The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-12-31
MAsIIINGroN.
News Notos nnd Gossip Gathered at the
Capital.

News Notes Rnn Gossip Gathered at the
Capital.
WASHINGTON, December 3O.-The records
Of the PostofIice Department are being
searched to accumulate evidence against
delinquent contractors, against whom suits
will, in a short time, be instituted by Hon.
George Bliss on behalf Of the Government.
The papers for presentation to the Grand
Jury against Brady, French and others arc
already prepared and will be furnished to
the Attorney General upon formal de-
mand,
The President expected to return to.mor'
row. Postmaster James will come with
him. Secretary Lincoln will also probably
arrive tomorrow. Attorney General
Brewster Is to arrive Sunday.
The number OF United States bonds re-
deemed to date, under the l05th Gull is
$l7 $50, 600, leaving s., 40, 400 outstanding
on which interest ceased December "a
The redemption Of bonds, under the 10Gth
call, aggregate $G,S0l 400. To this amount
are 10 be added the bonds received and not
yet fully entered, lesS'than half n million,
leaving about Sl2,00O,000 yet outstanding
under this call, on which the Government
offers TO pay tile interest, without rebate,
up to january 20, when the call natures
and interest ceases.
The usual New Year orders have been
issued. by General Sherman and Secretary
Hunt, directing all army and navy officers
In Washington to assemble in full uniform
in front OF the Army and Navy Depart.
ments at 1880 o'clock to pay their respects
to the President.
Secretary KtrkwoOd Inns received from
the Mayor Of Caldwell, Kansas, complaints
that the desperadoes who "Hided" Cald.
well have taken refuge in the Indian
Territory, and asking the Secretary to have
them removed by the military, In reply
the Secretary states that steps will be taken
10 arrest the guilty parties II they can be
found, but suggests tlnt the border counties
Of Kansas certainly should consider them.
selves Interested In dlsCOuraging all at.
lempts to nuke the Indian Territory rem.
devious for outlaws
Acting Attorney General Phillips, on
the oath inst, submitted 10 the President
his opinion III regard TO the Tombstone
lArizona) case, which was to-day referred
10 the Interior Department. His opinion
Is, in substance, that The location Of the
town sites cannot deprive person Of the
mineral rights previously acquired to the
same ground that the parties having. pre-
viously prG.emptcd the mineral land have
lawfully the right TO 50 ahead and take
out mineral in the ground Of the town site,
but they must not destroy any Of the town
improvements or streets, that Its stiriaCe
may be preserved for the town, but the
mineral underneath the stirface belongs 10
the parties WHO have pfe.empted the min
eral land there, but That the mineral inust
be taken out without detrimeht or injury
to tho town.
General Thomas Ewing, oi Ohio, hal
been very much annoyed Of lnte by re
ceiving letters OF inquiry from innumera.
ble sources with regard 10 the Robinson
mine. There IL another Thonns Ewing
who Is superintendent OF thnt mine, which
1t appears has exploded, to loss to the III
vesiors. The latter, apparently under thu
Impression that II was General Ewing, o
Ohio, who was superintendent Of the mine
arc continually writing to him on that sub
feet. General Ewing Is desirous oi havinI
Il understood that lie has never had any
thing to do with the Robinson mine, ant
does not know anything about II.