Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-08-13

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The Sioux City Daily News is to be
;saued for the first time to-day. which
will give to Sioux City three daily pa
pers.
During the last fiscal year there were
1884 pilots examined by the marine hos
,,;tol of whom 1l6 were found to be col
or blind.
The long pending insanity case OF
Capt. J. P. Walker, Sd U. 8. cavalry, has
been finally decided. The board appoint
ed short time ago to decide whether
Capt. Walker is insane or not has rem
dered decision that he is sane and On
order was issued at the war department
ordering him to join his command.
The Chicago and Northwestern has
Just issued new freight tariff TO all
points in the Black Hills. The rates
from Chicago or Milwaukee will be as
follows: Rapid City, D. T, $3.50 per
100 pounds; Fort Meade, $3.50; sturgis
City, $3.50; spearfish and Deadwood,
s2.75; Central City, s2.s5; Lead City,
$3.50.
The secretary of the interior has is
sued an order that all lands in the Du.
luth district, Minnesota, shall be sold at
public auction. Tho lands are heavily
timbered and are very valuable, and it
is believed that by this method of sale
the government can realize something
nearer their real value. As soon as he is
sufficiently recovered the president will
issue proclamation to that effect.
Maxima Jarez, ,Nicarauguan minister to
the United States, died suddenly at his
residence in Washington, Thursday
afternoon. General Jarez had been
about during the day and had called at
the executive mansion early in the after
noon returning to his residence before
The usual dinner hour. Not responding
to the call for dinner, the messenger
went to his room to call him and found
him sitting by the window, dead. The
cause is supposed to have benn heart
disease.
At special meeting of gereral passen-
ger agents held in Chicago on the 18th
new rates were made and an agreement
signed maintaining them. 1t was re-
solved after the Goth inst to base limited
sales to points cast of Chicago and St.
Louis to Kansas City and beyond on q
S. rate to Kansas City, and the 81 rate
from st Louis. using the regular local
first and second class rates to Chicago
and st. Louis as basis. The same
rates may apply to Colorado and Chey-
enne and points west via Omaha as via
Kansas City.
Efforts are being made to secure the
removal of John C. Fremont, governor of
Arizona, for continued absence from the
territory. He has held the Office of gov.
ernor of Arizona nearly three years fully
half of which time he has spent in New
York and Boston, where he now is, and
has been the past six months. The peo.
pie have submitted to his conduct be-
cause they looked upon him as poor
old man. who should be taken care OF,
but having so long neglected duty by
continued absences from the territory,
great dissatisfaction exists.
The cattle commission gave q days
session on Thursday, ut Saratoga. to dis.
cussing and preparing quarantine reg
ulations for cattle imported from Eu
rope. Also for preparing resolutions fol
the disinfection of cars to be used in the
export cattle traffic and devlsing mean.
of definitely asccrtaining the extent o.
the infected districts in the United
States. The unwarranted discrimina
tion on the part of the Canadian govern
ment against American cattle was also
considered, and DIR. Shaylis' report upo1
contagious cattle diseases prevailing il
Nova Scotia was read. The commissio,
permanently organized with Professo
James Lawes, of Cornell university, IL
chairman, and J. Fl. Sanders of tn
Stock Journal, Chicago, secretary. al
communications referring to the bust
ness or work of the commission must b
sent to the secretary at Chicago. The,
decided to make searching investiga
ton at the great western centers of til
cattle trade to ascertain to n certaint
that those points are free from infection
J.C. Norman, the Capitol strest hard