Of detailed instructions
to all Registers aud Receivers, which pre-
scribe the regulations necessary to carry into
effect the law enacted at the last session of
Congress for refunding all excess in the pay
ment of ordinary purchase money, fees and
commissions on void entries OF public lands.
The Act affects thousands of settlers through
out the Western States and Territories
The first section authorizes the repayment
TO innocent parties of the fees and commits
sions paid by them on entries of fraudulent
soldiers and sailors additional homestead
scrip, of which very large quantities were
forged and set afioat in the Western States
some years ago. Commissioner Wiliiamsons
instructions require thorough proof of the
innocence of the applicants for relief under
this section. The second section provides for
the repayment of the purchase money and of
fees commissions and excess payments in all
cases where the entries of public lands have
been Cancelled for conflict, or where from any
cause the entry has been enormously allowed
by the local Land Offices, and cannot be con-
hrmed also for refunding the extra 81 %
per acre paid by pre- emption settlers for
lands supposed to be double minimum lands
within railroad limits, but afterwards discoy,
cred to be outside of such limits, and there
fore purchssable at the ordinary minimum
thereof, 81 % per acre. All these re.
payments may be made to the party
who made the original entry, or
TO his heirs. executors OF administrators
or to an assignee specially authorized to re-
ceive such repayment; but mere convey
ance of the land will not be deemed to carry
with IL the right to repayment, unless ex-
pressly SO stated in the assignment Where
there has been conveyance of the land, and
the original purchaser applies for repay
ment, he must conclusively show that he has
Unidentified his assignee or perfected the
title IN him through another service. As
signees of the title to land must show by Aft
davit or otherwise that they have not
been Unidentified by their grantors for tne
failure of such title, and the title has not been
perfected in them by their grantors through
anothersource. Where there is specific assign
ment of the purchase-money, evidence of On
Naturalization by the granter is not required
In the case of the desert land entries, the as
signees of the purchase money are the only
=lssignees recognized. All applications for
Espayment are to be transmitted, together
with all papers in the case, to the Commits
Sioner of the General Land Office through the
Registers and Receivers of the proper dis
tricts, who are e1uired TO make due report
upon each case transmitted, and the money
hnally found due will be paid ont OF the
Treasury upon the warrant Of the Secretary
of the Interior.
Cabinet Meeting Subjects Discussed.
WASHINGTON, July 9sh.-At the Cabinet
meeting to-day there was some discussion SIS
TO the advisability Of the exercise of the Pres
ident's power to withhold the expenditure of
some portions of the money appropriated by
the last river and harbor bill, but it was de-
cided that the entire amount appropriated
should be expended as fast as the War De-
partment in each particular case may con-
eider desirable.
The subject Of the st. Louis District At
terneyship also came up for discussion, but
s.Gtion upon it was not reached
An urgent appeal was made to the President
some six weeks since, and again on the 10th
of June, for the removal of United States
Marshal Fitzsimmons, upon the ground of
lukewarlnness in supporting the Internal
Revenue officers in their efforts to break up
illicit distilling in the State of Georgia.
1t was even claimed that the course
of this officer proved a positive
obstruction TO the execution of the laws, and
that while the revenue officers in every other
State had succeeded in fully enforcing the
revenue laws, in Georgia alone the Noon
sinners continued to defy them, and were
more or less encouraged by officers who
should naturally be expected to vigorously
enforce the laws but who failed to show any
inclination to do so. In the case of Marshal
Fitzsimmons, although considerable pressure
had been brought to bear upon the President
for his removal, no action mas as yet been
taken, and so far as can be learned the mat
ter has not yet been brought to the attention
of the Cabinet. His case differs from that of
District Attorney Farrow, in that his COM
mission has not yet expired, and his removal
during the recess of Congress, except for good
or sufficient cause, would directly antagonize
the tenure of Office act.
Profound Sensation at Deatiwood.
DEADwooD ID. IT,, July 9th.-Captain }.
NJ West, Superintendent and contractor for
the Black Hills Placer Mining Company,
which is building an IS mile flume and erect
ing extensive hydraulic works at Rockerville,
is short about S24, 900 in his accounts with
the employees, of whom there are nearly 400.
The company of which Alexander Shaler, of
New York, is President, will lose nothing on
account of the shortage, and will take hold of
the hume and works and complete them as
speedily as possible, as the ground is consid-
cred most valuable, and the enterprise is the
largest ever undertaken in the hills, the esti-
mated cost being quarter of a million.
Vests deficiency is accounted for from the
fact that he lavished money upon fast women,
of whom he was keeping two or three, and
by reason of his heretofore excellent reputa
ton introduced them into the best society as
daughter, nieces, etc. The affair has created
profound sensation, as he has highly re-
spectacle family living at Boulder, Col.
Wcstern.bound Passengers.
OMAHA, July 9th.-The following passen-
gers were on to.day's train, leaving at 12:15
P. NJ, to arrive in Sacramento July 18th !:
Augustine Crosby, Benton, Me. /; f. H. Nc
Cullough and wife, Philadelphia; J. Frye
Bloomington, ILL., II. Perry, Cork, Ireland I;
A. DUNEDIN, G. p. Sykes. G. A. Holmes, v.
Stow, w. w. Stow, San Francisco Mrs.
Lizzie Hoffman, Schenectady, N. Y; G. j.
Hillyer, New York; Charles d. Shsin, wife
and child, Arizona; Samuel Mcclure, Brook
lyn; F. NJ. Nottage, California; i. III.
Whelan, Santa Rosa; d. Y. Campbell, Oak
land.
Thirty.seven through emigrants left on last
mento July 10th.
Narrow Escape from Destruction by Fire.
OMAHA, July 9th.-The Omaha smelling
works had another escape this morning from
destruction by fire. Three frame buildings
store-house, retort-house and side shop-were
destroyed. The brick smokestacks were left
standing, and were uninjured. The furnaces
we're but little damaged The works com
.,rise about dozen large buildings, FIVE Of
,rhich are Of brick. Six engines played or
sle fire, and soon got it under control. The
Loss is about 5000. The buildings will q,
ICE be rebuilt, and the works will be in full
sgeration again inside Of two weeks.
The ssfar Route Charge
New York, July 9th.-The Worlds Wash
Iagtou special says of the charge that the
money furnished by the star-route lobby wa
sssed at Cincinnati: When the star rout,
awards were ventilated last winter, and tn,
cling WAS in danger Of exposure and ruin, ex