The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-30
VOL. vi.
TELEGRA.PH.IC.
Condensed for Convenient anC
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON,

THE treasury will disburse as interest
payments, on or before July l, about $780,
100000. ..--.
F0RTY-TwO million dollars worth of 5
per cent. bonds have been so far received
by the treasury for continuance at 81 per
cent.
SECRETARY kIRKwooD will not only call
to account the Central Pacific speculator
Auditor French, but will compass his re-
moval. General Jere Rusk, of Wiscon-
sin, who hasn' u been able to pick out any
thing to suit him. stands in the doorway.
THE presidents personal movements
are somewhat uncertain, but he will prob
ably devote his attention during the heat
ed term TO Mrs. Garfeld's health, and so
preserve his own from the annoyance OF
importuning delegations.
MARK HOPKINS will entertain President
Garfield at the Williams college com.
mencement; Secretary Blaine will be the
guest Of President Chadburne, and rooms
tor nearly all the members Of the cabinet
have been secured at a hotel.
CHAs. II. HOWARD, brother of Gener.
al y. .. Howard, has been appointed to
an Indian inspectorship. William H
Turner, clerk in the postotfice depart.
ment having charge of star-route contracts
has been removed.
UPTON. the assistant secretary of the
treasury, has been ordered to London, TO
take charge of the work of extending
bonds held abroad. Whether this will be
the last OF his public career is disputed
question.
PRIVATE dispatches announce the sud
den death, in Washington, of George W
Jones, Jr., recently appointed paymaster
in the navy. He was son of Gorge w.
Jones, of Cincinnati. The family were
expecting him home. until the dispatch
came announcing his death.
CHARLES A. ANCHIsI, well-known en-.
bezzler, formerly of the secret service ol
the treasury department, has been recap
tured in San Francisco. In addition to a
package OF important papers he had
counterfeit national bank notes of five
denominations and q bad $50 greenback.
GEohGE TAYLOR, the Washington law.
yer involved in the cotton claim fraud
wants it known that Clarence A. Seward
of New York, was the attorney Of record
associated with two lawyers who are dead
MIR. Taylor represents over 100000 OF
the claims now before the Franco -Ameri.
can commission, and has taken an appeal
to the supreme court.
UNDER instructions from the secretary
Of the interior, Colonel Edwards, agent Of
the Winnebago and Omaha tribes, has
partly negotiated the sale of reservation
Of twenty thousand acres by those tribes
to make home for the Poncas, who num-
Der l20 souls. While Uncle Sam peddles
out land at $l.95 per acre, the Omahas
think $40 would be modest figure for a
conveyance.
ALAwyER Of Washington, named George
Taylor, formerly member of congress
from New York, is said to have acquired
an immense fortune in few years by
corrupt methods, and is believed to hold
nearly $6,0O0,00O of the claims made be-
fore the Franco-American commission.
which board he was largely instrumental
in creating. A decision just made by the
United States court of claims brands Tay-
lor as guilty of subornation of perjury, and
as having manufactured claim upon
which he was paid nearly 100000.